Well, I knew this wasn’t actually Justin Bieber, but it was still really funny when I saw this dude riding in the car behind Hailey and me. Hailey was telling a story, and I was all, “Look! It’s Justin Bieber!” and I was pointing at the car behind us and giggling. xD She ignored me, continuing to tell her story, and I thought that would be the end of Justin Bieber, right?

Well, after like, five minutes, his car is right next to us and I point and laugh again, telling her that Justin Bieber is riding in the car next to us. :p Well, this time, he notices. And he’s staring at us. And he starts to wave at us. LOL, I couldn’t stop laughing. Then, the wonderful lady that my mom is, she ROLLS DOWN HER WINDOW. Then, guess what? HE ROLLS DOWN HIS WINDOW.

Hailey and I are just laughing our butts off, ignoring his waving and trying to get our attention. xD My mom keeps insisting that we knew him. No, Mom, we do not know Justin Bieber’s twin, I’m sorry. (Really, we had no idea who this kid was.) It was just… so funny. It gave me something interesting to think about after church.

Lots of Love,
Francine

This is my bed. It’s a day bed. :) Aint it cute? I love the bedspread.

The closet is on the left, with my bookshelf next to it. Then there’s the window and my two shelves on the right.

Me desk and my laptop! It might look small, but it’s not. I love the drawers underneath and the red lamp. OH, and don’t forget the red trash can!

This is a decoration that I made over the bed. :) Isn’t it pretty? I just bought the stickers and pasted them on my wall.

Lots of Love,
Francine

Well, I spent the actual Valentine’s Day in Lake Tahoe. How fun! :) I went sledding and I hiked in the snow. I would have gone skiing, but you know how short money is these days, and I didn’t mind not having sore legs, so it all worked out. I had my usual photo-taking spree but I’m way too lazy to post it all here right now. I just got back like, an hour ago, and the ride is about 5-6 hours, so can you sympathize for me? I’ll get them up sooner or later. Probably quicker on my tumblr but who knows.

Don’t you hate it when you think you have bunches to say and it only comes out in two paragraphs?

Lots of Love,
Francine

Aren’t they beautiful?

I spent like all afternoon making them, so you better like them. :’( I’d give you all one but unfortunately we only have 20 (oops, 19) left. So, I won’t be able to give all of you one and that would just not be fair.

And now we end the blog post with cute pictures of Benji after his bath. (:

Lots of love,
Francine

After the first semester or so you get used to the way your teacher acts. Weird, nerdy, nice, mean, whatever, you come into class ready for that, and if you get something different… well… it just makes the whole class awkward. Am I crazy or does anyone agree with me?

That’s kinda what happened in 8^th period. Science. Mrs. Ricafrente. Really nice blabber mouth. (I don’t mean that in a mean way, although it sounded mean. I like it that she talks a lot. (: It makes it easier for me to not learn. xD) Anyway, it’s a new semester today (and I got all A’s last semester. (: anyone wanna give me a woot woot?) and some teachers (and students…) have set New Semester Resolutions. For about almost all my teachers it was to be more “tough” or maybe as others would say, more “mean”. Mrs. Ricafrente was the worst failers of them all, and I’m happy she was. After about… hmm… 10-15 minutes she stopped being mean and tough and went back to talking about her sons. (: I love you Mrs. Ricafrente, stop trying to change your nice ways!

Lots of love,
Francine

P.S. Sorry for not returning my other comments… Again… Anyway, I will get to it. I promise. (: OH, and happy February! :D

I’ve had more spam the past couple days that any other time in my whole life. Holy guacamole, I had 8 unapproved comments this afternoon. Oh, yay! More people commenting on my blog! No. Just spam. How lovely. :/ I mean, the SAME people post the SAME spam almost every day. It annoys the heck out of me. And it’s not just on comments. It floods your e-mail too. I mean, I’ve won “The Swiss Lottery” about 20 times this week. I’m filthy, stinkin’ rich by now. Heh. And Mr. Wong Chong has invited me to Hong Kong 40 billion times. I mean, I’d LOVE to go to Hong Kong, but something about Mr. Wong Chong’s invitation seems a little bit fishy.

Now for a more childish subject. (Yes, I said it.) Rude comments. What’s so enjoyable about posting rude things on other people’s websites? I take it as jealousy, so it really just inflicts pain on you missies and misters. When you say that I’m ugly and that my website stinks, it makes me think, hmm, they must love my website so much they feel the need to write something bad about it. Yeah, so all of you rude commenters, if you’re reading this, I take your rudeness as a compliment to everything I do. That backfired, eh?

Lots of love,
The terrible, ugly Francine ;)

P.S. I’m sooo sorry to those of you that I didn’t return comments to. I’ve been so behind on doing that. Please forgive me, I’m getting around to it! Oh, and one more thing, check out my Tumblr? :)

Something exciting already happened today and it’s only 1:00, I had a basketball game today! I was so nervous (as always) but I had no reason to be. No offense, but these girls were really short, and they weren’t really that good. I don’t want to be mean or anything, but by the end of the game it was 26 to 2. The only reason they got those last two points was because we “fouled” them. The referees just called a foul to help them get some points so they could shoot free-throws. They missed every single one except for the last two. Hehe. Oh well, I’m glad they called those “fouls”, I don’t want them going home with 0. But, I really like their team name “Eagles”. I always wanted an animal as a team name. But, our name says it all. GO WARRIORS.

Also, me and Hailey set up a store online, so if you wanna check that out, that’d be super cool. Unless you’re a dude, then you probably won’t want what we sell. ;) The stuff might not look that cool in the picture, but they’re super cute and I would have more of them, but apparently people who work with the store don’t get discounts.

Sorry for such a crappy blog, I warned you. :]

Lots of love,
Francine

P.S. Good job with the comments, guys! I love you all for commenting. :) It makes me feel good.

So, we got to the dog park and there was like, nobody there. Only two people and their dogs were all huge. Aw, darn, Benji was all hyped up and now we aren’t even gonna go to the dog park. We didn’t want to just take him home. That would totally crush his spirit. So, we drove a little bit up the rode and turned on this street and we saw this walkway, and I’m all, let’s go! Benji loved it. He got mud and grass all over him… But, while we were walking, my mom remembered something. She remembered the Secret Sidewalk. She went there when she was young, and she wanted to see if she could remember where it was.

Well, to make a short story shorter, we hiked along this muddy, wet, rode and we didn’t find it. Maybe they made it too Secret-y. Hmph.

Lots of love,
Francine

P.S. Anyone wanna hear another verse?

Wow. December 31^st. Is that correct or am I just dreaming? It feels like just yesterday we were all celebrating the coming of 2009. Well, new year, new start, right? Oh and the thing with those funny year resolutions. Any of you do those? I know I do. Any of you actually do those? I know I don’t. :)

In the past years I’ve always made a resolution. That I would clean my room more often (as if), I would be more nice to the meanies at school (Yeah, right). I’m pretty sure you all know what I’m talking about, am I right? Well, this year, I’m gonna try and actually do my new year resolution. Yes, I said it on the internet, I must be serious.

I’ve explained new year resolution’s past, but what about the present? Well, my new year resolution is… I will read the whole Bible in the next year. Okay, you all have my word, I must do it now. I promise I won’t remember to read the Bible and act like I forgot, I promise I won’t try and hide in my closet to prevent myself from doing it, and I promise to keep my word. I feel like I can actually do this one. The past one’s have always been something that I never have done anyway, but I do read the Bible, just not the whole thing.

Do you guys ever do the new year resolution thing? Do you ever end up ditching that mumbo jumbo? ;)

Lots of love,
Francine

P.S. I hope all of you have a happy New Year! Do you like the new layout?

So, now you see everything in my eyes. :) And, since the originals of those are 1200×1600 and they look so much better when they’re bigger (especially the ones with the moon), just e-mail me and I’ll send you whatever one you want in its original size. And if you want to have it as your wallpaper, you can do that too! :)

Lots of love,
Francine

I was listening to the radio earlier when I heard the most adorable song by Sara Groves called “Toy Packaging”. I seriously searched all over youtube for it and couldn’t find it, but I only found the download version. It’s really, really cute if you wanna listen to it. Maybe later I’ll find a way to put it on my iPod. :)

Oh, last week or so me and my mom went to the most adorable street with, what I think, are the best lights in the whole wide world. There was even this one house with a holographic santa claus. Tee hee. I just love stuff like that!
*click*

Lots of love,
Francine

P.S.
Even in the trees
There are certain leaves
That stick out among others
That make you see them.

• Juniper

Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know, that I am back, and I will try to stay active. School has calmed down quite a bit and I think that I can finally do school and a website now. I desperately needed that break to hang out with family and friends and get the social activity that I was lacking the years I was working so hard on Color Me Silly.

I’ve been thinking lately, and I want to make more changes to my plan. (Ha, how many more changes can I make?) Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be getting anywhere near to doing Talk of the Town for a long time, as I’ve mentioned before, but I’m not totally sure I want to run two sites. I love just having to pay attention to one, even when I have time to pay attention to both. Having two just makes me feel different as a person for some really strange reason.

I think now, that my blog (Francine Forecast) will just be… a blog. No photography, no writing, no nothing. Just a blog. I know that sounds incredibly boring, but that’s what I think I’ll be doing. And I don’t know if I want to have affiliates in the beginning just yet. I think I’ll just stick to the blog part of the idea, and have nobody affiliated with it. Francine Forecast will be for pure pleasure, and nothing more. Maybe a few photography in my update, but otherwise, just me. And if that’s too boring, then that’s okay too. That idea has attracted me the most ever since I thought of it, and that’s what I’m going to do.

This will follow a new layout, which I’m planning right now. :) Thanks so much everybody for sticking with me through thick and thin, and all these CHANGES.

Lots of love,
Francine

I really want to make the team. More than anyone else that has shown up at the tryouts. :/ Hmm… I’ve blogged about this girl before, you might not remember. I tried looking for the post on my current FanUpdate on Color Me Silly but I think it was on my old one. Oh well. Anyways, this really mean girl is trying out for basketball too. :) How nice. Now, she’s not really nice to anyone, not even her friends, so I don’t take anything she does personally.

Well, she just doesn’t have good history in my book. Do you know the basketball game “Knock Out”? Well, we were playing it at basketball tryouts. I personally really like that game (unless I’m knocked out… :P), and Miss Girly Girl has to ruin it for me? So, it’s my turn to shoot. I go for the free throw, and I make it! Whoo! I’m all happy as I go to get my ball, and Miss Girly Girl shoots her free throw and misses the basket, but makes it to my head… Of course, automatically I grab my head, and I pass the ball to the next girl in line while I walk to the back of the line. All I could hear her say was, “Oh, sorry.” Yeah, you might think it was nice of her to apologize, but when you say it sarcastically it doesn’t mean anything to me.

I dunno. It just hurt mentally and physically. At the same time. :/ Note to anyone who plays knockout: Don’t shoot while the other person is under the basket getting their ball. :)

Again, sorry for being inactive. I’ll do some more work this weekend. But I do have a busy weekend since I have lots of homework to do. :/ I have to read two books, work on two essays, work on my devotion, and study for a test on Monday. How fun.

Questions Anyone?
1. Do you play any sports?
2. If you do, what ones?
3. Are there any girls that are totally mean to you, or are YOU that mean girl?

xoxo
Francine

Since it’s so close to Halloween, how about this be a halloween related blog? Even though my mean principal thinks Halloween is some bad thing that nobody should do. :/ He even says carving pumpkins is bad, which means there must be something wrong in his brain… A week or two ago in chapel he dedicated a whole monologue to how nobody should celebrate Halloween. What’s up with that? I can just see half of the kids’ spirits crushed this Halloween. :’(

I don’t care what he says though. I’m still going Trick-or-Treating. ;) I mean, how could it hurt getting free candy? (Just don’t eat the ones that aren’t in their rightful packages, kiddies.) I’m gonna be a kitty for halloween this year. xD I got the costume at Claire’s for ten bucks, what can you expect? But, I have to say, if you add on some whiskers with black eyeliner, and wear my I love Cats T-shirt, it’s a pretty darn rockin’ costume. :] I also carved my own pumpkin and made a scarecrow. (Sadly, the pumpkin in this picture rotted and we had to throw it away. D’: )

Isn’t my pumpkin adorable? I use gourds for the eyes. xD Since this is only my personal blog now, I wanna ask you guys some questions. :)

1. Are you going Trick-or-Treating this year, or are you too old?
2. If you are, what are you going to be? :D Or are you just gonna ransack the old ladies’ candy?
3. Did you carve a pumpkin or make a scarecrow? :) If not, do you want to?

xoxo
Francine