Haven't updated in so long!

So here are the highlights:
-My computer might be broken! On the plus side, might be getting a new desktop that my brother's friend is going to make! Wow, nerd. Awesomesauce!
-My birthday was three days ago. Turned 14! Just one year over half a decade until I turn 20... The thought is nerve-wracking, how time flies so fast!
-Spent the birthday with close friends Eunice and Kathy.Went to Main Street, window shopped, ate ramen, went home, watched The Ring 2 together because we watched The Ring last time, baked cookies that weren't as good as the first time I made them, but they were okay, filmed a music video to Wednesday's Child by Vermillion Lies!
-Got an HD camera for my birthday, called Sony Cyber-shot Wx9 for a discount, a little over two hundred bucks
-Got a hair bow from Kathy and a handmade bracelet and candle from Eunice
-Got $50 from my dad, the first time he ever gave me anything, because he's always saying how the presents Mom gives me is like also from him
-Did not get anything from Mahaut even though I gave her good presents from her birthday party, she said she was going to get me something on Tuesday, when we return back to school from the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. It better be good. :(
-Had a good Paris Bageuate cake.
-Got a Lush Cosmetics present from my brother. What should I get him for his birthday? I was thinking of spiking gel, but he said he doesn't want that. Maybe something from Lush again? Hopefully I'll be able to shop for him on the day before spring break with my gals.
-Can't wait for the Switched At Birth episode tomorrow. I don't really know what to say about the mini Skin episodes from season 6 I watched yesterday. I guess I expected something more... I loved Mini though. And Alo.
-I managed to finish two major projects, all homework due tomorrow, and some of the homework due the day after tomorrow. I wanted to finish  my English homework, but I guess I could quickly do that tomorrow. When I get home, I'm going to go straight to the shower and snack and watch Youtube videos for a bit, maybe approx. 30 minutes, then I'll give a time limit to when I should be done with English homework. Two hours tops. So, I should be done with everything by 6:30 or 7. Hmm. I want to dedicate a lot of time tomorrow studying for science. I want to stay on top! Oh, on silly ole math. Maybe. I'm sure I got one question, at least, wrong on it, and that wouldn't bother me so much...if I did the extra credit! Why didn't he announce it to the whole class? Damn, I could've gotten a point extra. Sigh, I want to keep my 98% average or at least get higher! I hope my grades stay unaffected...or benefit? Couldn't be, there were only a few questions that weighed heavily each.
-OMG! I just checked my engrade and I got a 91%! I know that makes me seem like less of a nerd, but at my school that's really good, because that's a 6/7 on a scale.  A 6 translates to very good! You know what I wished for when I blew out my birthday cake candles! For all sevens, but a six in SPANISH when I'm not even Hispanic is still VERY GOOD! And a 6, literally, again, is VERY GOOD! AHHH! I'VE BEEN STUCK IN THE FIVES FOR SO LONG. Just like 4% or 5% away before I land myself a seven, but I don't want to get my hopes up tooo high, we have to submit the brochure tomorrow and I didn't get her to proofread, and also there's a blank in a periodic assessment grade,  and I hope I did well on that--or I will do well--because I'm not sure if I took it yet.
Well anyway I'm going to be bringing the homework assignments I don't think she graded yet because I don't bring my Spanish binder to school, hah! It takes up too much space in my small North Face day-pack! 
-I'm going to go take a shower with the Lush soap my brother gave me, and just study until 10:30pm or so. Test results are coming soon and I don't know if I got into the school I put first, but I don't know if I want to, anyway. That school's too competitive. My brother goes to that school and he's graduating next year. He's very smart in areas I'm not, like chemistry and math,  yet he struggles to stay atop. He barely made it alive out of that zoo with a 95% or so. It's survival of the fittest, with the fittest brains!! My school's only a few ranks away from that school, yet it's small and does not have many clubs I'm interested in and I'm tired of having to go to lockers in the classrooms and the teachers are kicking us out if we spend too long... But I've had like a small beacon of hope for my school ever since I found out someone from this school went to Brown University. I'll just have to study hard and be unique like her.
-I still have plenty of time to clean up my act. My New Year's Resolution will start tomorrow, I think... Do all of my homework, STUDY, and reward myself with Switched At Birth! And eat right! I'm starting to grow a little stomache pooch. I want to 'exercise' too, which is... basically walking to Walgreens and staring at all the stuff I won't buy, then walking back home. 
-I might be still growing, because I grew like a few centimeters taller! Still need to catch up to my mom. I'm a model hopeful. Want to be... at least five foot and seven inches! 
-I want to personalize my bedroom! The whole house!
-Is this what it feels like to be a hormonal teenager?!


x Yam

Cupcake mask.

Today's such a nice day, but in the morning time, my dad was re-heating my brother's cup of milk and oats, and he forgot to turn the stove off when he left for work. When I was upstairs, I kept on thinking, "What's that burnt smell?" and assumed it was a burnt bagel or something minor from a toaster. When I opened my bedroom door, and saw how smoggy everything was, the light coming from windows were so opaque. Hurried downstairs, looked into the black pot of goo, and soaked it with water because my mom still wants to save it! I decided that I am no longer doing A and B day homework over the weekends, I'm just going to do whatever homework is due on Monday.
P.S. I was stressed over the math quiz coming up as well as the Spanish quiz and the high school results coming in Febuarary, so my skin became irritated and I felt some pre-pimples popping. I wore the Lush cupcake mask quite liberally, just because it's also expiring in two days oh no!

Btw, the pins of my cushions (if you get what I mean) are itching, so it must be the dry (but gorgeous Spring-like) weather, or it could be, be still my heart, that my tiny cushions are actually growing! 
x Yam

Haven't updated.

I haven't updated yesterday, since lately I've been very busy with homework. My New Years Resolution was to complete homework early and then be able to have my free time at the end, and it worked out okay yesterday. Speaking of yesterday, my mom took me to a herbal doctor to cure my irregular period lool. The herbal doctor inspected my wrists and knew off the bat that I had insomnia and an irregular period. There were tons of storage cabinets that looked a bit dusty or dirty, eww, and he filled bags with a bit of this and that with the herbs. I could have sworn I saw some pebbles, so he charges 70 dollars for this 'remedy' that he might have picked up from a random forest. My mom made tea out of them and it tastes absolutely vile by the way, and I can try to describe it as something as better as pills combined with bitter vegetables.

At school, I planned my birthday 'party' event with two friends of mine, and something really embarrassing happened in technology class today! I voice-acted a bit too enthusiastically in a game we had to create, and a douche bag who sat at my table began playing it for the whole class to hear. Everyone was silent and I wasn't teased, but I was still very embarrassed and I hate him for doing that to me. I'm de-friending him on Facebook lol. I hope one British girl in my class wasn't offended, because I was trying to mimic British accents somehow. Sigh, I'm always embarrassed one way or the other. Like in Spanish class, the teacher asked me a question I was completely befuddled with, and she in no way tried to clarify. It makes me regret participating in class earlier in the semester, because now she knows my name. She only calls on like a select few, maybe six or seven, out of the thirty in my class, and that is completely unfair to the shy folks who skid away not looking like us idiots. One good thing that happened at school, I guess, is bumping in the hallway with a good looking guy I saw before. He had really nice hair, lol. I didn't really bump into him, just had difficulty maneuvering around him! Ah well, I'm getting rid of all my crushes because they're all stupid, a waste of my time, and I always fall for the unattainable people.
Just now, there was this man who looked like he was from Con-Edison, and he was carrying a clip or something with paper, and he asked if I was the one in the household who managed the energy bill. I call my dad over, and he frightens the man away because I could firsthand tell he was intimidated, kept on calling my dad 'sir' and when my dad said, "No, fuck no don't want" and slammed the screen door in his face, I thought that it was peculiar that a Con-Edison man was working so late into the night anyway.

Determined to do well.

I am determined to do well in chemistry. I have an A+ in math and an A in biology, yet last year I barely passed physics. It has to do something with the memorization, because I don't really study and I'm prone to procrastination. This time, I'm determined to do well. My brother did well in chemistry/physics, so why can't I? I just have to put more effort into my studying, concentrate better in class, and make connections. I'm reading my biology text book and I'm already making a connection. I'm reading about how dehydration occurs when a monomer is added to a polymer chain and water molecules are released, so I hypothesize that during the process of heating, monomers are added to polymer chains because of the water released during heating. I thank all the microwaving incidents I have to this knowledge. I think I learn best by connecting to prior knowledge, like activating schema. Sadly, I can't connect any prior knowledge to valence molecules and stuff. 

Sour Patchies.

My brother came home with the Sour Patch Kids, and dayum they are so sweet and good. Then I read the back with the Nutrition Facts and I spot 200 calories. Then I'm like fudge it, I'm not going to lose 15 pounds this year, which is like the weight of two babies, and I am having a difficult time trying to expel the babies out of my body.

New Year's Eve.

I think my New Year's Resolution is to eat sensibly--I won't be stuffing my face any longer with junk food. Right now I am currently 5'4 or 164 inches and about 115 pounds. I would love to be 100 pounds, or at least until my legs stop looking like oak tree stumps and more like branches lool. This morning, I made a cream cheese and strawberry sandwich and I have like a love-hate relationship with it. Not sure why, but I'm sure that I detest twizzlers yeck. 
Impressively, I didn't snack all day, but I think it's because I was lounging all day in my bedroom where there isn't a snack cupboard. I forced myself to lie down on my bed and finish the be damned book for English, and while I was reading it, I spotted an inappropriate line: "Her friendly nipples jiggled" and I thought two things; what the fuck is up with English teachers and the books they choose for students to read (believe we are mature enough before advancing to psychopaths in Shakespearean literature?) and what is wrong with the tendency for adult fiction writers to include irrelevant descriptions of sexual innuendos? Like Stephen King was totally out of context in the ending of The Stand where he described the woman with, if I remember correctly, pert nipples as pink as sunsets. Maybe they find it artistic or whatever, but I'm only moved by how a artists focus on depicting human anatomy, and it fit, not some horny writer trying to insert his fantasies in there... You can be vivid, but too vivid is bleh offensive and odd.
By accident, I texted my brother that line and a condensed version of the rant, and it was so embarrassing! To sort of cover up, I texted him asking him to bring home Sour Patch Kids. I don't know how that compensates, but it does and now I am going to be devouring the candy he brings home. He owes me after getting him a Lush Christmas Eve bubble bar and he didn't give me anything back. Oh well, I also asked him to get me a lotion or bubble bar from Lush for my birthday, and he agreed yay.
I was absolutely famished by dinnertime and I ate more than I would regularly eat for dinner, but I think it's because I wasn't drowning in Pocky sticks y'know. I was watching Skins and I finished the third season. I don't know if I want to watch the fourth season, because it's the most depressing out of all the other seasons methinks. I was skipping around the episodes to catch glimpses of what would happen, and Effy is in therapy with a crazy fuck, that crazy fuck kills Freddie, and umm I'm sure something happened with Naomi and Emily, but I forgot what. I just wanted to leave with the image of a happy lesbihonest couple in mind. It doesn't matter anyway, because the sixth season of Skins as well as another season of Switched At Birth is coming up, all in the month of January.
I'm not really the type to be like "Yay New Year let's start over yeah" because it's just another change of year to me, and the New Year isn't going to be that fabtabulous. Maybe the perks coming soon is getting the basement floor to myself, because my brother's going to college, new episodes of the shows I love, and my friends coming over to celebrate my birthday. We're thinking about watching another scary movie together and filming us doing Truth or Dare. But my family is currently in a tight spot, because my mom is paying for her school studies and my brother's college applications, so I'm undecided on what to get for my birthday. I was thinking about room decor to personalize my brother's bedroom which will soon be mine. It's smaller than mine, it's cooler and I don't cope well with the cold, and there are spiders everywhere, but the perks I guess is having my own bathroom and that big room between the bed and bath. A possible birthday gift wish would be a wicked frame of insects with a face pattern on their exoskeleton, I dunno. I just know that I have to go wash the dishes, take a shower, and finish the rest of my homework. Possibly study and aim for a seven in science.   One New Year's resolution that's going well for me at the moment, or better, is wearing my retainers haha.
x Yam

Time to get cracking.

This morning, I thought  I would make pancakes because it's a new experience, which are almost always fun, and we ran out of bagels. They didn't come out that great, because I used baking soda instead of baking powder, but my brother managed to finish his stack of three. I couldn't go through one pancake though, because me and my cooking of sweets don't go together well. I drizzled the pancakes with honey, put a dollop of cream cheese and arranged sliced kiwifruit.

New Year's Eve is tomorrow and I still have to come up with one resolution that I will stick with. What should it be? Staying on track, specifically with homework? Hmm. One thing's for sure, I need to complete my English assignment book and complete my Humanities essay! Uh oh, is that a separate tab you see with a Skins episode? I pretty much know that I won't get things done. Time flies and stops for no one, and few conquer.
x Yam