We were always meant to say goodbye

Hello, hello, hello.

I must say, I'm wide awake. I keep trying to stay awake for most of the day so that I can correct my horrible sleeping pattern (honestly, it's horrible) but I keep sleeping in the middle of the day, always after Day Camp, 'cause the kids tire me out haaarsh (count how many times I said 'day' in this paragraph... dude). Cute they are, but don't be fooled, they can be real energy suckers!

Speaking of Day Camp, I've been volunteering there for a long time (this is my fourth year) every summer, and each new year I'm reminded just how demanding it is. It's like having schoool, waking up too early to bus to the Church (because it's a Bible camp). Ugh. It's really worth it though, it IS hard, but it has it's perks, chilling with the cutest kids, the field trips. But I could be getting a tad too late for it. It's only for a week, and tomorrow's my last day, as it started on Monday. I'm just as relieved as I am happy though :P

This heatwave is reaaaally starting to kick-up. I'm so not in the mood for hot weather, it just makes working at the Day Camp harder than it already is... we're outside for a good part of the camp playing games, making our way to different stations or monitoring the kids during the lunch hour. It's tough. And ever since my horrible sun burn experience in San Diego, I've taken to applying and re-applying sun screen every hour. My burns are still visible on my shoulders. I'm really starting to doubt that they're ever going to go away, not unless the rest of my body cooks up too, and it just fades to match the colour. But I'm definitely not going to go that dark, so I'm pretty much stuck with ugly shoulders for a long time, I think. Boooooooooooooo.

I'm halfway through reading Goblet of Fire now (I read before I go to bed and after Day Camp's over, I'm having very little time to get through it) and I've forgotten how good it is! It's def one of J.K.'s best books (I think the last four are pretty much the bomb). I'm a geek. For some reason this just reminded me of my awesome card collection. (600+ Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards but not very many rare cards at all, 130+ Digimon Cards with 4 Megas, two of them being holographic, 150+ Pokemon Cards with plenty valuables, only about 20 Magic the Gathering Cards and about 20 Star Wars Cards... they feel thick when they're in your hands though!) If anybody wants to take a look at them or even better, TRADE, we def should, HAHAHA. I have a lot of doubles in my Yu-Gi-Oh! collection, I'd like some newer ones!

So the marks for the Socials Provincial came out four days early, and after finding out what I got on Monday I pretty much curled up into a hole and hid from the world a bit. I'm not saying what I got but 1) It wasn't good at all, 2) you'd laugh at me if you knew what it was but 3) I still got an A in the course, having gone into the exam with a 95% and dropping down to a 92% due to my exam mark... for those of you who're good at Math, I'm pretty sure with that info you can calculate what I got on my exam... if you figure it out, don't go shoving it in my face please and thanks, I'm already beating myself up about it everyday. I thought I did so well :( And oh yeah, I tried grounding myself from the Computer as a punishment for doing so bad, at least for a week, but I lasted four days only... what can I say? Life is harsh without my laptop.

Listening to Taylor Swift. Is the guy in her newest music video the dude from the Miley Cyrus movie? Dunno, he def looks like it.

I should re-fill my ice trays, I can't find anymore in the freezer and I was pissed that I'd already poured my ginger ale into the glass and it already started warming up without it. HAHA YEAH I KNOW, I HAVE SO MUCH PROBLEMS :P

Kks, I've run out of all the things I have to say. I must say, I'm doing quite well in fulfilling my Things To Do in the Summer list - it says to update my blog more often, and look at me! I am! I would think there's maybe four posts in this month alone - that's way more then what it was in the last six months while I had school! Yahootie, go me.

Bye-bye, hope you all don't die from this horible heat!

Gelina S.

Even at my best, don't wanna let go

So in San Diego and in a previous update, I said that I just got myself into writing lists. (Not exactly true anymore because I hate the idea of wasting paper just to write down a bunch of things I should do... this is what I need a school agenda for!). But anyway one of the things on my "Things To Do in the Summer List" was to update my blog more often! So, not that I don't want to do this or anything, but I thought I ought to do my part (since I want to cross off as many things on that list as possible) and start writing here more often. I've really been neglecting this, I even checked the other night, since the last four months or so, I basically only have one post a month. ONE post a month? That's just really neglectful of me... is neglectful a word? Man I need to update my thesaurus.

So I've been trying to re-read the Harry Potter series all over again, and right now I'm on Harry Potter 3, Prisoner of Azkaban. Definitely way better than the first two books, they were soooo slow for me. I guess after having read HP 5, 6, and 7 so often the reminders of how Quidditch works and all those lame explanations of things in the Magical World we already know about are becoming really old and repetitive. But on a good note I'm watching POA right now and even though it's my least favourite of all the HP movies it's definitely not as bad as I used to think it was... I always said it strayed too much from the first director's orignial sight, changed way too much in terms of setting and the Hogwarts look, but watching it now, I've changed my mind. It wasn't that different, I was just expecting too much the first time I saw it :P Yes, I know, I was wrong, sorry POA.

Lalalala, I wish I wasn't grounded on and off all the time, there are so many things I want to do and I've got to wait for certain intervals between events before I can ask to go out again, lest my dear parents start to think I'm a 'party animal.' Dadadadaa, I'm the farthest thing from that, I'd rather do homework than get wasted, I'm watching POA with my Momma on a Friday night in the summer time, I think I'm def not a party animal :P Wow I do sound like a loser don't I, well excuse me if I like to balance my social life with family time!! Hahaha :P

So recently I'm having the haaaaardest time writing. I have zero inspiration and literally no motivation to do so, I dunno what's gotten into me. It's like all my creative juices left me two years ago and all I could fester up since then was a second place composition in the School Writing Contest. Boooy I am sooo rusty. Have you read on all these author's websites, their tips? They always tell young authors to write and write if they really want to do it, and sooner or later they'll come up with something amazing, and if you truly want to be a writer it's simply stupid not to be writing all the time. Goodness knows I've tried writing over and over again, stupid, simple things, but I get sick of it and frustrated with myself and I feel like I shouldn't even bother. I wonder how they got passed that feeling of being so far passed incapable of producing something worth reading, wonder how they became so famous and successful? Yargh, I'm getting frustrated now. I should change the subject.

Apparently it's going to be 29 degrees tomorrow. How the heck are we going to survive that sucka?

My feet are hot and cold at the same time, my hand aches, and so does my jaw. Lalalalala.

Okay I clearly have nothing else to write about so I'm going to stop writing..... humph.

Saving one world at a time when I'm not completely stuck in a Writer's Block,
Gelina S.

We've got our hearts locked on safe

Helll0o0o0o0o0o.

C'est moi, and I'm back from San Diego. Well really, I've been back for like, a week and a day now. I unpacked (or Genina did) the same night we got back and dragged myself out of bed the next morning to go swimming. Good stuff, showing off my ugly and horrible sun burnt shoulders the day after I get back, uuuugh.

I love how I'm able to tolerate jacuzzis now btw. I'll admit, I hated 'em 'cause they gave me the worst feeling, I mean honestly, how can you just walk in there and sit down? I personally think that it hurts, but I've sucked it up and I simply walked in every single time I went there! It still hurt me just the same but it went away fast and now I'm like a pro, really. B-D.

OH, in case anybody's wondering!! The marks for our Socials 11 Provincial come out on July 31st, so you'll have to visit the website and enter the student number on your report cards and then you can find out!! Yahootie! Aren't we all excited? Because I certainly am! Seriously, the second I left my exam table I was dying to know what I scored, and it better have been an A. I didn't study all that jazz for nothing!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.

How could I have gone so long without mentioning the AWESOME AND AMAZING HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE? OMG. IT WAS INDEED AWESOME.

Okay, word to all the haters: Stop saying it was "fail!" Fail? Jeez, get off the computer and start using real non-fragmented words! YES, it missed a lot of important points (they hardly focused on the fact that the Horcruxes were HOGWARTS items and didn't even give justice to the chaos that erupted after Dumbledore was thrown off the tower, it was so frustrating! PLUS they added a lot of random scenes like the fire at The Burrow and a lot of other one's with Ginny!) BUT they did the book tiny justices with the little things that went on in the book. The Quidditch? The relationships? The things to do with the cabinet? It's basically fact that the movie versions of books will NEVER live up to its original awesomeness, and they can't cover EVERY base because of time constraints. So let it go haters, 'cause Harry Potter awesome please and thank you.

And I'll have you know, next time we wait in line for midnight premieres, WE ARE BRINGING FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT. Can you believe we sat in line for six hours doing nothing but talking and waiting? We had no cards, no MP3s, no books, no nothing! It was kinda torture but absolutely worth it in the end of course. We got good seats in the theatre (middle bit near the front) and I got to sleep a bit before the show started :) So really, good day waiting in line, LOL.

After watching HP I've kinda gone back into my hardcore HP phase when it was all I ever youtubed/read/watched/thought about. I'm still going about my usual stuff, not nearly as obsessed as I was last time, but I'm starting to read the series all over again, and it's soooo refreshing to reacquaint myself with the characters. They were soooo young! Can I just say that J.K. Rowling is too amazing for life!? She seriously owns the life out of everything, and she's such an amazing awesome woman and role model this world would be a lesser world without her. I'm not kidding. She is just THAT awesome, and I wish one day I could be half as amazing as her when it comes to writing. But we all know that probably won't happen :(

I seriously have to go shopping tomorrow to buy leis. And a beach dress. Or ANYTHING that would help me fit in a Luau. Honestly, I don't know why I wait last minute to do everything just because it's summer now - I was more attentive and caring during the school year while I had homework. I swear, homework makes me a better person, no matter how much I complain about it. I'm responsible, attentive, assured and slightly over bearing but a better person none the less! Now if only I could just look forward to going back to school and finally graduating. Ugh. I can't get into that now. I can't talk or think about leaving school. I love it too much. I know I'll continue in University but there's always something about high school that makes me love it so much and never truly want to leave. I guess it's the normalcy. But anyway. I said I wouldn't get into that now so anyways...

N2s: Barkha's 5 dollars Tuesday.

Anyway, I'm gonna g0o0o0o and do something productive at... 11:40 at night. Maybe I'll write another list! Oooer, exciting! Pffft.

Okay, au revoooooooooir!
Yours truly,
Gelina!

We must bring salvation back

Guess where I am, guess where I am? :D

SAAAAAAAAN D. REPRESENT!

Yes, it's true, yours truly is currently in San Diego, and I've been here since um, Saturday last week? These are my last few days though, we're back by Sunday, which kinda makes me a little sad, but you have no idea how home sick I've been! I miss my old bed, my stupid friends, and my house! Now if only I could have the best of both worlds, hmm? But I had some great times here, and there are more to come, I'm going to Imperial Beach tomorrow! My LG cos tells me that that's going to be awesome. Scha-veeeet!

Oh, and of course, I can't forget - Rest in Peace Michael Jackson! My parents miss the crap out of you. Hope you're boogeying really well with Mr. G-O-D up there :)

Okay so I recently got into writing lists, I've made two, HAHA. My first list is "Things To Do in the Summer." My next list is "Things To Do in Grade 12." I must say, I have quite a lot of tasks I still must do! But they all seem pretty do-able... quite simple really. Just gotta put my head in the game! Awww yee ;)

So I'm on Summer Vacation but all I can really thing about is school, and money, and not having a job, and my cellphone bill :( It's tough. I really don't feel at all safe right now, going into Grade 12 without a job, having to pay for Uni soon, and only have I dunno... 2000 to help pay for school right now? It's just not right. I reaaally need to do what I have to do. Which is apply to every stinking place I can possibly think of! Ugh but I hate having school work and a job to do at the same time :'( How do people do this!? I dedicate ALL my time to school and now when I get a job I'll have to put up with THAT too. Urgh, this is going to irritate the crap out of me.

Ooooh, Forrest Gump is on!!!! Perfect.

I've run out of things to write about. I thought I had plenty. But now I have nothing.... hmmm.

Things To Look Forward To:

• Coming home
• Buying books with my gift cards
• Luau
• KBAGG chillage
• Reading
• Redecorating my room (nothing huge)
• General chillage. EFF MAN. (I will not explain that EFF MAN.)

Okay I'm getting distracted. Too many conversations and good shows on right now, I'll come back later, HAHA. BYEE!

Yours truly,
Ain't No Thang but a GEEEEEEELINA-THANG :) Wow that wasn't funny at all! Excuse me :P

Yours,
Gelina.