Old Stuffed Animals

Usually days I don't have school seem to drag on forever, but today actually went by very quickly.  I feel like I didn't get a chance to do anything today.

My sister has been cleaning her room all day.  The two of us used to share that room, and because of that, tons of our old stuffed animals are stuffed in one of her closets.  She got all of those bags down, and we went through some of them.  I hadn't seen those stuffed animals in years!  Most of them were hers as some of my old ones were moved into boxes into my room when we got out own rooms.  Still, some of my old stuffed animals were in there with hers, and I ended up taking a few.  They're now sitting in my room for absolutely no reason.  Most of them are dirty, musty smelling, and squished looking, but I haven't seen these in years!  I'll probably stuff them in my closet after a few days and forget about them, but it's still weird to see them after so long.

That's just about the only note-worthy thing today.  Other than that I've done nothing but read (not as much as I would like) and do various things on the Internet.  Now I'm off to do a bit of homework (Yep.  I'm studying during Thanksgiving break.) and then finish a college application.

I think I'm helping  fix Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow since my mom will be at work.  We'll see how that actually works out, since it requires waking up early and getting my sister and me to cooperate.  I'm excited for the Macy's parade and the dressing!  (My family seriously has the best dressing recipe ever.  That's the best thing about this time of year.  It's the only thing that tastes good as leftovers.)

I Need a Break

I'm am so ready for Thanksgiving break!  I need these five days off of school.  I'm beginning to get really stressed out, and a break will be nice.  I mean most of the stress is coming from college stuff, and I'm going to spend break applying to two colleges.  Still, no school helps take a bit of the stress off, and I think I could the main college-related thing that was stressing me out sorted out today.  So, hopefully it will be an unstressful break for me.  (If my sister succeeds in getting me to go Black Friday shopping, then I guess we can throw the unstressful break out the window.)

Since it was the last day before break, we didn't do much at school today.  I had an AP U.S. history test first thing this morning, but other than that, I didn't do much today.  We're researching for our trend analysis paper (with an annotated bibliography) in AP English, but I don't really consider researching to be hard work (unless you're having trouble finding information).

Our Jostens yearbook representative was in our yearbook class today to show us how to create the portrait pages, but all that required was us sitting quietly and listening to him talk.

I'm way ahead in computer applications, so our teacher asked Ji, Bethany, and me to help her wrap pennies from Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.  Once we were finished with that, Ji, Alyssa, and I went up to the guidance office since we each had seperate things that we needed to get worked out.  That's when I hopefully got the biggest college-related thing sorted out.  Guys, applying to college can be hard when things don't go right.  I think I go to a great school, but something I didn't learn until this year is that it's sometimes hard to get things figured out because of the small staff.  I've been trying to get this sorted out forever, but our guidance office consists of two people (a guidance counselor and a secretary), and whenever I have time to go in there, they never seem to be in there (hence why I went during class today).  It was starting to get frustrating.  I've never had this problem until this year, since you don't really need to deal with guidance much (except during scehduling times) until senior year.  Hopefully, that's all sorted out though, and as soon as I send in these two applications, I'll be done applying to college.  (Then I just have to be accepted...)

Just like us high schoolers, the middle schoolers weren't doing much today either, so I didn't do much during peer tutoring today.  In the first class I'm in, I helped one girl with math a little bit and helped two boys study for a social studies class.  In the second class, the were watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving while working on a math worksheet that they didn't really need help on, so I spend the whole time just watching Charlie Brown.

We did actually do work in econ today, but it was easy and not nearly enough to take up the whole hour and a half we're in there.  Most of the class was spent doing nothing.

Since getting home, I feel like I've accomplished a lot, but it really doesn't seem like much looking back on it.  I managed to get some reading done, which hasn't really happened in a while.  I got half of a college application filled out, which I'm relieved that it's nearing being done.  I also filmed a video that I was currently in the process of editing before I got in the shower and then started writing (first my story and then this).  I have over twenty minutes of footage, so I hope to get it edited down a lot, which probably won't happen since I can't bear to leave out anything when it comes to books.  As soon as I post this I'm going to get back to editing that, and I'll hopefully have it up before I go to bed, which is looking less likely as it's getting late.