Looking Back: April

Accomplished:
-Jive Night!!!!!!!
-All-State

Need to:
-Still eat healthier.
-Exercise even more!

Next Month:
-Choir Night
-Mostly finish school year.

A song that WAS my favorite.

Don't you just love the moment when your favorite song that was known to only you begins to be played on the radio, and then becomes overplayed, and then everyone knows it an sings it repeatedly?

Yeah.  I hate it.

And that's what happened to me with "What Makes You Beautiful."  I still like the song... just not nearly as much.  But I really enjoy "Your Maths Skills are Terrible."

I also like this parody a lot.  It's kinda inappropriate...
But I like it anyway because it's so accurate and hilarious!  :D

At a Wedding.

My face in a spoon.

The tickets are now diamonds!

(Or at least... they're MADE of diamonds. )

Niall is the Real Deal

...So, I know swearing is bad and completely unattractive.  But in this video it is just too darn cute.  I feel like a bad person because I just repeatedly watched 0:14-0:19 like twenty times because it's so great.  Niall Horan you little Irish man... you need to not be attractive when you swear.  It's bad.  Please stop.  That is all.

Why are people so LITERAL?

Hot Problems.
Have you seen it?
It's frickin' hilarious.
But some people are super stupid.
And think that the girls are just ugly, untalented, full-of-themselves capital b-words.
But they're so not!
Gosh people...
Don't take everything so literally!
It's meant to be funny.
Wow.
Idiots.

In case you haven't been graced with Double Take's presence...

Here is the video. :)

Fave line:

"They see my blonde hair, blue eyes, and class.  But they don't know I have a really big... heart."

Beautiful

So when the song "Love the Way You Lie" first came out I would always just listen to the chorus and then change the channel because I loved the chorus but hated the rap crap.  Via Colton Dixon (I miss him, why must he have left?!) on American Idol I learned about a different version of the song.  No rapping involved.  New verses.

It is gorgeous.

And I wanted to share it with you! ♥

3 versions:  Rihanna, Skylar Grey, and Colton Dixon.

I love them all.

Feet

This made my day.

One of my good friends who moved away's name is Pa'a.

I saw this, and remembered that once he had told me his name meant "feet" in Filipino.

I had totally forgot.

And now this picture just brought back a lot of good memories.

I miss him.

TeachersGiveYouWhatYouWantWhenYouBlubber

Don't get me wrong.

I didn't purposely start crying just to get my way!

...I'm just a big baby.

But I deserved to get my way whether I cried or not.

Cuz Mrs. Stanger was being unfair.

Let me explain:
I was gone at All-State.
But before I left, I told Mrs. Stanger I'd be gone.
I was SUPPOSED to turn in a paper on Thursday,
But since I'd be gone she said I could turn it in on Monday.
I still wasn't quite sure how I'd get my two peer edits.
But whatever.
On Saturday, Becca texts me and says Mrs. Stanger called.
Apparently she wanted me to take my paper to her house because it needed to be graded by Monday.
Ummm... I was 600 miles away, and that was NOT gonna happen.
So I show up in class.
She was ticked.
I didn't even have my paper done yet because I still needed my peer edits.
She started chewing me out.
I tried to explain,
But ended up crying.
But eventually I was able to explain it all to her.
And then I turned my paper in during second period.
And it was all good.

~~~

It was super embarrassing.

I've just been really stressed and tired lately.

But now everyone thinks I'm just a loser for crying over an English paper.

Swell.

: /

All-State

All-State was great!

...Aside from the awful 11-hour-up, 14-hour-back bus ride.

We sang like angels.
I cried.

I met some amazing people.
We played laser tag.
We had ...interesting... conversations.

Our director was Henry Leck.
A publisher of a Hal Leonard music series.
Who just early in the week was conducting in Carnegie Hall.
And is the director of the Indianapolis Children's Choir.
A choir that apparently sings in the Vatican for the Pope.
And that sings the National Anthem with Kelly Clarkson at the Super Bowl.
...And of course he mentions all of this to us nonchalantly.
As if it doesn't matter.
nbd.


IT WAS SUCH A GREAT EXPERIENCE.

I love all of my great friends.

This was better than All-State freshman year. 

But I still do miss the people I hung with and fun times I had back then.

First Day

Last Day

I really hope I make All-Northwest next year. :D

Ubes Awk...

Okay... so I actually don't do the whole "ubes," "totes," "awk" stuff... but I like saying "ubes awk" together.  Plus, it totally describes my social life.  I need to learn better social skills.  I totally SUCK at making friends.  Whenever I open my mouth to a stranger I just end up embarrassing myself.

Ughh!

WHY CAN'T I BE NORMAL!

~~~

Scenarios:

1)
Two days ago we were walking to lunch, and there were these two girls behind me.  They saw the food and one said "That looks good." And the other girl said "You look good," in a totally seductive way.  I thought it was funny and that she was just joking around.  So I turned around laughing and said "Ha!  That was funny!"  ...Only to notice that they were holding hands.  They were lesbians.  And the one girl wasn't joking when she said that seductively.  So then I just looked really awkward and rude.  I don't support homosexuals, but I'm not against them.  I accept them.  But what happened just made me look like a completely prejudiced freak.  It was awful.

2)
And last night there were these guys on the bus discussing the music they were singing  (I assumed in All-State).  I was sorta half-asleep, but I was listening anyway.  (Oh, and the guys were cute.  Which made it double awkward.)  They named a few songs and were like "Does anyone remember what the other song we're singing is?"  And I knew the All-State choir was singing Daemon, but he hadn't mentioned it.  So after a while I decided to speak up and said "It's Daemon.  You're singing Daemon."  And he looked at me and said "No, another choir.  Our choir at home."  And then he turned away.  He was really polite about it, and I'm sure it doesn't even matter, but still... he was cute.  And I felt like an idiot.  I need social skill lessons.

3)
And then today after the concert Challis and I were walking back to the gym as the band and orchestra kids were walking to the auditorium.  And we passed a guy (across a field) who had the same bright red cello case I have!  So I yelled at him "Hey!  I have that same cello case!"  And apparently he didn't hear me, so I said it again.  And then he DEFINITELY heard me.  And he looked at me and said "...sweet" in a really annoyed, uninterested voice.  I was so embarrassed because everyone was looking at me.  I even embarrassed Challis.  So yeah.  I was pretty bad.  Ughhh...

~~~

Please teach me how to speak to strangers.

My Favorite Family

I wish it could always be Jive Week.

I love the people in Jive.
I love the performances.
I love the thrill and the joy.
I love the adrenaline.

Jive is a family.  My family.

~~~

After a week with them you think I'd get tired or annoyed, but no!  It just got better and better, and we got closer and closer.  And then last night was awful.  It was the end.  Our last show.  Half of us are leaving.  I cried.  For an hour straight.  I cried so hard I threw up.  (That was a first.)  But I wasn't crying for me... because I'm going to be in Jive next year.  I was crying for the 13 of us that won't be returning.  The ones that I love and will miss dearly.

I cried for them.

Next year I'll be crying for me.

It'll probably be even worse.

I'm dreading the end of Jive.

~~~

Jive is my life.  The feeling of being up on stage is just so great.  As you know from a previous post, I'm transferring to Twin Falls High School in order to stay in Jive... I told a few of my CRHS friends that last night.  And they knew that it was the right decision even though they'd miss me.  They watched me perform, and they knew that it was what I loved more than anything else in the world.  I love my friends.

During Jr. Jive a few of the little 2nd grade girls came up to me and said "My mommy says you have a pretty voice."  It was so great. :D  And even though the Jr. Jivers performed at the matinee, I saw one of my little girls at last nights evening show too.  And when I was bawling my eyes out she came up to me and gave me a hug and said "You did so good."  It only made me cry harder.  It was so sweet.  And there was this one 8th grade Jr. Jiver who says I am her inspiration.  It made me feel so great!  I even gave her some advice. :D  I felt almost famous!

And this older lady came up to me and told me that she enjoyed the show, and specifically enjoyed watching me because I looked so joyful, and she could tell I gave it my all.

And then another lady told me to never give up on music.  She said I was very blessed and talented and that I should definitely stick with music and go into a career for it.

~~~

Best night ever.

I just wish I wasn't such a baby.

~~~

And we revealed secret Jive friends.  Which was fun.  But I knew that Emilee had me.  She made it rather obvious.  With Subway cookies and "beer" and such.  Silly Emilee!  I had Kiefer.  I gave him mouse traps one day... and it was not a good idea.  But yeah.  Just something to remember.  Don't give teenage boys mouse traps.

~~~

Then Shari's.  It's Jive tradition.  We were there until 1.  But we almost got kicked out around 11:30 because we were trying to make everyone fit around one booth, and it ended with people sitting on walls and climbing over tables.  But yeah.  We had a little Jive-amony meeting at Shari's, but not everyone was there, and not everyone shared.  So we're going to finish it on Tuesday in class. :)

~~~

And I gave him a ride home afterwards. :)  I felt so happy to be alone in a car with him at 1 in the morning.  That sounds bad... but NOTHING HAPPENED.  Though I wish SOMETHING had.  Like... at least a hug!  But I guess I'll just have to accept the "Bye Elizabeth!  Thanks for the ride, love you!"  that I got.  It's better than nothing!  Oh well... I'm 99% sure he doesn't feel the same way about me as I feel about him anyway.  And he's leaving next year.  :(  But I'll hopefully be able to get over it in time.

~~~

♥ JIVE ♥

Crazy

I don't know what happened...

But I was gone for a few days because of Jive.

And I came back with nearly 1000 pageviews.

WHAAAA?!?!?

I got like 600 in one day.

This is cray cray, yo.

Jive Week has BEGUN

Even though it officially doesn't begin until tomorrow... this is the first day of the week that is dubbed "Jive Week."  Plus, we've already had extra practices shoved in random places.

*cough* Early Jive Week *cough*

We had our usual choreography practice last Thursday night, but we wouldn't have normally had it since we didn't have school that day.  And Friday morning we were at the school from 8 to noon rehearsing stuff.  And then Saturday at noon we had another choreography practice at the studio for an hour.  Then we had our own little JAI HO practice at a church building from 6 to 9 last night.  We really want to do Jai Ho.  That is like our favorite song!  But Kim refuses to choreograph it cuz we "don't have time." And Casperson agrees.  BUT Teagan and Melissa had already choreographed it.  So we got as many people together as we could and learned it.  It went pretty well! ...But only about half the people were there. : /  But we feel like if we show it to Cappy tomorrow and it's mostly done and just needs some polishing, then he'll let us do it! :)

This next week is going to be insanely busy.

Can you say...

<OVERWHELMED>

*?*?*?*

The Right Decision

...It was a tough one.

But I'm transferring to Twin Falls High School next year.

Transferring is the only way I can stay in Jive, and honestly, Jive is like the one thing that I honestly enjoy at school.  But transferring is really tough.  Especially since it's my senior year.  There's non turning back now.  The transfer papers are in, and arena registration is complete.

I'm leaving my friends.

The familiarity.

The bright environment.

But I get to keep Jive.

...although I barely know anyone.

And the school is not nearly as open and bright as Canyon Ridge.

I'll still see my Riverhawk friends.  I know I will, but it will still be sad not graduating with them.

I always start to cry when I think about the decision I made. :'(

...But then I think about if I had chosen to stay...

And I would have cried about that too.

...Sometimes neither choice is easy.

More positive sides to going to Twin are.. I get the same teachers that my siblings had.  And they are great teachers!  And I'll get to meet a lot of new people. (Hopefully they'll accept me.)  That's what I'm the most nervous about.  This year in my chemistry class at TFHS (the class I have 6th period before Chamber Singers and Jive) no one even ever talks to me other than Sunny (who is in Jive with me) and occasionally one of her friends.  Everyone I know says "Oh! You're so outgoing!  You'll make so many new friends!"  ...But I honestly have doubts, because it seems like they don't like me.

But I'm so grateful I have fantastic friends in Jive.

I just wish more of them were in my grade.

Emilee and Allison were telling me how they are going

to try their hardest to make me feel welcome.

They say they're going to always say hi to me in the halls.

And sometimes even tackle me.

So I seem like the coolest person ever.

And people will want to be my friend.

They are so great. :D

What did I do to deserve such great friends?!

I feel like next year is going to be very bittersweet.

Jive Solos

We had Jive solo auditions on Wednesday.

I did a solo:

"Nothing" from A Chorus Line

And a duet with Kiefer:
"Moments" by One Direction

~~~

Everyone thought they both sounded great!

But all of the solos (with the exception of maybe 2 or 3) sounded INCREDIBLE.

And there were like 17 solos.

So some had to be cut.

I was pretty sure Kiefer and I would get the duet.

But I didn't think I'd get my solo.

Because Casperson has to cut some numbers.

And if I was in the duet, I was okay not having a solo.

But I got them both.

Cappy put in 11 solos.

More than I've ever seen in a Jive show EVER BEFORE.

Wow.

And having two solo numbers in one show is incredible for me!

My sister only made one solo number her entire Jive career, and my brother made none.

And so my first Jive show I get one solo, and my second Jive show I get two?!

Amazing.

~~~

And my incredible friend Emilee Gomske sent me a text saying:

"I just wanted to say that you did amazing today, and I am proud ofyou and I just feel so blessed to have you in my life!! I love you!"

That text pretty much made my life. :)

**BitterSweet**

Bitter

Not getting much sleep and having to wake up at 4:30.

Feeling horribly sick at 3 in the morning.

Sweet

Swimming in the morning with Hailey. :)

Bitter

Being sore after not swimming since swim season ended at the beginning of November.

Sweet

Getting ready in the pool locker room while rocking out to One Direction.

Taking pictures in the pool locker room mirror.

(I swear it's a fun house mirror because it always makes me look skinnier than I really am.) 

Bitter

School.

Sweet

Seeing all of my friends.

Finally buying a guitar capo.

Totally winning epically at the duet Kiefer and I are going to try out with for Jive Night.

Selling 15 Jive tickets. :)

Bitter

Family Home Evening with grumpy parents.

Sweet

Strawberry Shortcake.

The SWEET outweighs the BITTER.

It was definitely a good day. :)

Polyvore

An Early Spring by zippy1995 featuring heeled sandals

So...I discovered this site called Polyvore.
And it's pretty great.
I designed this outfit.
It was fun.
The end.

Wow.

So, I got 82 views on my blog yesterday.  67 of them were on my Elder Archuleta post, and I assume most of the others were from people who came because of the Elder Archuleta post.  But yeah.  That like triple my views for the month of March.  Pretty cool right there.  Just wanted to mention that.  I'm out.  Peace.