December fun - with flash backs

So I have been avoiding blogging again . I truely dont like to type , but I have to pratice according to my mom .. so heres december updates and events I havent covered yet from november

november- my moms cousins daughter er something like that turned fifteen and in mexico they have a big party and ceremony and my mom was asked to make the dress for the party so she did and we all went to mexico and had a blast except for me at the end of the night I was starting to get sick with something and I just felt miserable so yeah that was november update

december - nothing much going on we had a christmas dinner party and my mom finially got the christmas tree . we got it a week late so i was getting worried that we might end up using the fake one but we got lucky and found a perfect one . while i was looking through all my photos, I relized that me and my mom are never in the pictures together alone at the same time so during the christmas party i snuck up on her and took a picture of us it turned out pretty good i liked it .

i dont have much to say so yeah .

mmka

Stephanie-

Catching up ending at Frida

So as you have seen in my previous blog Michael is back and I am really happy about that . It is one of my worries that left my mind and sleepless nights .

I recent went to San Fran . to visit a college and my uncle . I thought that it was a perfect college for me . As soon as I walked on campus I felt so good about what my future in this school was going to be like and I would still be close to my family well only my uncle but its still feels as though its home even though all my family is going to be south of me . I am really excite about this school [Cal Maritime] .

Lately I have been catching up on some homework so I have been ignoring the world a little . Not on purpose though . Even though all the free time I had I used for painting and reading . I have finish three books the month of October and I am currently reading Angela's Ashes, The Lovely Bones, and The Art of Racing in the Rain,and I have recently finished a painting I have been working on for a while. I will put up a picture soon.

So today was the end of my chaotic catching up mode, my decided to treat me with taking me to a the Frida Kahlo portrait exhibit . Really the only thing I loved was the pictures of Frida . The rest of the museum gave me a headache . I felt like I was surrounded by examples of rushed art . There wasn't a lot of originals It seems like a repeat of paintings that where more famous but one must not judge . So I took some pictures of the piece I liked and that I was able to even though I felt weird since every security guard was looking at me .I had my flash off so I not fully sure on why they kept watching me .

Today was exhausting but wonderful . Hope tomorrow is going to be good to even though I have to figure out a way to give Dustin's drums to his friends in the morning which I really want to sleep in but such is life.

Michael Is back .....

YAY! My brother is back from Iraq . Its been a year since I have been aching to to say that .

I am so excited right now that Im blank on what to say. So im just going to put some pictures up.

oh I do have to say that by the time I have to go back home Michael and I are going to have a years worth of fighting to make up for hahah so far I think he is winning .

CMA Requirements

So according to my mom I have an 80% chance of making CalMaritime Academy in Northern California . This really makes me want to get on a plane and go there now , but I have to be patient[If its possible] . In November I will be going to an open house there so see the campus and you know open house so just seeing everything up there and then I will be hanging out with my uncle for a while after that . Im so worried on what I should wear but nothing big ,I just dont know how I should dress . My closet is really colorful , Im afraid if it might be to colorful for where Im going .

So I was looking through the Requirements and I knew they had a uniform and that it was going to be similar to military school . So I was prepared for that but then I was looking at the other photos they had and all of the women while in class had there hair back and then I relized that in the military all the women had to be able to have a classic updo and no extra hair hanging out so it hit me like someone punched me in the face. That I cant cut my hair !
Since I was five I think I have had short hair .Its going to kill me to have long hair . At least it will be cool weather so I wont have much to worry about getting to hot , and my hair will be 90% of the time in an updo so now I just have to learn how to keep my hair from being its natural wavy self . boo .

Brighter then the sun!

Mmka so people that know me know that I am extreme colorful . I love natural colors but I love to stand out even more. So I had finially finish my homework , yeah its a surprise to me to, and my mom let me hang at the mall so I can get out of the stuffy house. While at the mall I go to the stores I always shop at and then I decide to look at Wet Seal , I like some of there clothes but I never seems to interest in shopping there and plus I usually go to the mall with no money, so I am walking around I dont see much that is to die for , yet . Im walking and walking and then I turn around and there they are the brightest pair of orange pants and it was then that I had my phone out and already dialing my moms number without even realizing that I was calling . So my mom picks up and i just blurt out 'can I spend 25 dollars please ' and she says for what and when she said that I knew that I had a chance to get them and so I say in my excited voice 'orange pants!' thats when she laughs and says ok .I was so excited I quickally went through the whole stack I was almost dissappointed when I didnt see my size till I got to the lost pair and I quickally got them went to try them on and then ran to the cashier and she rang them but I almost felt like running out there and running towards the car to get home and try them on again I mean I was really excited . I wasnt even this excited when I got purple pants in San Deigo.

So a couple days later well today I went to target with my dad and he had to get some clothes so I was walking around the guys section and I noticed the cutest sweater vest I had ever seen and I quickally looked up at him knowing what the answer would be and he just looked away and thats when I dropped it in the cart .

Life seems so much more fun when you can be brighter then most people . So my shopping goal is to own all the colors of the rainbow and then get a rainbow dress or skirt , so that I could wear each color for everyday of the week and then on sunday I can wear the rainbow. So far I only have purple and orange just 4 more colors to go . I hope I did my math right though.

Writers block for the past couple months

Ok since I havent posted anything recent I decided that I would tell you why .
My has been crazy lately and I have been trying to write a story and so far i have 12 pages written and its been a month I really want to get the ideas out of my head but I cant seem to put them into words .So I have been stuck writing small poems and just reading and being behind in homework doesnt help either .
So the update on what life has been like and what I havent been blogging , first I went the to The Bowsers Museum in Santa Ana , I think it is , and saw the Terra Cotta Warriors Exhibit . That was so much fun and I saw a friend from church there so I was happy ! Then a couple weeks later I was on my way home from hemet and if you know me then you would know that i get lost alot . So I was heading home a back way that I remember someone taking me but I wasnt sure that the way I was aking the right way so I started to get scared and then all of a sudden i hit a dirt patch on the road and then ended up going up the side of the mountian and almost flipped my car and so when the car went down it was stuck in the middle of a every small road. I was grateful that there are still some very nice people that helpped me move my car to the side and helped move traffic around the accident scene . The car had lost all its oil in the road so I was worried that people might take the corner fast and slide in the oil but while I was there the whole time everyone slowed down to ask if I was ok so there was no fast movement in the oil spot .For the record i was perfectly fine nothing happend to me but a couple scratchs and many bruises . The next day I learned that my car was completely totalled and it would cost more to fix it then its worth so we are going to get money for the car to go purchase another car.
Yesterday my mom dad and I went car looking we didnt find anything that we felt comfortable with so we are leaving the car shopping for another day .
Thats about it for my life , I cant remember much of anything else... Oh yeah I learned how to knit so now Im knitting a scarf for the Assited living people in Hemet .

Pulling Teeth in Mexico,School in Hemet,and Plays in San Diego.

My life has been busy before and I have never put much thought because my mom is the one that helps me out during the week but this week was my first week flying solo.

So the week started on Monday with a community service class in hemet and all we did in class was plan things that lasted only an hour so half my day was spent driving instead of doing homework . While I was in hemet I took like half an hour looking for in and out . I was so determined to eat in and out . when I finially found it . The place was packed ,like people where eating outside, not one seat was empty in the whole place . So I ordered to go and since I was driving I decided to not eat while I was driving[really good idea for me] .
Heading home was the hard part since I lost myself I had missed my turn and kept going straight which lead me to farms and I freaked out when I found out I was heading towards the mountian way to get home and people that know me know I get car sick and I didnt want to chance it when I had the smell of food in the car so I did a u turn and then headed back and finially found a road I recognized and headed toward the freeway .Which my leg ended up falling asleep . The whole way home it looked like I was dancing in my seat. I made it home and to my dismay all my food was cold . Wishing that I would of stayed there I continued to eat my burger .The next day was Tuesday this day was the best of the week because , first I went to San Deigo and second I went to see a play that I have always loved called The Merry Wives Of Windsor , one of the many plays that I adore from Shakespeare .
So I never really knew what the saying pulling teeth ment till wednesday, when my mom told me in the beginning of the week that I was going down to mexico to get my wisdom teeth out I was ok with it and then it started to kick in when members of my family started to tell me that it was going to hurt. So the car ride there I was nervous , I felt like I really wanted to pass out when the car ride was over and we were walking to the dentist office I started to think that if I run no one can catch me but we were already at the door walking in so it was to late to continue to think about running . while we were waiting I was giving a sign in sheet with questions about anything important tot he dentist and sadly since i have forgotten most of my spanish I kept asking my grandma to fill in the places I wasnt sure what the question was. Just as I finished the sheet they called me up . I almost started to cry, while i was waiting in the chair my body started to shake alot . I was looking at all the certificates on the wall to make sure that the dentist wasnt a fake but sadly they were all in spanish , then the dentist came in and started to talk to me and since I was nervous i wasnt int he right mind set to translate in my head so I stayed quiet and nodded the whole time finially when everything was over and I was loopy from the drugs I relized that he used to be my uncles and my moms dentist as well , so I was mad later that I got worked up for nothing . On the way home i had fallen asleep alittle but then the drugs started to wear off and so I was awake and carsick and in pain for most of the way home and then my grandma decided to try to make me happy and I started to laugh and I think thats when I broke a stitch. I couldnt tell I was afraid to open my mouth so for two days I didnt talk . That seem like the longest two day I ever lived through even though i slept for most of it I still wanted to talk so bad . I slipped up quiet abit but that still didnt help the impatience I was in , I really wanted to talk . Everything healed ok nothing to bad happend except I did mess up the stitch and it didnt heal right but Im not going back so Im ok with it .

So that was my busy week there would have been more to the week but i decided to rest from the extraction of my two wisdom teeth .

School is now in session.

YAY! It's my senior year , that means I am almost finished and ready to start college to begin my new life in the big world. Its going to be hard but I am addicted to my first class Gov. , I think that its so entertaining to see that there is no really good governments in this world since the beginning to now . I do miss going to regular high school and getting the freedom out of the house . Life seems stressful at the moment because of school work and other random things going on . Seminary has started and today was the second day of seminary . I am still having problems accepting that this is my last year of school and seminary . I really dont see time going fast or slow for me but I do see that I am wasting time and I still have so much to do before I get to college .

Taking a break from the computer.

Ok so today my mom and dad left for one of my dads many doctors appointments . I stayed home to take care of Bo that had just gotten fixed. So while watching a dog sleep all day I decided to be lazy and watch television hahah . Not my usual thing I do when I am bored but I have to say that I was entertained by a landslide , then I usually am by the computer . I thought that i would take some breaks from the computer since its going to be the biggest part of my senior year of high school/home school. Well I ended up watching two marathons of What I Like About You and Greek. These shows that I would never think that I would watch and like .So thats the highlight of my day .

LDS girls camp july 2008

Well I feel so old today is my moms birthday well we have a thing were if your past your 20s you continue to say your 20 -something . So this summer has many last and a first . Its my first summer that i had been home for my moms birthday . Every year I would be at camp and miss her birthday this year they moved camp up a week .

For being my last year at camp , it didnt seem that special . I did what I had done every year at camp and theres wasnt much contention this as last year . I learned that I get annoyed easily though . My dad decided to grace me with his presents at camp but I barely saw him . I had certified for all 6 years last year so I didnt do much this year but help out . Nothing really special , we went to the lake and did a 4 mile hike that didnt go so well for me since I wore converse shoes and they dont have an arch support. the view from the hike was like soemthing you have never seen . What I saw was not something you put in a picture . It was better to see it with your own eyes . Nothing realy happened worth typing about .

They gave me the nickname of boo from monsters inc..

warped tour 2008 , Pomona

OK so this is a little late but June 20th I went to warped tour in Pomona it was quiet an adventure. We met two guy that where from the valley and where friends of Vashti so we stuck with them they were pretty cool except one of them didn't really want to be there so he was a drag . Later we realized that we had ran out of water and money so , well we were to our last 5 dollars and water cost 3 dollars and they were small water bottles . So we cooled down in the tents and waited for a while till we felt we could go into another crowded stage and push each other around , but my mistake was that I'm stubborn and want to see every one so I ran from on stage to another with out a brake and on my way to gym class heroes i passed out from heat exhaustion it was quiet frightening but the guys we were with were nice to get me some water and force me to rest . When we felt that we could do another band Vashti was starting to feel sick so she went home and I stayed with Heidi we saw two more shows and then went to eat panda express. Ha ha we were so hungry and tired that we didn't care what people said about us looking dirty or even smelly we wanted food and then to sleep . This was my second year going and I hope to keep this a tradition with my Drug Heidi.

learning....not always bad.

OK so my mom has a blog and I go on the Internet all the time and I never even heard of it so I'm starting my own blog ..I'm not much of a blog person but its way to record the things I have done and things I need to do . ::cough:: ::cough:: school work ::cough:: ::cough::. ..... well right now I am a senior in high school , I never thought I would be saying that , I don't really want to grow up. I still wish I was in kindergarten .My life moves to fast for me . I am still playing eeni meeni minni mo with what I want to do after college. This past year I have learned that i am not a business person ,fashion designer , or photographer, but I did learn my love for the sea life . Earlier this year I had a chance to go to Catalina and I took it . At first I was really scared but then I learned that if I really like something to go ahead and go for it so I was always volunteering for kayaking and snorking , but there is one thing i didn't do because of my fears .... night snorking. Im still afraid of the dark but I loved doing everything else.
So a couple days ago I found out that I could finish my math credits during the summer time.
I am really excited about it . When i heard the news that i could finish it . I was still sleeping so it really wasn't good news till later in the afternoon after I was fully awake . So if I get all good grades, I may be able to get into San Marcos . Even though I'm still unsure of my career goal . My school goals are almost finished . Homeschooling has made me into a better person ,I am so glad that I let my mom make my decisions for me , well I let her reluctantly , at first I hated being home schooled . I still dont like home school but if they told me I could go back to LQHS I wouldn't . My grades are so much better because I can use my brain with no restrictions . Well there are but not as many as in high school .Well that's it for now I gotta clean my room .[edited so my mom could stop making fun of me]