Easy energy efficiency...

I would like to bring everyone's attention to a new, energy saving search engine. www.blackle.com is powered by google and offers the same basic search capability with a black background, saving a surprisingly large amount of energy. This was part of the reason I changed my blog to a darker background and text. The other part was that I just liked the colors, lol.

Sometime soon I might happen to care enough and have enough time to write a real blog post about me and my life, but usually I either care enough to blog OR I have enough time to write, rarely both unless a particularly vicious bout of insomnia strikes. ;)

Weekend From Hell. And not just because of Valentine's Day.

Soooo, "Single's Awareness Day" has been eradicated, by yours' truly. February 14th is now "Friends and Family Day".

I should blog more often. Its been almost a month since my last post. Anyway, the last month of my life condensed...

• I'm in piano lessons, and I love them! My teacher is a UCA student, from Germany. Her name is Fabia, and shes fantastic. She didn't decide that I sucked when I was really nervous the first few lessons, and majorly effed up my pieces. So I like her immensely. She makes me look at music in a really different way. We make mental pictures and stories.
  
• I'm having neck/back problems that are causing horrible migraines.
• When I first started getting the migraines, I missed several days of school. So I got horrifically behind in my school work. I'm still behind in my school work. So now I just get to go to school with the migraine, and then walk around the house looking dead. Its working.
• My chiropractor keeps trying to graduate me, and then he can't. Because I keep getting migraines.
• Boyfriend from a few posts ago is no longer a boyfriend. He broke up with me. I was irritated and confused for a few days. Now we're back to friends.
• An ex-girlfriend of a friend of mine had a really cool way to say that, she told my friend that they were "just boys again". I thought that was pretty awesome.
• "Maybe leaving" friend is pretty definitely leaving. He sent ASMSA his completed application and has already completed his interview and placement exams. He hasn't *technically* been accepted, but he made like a 32? on his ACT and 2030 on his SAT, in addition to having an unwieghted 4.0 GPA (above 4.0 weighted). Yeah. He pretty much kicks butt. :) Iiiiiii'm going to miss him. But he hates Conway. So Hot Springs is better for him.
  

So there are the past 4 weeks of my life in a nutshell. :)

Now back to the weekend from hell.

This weekend I have to make a 10 minute documentary, write a process paper and bibliography to go with it, prepare a speech for a 4h competition, read Their Eyes Were Watching God, complete a 20 page packet on Their Eyes Were Watching God, make a flyer for DCYM, finish my Algebra II homework, and get caught up in Biology.

That was in order of priorities. I really only expect to finish the documentary and paper work, and if I'm lucky I'll prepare my speech, read Their Eyes Were Watching God, and get some more work done on my packet for English. UUGGGGGHHHHHH!

Christmas :D

So maybe I'm getting a little bit better at blogging (its been less than a week since my last post!)... We'll see. :D

Holidays were complicated this year.

My aunt and uncle have a weird holiday thing where one year they spend Thanksgiving with my aunt's family, and Christmas with us, and then the opposite the next year. This was their year to spend Christmas with my aunt's family. Mom thought that, since he would not be coming to Granny and Pa's for Christmas, that we could just all get together on Christmas Eve at our house, have dinner, open presents, etc. That was evidently too straightforward. :P He and his wife and daughter did come over on Christmas Eve and we all had lunch with Granny and Pa. His family and ours exchanged gifts. We opened our presents from Mom and Dad (we always do this on Christmas Eve). My half-sister and her husband came over and opened our presents to them (they don't buy Christmas presents, something about keeping the focus of the Advent on Jesus). Then we packed up all of our stuff and went up to Granny and Pa's for Christmas. My aunt and uncle had Christmas at Granny and Pa's on the 27th. So we basically had three separate Christmases. Make sense? No.

But it worked. :D

I got the digital camera I wanted. Which rocks. That's big present #1. Big present #2 is a letter jacket whenever Marching Band orders them. So overall I'm pretty pleased.

My Christmas presents to myself were the recent purchases of four cds... (Folklore and Superstition-Black Stone Cherry, Pretty Odd-Panic! At The Disco, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist- the soundtrack, and Chicago- the Soundtrack) I love them all.

Oh and I should be practicing for All-Region Tryouts or working on my History Day script... I'm doing neither... Oh well. ;)

Just thought you'd like to know....

I fail at blogging.

Blogging

Greetings to all.

So, blogging? We'll see how that works out--I'm not certain that I'm a blog kind of a girl. I am, however, willing to give it a shot as it allows me to more easily follow blogs (my mom's and my German teacher's... yeah, lame. but whatever....) and even post comments. :P

I am a high school student in Arkansas, I attend a local Methodist church, and I'm really involved in extracurriculars at school. I'm all about acceptance and tolerance. I don't say the Pledge of Allegiance because I don't think that its fair to those who might not believe in God. Some might call me a radical, tree-hugging, pro-choice, pro-same sex mariage, pro-diversity, bleeding heart liberal. In German especially I'm everything from a hippie to a quaker. ;)

--Meleah