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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Masquerade!

October 30th, MASQUERADE! i went to the school dance as Christine daae (die-yay) after slaving away to make my dress for a long time, it turned out great!! thanks again mom! here's what we based the dress off of. :)




and here's the actual dress! we made a mask too (well my mom made it, amazing huh?!)














the dress is actually a wedding dress we found on KSL, that we changed to be more costumey. it was so huge!! i couldn't fit in the car very easily lol, but the WORST thing was trying to go up stairs without tripping on myself. when i walked in to the dance, everyone stared at me, like seriously. it was so embarrassing! i hate everyone staring at me, but yeah, when we walked in the gym to take pictures, the whole crowd turned... haha must have been a good costume? :P anyway it was sweltering in the ballroom where the dance was held. never been so hot in my life! but it was awesome! i could dance just fine, well mostly in that dress it turns out. i had a ton of fun! my date was Ubeeng Kueq (yeah, go ahead and try to pronounce that one :P) he's an amazing pianist, who has played with the Utah Symphony :P he practices 4 hours a day. i only wish i could practice that much!! but I'm lucky if i get one hour in :'( it's not fair! anyway yeah he so good, i don't think i should consider myself a pianist anymore...pretty much. anyway he's nice guy :) here are some pictures of us.














as you can see it was a little awkward, but that was when no one else was there, lol and we really didn't know each other, like I've said before :P oh well! we had fun. here's our group, we went as different movies (and in my opinion we were the cutest group, because there were about 5 groups going as cowboys and Indians! and 80's workout, and sports, SO hackneyed)

Gerardus and Sarah Jane as Sweeny Tod and Mrs. Lovett



Susannah and Greg as Tinkerbell and Smee


Amanda and Marcus as Elizabeth Swan and Will Turner


Celeste and Jeremy as Galadriel and Frodo their costumes were SO perfect haha, Jeremy didn't even wear shoes! and he drew hair on his feet haha

here's a Eliza and Sterling as Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (their costumes were SPOT on too.




here are Shannon and Taylor as Queen Amidala from Starwars and here are our group shots at my house


















and here's us eating dinner :P i might as well post them all :D my mom set the table REALLY fancy.















We ate chicken cordon bleu which was SO delicious! and spinach salad, and really good rice, and the most delicious rolls! and for dessert we had chocolate mousse, SO perfect! mmm :D but one of the coolest things about the dinner was what Celeste's dad made. it was a GREAT idea because if we hadn't done it, i reckon it would've been pretty quiet and awkward ;) so what he did, was create a mystery story, using the characters we dressed up as, just like clue. it was amazing! we all got parts of what happened in the evening, then we had to try to figure out who killed 'mr. body' haha. we all thought it was smee!!! but it turned out to be darth vadar lol. it was really cool! there was a map and list of things found on his body and EVERYTHING! it really rocked. :D well that's all I'm going to say for now, because I've now spent an hour posting this :P and i didn't get home last night till 3:30 bye !

**BTW! click on the pictures to see them bigger :)**

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

randomness, because that's all i have time for

you may want to blame cheer for this, but for once it's not cheer that is making me busy! it's my AP classes. they expect so much it's crazy! and on top of that i have my own piano practicing to do every day, plus teaching two lessons, and going to young women's. when you put several hours of homework on top of that, it isn't pleasant. plus I've been super worried about masquerade ugh. for many many reasons that i won't go into. I've been actually having nightmares about it O.o... but yeah some of it is my fault. like asking someone that i have never spoken to (well NOW i have, once, lol he is a really nice guy) so i hope it doesn't turn awkward. lol it probably will, but whatever. right now, I'm listening to music (dashboard by modest mouse) and thinking about various art projects I'm working on in school
i just finished one, a series of pictures, using various mediums, of a pepper, in various positions :P here they are, lol you are allowed to laugh


this one is done with tissue paper.... (and yes i took these pictures with my phone and am too lazy to make straight, so tough beans)
this is my first attempt at water color ever, lol so bear with me, (but tom says it's the best of all of them lol)


here's oil pastel

and here's colored pencil


this beauty is chalk pastel

NOTE: this pepper started smelling REALLY bad after the first week;

Thursday, October 15, 2009

k seriously i am so busy

homecoming! crazy week! there were cheer practices every day and i had to get up at 5:45 for them :( so i had no sleep, plus 4 ap classes, and two honors, i have been swamped. i was pretty bummed that i wasn't going to homecoming, all my friends were, but now i get a chance at masquerade, because it's girl's choice. i asked this kid named ubeeng ( you say it ooo bee ong.... i think.... hm i should probably make sure of that first...) but idk if i should've asked him after all. cause i don't know him really, just from a far; a hello in passing, a good job after the assembly. but my friend said he wanted to go to homecoming, but was too busy, so i thought maybe he wanted to be asked to masquerade? well whatever, what's done is done, and lol he sorta already replied (but he lost some of my respect for his way of replying. well a lot actually. i mean come on!) he told my friend to tell me yes, but that's stupid! i slaved over how to ask him, and trying to! i went to his house to ask him, but couldn't find it, and me and my friends spent FOREVER looking. but i eventually worked it out, asking him at school. i got one of my friends to give him a stick of butter with no note, just telling him he needed it, then in the next class another of my friends gave him a bag of popcorn, with a note saying "i just wanted to butter you up before i popped the question, will you go to masquerade with me?" (yeah cheesy but whatever *shrug*) i don't really like this kid though, not in any way to pursue further dates, i don't actually know him, but i hope all goes well! My group is going as movie themes, and i want to do phantom of the opera, i hope he'll agree with that :P he's an awesome pianist, and makes me feel like nothing compared to him, but i try not to think about that, it makes me so jealous.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

summer break is over, for this blog

well my unintended vacation from this blog, is ofically over. i just wrote a memoir about living in new york, and i'm quite proud of it :) i hope you enjoy. lol sorry em, i didn't really put you in there. i couldn't fit everything i wanted, it's already waaay long. and there's so much i left out! well here goes, enjoy, and i hope you read all of it! also, this is the new and improved one, that i spent 4 hours rewriting
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An Adventure…
When I was a small girl, and my family went through a hard-hitting divorce, we didn’t know how we’d make it. My mom did interior design work with her sister for years, but never had schooling, and decided we should leave Salt Lake, for hectic New York City, with 6 kids, and a cat. We got a moving truck, piled in our furniture, leased out our big suburban house in Sandy and lifted off, ready for an adventure.


Launch, in 10, 9, 8….
We massed ourselves, including our cat, Shadow, into the Land Cruiser, with our duffel bags. I think if we put so much as one more finger in the car, it would explode in a mushroom cloud of clothes, car parts, and redheads. We drove three, 12-hour days to get there. As a five-year-old I was stunned by the world outside our valley. I had only ever gone to the California beach once or twice, but those memories blurred. This, my first time really outside of Utah, made the world seem like a different planet. I didn’t know how lush the world could look, compared to dry, shrubby, Utah. I propped my eyes open, and gawked at the foreign greenness.


The Firehouse…
Our first house in New York happened to be an old firehouse converted to a duplex. We arrived very late, and I only have glimpses of my first look at the firehouse; I remember seeing, over someone’s shoulder, a white house, turned dark blue in the night, as someone carried me inside, more than half asleep. We had a week before our furniture would appear, so we spent the first night with duffel bag pillows, and wood floor mattresses. The next morning, women from our new church somehow knew just what we needed; they brought us real mattresses, pillows, breakfast, and anything else we could think of. I can’t imagine lasting another night on the hard wood, even with my young body.


Culture Shock…
The people there were strikingly different than Utahans; fast paced, always with somewhere to go. I had to run to keep up with my mom, in the strong current of downtown New York’s bustling sidewalks. People spoke loudly, and paid no attention to what others thought. In the city, I saw sidewalk artists, musicians, and vendors, pedaling shiny trinkets, and yelling out to the world exactly why everyone needed to buy their particular merchandise. I saw People like I’d never seen before, with clothes and hairstyles new to me, especially at school. Everyone in my family was in school except my little sister Hannah, two years away from kindergarten. She went to a full time day care, which seemed a little sketchy in New York… but what else could we do? I attended day care with her, until I started kindergarten. One morning while my mom did Hannah’s hair for daycare, Hannah asked “Why can’t I have little pony tails all over my head, like Shaquille in my class?” The children in school spoke in different ways than I knew from home, but deep down, as kids, we related not through words, but simpler things. We all knew the same basic games, and got along just fine. My older siblings, like extra parents, were old enough to help watch us, make dinner, and tidy up the house (somewhat, being high-schoolers).


Keeping Busy…
We stayed in the firehouse for a year, before we found a new place in Scarsdale, just outside the city. But during a transition period that summer, we had to move out of the firehouse, and couldn’t move into our Scarsdale house, so we stayed in the Hampton Inn, which was the most exciting thing I could imagine doing at that time. Two months of swimming in a pool everyday, our beds made by someone else, and little strawberry candies left on the pillows, like a reward for messing up the beds. I became friends with all the staff, who gave Hannah and me, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies in the evenings, warm and melty in our hands. But after a couple weeks, swimming in the pool didn’t seem so fun, and kids’ shows were a rarity on TV. Then my mom brought home a project we could all work on during the day to keep busy: a doll house kit. But not some plastic Barbie dream home. No, this was the real McCoy. Just like doll houses you see in museums, or books, where it’s all wood, every miniature piece perfectly carved and painted; even equipped for lighting. Yes, we built a mini mansion, complete with four floors, a deck, and an add-on bathroom and kitchen. The doll house really belonged to me and my little sister, but it kept my older brothers busy painting little wooden pieces, and carefully gluing them into place. We even got a miniature piano that would play Für Elise when wound. Hannah and I, so eager for it’s finish, couldn’t wait to start playing in it. Oddly, we refused to play with the actual human dolls, instead choosing to play with our animal figures, as people.


Pure Magic…
After the summer in the hotel, we moved to the verdant suburbs of Scarsdale. There I saw a display of the night that has stayed with and stands out to me, even after all these years: the sight of fireflies. On humid summer nights, they would come drifting out of nowhere, slowly blinking a yellow-green radiance in the twilight. Unlike any other bug I’d seen before; they did not flit and dart in startling patterns, crashing in to anyone or anything, but gently coasted through the air, a glowing mist. If you tried to catch one, it would speed up, just enough to evade your outstretched hand, but after a few tries, I nabbed one, and peeked at it through the hole I made with my thumb, in my small clenched fist.


On the Road Again…
Before I knew it, the time to drive back to Salt Lake City came, my mother’s two years of school completed. This time, we drove the moving truck back ourselves. I remember sitting with Hannah, making faces and elaborate hand signals to the other semi-truck drivers. We thought we had what qualified us as real truckers, and acted like it too. The men driving the semi-trucks smiled at us and honked their thunderous horns in return.


We Have Landed…
Being back in Utah was strange at first. We moved into our old house, with our old friends and neighbors right there to welcome us back. This made it seem like we hadn’t even left; I caught up with my friends in about 5 minutes, and started playing our same games, as if nothing had changed. My slight New York accent faded, and I started second grade. But New York has always stayed with me, even if I don’t show it. I can smell the subway’s distinct smell, picture the constellations on the ceiling of Grand Central, and see the boats on the Hudson River. I learned about another whole culture and I am determined to never let this part of my life slip away.

Monday, April 13, 2009

moms say the darndest things

here are some of my all time favorite quotes from my mom. keep in mind, these weren't necessarily on purpose

"for crapping out loud!"

"listen to my eyes! look into my ears!"

*we're at the mall, and she tries to get my attention by saying 'HEY!' and 'HELLO!' at the same time, so it just comes out "HELL!!!.......O!" (she's pointing at my face, thank-you-very-much) *me and Hannah gasp*, 'you swore!!!!!!"

*she looks at the back yard* there is diarrhea everywhere!!! *me and Hannah 'whoa tmi, you didn't have to say that, you could've just told tom to pick it up' *her scowling* "these are just words because I'm upset by it"

"Caroline you're going to have to turn your music down, because some people have to use the bathroom"- ha ha let me explain about that one, lol she concentrating on telling Hannah to go to bed, going to take Maggie outside to do her business, and they came out together.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

in too deep

so my friend Heidi, (this is like beginning of January) smiled at this boy, Ranjit (Tibetan boy, just came over from India, 18 years old, doesn't speak very good English, or understand it that well, for that matter. pretty sweet though, really awkward to be around. but he has good intentions), in the hall one time, then he found out what all her classes were, and gave her this valentine, and it was like "my heart is full of love for you ever since i first saw you" and "i love you" and "i love you for who you are" and "you're the most beautiful girl in the world". and attached, there was a really cool black and white yarn bracelet that he got in India. and it smelled like cologne, not that that's really relevant, but whatever. then i told her "if you accept it, you're probably agreeing go marry him ,in his country" and she just laughed, and blew it off. but it turns out

.................... i was right.....................

ha ha well not quite marriage, but it means they're like major going out. like pinned, going steady, whatever. and they hardly know each other. but we just found this out today, and it's been since what? Valentine's day? Feb 14? like a month and a half!? so he calls her all day, from any phone with in his reach, and he's wondering if she's mad at him, cause she's sorta avoiding him. not cause she's mad, but because it's so awkward to be around him! so he was all worried, and we now know what his deal was. now the only problem is to figure out how to.... deal... with this appropriately...

Friday, March 6, 2009

2 random lists

top three celebrities that I'd run away with, in order of hottness

  1. Taylor Lautner (tied with #2 actually)
  2. William Moseley
  3. Rob Pattinson (...maybe... it depends)

funny slang terms

  • Vomitose- means something is so gross you vomit until you are in a comatose state
  • Dejabrew- much like deja vu, dejabrew is when you start to remember things you did last night while drinking an excessive amount of beer. (not that i use that one, it just makes me laugh)
  • WAF- wife acceptance factor
  • LOL theory- he theory that the Internet phrase lol,meaning "laugh out loud", can be placed at any part in any sentence and make said sentence lose all credibility and seriousness
  • carcolepsy- a condition affecting people who fall asleep as soon as the car starts moving (lol i seriously have this one)
  • prostiboots- boots that are leather, highheeled, and thigh high just like ones found on a prostitute
  • bale out- when someone's stress level explodes to an epic proportion and a 5-minute f-bomb-laden tirade is unleashed on the unlucky soul who was in the wrong place at the wrong time -- much like Christian Bale on the T4 set.
  • Baby Goggles- A phenomenon where the parents of an ugly baby think their baby is adorable and no one else does.
  • kthxbi!!-k, thanks, bye
  • kitchenheimer- When you're in the kitchen going around in circles because you can't remember what you were doing there
  • overchicked- When a not-so-good-looking guy lands a chick that's way more attractive than he is.
  • acidemic bulimia- The process of learning or memorizing by rote, subsequently followed by the regurgitation of that knowledge onto an exam answer sheet. Just as with the serious eating disorder, this form of bulimia results in no real retention of substance. (hello, everything i learn in school)
  • designated texter- a passenger who reads and replies to any and all text messages received on the drivers phone, thus allowing the driver to focus on the road and not hit anything or get pulled over for reckless driving. (this is what i use while driving, if there is a passenger)
  • requestion- requesting something indirectly by way of a question note: this is distinguished from a regular question because the answer is usually obvious
    "are those peanut m&m's?" (requestion) "yes, would you like some?" "yeah"
  • manicorn- a mythical male creature who is successful (pursuing his passion and can pay his electric bills/rent), funny, chivalrous, masculine (not chauvinistic), adventurous, artistic (not suicidal). aka the perfect man

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

10 things i hate or am annoyed with

  1. just now? playing ski free and not being able to avoid the abominable snowman!!! no matter what!!! stupid ending!!!!
  2. getting home from school, and there's not really any good snack food
  3. DRM-locked media (for those of you who don't know what that means, it's why you can't use itunes music on any other computer, but the one you download it on basically CURSE YOU iTUNES)
  4. adults using slang wrong (although it CAN be highly entertaining given the situation. like telling tom random phrases, but not what it means, so he goes around using them. our next project: I'd tap that. jk lol it's almost too cruel)
  5. slow computers, enough said
  6. people reading over my shoulder when I'm on the computer
  7. when you say a crazy idea totally joking, then everyone around you thinks it's actually a good idea and forces you to do it (don't ask)
  8. boys
  9. the song "hey mickey you're so fine..."
  10. songs sung by men, using really really REALLY high falsetto voice (s) yes I'm talking to YOU "staying alive", and "i shot the sheriff"

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

que sera sera

QUE SERA SERA

if you don't know what it means, look it up

i find myself having a hard time typing, but very content. life is good :P eventhough it's cold enough outside to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (that doesn't come from what you think it does, so i feel fine saying it. it comes from something in a ship they used to hold cannon balls in). i wore a dress to school today, against my better judgment (do i even HAVE any??) and seriously froze solid walking to abs grandma's house. i've been indoors for about an hour now though, and still my hands are not thawed out... so ty[ing is really hard... as you can see. i have the best dress ever to wear to the basketball game. yup that right i'm wearing a dress to the basketball game. it's the 'outclass highland' (out biggest rival) game, where everyone from east wears ghetto fancy stuff, and everyone at highland dresses to 'freak east'... it can get pretty scary... their colors are black and white, and they go ALL OUT with the facepaint... but i'm exctied. i barrowed a ghetto dress from the dance costume room, a ballet dress. it's going to be awesome :)

here's whta 'freak east' looks like



Monday, January 12, 2009

snake game :)




or if that doesn't work: http://www.planetvids.com/nerdy-videos/5859/Snake-Game-Played-On-Windows/

Thursday, January 8, 2009

did you know

Chewing gum takes seven years to pass through your digestive system.
____ True ____ False _____ Only Juicy Fruit

ANSWER: False. The gum component itself is pretty indigestible, but will "pass" in a mass and will not stick your insides together, either. This one probably got going when exasperated parents tired of buying more gum after half an hour because their kids had chomped, then swallowed, their allotment. Also, swallowing gum was seen as ignorant and lower class.

Cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis in later life.

__ True ___ False ____ Maybe

ANSWER: False. Depending on your point of view, knuckle-popping sounds disgusting or cool. There is no evidence that cracking your knuckles inflames the joints and leads to arthritis. The cracking causes the bones to pull apart, forming a gas bubble and breaking the adhesive seal in the joint. Crack! About a quarter of the people in the U.S. crack their knuckles and might begin to lose their grip a little. Constant cracking can weaken the fingers.

Staying out in the cold and wind will give you a cold.

___ True ___ False

ANSWER: False. Colds are caused by viruses, with enough variations to give you a choice of 200 versions of a cold (which is why you get them over and over again). Because viruses get into healthy cells, it's difficult to kill them without knocking off the good cells. This is the job of your immune system, which usually clears out cold viruses in a week or two. You can get the virus through inhaling infected air droplets sneezed or coughed by an infected person, or by touching something that an infected person has touched and then transferring the germs to your mouth or nose. You don't get it from cold air, slush, wind, or other wintry conditions. Cold viruses are more active in the winter, and that's why people get more colds in the winter. So what's the best way to ward off this miserable virus? Wash your hands often. take THAT mom!!

Drinking warm milk puts you to sleep.

___ True ___False ___ ZZZZZZZZZ

ANSWER: True. Milk contains a chemical known as tryptophan. However, some foods, such as cheddar, avocados, some imported beers, and bologna or salami, can keep you awake.

Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies.

todayis david bowie's birthdaty (1947)

The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.

9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive!

Europe is the only continent without a desert.

The strongest human bite force ever recorded: 350 pounds. The strongest shark bite force ever recorded: 132 pounds!

Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'

-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.

In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.

Goats do not have upper front teeth

One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.

A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

okok i won't put any more of them. they are jsut so addictive!! what was your favorite one? or the one that suprized you most

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

gah here we go again


so after a month or so of letting my wrist heal, i decide to risk using it again for stunting... bad idea. it never really did heal all the way, but it got to a point where i was sure it wasn't getting any better, so i just decided maybe it would just need to be used again to be fully healed. so i tried it out yesterday. ya, it started hurting around 5 and got steadily worse till now i'm wearing the brace again. gah! it means i can't play piano, and typing this is taking forever. i really think i just have a weak wrist now, like forever. abbie suggested i see a physical theripist, cause she has a shoulder like that. it would be nice to do that. but i don't think i can be a base anymore for cheer. and i can't be backspot either, cause i'm too short, and that would KILL my wrist *shudder*. the only option left is to either be a flyer, or not stunt at all. *sigh* i love stunting!! i don't want to give it up!! but i know the flyer in my stunt group (she's kinda like sharon, for those of you who know her. ugh) would never give up her position, because she thinks it gives her power over us and makes her in charge. ugh! and she's actually a pretty good base too! it would be so simple if we just switched places! we actually use her as a base soemtimes. i want to go talk to the teacher and ask her what she would think, but i feel like people are going to say to me "oh just go get it looked at again, i'm sure it's nothing. you're faking it." and my flyer will start again with her "oh i have back problems *cough* so i can't really be a bace" BULL!! EVERYONE HAS SEEN YOU BASE MANY TIMES. what should i do?

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

so, ok idk what to title this yet, cause i don't even know what i'm going to write about!

what I'm listening to right now: 'love fool' by the cardigans

song I'm going to listen to next: 'grace Kelly' by Mika

things I'm wondering right now: who is grace Kelly anyway? is there any man in the world who's voice is higher than Mika's? what is he? a 1st soprano? why is my AP world history teacher's mouth so big?? seriously! i saw him yawn, and i think he must be related to Kirby... scary... and what the heck does julyed mean?? Emily you are weird!! how is that Mexican???

things I'm dreading: tomorrow. it's a b day. ugh i hate them. AP world history sucks.

books I'm reading: a curse as dark as gold

songs I'm going to learn on the piano: 'landed' by Ben folds 'mad world' by gray jules, i already mastered Bella's lullaby

random words I'm going to use on conversation some time, i swear verisimilitude... that's all. gah i'm so bored. what am i doing this for?

Monday, January 5, 2009

abbie's back from india!!



i'm SO jealous!! she had a blast though. but talk about jet lag! anyway she says the guys there are totally hot haha and that they would love me because i have red hair. they love different hair colors and everyone wants to be paler. they actually have this lotion stuff that is supposed to make you paler. what is it? SPF 1000000? anywho i SO want to go there now.