Bye Bye Birdie...

BBB has taken control of my thoughts, my friends, and ever fiber of my being. Today is the last day (Thank God) of tech. week, and I don't know how I am still sane. Third block consists of playing through the hard songs until my mouth hurts, and then I get to (by the grace of God) come home for an hour or so to eat. Back up to school at 4, practice until 7 or 11 or whenever the directors feel we are finished. Wake up, do again. I can't even think in full sentences anymore.

It's a good thing that Ben (who plays Conrad) is nice otherwise, I'd take my wrath out on him. I can barely get out the scream, or make the swooning faces I used to make at him anymore. I call Chris Albert, call Mayet Rose and call Shay Kim on a regular basis because I get way too confused trying to distinguish between real life and play life.

All in all, I have to say that practice is going well. Most of the kinks in the show are fixed, and the rest of the little glitches will be taken care of tonight. Come see us perform this weekend, laugh, cry, and have a good time. Make this experience worthwhile for us. :D

I would really like to say that life will be a lot easier and carefree after BBB, but truthfully it won't. I wrote out my schedule for next month, and surprisingly, I only have three free days before graduation. Good thing that there are only 13 school days left! I can't wait to be out of high school.

Strength

This picture pretty much sums up what I feel like doing to annoying people at times. I guess super strength/ violent tendencies do run in the family (that's my cousin Elise and her bro Lawrence).

Learning.

I've learned/ relearned a few things over the last few weeks...
- Hope comes in many forms, including white cars.
- Some things are hilarious, no matter what language they're said in.
- Boys are disgusting, foreign or American.
- Babysitting girls is a load of fun, from climbing trees to painting nails, they do it all.
- If I want to go to Germany to see Chris and the Germans, I need 750 bucks.
- Three weeks is not enough time.

Life has been hectic lately, and I don't see any sign of it slowing down before graduation. Exchange students left this morning, and now I have an hour before NHS. This week I have to intern twice as much to make up for next week, which is Tech Week for BBB. The show starts the 1st. and goes through the 3rd. Then I have AP tests, then prom, then finals, then a concert, then graduation. So I'm going full speed ahead until then. ugh. I can't wait to just be done.

But in reality, I want this next month to drag on forever. Next school year, all of my friends are going to different schools, the closest friend will be 20 miles away, and the furthest one will be in Germany. Hence the 750 I need to raise in order to go skiing with him in December. I hope everything goes well.

Life...

I was reminiscing about how life used to be, and found that I was a lot happier way back then. I'm not sure if that was because I decided to be happy, or what.. but from now on, I AM going to have fun, and make some memories before these fifty-some days before graduation are over. I can't wait for all of these festivities to come and go...

I was babysitting Droodle and Baby T today and found myself wishing that I could fast-forward my life ten years to when I'm married and have some babies to take care of. But alas, that cannot be done, so I will have to just keep on trekking and get ready for COLLEGE!!

Wow

It's been a while since I've been able to find the time to sit here and write something about my life, so I'll try to catch up as much as I can in between uploading my Death Cab and Bye Bye Birdie (which I'm being forced to play clarinet for). I must say, I absolutely LOVE this semester. It was a little rocky to begin with, but if those few bumps in the road led me to this, than they were well worth it. It seems like every weekend is booked with things I love to do, going on Target adventures, youth group, Sunday Afternoon Ultimate, babysitting the boys... And every school day is filled with awesomeness too, Aftercare, talking in 2nd block, listening to M and the President argue in 1st.

Speaking of Aftercare, the kids have only gotten cuter. My little incident with A.M.'s temper tantrum has only caused him to be soo much nicer to everyone. He has started to listen a little better, and when he does have outbursts, he keeps his fists to himself. Things are still the same with the other kids... R.R. still starts every afternoon by telling me, "Ms Mary (aka my mom) says no, no, no, but my mommy says I can play with you." C.P. comes up and asks me where I got my jewelry ("Ms Mary got it for me") and my hair ("God") and then asks if she can use my cell phone because she has GOT to go. E.P. started to open up and lost most of his little attitude. And J.G.... Oh that boy kills me sometimes. The other day he ran up to the other students and said "Guys, Ms Emily is making fun of my butt because I tooted." The other teachers and I burst out into uncontrollable laughter. I love going over there every Tues and Thurs!

That's basically what's been going on the last few weeks. So now here are my plans for this weekend.

-Last night was band festival.. I think it went well.
-This afternoon, family birthday dinner at Buca di Beppo's. We got the kitchen table!
- After Buca, mall with Mom. Then the girlies are coming over to spend the night.
- Tomorrow, MY BIRTHDAY!... Disney with the girlies.

I'm really excited!

It seems like I can only manage to find time to write on the weekends, which is odd considering my easy course load. But it's late on a Friday night, so I guess it's about time for an update. This week went by relatively fast. The only complaint I had was yesterday's performance at FOA MPA (Orchestra Assessment). I thought we did fine, I squeaked really loud, but it was a good performance. Apparently the judges didn't agree. They hated everything and gave us an overall Excellent. (a.k.a. no state festival for us). I am at a loss and have no clue what we will do for the rest of the semester. Half and half jazz band? After our performance, I was off-the-wall-hyper. Spinning, jumping, singing, and dancing. And as my friends say "Emily on sugar = exciting."

Today was a great day too. I actually contributed to our discussion in Lit, Psych was fun as usual, Orchestra sucked, but then I went over to do my last three hours at Pre-school. The kids were in an unusually good mood. We played together, ate donuts for snack, and then ran around the playground. The little trouble-maker of the group was kind, and loving and wanted to hold my hand on the way outside. Too cute. Afterwards, I went to Durango's with Mom, Angie, and Baby Taby. We ran into a ton of people and ended up staying FOREVER. Then Mom and I came home and watched Swing Vote. Which was actually a good movie, with an extremely crappy ending.

Quick rest of the weekend plans....

• Band Pancake Breakfast Saturday A.M.
• Lunch with Nana and Gidow to celebrate Gidow's birthday Saturday P.M. (in St. Augustine)
• Maybe C.C.C. Sunday A.M.
• Frisbee/ Football Sunday P.M.
• Youth Group Sunday P.M.
  

The Weekend, and this school week

Well, this weekend was definitely a good time. Friday night I went to Sonny's with Dad and Landon. I think my dad has ESP, because he said that he could tell I wanted Sonny's from the look on my face. It was amazing, as usual. When I got home, I had something like umpteen conversations on Facebook Chat and went to bed.

Saturday was the Greek Festival. Oddly enough, I didn't have my usual encounter with the old women. I think that was due to my fascination with the Senior division of the Grecian Odyssey dancers. There were about ten kids my age on the team, and they were soo amazing. The boys danced on tables while the girls danced on the floor. I kinda wish I had gone to Greek school or something so I could learn how to do that. After the littler kids did their dances, we left. I got home just in time to go to Iron Chef. That was hilarious too. The secret ingredient was raspberries. I didn't get to stay long enough to taste the final products, but the judges told me that this was the best Iron Chef yet. Everything was apparently delicious.

Sunday was phenomenal. So I guess you can say that I thoroughly enjoyed this weekend. I watched a billion episodes of One Tree Hill on Soap Net in the morning. I must admit that I am in love with Nathan Scott, and Jake Jagielski. After OTH ended, I ran over to Pointsetta Drive and got my hour sheet from Ro, and delivered Baby Taby's stroller back to him. Then it was time for...
THE CLASH!!!!!!!! All of my predicitions were true. The band kids lost terribly to the Windover team. (10-6). But I enjoyed myself. Mayet and I had a little picnic while we watched our boys play.. (by this time, I had switched over to the dark side, and was rooting for the Windovers) Sometimes, having a messy car pays off. We took a ton of pictures, and laughed everytime someone injured themselves. I don't think a single boy left that field unharmed, but that's what happens when you combine high-schoolers with two 20-or-30-something year old men. The Clash only lasted about an hour, and by then us band kids were fed up with the tiny size of the Windover field so we all commuted to IRC. I realized that I need to learn my roads better, if it wouldn't have been for Chris C. directing me, I would have been lost somewhere between Port St. John and Titusville. IRC was fun too. There were some friendly games of football, frisbee, and soccer going on at the same time. More injuries occured, but nothing too serious. The fun died down at like 6 and we all went home. Then I got that Sunday evening feeling Peyton Sawyer loves to talk about on OTH....

This week I have to deal with stupid Orchestra festival, and preparing for band festival. I hope that this coming weekend pans out how I want it to, so I'll have something to look forward too.