Tuesday, December 30, 2008

...

KEVIN ADDED HER.

but he attatched a creepy message. idk if i can handle this.

EDITORS NOTE:
i added her. with a disclamer to dispel any thoughts she may have about my creeper status. but im sure it didnt work.

OMFGGG

To fully explain why im freaking out right now, we have to travel back to sixth grade. Enter: The American Juniors, my FREAKING MIDDLE SCHOOL IDOLS. like, no joke. i know im pretty damn cool now, but i owe it all to them. i had all the CDs, i watched every episode, and i knew all the contestants, on every round, and every song they sang. to say i was obsessed was an understatement.

fast forward to tenth grade, long after the end of my obsession. i found kevin and kendall, my true soul siblings in all things american juniors.

fast forward to a week ago, when i sang Colors of the Wind at the Invisible Children Benefit Concert, when kevin and i actually debated whether or not to dedicate my performance to Danielle W, who was the biggest of all my middle school idols. but i didnt, because "im a professional". yeah yeah, whateva.

okay fast forward to RIGHT NOW, when i FOUND HER ON FACEBOOK. forreal. it took some work, dont underestimate my stalking capabilities, when in combination with my extreme insomnia typically yeilds things like this. but i did it. and immediatly copied the link to kevin. who, at this very second, is adding her on facebook. im too scared. what if she REJECTS it? that will be so tragic! im scared. but if kevin does it, i will. im a follower.

alright, im like shaking from excitement. im such a creeper.

-kelly

One Minute Blogger&2008

If you could be the best in the world at anything, what would it be?

thats a pretty intense question. but of all the crazy things i wish i was good at, i think i'd have to pick just communicating. im pretty bad at getting my feelings across, usually. with some people, its not a problem. but there are so few (2?) people that actually know me so well that i dont always have to be good at saying what i want to say. and its not only the important things, its everything. i talk a lot, given, but i never really say what im feeling. this is such a lame thing to choose, but whatever. (ha, allison. i told you.)

so my day today was so average i could cry. i woke up, went to james avery (for the fourth time in two days) with allison and kimberly, and then went to karen dillard. and then i went to starbucks to (try to) help michael and anna write a TACT skit, but im such a failure. the character i tried to make sounded just like me. it was pretty bad. and then i babysat, how out of the ordinary, and now im blogging. this paragraph alone could sum up my winter break. every year.

which leads me to my next point:happy new year! almost. this year feels like such a whirlwind. i feel like this time last year i was whining about not getting the real "high school experience". but now, as i look back on 2008, i realize i really did. in spades. i actually got hurt, i actually made legitimately bad decisions, but i also made peace with old enemies, and i also actually grew. a lot. looking back, i've learned alot in the past year, not only about the world but about myself. i learned that i can handle so much more than i give myself credit for, but also that im not superwoman, and that every so often, its okay to admit something is wrong. i learned that even when you're hurting, your real friends are still there. and i learned that when your friends are hurting, all you can do is be there. always. so hopefully i have been. i learned that when something goes wrong, theres usually something equal, if not better, coming right behind it. and hopefully, in 2009, ill learn to take my own advice. i've learned that people will come in and out of your lives, but the important ones stay. i've learned that "looking cool" isnt cool. i've learned that speaking your mind doesnt have to be so serious, and that "just because everyone else was doing it" or "because i was bored and awkward" typically dont yield good results. i've learned that being honest, even when it sucks and you're really really scared, is best. and finally, i've learned that being nice to someone who needs it gives you more satisfaction than judging and comparing.

so anyways, cheers to 2008, and its craziness. i hope y'alls year was as positive as mine, and i hope that we are all blessed in 2009 (yeah thats a cliche. im trying). good luck, friends.
later,
kelly

Monday, December 29, 2008

Day One

...of my two week sentence. but in all honesty, as much as i bitched about it to my parents, taking away the car really inst that bad. they could have taken away my phone. i think they know that if they tried to take my phone from me i would run away to work in a brothel.

and on that note, my day today was pretty good. i didnt sleep, which was typical, and then i got up and tried to beat Lou on guitar hero. its so freaking hard, I cant even handle it. Its "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", only about seven billion times faster. and my pinkie honestly cannot react that quickly. So anyways, thats how Michael and I spent the first hour of my day.

and then Allie, Kimberly and I went to James Avery to get our rings. finally. we got the Lover's Knot one that pretty much every single girl on the West cross country team has, but thats okay. and then i went to SAT class, which was riveting, as per the usual. and then Kimberly left me a voicemail detailing her awkward encounter with the hot guy that works at Car Spa. She apparently cant put her mom's car into neutral, so he had to help her, and was laughing at her. please keep in mind that Kimberly is very easily flustered, and therefore things pertaining to her car usually dont go smoothly. like getting gas. and getting her car washed. anyways, so after she finally figured out to get her car through the car wash, all the soap wasnt off, and she had to go through again, causing more laughter from unidentified hot boy.

and after all this, she got home and realized that her car needed to be washed, too. so she picked me up, and I drover her car through the car wash for her, so that she wouldnt be embarrassed. but i've never driven her car before, and I dont have the best track record in the automotive department. And so we pulled up to the car wash, and the man told me to roll down the window but I kept rolling the wrong one down by accident. and when i finally got it, kimberly was in hysterics in her front seat (dressed "incognito" in a black northface all the way zipped up and sun glasses.) The man writing out my receipt definitely asked what she was on, and gave me a lecture on how being the driver means that i have to stay clear headed at all times, which only made us laugh more. and then when we finally got to the car wash entrance, i turned to check out the hot guy she had been referring to, and he for sure caught me. so that sucked.

anyways, moral of the story, go find out how to put your car into neutral.

and then I had Hanukkah dinner (night after Hanukkah dinner?) at Kimberly's, and then Allie and Nadia went with us to see Twilight. Good news, it was just as hilarious the second time, and i got just as many dirty looks from Edward-loving middle schoolers. whatevs.

and thats that. I'm trying to figure out the new years plan, but im the worst planner ever. i havent asked my parents if everyone can come to my house over sketchy new years Victory Park, but im hoping they'll say its alright for everyone to come over.

OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT. okay. so over the weekend at my convention i learned that when someone licks your elbow, you legitimately cannot feel it. its so strange. try it! when someone isnt expecting it, just lean down and lick the bony part of their elbow. but dont let them see you, because then the experiment is ruined. i played this game like the whole day.

and thats that, for real this time.
pieces, g
-kelliephyne

Saturday, December 27, 2008

So

...I remember not so long ago, less than a year, when I was an idealistic fifteen year old, so naive and all too confident in my driving abilities. when all my friends bought home their first tickets, I scoffed and rolled my eyes. please. I would never get pulled over.

FALSE. ladies and gentlemen, I, kelly fine, have officially been pulled over. and it was terrifying. although, the police officer was really, really nice. I mean, as nice as they come. almost as nice as the officer that let me and William ride in his suburban. almost.

and its funny, because i always imagined id start crying. which is strange, because i almost never cry about things in general. i brood, typically, but i generally get over it pretty fast. well, with the exception of this weekend, and even then I didn't wallow for long. but anyways, I didn't cry. I shook, like a lot, but I didn't cry. and i calmly called the people i was babysitting for to let them know I'd be late. that, really, is the main tragedy of today. I am never late. i hate being late. even when i think I'm going to be late, and mentally prepare myself, I'm always at least five minutes early. or ten. or fifteen. and I was eight minutes late to babysit. at least the couple i was babysitting for seems to get pulled over a lot, because they were suuupppeerrr nice about the whole thing.

so that's my thoughts on getting pulled over. i decided that unless i want to be in debt for the rest of my life, I need to stay out of Rex. (no, Allison, do not make a thatswhatshesaid) Rex is my car. my beautiful, yellow, tank of a car.

EDITOR'S NOTE:
i forgot about the discovery i made tonight. it isn't every day you meet America's Next Great Novelist, right? and i found her FIRST. her name is Nichole, and she is seven. and she wrote an inspiring piece called "The Unicorn Meets the Make Believe Animal". please note that there was no irony in this title. its about a unicorn, Sparkle, who meets a uniturtle (unicorn head, turtle body), and finds a lasting friendship. they journey to all sorts of places and experience adventures such as cloud eating, getting surrounded by dragons (and befriending them, of course), and being saved from the rain at the water park by woodland fairies. its the new Dr.Seuss, i swear.

alright, well i should probably face the music. feel free to call and offer me condolences (and transportation), i need them.

pieces,
kelly.

Top Ten Reasons...

why i hate SAT Class.

10. the only person i know is my cousin.
9. the teachers try to be funny.
8. two hours of math is my personal hell.
7. we arent allowed to text message.
6. instead of feeling more prepared, i just feel stupid.
5. its two hours every single day of my winter break.
4. every student in my class is akward, so we dont talk to each other.
3. i hit a car in the parking lot, and now that boy is in my class everyday.
2. the rooms are ugly and small.
1. we get homework, and we are for some reason expected to do it. i dont even do homework at REAL school.

and that sums up my winter break thus far. but its okay, because hopefully ill be hanging out with the coolest people ever on new years, and hopefully allie and kimberly can come, too. HA jk k&a, you know i think youre cooler than everyone else.

the secret word of this blog: underwire. good luck saying that without sounding awk...

kay. go read allison's blog. we're tight.

pIEces,
kayfyne

Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas

time is so nice. and relaxing. except when your sisters are home, and then the relaxation level severely decreases.

so yesterday, basically all i did all day was play Guitar Hero with michael. i didnt even participate in the jewish custom of going to a movie or eating chinese.

but the day was saved from being a complete waste because i did go to Allison's house to drop off her CD, and i left at least twenty minutes worth of voice mails. and so far, EVERYONE has gotten their secret words! so cheers for my friends and their patience with my five minute voicemails.

and jolie, just in case you didnt listen all the way through, you actually had six secret words. yeah, sorry, i got carried away. but heres a list: foot, moccasin, blistex, insect, window, index.

i might start putting secret words into my blogs...thats a good idea. okay, reader(s), the next time i see you, please incorporate the word "blowfish" into our conversation, with a wink. this will prove your loyalty. if i look at you like your crazy, thats because i forgot. no worries, i already think all of you are crazed, so its whatever.

okay, well im off to lunch with Alexa and the Party of Three! i have never been so excited for the second meal of the day.

alright. pieces, g's.

-kfine

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Im Sorry

for my spelling deficiency disorder. i hereby edit every single "peices" in this blog to "pieces".

im so sorry, allison, for letting you down. someday, our intelligence will be equal.

okay. piece out.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

"My Whiney Emo Music"

( in the words of Alex Zeto) which isnt, incidently, emo at all, is now on the side of my page. it took me about eighteen years. so you better freaking love all of the songs.

ill probably change them every second of my life, since im always stalking my own blog, but atleast while im on my computer and itunes isnt open (in other words, never), i can enjoy music.

kay pieces g
-kfoine

Regionals

AKA the longest weekend of my life. but in general, it was pretty alright. congradulations to the new regional board, im sure you'll all do fantastically.

so one thing that this convention reminded me of is how much Wadel still needs good leadership. we won most improved because we had such a freaking awesome last two terms (your welcome for being the best mit mom in Wadel history), and i really feel like next year we can win best chapter. the eighteenbillionpeat is broken (sorry weinstein), its our time.

so other than that small paragraph, nothing much new here. im going to dinner with the Fine tribe (seriously. there are a thousand of us), so ill probably write later. or tomorrow. or not.

kay pieces, g. read my song on the post below this, its awesome. even though we NEVER GOT TO PERFORM it which was a travesty.

-kelly

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Profound Thoughts

I KISSED AN AZA AND I LIKED IT

This was never the way i planned
not my intention
I got manishewitz in my hand, lost my discretion
It's just what i'm used to
just wanna try you on
Its what Jewish girls do
Caught my attention

Chorus:
i kissed an AZA and i liked it
the taste of his kosher chapstick
i kissed an AZA just to try it
i hope my Goy-friend wont mind it
it felt so wrong, it felt so right
doesnt mean that im a shmuck tonight
i kissed an AZA and i liked it, i liked it

You have a really Jewish name
like Gold or Steinberg
Its an experimental game
well, thats what i heard
its what Jewish girls do
its how we all behave
its part of being a Jew
its how we were raised

Chorus

Us BBGs are magical
soft Uggs, Longchampes, so plentiful
hard to resist so beautiful
too good to dent it
aint no big deal its what Sherrie said....

Chorus

FIN

useful vocab:
AZA-jewish boy
BBG-jewish girl
Shmuck- Dick in Yiddish
Goy-friend- term jewish girls use for their non-jewish boyfriends
"its what Sherrie said"-"the point of BBYO is to meet a nice jewish boy and procreate"

-Hannah Kleinman, Kelly Fine, and Wadel BBG

Friday, December 19, 2008

Extended

So i was re-reading my blog, creepily, and i came to the conclusion that i need to chill the hell out. so here is a list of why this week didnt suck that bad:

  1. it was winter for about a day, and it was fantastic.
  2. my tire wasnt actually flat, it just needed more pressure
  3. i found my French book in the choir room no more than thirty seconds before i was about to buy a new one
  4. i got to have lunch with nicole and rae and jarvis and mr j.
  5. i GOT to pick up Hannah Zima from random ass bookstore
  6. the invisible children benefit concert was (is) so good!
  7. continued: i have the most talented friends ever
  8. i got to spend basically the entire day with allie and kimberly, which doesnt happen. ever.
  9. i got to play hangman with Nadia for like half an hour
  10. William taught me a new game i can fail at. but it was still fun.
  11. im getting my haircut tomorrow
  12. Nicole Turco finally gave me comprehensible directions when i was lost in East Plano.
  13. i got Michael's christmas present. and even though i've decided that my little brother definetly needs to be made over into a Jonas Brother, his present is still pretty cool.
  14. i made like eight new CDs
  15. i was able to think of fifteen good things in one week.
  16. make that fifteen: Cosmo used the word "crazed", and it was awesome
  17. sixteen: kimberly's little sister's friend's dad sent out fake christmas cards where he photoshopped a picture of a family's child in with lots of people they didnt know, and then sent out said card to all the family's friends. it was awesome.

and im sure i could come up with more, but im thinking i should sleep for the first time in like a week. which surely means i will not sleep at all.

peices, g.

-kellie phyne

The Best Friday Ever

today. because i am finished with exams for the rest of my life. or like a semester.

hi allison. (please note that she is not reading this because she wants to. i told her to)

sooo its possible that APEnglish killed me, but its okay because i got a seventy six. how is it possible that i got a higher grade on french (78) then on English, a language i actually speak. weird. (78)

thats my subliminal messaging to say i got a seventy eight on french. and i have never been prouder. which clearly reflects my indifference about my grades this year. senioritis sucks, especially since im not a senior. but in my defence, all my other exam grades were As, so im still intelligent enough for quad c.

um...so thats all. we (kimberly, allie and i: aka mad, bad, and dangerous to know) brought bryse at Nordstorm a cookie today, so that was nice. he probably thinks we're pretty weird. whatevs.

okay well im going shopping again, so...peices, g's.

COME TO DAFFRON ELEMENTARY ACROSS FROM THE SHOPS AT LEGACY AT SEVEN TONIGHT, FOR THE INVISIBLE CHILDREN BENEFIT CONCERT. its going to be really, really good. seriously. be there.

-kfyne

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Why..

this is dot mckenzie. shes pretty chill. please add her on facebook.


This week sucks:
  1. i almost died because my car spun out like six times on the way to school


  2. exams.


  3. getting out early doesnt make me more motivated to study.


  4. its freaking cold. this is not Michigan.


  5. exams.


  6. exams.

  7. exams.

alright, thats all. more later.

pieces

kelly


Monday, December 15, 2008

No, Wait.

i'm not finished. i just typed a really long paragraph about Peter De Vries quote "life is a zoo inside a jungle", but i accidently erased it or something.

so thats one of my favorite quotes. i kind of feel like the English department could have skipped Thoreau, and Emmerson, and their "great literary works" and just showed us those seven words, and then left us to decipher what they mean. i really like Clark, but even though transcendentalism clearly meant a lot to her, its not something that can just translate through a week or two of fifty minute lessons. life isnt going to happen while we're sitting in a desk taking notes, or while we're learning about when "life will happen". if theres anything that i've learned the last few months, its that you can't spend all your time focusing, and stressing, and worrying about the little things. which is an ironic thing to learn, considering. that irony is only going to be noticed by a few people, but its still there. i need to take a lesson from myself, but thats so much easier said than done.

HA that last sentence sounds like one of those girls who's facebook statuses are like "my life is so hard". i didnt mean to sound like that at all. those girls are so annoying. i just feel like everyone doesnt always need to know everything thats going on.

this was like steam of consciousness, im not even sure it makes sense to me.
but anyways, theres that. i have to go get Michael pizza.

kelly

I

...am so proud of myself. blogging three days in a row? this is crazed.

unfortunately, the problem with blogging everyday means there isn't really a lot to type. but I'm pretty good at talking slash writing about nothing, so I'm sure i can think of something.

so my day in general today: a lot better than yesterday.Kimberly, i know that even as my best friend you don't read this, but just in case you are, you really did help yesterday. i already told you that, but thanks again anyways. its a good thing we're both so messed up.

but that was actually more about yesterday, so... i found out i have a stalker today? i hope he isn't reading this, because i feel bad. so if i actually factually know you and I've yet to tell you about my stalker, text me. its a pretty good story. i passed my french test, which isn't really surprising in light of a recent event, but its pretty good nonetheless. we had a party in choir, so that was fun-ish.

and that's basically all. i have Algebra and English tomorrow, and i cant really study for either of those. i have to get a negative eight on the algebra exam to fail the class, which is worrisome, I'm not sure if i can manage that...

alright well this was a useless post. but thats alright.

kaybye
kelly

Sunday, December 14, 2008

One Minute Writer

Share the story of how you got a scar (or any injury, even if a scar didn't result.)

when i was six, i lived in Tampa Florida. (go bucks.) Ironically enough, this story takes place at my Catholic pre-school. Do you remember those huge, foamy blocks everyone played with when they were little? they're also in every "pit" of every gymnastics gym in the world? at my school, those were the coolest things around. in this particular story, i was crawling on the floor (typical) to get one of those infamous blocks from under a bench, when someone called my name. with my typical gusto, i yanked my head up (under the bench), smacked it on the bottom of the bench, and bit through my lip. blood was everywhere. but at that moment, i dont really remember crying all that much. i just remember grabbing My Sheet (the equivilant of a blankie, only cheaper. also typical) and putting it over my lip, like i didnt want all the attention. and then i went and found a teacher and immediatly was driven to the hospital. i still dont really remember tears, i just remember that i was really scared that i'd have to get stitches. and i did, but i got a teddy bear out of it, so it was alright. now i have a really faint line underneath my lip. its pretty badass, to be completely honest.

and thats my one minute.

so today: i woke up at three AM, and walked around my house creeper style for a while. i always do that. its so annoying. my heads like "oh hey, good morning body, i hope you werent planning on actually sleeping tonight. or ever." and then after like half an hour i went back to sleep, finally. and then i woke up for Sunday school, where we made latkes. if you ever have to spend an extended amount of time around onions and potatoes and children, im sorry, and i can fully empathize with you. its enough to make anyone crazy.

and now, im "working on my english paper". im actually just listening to the Walkdown CD Josh made last night. yeah, sorry girls, i stole it. ill make you copies if you want.

which leads me to Walkdown, which was really fun. although Louis, you like sprinted down the runway, and i was in heals. youre welcome for not falling and making you look stupid. since no one in BBYO knows me, i dont think i'd have too much humiliation to suffer from.

alright, well im going to do homework.

later, gators.
-kfine

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Do You Ever

think about something that happened, and then imagine how different everything would be if it hadnt? for example, if we didnt have a dog, i would have to vacuum a lot less, and my dad wouldnt spend all his time talking to her (the dog, obviously). or, if i hadnt moved to Texas, id be friends with totally different people (which is a funny story, if i've ever told you about my Witch friend). or, most recently, if i hadnt been so, so excited to get to SAT class today, i wouldnt have knocked my door into the car next to me, leaving a long yellow paint smear, and therefore i wouldnt be grounded. again.

but to be totally honest, being grounded isnt all that bad. it gives me an excuse to be the complete homebody that i am. and it keeps me out of trouble ( which is the point. way to go Parents, mission accomplished.) the one thing it doesnt help me do is study. but thats fine, i dont study when im ungrounded anyways.

so this week in a nutshell: complete and total hell. i dont understand why teachers feel the need to assign useless projects. like the four and a half hour long Gettysburg film for APUSH. did anyone actually understand that movie? all i could pay attention to was their facial hair. so for any guys out there: if your face isnt visible behind your beard/goatee/mustache/sideburns, you arent hiding your unattractiveness. you're just gross.

in other news, i had TACT today for the first time in about a decade, which was really fun. (shoutout to megan who apparently reads this. hi, i still dont like you) we made cookies of eachother. well thats what we did for the twenty minutes i was there. i dont even care that it took me longer to get there than i stayed. i miss everyone whenever i dont see them, which is strange, since all my other friends i dont really think about when i havent seen them in a while.

so thats pretty much all for right now. when i think of something else random and "pointless" (watch it, Alex. we both know how deep of a thinker i am), you'll be the first to hear it.

kaypeace
kelly

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Why

i am the coolest person i have ever met. Today, i rode in a police car.

well, a police SUV. it was pretty much the neatest thing ever. "hyper chouette!" (shannon.)

so i was marching in the Plano Christmas Parade (with my hair back no one knew i was a Jew, its cool.), and when we were finished shouting for The Giving Movement (www.thegivingmovement.org- shoutout), we were standing in this random parking lot. they were supossed to send a bus for us, but they didnt, so we were just stranded in central plano. they told us to find friends (which i dont have) to come pick us up or to carpool. however, as all of our cars were in the PSHS parking lot (Go West, just saying.), there was no one to get us back to our cars. and so Me and William Kerr went to ask this random police vehicle if they could drive us back to our cars. and he said yes. and so me and will and christina and jenny piled into the car and went back to the parking lot for our cars.

it was balling. and he was really nice, which i wasnt expecting. and they have SQUAD CAR TO SQUAD CAR INSTANT MESSAGING, which was freaking cool, and like a thousand billion wires in the back that attach to more wires and more devices. and they have bulletproof plastic in between the driver and the back seats, and the doors dont open from the inside. it was freaking cool.

so thats why im cool. im going to go volunteer for FNHS now, so yay for crazed community service days.

okaybye
-kfine

Monday, December 1, 2008

The Greatest Night of my Life

was, uncontestedly (word?) last night. so, just for my reader(s), here is a bulleted list of why it was so awesome.

  • kimberly, allie, and i's talk about our economic standings, in terms of our parents income in relation to Massie, Claire, and Kristen of the Clique.
  • our heart to heart in the car about our fuckedupness.
  • my new favorite band, The City Lives. (honestly though, it would be a lie to already have ranked them my favorite. im nothing if not loyal. so they can have 4th place) because i like to be optimistic about my blog viewage (word?), im going to shout out to Sammy, Josh, and Chase, because im one hundred percent aware of my creeper tendencies, and you were all champs. and you're all really attractive, so theres that.
  • Jet Lag Gemini, and their shoutout to Invisible Children. thats my favorite charity, but due to my brokeness, i donate vicariously through my parents. and to my reader (im not even bothering with the hopeful "s" this time) in plano, im singing in an invisible children benefit concert on december 19th at seven. its going to be really good (especially me. im a damn good singer. and humble to boot), so you should come and donate. its good karma and stuff.
  • obviously the all american rejects and their one second set. it changed my life. i love you tyson ritter.

believe me, i could go on and on and on. but my brother needs to do science fair (dork) .

kaypeace