COOOOOOOKIE!

I DID IT!
...sort of.

Ok, before I explain how entirely difficult and treacherous my day was, I just need to state one little thing:

*Today during spare*
Sabreena: Everyone who is cool, say I
Me during spare: *points to my eye*
Sabreena: Oh, you're crying because you're uncool?

Me NOW: I! I! I! I!


Ok, so basically, this how my day went - *HANDMOUTH*
It was SO hard going the entire day without talking, hence the "sort of".

I ALMOST slipped up this morning in the car with my brother. The radio station was giving listeners a chance to accomplish something they haven't done before (ironic, isn't it?) and the latest one they did was this lady got waxed. So naturally, without even thinking, I whispered to myself "ew". Thankfully, Jordan didn't hear me. Gah, a slip up at 8am, how lame.

I went the whole day during school without making a sound! Granted, I had to carry a paper around with me to each class asking the teacher to kindly cooperate, which they did.

But after lunch I was called down to the office because I had missed school yesterday without a phone call - big oops on my behalf. Now I think the secretary hates me, or thinks I've gone mad, because I tried communicating using hand gestures. That was the most awkward part of the day for me, and the most annoying.

And then in World Issues we got our test back. We're taking them up and I notice an obvious error on mine, so, foolishly, I raised my hand. Ugh. More hand gestures. So awkward. I especially didn't like the attention it put on me. Lots of, "what is she doing?", "what's wrong with her?", "why isn't she talking?"
Kudos for Maria being the only other person is the school (to my knowledge) who had heard of this cause and the 24-hour silence. She explained my case to a few.

Media Arts was just flat out annoying. I gave my teacher the explanation slip and he purposely tried to aggravate me. CONGRATS! It worked. I eventually gave up trying to ignore him and/or communicating in any way and sat at my computer for the rest of the hour.

My dad had no idea I was doing this when he picked me up from school, he'd forgotten I told him about it a few days prior. He was ready to drive me to work and I wasn't even scheduled for today ... so I cheated a tiny bit and wrote a note on my phone to show him. But it wasn't REALLY cheating, I didn't want him to drive out of his way! heh heh?

Right before dinner I was sitting downstairs on, none other than, youtube. My mom is standing in the laundry room,
"Jess ... Jess! ... JESSICA!"
annoyed and not even thinking I pause the video and yell
"WHAT!?"
Major oops.

At about 8pm, I was sitting in my huge chair crossed-legged (like I usually sit) but my leg was falling asleep to I stretched them out and kicked my cat in my face and right off the chair because I didn't know the stealthy critter was there. Again, without even thinking, I say "Ah, crazy cat, didn't see you!"
So, of course, my dad was sitting right there across from me and and wallowed in my defeat.
Gah, again!

AND, just because I suck that much, about an hour later, my dad and I are in our same seats and I look up from what kept me distracted all night (my laptop) and I looked at the tv screen. My dad was watching a local hockey game and the song "Put your hand up in the air" was playing and in the reflection of the protective glass you could see two people in the stands dancing and literally putting their hands up in the air. Duh, again, I blurt out laughing "hahaha, look in the corner!" and pointed at them.

I suck, but only when I'm not focused on not talking. It takes a lot of concentration for me to hold back some of my thoughts.
Growing up I blurted out everything and anything in my head. Now, I'm not like that so much but I still slip up occasionally. Today being an example.

I still say this was a GREAT SUCCESS.
I started at midnight and ended at midnight (instead of starting at 3pm today) because tomorrow I'm going to the U of W with some friends to um.. "see what they have to offer" (aka, indulging in the free food).

I'm actually really proud of myself! You have no idea how many times today I stopped myself from saying something. Definitely more times than I slipped up, that's for sure.
Today was all around pretty good; it really helped me test my self-control. Also, it really made me want to think a bit more before I speak. There were a couple times today I wanted to say something (obviously I refrained) but then I was glad I didn't say it.


I found this video today and resisted the urge to sing along. But now that's it's after midnight..

CHIMPANZEE RIDING ON A SEGWAY
CHIMPANZEE RIDING ON A SEGWAY
CHIMPANZEE RIDING ON A SEGWAY
BAM BA-BA-BAM BAM BAM



ps- if you're wondering about the title, 'cookie' was my first word ever spoken. It just seemed necessary.