my parents are officially bribing me to grow up. the deal is: if i get a license in the next week or so, i will eventually get a cellphone. EVENTUALLY. if i don't get my license in this set period of time, i will never get a cellphone from my parents.
hmm.
i know that most teenagers can't understand either of these things, but i don't want a license, and i don't want a cellphone.
i've been over the license thing. i like to walk, and if i get a license i won't ever walk. i'll get fat, and i'll die a painful death. but mostly i just don't want to grow up. old people always talk about how much they miss childhood, and i don't ever want to be like them. i want to stay young and wrinkle-free! i want to keep my brain cells and my aerodynamically curvaceous body. i want to keep my same sense of humor without being creepy. can you imagine an eighty-year-old telling my kind of crude jokes? i can't really tell if that would be awesome or if it'd be insanely inappropriate.
now, for the cellphone... i guess i wouldn't mind having a cellphone if i don't have to pay for it. i certainly wouldn't have one if i had to buy the phone and the plan and all of that. but if my parents are doing that for me, i don't see how it'd be a bad thing. it's not really a good thing, but it's not a bad thing, either. i don't need a cellphone. i have never in my life seriously asked for a cellphone, and i wasn't planning on doing so. i would be unhappy if evan just texted me at night instead of having me call him. but using twitter on the phone might be cool, though i would drown everyone else's twitter feed all of the time. i'm almost always home, too. i have a home phone, and though it is crappy and screams static fuzz into my ear, it gets the job done. i don't really see the need for a cellphone. the only real plus is that evan would be able to call me at any point during the night without waking up my family and that my friends could leave as many inappropriate messages as they wanted. i don't really want a texting plan, and i don't need a camera phone.
it seems to me that the bribe my parents have chosen isn't going to work too well.
on another note, it bugs me that my parents are so eager for me to get my license. they have to buy a car. and on top of that, they're now willing to buy me a phone and a plan for that phone? i don't get it. they don't have to drive me places, you know. i have rides. i don't need their assistance in getting places, so it's not that. i'm not a waste of their gas. it kind of worries me, like they want me to grow up RIGHT NOW so that i'll move out as soon as possible. i don't want to leave them or my kid brothers just yet. my parents take good care of me, and i'm not ready to take care of myself. i'm a kid, alright? I LOVE MY MOMMY AND DADDY.
i don't like change. i don't want to have a car to take care of, i don't want to have a job to wake up for. ashley works at the co-ed theater now, and bethany applied for it yesterday. it sounds like a fairly easy job, and it's only for two days a week, but i still don't want to do it. there are too many people there. also, i'm terrible with technology. when someone bought a ticket or food, i would not know how to use the touchscreen cash register thing. i wouldn't know how to use it even after they taught me how to, and then i would get all frustrated and depressed over it. it's like when i worked for mom. when i didn't know how to do something, i would ask her and she'd get all pissed off and ask me if i was retarded. i don't want to always make people react that way, but i'm sloowwwww. i'm the dumbest person i know because i truly believe that ignorance is bliss.
but i guess i'll begin driving practice today. last time i drove, i got illegally passed and flipped off when i was going the speed limit. i don't know what i was doing wrong, but those people were pissed.
what really worries me is the DOT. i don't have a problem with driving with my dad, and if mom ever agreed to take me driving, i wouldn't have a problem with her, either. but driving alone with a stranger? would they take points off because of all the mumbling to myself that i do when i drive? i don't even notice when i do it, so i can't really stop myself. ashley and mary beth told me that i talked when i drove in driver's ed, and dad gets mad when i talk when i drive with him. this DOT isn't just going to be judging my awful driving ability, they'll be judging me as a person. they'll think i'm insane!
bethany said that the test with the DOT isn't hard, but it just worries me so much. i don't want to be in a car with this strange person. and what happens when i fail the test? do i get grounded? do i not get that cellphone that i don't need? or will my parents finally accept that i cannot properly use any method of transportation other than my feet? i never did learn to ride a bike, you know. since my biological dad left my mom when i was three, no one really tried to teach me until i was eight or nine and too stubborn to learn. now i've no desire to try because, hey, i'm about to get a license. also, i have no balance whatsoever. i almost fall over when i'm just standing. i don't want to try this awful balance on a bike.
anyway, yeah. i guess we'll see what happens. i'll inform you of the outcome.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
I Get Paid to Play Wii and Sims 3!
kind of. one of my main babysitting jobs is for a ten-year-old girl, and it's not that easy. i mean, it really is incredibly easy, and i really do get to sit around and play video games for a vast majority of the time, but i also have to get beaten physically and emotionally. my mother has suggested that i have some sort of problem that encourages children to insult me. i guess my pores just scream, "I AM INSECURE AND IT IS FUN TO MAKE ME SQUIRM." i guess it isn't really just kids that like to poke fun at me, it's everybody. including myself. i've been told many a time that my reactions are incredibly fun.
i've also been babysitting my kid brothers, jace and teague, a lot lately. teague is only two, so i have to change diapers. and recently jace has been eating rolaids like candy, and has been having some problems internally. i'm babysitting them right now, and jace spent around an hour in the bathroom. he came back downstairs and flung himself on the couch without a word, so i immediately began to interrogate him. i had to ask more than once, but he clogged the toilet. we've been trying to prevent him from using excessive amounts of toilet paper, but he's a brat and never listens. i'm going to make believe that i don't know that the toilet is clogged, since he used the upstairs bathroom and i only use the downstairs one.
i got paid a while ago for babysitting jada, the ten-year-old, so i immediately got evan to take me to the bank to cash my check. we had some troubles because i'm an idiot who had never been to a bank and because he had only ever used one bank, but eventually we had sixty dollars to waste! he took me to wal-mart and i blew fifty-three dollars of my paycheck on the Sims 3. it's not a bad game, it's just... lacking. it'll be better when they have some expansion pack thingies to add on. it's a little overcomplicated as well. you have to have just one main household in a town. you can switch to other ones, but then the household you were just on loses its wants and wishes. it's not like the Sims 2, where you could very easily switch to another household without any trouble.
you know, it's really quite fun to compare blogs and what they're about. from what i've read of ms. nelson's blog, it talks an awful lot about theater, whereas my blog talks an awful lot about video games. that's not all i talk about, but when i do, i go on and on and on. i've talked about paper mario, pokemon, super smash melee, and the Sims 3. maybe i talked about kingdom hearts eons ago, i don't remember.
bethany's blog is updated every sunday and talks about her entire week, whereas mine updates randomly and talks about nothing at all.
evan's blog seems to mostly talk about work, galen's bitches about everything and occasionally says something too scientific for me to understand. though i've never read auriel's blog, i assume it is mostly about theater.
i feel almost kind of guilty about bitching about theater all the time when my friends are so involved with it. i just honestly don't think that it's something i should be doing. what does it do for me? i suppose it's supposed to help with my socialization skills and confidence, but i only talk to bethany and ashley and i don't really feel anything on the stage. after i get over the initial stage of complete humiliation, i mean. i'm not denying that it can be fun at times, because it can be! i know that. but it's just being with my friends that makes it that way. if bethany and ashley hadn't have been in Children of Eden with me, i would have been completely miserable. that's not to say that Children of Eden wasn't great... i had fun, i did. but i could have had more fun doing something else with my friends.
besides, it's not like i could possibly do anything with theater in the future. what are the odds that anyone i know will have a career in drama? it takes serious talent (or serious good looks) to be an actor or actress. i don't see the point of getting practice in something that will mean nothing to me later on. i want to say something like, "i should be taking an art class instead," but, truth be told, i probably won't have a career in art, either. that's what i want, more than anything, but there is little to no chance of that. then there's writing, which would also be nice, but that also probably won't happen. i'm not sad about it, though. i'll always draw and write, even if i don't get paid for it. so i'll always be happy.
i'm getting slightly bored with summer. i've only hung out with bethany and ashley a couple of times, and kahlise has spent the night once. evan's here almost every day, but it's not like we do anything different. it's nice to snuggle up on the couch, but there's only so much of that i can do before i'm itching to do something. we go to the park sometimes, but there's not too much to do there, either. i hop on the swings, and some instinct tells evan to push me, but then i'm up high and my butt's in his face so i get down. we ride on the springy animals, but i'm always worried that i'll be the next kahlise and i'll break the duck.
last time we were there, it started pouring. i was infinitely happy about it, and i wanted to get completely drenched, but evan is not so hot on getting wet. we headed back to the car, though i was definitely taking my time. it was wonderful! it had been so hot and humid, and the rain was the sweet relief i had been craving. of course, my room has been getting awfully flooded with all of the storms lately. one of the worst storms cracked one of my trees in half and covered the entire basement in rainwater. by the way, the basement is my room. it flooded again this morning. i'm going to have to clean out under my bed and on the floor of my closet to prevent mold, buuut there's just so much mold down there already. i honestly don't care. there's this one bottle in my bottle collection that i filled with water, and now there's this huge mold in there. i'm trying to come up with a name for him.
i know i'm gross. i'm a total and complete slob, and when i have my own place, it'll be repulsive. i'll clean it for guests, though. and i intend to have guests all the time! my friends and i will make feasts together. we'll have "girls' night" all the time, but you can't expect us to do regular girl things. we're too cool. though this might not actually happen at my place, since i'll probably only be able to afford an apartment and my neighbors might get angry with our loudness. no matter. we'll have fun when we have our own homes.
i can't believe how very soon we'll be out of our parents' homes, though! we're going to be juniors in august! evan will be a senior! i don't even have a real job. i don't even have my license. i just don't want to grow up. i'm a kid at heart, and i hope to always be that way. i hope to always be entertained by sidewalk chalk and bubble soap. oh! that reminds me: i need to learn to draw Waldo so that i can draw him randomly in town and then maybe have my friends find him when they're out and about. i'm going to go practice drawing him. i'll tell you when the first Waldo is in town.
i've also been babysitting my kid brothers, jace and teague, a lot lately. teague is only two, so i have to change diapers. and recently jace has been eating rolaids like candy, and has been having some problems internally. i'm babysitting them right now, and jace spent around an hour in the bathroom. he came back downstairs and flung himself on the couch without a word, so i immediately began to interrogate him. i had to ask more than once, but he clogged the toilet. we've been trying to prevent him from using excessive amounts of toilet paper, but he's a brat and never listens. i'm going to make believe that i don't know that the toilet is clogged, since he used the upstairs bathroom and i only use the downstairs one.
i got paid a while ago for babysitting jada, the ten-year-old, so i immediately got evan to take me to the bank to cash my check. we had some troubles because i'm an idiot who had never been to a bank and because he had only ever used one bank, but eventually we had sixty dollars to waste! he took me to wal-mart and i blew fifty-three dollars of my paycheck on the Sims 3. it's not a bad game, it's just... lacking. it'll be better when they have some expansion pack thingies to add on. it's a little overcomplicated as well. you have to have just one main household in a town. you can switch to other ones, but then the household you were just on loses its wants and wishes. it's not like the Sims 2, where you could very easily switch to another household without any trouble.
you know, it's really quite fun to compare blogs and what they're about. from what i've read of ms. nelson's blog, it talks an awful lot about theater, whereas my blog talks an awful lot about video games. that's not all i talk about, but when i do, i go on and on and on. i've talked about paper mario, pokemon, super smash melee, and the Sims 3. maybe i talked about kingdom hearts eons ago, i don't remember.
bethany's blog is updated every sunday and talks about her entire week, whereas mine updates randomly and talks about nothing at all.
evan's blog seems to mostly talk about work, galen's bitches about everything and occasionally says something too scientific for me to understand. though i've never read auriel's blog, i assume it is mostly about theater.
i feel almost kind of guilty about bitching about theater all the time when my friends are so involved with it. i just honestly don't think that it's something i should be doing. what does it do for me? i suppose it's supposed to help with my socialization skills and confidence, but i only talk to bethany and ashley and i don't really feel anything on the stage. after i get over the initial stage of complete humiliation, i mean. i'm not denying that it can be fun at times, because it can be! i know that. but it's just being with my friends that makes it that way. if bethany and ashley hadn't have been in Children of Eden with me, i would have been completely miserable. that's not to say that Children of Eden wasn't great... i had fun, i did. but i could have had more fun doing something else with my friends.
besides, it's not like i could possibly do anything with theater in the future. what are the odds that anyone i know will have a career in drama? it takes serious talent (or serious good looks) to be an actor or actress. i don't see the point of getting practice in something that will mean nothing to me later on. i want to say something like, "i should be taking an art class instead," but, truth be told, i probably won't have a career in art, either. that's what i want, more than anything, but there is little to no chance of that. then there's writing, which would also be nice, but that also probably won't happen. i'm not sad about it, though. i'll always draw and write, even if i don't get paid for it. so i'll always be happy.
i'm getting slightly bored with summer. i've only hung out with bethany and ashley a couple of times, and kahlise has spent the night once. evan's here almost every day, but it's not like we do anything different. it's nice to snuggle up on the couch, but there's only so much of that i can do before i'm itching to do something. we go to the park sometimes, but there's not too much to do there, either. i hop on the swings, and some instinct tells evan to push me, but then i'm up high and my butt's in his face so i get down. we ride on the springy animals, but i'm always worried that i'll be the next kahlise and i'll break the duck.
last time we were there, it started pouring. i was infinitely happy about it, and i wanted to get completely drenched, but evan is not so hot on getting wet. we headed back to the car, though i was definitely taking my time. it was wonderful! it had been so hot and humid, and the rain was the sweet relief i had been craving. of course, my room has been getting awfully flooded with all of the storms lately. one of the worst storms cracked one of my trees in half and covered the entire basement in rainwater. by the way, the basement is my room. it flooded again this morning. i'm going to have to clean out under my bed and on the floor of my closet to prevent mold, buuut there's just so much mold down there already. i honestly don't care. there's this one bottle in my bottle collection that i filled with water, and now there's this huge mold in there. i'm trying to come up with a name for him.
i know i'm gross. i'm a total and complete slob, and when i have my own place, it'll be repulsive. i'll clean it for guests, though. and i intend to have guests all the time! my friends and i will make feasts together. we'll have "girls' night" all the time, but you can't expect us to do regular girl things. we're too cool. though this might not actually happen at my place, since i'll probably only be able to afford an apartment and my neighbors might get angry with our loudness. no matter. we'll have fun when we have our own homes.
i can't believe how very soon we'll be out of our parents' homes, though! we're going to be juniors in august! evan will be a senior! i don't even have a real job. i don't even have my license. i just don't want to grow up. i'm a kid at heart, and i hope to always be that way. i hope to always be entertained by sidewalk chalk and bubble soap. oh! that reminds me: i need to learn to draw Waldo so that i can draw him randomly in town and then maybe have my friends find him when they're out and about. i'm going to go practice drawing him. i'll tell you when the first Waldo is in town.
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