[mood]: a little weird, though it should be wonderful...
[music]: bedshaped--keane

today i guess, on the surface, was wonderful.
i got in the top three of nominations for homecoming court. so people voted in homeroom today. i really couldn't care less. hahaha. and then in math i got a ninety-six on a math test where the next highest score was an eighty-six and the average was seventy-nine. enough said. and it's an absolutely gorgeous day again, i'm so happy, out of the blue of this week of hurricanes and rain, here is this perfect weather. i'm actually excited for soccer practice tonight, believe it or not! it'll be great to play. and today we got our assignments for the c&c project, i have a great group and it's gonna be really fun, i think. they voted me to be the candidate, and so i'm jack! haha uh oh.

oh, and one thing to add...something that makes my day

when i find a pink carnation in my binder as a surprise from my boyfriend...just for no reason at all. (we share a locker, so he did it before third period, the first time i use that binder...)

thanks =). i love you, alex.

[mood]: extraordinary
[music]: is this it (album)--the strokes

well everything in my life is just...wonderful.
let's see what's happened since updating...oh yeah! grades:
it turned out pretty much just how i thought it would. i'll do it in order of my day...
healthul living: 95.0, a; biology: 99.0, a; c&e: 89.7, b; english: 98.7, a; french II: 93.6, a; basic 2-d design: 96.3, a; algebra II: 98.0, a. yeeaaah...i really hate kifner. oh well. for king, after school on tuesday (the day of the great expecations exam) he came up to me and was like. "hey charlotte! yeah i wanted to find you and let you know that you scored the highest out of all of my students on the exam today." i was like, *jaw drop* noo...waaay...really?! haha yeah it was great. i love that class to death. and i took notes and studied for the quiz in kifner tomorrow, cause i'm convinced i'm gonna get straight a's. how much would that just completely rock...ahhh i'm wired.
also, french club was on tuesday. it's really fun and even though we were thwarted in the scavanger hunt (hahaha) it was something i definitely want to keep doing. sally and i are thinking that since the cabinet is all seniors this year, we can be officers next year...heck yeah!
speaking of clubs, for key club i need ten hours within two weeks. i've already got five hours planned for this week, and we need some more. yeah...so i'm waking up on saturday morning to go to exploris for the intro session thing...i think alex is going, too. and then trash pick up for all my various clubs.
so continuing. we thought that i couldn't sleep over at sally's, and then it turned out i could! so i went over there last night and it was just fun cause yesterday everyone was in such a good mood and so it was the perfect day for a sleepover. i watched forrest gump for the first time ever...oh my word that is definitely one of my favorite movies now! ahh goodness it's so great, i can't even begin to explain it all. i went with her to her neighbors to babysit this morning, but the kids were angelic so it didn't really matter. then i came home...and...did some work, talked a lot, made plans, yeah all that fun stuff.
i'm so happy that tomorrow is friday!!! just a random school day in the middle of it all. even though i have a math test and a c&e quiz, it's all good. (does anyone know when we get pictures back?)

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what i think is the last installment:
five more things that make my day

[x] seeing a really, really good movie.

[x] good grades. enough said.

[x] getting to bed early or being able to sleep late, either way: getting enough sleep

[x] getting new pictures developed or uploading digital camera stuff onto your computer, and then pouring over them. it's just so exciting!

[x] the way that no matter what, some people are always able to say just the right thing at exactly the right time. whether that's something funny, or something comforting, it doesn't matter...cause they can just put a smile on your face and make you feel known and loved and cared for.

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and now, because i really do have this much fun with these things...a survey.

thirteen random things you like
1. music
2. computers
3. my dogs
4. movies
5. going out to dinner
6. accessories
7. worked for success
8. beautiful weather
9. sarcasm
10. traveling
11. middle school and high school
12. my life
13. and of course, all my wonderful friends

twelve random things you want
1. to go shopping, within the next week
2. an iPod
3. to get driver’s ed over with
4. more sleep
5. the rumor about getting rid of my old soccer coach to be true
6. to always play octopus instead of doing the heart monitors in gym…yeah.
7. to continue to do stuff with friends every single weekend
8. to find a way to get enough key club hours
9. uhhm…i’m really running out of things. to always keep in touch with everyone?
10. to make varsity soccer, not jv
11. a new fall bag
12. my life to always be this good

eleven good bands/artists
1. keane
2. the refreshments
3. the shins
4. the new pornographers (pay no attention to their name, really)
5. stellastarr*
6. cake
7. green day
8. spin doctors
9. billy joel
10. mcc
11. josh kelly

ten things about you physically
1. really tall (5’9”)
2. really long blonde hair, which can be straight or curly whichever i feel like
3. multicolored eyes that are classified as blue but have lots of green and grey in them and a ring of yellow around the middle
4. really long eyelashes
5. a dimple in my upper right cheek
6. straight teeth and pretty smile after orthodontia from third-seventh grades! whoo hoo!
7. still pretty tan from the summer time…screw the rain and the fall
8. i personally think i’m long legged and short wasted, but maybe that’s just me.
9. i have the anderson family nose…which is different than the mabe family nose. mom, kate, jensen and i all have it. i love it! haha
10. long fingernails??? haha i guess that works.

nine thoughts
1. i should take a shower and go ahead and get to bed early
2. i really hope that kiffy the porn star's test is easy tomorrow
3. tomorrow’s gonna rock cause it’s one random school day
4. i hope my mom's in a good mood when she gets back from her dinner party cause i have to tell her about my weekend plans...haha
5. i really need to go shopping, i have eighty bucks to spend
6. i can’t wait to see shea and will on saturday! (and everyone else, but i see them regularly)
7. goodness i’m so freakin lucky!
8. i probably shouldn’t like highschool this much, or even my life for that matter.
9. ah ha! the strokes! (just started playing is this it on my computer) they make me feel better heh heh

eight favorite foods/drinks
1. chicken quesadillas, oh definitely
2. my mom’s homemade macaroni and cheese
3. chocolate pecan pie
4. lemonade
5. my mom’s chicken and raman salad
6. sparkling apple cider
7. anything italian, pretty much
8. anything mexican, pretty much

seven things you wear daily
1. underwear/bra or cami
2. my pink fossil watch (or sometimes my silver guess watch, but always a watch)
3. perfume
4. lip balm
5. earrings
6. shoes? a shirt? haha i don’t know i wear a different thing every day.
7. a SMILE!

six things that annoy you
1. when it’s 6.30 and my bed is still warm from where i was lying just ten minutes ago and it’s just so inviting…
2. when my mom is in a bad mood and she doesn’t let me get a word in edgewise
3. third period. kifner. every. single. day.
4. (is this a good thing that i can’t think of many things that annoy me?) oh yeah, rainy weather. continuously rainy weather especially.
5. getting sweaty in first period gym on a days
6. when people ask me about chris and you can tell they’re not “cool” about it.

five things you touch every day
1. the french pen sally brought back from france that i write in my diary with
2. this keyboard
3. my hair
4. sophie
5. alex (okay, so it depends on how much i see him over the weekend…haha) okay well just because that sounds weird...my toothbrush. (hahaha it just randomly came into my head)

four shows you watch
1. the news
2. anything on vh1…i love the…series and best week ever etc.
3. espn
4. uhhm. i don’t really watch tv all that much…let's just go with degrassi. haha!

three people you have a crush on
1. alex!
2. (this one weirds me out. why would you have a crush on three people at once?) pherribo! haha (pronounced like rhyming with carribu…or pherrEEbo…hahaha jk)
3. HARRY!!! (haha…only one person gets it)

two things you dislike
1. hurting other people
2. shallow people, fake people, ignorant ditzy scheming…etc.

one thing you love
1. one? damnit. my life: which includes myself, my family, all of my friends…everything.

[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.