Kitten's Korner

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

I Have Returned!

Sorry I haven't written in a while. It's been almost a week, hasn't it? Anyhow, life's been pretty slow lately. In my business class, we looked up different career ideas for our future, and I've decided what I want to be. (drum roll please) A mathematician at NASA! Yeah, I know it's WAY out there, but I really think I can do it. God gave me strengths in math and science for a reason, and I think this may be it. I guess I'll just have to pray on it, won't I?

There's not much else to say right now. I'll try to write more tomorrow.

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Practice Makes Perfect

The title of this isn't totally true. Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent. If you practice it wrong, you'll perform it wrong. Just though I should say that before I get on with my story.

I had asked to speak in front of the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes, or Anybodies, as my school says) for the second time this year, and the dean of students, who is in charge of it, said that I could. I did a pretty good job the first time, and I love to speak in front of groups (yeah, I know, I'm crazy) so I figured, "Why not go in for a second?" This is my last year in middle school, after all, and it would be fun, right? Wrong! In the beginning, I thought that I could procrastinate and practice within two weeks of the 'big day' (which was last Wednesday 4/13/05), but when the time came closer, I started becoming loaded down with homework and didn't have time, and when I did, I did the foolish thing and got online and stuff. Finally, the day arrived and I hadn't practiced once! I had my notes with me, though, so I got the basic point across, but I stuttered, took long pauses, and the way I wrapped it up was, "And...uh...yeah...that's it," and walked off. I left the room crying, but now I look back and laugh. Live and learn, right? I just hope that none of you have to go through that.

Finally, I want to thank those of you who commented on my blog. It's great to hear what you have to say! ^_^

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Japan or bust!

For a long time now, I've had my heart set on going to Japan sometime during my life. One day, Dad brought up that I could go there in high school as a foreign exchange student through AFS! I totally flipped, and so we are now working to make that a reality. I'm going to take Japanese language courses at the local community college, but we just learned that those classes wouldn’t transfer to high school credits. This is bad, you see, because I still need about 20 vocational/world language credits to graduate from high school. I only have three years of high school because I'll be in Japan on my senior year, and there's no room in my schedule (I already have all three years planned out). However, Mom and Dad discovered that I could take classes from another college that offers classes to high schoolers like me who need a few extra credits. So, everything is going to work out just fine. *Thank you God!*

Dad tells me that everyone has been posting comments on his site about my blog. Why not just do it on my blog? I don't understand. I don't bite, I promise. No one has posted any comments on my site, and it's really getting depressing. No, wait, I take that back. My loyal friend, who goes by The True Evanescence on his blog, is the only one who has given me feedback. Go check out his blog. It's Jeremysblogthingy.blogspot.com. And my grandma tried to post something, but it didn't work for some reason. But, getting back to the point, please post comments on my page!

Saturday, April 09, 2005

It's Dynamite!

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love Napoleon Dynamite and those who think it's the stupidest thing on the planet. Personally, I love it, but not everyone I know does. What I've noticed is that you can't watch the movie for the first time without someone who has already seen it and laughs out loud at it, otherwise you end up hating it. For example, when Dad rented it from Blockbuster, he, my mom, by brothers and I all sat down to watch it as a family. The whole time, I remember thinking, 'Well, Dad seems to like it, so there must be something good about it.' Then I got to school and talked about it with my friends. We quoted it and laughed and had fun. If I had watched it alone, I probably would have shut it off and left, wishing I could get that time in my life back. Anyway, if you haven't seen it, don't rush out and buy it. Go over to a friend’s house who already has a copy and watch it with him. Then you can go get yourself a copy.

Friday, April 08, 2005

Hello, World

This is my first real blog. I am Kitten. You are my reader. Now that the introductions are done and over with, on with the blog!

I suppose I should tell a bit about myself so that you, the reader, may be able to relate with me a little bit. I like every style of music under the sun from the scream-your-head-off heavy metal to the oh-so-hated country. Mostly, though, I listen to Christian rock and rap; however, I have taken a particular liking to Rebecca St. James and music from musicals, Broadway or otherwise. My latest musical favorite is Cats. My dad went to Australia as a senior in high school and got to see it live, the lucky thing. He bought the tapes and kept them in his large collection of various 80's tapes. One of the girls at my voice recital sang Memory, and my dad and I got talking about Cats. Long story short, he let me borrow the tapes and I've been listening to them over and over. Them my friend let me borrow the movie so I could actually see it instead of just listen to the music. I liked it a lot, except for the fact that the movie left out the song, Growl Tiger's Last Stand, which was my favorite song on the tapes. I had been looking forward to seeing it, but other than that, I loved it.

My favorite author is S.E. Hinton. I am currently working on a continuation on the Outsiders for extra credit in my English class. Writing is one of my absolute favorite things to do on my free time, as well as reading, singing, and doing pencil sketches of everything from fairies to my friends to X-men characters that my friends and I made up. That's another thing I like to do. I'll take a really cool movie, book, TV show, etc., create characters to add in, and write my own little adventures about them. I do original stuff too, but it's kind of fun to work off of something someone already started.

Hot Topic is the best store in the world. Dad went there and saw a shirt that he thought I would like that said, "I used to have super powers, but my shrink took them away." As he thought, I fell in love with it and am determined to get it. I love stupid little phrases like that. I'm planning on making myself a shirt that says, "Forget Simon! I'd rather listen to what Jesus says!"

I could go on and on forever, but unfortunately there is no time. I apologize for any spelling errors that are in my blog, and those to come. I am a horrible speller, and the spell check on my computer isn't working. Please forgive me for that.

God bless you all. Until next time,
Kitten

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

My first post

I have a new blog! Yea!