Getting to know me

Ahhh Wednesday, halfway through the week!
Tomorrow I have school off and I am so loving these little holidays. Next Thursday I have a half day...one of the best things about public school.
I stayed at school til 5 today and worked on the newspaper. I skipped gym this morning to work on it too. Deadline day is Friday, which means that everything on all 4 of my pages must be placed, edited, perfect, etc! I finished most of the things today, and now just have to work on some last minute things like placing pep rally pictures (which is tough since there seems to be no good ones) and replacing some people's articles that they've made changes to. Oh, and I have to find a way to get this girl a new idea for a sidebar. Senior skip day is Friday; guess I won't be skipping...oh well, I'll live.
Best friend K was supposed to come over tonight and we were going to spend tomorrow out by the pool. She called me today to cancel, which in a way is sort of a blessing because now I can get my TV project done. Also gives me no excuses to not work on my essay for English tomorrow. darn. Maybe I'll go people watch at Starbucks again.

I love the comments that I'm getting from all of these new people that I'm meeting (and of course my old buddies). A new friend that I met the other day via e-mail asked me a question to the effect of "how do you do all that?! When do you have time for fun?" And because I feel that people should get to know me a little bit better, I thought I would answer it.

Anyways that is an excellent question because I'm not sure how I do it all. I'm just now learning that it's okay to reach out and ask for help and most of the time people will help! My days are pretty jammed packed, which is a complete 180 from 2 years ago or even last year. At times, I enjoy it and get a thrill out of getting things done, but other times I really do miss my life and hate that when I get home I can only muster up enough energy to brush me teeth and crawl into bed. Life is as crazy as it's ever been right now. I still have to do all this application stuff for college and until I do that, I truly won't have any free time. When I'm not doing that, I'm working and when I'm not doing that, it's school work and when it's not school work, than I can have some much needed "me" time.
I am a big magazine reader, Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan (yeah, so glad you guys know that about me now) being two of my favorite monthlies. I finally realized I had too much going on when last month I didn't even get to pick up a magazine and read it, let alone skim through it. The other day I made a point of just not doing anything, taking my magazines with me and just reading them cover to cover like I usually do. It was lovely. Than I got my other issues today, so I'll have to set a time for myself to get through them and not read them in AP English Literature class....because I soooo DID NOT do that today, by hiding it with a Princeton Review book.
As for fun in my life, I find it wherever I can. I wouldn't exactly call playing with a 3 yr old fun (at least not most of the time), but I try and enjoy myself when I'm with her, even if it means that we need to walk to Starbucks so I can have a minute of "grown up" conversation. I really don't have that much time to see my friends, but when I do I make a point of dropping all the "important" things and just letting loose by staying up way to late and laughing my butt off. Or going to the mall and browsing things that are on my ever expanding wish list. I'm pretty sure the people at Tiffany's know my name now and understand that I just go in there to try the stuff on. And that's just a tiny bit of my life in a nutshell. Oh, also I love taking vacations and I make a point of it to go somewhere so I can relax. I love going to cities, and I've been lucky enough to tag along with my dad sometimes when he goes to places like Toronto, NYC and Chicago every once in a while for his seminars. I get to go to Chicago a week after my birthday and I'm sooo excited. Seriously, that's whats getting me through this crazed month!

Only two more work days to go (for some of you at least). Thinking about posting some pumpkin/fall type recipes on here, what do you think? I make an AWESOME pumpkin pie...if only I could find that recipe...guess I'll start searching!