*jadie leigh

Nothing-ness

2006-01-09T20:04:00.000-06:00

Again...my life is boring and really too great has happened. I said I would write about new year's eve if anything happened and it didn't. It was very boring and it sucked, I could of at least been in town with my friends instead of in minnesota with my family. Everyone except me and mom went to bed at like 11:45 I was like...honestly. Not that it's really that cool to stay up to midnight but if they stayed up that long already...why the hell not...I dno. Oh well...

This week is wonderful semester tests. I actually only have three and one is a really easy spanish oral so that doesn't really count. So if you don't count band or PE I only have three main classes that are right in a row that I need to go to. So that's why I came late last Friday and I will pry do it again this week sometime cuz it's pointless to come for first period when we usual dont' do anything and then sit around again second period. And after PE I get to go home for 7th and 8th period cuz I had a college class and early out. So my day is pretty good. I just dont' want to have to start a normal schedule again next week. Oh well...

That's about all I got...sorry to bore you this long...

Christmas Vacation

2005-12-30T13:55:00.000-06:00

It's already Friday...vacation went way to fast. I feel like I have gotten nothing done and it just started. I dno...I woke up this morning and realized I have quite a bit of stuff I planned on getting done over the break and still haven't done it...including homework. It's been an interesting break. It's had it's ups and downs. I dno...I feel happy but at the same time I am hurting and there is just really no way to avoid it. But Christmas itself was alright. Mom and dad got us a new t.v. for the family room so that's nice and the radio in my car crapped out so I got a cd player for my car which I wasn't expecting at all so that was fun. I never really get anything big for Christmas so when I am asked what I want I don't say much cuz it just leads to disappointment. But this year was pretty good for gifts so that was good I spose.

I have really accomplished nothing and I probably should have...I dno. I deep cleaned my room and got rid of tons of crap and hung stuff so my walls aren't empty but that's about it. Oh - my car was parked in a driveway last night and got hit and the glass in my side mirror on the drivers side got broke but that's it so I'm supposed to take it somewhere today to get it fixed so I need to go to that now that I think about it. My car got hit by a van and you can't even tell mine got hit but the van's rear break light cover thing broke and there's a big scratch on the side of the car. I kind of felt bad but it wasn't my fault so it's ok I spose. I need to go do homework too now cuz we're leavin tomorrow morning to go to Jackie's house up in Minnesota. Our good family friends we haven't seen for several years are meeting us there so I'm excited about that. But we have to leave early tomorrow and I thought we were coming home Sunday afternoon but now dad wants to stay till Monday and I really dont' want to so that kind of sucks...but oh well. It's just depressing to think the break is almost over...I'm really enjoying not having school. Oh well...I'll live. I'll write again before the break is over if anything exciting happens but it probably won't.

Up and Down

2005-12-12T15:02:00.000-06:00

What a terrible day...I shoulda just stayed home or somethin I dno. I woke up at 6:00 this morning for jazz band extremely tired and got in the shower after my sister. Half way through mom comes in and says its cancelled because ms. feekes is sick...so I got up at 6:00 for nothing. I was mad because I am definately not a morning person. But I did remember that I hadn't done my RR for English so I did get that done so that was good. I go to school at like 8:00 and there is hardly anyone there which was wierd, and then I parked alongside another row of cars and everything was fine but later I was told I was triple parked and so I was pissed cuz even if I was wrong...why would you park there...yer obviously gonna have to move, which they apparently did.

Got chewed out by someone later, bowled crappy, did bad on a test I took for my online college class and it justs been all around crappy for some reason. But oh well...although being at home usually pisses me off too so I'm sure it will be a great night.

This weekend was pretty good tho. ACT's on Saturday morning sucked just cuz they do. When I got home I went to St. Mary's to go to my cousins (Nichole) wedding. It was kind of boring and I officially don't like catholic weddings but the reception was awesome. Nichole's husband Mily, and his twin Max, and their brother-in-law juggled a couple times during the night and it sounds really wierd and I made fun of the thought at first but it was really cool cuz they were so good. They could do just about anything I swear...I dno. I thought it was cool but the night was fun. Yesterday I just sat around. So that was my weekend...whoo hoo!...

Wow

2005-12-03T20:22:00.000-06:00

Again, it has been a very very long time since I have posted. Sorry...I attempted to post about a month ago, I think it was right before the musical but I had most of it written and my computer decided to restart and I lost all of it and got to mad to start over. But other than that I have no reason not to post. I am usually just sitting at home doing nothing and just don't think about it.

Not a whole lot has happened. Nothing that would be that exciting anyways. Jazz band competition today. I thought we did terrible but the judges all seemed really happy and other people so I dno. We left early so I still don't know how we did. It was basically a competition to qualify for IJC (Iowa Jazz Championships), kinda like a state competition. And there is no way we did that cuz we have really good people in our class. But then I came home and served at a big german dinner at our church, gemulicheit (sp?). And that's about all of my day. I'm really tired and will pry go to bed when I'm done typing this. I watched Madagascar with my niece Kayden, it was funny.

I really hate these 5 day weeks. My saturday's always seem to go really fast and then Sunday is just Sunday, usually doing homework. I have to take the ACT's next Saturday tho, not looking forward to that, very very boring. Then as many people have heard about, that afternoon my cousin Nicole Rousseau is getting married to the guy she met at the circus when it came to town, Emiliano. I was asked to take pictures and tape the wedding and all the "behind the scenes" stuff so that will be interesting. But that's about it. I don't want to make this too long so I'll stop there. I really will try to post more often. But who knows how that will work...

2005-10-10T17:19:00.000-05:00

Well it has been a while since I've posted so I doubt if anyone reads this but that's ok. I got bored enough to remember that I still had this so I thot I would update it a little bit.

I guess there's been quite a bit going on but all kinda old stuff that everyone knows anyways. I was pretty excited about getting a Division 1 Saturday. I honestly could not believe it but after watching the tape today I was pretty impressed. I am excited to be done tho with marching. Well not officially until after the fun show but that doesn't count. But hopefully this new tradition continues.

Well I can't think of a whole lot else to say. Again all the exciting stuff if already out there. I turn 18 on Friday so that's kinda exciting. It's always more exciting waiting for it cuz then the day comes and yer just like...huh-this isn't that cool. but whatever. I'll officially be an adult and all those times I've been hoping to be able to move out of this terrible house don't just have to be hopes :) Kelsey - it's you and me man! Well anyways...I'll maybe try to post more often than every 2 months but we'll see. I've got pit soon...gotta go.

Finally!

2005-08-24T21:32:00.000-05:00

I am finally a senior and it's pretty exciting. I still feel like I'm a little kid going to Mease but I think it's finally starting to hit me. I kinda thot my senior year would suck cuz of all the changes with classes and semesters and stuff but I did get my schedule worked out so it's actually lookin pretty good. Last year I hardly ever had classes with my friends or people I know and I do this year so that's positive. Although I don't know who eats lunch with me so it could be like 3rd tri last year...essentially alone. Oh well...anyways...I guess I should maybe go find some paper and folders and stuff to take to school tomorrow.

Nonstop

2005-08-17T15:44:00.000-05:00

Surprisingly I've actually been busy the last three days. I think a couple other people posted about it but 10 of us went down to Adventureland on Sunday. And I know its not the most exciting place in the world but it was fun to have so many people go down and kinda hang out once more before school. And we stayed for 12 hrs...open to close. So that was fun. We left at 8:30 (way to early for me) and got home at 1 a.m.

Then I got home and mom told me I had to be ready to leave for Minnesota by 8 that morning. I was just a bit tired. I went to go shopping for senior pics and to pick up Josie from my sisters house. I hate shopping and it was stressful but whatever. When we were done we stopped at my sisters boyfriends house and I got to help him milk cows. Oddly enough I wanted to help but I'm just wierd like that. Anyways...we came home at 8 on tuesday morning. I am extremely tired but as soon as we get home we get ready and get back in the car to go to Dolliver Park in Ft. Dodge with 3 of my cousins. We go every year about this time so it was fun but I was glad to come home.

That's about the most eventful few days I've had in a while so it was good to get out of the house. Now I'm just depressed to go and try to fix my schedule and start school. But it's my senior year so that gives me something to look forward to. Ok, that's it.

Bored

2005-08-10T16:23:00.000-05:00

Nothing exciting has happened at all for a long time so I guess that explains why I haven't written for a while. And I still don't much to say anyone will really care about but ya know. Reading Hannah's blog kind of made me depressed becuz it discussed school and her schedule. Mine totally sucks and is totally messed up. I spent like 45 minutes trying to fix and it nothing was solved. Besides the fact I had both Spanish 1 and 3 on my schedule and a class I took last year...that's just the beginning of my problems. And I thot my senior year might actually be fun and maybe not so stressful. That all got shit on yesterday :) But oh well...Rush is my advisor tho.

I finally got my phone back. My parents took it away at the beginning of the summer for "abusing the privileges" and I just got it back last night. I also got a speech on why I got it taken away since I never really knew and a list of little rules of what I can do with it I guess - most of which I just have been ignoring and doing whatever I want...but I was still pretty excited. It sucked a lot not having it so I was happy to get that back.

My little sister Josie went to spend another week in Minnesota with my oldest sister. Usually having a sibling leave for a while is nice but when it leaves me in the house with just my parents a lot I don't enjoy her gone. And I also get stuck watchin my little nephew all day. I'm not saying he isn't cute and fun but having to drop all other plans with friends and stuff kinda sucks. But oh well.

Well I'm done blabbling about pointless stuff. Adios

New Blog

2005-07-25T16:20:00.000-05:00

I just posted but Morgan came here and wanted to make a blog so I thought I would let everyone know about it. It is...

www.morganodor.blogspot.com

enjoy!

Nothin New

2005-07-25T15:23:00.000-05:00

Well I saw Steve Bice last night walkin around the fairgrounds and he told me he checked my blog and I haven't written forever so I decided I would. Not that I have anything important to say since I last wrote but what the heck...

As already mentioned the ever exciting Humboldt County Fair was this weekend. It gets worse and worse every year I think. I basically just went to the nightly events in the grandstands cuz I had free tickets and nothing better to do. The tough trucks was fun cuz Ben was driving Steve Loder's old truck. We all had t-shirts for him with a picture of the truck on it so that was fun. And he did pretty good too.

That is about all the excitement in my life right now...pretty pathetic. August 6 and 7th I go to my sister's in Minnesota for a family trip to some water park...whoo hoo. That's about it. I don't think I'm going out for volleyball this year. First year since 7th grade so it will be kind of wierd but I'm not a big fan of Rass so I think I'm gonna pass on that one.

That's about enough of my boring life. I will write again if something suddenly exciting happens...

Forever

2005-07-16T00:28:00.000-05:00

Well again its been forever but I'm sitting here bored out of my mind and I don't really feel like going to bed. My summer has been going really slow and just sucking pretty much the whole way through. It actually started out not too terrible. But then I went to Girls State (a program through the American Legion Auxiliary) and I came back and all hell broke loose. It was so wierd but everything had changed around here and its just gone downhill from there. I just kind of wanted to actually enjoy one of my last summers here ya know but them darn parents just have to screw everything up I tell ya. I guess there has been one good thing this summer but when you don't get to see much of it, it kinda sucks even more...oh well.

So anyways...after I wake up at about 11:00 everyday and sit around watching my newphew all afternoon and watching whatever is on t.v., I try to find stuff to do to get away from home at night. I really do hate school but for once in the history of my life I'm looking forward to school starting so I can get away from home and see my friends and people that don't stress me out so much like they do here :) But anyways...that's enough for my complaints now...I think I will go to bed finally since no one is on to talk to.

Family Gathering

2005-05-31T15:40:00.000-05:00

Well again I don't know who will read this since I rarely write anymore but oh well. I'm bored. Moving on...

Last Friday was my grandparents (dads sides) 50th wedding anniversary and such big occasions usually requires a weekend full of family......couldn't get any better than that I tell ya. Well I'm usually not real fond of my oldest sister lately becuz she just frustrates me when she comes home so when I pulled into my driveway after school Friday and see her car sitting there I already know its gonna be a long weekend. That night my grandparents and uncle from California come up for supper. That didn't go to bad. Besides the fact that I'm generally the one everyone picks on in my family it wasn't too terrible.

Saturday morning was good cuz I wasn't home :) That night all the aunts and uncles and close friends have a supper together. And that actually didn't go too bad. There are always people within the family talking about everyone else and how they dont' like so and so for some reason so you have to sit and listen to people complain but that's normal...well for me anyways it is.

Sunday I just simply wanted to completely change families. One of my aunts flipped out on me and Josie and my cousin Jami for some reason about something we had nothing to do with so before church everyone around got to see us three get chewed out for like 10 minutes and I was just like go away. We had big family pictures afterwords in someones backyard and besides the continuing of 'I mad at so and so crap', this is where my new nickname started. We were taking a picture of just us 6 and then my sisters all of a sudden start calling me Fed-Ex and keep telling me I'm adopted cuz I don't a whole lot like the other 3. Which isn't all that depressing to hear but I was continued to be called Fed-Ex from there on out. The rest of the day from pouring coffee to millions of old people I didn't know to just simply having to be around everyone...it just kept getting worse.

Yesterday was alright. A bunch of us golfed in a couples tournament thing and so that wasn't so bad but it was still with family. So I officially decided that I've had enough family to last me like the next 10 years...but oh well. If you know me well enough you'll understand the true horror of this and if you don't know me all that well...I swear...it really is this bad. :)

Time Flys

2005-05-12T19:26:00.000-05:00

Wow...it's been a long time since I've posted. Everyone pry just gave up and stopped checking it but oh well. Well shortly after my last post I got in trouble for being a teenager and wanting to have a life I guess.... I don't know it was kind of dumb. But I got the computer and my cell phone taken away from me. I think by the time I got the computer privileges back the only thing that happened was prom. It was fun I suppose. Basically a code word for a school dance with games afterwords. But either way it was good.

The next weekend we had a golf tournament. We only took 5 people instead of the normal 6 cuz Keslie didn't show up. And I'm not usually a varsity player but Jenna couldnt' go so I had to and yeah. It was interesting, let's just say they didn't use my score.

As previously mentioned my mom took my phone away. Well somewhere along the line my mom decided to lose it. Not that I am one of them people that has their phone glued to their ear half the time but it just had a lot of numbers in there and stuff that I kinda needed but yeah. Oh well.

Other than last week, not much else has happened. I need to get back to my chemistry lab. But I will try to write more often again. I just didnt' feel like it for a while.

Soundsations

2005-04-20T17:39:00.000-05:00

Soundsations is tomorrow night at the High School. It will be fun I think. There are some pretty good acts like Hannah and Kevin singing their songs with Active Input. And the whole Humboldt Idol thing is pretty funny. Some people maybe weren't the best but that's just me I guess. There was a rehearsal for it tonight after school. It was a little scary so I don't know what's gonna happen there.

I'm just in the jazz band which isn't exciting at all but I'll still be able to watch everything and all that so that will be good. It will be a good night overall tho I think.

It's About Time

2005-04-15T21:08:00.000-05:00

Well we had our second golf meet tonight. It was home. First one was Tuesday in Webster City against them and somebody else. I am drawing a complete blank on that one right now. But tonight everyone played awesome. JV and Varsity both won. The sad thing is it was the second meet in three years the girls golf team has won. So it was pretty exciting. And Clarion wasn't just bad....we did really good. I won JV medalist (lowest score of the 12 JV girls) and it was also my personal best so I was pretty excited about that. So it we had a fun night.

And good job to the boys on their win against Clarion. I think JV won too but I know varsity did for sure. So it was a pretty successful night overall.

Hercules

2005-04-09T15:57:00.000-05:00

So we had the first performance of the play last night. It went pretty well I thot. I didn't do a whole lot tho. I'm supposed to be on crew but a bunch of freshman that I hadn't ever seen at a single practice showed up. They didn't really know what they were doing and they were in the way all the time cuz we need to keep it clear back there so that cast can actually get to the stage. But yeah, they all started doing everything so I sat there and just watched. And it's not like I didn't try to help, the one time I did I was told that a freshman(to remain unnamed) was supposed to take care of it. So if I tried doing something I was apparently in the way of some little kids. Oh well...whatever. I don't mean all of the freshman or underclassmen either becuz some of them were actually doing something right so this doesn't apply to everyone. It's fun to just watch it still. And the cast party will be fun tonight so it all works out. But that's enough of my complaining for now.

Good Job to all the cast tho. You did awesome last night and I'm sure it will be good again tonight!

Been a while

2005-04-06T19:50:00.000-05:00

I haven't posted for quite some time now. Basically too busy to and when I am home I'm too lazy or tired. I've been busy with golf and play and all kinds of random stuff it seems like. Went to Des Moines yesterday to IJC with the jazz band. That was fun. Jazz band trips are always so much fun. I don't know if its the people or what but they always end up quite interesting.

Then I went to play afterwords and that kind of ruined my good mood. But what can ya do :) I just really don't get why some people cannot be quiet for an extended amount of time. I honestly don't see why it's so hard for some people. But it bugs me and then we get yelled at (monday night for example). It's get kind of annoying but oh well.

But other than that there isn't much to say. I'm pretty boring. I am still behind on my assignments from last chapter for math so I should pry go start doing some of them. I still have to take the test too. It's so annoying how I was gone 4 days like 3 weeks ago at least and I still am catching up...it sucks! lol But I don't think sitting here complaining is getting me anywhere soo...I am gonna go. Sorry for such an unexciting blog but I figured I should write somethin since it had been a while.

Craziness

2005-03-30T17:51:00.000-06:00

Don't ya just hate it when someone is mad at you for something you didn't say or do but they continue to think you did but they won't stick around long enough to try and get an explanation. Yeah...so now I'm apparently in denial about it but to tell ya the truth I have no idea what they are talking about. Maybe I would if they would stay calm enough to explain it to me. And I would honestly admit to saying something if I had but since I don't know what I did and they won't tell me they can continue to think I'm the worst person in the world. And you know how bad it is so you tell me...

So I'm sorry also it has to be this way...maybe there is another way but if you refuse to listen then I guess you're making it the only way...

Oh and you don't need to feel bad or stick up for me or take sides or put down guys in any way or anything as it has caused some controversy but I just thot I'd tell how I see it.

I Got Nothin

2005-03-24T22:18:00.000-06:00

I haven't posted for a while but nothin exciting has happened. I've just been busy tryin to catch myself up on all the work I missed. I swear this year been the hardest to make up missed days than any other year. It sucks. But I've just been busy with that and golf started so I have that after school now too. I'm supposed to go to all the play practices now too but there is nothing for the crew to do becuz none of the set is completely put together so its kind of a waste. I didn't go tonight cuz I had church. But anyways, I really don't have any plans for the weekend. I've been really tired lately so I'll pry just lay around at home and sleep or something. Who knows. But that's about all I have to say. Really not worth posting but I'm extremely bored sitting here so I thot I'd write quick. If I actually do something with myself this weekend or find a life or something I may let you know how that goes.

Sickness

2005-03-18T18:38:00.000-06:00

So there's all kind of crap goin around. Colds, flus, strep...it sucks. I've had this nasty flu crap the last three days and I've been so miserable. I've never been this sick or for this long. And frankly Chemistry isn't all that easy to catch up on. So I forced myself to come today. Plus missing Friday last week from getting my wisdom teeth pulled doesn't help the pain or getting behind either. There was a test in Chemistry so I basically could have just stayed home but I started to get some help anyways so I spose that was good. So I'll be spending all day tomorrow doing homework pretty much. I've got a total of 2 tests and 4 quizzes to make up. Can't wait...anyways. I'm done complaining now about my problems and pains :) I'm gonna go get some food. Between getting teeth pulled and being sick I've been living on applesauce, yogurt, and mac n cheese for a week. So I'm hoping to be able to move on a little bit.

Problems

2005-03-11T22:40:00.000-06:00

My computer has been acting funny lately and I'm not sure why. I kinda explained it a couple posts back. But some guy is coming by tomorrow to see if he can figure out whats wrong and he may have to take it with him to work on it. That's kinda depressing since I'm always on here and I have no life but what can ya do. But it's a piece of crap and should pry be fixed or my suggestion is replace before it crashes since mom has all her stuff on here for my dad business and all that stuff. But who knows what will happen. So if he has to take it I will pry be extremely bored for the next couple of days and not know what to do with myself. Oh well...I'll just have to watch movies all day and maybe attempt to do the homework that I missed today...who knows.

Wisdom Teeth

2005-03-10T18:07:00.000-06:00

Well I have to get my wisdom teeth out tomorrow. Not exactly looking forward to it but oh well. I'll live. I think the hardest thing will not being able to eat normal foods for a while. I mean I eat constantly so that will pry be harder than anything.

I don't have much else to say though. Nothin new happening, just hangin out with the little guy. He's not to exciting tho - just lays there and sleeps so he's not real entertaining. Although I was the first to get peed on by him while changing his diaper so that was just a great experience....but oh well.

That's all my wonderful and exciting news for right now.

2005-03-08T15:48:00.000-06:00

Carter Dennis James

I tried

2005-03-07T19:51:00.000-06:00

Well there are some pictures. I tried to get them on one post but that didn't work so well. My computer is acting wierd and everything is like 5x bigger than it should be and I don't konw what going on but it's really annoying. I can't even see my full screen. Everything is strecthed out so yeah...I dno. Maybe I'll try to fix the picture situation later but I'm just frustrated now at this stupid machine. :) So what I got will have to work for now.

2005-03-07T19:30:00.000-06:00

Jadie and Carter. He likes to make faces.

YAY!

2005-03-05T21:35:00.000-06:00

The baby finally came! I'm so excited. Oh, and by the way, sorry bout that last post...like i said thanks to all of you who gave words of encouragment and tried helpin. I just had a bad day and all sorts of stuff happened that just kinda caused me to freak out for a little bit. But yeah...I'm better. Especially after the last two days!

My sister, Jill, was scheduled to have her baby Wednesday. They induced her that morning and tried to have it naturally but she wouldn't dialate so after sitting there all day they just sent her home at like 11:00 that night. We were all kinda excited and pumped for the new little one so it was kinda depressing when they sent her home. But yesterday, Friday, she went back and got induced again. I couldn't go down there till after jazz band practice that morning. But me and my other sister Josie went down and got there about 1:00. She was starting to have contractions finally so we were getting some hope. Only two people can be back in the room sitting with her and everyone else has to sit in the waiting room (that would be me in this situation).

I sat in the waiting room right outside the doors for like 5 hrs that day. And during that time she dialated 1 cm. Well I had a birthday party that night and figured they can just call if anything happens but it was goin pretty slow. So I finally left. I was sittin at my friends house watching School of Rock, which is like one of the coolest movies, when my cell phone rings at about 9:45 or so. It was dad saying to go to grammas house to meet him there and we were going down to the hospital becuz they decided to just do a C-section. I was kinda disappointed becuz we really didn't want to do that but she wasn't dialating and all that so oh well. We went down there, waited for some news and finally Josie called from inside and said he had been born.

Later we found out more info. We knew he was gonna be a boy so they had already decided on the name Carter Denis James Soenen. I like Carter its just kinda common but oh well. And the two middles names for both of his grandpas. We dont' have boys often in this family so we had to take advantage of the situation. Anyways, he is 7lbs 14 3/4 oz. and 20" long. Cute little kid. They are very strict on visiting hours so we didnt' think we would even be able to go see him but one of the nurses said we could go look at him for just a couple of minutes through the window. That was fun. Then they let me and dad go in to see Jill real quick. It was kinda a late night but exciting.

Me and Josie left our jazz band competition early today to head to Ft. Dodge to the hospital to see him. We were there from about 2:30 - 8:30. Long day but it was fun to be with him and Jill and everything so it was a good day. I just got home about an hour ago and sendin some pictures to my sister up in Minnesota. I had to share my excitment tho cuz its been an interesting and exciting weekend. Well I'm getting frustrated trying to get pictures on here and it's late and I've had a small amount of sleep so far this weekend so I'll try to figure it out tomorrow or somethin.

Waiting

2005-03-02T15:20:00.000-06:00

well my sister is at the hospital right now. she is moving along very slowly and ft. dodge is gay and won't let anyone in to see her besides kyle (the dad) and my mom. thats so dumb. shes just sitting there and they won't let me see her so we aren't going down till later. she had kayden in iowa city where she lived at the time and we could see jill whenever we wanted down there so its a little frustrating not being able to talk to her. so now im just sittin at home impatiently waiting for some word....ill update later. hopefully after i have a new nephew.

Third Tri

2005-02-28T20:57:00.000-06:00

Yeah...so it basically sucks. I told Keslie after like 3 classes that I'd be lucky to not shoot myself by the end of the year. But who knows.

1st - Band: This new seating arrangement or whatever is okay. I don't really care. You can't hear me and I'm terrible anyways so I really don't think it matters much.

2nd - Individualized Reading: This is with Ulstad who I cannot stand at all. But it's just reading everyday so maybe it won't be so bad. But it's still Ulstad...

3rd - Study Hall: Well it was but a secretary came in and needed an office helper and since I was sitting there by myself with absolutely nothing to do I volunteered my services.

4th - Spanish: With McVicker same as always. Besides having a sucky class this tri with a bunch of sophomores, it won't be too terrible.
C Lunch - Well considering I eat constantly this is a long wait for me. All my friends eat A lunch so I sit with an odd assortment of people (no offense hannah, I like you hehe). So I am considering moving because I can't go through what I did today for a whole tri...sorry, I just can't do it.

5th - Language: Now this is actually a good class. A interesting combination of people so I'm actually looking forward to it.

6th - Chemistry: Well besides having like more people than we do desks in there (WAY too many people) I don't know how it will go. Mr. Holste with this many wild people gets kind of upset but who knows.

7th - Math: I didn't want it this period before just cuz it's the end of the day. But we have 11 people in there and so it's actually not bad.

But that's what I have. The morning is pretty depressing and I don't enjoy it at all. But what can ya do...oh well. I'm over it...I'll live.

The Baby

2005-02-26T11:42:00.000-06:00

My sister Jill is pregnant again and she's having the baby this Wednesday so I'm pretty excited. I am going to Ft. Dodge with her today to go shopping. I put the crib together yesterday and now we need a matress and some sheets. I also need to buy a gift for the baby shower tomorrow :S I'm a little behind on that. So I probably won't be in school on Wednesday. My mom says I should pry still go to school cuz I most likely won't miss anything but that would be no fun. Like I could concentrate anyways knowing my baby nephew is coming. It's the first boy in the family for a while. It's kinda wierd but it will be fun. It will definately be grandpa's boy (my dad) cuz he's had to deal with girls for so long now so he's pretty excited too. But we are about ready to go down to Ft. Dodge so I should pry get goin. I'll have to update later on the baby and put some pictures of him on here if I'm smart enough to figure it out.

What A Day

2005-02-23T16:31:00.000-06:00

Yesterday was an interesting day. School was alright, besides having to prepare the tons of quizzes and test everyone has this week, things were okay. But after school I was just watchin t.v. and my sister called me from work and asked me to run to the store and get her some groceries cuz she was having a party that night (she runs the restaraunt at the country club).

It was like 4:35 and I had to be home at 5:00 to have a meeting thing with this lady. So I am hurrying to all these places to get stuff and go out there and drop the stuff off. Well as I'm leaving the driveway from the country club, I was in a hurry like I said, and I didn't slow down like I should have leaving. And then I looked down and I was goin like 75. And this whole time I'm thinking I should slow down cuz I'll pry get picked up and at the same moment I look back and there's a trooper with his lights on. I was so pissed. So I pulled off and turned into the raquetball club.

Well he went through the normal routine (not that I would know what that is). But then after he looked at my license and registration he's like well come sit in the car with me. And I was so confused and like freaked out I'm like don't take me. haha I was so scared and I didn't realize that they had you come sit in the car with them now to avoid people running off or whatever (cuz ya know I would do that). But yeah, I had to wait for the warning he printed off for me for speeding and failure to stop. So yeah, it was an interesting experience but I guess it happens to all of us some time or another. Luckily he decided to be nice cuz the cop (who will remain nameless) is one that isn't known for being the nicest person in the world. But that's my excitement for the day.

Jazz Band

2005-02-19T21:24:00.000-06:00

We had a jazz band competition today at UNI. We left at about 10:30 this morning and I just got home around 9:00. We played pretty good. We've done better. There were really good bands from like Des Moines and Independence there so I didn't expect much for placing good but it was still fun to play I guess.

Something always goes wrong on these trips tho...always. It never fails. At the last contest, if not the last two, the van broke down that Ms. Feekes usually drives that has all the percussion and other big stuff in it. At the last one, in Harlan, it broke down before we left town so we took it to the bus barn. They drove it around and said it was okay and so we left with it. And like a couple miles before the high school in Harlan, it breaks down so we all frantically get out and load everything off of it and put it on the bus. Luckily we were close to being there cuz it got kinda cramped after that. So today, refusing to take the van again, we get the big bus, put everything on it, and we get down there safely. Well we get to our warm up room at UNI and Andrew Patz realizes his congos aren't there. That's like his main thing the whole time so we have to have them. So we find Ms. Feekes to tell her and she asks the that performed before us (Oskalooska...no idea how that spell that) if we can use theirs. So we used theirs and the congo problem was solved. 21 of us went and not one of us remembered the bright red congos. It was kinda funny in a way but kinda not. But we had a good time.

Now I am just sitting at home by myself and bored. Nothing else exciting happened this week. Pep band last night with the junior high kids was pretty fun. It was a massive amount of kids and we had the whole gym looking at us. But it was still fun. But I think that's about all the big news for right now.

Pokey

2005-02-15T18:05:00.000-06:00

This week is going by really slow. It's only Tuesday and I feel like it should be Thursday or Friday. I wish it was. This week isn't going so well already. Yesterday people were just hopped up and chocolate and how much money their boyfriends spent on them so it got kind of annoying. I didn't get anyone anything so sorry if that disappoints anyone :) But anyways, I have a band concert tonight...whoo hoo. Can't wait for that...yeah. A small and pointless post but I am bored and had nothing better to do.

What A Weekend

2005-02-13T19:11:00.000-06:00

Well this weekend was basically a waste. I feel like I never got to really relax or anything. After the ACT disaster and going back to Ft. Dodge and retrieving my car. Things didn't get a whole lot better. That night I made a couple trips to Hy-Vee to get some stuff for my sister at work. Just kinda sat around bored. At like 9:00 me and Kelsey went to Dairy Queen cuz I hadn't eaten and was hungry. Austin and Kevin were working. I ordered a double cheese burger and fries and Kelsey just a cheeseburger with fries. And we open our food up and I now have a triple cheeseburger and Kelsey had a double :) It was a nice surprise. hehe But I did eat the whole thing. So I guess some good did come out of this weekend. haha This is also the part where somewhere along the line I misplace my phone from the house to my car to leave for Dairy Queen. I can't find it when I get home but just go to bed.

Today I just had to wake up for sunday school which sucked cuz I just wanted to sleep. But didn't do too much this afternoon until 3:00 when I woke up from my nap to get ready for work. Got in my car and saw my phone laying on the ground outside. I take it inside covered in mud because it had been sitting out there since I left for Dairy Queen last night...that just made me oh so happy. But when I got home from work, I tried turning it on and it worked so that was a plus. Now I'm just trying to dig the mud and crust out from under the keys and the ear/mouth pieces. So yeah...my weekend overall worthless and sucky...oh well I spose. That's all my complaining for now :) I should pry go start retyping my lab report for Chemistry.

It's Official

2005-02-12T20:22:00.000-06:00

It's official...it has been decided that I wasn't meant to take the ACT's. It was a very interesting trip. I wake up at a time that's way to early for a Saturday anyways, get ready, and go get Amie Reimers and Kelsey Shiflett. We're driving and Kelsey turns on her calculator and it says your batteries are low. So we stop at Pronto, get some batteries and we're off again. We get down there and amazingly without getting lost. We go inside, check in, find our room, sit around and start the whole process. It was alright I guess. The first test was easier than I thought it would be but the rest weren't so easy.

But anyways...Kelsey stayed in Ft. Dodge and had her mom pick her up so me and Amie go out to my car. I open my door and try to unlock hers but my locks don't work so I'm confused but let it go. I go to turn my car on and we realize it's dead. I had turned my lights on when I left this morning and didn't notice it when I got out at the Senior High. So I called my dad because the other Humboldt girls there had already left and my uncle lives in Ft. Dodge so I figure maybe he could help. Well he wasn't home. Well my dad tells me how to jump a car (being the smart handy, girls we are) and we try to find someone else around to jump us. We did but my car still wouldn't start. So the guy got in my car and messed with it a little bit and finally got it going.

So we left the parking lot...but at the first stop sign it dies again. At the same time Lindsay B. and Beth D. drive around the corner cause we called them and told them not to leave in case we needed a ride. So I call my dad....again and he said we'd pry have to push it off somewhere so its not in the way. Well another guy pulled over cuz he saw we were having problems. He told us he had a rope and could pull me across the intersection or whatever to park my car since I died in the turning lane. We get in with Lindsay and Beth who sat there and waited for us and we all went to Tom Thumb (minor difficulties with finding that but nothing serious).

So later that afternoon me and dad go down to Ft. Dodge to see if it will work or see what's wrong with it. He gets in and it starts and so he drove it home and I followed him in his truck and it makes it all the way home. I don't know why it didn't want to run earlier but it was rather stressful. So either I wasn't meant to take the ACT's or I just did so bad they figure I may as well not leave :) Who knows...but that's basically the majority of today's problems.

The Trip

2005-02-07T23:01:00.000-06:00

Well I had a good weekend. Very tiring but fun. We got there Friday night sometime. We just kinda hung out. Saturday morning left for the Mall of America to go shopping. I haven't been there ever to actually walk around and stuff so it was fun. We mainly went to go prom dress shopping. We were there for like 4 or 5 hours and spent the whole time on the first floor except to go eat, so it was pretty crazy. But we left at like 3:30 to get to Northwestern to go to the GoFish concert that my sister got tickets to. It was really fun. They are a Christian band. This show was more of a family style and had some stuff for little kids, and we did have Kayden along, so we felt kind of old but it was still fun. And Sunday we just went to sunday school and church and came back home. It was a good trip but it was good to be home again and sleep in my own bed :) Next weekend...ACT's... :S

This Weekend

2005-02-03T22:13:00.000-06:00

I'm rather bored and I should be packing and getting stuff ready for this weekend but instead I'm here. My mom, sister, Kayden, Keslie, and Kelsey and me are goin to Minnesota this weekend. My sister lives in Northfield and she got tickets to a GoFish concert so that's our main reason for going. We are stayin at my sisters house and leavin tomorrow after school. We are goin to the Mega Mall Saturday to look at prom dresses and just walk around. Then that night we are goin to Northwestern college for the concert. It will be fun. I'm pretty excited. So again I should be getting ready for that because I haven't started to at all and we are leaving at 4:00 tomorrow but ya know...I really don't feel like it. But we'll see I guess. So that's my big news for the weekend. I'll try to write when I get back to tell how it goes.

12:30 Dismissal

2005-02-02T14:28:00.000-06:00

This whole getting out at 12:30 is nice but I'm really messed up on my time now and everything. And classes were so short that nothing was accomplished but I guess I'm okay with that since it was basically a slack day anyways. So now that every restaurant (especially Chang's) is swarming with High Schooler's leaving school, I think I'm going to go out to the country club where my sister works and have her make me some food since my mom is gone and I'm to lazy to make anything :) And then I'll lay around at home doing nothing until I have to go back out there and work tonight...oh joy!

First Post

2005-01-31T23:30:00.000-06:00

Well I guess I'm gonna try this blog thing. I'm on the computer all the time so I figure I may as well. No one knows about it yet and who knows how much I'll write but we'll see what happens I guess. But that's all I have to say for now. It's only 9:30 and I'm falling asleep so I think I'll go for now. I hope you enjoy my blog and I'll try to keep up on it.