blood guts and gore

So hola, guess what? I got to remove Segue's ear staples yesterday :) it was a gory, and horrible task. but it got done.. and it added some excitement to my moronic stay-at-home life <3
before I go into detail, you're probably wondering who Segue is, and what the heck ear stables are.
Well, Segue is my new high school teacher, and ear staples are these staples that doctors stick in the cartilage in your ears, and basically it helps you quit smoking, lose weight, and, in Segue's case, with your equilibrium. If you want to know more, here's a link with information about ear staples: http://health.howstuffworks.com/ear-staple.htm

So anyway, Segue came to Oscarville as our new high school teacher, and a few weeks after the school year started i noticed that she had these piercings inside her ears. I thought it was wicked awesome, and was like, dude, those piercings are so cool! and she was like, yeah, they're surgical staples, and i was like for real? theyre like, really staples? and she was like, yeah, for real, and blah blah blah, I exclaimed at how amazing that was, and she was amused with my excitement.

So i was looking at her staples, and i noticed that the staple in her right ear had a bump where the staple was, so I poked and prodded with a needle, then in a stroke of genius tried to squeeze out the juices with a pair of handy paper clips. Afterwards she cleaned it, and it went away. then a few days later i noticed that there was now a bump in the left ear, then later the bump in the right one came back, and finally she exclaimed that this was ridiculous, and called her doctor for a special staple remover.

So the staple remover arrived, and it looked insane! we weren't even sure about how it was supposed to work. we tried the staple remover out on a normal staple, and get this, the staple snapped in half




so anyway, that was pretty freaky. The staple remover came with absolutely no directions, so we decided to just figure it out as we went along. I sat Segue down in her swirly teachers chair, gripped the right staple with the lethal staple remover, and gave it an expirimental tug, but the staple just would not budge. I paused, and Segue exclaimed at how much it hurt. she said she could feel the pain all the way to the other side of her head, and yes, that did make me feel bad, but I've got to admit that it kind of excited me too. Sorry if you read that Segue, I still feel bad about it hurting =]

anyway, after figuring out that tugging on the staple hurt like hell, we decided to just yank it out as fast as we could. It took about five minutes, and we had the first staple out. Not too bad. painful, but swift.

Then it was time to move on to the left ear. I decided to go with the same approach for the left staple: grip the staple, squeeze, and pull. Only, when I squeezed, it must have been to hard, because all of a sudden it looked as if I'd snapped the staple in half. This is where the scene goes to: Panic, Panic, Panic, Omg, omg, omg, we have to take it out now! With me running home shortly after to find my needle nose pliers.
Next, the scene consisted of my pulling one end of the staple, trying to get it out of her ear so that i could pull out the other half of the staple. Then, when that didn't work, i resorted to pulling on the other half, and so forth and so forth, taking turns with each half trying to figure out how to get them out. after about 10 to 15 minutes of this, I finally realized that when i pulled on one half of the staple, the other half got shorter, meaning that the staple wasn't cut in half, but had actually flipped backward in Segue's ear, leaving the ends exposed and the middle of the staple in her ear.

At this point, Segue was almost crying, and seemed exhausted from having to hold in her screams. I told her what had happened, and the information just couldnt register in her mind. I actually had to draw an illustration for her, to which she gagged, and, i think, almost fainted. Having explained to her what was wrong, we decided that we had to turn the staple around and finally pull it out.

so after five minutes of pulling and tugging, i finally got the staple turned around the right way
it was a bloody and painful ordeal, but it got done, and the staple finally flipped the right way

i told her we were ready to pull it out, and Segue was super relieved, then braced herself for the final step. i gripped the staple remover, carefully gripped the staple, so that it wouldn't flip again, and squeezed and pulled until yes, the staple finally came out
and we were done

so, it was all super disgusting and horrible and painful and exciting
and segues ear was able to heal up and not be infected, bumpy, or pussy again
and i decided that
instead of just going to college for natural and environmental sciences,
im going into premed too
<3

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

So we got an assignment in Writing today, and most of the point is to pick a quote and Explain why we picked it.

1. Find & post a quote
Explain why you picked it


"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."
-Hedy Lamarr

I think the quote is self-explanatory. I grew up a total Daddy's girl, and as much as he doesn't realize it, I tend to hang around guys that remind me of him. Of course, none of them are still as important.


You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
-Bill Cosby

I've tended to take life like this. No matter how much something pisses me off/frustrates me/ depresses me, there's always at least a small moment when I try to laugh about it. My mom doesn't really get this, because when she's around I tend to act cynically about situations and laugh about it further. And so she gets mad. and I get even more mad. and I make even more sick jokes. and I laugh more. and she gets more frustrated. ad blah blah blah, it's bad. anyway, I try to make everything a laughing situation. Not everyone understands it.


2.Write about an event/Experience you had this week

Soo I'm not quite sure about any experiences I've had this week
I guess a lot has happened..
For one, I've been wearing pajama pants to school all week
In fact, I'm using pajama pants right now
[i never wear pajama pants!]
and, well, yeah. awkward.
That and I'm insanely tired right now
oh yeah, I'm reading my third book of the week now
I was reading Vampire kisses on Sunday and Monday,
Lovely wicked on Tuesday and Wednesday,
And I just started reading An Abundance of Katherines last night
Vampire Kisses was one of the worst books I've ever read
kind of like a Trashy Gothic Teen Romance
blergh
but Lovely Wicked was just about the best book I've ever read in my life
It was like a dark fantasy,
about faeries and faerie gods,
except the faeries were like tripped out versions of human beings, with darker natures
of course they were.
if they were tinker bell faeries, then they'd be the lamest characters for a book
Ever.
This new book, An Abundance of Katherines, looks decent. I'm afraid it might contain a little too much detail though. I can't stand it when there's an abundance of detail. That's the only instance when I can't read the whole book.
Umm so i can't really think of anything else i've done this week
well, actually i probably could. but I'm tired. and I figure I've already written enough for this post.
So rawr, I'll finish the last task and I'm done
<3


3. What blog have you been following?

As of the moment I've been following my old high school teacher, Erin's blog [erinkavanaugh.blogspot.com] .
Hers, and this one skateboarding blog, that's got a lot of skateboarding vids: Mostly Skateboarding [mostlyskateboarding.blogspot.com] . I love those blogs.

[over 'n' out]
{affirmative}

black and white

Once upon a time there was a girl that lived with her parents in the middle of nowhere
the girl was a very social girl, but there were only so many people that lived on her little island. And so naturally, she craved a little more variety, and much bigger masses of society.
Sadly, the girls parents didn't understand her need to elope with different kinds of people. They believed that she would be much better off on their little island, with the few people that they trusted, because they couldn't offer new experiences that were too extreme for their little girl.
So the girl was stuck.
Her parents told her over and over again as she got older, that once she turned eighteen, she could do whatever she wanted, including getting those brow and lip piercings she'd craved since she was a tween, and the tattoo symbolizing her and her best friend's friendship.
So the girl waited
and waited
growing more and more gray as she stayed on the drab island
finally, the girl was seventeen, and there was just a week left before her eighteenth birthday
she was so excited, and exclaimed to her mother, "just one more week, and then i can finally get those piercings!"
to which her mother replied, "only if you want to be homeless."
this puzzled the daughter.
no, it ticked her off.
She inquired, "but i thought you said i could do whatever i want when i turn eighteen?"
"oh yeah, you can do whatever you want, sure, that doesn't mean that me and your dad are going to support you. As long as you're stuck under our roof, you're still going to do as we say."
and so, ticked off, the girl waited until the next Wednesday, her eighteenth birthday, then pierced both sides of her lip, aand her brow. herself.
She walked out of her room the next morning, her mother saw her face, and kicked her out.
So the daughter moved to the town up the river, moved in with one of her friends, got a job, finished school, and discovered the art of partying. Since her parents would offer absolutely no support, the daughter found no reason to keep in touch, and so eventually forgot all about them. The parents were left not knowing what was going on with their only daughter, and weren't invited to her high school graduation. the daughter applied for scholarships with her school counselor rather than with her parents, applied for college, and left without saying goodbye.
Yes, the girl partied in college. there was absolutely no end to the parties. but she studied too. and was smart enough to get only afternoon classes, and no stupid morning classes, because she was definitely not a morning person.
The daughter graduated from college, again not inviting her parents, got her own job, started her own family, and lived a life of her own.
while her parents were stuck on their stupid island.
of course they were.
who expects to remain a part of someones life if they cant help support the choices they make, just because they dont agree.
stop sticking your head in the sand.

Sweet September

So hey, the first month of school is over and done with!
whew
dude, life's been pretty hectic since school started
I've been having a lot of fun though
I figured that it's been a while since I last posted, soo,
here goes my post :)
I'm finally a senior this year
and I find it pretty hecka exciting <3
I've been getting a lot of homework,
been taking an online class, figuring out our new teacher [she seems pretty cool so far] and have been getting used to living in the middle of nowhere all over again
it's not really all that bad, although I have been fighting a cold these past few days
I've been driving in to Bethel every weekend, and I've enjoyed that
my online class is pretty fast paced, it's a lot of reading, a lot of notes, and a lot of tests
but so far so good
oh dude, I'm teaching my dog how to go for walks on a leash!
I'm quite proud of that fact
she started out yanking me all over the place, being unable to realize that there was another living being holding the other end of the leash
but after going out just four times, she's gotten better at it,
and I was even able to let her go free without her running off
I felt pretty accomplished
I'm so proud of her :)
I've been working out too
it's so cool, I've almost got a four pack!
lol I felt kind of weird at first, it felt like i was getting a little too skinny. I almost gave up and decided that not having a pot belly was fine enough.
But I've switched mind sets lately
and I've kept up the working out bit :)
omg, and I found my calculator watch!
my parents got it for me last birthday, and I lost it right before I moved to Anchorage
but right when I moved back, I found it again :)
which reminds me, my birthday is in a little over two weeks!
it's the big one eight, baby.
hecka excited <3
so anyway, that's just my really quick update
i guess all of my updates are pretty quick
Welcome back September!
I'll make another post when I remember =]
=P

Bethel Update

And so, I guess that I'm back in bethel
I haven't quite reached Oscarville yet.. but you know what? that's fine with me.
I guess that everything has been an explosion of emotions ever since I got back
I love it
I don't believe I've felt this enlightened in quite a while
and I guess that it's great to just come home
okay, guessing sounds kinda mean.
it is great.
and guess what?! i just learned how to drive my dad's F250 diesel!! its a stick shift!!
muahaaahh. Eddie thought his might be cooler just because his is a '93, but mine's a '92, suckkaaa
I've been spending like the last week helping my dad work on the houses that we rent out
and it basically sucks
our last renters totally trashed the place before they moved out,
I'm talking toddler [and probably pre-teen] scrawbles all over the walls, stickers on the ceiling, a water tank threatening to crash through the sagging floor, and a nasty greasy stove and fan that i ended up having to clean
[although the last two probably werent the renters' fault]
so we mudded all the walls, painted them with what seemed not enough primer, and went over it with a glossy ivory paint. that too ended up not being enough. i had to skimp it out painting the bathroom walls.
other than that i guess it was fine though. i mean i got paid. so whoopah.
our vacation was pretty great.
wow im pretty random at this aren't I.
i mean i haven't even mentioned anything about going on vacation.
Well, we flew to Florida, bought a conversion van, and drove it all the way back to Alaska.
There, that's my vacation update<3
basically it was one long trip with an endless change of scenery and a whole bunch of tourist shots.
So I guess this isn't really an update.
more of a random ramble, where you've gotta have background knowledge to know what the hey I'm talking about.
Sorry about that.
but there was no planning put into this post.
I'll fix it some other time.
[over 'n' out]
[affirmative]

Jet Ski Mania

So we're in Marathon Key right now
just got back from jet-skiing
and lemme tell you,
I Was Scared
S-C-A-R-E-D
well, scared when I had to drive anyway
you know, everyone tells you that it's just like driving a snowmobile,
but there is a HUGE difference between liquefied and crystallized water =S
I rode with my mom on one jet ski, while my brothers rode with my dad on another
i think everyone enjoyed it but me
I kind of just sat there, imagining that all the waves and water would crystallize and turn into snow, and eventually i got sleepy, but unlike on a snowmachine, i was too scared to lean forward and fall asleep on my moms shoulder
this was due to the fact that my dad had been reading the caution sticker on the machines prior to our venture
one of the warnings in particular read, "caution: wear appropriate gear. water could be forced into body cavities."
yeah. Gross.

sticky salads

we're in orlando
and i had to buy my own breakfast today
and my both my brothers' breakfasts too
it was really frustrating.
because all of our food was in our parents' hotel room.
and they had gone to get our van from the shop.
theyre still not back yet.
and they gave us the wrong key...
i had to eat my salad with my fingers =(

Nightmare Streak

i cant sleep.

i dreamt last night that i went to a house with some friends, and we began searching the place, and found dead mangled bodies everywhere: in the closets, in the bathroom, in the attic, under the beds.

then i woke up.

then went back to sleep.

and i was at school, in mr chmeilewskis science class, and the lights were off for some reason, and mr c told me that i had a D in his class, and there was no way to fix it, but i could definately make it worse, and that made me cry. and he gave me cigarettes and colored pencils and a soda, everything but a better grade, to make me feel better.

then i woke up.

and went back to sleep.

and i dreamt that i heard about some girl who worked at the house with all the dead people, who left the night before with a coworker, and he ended up making her strip down, raped her, then decapitated her. and left the body hanging like jesus in the house.

and i thought, oh, thats too bad.

then i was the girl, working at the house, and leaving with my coworker. and i realized that it didnt seem right, and i tried to walk away from him, but the road was icy, and i slipped. and he made me crawl, while he walked next to me.

and it was so dark outside.

he kind of skipped along, and taunted me, and lead me toward a tunnel. we went down it, and cars were all driving past, and i tried to scream for help, but no one stopped. instead they glanced over, and the guy just kind of laughed and told them i was crazy.

and they kept going.

and i was crying, crawling, and screaming for help.

and we kept going.

then i saw this girl appear in the middle of the tunnel, and i screamed for help, and she turned around and said to someone, look, down there, its that girl, the one that i heard. and her dad appeared, and the rapist tried to hide behind a pole. the dad came and picked the rapist up, and began walking away with him.

and i should have been relieved that the rapist was finally gone,
instead i knew that he was going to murder the dad and the girl, then come for me. so i tried to run out of the tunnel, and i turned on a road, and knew that i had to go to a certain house, but i didnt know where it was.

i knew that no matter where i went, the guy would find me, break into whatever barriers i put up, and kill me and whoever else was there. so i couldnt go home. but i didn't know where the empty house was. and i passed my street, and i was going to run right past. but then i thought, i could either run and try to find the empty house, not knowing how far to run, or even where i was supposed to run.

or i could run down this street, to the house where i lived with hannah and her family, and risk all of them dying just so that i could get out of the night.

and then i turned, down east 76th, to the house where hannah lived.

knowing what was going to happen next.

and woke up.

Anchorage Update

So sorry again, I haven't any new posts since November, but hey, I'm back!!
well, back on blogspot that is. I'm still here in Anchorage, have been here since January, and you know what? It pretty much rocks :)
I came here expecting to suck at school and hate all of my classes, and to pretty much just want to spend all of my time socializing, but school is actually pretty fun.
I got chosen as a junior honor marshall for the senior graduation on May 11, which pretty much means im among the top fifty students with the highest GPA's in my class.
pretty cool, i thought. [Thanks Erin for getting me to that point!]
and then i got another notice saying that my high GPA got me qualified for getting a mentor for next year, if I'm going to school in Anhorage next year that is. I'm not necessarily sure about whether I'm going to be going to school in Anchorage, Behtle, or Oscrville next year though. Family moving plans aren't quite certain at this point.
And while I haven't gone and made friends with absolutely everyone at my school yet, [I've come to realize that I'm actually painfully dead shy when meeting people that I have to spend the rest of the school year with,] I've made quite a few friends, all of whom are pretty darn cool, but still don't even know where i live yet, haha.
Soo, I guess that these past 4 months have been pretty great. I live with my best friend, whom I've gone to concerts with, played pool with, shopped with, and snowboarded with; I get to spend my aunties, cousins, and their kids, when i was only able to see them during vacations before i moved here; and i've basically kept to my straight A streak. the only problem that i've run into [schoolwise] so far is that i had C's in only two of my classes. both of which i've been working hard to fix up.
So far I'm loving Anchorage, loving having things to do, and loving having people to meet/run into at the mall. My wardrobe's expanded, My new bedroom [which i share with Hannah] looks like a dream, and McDonald's is only 6 blocks away. yeah. life is looking pretty good at this point =]

<3