MY NEW CAT

This is a long overdue blog. I've had my new cat for at least a month now since my cat died and I may have mentioned this before but I'll write about it again. I have a new all black cat. She has these black stripes down the side of her that are invisible except in bright light, so if you put her under a bed you won't be able to see her unless she turns her eyes towards you. She's awfully nice. She's a very energetic kit; we'll throw a ball covered with feathers and she'll dash after it and rip all the feathers off. She's done this to 5 of 6 feather balls. Only 5 because we won't let her play with the last one completely.

She also is a fighter. She will attack our fingers when we scratch her belly, but she knows that it's a play fight so she scratches and bites really soft so that it tickles. I had trouble at first letting her put my finger in her mouth. It's just a really awkward feeling. And she is still learning about where she can scratch. She'll claw up the carpet and couches, yet she doesn't pull any strings out of the couches.

Just a little off topic, the honors English books. We have to read either Unexpected Help, or A Tale of Two Cities. I'm reading the latter, and man o man is it boring. When I try to read something like that, it just fries my brain. It will kill my eyes reading the small text to not even understand what it means! It's the absolute worst.

I've also figured out that if you write just a big 1 paragraph write, nobody will read it. Yet if you have a multiple short paragraph piece of work, then everyone will want to read. It is a general concept that has come true many times. I don't know why this is, but maybe because it seems easier to read. And my cat just jumped on the chair I'm sitting on, and accidentally clawed my back. It scared me but she just wanted some attention.

My parents were also gone all of last week and just got back today. This was fine by me. We got to stay up later, and sit and play video games with a little break to play with friends or do some homework. It was a very fun week and I've managed to also keep my grades up.

Since the new term just started, we all start with 100% in all of our classes. So far, I've managed to keep the grades in A's last week, and I hope to get all A's by the end of the term. I really want a 4.0 bad, and I can't wait to see that grade in the mail. That will be such a sweet moment when I can show my family and finally be completely at ease with the grades that I have received.

Christmas break is over :(

Finally, the christmas break has ended.  Yet I don't mind that much, except for one thing.  I hate waking up so early for school.  During the break I got to totally sleep in.  Now I have to wake up early almost every morning the entire week!  I loved my christmas though.  I got a push golf cart (I really don't know how to describe it differently), an air soft gun, which is a pump action rifle, and many more gifts.  And even better was the present we got a few weeks ago.  We got a brand new cat!  Our old one died of a liver disease, and the house just seemed empty without a little cat.  So we searched around for a cat, we looked at Petsmart and the animal shelter.  But we finally decided on a cat from Petco, which we named cocoa, in memory of the holiday season.  She's a really tiny kit, all black, and she's very playful.  We bought these feather things that she just rips apart!  It's so much fun with her around.

And of course I loved the new years eve celebration.  One of my main reasons that I like new years eve is that I can finally stay up past midnight.  Usually I'm forced to bed around 10 or 11, but on that day I can stay up really late.  Plus playing with all our family and friends was just a blast.  

Yet the new year makes me sad as well.  It marks the end of the holiday break, which means that I can't go skiing on the weekdays anymore.  And it marks the start of school, and that made me feel tired just thinking about it.  It stunk the first day of school, after sunday, which I couldn't sleep in on, to wake up at 7 to a "get up, you'll be late to school!"  Those were the last words I wanted to hear, so I had to pull myself out of bed, shower, get dressed, eat a small breakfast compared to the winter break breakfasts, and run out into the cold to catch a bus that was late!  Then I had to try and remember all the work that we did last and recall math formulas.  That was such a pain.

Yet for honors english I got to relax from writing blogs for the entire winter break!  That didn't help me much when I realized I still had stuff to do for this class.  And so I had to rush to the library checking out books and reading them extremely hard.  It was a horrible week last week.

The only good thing about last week was that I was able to ski on last saturday.  It was great, till I hurt myself on the slopes and now have trouble walking.  I still love skiing, but not when it hurts me so badly.  My cousin showed me up, preforming jumps that I would never dare, and grinding on one of the rails they put in the terrain park.  That's what I need to improve on, jumps and actually learning to do tricks.