Perfection.

The Day of Valentine

When you bring your own rose to school and carry it around to make you feel special because you know you're not going to get an actual valentine from anyone.

But then you actually end up getting an anonymous valentine from someone for the first time ever!

And so you feel quite lame for bringing yourself a rose. :P

(I apologize for the extremely attractive picture of me.)

The Best Date

You know you're on a good date when...

• Your date is the guy you have a huge crush on.
• Your date eats half of the macaroni casserole you made (which you doubled the recipe for).
• You show up for a play an hour before it starts because you had misinformation of when it started, and your date excitedly suggests that to kill time you should all go to his house so he can fold his laundry.
• You actually do end up going to fold his laundry and have a competition to see who can match the most pairs of socks.
• You see an incredibly hilarious play that many of your friends are in.
• While driving in the car, you and your date sing at the top of your lungs to Kelly Clarkson... and he sings it in the upper octave that Kelly Clarkson is singing in, and it actually sounds good!
• When you go back to your house for brownies, your date compliments your mom on her curtains and other various decorating techniques.
• You totally kick everyone's trash at Parcheesi, but they refuse to accept the fact and cheat to make themselves feel better.

In all honesty, that was the best date I have ever been on.  Thank you so much Maddie for owing Traegar a date!  And thank you Mike for being Traegar's good friend and therefore the obvious option for me to ask to double with Maddie and Traegar. :D

#superfunnight

#laundryisactuallyfun

#itotallybeatyouallatparcheesi

Just Not Feeling It...

So, all day I've been trying to get in the Halloween mood!

-I dressed in Halloween clothes.
-While driving around I listened to Wicked/Phantom music blasting creepily.
-I have a fake tattoo on my ankle.
-I went to a Halloween dance.  (Which ended up being quite lame, even though I tried to make it fun.)
-I'm listening to the "Spooky Symphonies" playlist on Pandora. (Which is pretty great, by the way... even for not Halloween)

But I've just not felt very Halloween-ish.

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I want (pretty) snow, Christmas trees, giving, Christmas lights, gingerbread and other Christmas goodies, presents, joy, Christmas music.

I just want Christmas already.

(P.S.  The only reason I tagged Harry Potter in this is because The Sorcerer's Stone Film Score is the song that I'm listening to this very moment on Pandora.  Yeah, I'm aware it's kind of irrelevant to the entire post, but whatever.  I do what I want.  Don't judge me.)

A Shift in the Universe

Wow...  brand new revelation from the prophet.
And it has changed my life so much.
Well, nothing has changed quite yet,
But in a few short months I will begin to see this change's effect on my life.
But I am ready.

Click here for details.

And It Begins...

Goodbye summer...

And hello to a new school year.

A new school.

New friends.

New memories.

And an extremely busy schedule.

I'm so anxious.

Switching schools is so nerve-wracking, but I'm excited too.

I can't wait to see what this school year brings.

Along with new everything else... I'm trying to make a new me.

(Don't worry, I'm not going to change completely.)

I want to be:

-More spiritual

-More friendly, less annoying

-More fit

-More stylish

-Less procrastinative

Here's to the new.

I have this friend...

And this friend is amazing.  But, I can not tell you who this friend is, for legal reasons.  Because, said friend totally auditioned for American Idol when I didn't.  And this friend made it past the first auditions!  HOLY HECK!!!! I am so excited for my friend!  But I can not give away any information concerning who this friend may be, because the friend could get disqualified and sued. :(  But when the new season of American Idol begins to air, and my friend's results are shown, then I will reveal all. :D

Stranded.

So, coming back from vacation last night, our car broke down.  Right outside Brigham City.  Thankfully, we were able to coast off of the freeway along an exit near town.  We called a tow truck and everything worked out.  But we had to wait for Rachel and my uncle to meet us in Brigham City, because my uncle would drive some of us (me included) back up to Twin, and Rachel would drive the rest back down to my grandma's house.  (Downside to such a big family... very few cars can fit all of you.)

While we were waiting for our saviors, we walked across the street from the mechanics to Dominoes.  Now, since Dominoes generally isn't a "sit down in the store to eat your pizza" type of place, the manager working asked us what was up.  (7 children crowded in a Dominoes isn't a common occurance.)  My mom told him about how we broke down, so he gave us an extra free pizza, a free liter of Sprite, and some free cinnamon sticks!  it was pretty great!

And although the entire 6 hour delay was frustrating and tiring, it was actually kinda fun.  You know, to be able to say your car has broken down on the freeway.  It was exciting. :)

Anna!

Tonight after Legoland we went to Denny's.

And my fantastic friend Anna from EFY drove 40 flippin minutes just to see me!

We talked about school while getting stuffed on too-big-meals.

It was so great. :)

No. Way.

So... AMERICAN IDOL AUDITIONS ARE GOING TO IDAHO FALLS! EEEEEP!  I've always wanted to audition for a show like that because I think it would just be such a great experience, but I've never had the opportunity because they're always too far away.  BUT Idaho Falls is only like two and a half hours away... ergo, I want to audition!  Of course, it's not the ACTUAL auditions.  It's like a small town bus or something.  I don't really know.  Just go to the AI website to learn about what exactly it is.  But anyway, I so want to go audition.  Even if I don't make it, the experience is still so great!  But of course my mom said no.  Like seriously?  I'm going to try my hardest to convince her to let me audition.  Because it's like my dream.  And I mean, I don't expect to go all that far anyway.  I'm going to do everything in my power to get me to audition.  Wish me luck!

Fireworks

The Fourth.
At EFY we got to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks.

And I decided that I definitely want to go to Stadium of Fire sometime.  Hopefully next year.

Sorry for all of the pictures.

But it is just super fun to take and edit pictures of fireworks.

Excited!

Today I bought Wreck This Journal.

I'm excited.

Now I get to fill it out.

And I'm going to document it.

All of it.

Probably on a Tumblr blog... it'll be simpler that way.

But YES.

Before:                                                                         After:

Tomorrow

Tomorrow my boys will be recording new music.

YES.

Am I going to be able to pay attention in school tomorrow?

NO.

Am I incredibly disappointed at the great amount of time

between them recording and releasing their new album?

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HECK YES!

But I shall be

patient.

Deep breaths.  In and out.  You can wait, Elizabeth.  I promise.

At a Wedding.

My face in a spoon.

The tickets are now diamonds!

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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. :)

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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.

I wish...

• He would notice me the same way I notice him.
• I can go to Disney World over the summer and participate in The American Idol Experience.
• I'll be able to go to a One Direction concert and meet them.
• The Hunger Games midnight premiere will be worth the $10 and the wait.