Carnival

It's 1:22 AM and I'm bored.  I'm tired but I don't quite feel like sleeping, so I figured I'd write in here for a bit.  I've been fairly depressed and out of it lately and it's really wearing on me...I'm just fed up with life for the moment.  In more exciting news, tomorrow (well, technically today) is club carnival!  Club carnival is an annual event at my school where all the different clubs set up booths and sell tasty food.  Plus we get an extended lunch period!  Yay!  And I love Fridays too because I don't have to get up until 9:30 so that's fun.

Other than that...working on songs for the Pink Floyd and Best of the '90s shows I'm going to be in.  My mice are doing quite nicely, and although Nibbles is still sneezing I've checked with the vet and it should go away on its own.  Hmm...nothing else to report I guess.  I'm still re-reading the Harry Potter books, I started Half-Blood Prince a day or two ago.  It's neat to read them all again now that I know what happens because I pick up on other little clues.  Speaking of Harry Potter, I ordered a Dumbledore's Army hoodie and the U.P.S. man should be bringing it tomorrow, so that's something to look forward to I suppose.

I really wish high school was over so I could just stay up all night watching T.V. and sleep all day, because that's pretty much all I feel like doing with my life right now.  Heaven knows I have plenty of D.V.D.s I need to watch.

Relax

I just spent a lovely, relaxing day at the spa!  I went with my mom, and we had a very nice time.  First we had massages and shea butter body wraps, then manicures and pedicures (my polish is so pretty, hot pink and VERY sparkly!).  After that we had a lunch break (shrimp calzone...yum...), and then we had facials.  With the rest of our afternoon, we bounced between the mud bath, the mineral baths, The Grotto (where you go underground, are covered in an aloe/kelp/whatever body mask, and then sit in a sauna-type cave before rinsing off), and the steam room.  I feel all clean and pampered and pretty now :D

Nothing else too exciting to report.  Got a couple new hair products, there's a buy one at a discount get one free sale on some stuff at Walgreen's.  Got some new hair clips too, and got a new nail polish (OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark, which is a gorgeous deep purple color) and some type of skin care thing that the lady who gave me my facial recommended to me.  Oh!  I also just ordered a Dumbledore's Army hoodie from the Warner Bros. online store...I love Harry Potter a little too much, if you ask me.

Mickey Mouse Club March

So today I became the proud owner of two female mice.  I've always thought mice were adorable and whenever I go to the pet store I get stuck watching them run around and play for at least 10 minutes.  They are also an animal I've yet to own, and I seem to have some subconscious plan to own every species possible throughout my lifetime.  I mean, I've already had fish, turtles, rabbits, dogs, cats, a horse, hermit crabs, a snake...it just seemed like a logical step.  I've also been kind of depressed lately and I thought that something cute and fuzzy that I've wanted for pretty much my entire life and that I can dote on and give copious amounts of attention to might help my mood a bit.

So I got two females due to the fact that pairing males typically leads to fighting, and pairing a male and a female typically leads to more mice than you can shake a stick at, as their gestation period is just 3 to 4 weeks, and then they're ready to pop out some more.  I haven't taken any pictures yet because I want to get them a little more comfortable in their new surroundings before I attack them with a flashing camera, but they're quite adorable.  I've only named one of the two so far, because I thought I'd name them according to their personalities.  Monkey is a very nice tan color, and she is so named due to the fact that while I was assembling the big cage, she was hanging upside down from the wires of the small cage she was in.  The nameless one is black and white and seems to have ADHD.  Whereas Monkey is slightly timid but quite friendly, no name has been running all over the cage, climbing here and there and trying to gnaw through the bars.  She also bit me when I held her, when Monkey just liked exploring and sat down in my palm to wash her face.

I'm considering naming black and white Dory if I can't think of anything better, simply because having mice named Monkey and Dory would amuse me.  I also considered Punky, but I'll see if she's a little friendlier tomorrow when she's settled in or if she actually does deserve a name like that.  I'm glad that the two of them get along though.  They teamed up to try to chew out of the cardboard carrier on the car ride home, and now that they're in their new home they're curled up in their food bowl sleeping right next to each other.

I hope that they become a little more adventurous tomorrow too, as right now they seem perfectly content to hang out on the middle level of their tri-level abode.  I also hope they know where their water is, because I haven't seen them drink any yet.

In other news, I went to Tucson over spring break, and that was fun.  I'd quite like to move there for school in the fall, but my mother seems determined to break my spirit and lock me up in this stupid little house forever.  Now I'm off to sleep!  Goodnight.

Leaving On A Jet Plane

So my plane leaves at 8:45 (or was it 9:45...I should check that) Sunday morning.  4 fun-filled days in Tucson!  The one thing I hate about traveling though is packing.  It's so frustrating!  And I always end up forgetting something.  I started trying to pack tonight, because yesterday I got a nice new suitcase.  For some reason, I only have a ginormous suitcase and a really tiny one, so I got a nice medium-sized one.  I packed my pajamas...and that's about it.

Things I have done instead of packing:

continue my re-reading of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

talk on the phone to my grandma

eat dinner (chicken chop suey, yum!)

watch Wife Swap

read Harry Potter while watching Wife Swap

read Harry Potter while watching That's Entertainment, Part 2

eat dinner...again (burrito and rice...tasty)

read Harry Potter while eating Swedish chocolate (Marabou filled with soft toffee...mmm...)

read Harry Potter while watching Miss Grant Takes Richmond

finish Harry Potter!

And now I'm debating whether or not to start Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix before I go to sleep.  I haven't read any of these books since they came out, and it's kind of neat to go back and notice things again now that I know what happens.  Plus it fills the void until the movie comes out.  AND I'm dying to go to Azkatraz 2009!  Now I should probably sleep, have to finish packing tomorrow, pick up a couple of things from Target (need magazines for the plane ride and layover in Phoenix, and I need a charger for my iPod), pick up my contacts, and all that good stuff.  Hectic, hectic, hectic!  Goodnight.

These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

I finally got some Ugg boots.  God bless outlet stores!  Got some of the talls in chestnut for $130, regularly $200.  I wore them today and they are soooo comfy...I need to get some more skinny jeans though because I don't like how the flares I wore puffed out above the boots.  So my goal is to find a good pair of light/regular wash skinny jeans, because the only skinny jeans I have now are a pair of dark, a pair of regular with giant holes in the knees, and some different colored jeans (black, pink, orange, green, and purple, I believe).

In other news, I'm on spring break next week!  Actually we don't have school Friday either, so that's fun.  As for my plans...Friday I'm helping move my horse to a new stable, Saturday I'm going riding, Sunday I'm flying into Tucson, and then I'm going to be hanging out with one of my best friends who lives there until Wednesday, when I fly back.  Thursday I'm going to my drum lesson, Friday I'm going to an O.K. Go concert that was supposed to be on March 21st but the singer got sick and they postponed it, Saturday I'll hopefully get to relax and hang out with my friends, and Sunday I have rehearsal, so I'll be out of the house from 12:15 until at least 8:30...blah.  Then it's back to the grind...

But yeah.  I'm considering using my spare YouTube channel to do fashion/make-up related videos.  I know I mentioned doing make-up videos on there before but I never got around to it, and lately I've been loving watching people's fashion videos, so I'd really like to do that.  We'll see how that goes, toodles for now!