I would just like to post this to say that I have finally accomplished cleaning my room while watching season 4 of Smallville.  Only took me three hours =)

I work better at night!

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In a nutshell, finals were okay minus calc, but it turned out okay.  I have definitely come to the conclusion that Stephens is crazy.  I play the exact phrase 20 times exactly right but he keeps telling me random things that dont make sense so I dont do anything.  And at the end, hes like now isnt that better?  Oh yes.....  He also wants me to buy this $100 ligature that makes me sound brighter, though he claims it makes my sound darker.  Did I mention every time he has his clarinet in his hand and I walk into the room he plays my solo to try and show off?  crazy man....

Shaan asked me to winter formal, so now I have an official date!  OUr group i think will have the guys being Armas, Shaan, Matt Cox, David something, and Jordan, maybe some other ppl, and the girls will be me, Sera, Frances?, Brittany, and some girls I don't know.  It should be FUN!  Next court duty is extended snack on the 2nd.  We have to lipsynch to the Love Medley.  At least its a GOOd song =).  Know all the words baby.

Random thought of the day:  why must every guy I think is remotely nice or fun, or anything of that general category (aka has some future to like) have to be mormon???  And this always happens to Byron and me!  AH, why?

Girl's soccer game tonight was intense!  Met up with Shannon and her ASB friends b/c Meg couldn't go (Gabi and Matt) and had fun.  Cheered on track buds and listened to Coach Kelly call the game.  Had lots of fun just chatting and sitting in the coldness.  Fun fun fun.  Talked to Meg when I got home in my driveway, and now I think I might watch an episode of smallville and scrapbook!  Clark told Lana his secret then went back in time to fix it since she died. Now his dad is dead. Poor Clark =(FUN.

So today I went and got myself sore again down at Mission's weight room.  Talked to Tifney about borrowing her dress for formal, but then realized the school doesn't allow backless dresses.  So I decided to trek over to Mission mall to look for shoes.  My goodness!  Some places are super expensive.  I cannot justify spending $300 on a pair of shoes.  lol.  I realized then that I had not eaten breakfast or lunch, so I decided to head home to satisfy my hunger.  I stopped by Saddleback College too, for transcripts, but I forgot that some places operate around regular work hours, lol.  Oh well

I went shopping for a dress in the afternoon, and Windsor was a mob.  Went to David's Bridal when they were actually open, unlike the last time I went and found an awesome dress.  The picture does not do it justice. The color doesn't even look like that. It is more a green/aqua look than what is shown. And it is floor length. And it just looks prettier in person.  Oh and I got an informal ask to winter formal today.  He said the official one is coming later.  Exciting!

( Dress! )

Came home and didn't do much.  Now I have to start on my calculus homework.  Joy!

One more week and then only a semester left....can't wait!  Horse show went well!  We got this supercute picture of most of the team at the show and banquet is Feb 13...i love it.  You get all dressed up, which is weird cause you never see any of the people outside their grungy barn clothes.

Heart of Darkness should die.  Well okay, not the book.  But Swenson's multitude of questions should.  The book is so deep!  My goodness, every little comma has a purpose and the theories are so abstract.  Multiple choice test tomorrow.  AH...George, Casey, Kendall and I went skipping around first period on search for a new trashcan. We visited Stordahl, Cox, and then found one. Dance show tonight was fun! Ran into Jeremy...haven't talked to him in forever.

So today during english Shannon Lane, Shaan, and Carley Wells came in to announce Formal Court and they go through their spiel with Jordan.  And when they kept going, ah, lol i knew what was coming.  A bit of an awkward moment, since we did break up last week, but it was okay.  I got a boa!  Way cool.  But i think that I have to go to some half time show at a basketball game, and find a date.  Meg and I are making a list of potentials lol.  Oh and they introduced me as "Band Major, in NHS, and president of the Equestrian Club" lol.........my goodness

One more night of no sleep!  Yessssss

Oh my goodness.  Talk about hell week!  I will be happy when it is over.  But then track season starts and I will have to juggle that and horseback riding.  Horse show this sunday....last one of the season!  Cross your fingers for me folks.

Steps needs to take some chill pills.  I have to sit right in front of him and if I miss one sycopated note, he stops the whole band to talk to me and do that annoying stare of his.  All the time.  Its always my fault.  Quite annoying actually.  Oh and he thinks that if he simply gives me music theory and all this other random stuff to do that I will actually do it.  Crazy man, he has no idea.  I've told him before, and I tell him again.  I have his class 7th period, why doesn't he TEACH me?

On the brighter side, I picked my extended essay topic- it is The Birth of Communist Authority in Russia 1917-1924: Lenin and the Bolsheviks.  How exciting ;-)  Oh you know it is.  Stordahl gave me this cool book from 1981 that I have been lugging around for the past couple days getting some background info.  Has an old syllabus inside of it from a typewriter!  yay

I am thinking about going to Winter Formal stag with Aubrey and Brigitte and co.  Everyone else is boycotting because of a "no-freaking rule."  I don't know, how about not freaking? Yeah so I really want to go!

I've been having such a bad week.  I really don't know what totally up...probably a mixture of everything in my life becoming so insane at the same time.  But like I've been on the verge of tears like every day for awhile.  And even my birthday didn't seem special this year.

Its like, you get older, get more responsibilities, and every so often, everything becomes so overwhelming.

Its my Birthday!

Yay for JUST becoming 17! ;-)

Only one thing to say -

"Don't tease me!" - Steps in Orchestra today

Ahh memories

Our Equestrian Team sweatshirts and pads came in!!  I'm so excited.  We look all professional now =).  So I have a show next weekend, but Im even more excited because my horse has been doing so awesome lately.  I did trot and canter halfpasses on him the other day and he is backing up on the bit now.  I've been getting really good canter etc too.  My trainer says she wants me to do the FEI pony individual, preliminary, and team tests this year!  That is equivalent to Third Level =) and an International class, hehehehe.  I can't believe daVinci was like unrideable when I bought him!

So, ha, umm.....these track workouts are intense!  My last workout was 2 x( 4x200) with 90 seconds between each 200 and 6 min btwn the set.  Ah, and coach put hurdles in there.  OMG hard?  Yeah, Tifney and I were dying.  We also did one that was 6x300, little more bearable.  But I love doing weights.  It's kind of a mental thing, especially when there are guys in the weight room.  Try to show them up ;) jk.  But minus the weird wrestling ones that are just gross.

CMC was fun!  I went up Tues morning, sat in on a Calculus class, which was pretty cool.  Had lunch with the coach there and some track girls and then we all did a bit of homework.  After that we went to the weight room where I got to talk to so many ppl and it was great!  Dinner, went to some snack thing, talked to the School Social Pres guy, who says he has the best job b/c the school pays him 30,000 a semester to put on parties, lol.  Crazy guy....  Went  to an Organic Chemistry Lecture in the morning after staying up until 2, and then came home.  College is so much more fun than high school!  Well, one day at least :)

My birthday is on Monday!! Can't wait.....finall 17! haha

So its been a long time eh?  Let's see how much I remember....

We had our first comp on the 22nd....up at OCC, not bad.  It was a better show than the level at which we were performing it before, so that was sweet.  But I had to fight the crowds because they put me in the stands on the tiny podium instead!  Ah, I had no room.  But Quincy was my almighty protector and guided me out of the crowds =).  Now our second comp....well, I'm glad we have Las Vegas to make up for it.  Poor Steps- he got surgery on his elbow (ew!)  He took his sling off today and said he can't grip anything with his hand.  Oh and Mission pep band game.. we were totally clobbered by Mission.  48-0 by the first half. My gosh =) final score was 54-14.  I was excited that I got to meet my mission band friends on friday and saturday!  It was exciting.  I was at mission's weight room on wednesday and I stopped by to say hi because their practice just ended.  They are one loud band- haha you can hear them from inside the buses.  I like their show this year =)  But don't worry, I like Rich's "The whaaallle, the wwhhhaallle, up hiiillmmmm, up hillllmmm!" better ;)

AH!  I almost died on this monday.  We did a 5-3-1-2-4 workout for track and Colleen, Natalie, and I almost died.  I ran with Tiffany on my 300- lol it was supposed to be slow, and I think I came in at 48-49?  That was a bit on the quick side, considering the others came in at 58, lol.  But it was scary being in the weight room with wrestlers on tuesday.  They were all trying to recruit me for wrestling. ?? Yeah, ok.  How bout no?

Halloween was kind of a dud.  Didn't really do much besides sit at home and work on hw while all else slaved away at college apps.  Thats for Thanksgiving for me.  I did go out to Kates for a bit, and then dropped by Jordan's on my way home.  I got a packet of nerds out of that one =)  Oh and he brought a blowhorn to the Mission comp, omg lol.
Oh and since we couldn't go to Homecoming because of OCC, he planned a special thing for the Sunday after.  It was so cute!  Ah =)

I was sick today.  And I sound like a seal or sea lion or some sort of cold water creature.  Ah my throat is killing me, and I feel like Im behind in my classes because I missed like all of today, going to miss tomorrow, missed fourth yesterday because of a notsofieldtrip, and monday was off.  HW weekend!  Yay? no, boooo.  One thing I have noticed that is stupid about high school, but i guess they have to have it.  If you are sick, or doing nothing in class, or having a work day when you've already done the work, why should you have to go to school?  Seriously, sometimes we'll just go over hw in calc and have a free talk period, and I wish I could just skip lunch and go home two hours early, or german, english reading days.  Or band days when Moreau teaches the entire time and I either sit reading or watching.  Or the fact that you have to have your parents sign you out of school when you drive there yourself.  Its just weird to me =/

I did a half pass on my horse yesterday!!! How cool is that??

Vegas tomorrow!  I hope I dont forget anything =D

Freaking virus

Watch out for one going around....sends it out to your whole buddy list!  Gah, but I'm sure aim will catch really soon

So I went running with Colleen (masters lady- really fast!) today after school, which was pretty sweet.  Rain + Running = Fun.  I've got weight room twice a week now and I think I'm starting to get a workout plan figured out....this year I'm gonna be prepared =).  Oh and its pretty cool, I got a call from Lehigh the other week about track and school, yadda yadda.  She said she was going to call back every so often to see how I was doing and invited me to come for an official visit =) Weee... exciting.  Oh and I'm going to Claremont McKenna for the night in late Nov for an overnight visit.  Occidental called today, but I don't really know anything about that school.....lol

Omg, Angels game this weekend was a blast!  Minus the fact that the White Sox won the series the day my sis and I went =)....It was totally awesome though.  Last time we went, we had seats far right field and on the lowest level.  This time we were at the top in 513, but we had a really good downwards view.  I had so much fun though.  At the end we sneaked down to the very closest we could go (after the game I mean) and we saw all the white sox jumping up and down so excited.  Then my sis and I had a Desperate Housewives marathon at her apartment.  After that, I drove home in the rain, which decided to pelt down as I was on the 5 and i had to figure out where my windshield stuff was, grrr.....and of course I don't have a transponder yet so I couldn't take the toll road back.  I love the rain!  Lightning was super cool too!

Ok, so Mooney.  Loud.  Red.  Loud.  Annoying.  Loud.  And he doesn't like teach psychology at all.  All we do, all the time is copy the glossary for work.  Or do scripts for mini skits.  Why don't we all go back to elementary school??  Ugh, its just frustrating, because were not learning anything but that he talks to LOUD to put your attention elsewhere.  GR  We only have 16 notecards right now.  Oh and don't worry, we have like a batch of 40 due next week.  Supposedly he went on a rant cause the class wasn't listening on friday about how none of us will ever appreciate him or respect him, even though he got a standing ovation at UCLA when he was 28, and that he knows more than any of us will know, or something like that.  ::Sigh::  We like to laugh when his voice cracks, which is like all the time =)