it's a play

This really is a semi-charmed life, isn't it?

Thu, 28 Aug 2003 04:33:29 GMT

Pack check today. Saw Brianna, which was GREAT. Gave her her Dokidoki Yummychums and she liked it. I had just come in from cross country and was all sweaty and gross with my dorky splint. I'm sure it's one of those things where it's like "Amelia, I'm SURE EVERYONE IN THE ROOM noticed". Which they didn't, most of them just ignored me. Which is fine. I'm actually getting excited for the trip and school starting...really. I mean BRIANNA'S GOING TO BE THERE! I mean I'll still have this stupid cast and writing's going to be SUCH a pain dans mon cul, but whatever. And I'll have DS.
Last days of summer...Juliette's in France, Margot is busy and Hannah has constitution team and Brianna's leaving for CA tomorrow until Monday. I'm spending the last days of summer at home, bonding with my mom. Which isn't too bad. I like my mom. We'll buy a tape recorder. My mom is, as Talia would say: "the shit". I love her.
Got a letter from Ophélie today. Weird. But cool.

Two Points

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:14:44 GMT

I was talking to Sarah Baker over IM yesterday and I said, "You haven't updated your lj in a super long time" and she said "I hate it. Why would anyone want to bitch to the world about their problems?" She has a point. A very good point. Why? I mean, I think that other people bitching is fine, it's interesting to read, but maybe I should cut down. Talia made a very good point as well in her lj, about learning from your ennemies...that's totally true. And most of my "ennemies" (not really "ennemies" but people I just can't stand) bitch about people all the time. So I think I should stop bitching about people (at least in public). Everyone would be happier.
Aside from that, x country practice yesterday was pretty much hell...wait...is this bitching? It definetely is, but I think I was referring to people. But I don't just want to whine, which is exactly what I'm doing. Hm...
Okay another subject, today we have the sophomore backpacking meeting, and I'm going to give Brianna her present, which is this AWESOME Dokidoki Yummychums purse/bag, with a Dokidoki Yummychums notepad and a Permit Mix (I made one for Margot as well) and a lollipop! In return for the beanie and the Gumby and Pokey shirt. And for her being a super duper friend. I'm so glad she's going to OES.
I saw Sarah the other day when we were waiting to go to the Hoyt. But it was in passing, which wasn't so great.
What else...well even though the backpacking meeting starts half an hour later than x country practice we still have to go to x country. I hope we find out who our groups are today.

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:01:11 GMT

Okay, I haven't really talked about cross country lately, and so I will. Needless to say, I suck. A lot. I am the worst runner on the team. I'm not surprised and I don't mind. It's a great-for-the-health-sonuvabitch.
Well, enough of that! Margot's birthday is tomorrow, we're going to the beach with a couple of friends like old times. Of course that means I'll be missing the backpacking trip check. *Sob*. I am only oh-so-glad that I'll be missing it. But I feel for Brianna, who'll be there alone. Really it's better for her though, seeing as she won't be labelled right off the bat as "Amelia's friend". It'll do her good.
And I'm missing x country. It really is going to be fun. Seriously. Margot's beach parties are always fun. The only shitty part about this is that I'll probably still be in my cumbersome splint. ARG, Hannah's implosion, haha.
Am going to call Juliette now. Fuck I'm in a weird mood.

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 04:05:53 GMT

Went to the baby shower. Huh. Lots of couples with little kids. Met a lot of the neighbours. It was for Darla, it was a surprise...or was supposed to be...she didn't seem that surprised or excited or pleased, but I think that that's just her way...some people just aren't very expressive. There was this one woman, she might've been a high schooler, I couldn't really tell, she irritated me and I didn't even talk to her. She was just looked like she'd rather be anywhere but there. I hate people like that. She has the right to not have a good time and she has the right not to be tickled pink to be there, but geez, it's a happy occasion, she shouldn't be such a dampener. I had more fun than I thought I would have.

Hm...

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:14:22 GMT

A week of summer left. This has definetely been the best summer...I'm not looking forward to school at all. Well, a little bit, I'm looking forward to having some structure, a schedule, but I'm sure that feeling will go away after the backpacking trip. Wrist is getting better, at least a little bit. Going to take the splint off Wednesday, see how it is. But ugh. I hate getting hurt because everyone thinks I'm faking it. And I looked at everyone else's schedule and I have like a million classes with a million people I don't like. I should be more optimistic, and just concentrate on the classes I have with the people I like.
Anyway, neighbour's baby shower tonight...Darla, having a girl, getting operated on the 28th.

Wow...

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:10:18 GMT

I am a webhead...I mean, it's always been a given, but this is really the icing on the cake. I have this huge cast on my arm, all aound my thumb, and here I am updating my journal. Well, hopefully the cast will be gone by tomorrow, as I am going to see my pediatrician. Fun. I hope it's not broken though, I bet it isn't. I'm not too mad about going to cross country though...I went to the meeting on Monday and it's all too clear that I'm not exactly welcome, except by the coach, who would welcome Hitler to the team as long as he gave an effort running. Which isn't a bad thing. Actually it's good, as if he wasn't like that I'd be totally ostracized before the season even got started. Well, oh well, this year is going to be stock full of FUN! I can just imagine. I got my schedule today, Spanish, Faith, French, English, Geometry and Physics. I have all my favorite classes in the morning and all my least favorite in the afternoons. Mornings are going to be heavenly and the afternoons hellish, especially with all my friends on the cross country team after school! Latin during lunch, mock trial in the evenings, what's more I don't have a single class with Brianna. Wonderful. Oh, and I failed my driver's permit test today. Going to take it again tomorrow. Or the day after. I would feel horribly stupid, but a really good, smart, friend of mine failed it too, so I don't feel too bad. This year is going to suck.
I talked to Marta this morning, that was awesome. I haven't talked to Anais in more than a week, or Juliette OR Carole. Juliette called this morning, but I wasn't here, so I think I'll wait till midnight and call her then. Crap I miss her. I have no one to vent to. No one really cares about my petty problems (I don't blame them), but Juliette does, and I want to hear her petty problems...but they would probably be way less petty than mine.

Telemarketers

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:48:07 GMT

are getting DAMN nasty. I was woken up by a call from one at 7 this morning...I thought there was some law against that.

Dammit

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:14:59 GMT

Might've broken wrist...am now typing with one hand. If anyone wants to call me just for the hell of it my # is 692-8854.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:23:13 GMT

Okay, I haven't written in so long...basically due to me forgetting, my computer screwing up (several times, the last time EVERYTHING got erased, all the songs I've EVER downloaded and ALL the word documents, EVERYTHING. I'm seriously thinking I'm going to take that tech class this year) and not having enough time. But mainly me forgetting. Anyway, I've been getting so much mail recently, it's made me so happy! I got a postcard from Lindsley, Sarah B. and Talia! All in one week! It made me smile. I love getting mail, I don't know about you! Thanks a loooottt!
Well, nothing's really new...I've seen a bunch of movies lately: Bowling for Columbine (good), the Hulk (don't ever put yourself through that), T3 (okay, good enough), Pirates of the Caribbean (amusing, but not as good as I thought it would be), and Bruce Almighty (which was entertaining enough)...I don't know what's happenned to me, but all of the sudden I don't want to see movies, I mean, I used to be a total movie freak, with unbelievably low standards, but now it's like I don't want to see it unless I know it's going to be good.
My birthday was really fun, I spent the night at Brianna's, then we made our way over to Hannah's, and we went to my house, then we saw T3, then we spent the next 4 or 5 days together, it was "super". I got a call from Juliette and Carole and an e-mail from Marta. I have a really funny story about us trying to learn how to skateboard, but it's too embarassing to post, so if you want to know it you have to call me and then I have to call Brianna and Hannah and ask them if it's okay if I tell. Not that it's THAT amusing, so maybe you don't want to go through all that, only if you're really bored.
Cross country practice starts Monday, I'm actually looking forward to it. I'm not really looking forward to the backpacking trip.
I still lurve mfh (or lye him as Ica would say). Speaking of that Ica that we all know and love, she's found her future husband as well! I think. Maybe not...but I think so.
This whole Juliette in France thing totally sucks. I mean really. And I'm not really able to call her because, well it's a long story, not that long, but I don't want to go into it right now, but basically it's because I don't have a good phone card, so she always has to call me. They're having a heat wave over there, poor July...ahhh I miss her!!!!

Back back back back

Fri, 01 Aug 2003 20:21:41 GMT

I'mmmm back! Going shopping with Monica, Hannah and Brianna in twenty minutes! No jet lag whatsoever, which is absolutely wonderful!!!

French Livejournal

Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:31:30 GMT

Here I am in France, having a kickin' time. I miss Juliette enormously, I absolutely heart my future husband and Carole and I went to Italy!

I HEART SPAIN

Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:55:49 GMT

I am having so much fun, it´s impossible to imagine. God it sucks to think that my mom doesn´t have a job and that I might have to actually WORK next summer. And do serious stuff. Anyway I am having a lot of fun, with Erik, and just chilling here in Spain. It´s great being a foreigner and not having to work at being noticed (or for that matter popular). I DON´T WANT TO GO BACK!

Spain, France and Juliette

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:11:12 GMT

I'm leaving for Spain today...I can't wait to see Marta! But I'm going to miss Juliette like none other. Juliette...aw...
On Saturday Juliette and Mom and I saw Frida, which was sorta kinky, sorta bizarre, but pretty good. Then we went to her house and we saw An Affair to Remember and A Guy Thing, both were bad, but that was okay, we had fun critisizing the movies and talking about international relations, my future husband and Romeo and Juliet. Then we went to sleep and yesterday we saw Spellbound, which was actually really really good, for what it was. Then we walked around on 23rd a bit, that was cool, Mom bought me a shirt at Ipnosi. I bought Marta and Carole these super flamboyant pens, they're enourmous, and I really want to bring them over, but they're going to be such a pain...
It totally sucks that Juliette's moving to France. Really super sucks. I mean at least it's only for seven months but still.

BORED

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 03:58:25 GMT

001. What is your name? Amelia
002. Spell your name backwards: ailema
003. Date of birth: 08/03/88
004. Male or female? female
005. Astrological sign: leo and dragon
006. Nicknames: la petite folle, amelio, muffin
007. Occupation? student
008. Height: 5'4 i think
009. Weight: 135 i think
010. Hair color: dark brown
011. Eye color: brown
012. Where were you born? saddle back hospital, laguna hills, ca
013. Where do you reside now? tualatin, suburbia rules
014. Do you like where you live? yes actually
015. Screen names: astonishedheart, mariposa116
016. E-mail address: fonduechick@hotmail.com
017. What does your screen name stand for? it's a play by noel coward
018. What is your LJ name? astonishedheart
019. What does your diary name stand for? play by noel coward
020. Pets: 2 cats (boris and natascha) and 1 dog, kay
021. Number of candles you blew out on your last birthday cake? 14
022. Piercings? 2 (ears)
023. Tattoos? nope
024. Shoe size: 8
025. Righty or lefty? righty
026. Wearing: shorts, tank top and am barefoot
*****BREAK**********
027. Hearing: dear prudence-beatles
028. Feeling: relaxed and happy
029. Eating/drinking: nothing
~Friends Stuff~
Which one of your friends is the....
030. Craziest? hm...marina
031. Loudest? juliette
032. Nicest? margot
033. Bitchiest? don't have bitchy friends
034. Life of the party? caitlin
035. Jock? july last year and sorta this year
036. Prep? me
037. Rebel? caitlin
038. Cutest? uh...margot i think
039. Best friend of the same sex? margot and juliette and brianna
040. Best friend of the opposite sex? aleks or brendan or erik
041. Most popular? hannah
042. Rudest? prolli marina and i
043. Most shy? little ol' margzies
044. Dumbest? moi
045. Smartest? juliette and brianna
046. Weirdest? marina!!1 all the way!
047. Has the best hair? juliette! and if she cuts it off i'll NEVER forgive her
048. Best personality? can't say
049. Most talented? brianna at the guitar adn writing i think...don't know they all have their stuff
050. Most ghetto? don't have any ghetto friends...have some wannabes tho
051. Most spoiled? memememememememe
052. Drama queen? see question 51
053. Pain in the ass? we all have our moments
054. Funniest? hana and holly
055. Best advice giver? juliette
056. Druggie? again some wannabes but none so far
057. Most likely to join a cult? hm...hannah! kangaroos have wings and all that...lol i still love you hannah
058. Have you lost touch with a good friend recently? not recently
059. Person you've been friends with the longest? sonja
060. How many friends do you have on your buddy list? don't know

~Guys/Love/Kissing/And Other Stuff~
061. Have you ever been in love? surely
062. How many people have you told "I love you"? too many to count...family friends etc
063. How many people have you been in love with? yeesh god i don't know
064. How many people have you kissed? like three i think
065. Have you ever kissed someone of the same sex? on the cheek
066. How many people have you dated? two...wait no three i had a bf when i was nine...
067. What do you look for in a guy/girl? he has to be interesting
068. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? smile
069. What type of guy/girl do you usually go for? well it varies
070. Do you have a bf/gf? nope
071. If so where did you meet them?
072. What do you like most about your bf/gf?
073. Do you have a crush right now? yep
074. If so who is it? jeremy
075. Do you believe in love at first sight? no
076. do you remember your first love? no
077. Who is the first person you kissed? dirk
078. Do you believe in fate? sorta...not really
079. Do you believe in soul mates? i think you can have a lot of soul mates..
080. If so do you believe you'll ever find yours? yes

~Family Stuff~
104. How many siblings do you have? 0
105. What are your parents names? trudy and william
106. What are your siblings names?
107. How many siblings does your mother have? 2
108. How many siblings does your father have? 2
109. Where are your parents from? ca korea and australia
110. Is your family close? nope
111. Does your family get together for holidays? sorta
112. Do you have a drunk uncle? yep
113. Any medical problems run through your family? not that i know of
114. Does someone in your family wear a toupee? don't think so
115. Do you have any nieces or nephews? nope
116. Are your parents divorced? nope
117. Do you have step parents? nope sadly
118. Has your family ever disowned another member of your family? not yet
119. If so for what?
120. Did some of your family come to America from another country? korea
~Music Stuff~
121. What song do you swear was written about you or your life? bitter sweet symphony the verve
122. What's the most embarrasing cd you own? spice girls RULE!!!
123. What's the best cd you own?hm...mixes are the best
124. What song do you absolutely hate? none right now
125. Do you sing in the shower? every morning
126. What song reminds you of that special someone? god there are sooo many...um, basically every love song ever created, but esp. edith piaf's la vie en rose, and i saw the sign i guess

Finals...

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:00:45 GMT

ARE OVER! I actually didn't mind them...I liked getting up at eight instead of seven, having no homework, not having to study and not caring if I did. Anyway. In one week I'll be in Spain! Omg I can't wait. I can soooo not wait! Marta is SUCH a sweetpea!

Romeo and Juliet

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:27:33 GMT

Am at Aleks' house...have spent all day filming. It's fun. I want to talk to my future husband but he's not on. I'm tired. I'm starting to hate the play Romeo and Juliet. Letter or postcard?

My Future Husband

Wed, 28 May 2003 02:30:21 GMT

I'm talking to my future husband right now.
Today I got home, took a shower, then I went on a bike ride, which I don't normally do. It was great. Wind in your hair, strangers smiling at you enviously in a good-natured way, coasting down hills and gliding down streets with pollen and white floaties drifting past you like snow in slow motion. I got home and was reading Love and Other Four Letter words and listening to Jack Johnson when I fell asleep and slept for two hours, in my shoes and everything. When I woke up I had a glass of lemonade, and listened to the lawn-mowers in the back-ground. You really know summer's here when you hear that sound in that certain way on a certain afternoon, regardless of what the calendar says. I vaguely thought about studying but dismissed it immediately as being way too serious, and decided I'd go online and talk to my future husband while sipping my lemonade. *Sigh*

Standby

Mon, 26 May 2003 01:34:26 GMT

I'm bored. Like really bored, and restlessy bored at that. I have some homework that I should be doing but probably am going to do during free period on Tuesday. I thought I'd talk about Marta Garcia Florez, my Spanish correspondent. She's cool. She's thirteen, her birthday's October 4th. She's really friendly and understanding and not in-your-face, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's Marta. She really makes an effort to try and understand my Spanish without bursting into wild gales of derisive laughter, which is what I would do if I were her.
I can't wait till summer. I'm so sick of school. I'm actually sick of everything and everyone (with a few exceptions). I realized at prom that I really don't like OES...I mean I really don't like it. I don't hate it. I don't want to leave it. I'm just not really happy there. If I left, I would miss about three people, one of them being my Spanish teacher. I also realized that I'm not happy at OES when I had a good day, and I thought about what had made it good, and it was the fact that nothing bad had happened, not that anything good had happenned. I don't think that I want to change schools...I like the classes at OES. It's just that there's no one in my grade that I can relate to. At all. It's not that they're bad people, no, I just have absolutely nothing in common with any of them. I don't particularly like any of them, but I don't particularly dislike any of them either. They're just this mass of people that I happen to see every day. When I get up in the morning, I just have nothing to look forward to, there's no one I look forward to seeing. I have more friends in France than I do at OES, and I probably talk to them more often.

Huh

Sun, 25 May 2003 21:38:05 GMT

Prom was okay. Mediocre. Not bad, not good. But a waste of money. I would've rather just rented a movie and hung out with friends. But you know, whatever. Peter Farago is a wannabe adult and pretentious as well.

Jumping off of Swings

Sat, 24 May 2003 02:29:45 GMT

Talia and I went to Aardvark after school today and I jumped off of the swing! It was so cool...it was actually scarier than sky-diving, which is really weird. She's my little Deuce Coupe....

PROM...

Fri, 23 May 2003 15:32:10 GMT

I have this sneaking suspicion that OES prom is going to suck. I don't know why. I just know. Well, actually I do know why. I mean I'll have a good time because I'll be with Brianna, Juliette and Hannah and Aleks...but I mean everyone at OES is so uptight...don't get me wrong, I like the school, it's just that their dances kind of suck. NWA's prom was awesome, I had a rabbit of a time. Finals are next week, and I've decided I'm not going to study because I really don't care if I get Cs. I'll be conveniently 8000 miles away from home when Mom gets my report card.

Amelia the Slut

Thu, 22 May 2003 15:12:50 GMT

You know what I'm really sick of? I'm really sick of Debby Schauffler getting on my case about wearing tanktops that show my midriff. I mean COME ON. Just because she can't wear them doesn't mean she has to get all bitchy about it. And my midriff wasn't even showing. I mean it was a little bit, but when I say a little bit, I mean like three-quarters of an inch. What REALLY pissed me off though, was when she was like, "Just because you're nice to me doesn't mean you can get away with that sort of behaviour." Like I'm just nice to her because I want to get away with wearing risky clothes. And what pisses me off even MORE is that there are people walking around in halter tops and tube tops and she never says anything to THEM. God what a fucking bitch. I mean honestly. Don't you think it's a bit DRASTIC? She wanted me to change shirts, but I just put a jacket over it.
Oh. And I was retaking a French test yesterday, and I was just finishing with the first page when I realize I'm taking the wrong test. So I go to Mme. Vohnson and say, "I think I'm takin the wrong test." So she looks at the test and says: "You WERE taking the wrong test" and I say: "Well you said yesterday that the tests would be here today" and she friggin' GRABS the test from me, sorta crumples it up and says in this really ice-bitch voice: "I just finished copying the tests. You're supposed to do it with open notes. You can't be in French three if you don't get focused." She does her little Frankenstein bitch smile and walks away. I mean god...I am so fucking sick of embittered ugly old-as-shit teachers getting on my case. They're so...old...and worn and there's just absolutely no spark of life. And everyone thinks that I think that I'm better than Mme. Vohnson at French...and I DON'T! I mean I have a better accent than her, but EVERYONE DOES...I mean honestly. All the French people said she couldn't speak French worth a flying shit. So ha. Eat my fucking shorts.

Yeesh

Mon, 19 May 2003 01:23:09 GMT

I'm really groggy and I feel filthy. I woke up from my two hour nap with a bloody nose, and I had fallen asleep in my shoes...I mean come on. And even though I took a shower last night, I still feel really not-clean.
Prom was so much fun. That needed an exclamation point, but I don't have the peppiness right now to put i there. But it was. It took us all day to get ready, and by the end I still looked pretty mediocre, but it was cool. We went to dinner and that was pretty poopy because I was doubled over with menstrual cramps. Then we actually went to the prom, which was pretty decent. I had a good time. They handed us condoms in plastic keychains, and we all had a good laugh over that. The music was pretty decent, and I saw David B. there and he seemed to be having fun, it was cool. Brianna's visiting with me tomorrow, it will be so much fun!

PROM!

Sat, 17 May 2003 22:52:16 GMT

Prom is in five hours...

Wow...

Thu, 15 May 2003 02:48:16 GMT

I was just re reading my live journal...and it's so boring. I mean, it's unbelievable how boring it is. This self-critisizing may be due to the fact that most everyone I know has had their journal dissed, except mine, so that it's my way of making myself like everyone else and also persuading myself that people would actually take the effort to diss it, that it just doesn't fade into the back recesses of one of my reader's memory. Not to say that any of the live journals of my friends are bad. Quite the opposite.