Creamy Italian Chicken

At this VERY moment I am attempting to make a pretty easy recipe in my crock pot.  It's a creamy italian dressing chicken.  It's basically chicken breast, italian dressing mix, water, cream cheese, cream of chicken.  I'm using this recipe as a sort of road map.

Now... I woke up pretty late due to the fact that it's spring break.  So I didn't even start defrosting the chicken 'til about one.  Whoops.  So I finally put everything in at like five in the afternoon.  We'll see how that works out.  Dinner at ten!

Also, I may have used the wrong dressing mix.  But it should be alright.  I'm hoping everything will be done in three or four hours.  Hmm....

I'll keep ya posted!

The Foreseer

I got this from collegeboard.com and it's quite the nifty. Here's what mine said:

INFZs* are reserved, modest, imaginative, and neat. As an INFZ you are particularly concerned with expressing and living up to your beliefs and values and with developing an emotional understanding of the world around you. You strive for harmony and peace in all areas of life. You value learning, integrity, and personal growth. You believe that life is a puzzle and that it is your challenge to solve it.

You prefer having a few close and deep friendships and generally dislike being part of large, crowded events. You tend to keep your inner thoughts and feelings to yourself although you may reveal them to a very good friend. You take criticism personally no matter what its intended purpose. You love independence and usually enjoy being different from everybody else.

Your greatest challenge is to develop a sense of purpose and meaning for your life and when this path becomes clear, you will work quietly and methodically toward your goal. You may find your life purpose in an overarching political or social issue but do not like to be in the spotlight while working to further the cause. You are someone who focuses on the big picture and only then considers its salient parts. As an INFZ you take a planned and meticulous approach to managing your time. You find it difficult to adapt to unexpected change and may show this discomfort openly. You are creative and precise in expressing your ideas, which you do most effectively through writing. You love to read, study, and learn, finding intellectual subjects and ones that relate to emotional and personal growth most appealing.

INFZs are most often found in career fields where they can contribute to the welfare and benefit of others in a stable and slowly changing environment. As an INFZ you will be most satisfied and productive when you are involved in work that enables you to use your imagination and creativity. You are most interested in jobs that allow you to work quietly and dependably towards your goals.

Strengths
Quiet determination, amiability, and a genuine concern for others.
Noticing possibilities and relationships missed by others.
Single-minded concentration and the ability to follow through.
Keen insight into future possibilities.
Undertaking complex projects involving people or social concerns.
Working to establish harmony and the common good for all.
Bringing creativity and a humanistic vision to an enterprise.
Exercising caution while pursuing dreams and visions.

Learn Best...
New subjects or topics.
Ideas and visions focusing on the future.
Teachers who emphasize imagination and creativity.
Subjects that are intellectual and humanistic.
Topics that contribute to a sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Socially...
Prefer talking to one or two people rather than to a group.
Prefer writing reports to talking in person.
Express yourself through poetic and vivid communications.
Adopt unusual approaches and points of view.
Are influenced by opinions and by information that is passionately presented.
Evaluate the worth of what you hear and see through personal experience.

Motivated by...
Order, neatness, and clarity of instructions.
Fixed schedules and deadlines.
Working alone or in small group settings.
Progress, but not rapid change.
Being appreciated and having contributions recognized.
Warm and friendly surroundings.

Cool, right? I love doing these things. I like being labeled. As long as I like the label.
Sorry it's been a while.

*I don't know what INFZs means.

Death To ALL!!! -gulp-

This is a pretty hilarious website. It won't take long, check it out!!!

Everyone's doing it!

Plurk is the new blog!

Hello?

I GOT A PERMIT!!!! I DROVE A CAR!!!!!!
That's all.

Dark Knight

And..... We're back with a confusing review.
WHAT DO I THINK! This is one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. It was fantastic.
I really have no idea what I think about this movie.
The acting was perfect and the whole thing looked amazing.
BUT the acting was probably too perfect.
The connection I kept on making was to Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately.
I really don't know what to make of this movie.
I'm probably gonna have to sleep on it. If I can sleep.
Others might not be as struck by this movie, but the ethics and morals and values made everything painful.
Too confusing? I thought so.
This was probably the best movie I've ever seen. And I hated it.

19-lingual

List of Languages I Can Speak*

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Dutch
• German
• Thai
  
• Chinese
• Norse
• Afrikaans
• Greek
• Latin
• Korean
• Hebrew
  
• Ubbi Dubbi
• Pig Latin
  
• Portuguese
• Australian
• ASL

This is all I can think of right now.

*Your definition of speak might be different than mine.

Frog Guts

Did you know that karaoke is Japanese for empty orchestra?

Nifty, eh?

Creatin' Machine

Look at what I made!*

It's BACTERIA! In reference to the bacteria in The Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie **
The bacteria that I'm talking about shows up 5 minutes into the video.
Biology students should watch. ;D

*It's a lot of silly putty.
**PLEASE NOTE: That the link above is to a video that is slightly graphic (in the beginning). Viewer discretion is advised.

Middle Sates, HERE WE COME!

This week Middle Sates has been here to look at our school to see if we qualify for awesomeship.
What does are school do to prove we're worthy? We do what we do best of course! BOMB SCARES!
This week we had two of them. One on, I think, Tuesday during 4th period (one of my free periods) So we stand out on the turf for 40 minutes and are extremely disappointed when they say that we can go back inside.
Today, Friday, it happens again. It's 7th period, math, and we're taking a test. It's about 10 -15 minutes into class and all of a sudden the guy comes on and says "Blah blah blah, please go to the turf, blah blah blah, evacuate." So my teacher say alright leave your test on your desk and go to the turf. I bring my bag, and not my binders, and start heading down. We all make it to the turf and sit in our assigned spot. (Academic Circles - don't ask.) I stand there for about 30 minutes and then I go find friends.
Two periods go by (each period is about 40 minutes) and during that they say that we're going home. Now that would be more exciting if it wasn't 10 minutes before we would usually get home, but whatever.
It takes FOREVER for the buses to get to the school, which is really weird because they should have already been there for the usual pick up.
They call out the bus numbers one at a time, very slowly. It sounds like we're playing bingo and luckily I won near the beginning of the game.
We aren't allowed back into the school, so I have no books with me.
Sooooo I HAVE NO HOMEWORK!
I got home later than I usually do. And it's going to take a while before the bro and sisters get home.

ALL AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ARE CANCELED

Dance Moves

Okay. I was looking around YouTube and I found this video and it made me laugh so hard. Maybe I'm a tad sleep deprived, but whatever.



I'm totally going to bust these moves out for the next dance!
I do some of them at the dances already.

Fresh

Today, after church, I was walking to the car and I saw some tufts of green sticking out of the lawn. I went to investigate and found out that they were wild onions. So I pulled a couple of handfuls out. We took them home, washed them, and put them on our baked potatoes!
Delish.


I totally took that picture!

Fiona - in her favorite fake tree.

Sorry it's a little messed up. Better quality pictures coming soon.

Oh boy.

Today was the first day with my new English teacher. She is definitely not as good as the last teacher I had.
-She plays soccer on Sundays.
-She used to be a stand-up comedian.
-She has bad ankles. (She almost fell in class. One kid couldn't stop laughing, because it did look a little funny. (Will demonstrate)
-She gives a lot of homework. (More than I'm used to. Which is none, but whatever.)

• Lit. log. on "chapter" one of OMAM.
• Study guide.
• Read chapter one.
• Vocab.

Mary no likey.
-Her comedy is not good for a first period class of kids who are sick of English teachers.
-I feel bad for her. We're a very harsh class.
-She talks too fast.

Love Letters

This is a pretty funny video that my friend showed me.

Never Get Attached

Today my English teacher told the class that she was going to be leaving very soon.

Last year my first English teacher was pregnant and was going to leave in about three months. She left, and the next teacher came in. She was here for about four and a half months. Then she left because she wouldn't be able to work at our school next year and she got a better job in the city. So teacher number three comes in and teaches for the rest of the year.

Evaluation: Overall year was actually pretty good. No homework. At all.
1. She was okay. She was a little boring, and had a mushy gushy mind. (Due to baby in belly?)
2. My least favorite. She was way too into the creativity stuff. Draw this, draw that. And the one book that we did read while she was teaching us was Fahrenheit 451. We didn't even finish the book because every single day we debated about television.
Don't get me wrong, I love to debate, but she was very bad at understanding. Not much depth. (Harsh?)
3. My favorite. She was down to earth, understood our situation, and was lenient because we had a "rough year".

Now this year my first teacher was pregnant and stayed for about three months. She then left and my current teacher comes in. She now says that she is leaving because she won't be able to teach here next year, so she can get a better job someplace else.

Evaluation: Not as good as last year.
1. Crazy. (I have English first period.) Way too loud and obnoxious. And is obsessed about dehumanization. Grades critical lens essays by how you define the quote. Crazy.
2. Better. She is a better first period teacher and understands my point of view. Grades critical lens essays by how you support your definition of the quote. (The correct way.)

Unbelievable.

Sorry!

Alrighty. Let'sa go!!
-At this very moment I am in the library and there is a group a small children. I'm a little freaked out. They're taking up all the tables.
-As most of you know we got a baby corn snake a while ago. I'm trying to get a picture so there will be one soon. And we have chosen a name for the snake: Fiona.
-Out of the few times Fiona has egested/excreted, twice it has been on Mom.
-I just recently finished writing a research paper for social studies. The whole thing (title page, bibliography, actual paper, etc.) is (I think) 13 pages. It made me want to cry. It's 40% of my third quarter grade. Joy.
-There's this pretty cool website that has SAT practice questions. So you all have fun with that.
-IF ANYONE DOESN'T ALREADY HAVE TICKETS TO THE PASTA DINNER ASK ME!
-Okay. Now I know what the kids are doing in the library. They wrote books and the high school students are illustrating for them.
-We're going to start Of Mice and Men very soon in English.
-List of my classes in order of awesomeness. Greatest to least.

• Science (What can be more fun than learning about LIFE?! And I have the BEST teacher in the world)
• Math (I'm sorry, but I LOVE proofs.)
• Social Studies (It's fine. My teacher does this thing where he makes the history sound more story like so that's good. But now we're going to start learning about the industrial revolution and WWI. And I think WWI is one of the most boring wars ever. But I did learn about it in 8th grade with the worst teacher ever. We'll see.)
• English (Depressing. I have it first period and nobody is awake, but I don't think it would make much difference.)
• Spanish (Boring teacher. Poorly made quizzes.)

Chorus is somewhere in there. My teacher is pretty cool, but my classmates are obnoxious.
-I think I'm allergic to spring.
-Abstract "art" is NOT art.
-I just sneezed.

Finally a Smarty Pants

I'm going to be in Honors Chemistry next year. I finally get into one. I've actually turned down two other honors classes: English and global studies.
Interesting.
Whoops

My life depends on the sweets!

For Tuesday night activities I think the young women are going to make THE BEST cookies EVER.
They're called... ALFAJORES. They are the most delicious cookies ever. I could eat them everyday. I can't describe how the taste because I can't remember. All I remember is that they are the best thing ever invented.
I probably won't share.

Amazing

I love looking at notebooks that I had used for school. The books from elementary school are pretty hilarious. So I was reading a notebook from 5th grade and came across this:

Stand tall, stand proud

Voices that care are crying out loud

And when you close your eyes tonight,

Feel in your heart how our love burns bright.

So now I think that I was a kid genius. This is one of the most amazing things that I have ever written. Then I start to think about it, and think it might be a little too brilliant. So I type the whole thing into Google, and I come up with the lyrics to "Voices That Care".

You can imagine my disappointment.