so much work...even over break....sigh

Has been sick for the past two days. Why me

So today's Palm Sunday for the Christian church, they hand out these long skinny plant things called palms to everybody. It's supposed to remind you of a story in the Bible where Jesus rode into Jerusalem and people worshipped him with palm branches. So when you come into the church, there's people handing out the palms to everybody. There are many uses for palms, I have learned over the years.

1. rememberance of Jesus' holiness

2. something to fiddle with during the sermon

3. appropriate length sword for running around jabbing other kids

4. source of conversation/complaint for grown-ups: "oh gosh there goes the Dogget boys whipping each other with their palms again."

5. the grown-ups like to make crosses out of their palms

6. way to distract your sister during the service- they can reach past the length of two parents!

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Watching this consumes all of my free-time.

She makes my heart dougie. 
Always. 
No matter what happens. 

It's Saturday which means I had to be at work from 3pm-10pm. I should have at least slept until 10am at the latest, but no! I had to get up in the morning at 7:30am so I could do something for school. Ummm...excuse me I could of sworn spring break started at 3:05 pm Friday, April 15, 2011 so I should not be dealing with school; especially the next day. Sigh I'm sure sleep will enter my life soon enough.

While cleaning this morning I tweeted out a song I was listening to. A while ago I got a email saying I had a new follower. Turns out it was the band I talked about :D

Many people dislike rain. I love it. It rained all day today; I had off of work. I didn't spend too much time outside. I had some tea. All is well. 

Remember that post I wrote about wanting to get away from myself. Well here I am. I'm out of my mind, but now I'm looking at me externally. Don't try to understand me, you'll get frustrated. I barely understand myself.

I just want my dog back. I was so pissed off today at God. It poured down raining on my fucking dog. He's buried in the backyard and it just started pouring. Usually Kirk would be in the yard, doing something. Finding a new way out or digging up an old fried chicken bone.. and my mom would yell at one of us "BRING KIRK IN! IT'S POURING OUT THERE!", then one of us would run to go get Kirk and he would run in super excited, drenched. then he'd shake it off and get all of us wet, we'd get a towel dry him off and tell him to go home, he'd stare at us like we were crazy and we would know exactly what he wanted... a cookie. We'd give him some type of food and he'd take it and run to my brothers room into his dog house.

That was routine. And now it's gone. There's no point in going int he backyard anymore. Kirk's gone. It's still unreal. I WANT MY FUCKING DOG BACK. I love you Doobie, world's #1 dog. 

So this is my family on my moms side that I'm going to see this break. Most of them are artists.

This is my uncle John who runs a school, Urban Choice Charter, in Rochester with his daughter Maddie.

This is his wife Aunt Katie with Maddie again. She used to be a social worker and also a special ed teacher. Now she's just working at home and with her family.

This is my cousin Maddie, she's like 14 I think.


This is her new boyfriend who I'll be meeting for the first time Josh. Josh is a photographer. My racist grandmother did NOT approve. From what she tells me he's the nicest boy she's dated yet. (she's 14 how many could she have dated?!)

This is my uncles other kid Jacob who's in his first year of college and is in three punk bands.

Jacob again.

My uncle Charlie (my favorite uncle) is all the way on the left. He works as a janitor in my uncle Johns school. He should be a professional artist though, his stuff is really really good. He's next to his son Ben. (Ben is my favorite cousin)

This is a tin my uncle Charlie painted.

Ben again, he's 17 and a Junior. Hopes to create advertisements for a living one day.

And Ben again on my uncle Bones' (he's not really my uncle) bike

This is Ben's new girlfriend Miranda who I'll be meeting for the first time (She's pretty beautiful)

He's a really great artist too

This is my uncle Harry, he's a cartoonist and a painter.

His son Alex, the same age as me, who used to be nice but kind of turned into a jerk because of Harry. I think he'll grow out of it. He's a really good painter though and is probably going to school for it.

This is my new Aunt Sofi and her daughter Delia. She married my uncle about 5 months ago. Sofi is a yoga master? She teaches some insane class about it.

This is my cousin who we're all meeting for the first time because she was put up for adoption by my uncle Harry. Her name is Valerie and she's at least 20 by now and is a fashion designer. I'm really excited!

She's bringing her adopted brother Richard who's pretty good looking if you ask me, he's the one on the right.

This is my uncle who isn't really my uncle named John. But we all call him Bones because he's so skinny. He builds custom motorcycles for a living.

Lastly here is a picture of my Grandfather Jack. He's a retired graphic designer but he still paints a lot. I couldn't find a picture of my grandmother Roz. She's a painter and does a lot of rock gardening. She isn't very nice.

I keep telling my cat that he won't be able to sleep in his shoebox if he continues to eat it but he probably won't change his behaviour because he's a cat and he doesn't understand English.

True story.

Planted a tree today and really glad I had off from work today. I'm home snuggling up in the couch with my mom and our roommate. We're watching movies. I love doing this kind of stuff on a rainy day. I'm so happy right now.

I am finally going out to look for a prom dress in Montgomery Ville. I hope I find one. I hate shopping.

So I woke up today at 9:05 am and preceded to drag myself out of my nice, comfy bed to go plant a tree...

I put on some shitty clothes and got a ride from my dad down to the Kendrick Recreation Center.  I waited around for a while until the coordinator, Jill, showed up with her crew.

I volunteered for about an hour and basically helped move the trees to their locations and dig giant holes in the tree pits.  I planted one bare root tree and then left.  It took me about an hour.

It was freezing outside and I was exhausted, but now I feel kind of good about myself.  I did something positive for my neighborhood and now every time I walk by that tree, I'll remember that I helped make that tree's life possible.

This is my 5 photo story from the region of Oceania about the great barrier reef.

Me and mom found an iPhone 3GS on the ground and my first reaction was OMG TODAY'S my lucky day. Then I realized 1 that it was an old 3GS which are relatively cheap now a days and when I unlocked it I saw a really cute young couple as the background photo and I realized that it would just better to give it back and my mother agreed. So we got an IM on the phone that said if found please call this number and we'll have a reward. Then, I called the number and the lady thanked me graciously and said I was a hero and that there are still god people in the world and I felt really good about that. We gave it back and she tried giving us money and I said no to it. 

Today I was getting into it with Sam a little bit. Not a real argument but a disagreement that was causing some weird tension. So I was talking to Kay about it, trying to get him to take sides, which of course he wouldn't because it really was one of those things where we both had partially a good point. So anyway when we were done talking about it I said "Ugh... relationships are hard..." and he was like "Yep... but they're usually worth it." And then I didn't really think before the thing I said next... I kind of forgot Mr. Kay wasn't like... a teenage girl? "Yeah... I think we do pretty well though, we fight sometimes sure but we don't let it get out of hand. Plus... if I'm honest with you most of the times we fight are around when I get my period so... I'd say we do well"
Then there was just this long pause. Finally Kay said "... wow. We are close, aren't we Kiddo? Hahahahaha"
"Oh man sorry! I was just being honest... I like forgot... you were you."
he was like "That's fine I wouldn't have it any other way."
But, I'm still pretty embarrassed even if he isn't. :D

Song Credit: Lykke Li - Possibility