it's a beautiful mornin'....or afternoon

well, the last few days have been...kind of a blur. it hasn't really set in that i've only gotten into 1 college. well, it kind of has. here's how it looks so far...

unc - accepted! (despite my diehard duke fan-ness, i can honestly say that i appreciate unc so much more because they accepted me, no lie)
duke - waitlisted
emory - waitlisted
wash u - waitlisted
uva - rejected
northwestern - rejected
brown - still waiting...most likely rejected
johns hopkins - still waiting...noo idea

so college decisions are pretty depressing right now. so is getting on facebook with all of people's college acceptances. but i'm sooo happy for everyone. it's so amazing that everyone's getting in and i'm soo proud of all of my friends. i don't want this to sound like i'm complaining, it's just my blog...so it's going to be about my life =) so anyway, i'm going to write letters to the places i got waitlisted and hopefully i'll get in at least one place. though now that i think about it, going to unc wouldn't be bad. obviously, people would rub it in if i ended up there...knowing how hard i cheer for duke/oppose unc. but that would only be the 50 some east students that go to unc. the other thousands of people wouldn't know a thing. though they may suspect my dukeness. i don't think i could take it out of my life completely. and when i say i end up at unc, i'm not saying that it would be terrible to go there because it's a terrible school. it's a great school, i just maybe wouldn't like it because i've grown up with duke. yeah...

anyway, i've been trying to fill my days with hang-outs and things so that i don't dwell on what's already past. but in all my hanging out, i haven't been productive at all. i just need one day to work on hw, birthday gifts, birthday cards, etc.

that being said, today, i went to duke gardens with marsha amelia aman andrew and nancy. it was so pretty outside. the sky was perfectly blue. everything looked so crisp and sharp. activities included...

fishing around the watering hole...

catching some zzz's...jk participating in the lying down game...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lying-Down-Game/102051902359

taking lots and lots of pictures...

proposing...

sticking our heads where they shouldn't be...(aka in soft trees)

yep, that pretty much sums up our duke gardens adventure. it was a gorgeous day. hopefully other people profited from the gorgeousness of the day.

yesterday i went to crabtree with amelia. =( we didn't know that we were supposed to get ann. and i forgot my phone so i missed all of her calls. so we bought her some gummies that spelled out "ann is always right". we gave her the letters and made her unscramble them. (we were sitting at the container with the gummies for like 15 minutes picking out letters. in the end, we had to compromise and make a 'z' an 'n'. we could only find one 'n' because 'n' is just so popular said ann.) other answers she came up with:

ann is trashy

ann is a girl

ann is math

ann is a math girl

ann is a whale

i think there were other ones but i'm not sure of what they were now. she would come up with every other possibility except the one we were thinking. but she got it in the end =) there was also the world's largest gummi bear at that store...soo grosss...the concept of eating a gummi bear in more than one bite...

(hands to give you an idea of the size...and no, those are not my hands. they're too white...plus if those WERE my hands, that would imply that i bought one. and i would never buy something like that. imagine the sugar content of one of those things...wonder what the serving size is measured in...bites??)

peace out.

text tiles

made this for emma's birthday (march 24). and you say, wait a second, aren't kate and emma twins?? yes, they are...cool thing: they were born on different days. bet you've never met any twins like that. until now. so i made her a scrabble kid. with standard scrabble letter tiles. also made a set with just the letters ABDEHIMPRTY. whyy?? because those are the only letters you need to spell HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA. why would you want to spell anything else? also made some chocolate chip cookies in the shape of her name. it was slightly decipherable...forgot to take a picture of it though. i had people telling me that my cookies were all smushed together...

alright, yeah, as you can see, there have been just a rush of birthdays this week. like..4. well, that's not that many. but now i'm on a break. which is so convenient because spring break is coming up(!!!). i'm excited, can you tell? the weather recently has been really really nice. it's nice to be outside.

i haven't written down anything to talk about yet...which is why this will be pretty random and divergent. every time i say divergent, i want to say evolution. oh, had the 3rd quarter common assessment in apes today. common assessments ruin my life. just saying.

oh, i had a pretty scary vehicle incident recently. i was driving to someone's house, and i wasn't exactly certain which roads to take (i had been to her house before, but not from the direction i was coming from). so i had a map out on my lap in front of me. it was nighttime. well, so far from what i've described, you know that the only way this can end is badly. anyway, there was a red light so i took this to be an opportune time to check which roads to take. well, i was braking slowly...slowly and i heard this little scraping sound and i braked HARD. i looked up really quickly and noticed that i was really close to the car in front of me. like...dangerously close. well, by this time, the light had turned green and the car had begun to drive forward. i was sooo freaked out; my heart was racing. i was just waiting for the in front of me to turn into and empty lot so the person could get out and beat me up. well, not really, but i was waiting for the car to signal to me so that we could chat about it (not a friendly chat of course). lucky me, the car just kept driving and i was so relieved when i finally turned onto the street i needed to be on. lesson learned: do not try and read a map while operating a vehicle. unless you want your insurance to go up. way up. i'm going to be a much more careful (and slow!) driver from now on. not freakishly slow because that bothers me. but i've been told by many that i drive fast. and i seem to run into many scary driving incidents. soooo...moral of the story...well, not a moral. but a goal from the story: stay out of driving trouble!

good thing my parents aren't good with technology. and don't know what blogs are. or else they would get mad at me for this little escapade. it's so funny because today, i asked someone who they were texting and they replied, "my mom." wtf, your mom knows how to text?? my mom barely knows how to dial. like, my phone has a touch number pad. and she mashes down the buttons as if pressing on the screen harder will make the numbers work better. no, mom, no.

i have this thing with bottled water where if i don't know who drank it or when it was open, i won't drink it. so  i just have a ton of partly drunken (hahaha...water bottles can't be drunk) water bottles sitting around my room. i think it's a psychological thing. i mean, water can't go bad...but i don't like drinking old water. is that just me or does anyone else think that water starts tasting weird after awhile?

aha, i can go watch the next episode of the secret life. it's so bad but so addicting. amy complains/cries too much and talks weirdly. adrian wears too much lip gloss. the person who plays ashley is a terrible actress...and has no enthusiasm. grace preaches too much. so does ben...plus he has a weird body structure. mrs. juergens opens her eyes really wide a lot when she's talking...and also talks weirdly.

that is all.

life in technicolor

multicolored cupcakes (normal sized) with one funfetti cupcake. all with vanilla icing and multicolored sprinkles!

blocks on blocks

construction paper cubes with a nice message. i made her do math. at the end of each square side, there was a math equation and she had to figure it out and then find the side it was on...haha i'm evil.

another picture...they were all connected by string...a letterblock necklace =)

chocolate chip cookies baked in a mini cupcake tin with chocolate chips in the center. i forgot to grease the pan...so they started falling apart when i took them out. but they turned out alright. mmm mmmm =)

alice in wonderland

cupcakes dyed with food coloring w/ multicolored icing (also dyed with food coloring) with corresponding colored sprinkles (to match color of cupcake)...except purple because there weren't any purple sprinkles...lammeee

this was a little thing i made for katie because her birthday was today; she said they looked like alice in wonderland cupcakes...and in light of her giving up chocolate for new year's, i put them in a godiva chocolate box to mislead her. clever me.

melange

my blog has been dying lately. i think it said the last time i posted was march 6? yeah, and now it's march...21. almost 2 whole weeks...well more than 2 weeks. 2 weeks and 1 day. so i feel like it's about time that i post.

my life lately has been mundane. and i hope i'm using that word in the right way. i've been busy working, thinking, walking (i will explain this later), observing, creating, and everything in between. i officially bought tickets for the needtobreathe concert...looking forward to that.

as i think of exciting things that have happened in my life in the last 2+ weeks...let me begin with my walking story. so lately, i've been really into walking to places. whether it's to school (and no, i will probably not be walking to school just because i already paid for my $50 parking space and i only enjoy leisurely walking...not purposeful walking...but you never know, maybe some days i'll walk to school). so because of the gorgeous weather recently, i've found that being outside makes me...happy. so i just go running/walking around my neighborhood. it's unfortunate that nowhere exciting is within walking distance besides...the park and the gas station or i would walk...to the grocery store or to the movies for example. anyway, if you ever just need to get away from everything, go for a walk. it really puts me at ease. maybe it won't for you, but at least you'll burn some calories =) funny thing happened while i was running/walking. i would wave at every car that drove by....at least 30 cars. guess how many people waved back? 6. yes 6. i counted. snobs. haha, i'm totally kidding. but it was all good because at the end, i got 3 cars in a row to wave. i guess i just perfected my technique.

asian night was amazing. thank you to everyone who came to watch/help/perform/eat/participate. i know i posted this as my facebook status but it really was a blast.

what else what else...i can't really think of anything else right now. maybe i should just start writing things down as they come so that i can have a list of things i want to talk about when i post these things. but it's 12:55 AM right now and my brain is...tired to say the least.

thanks for reading! good night!

maneater...that's not relevant, it's just the song i'm listening to

wow, my life has been so crazy lately. with ASIAN NIGHT coming up, i've had so much stuff to do. i don't want this to seem ranty but i've just been so busy. you really don't have to read this, it's just me basically ranting...even though i said that i didn't want it to seem ranty. you can just skip this section and read the next one, this is probably mainly for my own sanity. so here's what's was on my plate: thursday i went to school at 8AM to tutor this kid in french. then right after school, i went to the apac show rehearsal until 715. i got home around 730, ate dinner quickly, then went to amelia's house to work on our stat presentation. we ended up working until 11. i actually think i went all of that day without seeing my mom. i saw my dad for a few minutes when i got home but...i know what it's like to work overtime now i think. then friday was pretty much the same thing. by the time i left for school, my parents had left. then afterschool, i came home for an hour, then headed to carol's house for a 7 hour apac meeting...granted some of that time was spent eating/chatting. but we all...except someone whose name starts with d and ends with avid...stayed at carol's house until around 12. i was so exhausted that day that i just wanted to go to sleep...okay, i watched grey's anatomy first (have to keep up with my tv shows!) then almost fell asleep talking to someone on fb chat. then finally went to sleep. i think i also went that entire day without seeing my mom/dad. well, i heard my mom walk into my room at around 2 to check to see if i was home. i feel so family-deprived. it's been like living on my own. so weird. and i keep telling my parents i have a "meeting". i bet they're pretty sketched out by that. i mean, what high schooler has meetings that are hours long?? and i normally wouldn't be posting...much less awake at 9:45 on a saturday morning, but i had a piano lesson at 830 which i would normally have at 6 in the evening but i didn't have time so i changed it. and well, i f-ed that up pretty bad since i haven't had time to practice in the last 2 days. which makes me mad because i was actually practicing everyday before that. like, i was devoted unlike before when i'd just play for 30 minutes and stop no matter what i was playing. and so 2 days without playing kind of canceled out all that practice. now i'm doing laundry b/c i didn't have time to do it before and i'm like...out of clothes. there were so many clothes in my hamper that everything barely fit in the laundry machine. like, when i tried to close the door at first, it popped back open, lol. and normally (don't laugh) there's something about the laundry machine that mesmerizes me...i always watch the machine spin for a couple minutes...it's just like hypnotizing. and i know, the clothes just spin in circles. but...idk, you see some clothes, then they go to the back and you see other clothes. it's interesting...anyways...then at 1130 i'm going to play tennis until 1. then at 2 i'm meeting with MCs for asian night. then later, i'm going to someone's house to watch the duke/unc game. then tomorrow, i'm going to someone's birthday party and i have to get her a little something in the morning...and i've been craving shopping for awhile. i soo want to get shorts, shoes, and anything else i see. so i think i'll shop for her really quick and then shop for the clothes i've been wanting soo bad =) wow, that statement just made me really excited to go shopping. yes, it's been that long since i've been shopping. i just need to find out what size i am so i can shop for stuff online...and avoid the mall. so, in a nutshell, there is my life. sorry for the lengthiness.

okay, on to bigger and better things, well, maybe not better. yesterday in lit, we got our macbeth quizzes back. that was the book that i actually read. like, thoroughly. i read the summaries. then read the scene. we took a quiz out of 65...guess what i got?? a 39. yeah, andrew calculated it for me...it was a 60%? soo impressive. it just goes to show that reading the book does you nothing. i think everyone around me did better than me and they just read the sparknotes. though, i guess that makes sense because if you just read it, you don't actually comprehend it. you have to read it then analyze it whereas with sparknotes, you are reading/analyzing it at the same time. maybe i should read the book, then read the sparknotes. that seems to be the logical solution to all this. we'll see if i finish this 300 page 1984 book though. i mean, i've read it before. except that was in 8th grade when i didn't know how much of a big deal it was. so i remember stuff but...i don't.

oh, danielle's birthday was yesterday...happy birthday, danielle! (lol, i seriously doubt she reads/will read this...oh well)

ahh...so many people have birthdays coming up. i love this time of year!! well, after asian night is over and we quit having long meetings. =) love baking...and i've finally perfected the art of the chocolate chip cookie. and i even made a dessert that i couldn't eat. i hope it tasted good because it sure did look good (and that's taking in to account that i was allergic to something in it). crap, i forgot to take a picture of the thing i gave her...=(

REMEMBER: take pictures of the gifts you give people.

have an awesome day!

oh me oh my how the time does fly

wow, it's been such a long time since i last posted...over a week!! and this is exactly why i didn't start a blog all these years. but i am determined to keep up with this one. anyway, blogs kind of remind me of buddyprofiles from way back in the day. remember those? ehh...i just tried to go to the site again but i don't think it works anymore. anyway, there'd be a guest book and a quiz, a poll, and a bunch of pages you can make yourself. but probably MOST important was your profile views. every time someone viewed your profile, it tallied it. i don't know why i visited some people's profiles so many times or why people visited mine so many times because i never changed it but i felt so popular because i think i got up to around 400 something. yeah...i was a cool one in middle school =P anyway, it also reminds me of aim 3.0 which is like aim from elementary/middle school (i don't know why but i think i used aim in elementary school...yeah i could barely type and all but i had friends to talk to...).

that was back when you couldn't have multiple aim conversations in one window. oh how technology has changed. yep, i loved that warn button. i used it so much and thought i was so cool warning people. another weird thing i did on aim was when there wasn't anyone to talk to, i would look people up in the little registry thing they had and just start talking to random people. i thought it was completely normal at the time but now that i think back on it...wow was i a creep. i even remember that there were categories where people were and i always chose the category real estate or something like that because it always had the most people....oh my life.

geez, this post is so reminiscent. might as well continue with the trend. hmmm...playing gameboy color. those pokemon games always got me. i loved them. items pokeballs masterballs flying cerulean city saffron city snorlax. wow, that was a pretty random train of thought.

hehehe, i hated gary (your rival). he always showed up when my pokemon had like 0 health. exactly what i wanted when my pokemon were DYING.

oh and remember when beanie babies were all the rage? i always tried to get a collection going but i only ever had like 15 total. i was always jealous of brooke and britt because i went over to their house one time and they had an entire laundry basket full.

ooo, just came across this:

furby!! they used to give out the fake ones in mcdonalds kids meals. they weren't furry or anything. but they had wheels on the bottom and when you rolled the furby, its ears would go up and down. so not legit.

and...gigapets!!

alright, this post is turning out to be nothing about my life. anyway, my day was fine. i'm getting a bit tired of the cold weather though (which is crazyyy because i prefer cold over heat but now i'm craving some nice warm weather). it's freaking march mother nature!

oh and does this happen to anyone else? last night, while i watched the bachelor finale** i went on an eating spree. i mean, was i hungry? i'm not really sure. i'm pretty sure i wasn't but i just kept eating. i ate this gross orange, some pineapple, pringles, a glass of milk, a chocolate chip cookie, a piece of bread, and cup of water. all in about...15 minutes?

**two thumbs DOWN...i cannot believe vienna won. and i mean, i didn't really like tenley either...she's too chipper and 'yay jake' and 'he's incredible/amazing/cute' and she doesn't have much of a backbone. but come on jake pevelka. you can do better than vienna...a girl who stole money from her ex to get a boob job. really? but, the only good thing that came from this is that ali is going to be the next bachelorette!! i lovee ali, sucks for you jake!

stay cool.