I'm using a premade template right now because I really needed the change and was too lazy to make my own. Well, once again, it's been a very long time. 3 months... I know that I keep saying that I will try to post more often and that never happens. I just get insanely lazy.

So anyways. Let's talk about summer. Yay! I hope everyone's summer has been great. Mine has been really busy so far but it's going to be better by next week. I am currently taking a summer class at UC Berkeley on MWF, and then private lesson for skating on TThSa. I'm also volunteering at the EBSPCA on Thursdays from 6p-8pm. I took a break from Pilates but I'll probably start it again when Fall comes.

I am currently taking Precalculus 2648.2 (not that the number really matters. I just wanted to see if I knew it) at UCB. My teacher is Mr. Henri and I take the afternoon class. It starts at 1pm and ends at 4:30pm. I take the BART to and from (so it's about a total of 2 a day). Our last day is this Friday, but we'll be taking our final the entire class period. It's going to be 20% of our grade and I most likely won't be studying that much. I only have an 88% and if I get a bad grade on the final, I most likely won't get credit for taking the class. But an 'A' is just impossible for me in that class. Oh well. I've made 3 new friends though, despite the fact that they're all going to be sophomores while I'm going to be a senior.

There's nothing much to say about ice skating. I started my Axel in February and I still haven't landed it. I keep getting my spins and then losing them and that's about it.

I decided to post an entry here today because I got a digital camera at the beginning on July. It's a pink cybershot dsc-w120 or something like that. It's not as pretty as my mom's limited edition pink slidy cybershot, but it's nice none-the-less. I've been taking some photos and decided that I wanted to start a photoblog today (me and my brilliant plans). So I look through a few different photoblogging services and decided on one called iAlmond.com. It annoyed me to no end because it wouldn't not let me upload. I spent 15 minutes just trying to upload my profile pic because you're supposed to. And so here I am because I got frustrated with that. I might just upload some of my pictures on Deviantart.

So I have some very exciting news! On June 9th, my brother's dog, Marshmellow, had 4 adorable puppies. They're all a cremey color and I'm pretty sure they're all girls. Their names are Pichu, Peanut, Truffles, and Tapioca. Pichu and Peanut belong to my brother while Truffles and Tapioca belong to me. We're going to be selling them all because we already have two dogs and my dad doesn't want to keep them. That's like the main reason that I wanted a new camera now, because they are just too adorable. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=504468&id=530549577 I'm not sure if you have to be my friend in order to view my album, though. They are all mini-toy poodles, not labs.

So I have one more piece of news before I go, even though it's getting to be an extremely long post. I have recently "discovered" the lolita fashion (my favorite is sweet lolita). I swear, I might as well live under a rock. But anyways. It's really cute and I wish that I could wear clothing like that without people gawking at me. I also want to read Lolita, even though it's not related, because it sounds like an intriguing book.

That's it for now. <3

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For ice skating, there is an off-ice training device called a spinner. I've had a metal one for almost a year, but I've always wanted a plastic one. So I finally got my mom to let me get one and I ordered it only near the middle ofJune. I was really excited to get it and he website said that it would take about 6 to 12 days. But they didn't even process it until like one and a half weeks later and didn't ship it until the 10th. Luckily, I received it today. The annoying thing is that if it had arrived yesturday, or even a few hours earlier, I would have been able to try it. now I have to wait until Saturday because I don't want to ruin the bottom on our tiling or on the cement. That's okay, though, because I'm still really excited.

Do you guys ever shop online? I browse stores, but I don't really buy things there. My rule is that I don't buy things that I have to try on, unless I really want/need it.

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So today was my PreCalc final, which I didn't really study for. But oh well. My mom didn't wake me up until like 10:10am, when I'm supposed to get up at 10am. So I was worried that might miss the BART and not have enough time to take the final. But luckily, I made it on time.

As I was walking up the stairs to the upper platform, I saw Micheal. He hadn't studied at all, so we spent like 10 minutes studying on the BART before we had to switch trains. We got to Berkeley around 40 minutes early, like always, so we went to get gelato. I got kiwi and mango and it was like amazing. I've only been to that place once before with my mom, and they have these really cute plastic cups.

So anyways, after that, we started walking towards Tolman Hall (because that's where our class is). And while I was finishing the last of my mango, I accidentally dropped part of it on the floor. And since we were walking through this wood-ish part of Berkeley, I felt kind of bad. But oh well.

When we got to our classroom, most of our class was already sitting outside (because other people usually use the classroom before our class). Stephanie was like worrying about the final, and since she's like the smartest student, it made me start to worry too. But Spencer (our TA) was reading his newspaper and then began reading the horoscope section. Apparently, I'm really generous. And I guess I am, because while I was adding more money to my BART ticket (for the LAST time!), some girl came up to me and asked if I could spare a dollar. So I just gave her one without thinking, which is kind of stupid after I had thought about it for a little while. Lol.

Our final was 3 hours long. We had the no calculator part, a 20 minute break, and then the calculator allowed part. Mr. Henri brought bagels and soda for us, and so of course I went and go a bagel because I tend to like nibble on stuff when I'm nervous. Stephanie was eating a blueberry bagel with blueberry cream cheese, so I wanted to try the blueberry cream cheese as well... And I think it's kind of nasty. Lol. But at least now I know to never buy blueberry cream cheese at Safeway.

At the very end of class, we were shown our grades for the first part of the test and I only got like an 88.9% on it. That makes me really nervous for the second part because I thought I did really well on the first part. I really hope that I end up getting an "A-" in the class, at least, or I'm going to be very upset at myself. Currently, I only have an 87% in the class mainly because I didn't do a 50 point homework assignment. Hopefully my final grade will bring it up.

But now my summer class is over and I can actually enjoy my summer until like the 25th. Yay! We're going back to Berkeley tomorrow because they have this family picnic for ATDP students. Afterwards, we're (my mom, brother, and I) are planning on going shopping, ordering my birthday cake from Baskin Robbins (I'm not having a party), and then going to Fremont for my ice skating lesson. We had gone to Baskin Robbins before to order my cake, but then I got made at my mom over something and left the store. I originally told her that I was going to order it myself, but I don't want to spend any more money so I'm letting her order it.

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Tomorrow is Sunday but it's not really exciting. There's this Smart Teen Driver or whatever program thing that I have to spend the entire day doing. It's offered by AAA and if you pass the test, you get 20% off of your insurance. Yay... But it looks really boring. In one of the booklets, it saids that it should take around 4 weeks to finish... So not fun! Ahh!! But it's been sitting in a plastic bag in my room for almost a month now, and if I don't finish it soon, my parents are going to get mad at me. So now I have no choice but to try and finish it tomorrow.

So today we went to Berkeley for the ATDP picnic, which was boring. None of the people in my class went, mainly just younger kids and their parents. My brother kept dropping food on the grass, which was very annoying. There was also bees around and when a bee was flying around his food, he kind of threw his plate and spilled chips. He refused to pick it up so my mom did it for him in the end. My mom is just stupid because she does everything for him. He's almost ten but she treats him like a baby. He has a horrible attitude, is extremely lazy, and pretends that he knows everything (not just my own opinion. my dad agrees on all three while my mom agrees with the last two). The worst part is that I'm going to have to deal with him a lot longer than my parents. Uh. Whatever.

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