What DIDN'T Happen This Week?!

Hello readers of all shapes, sizes, and species.

Welcoming you tonight is the newly crowed 18-year-old version of YOURS TRULY!

Ok, just kidding. Being 18 surprisingly feels.....different. I mean, it's the first birthday that I can actually say I feel different after! Not by much, I'll acknowledge that much, but still noticeably.

But, I'll start at the beginning of my week.

First off, I took a COLLEGE DAY! YAY! I ended up going to this Honors College Convocation right here at the UofA (University of Arkansas). It was long, semi-boring, and they left my group wandering around at the wrong bus stop but it wasn't too bad! What I learned: 1) They have money, which they give LOTS of to Honors College peeps. 2) A lot of the money is available for study abroad, which they HIGHLY encourage. 3) Apply by November 15! (that last one was good to know, but I figured, since it was my back up school anyway, I would kinda leave that for the last minute. Apparently not a good idea!) Also, although I had to hear these lectures all day, it was a break from school! (Which meant I had a THREE day week! BOO YAH!)

Tuesday kinda stunk though, what with the make ups. Plus, I went to this parent-teacher conferences thingy with my mom for an hour.....apparently my entire sched was thrown off by EXACTLY an hour all night XD) Wednesday was not memorable. But THURSDAY.....

I swear, it was like an early b-day present from the world. <3 I woke up figuring it would be a bad day because my little chinese fortune stick said I should laugh at myself and it was raining. But since it was raining, mom took me to school. And since it was such a dreary day, my Chem teacher walked in and was like, "Does anyone want to do the lab [that we had scheduled for] today?" (GIANT NO FROM US.) "Ok, let's work on your homework problems all day instead." YES!

Then second period was normal calculus stuff. Finding derivatives of trig functions, but with a couple of jokes thrown in because of my teacher's mnemonic device, "depapa (the power), demama (the trig), debaby (the angle), and papa and mama have the same baby.....in calculus". (One of the football guys who HATE my calc teacher was like, TO THE TEACHER, "I like problem 7 because it's more realistic. Depapa is 1, so it disappears leaving demama and debaby.")

BC calc had NO ONE because we had a pep rally, meaning all of the band people ditched. So we graded our tests, and even though I didn't KNOW a whole section and missed all of another, I still made a 9 which ended up being the average anyway xD. Still made a 95% on that part :D Booyah!

The pep rally was surprisingly interesting for a while as well! The first half was all in BLACK lights, which makes ANYTHING 5 times cooler.

As I walking to Lunch, one of my friends stopped me. Yesterday, I had seen her reading Perfect by Ellen Hopkins, one of my favorite authors, her latest book. So I gushed, she gushed. Then she said I could borrow it if I liked on Monday. Turns out, SHE WAS DONE ALREADY! So I got a book for the weekend <3 (which, btw, I already finished <3 LOVED IT!)

Later, in Bio. We had a test. I was all worried, because, although I studied for the multiple choice like nobody's business, I was NOT ready for the essays. Thanks to the pep rally, however, our teacher decided she'd just give us multiple choice that day and essays on Monday. :D SCORE! I then continued the fawesomeness by rocking those multiple choice by either tying with or getting the highest score.

In Medical Procedures, we were doing this stupid game where you had to memorize medical abbreviations (a lot of which I already recognized from HOSA Bowl) and I did NOT want to be there. ....At the moment, I got a note to see my counselor. :D What perfect timing <3. So, I went and found out my GPA (which was kinda saddening, it dropped .3 pts). When I got back, I was just in time for my group to play. We OWNED, even WITH the other team CHEATING. MWHAHHAHA.

By Gov, I was tired of school, and so was everyone else. So, the teacher cut off class early and let us just talk. X) Then, 3 day weekend!!!!

When I got home, I watched my favorite shows on Hulu with mum. Chowed 3 bowls of REALLY good pasta! (Normally, I HATE pasta, but it was just so yummy!) Then stayed up all night (by that I mean 1 which is really late for me nowadays), reading, and iming peoples. :D

To my surprise, the goodness just kept coming. <3

Friday was my bday! My dad came in at like 8:30 and like poked me, saying Happy Birthday, but I was tired so I was just like, "Thank you! Have a good day!" .........he poked me again for a while, then said, "Oh you don't have school, sleep tight." (Which I find hilarious, because I would've been REALLY late if I hadn't woken up by 8:30 and he was just casually poking me.) I then slept in til 9:30 X).

When I woke up, there were presents! I didn't know if I should open them until Papi got home, but mom, as impatient as me, told me "He knows what they are, OPEN THEM!!!" So I did ^^.

I got: an embosser (it leaves an imprint of "From the Library of S.Z.N. Dominguez" on books), a journal kind of thing, and (my fav) a pink popcorn popper! Needless to say, we had popcorn for breakfast. : D

My first plan was to go to the movies with Ting. Problem is, I got the address wrong so we were driving, completely lost, for 45 mins. LUCKILY, she called right before we gave up, and we found her. X). Then we saw Abduction with TAYLOR LAUTNER <3. The movie itself made no sense, but he is so hot it makes up for it. (Duh.) Afterwords, we got lost again dropping her off at a friend's house (it was her bday too XD). Then I went and hung out at Hastings with Barnabas, both of us attempting to learn calculus while mostly complaining about it. (NO. I know what you're thinking, NO.) Then, I went home to get ready for dinner. But there was a package at my door step. And what was inside? An IPAD. A FREAKING IPAD! I freaked. My Mum Freaked! Kiko Freaked because we were. I called everyone. Apparently my parents had all pitched in to get it. <3 (My dad's saying we should return it though, so we can get trees ^^ but we have to make sure that's ok with the family. Either way, I'm happy, I just can't believe they GAVE ME ONE.)

We then went to dinner. Only my ended up being good, but when I say good, it was AMAZING <3. Then we went and got gellato. :D When we got home, there was ANOTHER package. Turns out, it was the free hoodie my mom had ordered for me a while ago. IT'S PURPLE! I LOVE IT <3 (wearing it now, as a matter of fact X) ). So, I spent the rest of the night in it, wrapped in my blankets, watching tv on Hulu with the fam and iming people.

Great 18th b-day? I think so. :)

Yesterday was boring in comparison. ^^' I basically slacked, and volunteered with my mom at the local art center as ushers. The play was TERRIBLE, since it was aimed at 10 year olds, so thank goodness it was just an hour. We did have cake later, but it died too. X) What was REALLY good was the POPCORN, from where? MY NEW POPCORN MAKER :D! .........I'm not addicted I swear!

As for today, it's been up and down. We spent over an hour completely lost looking for the same lake we couldn't find last time. But then, we ended up taking pup to this random area. We climbed through the trees, along this path made by construction cars some time ago, and it ended up being really nice. :) Kiko found a creek to swim in (which he's crazy to do! The water must have been only 40 degrees!), there were lots of monarchs flying south that stopped there. What freaked me out was this HUGE (several inches!) spider that was on my dad! If it had been on me, no joke, I would have cried.

Then we went to eat, then we went and saw trees. <3 They're expensive, but I really hope we get some :D. They're so pretty. <3 <3 <3

Ok, I should really go work. This was a LOOOONNNGGG post.

Logging off,
~S~