Effie's Journal

my sorry excuse for an update

2006-09-27T01:06:23Z

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE FUN ... ... ...

1. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
2. Whats your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I'm a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I'm attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. What do you wear to sleep?
17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
18. Would you go on a date with me if I asked you?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

effie89 @ 2006-09-22T20:53:00

2006-09-23T00:53:36Z

I need to update this weekend. but not now, I'm exhausted... so yeah.

effie89 @ 2006-08-18T15:02:00

2006-08-18T19:12:18Z

Open your playlist, pick songs that start with each letter of your username, but, the songs have to mean something to you. Don't just pick a song because it starts with a letter in your username. Post the list to your journal. If you want you can explain why the songs are important to you and/or upload them for people to listen to, but it's not required. Tag at least five other people to do the meme.

((I'm going to use Effie and Bethany because effie89.... um yeah YOU tel me what song starts with 8 and 9....)

E- Escape: Enrique Iglesias (haha Kate....)
F- Fat Bottomed Girls: Queen (lol!)
F- For the Longest Time: Unknown (whatever arrangement it was that kate gave me)
I- I've Never Been in Love Before: Guys & Dolls
E- Ease on Down the Road: The Wiz
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B- Bound for the Promised Land: Morman Tabernacle Choir (yay mastersinger guys!)
E- Easy Lover: Phil Collins
T- Take Me or Leave Me: Rent (woohoo! yay for the bestest musical EVER)
H- Hard Habbit to Break: Chicago
A- Another Day: Rent (^^)
N- The Nothing Fight: Dane Cook (DC rocks!)
Y- You Give Love a Bad Name: Bon Jovi

yay :) ummmm I tag Ashton, Adam, Kat, Kelsey, and Joel! DO ITTTTTTT!

Adam, GET A FUCKING LIFE!

2006-08-18T03:45:30Z

R O o K I e 0307: HOLY CRAP I CAN INCREASE MY PENIS SIZE BY 5 INCHES TODAY
Fenda Linde: lol wtf
R O o K I e 0307: ALL I HAVE TO DO IS TAKE THESE PILLS!
Fenda Linde: hahahahhaa
R O o K I e 0307: SHIT MAN
R O o K I e 0307: SIGN ME THE FUCK UP
Fenda Linde: lmfao
Fenda Linde: wow
R O o K I e 0307: i'm going to take multiple dosages
R O o K I e 0307: it's going to be like a snake
R O o K I e 0307: i'm going to like wrap it around my head
R O o K I e 0307: walk through the airport like
Fenda Linde: hahahaha
R O o K I e 0307: HELLO MY FRIENDS
Fenda Linde: you are so strangely funny/gross
R O o K I e 0307: DO YOU LIKE MY TURBAN

effie89 @ 2006-08-16T09:02:00

2006-08-16T13:06:12Z

so yes. I'm at Kate's house..... and life is good. we went to Busch Gardens yesterday, which was fun. she's out babysitting until like one, so I"m probably going to go back to sleep pretty soon here. I'll save all the "lol moments" for when I get back. we've made a list of all the dumb/funny stuff we've said so far and let's just say, I'm winning. what else has happened? not much. train was good, oh and Kate took the liberty of making some comments on myspace under my name since I forgot to log off.... yeah. that was fun. ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I think that's about it. we're going shopping today. should be fun. oh and I have this new dilema... I brought the smaller of the suitcases that we have at my house since I"ll only be here for four days. the Kate throws this PILE of clothes at me that she's outgrown that she's giving to me. so now I have like two time the amount of clothing than I do suitcase.... lol. yeah I'm excited about THAT coming home. lol anyways, bye bye!

fun day :)

2006-08-10T01:55:33Z

so yeah. I just got back from a fantastic day with DANIELLE! :) yay! so vbs this morning was meh, came home, napped, then Dani called, came over and we swam (in the rain... it was fun) and she showered because she hadn't in like a day and a half (long story) thennn we went to Carolina Place Mall and walked around for a while. ohhhhhh my gosh we went to Rave and actually looked around for a while then got tired of looking for stuff we actually wanted and picked out CRAZY stuff to try on (like stuff that I don't think anyone in their right mind would ever buy) she picked stuff for me... I ended up with a pink frilly lacy skirt that was realllllllly short.... yeah we had a laugh or two over that. she also picked some strange, obscure dress thing. it looked more like a tablecloth... I picked random crazy stuff for her and the people almost kicked us out of the store. it was great. after that, we went back to her house and decided to watch Dirty Dancing, which ended up being a pretty good movie. but now we're both set on learning to (I quote us) dance "classy dirty dancing" lol wow... good times. then we talked to her mom for a while and randomly walked around until I realized it was 9:30 and we both have vbs tomorrow morning, so I decided to come home... oh, and I think my mom forgot I was gone... lol

define "unrealistic" :)

2006-07-30T15:52:22Z

Calvin's HOME! I'm so happy, I don't think I've been this relieved in weeks. I can't even write all that he's been through... I've told some people day-by-day, but it's too much to write... all that matters is that he's home :)

sigh of relief

2006-07-21T18:56:44Z

Calvin's out of surgery! I talked to my mom and apparently it went VERY well. It took about 6 hours for the procedure and another hour(ish) to stich him up and prepare him for the ICU. His back went from being 71 degrees off (curved forward, sideways, and his individual vertebrae were twisted) to being like 15-20 degrees off, which is very close to normal curvature! :) I'm so happy it's over. I've been a wreck all day. I did sudoku for like... let's see, 7 hours... give or take. I woke up at 4:30 to see him off and couldn't fall asleep afterwards and I got a call at 1:30 saying that he was done with the surgery. So yeah, I'm just really relieved it's over.

Calvin leaves for surgery

2006-07-21T08:57:37Z

Calvin just left for the hospital. I got up early (um at 4:30 actually) to say good bye, and turns out they didn't have to leave for like an extra 15 minutes, so Calvin and I talked. He almost started crying a few times, but laughed it off and started talking about something else. I was definately close to tears. We're going to see him tomorrow. His surgery is at 7:30am this morning. Please be thinking about him. I'd planned on going back to sleep, but I can't see that happening, I'm too worried. Anyways, keep him in your thoughts today.

effie89 @ 2006-07-18T20:45:00

2006-07-19T00:50:51Z

*sigh* excellant day. woke up and tutored the boys then called Dani and made plans for the day. We ended up going out to lunch at Macaroni Grill (which I had never been to) and we split a "Create your own pasta"... it was amazing. half the fun was "creating" it. and we were being complete nerds and writing music notes and stuff all over the paper thing on the table (like the paper that covers the table). it was fantastic. thennnn we went back to my house and picked up Katie and went to Carolina Place mallllll :) which was AMAZING fun! Kate got a bunch of stuff, Dani got a really cute dress :) (which was her main goal) and I got a cute dress annnnd a really nice shirt. the shirt was on sale for $5! Kate was very jealous :) so yeah. that was all at Gadzooks I think. thennnn we walked around more and got other random stuff at other random places, and then we came back to my house. Dani left and Kate and I picked blackberries with my little sister (oh fun fun) then we went to my room and compared our fabulous findings :)! we've decided that I'm going to go visit her the week before school starts. I'm taking the train up and then coming back a few days before the 25th.... I'm excited :) sooooooo yeah that's pretty much my day. OH! but I'd say that the highlight was going up the down elevator in Hechts...... Dani and Kate did it relatively unnoticed, but LEAVE IT TO ME to completely wipe out at the very top and draw WAY more attention to myself than I would have liked... yeah so I scraped up my shin pretty bad and like 5 people were all concerned and asking me if I was okay and I couldn't even answer I was laughing so hard. ah, good times!

WORD OF THE DAY

2006-07-16T01:43:43Z

Fipple: a grooved plug in the end of a pipe organ

also known as: a multi use, multi part-of-speech word of or relating to anything sexual (from the dictionary of Kate and Bethany)

LMFAO

Hear ye, hear ye, all ye mastersingerrs

2006-07-12T15:29:39Z

Postscript to last night's update:

MAC MADE MASTERSINGERS! Some of the guys may remember him from boys' choir in like... 2000ish... I don't know. But yeah, he's a bass, which is exciting. And yeah.

:-)

effie89 @ 2006-07-11T21:32:00

2006-07-12T01:41:06Z

So yeah... update is much needed.

okayyy where to begin. um yeah... Calvin's surgery is the 21st and I'm really worried about him. He's trying so hard to act like it's no big deal and that he doesn't care, but I know him, he can' t bullshit me. He's scared to hell and really doesn't have anyone to talk about it with besides family since he's out of school and there are only like 5 other people at his school anyways. I'm going to talk to him tomorrow or something.... so yeah. He'll be in the hospital from earlllllllly the 21st to like the 24thish. Nana and Poppy are coming to help watch the kids while Mom and Dad stay at the hospital. Mom and Dad have both given blood uptown at the hospital in case something goes wrong (that's not frightening or anything...) but yeah. Sooooo I think that's all that's involved with Cal's surgery.

Went to see Pirates umm a few days ago with Ashton. Lots of fun :-) good movie, kinda sucky ending, but still a fun time. Although we did end up at Stonecrest like 1 hour & 45 minutes to early (lol) but whatever. Good time(s).

Umm what else? Work is insane. I love it, but it's insane. I absolutely love my manager. She is the craziest person ever. Not even kidding. I can't even describe the good times... yeah, but seriously I laugh harder at work than I do any other time during the typical day. But yeah. Lots of hours, lots of MONEY :-) OH! and I'm training to work "on the line" (basically make the food and stuff) which is really fun. Everyone at work thinks I'm weird for being so hapy about making food, but what can I say? I'm WEIRD! I admit it!

My sunburn went away surprisingly fast. I was very happy about that. Sunburns really suck when they stay for like a month. Yeah, I would know. But I'm going back to the beach on the.... 16th? Yes. So I'll get nice and sunburned again then. I'm pretty excited about that.... not.

Yeah. I think that's it to my semi-massive update. I'll try to post some more while I'm at the beach or sometime before or whatever... I hope you're having fun if you're at Westminster! (Derrick, Carlin, Margaret, Cameron!)

Anyways, hope everyone's having a great summer and talk to you soon!

effie89 @ 2006-07-10T14:45:00

2006-07-10T18:45:09Z

so I really need to update. I'll try tonight, but right now I'm kinda babysitting these 72198475982375 children, so yeah. umm that'll have to wait.

effie89 @ 2006-07-06T13:49:00

2006-07-06T17:49:43Z

So you shoud DEFINATELY do this:

http://kevan.org/johari?name=La+Vie+Boheme!

effie89 @ 2006-07-04T10:13:00

2006-07-04T14:14:18Z

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DERRICK!!!

effie89 @ 2006-07-01T21:01:00

2006-07-02T01:03:23Z

omg I am such a dumb ass. I am sun-burned AGAIN! I went to the beach this morning and my face didn't burn, but my legs and arms did pretty badly. Then I fell asleep reading on the hammock outside for like 3 hours, and my face burned pretty badly and my legs and arms are fried. gah! WHY do I ALWAYS do this?! :/ annnnnnnd I forgot aloe, which I swear to god I packed... anyways, see y'all when I get back.

effie89 @ 2006-06-30T13:38:00

2006-06-30T17:38:33Z

Leaving in about an hour for the beach. Cell'll be on all weekend, so call if there's anything planned for Mastersingers or whatever.

Kat, I'm sorry we didn't get to hang out tonight; I really wish we weren't leaving til tomorrow :-/ <3 call me when you get moved in/whenever.

Be back the 4th!

effie89 @ 2006-06-26T11:50:00

2006-06-26T15:50:04Z

Calvin's surgery: July 21st

effie89 @ 2006-06-22T23:05:00

2006-06-23T03:16:38Z

wow... so tour was AMAZING! I had an absolute blast and am really upset it's over :/ I made several unexpected friends, which was really nice, since I'd never really been close with them before. I can't even put into words what all we did and everything that happened, but I'll work on the highlights. I'd say that one of my favorite parts was the last rehearsal when we sang the Alleluia. Rodney was doing our rehearsal and he had us mix up and close our eyes so we could focus on listening. We sang the whole way through the Alleluia, and it was AMAZING OMGOMOGMGOMG! I wish I had a recording of it. Rodney started crying! It was magnificant. :) On another note, my Bennie Award was: The "where's my suitcase award" for being too trusting. there's a story behind it... When we were at the hotel somewhere, everyone put their luggage in the lobby before we left. when we were loading the bus, mine wasn't there, and someone else had taken my garment bag. I assumed that we were all just loading everything spontaneously since the pile was so random... I grabbed someone elses luggage and put it by the bus. Then I got on and after about 5 minutes, Mr Outen gets on and says, "Bethany Wenger, come here." and that's where I thought, "Oh shit. I fucked up." He ended up telling my that my luggage had been left in the lobby and someone else grabbed it and that it was on a plane to New Mexico, which I didn't believe at first, but started to believe... then Mrs Johnson got on and told me they'd found my luggage. *relief* so yeah, good times, good times.

Besides that, work is amazing. I love it. :) and I get free food! woohoo! I work like 5 of the next 6 days, so $$$ = :)

On a different note, Calvin is having his surgery a lot sooner than expected. It's going to be in the next month. That could mean next week or 4 weeks from now. We don't know yet. Mom's calling tomorrow to set up a time... So that's really stressful, and Cal's kinda stressing about it (he's horrible with change... he freaks when something like moving or vacation messes up the daily routine of life) So he'll spend a week in the hospital, and have about 4-5 months until he's fully recovered...

My other brothers (Luke and Adam) need to be tutored over the summer to get solid skills for next year, since they won't remember anything come September... so instead of wasting tons of money on a private tutor, mom's employing me. I'm going to tutor them each an hour a day and hopefully make up for some lost time (especially for Luke, who need help with math).

On a really confusing note, I've pretty much gotten over what's been bothering me for a few months, but there's a whole new spin on life, which started recently... I'm really confused and don't know what is going on... but it's all good :)

Okay, now that I've made you laugh at me, told you about my job, made you sorry for my brother, gave you pointless information about my other brothers, and made you confused, I'll go now and make you relieved. NIGHT!

effie89 @ 2006-06-21T21:47:00

2006-06-22T01:48:47Z

I'm so effing confused. Katie, I'm trying to call you...

*massive update tomorrow*

(Kelsey: what time are you working tomorrow... I'm working 5-close, so come see me if you're working anywhere in there!)

effie89 @ 2006-06-14T19:13:00

2006-06-14T23:17:28Z

alksdjflakjsdflaksjdf okay so yeah... busy and confused and crazay!

tour tomorrow... stillllll not done packing for that. I need to go dig up a sleeping bag as well...

boys confuse me... actually the inverse of that, but oh well.

Kat... I left a message at your house. call me and leave a message on my phone on tour. I'll call you after 9pm on whatever night you leave a message (at host families' houses). Do you know what I was talking about (when I said "matters at hand")? If not, we have some catching up to do...

okay, so I'm mayyybe going to stop listening to the same song over and over again (even though it's AMAZING!!!) and go outside or pack or something.

effie89 @ 2006-06-06T21:59:00

2006-06-07T02:00:12Z

Margaret: whoa sex in the car!

Me: hahaha
*hmm, I wonder if they're still having sex*
we're some cool kiddies

Margaret:
"did Danielly say that?!?!?!"

uh NO Joel
hahaha

I love choir kids (revived that conversation from some old post... good times)

effie89 @ 2006-06-05T13:35:00

2006-06-05T17:42:48Z

oh my goodness I have a lot of updating to do.

okay, so today was the first day of exams. Latin kicked my ass... doubt I did well, but even the guy who hadsn't gotten anything below a 98 for 2 years doesn't think he did well, so she'll probably curve it like 30 points and I'll get an A (like for the semester, my raw score was a 73... which was like the 4th highest, and I ended up getting an A)... whatever Business went well. didn't study at ALL, got an 84, B for the year... I'm happy because I haven't studied for any of the tests cause it's on the same day as damn Latin...

in other news, my brother is probably going to have a massive surgery this summer... I've probably stated this before, but Calvin has scoliosis, which is a curvature in his back. he has it both foreward and to the side, which is... not good. since his last appointment, his curve has increased by 11 degrees... his back is now 71 degrees off where it should be. he's getting a second opinion on June 22nd from another doctor, and will probably have a major operation in July. he'll have to spend about a week in the hospital, will be immobile for a month, and not be back to "normal" for up to 6 months... so how bad does THAT suck?

anyways, can't write much more now, as I have to go write an outline for my English paper that = my exam... woohoo! research paper on an aspect of Life of Pic (my topic is meerkats... wtf?)

effie89 @ 2006-05-20T15:05:00

2006-05-20T19:06:45Z

so this weekend I'm watching Calvin (my 13 yr old ADHD brother) and let's just say it's... rough... he kinda has issues with me having any authority, so even when I just tell him (nicely, I might add) what mom told me to have him do, he blows up... ugh. oh well. mom'll be back tomorrow night. and I have two nag-free days to do basically whatever I want (within reason) so it's all... okay