Saturday, March 28, 2009

Saturday

What to do today... ? Hmm.. (pondering) -- haha

1. Going to Mogin's house for the day 2 hang out... Marisa will probably come too!!
2. ^^ Same thing except make an awesome video!!
3. Go see "The Haunting in Connecticut" with a bunch of friends tonight!
4. Come home, and try to feel bad about missing the "Kid's Choice Awards" shucks... haha
5. Read my book... then listen to Taylor Swift.
6. Go to bed!!

^^ pretty fun, amazing, awesome day, am i right? =]

Have a good weekend everyone.

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife

Friday, March 20, 2009

Whoaa...

Ok well I just totally started freaking out like a second ago, because i was trying to log onto blogger, but it wasn't letting me saying that I had the wrong password or something! So I was getting like super frustrated and kind of mad... and then I got an email from it saying that I was using the wrong email adderess... haha... oopsies!

Well... in other news...
its friday! =D hurray for the hurrays! and tomorrow im going to be getting Twilight on DVD, yes, I know you are all very very jealous of me at this moment... because... i mean, come on, its Twilight! How can you resist it?!

OmG! I was on Twitter earlier, (still am), and i have like 8 followers right now! How flippen awesome is that! haha, thats not very many compared to the people i am following right now, but you know, its enough for me! =]

follow me on twitter! www.twitter.com/caitlinzlife

^^ its fun! haha...

well... have a good weekend...

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Blog..

So I haven't made a blog in a while... so you can stop whining! I'm making it! Jeesh! =] Here you go...

Well, the weather has been AWESOME lately! High's in the 60s and lower 70s! How flippen awesome is that?! Except for the lucky people down in Arizona *cough, Ryan* who gets awesome weather all the time!!!!

I finished the book Out of the Dust, I liked it. =]

Hmm... let me see... Vanessa's birthday this Sunday! We're all going roller skating on Friday to celebrate the greatness of it! =] And speaking of the weekend...

I'm getting Twilight on DVD!!!!!! Haha!! BE jealous!!!!! =D I love Twilight... just telling you... I figured you'd never figure it out... but Edward Cullen is awesome... =]

What else is there? Oh, yeah, my neice, Payton, is getting surgery tomorrow =[ She has like a "syst" thing on her face... (idk if I spelt that right...?) My sister is really kind of scared about it, but we hope it goes well. Keep Payton in your prayers!

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife

Friday, March 13, 2009

1st Chapter in "Me, Myself, and Him" =]

Me, Myself, and Him
By Caitlin Plathe

Chapter One
Eye Contact

Tick, tock, tick, tock.
Ugh, could time go any slower?
I started hitting my pencil on the desk, hoping that the bell would just ring for my sake. It didn’t.
I reread my poem for the seventh time:

One day so long ago
There was a person in my life.
He held me when I was down.
He lifted me higher when I was up.
I cried when he wasn't there
Smiled when he was.
Laughed when he smiled,
frowned if it was gone.
He took my hand,
My heart,
And whatever else it needed.
Add a smile and there it was,
The simplicity
Of love.

Ok, so maybe it was a little cheesy, and not true, and kind of stupid. Ok, so maybe there was no maybe about it, it was cheesy, not true, and stupid, but I knew it had to be about someone. I didn’t know who that someone was. Whenever I thought of this poem, I thought of a person who always made me feel that way. I still don’t know who that is.
I looked at the clock again. 2:57. Hurry up! I begged in my head, it was Friday afternoon, and I couldn’t wait to get out of this prison called high school.
“Nat! Calm down! School is almost over!” My friend, Allison whispered to me.
Nat. That was my nickname. My full name was Natalia Jo Lynn Rivers. It was such a fancy name, and I wasn’t really the “fancy” type.
RIIINNNGG!!!
I jumped from my seat, and started out the door, heading to my locker to put my books away. I sighed, staring at the picture of the most popular guy in school.
Cameron Jay Ranolds.
Yes, I was one of the girls, who, took pictures from the year book, cut them out, and stuck them in my locker. I was that obsessed. Well, he looked like a movie star! His gorgeous blond hair and his pool-type blue eyes.
I sucked in a deep breath.
“Hey Nat,” my very best (guy) friend, Robert, said to me. He saw me staring at my locker door, and sighed, “Natalia Jo Lynn Rivers.” I looked at him. “Are you seriously staring at that picture? Again?”
I slammed my locker. “No, maybe I was just looking at the beautiful sandwich sitting in my locker!” I started laughing when Rob did a double take and went back to the locker.
“That wasn’t very nice, you know I get hungry after school.”
“And you know that I don’t like being called by my full name, but I guess we just aren’t very nice people are we?”
I laughed again, and we walked out the school doors.
I loved Fridays.

“Bye, bye, Roberto!” I called to Robert, before I shut the car door.
“See you Nattie!”
I smiled walking up my steps, then sighed.
Mom, was at work, Dad, was probably gone at a restaurant.
Yeah, my dad was a food critic, if that’s not weird, I don’t know what weird is.
I went into the kitchen to get a snack, and saw a note lying on the table.
Hey Hun, it started with my mom’s nice hand-writing, I’m at the office as you read this note. Really sorry, I won’t be home until about 10 tonight. Fix yourself dinner, your dad is down in Los Angeles trying a new restaurant out. If you’re going out with friends, don’t stay out too late.
Love ya,
Mom
Of course. That is usually how it went on Fridays. But, it was one of the reasons I loved Fridays, too. I loved having the house to myself, peace and quiet. It was very relaxing.
I sank down into the couch with my chocolate chip cookie I had made the last Saturday. It was actually pretty good.
I turned on the TV, switched the channel a couple of times, and turned it off. Nothing was on.
Then, just as I thought of it, the phone rang.
I ran to get it, and picked up. “Hello?”
“Nattie!” It was Allison. “You ready for the game tonight?”
“Um, Ally, the game isn’t until 7:30, and it’s only 5.” I rolled my eyes, Ally was always trying to be on top of things.
“Oh, you are such a party pooper! I don’t care if it’s 5! I’m coming over to get you ready; this is the night where you and Cameron Jay Ranolds get together!” She giggled into the receiver.
“Ally! You know how he doesn’t have a clue I exist!” I knew that was true, but when she said “get together” I got butterflies. Maybe this was the night, Cameron Jay Ranolds and I would “get together”. I smiled.
“Whatever Nat. I’ll see you in five minutes. I’ve got my makeup kit ready and loaded.” The phone clicked.
I hated it when Allison used me as her “experiment”. Her makeup kit was for every game, dance, contest, etc. The first time she had used her makeup “skills” on me, it had been a disaster. But Ally had gotten really good with the eyeliner and lip gloss over the years. Hopefully she wouldn’t make me look like a clown.

● ● ●

“Nat hold still!” Allison yelled at me, as I was squirming to get out of her hold.
“Ally you’re going to poke my eye out with that eyeliner! Let me do it!”
She gave up and pouted. I rolled my eyes and grabbed the dark pencil from her. I traced the outside of my eyelids then checked the mirror. “There,” I said. “And I don’t even look like a raccoon!” I smiled turning my face from side to side.
Allison giggled at my attempt to make a joke. “Nat, you’ll be fine tonight. He’s going to see you, and think he’s dreaming.”
I snorted. “Yeah, until he pinches himself and realizes he’s not.”
Ally rolled her eyes and closed her makeup kit. “You got the car tonight?”
“Yeah,” I nodded. The beauty of having parents gone every weekend was that you didn’t have to ask if you could borrow the car. It was just there, ready and convenient.
We got in the car and rode off.
I blasted the music, and we both started singing to David Archuleta’s song, Crush. I started laughing, and then, I saw the football field.
My hands got clammy, and I felt like I was choking, and at the same time, not breathing at all. “Ally, I can’t do this, at all!”
She shook her head, “Nat, if you even start doubting yourself now, I will call you by your full and complete name.”
Ugh. I hated when she did that. I rolled my eyes, and took a deep breath, “Fine, but if I pass out during the game, make sure no one knows my full name. ‘K?”
She nodded, and smiled.
We sat down on the bleachers, and just talked. Ally and I never watched the games because, well, we never really understood what it meant when the guy said “hike”. But, you know, whatever. I saw Cameron go on the field, and sucked in a deep breath. After the game, the whole team, cheerleading squad, and everyone else was going to head over to the captain’s house for a party. Guess who the captain was?
“Let’s go Cameron!!” Ally yelled.
“Omg, Ally, he’s going to look over at us, don’t!” I said using my MSN language.
She rolled her eyes. “He’s going to have to get to know you sometime, Nat. Better now than never.”
“I’m pretty sure that the saying is ‘better late than never’.”
“Whatever.”
When it was at the end of 4th quarter, everyone started counting down, so Ally and I just counted with them. Then when we got down to zero, everyone screamed. So, I was guessing that we won.
“Natalia Jo Lynn Rivers, this is your time to shine,” Ally told me with a triumphant smile on her face.

We followed everyone from school, to the captain's house. I told myself to breathe in, and then out. Just in case I completely forgot because, you know, those things happen. Right?
Apparently I was driving really slowly, and it started to tick Ally off. "Ugh! Nat! You need to drive faster than this! We won't be able to catch Cameron before-" She cut off.
"Before what?" I asked, curious.
She hesitated. "Do you really want me to say it?" I nodded. "Fine. We need to catch Cameron before he goes off into his backyard with Tina Lofling, to make out!"
Oh. That's why she didn't want to tell me. She didn't want to make me upset. Tina Lofling. The prom queen, the head cheerleader, the girl who did practically everything, and still managed to get alone time with the most popular guy in school. Ugh.
Ally stared at me, waiting for me to break down, or whatever. I sucked in a very deep breath, almost not breathing out again, and sighed. "It's ok, Allison." She nodded and just stared out the window.
When we got to his house, I gasped.
Cars were everywhere. There were even some cars in the grass! Not to mention the fact that his house was like my Barbie mansion I had when I was nine, well, aside the fact that my Barbie mansion was pink, but you know what I mean.
I found a parking spot on the road, surprisingly, and got out of the car with Ally.
I saw Robert and waved, then looked at Ally, staring at me. She had always thought that I had this big crush on Rob. Which she was totally off. We had been best friends since who knows when, and she thinks that we are a big match-made-in-heaven. Whatever.
"Nat, Ally," he said nodding to us.
I sighed. "Ok, let's do this."
We stepped inside.
Ally gasped, "Holy tomatoes!" I rolled my eyes at her, 'holy tomatoes' was her favorite saying when she saw something that was unbelievable, or something like that.
I scanned the room, it was huge. Apparently the Ranolds had moved the furniture for this party. A big white couch was off to the side, next to the big fireplace, and then a nice flat screen TV on the other side of the room. All of the football players were gathered around the TV, watching some kind of football game. Then, I saw him.
Cameron had changed from his uniform into some white slacks, and a red polo shirt. Usually when someone wore a polo shirt, they were made fun of, but when Cameron Jay Ranolds wears a polo, he looked like a god.
Then I looked over to his side, and scowled. Tina Lofling, of course, standing right next to Cameron, just staring at his gorgeous blue eyes, even though his eyes were staring at the floor.
I rolled my eyes and looked at Ally, and Rob, who were staring at the food on the table next to the TV. I laughed, "Alright puppies, lets go get you fed!"
We started walking toward the table when I looked up from the floor.
I was staring into someone's gorgeous blue eyes, and one of those blue eyes winked.
Cameron Jay Ranolds winked at me.
Oh. My. Gosh.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Interesting...

Ok... so this week its been all crazy. On Tuesday we had a snow day (it was awesome!!) and on Wednesday, we had an early out!! =] I love having early outs, except I really hate the schedule though.. six periods before lunch is never fun!!

***

Ok ... so right now I am reading Out of the Dust

It's pretty good so far, even though I just started today, I know it's going to be good because a ton of people have read it and said it was good! =]

Well... don't have much else... but I'm so excited for the weekend!!!!

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Updaterzzzzzz =]

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy =]
did you miss me? i bet you did!

Umm... well... my uncle (god-father) Reed (i love you!=]) just stopped by today to give me a little late birthday card, but I loved it... Now... i've got $110!!

But... only about $40 of it is actual money, the rest of it is gift cards for Wal Mart from Christmas and my birthday! =]

Welll... some news... I just made a new blog... no followers at the moment, but I'm hoping to get more - so I sent out an email to everyone. Here's the link:

www.twilightgirlyz.blogspot.com

^^ I'm kind of guessing that it will be posted on my profile too, but this way you don't have to click on my picture to find out my other blog! Hope you check it out!!

=]

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Hiyaz!! =]

Well.. for my birthday - I went shopping... and bought 3 things:

A cute shirt from Kohls =]

Some cute jeans (also from Kohls)

and... last but DEFINITELY not least...

An Edward poster!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yahh!!! Beat that! =] haha

I also went to this restaraunt called Golden Corral... and my sister said it was really good... um... everything LOOKED good... but it wasn't all that great. Like the spaghetti was overcooked... and all that good stuff! lol.. But the chocolate cake was good! Even though I got some on my poor pink sweatshirt =[ lol

I wanna say thanks to all the cards I got, and all the Happy Birthday's! =] Even if my grandma gave me a seseme street card... its all good.. haha thanks!

You think I'm gonna be a bad teenager? Haha, yahh... bye!

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife

Friday, March 6, 2009

3 Day Weekend!!!!

Hey!! We got a 3 day weekend thanks to parent teacher conferences... even though I don't like those things, I still kinda like showing off to my mom about how well I'm doing in my classes (and how much all the teachers like me :P)

Well... it's Friday, and last nite I spent the night at Morgan's it was fun! And today I'm supposed to go to a skating thing in Sheldon, but I'm not getting very good at getting rides, and my mom is just a little crabby, so that doesn't help either! :P

Hmm... what else is there to talk about....

I turn 13 tomorrow!!!!!!!!!! =] I will officially be a teenager even though it probably wont change much, either way i'm a year older!

Like I said, send me some suggestions for books if you have any! Thanks! =]

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Look!! >>>>>>>>>>>>

Heyy!! Long time ... um... ok... nevermind ... lol =]

Guess what!? IM BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is SO awesome to be able to talk again, and breathe through my nose, and not have a headache, and not have a fever, and not be so achy! lol
Plus I get to go back to school! That may not be a good thing for someone else, but when you're gone for over a week, it really stinks to be sitting at home when all of your friends get to hang out and talk at school! I'm just glad to be back


If you're wondering what my title is supposed to mean, then i'll show you!


LOOK >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Its my book list. I have a ton of favorite books, and I'm still not done writing them all down, I just couldn't think of any more! =[ But if you have suggestions for a book please tell me about it!

*Thanks for the idea Mrs.TG! =]

xoxo,
CaitlinzLife