busy, but peaceful?

busy, busy, busy.....

that is how my life has been the past week. every day i did something. in between the constant movement there was minutes of rest and peacefulness though. yes, i was doing lots of things, but it wasn't like those things were stressful. most of the time i was just with people or watching movies. i guess most people wouldn't consider my life busy right now, but it's been upgrade from the usual boredom that takes place in my life.

well, hope everyone's christmas was fantastic.
mine definately was;)

first day of winter break

yes, finally it's winter break.

so, today, my cousin, tracy, called to invite alex, veronica (alex's best friend), and me to go out to lunch with her. she has been dying to take us to tijuana flats, this cool mexican place, kind of like moe's, but much better.

tracy and alex ordered chicken flautas. veronica ordered chicken quesadillas. i ordered a veggie burrito. (i know, so predictable.)
by the way, here is my conversation with veronica about quesadillas:
veronica: can i get chicken AND cheese in my quesadillas?
chloe: yes, of course.
veronica: but, it says cheese here, and chicken there.
chloe: um, veronica, cheese is the main ingredient in quesadillas. it's the whole point of the quesadilla.
veronica: really?
chloe: um, veronica, queso means cheese.
oh, how i love veronica.

alex and veronica also got a few different kinds of sauces, including 'the triple x' hot sauce. well, i was eating my burrito, when veronica put a drop of the hot sauce on my tortilla chip. i was like "whatever, no big deal." so, i ate the chip with the hot sauce on it.
it took a few seconds for the hot sauce to take affect, but when it did, it DID. my throat litterly felt like it was closing up. my tongue was becoming numb, along with all of my mouth. except the heat of the sauce was still there. i downed my water in about three seconds. i ate every chip left on my plate. but the hotness was still there. i was panting and almost crying while alex and veronica took amusement in my pain. tracy was very simpathetic.
finally, tracy goes to wendy's, which is conviently located next to tijuana flats. she comes back with a vanilla frosty, milk, and crackers. (she's so sweet.) i just kept scooping ice cream into my mouth until the pain was bearable. then, drank some of the milk and finally the pain was gone. yes, i could breathe.
wow, i'm such an idiot. i'm never eating any kind of hot sauce again.

hope you enjoyed hearing about my painful experience at tijuana flats.

silly days

guess what? i was inducted into my school's national honors society. YES!
it will look so good on my college application (not that i don't like the volunteer part of it).
so, the ceremony was nice. i was the second name called; i was a little nervous by that point. the anxiety wore off by the time i got up on stage because i pretty much just shook some hands and stood on stage. worrying for nothing. silly chloe!

so, i went to wal-mart last night and got a few gifts for my friends. since jenna got me punch, i decided to get her....PLAY-DO! i figured it would be fun to play with and not so conventional. i got hannah "real" my little pony fruit snacks because at lunch the other day she mentioned that her mom only buys generic fruit snacks. i thought my fruit snacks would be very practical. i got priscella nutella (kinda like peanut butter, but with chocolate and hazelnut flavoring) because she loves peanut butter and i thought nutella would be the next best thing. i still haven't gotten cathy anything because a) i couldn't think of anything good yet, b) i'm going to the mall tomorrow, so i'll do it then, and c) i want it to be something good, so i needed time. it's going to be good whatever it is.

i leave you with this postsecret card, even though it has nothing to do with anything=)

useless days are always fun

wow, today was absolutely useless.
i woke up at 1:30 pm. i missed church, too. i laid around watching tv, but then mother was like "we're doing something today. i don't know what, but something." so, she barely let me have enough time in the shower. i had to blow dry my hair and straighten it. getting dressed is always fun because i never know what to wear and alex is always yelling at me for taking her clothes. this all took place within 30 minutes.

so, that 'something' we ended up doing was going out to lunch. i rushed with half straight hair to go out to LUNCH! oh, mother. however, we did get some of jacky's presents afterwards. (hehe, jacky.) then, we had 30 minutes to get ready and go to youth group at bobby's house. gosh, time was not on my side today.

celia came with us to bobby's. yay, i lovelovelove celia. well, for an hour or so, we ate food and just hung out. then, alex, celia, lori (i love lori), ronnie, bobby, and i walked around his neighborhood because every year around this time they light luminaries all around it. (i don't even think there's a real reason for it.) we ended up walking a mile; the whole time while tripping eachother and making jokes. by the time we got back we were covered in sweat with zero amount of energy left.

yes, it was a useless day, but definately not uneventful.

rare todays

today was uneventful, but wonderful.
i love days like today;
where nothing happens
but everything does.
where its peaceful
but also nail-biting.
ah, if only everyday
could be like today.
but without those days
when life is unbearable
then we couldnt appreciate
the beauty and majesty in the
little things that
life has to offer us.



goodbye today, hello tomorrow.

a day of surprises

today, started off completely opposite from yesterday. alex spent the night at veronica's the previous night. (i know it was a school night, but mother was away and it's a lot peaceful without her.) I even awoke earlier than usual, so i had time to finish off my lunch with some buckeyes; usually there is no time to grab extra goodies. then, savanna (my friend who lives in the next neighborhood) called and said her mom can take me to school. yes! one more hour to just do nothing and watch worthless tv. however i did not watch worthless tv, but a very interesting "true hollywood story" on heidi klum. it kept my attention till savanna came.

then, i went to class (with straight hair by the way) and found two giant jugs of fruit punch waiting for me on my desk. fruit punch is my absolutely favorite drink and i go through a gallon of it a week. one-gallon jug of fruit punch weighs eight pounds. (i got bored and decided to weigh one. shhh, don't judge.) also, mother has recently stopped buying me fruit punch because apparently that much sugar isn't good for me and i definitely won't settle for "diet" fruit punch. um, if it's diet, then it's not real fruit punch. okay, on with my sweet surprise. it turns out jenna got them for me as an early Christmas present. i was in heaven. of course, going to my class with 16 pounds worth of fruit punch was not going to be fun.
so, i asked my study hall teacher, mrs. c, to hold them for me. (mrs. c is about 70 and barely reaches a height of five feet. she has a feisty personality and a fierce hatred towards noise.) she agreed, but i think she now thinks i'm even weirder. don't worry, i'm like her favorite student, even though i do get an occasional lecture from her on my "careless" attitude towards study hall. apparently, you are meant to do some work and not watch movies on your laptop. i don't remember getting that memo.

after school, i attended earth club. i'm the historian (don't ask me what that means because i don't even know.) i love earth club. first of all,i love the earth. second, the members are the best people. they're hilarious and love the earth, too. i don't think you can ask for better members than that. we ended up just hanging out outside and goofing off. i call that meeting a success!

then, my best friend, juan, and my other friend, ashleigh, waited for me, so we could all walk to taco bell because the annual variety show a.k.a. talent show was at 7. i ended up getting two bean burritoes. okay, i had the same thing last night, but seriously you can never get enough of those bean burritoes. after that we headed to the show.

the variety show was awesome. it featured a girl singing a paramore song to a band playing a complex led zeppelin song. i had no idea how talented most of these kids were. they could sing well, they could play piano exceptionally, and they could rock like nobody's business. but the absolute best performance would have to go to two dancers, chelsea and sammy. they dressed up as old men, beard and all, with canes and danced. they shook their hips and popped their chests while still pretending to have back problems. they danced to rap to ballroom music. no genre was left untouched. it was hilarious.
i would also have to give kudos to dylan, an inspiring singer/songwriter. he not only sang like a professional with the right amount of highs and lows, but wrote the song. the song featured lyrics like "why'd you go....leaving me in my tears" to "ill wait for you, for you to return to me." of course that's just from memory and i'm definitely not doing the song the right amount of justice. overall, the show was fantastic.

thanks for reading. i'll leave you with this:
desearle una mañana feliz.

late night thoughts

okay, i know i have just written a blog less than five hours ago, but something has been bothering me and i need to let it out.

i was viewing alex's (my twinnie) myspace profile tonight and saw her friends and comments. (don't worry, people; they were purely public. i'm no lurker.) half of her "friends" were people she seriously disliked months ago, but now she's like best friends with them? that just really got under my skin. then, i saw this comment from this one girl about hanging out with alex. that girl was someboday alex had big issues with and disliked because of her attitude and actions. what is up with this?

i'm all for getting over issues with people and letting the past go, but i'm not irratated just about that. i'm also irratated because the reason she disliked them was because they weren't great people.
Like that one girl, i'll call her "ginger." ginger is actually a nice person to talk to (i would know since i was friends with her before alex), but she causes a lot of childish drama and occasionally hangs out with a bad crowd. alex disliked ginger because she caused this mess between her best friend and her best friend's boyfriend. um, alex remember that? how you said you could never be friends with her and how i shouldn't either? i was barely friends with her, but she was the only person i truly knew in spanish class last year. i never hung out with her because her friends typically did drugs and overall weren't that great of people. so, now alex is friends with her and is going to hang out, too? that i just don't get. how can you become friends with someone you truly dislike, maybe even hate? it's not like alex disliked her just because she could, but no, alex had good reasons. i think one of the reasons alex likes ginger now is because everyone likes her and everyone thinks she's cool plus she can be fun.

another thing that's bothering me is her new "friends" because they're terrible people. for example: there's also this other "friend" alex has made recently and i'll call him "pedro." pedro is likable, but he's not a good person to be around. first of all, he has done every drug known to mankind (well, that's obviously an exaggeration, but you get my point.) he's constantly rude to everyone, but he does it so it doesn't sound so hurtful, but the hurt is still there. he's makes unnecessary sexual references and crude jokes. why is alex friends with him? okay, he's super cute and has good style, but should you trade good morals for good looks? definitely not. i see the appeal, but it just worries me. alex is one of those people who just wants to fit in and be liked. don't get me wrong, she is well liked and has many friends, but the insecurity is still there. she's also influenced easily. all of this just seems to affect me greatly.

i don't know why this worries and irritates me so much. i mean half the time i could care less about alex (being a twin isn't exactly what it's hyped up to be) and who she hangs out with. but the worries are still there. i know she can handle herself, but i think she wouldn't change because of peer pressure (i hate using that phrase because it's what naive adults usually say, but it works) and the need to be liked by everyone else. it just seems like she changed so much this year and it wasn't all for the good. i think her new "friends" are partly to blame for these changes, too.

i think one of the many reasons why it bothers me would probably have to be because i don't understand it well enough because i could care less about what people truly think about me. yes, i can be shallow and care way too much about my looks sometimes, but i am a good person, who knows the difference between right and wrong. i have morals that i live by and stay true to everyday even though it gets hard. for example: i've never done a drug in my life and probably won't for a long time. i don't drink. i don't do these things just because they're illegal, but because i know i never want anything to affect my judgment or choices. i also attend church every sunday and really do enjoy worshiping God and living my life for him. i am a virgin and plan on staying one till marriage. overall, i do what i want and try not to let others affect my judgments and decisions.

i know we all have our faults and slip-ups (believe me i know), but i just think some people including alex need to forget about what people think and do what they want. i'm sorry for my endless ranting, but i just needed to get that off my chest otherwise all of that would be fuming inside me. not pretty.

i'll leave you with a good night=)

first blog entry...

i'm chloe.
jacky wanted me to make a blog.
so, i did.

i have no idea what this blog is going to be about. it could be about my daily life, my thoughts, my ambitions; this blog could end up being about my evil cats. anything could happen. but jacky said that's okay because she just wants to hear about me when we're apart. and that's good enough for me.

i woke up this morning wishing today would end. for some reason i didn't wake up with the best mood. my hair would not cooperate; another day in a ponytail. i was running late for the bus, so i rushed (with alex dawdling behind) to the stop, but today the bus decided to be 10 minutes late. rushing for nothing. all of that plus my attitude set the tone for today.

but the day started looking up when my least favorite teacher chose today to be absent. her class was by no means easy, but it was pleasent without her unnecessary commentary on everything from my untucked shirt (she's like a discepline nazi) to my cute old navy flats (apparently they look to uncomfortable to wear.) then, third period was a big suprise because that class usually revolves around useless vocabulary and dim-witted girls who somehow were accepted into my college-level english class. my teacher divided everyone into groups of four for the rest of the year. i was pleased with my group because they're actually smart and clever. jeff dubbed us "quadrant four" and we now have a group handshake oddly resembling the handshake from rocket power. oh, and i was also called "wise guy" because i questioned our name and handshake, plus i made a few comments and jokes about it.
so, today we played jeopardy using our literary terms vocabulary for the first time.
the rules:
-do not ring your bell in the middle of the deffinition or negative one would be given. (yes, we were given bells except one group because she ran out)
-do not shout out without being called on or negative one would be given.
-if there's a tie when bells are rung, there is going to be a "bake-off" as my teacher called it. baking has nothing to do with it, but a deffinition is said for each team and they each have five seconds to answer.
my teacher put my name on the board to represent our team. jeff didn't think "the wise-guy" should represent our team because i questioned the team. (he was just jealous)

our group a.k.a. quadrant four weren't doing so well in the beginning because of jeff's jumpy trigger fingers. but we turned it around and answered every deffinition correctly. we were soon accused of cheating and dinging our bell too quickly, so the team without a bell took ours. we resorted to clapping. even then we answered all of the deffinitions correctly. then, we were accused of clapping too loudly. no matter what we still couldn't please them. also, we kept getting yelled at from the other teams because we simply pointed out to the teacher when other teams "accendently" hit their bell. hey, we didn't make the rules, we just inforced them.

we ended up winning. here are the scores:
traun-4, jordan-2, chloe-21!!!, kyle-0, kayla-7
yes, 21 points was the correct score. we DOMINATED! i think everyone hated us after that, but we couldn't help it if we know our vocabulary and can clap loudly.

the rest of my school day was uneventful, but not as bad of day as i originally thought. it was actually a peaceful school day that didn't involve childish drama typically associated with high school and annoying teachers who aren't as great as they think.
the day got even better when my dad a.k.a papa bear let me drive to taco bell (a rarity) and get two delicious bean burritoes. oh, how i love those bean burritoes.




jacky, that was all for you. enjoy=)