One Of My Cats

This adorable cat is Streak. He's really cuddly and

whenever I sit down outside he has to have my attention!

I took a bunch of pictures of him today, because he was

being rather annoying, but I did get a few good shots.

Sighs and New Friends

The weather was supposed to get colder, and it was for a few days. Now it has heated up again, and that heat I cannot stand. I sigh in discontentment. I feel like dying in this heat, I must receive the cool, crisp, new beginning that autumn offers to me like an old and new friend rolled together, laughing and clearing my slate.

Even through this heat, friendship seems to endure.

I went to a parade today. It was homecoming week at school. Spirit Week, most schools do that I think. And so tonight is homecoming. But the parade was today. Of course, all my friends are in a float, everyone is part of something. Everyone but me, of course. And so, unsure of what to do, I flew with the crowd out of the pep fest and to main street for the parade. I went about half-way down the street when the crowd began to thin a bit. I stopped under the shade of a large tree, trying to look like I did not care that I was standing there all alone.
Then, much to my surprise and delight, a boy named Myka and his friend Darren came up to ask me where they were supposed to go. I said anywhere along the street. They still didn't really know what to do, so I told them they should just stay here, and they consented.
It was nice to be around kids in my grade, and though I did not really talk to them I still enjoyed the parade. Much more than I thought I would. All of my friends waved to me from their respective floats, even throwing candy at me, though I let the little toddlers and the sixth graders get all of it, except one purple tootie-fruitie I got early on.
And so the parade was over. I followed Darren and Myka back to the front of the school, Myka and I needed to catch the bus back to our sister school in the next town.
We said good bye to Darren and got on the bus that would take us to our town, we were almost the only ones on it. And, as things go, we started talking. Myka is really smart, I would consider him and expert in Mythology, he talked about it for quite a while. I like Mythology, and it was interesting talking to him, I really hope he doesn't think I was bored. It was hard to follow all he was saying, he talks so quietly, but intriguing nonetheless. We talked about school and his family and other places he's lived. Valley Fair and classmates. It was lots of fun, and a nice change from the usual conversations I have with my girl friends.
He seems like a really nice boy, Darren too, and I hope that our new found friendship with flourish.

Aside from all that, nothing has really changed with me. I am trying to learn to read Guitar tabs, so if anyone has some really simple and well-known tabs they would want to send me to help, I'd really appreciate it.
I'll talk to y'all some other time, right now I need to savor that fact that it Is thE wEEkEnd!
God Bless!

School, School, School

School's started, a little over 2 weeks now.
Can't say I love it, but it's okay. Fun to be back with all the other kids again. I forgot how much they amuse me. Not only amuse me, I'm sure I amuse them sometimes too. It's so much fun to be around people after my near-isolation of the summer!
I don't mind the work and the learning, but I do not like the homework. Really, homework doesn't help at all! They have done quite a few studies on it as well, but, for some unknown reason, teachers still hand out the homework and we are still doomed to get wrong answers for the questions we did not understand or know how to do and we had no reasource to go to to ask for help. Ahh, school.
The summer is over and done.
Lucky for me Autumn is my favorite season, the crisp air and leaves turning colors. Maybe I'll take some pictures once the leaves do change colors, all of our trees are still green. I love the smell of Autumn, too. Fresh, like a new beginning.
I think Autumn would make a great name, maybe some day I'll have a daughter and name her Autumn. But, then she might hate the name, and ask 'Mom, why did you name me stupid Autumn after a stupid season?' Well, who knows. I was upset with my mother for some time for giving me the middle name Jo. It's a guy name! But I have come to accept it, in part because JK Rowling's friends and family and other people too, i guess, call her Jo. Yes, that means I like the Harry Potter series.
People seem to think that Harry Potter is satanic. I see that angle, I do. But if you actually read the books, you would realize that the books are about growing up. Growing up and becoming who you were meant to be. That's what I have to say about it, I am a Christian and I still like Harry Potter. I like it for the way he is just like all other teenagers, he has problems, big and small(some unrealistic and magical, i admit), and he has to get through them.
Anyway, that's all I have to say for now. I have a lot of homework to do.
God bless!