Jitters.

Ah! School's starting and I'm barely ready for it! I wish I could start in....a million years.


*sigh*

I'm going to East Side High, for the Culinary program. Which is awesome....the only problem is that they messed up my schedule. I took Alg 1 Honors last year in 8th grade, completed the high school course with all "A's" and then they go and tell me that I'm taking Alg. 1 for 1/2 a semester and then switching over to Geometry. So I was like, that's crazy! And it was even worse when we went to the front office and explained it to the lady and she said, "Oh Lord. I'll be right back, I have to ask someone about this."

So I was freaking out. I knew it would be hard to switch my schedule to where I take geometry because all the freshman have 80 min. periods and the rest of the school doesn't so if I took a class with a 50 min. period everything would be messed up. Confusing, right?


Anyways, the lady called us back and asked my mom if I could be in I.B. - This extremely smart academic program. Ever heard of it? I guess they really wanted me because I remember getting an offer to do it in the mail once and now they were pulling strings to let me do Culinary and I.B., Which isn't allowed under normal circumstances because you aren't allowed to take both magnet programs at the same time. We accepted the offer, I mean how could I say no? It's a great opportunity. And I get to take French. =] Plus in my book.


Now I'm only scared because I don't even know who my teachers are, let alone how I'm going to find my classes on Monday. Good lord this is frightening. And I'm scared I won't be able to keep up my straight "A's". Now I am tremulous..... and sad.

Oh heart, stop acting naughty.

I went to the cardiologist. I've been having some heart palpitations for about three weeks, and so now I have a heart monitor on me for 30 days. I can only take it off when I take a shower. Every time I feel a palpitation, I have to call this number and let the people on the other end of the line listen to the recording of my palpitation.

Day Of Photography

Yesterday it was too hot and humid to ride, so my sister and I decided that we would take pictures with the horses, and then blow the pictures up and hang them on our walls.

We groomed the horses, making them look mighty pretty, and then gussied ourselves up a little too. And with that, we went outside to take the pictures....only to find that the horses had escaped! Those little tricksters ditched us and went off to graze!

Anyways....we still got in some pics. *winky face* Here they are:

Me and Jewel --

Aren't we cute?? She got itchy so I was scratching her ears for her. She loved it!

Alexis and Red -

And we also took some pictures with some of our cats! But I must say that Sushi HATED it. She was about ready to claw our eyes out, growling like a dog at us!

Back in the Saddle.

I've been lazy with the horses! There, I admit it. I haven't gone out to ride for a few weeks. I just didn't feel like it.

But yesterday, I came upstairs to see Alexis talking on the phone with one of her friends- actually it was my friend, but not the point here- and I decided that enough was enough. I was so frustrated, and I was dieing to get outside.

"Alexis," I said. "Let's go on a trail ride."

She completely agreed with me, so we got up, got dressed, and took off down the road on a trail ride. I loved every second of it.

Mystery worms?

Well, they're not actually worms, but caterpillars. Black, icky caterpillars with yellow stripes and a red head, who eat everything in sight, even the poisonous and most dangerous Angel Trumpet that is in my yard. Seriously! All it's leaves are gone. How sad...

These caterpillars are very annoying. They're all over my tomato plants. There has to be just about a million of them crawling in the grass, resulting in me not being able to go barefoot when I'm outside.

There is so many of these bugs that my sister, upon feeding the horses, found one crawling it's way up her shorts. It even bit her. Yikes, talk about scary!

And the worst thing about this is I have no idea what kind of caterpillars these are....although I have my suspicions...I think they might be Army worms...hm.

Glowing Sunflowers.

A few months back when we had some food in our bird feeder, and it started to rain non-stop for days, the seeds in the feeder started to sprout. I didn't notice at first so everything that sprouted just kept on growing.

When I did notice, there was a ton of grass growing out of the feeder, and also some newly sprouted sunflower seeds. So, curious as I was, I wanted to experiment! I grabbed a few of the sprouted seeds and planted them in some pots, and before I knew it, I had myself some sunflowers growing. There wasn't a lot that I planted, which I regret greatly because I could have let them grow near my bees! (Not that they would have any problems finding the sunflower if it wasn't close to them. I see at least one bee every day in my potted lavender, which is right by the spot that the sunflower is planted.) Oh, how the bees would have just loved the sunflowers planted right near them!

It turned out that two out of the four that I planted died once in the ground because my horses, the nosy creatures, got into the garden patch. (And no, we have not fenced the garden off. It's a wonder that everything else hasn't died from our number of cats and dogs that come and go by the garden each day, unaware of the destruction they are causing.) So, two were trampled. But the other two are still in good condition! In fact, why don't you see for yourself?

I don't know 'bout you, but I think this little darlin' is mighty fine. She's nothing big, although I wish she was! Only about two feet tall. I guess I shouldn't be so sad about her size. I mean, you can't really expect to grow a giant ten foot sunflower when you're getting the seeds from a bird feeder. Haha, I'm also just glad to go through the experience of planting her. And check out that glow on the picture I snapped off? I don't even know how it got like that. Maybe from it being so humid outside, and some condensation got on my lens? Anyways, it sure does compliment her!

Someday I would definitely like to grow giant sunflowers. I saw the GardenGirl do it and now I just can't get it out of my head.

I would also like to plant some sunflowers in my bee yard. That would look pretty and sunflowers are easy to maintain so it wouldn't be any trouble taking care of them over there.

My Crazy Cat.

Penny Lane, sister of Mary Jane (May he rest in peace.) is very loving, but also a bit insane. Well, all my cats have their quirks, but I'm writing this for Penny Lane because she was just so cute yesterday, and so funny, that I felt like I had to share it. Her silliness just tickles me pink!

I grew a sunflower and it recently bloomed, so I went outside to take some pictures of it. And every time I go outside an animal always comes up to me, which I really wish they wouldn't do sometimes because they never realize when they are sitting on the plants and I am forced to yell at them. I was snapping off some shots when she came up to me, purring as usual, and also rubbing against my leg. I couldn't resist her so I forgot about the plant and started cooing at her and petting her.

When I was petting her, the string hanging on my camera was dangling down and she looked up at it and then proceeded to hook her claws right into the string, her eyes locked onto mine. It was just so funny because her tongue was also out and the whole time she was still purring! And of course little old me couldn't resist snapping a few pictures of her, which she probably enjoyed greatly.