One Lucky Girl

This past week has just been insane. I have been working my butt off to get my grades up this week. Ended this term with all A's (that's including 2 A-'s). I am so relieved but I know I am so lucky that I was able to get all my work done and be able to get my grades up.
Also I was so lucky this week to be able to go to my first choir concert at Mountain View! It was on Wednesday, which is young women's night and so I normally wouldn't be able to go, but my mom let me! And I was even luckier that I got to go with the most amazing guy...Andrew :) The choir concert was great. My friends Kirsten and Mvhayv did great on their first choir concert at Mountain View! My friend Zoe, she did great at her solo and it was all just great. It was even better because of being the luckiest girl...being there with such a great guy!
Thursday I felt lucky once again. I have rehearsals pretty much every day after school for my school musical, Cinderella. And on Tuesday-Friday after rehearsals I go to Lakeridge to help out with their rehearsals for a little bit. Thursday we didn't get out of rehearsals for Cinderella when we were supposed to and I had to be a Lakeridge that day to talk with the cast. Luckily I got there in time thanks to my friend Austin, and I was lucky that I got there in time before Andrew even left. Hehe.
Friday, I found my Halloween costume! I am going to be a "Fall Princess." I have a long, brown dress. I am planning on painting a leaf across my face and a leaflet necklace around my neck, maybe even a leaflet bracelet on my wrist if I feel like it. I am going to have orange nails and I have silver shoes and a silver mask that all go with it. I don't know exactly what I want to do with my hair but I have an idea. I was soooooo lucky I found my costume! Thank you so much Oquendo for letting me look through your costumes and letting me borrow it!
Yesterday was great! I had rehearsals in the morning which wasn't too bad. After rehearsals, Mvhayv came and she and I went to Wendy's to eat. Then I finally faced my fears and went to Target (There's a reason why I am afraid to go to this one Target...it's a certain one, other Targets, I'm okay with). Then Mvhayv and I went to her house to get ready for her party later that night. We finished cleaning up, then we decorated her house and made food (the food was great!). It was all a lot of fun. Then the party started!!! That was loads of fun. I think the funniest thing that happened that Mvhayv and I got some silly string earlier that day to spray Andrew with, but it failed us and we couldn't get it to work. We struggled with that for awhile. Haha. Oh and apparently Andrew is a "cat whisper." Haha. Got chocolate shoved into my mouth, very unromantically by Andrew...but whatever. It works. Haha. But yeah, it was a lot of fun.
I really have just felt like a really lucky girl this week. I was not expecting this week to have so much fun in it, I was expecting stress beyond galore! But that didn't happen and I have been so blessed! Thank you everybody who has helped me out this week. You all are amazing. Love you all!

What a life I have haha

This month has just been insane. These past couple of weeks have been super stressful with it coming close to the end of 1st term. I am very, very disappointed in myself this term. I don't know why I have let my grades slip so much. I am an A student and this term my grades, as of right now, 3 A's, an A-, a B, a C+ and a C-. It kills me to see the C's and that one B. I can handle an A- but for me, I know I can do so much better than I have done this term. I really am frustrated that I have let it get like this. I know I've been busy with rehearsals, babysitting when I can to earn money and helping out with another play...but that should give me no excuse. I chose to do those things and if I chose to do them, I should have enough self-discipline to keep my grades up or I'll have to change something in my schedule. I have been working my butt off this last week to improve my grades and luckily I've gotten some of them up, but I still have more to do and this is the last week. Wish me luck. I will not end this term with those grades, I will get them to be better than that. I give you that as a promise.
Other than that, life has been pretty good. Rehearsals have been crazy. Friday I was at school for 11 hours! Insane. I was exhausted. We were dancing all for rehearsals. I am so sore from it. Since I'm a specialty dancer in the play, I get to do a lift. Yay. I've done lifts before, so I'm okay with them. This lift has bruised me though, from my left armpit down to the side of my stomach. It's crazy. I am in so much pain from it, but I have to deal with it tomorrow when we get to do it again! Joy!!! My dance partner is somewhat awkward...but he's cool I guess. My second partner is a nice guy and really funny. I don't feel awkward around him, so that's good. I've met a lot of great people from this play and feel closer to a lot of people that I've worked with before. I love plays. I love being onstage. It's where I feel myself, but don't at the same time. I can just lose myself in my acting. It's an amazing feeling.
Best thing that has happened to me during rehearsals is that Criman has told me he loves watching me perform and that I have a talent. That made me feel a lot better! Also, I was talking to Mr. Young once before rehearsals (he's the ballroom coach) and he told me that he's seen me improve a lot from last year to this year and was asking how I would feel about team and stuff like that. Freak out moment! Haha. I was planning on trying out for team next year...I probably will. I just don't want to get my hopes up too high though. I know Mr. Young...he can say things just to be nice so I don't want to think I've got a spot secured on ballroom team yet. We'll just see what happens.
I'm really excited for Halloween. I think I might be a fairy...but I'm not really sure. This week I have my friend's Halloween party, and it's a Masquerade. I'm excited for that. I knew that she was going to be doing this, I helped come up with the idea of a Masquerade. So when I went to Shakespeare Festival, they had some masks they were selling and I got one just for the party! It's adorkable. It's silver and preeeettttyyy. Hahaha. So yeah...sups excited.
Then on Saturday is my Stake Dance!!! I LOVE Stake Dances. They are so great...especially now that we have an amazing DJ! I can't wait! It's going to be great. And I'm glad it's all after the term ends so I can just finally relax and have some more fun! So it should be great :D That's pretty much everything. I'll update ya later!

Shakespeare Festival Adventures :D

Sorry it's been forever. I have been crazy busy!!! This weekend I was able to go down to Ceder City for the annual Shakespeare festival! Oh my crazy it was just amazing! There are lots of pictures, but I'll show you some of my favorite ones. Cuz seriously...there's like a hundred of them. Hahaha. Anyways, it was an amazing weekend...actually it was an amazing week. Started off amazing, and just kept getting better day by day :D

Colton in the background. I thought this was a cool picture.

Just had to take a picture :P

Austin...he seems drunk...but don't worry he's not. That's sparkling cider.

Kimmy doing her monologue!

Prodigy's drawing!

MVHS Shakespeare team

Team's funny picture

Lakeridge's Shakespeare Team...minus 3 girls. They were in the bathroom.

Their funny picture :P

The best people...THE OBSERVERS!!!

Our funny picture :P

I just love this picture of Gabby!

This girl is just amazing! She and I became really close over the weekend. Prodigy, you rock!

Ciera! I love this picture of her :)

My foot, Gabby's foot, and then Ciera's foot :D