Singing, Lacrosse, and the Devil's Park

I feel bad that I haven't posted in a while, but I've just been busy. Well, more like lazy and yelled at every time I get on the computer. Quite a bit has happened, and I'll try to keep it shortish...

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a solo and ensemble clinic. I talked about solo and ensemble in one of my posts from last February (in the second and fourth paragraphs. Disregard the other stuff about me being in love with Anthony Bailey, that is way over and I barely talk to him anymore, except we texted each other for like ten minutes yesterday but other than that I never talk or see him). Solo and ensemble is where you sing a solo or in an ensemble, it has to be an art song (like a folk song or something, no pop), and you sing it in front of judges and they give you a score from 1 to 5, 1+ being the best, and 5- being the worst. Last year, even though I thought I did terrible and I was so mad at myself, I got a 1- and almost made it to districts. I really want to make it to districts this year, and my dear cousin Amanda told me about her voice teacher, Chris, who does a clinic for it every year.

So, I had one private lesson, three group lessons, and a recital. A guy named Taylor Myers, who was in my EFY company, was there too, so it was pretty cool to see him again. During the lessons, we learned to sight sing, clap rhythms, sing the Layton High School song in a harmony (bleh, go Viewmont!), and practice singing our solos in front of each other. I sang Scarborough Fair. I couldn't find the exact version on youtube, but that one's still cool. I love that song! Amanda sang Danny Boy. It was great, and I really enjoyed singing it in the recital, I wasn't really nervous. It was fun. I hope I get to go to districts this year!

I'm on the Viewmont girls lacrosse team. We've been conditioning this past month (I was seriously limping when I walked, I was soooo sore!!), and now we get to finally use our lacrosse sticks. We have to wear goggles and a mouth guard too which is very flattering. The mouth guard scared me because you have to put it in boiling water and then stick it in your mouth and let it mold in your mouth, and it burned. They are quite disgusting, I hate using them because then it's covered in spit and I don't want it in my mouth. I'm excited to start really training with sticks and getting better and I can't wait for the games to start in March!

I'm in musical theater at my school. Tryouts were last April, and it's 7th period during second semester. We're doing Bye Bye Birdie which I'm super excited for!! I want to either be Kim or Ursula (Kim's hyper best friend). I was worried because Swallow hasn't seen my hyper side. She just thinks I'm some quiet girl who likes to sing, so I'm determined to show her the real me during tryouts! Even if I don't get a main part I'll be happy, it's not like I expect to anyway. I can't wait to get started! Tryouts are next week, the dance tryouts are on Monday, and the actual part tryouts are on Wednesday or Thursday. I'm still not sure how it will work out with lacrosse, but I'm confident I'll find a way.

I'm probably going to work at Lagoon again this summer :( I hated working there, but I need a job and chances are, I'm not going to get another job with this economy. My friend gave me the ride department's number, so I'm going to try and get a job in that department, but if I can't then I'll just do games.... This is going to be another AMAZING summer...

Well, that's my month. Oh, well I forgot to mention that my dear mother turned 37 last week. Yay!! I like telling my friends that because a lot of their moms are in their 40's. Goodbye everyone, wish me luck with try-outs and solo and ensemble!

Amazingness

My older sister, Ashley, is the most amazing driver ever!!

The End


(she told me to post that)

Lacrosse

tOkay here comes my first post of 2010!

As some of you may or may not know, I've decided to do lacrosse. Viewmont High school (I'm going there next year) didn't have a girls lacrosse team. So, a girl in my grade named Addie thought that this was very unfortunate since she played lacrosse last year and like it. Therefore, she talked to her dad and they decided to start the team. Her dad is the Viewmont hockey coach. I had my first meeting back in November where everyone who wanted to be on the team and their parents came. I was really excited and couldn't wait to start. Mom is also now the treasurer of the team, since she's a master at counting.

Last Saturday, Mom and I went to a place called Tribal West Lacrosse in Sandy to get my stuff. We had tried some closer places, but they didn't have a good selection and I had been to this place last month with the team to pick out uniforms. So we went there, and I love that place. Everyone is so nice and actually knows what they're doing instead of some sports store where there's just a little corner with only three different sticks. When we got there, a nice lady working there (who I think might be named Nicole...) took me to a place towards the back where you can try out sticks and practice throwing and catching. I tried out a few different sticks and found one that I really liked using. She gave me some tips and showed me how to cradle which was really nice. I got a blue stick and four orange balls. I wanted to get glow in the dark balls, but another lady there said that when her daughter would practice at night with other girls, they would always get hit in the head because the ball would just flash through the air so they banned it. I got red and white polka dot spandex, a water bottle, two mouth guards, and goggles. After that, we went to Target and got me soccer cleats (Nicole said they worked just as well as lacrosse ones), hair and hygiene stuff, and some work out clothes. I also got a backpack to put everything in.

When we got home, we put the mouth guard in boiling water. We're supposed to put the mouth guard in there for thirty seconds then put it right in my mouth and let it harden around my teeth. I was freaking out, because putting something that was just barely in boiling water in your mouth went against my beliefs concerning not hurting yourself. The stupid instructions said it shouldn't be hot. Liars, it hurt, but I kept it in. The first one didn't work out very well, but the next one worked well and now I have a nice mouth guard that makes it hard to breathe through my mouth, makes my mouth bulge, and makes me want to gag. It's so gross, I don't like it and I can't talk. My Dad and sisters had fun throwing the balls at me while I caught it with my stick, it was fun.

The first day of conditioning was last Monday. We aren't allowed to practice with sticks as a team until February, so now we're just conditioning. I don't know what I thought when I thought of conditioning, but I seemed to forget the part about conditioning hurting. When I got there, Addie's dad was there and he made us run a mile and a half. We then went to this open area above the ice skating rink and met our coach, Sam. She's 21 and played and coached at Alta High school. They then had us do lunges, jump things, stay in push-up position for a while, and run up and down the bleachers over and over. We had to do wall sit and pass a heavy ball to all of the girls down the wall and back up five times which killed, and then we did some stomach stuff. I was dead. When I got home I was so exhausted. I told myself that I didn't necessarily enjoy the first day just because it was the first and all first days suck.

The next day, I was so sore. I couldn't walk right and it hurt really bad every time I sat down, stood up, or went up or down stairs. Despite that, I went back to conditioning after school again. Tuesday was much more fun and I really enjoyed it, even though we worked just as hard. Sam's really cool and a good coach. One exercise we did, we had to do different stuff depending on the number she called out. Number two, we just had to squat down, but that was the worst part. She was laughing at us because when she had us squat all of us groaned really loud because we were so sore. We had to run up and down the bleacher stairs all the way to one end of the bleachers and back five times and lot of other fun stuff. When I got home that night I hurt so bad, worse than all day, but I was glad because I am getting stronger.

Wednesday, I was mega sore. I could not walk without limping, and if I sat down for too long, then I would have a harder time walking when I got up. The other girls doing lacrosse that I talked to were just as sore. I'm sure some of the students probably thought I was faking limping, but I really couldn't walk right, it hurt so bad just to walk, and I hated sitting down. I drove to piano and then after that I drove on the highway to Walmart. After sitting down for so long, I had serious issues in Walmart. My mom and little sisters were walking fast and I couldn't catch up so I had to try to do a jog and I looked ridiculous, and every time I tried to walk normally I couldn't do it.

Since we're talking about Wednesday, I'll just let you guys know that I went to mutual where we played Pictionary and Balderdash. I did a hitch kick after drawing a pictures of a shoe kicking a ball, and my pants ripped. It was a huge rip in the worst spot possible. After sitting down and thinking for about ten seconds, and I ran into the hall and took off my jacket and wrapped it around my waist so it hung down in front and looked like I was wearing an apron. No one saw it happen except for Sariah, Alyssa Quinton, and maybe Ethan, but I think most everyone figured it out by the end. I really don't know what he saw, and I'm worried. Instead of being embarrassed though, I thought it was hilarious. That and a couple of other things that happened which I won't type made that a mutual I will not easily forget, it was so funny!

I ran a mile and a half on the treadmill and I am still sore today, but you could barely tell I wasn't walking right, and by the end of the day I think I walked normally again! Yay! I can't wait to condition again and I'm so excited to start playing and being really strong again! I haven't been this excited about anything in a while. Aaaahhhh I can't wait!!!!!


Kk now that that's out of the way, I have a predicament. I want to get my hair cut. I don't like long hair very much, and if I had straight hair I would probably have it be really short. I want to get my hair cut, my hair is boring me again and I'm sick of always having the same old look. I want to get it cut like I had it in 7th grade, I loved it. It was shorter and cute. I want to know what you guys think I should do with my hair. I'm going to put up a poll thing with some ideas I've had, and if you have any other ideas for my hair just comment or send me an email or something to let me know. The first picture below is from 7th grade, and the second is from a couple months ago.