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here i am, friday night, with no plans other than to write this blog post and make a bunch of football cookies for the superbowl. real exciting. i'm in kind of a bad mood today. i had to go to the doctor today where they told me i am sick with a virus and there's pretty much nothing they can do. in the process of going to the doctor, i missed choir, where they rehearsed for this big honors choir shindig tomorrow (which i'm in) without me. that was fine until i found out (at the end of eighth hour) that practice was cancelled due to callbacks for our school's musical.

which brings me to the other meh thing that happened today...i did not get a callback. i tried out yesterday. i'm a senior. this is second semester. but the chances of me making it into the musical: slim to none. the chances of some ok-but-nothing-special sophomores getting in: very high. let me tell you, that sucks. and i'm a good singer. not in the i'm-gonna-be-the-next-american-idol-no-matter-what-the-judges-say kind of way but i really legitly am. not really anything i can do to change the director's mind :( so overall my day was not so great. but the forecast for this weekend is excellent (not literally, as it is going to snow 3-5 inches tonight). but tomorrow i have the aforementioned honors choir. i went last year and it's basically one huge day of singing. i love it.

then on sunday we have the biggest musical event of the year at my school. Winterfest. we sing, we dance, we volunteer. i will be painting faces of small children and hopefully holding my biology teacher's snake for people to come look at. (which i love to do) then i'm singing a west side story medley with my choir. when we're done with that i gotta sprint to the dressing room to change into my show choir costume. we're performing Rock This Town by the Stray Cats and Rockin Robin. not sure who that is by. it's gonna be great :)

paintball 101: don't get shot.

oh dear. my life has been rather boring the last couple weeks. but what i spent my sunday doing made up for all of that. so this guy in my group of friends (josh) likes my best friend (megan). he wanted her to go paintballing. so they dragged the rest of us along. i'm so glad they did! it was the most fun i've had in a long time. four of us were in the choir at my school so we had to sing in church that morning. after a couple pit stops (culver's and my friend (coltyn)'s house to change) we carpooled to green bay. we were in the cars in twos because josh can only drive one person. mike and i managed to get lost on the way to the paintball field. (is that what you call it, a field?) eventually we made it there. the plan was to play until the packer game started and then go over to megan's house to watch it. it was so much fun we played til 3:00! i got hit twice in the first two fingers of my left hand, once on my left knee, twice on my right thigh, once on my head (that one hurts the most) and countless shots to the face (but i was wearing a mask so no bruises). i found out the hard way that paint tastes bad. i accidentally shot one of the refs at one point as well. i'm the most sore from all the crouching and ducking. i'm kind of a wuss when it comes to that sort of thing. my fingers are the most inconvenient because i wasn't wearing gloves at the time so the edges of the paintball scraped up my fingers. they're still swollen so i can't really use my index finger for anything. paintball was so worth all of those bruises though. after that we went over to megan's to watch the game. it was amazing. i would like to take this opportunity to point out: THE PACKERS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm excited about this :) we only watched the second half but it was enough to get us excited. the game did run a little late and i had to be back in appleton for this thing my school does. it's called culture and cuisine. they do it because we have so many international students (about 50). they all make food from their own country and some of them do presentations or traditional music or dance. i was pretty late because mike and i got lost again. we had directions but we went out the driveway the wrong way and it all just went downhill from there. eventually i made it, almost an hour late. i still got to have some food though :)

all in all, a wonderful day. i'm def going to have to do this whole paintball thing again sometime :)

miscellaneous life

i finally ordered my glasses yesterday! they're really cute  but i have to wait til like week after next to get them :P i was going to get purple but i ended up with kind of a plum-ish color. that's alright though because i really like them :)

my semester finals are finished! after a week of pressure and studying, they're all over with. i'm taking a college level english course and we were all scared for that test but it wasn't as bad as i thought. i'm also in advanced physics. i was worried about that, and pretty accurately too. that thing was a beast. i ended up with a B. it's not the end of the world but i'm not exactly thrilled about it.

now i get to start a bunch of new classes. 5 of my 8 classes changed or changed times. i'm looking forward to advanced biology. the teacher for it is really great. and i have sewing! there's a new teacher this year and apparently we get to just make whatever we want and she's there to help when we need her :) i also have to take government :P it's generally agreed to be the most boring class at my school. oh well, at least i'll get extra credit because i'm old enough to vote.

it's weird, this is my last semester of high school. thank goodness, i don't think i could take much more! i've been waiting for this for such a long time that it feels almost unreal that it's actually here.

the packers are going to the NFC championship!! :D i don't know if i've mentioned this before, but i'm a huge packers fan. most girls i know don't even understand football, let alone watch it all the time. i've been kind of a lazy fan this year and i haven't been watching the games, but now it really counts. i watched them kick the atlanta falcons' butt last night. now who we play next week depends on who wins the game between the bears and the seahawks today. watching the packer games me an opportunity to wear my new poppinga jersey my dad bought for me for christmas :)

the line has been crossed!

what line you say? oh yeah, you can't see it under all the snow!! it's official: we have reached the point where snow is now longer enjoyable. the time has come when snow does not make us feel warm and fuzzy inside. no. it makes us cold. very cold. it falls at usually the most inopportune times and gets in the way. the roadsides and parking lots are coated in disgusting brown and gray mush. that would be slush which is made from snow and millions of tires rolling over it. it doesn't even take that much and most of the smaller cars on the road have trouble putting their vehicles in motion. it can definitely be frustrating at times.

kevin the snipe/van!

as of yesterday, i own a vehicle! i am the proud owner of a 1995 ford minivan :) it is brown :/ but it's my baby :) i named her kevin, like the bird on Up (if you haven't seen this movie, go watch it right now because it's amazing). my mom and i arrived at this name because the only thing i could think of was "ugly duckling" until a friend suggested "ducky". i told my mom this and her response was "kevin!!" and kevin the bird (snipe) in the movie ends up being a girl so it's all good :)

i did not actually buy the car. my dad bought it for me :) well he gave me all the money to buy it so he technically bought it. so now i can drive myself to school and to work :) i can go where i need to and go where i want. i finally have the freedom to get things done! and i love it already :)

long time no see

hello. as you may have guessed, i have had a busy week. it was our first week back at school after christmas break. i missed much of it though. i spent half the school day at the eye doctor on monday. well not half, just a few sets really. i went to school on tuesday but was pretty miserable since i've had a cold/cough since christmas eve. so my mom took me to the doctor. she informed me i have a sinus infection and i should stay home at least the rest of that day. i also stayed home on thursday. but then i couldn't go pick out my glasses, which we had planned to do after school :( so we're going to go do that on tuesday. after that i was back to school just in time for the week to end.

i have to work today. my one shift. even though i opened up my availability so i could work several days a week. but no. i still only get one shift. that's gonna be tough to work with once i have a car (tomorrow!!!) since i'll need to pay for gas and insurance and all that. gotta go pick up a job application...

so yeah i'm getting my car tomorrow! it's a 1996 ford minivan, but hey, it runs. i'm trying to think of a name for it. all i've got so far is ugly duckling ;) i feel like this requires more thought...


so anyway, that's all i have for now :)

stop!...resolution time

first post of the year, happy new year, all that jazz ;) so i guess this is the time of the year when everyone feels bad about the crappy stuff and the bad habits they've been doing over the past year and vows to change them. i saw on a television show i used to watch when i was a kid this guy made new years resolutions but they were stuff like i resolve not to staple my tongue to my forehead and i resolve not to turn into a giraffe. his friends were all like, that's dumb but he said that he only made resolutions he could keep. i have a little more faith in myself than that so i feel like it's time for some real resolutions:

1) i resolve to exercise more. this is a problem for me. since i'm lacking it entirely. but now that i'm buying a car (which there's been some slight delay on but i should have it next week) i'll be a little more mobile. i won't have to ride the bus home so i can just work out at the amazing fitness center we have for free at my very expensive school.

2) i resolve to stick to weight watchers better. i've been doing this for nearly a year and where has it gotten me? square one. that is where i sit. i would very much like to change that before i go off to college so this is me committing to do better and focus on my choices.

3) i resolve to figure out how to buy the Bible on my kindle. i got one for christmas and i really love it. if i had the Bible on it, i could carry with me all the time the whole thing in just that little 4 oz or whatever it weighs.

i can't really think of anything else about my life i would really like to change. i've been shwaffling on the whole changing jobs thing because if i change jobs then i wouldn't be able to work out :( but i'd still have to work late :( i think i'll still apply and see what happens.