aqua-ness and GLOW STICKS!!!!

the aqua party was funn!! brought ian and mitchell's/dani's/my friend megan :) towards the end we got glowsticks.

so, when we got home (ian had to come to our house because his car was hear) dani ian and i had a mini rave party in the kitchen :D it was soooo awesome!!!

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oh my gosh i can't believe how busy i've been!!!!

today was the first day of school. tell me if this doesn't slightly off in a difficult sort of way. i had:
A1 drama
A2 spanish 3
A3 hnr english
A4 french 1

THREE LANGUAGES?!?!?!? what were they THINKING??????

ok, im done. haha. i enjoyed seeing all my friends :) and im looking forward to tomorrow's schedule:
B1 AP US
B2 spanish 3 (everyday for the first semester)
B3 adv chorus (women's!!! *scoffs*)
B4 hnr chem

so YAY for chem and spanish and maybe chorus.

night y'all!

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practice

so, not much is happy now.

but, i went to daniela's soccer practice today. that was pretty cool

and i got my ref schedule (and the forms i need to fill out).

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saw ian today. wish the circumstances were different.

RIP Grandpa. I love you, and I will miss you greatly.

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books. and finding nemo :)

so, i finished a book today. that i started this morning :) it was a good book too

and ian came over and gave me these really pretty earrings :) i love them. and then we went shopping (ian included) and he hung out for a bit more

than i basically did nothing until a little later when we started making dinner (tacos! yumm) and then after dinner went to target and got finding nemo and princess bride (20th anniversary collector's edition) and after we got back from target, we watched finding nemo. it was very awesome :)

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*yawn* hw!

i went to the arena club this morning, so i am tired.

BUT! i have a study date with my friend Caitlin today--yay!!! :D hoping to get much done

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happy birthday!

(well, actually it's happy anniversary, but i felt like being mime-y)

yesterday was ian's and my 1 month anniversary.

yesterday was also the first soccer practice of daniela's I attended.
aka the first day i've ever gotten along with todd :) this could be good!

mime performance at brightview, and a LOT of stuff to do today. but looking forward to being busy :)

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simple fun

ian came over today. at first it was just to drop some stuff off, but then he ended up hanging out. we played burnout (always fun) and rummikub, then he helped with dishes. it was awesomely fun. :D

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crabs and insanely ridiculously awesome little bros!! ♥

we had crabs for dinner tonight. 2nd time in as many weeks!!! :D yumm.

my brother is a dork. a wonderfully entertaining dork that is! he splattered old bay on his shirt. then, eating his corn, he splattered corn kernels on himself every single time he took a bite!

also, ms. terri told a funny story about mark in her sermon today. it was hilarious. and SO totally mark. it was awesome :D made me literally laugh out loud.

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yesterday was aweseomely fun. i loved it. we went to mom's high school reunion, and i got to play (a lot) and swim. it was sooo fun, but sooo exhausting.

went to church this morning. it was colder than usual. *sigh* then went to the gym, played a little soccer with Dani, and briskly walked on the treadmill for a while. still too sore to run *sigh*

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mime :)

so, i have mime tonight :) i've missed all you crazy people.

and, mom's gonna take me for a snowball later!! oh, how i've missed snowballs.

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layouts

in case you couldn't tell, I JUST CHANGED MY LAYOUT!!! :D
and i love it :)

things that made me happy:
working out at the arena club and being able to do everything (even if it was very low resistance. lol)
driving
angel food cake
lots of yummy food (including yogurt and peaches and grapefruits and blueberries)
whipped cream
dinner at mr. steve's
strawberries
lots of lemonade
IAN'S COMING HOME TOMORROW!!!! :D so many good things will happen. i hope. :)


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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

the CYMA video party thing was sooo fun last night. i was insanely hyper. and i loved everyone. it was awesome.

then i went to christines house to spend the night. we watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for old times' sake, but we paid more attention to chips and conversation than we did to the movie. but it was still fun :) we got a lot of good talking done.

and apparently, after i fell asleep (or at least, stopped remembering things) i talked in my sleep.
christine: *turns tv off*
andee: "what did you do?"
christine: "i turned the tv off."
andee: "fail."

it was quite amusing to hear about it this morning.

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a post of thanksgiving

YAY for SHOPPING and FRIENDS and FAMILY and MOVIES and PEOPLE COMING OVER and REALLY SWEET BOYFRIENDS and SLEEP and AWESOME-NESS. :D

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just a quick note--

Chrysalis. Was. WOW.

That's all I can say. Wow.

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iPad!!!

So I'm writing this from my grandfathers iPad, and it's insanely
awesome!!!!! This is sooooo much fun, and it srsly makes me want one.
Although id probably get more use of and iPod touch than out of the
iPad. Well, it depends. But this is sooo cool. I'm jealous.

So, anyways, I'm at Opa's to pick up Dani, then we're going to Play it
Again Sports to get cleats for Dani and possibly running shoes for
me... I don't know yet. After that were going to the verizon store, so
Mom can maybe get a new phone, or at least a new battery for her
phone.

And then i have no clue what I'm doing. But it's gonna be a good day,
i can tell.

Leaving for chrysalis tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!! so cant wait. It's gonna awesome.

--
"And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance...I hope you dance"

"I love this crazy tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life" <3

ack! i didn't post yesterday!!

well, yesterday Mom, Dani and I...
went to see Grandpa
visited Aunt Karen at the beach house
played in the Delaware Bay (only Dani and I did)
buried Dani in the sand
then drove to OC for crabs for dinner!! they were soooooooooooo good!!!! :D
AND... I DROVE!!!! :D it was pretty fun.

today, we (Mom, Mitch, Dani and I) went to Opa and Mama Elaine's for lunch. I drove, again. Dani is spending the night there, because yesterday we told her that Opa lets the grandkids have ice cream with breakfast. yummmm

mime performance later!!!! soooo excited. YAYZ!! :D

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God doesn't consult your past in order to create your future.

yayz! im finished!!! well, kind of.

well, i finished my ref training today! I passed the test with a 79, so i can now ref for any parks and rec league, since i didnt register with USSA (united states soccer federation).

and the kind of part? i started writing a story yesterday during my breaks, and worked on it some more today, but its not finished yet. but i'm soooo close, i'm pretty sure. ill just have to see how it goes! :D

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Week of Hope 2010

Now that I have time (and since Olivia reminded me!)...

WEEK OF HOPE 2010 WITH GROUP WORK CAMPS WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

On Sunday we:
-Arrived at Grace United Methodist Church in Shrewsbury, PA around 3:30-ish. It was a 45 minute drive. And considering I was in the backseat of Ms. Terri's van with Olivia and Mark, it was insane. Did I mention Mark was there? Yeah, it's a wonder I didn't hurt someone... *sigh*
-Had some free time, ate pizza for dinner, then had our evening program. But, before the actual program started, the Red Shirt Staff split us up into crews of 5 or 6 people. Because Ms. Terri requested that Mt. Zion youth not be in cars with strangers, our group of 25 people was split into 5 crews of 5. My crew consisted of me (duh) Olivia, Amanda, Lindsey and Mr. Jim. After some crew-bonding activities, we started the evening program.
-To kick things off, the crews had to do a scavenger hunt type activity. Basically, the first x-amount of crew representatives to bring their item or other required activity (e.g. having a relative on the phone) got a wooden token that said Week of Hope on it. The crew with the most tokens won a bag of Starbursts. Unfortunately, our crew did not win, and neither did anyone from Mt. Zion. :(
-After the evening program, we received our work site assignments for the week. My crew and another Mt. Zion (Holly, April, Kevin, Rachel and Jessica) got to work with an amazing woman named Chrystal who had started an organization called North East Neighborhood Associations (NENA). Our job was to help her with whatever she needed help with.
-Lights out at 11.

Monday was awesome, and hot. We,
-Got up at 6:45 (but I was awake earlier than that...*sigh*)
-Split up. My crew got to work in the food pantry, while Holly's crew split into two smaller groups--Holly, Jess and April worked upstairs in the clothing bank and Rachel and Kevin cleaned the kitchen. Our job in the food pantry was to bag food, and then help the people who came in with food tickets. The way we bagged the food is that we set up, on a folding table, a grid--8 "bags" of food long, and 2 wide. The reason I say "bags" is because we put out all the food, and then bagged each little section. It was awesome, mainly because I got to see and interact with the people getting the food, as opposed to last year when we went to the food bank, all I did was bag one item, and all I heard about the people was numbers and statistics. I also got to use some of my Spanish, and Amanda taught me how to say God bless you in Spanish: Dios le bendiga. It was totally awesome.
-After we finished at our work site, we went back to the church to get clean clothes and shower stuffs, then headed to the YMCA for showers. Those showers were soooo nice (as long as you didn't get the stall with a curtain instead of a door).
-We went from the Y back to the church to hang out until dinner time (unless you had to help, which I volunteered to). After dinner was evening program, with some worship. And, the best part is that if you had an instrument and showed up to practice, you could play (or sing) that night!
-Lights out at 11.

Tuesday:
-Wake up call at 6:45.
-After breakfast and morning program, we went back to Chrystal's. But today, we all worked together, because our task was different. Since the food pantry wasn't open (it's only open Monday, Wednesday, Friday) we cleaned out a garage. A dusty, dirty, gross garage. But it wasn't as bad as the shed we cleaned on Wednesday. Blech.
-When we finished, went to the Y to shower. Tuesday was our forced, all-day free time day. They actually locked us out of the church from 4:30 to 10. Yuck. So, we all met up at the Y (while we were waiting, some of us swam) and made plans. We went to Pizza Hut for a slightly early dinner (yum!) Then went bowling. I played 2 and a half games. I didn't finish the third because I was exhausted!!!!! >_< After bowling, Ms. Terri treated us to ice cream at McDonald's, except she said she would get me a small hot chocolate because I didn't want an ice cream.
-Since there was no evening program, we went back to the church around 10 and went straight to bed. Well, I tried, but my sleeping bag was hot and stuffy so I stuck to the saying, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" Which is what I did. But I got too loud, so Livi, to let me know, flicked me. I then quieted down a bit.

Wednesday:
-Wake up at 6:45. Again. They played wake up songs, which were kind of funny, but only if you were tired. The rest of the time they were REALLY obnoxious.
-We went back to Chrystal's again. It was pretty fun. We split up again, but not by crews this time. We had two tasks--work in the food pantry and clean out her husband's shed-garage-thing. It was even worse than Tuesday because he didn't want us to throw ANYTHING away, and cats could get in there. And in that shed were sofas, chairs, chaise-lounge-things, sleeping bags, mattresses and other things. Including a bone. Ewewewew!! Haha. We finished before lunch time, so we helped in the food pantry the rest of the day.
-Afterward, same thing as Monday--shower at the Y, free time at the church, etc. Except we had hospitality tasks at 4:30 (cleaning the bathrooms, mopping/sweeping/vacuuming, etc.). Then dinner (spaghetti! yum!), then evening program. After that, some more free time, then lights out at 11.

Thursday:
-6:45 wake up call. This morning was INTERESTING! Olivia turned it on to Oh, Where Is My Hairbrush? from Veggie Tales. Brooke turned it off halfway through. Thinking track 4 was Party in the USA, I told Liv to turn it to track 4. It wasn't Party in the USA. Instead, it was this weird song about fish heads. I was soooo tired, so it was the funniest thing in the WORLD! lol.
-At Chrystal's, we got play with little kids for a bit. The school nearby has a free lunch program during the summer for people under 18 (!), and on Thursdays the kids meet at Chrystal's at around 11. They play games until 12-ish, so that everyone has a chance to show up, then leave for the school and eat there. On the way back, we walked around the neighborhood, dropping the kids off. After we dropped everyone off, we went back to Chrystal's. The adults (anyone over 20) ate, while Kevin and I started loading trash onto Chrystal's husband's truck so he could take it to the dump. It was a lot of fun.
-This little kid named William had attached himself to Olivia from the start. It was soooo sweet!!!! Read her OI to figure out why it was adorably sweet.
-After the Y and dinner and more hospitality tasks and evening program, we made a huge long line (everybody on the trip) and passed food donated foods down along the line to one of the staff members' cars. It was amazing. And fun!
-And AFTER all that and a prayer outside, there was a rockin' dance party down in the basement. Lights out was at 12, so it went until around 11:45-ish. It was sooo much fun!! At one point, a pretty good swing song came on, so Mark and I started dancing! But in the middle of the song, they changed it to Just Dance by Lady Gaga. But we kept dancing. It was insanely awesome :)

Friday:
-we packed
-we cleaned
-we set the girls' room back up
-then we left. the 45 minute ride home was quiet, but I STILL couldn't sleep!!!!! :/
-After I got home, I got on the computer, shopped for new quilts or bedspreads for Dany and I, then almost had a meltdown. At the almost-meltdown, I went upstairs and slept for... drum roll please!

*drum roll*

FOUR AND A HALF HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was still tired, but at least I had the energy to go to mime and be useful! It was sooo much fun! After mime, I went straight to bed. I was beat. But it was a great week. :D

Praise God!

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ref training!!!

i am halfway there to being a referee!!!! well, a little less... I'm about halfway through the class, and then i just need to get a job reffing. I'm soooooo excited!!!!!!!

Of course, it helps that you get paid $20 or $25 an hour (which is about equal to a game) and some leagues pay cash on the field. meaning, if i ref four games a day, ill get somewhere around $100. if i ref four games a week, every week, then ill get around $400 a month. and i'll only have to work on saturdays!!!!!!!!!!! :D

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home sweet home

i am HOME!!!! :D I am so excited!!

AND i took a four and a half hour nap, and feel sooooooooooo much better! dinner, and then mime soon! can't wait! :)


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old posts

they make me smile :) i love just looking through and reading all about the goofy stuff i do, or the inside jokes that bring up great memories. it's soo much fun, and always puts a smile on my face, no matter what.

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dates and guys and DANY!!!!!

soooo.... yesterday i went on my very. first. DATE!!!!!!!!!!!! eeeepppp!!! lol. ian took me to see sorcerer's apprentice (with Nicholas Cage EEPPP lol) and then his dad treated us to ice cream at arctic circle and then a round of mini golf. ian scored 50 (1st place) i got 56 (2nd) and mr. smalley got 58 (3rd). AND I GOT A HOLE IN ONE AT THE VERY LAST HOLE!!!! i was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo proud of myself :)
BUT the best part is that mommy and dany got home today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D yayz. im soooo happy they're home (and so are they). its ahMAZingly AWESOME!!!!!! :D im soooo insanely happy :)

i love them so much :) ♥

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swimming!!

so, i went swimming today with mitch, his friend savannah and her cousin lydia (lydia was a last minute addition, but a totally cool one. ill 'splain later). i thought chesapeake swim club was closed, but its NOT! surprise!
anyways, i know lydia from Rock and the couple of times i went Hdg UMC youth group with ian. it was totally funny. mitch was texting savannah last night and he asked me if i knew a lydia may, and i was like YES, i DO! why? so he told me that she is savannahs cousin and that she was going to the pool today with them. so i said, that is so totally cool! so, yeah. (p.s. christine--does the word 'sketchy' mean anything to you? lol)
but the best part is that I HAVE A DATE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yayz. ians taking me to see sorceror's apprentice tomorrow :) i am sooooo excited :D YAYAYAYAYAY!!! lol.
im off to bed now. i probably dont want to be exhausted tomorrow... lol :D

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yay for online shopping!!!!

thanks to christine, who gave me an AWESOME link :) i now know what swimsuit im going to buy, when i have the required items (size and $$)

small hard things

like getting up. that was a small hard thing. but, im up! and ready to roll!! just gonna finish this and then start cleaning the first floor of the house for tonight! can't wait! (ya know, as long as i don't have an emotional/mental/nervous breakdown today. that would be bad.)

i will see some of you later today, and the rest, i will see when i do!

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CYMA Day 5

much less exhausted. :)

last day of actual camp!!! :( we actually had a request for jewelry making next year... i loved that elective and am not surprised that it's back. i also heard something about katie and sandy doing a bracelet elective...? lol

outreach tomorrow, 2-4. I GET TO SLEEP IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

CYMA day 4

sorry about the non-posts. i have been busy and running and sleeping and running (and walking). *sigh*

anyways, today was the "hump day" for myself. BUT i stole a 20-minute power nap during second session, and felt mostly better.

things that made me happy:
sleeping
Chuck
ooblek (or MMKK. lol)

friends

i got to see
christine
erin
katie
liv
blake
mark
colin
caleb (or is caleb colin and colin caleb? lol)
sandy
jordan
...and a WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE! :D

i also got to talk to hannah for a long time about good things. that was nice.

last night

...was SOO much fun!!! burgers, beans and corn on the cob at ian's house first, then ironbirds game after.
WE WON!!! Trent Mummey hit a grand slam in the bottom the ninth to bring the score up to 7-3!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!! lol.

I did some hard things last night, no matter how small, and I feel better and worse. :/

CYMA TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

soooo can't wait! :D

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happy news

i will elaborate later, but...

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

ah, home sweet home :)

I'm tired, but I'm home!! yay. i missed everybody, and my cat, and my bed, and my phone, and the warmth!!! :D

:D

ive gotten over it, i think. im still kind of hurting, but i'm as healed as healed can be! that makes me happy.
well, AND we're getting Daniela today. IM GONNA HAVE A LITTLE SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

comfort food!!!!

now i know why they call it that. it truly is comforting. since we've been here, ive had fruit, pizza, a hamburger, and ice cream. (well, and other foods, but those aren't my comfort foods. OH! and oreos).
we're getting Daniela tomorrow :D then we're going to Mont Serrat (Paradise) on Saturday. CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

miss you all soooo much, and i can't wait to see you again!

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Leavin!!

EEEEPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're leaving for Colombia today! I will, from here on out, only sometimes post on my OI. My two main focuses will be The Travels Amazing (Dorky) Vacation Hat and Adoption/Colombia Trip. Just fyi.

PIPESTEM!

Pipestem was amazing!! First of all, its GORGEOUS! It's a state park/resort in the mountains, with amazingly beautiful views everywhere.

So, anyways... we left at around 9:30 (i think) Monday morning, and we got there around 5:30-ish. There was a TON of traffice on 95 (because of construction. I was going about 15mph...) and this HUGE truck decided "I want to be OUT of this traffic, so it's O.K. if I tailgate this little itsy-bitsy car that I can only barely see in front of me, because I. WANT. OUT!!" Or something along those lines... That was stressful. But other than that, the drive went GREAT! I drove all the way there, which is normally 6 hours, but because of the traffic, it turned into 7.

When we got there, we were the third family there. The only other people there were Opa and Mama Elaine and Uncle Mike and Aunt Sue (Burns). So we procrastinated unpacking, because there was talk of a kids cabin. While we did not get the kids cabin, Mitch and I stayed with Aunt Betsy, Uncle Craig, SarahBeth, Katie, Calvin and AJ (Combs). So we kind of did have a kids cabin... Just minus the younger ones.

The cabins at Pipestem are arranged in little courts, I guess. We were in "court" C, which had two little mini courts inside of it... Not really confusing, I guess, if I could explain it right. So the Combs had cabin 17, my family and Aunt Laurie and Donna had cabin 18, the Burns had cabin 23, and Uncle Rigg and Aunt Denise and their family (Mohlers) had cabin 24. So we were in walking distance of everyone, which is another fun part of this vacation. Also, Opa and Mama Elaine had a room in the lodge, with a view overlooking the mountains. SOOOO AMAZING!

So I slept on an air mattress in Katie and SB's room, which was sooo much fun! They are probably my favorite cousins, but mostly because Katie's almost exactly a year younger than I am, and SB's about a year and a half older than me.

On Monday, we went up to the lodge to go swimming :) I love their pool there!! It's indoors, and heated, so it felt sooooo good, especially after a long drive! That was fun. We stayed probably until 9:30-ish (pm), just swimming and diving, and swimming some more. On our way back, at the entrance to the lodge, there were these two little fountains that lit up at night. SB (not me, surprisingly) decided she wanted to sit on one. So she did! It was pretty funny...

On Tuesday, we slept in, had cereal for breakfast, then left for the pool. Then we got back, invited the Mohler girls (Emmy[9], Terese [7], and Sally[5]) over to the Combs cabin, and painted each other's nails! Just a tad of girly time. After that, we made reservations for an hour-long trail ride at the stables. That was incredibly fun. SB, at one point, mentioned that she forgot to look at nature. So one of the guides (not the one up front but the other one) rode up to me, scrunched his eyes shut and said "I forgot to look at nature". Definitely making fun of her. But then he gave her a feather to put in her hair, so it was all good. After the trail ride, we ate, then Uncle Mike, Mom, Mitch, AJ, Trey and Calvin went fishing. Mitchell caught four, and AJ caught one (but his was the biggest). Nobody else caught anything, as my brother informs me. During this time, I was back at the Combs cabin, just chilling and reading my book a bit (and almost falling asleep). The girls and I then got a ride to the Canyon Rim Center and rode the tram down to the Mt. Creek Lodge. Did I ever mention that Pipestem is gorgeous? We got there when the sun was setting, but it was right behind a cloud. You know those cartoon suns, that rays sticking out of them, shaped like triangles? Well, imagine a large, blue-ish gray cloud with pink-ish orange rays coming out from behind it. Unfortunately, we did not have a camera. The height of the tram REALLY freaked Katie out, so SB and I decided to take full advantage of that by standing up, leaning against the sides, etc. It was quite entertaining.

Wednesday was our last day, unfortunately. We didn't really have time to do anything except eat (blueberry pancakes at the Mohlers!!!!) and go and visit Opa and Mama at their suite in the lodge. That was when I was bestowed with the vacation hat to take to Colombia with me. I felt so special! We then had yet another 7 hour drive, through much more traffic (construction AND an accident) and really really heavy rain. Not fun. But we're home safely, and that is all that matters, correct?

So that was the extent of my wonderful crazy awesome beautiful totally fun family vacation. I miss my family already!!

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busy as a bee!

so i have no time. again. lol

i made a blog about opa's vacation hat... vacation-hat.blogspot.com !! should be interesting.

pipestem was AMAZING!! might talk more about it later... idk.

one full day home, then leaving around noon-ish on friday for the airport. sooooooooo excited!!!

got an email from daniela :D i love her!

off to bed. night!!!!!

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Father's Day :)

well, we...
went to church/Bible Force. i got to ride on my moms motorcycle! :D
watched Valkyrie--a movie about German soldiers trying to assassinate Hitler and take down the Nazi regime from the inside. SO GOOD. some language, but not that much, surprisingly...
ate tacos for dinner
and half a death-by-chocolate cake for dessert (triple layer chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate chips. YUMMY!!!!!!!)

leaving for Pipestem tommorow morning around 8-ish. i will be driving the whole way *gulp* which is a 6 hour drive. coming home on thursday evening some time, i believe, then leaving for our flight out of dulles at 1 on friday. BUSYBUSYBUSY!!!!!!

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OH NO!!

anyways! lol...

i went to the hospital (kent general hospital, or something like that) yesterday. Grandpa, apparently, is doing 1000x better than he was, and he is being moved to Silver Lake rehab center today! :)
we have our plane tickets for colombia all bought and together and everything :) we dont have to leave until 1-ish on friday for our flight. :D so psyched!
i talked with ian yesterday :) we are totally over the short-term effects of our major blowout, which is really good. im still having some... issues, but i hope that ill get over them in time to not completely push him away.
leaving for pipestem tomorrow! im going to drive, A LOT, and hopefully get closer to my 40 hours i need for my license. currently, i have 15. exactly. not too bad, considering driving with mom can stress me out sometimes. :)

so, this will be my last regular post. i will try to update as soon as possible, and start watching my colombia blog!

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museums and laughter :)

soooo i went around and visited hte museums today, all except for steppingstone. quite frankly, the two im looking forward to the most are the lockhouse and the skipjack martha lewis (which is a sloop-rigged sailboat. would a tellup care to explain what a ketch-rigged boat is? or anyone else who knows... lol).

after that, i came home and had an emotional breakdown (sorry to those mimers who missed me!!) :(
BUT i talked it out with mom, and we prayed, and then i talked with dad. and then i talked with ian, and laughed so hard i had to get on the floor so i wouldn't fall over and hurt myself. laughter truly is the best medicine :)

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AWESOMENESS!!!!

soooo.... yeah. autumn slept over last night. SO. FUN!
we stayed up until like 12:30. amazingness! and we confused the heck out of ian. always entertaining.
then her mom picked us up from my house, and we went to the pool on base with her sister cerene, then we walked from there to the commissary where she bought us lunchables, a 1liter bottle of mountain dew to share, and got cerene a bottle of fanta. i bought a box of zebra cakes! yummy.

then we went from the pool to her house, where we hung out outside and ate the zebra cakes and enjoyed the mountain dew :) then we went to her youth group! it was SO MUCH FUN. they are insane. and they talk a lot. just like me. :D

live.love.laugh. :)♥

SHOPPING!!!!

i went shopping today!!! :D we wnt to...
walgreen's
target
kohl's
and 5 below

i got a toe ring for myself and matching rings for daniela and i that say sisters. :)

here at school, bored.

sooooooooo yeah. lol.

 

i took my chorus final!!! yayz. so simple.

 

BUT before i left for school, i played TWO HOURS of burnout revenge. TWO HOURS. lol. that was crazy fun.

 

anyways, only about half an hour of chorus left, then my english final. no clue what to expect.........  *sigh*

--
"And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance...I hope you dance"

"I love this crazy tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life"  <3

:D

ONE MORE HALF DAY UNTIL SCHOOL'S OUT FOR THE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sooooo can't wait!

anyways, today i had my FOT and drama finals.
FOT was easy as all get out. i finished somewhere around 20 minutes before lunch (and we had 25 minutes after lunch) and proceeded to get the ABC song stuck in my head... *shoots self* BUT we had pizza. that was soooooo good.
and my drama final was... NONEXISTENT!! yayz. he had told us that we were gonna have to write an essay comparing and contrasting The Blind Side and Invincible, but we DIDNT. instead we watched Bourne Identity. good movie. :D

i ♥ mimes

they are so awesome and fun and silly and loud and crazy and just AWESOME! :D

so this morning was the performance at camp chapel UMC. that was...interesting. the stage was oddly shaped. yeah, it was rectuangular, which is normal. but whats NOT normal is for the longer length to be the depth, and the shorter to be the width. that definitely exercised our beginners in the "ya gotta work with whatcha got" category... lol!

so my new exclamatory phrase is "oh, futterwacken" THANK YOU SANDY!! lol.

working on homework today, probably. idk what else im gonna do.

the concert was freakishly awesome!

lol. sorry.

ok, so the concert was sooooooooo much funn!!!!!! i love mime concerts. probably better than i like musicals, which is saying something. lol.
after the concert i went to coldstone with christine, erin, hannah, lindsey (spelling?), danielle, olivia, maria, mitchell, michael, ben, johnathan, mark, jerry, blake, and a whole bunch of other people i either didn't know or didn't see. including adults. bascially, we took over coldstone.
and we sang happy birthday to four people, then a little girl walked by and said "happy birthday!" just completely randomly. that was pretty funny.

anyways, last night, i finally got my heart in the right spot, and then he came close to screwing it up. again. *sigh* oh well! its still where it needs to be, thank goodness. im glad i finally got that straight. AND i did it without ruining my white face!!!! :D

off to sandy's party soon (running errands first.) SOOOOO PSYCHED!!!!

live, love, laugh ♪♥:)

OH NO!

i can't believe i FORGOT!!! :( now im sad.
anyways, last night was totally awesome!!! i love you mimes (and non-mimes) a LOT! you guys make everything funn!!! lol.

GUESSWHATGUESSWHATGUESSWHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had my last spanish class today.
and my teacher had to give us 35% of the answers (33 out of 95) on our final. so that was easy peasy lemon squeezy. :D

mime concert tonight!!!! Tminus 4 hours and 38 minutes and counting. :)

spanish

well, our final is next class. :D
AND i have an 89.5. so, as long as she doesn't put any more grades in the grade book, i pass with an A!!!!!!!!!!!
i am soooo happy to get out of her class. she's awful.

p.s. ian made it to hawaii safely. theyre enjoying their time. this is the last update you will get.

sun warmth :)

we went outside today in biology. :D that was amazing. i was wearing my maroon warriors sweats, my black innovo t-shirt and my black jacket. i was the perfect temperature :)

an update on ians trip:
so far, theyve had an AWFUL start to their vacation.
they missed their connecting flight out of san francisco, and his mom lost her driver's license in the airport. so, if you could pray for them and for safe travels, that would be great.

peace<3music>

p.s. he just told me his mom found her driver's license :D yay! oh, the power of prayer.

Finding Nemo

We got to watch Finding Nemo in chorus today!!! :D I love that movie.

HERSHEY!!!

today was insanely awesome.

nick is a GREAT coaster buddy.
farenheit was NO. PROBLEM. even to me, who has the very special ability to psych herself out to over the top panic mode the second i see something that makes me nervous.

there is only one word to sum up this day.
Epic.

peace<3music

experiments

SO, Christine slept over last night :D That was fun.

And what would a good sleepover be without some kind of baking/cooking experiment? So we tried to make cookie dough. Should be easy, right? WRONG.
We mistook the confectioners sugar for flour, and put almost 2.5 cups in our cookie dough before we realized it... Oops!
So we tasted it... EW!
Then we added flour to see if it would be any better. It wasn't.
So we decided to try and bake it/microwave it/freeze it.
Baking--
The first batch, we weren't sure if there was enough baking soda. So, instead of waiting like we should have, we decided to dump a LOT more in. Needless to say, we didn't need it. So the second batch rose a lot. The only thing is... they both sunk. And caramelized. On the pan. That was hard to clean up.
Microwave--
Christine decided to microwave the "dough". Fail. Epically. It caramelized as well, except it was a little more disgusting than the "cookies".
Freezer--
Finally, we decided to try and freeze part of the "cookies". By the time we remembered that we put it in the freezer (after we had fully cleaned up) we were way beyond grossed out. So, that went in the trash can.

We had a piece of bread and chips for dinner, because anything else would have made us sick. We're still not hungry, still feeling sick, and have decided to post pictures soon.

peace<3music
P.S. This was our worst experimental fail, ever.

mime :D

mime was pretty funn. :)
we started working on our statues. my statue for Wisdom is HARD! i have to work on that a lot. and it hurts my back.
BUT, erin and i got to create our mourning statue for Lazarus. IM SO PSYCHED THAT MR.J IS DOING LAZARUS!!!!!!!! :D

anyways, when i got home i talked to autumn, outside, sitting on the wet grass. i had to go change shorts... :(
then i started talking with christine
and ian.
and playing solitaire.

probably gonna go to bed soon.
PRINCE OF PERSIA TOMORROW!!!! soo psyched! <3

peace<3music

*sheepish grin*

ok, so i realize i didn't post yesterday. but i have a slightly legitimate excuse.

i was waiting to post until after graduation, because my day before that wasn't all that great, but my stomach hurt so bad when i got home i just went upstairs, took ibuprofen and went to bed.

SO, graduation last night was...
wonderful,
sad,
happy,
and HOT. it was like 1000 degrees in the gym for the reception!!! :/

BUT i didn't cry while we were singing, and i got to watch all of the seniors walk :)
afterwards, we went to the gym for refreshments, and TONS of pictures. i took of my shoes and walked around barefoot :D that was really nice
then after refreshments/pictures, we stayed at the school so ians family could give him his graduation presents. afterwards, we walked to HdG UMC to return the wheelchair ian's uncle had borrowed.
by the time we got to his house, my dad was gonna be there in about 5 minutes to pick me up. but he decided he was gonna try and teach me to play pool. which didn't really work, because my stomach started hurting REALLY bad. like, cramps bad. so all i ended up doing was sitting on the sofa until my dad got there. then i walked out to the car really quickly and curled up on the front seat.

so then i got home and collapsed into bed.

today was... okay. at best. but i will have more to say about that later (*coughcough*mime*coughcough*) lol.

peace<3music

short classes

so today was the senior awards assembly, which was sad.
BUT the bonus was that most of my classes were only a little over half an hour long :D
and i finished my paper last night and turned it in today. :D
and im going over to ians house tomorrow night after graduation to celebrate with his family. i cant believe hes going to HAWAII. jealous. lol

GOOD NIGHT ALL!!!

peace.

papers and research and rain and driving.

so i didn't post again yesterday. bad me.

ANWAYS
yesterday=goofing and getting distracted from my paper, dancing in the rain, sleeping in the car, then driving for three hours--into and out of a storm while listening to Praise You in this Storm by Casting Crowns :D so cool.

today:
school :( i now have an extra 7-ish inches to my left whenever i go to my locker.
got home, had a foregin coke, then settled in to finish my paper.
at 4:30-ish, i took a 20 minute break to bounce on the trampoline with my brother... IN THE RAIN :D that was amazingly awesome. (will post pics once i get them on my computer... lol)
finished my paper around 10 after 6, and am now chillin'.
GLEE tonight! YAYZZ!!!!!!

peace out, all!

(later) sooo... i was just checkin' my dashboard, and realized...
THIS IS MY 100TH POST!!!! :D and i posted it on June 1. how perfect :D

Memorial Day Weekend

so, yes, i realize that i haven't posted since thursday. sorry!

BUT, ive been busy, and trying to avoid things that will equal a long distraction (aka blogging)
sooo on friday i got home from school, packed, then drove for three hours to pick up jessica, then head to my aunts house. we got there at 9-ish, and i stayed up until around 10 or 1030, just talking with mom and aunt laurie. then i went to bed, but i couldn't fall asleep, so i worked on my spanish homework, starting at like 11, ending at 1130.

then yesterday, i got up, had a YUMMY breakfast of eggs and sausage, and started working on my paper. i worked on the most of afternoon, then we left around 4 to run some errands, then went to dinner at this bar/restaurant called Toast. it wasn't that good... too fancy for my taste. we went out for ice cream afterwards, and got back around 9-ish, so i finished my spanish homework, then stayed up on the laptop/watching tv until around midnight.

today was kinda similar, except i slept until 11. but i worked on my paper most of the day (thank you katie for editing!!) at around 530, i went outside to help aunt laurie garden...it was SO ridiculously hot out! we came in around 730 to clean up, ate dinner at 8, then around 9 we went to bruster's for ice cream. DELICIOUS! i had birthday cake. soooooo good :D
and now im home, staying up late, watching tv, and, obviously, on the laptop :D

instead of my normal closing...
Remember all the men and women that have laid their lies on the line, and possibly even died in combat to keep us safe.

blue skies, shinin' on me!

i LOVE this weather. love love love.
today was...ok.

it was the seniors' last day in chorus. so i got sad, 'specially when we sang our alma mater.
BUT we got to go outside for english. that was nice :D

O.M.G.

Letters to Juliet is ♪AWESOME♫!!!!!!!

see it.

now.

its amazing.

not too much good happened today. except for the movie. and pizza at my museum training :D

BUT. that movie was insanely good!!!! <3

oh happy day!

today was wonderful!
i was NOT in a bad mood
homeroom was kind of stressful, but i got over it quickly :)
spanish was great--im sitting up front again! i know, wierd, but i can't see in the back b/c im behind a bunch of tall people
english was sooooooo much funn!!! i finished reading our book (Gentlemen and Players, Joanna Harris) and mrs. cummins told me she would fail me for the year (!!!) if i told anyone. so im being good. but i can still talk about the book :D its soooooooooooooooooo good. read it.
in chorus we sang it takes a village a couple of times then talked :) i love just talking in chorus. its a ton of fun.
mark called me during english. so i called him back after school and i was like 'i dont get out until 2.' and he was like 'ooohhh yyeeaahhh...im a college student, and we already got out. i keep forgetting that you guys aren't out yet.' and i was thinking 'gee, thanks.'
lol.
today is just a happy day :D

the next day: watched Les Mis last night!!!!! very good movie, and the first time ive watched it all the way through :D
then i got home and watched Glee!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D monumental episode last night. it was insanely good. do you all watch glee? if not, you should. its amazing. :D:D:D:D:D

long day + distractions = no post

don't you just love my math?

anyways, i was working on english homework for at least half the night. we had to answer five questions, and my responses were around 100 words each. the last one was the hardest, because i got major writer's block.
then i had to do my spanish homework.
and for at least half of that time, i was talking on the phone. which didn't help much.

ANYWAYS
drama yesterday was... eh. the duets were REALLY funny, but i was in a really bad mood. but then i went to euro and ate a cookie and rested for a few minutes here and there (we were watching a movie) and went home and i felt better. :D

so that's what happened yesterday...
OH YEAH! i also made pudding :) but it doesn't taste very good :( and i had a conversation with katie on facebook. that was fun :) until i insulted her hair. then she got upset :( but i apologized, so i hope it makes it better :)

busy as a bumble bee

this morning was...
church,
Bible Force,
CLEANCLEANCLEAN,
and Opa's birthday party!!! I had sooo much funn hanging out with my cousins. they are soooooo sweet!!
emmy=the responsible one
therese=the loud one
sally=the friendly/inquisitive one.
and seeing as how evas only 2, she doesn't have a lable yet. lol :D

they were sooooo sweet! i loved hanging out with them.

school tomorrow. idk what im doing other than that...

don't worry, be happy

soooo...
i helped ian with trig, a LOT. i really hope he passes.
i ate dinner with him, his parents and a whole bunch of motorcyclers after the american legions weekly (?) ride... we had hamburgers and hot dogs :D
i bought some new music :D
im not as sore as i thought i would be.
and my lip is neither bumpy, nor painful. you can just see the cut if you look close enough :D

Bible Force tomorrow, hopefully
then Opa's birthday party,
then painting the youth room at HdG UMC

all in all, it was a good day

my bro is insane... just like his hair

so when my brother woke up this morning his hair was all funky, and it wouldn't comb down. it was an insane case of bed head.
also, i only had two classes today--Spanish and FOT.
AND i had first lunch.
AND there was a fire drill during FOT.


(and i really wanna rant, but not here. lol)

peace all! <3

AH! i just realized i forgot to post yesterday!!! :/

yesterday...

i didn't have to go to school for 3.5 hours
and i only had two classes
and i talked with ian about his math work.

happiness

I had my museum training today... we had pizza. yummy :D
AND one of the two people that came to talk to us got her Masters in American History. double :D LIGHT BULB! I can email her if I get stuck on my paper :D

AND ian's coming over Saturday morning so I can help him study for his chapter 9 make up test... may i just say, FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
hes been havin' issues since SECOND QUARTER!
and now, a week and a half before his last day, he FINALLY starts actively trying to get help (most likely because if he doesn't graduate, his parents won't take him to Hawaii... pretty major incentive, id say!)

pictures from this morning... just the good ones tho.

i love my friends in homeroom! theyre so much funn. especially when you have a camera... lol

HSA week #2

ya know, it would be really helpful if my body could remember that i didn't have to get up on time today....


ANYWAYS! i was on my facebook profile this morning (i know, surprise!) and i smiled! why? because of my default picture. its photographical evidence that my brother and i actually do love each other, despite those times when we fight/argue/bicker.

i love this picture :D

and reading through all my old posts made me realize that i said i would post a bunch of stuff, but never did, namely

my drama essay on why The Princess Bride is the best movie ever

i think i promised a picture, but it might have been that one, but i can't remember.

and i just realized that i can probably upload a picture of what my class ring is going to look like :D im sooooo excited!!!!! ordering it today! (AND i get a free c/o 2012 hoodie (: )

peace!

It takes a Whole Village

concert choir learned the song that we're going to sing at graduation today. :D
it has a great message--
"It takes a whole village to raise our children,
It takes a whole village to raise one child.
We all everyone must share the burden,
We all everyone will share the joy."

It's an African song, I believe, and it is AMAZING. especially the chord on "our child". the tenors sing middle C, the altos sing the F above middle C, and the sopranos sing that A. it sounds soooooooooooo cool! (at least from where i sit, which is on the very outside edge of the soprano section).

I GET TO SLEEP IN TOMORROW!!!!!! yay for hsa's!

EQUINE!

soooo i ended up going to the medieval day at steppingstone musuem with christine, mitchell and michael, and later we met up with blake and then ever later daniel showed up :)

it was fun. totally. except i wasn't allowed to get a henna tattoo :(
BUT i had watermelon italian ice :)
and my legs didn't hurt as much, i guess because i was walking around a lot.
and we watched guys hit each other with padded sticks.
AND we watched equines!! lol. (blake was making fun of the warning signs or something...)

good pain :)

today was crazy.

we left at 8:30 for my cousings first communion, then went from there to their house for a late lunch
then to the powells party.
no bobby petrocelli with the smalleys :(
but instead im chillin and watching the itunes visualizer.
SOOOOO PRETTYY!!!

and also, im really sore from last night. but that means i worked my legs out really well :D which is good.

peace! <3

F.R.O.G.!!!!

aka
Fully
Rely
On
God.

OR, in my case, FROGS! as in, Have You Kissed Any Frogs Today?, as in the FUNNEST mime piece EVER!!! i was soooooo happy that we got to work on that tonight :D
soo psyched for tomorrow, too! idk if ill get to post, sooo....
my cousin's first communion in VA in the morning.
straight from there to the Powell's party.
then getting picked up from mt. zion to head for a...something (idk, what. i know hes a motivational speaker! lol) with the smalley's, then home.
craaaaazyy day tomorrow.

peace!

Macbeth tonight!

sooo this is kind of abnormal, because i usually post right when i get home from school, but my routine changed up a bit.

BUT OMG!!!!!
we got a REALLY good book in english today... its called Gentlemen and Players by Joanna Harris. i L-O-V-E love it! lol
AND my bio retake only took 10-15 minutes for just the retake part... all in all i was after school for 20 minutes... SIMPLE :)
AND im gonna go see Macbeth tonight. BREAK A LEG!!!! <3

peace!

i LOVE jewelry

especially when its my class ring, and i get to pick EXACTLY how i want it to look!
including:
*fake* sapphire (fire blue spinel)
Design-a-Side (a treble clef on one side and drama masks on the other)
my name on one side
my graduating year on the other
and my full name engraved on the inside

:D im soooooooo happy!!!
good things are happening today :)

"Forgive me my weakness but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive!"

amazing awesomness!!!

soooooo i had my spring choral concert tonight. it was amazing! but i was sooo nervous! uploading the video isn't working... i hope i can get it on here somehow in the next couple of days.

i also enjoyed watchin ian during chambers... he was havin soo much fun! probably the most fun out of everyone there...

EEP! i LOVE mr tra (again)

I GOT ONE OF THE SOLOS!!!!!! i even got the one i WANTED!!!! :D

yay me.
choral concert tomorrow night, at 7 in the HHS auditorium... anyone wanna come? tickets are very cheap (i think its like $1 or $2??)

i also love having a wireless keyboard and mouse. i can now relax in my moms chair (pulled up next to my desk) with my feet resting on my chair (where her's used to be) and still do stuff!!!! :D
i know, im lazy. my bro already told me that.... lol

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!

So for Mother's Day we are going to see Iron Man 2, then have a cookout. yummy :D



and in celebration of this wonderful day, i picnik'd a fun picture of my mom that i found on facebook...

another thing that made me laugh: the video that katie posted on facebook, "to be or not to be... a mime."

LOLOLOLOL

4:03 pm--just got back from Iron Man 2. GREAT MOVIE!!!!! my brother is soooo entertaining. on the way there...

dad--"mitch, what are you doing?"

mitch--"i amm putting the water bottle down."

on the way home...

dad--"mitch, what are you doing?"

mitch--"putting the water bottle down. again"

LOLOLOL

wow! this is early

soo... my something ...*entertaining* happened this morning when i woke up. kinda.

my cat fell on my face. i have no clue what she was trying to do, except that she somehow ended up landing on my face and waking me up. it was pretty funny, in retrospect. lol!

SOLOS!!!

not much good happened today, unfortunately.
BUT i did audition for a solo in chorus today, and i think it went really well. there were six people who auditioned, but i can almost guarantee that one of them won't get it. why? because his voice cracked on like half of it. it was kinda funny... lol.

BUT i also went up against four seniors. FOUR. so... if i lose the solo to claire and jocelyn, ill be ok. but if i lose it to hannah and erin, or any combination with hannah or erin in it, ill be mad.

but im not gonna talk about that now.
soo...
yeah.

ANDANDAND!!!!!! *sings* i got a blue glowstick, i got a blue glowstick!

and im gonna be a glowstick for halloween LOL

peace!
andee

OMG soooo much to tell!!!

i was downtown yesterday afternoon, and then got busy pretty much as soon as i got home.
BUT it was a good busy.

Mom got back from Colombia yesterday :)
She brought back a card from Daniela, with a note to each of us on it. i cant remember quite correctly, but she told me she was looking forward to being her sister, that she likes me, and she enjoyed hanging out with me last summer AWWWW <3
Mom also brought home a little family band--a drummer (Mitch and Dad), a guitarist (Mom) and a singer (ME!). i even have my own little microphone, and a stand!!! :D
these were all made out of wire, connected. its CRAZY! ill have to post pictures.

today was even better. if thats even possible.
i went to biology and gave myself sharpie tattoos :) again. lol. LOVE THEM! im gonna have to trace over them in black, or maybe even redo one after my shower, but i promise to post pix.
instead of having to deal with a sub in FOT, i helped ms mader set up for the teachers luncheon, which was totally funn. i got to make signs. and you know why she picked me? becasue of my sharpie drawing on my arm :) that was totally cool.
soooo after that, i went to drama. UGH. we had a sub (of course) and were watching a movie (duh) and had to write something about something (why not? give them something to do...) but i have to talk to mr. cummins about that, because i missed enough of the movie where i couldn't do the writing, because i had no clue what was going on.
euro was pretty cool, too. it went by extremely quickly, it seemed. the only thing wrong was the heat. i thought i was gonna die... im STILL hot from his class. grrr

so all in all, today was a pretty good school day!
OH! its also National Day of Prayer. SOOO pray! for your school, our country, our soldiers... whatever!
ok, gonna go study for my AP test tomorrow... *nervous sigh*

free as a bird

i say this because i am, indeed, free as a bird tonight :D
i dont have to stay after school.
i dont have a review session.
my brother doesn't have a game.

SO i get to watch my shows LIVE! yay me! lol. im excited. i haven't watched an NCIS show live in a couple weeks... :)

YAYZ!

i loooooovvveeee my chorus teacher!!!!!! he gave the concert choir sopranos back the melody for our finale song for the spring concert, and he gave out music to those who wanted to audition for one of two solos. :D EEEEPPPPP soooo psyched!!

A Trip to Delaware

soooo...yeah. my brother made me smile today. *gasp* he bought me a soda because i left my money at home, and he said i didn't need to pay him back! awww
the car ride was pretty cool. i listened to my music all the way down. but i was also suffering from song ADD which wasn't funn. but i missed sooo much lol.
i'm at the hospital right now, posting from my email.
Grandpa's not doing that great, but apparently hes speaking better then he was on thursday. he still gets frustrated, but from what dad was saying, not as much.
hopefully, ill get to go to youth group with ian and caitlin tonight. i have no clue whats gonna happen with them... :/

peace!

--
"And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance...I hope you dance"

"I love this crazy tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life" <3

8:35 pm--got back from youth group a bit ago. borrowed caitlins dress... i LOVE it!!! its sooo cute and comfy and OMG. but i need to wear a sweater or jacket or something with it.. :( youth group was totally funn. we walked to ritas, and i got a reg. twist custard. yummy :)

!!! EEEPPP!!!!

DANIELA KNOWS WE'RE ADOPTING HER!!!!!!! :D
yayz. my mom posted a note on facebook.

AND we might watch avatar tonight, if my dad can get it from blockbuster... maybe i should ask around to see if we can borrow it from someone? idk, ill ask dad.

OMG!!!! amazingness!!!!!!!!

ok, so just pretened i posted this BEFORE i went to sleep. because then, in my world, it would have still been friday, even though the clock said 1:05. lol

so school wasn't all that great, but whats new?
we watched Wall-E in FOT, but we had to answer questions on it. *sigh*
i ate lunch alone, because i had a different lunch for states.
THEN we got on the bus to go to MSU where our states festival was.
that was kinda funny... the three biggest guys plus one of the smalles girls sat in one row. and mr. tra sat with steve (another one of the biggest guys, no offense) in one of the very back seats--usually a one-person seat. lol
also, mr. tra expected us to be silent, and focus on our music, or an example sightreading. YEAH RIGHT! lol.
when we got there, it wasn't too bad. we got to hear North Harford sing, and they were AMAZING.
also, their auditorium is SOOO BEAUTIFUL!!! im jealous.
then we had to go to the warm up room, which is extremely live. it was crazy.
unfortunately, the stage was only a little live, so it was hard to get used to. i wish we had been able to practice on the stage somehow.
after that, we went to the sightreading room. it was kinda small for so many people (around 50-ish maybe? i forget.)
BUT
im sure you want to hear how we did, right? ill tell you.
we got straight 2's on our songs (2=excellent). which actually isn't that bad, if you think about it. 1)we were on a new stage. 2)the county adjudicators score more on opinion, whereas at the state level they have rubrics.
BUTBUTBUT
WE GOT 1'S ON OUR SIGHTREADING!!!! (1=superior). which is totally insane, because we haven't really practiced sightreading all that much, especially melodic, which is pretty hard. BUT WE DID IT!!!! :D
after that, we had to listen to the MSU choir. they were having a dress rehearsal for an upcoming concert. it was hard to listen to because the director had a microphone and he KEPT TALKING!!! D:
the bus ride home was a bit better. we could listen to music, text, talk, whatever. it was much more relaxed.
then i got to the school, changed into my dress that i wore to swing (white w/black polka dots?) and mrs. smalley picked me up and brought me to their house where i had grilled chicken, green beans, rice and pineapple. yummy :)
after she took a picture in front of the house of me ian and caitlin, then we left! i forget what time we left, but we got there around 7, which was pretty good timing.
the city is sooooo beautiful!!!
so we parked, then headed to the national theatre. unfortunately, the doors for seating didn't open 'til 7:30 so we walked down to the corner, hoping the starbucks was open. it wasn't. but there was a little street vendor on the corner, so i bought this yummy lemon ice cup thing. it was pretty good. we waited until around 7:20-ish, then went back inside and waited to be seated.
the theatre is GORGEOUS!!! im jealous (again. lol)
then the play started, and it was amazing!!!!
after it finished, we waited outside the stage for something like an hour, maybe(?) for harvey fierstein to come out. ian REALLY wanted to meet him, as he played the part of tevye in fiddler (who was a LOT like ian... it was kinda funny...) and he played the gay brother in mrs doubtfire (apparently ANOTHER one of ian's favorite films... how many does he HAVE?) so anyways, we got a picture with him, and he signed our playbills :D and i was the only one who handed mine to him myself. lol.
so then after that we went back to the garage and headed home. that was pretty uneventful. we got out of DC quite easily. BUT something did happen, but that's not an OI story. so read Just Your Average Teen if you wanna find out the one thing that happened.
then i got home around 1:05-ish, checked facebook, updated my status, told Dad i was home, then fell into bed, after barely managing to change into pjs. if i had been wearing jeans or khakis, it would have no big deal. but a dress? yeah, i was NOT sleeping in that.
then i woke up at 12:00 this afternoon, came downstairs, checked facebook, updated my status, then started my post! which is probably my longest post ever... yesterday was a very long day.

average-ness

today was average. which, considering the circumstances, is GREAT! lol.
moms in colombia
dads in DE
my teachers weren't being completely miserable
i figured out a way to cheat on my hemming job for the present
AND i decided to scrunch my hair for tomorrow :)

9:03 pm--LOLOLOLOL ready for the storm rehearsal was SOOO funny!!!!!! rofl. :D AND, i am the voice of...

DIGRESSION! you thought i was gonna say reason, didn't you? because, before now, there has not been a well-known, identified voice of digression. but now there is! and she rules out the voice of reason.
and have i told that i've been diagnosed by some people *coughcough*colin*coughcough* with ADHOS?
Attention
Deficit
Hyperactive
Oooh,
Shiny!

KATIE!!! i thought of you when i was the hair cuttery tonight!!! i saw BedHead shampoo(sulfate-free) and conditioner for thick, massive hair. dont u feel loved? haha

lol. ok, im off to bed. up early to wet my hair so i can scrunch, and to pay attention to my makeup, and pack my backpack full of clothes. :sigh:

The Lost Get Found

^im listening to that song^ right now :D

FIDDLER ON FRIDAY!!!!!!! and states. but i dont need to be excited about that.
today what made me happy was...
lazy shower-taking (washing ur hair in the tub... lol)
being able to straighten my hair before my mom left
finally starting to make plans to get a hair cut (i desperately need a trim)
and my review session for AP Euro. thats always sooo much funn, an idk why.

ALSO i had bugles today! i haven't them in ages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

ugh...

im behind again :(

ANYWAS
yesterday was kinda fun.
i had drama, and instead of doing or duets, mr. cummins assigned a 500-word paper, trying to pitch our favorite movie. i did The Princess Bride. :D love that movie. I'll post the final draft when i'm finished.
i took a bath yesterday :) it felt soooooooo good!!!!!!! lol
I had my AP Euro exam review session last night. it wasn't that bad--basically just a second Euro class. BUT it comes with perks. because i'm going to the review sessions, i don't have to do the homework for unit 11 :) i might end up doing some of it anyways... idk tho.

normalities, untiredness and AMAZING PEOPLE!

SOOO...
i am rather untired. i realize thats not a word. but i kinda was tired. but then i perked up a bit. idk why.
organized my presents.
started writing thank you notes.
went to youth group @ hdg tonight! funn. but me ian and caitlin were the only ones there.
and GUESS WHAT?!?
drumroll please
*drumroll*




I MIGHT GET TO GO SEE FIDDLER ON THE ROOF AT THE NATIONAL THEATER IN WASHINGTON, DC ON FRIDAY NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
im sooooo psyched!!!! :)
ian's mom invited caitlin and i to go. im sooooo insanely STOKED!

:D

hehehe... sooo....its 1:50 in the morning, I am at the Tellup's, and I have no plan of going to bed anytime soon. i will soooooooo not be helpful at the LIT info mtg tomro!

anyways, yesterday *cough cough* was ahMAZing!!!
first, i got up and read my book some more. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. good book. has some cussing and other stuff in it, but the stories amazing. you should read it.
then i cleaned, a bit.
then the tellup girls were dropped off at 1, and we went shopping :D altho, we mostly went shopping for mom. BUT i got a really cute dress. gonna wear it to church tomro (as i have nothing else to wear)
we got back from shopping and picking katie up, and cleaned. like crazy. christine, katie, erin, mitchell, mom and i all cleaned around the house to get ready. people had actually started arriving before i had all my cd's burned... OH WELL!
then the party! it was definitely a SWEET sixteen!!!! =D
we played a little bit of volleyball, thought that didn't work too well.
we played red rover :)
we had a bonfire.
we bounced on the trampoline.
swing danced.
talked.
swung on the tire swing.
and basically had an AWESOME time!!!

then after the party, i went over to the tellups for a sleepover and opened my presents. THANK YOU ALL SOOOOO MUCH!! :D i loved them!
then we...
decorated my phone.
gave each other temporary permanent tattoos with SHARPIES!!!! lol. wont post pics, tho. but i have lyrics on my legs :) and words on my back... including SHINY! :D
decorated my phone some more (the cell gel--really cool--takes an hour to dry...*sigh*).
so now you are pretty much caught up! lol.
gonna watch bridge to terabithia, then most likely go to sleep.

BIBLE FORCE LATER!!!
AND im wearing my new dress that i got from Kohl's yesterday :)

<3 you all!
Andee