plasmapheresis is a big word...

today, i almost saved someone's life. i went to give plasma for the first time! they got me all registered and i had a physical. i had to read this little statement out loud saying i knew this was voluntary and all that good stuff. one of the words in it was plasmapheresis. i didn't even stumble over it and the guy was like 'woah. you're like the second person i've ever seen pronounce that word correctly the first time' :) but then when they tried to do it, it went really slow. so then they switched arms. but then they couldn't reconnect the machinery. so i didn't actually get to give plasma :( but i still got paid for it :) i'm going again on friday morning so i guess we'll see how that goes. they have cool fingerprint scanners there :)

i spent the afternoon at work :P i certainly made quite a bit of money today. one way more tedious than the other. although work was not too terribly boring. it was just work.

unfortunately, it is snowing again. what's the snow equivalent to a downpour? because that's definitely what's happening. one of my coworkers even thought she heard thunder. it took me at least five minutes to brush and scrape all the snow and ice off my car. and even then it was still kind of tough to see. my windshield wiper has like this one little spot where it never gets water so there's like a curved line of blurry wetness right in the middle of my windshield. it's quite irritating :P

first snowday of the year!

it's finally here! in late february, we finally got our snow day. teachers and students alike were beginning to wonder if we would have one at all. that would be a sad winter in wisconsin. oh we got more snow than we bargained for. i woke up at 5 am today and shoveled (by hand!!) waist deep snow. it has its pros and cons really. i didn't have to bend over to pick it up because it was already at the level of my shovel. i've got this down to a science where i take the snow in layers. it took me forever (or about an hour and a half). when i came in my hair was a frozen mess and my glasses fogged up as soon as i stepped through the door. i was too tired to care. not that cold though. it was a whole 24 degrees out :) i just went back to bed. slept til almost 11 :)

so i'm in the market for a prom dress. it's more difficult than it sounds :/ theres some really cute ones that are really expensive. there's also some really ugly ones that are cheap. somehow there's also really ugly ones that are really expensive, but never cute ones that are really cheap. why is that?

i have officially scheduled an appointment to give (donate? not really since they pay me...never really sure what word to use) plasma. this is exciting because i can make like $50 a week doing this :D i'll finally have my own gas money!! and i might just be able to buy that really cute really expensive dress...

trow em in de wash, dey'll be grand

title: from the movie leap year (girl goes to ireland to propose to her bf on leap year but ends up falling in love w/ the guy who drives her to dublin) said by declan (guy driving girl to dublin), hot irish guy. (he was talking about her shoes cuz she was walking in mud) i'm pretty sure every guy with an irish accent gets extra points for the accent no matter how he looks :) hilarious movie tho :)

so i survived valentines/ singles awareness day. it wasn't so bad actually. this year, instead of feeling bitter and lonely, i was like aww how cute. this shocked me as much as it did my friends because apparently i have made it clear that i hate valentines day. but this year wasn't so bad.

this week was senior/freshman buddy week. (don't ask me why we do it in february there's really no rhyme or reason to it) i was a little apprehensive but it was awesome!! my buddy was so cute :) for dress like your buddy day she curled her hair and dyed it red!! people actually stopped me to tell me they saw my buddy and knew from looking at her that she was mine :) we had a scavenger hunt thing wednesday afternoon. we had to go out in the snow but it was fun. i brought her candy and cookies and stuff every day :) (i'm going for the best buddy award :)

i have off school today (which is why i'm posting in the middle of the day) but i still have play practice at 2. and i have to dye my hair. we don't have off school because of the protests because i go to a private school.

so wisconsin is having this big thing with the budget cuts/ union rights suspended bill thingie. everyone seems to have an opinion. a good 40,000 people felt strongly enough to actually go down to madison today. the democrats have fled the state. i don't like the bill but if it goes through it's not the end of the world. and my family is actually directly affected by it. my mom works for the state (she's not a teacher but a county worker). because they're forcing gov't workers to pay more towards health care, my mom will take a big pay cut. the thing that really bothers me about this bill is that everyone who isn't affected acts like gov't workers deserve to have their pay/benefits cut. my mom's job is hard! no one else wants to do it and she deserves every penny she makes. i find it rude and insensitive when people act like gov't employees are lazy because they don't pay as much of their health care as everyone else does.

oh hey, i now have more than 200 pageviews :D thanks guys :)

one fish two fish red fish blue fish

random title explanation: i'm running out of clever titles. so from this point forward i will post my favorite quotes (with an explanation of course) if i have no intelligent title. this one is dr. seuss (you probably knew that). i don't know why but this always sticks in my brain. 

i've had a rather eventful weekend. my mom and i drove to milwaukee so i could audition for a scholarship there. i sang two songs, one in italian. the other was wishing you were somehow here again from phantom of the opera. by some miracle i managed to get all the words right :) the judges (or whatever they're called...) were smiling when i looked at them :)

my school's valentines dance was last night. not as depressing as i anticipated actually. it was alot of fun. and we haven't had a dance since homecoming (which is like an eternity for my school we have a dance like every two months).

this morning i sang at church with our traveling choir. i don't know who's bright idea it was to schedule a sing-in-church-day the morning after a dance but 80% of the choir was falling asleep standing up. needless to say, it wasn't exactly our best rendition of the four songs we sang.

then we went to the mall because my jeans are falling apart. i really wanted to look at this prom dress i saw in seventeen magazine. but they didn't have it at sears where they said it would be :( delia's didn't have a cute purple dress i wanted to try on either. merg. but my mom did buy me two pairs of jeans :D

overall a pretty good weekend. i realize that if you are a random passer by in cyberspace that this post means nothing to you. but feel free to read the rest ;)

sculpturey things :)

 

so this is a coil vase i made w/ flowers in it :)

 

this is a little whistle shaped like a cat :)

 

and this is my crowning achievement: a pig! :D

whosits and whatsits galore

so packers won the superbowl :) (of course). that was pretty awesome. i didn't watch it though because i went to see wicked!! it was amazing!!!! and we're going to go to beauty and the beast in april :D i'm beginning to like musicals...

let's see, what else significant has happened since the last time we talked...read...er...communicated? well play (musical) practice started. it's pretty fun. today we couldn't be on the stage and half the cast was missing so we just played improv games the whole time :)

i'm auditioning on saturday for a vocal scholarship at WLC (wisconsin lutheran college) i have to memorize two songs, one of which is in italian. i've sung them both before so i have them like 3/4 memorized. we're kind of making a day of it in milwaukee. my mom and i are going to go to the biggest cookie cutter store in the state!! :D that should be fun :) maybe i'll post pics of some cookies we've done. i should post some sculpture pictures too...

my car hasn't been starting the past couple of days. probably because we've had a -30 degrees (Farenheit) windchill all week. but my brother came over and helped me start it :) now i can get home from play practice all by myself :)

snowpocalypse seems a little strong

it appears that the victims of winter are a bit prone to hyperbole. we've only gotten like 6-8 in in the last few days. and some 40 mph winds. the wind is just a pain because it's loud. i'm so sick of shoveling i could scream! but my school has a 2 hour delay today :)

every other spring my school does a musical. every fall and the opposite spring they do a play. i have tried out for almost every single one and never gotten a part. i tried out for this one. but something was different...I GOT A PART!! i was shocked and amazed :D i am now Edith Zuckerman in Charlotte's Web. this is going to be a blast!

winterfest and honors choir went pretty awesomely. i managed to not lose my voice at honors choir. at winterfest i got to hold my biology teacher's snake for like an hour and a half. i also got to listen to a lovely quartet which included mike, josh, and coltyn (from paintball :) my choir sang our west side story medley and our show choir did our two numbers. i managed not to fall, but i came close when we were dancing. i also got to see a friend who i never see so that was pretty awesome :) overall it was an excellent day :)

p.s. i don't know if i mentioned this but i totally got my glasses last week :) they're awesomeness and more :)