Let's Pursue the Horizon

The weekend is almost over already.

I can't believe it. It's been a really good one, and I've gotten lots done though, so I don't feel like I've completely wasted my valuable time. But it does seem like no matter what I do, there is always more to do.

On Friday, I did a workout instead of going for my usual run because it was sloshing it down with rain. Seriously, buckets were falling at a time. As my friend Sean says, I wouldn't have been dry until Wednesday. At least it's exercise. Then I hung out with two of my wonderful Friday night friends. A warm fireplace, a few games of backgammon, homemade pizza, a wicked booksale, and some hilarious games of Disney Trivia. That booksale was incredible. So many classics - I bought eleven books for 12 dollars, including "Tom Sawyer", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Death of a Salesman", "The Oddesy", "The Iliad", (Sean would shun me for that) and many others. My mom also bought me a good few - "Sense and Sensibilty", "Rebecca", "Dracula", "David Copperfield" and "Great Expectations". She is saving a couple of them because my 18th birthday present is going to be a huge library of all the books that have held a place in her heart since she was my age, and a bunch of classics. I read so much, and these books have made me so excited that it is hard to imagine not being allowed to read them for another year and a half. The Disney trivia was a great part of my Friday night too. I realized that I really haven't watched that much Disney at all, and Kate beat Katie and I by a landslide in the children's version. But you know what? Kate lost at adult. Oh the joys.

Yesterday was painting day at school. In my homeroom english class we have a huge classroom which HAD a very ugly pink wall and some disgusting puke brown doors. They are now gone! Huzzah!!! I got my lifelong wish of painting a mural in the school realized, and we no longer have an ugly wall or doors. Pictures to come! I was at the school from 9:30 to 3. Then Andrew picked me up and we went to his house, which was a good time. Then we went out to see "Michael Clayton". It was a really good movie. I recommend it! Something that really sucked though was that when I got there I realized that the LCD screen on my awesome new camera was cracked... next weekend when I stay at Andrew's cause mom's going to Halifax we are going to his camp and I was going to take so many pictures... Anyway Andrew fixed my predicament because his family has a digital camera that he will let me use. But I still have to pay for some of the cost of getting it fixed, and nothing is better than my baby. Then after we went to see the movie, we went to Boston Pizza for desert because we had been on Wednesday but we were too full to eat desert but it looked too good to pass up. Andrew had New York Cheesecake with crazy raspberry sauce that was so strong it burned my throat and I had a bitesize maple blondie. mmmmm!

Today is the day to get things done. I decided not to go to church, and in turn finished my homework by one o'clock this afternoon. I am planning on going for a run when I finish this and I will be working on painting my writing desk and clealing up the horrbile mess that happened when I started living here again after the summer and has never really been cleared up. I have a long list of things I wish to do, including self-pampering, and I will see how many of them I get done. Tonight is youth group at 6:30! I'm excited to go, but it is sad because it will be my last one until probably fall play is over. Hopefully today will not be my last get things done sunday though, because everything piles up so much... I might be five feet deep in quicksand if that should happen! And here's your poem for the post. It makes me smile every time I read it. Don't get it? You're not the only one.

I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon
By Stephen Crane

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never-"
"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.

Love.<3