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.