I  just got done watching brokeback mountain. I thought it was really good. It was not overly gay. I don't know why people made a big deal about it. If that story was with a man and a woman; instead of 2 men, I think it would be just as good! It is not neccessarily about being gay. It teaches you the importance of love and how that is ultimately stronger than anything else. A lot of times, I could hardly understand what they were saying though.  Heath Ledger's character did a lot of mumbling. But that didn't really matter because their actions spoke louder than their words.  
It is sad that heath ledger died. He did some terrific acting.
Well thats my movie review.

 its been a while. Well i am going to graduate in about a month. I am excited but i am also kind of sad. i didn't get into the college i wanted to go to.  i will probably never speak to any of my friends again. I hardly even speak to them now. But i am just happy and ready for it to be over with and move on from stupid high school. Everyone still dwells on stupid things. There is always just petty arguments that i could care less about. I am sick of the homework. When am i going to ever use vectors in my life? Or when am i going to use electrochemistry? I really should go to culinary school. Even though i enjoy it, I just can't see myself making lots of money from it. Soo i met Wolfgang Puck on Tuesday. He was not very nice but he makes a mean burger! I can't blame him too much though. I would be a lil angry if i had to spend my day at a casino in detroit.
I was flying my kite today and it flew pretty well but it kept on getting caught in trees. I need to find a nice open space.
I really do not want to go to prom. The people who were pushing me to go are getting off my back soo i don't think i will be going. \
I finally saw star wars last week. Good movie. Its like the mythology ive been reading. Even though its nonsense, it is still entertaining.

 GEORGE MICHAEL IS DOING 25 LIVE SHOWS IN NORTH AMERICA THIS SUMMER. IS IT 1993 AGAIN?....NOO ITS 2008 AND IT LOOKS LIKE HE IS GETTING OFF THE DRUGS AND BACK ON TOUR WHOO!  I AM PUMPED FOR A GEORGE MICHAEL CONCERT. too bad he is not coming too michigan....ohh well sounds like a nice trip to chicago for me!

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHh!!!!!! WHOO IS GOING TO NEW YORK?!?!!? CANDICE IS!!!!!! IN 6 DAYS!! WHOOOOOO!!! I am sooo excited! i haven't gone on a vacation since my freshmen year when the orchestra went to chicago. But that was only 2.5 days and i don't have to be in my hotel room by 10pm. And there is no guards oustside our hotel room doors. And I don't have to deal with 3 other girls in a small hotel room. Including one girl who wouldn't get off my ass about taking a sip out of the hotels bottled water(Since the last time i entered a hotel room before this trip was 6 years..I didn't know the bottled water wasn't free), Wondering if i was going to pay for it or if the teacher was going to pay for it. She was even talking about me while i was in the shower thinking i couldn't hear it. I serioulsly wanted to throw enough money in her face that would pay for the water...and then punch her in the face. okay enough about that....Soo me and frankie are going to new york!!! But there are a few problems i am dealing with. #1 Tickets to a yankees red sox game. We are both very picky about our seats. And i just can't seem to find the right seats for the right price. #2 CONAN! I am a huge fan of late night with conan o brien. I have been watching every single show for the past year. I really want to see his show. But i didn't get any tickets because this vacation was so sudden. Well actually...I've been wanting to go for a long time but I didn't know the exact date until 2 weeks ago! And you need to call for tickets at least a month in advance. But there is still a chance...standby tickets! Hopefully we will get in with standby tickets. Or maybe our hotel will have tickets. #3 We are only staying 2.5 days!! ughh. Well thats about it for the problems...now on to the fun stuff!!! Ohhhh mann we are gonna do soo many things! First off..I am gonna go on an airplane! Which i have never done before! Then were gonna go and shop and do fun stuff in times square. Toys r us, wax museum, espn zone, seinfeld restaurant....
The next day we are gonna take a visit to ground 0 and pay our respects, statue of liberty, central park, yankees-red sox game, bronx zoo or the bronx equestrian center! Then the next day were gonna go to astroland!!! Eat at the dosa cart in washington square park and HOPEFULLLY see conan!!!!! I decided not to see a broadway show...just because i know the tickets are gonna cost way over $100 and its gonna be about 2 hours. And i don't even know what show to go to. I wanna go see avenue Q but I think that will be a little too much...seeing how puppets have sex and i am going with my brother. I already saw blue man group. i don't care for dramas. so seeing any type of show is probably not going to happen. unless we have nothing to do that night.
Anywhoo...ITs gonna be a lot of fun and i can not wait!!

SOo i haven't been to the gym in a month. There is some good and bad to that. the bad is that i feel incredibly guilty for not going. And obviously i gained back about 2 pounds. But not too much because i have been going out a lot. Which was something i was not doing much of while i was going to the gym. I was just sitting around the house and then going to the gym as opposed to now where i am going out shopping, i am working, cooking, playing with my hunny bunny more, gardening and much more. It seems like i got my day back. Because i spent about 3 hours all together getting ready to go to the gym, running to the gym, actually working out at the gym, running back home, showering and al that. Soo thats some of the good news about not going to the gym. The other is that all my aches and pains for the gym are now all gone!! yayy! My triceps, biceps and back hurt. My legs were aching from all the running and the sole of my right foot was really hurting. And thats not even mentioning my ankles which always hurt me the most. But somehow i pushed myself through it. Now they are all healed with time. But I am gonna start again friday. Break time needs to end.
Did i mention i got a job?!  Well i did...sort of. I am working with my brother selling all types of merchandise! It is a lot of fun!
And it is official... i am getting my bangs back. But it is gonna be a thin layer. Not as thick as before.
Well i gotta go look for some yankee tickets.
bye

I got about 13 hours of sleep today, which was wonderful.  I got less than 30 hours of sleep during those 5 days of school, soo now I am refreshed! I have to cook something German for our cultural day on wednesday and I really don't want to. (I HATE German food). I decided to make Kartoffelpuffer (potato pancakes). I didn't think it would be too hard. I was wrong about that.  First, I didn't like grating the potatoes because it took too long, soo I put them in the magic bullet! That worked but the batter did not look too good. I cooked it anyways and it was not thoroughly cooked (even though it was almost burnt), I almost threw up.  Then I found another recipe that Emeril made on his show which turned out great! The batter looked good and a lot more flavor but when i cooked it, it once again was not cooked thoroughly.  Then I asked my mom how she makes this chaldean dish that involves frying potatoes and she told me that she puts a lot of oil.  I hate greasy food, or food with a lot of butter, so when I cook I always put less butter or oil than it says to put in the recipe.  But on the recipe it said I should put 1/2 cup of oil!! Instead I was only putting about 1 tablespoon. Whoooppss.  So I am gonna try it out again tomorrow with more oil. 
I also had to make a marble cake for Government EC because there is a term to describe federalism as "marble cake" because there is mingling with other countries....I think thats what it means. Anywhooo soo there was supposed to be a lot more vanilla than chocolate, but I put in too much chocolate. I put the vanilla batter in, then I put the chocolate batter, then I put in the rest of the vanilla batter, but it wasn't enough.  I folded it a couple times.  It didn't come out too marbly. Most of it was chocolate. But it was just a "test" cake, so now I know to put less chocolate.  My mom told me that I shouldn't mix it at all. 
Act test is next week, I am very nervous.  I don't know why some juniors are complaining that the 9, 10, and 12 graders get a day off but we don't.  If we had taken the test how it is traditionally taken, we would've taken it on a saturday morning and pay $50...so quit the bitchin. Unless I get a 36, I am retaking the test. Then i'm probably gonna take it again. I am determined to get into Michigan.
I gave up on the vegetarian thing for lent.  It is too hard.  I probably would have to buy my own food and then cook it too. I don't have that kind of time. 
Tiger tickets went on sale and for the first time Frankie got some good tickets. Now we don't have to worry about getting our tickets off ebay, from scalpers or getting there early because we have to get our tickets. We got tickets for 12 games! I am soo excited for baseball season!!! Yaaayy!!
Well thats it
Candice Out

Soooo its the last night of getting some good sleep before school starts....wait actually, I have to wake up for church tomorrrow...so last night was the last night to get good sleep.  Having this week off really reminded me of summer and when I had soo many days where I have nothing to worry about.  I have to take my math test when I come back.  And I haven't even started studying. I'm soo bored, I should probably stop typing this and do It right now.....but....I'm not going to. 
I have been going vegetarian for lent and it is soooooooooo hard.  I am running out of things to eat!  I hate anything that comes from a body of water (seafood) or anything from a pig. I do like beef but I can live without it.  I don't really like turkey anymore. But CHICKEN....I love chicken!!!! Going 40 days without chicken is a real challenge for me.  I don't even know why I am doing it.  Chicken is good for you...unless you eat the skin or deep fry it....but I always bake it or grill it!  I already gave up pop, fast food, pizza, anything that comes out of a vending machine, and just about every other junk food. So is this really neccessary?? I talked to Hannah and she says she eats tofu. I think I may try that....but what does that taste like?  I could probably do this if I could eat things like pizza or cookies or cake but eating a lot of that is bad for you. Is there such things as whole wheat pizza crust? I ate whole wheat pasta for the first time a couple weeks ago and it is fantastic! It tastes the same as the regular pasta! I have become such a health freak.  It is really weird.

Some random thoughts....
I just realized I never went sledding this winter....that made me kind of mad.  Hopefully there will be more snow.

I need to cut my nails but I hate it when my nails are short. I try to cut it just a little bit, so they are not too short but I always mess at least one nail up and end up having to cut the other nails short.  And No, different length nails are not an option, it bothers me and filing them all takes way too long.

My hands are really cold, I need to finish writing this.

So this new singer, his name is Mika.  You may have seen MTV promoting his video at the end of one of their many shows. I don't usually watch MTV but I was watching True life:I'm Stepping in my room because there was nothing else on basic cable at 1am.  But this Latin Team won the championsip for this first time. Anywhooo back to Mika...he can sound just like Freddie...it is a little eery.  He was born in Lebanon, half Lebanese, half American. He lives in the U.K. and has the British accent. And many are speculating that he is gay but he won't say. Hmmm middle eastern decent, lives in the U.K., possibly gay but not telling, great voice and really skinny. Talk about modern day Freddie huh?  I should make a chart.  Whoever is reading this probably doesn't care soo I'm gonna wrap it up here.
Candice outt

I'm finally updating!! Not that anyone really reads this anymore but i'm gonna write anyways! So there was no school today. I really don't understand why.  It was much colder yesterday than it was today.  Ohh well, i guess i shouldn't question the good things.  I took a government and algebra test yesterday.  I think i did a C or maybe B quality essay for my government test but I did really bad on my Algebra test.  I didn't really study but its okay because this is only the first test.  So i find out that the grades at the end of your junior year are the grades the colleges look at.  Right now I have a 3.6 and I have to get straight A's this semester to get it up to at least a 3.7 or somewhere near that in order to get into Michigan! Talk about pressure huh?
Today i got an Honor Roll letter in the mail and I read that I can get a bumper sticker for it!  And then I had the brilliant idea of putting the bumper sticker on my car. HAHGAHAHAHAHA I laughed about that for 5 minutes. I laugh at the dumbest things.....i know.
Hmmm I don't know what else to say

Candice out
..time to go watch american idol

It is December 15th and I still do not have my cell phone. I really have a tendancy to get my hopes up.
So the Valero on Levan and Plymouth sells really cheap gas and I needed some gas today.  On my way to school this morning, the price was $2.07 and I thought ohh mann I'm gonna get me some cheap gas after school (I didn't have time to get it before school). So I was driving to valero and the price was $2.17!!!! It went up 10 cents in a matter of hours!!! GRRRRR.  I refuse to get gas now until I see that it is $2.07 somewhere! I am so cheap.

Today was Mr. Mccarthy's last day.  He is one of my favorite teachers. I felt really bad for not bringing a balloon or cake or somethin.  But Pam, Meryem and I made him funny cards!!!

I'm really bored right now.  I was supposed to go to the gym and the mall but that didn't work out.  Today was an odd day.  We did this big EMS thing in med occ. it was funny.

hrmm what else....I don't like my schedule next semester. I don't like that i have lctc 3-4 hrs. The only thing that is gonna do is give me a longer lunch which i could care less about that! Id rather leave to school earlier or leave school earlier. It also gets rid of my silent reading time! AKA homework time!

who is getting a cell phone? Candice is! YEEEAAAHHHH
Now I must choose which cingular phone I want!
No more payphones!!!!

Well, the Tigers lost last night. Making the St. Louis Cardinals the world series champions. But it is okay. I really didn't expect them to win the world series when they entered the playoffs. And if we had to lose to any team, im glad it was St. Louis because they really deserved it. There is always next year. We are only getting better and better. I am very proud of my Tigers.

So last night i went to the movies and saw the Grudge 2. I saw the first one and it was soo stupid, I vowed to myself that i would not see the second one. But yet there I was sitting in the theater watching it.  It was just as stupid as i thought it would be. It was sooooo stupid that i was just laughing at most of the parts that was supposed to scare you.  Then when I laughed myself out, I started to fall asleep. I don't find pale Japanese people opening their mouths scary.  But somehow Liz did.  She insisted on seeing that instead of Saw 3. Saw 3 was rated R. But the theater was soo easy to sneak into. I could've saw it. What a waste of $7.