i never write in this anymore.
school is going great. in the first week it was better than all of last year. i have laughed so hard i cried. i have been pissed off. i have put all faith in my decision that girls suck.
catch that?
boys however, are amazing. i'm now on phase two. yay!
back to school things.
classes are going well, i have like 13 and 18 hours. but hopefully i wont die. aural skills is both kicking my ass and going well. dont know how that one happened. going home this weekend!!! hanging out with katie and i'm super excited. saturday i'm coming back to app for the appletree party most likely. should be fun. maybe not safe for everybody there, but i'll do cpr or something, cause its likely some will die. haha should be fun, regardless. ummmmmmmmm marching band is working out terrifically. i'm technically an alternate, but i dont think it will be too awful bad. katie is letting me march her spot in pregame. thank jesus.
i just dont know what to type in here anymore.
sooo end.

i'm so happy!
ah.
i really like being up here. i love all the people. band camp turned out really well. it was different than last year, we weren't outside as much, plus i knew what i was doing. well, kinda. and i knew all the people. we go to michigan in 2 weeks! thats right.
i auditioned yesterday for jazz band.
it went soooo well. i actually did a happy dance, and couldn't stop. i could do one right now.
he's posting who made it tonight and i can't wait. but i'll have to. because i have to audition for concert band in about 4 hours. no one can play that music. it's hard stuff.
anddd i have to take a shower.
holla!

woo!
band camp has been a blast.
and yeah, i'm tired, and in desperate need of a back massage. but its been glorious. and so has this whole past week sans roommate. i just lovvvvve having my own room. cause i can get ready without creeping around in the dark. anyways. i havent went to bed before like 1 allll week. bad idea, but man i've had fun. been playing wii like nobodys business.
got invited to go clubbing last night.
did not happen.
so, there are less trumpets this year than last year. which is fine, except i'm trumpet 38 in the drill. guess who's an alternate?
me.
i thought i was going to die. i offered money to thousands of people, but i still am. i can barely learn my own drill, much less other random people that don't show up on game days. it's going to be bad.
however
katie, who is in DCI and the most perfect marcher EVER...broke her pelvis in finals. and so i'm in her spot.
shew.
for now.

yeahhhhh i'm gonna go take a nap.

sooo today was my birthday.
went bowling / cruising last night and it was so much fun. cameron had gotten a lane right beside brandon warren, joni, dakota, brandon, matt w,/v, and so that worked out really nicely. bowled without looking at the pins, and while looking directly at brandon while he bowled and i got a spare. excellent job, me. haha. and then i killlled cameron in air hockey, but he should have because he resuced the puck from my hitting it across and under the arcade game.
went to band camp some last week. they actually don't sound half bad. i'm proud of them, really. the trumpets did some good work.
one of them figured out my full name, address, and phone number, and it was creepy.
oh well.
ummmm i've driven a lot this week. got my AC fixed! after months of driving w/o one, and it feels so good.
i feel so strange. and confused about somethings that i thought were resolved. but no.

went to the scrimage game at ac the other day. it was soooo hot. but well worth it.
reunion today wasnt all bad. went to rick's house. its like 200 years old and i love old stuff. took lots of pictures. if you want to see, i'm pretty sure they'll make it on to facebook. i love old stuff. then we went to my grandparents and my cousins put frogs on me and my white pants, but its ok. cause i <3 them. they're getting old and its weird. oooooh i go back to school in 2 days.
i'm getting nervous.
and i dont know why.

okay, this is huge, and i'm ending it.

ok thats all.

i'm 19!!!

ugh. i feel like i've been so busy. allll summer. and its pretty much flown by, but now i'm down to two weeks left. i'm still undecided as to if i'm excited or not to be going back. i think it's 50/50. i have reasons for feeling both ways.

i should pack soon. last time i packed the night before and that sucked.

abbye's party friday/saturday night was loooots of fun. played a lot of games. mickey was like a late night tv host, so that was hilarious. the fruit game is my new favorite game. and spoons, even though i won first, lost first, and the won first again, only to lose first thing the next time. abbye's mountain house (part II of the party) was fun as well, but it was actually in the middle of nowhere and took a lonnng time to get to. but! i figured out how to drive around on interstates and find my way around mysterious towns. oh, and how to magically get on the right road after getting off on the totally wrong exit. ok, i dont know how magical that was, and i didnt really figure it out, but it happened. and i dunno how.

but at any rate, i love meeting all these new people.

i painted the kitchen today. it's ivory-ish instead of yellow. i dunno if i like it or not. picked up marie from church camp covered in paint. but all in all it was a pretty productive day.

i've had a fun week.
i've went to town about everyday this week. i havent went to taylorsville that much this whole summer. so thats weird. anywayssss got my harry potter book friday! will, courtney and ryan went too, so it was fun to stand in line. finished it up on saturday at 8 o'clock. i think i moved three times alllll saturday, just to go to the bathroom cause i was so in that book. but now its over and i'm sad. good book though. umm friday i babysat jesse. she's a cool kid, but my lord she cheats on games. apparently, while playing Life, i am supposed to give her like 1000 dollars every time i spin a number. so...guess who lost? me.
saturday night i went with cameron bowling. i am the worst bowler ever. it went directly in the gutter every time. air hockey-- different story. man i havent laughed that hard in a while.
and i'm happy.

kernersville this weekend!

and 3 more weeks till school.

i have been soooo busy. but i just typed bosy and it made me laugh, untill i backspaced.

anyway...

i feel like i've been everywhere. and i'm hanging out with the most random people, and most of them i've never met before, just know them through somebody. it's a lot of fun. i guess i was so set in hanging out with people i always hang out with that i never really thought anything could be better, but thats over now. and new people are great.
so me and jenny went and ate last night, and that was so much fun. i hadnt seen her in about...well, i guess since january-ish. i really missed her.
i had the strangest dream last night. it was amazing, and oooh i wish it had actually happened, but thats the thing about dreams.

saturday night i went up to boone for amanda's picnic. it was so much fun. jacob and i climbed, no, we definetly SCALED the side of a mountain. that was scary and fun. then we realized it led into somebodys front yard, and so we repeled down. well, it was more like falling, or maybe even tumbling for me.
then we ran up and down thousands of tiny mountains, cause thats where tana lives. so i was tired, and hot. we also played the slapping hands game, and it lasted about an hour. my hands were tingling. but oh how we laughed. i dont know if i've ever clicked with anybody that fast.

and sunday i played at melea's church where i blasted out a note a half step down from the one i was supposed to hit and it was bad. ryan made me laugh so hard though. and it wouldn't have been so bad if we wouldnt have been in front of the whole church. but its still funny, so...at least we looked like we were having a good time.

ok ... i pretty sure i'm getting carpel (sp?) tunnel. better stop typing.

so
if you ever wondered how to make the house smell like smoke--
leave rice on the stove 45 min. after its supposed to be off the stove.
ohhh yeah.

hah ok so on another note, in about one month and one week i'll be back at boone, and at bandcamp. boooo. i'm going hiking in like 10 minutes. not sure how i feel about that, but i think it'll rain, anyway.
going to abbi's birthday party tomorrow! should be amazing. and we're going on an adventure.
then, abbye slades birthday in a couple of weeks. that too should be fun.
last night i went to hunters and watched talladaga nights. very funny, however, license to wed- hhilarioussss. haha man. its good.

i had the worst dream ever last night. i'm still not over it. it's put me in a very pensive mood. i'm not sure if that word is used rightly, but at any rate, it got me thinking.
and i'm pretty sure as to what i feel, but i dont want to be.

enough rambling.

gottttttta go to grandfather mountain! and heck no i'm not about to go on that shaky bridge suspended over thousands of feet in the air. i will stay on the ground if i'm going to be on a mountain. shew.

ahhh
its been the LONGEST day ever.
going to bed at 4 am and waking up at 8 am sucks
went to boone, ate w/my grandparents, got marie from bball camp
then came home, got ready for a wedding, went to worship practice, went to the wedding, cleaned up
and now i'm tired as the dickens.
the wedding was interesting. i only actually went to the reception. but ... it was mom's friend's son's wedding. yup. they met over the internet. she's my age. he is not. i think he's 24? anyways, thats pretty shady... but she seems nice enough.
but i could never get married right now.
a)too much stuff going on anyway
b)pretty sure i'd need a boy first

tomorrow i get to play for first assembly for the first time
yay!/ eek
hopefully it goes allright, but today was a good day, playing wise, so tomorrow might not go so hot. at either rate, i consistently hit those high c's
:) times 1000

this week has either went by really fast, or really slow. i think i did something about every night with hunter dear, and that was fun. i've watched so many movies lately, its actually kinda sad. i went with him to work on thursday. so, i met this lady who had 30 million dollars, thats right, 30 million. but now she only has 10. and had 5 homes. and still has 3, one in piper glen, one in ASPEN, one in hawaii. she did live in lauagna beach.
and had diamond earings the size of my fist.
i was in awe.
anyways, she had rented a WAREHOUSE to hold all her stuff from her 5 homes.
it was WILD how much stuff she had. i mean really. you'd have to see it to believe it.
me and josh found a genie lamp. yeah, it was plastic, but it was still an awesome find. we also created fire with a magnifying glass. haha. kinda scary.
mmm went to boone FINALLY and hung out with brandon, daijah and whitney.
that was lots of fun, and woodlands bbq is pretty much BANGIN'.


end!

so
richard changed shells yesterday. he was in an awesome orange one with music notes. but no, he changed to a big gay lilac on with dog footprints on it.
stupid hermit crab.
oh well.
cody came over yesterday, and gave marie 6 hamsters. who needs 6 of those things? one is more than enough. usually, i like hamsters.
however
ALL (and we've had probably close to...10-ish cause they had babies) have died within a year. and they weren't albino.
now....
i dont know what it is, but i dont like albino...anything. and every single one of these hamsters is WHITE with RED beady eyes.
ughhhhh.
3 of them are reallllly small. infact, marie's named them "Tiny"
she's so good with words.
haha
ummm she had her 5th grade graduation. and they had every one that even thought about giving a speech give one. it went on. and on. and on. theres only so many times one can say "make the right choices in middle school" and " we're going to miss you at bethlehem"
but they did it at least 17 times.

in other news
i texted until 1 am yesterday.
prettttty sure i devolped carpel tunnel. however its spelled.

pool party tomorrow!!! then bowling.
hollllla

so
i've been pretty busy. did a looooooot of demos. because i am the hawiian tropic spokesperson, and thats what i do. i've went to every walmart it seems like. i havent, thats a BIG exageration, but i have went to at least 6. anyways, moorsville's walmart was interesting. there was this woman- age 60, because she told me so, along with her life story, who unzipped her pants and pulled them down to show me her tummy tuck scar. in the middle of a busy walmart.
i was disgusted.
but....
i just said wow.
so she talked to me for about 30 minutes. there always seems to be that one person that will just talk and talk and talk.
anyways, saturday, there were these gorgeous men from austraila at statesville. i dunno why they were there, but it was fine with me. i gave them LOTS of sunscreen. and they won the drawing, so we got to call them and it was soo funny. he was like 'now, i won whaat?' and mom said something like spring float, and he said oooo i won a swing set, eh? haha he never did understand what he won, but its allright. because he had an amazing accent and i would have listened to them alllll day.

so i earned 350 bucks and thats cool.

but- dad says i have to get a job. and i am aghast at the thought of it, but, it would be nice to have some money, and i do need to actually get one before i try to go out in 'the real world'.
i hate outside. my allergies are soooo bad, its ridiculous.
so me and hunter watched a movie last night and i was scared. i jumped off the couch. and ate ice cream. mint chocolate chip is pretty good. then i got home and dad went on some thing about where were his old 8 tracks. like i had annnny idea. so he went searching for them. i dont think he found them though. he did find something, and it provided hours of laughter.
tomorrow i proctor for bethlehem for the eogs.
i sooo got roped into that one. and i do not want to wake up and watch kids take that test. i didnt even like sitting there taking it, and i'm pretty sure watching won't be any better.
oooh well.

well dang i havent written in here for ages.
nothing much is new.
still extremely glad that i'm not in school. and not looking forward to marching band, even though i miss it. its gonna be a lot of work, and we might be going to michagan. not sure how i feel about that.
so i've been pretty busy lately.
went to the beach last week and helped babysit with elizabeth. i decided that i do not want kids. i mean, if it happens, it happens, but i dont think i'll TRY for them, because they were crazy. i couldnt do it. butttt i did get a tan, so it was worth it.
umm i'm going to be doing a lot of those demos at walmart sooo come by any walmart around here and i'll be there handing out sunscreen like a good hawiiain tropic spokesperson. haha yeahhhh.
so!
yesterday andrew called. and we went out for lunch. that was nice. hes a pretty...i dunno. he's interesting, and very different than anybody else i know. he has his lip peirced. and he is pretty amazing at guitar hero.
: )
i watched the black dahila a couple nights ago and was extremely dissapointed. i really thought it would be good, but...it was only confusing. i think it was allright overall, but it might be one of those you have to watch A LOT to really understand.
i go to get "trained" or whatever for the EOG proctoring today. yeahhh got roped into that one. oh well, its something to do.
hmm what else.
i do believe that is all for now. no interesting thoughts are left in me, not that those were.

i lovvvvve summer break.
it is fantastic.
and school, when it comes around again, is going to suck.
i've slept allll day!
my allergies were the worst they've been in a looooong time. i couldnt open one eye and i was walking around (well, really more like stumbling around cause i kept sneezing so much) so i broke down and took many benedryl. and woke up at 6 something.
had some amazing dreams though.
i love dreams.

home is the most glorious place

and i say that now

don't hold it to me.





oh and schindler's list allllmost got added to the list of movies that made me cry.
the list is only 2 movies long.
that movie would have been the only one that actually made sense for me to cry in. but...i'm strong, so i didnt.

end!

i cant believe that my freshman year of COLLEGE is done.
i cant believe i've met soooo many new, amazing, wonderful people/teachers. not that teachers arent people, but...its such a change.
every sentence in this from here on out is going to be a 'I can't believe...'(so and so)

-that i made it through marching band. alive.
-that i have to make it through another year of marching band.
-that i made insanely good grades last semester, and have very bad ones this semester
-that i wrote 25,000 words for one exam.
-that i stayed up untill 3 am last night, doing absolutly nothing. and then got up at 9, to go eat breakfast.
-that me and brandon signed up for the same soc. class and didn't know it.
-that both my fish and my hermit crab are still alive.
-that so much happened.
-that i'm not friends with some people,....but even better friends with some.

and i've learned that-

-some things just happen. you just have to shrug your shoulders and keep on going.
-tom hanks is amazing
-spending time with your family/just staying home on weekend nights...isnt as bad as it sounds.
-helping people just because you want to is one of the best feelings
-laughing for hours at welbourne is something i'll never forget
-boys that randomly talk to you are (sometimes!) actually really nice
-playing trumpet is a whole different thing than i thought it was
-eating bananas works wonders if you're nervous.
-practice really does help.
-benedryl knocks me the heck out. (i already knew this, but, its currently working on me now)

and, this could be the bendryl talking, but i cant believe that high school is really over. its so...weird. i feel like we're just on summer break or somthing and we're all going to be back with everybody anytime now. but we're not. i wish high school would of been more like college...really, anybody will talk to anybody. and i wish high school would have taught us more, it wasnt a challenge. it was just something you had to go to. i dont feel like i learned half the things i've learned here in a semester that i did in 4 years at AC.
its just so weird.

in other news!
i had a good weekend. went to brandons for reading day, and that was fun. saw the funniest, but worst (as it usually is) video in the world. thursday afternoon my grandpa took me out for ice cream. that was wonderful. i love my grandpa. he's turning 80 this december. crazzzyy. thursday night was LR's concert, which was really rather good. friday..i dont remember. there was something. sunday i was at my granddaddy's all day. i love my granddaddy.
and both my grandmamas, too.

end!!

ooo i got to actually sleep today.
it was wonderful. as was my dream. mmmmmmm. very nice.
however, after i woke up, realized my dream was only that, it sucked. all i did was english. and i seriously about went crazy. then i studied for the other exams. i better do well. i really about have to, or i'll have to take them again, for i have to get a good 'c' in all the music ones, or i quit being that major. sucks.
but anyways, later on me and cameron went out. and that was nice. we watched 'next'. veryyy good. bad ending. but overall, better than i thought.
end!

oh my lord.
i hate, with a passion, the last week of school.
there is so much stuff going on.
got my piano exam over, though i barely remember taking it cause i was alllll on some benadryl, and well, if you've been around me when thats in my system...well, its not good. but i think it went okay. reveiwing for theory//arual skills sucks. buts its gotta be done. anddd i played in trumpet class monday, that was stressful, but i'm so glad its over. now i've got my jury coming on, on friday. blarhhh. oh well. going to hickory thursday night to hear lr's band. i miss them, and i bet theyre playing some amazing stuff.

in other news

i have met two random boys in 3 days.
ones really cool and one is really creepy.
haha oh theres some good stories about the creepy one though.

either way its hot as heck in this dorm room. and i'm tired. going to bed at 2 is silly.
concert tonight! rosen, be there. i will be playing beautifully.
notttttttt.

end!

so...the last weeks of school suck.
everythings so busy....so many tests/projects/last minute extra credit
not to mention the EXAMS at the end.
and juries are coming up. blah. i do not like juries or playing for the studio.
on the up side, arabo and i are playing the same song.
could be a really good, or a really bad thing.
who knows.
i gotta go write a paper.

so far, its not been a great day.

ah.
i love breaks.
but i hate coming back.
and i love sleeping and thats pretty much alllll i did sunday. that and eat butterfinger eggs. mmm.
um...i've been allright. allergies are kicking my butt, but dont they every spring.
grades are looking downright BAD. last semester was wonderful, i did better than i did in high school.
this semester i'm going to do worse that i ever did. ever. oooh well. its harder and i'm busier. and somehow more tired as well.
concert saturday, you should go, its the quintet i'm in.
and a general store friday with brrrrandon.


that is it.