For CEREAL?

Ashley AKA RainDance is the author featured on Protagonize on June 8th, 2009? SWEET. This post definitely gets tagged in the "whoa" category. Which really puts me in the mood to think about happy things. Which means that I am about to compile a beautiful list of things that I really ENJOYED about this year. Thinking positive. I like it. Here goes:

~ Creative writing and the little to no effort that it took to get an A in that class

~ 2010 goes Under the Sea for Homecoming. Luckily it was just our one awful hallway because...

~ Homecoming was Harry Potter-themed

~ Third place of all four high school grades at Spirit Week (We beat the freshmen.)

~ Our unofficial class motto: "No one beats us at losing."

~ No ceilings in our school, endless constuction, construction workers everywhere, that random knife stuck in the ceiling, wheelbarrows of dirt being wheeled out (?) of the school, no heat and wearing winter coats for 10 hours a day

~ Big Epiphany of the Year: Aliens are here. They're all around us. Trust your instincts.

~ Time spent at the mall with Dan, finding Atlantis in a soda machine, splitting chinese food and drinking smoothies which never tasted quite right but which we always bought anyway

~ Traveling to Opaltopia in my head with Nicolette when junior year was sucking out our souls

~ The day our school flooded with poop... HAPPY POOP DAY!!!

~ Frightland and how thought it was going to absolutely positively terrifying. LOL.

~ The boy Nicolette and I met at Frightland, BJ. He writes very interestingly and lives in a feild.

~ Beginning to write EPIC with Nic; getting to know our characters and falling in love with them

~ Getting... what's that? My first boyfriend ever? Yeah. I know.

~ Mr. Mazz and his songs/stories/off topic ramblings

~ Going to King of Prussia with Dan and getting a new winter coat

~ Christmas dinner and eating my body weight in food

~ School New York trip with Dan: holding hands running around the city, being foolish, trying on knitted mohawk hats, browsing the comic book store, watching ice skaters, sitting by that beautiful lit up fountain with our hot cocoa, getting lost, almost getting left behind when the bus was about to leave...

~ New Years Eve party at my house and almost getting into a fight with Nicolette over a boy. HAHAHA. That's never happening again.

~ The ensuing nine hours at the mall that followed our almost-fight-over-a-boy during which Nic and I managed to entertain ourselves even without money. We just outlined a novel to pass the time. ;)

~ Finding someone who also uses "piss!" as an expression of frustration

~ Rockford Park in spring with Jay

~ Frozen vanilla mousse in ice cream cones at seven in the morning. MOUSSE PARTY YAYY.

~ Getting in touch with my Spanish side and embracing Ashlidad as my new Spanish class name

~ Aric imitating screaming bunnies

~ Crazy hilarious skits in Spanish-- "Yo soy una princessa!"

~ Stopping for water ice three times at Rita's on the first day of spring

~ Awamu with Nic and getting so lost I started crying. I hate the highway. I hate driving. But I do have a great story about getting lost now.

~ Discovering I can rollerblade without breaking my neck

~ Failing to do very much of anything in newspaper, even if that means we only got out 3 editions...

~ Selling tickets at the Flower Market for NHS

~ The weird school lunches that they serve you at the end of the year with all the food that you don't normally get

~ Elliot Yamin from American Idol performing at our school? What???

~ Coming in next to last in an NHS 5k (Jacob was dead last as he insisted upon it)

~ Crying at graduation even though I didn't really know any seniors

~ The worst school year of my life being over. That was the best.