i was happily singing with my sister and then...crash! she breaks the lamp.
i couldn't even be mad, because it was so darn funny!
gotta love her!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
18 hours of no sleep is not a good thing
my point is proven; she is crazy! by the way, if you can't understand her, she says "i've been awake for 18 hours". oh, and sorry it is sideways, but i don't know how to turn it. she was making fun of the fact that i had a temporary speech impediment (that was not THAT bad) because i was so tired...don't even question our state of mind. haha
anyways, i never thought i would say this, but i seem to actually be excited for college. not ready for it yet, because i'm still enjoying high school, but i am definitely not worried about it anymore. i feel like Westmont is a good fit for me and that it is where God wants me. plus, it is far enough that i can say i lived away from home, but not so far that i can't come home if i really wanted to.
today was, well...a monday. neither extremely good, nor extremely bad. i think i may be getting sick again though, so i'm literally going to go to bed now...lucky me! :)
Sunday, February 22, 2009
the adventures of Al Pal, Danison, Beanie boy and others...
i went up to Westmont on thrusday and firday for an "Admitted Students weekend". i honestly wasn't that excited about going, since i've been to Westmont maybe 4 or 5 times before, but allison was going, so at least i'd have someone to talk to and we always seem to have a good time together.
my mom and i arrived around 12:30 and after some wondering around (actually she was wondering, we were driving) found allison, who had, had a music audition earlier. i wasn't there, but i'm sure she did great! after checking in, we sat in this intro seminar thing, until 2:00, when my mom and i left allison all by her lonesome and went to go meet with the tennis coach. i got to play with the team and kind of give the coach a feel for my game. there was another girl checking out Westmont from San Diego, who also played. okay, i'm sorry if this sound really bad, which it will and forgive me for being judgmental, but this girl just rubbed me the wrong way. maybe my nerves were just a bit on edge, but there were a couple of times i could tell i was being really cold towards her because she was annoying me and had to remind myself to be nice. after we were done she goes "so, how do you think it went"
i didn't really want to talk and just wanted to call allison to meet up with her again, so i sort of gave an "oh, okay" kind of answer.
then she jumps on that and goes "'oh, okay' as in you don't want to go out for the team anymore?"
like i said, my nerves could have just been a little on edge, but what the heck is that supposed to mean? the way she said it totally implied what i was thinking it did, so i go "no, okay as in i wasn't completely on, but i'm still really interested in playing in college"
then she asks me for my phone number in order to "keep each other posed on our college and tennis plans." p-lease! i'm sorry, but she was totally trying to compete with me and that is something i do NOT like, since it wasn't even a competition. i mean, i don't care if you THINK you are better than me or feel like you have to prove something...i don't even know you. oh well, whatever. i didn't give her my number, but wasn't going to be outright mean, now, this is really bad, but i didn't want to give it to her, so i switched up a few numbers in my cell and yeah...if she has some random person's number...sorry.
anyways, the playing went pretty well, considering i haven't been playing as much as i would have liked to. my scores against the girls were decent and the coach said that although i wouldn't start out with a scholarship (only the top 4 get one), i could probably come on as a 'walk on' and work my way up. we shall see what happens.
after tennis, my mom and i met up with allison and went to go meet her brother, matt and his girlfriend. thanks to allison's keen directional skills, we got lost, but eventually found the right place. we had dinner and then my mom left to go to her hotel. while allison was at an orchestra thing with her brother, i met my host, erica, who was so nice, and her friend. we talked and then we went to another dorm, so she could introduce me to some people. i met one guy who asked me how my walk with Christ was going, which totally caught me off guard, but i replied "it's goin' good...always trying to make it better". then he goes "no, i'm totally kidding, i would never ask someone that i just met that. you could have said you were satanic and i wouldn't have done anything, but i'm glad to hear it's going good." random, but funny. i met another kid (also an admitted student) named dean, who goes to wilson, knows betsy and carries a pocket protector (so we called him pocket protector kid). and then some other kid who is too lazy to watch tv, so he really can't be considered lazy because he doesn't watch tv, or he could be considered extremly lazy because he is too lazy to to such a lazy activity of watching tv. and that all resulted from "hi, my name is danielle". and i thought people would think allison and i were odd. speaking of allison, she called me a while later, lost (surprise, surprise) and said she had never met up with her host, nor did she have the paper any longer that told her who her host was. she ended up staying with me in erica's dorm, which worked out better.
we spent the next hour wondering around the campus in the dark and then watching a talent show going on, while our hosts were at a dorm meeting thing. later that night, all the hosts decided to try and teach each other dance moves outside of the dorm building. it was hilarious! allison and i met some kid that we never learned the name of, but he wore a beanie, so we called him "beanie boy" (not to his face, of course). i think he was the weirdest person i have EVER met. he was beyond weird. we were trying to make conversation, so we go "where are you from?"
"i'm from the sky"
me: "oh, so you just fell from the sky and landed here?"
"no, i climbed...it was very orderly."
....*silence...right
then, pocket protector kid shows up and starts talking about how allison and i are in our own separate world and every time we would talk to each other he would go "see, you are doing it again". he also told us a story that went something like this "i once knew a man named branden who was tall and thin and then he married a woman named brandy who was short and fat...how odd." (no idea what the names were, but something like that). yeah and that was just out of the blue...how do you even respond to that?!?
so, when we finally announce that we are going to bed, beanie boy keeps standing outside, waiting for us to go in because he "couldn't ascend back into the sky with us watching".
if you think i am making this stuff up, you are wrong! even ask allison. these people were just plain odd.
four hours later, we woke up to the sound of my phone alarm "ding-donging" like a doorbell and then not being able to find it because allison was on top of it. we went to breakfast around 6:45 and unfortunately weren't able to escape eye contact with beanie boy and were forced to sit with him. during breakfast he wanted to discuss the importance of animal souls, along with the benefits of socialism with us. needless to say, we downed our cereal and tea and ran out of there, fast.
we had two classes to sit in on in the morning. i sat in on Old Testament and Literature, while allison sat in on Circuits and Electronics and Math something. ha! i actually fell asleep in the first one, not because it wasn't interesting, but because i was really tired. when i walked into the Lit class, the professor goes "are you an admitted student?"
"yes"
"where are your from"
"long beach"
"why?"
"uh, why am i from long beach?"
"yes"
"hm, because that was my destiny..."
"ah, i've just never heard anyone admit it before...congratulations"
that was in front of the entire class, mind you. weird...
after classes, i met allison again for chapel and then we ate lunch, where all the admissions counselors sat at our table and were hilarious! they were showing us how the make the cups fly out of each other by spinning them and then blowing into them. you put one cup inside another, spin it and then blow into the crevice between the two and the cup goes flying out. they were SO funny! it was kind of cool to see them all relaxed instead of in their "admissions counselor" manner. funny stuff.
later, we had meetings on what our intended majors might be and got info on that, which was helpful. right now i'm thinking of being a Liberal Studies Major (which is teaching) and and Art Minor, but we will see.
i got home on friday around 5:00 and then got to babysit katie for a bit...boy was i tired!
just as i am now, so i think i will go to bed and then post a video as well as tell you some of my feelings about this experience.
sorry that was so long...thanks for reading!
my mom and i arrived around 12:30 and after some wondering around (actually she was wondering, we were driving) found allison, who had, had a music audition earlier. i wasn't there, but i'm sure she did great! after checking in, we sat in this intro seminar thing, until 2:00, when my mom and i left allison all by her lonesome and went to go meet with the tennis coach. i got to play with the team and kind of give the coach a feel for my game. there was another girl checking out Westmont from San Diego, who also played. okay, i'm sorry if this sound really bad, which it will and forgive me for being judgmental, but this girl just rubbed me the wrong way. maybe my nerves were just a bit on edge, but there were a couple of times i could tell i was being really cold towards her because she was annoying me and had to remind myself to be nice. after we were done she goes "so, how do you think it went"
i didn't really want to talk and just wanted to call allison to meet up with her again, so i sort of gave an "oh, okay" kind of answer.
then she jumps on that and goes "'oh, okay' as in you don't want to go out for the team anymore?"
like i said, my nerves could have just been a little on edge, but what the heck is that supposed to mean? the way she said it totally implied what i was thinking it did, so i go "no, okay as in i wasn't completely on, but i'm still really interested in playing in college"
then she asks me for my phone number in order to "keep each other posed on our college and tennis plans." p-lease! i'm sorry, but she was totally trying to compete with me and that is something i do NOT like, since it wasn't even a competition. i mean, i don't care if you THINK you are better than me or feel like you have to prove something...i don't even know you. oh well, whatever. i didn't give her my number, but wasn't going to be outright mean, now, this is really bad, but i didn't want to give it to her, so i switched up a few numbers in my cell and yeah...if she has some random person's number...sorry.
anyways, the playing went pretty well, considering i haven't been playing as much as i would have liked to. my scores against the girls were decent and the coach said that although i wouldn't start out with a scholarship (only the top 4 get one), i could probably come on as a 'walk on' and work my way up. we shall see what happens.
after tennis, my mom and i met up with allison and went to go meet her brother, matt and his girlfriend. thanks to allison's keen directional skills, we got lost, but eventually found the right place. we had dinner and then my mom left to go to her hotel. while allison was at an orchestra thing with her brother, i met my host, erica, who was so nice, and her friend. we talked and then we went to another dorm, so she could introduce me to some people. i met one guy who asked me how my walk with Christ was going, which totally caught me off guard, but i replied "it's goin' good...always trying to make it better". then he goes "no, i'm totally kidding, i would never ask someone that i just met that. you could have said you were satanic and i wouldn't have done anything, but i'm glad to hear it's going good." random, but funny. i met another kid (also an admitted student) named dean, who goes to wilson, knows betsy and carries a pocket protector (so we called him pocket protector kid). and then some other kid who is too lazy to watch tv, so he really can't be considered lazy because he doesn't watch tv, or he could be considered extremly lazy because he is too lazy to to such a lazy activity of watching tv. and that all resulted from "hi, my name is danielle". and i thought people would think allison and i were odd. speaking of allison, she called me a while later, lost (surprise, surprise) and said she had never met up with her host, nor did she have the paper any longer that told her who her host was. she ended up staying with me in erica's dorm, which worked out better.
we spent the next hour wondering around the campus in the dark and then watching a talent show going on, while our hosts were at a dorm meeting thing. later that night, all the hosts decided to try and teach each other dance moves outside of the dorm building. it was hilarious! allison and i met some kid that we never learned the name of, but he wore a beanie, so we called him "beanie boy" (not to his face, of course). i think he was the weirdest person i have EVER met. he was beyond weird. we were trying to make conversation, so we go "where are you from?"
"i'm from the sky"
me: "oh, so you just fell from the sky and landed here?"
"no, i climbed...it was very orderly."
....*silence...right
then, pocket protector kid shows up and starts talking about how allison and i are in our own separate world and every time we would talk to each other he would go "see, you are doing it again". he also told us a story that went something like this "i once knew a man named branden who was tall and thin and then he married a woman named brandy who was short and fat...how odd." (no idea what the names were, but something like that). yeah and that was just out of the blue...how do you even respond to that?!?
so, when we finally announce that we are going to bed, beanie boy keeps standing outside, waiting for us to go in because he "couldn't ascend back into the sky with us watching".
if you think i am making this stuff up, you are wrong! even ask allison. these people were just plain odd.
four hours later, we woke up to the sound of my phone alarm "ding-donging" like a doorbell and then not being able to find it because allison was on top of it. we went to breakfast around 6:45 and unfortunately weren't able to escape eye contact with beanie boy and were forced to sit with him. during breakfast he wanted to discuss the importance of animal souls, along with the benefits of socialism with us. needless to say, we downed our cereal and tea and ran out of there, fast.
we had two classes to sit in on in the morning. i sat in on Old Testament and Literature, while allison sat in on Circuits and Electronics and Math something. ha! i actually fell asleep in the first one, not because it wasn't interesting, but because i was really tired. when i walked into the Lit class, the professor goes "are you an admitted student?"
"yes"
"where are your from"
"long beach"
"why?"
"uh, why am i from long beach?"
"yes"
"hm, because that was my destiny..."
"ah, i've just never heard anyone admit it before...congratulations"
that was in front of the entire class, mind you. weird...
after classes, i met allison again for chapel and then we ate lunch, where all the admissions counselors sat at our table and were hilarious! they were showing us how the make the cups fly out of each other by spinning them and then blowing into them. you put one cup inside another, spin it and then blow into the crevice between the two and the cup goes flying out. they were SO funny! it was kind of cool to see them all relaxed instead of in their "admissions counselor" manner. funny stuff.
later, we had meetings on what our intended majors might be and got info on that, which was helpful. right now i'm thinking of being a Liberal Studies Major (which is teaching) and and Art Minor, but we will see.
i got home on friday around 5:00 and then got to babysit katie for a bit...boy was i tired!
just as i am now, so i think i will go to bed and then post a video as well as tell you some of my feelings about this experience.
sorry that was so long...thanks for reading!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
creatures of the night...
it was just past midnight and the house was completely dark, with everyone asleep, except justin and i, who were in the back hot tub. we kept hearing a rustling in the tree above us and each time we would try and find the creature making the noise, we would only see leaves moving. justin then forced me to climb from the warm comfortable environment of the hot tub, into the freezing air to go get a flash light. if i had not complied, it would have resulted with me in the even more freezing pool. after i had obtained the flashlight from the garage, we spent the next 10 mins looking for the creature (don't hate because we are easily amused). every time we would see the branches moving, we would quick turn the light on, but each time saw nothing. dun dun dun! i said the creature had supernatural powers, but justin's theory was something along the lines of it being a little flesh eating monster, that was simply waiting to jump on one of our face's and begin devouring us. he said that he hoped it chose to attack me, because he, being the masculine and daring man he is, would hit it with the flashlight and wrestle it to the ground, thus saving my life. i apparently, being the incompetent female i am, would simply go into hysterics and then both we would both perish if the monster decided to attack him. i think that statement earned justy a good sock in the stomach. :) what was more, if we hadn't shined the light on us the creature probably wouldn't have attacked in the first place, but alas, curiosity kills.
yeah, i don't even know how we come up with this stuff...it was late. luckily we didn't get attacked by any supernatural flesh eating monsters of the night and then returned to the house around 1am, only to stay up another hour and a half watching the office.
in the morning (monday morning) gary made me make breakfast, which i didn't mind, except that i only got around 5 hrs of sleep. then what was more, gary had me bring justin breakfast in bed...ridiculous, i tell ya!
oh, and don't even ask me what he does to deserve this treatment...i have no clue
well, tomorrow i will be going up to Westmont and while i'm there i will be playing some tennis for the coach up there. wish me luck!
hope everyone is having a good week and had a better day than i did today!
Monday, February 16, 2009
we finally have become domestic...well, almost
the majority of my weekend was spent with none other than my favorite cousin, justin. he came over saturday afternoon and we were able to fit in some tennis before our baby sitting shift started. my parents went out for valentines day, so we got the privilege of katie-duty. it was quite fun though. justin seems to be in a painting phase, so while i stayed home, he went out to big lots and got us a couple canvases to paint on. letting him drive my car was quite nerve-racking and after not knowing how to turn the lights on, he eventually made it back all in one piece, thank goodness! :) we painted until around 12:00am and then i got tired and mad at my painting and went to bed. ha!
sunday, we went out to lunch at kings, which is down in downtown long beach. while my parents were parking the car, betsy, justin and i went in to get a table. when they walked in the door, we all hid behind our menus and waited to see what they would do. gary, being gary, walked over and sat down at another table and when the waitress started to bring them bread and menus says "you, know, i think we may just want to join their table over there" (pointing to us). poor girl looked so confused! after lunch, my parents had another event thing to go to up at the Reagan Library for which they left around 3pm and left betsy to babysit kaite for the first 3hrs. justin and i decided to re-try our luck at painting and went over to Lows, where we walked around and got lost, looking for free scrap wood. finally, against justin's will (men...psh!) we asked someone. we got some pretty cool pieces from the scrap pile and then took them home to begin work. some of the pieces were rather large and i was trying to figure out a way to cut them, when justin comes out of the garage with a saw! who knew we had a saw?!? not me... after a quite difficult time sawing away, we got some better painting sized boards. i began work on a giraffe as, justin started painting some penguins, which i'm inclined to believe is a bit of his feminine side coming through :)
after, i put katie to bed, which was about 9:00, we decided that we were hungry and realized that we hadn't had dinner (don't worry, katie got dinner...i didn't starve her). justin and i decided to cook for ourselves...shocker, right? we got the beef out of the freezer and defrosted it in the microwave, spent a good 5 mins looking for dry sherry for our meat marinade (neither of us knew what sherry looked like), prepared the sauce and got out the rice cooker. all in all, it was pretty much the best beef and broccoli i have ever tasted! we did good! and we didn't' even have half of the right ingredients, but either substituted or made due with what we had. we were pretty proud of ourselves.
oh, but the night wasn't over, oh no. i still had a giraffe to paint and justin, some penguins to finish. not to mention a jacuzzi heating up outside. but, i shall leave that tale of the hot tub for a later time...perhaps tomorrow.
well, we may have the cooking, cleaning and painting down, but when it comes to a pile of pillows, we just can't resist. hence the reason we have ALMOST become domestic. haha
Thursday, February 12, 2009
it was worth it...
what a week, but i'll just jump right in...
i was loving the rain on monday, but i think i have short term memory loss and really can't remember anything that happened on monday that would be interesting enough to talk about.
tuesday i got to do some high jumping, and although it wasn't the best i've done, i still felt good to be out there again.
yesterday was...long! good, but very very long. i left track practice early to go to the Long Beach Rescue Mission, which was a lot of fun, but i probably should have used my better judgement and not gone. you see, i was feeling a little sick over the weekend, but monday and tuesday i had been feeling a lot better, thinking i was over it. but, with track and tennis on tuesday and then a bunch of homework, i didn't get much sleep and woke up on wedneday not feeling up to my usual par. i was doing okay up until the point when we were at the Rescue Mission and then it hit me full blow and today has been pretty awful. i didn't go to practice, although i did want to because our coach was coming and i really wanted to jump, but oh well...can't do it all. i came home and took a three hour nap and now i'm trying to get through my homework, but really i just want to go back to sleep. can't wait for the weekend right now!
anyway, enough of my complaining and a little about last night. we hit a ton of traffic and the 710 was closed, so after a bit of backtracking we arrived around 6:00, i think it was. we were to do the service for them at 7:00, which included some worship, scripture reading and a short film to enhance some really inspirational quotes. somehow, don't ask how, i got roped into leading worship, along with 5 others. mr westrup asked if anyone would be willing to help out because they needed another singer and i just said i would do it, since no one else wanted to. usually, i don't sing in front of people. like i will when i'm messing around, or just singing to a song, but with a small group of people on stage is not something i'm usually comfortable with. oddly enough, i wasn't nervous at all and really had fun with it. the video we showed got some truly great responses from the people at the shelter. the main theme of it was "when we can rise above our own tears, we will finally be able to see the tears of others". good message and so powerful. after the service, one guy came up and hugged me, which i'm not going to lie, was a bit uncomfortable, but he also said "you guys really touched my heart"; and that totally made my night. again, that feeling of "blessed to be a blessing" is really unlike anything else.
well, tomorrow is friday and i am so glad!
and "remind yourself that it's okay not to be perfect." :)
i was loving the rain on monday, but i think i have short term memory loss and really can't remember anything that happened on monday that would be interesting enough to talk about.
tuesday i got to do some high jumping, and although it wasn't the best i've done, i still felt good to be out there again.
yesterday was...long! good, but very very long. i left track practice early to go to the Long Beach Rescue Mission, which was a lot of fun, but i probably should have used my better judgement and not gone. you see, i was feeling a little sick over the weekend, but monday and tuesday i had been feeling a lot better, thinking i was over it. but, with track and tennis on tuesday and then a bunch of homework, i didn't get much sleep and woke up on wedneday not feeling up to my usual par. i was doing okay up until the point when we were at the Rescue Mission and then it hit me full blow and today has been pretty awful. i didn't go to practice, although i did want to because our coach was coming and i really wanted to jump, but oh well...can't do it all. i came home and took a three hour nap and now i'm trying to get through my homework, but really i just want to go back to sleep. can't wait for the weekend right now!
anyway, enough of my complaining and a little about last night. we hit a ton of traffic and the 710 was closed, so after a bit of backtracking we arrived around 6:00, i think it was. we were to do the service for them at 7:00, which included some worship, scripture reading and a short film to enhance some really inspirational quotes. somehow, don't ask how, i got roped into leading worship, along with 5 others. mr westrup asked if anyone would be willing to help out because they needed another singer and i just said i would do it, since no one else wanted to. usually, i don't sing in front of people. like i will when i'm messing around, or just singing to a song, but with a small group of people on stage is not something i'm usually comfortable with. oddly enough, i wasn't nervous at all and really had fun with it. the video we showed got some truly great responses from the people at the shelter. the main theme of it was "when we can rise above our own tears, we will finally be able to see the tears of others". good message and so powerful. after the service, one guy came up and hugged me, which i'm not going to lie, was a bit uncomfortable, but he also said "you guys really touched my heart"; and that totally made my night. again, that feeling of "blessed to be a blessing" is really unlike anything else.
well, tomorrow is friday and i am so glad!
and "remind yourself that it's okay not to be perfect." :)
Saturday, February 7, 2009
rain always makes the week good!
i've been loving this rain so much that august and i decided that friday night we would go on a walk in it and take some pictures! we also decided it would be a good idea to watch the movie "apocalypse now" since it was english extra credit to compare it to the book "heart of darkness". and after a way two blockbusters and a way to friendly blockbuster worker who creepily stated that i "sure was apologizing a lot" because i said "sorry" for making him call the other store. i really wanted to respond "oh, sorry", but then decided that it would be best to get out of there as soon a possible because then the other guy working came over and was like "apocalypse now...you really ever get two girls coming in that just have to watch that movie. is it for a class?" it was a uinqe experience. but, the movie was ridiculously long and we both fell asleep for about an hour. when we woke up we thought kurtz had died and it was then end, but alas, they had not even found kurtz yet...truly a bummer.
the rest of the week was good. track on wednesday was fun for the most part minus weightlifting. but at the end, matt, jesse and i got to go out to the mat and do some drills. i think we may have scared this freshmen girl, who is thinking of doing high jump. especially matt who thought it would be a good idea to kick a soccer ball at me while jesse and i are trying to position the ramp under the bar. i didn't have much faith in his aim so i didn't move (haha just kidding. i could see that it wasn't going to hit me though) and was about to make some snide remark towards him when the ball crashed into the standard and caused the bar to fall on our heads. good thing high jump bars arn't that heavey. he is crazy! but, he did feel bad and say sorry, so i guess he is forgiven. haha :)
thursday and friday were good. thursday track was canceled due to the rain, which i was actually kind of bummed about since our coach was supposed to be coming.
friday was senior lunch and we all know that, that always makes the day better :)
well, as interesting as this is, i'm going to let you all enjoy the pictures and stop informing you on the oh so captivating details of my life.
i tried editing some of the color in these a bit, so yes, the second picture is a duplicate of the first
august with an umbrella. i think this is a really cool picture! :D 
improved august haha
i tired to get the water flowing in the gutter...it sort of worked 
the rest of the week was good. track on wednesday was fun for the most part minus weightlifting. but at the end, matt, jesse and i got to go out to the mat and do some drills. i think we may have scared this freshmen girl, who is thinking of doing high jump. especially matt who thought it would be a good idea to kick a soccer ball at me while jesse and i are trying to position the ramp under the bar. i didn't have much faith in his aim so i didn't move (haha just kidding. i could see that it wasn't going to hit me though) and was about to make some snide remark towards him when the ball crashed into the standard and caused the bar to fall on our heads. good thing high jump bars arn't that heavey. he is crazy! but, he did feel bad and say sorry, so i guess he is forgiven. haha :)
thursday and friday were good. thursday track was canceled due to the rain, which i was actually kind of bummed about since our coach was supposed to be coming.
friday was senior lunch and we all know that, that always makes the day better :)
well, as interesting as this is, i'm going to let you all enjoy the pictures and stop informing you on the oh so captivating details of my life.
august with an umbrella. i think this is a really cool picture! :D improved august haha
i tired to get the water flowing in the gutter...it sort of worked 
oh, and if any of you need a laugh go to NBC. com and watch the first five minutes of "the office" episode titled "stress relief"! one of the funniest things i think i've EVER seen! seriously i LOVE that show...i'm pretty much obsessed, but hey, at least i admit it. and i guess it's not that bad since it's the only show i watch.
hope you all are enjoying the rainy weekend as thoroughly as i am!
Monday, February 2, 2009
"don't wish it away..."
honestly, this one little common phrase changed the whole outlook on my day! i wasn't excited that it was monday, until someone told me this and then the day seemed much brighter :)
funny how one little thing said to you at the right moment can have such an impact.
that and the fact that then this person pointed out to me that each day i get closer to age 30, when i will become old and everything will start going down hill from there...
totally kidding about that second part by the way, and i don't think 30 is old at all...that is actually quite young
back to homework! i have (did i say have? i meant GET) to write an "ode" in spanish; i did an ode to my tennis racket...big surprise haha. perhaps i'll share it with ya'll, but then again perhaps not.
:D
funny how one little thing said to you at the right moment can have such an impact.
that and the fact that then this person pointed out to me that each day i get closer to age 30, when i will become old and everything will start going down hill from there...
totally kidding about that second part by the way, and i don't think 30 is old at all...that is actually quite young
back to homework! i have (did i say have? i meant GET) to write an "ode" in spanish; i did an ode to my tennis racket...big surprise haha. perhaps i'll share it with ya'll, but then again perhaps not.
:D
Sunday, February 1, 2009
blasts from the past and more high jump!
sun, fun and family-thats what my afternoon consisted of. ha! my parents decided it would be nice to go on a family bike ride down to marine stadium for lunch at this cute little place called "On the Mar"...good food too. while we were sitting there, eating, we began to reminisce about all the stupid things betsy and i did when we were younger and let me tell you, there are many of them :)
for example, we were on a short trip to San Diego when we were maybe 11 and there were some fires going on in the area. gary was at a business meeting, my mom had a headache, betsy was in the shower and i was just watching tv, when all of the sudden they do one of those things where they say something like "we interrupt this program for an important announcement" and then started talking about evacuating the area. i didn't know what area, but i freaked out and figured it was somewhere near by because the sky was grey and ash was falling from it haha! i got up and started packing everyone's cloths, was yelling at betsy to get out to the shower and frantically running around screaming to evacuate. i was a dumb kid...haha but, betsy's story is worse i think.
this also happened on a trip. we were driving to utah in a green minivan (rental car) and stopped for gas. when we pulled up at the pump there was another green minivan in front of us that was the same model. betsy got out of the car to use the bathroom and as she came back out, we all sat in the car and watched her as she headed towards the other green minivan, got in and buckled her seat belt. the lady in the front seat turned around and said something to her like "well, you can ride with us if you really want to". it was the funniest thing! especially because we were all just watching her do something stupid. kind aren't we? :)
anyway, i just thought i'd share that with ya'll
the rest of my weekend was pretty good, minus this english paper i've had to write, but it's almost done, so i'm happy about that. yesterday i went to another track meet with matt. it was at biola and our coach was there, so it was good to see him and jump with some instruction. i ended up jumping 4'8", which isn't bad, but not great either and matt jumped 5'10", which is really good for him this early in the season. the way back was fun too; matt got lost (he drove) trying to find the 91 freeway and we ended up driving through a random neighborhood where all the streets were named after South American countries. actually, it was quite entertaining...we kept trying to guess what that next one would be before we got to it. except he totally saw "Chile" up ahead and then tried to cheat. haha but yeah, twas fun!
oh, and on friday night i saw justin for the third consecutive weekend, which isn't a bad thing. we played catch phrase and then had a sweat shirt fight...don't ask. never a dull moment with him...
well, i best be off to finish my novel analytical paper (what a big name haha) and then i think i'm going to bake a cake
caio!
for example, we were on a short trip to San Diego when we were maybe 11 and there were some fires going on in the area. gary was at a business meeting, my mom had a headache, betsy was in the shower and i was just watching tv, when all of the sudden they do one of those things where they say something like "we interrupt this program for an important announcement" and then started talking about evacuating the area. i didn't know what area, but i freaked out and figured it was somewhere near by because the sky was grey and ash was falling from it haha! i got up and started packing everyone's cloths, was yelling at betsy to get out to the shower and frantically running around screaming to evacuate. i was a dumb kid...haha but, betsy's story is worse i think.
this also happened on a trip. we were driving to utah in a green minivan (rental car) and stopped for gas. when we pulled up at the pump there was another green minivan in front of us that was the same model. betsy got out of the car to use the bathroom and as she came back out, we all sat in the car and watched her as she headed towards the other green minivan, got in and buckled her seat belt. the lady in the front seat turned around and said something to her like "well, you can ride with us if you really want to". it was the funniest thing! especially because we were all just watching her do something stupid. kind aren't we? :)
anyway, i just thought i'd share that with ya'll
the rest of my weekend was pretty good, minus this english paper i've had to write, but it's almost done, so i'm happy about that. yesterday i went to another track meet with matt. it was at biola and our coach was there, so it was good to see him and jump with some instruction. i ended up jumping 4'8", which isn't bad, but not great either and matt jumped 5'10", which is really good for him this early in the season. the way back was fun too; matt got lost (he drove) trying to find the 91 freeway and we ended up driving through a random neighborhood where all the streets were named after South American countries. actually, it was quite entertaining...we kept trying to guess what that next one would be before we got to it. except he totally saw "Chile" up ahead and then tried to cheat. haha but yeah, twas fun!
oh, and on friday night i saw justin for the third consecutive weekend, which isn't a bad thing. we played catch phrase and then had a sweat shirt fight...don't ask. never a dull moment with him...
well, i best be off to finish my novel analytical paper (what a big name haha) and then i think i'm going to bake a cake
caio!
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