Sorry couldn't bite my tongue

Happy Monday. Not really. Today started off fairly normal but got progressively worse. First I had to jog for 20 minutes in PE and the whole time Griffin was making me want to strangle him by telling me that I wasn't running fast enough all the while he said nothing to the goth kids who were pretty much walking the whole time. The worst thing happened at lunch. Some little blonde munchkin freshman boy started making fun of my friend Catherine and being just a jerk. So this kid apparently knows Catherine who's one of my best friends (don't worry I've got multiple). He sits down at our lunch table and first he's just being stupid by pretending to hit on her. We just kinda rolled our eyes at that. Then when he didn't get the response he wanted he started really being a nimrod. It just so happens that Catherine's favorite animal is a horse (just like you Pepper!). He knew that and started talking to his buddies at the table about how horses are made into dog food. Then he started talking about dead horses on the side of the road. So of course I had to stand up for her so right as I was leaving the cafeteria to go to my locker I told the little blonde munchkin boy to go to hell. I know I really shouldn't have said that but seriously this kid was making me mad. I just couldn't help myself. Besides if we did absolutely nothing he would still keep doing or maybe even try to start it with me and I wouldn't take it. I probably have this innocent look but I just don't take crap from anybody anymore. The day didn't get much worse than that. Although I'm still not even close to being done with the day yet. I still have to go to my driver's ed class because even though the classroom stuff is done I still ahve to go out for a few drives. One of them being today. Right after that my dad will pick me up and take me to Kamiak for EYSO rehearsal. I won;t even get dinner till like 8 or somehting. That's why I had a kiwi and some strawberries a little bit ago. I love trader joe's. We get yummy stuff from there. In other news we got new music in orchestra. We sight read today. The pieces that we got were Legend, Mantras, and Nimrod all of which were pretty fun although Legend and mantras were pretty hard but we can get them. Eventually. It seems that there's a lot more pizzicato in our new pieces. also NOTE TO SELF: GET A MUTE. Sorry. I'll never remember otherwise. I need it for one of the sea chantey variations for the symphony. Well I need to be leaving here in about 15 minutes for my drive and I still need to find out how to squeeze my stand into the top of my case. Buh bye!

65 days

Ok so earlier I went out driving again on the freeway. I actually did really well so I'm getting better. In other news: MY MOM GOT ME THE RELIENT K TICKETS!!!! I am so happy and I'm just counting down till the concert. As of today its 65 days so I totally can't wait. I'm so psyched! I've been wanting to see this band since I heard them in 7th grade. I absolutely love them. I remember how I got hooked too. When I was still in Virginia my youth group went to equip (Speaking of which how did equip go for you Pepper?) and I was in a van with let me see I don't remember everyone but I do remember that Harmony and Jonathan Cox were there oh yeah and Nicholas Maxwell. We had such a good time on that van all the way up there. Plus we were listening and singing along to Relient K's Anatomy of Tongue in Cheek album and we kept playing Sadie Hawkins Dance and singing to it over and over. Wow that was such a long time ago. My dream is finally going to come true of seeing them in concert. I wish I could actually meet them in person but the chance of that happening is worse than winning the lottery but I'll still be singing along to every song! They better play Sadie Hawkins Dance but I think they play that one at every concert since it was the one that made them famous. I am going to be obsessing about this concert for awhile. In other news my mom brought home a really good steak for dinner and a box of See's candy. After we divided it up we up we had like 9 pieces left. They were so yummy! I just love chocolate. Well I'll just post this and I'll post more later!

Relient K!!!!!

Big news! I found out this morning that my favorite band EVER (for 3 years) is FINALLY touring the west coast and coming to Seattle!!!! They're coming to Neumo's at the end of May. I absolutely must go!

For Sierra

Sierra this post is for you. I can't tell you this because I promised Justin I wouldn't TELL you. He never said anything about blogging about it and giving you the blog address. I don't like Justin anymore because today in orchestra class he pretty much told me the only reason he talks to me is because he likes you. Seriously I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at him. If you like him you can have him because I'm done. I'll still be his friend but I'm really not interested anymore. In fact right now I'm really pissed off at him. He was the one who wanted me to ask you if you're single. He also wanted me to drop hints. This is probably more than a hint so don't tell him you read it. Just letting you know.

Cloud 7

Heyllo readers. I'm on cloud 7 today. Not cloud 9 because cloud 9 is the best of the best but cloud 7 is getting there. So today I didn't get to talk to Justin in the morning but he did hug me today. I think he also followed me outside. He gave me a hug and talked to me before the bell rang for 5th period. Usually we part ways before the door to get outside because my math class is in a portable and he knows this because I've told him. He snuck up behind me and tapped me and went the other way so I wouldn't see him when I turned around. He asked me why I was there and I told him that my class was out there. I'm pretty sure he followed me out there. He's adorable! Sorry. Had to say that. Because it's true. Anyway the rest of the day was pretty good. My dad took me out driving and I did ok. Not bad. Not very good either but not bad. I also had rehearsal today. We got a piece by Handel called Hornpipe. Very famous. Very hard. Very fun. Well my mom is really getting on my nerves and she's yelling at me to get off so I well let her majesty on. See ya!

Getting over the flu

Once again I know its been awhile since I've written. This time my excuse is getting over the flu. I caught the flu on tuesday of last week and I'm finally getting better. I never got to go to the SKMEA festival or Bellingham otherwise I'd be telling you about those. Poor Catherine I think she caught it too. She caught it Friday night. She hasn't been back to school yet. She was at rehearsal on Monday night but she was only watching since we got new music. Speaking of which we're playing variations of a sea chantey and the chantey is What do we do with our drunken sailor? That's a good one. Plus we've got something else but I don't remember it's title or composer. All week everybody has been doing WASLs except freshman because the state cut money from education which is really a dumb idea. Anyway I went to school at my regular time on Monday. For the first half of school we listened to a lecture about college, signed up for classes next year, and watched a movie. For the second half we had block classes which meant PE, English, and math for me. On tuesday I went in around 10:00AM instead of on time that way I could sleep in and try to recover instead of going in early and doing nothing. Yesterday I didn't go in at all because I've had this cough leftover from the flu and I couldn't really sleep because of it so my mom took me to the doctor. I ended up getting some stuff that just knocks me out. It's amazing. I also got 2 other kinds that taste horrible. I feel like I've missed so much school. Actually I guess I have because last week when I had the worst of the flu I missed Wednesday through Friday. I've had a really long vacation. Today was the last day I was able to go into school half way through the day because tomorrow we're going back to regular schedule. Darn! Hopefully that means going back to being able to see Justin everyday and talk to him in the morning. In other news Sabrina is in trouble... again. Apparently one of her friends made her a myspace and we aren't allowed to have one. She didn't delete it. Instead she decorated it and started using it. She said that she's 18 and used her real name and city and stuff like that. Plus she said she's bi which isn't true because she hasn't ever had a girlfriend. She hasn't even had a boyfriend except the 8th grade one that ignores her when he's with his friends and denies it when anybody asks him wether they're going out. Stupid huh? Well I think I shall go now. See ya!

EYSO concert and today

Ok so last night was the Everett Youth Symphony concert. I think it went really well. At least for not having rehearsal on Monday. I had so many supporters there. I had my grandma and grandpa, mom, dad, Kyle, Sabrina, Heidi (my small group leader), and my aunt. Our songs went off without a hitch and we got a lot of applause. My mom wasn't really impressed with the Junior symphony's performance. Apparently nobody was together. Of course their conductor is the Kamiak orchestra director. Go figure. He's really flamboyant. I got flowers from Heidi and they're very pretty. I was sick pretty much all day yesterday at school. I'm sleepy, achey, and my throat hurts, and I'm coughing like crazy. It's not fun. I went to school yesterday but I probably shouldn't have. I'm home today and I'm miserable. I took nyquil last night and dayquil today but I'm still miserable. Last night though SOMEBODY *cough cough* Catherine *cough cough* wouldn't let me sleep after the concert. She kept trying to take my hat and my headphones. Well I'll wrap this up so I can go drink some fluids and take some Tylenol. By the way, the picture is of Mrs. Harris, the conductor of the intermezzo group which is what I'm in.

Blah!

I'm sorry it's been awhile since I've written but I promise that next month won't have as much going on. OK so I'll start with my first freeway drive on Friday. It actually went really well... until I accidentally cut of a semi truck. Needless to say he wasn't happy with me. Also on Friday, there was the Spaghetti Dinner for ASB booster club for orchestra and band and jazz band so that was ok I guess. See Angelos had been gone for 3 days because our Boys' basketball team made it to state so they were up in Tacoma as well as marching band so Angelos wasn't here for orchestra. Also needless to say, we sucked. We totally butchered like 5 measures in Rhosymedre and it sounded awful. Good thing it wasn't our fault. The food was good though. On Saturday we all we (my whole family) webt up to my Grandma and Grandpa's house and had a big celebratory lunch thing to welcome back my Grandma and Grandpa from their travels in New Mexico and Arizona and it also included a celebration of all the March birthdays which included my mom, my dad, my stepmom, and my uncle. If my aunt's birthday was also in March we'd have a whole generation of March birthdays there. That was fun. My mom and I also went out and got my shirt and heels I needed for the concert tomorrow. The shoe guy was very helpful. I think when my mom mentioned that I'm a musician and I'm playing in a couple concerts coming up[ he must've thought I was someone important. Especially because the Everett Youth Symphony has a good reputation. That and we're broadcasted all over the internet on the day of the concert. Too bad I'm not a first violin. At least not in the symphony. Anyway, I have such a busy schedule! Like today I was supposed to go to rehearsal for the symphony. That didn't work out but I'm getting to it. Hold your horses (who made that phrase up anyway?). Tomorrow is the symphony concert plus I've got driver's ed. Tomorrow I've got an ice cream social (again I'll get to that in a minute) plus driver's ed. Thursday I have (you guessed it!) driver's ed plus the SKMEA festival. Friday I'm heading up to Bellingham for a different festival and there's also a master class up there. I'll still be there Saturday and that's the day of the performance. Just too much to do! OK so today was kinda weird. First it started snowing around second period and we've got a good 4 inches out there. That's why rehearsal for tonight was cancelled. Also I now know for sure that my gym teacher is out to get me. So we start a 20 minute jog (usually on Mondays we run a mile but the track was wet so we run 20 minutes inside) so I'm jogging and like 12 minutes in I need water. I go get some from a nearby fountain and then I keep going. I'm coming up to where Griffin is and he starts yelling at me and saying that if I slow down or stop for the rest of the 8 minutes left he'd take my credit. At this point I'm kinda annoyed but whatever. I keep running. But then I think I did something to my ankle. Maybe I twisted it or pulled a muscle. I'm fine now but it really hurt right then. I'm still going though I'm just kinda limping along. Then Griffin starts yelling at me again! He says that I didn't fall so I'm not hurt and I need to stop faking the limp. You're kidding right? I really wanted to physically injure that man. Badly. As it is I was cursing him to hell for the rest of the time. I swear he's out to get me. Anyway the next weird thing happened just the next period. So I'm in science class and we're doing a notebook check. I pull out all my things which are pretty much everywhere since God knows I can't organize to save my life. He gets to me and I start showing him all this stuff and he asks to actually see the inside of my notebook. I show him and it's like a tornado of papers. He says "You're not good at organizing are you? That's ok. You're an artist. I get that. You like the chaos. You're lucky I like you." He gave me a 15 out of 20. I thought that was pretty cool. He gives me passing grades because he likes me. Isn't that awesome? Weird event number 4 happened in last period Spanish class. I got a note that apparently I won an award for being student of the quarter. So now I'm getting a certificate and I get to go to an ice cream social on Wednesday. Besides my evil gym teacher thing the day was pretty good. Well that and rehearsal getting cancelled. At least we're still having the concert tomorrow. I'm almost sure that my science teacher was the one who nominated me for that award. I'm not sure why he lies me. I mean by that time I'm so tired from gym I usually fall asleep in the class. Not on purpose of course. I think he likes me because I can write a good research paper. See we did these 5 page research papers and mine was on how climate change affects frogs. Apparently he really liked it and he told me so. So I've got minimum corrections and I just have to print another one out and hand it in and get my 100. Go me! Anyway wish me luck for the concert. Also if you're interested in watching the concert the livestream starts at 6:45PM west coast time on March 10th, 2009. Just click the following link and click the button that says: EYSO webcast click here to watch live. Ok here's the link: http://www.eyso.info/article.aspx?id=45

So embarassing!

Ok so you know Josh whom I've mentioned a couple... hundred times? Um... yeah his name isn't really Josh. I just found out his today his real name is Justin. At least I didn't call him Josh to find out that wasn't his name. Today we had a sub for orchestra and he was taking roll and called Justin and of course he raised his hand. I am sooooo embarassed. I've bene talking to him for like a month. The reason why I thought his name was Josh was because there used to be a girl I was friends with in orchestra named Shelbie called him that. At least I didn't call him that to his face. But now I have to tell all my friends that I told about him that I got his name messed up. That will be so embarassing. It has been such an incredibly long day.

Driving more and the weird day

Ok so I went on my second and third driving experiences. I actually managed not not almost run into anything! Does that makes sense? Anyway so my dad took me out on some back roads and I did pretty well. Tonight I went out on a hands on driving lesson with my instructor and a girl named Jessica from my class. She's super nice. Anyway so on the third one we actually went through traffic lights! I didn't do too bad. I also had a kinda strange day. All was normal at school but after drivers ed I went and at dinner at Mickey D's (aka mcdonalds) because it was walking distance of the drivers ed school and i only had an hour before I needed to be back for the actual drive. So I'm on my way back to the school with my belly full of greasy food and some dude pulls up to the intersection and he's got his buddy in the passenger seat. So they're like 3 lanes away from me and the passenger seat dude calls me over. He gives me this intricately folded paper flower made from a chinese food menu and tells me I'm cute. Now this guy's older. Not long old man old where it's just really really creepy but he's at least a senior in high school and I'm a freshman. He wouldn't be doing that if he knew I was a freshman. So I'm just like "um... thanks?" because there's not a whole lot I can say. Then I just kinda walked away back to the sidewalk. It was a little weird. I'm not going to lie to you I wasn't exactly prepared for that. Anyway yeah it was just kinda strange today. Oh and my mom and I were in the almost empty parking lot at Target tonight, waiting for my sister's flute lesson to be over and my mom hasn't driven with me yet so I just wanted to driver her around the parking lot a little. I get in the car and follow all the prodedures and everything. I pull into a parking space for her and then I start backing out and my mom just totally flips out. She's just like "STOP!!!" She might have some problems with me driving. There weren't even any parked cars nearby. Oh boy.