this week in aj news

It's been like a week since I've had good access to a computer (sidenote: FINALLY! the blind guy is off american idol. he was awful. they're mentioning him on tvguide, soo.) because our computer crapped out on us and I've been usinf the library computer. Anyway, Friday Kody, mah Navy brother, flew out from Pensacola, and then got stranded at the Atlanta aoport. To quote him about the Atlanta airport, "it's fucking miserable". I dunno why. Then he flew from Atlanta to Minneapolis to Spokane and Saturday morning, me and my mom drove up to Spokane to pick him up at the airport. He was in his Navy whites and this is gonna sound weird but Kody looks good in his uniform. Weird, right? He's quite handsome. This is in a entirely non-sexual way.
Anyway, we picked him up and his luggage was still in Minneapolis, then we were going to go to lunch then home (nobody wanted to go a zoo, like me, whatever) but then Kody was all, "no, we're going to Fairchild Air Force Base." so we went there, and to the BX, which is Base Exchange, and then the Comisary. I always say Comissary wrong, I put emphasize on the 'iss', so I start like "to the comISSsary' but it's the 'COMissary'. Whatever. They sell food and etc. For cheap. But we're wandering around and all this food is cheap and then I see a bunch of German cookies and chocolate and Japanese snacks and Spanish cookies so I start, like, grabbing these foreign foods off the shelves and throwing it in the cart when my mom isn't looking. Like, shrimp flavored chips. I don't even like shrimp. And I already ate all the Pocky. And I got this German marzipan bar that I'm kind of afraid of. Because, like, marzipan? And nifty German cookies that are 'zartbitter' flavor. I think this means chocolate. And these French or Spanish cookies called Hit that are biscuit cookies with a creamy chocolate middle, like Oreo style.
Easter was uneventful, except Kody has the car and so me and my mom had to bike down to Albertson's and we got pizza ingredients and I made an uber-delicious pizza. My dad used to have two jobs, one he was a pizza maker at Little Caesar's, he'd work there at night and sometimes come home with pizza. Anyway, we used to make pizzas together at home and he taught me stuff about pizzas. Like putting cheese ontop of the pepperoni so it'll stay together. And how to cut olives. And how to cut a pizza.
I don't think my dad likes us anymore. Just..various things adding up. And the way he acts around us. Me and Blake always joke around with him and now it's like he doesn't even care anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking. I don't even talk to him anymore. I don't like this. At all. I don't think it can be fixed, though.
It's the second part of WASL state testing this week, for sophomores. Somewhat stupidly. So I took the WASL last year (and passed it. SUCK IT. actually, weird fact: i'm in a math class way below the one I should be in, algebra, after failing geometry, and i passed the maths wasl, but I've got friends in algebra two, which is not the class after algebra, but the second one after algebra. so i dunno.) and what they did was, put the Reading and Writing tests together in one week, since it takes two days each. Then, a month later, we took the Science and Math tests together in one week. A few weeks ago, these sophomores took the reading and writing bits, and then this week they're taking JUST the Math wasl, then next week the science one. WTF? Just put them together. School idiots. Also, why was spring break not directly before/directly after Easter? Like it usually is? I like that much better.
I don't like school. At all, really. Maybe like one or two bits, like being in the greenhouse and taking care of my plants and being in the library and shelving books. Basically, in library aide, I am the book bitch. Not an awful job.
Oh, I'm on my brother's laptop. It's an Acer and is nifty and cool.
I watched the Doctor Who Easter special. Oh, David Tennant. Why must you leave? He's so cute. All the time.
So when our computer went down, my mom brought home from her school this old Windows 98 laptop, compu-something, a retro old clunky thing, thinking she could hook it up to the internet but I assured her this was unlikely if he did not have a phoneline. in fact, I insisted, it was impossible. Then I dug out the old Window 98 games and got Sim Tower onto it and so I spend a lot of time playing an 11 year old computer game. But I like Sim Tower. I'm this close to a four star tower. Is nice. But difficult. I've got all these condo owners bitching about nothing all the time.
Also laptops burn my leg. Oooh. Ouch.
it's shorts season here! I took a pair of pants with the bottoms ripped and fashioned them into shorts. Now, I have one pair of shorts.
My mom and I have perfected our coffee drink. Previously, we've been chilling coffee and mixing in half and half and milk and flavor syrup. Then we went to get more flavors, to URM, on Wednesday, and I saw this bag of this mix stuff, like mocha mix and latte mix. This is like, what Starbucks uses, mom. So we got Java Chip, and the only thing wrong with it is the choco chips but besides that it is EXACTLY like a Java Chip frappacino and then add a dash of peppermint and voila! peppermint java chip frappacino. Also i cannot spell frappanico. Huh. Next time, I'm pulling for Malt Mocha Mix. Looks good.
Now I'm tired and things.
Another thing, I can't wait for Art Under the Elms. And the Dogwood festival. Which are, I am told, the same thing. I love the Dogwood trees. They are these trees, ofcourse, that are all around this town and basically you don't even notice them until spring when the bloom with these light pink flowers. And the fair is coming up and I might crochet something for that.
That's it for now.