Wow, I have to thank the [currently] six different people that commented my last entry! That's terrific, thank you people, it's pretty fun coming online and seeing somebody read a thing or two from my blog and left me a lil love, hehe. ;]
Well, "yalleventh" grade has started! [As my friend wrote in my journal ;)] Wednesday was my first day, and it was a very nice day. The only problems I had was that I developed two terrible blisters on the back of my ankles due to new shoes and the fact my socks didn't stay up. However I just have worn open shoes everyday since and even tonight as I write this, pus is sort of coming out still...sorry for the gross image but it's true. xD See this year I actually got two wonderful brand new pairs of shoes that I simply adore, I just have to figure out a painless way to wear the pair that gave me blisters. ;] Hah, I'll be fine though. I was also very tired the first day of school, I remember my eyes almost closing when the day was only half over, and yawning all evening after school that day. I suppose that's just due to my not being used to waking up at 6am and going through such a long day. I probably sound like a baby to some, because I know for a fact other people get up earlier and work longer [and harder] so who am I to complain really. Not that I am even complaining technically, just, stating some thoughts. :P
I will say all of my teachers appear incredibly sweet, and my classes very promising for the year. =] I'd like to take a moment to run through my schedule with a few thoughts of each period.
English - So far so good. I like having it first period. English is my favorite, and I sit right up front. I had the teacher last year, so I know how she is a little, but she seems better this year even. Last year I know she never knew who I was, as I never spoke in SAT Prep, but she's recognizing me now, like the second day she patted my shoulder and said morning in the hall before class. That was nice. :] [lol] :P
Spanish - I love Spanish. Plain and simple. :] I like the teacher, she's sweet to me and ever since first grade I've been attached to new teachers in an idolizing type of way because I looked up to them more as they just started a career I knew since first grade I wanted to follow as well. xD She's not as new anymore as in 9th grade, so this last part was rambling really...hm. :P I love how all of my Spanish friends are in that class with me too. :]
Health - I'm actually going to say something about Health just 'because'. :P In 7th grade I never had "case" and to be 100% honest I knew he never knew who I was. This past summer he was jogging around the school when I was practice driving my father's large truck. He jokingly ran out of the way for fear I'd "hit" him, and then came over and was saying stuff like "mighty big truck for a little girl there" etc etc. Ever since then I guess he's remembered me, and now that I'm in his class it's as though he knows me on a friend basis, calling me a nickname, Cait, everytime and asking me the general in-class discussion sort of questions. xD It's sort of funny when I think of it, and how he'll be talking about something and be like "What do you think Cait?" :P Haha. :]
Psych - I really really like and will love this class, as I hoped and knew I would when I picked it as one of my top electives. I cannot wait to learn more about numerous topics that interest me very much, and the teacher is so pleasant to sit and listen to. :]
History - Same teacher for Psych, and I love history. Social studies rules over science in my book. ;] It was like the second day and whatever was being talked about at the time was sooo interesting to me, I was very into it, not even realizing the bell had rung. xD That's a good sign then right? ;]
AP Chem - As of now, I am predicting this class will be my most challenging above all else. I didn't suffer poorly or anything in Pre chem 2 years ago, but everything about this AP class just yells "hard". :P Having a new teacher for this may either help or hinder this point, I've yet to find out for sure. xD I will say the new teacher is adorable though, and nerdy to the point I want him to join my "fanclub". xD Come on nerds, unite! ;] The second day I ran back to his class before lunch to give him some papers, and he started talking to me about how I thought his notes were for his first time, and if I understood them, were they clear, was it too much, etc. I gave him my honest best opinion. :] I thought he gave good notes, I didn't have a problem reading them, and went on to say he did a good job. I could tell that flattered him and made him proud inside because he grinned with his head down and was all "aw well thank you...thank you.." like someone shy or something. :P I'm telling ya, new teachers are superb. I just love them, they're so new and fresh and naive and I feel like I can relate to them like I said before. In reality I can't too much, but I picture myself as a new teacher and then I can, haha. :]
Lunch - Late. Afternoon flies by though like you wouldn't believe. xD
Pre-cal - Another new teacher! Oh goodie. :] She's nice. The first day I thought I was late to her class or lost, and I just saw a new face and ran to her asking if she was so and so, then I went in and the room was empty, me being early. Haha. :P I have to say I like that I sit in the backest back of the room for Math. Nobody can see me, I'm in my own corner, I can concentrate, spread out, and for Math, I need that, because otherwise I'm nervous. Why? I don't know. :P Last year I was in a second seat, and I was just so...nervous. Ugh, it was weird and awkward. xD haha don't ask. :P This class may be on my list for second most challenging for me, I predict anyway.
Journalism - Finally, last class of this day, and a fun one at that! This class is a perfect last period class. We have it in the computer lab, and it's laid back so far. It's super noisy with seniors&juniors mixed, the teacher doesn't seem to mind and just chatters on with everyone. We played an interview game, talked some. I love it. It's nice to just chill out last period in that sort of fun way. :] This class is supposed to improve my writing and grammar skills. Perfecto! Like a third English type class. [I count Spanish too, it has grammar,
reading&writing..my favorite stuff pretty much. xD] We're going to get to interview some teachers and I like the sound of that. It's supposed to help us get more comfortable talking to people, asking them things, something I need SO SO bad [if you know my shy background...sheesh!] :P My closest friend in this class is Cassandra, and she and I sit together and it's great because I like Cassandra's personality a lot and we get to finally talk together a lot and get to be better friends, so that's always nice. :]
That about sums up my typical day. I enjoy my schedule and classes and all seems so well. :] The second and third day of school went lots better than the first. I got a good night's sleep and that helped I'm sure. xD I'm trying to be very positive for this school year, if you couldn't tell from my optimistic words everywhere for every class. ;P That's not a bad thing though, right? :]
A nice long Labor Day weekend sounds great right about now too. ;] I have plans with my friend Nicole for half the weekend, so I am looking forward to that. :] I'm feeling tired now and my fingers have that sore post-blog syndrome tingle in them. Wow, what a nice medical term there huh? ;P My daily blog special is an FF5 Promo vid for their upcoming tour which if I'm lucky, maybe can attend? Nah, well, maybe? Hmm. :P It's short and just thrilling to me because it's them live and reminds me of Warped Tour like crazy. :)
Radically Random...
Family Force 5 Dance Rawr Dance Tour Promo Vid! =)
Family Force 5 Dance Rawr Dance Tour Promo Vid! =)
Let me start out by saying that I have some really spectacular friends. :] I know for a fact that my summer would not have been as fun without them. The other day I was reflecting upon my summer and couldn't believe this one is almost over. I really don't feel as though school is just two days away. Honestly, I feel like I have two months left of summer. xD Someone told me their summer was one of the best ever, and I have to agree with them in saying mine was too. :] I've always loved summertime, and usually spent them laying around, running outside, or playing some type of game in past years just at my home, and then you'd have my one week vacation to the beach. This summer was not like that. This summer I did so many things with all my friends, whether it be together or at seperate times.=) If I look back on my calendar I can see that I spent some super fun time with a friend or two at least one day every week this summer. That was great, because it's something I always told my friends I wanted to get to do, but we'd end up busy and not staying in contact much until school came back, and then we'd go "aww why didn't we do stuff!" :P Those fun days I had this summer with friends, Warped Tour being a favorite example, makes up for not being able to go to the beach this year. :] I had a lot of fun this summer though, maybe more than in past years, and I'm happy to say I'll miss it. :)
This last "unofficial" weekend of summer was one I'll never forget. :] I had two wonderfully close friends of mine, Abby and Nicole, come spend time at my house and then sleepover outside in my tent. :) We had SO much fun! They both came over lunchtime on Friday, with so many bags and things I bet my neighbors thought they were moving in. xD They had baked me a cake and came bearing birthday presents too! That was extremely sweet of my friends to do for me! :) They knew I never had my birthday party like was sort of planned, and they said they had always wanted to do this for me, and they made it into a party and we had a great great time. =) I couldn't believe it. :]
We stayed up the entire night on Friday too. I was hoping we would, as I was so in the mood for an all-nighter. xD I guess you can call this party "Awakeover #3" if you will. ;] The tent was a lot of fun setting up and such. They let me open my presents early in the day, and I was so thankful for it! Abby and Nicole really didn't need to do that for me, but the fact they did, shows how sweet, special&caring they wanted to make this time be for me. :] I'm telling ya, my summer could not have ended any better.=) I got two cute shirts from the both of them, a plaid headband, a plaid STAR necklace [lovelovelove], an AWESOME new mousepad of me and my twin Xanadu!, a plush pink crayon, and two surprise gift bags they got from the fair so nobody knew what was in them. One turned out to be an anklet bracelet, the other a necklace. We found that really funny and I remember laughing hard over it. xD Why, I don't know. :P :P Plus, they each made me a special card that said some special things that I bet could have made me cry if I let myself. =] Aww, everything was SO nice. Abby, Nicole and I [C-A-Ns] have been friends since 6th grade, and we were talking how we have never been closer than we are this past year. :) It's really special. I hope we stay that way. :]
The night we camped out was the most perfect tent night ever, I have to say. When I had my other friend Heather camp out with me, we frozeeeee. Friday night was so humid, it was like tropically warm. xD I was so so shocked. I mean 1, 2, 3 in the morning it was still toasty like day and nobody needed a blanket [not that we were laying down sleeping] but still it was unbelievable. I loved it!! So perfect for a perfect day! :D The only thing was our sleeping bags did kind of start to stick to us at one point, and there was this nice tropical-like breeze blowing around outside, so all three of us climbed into my hammock with pillows and just lay there for about a half hour at 4:30 in the morning. Abby really wanted to just sleep there, but then Nicole and I said we'd be going back to the tent. :P Everybody seems to love my hammock&laptop most when they come over, because those things are always used the most, haha.
Around 5 I believe we officially crawled into the tent and went to sleep soundly. =] Then we were awaken at 8:30 to eat breakfast. Uggg the smell of breakfast literally almost made me sick :P Haha I guess because my body was mixed up with sleep and then the thought of eating so soon was like, nauseating to me personally, xD. We did have to eat though, as Nicole was leaving at nine as she had an appointment&such. :] Abby ended up staying until 3:00ish in the afternoon though. After eating and getting our stuff together, Abby and I got my laptop, plugged it in outside and "bAM" I get wireless internet in my hammock, so we sat there alllllll morning until about 2pm listening to music, checking myspaces, and going on AiM. Even made a new screename, haha. :P Halfway through the time we spent in the hammock laptopping it up, I guess we were eating watermelon and I had my laptop on my lap and just looked at me IE favorites and saw Jonathan Coulton's download page, and just spur of the moment thing kinda clicked it. Then I said "hey abby listen to this song I love it" and that song being "I'm having a party" fit quite well, in a way. ;] Abby cracked up, like really laughed and I was surprised because all this time I never thought she'd enjoy JoCo! :P She liked him and the other random songs not really by him [but on his page] so much that we did nothing but listen to JoCo until she left! Haha, how cool?! x) The song "Sibling Rivalry", "W's Duty" and that 25, 64 something song I think were played most, we just found them hilariousssss, and Abby loved them. She also LOVED LOVED the beginning of "baby got back" where they say "LA's faced with the oakland booty" or something. That line must have been played 100 times. She loveddddddd it, hahahaha. Oh man it was fUN! =) We also played some "I'm so strong I can throw things" as we love that very very much. I remember dancing like a ballerina on my hill when we were wagoning in the night and Abby going "I like ballet". [you won't get this part unless you saw that video..aha.] :P
Yes, it is finally here. After a long wait and for the makers of it (Buddy Foote and Caitlin) going through hours of extreme headaches and thus the abuse of pain-killing drugs, the 'Buddy Foote's Blog v.4' layout is now released to the public! Now I'm going to come out and warn you right now: We have been having problems with this layout displaying on certain browsers, screen resolutions, and computer monitors, so if you see any problems with the layout or if any glitches occur, please contact me or post a comment here as soon as possible! But other from that, I hope the layout displays good for you and thus you shall be able to breathe in the beauty of it. The 'BFBv.4' layout takes the form of a three-column blog with four different sections divided up in the columns -- Blog Authors, Blog Stuff (such as archives, counter, etc. and there is no image to depict this section), Blog Features, and Affiliate Section. I hope the contents of all the sections work properly for you and therefore you shall be able to use them to your advantage.
Buddy Foote's Blog v.2 has a unique blog feature that one will not find anywhere else in cyberspace. This feature, called 'Author of the Month', has you, the citizens of the internet, vote for your favorite author here at Buddy Foote's Blog v.2 depending on the posts they have written that month. By having this feature, the authors of BFBv.2 may feel good about themselves if they're elected the title 'Author of the Month' and may brag to fellow peers in the outside world, as their fellow peers stare at them strangely and walk away from them. But what an achievement of winning this little contest be and you, fellow reader, must decide who shall be 'Author of the Month'! Yes, you are playing God and doesn't it feel good choosing the destiny of us! We bow before you, begging to be voted for, and you smirk knowing that you hold the almighty power in your hand to click your mouse at the polls, hit submit, and make your ultimate and final decision. Who shall it be? Buddy Foote, Caitlin, Chase, Jenifer, or Joey? You decide!
The new Buddy Foote's Blog v.2 layout is still in development and I'm happy to say that it seems to be coming out great! I just finished up the layout of the layout today and all we need to do is add a few banners that Caitlin will be making as well as filling out sections left undone and various other unfinished elements. This layout caused multiple headaches in the coding stages, but thankfully it should be coming to an end by sometime this week and you'll be able to see the new three-column Buddy Foote's Blog v.2 before we start to head back to school. The new layout will actually have a few unfinished parts due to not having contact with some blog authors and thus not able to get some needed information from them, but such can wait until post-release of the layout. It was quite a long and windy road to get to the point where we're at today, but hopefully the hard work of Caitlin and me will pay off and others will enjoy the new layout the way that we do. I will have to make a few informative entries this week to inform readers about some things they'll need to be aware of with the coming of the new layout. For example, I recommend that you go and download Thunderbird to use the forms in the new layout unless you're comfortable with Microsoft Outlook or any other e-mailing programs. Especially if you're a Gmail user, Thunderbird will be a great addition to your software needs. Anyway, I hope that you'll like the future layout, which I like to call Buddy Foote's Blog v.4, and if you have any comments regarding the layout upon release, then please post your comment on the upcoming entry, "Welcome to Buddy Foote's Blog v.4!".
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If you haven't seen it yet, I won't spoil many details, but I'll just say how FANTASTIC I thought it was! Awwww it was super cute in so many ways. :) I love that movie so much. xD I enjoyed every bit of it. There were more songs&dancing this time, as compared to the first. It takes place in a summer country club [as everybody probably knows by now]. :P It was an awesome movie though. I still have the songs stuck in my head. The whole time through the movie I was just smiling and tapping my feet. :P High School Musical 1&2 are really fun movies to watch and perfect for my age group so you should definatley catch it! ;) Go Wildcats! x)
At Ashley's party on Friday, we got inside too late to catch the premiere of HSM2, and we didn't want to see the end before the beginning. I thought it would have been cool to watch it there, but since we missed it that was alright. We did watch the new Hannah Montana at her party, haha. Which I actually wanted to see because it was a new one with the Jonas Brothers in it! :) 
I'm growing to like the cute Jonas boys more and more, and have to say I'm surprised with how fast they are becoming really popular. xD It seems this summer as a whole I've watched a lot more of the Disney channel then I have since...6th grade maybe. I'm glad though, because I like their shows and sort of can relate to some. If it wasn't for starting to watch Disney more I would have missed out on some fun Hannah Montana shows &knowing who in the world the adorable Jonas Brothers [they're a band, by the way] were! :P Haha so whether I'm 16 or 12, I like it, m'kay. :P Plus a lot of my friends do too. xD hehe.
Anyways! The next day once I got home from her party I had to go out shopping and I was hoping to pick up my pictures. They didn't have them though, but I did get the pictures just today. :) These were the pictures off my disposable camera that included a few from Warped Tour, swimming, and stuff with friends. I was worried the whole time none of my pictures would come out because I had never read the directions to do it the right way, but thankfully that wasn't necessary and all my pictures are really nice! =) The ones of me swimming are funny, especially jumping off the diving board. My legs and arms are all outstretched and I'm just like "Yay! ;D" I did get a few nice ones from Warped Tour though with and of FAMILY FORCE 5! :D I have this super great one with my friends and Soul Glow Activatur! :) He's sticking out his tongue and my friends and I are all smiles, haha it's so funny. :) Man, that day was amazinggg. :P Once I get some of those pictures onto my computer I'll share them!
I spent most the weekend over my friend Heather's house, and the second half swimming at the pool. :) I had a lot of fun. Heather and I went shopping and played outside most of the time. The animals up at the barn are doing well, although the second kitten had ran away a few weeks ago. =/ The other kitten Smokey was still there, cute as could be. It was fun playing with her. She'll chase and pounce at anything we use. We also ran across the street and climbed the fence to see the two horses, Belle and Ginger. They both seem to be adjusting well to the new large area they were put in, including a fresh water stream. The only problem was that many flies bug them, and we tried to spray them with stuff but it only does so much. At one point, Heather and I were climbing old tractors [haha, don't ask] and a bee landed on my leg. It was crawling carelessly around it. Nice eh? :P Luckily, I didn't get stung. I love hanging out with Heather though. We have a good time, just running around doing whatever. :]
The night I slept over we watched the Disney movie 'Ella Enchanted'. I have to say I enjoyed it, as it was really cute and had a sweet ending. It reminded me a lot of Cinderella though. Speaking of movies, guess what movie's world premiere is Friday the 17th!? High School Musical 2, ft. Zac Efron, Vannessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and the whole Wildcats' gang are back for a summer movie at a country club. I can't wait! Haha, sheesh, that really sounded like the movie commerical itself. ;)
I keep flip-flopping over this supposedly "belated birthday party" I had wanted to throw this summer. Well, being the extreme procrastinors my family and I seem to be, the last minute is approaching to do anything about this. Right now, I'm to the point where having a party seven months after my real birthday seems pointless, as I'm closer to turning 17 then I am 16. Plus, what do I know about throwing a party. What was talked about doing depends on the weather, which isn't exactly cooperating, and I can't bear to give people such short notice. Therefore, I'm thinking maybe next summer or definately the summer after, I'll have a party someday, although not neccessarily a birthday one. In turn, a fun idea is emerging with two very close friends of mine that I'd be extremely content with going forth with. ;) Nothing is official yet, to those friends of mine that may read this. I'm saying that we'll just have to wait and see. - sighs-
August seems to be an extremely inactive month on the blog, with only two entries excluding this one. However, there is work going on behind the scenes that one cannot see that will come at you fast when it is completed. Buddy Foote's Blog v.2 is going to get a haircut, a shave, and get some new clothes when the new blog layout is released later this month. How far are we in on the actual production of the layout? 0% done. Yes, we're doing good, aren't we? You may be able to add one or two percent in there though because I have come up with some ideas for the layout, including new blog features and the whereabouts of where certain page elements will be placed. Caitlin is helping a lot too. Caitlin is the brains behind CSS programming, logos and other images, and much more. She pretty much constructed the second BFBv.2 layout, which you may be viewing now depending if you're reading the entry around August 10th, 2007. I want to do a bit more work myself on this one which translates to the new layout will have many glitches and will be ugly looking. I'm the guy responsible for the glitch that occurred when the last layout was created by forgetting to send an end tag from a Javascript widget to Caitlin which made the page not come up in certain browsers and I didn't find out the problem until the damage was done and we lost visitors and readers. And Chase is also helping by giving out helpful ideas in terms of blog features. I don't want to give any features away yet as they're still in the scrapbook, but hopefully they'll allow some interaction between visitors/readers and the fellow staff here at BFBv.2.
Friday I actually stopped by the library and checked out my first book of the three required novels I must read for English class once school is back in session. Since "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck was the first title I had written down, it was the first book I looked to get out. I've read seven chapters in it so far, and have to say I enjoy it. Some of these summer reading books from the past are true classics about themes or plots I don't understand or can follow well, or they simply don't interest me so I don't really act pumped over them even though I like to read. "The Good Earth" is about Chinese culture in a way, so at first I wasn't sure it'd become my new favorite or anything, but it's not bad at all. I am looking forward to reading some more in it today. :]
Yesterday was a really good day. Being Saturday and all, it's always nice to have some sort of plans to look forward to if you have the choice. I thought it was really great that Steve [Buddy Foote] invited me [in place of Corey] to come by for his grandmother's 80th birthday party. :) I had a nice time getting to see all his family and hang out in his house since I never really did before. :] His family was all really nice to me, so I felt comfortable being there. :] We spent a lot of time in his living room using the Wii. I was happy I got to try it out! It was my first time ever like, touching one of those, haha. I liked it, it just would probably take me a few times to get used to it. (: Overall, I hope his grandmother enjoyed her party and I'm glad I got be a part of it. [Thanks for having me over Steve!] =)
Oh my gosh! I just realized I forgot a major portion of this blog entry that I wanted to write about!!! How could I forget! See I just remembered because I am nearing my Radically Random segment and I knew all week what I wanted to put there and well, oh my gosh! :) If you don't know, you MUST know that I love Family Force 5. :) I met them at Warped Tour last week. That entry can be found 
'ello there. I feel like writing a late-night entry so therefore it's going to be short and not too witty. I was just on World of Warcraft for around a half hour and was in Loch Modan (God only knows why I was there) and thought that I would start to quest in Stranglethorn Vale. I was always afraid of this zone as it's one of the most active PvP zones, but Craig gained about two to three levels in the zone so I knew that I would have to try it. I have to hurry up and level so I can do some battlegrounds with Craig once we're both 38-39. Craig got far ahead of me, though, and therefore he created an alternative toon to keep him occupied while he waits for me. Now in that half hour I was on, I was ganked twice in this same area working on the same two quests. I went to the Rebel Camp and got two quests and headed over to the area where I had to complete the quest at. I'm there, killing some medicine men and fighters when I notice a red dot coming out of the jungle on my mini-map as I had 'Track Humanoids' on. Right before this two Alliance players ran in, so I was hoping that it was just another ally and not the Horde. Well, I was wrong. I thought something was odd as the guy just stood there, and I was in the middle of a fight with an NPC so I couldn't turn the camera to look. Then I saw the fire spell come, and some swirly blue things, and then before I knew it I was dead. I looked and some undead mage killed me. Okay, my spirit didn't have to run too far to my body so I wasn't too ticked off, but I was hoping the guy wasn't camping at my body. He wasn't, thankfully. I'm continuing the quests and I'm over in the corner of the area near a mountain when I see another red dot coming out of the jungle. Was it the Horde? Of course. I see him and he's a level 37 or 38 orc hunter. I wave to him, hoping that maybe he wouldn't kill me. I start to run over to an NPC to kill it when I notice that he's chasing me. I didn't feel like running far into the jungle, so I just stopped and accepted my fate as his crocodile killed me. Honestly, I could've been a jerk myself and killed some Horde players that were in the twenties, but I was nice and let them go. I didn't see those players today, however. That was a couple days ago. I logged out in my ghost form as that hunter seemed like he was going to camp at my body, and I just get pissed off whenever I die. At least it's not like Runescape where you lose items, and hell you don't even lose durability when another player kills you, but it's the annoyance of running back to my body over and over again that bothers me. Oh! And the major thing that bothers me is if they kill my pet first. Why? Because I have to revive the pet and feed him back to happy. I don't mind if they just kill me and not my pet as I can just summon my pet when I come back to life, but . . . damn Horde.