twilight....

this book sounds like one of the dumbest i've ever heard of!!! it was summed up for me yesterday by mrs. mcmitchell.

basically the chickie that wrote it knows...well, not very much about vampires! and she's got this reality thing totally wrong. here...i'll list some things we came up with.

1. vampires have a BLOOD LUST, so even if they do love somebody soooo muuuch that person isn't staying a person for very long. that person would either die, or ...well...die. they'd become a vampire.

2. vampires can't have kids...THEY'RE DEAD. so if they were to have kids, they'd be born DEAD!! (vanhelsing's pretty much got it)

3. if edward had to bite the kid out of her, she'd be a vamp or die anyway..the kid would, too, i think.

4. vampires aren't that boring. they travel. they don't like to stay in one place.

5. whoever heard of a mormo vamp?!? vampires are totally into everything NOT mormo!!!

6. as i said, vamps are dead. they don't need to go to highschool. they know all they need to know. they learn fast. if they didn't, they'd be killed......again.

7. there is no such thing as a guy being ok with his enemy marrying the girl he loves, then showing up at the wedding to give them his blessing.

8. now this part sounds flds, if you ask me. why would you not want to marry this werewolf, then decide you'll let him have your DAUGHTER!! cummon!! he's like 20 years older than this chick. why would you wanna marry somebody old enough to be your dad... but then, why would you wanna marry somebody old enough to be your, like, 11th great-grandfather??!! that's just wrong.


the vampire only likes her cuz of something about her blood...on the other hand, the werewolf liked her for her all along. and him you'd only have to worry about once a month...hey, that's how girls are, too!! hahaha...! ;)
so i guess he might have something to worry about, too.

if the actors didn't have anything good to say about it...why would i want to watch it? cummon...vamps that do NOTHING!? no conflict!? vamp movies (or books) are supposed to be entertaining. not blah.

and this girl needs to get herself some feel good pills or something...
'...i like him and he likes me, but i dunno why. i'm not even that pretty or talented or anything...'
gezz, girl... >:( blah blah blah

if only everything were perfect. but then, life's no fun without conflict..so screw that! fighting's a healthy part of life. without it, you might as well be brainwashed.


so if you haven't caught on. i really don't think i'm EVER going to be reading this book.

SKOOL

There are only 2 1/2 days left....school starts on Monday. :'(

Like my friend Mandy was saying the other day: This is our last summer...no more summers after this, we'll be graduated. Then there's college and work and who knows what else.

It's sad 'cause I may or may not see a lot of my friends after this year...they all seem to get so busy

during the summer....but then, same here.

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Tyler has a game today. The sad thing is that he gets off work at 5 and has to be to the school about 5 minutes after he gets off. If he's not there in time, he'll be benched for the game.

It's the only pre-season game Hunter is having and it's against Davis. I hope I can go.

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Homecoming is about 3 weeks in to school this year. Fun!

I've decided I'm going to drag my brother to at least one game this year (Hunter's big sport is Football...) so it may as well be homecoming! :D

muddles

today i went and got registered 4 school!!




i got my sr. pix taken...and i think they're gonna be purty darn cute! i'm just doin' the drape, nothin fancy...nothing fancy...



i guess i'll have to put a pic on here when i get them.













so we had youth conference...i helped my mom make some "have a good day" cards for the reverse scavenger hunt she did (i made the cards & copied them...). there was 1 card that got kinda retarded when i was cutting it, so i doodled on it!!





if you can't tell...i've changed the quote! hahaha!

the top bird has a mohawk & can breathe fire! it also has a tatoo, but you can't see it cuz it's under it's feathers! the other bird has horns and little spikes on it's back (like a dragon).

don't they ROCK!!??!!

OH...the olympics have been going on too! ......have you seen any? actually the only ones i've watched are some of the dives & swimming that was on today...and the 1st part of the vault...sad huh??

it's cuz i keep forgetting that the olympics are on!! how sad...

orange juice thursdays

doncha just feel like somedays...
eveything is out to get ya??

today....

I've just been sitting at home...kinda boring. whoo-hoo!!! (j/k)
and it gets hot...so I don't really fell like being outside (and there's the laborious task of smothering myself with sunscreen!! cuz I burn like a candle...let me put it this way, after 15 minutes in the sun I look lobster-ously pink.)


In the last week i've read all of the 'Immortals' series by Tamora Pierce.
So this makes #5 of her books i've read. I've read Alanna...her 1st...
and then there are the 4 from the Immortals. yup.


So i start school in less than a month...isn't it horrible. I'm a senior...it's my last year. It's strange that it seems so long ago (and not so long ago) i barely started school!! Then again, I've got college to look forward to...


I've got YC (youth conference) this weekend. it's starting friday (tomorrow) and ends on sunday. i might get to hang out with some friends tomorrow morning, but it all depends..
i'm not sure if tyler has practice, but i'll know soon enough.


I didn't think i'd end up reading any books this summer, let alone 4..... but then I did listen to books on cd, so I guess that kinda counts as reading a book, right?!? So in reality...it's 9 books this summer...I think.


I bet this one has been REALLY boring, huh? I wish I was a more entertaining writer, but as you can tell...my life has been a tad lame. Then again, my summers usually aren't all that fun & exciting. Usually I end up sitting at home, watching tv or just goofing off with friends. Sounds completely riveting, huh??


I still need to check what time registration is at the school. They didn't answer the phone today, and I can't find anything (that it'll let me look at) online. And there's signing up for SLCC for those CC (college credit/concurrent) classes....excitment there. Yay! :'(

cAmP >:P

WOW!!! IT'S BEEN AGES since I last put ANYTHING on this thing...it could be, of course, that I forget the password for this particular page really easily. Why? you might ask...my response is short and simple: i don't know. funny..isn't it?

anyway. i went to girl's camp last week. it could have been much better...but at the same time it could've been worse. i was a YCL (youth camp leader), which means it was my last year as "one of the girls." if i wanna go next year i get to be one of the actual leaders--"an adult."

back on track...i was followed ALL week, almost 24/7 by one of the other YCLs. it got REALLY annoiing...i like my space, and i can get clostrophoic. she would stand, like, 2 inches away!! i would scoot away..and she'd scoot closer & be about 2 inches away from me again!!! grrr....
so i'd have to tell her to back off. i need my space! it's not like some people who just forget a few times, then remember after somebody blows up on them for it. no! she'd forget, almost on purpose!!! argh! it was driving me NUTS!! i was reeeaaallllyy tempted to just stay with my ward.

1/2 way thru the week somebody jacked my beanie! it was a hunter wrestling one that you can't get just anywhere, too. i was freaking out, cuz i really didn't wanna lose it. ppl would ask what was wrong... that can get reaallly annoiing too! ya know when you just want to be left alone and EVERYBODY keeps asking you and asking you, you try to get away or something...that can drive ya crazy!

anyway. terri (my leader) said that we'd find it...but that's not all that was bugging me. i didn't feel good, and i had a shadow! then i found out somebody had gotten into my stuff and taken some of my pads!! how NOT COOL is that?!? can i just ask WHY somebody would take pads?

so i found ONE left in my bag. i was really glad when i got to go home.

i don't have to put sunscreen on 5 times a day (i did at camp, literally). no more shadow. beanie safe and sound. not bothered more than usual. music. (there i no...and i mean NO radio signal at all...no stations...no music...it sucked!) and the best part of all.......

I CAN TAKE A SHOWER WHENEVER I WANT! i don't have to take a 'babywipe bath' and i don't feel all nasty at the end of the day..or by noon. i swear, when i took a shower that water turned black! it was soooo gross!!! ewww...

ahh.. and no GIANT bugs!!! those are friggin mutant bugs up there.

we went up just past Kamas. for a week.

so i feel lots and lots and lots better. :D

ST. GEORGE

Friday morning we had a practice at 6 o' clock. Then we got on the bus at 8 and had a lovely 6 hour drive down to St. George. When we got there we went straight to the rec center where the meet was being held. We stretched, did a 1/2 hr warm up and waited for the meet to start and our event(s) to come.

I was in the last event on Friday. . the 50 freestyle (event....uhm....i think it was event 6 or 8?). Heat 5 lane 4. I came first in my heat, completeing the 50 in 32 seconds (3 seconds faster then my last time). Which, I'm sad to say, is a little slow. . all well, I'm a rookie this year, and I haven't done very much athletic work in the past 2 years. The fact that i have a pretty messed up knee doesn't help much.

After we were finished that day, we got checked into out hotel and ate dinner (yay for pizza) while we waited for the coaches to get our keys to the rooms. We finished dinner, hung out for about an hour, then had to depart to our rooms (guys and girls couldn't interact after 9) and had to be in bed around 10ish.

I bunked with Caitey and Kelli (whom i call miss Kelli). Poor Kelli was very sick. . i think she got us sick too. Caitey said she was up 1/2 the night from Kelli caughing. Tyler said he could hear he caughing up a lung down the hall (we were in room 219 and he in 207). I didn't hear he, I did hear Tyler knocking on the door at 5 in the morning, but I thought it was Shawn (the coach). He knocked again later, and i opened the door that time.

We all got up (we let Kelli get some more sleep, she'd be getting a wakeup call at six) and went downstairs for breakfast.

We packed up, and headed back to the rec center (we wouldn't be going back to the hotel) for the 2nd 1/2 of the meet.

We did stretches and a warmup. Then we started off with the 100s. I was in Event 11 (100 freestyle), heat 5, lane 6. I got 5th and beat my last time by 2 seconds (about 1 min and I-forgot seconds)....slow.

I didn't do very much because my legs (as i said earlier) are messed up. . it's sad. So for the last 2 weeks in practice I've been using only my arms to swim, no legs (you use a bouy, a floatie that goes between your thighs or knees).

After the meet finished (22 events in all, with numerous heats.....in my first event there were 19 heats, 8 lanes each. . that's 152 girls in all doing that event) we showered, got on the bus, stopped for lunch, got back on the bus rode for about 2 or 3 hours until we stopped for bathroom breaks and food if ya wanted it. Then it was back on the bus, and sleep for the next 4ish hours. . . fun. Doncha think??

The first day, i wasn't too happy with my "team mates," they can be REALLY hipocritical. . .grrr!!

Those buses can be really uncomfortable after afew hours, and they're not too great to sleep in. If you've got padding/cushions or something, and turn sideways, it's not too bad. or if you've got something to do. . . .*sigh*. . . .

So. . .so much for my first trip to Stl George. And probably my last for a long time. . . (at least a few years. . ) The last time I went anywhere close to that far south was in 7th grade. We went to Arches and Gremlin Valley. It was pretty fun. So was St. George, I'm glad I had Tyler & Caitey (wasn't as bad as we thought she'd be [!!!]) & Kelli (was ok, not very talky, as per-usual) & Sky (also not very talky) & Brian.

So. . . I'm sure you are totally enthralled with my little summary of the last 2 days. I'm sure. . . .

Until next time. . .


I

homework

arg!!! this stupid constitution thing is driving me insane!!! i still need 3 more news articles and it's due tomorrow!! how in the world am i 'sposed to find something on the housing of troops! it's impossible. have you ever tried looking online for the 7 articles and 1st 10 amendments?! you need to have news articles that are 2 wks old. .maybe a month at the oldest. it's sooo hard!! grr. . .

i am sooo tired. i've surprisingly gotten a lot of sleep lately. it doen't help that i've got swim practice 6 days a week.
on the days i have school i get there at 6 and go until school starts or until the end of 1st period (depends on the day) and the days i don't have school i go from 7-9 am. . i get sundays off. yay. .

the other day i was feeling sick. i went to bed at about 7:30-8ish. . and woke up around 5-5:30. i got about 10 hrs of sleep.

i think ty's right. . if you get more sleep you're body will want more sleep and get lazier and not want to get up. but then. . sprints almost everyday make me not want to even bother getting up for practice. i know i'll just be sore after practice anyway.

i hate my knees. .

if it weren't for them i could run and walk longer and kneel (w/o it biting me in the butt) and swim harder and longer. . and so so so much more! if only, if only. . .

aren't i just a sob stroy. . hahaha. . . but i just feel like complaining. . so you can either read on and deal with it. .or you can just stop reading and read/do something else. it's you're life, you can decide what you wanna do with it. .


i think that everybody in my group of friends has had a really bad week. sarah and her bf had a weird breakup/backtogether thing & she's been haveing issues wit her momma about him too.
myself and tyler have had a headache, ill tummy and various other sore spots (poor tyler. . he had fun at swim the other day. . big red spot from a locker and being passed out for the last 1/2 hr of practice. .need i say more??)

what else? oh, yeah. . caitey. . she's kinda been getting. .well, on my nerves. . and ty's and . . . well. .

see. . she keeps asking what SHE did that made us mad at her, or what SHE so we're acting like we are, or how SHE isn't feeling good, has asthma, and bad knees, etc., etc., etc.
i know others on the team have it worse. . but her. . her. . .her. . .her. . herherherher! ggrrrr!!
we've tried to tell her that the world doesn't revolve around her! we've tried it nicely and very very bluntly. it doesn't seem to be working. how can you continue to be nice (or try) to somebody that no matter what they do. .it seems to drive ya nuts?! AHHH!! >:(

i'm usually a pretty nice person. . but some ppl just push my buttons with no mercy! no it tends to "karma" around. .


ooohhh!! me and me friends WERE going to be disney princesses for halloween (it's not exactly happening). they decided i'd be Ariel (the little mirmaid). . . red hair, i guess. . puff was gonna be the black Cinderella, kayla was gonna be Belle, mandy was gonna be Snow White, and sarah Tinkerbell. i don't know what i'm really gonna be. i wanted to be Pippy. . but i still need the socks. . . stripes. . . then i just need to get something to get my hair to stick out. my dad says a hanger. . we'll see. .

i think bed and food sounds good. it's been nice venting to you. . thanx for the ears. XD