I AM OFFICIALLY A FRIGGIN’ GRADUATE OF BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF 2007!

graduation was at 7 at the eastman theater, and it lasted until 9:45. i wore the pink shoes i had bought for ball but didn’t wear, and because they are the exact shade of my hair, i got a LOT of compliments. hah. my diploma is pretty sweet, it says my name on it, spelled correctly. the whole event was kind of a blur, but i do remember ms. boyd reading my name and me walking across the stage, where i shook hands with mr. hall and mrs. hackett, who gave me said diploma. then we posed for a photo (or i think we did, i can’t actually remember that part). the last two students, with Z last names, stayed up on stage to move their tassels over, and when they did they unzipped their gowns and revealed t-shirts that read “THE” and “END.” it was awesome.

i’ll post some photos tomorrow, my dad took a bunch.

P.S. i started this blog the first day of high school. can you believe it’s been four years already?

today was our graduation rehearsal (nothing to write home about there, it was pretty much a meeting about graduation, and we sat in the seats that we’ll sit in on thursday). but afterwards was the class trip to darien lake amusement park, which was much more exciting.

on the way there, we drove through a thunder/lightning storm, and it was so bad that our driver made us put our seat belts on. but when we arrived it was over, luckily. first we (me, stabby, dinah, and lina) headed to the water park, but since i just dyed my hair last night, i couldn’t go on. so i waited at a picnic table a rubix’s cubed slash talked to people. after that we hit the rides. we went on the predator (the wooden rollar coaster that kind of hurts to go on), the boomerang (goes forwards and then backwards), the viper (the green one with the loops), and… lina and i went on the skycoaster! it was basically the awesomest ride i have ever been on. it was so worth the 25 bucks you have to pay to go on. it’s a 180 foot drop, and you go up to 63 mph. it’s insane. i got to pull the rip cord, it was so cool.

after we got off a ride we headed towards the games, but it got dark all of the sudden and started to rain. we decided to duck under a food booth shelter to wait it out. well, instead of letting up quickly it started to pour and by then there was a large crowd under the shelter. it was thundering and lightning and everything was wet. the closed all the rides, so we just stood there for a half an hour until it got lighter, and then we ran to the game building. they played lots of games while we waited for the rain to stop (i don’t play games, waste of money). it never did stop raining though, so i put a plastic garbage over me with a hole for my head and we walked around in the rain for the rest of the time. when we got on the bus, everyone was soaked, but we had a great time.

this weekend has been dubbed, “hey everyone, it’s time to clean the maszerowski house!”: the weekend that turned into more than a weekend.

so far we have completely cleaned the living room. i vacuumed, curls dusted, and before you knew it, our living room had become bizarro world, for my mom thought it would be nice to change the furniture around. and since our couch is L-shaped, there are only two ways it can fit, so everything is now exactly opposite. i don’t like it, but my mom says we’ll get used to it.

the reason for all this cleaning? my graduation party next sunday. we have so friggin’ much to do, it’s making me think it would have been better not having a party at all (but it’s too late for that). i hate parties anyway. i hate going to them, and i hate having them. bah.

anyone have any party ideas? decorations? food? activities?

today was the brighton spring clean-up at the middle school (instead of mentoring club). my group went to clean up FRES (the elementary school), brookside (where brighton rec. is located, so even though it was my day off, i was still “at work”), and CRPS (council rock, the primary school, which i haven’t seen since liz went there, about 9 years ago). it was nice out, and it was fun.

today my mom and i went through the whole “why can’t you get a tape deck or cd player in your car” disagreement, and my mom solution was to stick a boom box in there. what am i supposed to do? duct tape it to the dash? that’s like asking for someone to open the door (which doesn’t lock) and take it. i think a very nice early graduation present would be taking the car over to the car stero shop and having them install the cheapest one there, as long as it has a tape deck to plug my ipod into. so do that.

speaking of graduation, how exactly do these “graduation parties” that i’ve been hearing about work? are they required? do i organize it, or do my parents? who goes? what is expected of me? these are questions i cannot answer.