Why Does Ever Day Seem to Go Downhill?

Lately, my days have started out fine, but then slowly have gone in the downward direction. Today is definitely one of those days.

Well...I take that back because I didn't wake up to a very wonderful morning. It was ok, but it wasn't good. I woke up froma not so happy dream and remembering that I hadn't asked Dad to make a Little Mermaid CD, so he did that before I picked up Nathan. Also, we had a few more graduation things to do. So by the time I got to Nathan's house, we had missed our walk slot. After that, the day went pretty well....until Musical Theatre.

It was our first dress rehearsal. Ermine and I are doing a Pas during "Part of Your World". Even though I had taught him on Friday and today during lunch, he still didn't know what he was doing. Granted, I did teach him pretty quick, but the Pas is only like 30 seconds long. And we did work on it a lot during lunch. So I was pretty irritated that the Pas looked like crap because he didn't remember what came next. I do have to say though that I do need to work on being more patient with people too. I need to work on not getting irritated that some people don't catch on as fast as I'd like them to. So, Ermine, I'm not that irritated with you. It's just that a lot of things have not gone like I had hoped they would so I get irritated more quickly and a lot easier. Anywho...then people didn't realize they didn't have enough time to change in the dressing room, so they were late coming on for some lines. During 4th, I had hoped to go to the library to finish the bibliographies for my English project. But no...instead I had to go to Minter Bridge to watch my fan dance and make it cleaner. The only good part about this was that they had music and fans so my group actually had something to do instead of basically nothing, which has been the last few times I've been over. And have I mentioned that I didn't volunteer myself to create this dance? Well if I haven't, I have now. I was volunteered by my class to create the fan dance. I had no say. I guess the moral of the story is don't be gone when things are being decided.

Anywho...after Minter Bridge, things looked up. Nathan and I went to Dairy Queen to get some ice cream. Then I went to Christa's to finish the bibliographies. Then it was off to Dr. Hellman's for some IB physics madness. It was definitely a blast at the Hellman's residence. We ate hot dogs and hamburgers, among other delicious items, played ultimate frizbee, and sang songs. It was glorious. After that, I went to Nathan's for a bit.

After this was when the day went downhill again. I was pulled over for the first time. The tags on my car were expired by 7 months. When he asked for my registration and license, I couldn't find my registration. I called home and Dad insisted it was there. However, it wasn't. Instead I showed him the insurance card (the only thing I could find). This too was expired. So not only was I charged for expired tags, but I was also charged for an expired insurance card. This event caused me to become hysterical for many reasons. Mainly because I was pulled over and fined for somethign that wasn't my fault but was solely because I was driving. This has happened to me before as well (aka when I was driving the suburban, with Dad in the car, and it ran out fo gas because he didn't tell me it was out so I decided to drive it for practice). Also, this was the first time I was pulled over. And I am probably one of the last people you would think would be pulled over. So yeah. Basically, today was wonderful for about 5 hours. The other 19 hours weren't so fun.

Well...enough about how my day went. Tomorrow is voice lessons and the other half of dress rehearsal for Little Mermaid. It'll be a party.

Sleep well. I know tomorrow will be better.

Peter Pan

Yes ladies and gentlemen.....I was at Cathy Rigby's last performance of Peter Pan ever. That's right....ever. Yesterday she performed her last show as Peter Pan. It was incredible. Even though I had seen it the day before, the second time was just as good. Cathy Rigby it truly an amazing person. She's like my parents age and in better shape than me. Crazy. Anywho, it was really cool to see her in her final show. I didn't knowv that they were closing in Portland. I guess that Portland was a better audience than Seattle (according to a woman in the audience who was talking to a friend a few seats away from us). Man, it was a good show.

The first time, we sat in the way nose bleed seats. I mean the last of the last row at the very tippy top. It was....great? Yeah. We could see every step and movement on stage...even though facials were hard to see (we forgot the binoculars). That day, Cathy Rigby was signing autographs. Unfortunately, we didn't get one because we thought she was signing them the day after as well. Wrong. She wasn't. Oh well.

The next day was just as good, minus the fact the we had limited viewing seats. We were on the right side of the house, which meant that the right side was partially blocked. The only bummer about that was that a lot of the cool tricks Cathy Rigby does when in the house is on that side. So we didn't see those tricks. However, we did see facials and that was cool. This audience was wonderful. The first time Captain Hook came on stage, the audience booed and he responded with "I haven't done anything yet". The second time he came onstage they booed again and he repsonded with "Is that all you've got?" It was quite funny, if I do say so myself. At the end, right after the curtain call, the guy playing Captain Hook informed us that this night was Cathy Rigby's last performance. Then she said a few words. It was really neat.

I loved this show. I really want to do it so that I could possibly get the chance to fly. That'd be so cool. And then I'd get to be a little boy too..that is if I wasn't an Indian, which would be fun too.

Well, that's about it. I am really glad I saw this show. It was spectacluar!

I Made $20 Today!

Yes ladies and gentlemen it happened. It is possible. Crystal can make money off of physical labour from people other than her family. Hooray!

After the NCD dance recital, Nathan, James, Kirsten and I took down lights and each made $20. It was quite exciting. However, the performance itself was not so. I say this because I didn't actually get to see the performance. Instead, I sat around near the "big girls'" dressing room and told them to be quiet about every 10 seconds. You'd think since they were the "big girls'" they would know when to be quiet. Wrong. I think the little kids were more behaved than the big kids. Of course, I do have to say that the problem children were the pre-teens and teens who just turned to a teen. The really older girls were not the problem, especially since most of them had numerous dances to do. Other than that, I had a good time.

With the $20 I made, Nathan, Kirsten, and I went to Dutch Brothers and visited Devin. Here I had an interesting smoothie. Instead of a strawberry banana smoothie, like I had ordered, Deving accidentally grabbed the vanilla so it turned into a strawberry vanilla smoothie. It was half bad really. I kind of liked it. Granted, I would have preferred the strawberry banana, but the strawberry vanilla was a nice change.

I don't like it when life throws little changers at me. I mean, it seems thatg one thing will happen one way and then in the next few seconds, something else comes along and takes presidence over the previous. I know that God always has a plan and that things happen for a reason, but I still could use with less curve balls. All of these just make me more stressed. My life shouldn't be stressed right now. I should be taking it easy. Oh well. I'll just have to deal with these balls and hope that God will throw me a regular one...one that I can see its path so that I can hit it.

In other news...after much tough competition, Christa adn I beat out all the rest of the singers for graduation. We were chosen to sing at graduation. Hooray!

This Weekend

Let's start with Friday shall we? Friday......I had a nive talk with Sil during zero period because all the non-IBers were taking their finals, so the IBers had nothing to do. It was defintitely a fun talk. Then came 1st period. Pretty boring. I hated looking for poems. Blah, blah, blah. 2nd period Alison and I were supposed to go to French and visit Madame, but Dr. Hellman talked too much, so we'll wait 'til next Friday to go to the cafe. Lunch was good times 'o plenty....as usual. Then came 3rd period. I was able to make-up a dance on the spot. It was quite exciting...if I do say so myself. And the dance wasn't half bad either. 4th period we continued to watch "A Streetcar Named Desire". It's a pretty good movie. I like it. After that, I went to get ice cream with Nathan...yes, before voice lessons. Why'd I do it? Because Dad told me the secret to happiness...........eat an apple after you eat any dairy product and the phlegm won't come. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. In any case, it worked for me. Then I went to voice. It went well. However, we're cutting out a part of 14G...the magic flute part. Why? Because Crystal can't sing that high consistanly so we're not going to chance me sounding bad...and I'm fine with that. Michelle, Karen said that you sounded soo good. She didn't know you could hit those notes. She said you have matured soo much since you left her. In Crystal terms....you rock. But we already knew that didn't we. Then I raced to a dance thing for an auction at JB Thomas. That was...fun? Not really. Nobody really watched (beside the usual parents) and numerous amounts of little kids almost got trampled because their parents weren't paying close enough attention to them. Anywho....that was my Friday.

I know, I know.....finally we get to Saturday and the big event. I was going to go to tap in the morning, but I didn't want to get sweaty and have to take another shower (I had taken one the previous night), so I didn't tap and instead went to a Mothers and Others Brunch at church. It was fun. Then we went to see if I could get my appiontment for my nails changed to an earlier time. It was possible, so I went early. While having my pedicure, I was fortunate enough to have a message chair. My back felt good after my pedicure. I also got my nails done...so I have fake nails now. As annoying as they are when typing...they'll be good for growing my real nails...now they won't be bitten off when I'm stressed or bored. Anywho...I got home and we Aunty Bette did my hair and Eileen (Courtney's mom) did my make-up. Then, once I was dressed all fancy like, we headed for Rood Bridge Park for pictures. Good times at Rood Bridge. After lots of pitcure taking, Charlotte, Josh, Nathan, and I headed to the Macaroni Grill for dinner. Once there, we met our cool waiter Julio, who wrote his name in cursive and up-side-down....it looked much better than all of us writing in cursive right side up. The food was great and the company was awesome. I'm so glad I went with those 3 :) After about 45 minutes, we got our food. Then we left to go to Prom 2006. Mom and Dad did a nifty parking job that they let us have. They had parked right infront of the dance place and it was free. Go Mom and Dad! And thanks for letting us use it! Once inside..or should I say outside? Anyway, we kind of danced, but since none of us are big fans of school dances, we kind of stood and talked more than danced. That is, until the end. Then Christa and I danced together, she had saved me a dance. That was fun. After Prom, we went to Jennifer's house and watched a few Friends episodes. That was good times. Overall, Prom wasn't too bad. I definitely liked the pre-Prom and post-Prom events better than Prom itself, but I still had fun at Prom too.

This leaves us with today...Mother's Day. Brooke woke us up at 9:00 to say it was time to go to church. Well, Mom and I were both extrememly tired (for we had been up til 4:00), but we went anyway. Then we came home and got ready for a hike. We went to...I forget what it's called, but it's between the dance studio and my house...on Baseline. North something. Anywho, it was fun. We took Sophi as well. She liked coming with us. Then I did some Engilsh. Then visited the wonderful Charlotte Smith at Coffee Rush. And then worked on more English. I really am not very creative...and that's fine.

Oh...fun stuff. I recieved a bottle of perfume in the mail from a scholarship organization. I don't think I got the scholarship becuase it didn't say I had it, but on the other hand it dind't say I didn't have it....but I think the perfume was a consolation prize thing. So yeah...I now have a free bottle of pretty good smelling perfume.

I think that's it besides.......it's really, REALLY warm in my room. I don't like it. I guess I'll have to live though...won't I.

IB is Over!!!!!

Yes ladies and gentlemen, the time has come at last to celebrate. I never have to take another IB test ever again!! I can't tell you the relief I feel. For those of you who have taken the tests, you know this feeling. It feels wonderful. Now I can sit back and do nothing....which I don't know if that's a good thing either. In any case, now I don't have to worry about what will be on the test and I won't have to be responsible for knowing things either. The only things I have left to worry about school wise is my senior project in English, the bridge project in Physics, and the Musical Theatre performances. This makes me really happy :)

I went to my first full day of Tuesday dance classes yesterday. Let me say that I pretty much couldn't move this morning. I was in a lot of pain. Not only had I not danced in a while, but we had 2 extra hard classes and a third class where we danced a lot. I was sooo tired after the 2 hours and 45 minutes were done. But it felt really good to be back in class. I am almost caught up in learning recital pieces. I just need to learn Thursday's routines and then I'll know all of the dances.

Today in ballet, Lynn came in to talk about Nutcracker next year. I had just watched Nutcracker before I came to dance and was sad about not doing it already. Then she came in and made me even more sad. I think I am probably the only one at the studio who truly loves Nutcracker. I mean, as sad as it is, I would miss a year of college so that I could do Nutcracker with the studio. This is how much I love it. And I didn't get to do it my senior year. But hey, I'm not bitter. And speaking of Nutcracker, I have noticed an interesting pattern concerning Nutcracker and Dance Team. Whether this has any relevance or not, I don't know, but I just thought it was interesting. Out of the four years I have done dance team, the years we have placed are the years we did Nutcracker. The years we took off to do other productions, we didn't place. Interesting? I think so. But like I said, I don't know if the two are related, but I just thought that it was interesting. Hmm...I just said "interesting" a lot. I should find a different word...but I'm too lazy. Anywho, next year is going to be tough. I'll have time enough to come back and watch Nutcracker. I don't know if I'll be able to handle it. I'll probably cry. Yes, I know, I'm weird. But I love Nutcracker sooo much, especially the studio's version. I wish I was only a junior. This way I could do Nutcracker next year and end my high school career doing Nutcracker. Why couldn't they have postponed the every other year thing just one more year?

Crucible is over. It was a lot of fun. I am so glad I was able to be apart of this production. It was great bonding time for me. I was able to become even closer to the people I was alreaqdy close with and I met new people too. I loved having Dad be apart of the cast. It was a nice way to end my high school acting career. I was able to experience major acting growths throughout the cast, including myself. I experienced a new environment in which to act. I think my mind will take a while to go back to the proscenium stage...it'll stay on the thrust stage for a bit.

That's about all I can think of right now. I'll type again soon...especially now, since IB testing is done with and I can go back to my unhealthy style of staying up later than I should :)

The Past Few Days

I haven't written in a while. Since I don't have homework because of a certain English IB test, I have decided to type. Now the question is...what to write?

Crucible is going very well. We are doing a charity performance at 6:30 on Sunday May 7th if anyone wants to come. It is for the Katrina victims. In the show there have been a few slip-ups, but nothing too horrible. Ok, Dad yelling at Mr. Hale instead of Mr. Parris and at Mr. Parris instead of Proctor is kind of bad, but that's ok. We all still love him anyway. I am sooo proud of Dad. He has come a long way. And he is doing a phenomenal job. I am very glad that we have this opportunity to act together. I'd also like to give a shout out to Nathan. He has come a long way as well. I think this part has let him come out and be the best he has been in his high school career. This is a different acting style for him. No longer is he the pansy hero we are all used to seeing. As he said in his blog, it is a part that he can pour his heart and soul into. For those of you who do not get to see Nathan at his best...I truly am sorry. But don't worry; we'll have tapes. I can't wait to see where his acting will take him next.

This past Saturday I went to State for solo voice. I didn't get anything, but I didn't expect to. That morning wasn't a very good one. I woke up with plenty of time to spare. I got ready to go and was making breakfast when the butter slipped from my hands and splattered all over the floor, Mom, the stove, and my dress. After cleaning that up, I went to drink some tea and spilled that on me too. Luckily I had my Encore dress from 3 years ago. Anywho, we got there and I warmed up fine. During the performance however, I breathed in the wrong place for the second song, which threw me off and made the rest of the song not go as well. The first song was the best I have ever sung it, according to Karen, so that was good. But in any case, I wasn't expecting to get anything. I am just glad I was able to go to State another year.

Last night was the Mayfete Awards Assembly. It was great fun. Ok, the dancing of the Senior Court was fun. I am sooo proud of the Seniors. They learned the dance very quickly and it actually looked good. Of course, having fun choreography and music helped too. I must say that MJ and I make a good team. Our choreography rocked. A lot of people came up to us and said that it was very, very good. I'm really glad that I was able to be on court. I had a lot of fun choreographing the dance and performing it.

Yesterday I came to the realization that I really only have like 4 weeks left of high school. Kind of scary. I don't know if I like the idea. I mean, I will be in college soon. I will be done with high school soon. I will be on my own...fending for myself. I don't think I like the idea of being away from everything that is familiar. And after 4 years of college, I will be on my own even more...looking for a job, finding a house, and amy more things. Ahhhh!!!!! Life is going tooo fast for me. What ever happened to the days of playing with dolls and running around the neighborhood? What happened to Freshman year? Was it really only 4 years ago? What happened to the beginning of this year? As much as I love to say that I am done with school and I don't want to be there anymore, I can't help but be scared of what lies ahead. What will I do with myself after college? I guess I'll just have to wait and see...

I think that'll be all for now. Come see The Crucible this weekend. Little Mermaid is in a few weeks.

Michelle, I'm really sad that we didn't get to say goodbye. I am glad that we did see eachother though, even if it was for a short time. You make me happy :)