Living for the memory

Being young is all about making memories, right? Well, I seized the moment. Sitting around a fountain, I stayed in place as it sprayed water. Cold...such cold water >.<. And ignoring the fact that everybody thought I was crazy, I stayed until the end. (Because I took into account that diving in and collecting all the coins would probably result in too much trouble, this was the best I could do o.O). Sadly, I faced all those small complications later on. I was freezing for the rest of the day, all my clothes were wet, and I probably caught a cold, as this hammering headache is telling me. But all of that is completely justified when I say, hey, it was fun! And now I have another story to tell when I'm a crazy, rambling eighty year old :P.

Realization

On my way to IHOP the other day, I saw one of my friends from last year, Brandon. When I saw him, I noticed how I tend to drift apart from my friends over time. And with that, I get a feeling of melancholy because I know that I will probably lose my friends, or at least the ones that don't end up going to my high school.
So i intend on enforcing a new goal on myself. Over the next four years, I'll try to get together as often as possible with my old friends, and stay in contact. And I really hope I'm able to do this, because four years from now I don't want to have lost everything that I have now.

Friends and brownies =D

Usually, it's completely futile to argue with my mom over letting friends come over. But every now and then, a great excuse comes along, and this one happened to be a school presentation (Thanks Ms. Napoli!)
And with enough persuasion, I succeeded in convincing my mom to let me invite Taylor over! We barely got any work done, and pretty much only bought food for the presentation (and ate half of it). But hours flied by, along with "carajo land" and "conspiracy" jokes, and throwing ideas back and forth.
I'm probably the only person in the world that's actually happy to be doing a school project, but then again the bulk of it revolves around food. (Food -> first sign that I actually contributed something.)
*Realizes that this entry is completely all over the place and is leading to nothing* Long story short, junk food is the most important component of any diet, and conspiracy theories are a conspiracy formed by the government!

Good bye intense, cutting, frosty weather

In my book, Winter is finally over! More specifically, I define the end of winter as not stepping into huge piles of snow, but rather breaking into a sweat upon going through the front door.
So, to celebrate this long-due seasonally weather, I took the time to go to the park. And while this might not seem like a great task, my parents found it amazing that I actually passed up playing video games to go outside...*ponders self's anti-socialism*...and I have no idea what they meant when they said so :P.
Now my favorite part of going to the park is getting on the swings. And I accompanied my sister and brother in law along with my niece to the smaller of two parks near my house, which only had two swings. And of course, with five year olds running all over the place, the swings were taken. And with my very nice decision of not "persuading" these kids to get off the swings, I watched my niece sit in the baby seat instead =D.(Picture to the left.)

A huge disappointment

After patiently waited for about a year, i got what I wished for last week: the next Vampire Diaries book, Shadow Souls. After reading the fifth book in the series, I wasn't exactly satisfied, and hoped that the sixth would be much better. Simply stated, I was wrong. The series to a fast down-turn after the original four books, which were written in the early 1990's. But the fifth book, which was written in 2009, seemed to eager to meet the standards set by the other books that became popular. *cough* Twilight *cough* The series took a whole new turn, became repetitive and overall monotonous. The characters became more innocent, none of them held up their previous enigmas edge. L.J. Smith truly disappointing me with Shadow Souls, the personalities of the characters deteriorated from their original stance. The plot was just bearable, but forcefully stretched out to 600 pages. Previously, the books would have me hooked, eagerly turning each page and I would finish each book in a matter of hours. In other words, this book was an epic fail.
Nevertheless, I will still be looking forward to the release of Midnight, simply for the sake of continuing what I have already begun. I don't doubt that Midnight will turn out to be an even greater disappointment than Shadow Souls.

For a lack of words, here are a few thousand

Here's a few pictures to describe what's been going on over the course of the week:

R.I.P. Mr. Donohue

We all have teachers that we care about. Teachers that understand, teachers that we connect to and make our days brighter. It's a sad thing when someone that we have grown so attached to passes away.
Connor Donohue will forever remain in my memories as one of my favorite teachers in all time. Even irreplaceable. No one can for see death, and we can only hope that this day we share with the people around us is not the last. I can shed many tears, have shed many tears, but nothing can change the fact that he's gone. But may he rest in peace, the 24-year-old soul that so tragically passed away yesterday. R.I.P. Mr. Donohue, who I will never forget.