My Letter to Santa

It's posted! :D

http://community.sparknotes.com/2010/12/23/a-sparklers-letter-to-santa

Amasis thought I was crazy for writing a letter to Santa...

Santa and Yoda

After some reflection, I realized that my blog was beginning to sound like the Never Been Kissed columns. I think it's pointless to have that many. So I'm avoiding that kind of topic. And I have good news.

I'm getting a post posted tomorrow on sparklife! I'm excited.

I wrote a letter to Santa. I showed Amasis. And she laughed at me.

I also showed her the origami Yoda I made. She laughed at that too. :( I spent over an hour folding that thing, and she laughed. Well, here is a picture of it. It looks better here, 'cause I edited the colors on picnik.

Yoda, it is.

You like?

His hand is deformed 'cause I couldn't tell what they guy was doing in the video...but it's still awesome. I made it for my dad for Christmas.

I probably won't get on again before Christmas, so Merry Christmas Everybody!!

Merry Christmas

Au revoir. Je m'en vais.

-Amarantha93

Rejection

So I sent an article in to sparknotes. About band Camp. Unfortunately, a post about band camp was posted the next day...and it wasn't mine. :(

Mine was rejected because someone else had it first. :(

So, I'll post it here.

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School and football are about to start. For my sister and me, this means that we have band camp. This is what happened on the first day.

 

12:00 I lost the sheet that had the times for camp. So I had to text my friend to see how long it would last. I'm thinking it will be an hour, maybe two. No. He told me camp is from 1 to 5.

12:15 My alarm goes off to remind me to leave.

12:30 My sister and I start walking to the school. By the time we get halfway there, I realize I forgot my water bottle. Which is unfortunate in 95 degree weather (heat index 111).

12:40 We get to the school. We head to the band room, which is one of the only rooms with air conditioning at our school. My sister and I sit down next to each other (We are the type of sisters that actually get along...most of the time).

1:00 After sitting in the band room for about 20 minutes, I finally cool down. The teacher takes attendance and gives a few announcements. He tells us we are scheduled until 5:30 but if  we get thing done, we could leave by 4:30.

1:20 We finally start playing. We were supposed to start at 1:00.

1:40 After practicing the national anthem and the school song, we start playing songs from Green Day.

1:55 We have an extremely strong low section. I was sitting right in front of them, and it got loud. This resulted in many shouts of "I can't hear you!"

2:17 We start playing Lady GaGa music.

2:24 The band starts playing Bad Romance. I get lost from the very beginning and I fake played for the whole song. When we finish, I realize I was playing Poker Face. *facepalm*

2:26 My sister finally stops laughing at me.

2:34 We start the next song. My sister turns to me and asks, "Do you have the right song this time?" I resist the urge to growl at her.

2:45 We finish the music rehearsal for the beginning of camp.

3:05 The band meets outside to practice parade marching. We do the basics: forward, backwards, left, and right.

3:45 Some one gets faint from the heat. They get to sit out. I want to tell the drum majors that I'm too hot and I need to sit out, too.

3:56 We head back inside and start playing Lady Ga Ga again.

4:22 The teacher complains that his stool is too short. He wants the towel stool because it is taller.

4:23 We have stopped playing and the teacher starts giving announcements. We all think camp is over, so we all start packing up our instruments.

4:24 The teacher tells us that we are not done yet. Everyone groans.

4:28 The teacher finally finishes announcements. We play the school song again.

4:35 We are finally done! With 25 minutes to spare!

4:37 We leave the building. My sister head home where I plan on standing in front of the fridge with the door open.

 

Band camp was equal parts of playing and marching mixed with a lot of hoping we get out early.

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So I was sad. But they said they would want to see new posts from me, so I'm working on it...

Au revoir. Je m'en vais.

-Amarantha93

Random note: Us veteran sparklers should have a reunion sometime on sparknotes...

Pills and School. Can you think of anything worse?

So I really hate pills. Really, really hate pills. I can take ibuprofen just fine. But those pills I got after my ER trip, I couldn't handle them. I had them twice a day for 7 days. The first was went done fine. But then I had problems.

For 10 pills. I had to take 4 glasses of water just to swallow the stupid pill. So twice a day, that gives me 8 cups (8 oz) of water for the whole day. I almost never just drink water. I have a glass of milk/juice/pop/etc. with meals. And that's it. So I was suddenly getting 8 glasses of water a day. This sudden big increase of water intake caused me to pee like a pregnant racehorse. When I told my sister that, she told me it was too much info...but it was annoying me! I was awake 3 hours and I had to use the bathroom 4 times! It's ridiculous!

Now I have taken all of the pills. So I don't need 8 cups of water to take them. So I have a sudden decrease in water intake. So I was really thirsty all day. >.<

It's rather annoying.

I also just started school yesterday. I'll talk about it later. And I'm writing about it for Sparklife. I also wrote 3 other posts. One was rejected (I already had it on here). :( If the other ones get rejected too, I'll post them here.

So, yeah. That's it for now.

Au revoir. Je m'en vais.

-Amarantha93

Random note: Did I mention that I hate pills?

7 Things

Lola tagged me. She said I had to choose 7 things that are not for me that I would buy if I had a million dollars. I can not have any of these for even a day.

1. Puppies and kitties for my little sister

2. Books for the library (does this one work if I check them out from the library?)

3. A new house for my parents

4. A new heart for my dad's friend

5. A giant swimming pool with multiple water slides for my sisters

6. Places for retirement for my grandparents

7. Donate to charities (does this count as buying something?)

I tag Hanini Gummy Feathers and Aly.

You must list 7 random facts about Sparknotes.

(can be how you got your username, a funny conversation, anything)

-Amarantha93