[mood]: probably unhealthily happy
[music]: billy joel greatest hits cd collection (haha come on, gotta go old every once in a while)

well, i know it's a monday, and i know you're probably all exhausted, but if you're just so cool like enloe, then =) and be happy because we have no school thursday! so this whole week is like warped and it's gonna seem like the second half of the week all the time and that just rocks. i'm doing so much this weekend: movie, shopping, sleepover, having people over, babysitting, lilly's, comedy worx, another movie, you know.
okay, i'm gonna dedicate this paragraph to the one and only sophie. do any of y'all have dogs? i know that sally, ashley, and adam do...but everyone else i'm close to are cat people. well anyway, sophie is like "my" dog cause i take care of her the most and i still pick her up (she's bigger than hugh now, sixty five pounds, oh my goodness!) and i spoil her rotten. and she's always loved me the most =] and she just makes my day so much better. like you have this crappy day and you walk through the door and she comes trotting around the corner with her whole freaking butt wagging cause she's so freakin happy to see you. and she jumps up and licks you and is just so excited. i mean really, she loves me no matter what i do. and that just makes me happy. dogs are indeed a man's best friend.
continuging with the main point of this entry. soccer practice today rocked my socks off. i'm lucky though, cause my coach was in the worst mood and he got all up in other people's faces but i was off workin on blocking crosses with coach z and so i missed that. but the greatest part was the beginning of practice when we scrimmaged kate's team and we won! they didn't score...whoo hoo yeah buddy i had a shut out! and we scored on our first charge/shot. yeah so that made my day, i beat my own sister's u18 team...on my u15 team...a bunch of freshman playing seniors. oh, joy. and then i just beasted all during practice, even at the end when i played some field. i dunno what it was, but it was just a really good practice for me.
well i'm gonna head out. i need to do some art sketches and shower and eat dinner (still, yes i know, it's the mabe family) and possibly read some of the lord of the flies. on second thought...no.
<3 char la la

oh my goodness! i almost forgot! the next installment! i'm gonna cheat though, and use stuff from my entry...

five more things that make my day

[x] when no matter how upset you are or how bad of a day you've had, your dog loves you no matter what and makes you smile and cheers you up just like that.

[x] when people sneak up on you. (not in a mean way, but in a surprise you way.) for some reason that just makes me so happy.

[x] when you do really well at something. i'm sure this applies for everyone, but you know like a basic hobby--soccer, for instance, for me. if you just have one day where you just really excel, both in areas you know you can do well in and areas you may not always be great in.

[x] having an inside joke with someone you've just recently met/started talking to. that just makes me happy, it's very promising and a good foundation. i just had one of those days today where everything made me laugh and it was so much fun.

[x] days when you wake up and for some reason you're well rested. chances are you shouldn't be cause you bearly got any sleep, but you're excited to go to school (oh my word, i know) and you contribute all day in class, and for some reason it's just all good.

[mood]: what could better, i mean really?!
[music]: hopes and fears--keane (entire album) it's sooo good

so, what rocks about this week?
first of all, it's only four days. props to you, laborers who made labor day. secondly, we have like no homework. well, i don't at least. even though we all have different teachers and some different subjects now, we're all pretty much on the same track i think. then of course, even though i thought i wouldn't be able to see anyone outside of school, i got to go to to cameron village today. ahh, yes, i missed it!
so yeah alex, sally, adam, max, travis, thomas and i all met up at cv. alex and i walked around by ourselves for a while and we shared his strawberry creme frappacino thing from starbucks and it was so yummy! then we met up with sally adam and thomas outside of cafe cyclo/baskin robbins and sat there for a long time just talking. which was nice and relaxing and i had a good time cause it was almost like the summer again (lordy knows it was hot enough!) and there was no school work and i was just with my summer buddies and it was fun and stress free and *pleasant sigh* yeah. so then we realized adam and sally were late getting back...and then alex and i just walked around, as always. and his mom gave me a ride home even though it was really tough for her...thank goodness!
and then...i did my homework. which was really easy. =)
speaking of school work...i got a's back on all my tests today but kiffy the porn star's, which i got a high b on. yeah, that's what i'm calling him from now on.

and here is my continuation...five more things that make my day

[x] when i find out yet another way in which alex completely kicks ass. well maybe i should say "when one finds out their boyfriend is even closer still to perfect" but yeah whichever works. he's...so...sweet! wow, i guess this one really doesn't count because it's so random. but okay, let's reword it to this: when you find a great guy who aside from all your basic stuff also does all the sweet little polite things, like opens the door and doesn't cuss around girls and pays for dates and...okay you don't want to hear this list. again. hah.

[x] when i've been having a bad week or a bad few days and then all the sudden one day i get everything all under control, like i have all my work done and i realize school's actually really easy and all my friends are good and everything makes me happy. yeah, a day like today.

[x] reverting back to the basic stuff, someone giving you a compliment. any kind of compliment, you can't deny that it makes you feel good. constant flattery is different...just a sparatically placed compliment.

[x] days that are just absolutely beautiful, especially if it's been rainy a while or something. days where your eyes are just drawn to the window, you step outside and it's like there's nothing between you and the freshest air you can breathe, and it's just so naturally gorgeous.

[x] okay, i've put it off long enough. shopping...yes. not to the shallow point that shopping can truly fix everything (even though a little retail therapy never hurt anyone!), but to know you've turned those pieces of paper--or that piece of plastic, haha--into something completely cool to don next monday, that just makes you happy. haha.

enjoy. make someone's day tomorrow! even though you all already do. did i ever mention that? you make each and every day without anything else. i love you guys.

[mood]: not ready for the weekend to be over, but good
[music]: on the way down, lost without each other, out of my heart, hey sandy, hackensack, love and tears...yeah walker and i had a music spree last night

well, i just got back from hero. that movie is definitely more of an art form than an actual movie, but goodness it's beautiful. my favorite scene was the "green scene" (and yes, they did have colors.) haha. yeah so i went to shea's house with john s and alex and we watched some of the animatrix (i have never seen a more obviously made-while-high movie, haha) and did crazy stuff. well first we played airsoft which was slightly painful...no let's say highly painful...when john s didn't realize it was loaded and shot me twice. yeah. ouch. and then we all got on shea's bigass trampoline until it started raining. and we still stayed on there until we realized that it was pouring and we got soaked to the bone, heh heh. yeah and then man they burned like two or three things of insence in the room and we all probably smelled a bit too much of it...man we were crazy. but maybe that's just how it goes with shea...aww man i miss having him at school with me.
so then we went to the movie and that was awesome. in the truest sense of the word, awe-some. yeah. i don't know if you got that...but anyway it was also made pretty funny. for instance, the human shiskabob and walking on water. and then i gave john a ride to shea's so he gave me a ride home and we had fun talking about bushes on people's hair, otherwise known as afros. heh heh.
but anyway, happy labor day! even though my weekend was mostly used playing soccer. i'm not quite ready to go back to school, man i'm still missing summer. but it's only four days and i have no soccer, so i'm excited. i'm gonna try to go to the library every day after school as long as i don't have too much homework. speaking of, i might as well go ahead and get a head start on it! i'll probably end up talking on the phone all night though...;-) (yeah alex i just keep pushing that bedtime with my mom...)
enjoy your evening everybody!

well, i decided to rebel. so many people are doing these “things-that-ruin-my-day” lists that i decided to do the opposite. but instead, i’ll just do it in short little installments. so here the first one is:

five things that make my day

[x] when you get home from a date and you smell like your boyfriend. maybe that just happens to me…haha. well it happens all the time, and you know how the guy you like always has that smell. *sniffs left shoulder* ahh…=)

[x] when i spend an entire afternoon on the phone. this can be with the same person or with an assortment of people. this has been happening a lot lately, too…i’ll have just hung up the phone (my line) and it’ll ring again. so basically large amounts of time on the phone. it works especially well if you go past your bedtime and your parents don’t realize so you get an extra hour in with your boyfriend/best friend/best guy friend. haha.

[x] when you really really really want to talk to someone and all the sudden their little alert comes up on your computer screen and they’re like “hey! i really wanted to talk to you!” or when they call at the same time. this happens all the time, too. heh heh.

[x] when launch plays like ten awesome new songs in a row, and i like them so much i rate them all with four stars. yeah that just makes me excited. any music spree at all, actually…haha

[x] anything really fun with friends that is entirely spontaneous. this can be anything basic from calling my mom after eighth period from alex’s cell telling her i’m going to the library or a club meeting, or getting in the car at eight in the morning and coming home at midnight on a day trip to wilmington/wrightsville.

[mood]: finally rested, energized (unbelievable, i know)
[music]: fall to pieces--velvet revolver

well, yesterday was bad but last night was good. i guess talking on the phone for four hours straight can do that to you...even if you're kicked out of your own room which you cleaned all day and have to sleep in your sister's which is very messy. oh well, i survived. i talked to shea, then adam, then scott, then i hung up the phone and alex called but i had dinner then called alex back. so yeah that combination cheered me up. i have another soccer game today and it's rainy which is great because that means i'll get to slide around and yeah that's the best way to play goalie =D. so what else. i think i'm going out to lunch in a bit...and i have a few chapters in great expectations to read and then those three kifner questions. and i may start editing my paper...but i doubt it =).

in the mean time!

[H.A.V.E Y.O.U]
BEEN KISSED? yes
KISSED SOMEONE? uhhm...well when they kiss i'll kiss back...usually.
BEEN SAILING? yeah...but i need to go again with sally in rhode iiiisland! haha
STOOD AT THE EDGE OF A CLIFF? mmmhmm...amazing
BEEN SKYDIVING? haha...no.
ROCKCLIMBING? yes! it's so much fun
SANG TO YOUR FAVORITE SONG? every single day...i sing along to everything...cause i have like a million favorite songs heh heh
GONE TO SCHOOL BY ACCIDENT ON A HOLIDAY? i don't think so. maybe a long time ago in elementary school? yeah i think i did once. hahaha.
SEEN A CARTOON MARATHON? you know i hate cartoons =]
SPENT OVER $500 IN ONE STORE? haha yes, maybe more than is exactly healthy.
SOLD A PAINTING? yeah...
USED DUCT TAPE TO FIX YOUR SHOES? haha the first week of eighth grade my flip flop broke while waiting for the bus and so yeah will had some duct tape and yeah. =D
BEEN STARED AT FOR MORE THAN 30 SECONDS? well if you're ever around julian than the answer's yes haha. but other than that yes, too.
SET OFF A FIRE ALARM? ahhh sixth grade. last week? eighth period? yeah buddy. guess who.
SANG IN AN ELEVATOR FULL OF PEOPLE? lol yes...well i guess it wasn't full of people. but it was my sisters and my mom and i and it was at the grove park inn so it's not exactly going to be "full of people" if you've ever been there cause they have the old fashioned ones with the little gates and everything...but the guy who opens the doors for you was in there...hahaha.
CUT YOURSELF? yeah...HAHA i scrape myself with my fingernails all the time--on accident (yeah not what you were thinking.)
ATTEMPTED TO COMMIT SUICIDE? i've been stupid and threatened...
HAD THE NEIGHBORS COME OVER TO TELL YOU TO BE QUIET? told jensen to be quiet.
RUN WITH SCISSORS? haha YES. i did just the other day actually.
USED A PICK-UP LINE? i don't need 'em =]
SMOKED POT? never ever ever
ASKED SOMEONE OUT? hahaha. yes. but only walker. haha. and that practically doesn't count.
BEEN ASKED OUT? yeah
REJECTED SOMEONE? awww yes...and thinking of most recently...i love him anyway! (not like that he's my buddy though!)
SEEN A NUN IN PERSON? yup
MADE A SCRAPBOOK? i have like ten...heh heh
BEEN TO A DUMP? no
FAILED A CLASS? *gasp* no way...you know i make straight a's...oh RIGHT it's HIGHSCHOOL now...we'll see. i doubt that i'll fail anything. very much.
HAD A CRUSH ON SOMEONE AT LEAST 3 YEARS OLDER THAN YOU? not really. one year? yes three times. two years? once. three years? nah. oh, well, it also depends on your definition of crush...
SHANKED SOMEONE/BEEN SHANKED? no but i've seen it happen at soccer tournaments waaay too many times.
DANCED WHEN NO ONE WAS WATCHING? all the time...hahaha
SEEN A MOVIE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE? yes! actually one of my favorites...
BEEN TO PARIS? not yet!

[W.H.I.C.H]
BLUE/BLACK? black
SUNRISE/SUNSET? sunset...they have more colors in them...and plus you don't have to get up at the crack of dawn--literally--to watch them haha
CHOCOLATE/VANILLA? chocolat
DO IT/WATCH IT? unless it's watching someone do something stupid...do it.
FRIDAY/SATURDAY? FRIDAY! definitely!
TESTS/POP QUIZZES? tests, unless it's a pop quiz and i know everything on it...cause then i feel special haha
MOVIES/PLAYS? movies most of the time, but i love both
BBQ/SALAD? salad
POP/R&B? depends on what kind of mood i'm in. good--pop, bad--r&b...if either at all.
ROCK/RAP? rock a thousand times over
CASH/CHECK? cash! it's such a pain to cash checks
LOOKS/SMARTS? smarts, definitely. (haha chris you know my current complaint...) but looks don't hurt. ever.
DOGS/CATS? dogs without a doubt (sorry alex!)

[F.A.V.E.S]
ICE CREAM? chocolate chip cookie dough
DESSERT? chocolate pie
CANDY? lifesavers or twix (don't worry alex, you won't have to buy me carrots on valentine's day...hahahaha man good times)
SCHOOL SUBJECT? it used to always be history, but this year it's english. for two reasons: the teachers and then i'm actually...a writer. so yeah.
ANIMAL? harp seal! they're sooo adorable. actually anything adorable. haha. wow i'm such a girl.
CAR? bmw jaguar saab mercedes benz...i'll settle for.
BAND? what an infinitely impossible question.
PET? dogs! they're the next best thing to people, if not even better cause they always love you no matter what you do!
BOOK? a ring of endless light maybe?
MOVIE? heh heh...ferris beuller's day off, amelie, matrix and matrix: reloaded, all of the lotr movies, charade, what's up doc, steel magnolias...yeah i could just go on forever.

[C.U.R.R.E.N.T]
CLOTHES? my pajamas...from sally! haha blue cami and my little striped shorts
HAIR? back in a ponytail and then a twist thingy...but wild and crazy haha
THOUGHT? i just realized i'm really hungry...it's 1.00 and i haven't eaten.
DISSAPOINTMENT? uhhm there was something i was upset over but i can't remember...heh heh.
EXCITEMENT? next weekend? haha well school tomorrow cause i like it (i know what a freak!)
WORRY? i've just gotta stay on top of all this work...
ANNOYANCE? this stupid cold i have...

[L.A.S.T]
LAUGH? last night on the phone...i guess with alex cause i talked to him last
CRY? uhhm yesterday. my mommy was being mean =(
HUG? i guess friday night with alex...
KISS? friday night with alex
PHONE CALL? shea adam scott alex scott alex...last night (yes in that order lol)
IM CONVERSTAION? like a real one? with sally yesterday afternoon
THING YOU BOUGHT? does the enloe football game ticket count?
MOVIE? perfect score on friday afternoon. oh yeah and like thirty minutes of water boy haha
BOOK? no. don't even make me think of dickens...
MEAL? dinner last night. so i need to go eat. so yeah i'm leaving. bye.

[mood]: ahh so happy
[music]: after all these years and love your life--silverchair, last nite--the strokes, whatever song was in my head all day that i didn't know (hahaha alex)

well yeah today was definitely another good day!
man, i wish i could go to the library every day. i sort of got in trouble for it today. like my mom isn't so dumb that she can't see through the library name and into the fact that i'm with friends...but oh well. i'm going tomorrow and friday anyway =D. and today i actually did get work done! okay, well we did until we went out onto the mid level parking lot...hahahaha chris--you know my stories. but it's just so nice...it was an absolutely gorgeous day today, and *yawn* oh sorry and it was so relaxing, even if i was about to fall asleep...haha...and yeah it just made me happy...okay enough...
yeah well everything makes me happy. except for sally, she had a bad day so i feel sad for her. cause the stupid people are screwing up her campaign for senate, and she has a cold. GET BETTER SALLY BELLE MARIE!
school work is a piece of cake. so far.
*huge yawn* yeah well that bout says it all. EARLY BED TIME FOR ME! oh yes. man i can't even make a good sentence about today.

[mood]: unphased
[music]: layla--eric clapton

wow, highschool makes things like ten times more complicated. i don't neccessarily mean that in a bad way, it just does. i mean, if you haven't noticed stuff like adam & me and sally, and then alex, and then chris's stuff...plus working load and people like shea and adam not going here, and...well yeah stuff just gets so many layers piled on top of it, i've sort of given up trying to get to the heart of things and have just sort of gone with the flow. uhhm...okay well yeah just thought i'd mention that...?

::stuff you probably know::
[known as]: char, charlie, sharly, char girl, char la la, charlizzle, chartruese, jacqueline, creamy, char grill, charmin, shealotte II...yup i think that's it. (even though i came up with fifteen the other day riding alex's bus...hmm.)
[hours wasted away usually]: playing soccer, playing piano, at school, at movies, at the library, pretty much always with friends, or computer time, writing, music, dogs...
[prescense first graced the earth]: april twenty-third nineteen-ninety

::last::
[movie]: in the theater, the village. oh i know, it's been so long!
[book]: great expectations...I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS! i called it. tell me when you get to when that pocket jr. guy is telling miss havisham's story to pip...i figured out who everyone is. if you wanna know my theory, ask me, but i know some people hate it when i ruin what are supposed to be "surprises"
[vacation]: to the beach august1 through august8
[time you got wet]: at the pool today
[meal]: quesadilla at the pool! (pronounced ques-a-dilla...not the spanish way. hahaha yeah brian)
[laugh]: uhhm...actually have i laughed today? maybe not! *gasp* i think it was last night on the phone with alex
[tear]: sophie bit me today--on accident when i tried to get her ball and she didn't know--but yeah it brought tears to my eyes...but i didn't actually cry
[phone conversation]: with alex last night
[im conversation]: at the moment talking with adam
[disagreement]: my parents tried to make me get up at 9.00, but i slept til 12.30...*shame* but i needed to!
[hug]: alex--friday
[kiss]: alex--friday
[song]: evaporated--ben folds/she's so high--tal bachman/pretty girl--sugarcult
[place you went]: to the pool with my parents and jenny (who is jensen...btw)
[place you went with friends]: to the library then to the bulls game with alex and then max, travis for a bit and thomas

::currently::
[hair]: twisted back, so it'll be curly tomorrow
[clothes]: jean mini and flowered cami
[annoyance]: trying not to procrastinate on homework
[satisfaction]: my soccer team is still going to be good this season!
[worry]: highschool, meaning all the stuff i listed above (workload, adam alex sally me deal thingy going on--haha--and chris and stuff)
[anticipation]: wednesday afternoon and then next weekend

::friends::
[best]: sally belle marie is my lucky crunchy star! hahaha...and then guys are shea scott adam walker
[most recently acquired]: shannon, phil, "poojie", lea, isabella (well with her, re-acquired haha from elementary school), david/minion/slave, max, travis, thomas
[most consistent]: scott has never ever ever gotten mad at me. my big brother!
[most inconsistent]: *muffled voice* yeah i actually do have an answer for that. but don't worry, it's probably not you if you're reading this.
[most...interesting]: betty or chris...power to 'em
[boyfriend/girlfriend]: alex
[most respected]: uhhm i respect all of my friends, definitely. but probably adam, sally, and walker in particular.
[who could you not live without?]: uhhm...i know who i'd pick if i had to pick one person in the entire world but i don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. and anyway, i probably wouldn't be able to live without any of you...

[mood]: delerious disbelief
[music]: old time memory--josh kelly

well, let's see.
for some reason the whole blog- / xanga- scene is sort of making me nonplussed these days. same with school, but it was okay today. but yeah, it just seems sort of pointless for me to write all this stuff that if you're my close enough friend, you know, and if you're not close enough to know it either doesn't make sense or it sounds like ranting or you couldn't care less. eh ah whatever.
well, anyway, as i was saying, let's see.
yesterday was...well, sort of uneventful. i did homework. in the middle of which alex called me and we talked for forty five minutes, then i called around some more, and then i got back to homework. i was in a very artistic mood yesterday and so i did a lot of sketching and feel in love with my art class. i love it so much, all the sudden i can just draw and as cliche as this may sound, it's like everything else just sort of drops away...but enough silliness. i'm about to die in french, it's awful. they couldn't say the alphabet. oh wait, neither could the teacher! *sigh* ugh oh well.
so hmm today i rode the bus to cameron village with alex and met his friends max (knew before now) and travis (didn't know but he's cool). we went to the re-located library which was actually pretty fun because we were so silly. we had some major laughter-control problems. but oh well! =). alex and i walked to harris teeter for some of that really cool canadian water and it was pitiful cause we couldn't find it. "it's like we're an old married couple going shopping together" hahaha alex is so silly. then we went back and attempted some homework. it was so cool, cause it was like on the top tier of the three-level parking lot and when we finished homework alex and i wandered around talking up there and "pretty" is definitely not the word i would use, but i suppose "cool" will suffice. it was actually sort of pitiful that raleigh is so short, cause we felt like we were on top of the city. and we thought about getting on the roof but didn't, because getting arrested is no fun. and then we went in a lot of dead ends trying to get back. and then lost change in "copiers" and yeah. and yeah it was fun =). i'm going back tomorrow! and probably every wednesday, if i start piano again on tuesdays. yeah it's sort of pitiful once it gets to like sixth period, that's what keeps me going...oh well.
so actual school today was better cause i actually saw people between classes! like i saw alex three times and we actually had time to talk and same with sally, except only two times, and scott once or twice, and ashley and shelly and...yeah. and i actually have a pretty big group i eat lunch with, even if i'm trying to get out of it (the lunch, not the group haha). and i got called to student services and i talked my way out of a course denial! so i've been referred to the vice-principal to run my lunch-change-in-disguise by him. oooh, i hope it works!
so hmm what else. mr. kifner pisses me off beyond belief. he never calls on me and the kids in my class don't know what they're saying a lot of the time, they're like major anarchists that remind me of shea, except without the research. that's why it's fine with shea, cause he knows what he's talking about. but yeah i just tune out anyway, cause we already learned all of it. oh well. it makes me miss mrs. brooks a lot.
tonight was typical, watched the olympics, ate dinner, got a call from alex, got several from shea, tried scott and sally and shea and...well yeah whatever.
oh, on friday i'm going to see a durham bulls game! ...well, hopefully. there's so much stuff we need to do, like more movies to see and a durham bulls game and ice skating and adventure landing/fun werks and carolina hurricanes games...and well yeah you get the picture. saturday i have a scrimmage which pisses me off cause we have one on thursday, too, and so now i can't go to the library thursday or to hang out with sally and adam on saturday, unless we do something at night. we'll see.
well, i really need to take a shower before adam calls. night night.