Saturday, August 30, 2014

Pepe Le Pew takes a vacation

A few mornings ago, right when I was getting ready for school, we discovered by means of scent that we have a celebrity visiting.   His name is Peppy Le Pew, and my lucky dog had the pleasure of a face-to-butt meeting with him.
More specifically, dog's face, skunk's butt.
We don't know much about how long Peppy is staying- does he live here now, or is he just passing through and wanted to draw attention from the North American crowd?  We really hope he isn't taking up permanent residence because he isn't a very good guest, as you could probably imagine.  He's caused nothing but trouble: runs to the pharmacy for hydrogen peroxide, and multiple washes per day with baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, and vinegar.  He's also a costly guest: besides the hydrogen peroxide, we lost the dog's collar, a leather computer case, and two doormats to the stench. 
And of course, there's the effect that having a celebrity stay at your house causes at school.  You know how it is with celebrities; they're either really good, or really bad, and you can imagine which category our dear Peppy falls into.  I had to warn everyone all day long that I smelled like skunk because of my poor dog getting sprayed and bringing it in the house.  On the plus side, I got free vanilla hand sanitizer because my friend decided she couldn't stand it anymore. :D
The dog still smells, but it isn't as bad, and the house only smells in really specific areas, like where he lies down a lot or where he greets us at the door.  Thanks, Peppy!

Friday, August 22, 2014

*falls over and turns into happy puddle*

On Monday we had our first cross country meet and I PRed (Personal Record) by 6 minutes and 29 seconds.  My official time was 25 minutes and 19 seconds for the 5k, which thrilled me, and then we found out that the course was about 400 meters too long.  That made me mad because it was a school meet and they should have changed it, but it also means my actual time, assuming I kept the same pace, was about 23:30.  :D  Yay!  I also moved up on the team, from 60 out of 126 to 48 out of 126.  I want to move up a speed group soon.  Besides the fact that the second group has dri-fit shirts, and the third, wher eI am now, has polyester.  Which is light, but still.
Dri-fit.
We have another meet tomorrow and I really want to get under 24:30.  My goal is 25 though... just in case the 400 extra meters didn't exist.  Also, I have a very hard time believing that I ran it in 23:30.  That just sounds crazy fast.  I know I was going fast... But was I really under an 8 minute mile?  A 5 minute kilometer?
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
I need good blog post ideas.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Six Word Memoirs

Welcome to the I'm-too-lazy-to-write-a-proper-post post!
So school started on Thursday, and our first English assignment is a six word memoir.  In case you don't know, that's a story that encompasses your entire lfe or a significant piece of it in 6 words.  We have to draw a picture for a background by Monday, and the teacer said to not spend too much time on it, but hey- I have water-colour pencils and too much free time.  So I don't really care if it takes me two hours, this thing is going to be elaborate and over the top because... I don't know.  That's what I do.  It's fun.  The one I'm going with is "Lost in this God forsaken city".  I'm going to create a grey cityscape background with yellow in the windows on buildings and for the words.  The other ones I came up with are:
-Snow capped pines fill my horizon
-Someone get me out of here
-I don't know what's going on
CAn you come up with any?  Do you ave any from the past?  Tell me about them!

Thursday, August 7, 2014

I feel sick.

Okay, so sorry I haven't posted but we went on vacation and I've been super busy with Camp Nano and summer homework and cross country and a week from today is the first day of school.

And I've just been having some seriously bad luck lately.

Yesterday, I think I may have downloaded a computer virus.  I clicked on a website and got a big scary message that said it was from Interpol!  I tried to close out of the internet, but it wouldn't let me do anything and... I was really scared.  After freaking out and convinceing myself that it had to be a scam, I forced my computer into shutdown and restarted it, to find that the message on my browser was gone without a trace.  I looked it up in my search engine and it turns out this is a computer virus!!!!!
Great.
It doesn't help that something in the message is my newest trigger, and a few days before yesterday I got triggered really badly from a situation that it was in that I'd been hoping not to remember.  I've had three panic attacks since last night and..... I don't even know.  I typed something about it into a letter on ywp nanowrimo and there's a chance my irl best friend saw it and I love her but I don't want her to know I have problems with that sort of thing.
Also, I didn't get enough sleep last night and yesterday in cross country we ran a steep 3/4 mile hill five times.  So today during the run I was sore, tired, and then I almost had a panic attack in the middle of it.  Thankfully, that one was prevented.
Then I went to the eye doctor and got contacts!  Which is nice, because it means I no longer have to wear glasses while running.  However, it looks really different through contacts than glasses and I had a maor headache after three and a half hours, and I was hungry, and my mom had looked at my computer and said she didn't think anything needed to be done about it if there was a virus, but I am so darn nervous and my brother was going through his usual extensive list of everything he finds wrong with me...
and I ran to the bathroom and threw up.
Great.  Great just great!!!!  Wow!  Good job, Anna.   You rock.  UGH!!!!!!!! ksdahfqicwjketc  Second time in a month that I've thrown up because of anxiety problems piling up on top of each other.  I'm seriously going to lose it.

Sorry for the negative post.  But I'm really having a hard time right now.  Sometimes, the world just doesn't like me much and this is one of those times.