Life...

*sighs* Life is weird. Everything tends to happen at once... Why is that?

Today was fun. I hung out with Braden and Lekey and we played guitar hero... And when they left, I actually completed a song on expert! It was "What I've Done" but still... It's an accomplishment...

But now life comes falling back down... Tomorrow is not going to be fun. At all. My mom's probably gonna cry, and I'm really glad that my grandma decided that it was better if she didn't come. She's a strong person and I really don't want to see her cry... Which she would have were she here...

It's gonna be a really long day tomorrow. If you don't know what I'm talking about, ask me about it later. I can't talk about it on the blog... Hopefully, it won't last long though.

I'll tell you one thing though. I don't intend to take it laying down. Something has to be done.

I really hope that you all knew what you were doing when you supported Obama. He won't live up to expectations. He can't. Not with everything that's been put on his shoulders. But I honestly hope that he's one of our country's best presidents. God knows we need that right now. Desperatly.

*Sighs* Life really just gets ya sometimes, you know?

See you all later...
~Laura (of the phunk)~

WOOT!

I spent the night Laura's as you may know because of boredom and my house had no power, but I just texted my mom a little while ago and WE HAVE POWER AGAIN!!!!
I really want to go sledding. LOL! I know random right? Laura is still sleeping perpetually late of course. I want to go wake her up!
We totally need to all hang out today before school tomorrow. The school has power and we might have school and a one-day school week.
Hmmmm.
I'm still at Laura's for the time being.
Chrissy had a generator hooked up, that cheater. :p Hehe.
Hope to see you all today and soon!
Peace fellow hippies!

WooHoo!

As surprising as it may seem, I actually DID have power this entire time! I think we lost it for all of a few seconds on Tuesday though...

If you don't believe me, check your Facebooks. I made myself one and sent you friend requests while everyone else was stuck without power...

I was gonna post, but there wasn't much point... I mean, no one could read it until the power outage was over anyways...

And we still have no school tomorrow! Which means that we need to hang out! Before our 1 day school week! Our teachers won't be able to do much, will they? I hope so at least... School days where you do nothing are more fun than break days. That's cause you're still able to hang out with everybody...

So anyways, we have two college students staying in our basement. This is because they shut down the college dorms in Berea. All the other students are bedding down in Shannon Johnson...

And Braden's here! Here being at my house! And he's spending the night here 'cause (1) He felt like it, and (2) His house still has no power...

So yeah... Lekey's still in Somerset, I think. With her family's friends... So at least she's warm. Hannah's probably at her Grandma's house... I haven't heard about Kaylyn, so I'll have to call her later...

So yeah. Glad you had a little fun with the outage Tay. I was bored to tears 'cause I was afraid to read my books while the power was on because if it went out, I'd then have nothing to do. So I surfed the web and sat around for most of this week... I'm kinda even looking forward to school now...

So we need to hang out tomorrow. But if we can't, I guess I'll just see you at school Friday...

Anyways, See ya later!
~Laura (of the phunk)~

Power Outage is OVER!

Soooo... Who else had NO ELECTRICITY between noon yesterday and JUST NOW?
I sure did. I know you didn't, Laura.
So, we were at the dentist (I know, on a snow day, gah) and all the ladies were like, "Oh yeah, there's no power at my house!" So then we called home and mom said we were out.
So we were like, ok it will come back soon. But it didn't. So we cooked canned soup on our woodstove and used dad's kerosene lanterns and candles to see by. It was cozy, except no electricty!
So we went to bed and I woke up, saw my blank clock and was like, *sigh* no power. So that's how it's been all day. Hannah of the Seventh Grade came over, and so did Terra, and we did random stuff such as make Sata Andagi. T'was fun.
So I was reading by the light of 4 candles and the lights came on! Yay!
So thus this post. AND they already cancelled school tomorrow! Ha!

I'm really lonely, though. I hope I can see some of y'all tomorrow!

Another day of institution-freedom.

So I woke up at 7:32 AM this morning and I was confused and sort of rushed, but I'm just like, "Huh? WHAT? Im confused!" So I text Laura and find out that the TV told the truth that we were still out and that she got to sleep until NOON!" Muhahahaha!

So anyway, we need to hang out again after last night because I feel like it. I'm probably going to the game at Eastern tonight since I have friends from Pippa coming for the tournament up there.

Yeah, we should all be able to today. Let's go somewhere that's not my house though.

No School!!

Horrays! No school! Though I really don't know why... There's barely any snow out there... It really makes you wonder who's making the decision for snow days anymore. I mean, our superintendent almost never let us out of school before... Whoever this new guy is, I love him! I was really not looking forward to school today...

The homecoming dance was pretty great. Other than the whole "put Laura into ultimate panic mode" thing... That was stressful, not fun...

But Kaylyn danced with Collin! And Lekey had a nice talk with Ethan to help sort everything out! I'm sure that both of them are still ecstatic about that...

Tim and Tay were cute, as usual... And Lekey won Homecoming Princess! Congrats, your majesty!

So yeah... We need to hang out... Working on that currently... So we shall see...

Anyway, I'm still kinda in panic mode, so I'm gonna go eat some chocolate... Tay, I'm gonna need one of your awesome back massages! Gah...

Anyway, I'll see you guys later!
~Laura (of the phunk)~

SNOW!

So it snowed last night! No school! No practice! AHHHHH!
The horror!
We need to do something today peoplesis. Let's get together!

*uber sigh*

*raises hand*
I came in on Hot N Cold, which is exactly the song I imagined walking in on.
That was a first. Fire alarm during a dance. LOL!
I seriously knew Lekey would win. Brooke and Emma already won something and Mary has also been nominated before. I wish I was nominated. I seriously bet people would've voted for me. I'm more likeable than the others and I'm WAY smarter.
Anywho, the Berea College Mountaineers lost by 3 in OT due to the horrible refs as usual. There was a foul at the last second of regulation before OT and we should've shot our free throws, but we didn't. They were horrible.
UK beat Alabama, Memphis beat Tennessee (I really wonder how Baldwin feels) and Duke creamed Maryland, but who cares? It's basketball. At least UK is the only undefeated team in the SEC.

UGH! I'm so pissed. Mom will absolutely not let me go to Meeting. It's because "I'll miss church" and "It can't be in place of church" and "They don't teach the Bible there." It's getting really annoying. She knows that I really dislike Silver Creek Baptist, but they're still taking me and forcing me to go! I don't like it one bit. Why can't my conversion into a Friend be MY choice? She should know that I want this and it's the best choice for me, but she thinks that it's NOT. I believe MY choices for MY religious life be good for ME!

Homecoming a la Taylor!

So raise your hand if you think the dance was excellent!

*raises hand*

I must say that was like the best ever dance I've ever ever been to!

Laura, I'm sorry things didn't work... :( there's always next year... if something doesn't happen before then :D

But I CAME IN ON SOULJA BOY AGAIN! 

There was only ONE DANCE out of the, uh... five I went to last year that I didn't come in on Soulja Boy! SUPE SOAK THAT HO! ew.

What else... Um, Lekey, I'm glad you are relieved and that things worked out. AND THAT YOU WON! I love proving that non-preppy people can win the popular vote of our grade! 

Haha there was a fire drill. LOL.

Anyways. Um, and yeah. 

So. 

Then me and Terra and LekLek stayed up real late and it was fun but my radio turned on at 6 in the morning and it played thanks for the memories. So that's fun. 

Um

And Terra tickled me. 

That's all! 

I'm done! 

HAHAH

Dance!

Boogey Wonderland!

Tay's cake was delicious!

A new beginning, a better beginning...

Barack Obama is officially the President of the United States. I believe the time has come for real peace, real love, and real happiness.

Bush was a good guy, but once 9/11 hit he didn't know what to do, but he just kept his mind on one thing: War/Invasion of Iraq and didn't even think about the future and the economy.
I really did not like how some people acted today at lunch when I went in there.

Laura, you were mature about it. Kudos.

Kaylyn and Isaac were just irritating.

Jon-Jon was just Jon-Jon and won't accept the fact that Obama is the President and he probably will still bash him, but it's sorta fair because a lot of people bashed Bush, but yet again Obama has just started being President like 4 hours ago and Bush had 8 years to do good things, but he wasted those 8 years and almost completely destroyed the economy and made all of the Middle Eastern countries hate our guts and want us dead. But it's still a bit unfair that he's doing it towards a new president. It's just annoying to be around him most of the time now. I guess there are just only a few people in our school that have grown up!

Oh yeah, do you guys have any classes with Ryke or Rike or however you spell his name. The little kid who's like 10 or 12 and in high school. He is unfortunately in my 3rd period and he is annoying as hell. He had to be escorted out by Officer Brandenburg he was so disruptive. He was getting up a lot, talking to Cheyenne in a voice in which I could hear him from across the room, he throw textbooks down the stairs, and he should've just gone back to the elementary side or 6th grade wherever he belongs.

I really want to go to Gatton now.

Victory!

I'm kidding about the title. I did overreact a bit... Okay, a lot... I was mood swingy last night...

You really don't have to post if you don't want to.... We'd just like it if you did. And if you want to talk in person about things, then we'll talk in person. School just isn't the best place for that kinda thing... We'll just have to get together one of these days...

And we don't dismiss your feelings Tay. We know how strongly you feel about it. It's just that we're not really sure what to say to it... Not to even mention what to do...

You won't be left alone in the phunk. I still wear my bracelet too, you know! And maybe we can convince some to come back... You never know...

We'll just all have to keep on keeping on and just see how things go...

On a brighter note, Faith is doing well! We think that she might be lame, but we think she'll be able to get around and graze... I think she'll make it. She ate a lot tonight and was walking around her stall... She's so cute! Lekey and Braden have seen her, but I want the rest of you to meet her too...

So yeah... All I really have to say... And I really need to get my homework done... Hopefully, it'll be an easy day tommorrow though... I think the teachers'll have to show us the Innaguration, (which will be around 3-5 period) so maybe we won't have to do too much... I hope at least. I really don't want to present my project in Social Studies just yet... So we shall see.

Anyway... See ya guys!
~Laura (of the phunk)~

I Failed.

I told you I was going to try it. Not for good.

And it didn't work.

I need this blog as much as anyone. I helped make it, so why shouldn't I?

It was just that the blog was depressing me and hurting me and I was sick of it.

And I have already decided no, I will never quit the Phunk. Ever. Even if I end up to be the last one left, even if the Phunk quits me, I won't quit. I don't remember if I am the second or third member, but I was there when we started. I was there when Hannah said, "I'm Hannah of the Phunk, like Gaara of the Phunk. Wanna be my Phunk sisters?" Laura was too. 

I have my glove :D and I still wear the bracelet. 

*sigh*

I was tired of having my feelings dismissed as less, I suppose. 

But I had to post this for y'guys.

Twilight in Fifteen Minutes

It's by the same person who originally wrote Phantom of the Opera in Fifteen Minutes. Read it, read ALL of it, it's HILARIOUS. 

You may be interested in this quote:

[Meanwhile, Shirtless James and the other two Bad Vamps show up and Charlie's weird friend gets dead. Also, James has no shirt. This is important. I mean, just for life in general.]

So, go read it! Heigh ho, Volvo! Away!

Figures.

Why is it that whenever I'm finally starting to feel better, something happens to make me either upset or angry?

Honestly, what's wrong with posting like normal? If you want to talk in real life, then you start the conversation. We'll respond! If you start a convo on the blog, it'll be responded to on the blog.

The blog always was meant as a way to communicate when we couldn't see each other and as a way to vent. It's an easy means to get a message out to all the phunk family and let them know how you're doing.

It's not what you've made it out to be!!! If you're going to do the same thing that Heather and Hannah did and "leave" us, then think about what we're gonna feel.

This is the only way we have to make sure everyone else is doing okay when we can't talk. School is not exactly the best place to limit all our communications to. There is absolutely nothing to prove by doing this. And I can tell you now that it won't change anything.

You and I made this blog Tay. Don't just throw it away! It's the last tangible thing that we have to tie all of us together...

I don't trust myself enough to finish this post. I'm just ticked. Things aren't the same, and will never be the same again. And I just want to hole up in my room away from all of this stupid, pointless drama.

Sorry if I bothered anyone with this. If it helps, I have two annoying little boys running around in the room over my head, so most of this anger is because of them... The other part is the part of me that's sick of everything... And there's the part that's PMSing... So don't take much of it personally..

On a brighter note, I suppose, Faith is doing well! She walked around her stall today, and though I think something's wrong with her front foot, I think it'll work itself out in time... She's an absolutely adorable midnight-black calf and is really the only thing that can cheer me up right now... I'll keep fighting for her survival. I have faith in her...

So... I'm going. We all really need to talk... You could come over tomorrow after my doctor's appointment... We shall see...

Your friend,
~Laura~

Whoa!

That was freaky. When I came on here and saw Taylor's post, It Ends Tonight by AAR came on. Yet another coincidence, or is it?
This is just weird. Why is everybody leaving? I know this might not be permanent, but maybe Taylor is at least on hiatus from the blog for a while I guess. There's so much stress. Ugh, I hate it! We are still friends and I know we'll always love each other.
I guess this blog is just something we use to communicate our thoughts and feelings that we either haven't expressed yet or just can't say in person.
I hope you guys come back to the blog. It's just crazy and I can understand how you all feel about the different situations we have going on in our current daily lives.
Maybe we'll compromise when we get together tomorrow @ 4-ish. It would do us good.

The Farewell Post

I have nothing to say.

Maybe it's better that way. I don't seem to have the ability to cheer people up these days.

Maybe...

Maybe I should quit posting for a while.

I know it seems ridiculous, but what's the use? Why should we have to post on a blog to talk to each other? 

So I'm going to try this, and if I seriously need to post something I can't talk about, I will. But really. If we can share with God and everyone, why can't we share with each other? The only real use this should be is for drafts. So we can share stuff we don't want to talk about at school, which seems to be the only place we see each other any more. 

So, I'm quitting the blog for a while. Good luck with your religious issues. I don't know if I'll still read the blog. Maybe not, so that you guys have to talk to me. But anyways, I hope you can make your moms see the light. (Haha, cuz we're Quakers, and the light... Ok so maybe only Lekey will get it...)

Bye.

I'm sorry. I say  that a lot, don't I. It's because nobody else really does, I guess. 

Maybe I get it from Tim. 

I love you all, but this is getting on my nerves.

I want you.

I miss you.

I need you.

I love you.

:D

Laura, that was hilarious.
We are twins. Both of our moms want us to go to a Bible-oriented church, but we both really want to go to Meeting. I wish they would just be accepting of our religious needs and I would be glad to take you to Meeting.
I agree with Laura as well by saying I like my views right now. The Bible is a book with thousand-year-old views and opinions that our generation should have to follow just because our parents want us to. I thought they wanted us to be happy.
I mean, it's the last year of the first decade of the 21st century! We should have the full right to our religion and the full right of marriage, but yet the close-minded generation isn't having it, like the church I'm currently being dragged to for example.
Plus, the music is boring and it's like somebody died, like funeral music played on a funeral organ and those songs are about dying and going to Heaven. Such a self-esteem boost for a 15-year-old teenaged virgin! *wink*
Oh yeah, SAYF is on March 6-8, so it won't interfere with State and we could possibly get to go! WHOO!

Ok.

Okay, so the post that I had before is just a draft now... I figured that it'd been up long enough...

So anyway... I want to get away... My family is church shopping again. Hopefully it'll be a better church, but I don't have any good hopes. Mom is determined that I read every page of the bible to "learn the right values."

What if I like my values the way they are? That's my decision isn't it?

But that's why mom doesn't want me to go to Friend's meeting. She thinks that they aren't very bible-based. She even went on a tirade about how other religions are against our beliefs and was going on about Wicca being the craft of the devil!

Needless to say, I was about to scream at her. She's so stereo-typical Catholic...

So Braden, since you're getting your license before me, I'm riding with you to Meeting, kay? We're in the same boat, my friend...

But something funny did happen today... We're all kinda sick of our church, so when we came in and there was nowhere to sit, we decided to just skip church and go get breakfast instead. The great part was, that my mom went out into the church to see if there were any seats when everyone was singing, so she came back and yelled to us that we were skipping just as there was a pause in the song.

So now the whole church knows we skipped this Sunday... Mom was so embarrassed, while Neil and I were doubled over laughing at her... I think that's a big reason why we're changing churches too... Heehee.

So that's my weekend. I haven't done much, except take care of this adorable baby calf whose mother abandoned it... The poor thing might not make it... I hope it does though. We're bottle feeding it, so hopefully we got to it soon enough that it can pull through.

My dad didn't want me to name it, just in case she dies... But I did anyway. I'm calling her Faith. Just because I have faith that she can pull through. Dad's already promised that if she's okay, then she can live on our farm for as long as she wants, and won't ever be made into a hamburger... *shudders* I'm never eating one of those again...

So anyway, I've gotta go give Faith her bottle, so I'll see you guys later. SAYFers should be getting home soonish, so I hope you guys had fun! We need to get together on MLK day, since we don't have any school... Call me when you get back...

See ya!
~Laura (Of the Phunk)~

Twilight Box Office Update!

As of January 15, 2009, the film has made $182,172,744 in the United States and Canada, and a further $120,169,353 in international territories for a total of $302,342,097 worldwide.

Yay! In less than 2 months in the theatre, Twilight hit the $300 million border!

Ugh!

I'm a bit pissed off now. Last night at Dairy Queen, Laura's mom asked my mom about any new church plans and of course I have to say, "*cough* Berea *cough* Friends *cough cough*", but Mom is just like, "It has to be a Bible-based church." That's what gets me right there.

For starters, I do NOT read the Bible anymore. I think it's just like one big book full of religious opinions and stories that is a bit boring and not very "holy" and "awesome" as it's described to be. I just don't agree with certain parts and other parts are just a little too detailed and just weird. So, that's basically why I never read the Bible because I could somewhat care less about what it says.
Besides, the people in the Bible and their values are COMPLETELY different from mine. This is a book written over the past 2,000 years. You're not going to expect me to become a close-minded freak of nature with a large intolerance. I know there are some good stories in there, but I just have no interest in reading it. Maybe that's why I like most of my life right now. I'm open-minded and caring of all people, unless some of those people disrespect me first, which has happened.
Berea Friends was different than my church (hopefully very soon former), but it was a nice, refreshing different. I might sit through the adult's meeting next time I go just to see what it's like. I might enjoy it and I'll get a taste of what adult Quakers think and feel since I am going to be legal in 2 years.
I just don't know why I am being dragged to a place where I don't feel comfortable, and it has to be "Bible-oriented". That's what I'm afraid of actually. If I go to someplace like that, it'll almost be like the church I am currently being dragged to, but of course that church is the most traditional southern conservative Baptist church in the world. It's probably like the church my dad grew up in, which was a Nazarine church and Mom said that it was worse.

I don't want that. Maybe Laura and I will discuss when I go over to her house in a little bit.

We should all get together on Monday when there's no school.
For now, cya guysis later.

Hmmmmm.

When I think of this situation, the chorus of Decode pops up in my head.

How did we get here?
I used to know you so well.
How did we get here?
Well I think I know.

That's what it reminds me of. I think it's crazy and I miss the whole Phunk too. We'll just have to see. Maybe it'll be possible that we'll all be together like before again in time for graduation. We'll just have to see.

Don't you remember?

Where have I gone?

I am nowhere.

Who am I?

I am no one.

What am I?

I am nothing.

Why, oh why?

Nobody knows.

When will this end?

It never will.

How long can this last?

It will go on forever.

An impromptu poem. It rather sums up how I felt most of today.

I hate being mood-swingy. I hate laughing one minute and crying the next. I'm not even PMSing.

We all know what's wrong. But we don't know why it affects me so much.

It's because I miss how it was. I miss the bad too. Don't you remember?

We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder

We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under

Whatever we deny or embrace for worse or for better

We belong, we belong together...

Don't you remember? At least Laura? Don't you remember?

How can that go away?

How can we stop belonging?

Don't you remember?

Don't you remember finding ghosts in Laura's basement, six of them, with pencils?

And discovering that the room in DC wasn't 1413 byt 1313? And Mrs. Schloemer didn't believe us. Remember?

Remember when the customer service lady at AT&T asked if we were small children, or her friends?

Remember when we watched the Breakfast Club?

Remember when we had to yell at Heather a million times to get off the phone?

Remember initiating Kaylyn on the trampoline?

Remember when Heather had to leave in the middle of a sleepover and we sang our nerves away?

"Make me an angel, that flies from Montgomery... Just give me one thing that I can hold on to..."

Don't you remember?

Now I've lost all that, I've lost those times forever. If real sisters fought over a boy, they wouldn't have any option but to reconcile. What does that tell you?

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears...

Never again? We still have three and a half years together. You never know what can happen.

Do you know what I wish for at 11:11?

Do you know what I cry about every time I hear My Immortal?

I've always wanted to have nothing to wish for.

I don't think that will ever happen again. 

I feel like we are a hollow shell of what we were. 

Like someone took our insides out. Like were one of those really good truffles, and someone broke us in half, scooped out our filling, and stuck the shell back together.

Maybe that's just what I feel like. 

Since I'm not sure what "we" are anymore, and who is Phunk and who isn't.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I've opened old wounds, but for me it's more like an infection that won't go away. It's there, sometimes I forget about it, but it's always there. 

I need you. 

Я огорченн.

Ya ogorchenn.

I'm sorry.

A Wordle.

I guess I will do that too.

I've decided to do a draft over the situation, plus a little bit about what's going on with me too.

Ugh...

I need sleep... Badly... And I'm going to have it to, here in a minute...

But I suppose that I should at least post something...

Old wounds have been opened, but I've reclosed them permantly tonight, or so I hope.

I've been looking back and I'm surprised at how much I've changed throughout 2008... I started out as my old, quiet and calm self, but I'm not completely sure what I've become...

I'm still kinda quiet, but I actually talk to everyone around now, rather than just our little friends group, as I used to.

I'm actually doing a lot of writing and am almost done with a song... Think of it. Me, actually finishing something I wrote. I'm currently refining a song I wrote about our Phunk family actually... And none of you can see it until it's completely done and you've heard it to music before you've read it...

I'm so much more secure in myself and my position. I'm starting to actually figure myself out...

I should really stop being surprised that everything that has to do with my star sign, Pisces, fits me completely... Except for the whole "likely to take drugs" thing... Books are a much better escape, and won't cause me lasting damage. Except to my eyesight...

Sorry I'm being so random... I've just finished some serious introspection, not to mention I'm about to fall asleep where I sit, and it's only 11...

Not to mention I just took a big weight off of my shoulders... I feel all light and fluttery and peaceful... It's kinda nice...

If you're looking for said heavy weight, check the Drafts. Don't read it unless you have some time on your hands, seeing as I can't talk about something that's meaningful to me without making it like a novel... But it's in response to Tay's draft, so you all know what it's about...

Anyway, I'm tired. Talk to you later...

Your Friend and Sister,
~Laura (of the Phunk)~

Wicked!

Wicked was awesome. The girl playing Elphaba (Donna Vivino) was a little bit better than Carmen Cusack (whom Laura and I saw last January in Cincinnati). It was gravity defying!

What does it do? IT DOES DEATH.

I have written history!

Elf history, that is.

I found it necessary to write up the entire history of the Elf race in my stories.

It's 3 and a half pages long so far!

Annnny ways. My Guitar Hero virginity was stolen last night! 

With What I've Done on easy.

And Tim strummed for me. 

It was fun!

Hooray for the Academic Team, who lost 2 out of 3 matches yesterday! 

It was fun anyways. And I played in the rain. :D

But God, it reminded me so terribly of a certain thing that's been irritating me since ever.

Heather.

I think I'll explain in person.

Or in a draft that I don't publish.

But it still affects me and I also had an epiphany.

So check the drafts, I may write one. 

Anyways. 

See, I've been scared to post, and I think we all have, because there are topics we feel like we'd have to talk about but we don't want to, so we just don't post at all.

Whatever. 

Um...

I had macaroni today.

Does your mom  ever sing annoying songs in a voice she thinks is pretty?

Mine is right now. 

Bleh.

I'm not wearing PJ's tomorrow.

By the way.

Mrs. Sowers will have to be disappointed. Ha.

I will, however, wear my UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs shirt on Tuesday.

This is getting pointless. 

Bye!

I am WICKED!

I am evil, responsible for the mutilation of those poor innocent monkeys!

It's meeeeeeee!
So if you care to find me
Text my phone of gold
As I go see the best play
in the whole wide world!

Hee! Lekey's party was awesome. My pizza was the best! YES! WHOO HOO! Hehehehe!

Horror!

The Jonas Brothers are having a gay movie (another fucking concert experience) come out this year in 3D! Like we care about them? Really? Who does? I mean seriously. They suck. Hannah Montana is having a real movie come out which will suck as well.

On top of that:
They are making a Dragonball movie called: Dragonball:Evolution.
Seems pretty cool.
Tomorrow comes Bride Wars which looks hilarious. I love Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway.
Also (mark your calendars): Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and New Moon!

Twilight Gross Revenue Update:
As of January 6, 2009, the film has made $177,766,840 in the United States and Canada, and a further $100,237,862 in international territories for a total of $278,004,702 worldwide.

Twilight DVD!

Go to The Twilight Lexicon Blog and scroll down until you find the DVD Cover Art post. It's dazzling!

Check this out...

I took a page from Tay's book and made this:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/421826/Phunksisters

Look at it first, then read my comments here below.



Okay, so first off, the biggest words are "Just" and "Phunk." I think that fits us pretty well. We're all just here with the phunk, and we embrace our phunky selves.

And then "part," "matter," and "still." My interpretation: We may part, but we still matter to each other. And that's what counts, right?

Then of course, the name of the one we're worried about most.

Crazy, think, better.... Heehee! Too true, too true...

Hm... Interesting... Not as cheerful as our last ones... But at least the biggest word isn't "single," right?

So anyway, I just got bored and made this today... So see ya later!

Awesome YouTube vid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szVOIMTQaBY

Of course it means something.

Of course being a phunk sister means something Tay. It means that our bond is stronger than friendship, it's more like a family. We're sister's after all aren't we?

That's why I say that it doesn't matter much if someone "quits." You can't just decide not to be related to someone, right? In our group, it's more that we acknowledge the fact that we have a strong bond and show it with the title of "phunk sister/brother."

What's really bad is if she pushes us away as friends and confidants, which she had better not do.(If you're reading this Hannah.) Only in that case, can you really stop being a phunk sister, 'cause the bond's broken.

Trust me, you're not the only one who's upset by this. The rest of us just prefer not to make it so obvious...

If it helps any, just look at the list of contributers. Everyone's still there, aren't they? They can't delete their names without deleting all their posts, so they're stuck there as a member of the phunk, whether they like it or not. (Well, except Kaylyn... But she just never uses the internet, so we'll just have to remember her in spirit.)


Fortune cookie quote of the day:

You can change who you are by your title, but you can't change who you are in your heart.
~Me! (Laura)


Hear that you two!?!?!? You can't change things so easily!

*Whew* Okay, I'm done for now... Hope I helped at least a little... See ya!

Your friend and sister,

Laura (of the phunk)

Aiy aiy aiy

So I saw Yes Man and it was hilarious. Way better than Foru Christmases (which only had one truly funny part and that was the very end).

So with that said:

Laura: What movie are we going to see and where? Maybe Lexington since you have Barnes and Noble and I have Express and Best Buy. Hmm. I do have $101 in cash and $60 in checks that I need to cash. Berea Wal-Mart needs a CoinStar for my millions of coins. LOL! I love gingerbread!

Taylor: I'm thinking I am invited to the gingerbread party tomorrow? Is that correct? Just for confirmation.

Lekey: I think you will be reading this tomorrow or in the early AM. You can prove me wrong! Next time we get together, give us our Canadian candy from Chinatown and tell us ALL about NYC please. Okay? ;D

Post back please! Byeee!

Почему, Почему?

I'm sorry.
It's just, how do you define "The Phunk" anymore?
If we're still friends anyway, why do we need an official title anyways?
What counts as "quitting the Phunk" if everything goes on as per usual?
And if quitting it doesn't matter, then does not quitting matter?
Does it matter that the rest of us still consider ourselves part of the Phunk if it doesn't matter that Hannah doesn't consider herself part of the Phunk?
That's why the "Is it gone? Has it died?" thing.
Because it was there. It's not that nothing was there, ever. There was a time when it would have mattered if this had happened. There was a time when none of us would ever had even considered this ever happening. Especially since Hannah started the Phunk.

But now it's gone. 

And that upsets me. 

Again, I'm sorry. 

Go where you want to go.

But it still hurts. Not so much that Hannah quit, although that hurts too.

It hurts more that it matters so little.

Maybe it would hurt more if it did matter.

But the fact that it doesn't matter makes me sad.

I know you all will never stop being my friends, no matter what happens. But I did value the Phunk, and I guess I still do. Less, perhaps.

Why? That's what I want to know. Why? 

Why do you leave us? But you're not leaving us. You just think you are.

You're not. "Us" is not just the Phunk. Hannah of the 7th Grade is not in the Phunk, but she's some part of "us." Kaylyn was part of "us" before she was in the Phunk. You can still be part of "us" and you will be. I know that much. You are too much a part of us for that to just go away. 

I don't think I'll cry. And I won't say goodbye. That's too final.

I'm sorry. 

I hope you don't think I overreacted too much.

Never mind, I did. 

Or not.

Whatever.

SHUT UP, TAYLOR. YOU ARE MAKING THINGS WORSE. YOU NEED TO TALK TO REAL PEOPLE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO YOURSELF LIKE THIS, YOU CRAZY CRAZY WOMAN. JUST DON'T POST AGAIN UNTIL SUNDAY. MAIDENQUEST IS THEN AND MAYBE YOU WILL FEEL BETTER AFTERWARDS. SO POST THIS CRAZY CRAZY RANT POST AND BE DONE WITH IT. THEN MAYBE YOU WILL FEEL BETTER FOR THE MOMENT EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE CRAMPING LIKE HELL. GO EAT DINNER AND DECORATE GINGERBREAD HOUSES. DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PHUNK BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU FEEL BAD. GO READ A BOOK OR SOMETHING. 

Почему, Почему (Pochemu, Pochemu)- Why, Why?

Bye.

Okay then...

Um... I think that this took us all by surprise here... But really, there's no need to overeact about it, Tay. She has to have her reasons for leaving, even if she hasn't made them very clear just yet... And, if they're ridiculous reasons, we can always just drag her back.

Resigning from the phunk doesn't change that she's still our friend. It's just a title, after all. We can still all hang out as per normal.

Now to Hannah, you'd better have a good reason for this. If it's a personal reason and you really think that it's better for you, then it's okay. But let me tell you, it's not better for us. If you really think that, then look at how upset everyone is on these posts. It's for the worse on our side.

You know, the song that come on for me when I was reading this was "How to Save a Life" by The Fray. That fits my feelings in that I don't want to lose another friend, even if I have lost a sister. And I don't intend to.

So that's pretty much my view on this... I'll talk to you all later...

No Taylor, it's just that two left.

Those two people that left us left for personal reasons and even though I may know those reasons, I don't know why. It's confuzzling. We seriously need to get together and discuss. We will drag Hannah and Heather if we have to. No begging, just discussing. What do you all think?

Is it gone? Has it Died?

What is the Phunk anymore?
Where have we gone?
Do we exist any longer... or are we just an illusion?
What is "we?"
If there is a "we" then why do "we" keep falling away?
Where has "we" gone? What about "us?"
Little words that used to mean so much to us are gone.
They are meaningless now, now that we don't care anymore.
But we do care. I care. I want those words to mean what they used to.
We can't go back. We can only look back.
But what if looking back is better than looking forward?
You can't dwell in the past.
And the future is too fearsome.
So look around and enjoy today.
It could be better than tomorrow.


[Musings. Might be a poem someday.]

Hmm... I will be posting something longer when I get home, but I'm in NYC about to leave.

Hannah: You will still be one of my best friends. K? K. ILY

Weird coincidence

As I was about to read Hannah's recent post, Welcome to the Black Parade came on and it was coincidental because the song was in the right mood as the post.

It seems that what was 6 became 5, which is now 4 Phunk siblings. :O

2009 - The Year of Hannah

So how are you guys? I'm finally glad that 2008 is over (worst year of my life). And this year I actually have resolutions.

1. I'm going to find someone so I'm not lonely anymore.

2.Improve my grades.

3. Do something amazing, and life changing.

4. Travel more.

5.More money, more money, more money.

6. Go to a concert

7. Leave everything bad that has happened to me in the past, and leave it in the past.

And here comes the confusing part of my post. The part were I ruin everyone's lives by saying,Hannah of the phunk....







Is no longer'Hannah of the phunk'.

Yes, I am resigning. As sad as it is I did put put serious thought into do doing this, and I decided that this was best for not only me, but for you guys as well.

So here's my resignation (and I will indeed be serving it in drag.)

I love you guys, and I sincerely thank you guys for for putting up with my crap for so long.

Bye.

xo.

2009

2008 is over thank goodness. Now bring on the new year!
Things to expect in 2009:

1. It is NOT a leap year, so there will be 365 days.

2. I go see Wicked in 10 days.

3. Spring Homecoming: January 12 - 16.

4. We end freshman year in May.

5. July 17th is Half Blood Prince (we need to go to the midnight release, if not then, on the day it comes out).

6. We become sophomores.

7. I turn 16!

8. November 20th is New Moon (definitely opening day again!)

9. Events like Governor's Cup Districts, Regionals, and State; Band trip to Chicago; TwiCon; SAYF, etc.

I listed nine things since it's the year 2009!

Hopefully sometime in the mere future, I will become a regular Quaker and leave the Southern Conservative Baptist scene FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

See you all later! Happy 2009!

Welcome to 2009!

Another year has pasted us by... Hopefully, this one will be full of awesomeness and fun. I think it will, with all of us together. ;)

So... Seeing as most people have posted lists, here is my tops things for the year:

1.) Phunk sister time! This includes our awesome sleepovers, and our awesome new additions to the phunk family.

2.) The book releases- Breaking Dawn, of course. Not to mention the new Pendragon book, Maximum Ride book and the other countless books I've gotten and read this year, including manga, of course. Yes, this is my number two, but at least I put you guys first, right?

3.) I had my first official boyfriend this year. Yeah, it didn't end well, and the end of it could probably be added to my worst things of the year, seeing as you all know what happened there. But, it is something that I will remember for the rest of my life and the good parts are definitly some of the best things that happened to me this year. Not to mention the boost it gave to my self-confidence. So yeah, this is definitly up on the list.

4.) Twilight Movie! - 'Nuff said....

5.) Writing- I really got in touch with my inner writer this year, writing all these fun fanfics and continuing on my novel... I really am still having a lot of fun with that.

6.) Entrance to High school - Again, this could also be on my worst list... But all in all, I really have liked being in High School.

7.) Decorating my room - I love how I added all my book covers to my walls. I think that it really has helped to show my personality in the atmosphere of the room.

8.) I got my Grandpa's old guitar - Since he died before I was born, it's nice to have some sort of connection to him. And I will learn how to play it if my parents ever let me get it fixed with new strings that aren't 19 years old...

9.) Annoying my OCD friends by always ending my lists in odd numbers! :)


So that's my list. I was going to put a "Worst things" list, but you all probably know what would be on it. And I really would rather focus on the good, rather than the bad anyway. So, now I'll go to individuals...

Lekey- Glad you're loving NYC. I wish I hid in your suitcase and came with you... Though I'm not sure if I could handle being there that long with those insane crowds... *shudders* I'm sorry you had to spend New Years babysitting a demon child. Though you could've snuck out and found that hot guy to see the jacket with... *winks* Just kidding though. Can't wait 'till your home! And we'll make up for your trouble at the belated New Years celebration! So see you soon!

Taylor - Yes, I definitly loved Peeps, as disturbing as it was sometimes... Speaking of which, Lekey's in the setting of the book now... *Gasps* LEKEY! DON'T PET THE PIDGONS OR GO NEAR ANY TYPE OF SEWER!!!! ...Okay, I'm good now... Well, now that you're back, we totally need to hang out... Maybe you could come over tomorrow or something... I'll call you when I wake up, which will probably be around 2 or 3... And Kaylyn, while I'm at it... I haven't seen her since break started either...

Hannah - I know we keep saying that we need to spring you, but we still haven't quite figured out how to do that yet... I'll call you sometime and we'll talk about it... And they're right, celebrity couples are always breaking up, so don't get TOO sad, okay?

Braden - I was just hanging out with you a while ago! At Jonathon's house with the insane little demon boys! Grr... They were frustrating... But you, me, and Jonathon fought them off pretty well, if I do say so myself.


So... Now that that's over with... I should probably go... It's 3 AM now, and I'm exhasted after that New Years party... Hey, isn't 3 AM a song by Matchbox Twenty? Hmm... Okay, so I'm going to go and listen to that song now, and then go to bed...

Damn... My computer just lost internet access... That means that I'm going to have to save this in a Word document and post it in the morning... Or mid-afternoon, as the most people call it... So, luv you guys and see ya later!!!