My most faaaavoritest sport in the whooole wide world

I was very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very.. VERY excited to find out a few days ago that our school is infact going to have one more year of field hockey.

Which is okay by me because it’ll be my senior year next year and none of the nasty underclassman care what happens to the best sport of all time. So, I hope that they all play soccer and during a rainy, muddy game they get involved in a terrible soccer player pileup and break all of their nasty little limbs. As much as I like soccer and like to play it, I wouldn’t play it for this school because it’s replacing the one sport I live for. That’d be stupid of me to do especially when I talk badly about girls soccer all of the time. I’m not sure what I would’ve done if our school didn’t have field hockey next year. When I say that people usually respond with, “You problbay would’ve played soccer.” And I scoff because that’s problbaly the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.  I problably would’ve joined another team in our league but getting to the practices and games would be tricky not to mention I’d problably sit the bench because I’d be an “outsider” and the girls would be jerks about it. So yea I’m glad our school decided to have it for one last year.

And this year? We’re not going to suck. I’m not afraid to admit it because frankly in recent years we have been terrible. Our main objective when the season begins is to score a goal. Which is pathetic in any case. It’s not like we have terrible players either. To be honest we have a lot of talented players we just don’t know how to win yet I guess. In eighth grade we were undefeated which was pretty awesome and since then we haven’t done anything remarkable. I’m going to get in shape all summer and I’m so excited already for next season. It’ll be fun though because it always is and since I’m a senior maybe I can take out all of the girls I’ve been wanting to in the past few years. Muahha….just kidding…sort of.

 Yayy field hockey!

 

All done (Prom)

So prom came and went, last saturday actually it went by pretty fast. And I’d have to say I was getting  a little nervous about the whole walking out thing being second and all. Well that and my clumsiness. (my dress was a little too long so i stepped on it or someone else did every five minutes, i thought something was bound to happen). I got a decent nights sleep the night before and my day went like this :

I woke up at 11 because my hair apppointment was at 12 at country girl and i had a faint idea of what i wanted. I was afraid id describe it wrong and hate it afterwards but it came out exactly the way i wanted it to so I was happy. My mom was being all attentive and nice, rushing around like i was getting married or something (prom’s a big deal you know). When i got home my aunt came over to help my mom put me in a dress because i had a laceup back and my mother broke one of the loops on my sister’s dress last year so i didn’t trust her with mine. my aunt laced me up while my mom kept going “carolyn…careful..careful!.” and my aunt would wave her off and laugh saying “joan…i’m fine.” the woman who hemmed my dress also did something that made part of my dress uneven and it wasnt really noticeable but you know it bothered us so my aunt, being the handy woman that she is, sewed and fixed the part of my dress so you couldn’t tell. All while she was doing this my mom needed something to do so she made me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the best part being that she cut it into little triangles the way moms do for their toddlers. I had a good laugh at that and eventually i was all done. Zach came and my aunt left, i put on my shoes, zach’s mom took a few pictures, and we headed over for tylers for thousands more pictures.

At tyler’s we posed with people, the huge obnoxious limmo, and my parents. There were so many pictures it was insane, when we stood infront of the limmo there were about twenty cameras constnatly flashing, and my face got a little stiff from the smile. After Tyler’s we went to mill park for more pictures and it was a little buggy. Hence my next dilemma when we took another group shot, you know twenty more cameras flashing, stiff faces, and all of a sudden something flies down my dress. A bug found its way into the top of my dress and proceeded to tickle me, I started to laugh and i bet my face looks just great in a few peoples’ pictures and know you’ll know why i look like an idiot. I couldn’t very well reach in and get it out becuase well people would get frames of me reaching into my dress which could be awkward. So i decided to wait it out, and then… it bit me. The stupid thing just bit me, and flew out. Then it began to itch. It was fine after a while but honestly? That’s just ridiculous.

After pictures we decided to drive around in the limmo because well we had a limmo and who wants to get to the prom p review on time or early? Not Tyler! Fashionably late as they said (jk tyler)…(sort of ). A bunch more pictures there then it was time to line up and walk out. Luckily nothing happened when we walked out  but i turned too quickly and didnt wait the full 10 seconds at the front of the thing. We went down to the risers to stand and my dress got caught on the chair on the way, no biggie though. We stood for a while and i got a front row seat well standing position to see everyone in their dresses (everyone looked really pretty btw).  They called up prom court and i went to walk up, and i got my dress caught three more times on three different chairs in the same spot i got caught the first time i walked down so it took a minute to go meet tyler. we walked out, i tried to turn early but tyler nudged my arm to stay so we waited,  i got some good smelling flowers, and that was that. Kaliegh and Kevin won king and queen (yayy!) and we got to leave.

After preview we took more pictures outside, said goodbye to family, and got back in the limmo. Zach and I sat in the way back so we had control of the pannel of buttons with radio, strobe lights, etc. Once we got there it was smaller than i expected but still nice, we sat down, went outside for a bit, then went back in and had the appetizers. Zach tried to get me to dance but as I told him before, I don’t dance. He tried, failed, and gave up. We took pictures with the magnet man thing which was cool , ate dinner, and then sat again. Zach seemed bored so, i went for it. I dragged him out this time, and made him dance. we danced for the rest of the time and you know what? I actually enjoyed myself dancing! i was a little stiff at first becuase you know i dont dance and it was all rap, (i realized just how white our school was when all the rap songs came on and everyone sang along like ‘from the window ‘ ‘to the wall!’ and all those happy tunes), once journey came on with ‘dont stop believin’ ‘ i was good though and holly helped me to dance.  Eventually i took off my shoes becuase they hurt and before i knew it it was time to go.

We went back to my house after and changed, then went to the after prom party just to see how it was. My mom had bought us a pizza so we walked in eating that and of course they had tons of food already there. We got our fake money and tried a few games but the best by far was the ‘beat the dealer’ where the dealer rolls dice and you have to roll a  higher number. We pretty much stayed there all night, i won some skateland laser tag tickets  randomly and cashed in at the end of the night for tickets. i put one in this random bucket for these little toy cars just because, and the rest in for the $100 becuase zach and i had put our tickets together and i figured we could just split it if we won. We didn’t win anything but it was okay, it was fun.

So all in all, prom was a really good time. I don’t think i would’ve had as much fun though if zach wasnt there. becuase i know i wouldnt have danced, (my friends have tried but i manage to get away) and he was the perfect date (tall, dark and handsome or something like that) so i’m glad he went with me. I know i looked like an idiot but it was fun anyways. I hope everyone else had a good time too, and it wasn’t so cliche, just a lot of pictures and fun. AND i didn’t hate being in a dress like i thought i would, i felt like an octopus becuase it was so wide but i loved my dress and liked wearing it.

I think i’ve written way too much so i dont care if you dont read all of this but this is what i had to say about prom so there it is.

Prom 2008

You know when you think about prom you immediately get a combination of images from a movie or show with a big dance. You get the typical idea of prom; hair, nails, puffy dresses, hotel rooms, spiked punch, queen, king, crying over not getting queen, drama, and if you’re thinking of the movie Carrie, you have the image of a girl coated in pig’s blood. Prom hopefully won’t be like that, I mean a big night that’s so fake and awful you regret spending so much. And when you think of prom court or prom queen and king, you think of the jock winning king, and his girlfriend the head cheerleader winning queen. You think about how everyone says it’s a popularity contest and blah blah. I think of that and then I wonder about my nomination. I mean don’t get me wrong i appreciate it, thanks, but it makes me wonder if I’m one of “those people”. And God I hope not; at least not in the negative sense.

I just hope it’s fun and I don’t end up regretting my decision to go, I didn’t think I would when I was younger. Now here I am, $500 dress, $20 shoes, $200 something for the limo, $80 tickets, some amount for a boutonniere and jewelry, and some amount for a hairdo. I’m just hoping it’ll end up like one of those visa commercials where it’s all the prices for things and then it’s like “finding out it’s all worth while? Priceless.” Who knows though, all i can say is i hope it doesn’t suck. (Partly because Kenny, Maddie, and Chelsea will say how they told me so. )

I read a bunch of horror stories on line from prom websites and a few were pretty funny but the rest were either ridiculously stupid or ridiculously fake. One girl walked her friend to the bathroom and on the way her friend turned her head towards her, and vomited down her dress. Another was a girl who went in a long sleeve green dress with “the boy of her dreams” and brought a bucket of KFC that he told her to bring. In the end it was a joke, he took the chicken, and she went home crying. There were others with combinations of dresses falling down when they had no bra on, dresses tearing off, people getting sick, and people peeing themselves. They could all be made up but some are funny, I just hope nothing happens to sabotage it or ruin it for any of us, (again, Carrie).

And dresses…. I’d have to say that they’re kinda fun to wear because you get to pick up the sides when you walk (at least mine you can). It’s like playing dress- up, but at the same time, it’s great to just put back on your regular clothes in which you feel comfortable like jeans and a tshirt with sneakers. i never used to wear dresses when I was younger except when i had to for first communion or something. This one I have is pretty cool though, it’s almost the exact picture of what I had in my head when I thought of what i wanted to get. When I had it fitted, a little foreign woman did it, and she was about half my size without heels on, and talked fast to me. I had to pairs of shoes to wear, flats and heels, and when I showed her the flats she shook her head and was like ‘Nonononono. Have to have nice shoes.” Then she and my mother continued to pick on my posture. When I made suggestions about the fittings of where to tighten and such she just waved me off so I let her work her magic. I hope everything goes well with it and it doesn’t just fall off. Haha.

Hm what else is there… prom committee and decorations. That was interesting, fun I suppose but there were a few arguments about decisions we made that we more or less solved. I hope the  trees for preview turn out alright, and I hope our efforts aren’t wasted. I feel bad because with softball I have no time to help out after school now, and I feel like I’m not doing anything when I stay after for 20 minutes.

The crazy thing is, it’s only about a week away.

There’s really nothing else i can say other than I hope it’s fun, and I hope everyone has a good time. :)

 

blog numero uno

Today there was a human hair tumbleweed behind our lunch table. It was pretty gross. There are a lot of things in this school that are gross actually. Like the tumbleweed, the colony of ants that lives within the walls and come out in record time to devour cheese-doodles dropped on the floor. And the bathrooms are gross, because no one actually knows how to flush toilets apparently and evidently bathrooms are better used for smoking.. who knew? Let’s see, what else is gross… oh the fact that the downstairs girl’s bathroom is also used for reproduction. Sorry I got a cold chill there. Anyways, our school’s pretty gross.