Kissing Doorknobs
I just finished a book called Kissing Doorknobs. It's really good, you should read it!
Kissing doorknobs is about a girl named Tara Sullivan, who has a obsessive compulsive disorder. First it starts out with her counting all the cracks on her way to school. If anybody disrupted her, she would get really mad because she would lose count and have to start all over.
Then her problems get worse. Every time someone swore, she would have to pray for them, each and every time. She would line her food up on her dinner plate. She would get so worried every time her parents went out, she couldn't sleep. Her friends and parents became worried. Then annoyed. Then angry. Then, one day, she began a new ritual... Every time she used the front door, she would bring her fingers to her lips, kiss them, then put her fingers on the doorknob, thirty-somthing times, every time. She became angry and confused with herself. She wanted to stop, but she couldn't. This book lets you feel Tara's pain, throughout the entire book. You should DEFINTALY read it!
CoUrTnEy
Finaly... a ROSWELL dream!!!
11/25/06
I finally had a Roswell dream!!!
This started out as a Replica dream...
I was at my friends house with a couple other friends. Then, I we saw Amy Candler (the main character of the Replica series) walking down the street. Somehow, I had vision like Amy (I could see for miles), and I think one of my friends did, too. Anyway, Amy parked her car (somehow she went from walking to driving) and went inside a gas station. She was in there for a couple minutes, then she came out. She then hopped into another car, different from the one she arrived in, adn drove off. My friends and I went across the street and followed her. I told one of my friends, "Hey, this is like the second book! She takes a bunch of different cars so people don't follow her! Maybe she's going to Dr. Hopkins! No, not Dr. Hopkins... Oh! Dr. Jenkins! Yeha, she must be going to see Dr. Jenkins, like in the book!"
We ran and ran, chasing the car. Then, soon, Ray (from Roswell High) was there, guiding us.
I remember him saying "Close your eyes at this part." when we went by a store that sold scary holloween stuff. One of my friends said "Ooh, I hate this part."
After walking for awhile, we finaly arrived at a place. I don't remember going inside, but when we did, we were Roswell characters. I was Liz, and Maria, Isabel, and (I don't remember them specificaly being there, but I know they were there) Max and Alex. We were in a dark apartment with some teenage girls at computers, making the room an errie blue. We saw Michael and he darted into an attic space sort of closet. Maria went into there (I wonder why...(if you don't know what I'm talking about, read the books)). I knew he was crying or feeling really bad about himself, for some reason. Then, Michael came out, with Maria. The teenage girls got up from the computers, holding somthing and walked towards us. Everyone gathered around, exept for Michael and I. Michael leaned towards me and whispered "You can hold your breathe if you want," which somehow I knew actualy meant "You might want to hold your breathe." Then the teenage girls did somthing, and I knew a poisonous smoke bomb (or whatever they're called- in the movies the bad guy sets one off and everybody faints) was going to go off. I held my breathe.
When we escaped, (I don't rememebr it happening, it just happened) I asked Michael "was that a smoke bomb?" He said yes.
Then I woke up. I guess I'll never kow why Michael (or Amy?) was acting so weird... But, hey, it's just a dream! They don't have to make sense!
Sometime during this dream my mom called up and said "You might want to think about getting up soon!" I can't remember how I answered, but I know I answered, much less than half asleep, and got back to my dream. It was awesome, having that dream, kinda like reading a book or watching a movie!
Court
Joke!!!
A man is in bed with his wife when there is a rat-a-tat-tat on the door.
He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's half past three in the morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and rolls over. Then, a louder knock follows.
"Aren't you going to answer that?" says his wife.
So he drags himself out of bed and goes downstairs. He opens the door and there is man standing at the door. It didn't take the homeowner long to realize the man was drunk.
"Hi there," slurs the stranger. "Can you give me a push??"
"No, get lost. It's half past three. I was in bed," says the man and slams the door. He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and she says,
"Dave, that wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby sitter and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost??"
"But the guy was drunk," says the husband.
"It doesn't matter," says the wife. "He needs our help and it would be the right thing to help him." So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs.
He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he shouts, "Hey, do you still want a push??"
And he hears a voice cry out, "Yeah, please."
So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are you?"
And the stranger replies, "I'm over here, on your swing."
Courtney News
Hey, Y'all! Sorry I haven't been doing any personal posts... So here it goes:
-I quit cheerleading (Practices every Wednesday, stretching with my friend every Monday, cheering every Tuesday and Thursday, starting in December- WAY too much to do!)
- I just finished the Roswell High series for the second time (i didn't read number seven, tough, cuz the Library didn't have it, adn I didn't feel like inter-library loaning it)
- I decided to get all the scents of the main characters in Roswell High (Max, Liz, Isabel, Michael, Alex, Maria, and Adam). In the books, they say there's a scent everytime they all connect, each of them have their own scent, and they smell bueatiful when mixed together in the connection. Maria maximed their scents together with her essential oils, and it smelled like it. She ssaid what oils she used, and i wrote it down, and I'm going to buy them all and mix them together, so I can see what they smell like when they connect. Today I just got Eucalyptus, Michaels smell. Six more to go!
-I started a new blog, a poem blog. Go to it somtime! (http://lotsapoems.blogspot.com)
- My b-day is in THREE days! (Tuesday!) Happy birhtday to me, happy birthday to me... he he!
- I got background music to my blog (in case you haven't heard it yet somehow).
Roswell High Quote of the Day
11/24/06
Michael: Honey, I'm home!
Adam: Okay, honey, I'm in the kitchen!
Michael: Uh, just do you know, guys don't call other guys 'honey'. I was just joking when I said that.
Roswel High Quote of the Day
11/23/06
(Background info: Liz is talking about when Alex said "Oops, I just made a Maria", meaning, when Maria gets nervouse, she starts babbling and talking about stupid stuff. That's what Alex just did.)
"Oh, just so you know, Maria said if she ever heard you use that expression again, she was going to use your head for a planter. Probaly for an hearb garden or somthing."
- Liz Ortecho, #10: The Salvation
Roswell High Quote of the Day
11/21/06
"So far we've been able to pinpoint the exact location of you and Adam."
-Alex Manes, #9: The Dark One
From Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul
11/19/06
Suffocating
I am suffocating
And I just need to breathe
I'm smothered under pressure
I must be relieved.
Nothing I do is right,
Nothing they say is fair
I cry and scream and throw a fit,
But no one seems to care.
Nobody will listen,
To what I have to say.
My life is not important,
Yet I'm living every day.
I can't do what I want
I cannot stay out late
Here I sit and write this poem
To release my pain and hate.
I'm confused and I'm alone
I'm lost in my mind.
No one will search beyond my looks
To see what they might find.
So many thoughts confuse me,
Feeling I can't perceive,
In this time of adolesence
And I just need to leave.
None of it makes sense
None of this feels real.
And noone understands
The emotions that I feel.
I'm still suffocating
And I still need to breathe
I'm smothered under feelings
Let me be relieved.
Marion Distante
Roswell High Quote of the Day
"Okay, well, both of you should know that Roswell has its own special version of teh bunny hop called the alien bop. It's about to start, so be afraid, be very afraid."
Michael Guerin, #8: The Rebel
From Chiken Soup for the Teenage Soul III
11/18/06
Minutes Like Hours
You walk into the store
and stride down the aisle.
You pick me up and
try to look casual while
you carry me down
to the checkout line.
Pull out your wallet,
you soon will be mine.
Your friends are observing
every move you make.
The clerk asks for ID-
you show him a fake.
You quickly walk down
to the front of the store.
Your friends are waiting for you
as you step out the door.
You hop in the car
and drive away from the shop.
Then you turn off the ignition,
and pop off the top.
You take a few drinks
and pass me around.
That’s when you decide
to take a drive around town.
You turn on your car
and put your foot on the clutch.
I’m sober, you think,
I didn’t have very much.
You pull onto the road
with me at your side,
Taking occasional sips
as you enjoy the ride.
Then the brakes on the car
in front of you squeal.
You try hard to stop,
but lose control of the wheel.
You skid off the road,
and you know you have crashed.
The dashboard is shattered,
the windshield is smashed.
Minutes like hours,
You’re in treacherous pain,
that washes your senses,
envelopes your brain.
The screams all around you
are faint to your ears,
as life flashes before you,
your hopes and your fears.
Minutes like hours,
you please and you pray,
I’ll never touch it again,
just let me live one more day.
Your mind starts to go dark,
it falls apart piece by piece.
And then you slip into blackness,
the pain has finally ceased.
Before you entered that store,
you should have thought twice,
for I am the substance
that cost you your life.
Vidhya Chandrasekaran
This is one of my favorite poems, it teaches you a really good lesson about drinking/drinking & driving. I have another one like that, I'll post it soon.
Roswell High Quote of the Day
"Even if my molocules were spread out from here to whatever galaxy my home planet is in, that wouldn't stop me. All my molocules would be like little homeing pigeons.They'd all zoom to you, and then I'd re-form."
-Max Evans, #6: The Stowaway
Roswell High Quote of the Day
11/17/06
"The thing is, while most guys would love to talk to a soon-to-be game show hostess, I have this phobia. I don't really like to discuss it, but, hey, we're friends, so here's the deal-- when I'm in the presence of someone whith even the slightest look of a game show hostess, I panic. I start trying to buy vowels. I start demanding valubal prizes.I put everything in the form of a question. It's not pretty."
Alex Manes, #6: The Stowaway
There's another funny quote by Alex on the same page, having to do with the same thing. I'll post it now, kinda like a double quote post.
"A Vet! I have an even bigger phobia about vets. I can't go near her. Barking would be involved. There would be much hulimation for all three of us."
Alex Manes, #6: The Stowaway
TV show scene of the day
11/16/06
From King of Queens
Doug: In our wedding vows, it says 'To Death Do We Part', which I took as, if there's a death, we all part.
Carrie: So you don't want to take care of my father if I die?
Doug: Not me, it's in the vows.
Roswell High Quote of the Day
"Maybe we are the binary stars we saw in the desert that one night."
-Max Evans, #10: The Salvation
TV show quote (well, actualy, scene)
11/15/06
From King of Queens. Doug is upstairs and Arthur is in the basement. Carrie is on the first floor trying to work, but can't.
Aurthur: Douglas? Douglas? Douglas!
Doug: What?
A: Come down here!
D: I'm busy!
A: You're dizzy?
D: I'm BUSY! With a "B"!
A: You're dizzy?
D: (Brief silence) Yes, I'm dizzy.
A: WEll, come down anyway. Hold onto the rail!
D: What is it?!
A: I can't get the naked channel!
D: We don't get the nacked channel!
A: Yes, we do. We were watching it last night!
D: (Brief silence) That was Nightline.
(Carrie throws her hands down onto the table, picks up her books, and goes out to the car to do her work. Doug and Arthur are still very audible)
A: Just tell me, WHAT NUMBER IS THE NACKED CHANNEL?!
D: WE DON'T GET THE NACKED CHANNEL!!!!!
A: Why Not?!
D: I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Carrie sighs and rolls up the windows in the car)
In case you were wondering, the episode this is from is ASULTED NUTS, in the 3rd season.
Roswell High Quote of the Day
"You can't die now, Michael! You still owe me two bucks!"
- Alex Manes, #3 The Seeker
Jobs that look really easy but are probaly a lot harder
- Delivery person (Fed-Ex, UPS)
- Waitress
- Mail person
- Cashier
- Writer
- Cartoonist
- Bus Driver
- Dog Walker
- Babysitter
Wow, there's more jobs than I though! I'll add more as I think of 'em!
Cheerleading!!!
I'M A CHEERLEADER!!!
Cheerleading just started today!!! At our school, you don't have to try out-- not very many people want to be cheerleaders. It's weird, cuz, in books people always want to be cheerleaders, and the cheerleaders are always bratty. Not at our school! Most of the cheerleaders are really nice and most people want to do Basketball instead.
In books and movies, they make cheerleading look kinda difficult, but it's actualy really hard. You have to know how to do splits, backbends, back walkovers, right and left cartwheels, rolls, and some other stuff I can't remember. AND you have to be able to do elevators (two peoplke on the side, one person in the middle, one person in the back, the rest all around in a circle. the side people and the back person lift up the middle person while the rest stand around with their hands up ready to catch anybody who falls). But it's still fun!!!
Court
GS Camp
11/9/06
I'm happy! Girl Scout Fall Camp is tomorrow! I've never been there b4, but i've heard it's really fun! I'm going w/ my BFF!
Just Me
Mood: HAPPY!!! (I just watched The Office, and Jim's coming back to Scranton!!!)
Book(s) I'm In The Middle Of Reading: So Little Time: How To Train A Boy
Currently Listening To: Sk8r Boi
Supposed To Be Doing: Nu'in (nothing)
I Wish: Maximum Ride 3 would COME OUT ALREADY!!!
HAPPY DAY!!!
11/8/06
I'M GETTING THE NEW VERSION OF BLOGGER!!! HAPPY DAY!!! Rite now i'm waiting for the change to be completed. it mite take awhile, though. but STILL!!! HAPPY DAY!!!
Teletmarker Replent
Telemarketer Repellant
1. If they say they're John Doe from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name. Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located, how long it has been in business, how many people work there, how they got into this line of work, if they are married, how many kids they have, etc. Continue asking them personal questions or questions about their company for as long as necessary.
2. Say "no" over and over. Be sure to vary the sound of each one, and keep a rhythmic tempo, even as they are trying to speak. This is most fun if you can do it until they hang up.
3. If MCI calls trying to get you to sign up for the Family and Friends Plan, reply, in as sinister a voice as you can, "I don't have any friends, would you be my friend?"
4. If they start out with, "How are you today?" say, "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems. My arthritis is acting up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog has the gout..."
5. If the company cleans rugs, respond: "Can you get out blood? Can you get out goat blood? How about human blood?"
6. Tell the telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her home phone number so you can call him/her back. When the telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their home numbers say, "I guess you don't want anyone bothering you at home, right?" The telemarketer will agree and you say, "Me either!" Hang up.
7. Ask them to repeat everything they say several times.
8. Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "Come on, Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how's your momma?"
9. Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up . . . louder . . . louder . . .
10. When the salesperson asks, "Is this the homeowner?" say, "Is this the salesperson?" And when they say, "Yes," hang up.
Joke of the Day
A golfer and his buddies were playing a big round of golf for $200.
At the eighteenth green the golfer had a ten foot putt to win the round, and the $200.
As he was lining up his putt, a funeral procession started to pass by.
The golfer set down his putter, took his hat off, placed it over his chest, and waited for the funeral procession to pass.
After it passed, he picked up his putter and returned to lining up his putt, and completed it, thus winning the game and the money.
Afterwards, one of his buddies said, "That was the most touching thing I have ever seen.
I can't believe you stopped playing, possibly losing your concentration, to pay your respects."
"Well," said the golfer, "we were married for 25 years."
Facts on Farts
I found this really strange web site...
It has really weird (and amusing) questions and answers, such as "Where Do Farts Come From?" or "What Is The Best Postition For Farting?"
Go to it!! ------> http://www.heptune.com/farts.html
Joke of the Day
A little old lady goes to the doctor and says, "Doctor, I have this problem with gas, but it doesn't really bother me too much. They never smell and are always silent. As a matter of fact, I've farted at least 20 times since I've been here in your office. You didn't know I was farting because they don't smell and are silent."
The doctor says, "I see. Here's a prescription. Take these pills 3 times a day for seven days and come back to see me next week."
The next week the lady goes back. "Doctor," she says, "I don't know what the hell you gave me, but now my farts ... although still silent... stink terribly."
The doctor says, "Good! Now that we've cleared up your sinuses, let's start working on your hearing."
VOTING DAY!!!
I'm sooooooo happy!!! Finaly, no more annoying commercials asking for your vote. "He created Jobs" "Don't vote for him if..." they're sooooooooo annoying!!! But, anyway, I'm HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPY!!!
Joke of the Day
In a certain suburban neighborhood, there were two brothers, 8 and 10 years old, who were exceedingly mischievous. Whatever went wrong in the neighborhood, it nearly always turned out they had had a hand in it. Their parents were at their wits' end trying to control them and after hearing about a priest nearby who worked withdelinquent boys, the mother suggested to the father that they ask the priest to talk to them.
The mother went to the priest and made her request. He agreed, but said he wanted to see the younger boy first and alone. So the mother sent him to the priest.
The priest sat the boy down across from the huge, impressive desk he sat behind. For about five minutes they just sat and stared at each other. Finally, the priest pointed his forefinger at the boy and asked, "Where is God?"
The boy looked under the desk, in the corners of the room, all around, but said nothing.
Again, louder, the priest pointed at the boy and asked, "Where is God?"
Again the boy looked all around but said nothing. A third time, in a louder, firmer voice, the priest leaned far across the desk and put his forefinger almost to the boy's nose, and asked, "Where is God?"
The boy panicked and ran all the way home. Finding his older brother, he dragged him upstairs to their room and into the closet, where they usually plotted their mischief and quickly said, "We are in big trouble!"
The older boy asked, "What do you mean, big trouble?"
His brother replied, "God is missing and they think we did it!"
Joke of the Day
11/5/06
The symphony orchestra was performing Beethoven's Ninth.
In the piece, there's a long passage, about 20 minutes, during which the bass violinists have nothing to do.
Rather than sit around that whole time looking stupid, some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a quick one.
After slamming several beers in quick succession, one of them looked at his watch and said, "Hey! We need to get back!"
"No need to panic," said a fellow bassist. "I thought we might need some extra time, so I tied the last few pages of the conductor's score together with string. It'll take him a few minutes to get it untangled."
A few moments later they staggered back to the concert hall and took their places in the orchestra.
About this time, a member of the audience noticed the conductor seemed a bit edgy and said as much to her companion.
"Well, of course," said her companion. "Don't you see? It's the bottom of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."
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