Day 59 - The Long Version

1 bite-sized Payday candy bar
A few swallows of Diet Coke (I love that stuff)

So today has been good food-wise. I'm pretty proud of myself, but it's not entirely due to me... I just haven't been feeling as hungry, which is good, and I've been trying to move around even just a little bit more. It's not concentrated exercise, but it's as much as I feel like I can do right now. School is crazy, I feel a bit overwhelmed (what else is new? lol), and I just want to collapse whenever I'm at home.

And today we had our Martin Luther King, Jr., assembly today at school, and I gave a speech. I was sooooo nervous beforehand, even when choir was singing (but not as much then, I was wrapped up in the song), that I felt a bit ill, but I did waaay better than I expected. I didn't sound like I was reading it at ALL, instead I was giving a speech, and I was especially passionate on my favorite line: "But history is not supposed to be left in the past; it doesn't belong there." Mr. Rodne said that I was wonderful, and Mr. Kinnune said I did awesome (I love him... 'cause when he speaks to me, I believe him). Esme even said that I should run for public office. And Mrs. Snavely said that it was the best student speech she'd heard in all of her years of teaching and that it was compelling and had ideas :) I like this. And drama class applauded for me, and Mrs. also said that it was beautiful.

Yay for boasting sessions! :D

Yeah, overall, today was a pretty good day. Everyone kept hugging me and telling me I did awesomely.

But as for things I'm stressed out about: my object essay for Lucking's class. It's our semester final, and I haven't even really started. Well, I'm torn between two objects: the scarlet letter in The Scarlet Letter and the conch shell in The Lord of the Flies. The first would be easiest because I can think of two purposes it serves right off the bat and the book is much more fresh in my mind because we read it last year (I'll need to read it again, but I'll be really familiar with it).

Yeah, I think I'll do the Scarlet Letter. I need to make a list of things I need to get or do this weekend because I'm going shopping.

LIST:

- Clothes (new boot-cut jeans from Old Navy, a few shirts [if they're cute and I REALLY want them], a new pair of flats, some bras, some undies)
- The Scarlet Letter
- Return library books
- Do laundry
- Clean room

I'll be adding to the list every so often. I also get my check on Saturday, and my dad gets paid tomorrow, so I get paid back. So all tolled, that'll be about 450 dollars. Crap. I'll have almost 1000 dollars to my name. YAY MONEY! :D lol. And yet, I don't really want to spend any of it. But I suppose that's a REALLY good thing because being thrifty is good. That is what I have learned from this financial crisis. Caution and simplicity and thrift are all very good things. I mean, sure, there are times when you can spend a bit more, but for "everyday" kind of days, it's better to go cheaper while still making sure you get quality.

Quality's really more important to me than paying more money to get the pleasure of it.

But yeah. Overall, good day, need to go shopping, also need to get popcorn for Firefly marathon with Curley (be there at 9, btw), and money is good.

Also I have to work tomorrow, 1-5. Kind of lame, but alright. I need to get my JDEdwards login and password from the IT department, so that and actually putting in my time will take around thirty minutes, and I get a ten minute break... so that's forty minutes that I won't be putting books back. And it's not that I don't like my job, it's just that there are other things I'd rather be doing. However, those other things don't happen to pay me very well. So... yeah. I just don't want to have to go; when I'm there, I'm fine.