Sunday, December 2, 2012

I apologize for not updating you guys!

Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry I haven't updated you guys in like almost a month so I I'm going to give you the load down on what happened:

Week of:

October 28- November 3: Well Hurricane started brewing that Sunday and thanks to one of my guy friends, I found out there was no school the next 2 days. The next day we had to go to a hotel cause we were worried that trees might hit us. I brought a lot of knitting and I slept in the hotel. The next day I found out from my dad that our house wasn't damaged but the power was out our backup generator stopped working. So we had to call someone and we thought that we got it fixed so I went home and a few hours later, it stopped working so I had to pack clothes for school and go back to the hotel and bring school stuff with me. The next day was Halloween so I dressed up as Taylor Hanson from the "Weird" music video. I went to school from the hotel so that was weird. I went to English class after ceramics and our teacher brought us doughnuts to eat and we had to work on our group projects. The dude I like wasn't in my class that day. I found out he was sick. :( Yeah so I had to stay after school cause we were teaching the JV and Freshmen cheerleaders cheers for the Bell Game that Friday. After that, my nanny picked me up and we were on our way back to the hotel when I saw that I had a notification on Facebook from one of my friends from my close friends list and she lives on my street. Her status said that the power was back on so I told my nanny and then I called my brother and he said to go home and check my bathroom to see if it's truly back on cause if the backup generator is working, then the power's back on. So that's what I did and the lights came back on. Then we packed up our rooms and we went to get dinner and go home. That was also the first time I did not go trick-or-treating. Two days later was my last home game, senior night, and my last game as a high school cheerleader. It was bittersweet. 

November 4- November 10: Election day came and went. Then I watched the Live Playoffs of The Voice and I vote like CRAZY for MacKenzie Bourg! But the next night came and he was eliminated. :'( I was SSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MAD!!!!! The next day I finished knitting the squares and had a few borders going along. So I started knitted more borders. I also had my first college interview and my first rec cheer practice of the year!

November 11-November 17: The Tuesday was touching bases so we had a 3 hour delay. The Wednesday I believe I watched a UStream, from MacKenzie Bourg plus I created a UStream account. That Saturday was also the first time I did a front walkover and Isaac Hanson's 32nd birthday!

November 18- November 24: I tried to donate blood at my synagogue's blood drive but my hemoglobin was too low. I was really upset about it so I started eating food that had a lot of iron. I also watched another UStream by MacKenzie and one part gave me a heart attack. I also found a new tradition for me: Wear cute PJs when I watch UStreams by MacKenzie. For the next three days, I ate four cups of multi-grain cheerios (one cup=1 serving=45% of my daily iron. So 4 cups equal 180%) so I could raise my hemoglobin levels. I went to the honor roll assembly and that same day I saw another UStream and typed my transcript up very quickly so I could watch it. Then the day before Thanksgiving, we had a two hour early release and the night before I scheduled an appointment to donate my blood the Wednesday. So about 45 minutes after I got home, I went to the Red Cross to try again. They  tested my hemoglobin and I was so nervous! My hemoglobin was 13.8! So that was 1.3 higher than the minimum levels! So I donated my blood and it felt very good. Then Thanksgiving Day came and we were at a brunch at a family friend's house and I was talking to the daughter and some of her friends and one of them asked me if I knew the guy I like (for the purposes of the story happening here I will call him J, the friend of the daughter S, and the guy I like's friend Z)  and I was like "how do you know him?" S explained to me that she knew his friend Z. You see S was at a friend's house and Z was there. Z and S started talking and communicating to each other and then Z asked S out to Homecoming and he said he would bring J along but he didn't come. Then Z got increasingly mean and annoying in the car and then they dropped him off at target and didn't come back to get him. Then I showed S the Facebook messages that Z sent me in August of 2011 when he was messing with me and she told me to tell him what happened today. So, I messaged him, "Im at a thanksgiving brunch and this girl here told me that she dropped you off at target." So then I saw from my Facebook messanger app that he saw it. Then I showed it to the girls. Thanksgiving dinner was yummy. I made homemade macaroni and cheese. Two days later I finished knitting all the borders and sewing them all into strips.

November 25- December 1: That sunday I celebrated the first anniversary of me becoming a Hanson fan and I finished out of of 5 seams total left for the blanket. I came back to school and I found out that my essay article that I wrote to corrolate with the transcript wasn't due until Tuesday....hehehe. Oh well. The dude I like came in and he told someone behind that he was sick. I mean he looked sick! I felt bad for him. I was going to tell him about the funny thing, but I decided to not do it. I then started working on some stuff. I went home and started reading my book so I could watch a UStream in case it happened on Tuesday. Then the next day I saw that MacKenzie had reached another 1000 followers on his twitter which meant UStream! To celebrate, I wore my pink New Orleans T-shirt (Cause he's from Louisiana) and then I took notes on the weather in geosystems. Then I worked on my skeleton with my partner in return period which that day it was in a way that I had return periods for Anatomy and French. Anywho, I worked on the skeleton and the my next return period I saw that there was only 7 people counting me cause the extended essays for the IB diploma students. The dude I like wasn't there so that concerned me. I then talked to a girl in my class and I read more of my book. Wednesday, I asked him in French what he was sick with and he said strep. the Cheer awards was fun. My paper plate award was "The Most Improved." I also got the Coaches Award! I looked up the symptoms of strep and I thought to myself, "I don't think he has strep." On Friday, when I got home from school, I checked on HNET and saw that Zac was online so I sent him a PM asking him how the new music was going along and I told him that it would be the first time I would be excited for a new album to come out. And then about maybe 20-30 minutes later....HE REPLIED!!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!! I WAS BOUNCING UP AND DOWN LIKE CRAZY!!!!! The next day I had 4 hours of cheer practice and I have now finished 3 of the 5 seams. 

December 2: I found out sad news. A girl who was a cheerleader at my school who graduated in 2009 and had taught me how to do basic diving 6 years ago had died.....

Sunday, November 11, 2012

What an Awesome Week!

Before I begin, I have to apologize for not updating you guys for a while! I was kinda lazy and didn't finish this when it just happened so here you go guys!

Oh my gosh! The week of Sun Oct. 21-Sat Oct. 27 was a super awesome week!

Sunday October 21, 2012 I told you that I woke up to try to see a meteor shower but that didn't happen and also must have been excited about the week ahead of me.

First on Monday, October 22, 2012, it was the beginning of homecoming week and everyday was a spirit day. That day was America, so I dressed up in red, white, and blue. Also, that day was Zac Hanson's 27th birthday, so I wore a salmon colored plaid-like long sleeved shirt that I left unbuttoned so I would look like a drummer. Then after school, it was our last practice before district finals. I went home and packed up my bag so I would be ready for district finals.

The next day was Tuesday, October 23, 2012. That day was twin day. All the girl cheerleaders wore their blue tennis-like practice outfit so we all looked like twins. During English class, my back started hurting me. I carried on but then after school  when we had to go to the dance room to wait to go to the bus to go to districts, my back started KILLING ME!!!!! Aw man. It was so bad that you could tell by my face I was in pain (I don't really display pain through my face unless it was too much)! We got to the school and we put our stuff down and then we went to practice. Aw man!! I was in soooo much pain! After we practiced, I went to the trainer to get ice to put on my back. I then got changed and laid down on my stomach to keep the ice on my back. I then got my hair and make-up done. My felt an eensy bit better when we went to processionals. Afterwards, we went back to the locker room and I put the ice on the floor, laid down on top of it, and then rested my feet on the bench. I laid down on top of it for like about 25 minutes. Then we warmed up one last time. We then performed really well, except that one stunt fell, but that was it. We then went to the bleachers on the other side of the gym. Some of our parents came. All the JV and Freshmen cheerleaders as well as the JV and Freshmen coach came too. Some of our friends from school came. As we were sitting in the bleachers, I saw a familiar sweater. I realized that it was the dude-that-I-like! I then told my best friend on the cheer team and she said to me, "I invited him." I told her thank you so much and I will make here that hat because of that. The coaches got the scores back and they looked REALLY happy and cried happy tears! I kinda knew then that it was a very good sign. All 8 teams (including us) went to the mat to hear the results. We knew who 6th, 7th, and 8th place were so that didn't concern us. Then they announced 5th place. IT WASN'T US!!!! I got so happy cause I knew then that we made it to regionals. Then we heard that 4th AND 3rd place wasn't us! We got 2ND!!!! OH MY GOSH!!! We knew then that we compete during the 2nd round. We then performed even better than before and we found out we TIED for FIRST PLACE. But the tie breaker (them dropping the highest and lowest score) caused us to get 2nd by HALF A POINT! I have to admit, I was a little disappointed, but I was still very happy! The dude-I-like came down after along with a lot of others to congratulate us. I asked him if I could hug him, and he said yeah and he hugged me too! :3 It was the 2nd best day of my life!!!

Then on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, it was tacky tourist day. I dressed up in my shirt that I got in Des Moines, Iowa the day after the best day of my life (My first Hanson concert! :DDD). In Geosystems, I had to leave early cause I had my last IEP meeting. I was excited to tell people about districts!!! We then started practicing for regionals and I was still sooooo happy!

Thursday, October 25, 2012 was theme day. In case you forgot, this year's theme was Disney movies. Freshmen got The Little Merimaid, sophomores got The Nightmare Before Christmas, juniors got Toy Story, and seniors (us) got Peter Pan. I dressed up as the crocodile and it was a good thing because I was the only one who did. However, trying to get all of my costume off to change into practice clothes took a WHILE!!!! Haha. I went to my brother's football game and I heard about Hurricane Sandy.....

Friday, October 26, 2012 was Class color day, the pep rally, the Homecoming parade, and Homecoming game! That day was also Eid, so a lot of people weren't in school that day. Because of that (and also that the bleachers were wet), the pep rally was INSIDE!! Wow! I think it was meant to be that way because the previous day, we were struggling on spacing on the field cause we were going to perform our routine at the pep rally. The band and cheerleaders got dismissed early and the mats were already rolled out. It was the best pep rally ever! We performed our routine very well. One of the JV cheerleaders and one of the varsity cheerleaders got freshmen and sophomore princess respectively! And plus the principal  the director of student activities, and the senior class president mentioned us and how well we did at districts! We then got ready for the parade and it was fun except that I was dying of thirst. We went home, got changed into our old uniforms, and came back. We then got football jerseys to wear. The team we were playing against coicidentially, was the team we lost to by 0.5 points. Haha....So on our way to say hi to them we kept muttering to ourselves, "point 5, point 5, point 5." Well it was ok, except that we lost 14-35.

Saturday, October 27, 2012 was Regional Semi-Finals and the Homecoming dance. I woke up early and got ready. We went to the school and we practiced quite a bit and then we went to to the school for regionals. Before that I prayed to G-D that the hurricane wouldn't be that bad and that one of our teammates would be able to compete with us at regionals and I told Him that if He did that, I swore that I would give up cookie, chips, and goldfish crackers for two weeks. Since we were the first team there for our session (There are two sessions. half of the teams from each district who made it to regionals went the first session at 2:00 pm and the other half went at 5:00 pm. We got the 2:00 session.), we got OUR OWN locker room! That was sweet! We practiced our routine and then we had some food and got ready. It was awesome! We performed our routine and it was good. Not great but good. We got 7th place out of 8 teams in our session, but hey! We still beat another team! I then went home, took a shower, chilled on the computer, and then went to the Hair Cuttery to get my hair curled for Homecoming. I went home to get changed to go to the dance. I arrived 6 minutes after it started. The DJ said that we could request songs and so I went up to ask him if he could play a Hanson song and he said he had two songs: "MMMBop" and "Where's the Love." I requested the latter and he said he would play it. I then started dancing a lot and at about 9:30, I saw my best friend from cheerleading and I told her that this year would be the year that I would dance with the dude-I-like and she said, "Don't worry, I got you." So I knew that she was up to something. I danced like there was no tomorrow and at about 10:30, I asked the DJ when he was going to play my request. He said that the song choice was "broken." I then asked about "MMMBop." He said that it was broken. Personally, I think it was because he just didn't want to play it.....I don't care if I got humiliated! You should never be ashamed of something you love! Then a few minutes later the dude-I-like came up to me and asked me if I wanted to dance. That actually happened! I triple threat swear! Well, of course I said yes! And so I danced with him for a bit! It felt so awesome! It totally made up last year's dance regret (I didn't ask one of my best friends if I could be in her Homecoming group cause the dude-I-like was in her group and...yeah)!!! I told one of my best friends about it and I think she was happy for me! When my dad picked me up, I texted my best friend from cheer and thanked her and told her because of what happened, I would make her a scarf as well! When I got home, I had to take 2 Advil pills cause my back was killing me.

Oh, in case you were wondering how she got it to happen, I'll tell you: The next day (Sunday, October 28, 2012), I texted her and asked her how she got it to happen and she said that she suggested and he said yeah. I then asked how she suggested. She told me that she was like, "Do you think you'll dance with...tonight." and he was like "Yeah." But just that HE ASKED ME TO DANCE WITH HIM made it feel so awesome! I still get really happy thinking about it!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Is anybody out there reading my blog?

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm the only on from the US (With a few minor exceptions from a few of my friends) who's viewing my blog. I definitely know there's at least 16 people who are because they're not from the US! Germany, Russia, and Argentina! Wow! I wonder how you guys are finding me. Whenever I see that people from another country are viewing my blog, I get excited and I wonder, what are you guys reading? Are you guys seeing cool stuff.

You might be wondering why I am writing a blog post at 6 in the morning. Well, I woke up at 5 to see a meteor shower, but I didn't see one. So when I got back inside I just decided to listen to music and eat breakfast.

I'm really excited for this week because it's homecoming week and Tuesday is District Finals for cheerleading. We have to get AT LEAST 4th place or better in the first round in order to get to regionals. We have a better chance than last year. Nothing really changed in our routine. The biggest change is the tumbling section. The people who are not tumbling (As in round off back handsprings) are going to do forward rolls and some movements. We canNOT get overconfident, under-confident, nervous, scared, and so on. We have to be CONFIDENT!!!! The things I'm most worried about is the stunt sequence (Well actually stunts overall because you never know, stunts can fall), tumbling falls (That's what happened to me last year and I take partial blame on having our team getting 7th last year), and hmmmm.....I think that's it. We have to be clean, tight, sharp, loud, and the flyers have to stay up no matter what.

Plus tomorrow is Zac Hanson's (One of the band members of Hanson (Yes, I'm talking about "MMMBop" Hanson)) 27th birthday! Yes! It's true. He's turning 27! I'm sorry if that makes some of you seem old, but it's a fact of life. I wasn't even 2 yet (I was ALMOST 2) when "Middle of Nowhere" was released.

I'm starting to get off-topic here. But who cares?

That's all for now that I want to write!

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

When will it happen?

Ok, I'm wondering who from Germany and who from Russia are viewing my blog? I mean, like wow! Cool!

When am I ever going to get comments on the blog?

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

MacKenzie Bourg's Blind Audition:

MacKenzie Bourg's Blind Audition: I thought he was really good!!!! :D He's so hot!! And he has a really good voice!!!! Thank you Cee-Lo for pressing you button!!!! I hope he makes it pass the next round!!!!

As you can tell, I'm memerized by him. But Hanson is still WAY better than him. But maybe MacKenzie will be my favorite single artist.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Wow I'm surprised!!!

I just want to say "wow" to the increase in viewers for my blog....

Although, I kind of want to figure out two things here according to my traffic sources.

1. Who from Germany viewed my blog? I think it's kinda cool since I'm here in the USA and I don't know how you found me.

2. Who from Hanson.net viewed my blog? I mean that's awesome because I'm ADDICTED to that site.

Anyways, bye.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Weird Day........

Ok, so today in English class we were doing a free writing warm-up which made me happy. Anyways, While we were doing it, I realized that I could use what I wrote on my warm-up as a new blog post!!! Anyways, I'm going to tell you guys about my "yesterday" (Tuesday, September 25, 2012).

Ok, yesterday was kind of weird because I was nervous, hyper, and germaphobic. No I know you guys might be thinking, "Where is this going to?" Trust me guys, I'm getting there.

It actually all started on Monday. The dude I like didn't come to my English class, so I kind of had it in my mind, "Meh, he probably skipped." Then right after class was over, I had French, which I also had with him. However, he wasn't there either so I kind thought to myself, "Hmmmmm is he sick or something?" So I carried throughout the rest of the day, had practice, ate my dinner, then I checked my Facebook and looked at my close friends list and I saw that one of my guy friends, who is also the dude-I-like's (I'm not giving out actual names for privacy matters) best friend liked a photo from instagram. In that photo was the dude-I-like was wearing a bathrobe and I thought, "Huh, maybe he was sick." The only two reasons why I think people would usually wear bathrobes is after they take a shower or if they were sick. Yeah. Anyways, later that night I was at my brother's JV football game against my school (We go to different high schools) and I of course sat on my side. I went home and took a look at that picture and within the first word, I saw the word "sick" in it...Yeah. I got home and ate like a snack and put my PJs on and went to bed.

The next day, which was Tuesday, September 25, 2012, I went to school of course. I drew maps in geosystems and that was cool . Then we had two return periods. The way that yesterday's return periods worked out that I had Human Anatomy and French as my return periods. In Human Anatomy, I reviewed for a quiz we were having. Then it was was time to my next return period which was French and I rushed more than I usually do and when I got there I put my stuff down. Then one of his friends came in. I then asked in a whisper why the dude-I-like wasn't in school the previous day and she said he was sick. No sooner than that was said, he came in the room. I mean, he actually looked sick!!!! I felt bad for him. Ok, let me say this before I go on: When specific things happened to specific people, I have this weird reaction of some sort. I have NO IDEA why it is. It's been that way for the past 11 years. Anyways, back to yesterday. Idk exactly how long after he came back in, maybe 15 minutes, I started hyperventilating. In fact I hyperventilated to the pointed where I started to feel light-headed and then was scared that I was going to pass out. But luckily I did not. We had a fire drill and then we came back inside. We had to do an oral activity and the dude-I-like was my partner and I had to share my packet with him. He had to turn it to see it so that meant he had to touch it and so I got nervous that cold viruses had gotten onto my packet.

I used hand sanitizer a LOT yesterday and I was so nervous yesterday that I got soooo hyper.

I had to leave practice early for a Yom Kippur Service and that calmed me down a lot.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Yada yada yada

Ok, so today I thought I might post a rant here that I wrote in lunch today, but then I thought, "Ok, if I post it here, then everyone will think that my whole blog will be about rants and not peaceful stuff. Although I will possibly might include rants here. Who knows.

How are you guys doing today? Good? I hope so too. I'm actually just basically writing what's on my mind right now. Okay, I'll stop before this will decline.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

First post

Ok, I'm going to give this a try here. This should be a lot of fun....