Could things POSSIBLY get any shittier?

1. I couldn't go to that movie because it was in the afternoon, and it was downtown. I didn't have enough money handy, so I would've had to go to the bank, then catcha bus downtown, and there was no way Mom was letting me take the bus downtown on my own, even if Micaela waited at the bus stop for me.

2. Mom and I are fighting again. It started with me trying to punch in the number for the HD channels while she was telling me what number to punch in, even though I already knew what number the HD channels started at. Then, I walked out of the room, and the following discussion took place:

Mom: "You need to stop being so bitchy!" (or something to that effect - I'm too pissed off to remember the exact words)

Me: "YOU need to stop being so controlling!" (I walk upstairs)

Mom: "GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!"

Me: (ignores her)

Dad: (calls my name loudly - the standard, obligatory yell)

Me: (starts walking back down)

Dad: "And don't stomp!"

Me: (walks the rest of the way down and stands several feet away from Mom)

Mom: "I AM NOT CONTROLLING! IF ANYTHING, I'M THE ONE PUSHING YOU TO GET OUT AND DO STUFF!"

Me: while walking downstairs "If that's true, then you would've let me go to that movie!"

Mom: "COME HERE AND SAY IT TO MY FACE!"

Me: (muttering) "No. I'm not gonna fight with you."

Yes, my mother is a piece of work for sure. I should've just walked out. Gone to Tim Horton's. Or the library, if they were open at the time. Or the park. Something. But instead, I decided to stew. And I'm still stewing. And my headphones were being stupid, but that's not unusual. Damn headphones. I hope I get a new pair for my birthday. Maybe I'll ask Nathan for a pair.

So right now I'm half-watching the friendly match between Toronto FC and Real Madrid. Right now, Madrid is kicking Toronto's asses 3-0. Come on, guys! Get with the program!

Wicked weather

So the weather today is pretty wicked. Rainy and windy. I would walk down to the library, but it's too windy. I love this wind - as long as trees or power lines don't come down, I'm content.

Youth group last night was a mix of good and bad. I was the first to arrive, and the back door was locked, so I sat in the car until Stephen came to unlock it. Around the same time that Stephen arrived, Micaela came. Micaela and Stephen made some Five Alive and, because Stephen brought tortilla chips and salsa, put some salsa in a bowl. Stephen heated up a personal pizza for himself - I guess he skipped dinner. Elyssa came next, then Vicky, Stone, Emma and Laura. We had a super-quick record-breaking check-in (Micaela's idea - and a good idea, too), then we went down to the big tables to make a banner for Elyssa to carry at the big UU Youth conference in Thunder Bay.

This is where things got bad.

We were trying to come up with some ideas for the banner, and at one point I said to Elyssa, "It's all what you want to put on the banner, because you're going to be the one carrying it. I'm neutral, I'm Switzerland." She said, "You're useless. Okay...", ever-so-casually. I was so pissed off I almost called Dad to ask him to pick me up. She said later that she was being sarcastic, but it didn't sound like she was. She didn't even apologize, the bitch...

I had fun, though. Emma did a great job drawing on the banner - I'm not sure if she takes art in high school, but she really has a knack for drawing. She did a couple of chalices (the symbol for Unitarianism), and some text. It was pretty neat. I coloured in one of the big 'U's using markers and a mini stamper. Gosh, I love mini stampers...

And then, as I was leaving, Elyssa asked me, "What are you doing next year? 'Cause, you're grade 12 age, aren't you?" I asked her why, and she asked me if I was going to univeersity. I was so pissed off with her that I said something like, "Well, first I have to prove to the government that I'm smart." She said, "I just asked," and I said, "Well, I wish people would stop asking." She knows full well that I have to take either the GED or the CAAT to get into university. I've talked about it before.

So yeah. Elyssa's a bitch.

I had talked to Micaela on Facebook Chat the previous night. At first I was annoyed, because I was playing either Word Twist or Scramble, but my annoyance didn't last very long. I'm glad that I have a friend in Micaela.

edited for clarity

Pros and cons of tonight's youth group meeting.

Pros

1. Micaela was there. She made me laugh, as always - at one point, she suddenly starting singing softly, "Every sperm is sacred..." from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life which I still haven't seen.
2. We got to have ginger ale and root beer.
3. Elyssa showed us this funny video of her and her mom and someone else (I think it was a friend of Elyssa's) dancing to a Leona Lewis song.
4. Someone had written my name on the wall in chalk, but Jeff let me rub it out and re-write it myself :) They had painted the wall around the door black, so everyone wrote their names on part of it. The top and bottom parts of the right wall were painted black, too, and the top part had 'The Loft' written on it.

Cons

1. People were throwing food again.
2. Stone threw a damp cloth at me 'by accident'. Yeah, right.
3. Riley didn't come.

Painting the loft!

So we started putting the primer on the walls of the loft today. It went pretty well, even though Stone was driving me close to insanity.

I was the first of the youth to arrive - in fact, I arrived before Stephen, who is one of our youth group leaders. Emma and her sister Nora came a bit later, with music. I was worried that the music wouldn't be my style, but Emma had Coldplay on her iPod! Sweet! She also had this really cool song on her iPod - I think it was called Hit Me by MIA. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong :p I wanted to bring some music, but Emma and Nora had an iPod dock, and I don't think anyone had a CD player that they could bring, so... yeah. I probably could have borrowed Mom's, but I decided not to - I probably would've been the only person bringing a CD anyhow. We took a photo of Jesse's chalice mural before we painted over it with primer. I posed like an anime character, with my fingers in a 'v'. You know, like in Pokemon. haha.

After lunch, we took a break, hanging around the piano near the back exit. Stone and Stephen hooked up their computers, and I did a couple of katas - okay, one and a quarter, if you want to be absolutely specific. I couldn't do all of Unsu because it invovles breakfalls, which I can't do because of the risk of getting an infected jaw (because of the bone graft in my mouth). Stone looked like he was mimicking me, but he said he didn't. Eh, no worries. When the piano wasn't being used by Stone or Nora, I decided to try playing something. Now, I have a keyboard at home, but it's smaller than that piano, so this was pretty cool :) So I started playing She's a Rainbow by The Rolling Stones. And, of course, Stone was singing Christmas carols loudly overtop of my piano playing. Eh. So I told him that I wasn't playing a Christmas carol, I was playing a Stones song. So he said, "A 'Stone's Song'?", and I said, "The Rolling Stones! You know, Mick Jagger!" And then a congregant said, "I know what she's trying to play! She's trying to play She's a Rainbow!", to which I replied, "THANK YOU!" hehe. He also came over to help me with the song a bit.

Micaela came late, but she got to help apply another coat of primer. I didn't get to help with the primer before lunch, because everyone else was, so Stephen had me putting another coat of paint on the door trim and the window, but after lunch he had me help with the primer. I think Dad came to pick me up close to 4:00, but I can't quite remember. Oh, and Micaela was around after lunch (I can't remember when she arrived...), and she checked her e-mail using Stone's teeny laptop, and she got a notification e-mail saying that I tagged her in a note on Facebook. Hehe.

ETA: Okay, it's actually 'Hit That' :p

Youth group was awesome

Last year, youth group was a little, er, not-so-good. But this year looks promising. There weren't many people, but there were enough people to call it a group. Jeff and Stephen, the advisors, were there. It turns out that Jeff will be able to come to some, but not all of the meetings, which is cool, because I thought he was going to stop advising completely this year. Laura was there - she's cool. I like her. Elyssa was there too, but she was helping out with the potluck, so she didn't come up to the loft 'til later. Micaela came late. She was one of the high-strung kids last year, but she's a cool girl deep down. We get along pretty well. Stone (annoying, Hyperactivity Boy, one of the younger folks, but he can be an okay kid) and Riley (a pretty cool guy, also one of the younger folks) didn't come, and Sela (the often controlling girl) and Emma (high-strung girl, but generally a good person) weren't there either. I have a headache, but it's an okay headache. I used to get annoying headaches after youth group meetings where people were loud and silly, but this is a good headache. Sort of. It's starting to bother me now. Maybe the weather change is contributing to it. My left ear is aching, too. Ack.

So I'm listening to Q107 online. Every Wednesday, the evening DJ, Alex, has Jeff Woods, the host of The Legends of Classic Rock, on the evening show. Sometimes they have a poll over the phone and through the website. Because of the rain in southern Ontario, they're playing songs that mention rain, and songs that are dark-and-stormy sounding. Alex had a bad accident over the summer, and if he had died, I would've been very upset. I like Alex. Thank goodness he's okay now.

I love Pepsi.

I love classic rock.

I hope youth group is better this year.