spring break isn't as interesting as it sounds

here i am, lolling my way through spring break. it's wednesday and all i accomplished so far was coloring my hair. but i did have a friend sleep over. that was fun :) today i'm going to be making cookie dough. my mom wants "spring" cookies (umbrellas, carrots, bunnies, etc.) and we're also doing cookies for the play. i'm not sure if i've mentioned this before, but it's charlotte's web. so we're going to make pigs and webs with the words on them (some pig, terrific, radiant, humble). but the play isn't for 2 1/2 weeks so i'm going to make them tomorrow then we'll freeze them until we have time to decorate them. i'll try to post some pics once they're done.

unfortunately, the prom dress that i was planning to buy, i did not buy. i went to try it on again and it didn't fit. so i made the decision to look for a cheaper one at prom exchange or jc penney or something. that is my plan for this afternoon!

tangled came out on dvd yesterday so we bought it! then we watched it again (my 4th time i think...) on it there was a preview for lion king all restored and on dvd and stuff and alice (my foreign student) said she had never seen lion king. so of course we had to watch it!! it was good stuff :) always has been.

so i have this weird habit of watching all the credits for every movie i watch. i feel like all these people did a ton of work, so somebody should read their names. plus i love some of the goofy stuff that they put in there because they know not many people read them. like on tangled credits, towards the end there is a heading: caffeination with a name under it. this makes me giggle :)

snow day II

the day before yesterday was the first day of spring. yesterday, last night, and today my lovely state has been pelted by snow, sleet, and freezing rain. at least we got something good out of it. i slept for 10 hours last night :D it does have its drawbacks though. last night there was supposed to be a big smart-kids-test/jeopardy competition called the academic bowl. this is exciting for me because i'm a nerd. i even wore a new shirt that i bought with kermit the frog on it that says geek. but it was postponed :P

now we've had 2 days of lost play practice this week and we'll have another the week after spring break because that's when the academic bowl is. i'm starting to worry about how this is going to go. i wish our director would schedule practices over spring break. she didn't because two girls will be gone. but both have minor parts and one of them never comes to practice anyway. i suppose there's still time to schedule something.

my show choir got our new song on monday night. it's our first slow one this year and i love love love it! we're singing My Heart Will Go On from Titanic. maybe i'll watch titanic on netflix as long as i'm home with nothing to do :) there might be a soprano solo (which will actually be half of a duet) and i want it. i've wanted solos before, but nothing like this. this is one of my favorite songs from an amazing movie that i love. i've never gotten a solo before, but i'm going to bring this song to my voice teacher and tell him that this solo is mine and i'll do whatever it takes to get it.

oh hey, i hit 300 pageviews!! thanks for reading! :D

embrace the suck

title: last night i went to see the new movie beastly with my friend heidi (who i never get to see at school) and then we went out to eat. anyway the guy's slogan for some student government campaign (when he's really good looking) is embrace the suck. because he's like you'll never be as good looking as me so just deal with it. and then after he's ugly, if you look closely, you can see that the tattoos he has for eyebrows say "embrace" and "suck" i thought that was a nice touch :)

oh dear. my busy schedule catches up with me once again. first time i've had time to sit down and take a breath in like a week. it seems like as the school year goes on, i just get busier and busier until eventually it will all just stop at graduation. i look forward to that brief time of quiet before i (hopefully) start my summer job.

i'm interviewing for said job today. i really really really really want this job. it's a full time summer thing at a factory so i would be pulling orders and stuff. and that's what i'm really good at. i had a lot of fun pulling orders when i volunteered for my school's fruit sale this year. so i guess we'll see how it goes.

most of my "spare" time (which is really imaginary anyway) goes to play practice. our practices go til 6 right now and then after spring break, we'll go til 8. i thought it was going along pretty well but apparently we're kind of behind because we're not singing the songs as we do the run through (it's a musical). i'm enjoying it though :)

one of my friends (who's in the cast) has influenza. which, because we all spend so much time together, probably means that the rest of the cast will come down with it as well. i just hope we all get sick over spring break so that nobody misses practice.

prom is coming up on the radar as well :) i went and picked out my dress. i didn't buy it yet because they had to order a new one because there was a snag in the fabric (it was quite visible). but it was very pretty and i'm excited about it :) it's dark blue and aqua. maybe after prom i'll post a picture of it.

i totally wrote this this morning but didn't have time to post it.

i'm not really sure what analogy i could apply to my life right now. for goodness sake i can't even find an adjective! well...i'll try: busy crazy full insane...yeah that's all i got. thus the scarcity of posts. although for all i know, i'm just talking to myself out here in cyberspace. sure there are plenty or pageviews but i can't really know if anyone is reading my blog more than once. if you're reading this thinking 'hey! i read this blog whenever she posts!' then i would much appreciate it if you'd click the little follow button :) followers make me happy :)

anywho, life is good. rehearsal for charlotte's web is going smashingly well! we've finally reached the last section of the play. we should probably get a set pretty soon though... we got the idea to tape play practices. not the practicing itself, but all the randomness that goes on when we're not on stage. my friend hannah and i are going to edit it into a "blooper" video to watch at the cast party. we'll also make dvds for the whole cast. i'm excited :) we're getting some really great stuff too. it's gonna be hilarious :)

i don't know what possessed me to volunteer for this, but today i have to work from 1 to 10. yup. 9 hours. in a row. at least i get a half hour break and 2 fifteen minute breaks. my boss told me i need to be more energetic. actually, i believe the word he used was bubbly. so that is my goal today: to be "bubbly" for 9 hours straight. wish me luck!

so last night i watched Megamind. one of the best animated movies i've seen in awhile. i love that style of animation and the skill of the artists is amazing. one reason i really wanted to watch it was this guy's blog. he is an amazing artist and i love his work. so if you like art take a look :)

so i've been trying to make some extra money giving plasma. it's not going so well. i managed to give once but it took like 2 hours so i was late for school (as were my sister and my foreign student). and i tried to give twice this week but both times my iron was low :( so i'm making an effort to eat more eggs in the hopes  that i'll actually have some gas money.

my weight loss efforts are (until yesterday) practically nonexistent. but a new week started yesterday (i weigh in on thursdays) and now i actually have a goal. it's prom season! i'm actually running a little late. last year i bought my dress in january. it took me 5 months, but i lost a whole dress size. i don't have that kind of time this year, but luckily, both the dresses i'm considering come in my size :)

solo and ensemble...also known as legal torture

the day has finally come and gone. and what a day it was! things began with a bang at our performance of "knock on wood" and "rock this town" at 9:20. we did pretty awesome and we'll be heading to state in may :)
then we watched alice's woodwind choir...pretty good. took a lunch break but had to rush back for my friend's solo that i really wanted to see. we made it in time and it was beautiful :) then we saw alice's flute choir which was pretty cool :)

then (dramatic music) i had to sing my solo. it had been a long day already and i hadn't even heard the accompaniment (you have no idea how busy i am). so it wasn't until i practiced w/ my accompanist that i realized just how unprepared i was. i tried to go thru it in the warm up room but we kept getting interrupted and people were there. i sounded awful. so we went and hijacked the piano warm up room which was empty. that went much better. so i went and sang it. not my best performance and i accidentally turned two pages at once. i got a 2 on it (aka nice try but i don't think so). i kind of expected it though.

the best part about today was it was my last solo ensemble ever :)

a little shoutout

hiya! so a friend of mine made this really cool website! it's for christians to share their faith through artwork, music, photography, etc. and there's a thing to be a pen pal with someone who is a shut in or elderly. I think it's really cool and he's awesome so you can go check it out at the following link :)

Rooted in Grace

enjoy!