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| Grad Party Weekend.CURRENTLY LISTENING:
ARTIST: JUST SURRENDER
ALBUM: STRONGER NOW
Friday was girls's night for Alyssa Evans, Jacqui Hatch and I. They came over around 6-7ish, after the thunderstorm passed and we watched some Michael Jackson on Alyssa's laptop while she fixed her drawing of her and Topher, which she planned to give him for a gift. We ate porkchops and mashed potatoes for dinner, but also pigged out on Dipsy Doodles and Oreos. We played Disney "Scene It?" during which Alyssa was Minnie Mouse, Jacqui was Goofy, and I was Donald Duck! Alyssa won. Eventually we decided to do makeup and looked up tutorials on YouTube. Jacqui did everyone's make up. We wanted colorful styles, because Jacqui needed practice and it's also the style I want to learn how to do, but I need to buy makeup brushes first.
meee:
& me and alyssa evans:
Jacqui did an amazing jobb! :] Then we chilled online and chit-chatted. We ended up watching the Jonas Brother 3D movie and going to bed at like 6:20. We woke up about 5 hours later& Jacqui went home around 12.
Not soon after, Alyssa and I went to Dan's graduation partyyy. That was pretty chill. We ate a little, talked to Steven Vega (his cousin, an alto sax in marching band), and played badminton. Dan also gave out senior pictures and had this memory book for everyone to sign. Alyssa and I left Dan's around three and headed over to Kyle's party, but first, as I was walking out to Alyssa's car, I saw this tall kid standing in front of a red car. I soon realized that the tall kid was Brian Reed and everything in my brain clicked; I was like...Brian...Brian means OHMYGOD JUSTIN! And I broke off into a run and jumped into the car, hugging Justin Sagurton, whom I haven't seen in over a year, and Jason Silverstein, with whom I just graduated. So I sat in the car and talked to them for like ten minutes. I felt really bad keeping Alyssa waiting, but I was just so excited to see Justin. Eventually I got out of Mary, Justin's Camaro, and into Alyssa's Oldsmobile and off we went to Blakeslee. She parked in Kyle's car and we walked over to his grandmother's, where the party was held. On the way over, this little kid in a yellow shirt on a bike stared at me as we were walking! What the hellll?
Oh my lord! Don't even get me started on perverted boyssss! adjfkhbldkjfghdlkjgah. Back to Kyle's party!
When we got there, things were a bit awkward at first, but I had some cake and icecream and everyone chilled in the living room for a bit. Apparently Deidra figured out about the Topher& Kyle, because she asked Alyssa and I about it! But anywho. At some point, the party moved downstairs, and Kyle has these awesome egg like circley chairs! Collin sat on one, Collin being my favorite saxophoneeeee and so I sat on his lap! We texted each other& we tried tickling me! I ended up rolling off of Collin's lap and onto the floor; about a minute later, Collin got off the couch and laid on top of me. Thennnn Brandon started playing really weird music on the TV after a bunch of people played MadGab, so the few of us left inside joined the others out in the backyard. The party decided to talk a walk and we split up into cliques. The first clique was Kyle, Haylee, and Rachael, then it was Topher, Alyssa, and Deidra, and lastly Collin, Brandon, Kylene, and myself. Brandon was on bike though, but he stuck with us. Kyle, I do believe, was busy telling Haylee and Rachael all about him and Topher and all the drama surrounding them. Topher and Alyssa kind of made up, while Deidra stuck around. Kylene, Collin, and I looked through my yearbook. When we got there, the first clique went swimming, the second went on the dock to talk, and the third stayed in the sand for a bit, then ran over to the swings!<3
I love swings sosososo muchhh! They make me feel like I can fly.
So everybody chilled until around 7:50. The party started its way back to Kyle's grandmother's house. Collin and Brandon took forever deciding if they wanted to walk to not, so I waited for them and we ended up taking a different way. Anywho, we get our stuff and leave. Of course I forgot Bianca's yearbook at the house, so we had to go back and get it. But yeah, so Alyssa and I go home and stayed up until 2 in the morning. Then we laid down and had a good talk with a few laughs. It was really nice. TELL ME HOW, Kyle tells me that his mother said I was all over Collin, meanwhile it was actually Collin attached to my hip. Even Valerie said that it's typical Collin behavior! Argh.
The next morning, we got up around 9 to get ready for Topher's party. Let me tell you, car rides with Alyssa are hella enjoyable.
The song "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter came on and we blasted the radio and belted the lyrics. Goood time! We got to Topher's at around 11:30, and he made us go around the back! We had to walk through the wet grass and mud. Our shoes need to be cleaned! His mom came outside and talked with us for about half an hour or so, because Topher was late to his own party and went to shower. I really like his mom, she's cool to talk to. OH! Tell me how, when Kyle and Rachael got here, they were allowed to walk through the front? Alyssa and I were like ARE YOU SERIOUSSSS? But whatevs. His party was fun, even though I got like 5 mosquito bites at his house. The entire party went swimming, but Alyssa and I had to go to her house to get clothes to swim in. When we got there, she ranted about the boys, actually, we both ranted, AND I got a tour of her house. I love her room and her Jonas Brothers room. They're puhretty awesomeeee. She has posters everywhere! I wish my dad would let me decorate like that. Then Nate texted me, so I told him everyone was swimming and that we'd meet him at the house. We got there, we swam, we joked around, it was fun. Alyssa and I decided to be daring and swim over to the dock. Nasty shit that was on those dock posts, let me tell youu! Bahahaha. So now, the problem at Topher's party was that Nate was all over me. I would constantly bring up how he's a manwhore etc, but jokingly, even though he knew that I was at least half serious and he would pipe up and go "HEY! I'M NOT A PLAYER." Ha ha ha...riiiiight. I tried resisting, it was veryvery difficult. He would constantly hug me and I was just like aaaahhhh! Brittany Sohle and I had to pop and squeeze everything out of this ingrown hair pimple thing he had. It was huge and had soso much puss in it. I was doing most of the dirty work and holy guhrossness! But it was good for him, because the thing went down a lot. Brittany put hydrogen peroxide on it and a bandaid. They also had sparklers and fireworks at Topher's party, which was puhretty sweet as well. Of course he had food, nomnomnom spanish rice and beans and then later on cake! As Alyssa and I were leaving, Nate carried me off and shoved me in his car, locking me in. Having a brain, I went to the other side, unlocked the door before he ran over and escaped! But of course he put me in some sort of lock/hold and kissed me before I left. Yeah, a really stupid move on my part, I know. But...I know not to expect anything from him at all, so I threw all my feelings out the window and I'm just going to ignore that it happened, because it meant nothing! No matter what he says, I know it meant nothing. So I'm alright.
Alyssa slept over one more night, even though she was supposed to sleep over at Topher's, because Kyle made her feel uncomfortable. I'm sorry, but that's absolute bullshit. She cried while driving. Ahh, it made me so sad. But we came home and chilled and I'm not sure what time we went to bed, but I think it was earlyish. She left the next day, Monday, at 12:30. I miss herrr!
Monday and Tuesday I chilled at home, but Tuesday I was feeling a little artsy. I couldn't decide what to draw. Then, Jonathan Slinger texted me. I asked him if he had any suggestions for my drawing and he said "Mee!" I asked him what picture and he chose his Facebook default. I worked on it all day and night, and then a little bit today. Here's how it came out...
actual picture:
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my drawing:
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The picture of the drawing is bad quality, because I had to use my webcam, soooo, yeah. But I showed it to Jon today on Stickam and he said he likes it, so yaaaay! Everyone thinks I did a good job on it; I'm happy. Studio Art I class really did teach me something. I think I'm going to try and be artsy more often. Bahaha. I do have pastels now! Hanna bought me those yesterday. :]
Yesterday, I hung out with Hanna and these two Stroudsburg boys I met online through Hanna and Arianna, Forest and Joe. Forest and Arianna are dating now, cuuuute! Anyway. So I went to Hanna's, walking with her from the PCP gate to her house in the pouring rain. We fixed our hair, talked to her stepdad, and waited for the boys to be ready. Forest and Joe picked us up at the gate (it was sunshine warm weather by that time)& off we went. It's so funny, because at stop lights, well, at least at this one, Joe got out of the car, went to the trunk, took out a huge bouncy ball, got back in the car, and bounced it out the window. Bahaha, at one point, Forest took Joe's hat, so Joe attempted to get it back, causing Forest to swerve all over the road. OH MY, Forest does not, or wasn't at least that day, wear his seatbelt when he drives which really bothered Hanna and I, but we didn't say anything. So first stop was Forest's house, where I saw his puppy, Mocha Latte, and his tarantula, Rosy. Yes, his tarantula. It was so weird to hold, because it was fuzzy and, I don't even know, it was so weird but so cool. Then we went inside, because Hanna had to pee and I wanted to see Forest's cat! He cat is so pretty, but she had like...missing skin on the back of her neck. Forest thinks she got caught on something, but she's okay. Poor thing<3. We also listened to his dad tell jokes, which was pretty amusing. During one joke, I guess he just used random names and...
Forest's Dad: "So there are these two Polish guys, Stache and...give me another Polish name..."
Joey: "MOUSTACHE!"
ROFL, I WAS DYINGGGG! I could not stop laughing; Joe thought I was going to stop breathing. Lmao, I think I almost did. That just...made my day, it was so hilarious. After his dad's jokes, we went to get pizza and that's when Hanna bought me pastels and blending sticks. Although I don't have pastel paper, I'm sure I can still use them, or find a store that sells pastel paper around here, and get started! I'm so excited, except I left the pastels at her house, like the idiot I am. She's in Rhode Island for a few days too, so I can't get them back until next week. Boohiss. Back to what we did. We went back to Forest's, pigged out on Sicilian pizza, and then had to go back and get more! But the four of us just dropped off the order and went to Wal*Mart. We were originally going to make mouthgasmic Oreo pie, but since we were running out of time, we just bought Cookie Dough and Peanut Butter Cup ice creams. Next stop was Joe's house, where we munched on ice cream. Nomnomnom! Bahaha, Joe and Forest were like WTF, because I kept sitting on the floor, even though there were chairs right in front of my face at both houses. I don't know, I just like the floor. I feel like I have more room and it's just more comfortable to me. Oh, Joey is ridiculously ticklish, it's so great! :D Bahaha, Joe and I get along really well. As Hanna put it to Arianna "Leandra and Joe hit it off nicely as friends." I agree, we definitely did. Forest is a cool kid too. We got back to PCP half an hour early and messed around with a soccer ball. Then, ten minutes to 8, we ran/walked on and off to Hanna's house, making it home just in time! It was kinda scary, and since I get shortness of breath to begin with when I run, plus my really bad coughing that day, I didn't run a lot. The boys were allowed to stay for half an hour. My cough only got worse, and I took two different types of medicine. Joe measured me& apparently I'm not even up to his nipples, how depressing! Then Forest stood in front of me. Holy intimidation looking up at Forest, rofl. They're both around 6'3" and I'm 4'10". Jeeeeeesus! At 8:30 they had to leave and we all hugged goodbye (Joey picked me up in his hug and I think I might've freaked him out a bit, because I wrapped my legs around him? I can't help it! It's like natural, because I don't like my feet dangling. Oops?) Not too long after Joe and Forest left, Hanna and her step dad, Ken (who still cracks me up beyond belief), dropped me home. I took my medicine and threw up. It was weird, because it was like clear slimy liquidy stuff? I don't know, it was gross and thank god I grabbed a tissue in time. So I had to retake my medicine and this time I downed it with water, because that's what Joe said you're supposed to do. Bahah. EW, tell me how Forest like loves Biology. I HATE Biology, but absolutely love Chemistry. I sound like such a nerd saying that, lmao. Oh wells. Wednesday was so much fun though, it really wassss! :D<33
Todaaay, well, yesterday at this point, since it's 5:18 in the morning...Yesterday, Thursday, I stayed home. Alyssa Mancini came over to give me suggestions on the drawing of Jon and then we just sit and talked. We LESM'd a little and I talked to Joey online. Then, around 9:30, I asked if Jonathan wanted to see the drawing and he said yes. I was sososososo scared to show it to him, I think I almost seriously cried. Bahaha, but we hopped on webcam with each other and I showed him, and he likes it. Then we stayed on webcam and talked to each other while Alyssa Mancini, her little sister Katie, and I played video games. First we played Donkey Konga 2, then Super Smash Brothers Melee. Jon and I had a bet going that I couldn't stay up until 2am with him, which was a piece of cake, because I am normally up past that in the summer, I mean come on, look at the time I'm posting this entry! Jonathan is such a dorkkk! He's so silly, but it's adorable.
Ahhh, shoot me, but I think I started liking him again today. It's so bad. I can't. He just got out of a relationship with a girl and jsadkfghjklasdh. I have college and he still had two years, and I'm just like nonononononono! Especially since he tried to hook Nate and I up? Like what the hell is thaaat?! But aahh, he's so <3. NO. NONONONONONO! We might hang out Saturday or Monday, and to be honest, I'm scared. I'm scared to really like him again. It's ridiculous. I cannot.
ADJKFGHALKJGHLKJDFHALDJKFHAKJ!
I'm okay, but I think I should go to bed now, since it's almost broad daylight. Goooodnight! Err....good morning east coastt!
If you could be the one that will save me, stop driving me crazy. I think it's safe to say that you need me, but you can't believe me. I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy, baby, crazy, crazy. | | |
| Ack, There Goes A Lung.
My cough will not let up and it's really bad. I can hardly get out a sentence without coughing. I don't think the medicine is doing me much good either. Last night, I was on the phone with Justin Sagurton for +2 hours and he was like "I FEEL SO BAD, YOU NEED A HUG." Bahaha, I <3 him. We haven't had a good conversation in quite a while, so last night was good. Him and Jason Silverstein want to break me out of my house one night, but I doubt that'll happen. I do have to figure out how to hang out though. Ugh, I hate having to lie to my dad to hang out with my guy friends, it's so stupid. I really wish he'd trust& give me a bit more freedom; I'm almost 18.
LESM is almost up to 4, 000 messages! Holyyyyy shitaki mushrooms. LESM-- Long Epic Status Message. LESM consists of me, Sara Huey, Alyssa Mancini, Valerie Bardhi, Kristen Marventano, and Jason Silverstein. We talk about pretty much any and everything, except Jason, he doesn't contribute very much, but I do think he skims it. LESM was started by Sara Huey when she sent us a Messaged with the title Status, because everyone there almost started fighting with Sam Pereira on one of her statuses and she told us not to. It's a pretty Epic message with everything we talk about. And the Long? Well...4, 000 messages and counting?
So last night was pretty mind fucking, to say the least. Nate and I were having a normal conversation and it was really nice. In fact, I think Nate and I need to have normal conversations more often, but at one point in the night, Jon Slinger decided to play matchmaker. Him coming into the conversation was all fine and fun at first, buuuutt
Jonathan Slinger
ohh bay bay!. you two gonna pipe!?
Leandra Boodoo
nate and i?!
in your dreams, maybe. :P
rofl, that just reminded of the time when you freaked out during lunch about how we should date.
Jonathan Slinger
hahahahha =D
it was funnny. and i guess me and you are never ever ever ever ever evere evere eefverever efEVER! hanging outt are wee?
and why in my dreams i could care less if you and him go out though i would like to see both of you happpy!!
Leandra Boodoo
and we are if our plan would not fall apart for onceee! and i suppose i need your phone number if it changed?!
when would you like to hang out? our plans will go through this time, i promise. bahahahahaha.
and awws, thaaanks! :]
Jonathan Slinger
hahaha i doubttt ittt our plans fail!
like EPICLY! I DONT KNOW HOW TO SPELL THAT!. hah and no its the same nnumber text mee=)
Leandra Boodoo
EPICALLY.
i won't fall asleep this time. lmao. i was going to text you that day, but i didn't wanna seem like a nag :{P
Nathaniel Partis
well, it seems you two have a little predicament. may i suggest sunday at this club in stroudsburg? U21 night is sunday!
Jonathan Slinger
hahaha. nahh nateee you werent supposed to read the abovee!
punkkkk
you should date leandraa.. leandra dont read this!
Nathaniel Partis
hahaha, i dont think she wants too!!! LEANDRA DONT READ THIS!!!!
my bad
Leandra Boodoo
SHIT.
...don't read what? :]
club... isn't that where you're going with alicia or something? i would, but alyssa evans is sleeping overrrr i told you that, you goose!
Nathaniel Partis
yea!! but its every sunday, i think. lol
Leandra Boodoo
correction nate, i don't think you* want to.
we kinda sorta distinguished this earlier in the conversation. :P
Jonathan Slinger
loook what i startedd. seee you both want to!
Nathaniel Partis
exactly!!! lol LEANDRA DONT READ THIS!!!
Leandra Boodoo
you hush, mr. matchmaker over there. :P
Nathaniel Partis
hey, he has a point young lady!!!
Jonathan Slinger
haha goshh nate date leandraa-leandra dont read thattt
and leandra date nate!- nate dont read this!
Leandra Boodoo
YOU TWO.
-smackk-
hayhayhay, mr. nate ol' buddy ol' pal.
you don't wanna. you said so yourself. indirectly.
"at some point i would have"
aaannnnddd
"confused boy who doesn't know what or more specifically who he wants"
your words, not mine.
jon, don't go putting words in my mouth and crazy ideas in my brain! >:O
Jonathan Slinger
i did not put words in your mouth you little punk!
and of course nate would date you. hes amazing. your amazing. perfecttion!:D
Nathaniel Partis
leandra, i would date you. there, those are words and my mouth. haha.
and, they were "i would have given the world to date you"
i wouldnt give the world anymore, because i realized that without that theres nowhere to take you on a date. hahahahaha
Jonathan Slinger
hahahhahaha awhhhh!!!!! nateee!
Nathaniel Partis
YEA!!!!!!
Leandra Boodoo
yoooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuu!
we could go to outer space and sail among the stars. :D
ew, okay, i'm being a fgt.
what happened to not knowing what or who you want?
JON -shakes fist violently and texts-
Nathaniel Partis
hahahahahahahahahaha, well, i dont, your just near the top of the list. i would date you
Leandra Boodoo
would and wanting to are two different things. ;] when you figure yourself out you can hit me up with that again and we'll see. :P
Nathaniel Partis
well then. way to shoot me in the foot, im hurt. :(
Jonathan Slinger
nateeee think about ittt!
Leandra Boodoo
well, nate, in all seriousness, i'm sorry. i can't. you really don't know what you want.
you know the notes you've posted.
and we haven't talked in quite a while, except for today, so how i'm on top of your list is beyond me.
like you said, you don't know who you would actually be serious with, because there are other girls that you like and whatnot and would date.
i can't risk that. i don't want another me-emilywoodman thing happening.
plus, i'm going to college and you're moving, so idek. i know we've said before that doesn't matter and i agree for the most part it really shouldn't/wouldn't matter.
but aahhh. idk.
Nathaniel Partis
i know, thats why i understand. and this list is really strange, idk. im thinkin hun, i just know i like u. im sorry i put u through hell
Leandra Boodoo
:]
it's really okay nate. i wish that you figure everything out and do what will make you happiest at the time and in the long run.
Jonathan Slinger
LEANDRA WILL! leandra dont read thiss.
butt natte i know you pretty welll. and you need a breakkk. you need a girlw ho would meet you halfwayyy leandra is perfecttt!
But you can't exactly take a conversation like that seriously when you see things like:
Nathaniel Partis hahaha it means mean. and yea, i guess none of us win. damn. sunday?
Alicia Montano Sunday wat? And no i win cuz im more amazing than you are
Nathaniel Partis to that club!!! and well see that later
Alicia Montano Werd lets go and well see wat that im amazing
Nathaniel Partis yupp
Alicia Montano Well you dont need to see you already know lol
Nathaniel Partis well, i wanna reminder
Alicia Montano Wat kind of reminder?
Nathaniel Partis the kind we are texting about
Nathaniel Partis duh
Hmm, I don't know. Maybe I'm assuming and making an ass out of myself, but who cares? That was all I need to convince myself that I can't take that previous conversation to heart. It wasn't serious. Whatever, I know better than to let myself like him. Last time I liked him it went no where and it was just a bunch of waiting and confusion and yeah, no. Arrghh. I'm okay, I vented to Jon about it last night. Bahaha. Thing with Nate is that he just got out of a rocky relationship and he needs to take a break, no matter how much he's begging for a girlfriend, he is definitely not ready. I mean come on now, a list? A "really strange" list? How do you have a "really strange" list of girls you like? You know...it doesn't even matter and I shouldn't even stress myself with the situation. I'm going to college in August and he is eventually moving to Nazareth; it's pretty pointless for us to get into a relationship. We won't be able to see each other hardly ever and we both will be meeting new people etcetc. I am just going to hold myself off of boys until college, it will just be better for me. Yesyesyes.
I need to clean my room and my bathroom for tomorrow and then get ready to watch Alyssa Mancini's little sister at 1:30. I'll most likely update later tonight and if not, tomorrow morning. [:
So give up, our bodies started kissing in a language we didn't know. Give in, I'm running through your veins like a habit you can't kick. . | | |
| Three Hours Of Writing (Damn, I'm Slow).
It is somewhere in the hour of 9 in the morning. If I try to go back to sleep, I will probably cough up my two lungs. If I stay sitting up and doing something, the coughing is not as bad. I've been wanting to update my blog, but whenever I went to log in, I felt too lazy. Today, that changes, and I will go back to frequent posts. :]
I'm not going to go through the past two months and give every little detail in every single event that happened in my life, but I will definitely summarize. The last entry I wrote was in April, after the indoor guard gymnasium review. A few weeks later, I went to visit the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for the first time.
I gathered a lot of information on different activities there, took my placement exams for math and chemistry, and wandered around campus. I like it there; it's peaceful. The buildings are kind of close together, so it won't be too hard to get from class to class. The dorm rooms are a little small, which I don't like, but I'll adapt.
Sunday, May 3rd, was day three of The Bamboozle 2009, which I attended in East Rutherford, New Jersey with Hanna and Arianna! Now this day I must tell in full detail. Bamboozle was my first show everrr! The first band we saw was Thee Armada, who sound a lot better live than on MySpace. Just saying. It was a wonderful experience, they were so lively, I loved it. We met lead singer Josh Caddy and guitarist Bryan. Later on, I also met guitarist Mike. They're a fun bunch. After that, Hanna and Arianna went to see Family Force 5, and I separated to find two of the At Fives, Marissa and Cat.
I met them over by the Fearless Records tent, where I bought Every Avenue, Mayday Parade, and The Maine shirts. I also got a TWLOHA shirt. I walked around with Marissa for a while and we found GUNZ! Marissa smacked my arm going "GUNZ, GUNZ." At the time, he was listening to a band, but when he saw me, his jaw dropped. I went over to him and he could not stop hugging me.
We were talking about what bands each of us were seeing and:
Gunz: "Yeah, but what time is it?"
Me: "Right now?"
Gunz: "Yeah you fuckk!"
Me: -death stare-
Gunz: -silent snicker-
It was great. It absolutely made my life, meeting him. When I got back together with Hanna and Arianna, we watch Owl City, The White Tie Affair, roamed around to find Chris Crocker (which failed), met Sean P. from TWTA, tapped on a guys's shoulder to see if him and his friends were in a band (they ended up being a couple of guys from Honor Bright), saw The Maine (<33333333333333333; I really wanted to meet Garrett, but that didn't happen), watched 3OH!3(whose crowd was a fckn beast! Arianna and I had to go towards the back, because Arianna almost died and we lost Hanna), and Sum 41. We split up again when Hanna and Arianna went to see Hollywood Undead and I went to meet up with Gunz again. They came with me to meet Gunz and then went off. During that little get together, I met another At Five, Carolyn!
I also met another girl from The Gunz Show chat room, Marissa (a different one from the five). Marissa and I stuck around and followed Gunz, getting new The Gunz Show shirts (I haven't worn mine yettt, bahaha). This was when I fucked with Gunz a lot. First, when we were at FTSK's tent (where I also met Ziggy! :D), I knocked Gunz's hat off, but I didn't realize that there was a puddle behind him. He didn't care at first, and he made jokes about his hair. Marissa and I chilled with him for a while, then went to watch Every Avenue. While we were waiting, I took another picture with Gunz and sprayed him with perfume. He was like "HOW AM I GOING TO TALK TO PEOPLE NOW?!" rofll. About five minutes before Every Avenue started, Gunz got on a concession stand line and Marissa and I went up front by the barricade. Gunz walked past us to go backstage and threw a piece of pretzel that clonked Marissa in the head. Hanna and Arianna met back up with us to watch Every Avenue. I think I was most hyped during their performance. It was so amazing. After them, Hanna and Arianna went to watch The Used, who I was planning to see, but I decided to wait on line and attempt to meet The Maine. I really wanted to meet Garrett. I wanted to ask him about the letter I had sent out when Hanna and I decided to write to band members. I wonder if he ever got it. Sighh. When Marissa and I were about twenty feet from the stand, they stopped and Jared and Garret must've tuck and roll'd, because I saw (not met, saw) John Ohhmazing, Pat, and Kennedy. Boo hiss. They had to carry John Ohh away, because he wouldn't leave, it was kind of funny. The next band on my list to see was Taking Back Sunday, but we had some time before they started, so Marissa and I wandered around the merch stands for a while and stopped at Victory Records, meeting Shane from The Scenic. Marissa bought me a shirt and CD. When the time came, we departed and I went to watch Taking Back Sunday by myself. I took a lot of videos and it was simply the best. I always liked Taking Back Sunday, but only knew the album Where You Want To Be and a few songs from other CDs. Now I have all of the old CDs downloaded (I need to buy the album New Again). I absolutely lovelovelove themmm. Adam Lazzara was so funny at Bamboozle; he's a really great guy. I wish I could have met himmmm. I actually just read an interview in this month's AP magazine and posted one of his quotes on Facebook.
"I don't feel vulnerable anymore as far as that goes, really. No. I mean, it's who I am, you know? It's what I do."
I really like that quote, a lot. Anywho. After Taking Back Sunday, I saw a little bit of No Doubt and met up with Hanna and Arianna again. I was going to try to find them in the crowd, but haha, that wasn't going to work. We totally forgot what entrance we came in at, so it took us forever to find her stepdad's car and she got in trouble. ]: It was a fun filled day, nevertheless.
May 9th, a week later, was prom, which was a lot of fun as well, even though I didn't have a date. My dress was like $371, plus $150 for alterations. I love my dress though and received a lot of compliments. Everyone looked absolutely gorgeousssss, oh my! On the bus rides, I sat with Brenton Vales, because he didn't have a date either and since we kinda knew each other, we figured it wouldn't be too awkward. Zac Contopidis and I had multiple plates of the caesar salad, bahaha! The dinner was good and the cheesecake was deliccc, along with the mocktails. I had at least 5 shirley temples. Baha. When the dance music started and everyone got on the floor, Greg Gueiss was like "BOODOO, COME HERE. I need a dance partner! :D"
He had lost his date sometime after dinner and couldn't find her. How that happens is beyond me. Anyway, we were kind of like unofficial dates. We had a lot of fun togetherr, I<33 himmm! At some point, Greg, Sean, Amy and I danced together and were like CHEM CR3WWW! BAHAHAHA. Oh boyy, that night was so much fun! I danced with Alyssa Evans, Topher, Joe, Bishop, Dag& Rafal, and Kyle as well. There's actually this one picture where Kyle and I are dancing and people are staring at us!
ROFL. At least we weren't having sex on the dancefloor as some people were practically doing. We got Lucky Bamboo to take home from prom! I still have mine, actually. :]
One day in May, I think, the guard reunited in Mr. Hughes's classroom to get our sweatshirts. He also gave us a copy of that slideshow he made and we got to take judges tapes and scoring sheets, signs, etc. I haven't watched the slideshow yet, because I know I will bawl just as hard as I did when we watched it as a group. During the meeting, I gave Mr. Hughes my interpretive self-portrait that I completed in art class.
I made myself look like the Keelber Elf :D
Then the rest of May and first half of June was just trying to make it through high school. Actually, May was quite an eventful month. I had two hookups with different people. I know that sounds so ridiculously trashyyy. The first one was with Nate, but there was actually some emotion involved there.://
The second one is disclosed and was really stupid on my part and as much as the guy doesn't want me talking about it on here, I don't want to talk about it either. Gaahh. Any which way, the last day of school was chill. I took heeeeellllaaaa pictures! Then there was the Senior Dinner for marching band which was good as well. I got to see Mr. Hughes again and all the younginssss, like Collin!
On the 14th was Lauren and Greg's graduation party at Blanche Price Park, which was pretty awesome. We took walks, chilled at the basketball courts with a table in the center, pigged out, sat on the swings, played volleyball (which I am deff too short for), kickball, badminton, played in the jungle gym, talked, signed yearbooks; it was just an all around good time.
Although somehow I missed the cutting of the cake? I don't know. The next week was graduation practice and it was rainy& I started getting sickk! Monday, the 15th, I skipped grad practice and went to UPJ to get some more information and my schedule! Here's how that goes:
10-10:50 American Political Process (m/w/f)
11-12:20 College Algebra (tu/th)
12-12:50 Composition 1 (m/w/f)
1-1:50 General Chemistry 1 (m/w/th/f)
2-4:50 General Chemistry Laboratory (tu)
3-3:50 University Scholarship (m)
4:30-5:50 Concert Band (m/w)
Sixteen credits. Ew@ me being placed in College Algebra, I knowww. I didn't do too well on the math placement exams, so I'm going to retake those at orientation. I totally rocked the chem test thoughh! :D I don't know why, but I just couldn't focus on the math test, it was really bad. I think it was because I really needed to use the bathroom. BAHA. But yeah, I'm pretty content with my schedule. No early classes and the only "late"ish class is band on Mondays and Wedesndays, but I don't mind that. I'm super excited. I came back Monday night to attend grad practice the rest of the week. It was rainy, and I got sick (hence the coughing up my lungs comment from the beginning of the entry). Friday, I got my hair cut and my brother came upp! I got choppy layers just past my shoulders, and side bangsss.
Oh lala. Because of this stupid rain we were having all week, graduation was moved from Saturday the 20th, to Sunday the 21st! That wasn't too bad, but everyone was pretty pissed; we wanted to graduate! It was still a little rainy on Sunday, but in the middle of the ceremony, the sun came out and it was warm and niceeee. The speeches were good, and most were short and simple. Winston Gordon's speech was the best. It had so much character and was so funny! He's the bessstttt! I'mma miss him!
Yeahyuh french horns/mellophoness(Topher, Brandon and I)! Tell me how Mr. Searfoss wasn't even at graduation? Mr. Dikeman ran the band, which was fine, but the band didn't sound too great during Pomp and Circumstance. Mr. Dikeman put one of the mics right over the clarinets--not a bright idea. Either way, the ceremony was nice. Afterwards, my brother, dad, Alyssa Mancini and I went to eat at Marita's II, a Mexican restaurant. It really wasn't as good as I expected. :X
So now here I am, sick, wanting to get better by the end of tomorrow. I went to the doctor's on Monday and got medicine, but I don't think it's helping much with the cough. The congestion has cleared up almost completely and my fever comes and goes, but this cough won't let up! The reason I need to be better by the end of Thursday, is because Alyssa Evans and Jacqui Hatch are supposed to be sleeping over Friday (Alyssa is staying through Sunday). We're gonna have a girls's night/weekend. Watch movies, makeup, talk, etcetc. Then Alyssa and I are going to Dan's& Kyle's grad parties Saturday, and Topher's on Sunday.
SPEAKING OF TOPHER AND KYLE. Oh my god. Where do I even start with them? Topher, Kyle, Alyssa, Alicia, and Rachael had a little Truth or Dare makeout session after prom and then Topher, Kyle, Alyssa, and Alicia had this BFWB thing going on. Then it was knocked down to Topher, Kyle, and Alyssa, whom I refer to as the Almighty Trio. All of a sudden, next thing I know, the boys are experimenting?! Say whaaat?! Then Topher has the nerve to yell@ me for judging him, meanwhile this is complete hypocrisy on his part. After, he tells me that he's straight and he's not turned on by guys and he tried it once and didn't like it. Yeah, he puhretty much lied to me. At least that's what Alyssa is telling me. It's absolutely ridic. I wish they'd just come out with it. UGH.
Next and final topic. Boys. They're...ridiculous& I give up on them until college. That's puhretty much all I have to say about that for now, because I really think I need to end this entry sometime today.
Anywho, I can't wait for Alyssa and Jacq to sleep over!
I need to hang out a lot this summer. Mhmhmhmhm!<33
P.S. I can't forget to mention the one time I hung out with Hanna and her family at The Crossings. She asked her stepdad (against my will :P) if I could borrow money, because I only had $20 dollars, and I ended up owing him $186.37 ROFL, NEVER TAKE ME SHOPPING. I paid it all back in likeeee...two months? I had to space it out that way my dad didn't realize the money was missing.
P.P.S. I feel the need to throw in a picture of Nate and I where I mention him, so I'mma do that now. :] The picture is from the senior dinner.
And I've been thinking that I almost feel okay, 'cause I've been dreaming through my wasted summer days. | | |
| I Will Remember You.
Gynasium review; guard. I knew I was going to be a mess and cry, because graduating means leaving my girls and leaving the coaches, but I did not know there would other reasons as well. I was able to keep my composure, but after we performed and cleaned up, Mr. Hughes showed us a slideshow he made of the season. He put songs we used this season in there. The song that hit a lot of us was "Fall For You" by Secondhand Serenade. Then after that, he put "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachan, which made everyone cry. After the slideshow, Lisa informed us through tears and broken lines, that she would not be returning to coach colorguard next year. The room grew silent, and she continued to explain, struggling to get the words out, even though she had practiced the speech in her car every day for the past three months. Everyone started crying harder. When she was done, Mr. Hughes said "Okay, so as you know..." and Haylee went "If you tell us that you're leaving, I'm quitting right now." As Mr. Hughes went on with his little speech, he informed us that he was leaving too and everyone's heart just broken even more. Lisa wants to focus on herself and maybe a family. Mr. Hughes needs to get his life in orderly ever since him and Rachel divorced, because she was the only reason he moved to the Poconos. His lease in the house he's at now ends at the end of June. He might even be moving on Ohio. When he was telling us this, he turned to me and goes
"See, this is why you should have gone to Wittenberg. You could live down the road from me."
I broke. It then hurt even more that my dad isn't letting me attend Witt. I mean, I know I'm graduating and everything, but it still affects me greatly that Matt and Lisa won't be coaching at West anymore. I was expecting to be able to randomly be able to pop in to band camp or indoor next year and say hello, maybe even stick around to help a bit, but they won't be there. I wrote Mr. Hughes and Lisa letters for Gynasium review, and Lisa read her entire letter, but Mr. Hughes only read the first page of his. He said that he couldn't finish it, because he would cry. At the end of their speeches, we all just kind of sat there and bawled our eyes out for about an hour. All eleven of us. The nine members and two coaches. Then we tried to give out hugs and no one wanted to move. It hurt too much. Lisa started giving hugs and Haylee said that I was first with Mr. Hughes. I couldn't even look at him, I was so broken. Then he put his arms up like ten feet above my head and we both started laughing and actually hugged. I didn't want to let go. Then he kept yelling at me to not do anything stupid, stay away from the punch, and use protection. Bahahaha. I just buried my head in his armpit and cried. Then when Lisa god around to me, she was like "Ohhhh, Boo!" and I just fell into her arms. We hugged for a long time and she rubbed my back. Everyone that night pretty much cried themself to sleep.
Today, I was able to sorta hold back while getting ready. When I saw Abril in the morning, her eyes were already red and glossy. Emily Woodman ran up to me and I told her not to touch me. Kyle looked at me. Throughout the day, we would all just look at each other, sad, watery-eyed, thinking, until one of us yelled "STOP IT!" It was so depressing. When I got home, I texted Mr. Hughes:
Me: "I should not be home right now D: did you finish reading my letter?"
Hughes: "Yes, made me cry again."
Me: "Awws. D': we were all such a mess in school today."
Hughes: "3rd period was rough because fall for you was on the radio."
Then I told him the whole thing about Rachael, Kyle, Abril, and Emily and I. Poor Mr. Hughes crying. Ughh, I can't believe they won't be here. I love Lisa and Matt!
Lisa was the one with a big warm smile on her face who included herself in our discussion and always waved when walk in. She always had the best storied about her fourth graders. She was the mini motivator, the one whose voice stuck in our heads.
Mr. Hughes. Matthew Sebastian Hughes is seriously my favorite man on Earthh. He's truly my hero. He's been there for me through a lot, both guard and home issues. He's my biggest inspiration. He was always there for me and we gots this mental connection. I am going to miss him most out of everyone, I think. I'm going to try to text and e-mail him often. He needs to give Kyle and I lists of WGI guard he thinks we can make& I might talk to him about buying a sabre. I'll give him the money if he orders it for me? Bahaha. I will convince him. We're getting sweatshirts and DVD copies. I'm going to be bawling so hard. I don't even think I can type anymore, I'm so upset and just got really tired. Maybe I'll finish this later.
This sucks.
It really really does.
It's kind of ridiculous, but we feel like someone just died, that's how upset we are. Mr. Hughes and Lisa are more than just coaches. They're like best friends, family, they know us so well.
edit;;It's 6:14pm, I added a big detail I missed before towards the end, because I was so mixed up before. And, I'm crying again.
Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories. | | |
| 2009 KIDA White Guard Champions, w00tw00t~!
Unbelievable. Okay, let's go in order and start where I left off, at Redland. We had a good show, but only got an 89; a little confused, but the following week we cleaned cleaned cleaned and busted our asses off. Then came last night. Championships. Saturday morning, guard practice went well and we were all excited. The bus was the normal, but we saved our games for the room, because at Southwestern High School, we get classrooms assigned to us, so we played everything in there. It was so cuhrazy and we were ROFL. I was just watching the videos from our games and I notice how atrocious my laugh actually is. Last week, Haylee was making fun of it, and now I know why. Oh jeeeesus. Bahaha. We got dressed, warmed up and went to the gym. Immediately, we all got ridiculously nervous and most of us were shaking while performing; I know I was. We had a lot of bobbles. I can't remember if there were drops, but a lot of things tapped the floor. I didn't catch my teal behind the back catch properly, but my blue, red, and purple sections were great, except for when I think I tripped over my red flag. When we were done and went to put away our floor, Abril and Rachael were crying, all of us were upset. I was angry at first, then when we got to the room, I started crying. We all felt like be failed and knew we sucked. We had no idea what to expect at award. Mr. Hughes and Lisa didn't have much to say, except that there were a lot of bobbles that don't normally happen, which just struck us even harder. When we kind of gathered ourselves, we went to eat and cheered up and watched exibition guard while creaming in our pants until awards started. Rachael couldn't stop bouncing on her toes and I kept swaying left to right. We talked to some of Urbana and Cedar Cliff next to us and also to each other. We were all just so nervous. As the announced reached white guards, the 9 of us put down our flowers from the coaches and held hands. I buried my head in Rachael's back as she dug hers into Abril's. Kyle was shaking, his knees almost gave out. They started at twelfth place and moved up. When they announced fourth and still hadn't said Pocono West, I squealed and was like "WE MEDAL'D!" and Rachael goes "SHUT UP!" Bahaha. Third place, not us. Now it was between us and Mechanicsburg, and the kid Nick from Urbana was like "It's you and Mechanicburg. Just you guys. Oh my godd." And I was like omfggg, tell him to shut upp! ROFL. It was so nerve wrecking. I told Adam, the one behind Nick, that we were going to shit our pants soon and he offered to run up there and cover our pants if we do. <33
Second place...long pause. Mechanicburg with a 92! We screamed but composed ourselves and congratulated Mechanicsburg's White Guard and they congratulated us. Even though we just found our we won, Rachael and I buried our heads again for the score. With a 94.8, Pocono Mountain West won 1st place in the White Guard Division at the 2009 KIDA Championships. Uhhmazing. We were all shocked, excited, some of us crying. When I saw Mr. Hughes and Lisa, I started bawling. Thinking about it right now makes me want to cry. I'm trying so hard not to. Bahaha. It feels so good. We did it. All of us, together, as a team. Morgan, Kyle, Emilie Chapppzzz, Woodman, Rachael, Abril, Haylee and I, along with Mr. Hughes and Lisa. With the help of Terry Tu, Alicia, and Sam Bishop. We got first place at championships. Oh man, I need to stop or I will definitely start bawling soon. I'm going to miss all of them so much. They make me not to graduate. Mr. Hughes, I think, is going to make me cry the most. Wednesday, I'm going to be a mess, bahaha. It's Stadium Review, dinner at 5, performance at 7. Mine and Kyle's last performances. Oh my. Oh my. We definitely need to look up some WGI guard for if not next season, then the season after that. I'm going to ask Hughey for some guard he thinks I can get into, which means I definitely need to practice this summer. I want to learn sabre, maybe I can give Mr. Hughes money and he can order one for me. ROFL. Yess, I think I just might do that. I'm also going to write Lisa and Matt letters to give them on Wednesday with a senior picture. Mhmhmhmhm. :]
I made a couple of friends this season in other guard too, such as Sarah from Urbana, Tyler from Big Spring, Anna and Kimmy from Bermudian Springs, and Carly and Lauren from Linganore! I added Sarah, Anna, and Kimmy on Facebook and Carly on MySpace. I got Lauren's cellular number, because she doesn't have a Facebook or MySpace, so I'll prlly text her soon. :]
Okay, so that I can write those letters, I need to do my homework! So I'll update again sooonn!
Goodnight!
P.S. Listening to this song reminds me of one of our painting days when Mr. Hughes was singing and dancing to thisss. Bahah, I love that man! :P
Dance, go rush to the speaker that booms. I'm killin' your brain like a poisonous mushroom! | | |
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