Dance Competition & Dance Workshop 2005

Yesterday was Dance Competition. Laura's Mom and Dad (whom I will call Mrs. Z and Mr.Z) picked my Mom and I up from out house. Before we went on to do our Jazz dance called "Rhythm Nation" I was pretty nervous. I thought I did pretty well. Next came our Tap dance called "Satin". I did well but some of my other friends sort of messed up. Hurriedly we changed and got back on stage to do our Ballet dance called "Through The Woods". It was PERFECT. There was NO mistakes or anything!!! Then I changed into comfy clothes and watched the next thirty so dances. After the last number (401) they gave out awards. Jazz got silver,Ballet got High Silver and Tap got silver. We were competing in the Seniors this year so it was pretty stiff competition. By this time it was like midnight. Then I got my bags and Laura,Mrs. Z,Mr. Z dropped us off at home. Where of course I had to take a shower to get the gunk of hair spray and styling gel out of my plastered hair.I had to use like a thousand cotton balls to get the makeup off my face!! Then went to sleep.


At six o'clock this morning my loving Mother woke me up. Mr. Z,Laura and Kaylyn picked my Mom and I up. I have this odd little habit if singing when I am tired or bored so ALL the way to Dance Workshop. Mr. Z dropped us all by the door and we went in. We were early so we sat in some chairs. Kaylyn and Laura fell asleep. I was awake though.After quite a while we got our bracelets from Mrs. Jessica. To my surprise Mrs.Jessica put us in the Advanced Class. Last year we were stuck with the Juniors which are like little kids. This year I expected to be in the Intermediate class but if I was in Intermediate;I would have thought it was way to easy. The first class we had was Jazz. It was boring. Next we did Tap which was REALLY hard. Next came Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop was so fun. Normally I would have hung around in the back and kind of shuffle through the dance but because Hip-Hop was something new and interesting I got right close to the very front of the class. Hip-Hop was my favorite class of all of them. Then came the Ballet class. Ballet was hard too. Last but not least was Hip-Hop again. We learned another dance so we switched back and forth and had a jam session which was totally awesome!!! After Hip-Hop was Sholarship which ONLY JEMS ever get. So Kaylyn,Laura,my Mom and I got into Kaylyn's Dad's car. It was a small car too so we squished in. Kaylyn's Dad dropped my Mom and I at our house. Right away I cleaned out Beatrice's cage,watched the race and fell asleep during it again. Jr didn't win, boohoo!!! Anyway I was way to tired to go to Small Group at church so I stayed home. After thirty minutes of sleep I got up and my family and I went to Glory Days Bar & Grill. I got the Chicken Strips Platter. It was muy delishioso!! Then I went home and have been on the computer since.

Church & NASCAR

This morning at eight o'clock my loving Mother woke me up saying "Wake up and get dressed for Sunday School. Like always I was the ONLY one dressed for Sunday School at eight thirty. Everyone else in my family will be running around in their PJ's looking for shoes or Bibles with of course those certain people who wait the last minute to take a shower and make us ALL late. But now I think about it we were right on time because Sunday School starts at nine o'clock and we got there at nine o'one. So technically we were not late. Anyway, in Big Group we sang "Pharaoh,Pharaoh" and some other songs. Then came the smaller Sunday School classes. I am stuck with a bunch of immature boys,two clique-like girls and one girl a little younger than me whom I mentioned in my last post who's name is Anna. Anna is a pretty fun girl to "hang" with but she is often not at Sunday School because her family and herself get sick a lot it seems. They must not have very good immune systems or something.Well... we did a obstacle course which some how had to do with the lesson about leading your friends to Christ. After Sunday School came Worship Service. I used to enjoy Worship Service but now it is all boring. The songs are VERY boring and slow and is it enough they use an organ for EVERY song!!! I would rawther be in the Nursery helping in some way or another than being bored. Soon after the Worship Service my family and I went home. I do what I normally do on Sunday Afternoons: dump out Beatrice's bedding and put new bedding in and read a book. Today though at two thirty was the Daytona five hundred. I watched the first few laps but then I fell asleep. I tend to fall asleep when I watch races now. I guess I am just getting old(LOL). I woke up and there was only a few more laps to go but I had to go to Small Group at church. My Mom taped the end so I was able to watch it when I got home.Anyway, in small group we did the normal "Break-the-ice" kind of thing where you learn about each other and stuff. The only other girl in my group is Sara. Sara is ok but she is higher in the "Youth Food chain". Right now since I am in seventh grade I am considered scum of the earth because I was a sixth grader last year. Once you hit eighth grade your position in the chain gets higher and higher until you are the Big Kahuna in Youth.Anywho I went home and watched the end of the race. Jr. was in first for a lap in a half but then that no-good-stinking-rotten-trophy stealer Jeff Gorden got up front and won the Daytona five hundred. When I think Jeff Gorden I think a evil cynical man. Jr. on the other hand is like his Daddy: Cool,a little tuff around the edges and all around ok guy. After watching the end of the race I turned the channel to ABC to watch Extreme Homemakeover. I was disappointed because I only got to watch the last few minutes of it. Then I watched Sue Thomas F.B eye on PAX. Let me just tell you Sue Thomas F.B eye is one of those better detective shows to watch. They don't show bloody scenes or people making out. One episode even had God mentioned in it bunch of times. I HIGHLY recommend to anyone!! It comes on PAX every Sunday night but I don't know what time you will have to check that part out on the T.V guide.

AWANA Biblequiz

Yesterday at 5:30 my Mom woke me up and I took a shower. After I got dressed and ready we left to go to the church. WE didn't go straight to the church we took a little detour to doughnut Connections and got a twelve pack of doughnuts that we all ate on the way there.When we first got there;there was hardly any people in the building. Maybe after a half hour people started arriving.The whole church we were at was abuzz with nervous kids,parents and coach's. First they Biblequizzers took the written test. Last year some boy got too nervous and threw up but I didn't hear that it happened again this year(thank goosiness!!!) Soon after the Written Test they had the opening and explained the rules etc.. Like a herd of buffalo all those kids came out of the sanctuary ready to stampede. I was the person in the gym who pushed the reset button during Speed Round. This year almost all the Paddle round was in the Sancturary and the Speed Quiz was done in other rooms. The first group that was in the Gym was Second Book. The #10 group was the people who buzzed in the most. Some of the other teams kept pushing the button when they didn't know the answer which drove me CRAZY!!! After Book Two came the Book One Group. I did do that book last year so I knew most of the answers to the question. Alex and Taylor were in this group and I thought they did very well. This one kid in the very last seat who was on a team by himself kept pushing the button after the question was answered.He made me very aggravated!!! Normally the AWANA Biblequiz goes until four o'clock but the guy who organized all of it cut down the time till one o'clock. After both Groups we unset everything like the quizbox and the buttons into boxes. All the AWANA Ministry people which includes my family went to Fudruckers. I got Ragin Cajun and Chili Cheese fries. It was REALLY GOOD!!! Maybe after an hour or so we went home and my Dad took a thirty minute nap and I played basketball with Jamie. I shot my first basket and it went in I shot a basket to the side and it went in. I did pretty well I think. After thirty minutes we went to Jamie's Upward's game which was vs. The Suns who they won against a couple weeks ago. Jamie's team lost by one point.After his game we went back home and Jamie and I played some more B-ball.When it got dark we came in. My Mom ordered Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza,hot wings and breadsticks. The pizza was good but the bread sticks tasted weird. I think they used the cinna stick bread instead of the breadsticks. At seven o'clock Dad came back downstairs and we watched the Budweiser Shootout.Sadly Jr. didn't win;Jimmie Johnson did. I hope Jr. will win the Daytona 500 because it would give him a start on points. My Mom,Dad and Jamie fell asleep so I was watching at ALL by myself. After the race I turned it to TLC and watched Town Hall. It was the episode when they finished the Teen Lounge and redid some old lady's office. Then I turned it to Food Network and fell asleep while watching Iron Chef which is in Japanese with English people interpreting what they are saying. It is a weird show that I tend to fall asleep during a lot.

Super Bowl 2004

Last night my Mom,Dad,Jamie and I went to my Dad's friends house to watch The Super Bowl along with some other kids and their parents. When I first walked in the door I was awe struck;their house was big and colorful. Anna(the man's daughter who was hosting the party) and all the other kids and I went upstairs to Benjamin (Anna's brother's) room to play pop the balloon. I really don't like the sound of balloons popping so I watched them play. Then I went back downstairs (which was two levels down) and snacked on goldfish,crackers with cheese and pigs in a blanket. They were muy delishioso(cudos to the cook). Before the Game started the Black Eyed Peas sang "Where is the love?". I was the ONLY person in that room to ever have heard that song. Soon after the song the Game started. The Eagles won the coin toss;so they got the football first. I think I watched the football game for at least twenty minutes. Anna and I got bored so we went upstairs to watch "Zoe 101" with her sister Vivian. The episode that we watched was the one that Logan stuck a stuffed bear which had a camera hidden in it so that he could find out embarrassing secrets about the girls. I found out that Anna has a cute little furry bunny rabbit. Anna said that they are planning on breeding her so MAYBE I MIGHT get a wittle bunny wabbit!! After "Zoe 101" I went downstairs and watched more of the Super Bowl. Then I got bored and went back upstairs and Anna and I talked for a while about Youth Group and stuff. Maybe after thirty minutes or so of talking we went downstairs and watched the last couple minutes of the Game.The Patriots won the Eagles lost BIG whoop. Then we got our shoes and coats on and said "Goodbye!".

Ballet and Tap and Chachi

This afternoon I went to Ballet and Tap. It was snowing a lot when I got there but it wasn't sticking to the roads. So towards the end of Ballet Emily's knee started to hurt . Well in Tap we ONLY went through our dance once. Emily sat and watched while all of us and her sister(Amanda who only tapped when she was four and then quit) who "filled" in for Emily.All she knows is shuffle-step-shuffle-step-shuffle-ball-change-shuffle-step (My Dance friends would know this combination). It was pretty funny watching Amanda make a fool of her self.It was so hard to concentrate on dance steps when you are laughing. But I remembered to do the parts I messed up on last time. Maybe laughter is the cure for mistakes;instead of good medicine.After laughing my head off I went outside with my dance friends (Who's names are Elizabeth,Emily,Laura,Kaylyn and Amanda) and called our parents to tell them that Dance class was closing early.Would you think it is pathetic if some one couldn't remember what the first three numbers in their phone number is?? Well that was me!! I am so used to dialing 1-804 on cell phones that I almost kinda forgot the first three numbers of my phone number. So I had to think hard to remember. Then it hit me "763 Ahh I remember now"!! Then I called my house. Well lemme put it this way..." I was sitting inside the Dance studio for half an hour just sitting or doing grande jetas in my bare feet like you do in Lyrical; (more dance words) in the hall way and yes I was making a fool of myself but when you are bored you put your new dancing skills to use!! Anyway after the half hour of boredom Mark Aaron FINALLY picked me up from Dance. I got home I watched "The Happy Days 30ith Anniversary and no, my Mom did not make me watch it;I wanted to watch it out of my own free will thank you very much!! It was actually was pretty funny. I even learned something Joanie Loves Chachi.

First Day of Co-op

This afternoon at twelve thirty we picked up Susannah at her house and went to Co-op at SCBC. Before Co-op Susannah and I are taking a sewing class with a few other girls and their mothers. We learned how to sew a button and how to hem. I did well doing the button but the invisible hemming I kind of did bad at but o'well that is what practice is for!!! After sewing we went down to a building and everyone got the annual This-is-what-is-gonna-happen-if-you-misbehave-and-this-is-where-your-classes-are-going-to-be lecture. The lecture was boring. Going on... After the boring lecture we went to our class rooms. There are three boy (named Nolen,Matt and Josh) and two other girls (named Sarah and Susannah) First we have Public Speaking Class. It went well and it doesn't have a lot of home work. Next came Creative Writing. I thought it was pretty fun and the homework we have to do in it is pretty fun. Last but not least (intro music:dum,dum,dum,dum)Science. Science has a TON of homework!!! We have to look up two historic scientist a bunch of science words and conduct a experiment.When the teacher asks questions I am the only one to answer the questions. Everyone else in the class acts stupid. Oii it makes me angry!!! Anyway moving on Where my classes are there is absolutely NO bathrooms so I had to hold it and wait till I got to the next building.Well that plan sounded simple but I dropped by at the Parents Lounge and my Mom gave me a box to carry to the other building. I did what she told me. When I tried to open the door that leads to the bathroom door it wouldn't open so I knocked on it and someone let me in. Some little boy was in the bathroom so I waited. Just my luck that the little boy doesn't know how to aim!!! So I was holding it all the way home. How is it that I am so unlucky? I mean I don't think it is a coincidence that when I use the restroom there is never any toilet paper left. So every Christmas I get a bunch of toilet paper rolls for my use only. Anyway I watched American Idol and the after that I watched The Amazing Race.