The Adventures of Walking Sandy

Walking our dog Sandy has always been an adventure but tonight was the worst. She could smell all the kids and candy that was in the air and wouldn't walk well at all. My dad and I had to keep pulling on her and practically dragging her down the street. We normally talk her for a mile or two walk but tonight you were lucky to get her two blocks. It was one of the most frustrating things I've had to deal with lately. She is a hard headed dog and never listens anyways. Tonight she made me wish that we never got her in the first place. And I got to thinking we wouldn't have her if my sister would have asked for something like jewelry from her boyfriend for her birthday instead she said, "I want to hear it barking in the box." Thanks, sis, I love you too. At times I think about how it would be so much easier with out a dog. We have to walk her, give her medicine, and then we have to feed her. Feeding her is a challenge too, she hardly ever eats but somehow she still manages to weight forty pounds. I'm just waiting for her to get really old to the point where all she'll want to do is sit on the couch and sleep and won't bark at anything.

Trick or Treat!

I just realized how much I don't like Halloween. Well, I don't like it when I'm home. The little kids crowd your door and scream and fight over who gets their candy first. It is the most nerve racking thing ever. Dealing with kids isn't my thing at all. So since I was home I got assigned the duty of answering the door every time some kid knocks on the door. I'm sure they just loved coming to my house because I wanted to get rid of all the candy because I hated having to get up and answer the door then get the candy. It was such a long annoying process that i just didn't want to deal with. So I handed a ton of candy out to each kid. My goal of handing out all the candy failed though because we still have some left. Thankfully the kids just quit coming.

Cold Rainy Friday Night

Well I went to the football game to hand out candy bags for NHS. We were told to get there at seven but people got their earlier so all the candy was gone when I finally got there. I had an adventure of a driver there almost having a wreck because someone must be blind at night and cut me off on the bypass. It scared me quite a bit and I didn't even want to drive home from the game. I had only planned on staying there for five minutes or so and then leave because it was so cold and rainy. I ended up staying until halftime to watch the cheerleaders preform their thriller routine. After that I pratically ran out to my car, cranked the heat on, and drove home. I arrived home safely but completely soaked. It was crazy how wet my jeans were I could hardly get my sweatshirt off because it clung to me. My mom feared I would get sick and not be able to do anything tonight or Sunday. Luckily I'm not sick, yet.

Money Money Money

So, I'm going to be making bank. I work at Penney's for the Christmas season. I was interviewed by this lady who couldn't write because she hated the pencil they gave her. She asked the totally cliche questions. Tell me about yourself. What do you like to do in your spare time? It was so random it was more like let me get know you. It took a while for things to get going and for me to talk to the store manager but in the end I was hired on the spot. I don't know when I start but I hope it's soon. I need money for gas and all of that and for Christmas gifts.

Operation Naked Doughnut Monkey

It was an operation that was crucial to the mood of my Friday. Our IB Biology class planned a fool proof mission. We ordered shirts that say WE heart BATES. Which contributes to the Naked Monkey aspect of our mission name. The shirts were made by Naked Monkey. Then we took extra money we had and got doughnuts for class this morning. Which of course adds the doughnut to the name of our mission. Our teacher is also the football coach so he was on ENL this morning talking about the game tonight. I stalled him by saying he needed to stay in the studio until the news was over so I could interview him for my next story. It was the best plan ever. Stalling him gave the class enough time to get ready to show him our shirts and bring the doughnuts back into the room from where we hid them. Not only did I stall him but he stopped in at another teacher's room to talk to her about other science things I guess. When he walked in he was totally surprised and didn't expect any of it. I'm pretty sure having shirts made with his name on them plus doughnuts made his day complete. It also gave me a great start to my Friday.

Church Picnic

Yesterday we had our annual church picnic. I expected it to be really boring and I thought no one was going to be there. Turns out it was really fun because Stephanie, Kelsey and Sarah were there. We went into the play place and acted like we were little kids again. Kelsey ran up to the top of the playground and began spinning around on some rope thing. All of the sudden you hear Sarah yell, "Kelsey do that again it makes me proud to see my little girl up there." Obviously Kelsey isn't Sarah's kids but they are just so crazy. Then we started talking about girls who go to our schools and what a mess they have all gotten themselves into. We talked about how this one girls "baby daddy" got out of jail and then she ended up pregnant, that made us come to the conclusion that it was a result of celebratory sex. Then we decided that I have loosened up some much as a person since middle school. I used to be so uptight and worried about everything and now I'm so care free.

When A Stranger Called...

In seventh grade I was at my best friend's house with her and another one of our other friends and we were home alone. When it was still light outside we were goofing off and jumping on the trampoline watching the cars pass her house. Then we went back inside and waited for one of our other friends to come over. We were already a little freaked out because we were home alone. So she pulls up and comes to the door and I let her in and we head back to Emily's room. As we are walking the phone rings and Emily and Aeriel answered it. The caller had a deep raspy voice and knew all of our names. He told us that he saw us and that he was coming for us. Emily and Aeriel started crying while Molly and I laughed because we didn't believe it. Then they call again and we refuse to answer. We all were a little creeped out by then and decided we would call Emily's step dad and ask when they would be home. Billy left his phone at home and the ring was set to loud so when we called it his ringtone blared and scared all of us to death. Then we called Emily's mom and bolted over to the neighbor's house.
We still don't know if we actually knew the person that called us. We have no idea who it is. Everyone was pretty scared from then on when we were all at someone's house alone. I think that if the movie When A Stranger Calls hadn't come out prior to that then we wouldn't have been as frightened.