Thursday, November 06, 2003
I'm sick, I'm home, I'm bored, and the thought of actually trying to study is making me feel more sick. So...blog time!
I'm trying to remember what's happened since the Friday I wrote about last time...haha, wow, that was ages ago...umm...yeah my memory sucks when I'm sick, sorry...I'm litterally flipping through the calander to try to refresh my memory...
Oh, the night after the fair we went to Matt's house because his parents had a Halloween party and us coming got Matt out of babysitting lol. It was insanely last minute so Rachel and Megan were I think the only two to sort of show up in costume, but that's ok! We discovered he has SAVAGE GARDEN CDS! And Sara McLauchlin (McLaughlin? I've seen like a hundred ways to spell her name but those seem to be the most popular...) and some other good stuff, but Savage Garden had me and some of the others completely flipping out because we hadn't heard them in so long, especially the first album. Oh, and we watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. And I got to be insanely amused by Dave's TWO hickies...haha!
Last Friday was Halloween. I went to watch the first half of the football game...haha, ok, not really, more like I went to hang out with Corey and some other mb/orc people! And I got to see the last halftime performance, which was very very good; even the pepband from the other school said it was awesome. And I saw Mrs. Rowe (our band director's wife) and the baby...she's sooooo adorable, and she was dressed up like a pumpkin! The news even had a picture of her on there, which Mr. Rowe showed us later. The whole class was like "awwww!" After halftime Corey and I went to Aliana's party...which was fun despite a lot of not-fun-looking stuff that I stayed out of. Unusual for me...but I did...and I was sort of proud of myself for it and sort of very dissapointed in myself...so bah on mixed emotions. Anyways, everyone had on great costumes...gotta love Corey as "the Ninja Who Wants to KNOW" hehe...and Dave in a skirt that he made into a kilt was absolutely hillarious...Anna wore her Star-Trek costume OF COURSE lol. I know basically nothing about Trek so I forget what you call this but I bet if you look in the comments section below in a few hours, she or someone else will have written it in...she had this little fuzzy ball thingie that I think is supposed to be some type of animal...though knowing me I'm completely wrong about that lol...but it was cute and everyone kept grabbing it and hiding it from her or tickling people with it. Everyone else had awesome costumes too but it'd take forever to list them all lol...but I loved all of them! Somehow that I don't want to think about, Dave managed to rip Aliana's pants, which earned him the punishment of being chased by her mom ("the Queen") who attacked him with a stuffed animal fish *amused*
Saturday was Cary Band Day! I thought we were going to have a ton of us going...but apparently most people decided they didn't want to come afterall...so Anna, Marc, and I went. Apex did REALLY REALLY GOOD and I thought it would be between them and some other band that I forget the name of for first place on the field. However...somehow Athens won the field part by 0.7 of a point and Apex got second....and I have no idea where that other band came in. Not that the Athens mb was bad or anything. They were good marchers and the music sounded fine and they were all together and all that stuff. It just didn't seem all that interesting to watch compared to some of the others, so I thought they'd get more points off for visual effect. Anyway...Apex got second on the field, but they got first in the parade, a bunch of other awards, AND Grand Champions! So that was really really cool. But actually, I didn't find that out until the next day, so let me back up a little bit...
Anna and I rode together and met Marc there, and we watched all the 4a bands except Enloe, because we got there just as they finished. Then we went to the other side to see if Apex would go sit in the stands where a lot of the other bands went after they played. We waited a while and they didn't come, but some Athens people I know did. I saw some of them for the first time in over a year, some for the first time since last January, and some since this summer. So that was...incredible feeling. I miss them soooooo much! So we talked for a few minutes and I introduced them to Anna and Marc...and then the Athens people left...and we decided to go on an Apex hunt. We thought we were going to have to sneak somewhere to find them...which had me rather wary, being the innocent goody-goody person that I am... O:-) sometimes...lol. We checked near the gym and found some little kids that told us they were doing pictures and then going to the band bus...and Marc got into an argument with one of them because he swore he went to Apex and Marc didn't believe him. Of course, his shirt did say "Class of 2002" on it lol, and he was in like 6th grade...but he was wearing an APEX shirt, as I kept pointing out to Marc, which meant he was a sibling, so we decided he probably had some idea of what he was talking about. So then we went through the gate to where all the busses were...including part of Maynard that they had blocked off! And Marc insisted we could find them by what the truck looked like...in the dark...with trucks EVERYWHERE...instead of just waiting at the gate for them which was the only place they could come out of. But Anna and I went along with him and eventually I saw them a little while away, so the three of us took off after them. We saw Corey and Torie and Melissa and a bunch of other people we knew-erm, I knew and they knew some of from gatherings/pictures/youth-so we snuck up behind them...and then I pounced on Corey, because I was going to gomp him and then realized if I did, I'd probably knock us into like five other people lol. We all went back to see the rest of the performances, and on the way there Melissa ended up kicking Marc until his leg bled because he was criticising (sp?) their marching...haha, she warned him she was violent! In the stands, Melissa decided to do Corey's hair...with much protesting from him...but Melissa is very determined lol. So that was amusing...and then Anna took Corey's ninja headband and put my hair up...I accidentally ended up leaving with that...and yes there's a point to saying that, coming in a few minutes about crop walk...Anyways...so we stayed until like 11:30 or so and then left at the begining of awards because we didn't want Anna's mom to have to pick us up even more insanely late than it already was, plus traffic of when it was over. Anna's mom is so great though...I'm not really sure why, I just like her a lot...probably because Anna and I seem to be giggling CONSTANTLY whenever we're in the car, even more so than when we're not lol, and her mom actually joins in.
Sunday was nice and busy! We had crop walk at 3, but we met for registration at 2. Corey, Anna, Rachel, Ally, both Hannahs, and Ross came, so we had a nice big fun group. We ran around randomly doing things until it was time to leave...including watching Rachel chase a butterfly...and getting our picture taken...and then Anna decided to use the ninja headband to lead us around with. The catch? She led us WITH OUR TEETH lol...she put the headband in the mouth of everyone who was around at that time so we were a big chain of people looking like freaks...but that's the fun of it! *giggles* (Anna: I SHOWED YOU ALL OFF!) And Rachel named a tiny frog she found Mini Steven Hopper! It was cute...hehe. Anyway...then we walked around Lake Pine...by the way, the point of this thing was to raise money for the hungry, especially in foreign countries. We all found it really odd that they gave out snacks afterwards lol.
After crop walk...I went to Mahitha's birthday party! I had to go late, but it was still really great to see the Athens crowd. We watched a movie but ended up talking through most of it...haha...Oh and the most hillarious present of the night was part of what Laurie gave her: socks that said "How funky is your monkey?"!!!!!! We were cracking up at that. We went to an Indian resturant for dinner...and I felt special because I was the only one of the Americans that knew what I was talking about! Haha...and we determined that the symbol for "bread" is drawing a circle in the air with our fingers...don't ask if you weren't there for that...we were being randomly amused!
Since then...not much has happened...except Corey's birthday was Wednesday but I don't get to give him his present until next weekend...so I keep teasing him about it lol...which is what I'm doing now...except he's teasing right back lol. Not really anything else...'cept I'm sick..so I wasn't at school today and I doubt I will be tomorrow...but I'll be better soon and then maybe it wont take me over an hour to write a blog entry! haha
I'm trying to remember what's happened since the Friday I wrote about last time...haha, wow, that was ages ago...umm...yeah my memory sucks when I'm sick, sorry...I'm litterally flipping through the calander to try to refresh my memory...
Oh, the night after the fair we went to Matt's house because his parents had a Halloween party and us coming got Matt out of babysitting lol. It was insanely last minute so Rachel and Megan were I think the only two to sort of show up in costume, but that's ok! We discovered he has SAVAGE GARDEN CDS! And Sara McLauchlin (McLaughlin? I've seen like a hundred ways to spell her name but those seem to be the most popular...) and some other good stuff, but Savage Garden had me and some of the others completely flipping out because we hadn't heard them in so long, especially the first album. Oh, and we watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. And I got to be insanely amused by Dave's TWO hickies...haha!
Last Friday was Halloween. I went to watch the first half of the football game...haha, ok, not really, more like I went to hang out with Corey and some other mb/orc people! And I got to see the last halftime performance, which was very very good; even the pepband from the other school said it was awesome. And I saw Mrs. Rowe (our band director's wife) and the baby...she's sooooo adorable, and she was dressed up like a pumpkin! The news even had a picture of her on there, which Mr. Rowe showed us later. The whole class was like "awwww!" After halftime Corey and I went to Aliana's party...which was fun despite a lot of not-fun-looking stuff that I stayed out of. Unusual for me...but I did...and I was sort of proud of myself for it and sort of very dissapointed in myself...so bah on mixed emotions. Anyways, everyone had on great costumes...gotta love Corey as "the Ninja Who Wants to KNOW" hehe...and Dave in a skirt that he made into a kilt was absolutely hillarious...Anna wore her Star-Trek costume OF COURSE lol. I know basically nothing about Trek so I forget what you call this but I bet if you look in the comments section below in a few hours, she or someone else will have written it in...she had this little fuzzy ball thingie that I think is supposed to be some type of animal...though knowing me I'm completely wrong about that lol...but it was cute and everyone kept grabbing it and hiding it from her or tickling people with it. Everyone else had awesome costumes too but it'd take forever to list them all lol...but I loved all of them! Somehow that I don't want to think about, Dave managed to rip Aliana's pants, which earned him the punishment of being chased by her mom ("the Queen") who attacked him with a stuffed animal fish *amused*
Saturday was Cary Band Day! I thought we were going to have a ton of us going...but apparently most people decided they didn't want to come afterall...so Anna, Marc, and I went. Apex did REALLY REALLY GOOD and I thought it would be between them and some other band that I forget the name of for first place on the field. However...somehow Athens won the field part by 0.7 of a point and Apex got second....and I have no idea where that other band came in. Not that the Athens mb was bad or anything. They were good marchers and the music sounded fine and they were all together and all that stuff. It just didn't seem all that interesting to watch compared to some of the others, so I thought they'd get more points off for visual effect. Anyway...Apex got second on the field, but they got first in the parade, a bunch of other awards, AND Grand Champions! So that was really really cool. But actually, I didn't find that out until the next day, so let me back up a little bit...
Anna and I rode together and met Marc there, and we watched all the 4a bands except Enloe, because we got there just as they finished. Then we went to the other side to see if Apex would go sit in the stands where a lot of the other bands went after they played. We waited a while and they didn't come, but some Athens people I know did. I saw some of them for the first time in over a year, some for the first time since last January, and some since this summer. So that was...incredible feeling. I miss them soooooo much! So we talked for a few minutes and I introduced them to Anna and Marc...and then the Athens people left...and we decided to go on an Apex hunt. We thought we were going to have to sneak somewhere to find them...which had me rather wary, being the innocent goody-goody person that I am... O:-) sometimes...lol. We checked near the gym and found some little kids that told us they were doing pictures and then going to the band bus...and Marc got into an argument with one of them because he swore he went to Apex and Marc didn't believe him. Of course, his shirt did say "Class of 2002" on it lol, and he was in like 6th grade...but he was wearing an APEX shirt, as I kept pointing out to Marc, which meant he was a sibling, so we decided he probably had some idea of what he was talking about. So then we went through the gate to where all the busses were...including part of Maynard that they had blocked off! And Marc insisted we could find them by what the truck looked like...in the dark...with trucks EVERYWHERE...instead of just waiting at the gate for them which was the only place they could come out of. But Anna and I went along with him and eventually I saw them a little while away, so the three of us took off after them. We saw Corey and Torie and Melissa and a bunch of other people we knew-erm, I knew and they knew some of from gatherings/pictures/youth-so we snuck up behind them...and then I pounced on Corey, because I was going to gomp him and then realized if I did, I'd probably knock us into like five other people lol. We all went back to see the rest of the performances, and on the way there Melissa ended up kicking Marc until his leg bled because he was criticising (sp?) their marching...haha, she warned him she was violent! In the stands, Melissa decided to do Corey's hair...with much protesting from him...but Melissa is very determined lol. So that was amusing...and then Anna took Corey's ninja headband and put my hair up...I accidentally ended up leaving with that...and yes there's a point to saying that, coming in a few minutes about crop walk...Anyways...so we stayed until like 11:30 or so and then left at the begining of awards because we didn't want Anna's mom to have to pick us up even more insanely late than it already was, plus traffic of when it was over. Anna's mom is so great though...I'm not really sure why, I just like her a lot...probably because Anna and I seem to be giggling CONSTANTLY whenever we're in the car, even more so than when we're not lol, and her mom actually joins in.
Sunday was nice and busy! We had crop walk at 3, but we met for registration at 2. Corey, Anna, Rachel, Ally, both Hannahs, and Ross came, so we had a nice big fun group. We ran around randomly doing things until it was time to leave...including watching Rachel chase a butterfly...and getting our picture taken...and then Anna decided to use the ninja headband to lead us around with. The catch? She led us WITH OUR TEETH lol...she put the headband in the mouth of everyone who was around at that time so we were a big chain of people looking like freaks...but that's the fun of it! *giggles* (Anna: I SHOWED YOU ALL OFF!) And Rachel named a tiny frog she found Mini Steven Hopper! It was cute...hehe. Anyway...then we walked around Lake Pine...by the way, the point of this thing was to raise money for the hungry, especially in foreign countries. We all found it really odd that they gave out snacks afterwards lol.
After crop walk...I went to Mahitha's birthday party! I had to go late, but it was still really great to see the Athens crowd. We watched a movie but ended up talking through most of it...haha...Oh and the most hillarious present of the night was part of what Laurie gave her: socks that said "How funky is your monkey?"!!!!!! We were cracking up at that. We went to an Indian resturant for dinner...and I felt special because I was the only one of the Americans that knew what I was talking about! Haha...and we determined that the symbol for "bread" is drawing a circle in the air with our fingers...don't ask if you weren't there for that...we were being randomly amused!
Since then...not much has happened...except Corey's birthday was Wednesday but I don't get to give him his present until next weekend...so I keep teasing him about it lol...which is what I'm doing now...except he's teasing right back lol. Not really anything else...'cept I'm sick..so I wasn't at school today and I doubt I will be tomorrow...but I'll be better soon and then maybe it wont take me over an hour to write a blog entry! haha
