It's my birthday

IT is hard to believe that I just turned 17!Ok, so it was two days ago. It is really strange to think how far I have come in a year! I mean, on my last birthday, if you had told me that I would be living in Pensacola FL, and going to PCA, I would have laughed at you. But you would have been right! I mean, last year, I really had no idea that all this was coming!Well, anyway, my birthday was a lot of fun! Lots of people at school wished me a happy birthday. I got a balloon to put on my locker from my friends Lexy and Britany and my friend Letica gave me a cool necklace and some neat pens to use for school!We went to Taco Bell, the happiest place on Earth(Where have I heard that before?),; it is my favorite restuarant! Then we went to Baskin RObins for icecream. I got strwberry cheesecake! I twas really really good!!! Then we went bowling! I hit 99 pins!! It was hit best score that I have ever gotten! The force was with me! I got two strikes and a spare!! Bowling is my favorite sport ever! Besides mini golf! ANyway, it waws a swell birthdya! I got lots of $$$$ from my parents and grandparents. ANyway, it was a great birthday, and I ahve a lot to be thankful for!!
Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh woe is me! There are Mistakes!!!

Episode 5 and a half!!

These are really , well, I don't know

See I told you all that there was a star wars holiday special and noone wanted to believe me!!! Ok, to be honest, it is pretty pathetic, but it is Star Wars so I guess we can forgive George Lucas. I mean, afterall, he made 6 good star wars movies so he is allowed 1 flop!

This is just hillarious!!

Ok, it is sooo obvious that this girl is where she is because of the way that she looks, not for her brain! No offense to my blonde friends, but I just gotta say this !!! She is such a dumb blond! As funny as this is, doesn't anyone else out ther think that these beauty pagents are so sexist!Do they everhave "handsome contests" for men? I mean, hello, it is kinda degrading to be picked for something beacause of the way that you look!This girl still won the 3rd runner up in this pagent despite that she said "US AMERICANS" and babled on about how the american people don't have maps and that is why they can't ind America on the map!! how dumg is that! Ok, sorry, I got kinda sidetracked by the whole pagent thing. It is one of my pet peeves(fighting peple who are sexist, macho, and chauvanistic). ANyway, I died laughung while I watched this, and it made me very happy to be a "briolliant brunette" just like the shampoo bottle says!

Chewie gives Luke's saber to NASA!!!!

Luke Skywalker's original Jedi lightsaber makes its way into space (for real) with NASA astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery in October. To commemorate the historic event, Star Wars characters visited the Oakland International Airport where Chewbacca handed the lightsaber over to NASA's Space Center Houston during a special ceremony on Aug. 28, 2007.

Lord of the Rings 2

I took an online quiz to see which lord of the rings character I would be and it waid that I would be Eowyn. hope ya like the comics, I thought that they were hillarious!!!

Lord of the Rings is Neat

The Cool digital me

School

Hey Everybody! School has finally started and I really like my new school, which is really my old school if you think about it cuz I 've done the video classes! Wow! How confusing! Anyway, the only bad things that have happened so far is my getting lost three times, getting yelled at by some lady for using the wrong stair case(I mean, honestly, if you don't want the student body to use those particular stairs, out up a sign or something!), and getting pudding all over my hands in the cafeteria(Long story don't ask). I like all my teachers except my typing teacher, she really scares me, and my home ec teacher, she has these manly, hairy, arms! I mean like MANLY and really HAIRY! She told us that she arranges her clothes in the closet by color "just like the rainbow". Seriously, the woman is a little COD ( compulsive obsessive disorder). It is really a cool school, and I am making great social progress! The weather is atrociously hot. It was 105F today and we were out doing door to door visitation! I don't think I sweated that much in a long time! It was gross. On top of that, [people had their sprinkler systems running and what I wanted most in the world at that particular moment was to run thru those sprinklers! But., I didn't! When one is a senior, one must set a good example for the little kids,lol. Good grief, I sound so old. Well, I have to go iron my skirt for tomorrow! Miss you all muchly, and if you have time drop me a line and I 'll get back to you ASAP!

More Miscellaneous in my Life

Hiya Peoples! Ok I klnow that that is bad grammar but it is soo much fun to say! ANyway, I went to auditions to join the PCA choir, and to my great relief, I was accepted! I am soo happy!! On the downside, they want me to sing alto, and I prefer soprano, but I am just happy that I am in! Afterwards I decided to give all my closets and draws( or drawers call it what you want) and found this articel that I meant to put up on my blog months ago when we arrived in the states. Remember when I told you I went out to a seafood restuarant, I found this funny article on how to eat a lobster on the menu. I found the article and now I am putting it up for your reading pleasure. BTW, I don't eat lobster, i think pulling the shell off a dead animal is disgusting!!!!

HOW TO EAT LOBSTER
Having lobster for the first time? Want to impress your date with your impeccable table manners? Or, just want to save that nice shirt form getting water splattered? Here at the __________ ( I won't tell you the name of the restuarant. I only do publicity for people that I know!) we aim to make you look good during and after eating lobster! Read On!!
1. Put on the Bib.
Water can squirt when you least expect it. Plus, you'll look and feel like a kid again!
2. Twist off the claws.
Hint: the claws are those big sharp pointy things.
3. Crack open each claw and knuckle(the lobster's not yours)
Use the provided nutcracker or pliers, not a rock or your shoes, and especially not any nail clippers you might have in your purse(if you are a woman)
4. Separate the tail for the body and break off the tail flippers
You'll find a tasty morsel of meat in each flipper
5. Insert your fork into the tail and push the tail meat out in one piece
Be sure to remove the black vein that runs through thte length of the tqil meat before eating(G.B. note: EWWWWWWW!!!)
6. Separate the shell 9of the body form the underside by pulling them apart.
Discard the green substance called the tomalley.(G.B.note: EWWWWWW!!!!!!)
7. Crack the body in half.
Grab the underside of the body in both hands with the small walking legs on either sid. Lobster meat lies in the four pockets or joints where the small walking legs attach to the body. The walking legs also contain excellent meat you can remove by biting theleg and sqeezing the meat out with your teeth(G.B. note: How brutal!)
8. Use the wet napkins to clean up. (Clean yourself up, not the table.
Busers clean the tables, so you don't have to!).
9. Savor
Throughout the meal, take the time to appreciate. You'll be expirencing one of life's finest dining pleasures. ( G.B.And causing the brutal death and disection of a crustacean.)

I couldn't believe it!!!

I was soo happy! Remeber when I told you that the play that I wrote with my friend Emily was chosen for our team to perform, well there is more! We won an honorable mention for it too. I was soo thrilled! It really encouraged me for my future career(journalism), that I can write something that won an honorable mention!! I was really really happy!!!!

Our Teachers

One night, all of the teacher, except Miss Rogers, who was at a wedding, put on a cool play for us!

Mr. Burke

Miss Rogers

Miss Bates

Miss Autry
Without our teahcers all of the really cool things that we learned would not have been possible!

Making our set

Everyone who worked on the set except for Mike and Kat who helped us do the pillars!Without Kats help, they would have been all different sizes!

Tada!!!

Putting up the curtains for th final touch!

It is finally finished!!!!

Mr. Stautz and Mr.Holler were our teachers for scenic design and they helped us make our set.
As a scenic desiner, we had to come up with a set for our team play. Heather, Mike, and I were the scenic designer for our team. It was a lot of work. When we originally fot the flat, I thought that it was konda small. That was before we had to paint the whole thing! Talk about a mess! It was a lot of fun though! I don't think that I will be paintintg for fyun for a long time though! Those stupid pillars, which seemed so coolwhen on paper, were a real pain in the bu, I mean neck to get all the shadow effects on!!!

Chillin'

We crammed 32 or 33 people into an elevator in the Mac Kenzie building. ti was a tight sqeeze, but the elevator did go up even though it said that it would only take 16 passengers. who woulda guessed! Of course, I still recommend that you follow the rules and only put 16 people in a 16 people elevator.

Playing mini golf with Elizabeth!

Tristen made me a really cute Plankton(you know, form Spoge bob). She also made a baloon of me as a mermaid.Which I still have!

Gabe and Tasha playing air hockey.

Trying to look smart at the planatarium.
We were really busy all day long so when we had a break, we went a little, well, nuts. But you can't say that we didn't have lots of fun! One Saterday, they said that we had to stay in our dorms to let the councelors rest, so Tristen made everyone baloon swords(she twists baloons for a hobby), and we ran through all nine floors screaming and waking people up. It was loads of fun. Oh, if you live in Pen state, you can call Tristen to come twist Baloons for your next birthday party. She will twist for and Hour for only $35! Don't quote me in case I got some info wrong! See Tristen, I put in a plug for your business!

Costumes!

Me and my "slave" in our lovely costumes! We lost the regular sheet for me so I was wearing a fitted sheet, which is why my costume looks lumpy!

Naaman in his bandages with his servant.

The whole cast of Ruth in our "gorgeous" Bible costumes.

Ruth, Boaz, and Aarad, Boaz's servant! Aren't they the happy couple!

I know that this was a strange choice of picture, but it was the only close up that shows my whole dress! Besides Mike is my brother!
TO me, being a girl of cours, half the fun of Drama is the awesome costumes that you get to wear. SOme of the other theartical productions that I was in had costumes that were a total flop like the foam spice cake ones that I am trying really hard to forget! In our team plays we had to make our own costimes out of bedsheets. Joel and Emily were our COstume and makeup designers, and to everyone's surprise, especially their's , the costume that they made won first prize in the awards ceremony!

Rehearsals

ME and Mike going through our first scene where we are having a rather heated discusion!

All of the cast minus Joel. I was told that I look like I am a hobbit in this picture, but I hope that that is not true!

Naaman yelling at his family!

Me with my dad and bro. I always wanted a big brother so that worked out great!

I felt that I should put up at least one picture of the reader's theatre so here it is. I hope that it si not one of the blurry ones!
While we were at camp, we put on two big plays; a team play and Ruth( or reader's theatre for some). We put in hours and hours of rehearsals. It was actually a lot of fun, even though some of us were really tired of Ruth by the time that it was over(be honest,you know that you were!). I personally like the team plays the best. During the first week of camp, we had to write a play. Our team was assigned the story of Naaman, the man in the Bible who had leprosy. Anyway, Emily and I teamed up and we wrote our play and to my surprise (and delight) our play was chosen by Mr. Burke (who taught ua how to write scripts). Thank you Mr. Burke!!! In the play, we each had several jobs. In my case I was the "head scenic designer" and I wass an actor as well. I got to be Naaman's daughter, Jasmine. Jake was Naaman. It was really weird cuz I had to hug him in the play and we just couldn't get the hug right. By the way, when I originally wrote the play there was NO hugging.Heather was my Mom. And Mike was my brother. Joel and Emily were our servants. That part was fun,lol. EMily was not thrilled with her part, but she was able to put that behind her and she made a great slave!!!

My Speech and Drama Pals!!

Molly and Amber

Jake, Jonathan, and Joel

A lot of us girl with our favorite counselor, Jess. She is the one in Pink! We love you Jess!!!

Lucas, Ian, and Ben

This is the team that I was on. We are the Weepers! We even had this really great cheer(which I have no intention of ever doing again for any one in person!)

I am putting up lots of Pics of all the great people that I meet at camp! If you are not in these pictures,please don't be offended! Keep in mind that there were a lot of people there and that I can't get a picture of every single person up on my blog! Of course, I did try to get as many people as possible up here. I will never forget all the fun that we had together!

Make up with Mr. Burke

THis is what I will allegedly look like as an old person! I hope that I never ever look like this!!!!!

This is of Jake and Joel as old people. Joel wanted to be a caucasian old man so that is why he is really pale!

The next picture is of me as Queen Gracidalla of the Naboo. I wanted to be Queen Amidala, but Mr. Burke said that we didn't want to support Hollywood, so I had to change the name to Gracidalla! LOL!!!

The last picture is of Tristen and Emily who were my BEST FRIENDS FOREVER at camp!!!!!

When I was at speech and drama camp I had soo much fun. These are pictures of what we did in our class with Mr. Burke, who is in charge of costumes and make up here at the college. He had us do one session where we put on old age make up and one where we were allowed to do whatever we wanted to do. It was loads of fun. In another session with Mr. Burke, we learned how to make costumes out of our bed sheets which we did for a play.Unfortunately, we were too busy to get pics of that! I really enjoyed learning all kinds of different techniques! I learned how I could change the shape of my face or put on fake blood!!! Mr. Burke even told me how to make stage blood!