Sunrise/Sunset-Beginning or End?

I searched for a long time--over ten minutes--looking for some funny joke about sunsets. When I couldn't find one, I decided to search for a "beginning/end" quote... well, that was harder than I thought. But, I finally found a quote I like... or a couple, rather.

"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity."
-- Dan Custer

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
-- J.B. Priestly

Spanish Shakespeare

In Spanish class, we have to do these individual mini-projects. We could choose our topics from a list of five that the teacher made. I chose, "If you could eat dinner with any famous person, past or present, who would you have dinner with, and why?"

So, I would have dinner with Shakespeare because I would want to ask him, "Why Shakespeare? Why'd you do it?" Referring to, of course, the several plays he wrote which poor students now have to study, and be tested on, and so on and so forth.

Thanks a lot, Shakespeare.

First Step to Getting into College

The first step for your college career is--well, actually, it depends on who you ask--but, you should at some point probably figure out which college you want to go to. To help you with this, many colleges and universities will start sending you an obnoxious amount of e-mails in hopes of recruiting you.

This just so happened to start for me this year.

A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from a College.

The message said, "We've heard of you, Matilda. Have you heard of us?"

---Well, actually, *____* university, I haven't.

***LA LA LA LA LA**** ;)

And so... well, let's just say that I'm stuck on this first step, though I do have a couple places in mind...

****NOTE: This is meant to be a light-hearted, comical tid-bit from my life; I really do appreciate the effort colleges make for students--it makes it that much easier for future college students.

Yum-Delicious

I've been using this wonderful conditioner that smells absolutely amazing, and I can smell it all day and giggle and be consumed with joy over my lovely smelling hair. But, the other day, the conditioner ran out!!! EEEEEK!!! So, instead, I reached over the the green container, and lathered this new conditioner in my hair. Then I realized it smelled like mint. And what did this mint-smelling conditioner make me think of??? Mint chocolate, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and all minty, chocolatey foods. Great. So, now, my hair smells like dessert. What's going to stop me from eating my hair????

YUM YUM!!

Future Cat Lady

My mom has confirmed my fears that I will end up a cat lady. She said, "You marry you who date."

Yes, the cats should be scared...

Sure Feels Good to be 71

Yay!! I had a birthday, shout hurray! ;)

It was fabulous, except for all of the stress from school... but, leading up to it, I made sure my family knew what I wanted for my birthday. Here is the e-mail I sent to my parents and sister.

To whom it may concern:

As you know, one of the most important holidays is approaching. The day mere mortals celebrate the wonderful life of a most beloved individual. Yes, you know what that day is. It's Justin Bieber's birthday.

...and his twin's, of course--dearest Matilda ... (and her aunt Suzanne... *minor detail).

For those of you who may be uncertain as to what this mortal goddess would accept as an appropriate offering for all of her brilliance, beauty, and other... genius, never fear! For, there is a list irrevocably decreed on Goodreads, created by the beautiful mastermind herself.

This list includes the following:

-Blackbringer (by Laini Taylor)

-The Decoy Princess (Dawn Cook)

-Poison Study (Maria V. Snyder)

-Storm Glass (Maria V. Snyder)

-Courting Miss Lancaster (Sarah M. Eden)

-Bella at Midnight (Diane Stanley)

-Surrender the Heart (M.L. Tyndall)

-Eyes Like Stars (Lisa Mantchev)

-Wish (Alexandra Bullen)

-As You Wish (Jackson Pearce)

-The Morning Gift (Eva Ibbotson)

-Winning Mr. Wrong (Marie Higgins)

-Easterfield (Anna Jones Buttimore)

-Timeless Waltz (Anita Stansfield)

-Loyalty's Web (Joyce DiPastena)

-Luck of the Draw (Rachael Renee Anderson)

-What the Doctor Ordered (Sierra St. James)

-Finding Rose (Stephanie Humphreys)

-Love on Assignment (Cara Lynn James)

-Timeless (Alexandra Monir)

-Steel (Carrie Vaughn)

-Unearthly (Cynthia Hand)

-The Girl in the Gatehouse (Julie Klassen)

-The Apothecary's Daughter (Julie Klassen)

-The Blue Djinn of Babylon (Philip Kerr)

-The Cobra King of Kathmandu (Philip Kerr)

Also, the wonderful lady has read the following, but would love receiving them.

-The Ordinary Princess (M.M. Kaye)

-Austenland (Shannon Hale)

----and if there is a way to get Sini to find that one book... that would be great...

Of course, no pressure. However, the day is in less than two days, so don't feel too relaxed.

Also... Matilda was promised a CTR ring. Don't let her down.

Regards from the lady of the day.

What?! 71 ALREADY?!! Man, how time flies!!!

ramblings

The rest of my family (excluding my brother...of course) are at the movies... some silly owl movie. (Watch it be the next big hit, and I missed out. Ha. Yeah right.)

So, here I am. I am faced with choices here. Be an overachiever and work on some extra homework, be a bum, and get ready for bed, write something extremely brilliant and become a multimillionaire, or write a new post for this oh-so-lovely blog of mine... I choose the latter!

But don't underestimate me. Not only am I writing this wonderful masterpiece, but I am also jamming out to some major music, and wearing out my vocals. Yehaw!

Don't get me wrong, it's fun stuff. (And yes, mom, I did the dishes before I got on the computer..)

I should really find some new worthy favorite songs... I've been listening to the same five for... about a month. Time to change it up a bit--yeah... I'll get to it... later.

Earlier I had a dance party. It was wonderful! Just me, and those good-looking dishes. At least they don't make fun of my chicken dances, which is completed with my new leopard slippers. (I picked them out. They are wonderful. I will keep them, and love them, and name them "slipper 1" and "slipper 2."

Good stuff. Good stuff.

Now, I should probably go, seeing how the fam. will be home in a jiffy, and it would just be humiliating if they caught me on the computer (not like mom isn't always on the computer when I come to the living room...*cough*)

oops. They're here.