my life lately

Ahh...I haven't blogged in forever.

Let's see...what's been going on with me.  Not much really.  I'm babysitting pretty much everyday this summer...it gets old cause now the kids are comfortable with me and like to backtalk and such now.  It's not really all that cool.  And yesterday, I had to be the mean babysitter and make one of the kids dust the entire house cause she didn't want to come outside with us.  Oh well.  She got over it.  XP

At the beginning of July I went white water rafting.  :D  I was scared to death, but I enjoyed it a lot.  I can't wait to do it again.  :)  And after rafting we went to CIY MOVE in Knoxville, TN.  It was amazing.  :D  A great week, that was filled with some trying times...I'll talk about that in a second..really cute guys and total funness.  haha  New word.  :)  Like there were 5 guys I think that I liked.  Hahaha....lets see, there was Matt Thiessen, he was the sound guy.  He really did look just like Matt Thiessen from Relient K; then there was Alex, the cutest senior guy ever.  He's a total goofhead...and I'll talk about him in a minute too; then there was Seth, the coolest guy with nerd glasses.  He was really sweet and quiet and I only talked to him twice but he was just suuper cool; and there was the guy with the cool hair; Belmont the V-Neck, who's real name is Zack something; and the Nerd.  Ha, so I was wrong, there was 6.  But the Nerd was a leader for one of the groups, but he looked really young, like not much older than me.  :)

I'll start with the trials at CIY...we [Page and I] roomed with this girl Katie that I already didn't like.  She had broken her arm like a week before the trip, so she couldn't do anything by herself.  [or at least she made it seem like she couldn't]  And with Page and I being the oldest girls and the ones that everybody thinks are great Christian girls [Page is...me...I'm getting there.  :)] we get stuck with her.  We had the choice of being together and rooming with her or being seperated and one of us still being with her.  We decided to tough it out together.  Hahahahahaha...that was a mistake.  By the second night she had already ticked me off enough to make me cry.  I could've punched her.  And then during the week she said stuff about my brother TO MY FACE and then dissed my dress saying that it looked old.  And unfortunately I couldn't say anything about her dress, cause I really liked it.  lol  She's just a brat and spoiled and a crybaby and when she doesn't get her way, watch out.  Bhahhhhhh

Okay...now onto Alex.  :):):):):):):)  He's a super cutie and I didn't really talk to him much, but my friend Page did and I was always with her...soooo...yeah.  lol  He has this video on youtube...it's amazing.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SOsNpLDfcE  He's a total goofbball.  Oh my gosh, I for real could marry this kid.  :):):):) <3>

Oh, and tonight I found out that Cody isn't in Stellar Kart anymore...and apparently hasn't been for a while.  I HAD NO CLUE!  It was so crazy.

And my birthday is on Tuesday.  :)  I'm excited.  I'm going to try and get off babysitting [which I already asked, so i think i will] and my friends and I are going to try and make a day of it.  It'll be fun!

Oh!  And I'm going to Rock the Universe again this year.  Uber excited for it.  I'm already pumped and it isn't for like 6 1/2 weeks.  Haha...I've got this teeshirt design that I'm going to get.  Let me get a link...

Yeah, I'm excited.  :)

[for the most part] Today was pretty good :)

Well, like the churhc art kinda stunk.  I didn't want to sit through the sermon.  I just had no want to.  But whatever.

But then we [me and Sarah] went to the mall.  i want[ed] new converse.  Got them.  :D  http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Shoes/Sneakers/Converse-Purple-Double-Tongue-Low-Tops-326616.jsp  They're AWESOME!  And as I was buying them the girl that works there was telling us about this concert that was going on.  So we ended up staying for it.  the band is Can You Keep a Secret?  they're soooooooooooooooo good.  I wanted to get their CD...but I didn't have $5.   :(  I would totally buy it though.  lol  I wish that I had iTunes so I could get it.  [my computer doesn't have internet right now, so I can't get anything on iTunes]

And we had this guy [about our age] following us around the mall.  Kinda creepy.  and then we decided we'd follow him around...and we lost him.  lame.

!!! :)

I'm soooo exctied!  :D  I finished school this week.  So now I just have to work on getting my GED taken and stuff.  But it was weird to wake up and think that I have absoutley NO MORE SCHOOL TO DO!  So exciting!

And I'm going to Disney tomorrow for a couple of days.  It's going to be fun!  I really need to go to sleep.  lol

And I went to a concert on Monday...absoutley no people there and it rocked.  :D  This Beautiful Republic was saying how they just played a concert with Relient K and Needtobreathe and we were so much louder than the crowd there and we had a significantly smaller amount of people.

Here's videos...sorry for the horrible sound quality.  Being right at the stage means pretty much bad sound.  And I ended up screaming in a lot of it so....http://www.youtube.com/user/bubblezrulez85

I kept forgetting to post. XD Yesterday Jeff Taylor [the morning DJ for our Way-FM station] left on the music boat cruise. His status on facebook was how he was cruising with TobyMac and a few other bands. So I commented and said that he'd also be cruising with Hawk Nelson and that he is really lucky. So then he wrote on my wall...


And I about flipped. lol I just thought that was so awesome! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D And then he also wrote that he told them that I'm their biggest Florida fan...which is pretty much true. :D lol

And I finished American History yesterday. I'm going to be done with school this week! woohooo!!!

Concert Blues...lol

*sigh*

It be sad...I'm so upset/frustrated because I want to go to a concert May 5th.  Why can't I go?  Because it's a stinking 7 hour trip...and I can't find anybody to take me.  I could ask my aunt...but my mom says that I don't have enough money to pay for gas [cause she doesn't have a job]...and it just really sucks.  It's Stellar Kart and Nevertheless...I know that I shouldn't be upset that I can't go...but they're amazing...and it just really stinks that I can't find a way to get there.  I've been praying...and praying hard...to find a way to get there...but I can't find ANYTHING!  I even looked up flights to Chipley, Florida.  lol  Nothing.  :/  It's sad how frustrated I am...like last night, I was almost in tears because I have thought of everybody that I could ask to take me...and they would all either say no or have said no.  And it really sucks, because if I can't go [I'm sooo not giving up hope yet.  XP] I'm following all of Stellar Kart and Nevertheless on Twitter [I'm bubblezrulez85 if you wish to add me] and they're [well...Adam and Jordan of SK] always twittering about what they're doing right at that second.  So it's like "We're doing our soundcheck..."  "We're still waiting on that soundcheck..."  or "Nevertheless is about to go up on stage!  I'm pumped!"  bahhhh....It seems that every time NTL is near me [or even in Florida] I can't go.  And it sucksss...cause they've been here twice this year and I've been planning on going to both, but then plans fall through and I get so upset.  And then the next day of the tour [May 6th] they're going to be in Greenville, SC and I have family that lives like 30 minutes away from there...and BAHHH!  lol  I wish I could call them up and be like "Hola.  I'm coming to stay with you guys for a few days...kay?"  And if I could find a way to get up there, I would totally do it.

Ha...so I just took a blogging break to look up flights to Greenville.  How stupid am I?  Is it bad that I'm sooooo determined to get to one of these tour dates?

rant rant rant [with a little bitty bit of good stuff.]

so i like how blogger is set up and stuff.  probably more than lj in the posting sense.  it's just nicer and easier to use.  but i can't just click a button to take me to write a new post on every page.  ugh.  like i was just looking at christine's blog and i wanted to go back to mine and i had to keep clicking the back button to get back to the main page so i could click new post so i could post this right now.  lol  [goodness...isn't this a GREAT way to start a post?  haha]

now...onto my next rant.

okay, so please don't think that i'm a tv obsessed couch potato [which i am kinda sorta, but whatever].  there's a new cake challenge on food network tonight...and it's like a elimination knock-out-who-can-make-the-best-cake series inside the 'series'.  lol that made no sense.  but work with me here...and tonight is the finale.  sooo...naturally i want to watch that.  in my house we have two tvs with dish network.  the one downstairs is going to record the amazing race at eight and the other one was going to be recording wizards of waverly place and sonny with a chance.  it took me like ten minutes to get everything all stinking rearranged so it would still record the amazing race at eight and then waverly place and sonny with a chance later.  so then i go into the living room and my mom was looking at what's going to be recorded tonight.  amazing race annnnnd....extreme makeover: home edition.  i got sooo stinking mad at that because i had set it up so i could watch the cake challenge on tv.  so my sister gets all mad because she wants to watch/record extreme makeover.  omg.  so we get into this big argument about how i had set it all up earlier to where i could still watch the stinking cake challenge and the amazing race still be recorded.  but no....she took it upon herself to record extreme makeover.  so then my mom interviens [kinda] and asks if i had it all set up to watch the cake challenge and i was like "YEAH!  i did that wayyy before she did her stupid show."  [not my exact words, because i'd be in major trouble if i said that...just because it's so super rude and junk] but then my mom goes on to say how i should've had it set to record the cake challenge and it's all my fault.  WHAT!  so first she's saying how i had it set up first, but now i can't watch it because i didn't have the cake challenge to record.  does that make ANY sense to you?  didn't think so..  but even after my mom determined that i would not get to watch the cake challenge, my sister goes upstairs crying.  why?  I HAVE NO IDEA!  maybe so she could get her way.  i really truley don't know.  so then i went to the dining room to sit at the table and my mom says "there goes tthe second one" because i got up and walked away.  oooohhhhhh...that just ticks me off.  like i didn't want to sit in the living room for a few reasons.  1) yeah, i don't get to watch the cake challenge.  why in the flipping world should i sit there and watch tv?  like, i don't want to watch it now, so i need to seperate myself from it.  2) i didn't want to be by my family because i was mad at them too.  and i had a HUGE attitude sitting on the couch...which i think i have somewhat of a right to be throwing a fit like that...i wasn't nessicarly throwing a fit, just TRYING to make my point.  it didn't work.  but then when i'm in the dining room my mom decides to stop the recording of the amazing race so i could have my cake challenge.  WTHeck!  like seriously.  she's trying to make me happy, which isn't going to work because i'm already mad enough and BAHHH!  and what really ticked me off the most is when i got home from going to lunch with my friend rebekah is all "THE NEW CAKE CHALLENGE IS ON TONIGHT!  AREN'T YOU EXCITED?!"  like for real?  and then you go all extreme makeover on me.  NOT COOL!  haha...i'm sorry for the excessive use of all caps and horrible spelling.  me being upset does that.  XP

next rant.  :D

there were many many MANY things getting to me at work yesterday.  i was on steamtable, which is awesome, but i had to work steamtable with ben, which isn't all that awesome.  ben is jim's son, jim being [one of] my boss.  ben is just really cocky and just know-it-all-ish...and preverted.  like, it's disgusting the things that come out of his mouth.  so you're all probably thinking that ben is a 17-20 year old kid right?  wrong.  he's 28.  like, he should know the right time to be preverted and the wrong time.  the wrong time being at work...around minors.  like.  stop.it.please.  so i would just do petty things and he would be like "what are you doing?  you aren't doing that right."  now, it didn't happen often, but when it did, it just really upset me.  and i also started on register yesterday, so i'm really new to the whole money thing.  so it was fairly easy to understand.  i just kept forgetting small steps.  just small, stupid things...but they costed me my time and my brain power...because if somebody gave me cash, i would enter in the amount they gave me.  but sometimes i would forget to enter that amount, so i'd have to do the math in my head.  most of the people were understanding if i messed up and whatnot...but one lady and her husband i accidently did that too, so i was trying to count their change back to them and the lady commented on how we're supposed to know this stuff and the children of our time can't do simple math.  listen up lady...i was flustered because i forgot a step and ... i was just flustered.  you saying that didn't really make me feel annny bettter about myself at that point.  thanks a lot.  but i believe that ben said something about this being my first time on register and i'm still learning.  thanks ben.  i guess all the things you do aren't all that stupid.  lol  but there was one point i was waiting for a call and i almost started to cry because i was so upset and just out of it and all that crap.

DUDE!  I FRICKEN HATE MY SISTER AT THIS POINT. now she's saying that i can go watch the cake challenge.  i'm going to like AOWIERNPAWJIOEP\HKPDLO[~  *sigh*  sorry.  just, for real, that sucks and bahhh.

i can't remember if i had another rant, so let me move onto my good stuff.  :D :D :D

i went to lunch with my friend hannah today.  it was a lot of fun because i don't hang out with hannah outside of church/church functions.  all we did was go to lunch, but it was a TON of fun.  hannah is the exact opposite of me.  she's very preppy and loud and hyper while i'm more on the quiet, not-so easily excited side of things.  lol  but she's just a blast to hang out with, although she can really be LOUD!  like...really really loud.  lol  but just going to lunch and being able to just talk to her was a ton of fun.

another good thing is i found three amazing items at target the other day for $5 each.  <3 class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">haha...so, i got a frappuchino from starbucks and the girl spilled the liquid all over the side of my cup, so it was all sticky.  so once i finished it i went to the bathroom to wash my hands [btw, there's a starbucks in target] and when i was walking back i saw this really cute purse that i really liked...so i was looking at it and then i saw these other REALLY cute purses...and then i saw that they were $5...i grabbed two of them...mine is brown with a small flowers on it...it's awesome.  the other one i bought for my friend brittany as a graduation present.  it's really her style, so yeah.  and the olther thing that i found was these shoes...i atually saw them the other day but they were $12 and i didn't feel like spending that much on shoes [i'm so cheap, it's crazy] but they're black and they have neon paint spatters on them.  <3 class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">lol  like they're awesome.  but i wore them today and they gave me really bad blisters on my heels... :/

and another good thing is i got really burnt on my arms last sunday and like i've been peeling and stuff, so it doesn't hurt as much...but a not so good thing is on my left arm where the inside of my elbow is...like where it bends...is really raw...idk why, but that's the only part that still hurts.

and if you made it through this post, you're amazing!  you win the best person ever award, because this thing is huge...and just a ton of me ranting.  lol

oh, and me and my friend page are HUGE readers...so she works at a christian bookstore, so i'm always excited when she finds new books.  she found this one called "so not happening"  it's about this girl that moves from NYC to oklahoma...she doesn't really like it at first, but ends up liking it and whatnot.  but what got me started on this really random topic is the newspaper editor of the school paper in that book would be an AMAZING person.  like, he's sarcastic and witty and very protective and just...perfect.  like i want this dude to be real.  i should stop reading books with amazing main guy characters, because it's really making me be very specific about a guy that i want.  lol  like my other book crush is kaz from the all about us series.  he's a total geek, but sooo sweeet.  <3

Woooo

Okay, so I got an update on facebook about pre-ordering the new FM Static CD for $10 so I rush downstairs and I was like "please, can i get it?!"  and my mom didn't really answer me...so I go on to say how I won't buy anything else until I get CIY [a conference that I'm going to this summer...it costs like $460-ish] paid off, but I really want this.  So she says no....so then I asked my dad and he goes on and on to tell me about how there's all this stuff that he wants, but can't get it because he has to think about things...like the car.  This morning they had to take the van to a shop to get it looked at cause it wasn't working right.  While he's telling me this I'm thinking "I don't have  a car...I don't have a family...I really have nothing that I have to pay for...so why should I worry?"  But he was just telling me because I'm getting 'older'...I hate that phrase.  XP  But then I got onto facebook and asked my mom if I could get it...and she said yes.  as long as this is the last thing that I get until I pay CIY off.  lol  So I go and look at my account to see how much money I have...not enough.  Blehhhhhhhhhh  so I have to wait until either tomorrow or Friday [depending on when I put my check into the bank] to get it.  Bleh.

And I was just writing down everything that I've purchased into my checkbook...I spend all my money at either Publix or Bennett's.  [Bennett's is a cafe right down the street from my church and Brittany and I try and go every Sunday before church]...so it's like $1.35 a week at bennett's and then anywhere from $1-$5 at publix a week...and sometimes that twice a week.  I for real need to stop buying things.

Having money sucks.  lol  Not really, but I don't like being responsable for it.