Call me wimpy

I felt bad knowing that you readers didn’t get to know how my speech thing went. No one ever reads this, but whatever.

I’m too busy to explain in my usual word form, so enjoy this with bullets.

• I’ve been skittish all day.

• The speech teacher is nice, but her funniness did not show through very much while I was there.
• The Speech teacher seems desperate for more ‘serious members’ like me apparently.
• There are some fabulous stories she has, like Miss Anne’s Asleep. It’s about a teacher who dies at her desk and her first graders don’t know it. The speech teacher (who is very old) said that would happen to her one day (as a joke).
• I declined speech. You stay afterschool too much for it. FREE I AM! -flutters imaginary wings-
• My homeroom teacher is good and bad.  Ying-Yang.
• Iris has found her place. irisonastick.wordpress.com .She has started out with a fabulous post and now supports WordPress.
  

• I’m a nosy child, chiding Iris about her decisions. I just noticed that.

SORRY IRIS!

I’ll never bother you with my opinions again that harshly unless you ask for it. =)

I’m pretty much mad.

I just wrote a whole post about Iris’s blog and my afterschool hours at Speech. But it didn’t go through, and stupid WordPress didn’t save it.

I’m mad. And no, I’m not going to rewrite a whole two hundred word thing. Nobody ever reads this except for Iris, and Ada probably doesn’t bother going to my blog.

So suffer.

Good and Bad; Happy and Sad

Iris, this post is dedicated to you. Actually…not the whole post, since some of it has to do with my personal life and my life is not dedicated to one living being who lives far away from me. But, until I say it’s not, this part of this post is for you.

 

Okay, so for all you outsiders, I’ll sum things up: Iris tried Blog.com but she had an ad there. It’s not placed discreetly at the bottom or at the top or anything, so don’t think I’m whining. There actually had a whole /section/ for the ad, and it was called “my advertisement”. That ‘advertisement’ could contain anything; it could advertise bras and panties or whatever happened to pop up. Most blogging sites do not have ads on the actual blog part (like WordPress), so you can imagine that I was seriously trying to tell Iris to ditch it. Luckily, she did. But then brought in a worse enemy; SQUARESPACE!

Squarespace has a name similar to Myspace, so it probably has a lot of junk on it. I understand someone calling a blog host “WordPress” or even “Get your blogs here”, but Squarespace is totally uncalled for. Even Splotchy has a reason for his name (search for “Behind the Name” in that nifty search bar to the side of this text”). Another horrid thing about Squarespace is that you must pay for it. There’s a thirty day free trial, but…who wants to pay money, through the INTERNET (so like, anything could happen. Iris does not have virus control), when there’s WordPress? As you can see, I’m a die-hard WordPress fan. But apparently not die-hard enough since it’s not in my blog roll. XD

So Iris, please do us a favor, and switch to WordPress. If you say that I referred you, I’ll get bonus points! Not really, actually. WordPress does not have a refer system nor a bonus point system. But I’m sure they’d love new members.

On a good note, Iris found a better name for her blog instead of Rad Thoughts or whatever it used to be. We had a long discussion over this on MSN, and Screams and Dreams was close to winning the name race, but in the end Iris on a Stick managed to beat them all. It’d be cool if Iris’s name was Steph, like mine. Then it could be called Stephy on a Sticky, and that’s cute.

OKAY IRIS, THIS POST IS NOT DEDICATED TO YOU ANYMORE.

 

This is about my real life. So, I got invited to the Speech Team. I may have told you about this earlier, so maybe it’s not new news. Well.., today I had my mom call the teacher in charge of Speech and basically I’m on it. Tomorrow after school the teacher is going to introduce me and a few other newbies to how things work around there. It’ll be fun learning the ropes of things.

PS: Here’s the link to Iris On a Stick.

http://irisonastick.squarespace.com/

COMPARE THAT TO WORDPRESS AND SEE HOW THE BEAUTY FALLS.

Seriously…it’s loud. Like, color wise. Do YOU wear orange jeans? Do YOU wear a bright orange shirt? Do YOU dye your hair bright orange?

Should I be thrilled?

Actually, today I was thrilled. And skittish. But mostly thrilled, enthusiastic, and jumpy. Today was picture day, and since I’m in a private school it’s rare for us to wear just about anything.  Instead of our bland uniforms, I got to wear some stuff I picked out myself (for my age, it’s like, an accomplishment) a few weeks ago at Koal’s. My apparel for picture day was…

A thin white shirt (so thin I felt uncomfortable wearing it alone), a brown hoodie with small pink and white stars all over it that looked kind of scratchy and faded to give the vintage appeal, and my favorite Levi blue jeans. That was awesome.

The picture taking itself was simple and uneventful. I had my picture taken two times because the first time this half gray-half blonde haired woman said that there had a glare in my glasses. She didn’t really adjust my position much, and didn’t move my head like some of the other students.

In other more interesting news:

Later tonight I also got a new box to play in. It’s from Staples, and is big enough for me to sit in it.  Uhh…that’s about it. Iris is thinking about changing her blog. I’ll have to update my blogroll. It’s hard for her to decide on a name. I keep suggesting for her to use “Iris’s Smile” or “Iris’s =)” but she doesn’t like it much. Hopefully the name will be much better than Rad Thoughts or whatever her current blog’s name is.  If you readers ever need a decent blog name, you should always consider this:

Is this a serious blog?

Is this supposed to be a joke, or something I’ll rarely post in?

If Iris does go ahead and get a new blog (she says it’s going to be at Blog.com) then I’ll add the new blog on my blogroll but keep the old there for memories. Enjoy looking at the old, forgotten blog. =)  Ada’s blog has been a bit…forgotten as well. I’m going to have to check it out again and see if she keeps doing her ant posts. The posts I do are centipede posts. She does ant posts. If your posts are medium in length (175 words or around that) they are beetle posts.

YAY FOR BUG POSTS

Isn’t it wonderful?

Today my mom told me that she has to download Firefox on her computer because she couldn’t respond to emails from her work.  I’m like, excited. Wouldn’t you be excited to have another person sign up with Firefox and be almost supporting the web browser Firefox?

I dunno…, it just disappoints me to see people be arrogant and stick with IE because it comes default on their computer.  Why not download Firefox, or other web browsers like Safari? I haven’t downloaded any uncommon browsers like Safari yet, but maybe one day I will.

In a few minutes, according to what my mom told me (could take hours), my mom’s going to download Firefox. I plan to glue myself right by her side and guide her through /everything/ of downloading Firefox. That’s how loyal I am.

So, after I finished my whole happy spiel I went on mozilla.com to look at some of the add-ons they have for Firefox. Most of them are stuff I’d never use, like a sidebar for Google, but there had one which allowed you to easily navigate to your blog and write new posts and another one which was a dictionary. There wasn’t much info available on the dictionary one, so for all I know it could be a sidebar or a simple icon on your computer. From the one-sentence description they gave, it’s supposed to support Firefox’s automatic spellcheck. -shrug- For easy access to dictionaries so I can search up things super fast, I think I’m just going to add dictionary.com to my search engine thing near the top right of my screen. There’s other online dictionary sites that I use, but seriously, if you want a decent online dictionary use dictionary.com. I used to use m-w.com (M-w stands for Merriam Webster) since it’s pretty good, but the site is littered with ads that usually have popups along with them. Plus, on some words you have to install some special dictionary on your computer. The ‘special’ dictionary probably doesn’t have any viruses since it’s supported by m-w.com, but I do not like randomly downloading junk and then trashing the icon in my recycle bin.

To sum this all up, I’ll end my amazingly long post into one sentence:

GO DICTIONARY.COM!