I can't see clearly now......but THANK GOODNESS for that!

Today should've been a bad day. Unexpected grade pitfalls. Gross lunch. Barely getting assignments done, but only to half of my ability. I had to pay $50.00 to get a dress dry cleaned...a dress that I don't even own. Grass stains on 1 of the 3 pairs that I have to my name and one the pair of white shoes that I wear frequently. I was tackled and elbowed my 20 boys and a 6 foot ball (hence the grass satins..plus a major headache). 

But, it wasn't. In fact, it seems to have been just a normal day. I don't have any amazing life lesson to bestow upon you..one that has just occurred to me. Nor did I have someone waiting for me with open ears and Reese's cups. No. It was just a day. A day that looking upon seems cruddy. 

Maybe it is the nearness of graduation that has kept my spirits up, or maybe the amazing weekend I had. Possibly that I get my senior pictures done this weekend or even global warming. Could be a compilation of these and more..but who knows.

I fell like it's a super amazing form of tunnel vision. All the good is staring me in the face. I can see that..but the bad that tries to bring it down exists on the far back sides, outside of my line of sight. Finally!!...Bad Day= Good Day.

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Carrot anyone?

Speak no evil. Hear no evil. See no evil.

(OK...so we are a little bit backwards, but the principle is the same.)

4 bandanas, 1 horny toad, 3 pairs of vans, and 57 bobby pins

Prom was awesome! I am so greatful for the guys that did it all for Jayne and I. We decided that going to the just to say that we showed up to our senior prom was..overrated. So, instead, we wanted to get dressed up fancy and just have fun..doing whatever we felt like. I wouldn't have had it any other way..:)

Day Date: HIKE :)

These are the other two in our group. Tanner and Jayne!

"Are you ready?"
THE group.

We love Vans.

Second set of pictures...for the rents of course.

Me...that dress can make anyone feel like a cupcake...

Now, where are YOU gonna sit?

So close....

My date was the best..but then again, I could be just a little bit biased in a situation like this. :)

We rode the carousel at the mall...and the "professional" we got to take our pictures of this experience always cut Britt's head off..

And again..

Our trip to the park. 
We then proceeded to rent a movie with such amazing acting skills. We hardly laughed at it at all.....;) We watched it at Jayne's house it was pretty good in the way that we both got to change into jeans and a t-shirt. We did have dinner..at California pizza kitchen. And we had our own version of a dance. We broke some rules. We made some memories that well...at least Jayne and I won't soon forget. 

And so it begins....the end...

Spirit week! Some showed more spirit than others...but it was a great week. Here is a snap shot. 

littel kyd day

Retro Day

Geek Day...some of us didn't even have to TRY on this one..it just comes naturally to some..:)

My personal fave..If I wore this would you still be my friend Day. (and yes, that IS a coon hat:)

Spirit Day!

 ( This is me in a bass locker..I was scared no one would let me out...but they did...obviously. Thank you Captain Obvious..:)

It has become increasingly apparent that my high school days are quickly dwidling. And, as much true joy as that observation brings me, I am so sad to see these silly, ridiculous, childish laughs go. I lived it up this week, embraced the foolishness. i only have 20-some-odd days left to do such.

Goal: One laugh. One memory. One reason to want to return to high school... for everyday that I have left.

32 days..till the end. And so it begins..

I've been talking to Webster...

commitment:   an agreement or pledge to do something in the future.

team: a number of persons associated together in work or activity.

responsibility: ability to answer for one's conduct and obligations.

If the definitions to these word were shady to anyone...here they are. Let there be no question. When you commit to something, you commit. You stick to it no matter how inconvenient it seems at the time. A team works together..it needs every player, there are no exceptions. Be one of the team 100% or  don't be part of the team. Responsibility. When you kow what is right, do it. Don't make excuses. As many ways as there are to get around being responsible..there are ways to get around the excuse. 

Tour 2009...RIDGE style.

Well..two trips within 4 days of each other..I am wiped out! But all the pain and fatigue..completely worth it. I wouldn't take back a single second..nor a single painful turn of my neck..:) Here is TOUR in the style of 2009.

Highlights include both pictoral and written forms.

I had hot chocolate with my breakfast which i decided to take back up to my room with me. I'm drinking it..and everything is good..until i look down and i have been dripping it all over my shirt! Yes..I would do something like that..obviously, 'cause I did..

We downed more than 20 pizzas in about 90 seconds. It got real quiet real quick. :)

We gave 2 of the basses Mohawks in the hallway of the hotel on Thursday and Friday night.

We were split into 2 buses..#1 and #2. Logically..all of the seniors and choice underclassmen of the Symphonic strings were on bus #1. Of course..we still love the other bus..we just, well..like our bus more. Anyways. Some of us decided it might be fun to take the air fresheners that are used to freshen porta-potties and place them strategically on bus#2.. meaning..right next to an air vent. Yep..it was awsome..from our bus..a safe distance away form any such scent.:)

Macie decided to get herself a Disney birthday pin during our trip to Downtown Disney on Friday afternoon, despite the fact that it wasn't her birthday at all.... and sported it at our dinner trip to Home Town Buffet. One for the lady's thought it was really her birthday..and brought her a nicely arranged cake dessert and the whole restaurant broke out in song..She was bright red. 

Our clinic guy told us that we were killing Simba and stealing popcorn from little children We all felt pretty pathetic after that.

Our bus had 4 games of catch phrase going on at one time. Great minds think alike I suppose..I mean really...how does that happen? Well..a lot was learned from said game.. like diamonds aren't a girls best friend...baseball is two words...and Bob Barker. Yes, that's it. Bob Barker.

Each room would get a call form the chaperone each night..when KJ ansswered, it generally went something like this....,"City morgue. You kill 'em we chill 'em". 

Jacquelyn and I rode the elevator for the last 15 minutes we had at the observatory.

Let's eat Grandpa! 

Let's eat, Grandpa!

Punctuation saves lives.

blog number somethin'...

What is big... and red...and eats rocks?

A big red rock eater.

Sometimes there are things in life that are just too over thought. It's life. Fill it with simplicity.