Written: October 18, 2006 at 6:25AM EST
The last days have been crappy. But in order to keep this post somewhat upbeat, I won’t go into it. Just keep in mind if you are still curious, check out the last 3 posts, minus the Wizard of Oz one. Anyways…
Friday the 13th, like it said in the last post was crappy, so I when I got back from school, I fell right asleep. My mother woke me up because my grandma and my aunt were here; they were on their way to Albany to catch a plane the next morning (They’re in Myrtle Beach and didn’t take me!) After I woke up and they left, I turned on my computer and checked my mail etc, and I found a couple layouts for my sisters blog and one was of a dog. Out of nowhere she asked through AIM…
“Do you want a golden retriever?” I then replied with, “why> (note the type-o), then she said, “Do you?” I responded with “Kinda why?
Then, curious, I ran down to her room and my mom was laying on her bed and she told me they found a breeder outside Mansfield and we were going to go look at some puppies.
The next day, I woke up early and was excited all day (although I didn’t let on). My brother and sister however were ecstatic and could barely sit still. 3:00 FINALLY rolled around and we piled into the car and headed to Mansfield.
As the woman lived nearly an hour outside Mansfield (a two-hour trip for us), we met halfway in Wal-mart. We sat there and waited and waited, then finally the woman showed up.
In her car were 2 puppies and the father. We all got out of the car and looked at the puppies. They were so small! We looked at the two and we decided on the darker of the two; and as it was extremely cold, my sister held the puppy and wrapped her coat around the dog. It was so cute.
My mom did the paperwork and all the other stuff required (its a pure-breed dog!) and we came home. The trup home was rather uneventful as was the rest of the evening.
You would not believe how well behaved this dog is. Because it was an outside dog, it only goes outside to go to the bathroom (my mom LOVES this), and it doesn’t bark. Its extremely patient, but gets playful at times. An AMAZING dog.
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I do still miss Gizmo though… 
Written: October 14, 2006 at 4:14AM EST
I’m not generally superstitious, but today was HORRIBLE!
First off, I woke up late, so I was rushing around this morning. After rushing to get ready, I ran to the bus (and almost missed it). I arrived at school and went to spanish, it went fairly well, but I kept making stupid mistakes. On to notetaking, I realized I forgot my stuff for the class, and of course the day I forget it, we need it. Luckily, my friend Megan let me use her book and Mrs. Sisti (my teacher), didn’t freak out at the fact that I forgot my stuff.
Next I had lunch/Activity. I helped Megan make some Halloween Party invitations in MS Word and when I went to get a pen, it exploded. The ink was really sticky, and when soap was added, it turned purple and would NOT come out!
English followed and he decided to give us a pop-quiz on vocabulary words. Instead of it being normal “give the definition” style, it was write a sentence using it exactly as it is given. The words we had were…
Literal
Figurative
Denotate
Connotate
Potentate
I was able to get literal and figurative, but I completely drew a blank of Denotate, Connotate, and Potentate, and because there were only 5 words, each was 20%, always good to miss 60% on a quiz!
Finally it was time for art, so close to the end of the day! For about a week and a half I have been working on a charcoal still life. Today I was working on it and I messed it up. The shading was really bad and the teacher wasn’t too happy =\
When school was finally over, I rushed outside, caught the bus and came home. I then heated up my leftover rice and fell asleep and woke up at around 8 to say goodbye to my grandma and aunt - as they are going to Myrtle Beach.
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Sorry if this post seems kinda mopey, but today sucked… seems to be a pattern lately… Oh Well 
Written: October 9, 2006 at 4:15AM EST
For some strange reason I have been obsessed with The Wizard of OZ lately. About a week ago I was looking through snopes.com, and they had a small section on the Wizard of Oz. After reading about the munchkin who supposidly hung himself during the Tin Man scene and how Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) once was severly burned in the scene in Munchkinland; I had the strangest urge to watch the movie. So after searching for two days I found it (down in a box in extra room in the basement). I rushed upstairs and watched it.
The movie began with the really old “FBI Warning (it scrolled up, and didn’t have a blue background!). Then the MGM Lion roared and it was like I was six all over again. Dorothy and Toto running down the road.
Its so amazing to watch a movie you’ve watched a hundred times when you were little, then after years, rewatching it and it making much more sense (and being almost like an entirely different movie). In fact, the entire scene at the farm seemed to flow better than I remembered it was a child. The scene where Dorothy visits Professor Marvel and he looks into the crystal ball even made more sense. Then the tornado scene. The special effects workers did an AMAZING job with that. The tornado was extremely realistic looking, and was close to that of “Twister”, and this was done nearly sixty years earlier.
All in all the movie was amazing, it was as though I saw the movie through new eyes. New connections were made, and I was inclined to research the movie even more…
(Wow, that’s pretty sad)
Anyways, through my research I discovered some interesting facts about the movie, and the OZ series.
Did you know…
*Shirley Temple was originally wanted to play Dorothy, but was not able to due to a contract problem with FOX.
*The tornado scene cost nearly $8,000, before they scraped it and started over.
*There is an animated sequel to the movie called “Journey Back to Oz” and Dorothy was voiced by Judy Garlands daughter.
*Disney made an unofficial sequel called “Return to Oz,” this story was much darker than the original and became a cult-classic.
*Glinda, The Good Witch of the North, was actually a combination of “Glinda The Sourceress of the South,” and “The Good Witch of the North.”
*Oz is a square land divided into 4 quadrants. Munchkin Country in the east, Winkie Country in the West (east and west are backwards in Oz), Gillikan Country in the North, and Quadling Country in the South. In the direct center is Emerald City.
Anyways, to wrap it up, theres a ton more I learned, but as I am as of now unable to see straight, I will end this post. Want to learn more? Be sure to check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz
Written: October 6, 2006 at 1:49AM EST
Wow, don’t worry, I’m really not as bad as that makes me sound…
Anyways, today was one of those days where EVERYTHING (and I mean everything), that can go wrong WILL go wrong. Let me start at the beginning (which in my case would be last night). Following my orthodontist appointment, I came home and figured I’d take a half-hour nap and then work on my homework. So around 5:30, I layed down, and the next thing I knew it was 6:00 AM. I had slept through and forgot to finish my homework. So I rush around to get ready and “attempt” to get the homework done. Rushed to catch the bus, and there were no seats. Great!
I soon arrived at school and just as period 1/2 started, I finished. We went over it, and I had gotten most of it wrong! (I guess that’s what I get for rushing). We then took a quiz on the homework and because I rushed, it did poorly on it.
The next period was gym; inline skating for this unit. I went to the one set of gym doors an it was locked. So I rushed to the otherside, and it was locked as well. When I finally got in, class was just starting. She took attendance and we went outside. Myself, following those in front, went into the wrong set of bleechers, and when we finally made it to the correct set, it was getting cold, and starting to sprinkle. I put my rollerblades on (wrong foot first!), then did some stopping/going drills.
Lunch/Activity followed. I made a new notebook for spanish (<sarcasm>so amazing isn’t it!</sarcasm>). While in there, we found out about the schools new policy of locking the doors and that anyone caught without their ID would get an S.O.S. (School on Saturday). Of course, the one day I forget my card at home, they decide to implement this!
The next period for American Literature, I was in the library, and of course, we were required to sign out books, and since I forgot my ID card, I couldn’t sign out a book. YAY.
Art went ok. I worked on my charcoal drawing, and by the time I was done, I managed to get charcoal on my face. Of course it wouldn’t come off!
Caught the bus and came home, and now off to bed, I mysteriously have a headache. Oh well.
And for those of you wondering about the title, its from a Murphy’s Law article at Wikipedia.
‘Murphy’s Corollary of the Power of Negative Thinking: “An optimist is never pleasantly surprised.”‘