i've been up for almost 19 hours and i'm dead!

i think i will have to inform you all on the details of my journeys today later in order to type something that makes sense. haha!
anyway i'll give you a brief overview.
i woke up at 4:30 this morning and drove to school. why you ask? to be the supportive teammate that i am...julie and i decided to go and support brittany and alicia in CIF today, which was all the way out in santa barbara! oh, dear fun times...i'll post about it tomorrow though

good night! :)

LA zoo and china town

last weekend we had a little family outing and took kaite to the LA zoo. it was quite an experience with my family. on the way home we stopped in china town for dinner hence the pictures of a random chinese restaurant and me with a strange little hat on.

however these of my sister and i, i have no explanation for other than the fact that we are crazy...
giraffes! my favorite animal we saw! they are cute! better than the komodo dragons anyway...those things are just plain creepy.
katie thoroughly enjoyed the frozen lemonade...in fact, i think that may have been her favorite part!

yay for cool hats! i forget what these things are called...oh, well. right after my mom took this picture some lady went over, put on the hat and had her husband take a picture of her...ooo i'm a trend setter now! ha ha! :)

katie sitting in a frog ride. i think the little rides of china town may have been her favorite part, second to the frozen lemonade, of course.
ya, don't ask what betsy is doing, 'cause i have no clue...at least katie and i look normal. oh, and this is one of her better pictures, so that is sayin' something...haha! just kidding. humm...it's a good thing she doesn't read my blog :)
cool chinese restaurant we ate at...i like the name "hop louie". ooo that's fun to say! :)

hope you all had wonderful days! half way through the week!

my driving adventure of the day

so, i'm on my way home from school coming down los coyotes diagonal. i'm just going along minding my own business (at the correct speed limit of 40mph) and this lady is right on my butt! oh, well, whatever. she can pass me if she wanted...i just turned on some music and ignored her. i get to bellflower and am in the left turn lane with three or four cars in front of me and this annoying tail-gating lady right behind me. the light changes to green and she immediately starts laying on the horn and shaking her fist at me. uh...i'm pretty sure i have a car like right in front of my and can't move any faster! the light just changed. i turn into the middle lane and with two other lanes to choose from she still is right behind me, again on my tail. okay, so, if i'm not moving fast enough for you, why are you still behind me?
coming up to the light at spring i brake just a little earlier than i needed to, but not hard...i wanted to see if she would change lanes and leave me alone. no such luck. she again begins honking her horn, yelling, and flipping me off. what the heck? did i do anything to her? no! i can somewhat understand her road rage if i cut her off or something, but i didn't. i didn't to anything to her at all. if she doesn't like the speed i'm driving then she can just go around me. well, i decide to ignore her again and change lanes. she changes lanes. i change lanes again and she follows still right on my butt!!! so annoying! she finally stooped following me when i turned on to anaheim (into my neighborhood)...good thing because i would not have gone home if she had persisted. what a freak!
that lady needs to go take a happy pill or something...honestly.

well, that was my big adventure of the day! :)

winter formal

in the chaos of tennis season being over i completely forgot to mention on here that i ended up going to formal. it was on friday. i was really apprehensive about going for the longest time, but i did have a blast! a big group of us met at kristen barca's house to take pictures and from there we all went to dinner on second street at the la craperie...yummy! :) after we all piled back into the cars and headed to the marriott.




here are some pictures for you! happy now, rebekah? :) no, i'm just kidding...i was planning on posting about it, but just hadn't yet.


hannah and i...aren't we just so cute? well, hannah is anyway...i look half asleep. :)

me and laney
julie and i requested dirty pop by nsync and did the dance moves to it while people stared at us like we were freaks, but we are so...

group shot with some lady's head...oh, well

me and laurahigh jumpers unite! how does it always turn out to be matt and the girls? :)

twas a fun night! i actually had more fun than i thought i would.

tis all for now!

all good things must come to an end

i'm sorry to say that the tennis team met their downfall today against Savanna, who won 8-10. we were so close...if only we had, had jane with us, but what can ya do? 8-10 is still a great score to go out on, but i'm not feeling that great. better than i was earlier though. i'm not upset over losing, just that our season is over...it has been a fun time! we have all come together and bonded really well and i was able to get to know some people better who i wouldn't have necessarily talked to before. just being part of a team and getting that opportunity has been a blessing both this season and last season too.

we still have our team banquet coming up, so that will be fun! well, i'll definitely continue playing until next season and it'll go by fast. i mean look at the bright side...i still have track to look forward to in the spring (sarcasm) :)

well, a big thanks to ms. admiraal and everyone on the team for an awesome season! you guys are great! :)

we're still going strong

much has happened since my last update. yesterday i went on my first wilderness challenge field trip to a climbing place! well, any day of missing class is good, but yesterday was absolutely a blast. i had no clue what to do at first, but jane helped me out and then all was good. the only downside was that my arms are so sore! normally i don't mind being sore...i actually kinda like it (it makes me feel like i've accomplished something, i guess) but being sore when you play tennis isn't the best thing.

which brings me to my second order of business...tennis! as many of you know, we had first round of CIF today against monte clair. well, the VCHS tennis girls pulled through on top with a win of 11-7! super excited! today was a great playing day. laney and i won our first 6-3, lost our second 4-6 against the #1'sand won our third 6-4. the second match was pretty cool though. why you ask. well, i return a serve and snap! two of my string broke. pretty sweet! we finished out the point and i turn to laney and go "uh, i have a problem...wait one second" i spotted ms. admiraal and yell "coach i need a racquet...my strings broke!" so, i ended up using ms. admiraal's racquet for the rest of the time.

well, we have 2nd round saturday, so wish us luck on that!

hope all your weeks were as good as mine!

is november weather actually here?

today we finally started getting some colder weather. to say that this will last, i don't know, but it was weird. i can't ever remember a time when i was that cold after tennis practice. track practice, many times, but tennis...it was a first. my hands were so cold i couldn't catch the ball. yes, catch the ball, not hit. we decided to try playing without rackets...umm didn't work out to well. it was pretty fun, but we all must have looked retarded. good stuff!

a good thing about this week is that it's a short one! thursday is a half day and friday no school due to parent teacher conferences! first round of CIF is also on thursday, so i'm also excited for that. but, unfortunately these next few days will be jam packed. i have a yearbook deadline on wed. and i'm not done with my page! yikes! oh, well it will all work out.

well, not much to say here.

hope everyone is well!

snoopy is the best!

sorry for my lack of posting. last week was crazy with tennis matches, me being sick and homework. but, today i finally got to just take a break and relax. i slept in till 10:00, which is a VERY rare thing for me. sleeping in for me is normally like 8:30 at latest, but i guess i needed it. i am feeling much better!

today was pretty enjoyable. i cleaned out my car and washed it; it was really dirty (just the outside). so now i have a nice shiny car! yay! something else that excited me is that it has been two weeks since i last filled up my gas tank and i still had a quarter of a tank today when i filled it up! that is pretty good gas mileage right there for driving out to school as many times as i had. awesome! i also got to spend some time with katie today. i took her to the park, where we played on all the stuff! uh, did i say we? i meant her. :) no, we had fun except i think i'm just going to wear a sign that says "i'm her sister" because of all the questioning looks i get from some mothers with their kids. but, whatever; no big deal.

oh, and november 1st has passed and we all know what that means for my family! christmas decorations (seriously i think there is a point where one can be too festive). that's right everyone today we started putting up christmas decoreations...crazy i tell ya! :)

cristina showed these to me and i had to post some...i love them! they crack me up!

this last one has to be one of my favorites. so funny!