So much piano!!!!!!!!!!

Today I played a special musical number in sacrament meeting! It went well, but when I was practicing the song it sounded awful! I'm surprised that I didn't die of being too nervous. It was a huge relief when it was done. The title is too much piano, and there is a reason why that's the title. That was a very nervous part of it, but I had much more piano that I had already done. In piano, they have this program called AIM, which means Achievement in Music. I had already completed a level 4 program back in Oregon but here I had a new teacher so I had to start from level 3 but it was still an enjoyable class to take. It was really difficult as well. I chose to take it so I had to learn some scales and then sight read a song that I had no clue about when I started. I was told today that I got 98 out of 100! So I did pretty well to start off.

My cat loves to play. We'll throw her a toy and she'll play with it by herself for 10 minutes before she'll get tired of it. She also enjoys our printer. Whenever I print something, she'll be right next to it, trying to whack the ink cartridge with her paw! She was just typing on the computer, stepping on the keys with her paws and erasing the things that I was writing. It was really funny! Now she's just right next to the computer, staring at the screen as if she knows what I'm writing about her. She also will never eat her cat food unless it's changed every few days. She loves to eat our meat! Now she's attacking the pointer on the screen, anything that she can attack had better be careful of her, she's a force to be reckoned with. When I picked her off the keyboard and started to pet her a lot, I must touched a wrong place because she started to bite and claw at me. She's such a nice kitty and her bites don't her too bad but she enjoys playing with us anyway.

I saw the musical The Music Man yesterday. It was hilarious! Kole was awesome and everyone else just made the play one of the best things that I've seen in a long time. Thank you cast of Music Man!

I can't believe how hard it was snowing today. When I finished with my song in sacrament meeting and I looked outside, I couldn't believe how hard it was snowing! Now I have to shovel the walkway and the driveway and help with other people’s walkways and driveways! It was so close to finishing winter and getting on with spring! I was so excited to be able to play basketball in my backyard and jump on my trampoline and feel the warmth of spring almost here! But then it snowed and that put a big damper on my spring plans.

Life and times of a teenager

I am missing so many of the due dates in honor's english. I looked at the site and I looked at the comma tutorial due date and it was due clear back in february!! I totally thought that I had more time. This term flew by fast but it was one of the harder ones for me. It is teaching me so many things about high school work that I need to get started on. Oh, and my brother is playing lacrosse and he had a game saturday. He unfortunately lost by 1 point! This was his team's first game and they almost won against a school who had a lacrosse program for 5 years. Not bad when you think about it.

I managed to complete 15 service hours for honor's society. I sewed hats all last week for 12 and 1/2 hours and passed out fliers for my mom's role in the church for 2 1/2 hours! That last week was one of the hardest weeks of my life! Finishing something at the last minute is a definite no go.

Today I also watched the Amazing Race. It's this show about groups of 2 people traveling around the world performing tasks that the natives do there. At the end of every leg, the last team to finish might be eliminated from the game and not receive the ultimate prize of $1,000,000! Today the teams were in Russia and one teammate had to strip down to their underwear and run 1.4 miles to the end. Plus, it was in winter, so there was still ice and many other obstacles blocking their way. It was funny to watch them run around in their underwear. Tonight the last team wasn't eliminated but they get a penalty during the next leg of the race. It was pretty depressing to see that team survive and not the last week's team that was eliminated. Last week's challenges were much harder than normal. I thought for sure that they wouldn't be eliminated when the final team jumped on the finish line.

I think that I told you guys about this last week but I can finally solve a rubik's cube! When I first learned to solve it, I still had to watch the video and follow the instructions closely to make sure I didn't make a mistake. Now I can do it really quickly and I've memorized the instructions and everything that I have to do in order to solve the cube that is so hard to master!

I'm also in the spanish plays and I'm super nervous to get started. Monday is the dreaded day when my mom is going to bring the camcorder and video tape me making a fool of myself. It's going to be so embarrassing watching that video later! I'm the wolf in little red riding hood and I'm a little nervous about putting on my costume mainly because the nose smells of that awful plastic scent. I'll have to wear that all day and make sure that I don't mess up my lines. It's going to be a very tough day.

Life's woes

Now, I'm in honor's society and I'm also in honor's english. Doing both of these jobs is extremely difficult. For me to be able to do all of these jobs is a stress that no person should have. For honor's society I have to do 15 hours of service by this friday. Right now I've done 4 at the most. So this week I have to accomplish 10 or 11 more hours of service just this week! That is one of the most challenging tasks that I have ever faced. It seems as if the whole world is just asking me to drop one of these programs and soon enough I will have to drop one or both of these programs. My parents will kill me if I get dropped from the honor's society and they will also kill me if I get dropped from honor's english. This is forcing me to have a little or no social life or to just not do one of these tasks. It is just way too hard to be able to do all of this.

I was just watching the celebrity apprentice on NBC.com, it was the first episode, and I was astonished about what was going on in that show. The person who got fired totally blew off his job because he didn't want to harm his reputation. But now that it has been broadcasted to the entire United States I think that will harm his reputation more than wearing a stupid apron. He was so stupid, one of the people that was most popular just sat in the van and didn't want to show his face. I thought that what he did was one of the most stupid things that anyone could have done. Those 2 people were the ones that were most responsible for their loss. The girls destroyed the guys with their win and the guys also chose the dumbest name that I could have ever listened to. Their name was kotu, which stands for kings of the universe. The girls were athena, which was a much smarter name than kotu. The project manager chose that name, and I believe that the people who were watching the show thought about how they could have ever come up with such a stupid name. Even Donald Trump hated the name. He though that they whould have chosen a better name for their team.

I'm also trying to earn my eagle for two reasons. 1. I have to earn my eagle before I can get my driver's liscense. 2. I want to put that on my resume so that I will have a better show of getting into BYU. But I still have to do my eagle project and earn so many merit badges! For me, the eagle is going to be my most lofty goal and I just want to get it out of the way so that it will be one of those things that I can look back and be proud of.