friendships

are always changing. especially in high school. friendships change quicker than grades do. there's this girl i've known since fifth grade. in fifth grade i couldn't stand her. i thought she was obnoxious, annoying, and immature. i didn't see her for a year and a half. then we went to the same middle school. she thought she was better than everyone else and only hung out with high school kids. there were some rumors of her being naughty, but i'm not sure if those were true. last year her mom shipped her off to live with her dad in boston (keep in mind i live in salt lake city). long move, eh?
well it's thanksgiving weekend, and i'm going to a suburb of boston to see my extended family members. i informed her that i was going and she asked if we could hang out. i said sure if my dad said it was okay, and then we started talking about other stuff. things we had never talked about before, mainly because we weren't friends. well now she's acting like she's my friend, but i'm not sure what to think because she's never been this nice to me ever. ah! i'm so confused.

salt lake city ski resort guide 2008-2009

Alta
All-day pass: $64
SKIERS ONLY
There are many people who ski Alta, and only Alta. They are the most expensive, but they have the amazing feature of “ski free after 3” which allows anyone and everyone to ski for an hour and a half, no charge. Tempting, eh? Alta also boasts over 116 runs to ski and many days of deep powder.

Pros: over 500” yearly, 1.5 hours of free ski every day, 2,200 acres of skiable land
Cons: no snowboarding, most expensive, lots of old people

Snowbird
All-day pass: $62/$72 Tram
SKI AND SNOWBOARDING
Snowbird is definitely one of the most known resorts in the country. It’s known for it’s deep powder, long season, and, of course, it’s tram. The tram takes you to the top of a peak and allows access to almost every run on the mountain. Keep in mind, the tram is directed toward intermediate-expert skiers and snowboarders, so if this is your first season, you might want to stay on Chickadee.

Pros: over 500” yearly, tram, 2,500 acres of land, tons of easily-accessible backcountry
Cons: expensive, you face the chance of being mauled by snowboarders, usually very crowded

Solitude
All-day pass: $61
SKI AND SNOWBOARDING
Solitude, as proven by it’s name, is usually very open. I’ve skied for almost an entire day without seeing anyone. It gets great snow, you can access all sorts of terrain, and they have good food. It’s not as known throughout the world, which can be read as good or bad; bad: it’s not known which means it’s not as good, or good: thank goodness no one knows about it, otherwise it would be packed.

Pros: over 500” yearly, good food, not crowded, backcountry
Cons: 1,200 acres, lots of groomed runs

Brighton
All-day pass: $58/$32+ night skiing
SKI AND SNOWBOARDING
The predominant memory I have of skiing Brighton is their abundance of tree trails. You can be boarding almost any run and encounter a patch of trees. Just dive head first into the trees and you’ll encounter powder galore. Then just hop back onto the original run and start where you left off. Another great feature of Brighton is their 4 hour night-skiing program. From 4-9 at night you can ski all lit runs. Keep in mind, it’s an extra $32 for night skiing.

Pros: over 500” yearly, hidden powder, backcountry, night and twilight skiing, cheapest
Cons: can be crowded, lots of groomed runs, $70 for 12 hours of skiing

daily rambling

God I love my blackberry.. I can do anything on this wonderful device. I must say I am updating my blog from it as I speak. I really should talk about more issues and topics. I should review stuff online. Maybe I'll do something like gossip girl.. Poke into my classmate's business and post it online for EVERYONE to read. I know! I'll do a mix of all of them!! If anyone actually reads this blog (which I doubt, well for now) they should comment and give me more ideas on which to discuss.

did i mention my mom's a freak?

i'm sitting here as the clock nears midnight accompanied by loony mom.

she's downloading while singing monotonously
"i have lots of jimmy smith
more jimmy smith than one ever needs
this is what i do while you're asleep
and when i'm alone
like when i was reading the bell jar
and i was thinking to myself
when will i go crazy??
ah!!!"

wow mom
wow

drew from arizona

my mom has a crush on a lawyer down in arizona that she met on last.fm (a social/music networking site) and this is a slight glimpse at what must be going on in her head:

mom: i wonder what's wrong with that drew guy. i mean he has a great personality, and a successful job, so why hasn't he been married yet?
me: i have no idea.
mom: maybe he has a small penis.
me: well there's only one way to find out! (in my mind i was thinking going down to arizona and have sex with him as any normal teenager or person would think)

mom: *slight pause* ask??

do you want a drink?

emma: wow there are some really hot girls at this concert.
me: you should go chat some up.. i bet they'd appreciate it..
emma: haha this reminds me of this one time!
me: what happened?
emma: so i was at this festival and i was getting a drink and this girl came up and i was like "hey can i buy you a drink?" and she was like "i'm not gay." and walked away.
me: *laughing my head off while all the annoying hipsters give me dirty looks*

bishop allen concert

was good fun.
i got there late because i was finishing watching "the visitor" (which is a spectacular movie that you all should watch)
i got there during the 2 opener, electric owls, who was okay, but i don't think i'd listen to his stuff very often.
i talked to my stalkee and found out he has a girlfriend (who i'm going to call airhead because she's a total dumbass.. can you say turn-off??) but his friend (who is also taken, but i'm okay with that) is AWESOME! i talked to him a bunch, and he's a total spaz, but he's spectacular!
an horse is really good, they were the main opener, and i would listen to them again if someone gave me their cd..

bishop allen was really good. i was right at the front next to the bassist, keith, and everyone was singing along and have a jolly old time. it was totally packed so i was really lucky to be at the front with my friend emma :) at the end of the show i got keith's set list though i'm kind of sad it doesn't have the encore songs on it..
my stalkee and his friend and girlfriend were stuck at the very back, and i didn't see them again until after the concert was over and they said they liked bishop allen, but they liked the first opener the best (congrats drew danburry!) and we got his cd.

announcement!!

my best friend, gabby, has returned from mountain camp!!
i didn't get to see/talk to her in 5 whole days!!

i just had to tell someone :)

11-11 @ 11:11:11

This post wasn't posted at that time (obviously, though that would be pretty damn cool!) buy today in geometry, some dorky kid who just watches the clock all class period pointed it out and we all yelled and cheered and celebrated.
The end..

cool quote 2

"the supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

Robert A. Heinlein

veterans day assemnly

During the assembly about a day girl in choir.

Kelsey: who are you talking about?
Me: that girl there on the end.
Kelsey: did she serve in the army as a submarine?

So horrible but so funny!

thirteen-elliott smith

this song is so cute and may be my favorite right now. i love elliott smith, and i wish he didn't have to die, and i love the story in this song.

btw it's a cover of big star's thirteen, and wilco also did a cover of it

1-12 Thirteen.mp3

lefty

my best guy friend (so far) this year is amazing. so amazing in fact, i'm asking him to winter's. i heard my stalkee is going with a different girl, so i'm going to ask lefty :)
so yeah new plan..
just thought you ought to know

boys

i hate boys
i wish i didn't like any of them ever again

today i was in the hall waiting for my mom and i saw my stalkee talking to some of his friends. i was just sitting there minding my own business and i heard him say to this one girl "see that girl over there in the white skirt?" and i didn't hear anything else!!! i listened as closely as i could, and i couldn't hear a thing!!! fuck!!! i told my mom and she was like "joey (my friend's boyfriend) probably told him that you liked him and so now he's just telling his friends" and it sucks because every time i see him in the halls, he gives me weird looks (not dirty looks just weird ones) and i don't know what to do. what if he's one of those guys who once he finds out you like him, he makes things all awkward? that would suck and i would hate him. and now that i think about it, i don't really want to ask him to winter's. i think i want to ask my friend. he's pretty amazing and he really likes me and we're really close and i love him to death. did i mention he's hot? well he is..

but anyway back to stalkee. i can't decide if i really like him, but i can't tell any of my friends that or they'll freak.. they'll be "o it's just a phase!" or "why? you can totally tell he likes you. go talk to him and get his number and get his penis in your pants" and they totally won't believe me.

god i hate high school.

my mom's a dumbass

mom: you uncle jason was born on the bicentennial
sister: what does that mean?
mom: it means he was born 150 years after the american revolution
me: what the hell are you talking about?

this is the conversation that went on between my family at dinner time today
people think modern education is bad?
take a look at this antique shit...

my master plan!!

winter's (school dance) is coming up on december 6 and it's girl's choice.. if you're wondering who i'm going to ask you're a dumbass (though you can be excused from the dumbass-ness if you haven't read any previous entries)
well i'll tell you who anyway. my stalkee.
so if you don't already know, we have almost the exact taste in music, and although i haven't asked him yet, i'm going to assume he loves bishop allen.
there is a bishop allen concert coming up on november 14 (that's about 3 weeks before winters for those too lazy to do math) and i was going to ask him (tomorrow to be exact) if he was planning on going.
if he can go then i was going to go too and ask the band before they go on stage to say "on behalf of (insert my name here) we would like to ask (insert stalkee here) to winter's on december 6"
i know it's totally cheesy and it sounds like it should be a bad teen movie, but i think it's still quite spectacular.
and if he can't go then i was going to film them saying that and play it over all the school intercoms/tvs.
i'm brilliant.
i hope i don't chicken out, and either just ask him to his face or not ask him at all. i don't think my friends would let me do that.

new house

so my mom moved, bringing my eight-year-old sister and myself along. it's downtown, very near our above-the-ground-subway. as in ten steps away. tonight is our first night sleeping here. today we moved a bunch of our furniture, and tomorrow we're bringing a little more, and bringing other necessities here. it's pretty amazing. i think i'm going to not go to my dad's next weekend and just have a bunch of friends over. maybe i'll invite my friend's boyfriend and my stalkee. hm.. sounds like a possibly-improbable plan :) wow i feel smart..

grounded

sorry i haven't written in so long..
my mom grounded me from being on the computer (does that make any sense to you? it doesn't to me..)
anyway, it feels like a lot has happened in this past week
last night i went to a stomp with my friend and her boyfriend and her boyfriend is friend's with my stalkee (okay so get this.. they weren't friends until i started hanging out with my friend and her now-boyfriend asked her out, and now they're always hanging out and going to coffee and stuff) and i asked her boyfriend if he could convince my stalkee to come to the stomp.. and he did!! and of course he hung out with her boyfriend the whole time, but i don't mind.
it was pretty spectacular. it was for halloween, so we were all supposed to dress up, but my stalkee didn't and i was making fun of him for it.
i think on monday i'm going to ask him if he has a myspace (i already know he does, but he hasn't logged on in 3 months) and then if he says "yes but i never log on.." i'm going to ask for his number!! ah!! i'm so excited! (my friend's boyfriend already offered to give it to me, but that seems a little bit more stalker-esque then i'm willing to go..)

o and a major ego boost this week: my friend's boyfriend was telling me that a bunch of his friends think i'm hot, and i went over to where they were standing after school and they were all hitting on me and making stupid jokes, and it was quite hilarious

i think i'm going to ask my stalkee to winter's. (it's a dance for all of you not pop-cultury enough to figure that out). i bet he has to work, but i'm going to take my chances. that would be amazing if i went to winter's with him.. i'm not a big dance person, and i don't think he is either, but it would still be fun. i need to start saying that i'm going to ask him now, so when it's actually time to ask him i'll be all hyped and ready..