Oh, Amy, I love you!

I love you right now, Amy. I mean, I've always loved you, and I always will, but right now, you're especially awesome.
I was in a really bad mood earlier.
I mean, a really bad mood.
And I was praying I could find something to help me get into a better mood, and I had this feeling to go through that one file cabinet with all my old stuff.
And I found letters.
Letter that you had written to me when I was two years old. And that was the answer to my prayers.

April 17, 1996
Dear Aubrey, It's nothing fancy but I've wanted to start your journal for you. You are almost two. You call Ryan Robbie, Nicole- gaga, Amy- meme. You can point to your nose, eyes, ears, hair, head, fingers, toes, tummy, but your favorite is your eyebrows. When you point to your head, you hit it and say ow. The cutest is when you see something gross you saw "ewww"! You LOVE to play outside and your favorite people are probably Mom, Nicole, and Laura and Thomas Prusso (our next door neighbors). In church you always run to Sister Prusso's lap. You like to say "mea" or "nye" which translated means "mean" and "nice". Sometimes (well actually- all the time) Nicole and I turn on the Disney Classics casette tape and we dance with you. We teach you all kinds of dances like "headbanging", the "cha-cha", the "cabbage patch" and all sorts of things.
You are totally cuddly and love to give hugs and kisses and you never leave anyone out. When someone comes home, you run to them with your arms outstretched to give that person a huge hug. You've cheered me up so many times. I always call you "Babe" or "Babes". You're so much fun. I don't know what we would do without you. I'm so sad that I'll be going away to college when your only 4 or 5. I won't get to see you grow up. But I'll leave his for you to read so you know how much I love you.
Love,
Amy

What an amazing sister you are! You and Nicole and Andrea are amazing influences to me. I feel bad for those girls without older sisters. :) They're missing out BIG TIME.
There are two other letters, and I might type them up when I get time, but now I have to go.

DISNEYLAND. Stupid guys. 3rd Trimester.

Yes, folks! I went to Disneyland two weekends ago! It was AMAZING.I went on all the big rides. Even Space Moutain. And I loved them all. EXCEPT Space Mountain. :) I'm now a Disneyland-aholic.I loveloveloveloved Splash Mountain and Indiana Jones. We went on Splash Mountain seven times in a row- ten in one day- thirteen times the whole trip! Woo!
We went for a choir competition. We one Silver by a point! Grr! All the other groups got gold. But we did pretty well, especially for a Concert Choir. G (the choir teacher) was so proud of us. I love that man! :) He went on Pirates of the Caribbean with me and we sang our pirate song that we learned in choir.
Oh by the way, here are the links to our performances! (Not the ones in Disneyland, but our Winter Concert.)
http://www.livermoregranadaboosters.org/2008-2009/2009-02-25_Lhs_Choral/02-ConcertChoir.html
http://www.livermoregranadaboosters.org/2008-2009/2009-02-25_Lhs_Choral/10-ConcertChoir.html

Of course, there was drama on the trip. A guy named Kyle being really perverted to me on the last day at Disneyland. However, through a course of crazy, confusing events, he got kicked out of choir and I never have to deal with him again! I see him around campus sometimes, but I never have to talk to him. And he's a senior, so he'll graduate next year. Phew.

The day after we got home from the happiest place on earth, we started a new trimester! My classes are boring, especially my first two, Geometry and Bio. Health is fun though. All you do is talk about yourself. :) And choir is good. For the first week after Disneyland, I kept thinking Kyle was going to come back, so I couldn't enjoy the time, but last Monday it was confirmed that he got kicked out of the class. Since then, it's been great. We're singing a song by STYX called Come Sail Away, and a song from one of the best musicals EVER, Urinetown!

I'm lucky. I have friends in all my classes. One of my very very very best friends at LHS, Cassandra Hiner, is in two of my classes. And, all my teachers are good, except for Mrs. Haugen. But you know, it's alright. She's just boring.

And that's the lowndown of my life right now. It's basically good right now. Lot's of fun with friends. Peter Nyholm and I have a war going on right now. So with that and all the ther crazy stuff me and my friends do, I think I'l be looking back at Freshmen year fondly...

Though I guess I can't say anything yet. There's still two and a half months or so...

I LIVE.

I'm actually writing after... almost 4 months! Holy cow. I've just been extremely busy. I started my 2nd trimester of High School. It's pretty fun. I have too many amazing friends to count. Here's an over view of all my classes:

Spanish- Mrs. Garza is my teacher and she is an amazing woman! She's so nice and funny and knows exactly how to control the bad kids. A great teacher. She gets in all these prank wars though. It's funny. One day we walked into our classroom- or tried to- and there were over 1,000 dixie cup coving the floor, each one filled with water. WE had to clean every single one up. It was a prank pulled by Briant Jacobs and his friend! She loved it and thought it was hilarious. It's a fun class. Also, I have a really good friend, Cassandra Hiner in that class. But I have her in 3 classes, so you know...

English- Ms. Hanson is my teacher, and even though I'm sure Susan Pfiefer is an AWESOME teacher, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Ms. Hanson more than anything! She's this cute little lady who has funny sayings like "orange peels" (random thoughts) and stuff. We do daily writes every day (free writes) and I love this. I might write one down later. Cassi is also in this class along with tons of other friends. That whole class is super close.

Social Science- So basically my first three classes are AMAZING. I was stupid and took HONORS SOCIAL SCIENCE, and it's extremely challenging, but it's worth it. This class is like FAMILY. I have all my really good friends in it like Brooke Lari, Anissa Tran, Emilie Weidenmeyer, Nate Preece and Pooja Shroff, and tons of other awesome people. There's also a guy named Christian who is seriously hilarious. It's an aweeesome class! Our teacher is also really down to earth. She handles all our craziness.

LUNCH- funnest thing ever. The end.

Choir- I bet you'd expect for this to be my favorite class, right? Wrong. It's my least favorite! Sadly. I'm a TENOR. The choir teacher is hilarious (his name is "G"), but we are only learning 3 SUPER easy songs, and I don't get along with the people... It's not too great. I'm doing choir next year because I would ranther get a hard class out of the way. I would keep doing it if I LOVE LOVED it, but tragically, I don't... :( At all.

PE- This class was really bad for a while. But then it got better, and then it got really creepy for a while. My PE teacher really scared me for a bit. I would come home to Mom with some stories that probably scared her out of her wits and got her protective mother mode on. But now we've decided that he's just really really really really REALLY friendly... Yeah. But the one good thing is that this class is never boring. For example, today I was walking with my friends to the locker room, and this girl, Kenzie, was saying to my friend Cassi about how we look alike. But then, this guy behind us heard us and thought that Kenzie was talking to HIM. And this guy was a 6'3"black guy with short dreads, sunglasses, baggy clothes and a general scary attitude. So it was super funny. Eventually I started talking to him and he's awesome. Now he's my "bodyguard". :) It's great fun.

So for the most part, school is good for me. I just got a 94/100 on an essay that most people got Ds on and I aced my Romeo and Juliet project. Woo.

The Highlight of my Week and "Past the Point of Normalness"

So on Friday, I was walking across the crosswalk from school, and the guy I was standing next to was talking to his friend about someone. I didn't take much notice in him, except he had a really cool jacket and he was riding one of those low bikes. Then, I happened to overhear part of their conversation. The person they were talking about sounded like me! So I casually asked them who this person was. Then, believe it or not, they told me that is WAS me! I asked them why the heck they knew me, and they told me that their friend had talked about me a lot lately. Their friend named Robert Jaber (A guy in my Bio class who I used to sit next to. He's really funny and awesome). That was so happy because they were saying such nice things about me... Robert must have given them a good impresssion. :) Anyway, that made my week.

Another funny thing that happened is that I was going through my old livejournal (very nostalgic!) and I found an old song I wrote to the tune of Past the Point of No Return because the real ones are bad.

Start from the very beginning...

We a strangly,
In our own little way,
the most happygolucky
people on the e-arth e-arth...
We have told you many times before now,
that it is good to be nice and
cra-zy, cra-zy...
Past the point of normalness,
we are now psychos,
we'll dance and sing and put on quite a show,
past the thought of being calm,
no point resisting,
our secret urge to prance around and sing,
we are the weirdest on the earth,
we've been this way since o-ur birth,
why can't you understand our strange ways...?
Past the point of normalness,
one final question,
will you throw us in mental homes or say...
"I'm past the point of normalness...."

Hahaha. I was such a spazzy kid. I remember making that up with Krista. Good times. :)

This is Halloween...

I'm tiiired.
Halloween was fun! I got no sleep, but it was fun. Audrey, the creative, awesome person that she is pent the whole day decorating and planning for it, and it was awesome. There was TONS of food, candy, and games. Guess what I was for Halloween? Well, I was going to be a banshee, but then I found an old dress of Mom's that looked very Pride and Prejudice-ish. So, I was Elizabeth Bennett for Halloween. I wasn't in my costume for very long though. We we're dancing and floor length dresses aren't good to dance crazily in. We watched The Village, had a scavenger hunt, and played Guitar Hero and SingStar. Fun stuff.

And now, oh woes of all woes, it's November!!! This Daylight Savings time switch is really depressing me, because it gets dark at FIVE PM. The good thing is that I get an extra hour to sleep! That's always good. :)

PS
COMMENT!

Water Polo, School, YW Blogs, Utah, Halloween and That Good Stuff.

Hi! It's me. I know. It's October! I'm so excited for Halloween. Nicole and I decorated while Mom and Dad were in Germany. I'm going to be the same thing last year (a "banshee", says the costume label...) and I'll be going to party with friends where we'll be trick-or-treating- I'm not too old!- and watching the movie "Signs". I recommended it. :)

So, last Thursday I went to one of Krista's water polo games. I must say, it's the most fun I've ever had watching a sport. The rules are simple, and it's so...vicious. They bite, scratch, drown each other... It's entertaining. Krista won, (of course) and I'm excited to see the Granada vs. Livermore game coming up next week!

Speaking of sports, we got creamed at the homecoming game (17 to 50- no joke) but the pep rally was fun. We got booed a LOT. Apparently we're terrible people for being Freshmen.

School is going a lot better for me. I love my friends. LHS people are so nice. I can't say I LOVE my classes, but I survive. Oh by the way! I'm COMING TO UTAHHH! I'm so excited. :) Aaah!!

Anywho. Hmm... What haven't I covered? Oh yeah. Our YW got a blog today. It's not up and running yet, but it will be by Sunday. It's great 'cause my leaders will post all the pictures of the activites! I wonder of I can invite family to the blog... Apparently there's a lot of pictures of me. ;)

Anything else? Ummm... yes. But nothing too exciting. Oh by the way- COMMENT OR I'LL BEAT YOU UP! It gives me motivation to blog more, instead of just once a month...

High School

Um, hi. I started High School almost two weeks ago. I hated it. Like, I HATED it. I would come home and just complain to Mom until I was too tired to talk.
Now it's better. I have lots of friends, and I have really good teachers (besides my Geometry teacher whom I... dislike very much...). I am getting used to the homework, and it's fun to go and have funny little experiences every day. Like the guy who asked me to tie his shoe 'cause he didn't know how. Or the guy I nicknamed Table. Or Pepe. It's fun stuff.
Like I said, my teachers are pretty cool. :)
I have Ms. Hanson, a very nice and fun English teacher, Mr. Vierra, a hilarious PE teacher who actually makes PE a little... fun. (Although it helps we're swimming. EASY.) then I have Mr. Corriea, my Geometry teacher...no comment there... Mrs. Haugen my very nice but strict Biology teacher who tends to ramble, and then there's Senora Crichlow. Senora Crichlow is an all attitude black lady who is a GREAT teacher, but sometimes gets so caught up in group discussions, we don't start class until 20 mintues before class is OVER.
Seminary is good as well. It really wakes me up in the morning.
And that's my life at the moment. In an extremely, EXTREMELY simplified and short version. Comment if you want to hear any more specifics. :D Buhbye.