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www.pointlesssites.com - There u go pointless sites, a public freaking link to your site. Now where's my perpetual calendar?

RELIENT K!!!!!

Ok so last night I went to the Relient K concert. IT WAS ABSITIVELY POSILUTELY AMAZING!!!!!! They started off with Devastation and Reform and they were planning on ending with Be my Escape except we all wanted an encore so they came out and played Deathbed. I was only about 4 feet away from Matt Thiessen. When he sweeped his hair out of his eyes I could literally see a spray of sweat rain down on the stage. Of course there were about 100 people in front of me because we were all packed in like sardines. Almost the whole time I think my cheek was resting on some random guy's shoulder. It was either that or smother my face. It got kinda scary sometimes though. When people were jumping around, especially during Classic Crime, I sometimes thought I'd fall over because all the sudden everyone would start leaning one way. I almost lost a flip flop too and my toes are bruised because people kept stepping on me. It was really hot down there and it stank like BO but the music was absolutely AMAZING. It was all I expected and more. They played the afore mentioned songs plus Who to Burry: Us or the Hatchet, Sadie Hawkins Dance (I had been wearing a blue bracelet since Christmas and at a split second choice I decided to throw it up on stage during Sadie Hawkins), The Lining is Silver, I need you, High of 75, Who I am Hates Who I've Been, Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things like Chemistry, Mood Rings, and some other songs from their latest EP and even a couple new songs from their upcoming record which I will need for my ipod. They even played the subway 5 dollar foot long song which was hilarious. This definitely got space #1 in my top memories. I even got a concert T shirt. It's red and in greyish blue letters towards the top it says Relient K and then theres a big circle and in the circle it says RK only the R is backwards and right up next to the K. I'm wearing it right now. The only real downer about the night was Sabrina. She was being a spoiled, ungrateful brat. My mom bought her a T so she decided to get an Owl City one so my mom had them in her purse so we wouldn't have to carry them so she saw Classic Crime and she got Sabrina's shirt signed by them and Sabrina went on and on like a little baby about how her shirt was ruined because it was the wrong band. Who cares? It just looks like little squiggles andway so you can't even tell the difference. Its so stupid. She even cried about it and she was just being really ungrateful. And during the cocnert everytime they played another song she just whined the whole time because her favorite band was already over and she didn't want to see the other two. It was really annoying. Another bad thing was that I got less than 6 hours of sleep which really has me messed up. My moods are really swinging on a dime. First I'm zombie girl, staring at the wall blankly, then I'm in full fledged panic mode, then I'm all pissed off, then I'm laughing hysterically because there's a funny looking spot on the ceiling. I'm not kidding you. Nobody wanted to be around me today. Last night I think I was sleepwalking too. I think I got up and put a bunch of dirty clothes on my bed. Then I woke up at like 2 and I was laying in a pile of clothes. It was kinda dark and I was still half asleep and I thought the cat in the corner of my bed was a scarf or something so I started pushing her off too until she meowed at me. Poor Roxy. I interrupted her beauty sleep. Anyway the concert was amazing.

Estrofest

Estrofest was AMAZING!!! I hung out with all the girls and it was just super fun. Although we did have some car troubles before we left with 3/5 cars. Erika locked her keys in the trunk, Dary's car wouldn't start, and Heidi got a flat so all in all the cars were just out to get us. Nothing happened to the van I was in so our van and the other who had no problems stopped at an AMPM for icees. Yummy! While we were camping we were making a video kind of like kittens inspired by kittens only it was camping inspired by camping inspired by kittens inspired by kittens. We took all kinds of cool pictures. I was in one where we were near the wizards (the wizards of ooze- or the honey buckets) and we all looked disgusted. I was also in a pic that Heidi took of me sitting on a weird tree limb and another one where I had found a crook of a tree to sit in. The only bad thign about this palce is that our neighbors had a party and we really drunk. It didn't bother me because I was fast asleep but the other girls said there were people driving around and reving their engines and music blaring and a little girl crying. I went to bed somewhat early like right after smores because I didn't want to be tempted to make another because I knew if I ate more than 2 I'd feel miserable. We didn't have some boring moments near the lake so people were taking empty water bottles and screwing on the cap just a little then twisting the bottle up and popping the tops. This made great amusement and would keep us occupied for hours. I also met some random people around my age that weren't from our site. There was this hill and on top of the hill there were trees and vegetation and such and sometimes other kids would be up there so I'd introduce myself because otherwise they'd totally ignore me and pretend I wasn't there. The first tiem I met 2 girls. One was a 7th grader and the other was a sophmore from Lake Stevens High school. They were ok I guess. Then I met a guy named Zach. I believe he went to Standwood middle school. At first when I introduced myself he was just like "I'm Zach" then he ran away. He probably thought I was weird. Then I stared at him until he talked. I kinda like to induce akwardness. But eventually we talked and he was pretty nice. So anyway that was Estrofest. Afterwards, I came home and took a shower because I smelled like a campfire. Well it's almost time for me to get walking to school. More later.

Pep assemblies + spirit week = stupidity

Hellllllllllllllllllo!!!! Right now I'm skipping a pep assembly because I really don't like them and to tell the truth they're kinda of stupid. Today will be pretty fun. Actully this whole weekend will be. Right after this assembly I'm going to my Friend Catherine's who's actually right next to me on one of the other computers. After that my stepmom will pick me up and I'll hang out with her (since my Dad's up in Canada for work) without my sister (thank God) for the night. Then on Saturday morning we'll get up bright and early and eat breakfast and then I have to be at the church by 9AM because that's when we're leaving for estrofest. I packed my bag last night now all I need is my hairbrush and my book plus the stuff I have at my dad's and I'll be set. It's going to be awesomly fun. Well I have an interesting story for today. There's a guy in my math and english class that's been flirting with me since all the seats were switched up and I was placed behind him. It's kind of refreshing. So today I told him where I was going in third period English class so I was talking to him and they guy that's next to me about how awesome my trip's going to be and he said he'd miss me which I thought was very cute and then he said he'd be thinking of me, of course then he acted like he was just kidding because I guess he's still not comfortable enough to just say and it not retract it but I thought it was very cute. Then he said he loved me TWICE both in jest of course. Once he just blurted it out the second time I was talking about how I don't like running then he said "I don't like you. I love you!" It was very cute!!! Well now Catherine's making fun of me and poking me so I'll get off the subject (She's reading over my shoulder). In other news, I think I might enter one of my poems into the poetry contest at my school. Prizes include some gift cards or something and gift cards are always a good thing and if these poems are good enough for Teen Ink then the school poetry contest will be a good place to enter. I already know which poem I'm entering so no opinions please especially since the poem I'm using is a secret until it's in the contest. Then I'll post it here for those not fortunate enough to attend my high school. Well enough for now. I'll post more after Estrofest. Buh bye!!!

Tuesday

Hello readers. I keep forgetting how hard blogs are to keep up with. Especially when facebook occupies most of your computer time. Especially times two when you only get 30 minutes of computer time on the weekdays because your grades suck. Actually right now I'm in the class where my grade is the worst. Yeah science really isn't my thing. Right now we're supposed to be typing up our lab write ups but I already finished mine. It just had to be printed. There is soooooo much going on in the coming weeks! In fact this weekend I'm going with the girls in my youth group on a camping trip to Baker Lake for Estrofest. It's going to be awesome! I love camping but evidently some of the girls really aren't campers but they're going to hang out with the res tof us that are so I was thinking of buying some of those plastic bugs to stick in sleeping bags. Mwahahahaha! This shall be fun. Also, coming up in a week from today is the Everett Youth Symphony concert. I'm excited but also sad because this concert marks the end of symphony season. We won't be having anymore rehearsals until after the summer when I have to come back and audition again with everybody else. Maybe when I reaudition I'll get put in the Junior Symphony. That would be nice. There's also a school concert coming up on the 27th of May. We're playing with Discovery Elementary and Voyager middle so we have to play this really easy fiddle tune that I've had memorized since 7th grade. It was easy then too. What I really can't wait for is coming up on the 31st of this month. Relient K will be here!!!! I've had my tickets since the day they went on sale so 2 monthes or something. I talked to my friend Lisa from church about this and she said she might be going so it'll be amazing! And next month is Shasta where our youth group goes up to lake Shasta in northern Cali and stays on house boats and it's a huge competition. I'm so psyched!! Wow my Spanish teacher just walked into the lab. That was so random. Well besides that there isn't a whole lot going on. Oh but I did cut off my long locks. Now my hair is just a bit above the shoulders. It's awesome looking. Well this weekend it seems I'll be goign to Catherine's house so we can bring out the violins. If I do end up going to my dad's this weekend (I'm not sure because my dad will be in Canada this weekend) then I'll pack my overnight bag on Thursday with almost everything I need for Estrofest (some of the stuff is at my dad's) and then ride with Catherine to her house and eat dinner there. Sabrina can take my bag when my stepmom comes to pick her up and Catherine's dad will probably drop me off back at Dad's. I only wish that my cousin's family birthday party wasn't scheduled for the same day as Estrofest. See we get there Saturday (we leave at 9AM) and we don't get back till 4PM on Sunday but Dylan's party is at 1PM on Sunday but I already RSVPed to the invited on facebook so I can't be like "Oh by the way I'm not going" well I could but not gracefully. Well I probably need to wrap this superlong entry up that way the bell doesn't ring on me while I'm still typing. I'll try to be better at keeping up with this but no promises. I'll write for sure after Estrofest.

Everything

Ok so lately I haven't been faithful about writing at least once a week so I'm sorry. But I'm wirting now. Not much has happened really. Let me see. Yesterday I went driving except I went driving with 3 other kids I don't know and we were in a parking lot, driving the skid monster. They had cones set up to drive around and the car would skid so you could correct it. It was fun! Especially at the end when the instructor let each of us to a donut in the middle of the parking lot. That was awesome! Other than that not a whole lot's been going on. I'm just avoiding Sabrina because I really don't want to catch whatever it is she has. Good thing she's upstairs sleeping and I'm downstairs on the computer. Oh today on facebook I talked to Andrew. He's one of my good friends from middle school. I remember one time my friend Caroline went over to Jordan (his twin) and Andrew's house and they tried to teach us to play this game called tripoly. Well it's like a casino game so instead of money we made bets with M&Ms. Except Caroline and I kept eating out M&Ms so Andrew threw an M&M at me. Before you knew it we were having an M&M fight. That was fun. I miss stuff like that. I told Andrew that the next time he palys that game using M&Ms isn't a good idea. He asked me if he should use skittles so now I'm craving skittles. Not nice Andrew!

There's not enough time in the day anymore

I'm sorry I haven't posted anything new for more than a week. Really nothing interesting has happened. We had WASLs this week but I'm a freshman and the state is too poor to pay for test booklets for freshman. Well I finally used my powers of convincing to get ymself a facebook. So look me up! Mom was going to make me wait till I turned 16 to get a facebook but she caved 5 monthes early. I've only had it for about 3 days and yet I already have more than 35 friends. I am so glad it's Friday. Too bad Friday isn't going by fast enough. It's only second period! I'm supposed to be looking up stuff about the 1849 goldrush. I already finished so I decided that while I have time I'd at least blog about SOMETHING. Speaking of blogs it seems this one has a new reader. I'm not sure who because it won't show up but whoever you are mystery reader I greatly appreciate the patronage. Well the period will be over in about 7 minutes and I need to go find something else that will occupy my next 5-6 minutes or so. Something pointless no doubt. Stupid webwasher won't let me on facebook.

Shopping with Grandma and Pat

Today is day 4 (I start counting from the Saturday we get out) of spring break and it was really fun. My grandma came down from Kent and took my sister and me shopping. She also brought down her friend Pat. First we went to the christian book store and i got a cool looking book and this cool wrist band thingy thats black and red striped and says pick Jesus with a guitar pick which is pretty cool. Then we went to Everett mall. We ate lunc at A&W (or at least Sabrina and I did because Grandma and Pat ate at Ivar's) and then went to stores We started off in Zumiez and then went to hot topic and about half the other stores. I ended up getting a cute headband with a black bow on it from Claires and I got a cue peasent skirt from Macy's that starts off light blue and gets darker as it goes down. I'll probably wear it for Easter. After that we had ice cream at Baskin Robins because by that time it was starting to get warm. It's a good thing that at least half our break is warm. I think tomorrow's supposed to be kinda rainy. Oh well at least we got a little warm weather. Back to the rainy season. Maybe I'll call Catherine and we can hang out one day this week or something

Poem by Erma J. Sybil (a.k.a. my grandma)

Hello readers. Thought you'd enjoy this poem by my grandma on my dad's side. This is where I get those poetry genes! Please do not steal the poem because that's not nice. I know none of my regular readers would be if you just happened to stumble across my lovely blog here just floating around in cyberspace, just remember it's copyrighted and stealing is wrong! Have a good spring break. Peace, paz, paix, frieden, pace, vrede, мир, fred,and 和平! Hope I didn't leave out any major languages there.

God Heard!

I stood in the crowd that day,
To hear what Pilate had to say.
"What shall I do with Jesus,
Who is called the Christ?" he asked.
"LET HIM GO," I cried!But no one heard!

A shout, "Crucify Him!"
Oh, how my heart sank low.
As the crowd took up the yell,
Their shouts and jeers thundered in my ears.
And I called out, "NO, DON'T!But no one heard!

Near Golgotha, on a cold hill I stood.
As nails plunged through flesh and wood.
My heart pounded with each hammer beat.
"STOP!" I screamed,"DON'T CRUCIFY MY LORD!"
But the pounding continued--For one one heard!

Shivering, I stayed on the hill and cried.
In the sixth hour, darkness like death overcame me.
Then I heard my Lord's voice echo through the night,
"Father, it is finished. Into your hands I commmit my Spirit."
And I yelled, "WHY HAD HE DIED?" But no one heard!

I awoke in anguish, to a dreary, sunless day.
With weeping heart, I wandered aimlessly away.
I could not eat, or sleep, or even pray,
For what good was life anyway. I cried--
"MY LORD DIED YESTERDAY!" But no one heard!

Sunday morning on the way to the tomb,
I picked a bouquet of poppies,which were in bloom.
The deep-red scarlet reminded me of Jesus' blood,
The white of his purity, the brilliant pink of His love.
I whispered, "I PICKED THESE FOR MY LORD." But no one heard!

Gathering my bouquet, I ran to the tomb.
"Empty!" I wailed. Grief and loneliness overcame me.
Slow of step and hanging head, I turned back to Galilee.
With quivering lips and bated breath, I repeated--
"WHERE HAVE THEY TAKEN MY LORD?" But no one heard!

There's Mary, talking and laughing.
Why isn't she weeping? Wasn't she there when Jesus died?
Doesn't she know our Lord was crucified?
Then I heard someone say, Jesus arose this morning,
Just as the Scriptures said. "YES, YES!" I said, I heard!

Running home with tears of joy streaming down my face,
I began to sing, to praise God and pray.
I thanked Him for eternal life,
For Jesus dying in my place.
And I thanked God because --HE HAD HEARD!
(C) by Erma J. Sybil

No more pretending to be a messenger pigeon!!!

Hello loyal readers. It seems I have been Justin's wingman for more than long enough. I've been talking to Sierra and dropping hints and taking messages to her from him. Honestly I was really tired of being in the middle of this. Apparently Sierra was too so we came up with a plan. I got Justin's phone number from him and gave it to Sierra. Plus I told him I was really getting tired of it. So now I'm officially out. This messenger pigeon is retiring. In other news I'll be at my dad's house this weekend. That should be fun I guess. On Sunday, after church, we're doing some family pictures with my mom, Sabrina, Linea (my aunt), and Anastasia (my 3 year old cousin). The common theme here is denim and white shirts. Last time it was jewel tones but that one didn't really work out considering my mom and my aunt got into an argument in the middle of Target. I'm optimistic for this one. Believe it or not I actually like watching Anastasia. She's so funny! Also apparently during spring break I'll be at my dad's house for the whole week. Not just stay there for the day and come home again like we did for thanksgiving and christmas break. No we'll be there day and night for the whole week. Well it's a good thing I'll have my violin because I'll be doing a lot of practicing. Good thing I've got a lot new music to work on too. Oh yeah plus there's driving. Oh and a book that I've been meaning to finish. I'll keep myself busy one way or another. Well I smell that Papa Murphy's pizza and it smells yummy so I shall go now. Peace out!

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.