A Fishload of Topics

Okay...who starts a blog by saying 'okay'? =P Caitlin does I guess. Well, I haven't written since Easter, but I had started an entry yet unfortunately never finished it. I wish I knew or had a reason why. It was going to be about lying, but I guess the feelings about lying that I wanted to include in that entry have escaped me and therefore I'm not going to bother with that topic for the current time. Instead, I will just write, write, and write freely about the details of my life since Easter. I say this often, but I know very few people read this so writing it is mainly for my satisfaction only I guess I could say, but anyone who reads this I hope it's worth your time. ;] For starters, my Easter wasn't off-the-wall spankin' exciting, (although was it ever for a friend!!). This week at school we got our report cards along with class ring orders and course scheduling for our junior year. I am really pleased with my report card, in fact, I might as well say I am ecstatic because it was just that good. =) I didn't realize it's greatness until I was told that it's probably my best report card ever! I'm really grateful for an average this quarter of 100.9286 =) I think that's the closest (in the decimal places) I've gotten to being 101, which is the highest I've seen (scored by your brilliant Buddy Foote)! :) That had me in a very pleasant and school-oriented mood for about a day and a half. ;P When I got home from school that day I spent some time looking over the electives I get to choose from for next year. At first I didn't even have a choice in mind. Actually I was kind of upset for a little. Seeing that I only have 2 full years of high school left makes me sad immediately. So much has happened, and yet so little has at the same time.

Anyways, I sat and with my mother wanted to consider the electives and try to pick something interesting, yet beneficial for me. I knew for a fact I wanted to take Spanish again, that's a given, because I decided two years ago I wanted to take Spanish for 4 years because I enjoy the subject and along with that having it look good towards a college application can't hurt any. For my major subjects, going into advanced classes is what I hope to achieve and take on. But for the side classes/elective-types, I really didn't know. I crossed out science-related ones first, because sure Science is an excellent subject, it's just never interested me in the way others have and I don't plan on majoring in science anything. Next under the Social Studies heading, there were some neat choices to take along with the American History. (Which by the way I cannot wait to start next year because I love American History and am anxious to learn about World War II all over again...it's been a while since 4th grade. -coughnerdmuch?-) xD Some of the choices were criminolgy, economics, and a current issues one (I think it's politically related.) :P I did see Psychology/Sociology though and I am really thinking of putting that because it interested me most out of all the electives on the entire sheet (besides Spanish). I read in an e-mail I recieved about junior scheduling for college bound teens that taking a class like that or something like "Economics" is superb. =) It sounds fun, my mom is thrilled I've taken interest in that, and a few years back I always thought if I really needed a good minor for college, I'd like to consider psychology. I don't know, we'll see.

Now I just needed to choose a third one (or at least decide on some ideas...I don't even know if/when the paper needs to be handed in). :P I thought about Journalism but even though blog writing and positive feedback on my school papers has caused me to fall in love with writing, I don't want to write newspaper/reporter related articles. I already took SAT preps, home ec seems to still be teaching the same things I learned in 9th grade, anything wood, metal, or automotive related is out of my realm of interest by a mile, and any art, music, band kind of classes don't involve me. That left two business classes and Parenting. I'm not crazy about either of those, and was sad to see that for sure there aren't anymore Computer Application classes because I love that I took computers this year and wish I had the year before over Art. The "Excel using Buisness Apps" is a computer class but anything business (like the entrepreneur) doesn't have anything to do with me because I do not wish to own my own buisness or work in one forever (plus we are learning Excel somewhat this year) and anything I'd learn from there wouldn't be used as often in the long term. See how complicated I think when I make any decision? I know it, but I just can't make decisions well. :P As you can tell that left parenting. I don't know, I know I'd have a lot of fun in the class, and my mom said I should take it because with all the other advanced hard classes I can use something a little fun and refreshing. I read what it says the class is going to be about. I know they take home an egg or baby and pretend to take care of it and I'd have a blast with that, haha but it sounds so weird to say "Oh, I have to do my parenting homework." or "I'm on my way to parenting class." Sounds like something an adult pregnant woman would say. Haha, but I probably will end up choosing it and then maybe will learn something useful if I am ever given the priviledge to become a mother someday, or even a wife. :P

Now that I've gone on about school stuff for a few paragraphs I'll talk about something else. I find it funny that maybe why I don't feel like writing everyday here on this blog, or even with school 'stuff' is because when I do sit down and feel like writing good, I write a whole ton, so much so that it's enough writing for five or seven days (usually the amount of time between my blog entries and the like). x) It's not like I haven't tried to shorten my writing amount, I just get on such a roll at least once a week that I'm satisfied and not thirsty to write again until it wears off which takes a few days. haha, saying all this was probably a waste of time but y'know, it made this blog entry just that much longer. =]

Last night I had my bwest fwend Heather come home with me after school. She and I were both excited because we hadn't done anything in awhile. It had been too long. I was going to have her sleepover and then invited her to wake up bright and early on her free Saturday morning with me to go freeze our butts off outside by a lake surrounded by a bunch of men and worms to fish for 6 hours. =P I don't know how many years Heather has come with me, but it's been almost every one and it is definately a tradition and going the first day wouldn't be the same without her anymore. She gets a kick out of it, we giggle and have a good time, and my dad gets to take us out for the day. I love it. As soon as she got to my house we went out to get pizza and worms. (Not together of course, because that'd be too much of a treat for dinner.) :P The pizza was delicious by the way, haha. Then we went on the computer for like an hour. Heather recently made a myspace and since she doesn't have internet access she can't spend a lot of time online at her own house so she used my desktop as I used my laptop which she was jealous of just a teensy bit. =P Then Chase kicked her out and she used mine as I watched from behind. We then went to this doll dress-up site (one I used for BFBv.2's new mystery banner). I love talking about clothes with her, it's fun. So choosing outfits for dolls was well, fun. :) That took up a lot of time because then we needed like an hour to set up the extra air mattress and our 8 blankets :P We didn't fall asleep until 10pm, thanks to my brother throwing pillows at us which totally grossed me out because I knew for a fact they were covered in my dog's hair. We had to wake up at 5, and for once I tried to get up and get ready fast. The past 3 years I made everyone, even Heather, angry at me because I crawled out of bed like a snail and spent a half hour in the bathroom for who, the fishies? :P See, today was the opening day of trout season and you can't cast your rod in the water until 8am. But of course we have to get there early to get a spot, and everyone else gets there early so it's not unusual. I was absolutly freezing for a little while. I sat on Heather's lap for the first half hour, then we sat in the car, played cards, picked out any cute fisherboys we saw, talked, went to the bathrooms like twice and were pleased to see the giant holes in the ground didn't smell too bad for once as I think they had been pumped. xP Then we went for a walk in the woods a little ways, and this little boy was following us. Haha it was cute, and we found this run down hut thing. After all that we fished at the state park for like an hour but it was pointless because nothing was biting and nobody around us caught anything. It was disappointing. Last year (and about every year before that) we went to the state park (different spots) first too, simply because it's wide and a good place to sit until 8. Heather's feet were nearing frostbite (haha not literally) and I had this giant appetite today and wanted to eat some more food inside a heated car. People all around us at the lake were leaving because nobody at all got anything where we were, haha it was sooo weird. We went to one of my favorite cute little stream spots in a neighboring county next. The bridge there had been flooded since last year. I was devasted to see it was true. That bridge was adorable in the little town, and when my dad would fish in the summer with me I'd walk back and forth across it listening to my iPod and "awwing" at the little puppies neighbors would walk across it in the afternoon sunshine. :P I got my first few fish bites there, and Heather just kept getting stuck and I couldn't help but laugh because every 5 minutes you'd hear Heather moan "stuuuuck." :P It was a little crowded in that spot, and yet we didn't catch anything again! After gobbling down lunch at like 10:30am, Heather and I weren't sure whether we wanted to just go home or try to fish some more. This year wasn't as fun in some ways as last year when Steve came. We didn't catch a ton of fish then but we went out almost until dinnertime so every person caught at least one. =) I miss that day, it was one of the best. I, yet again, typically, couldn't make up my mind on if I wanted to go home or not so Chase decided and we went driving around to other spots until noon. We started heading towards my house and there's a stream on the way we nicknamed the 'honey hole' because it's such a good spot. Finally, success! Chase caught the first trout of the day, and my dad had one on his line because I saw the belly but it got away. I didn't catch anything though and unfortunately either did Heather. This man next to me did, he caught this beautiful brown trout. It was so large, and he even admitted he was nervous reeling it in because you don't want to lose such a "beaut". By then Heather and I had given up, and were freezing under the shady wooded trees. Our teeth were chattering, haha, but seriously we were bundled up good, it was just chilly at that spot. We occupied ourselves by playing and watching the minnows in the bucket. We left eventually though, and being tired went back to my house. Heather and I ate some more (lol) and then Heather had to go home. So in conclusion, the first day of fishing this year ended early, with little fish caught to show for it. I'm tired now writing this, but after playing Runescape (I'm killing cows for hides for crafting since I don't want to buy everything lol) I needed a break and I was well over-due for an entry dontcha' think! ;]

I'm sad now thinking about Runescape because if you saw in this here blog's shoutbox Buddy posted how he is having problems getting on Runescape, which means he can't play it right now. It has him really frustrated and stressed, and I know what he feels like because I would feel the same over the computer or a game and have when something happened that left me unable to play it. It's like, you feel so bored and unhappy with alternative things to do since the time you spent playing a particular game or whatever it may be is now open and you're upset..and confused even. :P :[ I do hope it's not the end of him playing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed things work out.

I'm going to end my entry now saying that I cannot believe a major storm is on it's way this time in April. One that could plop inches of snow and sloppy rain/sleet on my head Monday causing school to be cancelled. I guess I expected this though, we had a very late winter this year to begin with, so who's to blame.

Radically Random...



A big, beautiful Rainbow trout! The kind of fish we tried to catch all day today.

Have a fishy day alrighty? =]