School Year @ MindSay

I think ever since I've started blogging, about 3 years ago, I think every summer I've written one of these. My semi-traditional Back to School Blog. Here I'll descibe my hopes, dreams, goals, and fears about the upcoming year. If you aren't a huge friend of mine, there's a good chance you won't give a damn about what it is I'm going to say. If you are my friend, you might notice that there are some subtle changes about me and what I'm looking for in life. Or maybe I'm full of it and just feel like blogging. Idk. You decide.

 

My Goals
1. Organization- By the end of the first semester I want to have figured out how to properly utilize a daily planner, and I will do this by remembering to write stuff down in mine, and not just stuffing it in the back of my locker or using it just for passes. My locker will stay clean, and I will be able to find whatever it is I need in my Binders.

 

2. Sports- By the time basketball season rolls around, I want to be in better shape than I have ever been. I will accomplish this by competing in cross country, where I will increase my ability to run 3.1 miles in 30:39 to being able to run a mile in at the most 9 minutes, preferably faster.

 

Ok, those are my two most immediate goals. Some long term goals are to keep my confidence up. I don't want to be as passive, and I don't want to be taken advantage of in school anymore. I want to know when to say no. I've decided this year is going to be about what makes me happy. I'm generally a nice person, but I'm not going to inconvenience myself to make someone else's life easier. I spent way too much effort trying to please people.

 

Romantically? I'm not looking for anything. No, really. I've been single since May, and it feels great. If you know me, you probably realize how long a time that is for me. It's the longest I haven't had a boyfriend since I started dating. I've been doing a lot of thinking this summer, reflecting, and I've come up with this- I don't need one. The trouble I've had with boyfriends makes it so I barely even want one. I like being able to flirt, and right now I can't think of a guy I'd be willing to date. Or I can, but he's not here so nothing can happen. I've had enough fun over this summer to last me all year, and I don't plan on continuing it. Weird, huh? For me to not want a boyfriend?

 

So, for now, I think I'll just wait it out, wait for the right guy to come to me. Instead of me chasing a fairy tale. Plus, I have a lot more standards, now. No more settling for me. No more dating a guy because he likes me, so I think I want to get to know him, only to find out he's totally wrong for me, which I would have already known if I'd have got to know him in the first place. No more liking a guy just because he likes me. I realize now, that's just plain stupid. If he's out there... he'll find me.

 

I don't have a whole lot of fears. No, "Omg I'm totally worried about failing sophomore year or not having any friends." School is school, it's supposed to get harder. I have all the friends I need, althought I won't object to more, if they aren't the kind that are friends only while they can get something from me. I've had plenty of those. I don't want to mess anything up with the friends I do have, because they mean the world to me. I don't want to do anything stupid because everyone else is doing it, I've been close to that before. I really don't want to drop the ball in leadership, again. Those are really the only things I'm worried about.

 

My attitude's a little different now. I'm curious to see if it stays with me throughout the school year. I hope it does... I like this little piece of confidence I picked up. Feel free to comment on this... I wrote it mostly for myself, but it's nice to know what other people think. See you all soon.

As the end of your school year is here , fill out this survey according to all of the things you have accomplished..
-Changed hair colors? nope. it bleached out by sun-exposure, though. not too unusual.

-Discovered a new talent? Oh yeah. I can make people quake in fear.

-Do you have a boyrfriend/girlfriend? yes

-Broken up with somebody? yes

-Met someone you can't live without? yes. It hurts to be apart.

-Was this year the best year so far? yes, and no.

-Made a lot of friends? eh... deepened a few.

-Fail a class? no. I am too much of a perfectionist for that

-Hate a teacher? oh yes. with a passion *cough*adkins*cough,cough*

-Get in any fights? just a couple. not physical though... prolly should have smacked a couple of people.

-Fist fight? see above.

-Gain any new friends? sort of.

-Lose any old friends? yeah.

-Gone to a movie with a friend? uh huh :)

-Lost a family member? yes.

-Get any taller? nope. still a shorty at 5'3''

-Know someone that graduated from high school? most of my friends *sulks in a corner*

-Cut your hair? yep.


-Hug more than 3 different people?oh yes

-Tell someone you love them and mean it? Yes, as in the affirmative, "I love you with my life. Do not leave me."

-Went to a fair? ren festtttttttttt

-Dated/"talked to" someone you wished you hadn't? eh....... sort of.

-Hated someone of the opposite sex? oh yes.

-Hated someone of the same sex? .... That demands a, "No shit, sherlock"

-Saw a kiddie movie at the theaters? Ha ha, for once, no.

-Spent most of your year watching tv? Not really.

-Read a book? Many, many books, as it were.

-Sat through something boring? "Depressing Issues of Human Suffering" says it all.

-Drove a car? Not yet. Soon, though.

-Regret something you did? Who doesn't, once in a while?

20. Did you fail any classes?
NO!

21. Did you ever cheat on any test/quizzes?
Yeah...

22. Where did you go most often for lunch?
the cafeteria

23. Did you cry at graduation?
WHat graduation

Cross Country Banquet was last night. and it was really nice.

there were so many more people on the team this year than there was last year, so the place was packed. BUT. good job Welton. we still have the shortest banquet at Elko High School.

i didn't letter this year. got DAMN near close, but didn't letter.  but. you know. Cross Country is a harder sport to letter in than a bunch of others. actually like all of them.



whatevs. i'll letter next year.

Wow!  Can you all believe that we are heading into the start of our 2nd full week of school, our 3rd actual week of school here in the Uncanny Land of the Fanatical Freaks!

 

An update is called for!!!  I will start with my beautiful budding blossom of a daughter! 

 

DeLaney is currently loving Third Grade!  Who would have thought!?!  This from my daughter who struggled with reading and spelling!  If it wasn't for our lovely buggy invasion last week she was to read at Mass.  Since I refused to let her go back to school with a red, sore head and missed reading at Mass, she gets to read next month during the 3rd grade and I think 8th grade Mass!  We marked something very important on the calandar as a high point in Mz Drama Queen's life last Friday.  DeLaney recieved her very first 100% on a spelling test!  She was so proud of herself!  She even convienced Donnie into calling me at home to inform me of her wonderful achievement!  (Donnie B. is the school adminstrator/Superentendent/Principal)  DeLaney's goal is to keep at least an A/B average in spelling and attempt to compete in the Winnebago (both Public and Mission) Schools Spelling Bee this year! Not to mention DeLaney is joining the Chess Club!  It meets in the mornings before their weekly Mass and once the school year progresses it will start meeting in the mornings from 7:30am to start of school at 8 am.  (Kids are at the Church basement getting breakfast at 7:30 anyway) Something happened this year that amazed DeLaney!  She started a new school and right off the bat both the girls and the boys made her feel welcomed!  No words as:  "Go back from where you came from.  White Bitch.  Cracker Jacker.  Your not indian get away from me.  Your not hispanic get away from me.  White Whore."  You name it my lovely sensitive daughter has been called it from TX and OK to this shit ass school district where we live at and I graduated from no less!  I am so glad I decieded to put them up at the Indian Mission Catholic School!  Plus unlike the Catholic School in the city we were going to send the kids, the Priests here totaly accept that I am a Celtic Spiritualist studying to become a Druid and I am teaching my kids both my ways and my mother's which is a hodge podge of Catholic!  The nuns are pretty kewl with it also!  The youngest and newest one (I think Asian Culture but I am not sure) loves my ink and flipped up her head thingy and showed me the ink she got before she made the decision to join the nunnery!  How kick ass is that!

 

Now on to my lanky lean machine of son!

 

Coltin is really enjoying Second Grade this year!  So much to the point he is putting his school uniforms on after he goes to bed so he is ready to go first thing in the mornings!  I have never had to worry about Coltin's grades, he sucks information in like he is dying of thirst!  Sometimes I worry for him because there is going to be a time he is going to get bored and nothing the school or I are going to keep him occupied!  Coltin's teacher is in an electric wheel chair and uses a microphone to project her voice and she gets the biggest kick out of Coltin; because her chair locks up on occasion and instead of running down the halls like so many of the other kids do, Coltin tries to fix it for her!  She found out the hard way, do NOT keep tools in your room around Coltin!  He will attempt to take anything and everything apart to try and understand how it works!  He managed to get her battery pack case unscrewed with out her even knowing about it today!  She was laughing so hard when I picked the kids up from school I thought she was going to laugh herself right out of her chair!  Again Coltin experienced nothing but positive and friendly kids at this school.  This past year finishing up in my old school which is now a ghetto school was hell on my poor boy.  Every time he turned around he was getting beat up or harassed and when I finally told him to start hitting back, the Principal was to scared to disicple the other kids but went after my boy.  Her white ass needs to go back to a primarily white school district if she can't handle non indian kids the same way she handles the indian kids!  If my kids stayed in that school district I would have been one very rich MILF!  Coltin has always made friends with upper classmen and this year he is exstatic to have made friends with the majority of the kids in his and his sister's classes!  Coltin has also signed up for the Chess Club and can't wait to take on Daddy, Papo, Grandpa Bear (step grandpa's name is Burdell but he looks like a Bear), Uncles Tracy and Will and if I talk him into it........mayhap Uncle Na Na if we ever get out to NY!  And my boy is reading the second reading in tomorrow's Mass.  Thankfully both my kids know better to ask Mamma to come to church more than maybe 1 time a month!  The sixth grade teacher (I went to diabetic classes with her and her daughter) is a lil put out that I won't go to the School's Mass but I don't care!  My Pagany Heathen ass is NOT going and Coltin completely understands this because in truth he is chafing under the fact he has to even go let alone read!

 

This is the update of school ...........for now!  I am so happy my kids are enjoying school this year!  Now if only I could get them to enjoy picking up their rooms with out a battle or negoitating!