I have an apology to make to all my followers. I know it has been a very long time since I blogged. I know some of you out there may be like most of my teachers, accepting no excuses but for those of you that would accept my excuse I think I might have a pretty good one. My junior year has been crazy so far. Crazy but wonderful. Other than school and all my classes I have been busy with my school magazine. I am graphics editor but I also write and design and take pictures. The news season for my church's youth group has also started with the new school year. I love youth and I'm happy to be back in it. I also really like my new small group now that I have moved up to the Junior and Senior girls group. I have also started taking violin lessons from a new teacher who is much more strict. Lastly and most of all I have made my schools fall musical. Nothing huge but I made it into the chorus. It is so much fun but it takes a lot of commitnment. I have rehersal almost every night until at least six.
As for those little moments of freedom I have recieved I have discoverd some new things I would really like to share. First off have any of you heard of a website called tumblr? I love it :) tumblr.com. Secondly I have been reading... a lot. If you are a fan of the Percy Jackson serires you should check out the Cane Chronicles and the Heros of Olympus series both also by Rick Riordan and jsut fyi the second book of the Heros of Olympus sereis: Son of Neptune comes out TOMORROW AND I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! I also just finished the 4th book in the Kingdom Keepers serires this weeked, and I also highly recommend that book.
I am sorry this is kind of a boring post, its mostly a recap of whats been up. Hopefully I'll be able to post more soon. But before I end this post I would like to tell you one thing. Remember my boyfriend Drew? I talked about him quite a bit. Well last Tuesday was me and Drew's one year anniversary :)
God Bless
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Riddle Time!
Riddle! What do a chicken head, pink high tops, and a broken filing cabinet all have in common?
Answer! My Wednesday morning! Woo!
The pink high tops are just the shoes I'm currently wearing but the chicken head and broken filing cabinet have to do with what we did in Journalism this morning. I spent two full class periods writing a movie script for a movie called A World Without Verbs! Our entire class was the cast and we spent an entire class period filming it. I played the dog and Bobo the 5'10 chicken (which was apparently wearing a floral skirt and pink high tops.) Emily was supposed to play Bobo but she was bein' a fudge butt and refused even after we changed the whole character just cause she refused to be a clown. Oh well. So the movie is about a young boy named named Little Johnny (played by Nurnberg our Journalism teacher.) Little Johnny is frustrated by his verbs homework and wishes for a world without verbs against his grandfathers warnings. But then... Little Johnny wakes up in a world without verbs and it turns out grandpa was right! Dum dum duuuuuuuuuuuum!!!!! Scary I know. So your probably asking the question right now what does a dog and a giant chicken in a skirt have to do with a world without verbs? Well as the dog I was the lovable pet and as the chicken... well as the chicken I was Little Johnny's hallucination. Yeah we come up with some weird stuff to do. So it looks like I have touched on all three of the things in the riddle except for one, the broken filing cabinet. Well we had to find something for Nurnberg to lay on and spin so we went to the shop room and took his rolling filing cabinet and used that. Well after about 4 turns the cabinet broke.... It was ok though one of the kids in my class TJ (who played Grandpa and Little Johnny's best friend Billy) was going to fix it.
Well I will not be posting for a while after today. I am going on a mission trip and I'm leaving this Friday and will be gone for 10 days. Then I'll sleep the next 3 days after that to catch up. So Farewell for now the world of bloggers! I'll be back :)
God Bless
Answer! My Wednesday morning! Woo!
The pink high tops are just the shoes I'm currently wearing but the chicken head and broken filing cabinet have to do with what we did in Journalism this morning. I spent two full class periods writing a movie script for a movie called A World Without Verbs! Our entire class was the cast and we spent an entire class period filming it. I played the dog and Bobo the 5'10 chicken (which was apparently wearing a floral skirt and pink high tops.) Emily was supposed to play Bobo but she was bein' a fudge butt and refused even after we changed the whole character just cause she refused to be a clown. Oh well. So the movie is about a young boy named named Little Johnny (played by Nurnberg our Journalism teacher.) Little Johnny is frustrated by his verbs homework and wishes for a world without verbs against his grandfathers warnings. But then... Little Johnny wakes up in a world without verbs and it turns out grandpa was right! Dum dum duuuuuuuuuuuum!!!!! Scary I know. So your probably asking the question right now what does a dog and a giant chicken in a skirt have to do with a world without verbs? Well as the dog I was the lovable pet and as the chicken... well as the chicken I was Little Johnny's hallucination. Yeah we come up with some weird stuff to do. So it looks like I have touched on all three of the things in the riddle except for one, the broken filing cabinet. Well we had to find something for Nurnberg to lay on and spin so we went to the shop room and took his rolling filing cabinet and used that. Well after about 4 turns the cabinet broke.... It was ok though one of the kids in my class TJ (who played Grandpa and Little Johnny's best friend Billy) was going to fix it.
Well I will not be posting for a while after today. I am going on a mission trip and I'm leaving this Friday and will be gone for 10 days. Then I'll sleep the next 3 days after that to catch up. So Farewell for now the world of bloggers! I'll be back :)
God Bless
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Help
You know what sucks? Having the hormones of a teenager. You know what sucks more? Having the hormones of a teenager in the last two weeks of school after a full year of sophomore slump. Uuuuuuuuuugggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh. I feel irrational, over dramatic, and agitated. This is normal, right? I'm not the only nut case, right? RIGHT?! *deep breath* *deep breath* *deep breath* ok, sorry about that, it's just been a rough week and there's an even rougher week ahead. Next week is finals week, my English teacher is insane and I get so mad pretty much every class period (she's very hypocritical and expects too much), I have a violin recital tomorrow where I'm playing a really hard solo and I'm seriously stressed out! I'm so stressed out I'm not even really excited for summer, I'm too stressed to be excited for squat! Sorry, sorry, I got on a rant there. I'm not writing this blog post to complain about my problems (well not completely) I want to do two main things.
1. Apologize to the wonderful people around me being affected by my insanity.
I apologize to all you wonderful people that surround me; friends, family, Drew, your all wonderful and I have been a nut case for the past few days. If I have snapped at you, or freaked out in your presence I am sorry and thank you for putting up with me. You are all wonderful people.
2. Ask all of you wonderful people out there for one thing: HELP!
To quote the musical genius of The Beatles "Help I need somebody. Help, not just anybody. Help, you know I need someone. Help." If anyone out there has a cure for stress that works for you please share, please! I could use your words of wisdom.
Now, to thank you for reading this and to change to a happier note check out this video. It is officially the cutest thing I have ever seen, beating the little bunny at the beginning of the movie Hop who's playing the bongos (I love that bunny.) So anyway, check it out and feel happy :)
God Bless
1. Apologize to the wonderful people around me being affected by my insanity.
I apologize to all you wonderful people that surround me; friends, family, Drew, your all wonderful and I have been a nut case for the past few days. If I have snapped at you, or freaked out in your presence I am sorry and thank you for putting up with me. You are all wonderful people.
2. Ask all of you wonderful people out there for one thing: HELP!
To quote the musical genius of The Beatles "Help I need somebody. Help, not just anybody. Help, you know I need someone. Help." If anyone out there has a cure for stress that works for you please share, please! I could use your words of wisdom.
Now, to thank you for reading this and to change to a happier note check out this video. It is officially the cutest thing I have ever seen, beating the little bunny at the beginning of the movie Hop who's playing the bongos (I love that bunny.) So anyway, check it out and feel happy :)
God Bless
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
School, Shopping, Theatre, And A Happy Book
I hate this end of school, dragging on, slower that a slug pulling a 20 pound weight along sand period. My school gets out June third so I'm down to 8 school days!!! It feels like forever though. Its like in those movies where someones dreaming or something and their running down a hallway but it never gets any shorter. Doors are rushing past you but you never seem to make it any farther down the hall. If I'm that person running I am starting to lose my stamina and I'm about to pass out! Most of my teachers aren't too bad. Keeping it simple, not too much homework, and what-not. The only problem is my English teacher/ class. Somehow she thinks we are going to finish the book The Chosen in 8 days. We were supposed to read the first four chapters by today and from everyone I talked to, I'm pretty sure I'm one of two of the people who actually read the chapters. I'm also pretty sure I'm the only person who did the worksheets. We had four chapters and 3 worksheets due today plus I had an Algebra test this morning, ugh! so basically I was up until midnight and still didn't get all the work finished. I did finish the work this morning but I'm now sleep deprived and worn out. This was not my first late nighter from English in the last two weeks either. Last week the band Third Eye Blind was having a concert in my town. Considering no one cool ever comes to my town I had to go. I bought two tickets (one for me and one for my cousin Marissa) the day they went on sale. I was SO excited! Then my English teacher assigned a project on Wednesday that was to be due Friday and the concert was Thursday. Crap. So what did I do? Blow off the project like most teenager coming home from a concert at 10:30 PM tired and with a stomach ache? Nope. That annoying little goody-two-shoes inside of me was screaming "NO! You must finish your project! You can't turn it in late! NO!" So, I stayed up until 2 AM that night and still did not finish the stupid project. AND I had already worked on it for 5 hours before I even went to the concert. So I worked on it all day in any free time I could possibly scrounge up during the school day. Then after 10 hours of works, sleep derivation and my hand looking like a bag of skittles from the magic markers I used, I was finally done with the project. So to sum up all this rambling and ranting I just did: English sucks, I'm an extreme goody-two-shoes, and school cannot end fast enough! Phew sorry about that, I needed to let that go before my brain exploded like a grape being sat on by the worlds largest (and heaviest) teddy bear.
Now that I'm back to a normal brain functioning state, I can tell you about my weekend. I had a great weekend!!!! Friday night me, my mom, my dad, and Drew watched Tangled. Have you seen that movie!? I love that movie!!! IT was the third time I've seen it and I still laughed out loud! **SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TANGLED DO NOT READ THE SECTION IN ITALICS** So I feel the need to share my favorite parts of this movie with you. So favorite song? I've Got A Dream. My favorite scene? When Rapunzel and Flinn are in the boat and they are completely surrounded by the floating lights! So cool! I decided after that, that my wedding will have a ton of lights! So many lights you may say there are too many lights!!! (If you haven't already guessed I love lights.) You know I think I'm going to write a blog post about my dream wedding someday but for now back to Tangled. The funniest part in my opinion? When they go into the Snuggily Duckling (I love snuggily ducklings.) and she meets all the thugs and they sing about what their dreams are. My favorite thug? It's a tie between the one who collects unicorns and the one who wants to be a mime. Favorite character? Pascel the camelion, I love him. Favorite quote? "Is that blood in your mustache sir? Look at this Blondie, look at all the blood in this mans mustache. That is a lot of blood." said by Flinn. Ok I'm done now. Back to my weekend. That Saturday I was woken up at 7 AM (ugh!) and me, my mom, my aunt, and my cousin Marissa headed off to this city a few hours away from my town. The entire way there my mom and aunt were singing oldies. Most teenagers and young adults would be completely embarrassed and be driven out of their minds by this but me and my cousin loved it. We were singing right along with them. Songs by the Carpenters, The Four Seasons, George Harrison, and many others. Once we finally made it to our destination we went shopping. The enjoyable pass time of many girls around the world. We shopped and shopped and shopped. I got to go to Urban Outfitters. Have you been to that store? I love that store! I wish we had one in my town. Finally we had to leave so we headed to our hotel to change and then met my aunts two friends to go eat then we went to see.... *Drum roll* Jersey Boys!!! If you don't know what that is, I'm sorry. I loved that show! It's now tied for my second favorite musical with The Music Man after Legally Blonde the Musical. If you know me and my love for musicals that is a very high honor. The show was amazing!!!! Great music, great story great acting! If you haven't heard of it here is an informational video. Watch it and be informed:
Like I said, I loved it! Then after the show we were parked next to the stage door and when we were walking to our car we saw the guys leaving and I got all four of their autographs!!!! It was awesome! Just FYI the guys in the video are not the ones I saw. I saw a different cast but I loved the cast I saw. The next day all we did the next day was again shopping. We went to a different mall and shopped and shopped and shopped. It was awesome. I ended up buying this thing called The Happy Book. Its full of all kinds of prompts for you to write about what makes you happy. I decided to share a couple of the prompts with all of you when I find one I really like so you can all do it with me! I will also share some of my answers to the prompt :) Well I've written a lot and if you've made it this far I thank you! and congrats on being a Dailey Hailey super fan! I'll end with my first Happy Book prompt :)
The Happy Book by Rachel Kempster and Meg Leder:
Make a list of things that make you happy- anything and everything that makes you happy- small, big, profound, simple.
My Answer:
-Nachos and Frozen Lemonade at a baseball game.
-A new pack of Crayola Crayons (They have to be crayola.)
-That bubbly, happy feeling I get when someone gives me flowers.
-That feeling you get when you swing too high.
-Disney World
-Puppies
-When I get compliments on what I'm wearing
-Dressy Events
-Long talks about anything, nothing, and everything.
-Old movies
-Theatre
-Christmas Lights
-Pinkie Promises
-Just Dance with friends
-Blue Raspberry Dum-Dums
-The Nanny
God Bless
Now that I'm back to a normal brain functioning state, I can tell you about my weekend. I had a great weekend!!!! Friday night me, my mom, my dad, and Drew watched Tangled. Have you seen that movie!? I love that movie!!! IT was the third time I've seen it and I still laughed out loud! **SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TANGLED DO NOT READ THE SECTION IN ITALICS** So I feel the need to share my favorite parts of this movie with you. So favorite song? I've Got A Dream. My favorite scene? When Rapunzel and Flinn are in the boat and they are completely surrounded by the floating lights! So cool! I decided after that, that my wedding will have a ton of lights! So many lights you may say there are too many lights!!! (If you haven't already guessed I love lights.) You know I think I'm going to write a blog post about my dream wedding someday but for now back to Tangled. The funniest part in my opinion? When they go into the Snuggily Duckling (I love snuggily ducklings.) and she meets all the thugs and they sing about what their dreams are. My favorite thug? It's a tie between the one who collects unicorns and the one who wants to be a mime. Favorite character? Pascel the camelion, I love him. Favorite quote? "Is that blood in your mustache sir? Look at this Blondie, look at all the blood in this mans mustache. That is a lot of blood." said by Flinn. Ok I'm done now. Back to my weekend. That Saturday I was woken up at 7 AM (ugh!) and me, my mom, my aunt, and my cousin Marissa headed off to this city a few hours away from my town. The entire way there my mom and aunt were singing oldies. Most teenagers and young adults would be completely embarrassed and be driven out of their minds by this but me and my cousin loved it. We were singing right along with them. Songs by the Carpenters, The Four Seasons, George Harrison, and many others. Once we finally made it to our destination we went shopping. The enjoyable pass time of many girls around the world. We shopped and shopped and shopped. I got to go to Urban Outfitters. Have you been to that store? I love that store! I wish we had one in my town. Finally we had to leave so we headed to our hotel to change and then met my aunts two friends to go eat then we went to see.... *Drum roll* Jersey Boys!!! If you don't know what that is, I'm sorry. I loved that show! It's now tied for my second favorite musical with The Music Man after Legally Blonde the Musical. If you know me and my love for musicals that is a very high honor. The show was amazing!!!! Great music, great story great acting! If you haven't heard of it here is an informational video. Watch it and be informed:
Like I said, I loved it! Then after the show we were parked next to the stage door and when we were walking to our car we saw the guys leaving and I got all four of their autographs!!!! It was awesome! Just FYI the guys in the video are not the ones I saw. I saw a different cast but I loved the cast I saw. The next day all we did the next day was again shopping. We went to a different mall and shopped and shopped and shopped. It was awesome. I ended up buying this thing called The Happy Book. Its full of all kinds of prompts for you to write about what makes you happy. I decided to share a couple of the prompts with all of you when I find one I really like so you can all do it with me! I will also share some of my answers to the prompt :) Well I've written a lot and if you've made it this far I thank you! and congrats on being a Dailey Hailey super fan! I'll end with my first Happy Book prompt :)
The Happy Book by Rachel Kempster and Meg Leder:
Make a list of things that make you happy- anything and everything that makes you happy- small, big, profound, simple.
My Answer:
-Nachos and Frozen Lemonade at a baseball game.
-A new pack of Crayola Crayons (They have to be crayola.)
-That bubbly, happy feeling I get when someone gives me flowers.
-That feeling you get when you swing too high.
-Disney World
-Puppies
-When I get compliments on what I'm wearing
-Dressy Events
-Long talks about anything, nothing, and everything.
-Old movies
-Theatre
-Christmas Lights
-Pinkie Promises
-Just Dance with friends
-Blue Raspberry Dum-Dums
-The Nanny
God Bless
Friday, January 21, 2011
Now Everybody Put Your Hands In The Air, I Say Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Have you ever had one of those days where your at school and your so tired and bored that the only thing keeping you awake is the song stuck in your head? I had one of those days today. It was all that kept me conscious and paying attention until my last class of the day, English, where we actually talked about something I found interesting. The song stuck in my head has been Yeah 3x by Chris Brown it's a catchy up beat song :)
My morning started off slow. My alarm kept scaring me every time it went off (and it went off more than once because I kept pushing my snooze button). Yesterday we had a snow day, so I just kept pushing the snooze button waiting for my mom to yell up my stairs that there was no school. She never did so after a while I had to drag myself out of bed and get ready for school. Thank goodness I didn't have to talk the walk of death into school today. Ya see since the beginning of this year my friend Marissa's grandma has been taking the two of us to school in the mornings (and my mom takes us home after school.) Well Marissa got her license in November and ever since she has been driving the two us to school which is fun and cool but there is one down side, the walk of death. Well that's what I call it at least. Ya see the student parking lot at school is really far away from the school and then once you actually reach the school you have to walk all the way around to the other side before you can reach a door that's not locked. The walk takes around ten minutes, and its extremely not fun to walk when its freezing cold out! This morning when I asked my mom if she thought they will have shoveled the walk of death my dad said "death is death what does it matter if it's shoveled?" lol. Me and Marissa have this plan that the school should build a tunnel from the student parking lot into the school that's heated in the winter and air conditioned in the summer. That would be very helpful! Well this morning Marissa's grandma took us because Marissa's mom doesn't want her driving in snow. Her grandma dropped us of at a close door that took us less than a minute to reach from car, yay! :)
My first class of the day today was Algebra. I hate math, ill just let you all know that now. I HATE MATH!!!! I'm not bad at math, I just hate it. Right now I'm in Algebra II and it's really not that bad. Much easier than Geometry, but I hate factoring. Factoring is evil, pure pure evil! Its like someone took Angelica from Rugrats, Voldemort, and the crazy Twilight fan girls and mixed them all together and made it a math subject! Oh wait no that's proofs in geometry, but factoring in algebra is a close second. On the bright side of the class today I got Laffy Taffy for turning my homework in early :)
my second class of the day was World History honors, but that's basically just a blur in my memory. I do remember though something about the draft and the Ming dynasty... I don't know. My third class of the day was Biology. That's always a joy (NOT!). Biology is the only class I'm taking that's not an honors class. Science isn't really my thing. And I swear they just keep teaching us the same things every year just no one cares enough to pay attention until college or weighted classes! Biology is always the class that seems to take the longest for me, one because it's my least favorite subject and two because its the class right before lunch.
My last class of the day was English II honors. I love this class for three reasons. One, I just like English! Two, My teacher is hilarious!!!! and Three, I love the people in there, one of my best friends Michelle is hilarious in there, and then my friends Cheryl and Sydney are in that class, plus my boyfriend Drew. Today we were talking about the American dream. We just finished reading Of Mice And Men and so now she's having us write an essay on the American dream. We have to ask our parents questions for homework and think it's fun when teachers give parents homework for once, lol. Here's some funny quotes from her today: "What do you think the American dream would be today? *Alex and Michelle raise their hands* I'm gonna call on Alex first because I don't know whats gonna come out of Michelle's mouth." and "I was watching, I hate to say it.... Oprah." haha :)
Today after school I made some bagel bites for a snack. Just so ya know bagel bites are much better done in the oven. Bagel bites + oven = YUM!!!! Bagel bites + microwave = Eh. Then I vacuumed the floors for my moms birthday party. Then I got Taco Bell for dinner, yum! My grandparents showed up around 6:30, we watched Wheel Of Fortune. Watching Wheel Of Fortune with my dad and grandparents, good times, good times! haha. Later my aunt and uncle and two of my cousin's showed up and we ate cupcakes my dad made. Then me, my mom, and my aunt played Michael Jackson the Experience, which is AWESOME! So fun, and a good work-out. We even got my dad and uncle to play. And we got through the whole night with only one injury. While my uncle was playing, my little cousin Claire walked up behind him and he accidentally hit her in the face as he was dancing, ouch, but she was ok, no worries! All in all it was a fun night! I love my family.
Well I'm worn out as I always am after family gatherings. I'm excited to get on that train to Sleepy Town. I don't know about you, but I love Sleepy Town. It's one of my favorite vacation spots! Goodnight everyone :)
God Bless
My morning started off slow. My alarm kept scaring me every time it went off (and it went off more than once because I kept pushing my snooze button). Yesterday we had a snow day, so I just kept pushing the snooze button waiting for my mom to yell up my stairs that there was no school. She never did so after a while I had to drag myself out of bed and get ready for school. Thank goodness I didn't have to talk the walk of death into school today. Ya see since the beginning of this year my friend Marissa's grandma has been taking the two of us to school in the mornings (and my mom takes us home after school.) Well Marissa got her license in November and ever since she has been driving the two us to school which is fun and cool but there is one down side, the walk of death. Well that's what I call it at least. Ya see the student parking lot at school is really far away from the school and then once you actually reach the school you have to walk all the way around to the other side before you can reach a door that's not locked. The walk takes around ten minutes, and its extremely not fun to walk when its freezing cold out! This morning when I asked my mom if she thought they will have shoveled the walk of death my dad said "death is death what does it matter if it's shoveled?" lol. Me and Marissa have this plan that the school should build a tunnel from the student parking lot into the school that's heated in the winter and air conditioned in the summer. That would be very helpful! Well this morning Marissa's grandma took us because Marissa's mom doesn't want her driving in snow. Her grandma dropped us of at a close door that took us less than a minute to reach from car, yay! :)
My first class of the day today was Algebra. I hate math, ill just let you all know that now. I HATE MATH!!!! I'm not bad at math, I just hate it. Right now I'm in Algebra II and it's really not that bad. Much easier than Geometry, but I hate factoring. Factoring is evil, pure pure evil! Its like someone took Angelica from Rugrats, Voldemort, and the crazy Twilight fan girls and mixed them all together and made it a math subject! Oh wait no that's proofs in geometry, but factoring in algebra is a close second. On the bright side of the class today I got Laffy Taffy for turning my homework in early :)
my second class of the day was World History honors, but that's basically just a blur in my memory. I do remember though something about the draft and the Ming dynasty... I don't know. My third class of the day was Biology. That's always a joy (NOT!). Biology is the only class I'm taking that's not an honors class. Science isn't really my thing. And I swear they just keep teaching us the same things every year just no one cares enough to pay attention until college or weighted classes! Biology is always the class that seems to take the longest for me, one because it's my least favorite subject and two because its the class right before lunch.
My last class of the day was English II honors. I love this class for three reasons. One, I just like English! Two, My teacher is hilarious!!!! and Three, I love the people in there, one of my best friends Michelle is hilarious in there, and then my friends Cheryl and Sydney are in that class, plus my boyfriend Drew. Today we were talking about the American dream. We just finished reading Of Mice And Men and so now she's having us write an essay on the American dream. We have to ask our parents questions for homework and think it's fun when teachers give parents homework for once, lol. Here's some funny quotes from her today: "What do you think the American dream would be today? *Alex and Michelle raise their hands* I'm gonna call on Alex first because I don't know whats gonna come out of Michelle's mouth." and "I was watching, I hate to say it.... Oprah." haha :)
Today after school I made some bagel bites for a snack. Just so ya know bagel bites are much better done in the oven. Bagel bites + oven = YUM!!!! Bagel bites + microwave = Eh. Then I vacuumed the floors for my moms birthday party. Then I got Taco Bell for dinner, yum! My grandparents showed up around 6:30, we watched Wheel Of Fortune. Watching Wheel Of Fortune with my dad and grandparents, good times, good times! haha. Later my aunt and uncle and two of my cousin's showed up and we ate cupcakes my dad made. Then me, my mom, and my aunt played Michael Jackson the Experience, which is AWESOME! So fun, and a good work-out. We even got my dad and uncle to play. And we got through the whole night with only one injury. While my uncle was playing, my little cousin Claire walked up behind him and he accidentally hit her in the face as he was dancing, ouch, but she was ok, no worries! All in all it was a fun night! I love my family.
Well I'm worn out as I always am after family gatherings. I'm excited to get on that train to Sleepy Town. I don't know about you, but I love Sleepy Town. It's one of my favorite vacation spots! Goodnight everyone :)
God Bless
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Four Day Weekend
FINALS ARE OVER!!!!! YES!!!!!
Last week was finals week, the week that all high school students dread. A week where every class forces you into taking a test over every single thing you've "learned" since school began, that counts for a BIG portion of your grade. I, along with most high school students hate finals. I would have to say the hardest final I took was my orchestra final. My teacher told everyone not to worry about our orchestra final. So I didn't, then I got the test and I didn't know most of the answers, I think I knew like 2, and to top it off she made the test only 8 questions long, which she thought was doing us a favor but in all actuality it made it all worse, because then just missing one question brings your grade on the whole thing down. Also the last question pretty much nobody knew and then I heard her say "oh, I just put that on there to see if anyone would know it," I was so mad, I was thinking "hello!!! This is our final!!!" Well with some prayer and some good guessing skills I only missed two, so I got a B thank goodness! We graded the test in class and graded our own so a lot of people just cheated and changed their answers but I didn't, I didn't want to cheat.
Well we got a four day weekend after so that was good. My four day weekend was busy though. First of all I had a debate tournament. So Friday morning I woke up at 6:30 like every other school day and headed to my school to get on the bus. The tournament was around three hours away, and we had to take school buses. On the bus ride my friend Brenden fell asleep with his hands inside of his sweatshirt,
so I tied his sleeve in a knot.
When he woke up and tried to put his arm through the sleeve it was hilarious! Then when we stopped for lunch, there was snow on the ground so me, Drew, and Brenden got in a snowball fight! I won because I didn't get hit once and I hit both Drew and Brenden, Drew got second cause he got hit less than Brenden did. Drew might have won if it wasn't for the fact that he was being a good boyfriend and didn't aim at me. I appreciate that but I still say I won. Brenden aimed at me, he's just really bad at aiming.
When we got there the tournament was tough! My coach referred to as a "blood bath." I ended up getting a 4 and a 5 in my HI (Humorous Interpretation) and a 4 and a 6 in my Prose (Its on a scale of 1 to 6, 1 = good, 6 = bad). The rest of my squad didn't do much better. We ended up getting 4th or tieing for 3rd... I'm not sure which it was. The tournament was still very fun! I got to meet Drew's cousin Ian, and he was really cool. Very funny! You could defiantly see the family resemblance between the two them. When we got back to the hotel Friday night it wasn't so fun, though. I was rooming with my friend Cheryl and these other two girls. I was tired so I just wanted to read a chapter of my book and go to bed, but the other girls had other plans. I didn't end up getting to sleep until somewhere around 3 AM. Then later that morning at 5 AM the other two girls woke up and started getting ready. We didn't have to be on the bus until 7:30 that morning, uuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhh!!!!! Then they turned on the light and forced me and Cheryl to sleep the rest of the morning with the covers pulled over our heads :( Not fun.
The tournament the weekend before last went quite a bit better. I ended up making it to semi finals with my HI, and Drew and Brenden made semi finals with their Duo. Our squad as a whole even ended up getting 1st at that tournament. Plus my cousins Taylor and Tinsley, who live near by where we were, came to visit me and even brought me Burger King! Yum! Plus the hotel room I had was the best one I've ever had! In the room was me, Cheryl, my friend MoJo, and one of my best friends Emily! It was awesome!!!
Also this past weekend I went on a ski trip with my youth group. I love snowboarding and this is the only time I get to go each year.
Last week was finals week, the week that all high school students dread. A week where every class forces you into taking a test over every single thing you've "learned" since school began, that counts for a BIG portion of your grade. I, along with most high school students hate finals. I would have to say the hardest final I took was my orchestra final. My teacher told everyone not to worry about our orchestra final. So I didn't, then I got the test and I didn't know most of the answers, I think I knew like 2, and to top it off she made the test only 8 questions long, which she thought was doing us a favor but in all actuality it made it all worse, because then just missing one question brings your grade on the whole thing down. Also the last question pretty much nobody knew and then I heard her say "oh, I just put that on there to see if anyone would know it," I was so mad, I was thinking "hello!!! This is our final!!!" Well with some prayer and some good guessing skills I only missed two, so I got a B thank goodness! We graded the test in class and graded our own so a lot of people just cheated and changed their answers but I didn't, I didn't want to cheat.
Well we got a four day weekend after so that was good. My four day weekend was busy though. First of all I had a debate tournament. So Friday morning I woke up at 6:30 like every other school day and headed to my school to get on the bus. The tournament was around three hours away, and we had to take school buses. On the bus ride my friend Brenden fell asleep with his hands inside of his sweatshirt,
so I tied his sleeve in a knot.
When he woke up and tried to put his arm through the sleeve it was hilarious! Then when we stopped for lunch, there was snow on the ground so me, Drew, and Brenden got in a snowball fight! I won because I didn't get hit once and I hit both Drew and Brenden, Drew got second cause he got hit less than Brenden did. Drew might have won if it wasn't for the fact that he was being a good boyfriend and didn't aim at me. I appreciate that but I still say I won. Brenden aimed at me, he's just really bad at aiming.
When we got there the tournament was tough! My coach referred to as a "blood bath." I ended up getting a 4 and a 5 in my HI (Humorous Interpretation) and a 4 and a 6 in my Prose (Its on a scale of 1 to 6, 1 = good, 6 = bad). The rest of my squad didn't do much better. We ended up getting 4th or tieing for 3rd... I'm not sure which it was. The tournament was still very fun! I got to meet Drew's cousin Ian, and he was really cool. Very funny! You could defiantly see the family resemblance between the two them. When we got back to the hotel Friday night it wasn't so fun, though. I was rooming with my friend Cheryl and these other two girls. I was tired so I just wanted to read a chapter of my book and go to bed, but the other girls had other plans. I didn't end up getting to sleep until somewhere around 3 AM. Then later that morning at 5 AM the other two girls woke up and started getting ready. We didn't have to be on the bus until 7:30 that morning, uuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhh!!!!! Then they turned on the light and forced me and Cheryl to sleep the rest of the morning with the covers pulled over our heads :( Not fun.
The tournament the weekend before last went quite a bit better. I ended up making it to semi finals with my HI, and Drew and Brenden made semi finals with their Duo. Our squad as a whole even ended up getting 1st at that tournament. Plus my cousins Taylor and Tinsley, who live near by where we were, came to visit me and even brought me Burger King! Yum! Plus the hotel room I had was the best one I've ever had! In the room was me, Cheryl, my friend MoJo, and one of my best friends Emily! It was awesome!!!
Also this past weekend I went on a ski trip with my youth group. I love snowboarding and this is the only time I get to go each year.
These are from my first time snowboarding
Me and Rebecca on this year's ski trip
Photo by Rebecca Marie
Once again I had to wake up early to get to the church by 7:45 AM. We set off sometime around 8:00 AM. I ended up in a car with my friends Bailey, Sarah, Tori, Sydney, one of my best friends Rebecca, and Sydney's dad (who was the driver.) We were all squished in there but it was so fun! We played go fish and BS (which I say stands for blood sugar even though that doesn't make since with the game.) We even put this hat on Bailey's sock monkey which on him looked like a sombrero
We stopped at Taco Bell for lunch and me and Rebecca decided to give fake names with our orders just for fun. So we chose names of characters from this book series we really like called Kiki Strike. So she said her name was Kiki and I said mine was Betty :)
Photo by Rebecca Marie
Photo by Rebecca Marie
It was so fun!! A little later we made it to the church we were gonna stay the night at (which was in a town like right next to where I was for debate). We changed into our skiing/ snowboarding stuff and we were off. Once we go to the ski/ snowboard place we went in to get our rental gear (boots and a snowboard for me.) I actually own a snowboard but its not a real good one, really just good for messing around in the snow at home when we get enough. It felt good to snowboard again. I helped a couple of my friends learn how to snowboard, my favorite quote came from my friend Tori once after she fell she said "how can you learn to do this in only two years!" After a while everyone got the hang of it. I only fell really hard once, and though my tail bone hurt pretty darn bad I was ok. I'm not too bad at snowboarding except for the fact that I'm not able to turn left... lol. Once me and Rebecca were in line for the ski lift and these two boys deliberately cut in front of us as we were getting close to the front of the line. Rebecca said "thanks for cutting!" and one of the boys just said "your welcome" like he was all that. Once we got the top of the slope, I was sitting putting on my snowboard and Rebecca was waiting with me and the boy started going down the hill and well.... he stunk, total fail on his part. Me and Rebecca were laughing our heads off, not to be mean but just because we found the fact that he was acting like he was so cool and then fell like ten time while going down the hill. Every time he fell he would look up at us to see if we saw and we always did. After that we never saw the boy again, I guess he left. Once we composed ourselves we prayed for the boy just to get a better attitude and then we headed off. It was so fun and almost everyone walked away ok, other than being quite sore. Except we found out after we got back to the church and changed into our PJ's, that one guy in our youth group hit his head and had to go get a cat scan. He ended up being ok and returned to the church with us later that night. We did our praise and worship and our youth director preached. Then she gave us the option of either going to bed or playing a game so I went to bed. I was the first one to fall asleep. The next morning she woke us up at 7:00 AM to head home. Sore and tired we all piled back into Sydney's dad's car and about three hours later we were all back home. I spent the rest of the day napping on and off and watching TV.
Have any of you gone to McDonald's and gotten a McChicken or gone to Wendy's and gotten a spicy chicken sandwich? Well these are two things I was introduced to this weekend and I must say, I love them!!! For years at school I loved the spicy chicken sandwiches but I never thought to get one from a fast food restaurant. Well I now have a new favorite thing from Wendy's!
Photo from here
Lastly I just wanted you show you guys this, its a picture of the original Dailey Hailey
God Bless
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Where For Art Thou Cinderella Shoe???
I hate this time of the school year. Finals week is tomorrow and this is the busiest time of the year for debate. I so thankful for my friends and family and Drew being there to keep me grounded! I'm a pretty decent student, all A's except one B but I kinda suck at taking tests in certain subjects. Today though in my Biology class my teacher called everyone up to show them their grades and talk about what grade we want to be making and what we will have to get on the final to achieve that grade. When she called me up all she said was she told me my score and then said "just don't fall asleep during the final and you'll be fine, actually even if you do fall asleep you'll probably do well anyway knowing you." (Maybe not her exact words but close, I'm paraphrasing). I'm not sure if I should take that as a compliment or be a tad offended...
Today I got to skip my last block class (English Honors) to go to my old middle school with my debate squad as a recruiting sort of thing. It was pretty fun even though it wasn't as fun as when we went last year just because I knew more of the 8th graders last year. I knew a couple this year.
I would just like to point out that I am currently wearing my favorite PJ pants (Orange with the game Operation on them) and its de-stressing me. My study hall teacher gave me a thank you card that said "give a girl the right pair of shoes and she can conquer the world" and I believe that whole heartedly but I also think it works with "give the teenager the right pair of PJ pants and they can conquer the world" but maybe that's just me :) And just FYI I'm still looking for "the right pair of shoes" my pink high tops are close but I would have to say I still haven't found my Cinderella shoe. Be on the look-out and tell me if you find your Cinderella shoe, id like to hear about it :)
God Bless
Today I got to skip my last block class (English Honors) to go to my old middle school with my debate squad as a recruiting sort of thing. It was pretty fun even though it wasn't as fun as when we went last year just because I knew more of the 8th graders last year. I knew a couple this year.
I would just like to point out that I am currently wearing my favorite PJ pants (Orange with the game Operation on them) and its de-stressing me. My study hall teacher gave me a thank you card that said "give a girl the right pair of shoes and she can conquer the world" and I believe that whole heartedly but I also think it works with "give the teenager the right pair of PJ pants and they can conquer the world" but maybe that's just me :) And just FYI I'm still looking for "the right pair of shoes" my pink high tops are close but I would have to say I still haven't found my Cinderella shoe. Be on the look-out and tell me if you find your Cinderella shoe, id like to hear about it :)
God Bless
Monday, December 20, 2010
Orchestra and presents
Well to tell you the truth I don't really know what to wirte about... and ill have to make this quick considering I was supposed to be in bed 12 minuets ago. I guess ill just tell you of my excitment for tomorrow. Tomorrow my schools advanced orchestra is performing in an assembly and im excited! Im last chair but im still in the advanced orchestra and I like most of the pieces we're playing, plus I love playing the violin and Im excited to perform for the whole school. Plus im bringing almost all my christmas cards and presents tomorrow. I really hope everyone likes them!!!! I worked so hard on the presents for my best friends. I already gave my friend Marissa hers this morning and she seemed to like it so hopefully the same will go for the other three. I filled out probably 30 or more Christmas cards and I wanted to really write in them like fill up the whole card. I hope everyone sees my hard work. Tomorrow should be full with Christmas spirit and I can't wait! Ill tell ya how it all goes tomorrow :)
Merry Christmas and God Bless
Merry Christmas and God Bless
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Magic Of Christmas
Im not sure exactly why I currently feel so inspired to write but I do :) My guess?? The magic of Christmas!!! :) Well since im Christmasly inspired I figure I could write about my day! I didn't realize I had such a great day until I started recapping it to my mom. I have now come to the realization that I had a wonderfully great day!!
To start of my day I ofcourse woke up to Christmas music (my alarm is my ipod playing on my ihome). The song Happy Christmas (War Is Over), origianlly by John Lennon but I woke up to the verison by Jimmy Buffett. Its really odd waking up to that song when you keep pushing the snooze button. Every ten minuets when my alarm went off the tempo of the song will have changed.
Once I got to school it seemed like just a normal everyday day, then my wonderful wonderful wonderful boyfriend gave me this chain. That may not seem like much to you but to me it meant a lot :) So ofcourse that made me all happy and warm and fuzzy inside!
In my fist class (Algebra 2 :P) We learned about imaginary numbers and my teacher was making "i"/ "eye" jokes the whole class period. The jokes were horrible but the fact that she thought they were funny made all of us laugh! In my second class (Endeavor) I looked out the window and it was snowing!!!! With my insane love for Christmas and my enjoyment of snowboarding I ofcourse LOVE snow!!! So I was uber super happy with that! In my third class (Biology :P) We were given the assignment to work with our table to design a city. Though I usually don't associate with my table mates we actually got along pretty well today. Although both of them were complaining about the snow and stating their hate for snow.... I was not all that happy at the time but I got over it.
My last class of the day was English. I love my English class so much! My English teacher Mrs. Gray is HILARIOUS! I love her! Plus the people in the class are pretty fun too! One of my best friends Michelle sits across the aisle from me and we jsut comment on the class and such the whole time and Mrs. Gray is fine with it and I can never get through that class period without laughing, not that I would want to anyway. Today we even had conversations about a field trip to go cow tipping, cannibalism, and wallaby's :) I was laughing so hard my face got all red and I was on the verge of tears!
I had a great day and I have a feeling the rest of the day will be great too! Im listening to Christmas music so ofcourse im happy and very optimistic! :)
To start of my day I ofcourse woke up to Christmas music (my alarm is my ipod playing on my ihome). The song Happy Christmas (War Is Over), origianlly by John Lennon but I woke up to the verison by Jimmy Buffett. Its really odd waking up to that song when you keep pushing the snooze button. Every ten minuets when my alarm went off the tempo of the song will have changed.
Once I got to school it seemed like just a normal everyday day, then my wonderful wonderful wonderful boyfriend gave me this chain. That may not seem like much to you but to me it meant a lot :) So ofcourse that made me all happy and warm and fuzzy inside!
In my fist class (Algebra 2 :P) We learned about imaginary numbers and my teacher was making "i"/ "eye" jokes the whole class period. The jokes were horrible but the fact that she thought they were funny made all of us laugh! In my second class (Endeavor) I looked out the window and it was snowing!!!! With my insane love for Christmas and my enjoyment of snowboarding I ofcourse LOVE snow!!! So I was uber super happy with that! In my third class (Biology :P) We were given the assignment to work with our table to design a city. Though I usually don't associate with my table mates we actually got along pretty well today. Although both of them were complaining about the snow and stating their hate for snow.... I was not all that happy at the time but I got over it.
My last class of the day was English. I love my English class so much! My English teacher Mrs. Gray is HILARIOUS! I love her! Plus the people in the class are pretty fun too! One of my best friends Michelle sits across the aisle from me and we jsut comment on the class and such the whole time and Mrs. Gray is fine with it and I can never get through that class period without laughing, not that I would want to anyway. Today we even had conversations about a field trip to go cow tipping, cannibalism, and wallaby's :) I was laughing so hard my face got all red and I was on the verge of tears!
I had a great day and I have a feeling the rest of the day will be great too! Im listening to Christmas music so ofcourse im happy and very optimistic! :)
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