Emma's Nightmare Named ---------- High School ----------: January 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

Best Weekend EVER

So on Friday I wen to Dad's house with Gracie, and that was a blast. We took pictures when we went hiking and they turned out great.

Saturday my Dad took Brandy (my dog, 15 yrs old) to the vet and it turns out she got salmon poisoning while she was away. So we are giving her meds right now and she should be good by next week. If we didn't take her in, she would have died in like ten days, so we are super lucky.

So I went to Ceana's party thing whatever you wanna call it, and it was lame.

NOPE!

Because seriously, it was SO fun. SO fun.

I met Keenan (feel like I've known him forever! pre-mortal existence, maybe?), Cassidy, Sabrina, and John. So pretty much I had an amazing time. We played minute to win it. Aaaaaand we ate food. Aaaaand the boys bombarded us with silly string and gorilla masks. Aaaaand we ate food. Aaaaaand we went to the dance.

Then on Sunday I saw them all again at class and choir. Super fun.

Then this morning I saw them all AGAIN at 6 AM because we decided to have breakfast together before they left to go back home to Grants Pass. *sniffle* I definitely want to see them all again. :)

What a GREAT weekend!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Finals, Snowball, and Absent Minded People

I remember last year everyone at the high school always talked about how glad they were when finals were over and how stressful they were. So this year I was expecting to get really stressed and swamped, but it just feels like normal school days to me - except a bunch of tests that I can use my notes on.

So what was so stressful about finals last year and what was so different? Someone told me it's because I'm freshman, but it was my freshman friends that felt to swamped last year. Am I just taking easier classes? I have no idea!

So, snowball was pretty fun. I hung out with Melissa, Anne, and JennieLinn all day to get our nails done and eat subway in our dresses. I can't believe I found a dress with sleeves that was so cute! I figured I'd never be able to find such a thing. It's just so rare. I guess I must have good luck.

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HA! Nope. I'm just good at looking for things with my dad. lol

You know something that has seriously annoyed me lately? People who think they are the bomb diggity because they can make a lame joke about polygamy (or some other LDS topic) to me because they think for some weird reason that I will think it's funny. It's like they think that because I'm in the religion that they can make fun of it around me, but they feel bad if they make fun of it behind my back.

For example, on Tuesday I was trying to get into the Auditorium and some guy asked if I was Mormon. I almost said "No, but I can tell you about him" but I decided not to be funny so I just told him that I was. So he replied,

"So am I."

I replied, "No, you aren't." Okay, sure, maybe he's just been inactive his entire life. But that seems VERY unlikely. Trust me.

"Yes I am."

"No.. I'm pretty sure I'd know."

"Yes, I am. I'm already working on my eleventh wife."

Do you KNOW how much I wanted to punch him?

Fortunately for him, I believe in forgiveness and understanding, but HONESTLY. I don't make fun of whatever you believe in, so why are you so determined on making fun of me?

He'd already started talking to his friends before I could defend myself, but I really felt like marching over there and stopping his conversation and telling him what was what! Urgh!

The Twin of Junie B. Jones

Because Gracie deserves her own sidebar quotes.

-Gracie: Emma, you shouldn't wear high heels on the dock!

Me: Why not?
Gracie: You might trip and fall in and then Dad will get cramps!

-We were driving to the Figueroa's 4th of July picnic. My mother was drinking SmartWater. Gracie said out of nowhere, "Mom, you should drink smart water because it makes you smarter." My mother then replied, "Don't you think that maybe you should drink smart water because that means you were already smart?" Grace thought for a moment and replied, "That doesn't make any sense."

-Today in the car Gracie stated that she thought a bird pooped on the car. My mother said that the chances were very slim, and besides, how would she know if it did? Gracie said that she still thought a bird pooped on the car. My mom said, "I think you just want to say poop." Gracie retorted, "Nuh-uh! I just wanted you to say poop."

-I was teasing Grace when she wanted to go to McDonalds. I said that they didn't let anyone that wasn't at least 14 years old eat there anymore. She started crying. I think she is a little too attached.

-"Emma, Mom wants you to come scoop up the dog poop," she told me a few minutes ago, and before she closed the door she added, "This message will self destruct."

-After I scrubbed her toilet for her, my mother yelled in the other room, "What is that rotten egg poop smell!?" Gracie got very defensive and exclaimed, "It wasn't me this time!"

-After telling me how she told the bus driver to take her to Ecols Street and the bus driver stopped right in front of her house for her, I asked for reassurance, "Really?" She gave me a face. "What is that supposed to mean?" She put her hands on her hips and sighed as if to say 'duh'. "This face means it's true," she said while she made the same odd face. Then she made a mean face. "This face means it's not true." Then she proceeded to give off other mean faces and said that those meant it was true. She smiled and said, "Smiling means it's not true."

-Earlier I was mowing the lawn, and in an attempt to be like her older sister, Grace took Case's toy lawn mower and began going over what I'd already done. "Look, Mom! I'm lawn lowing!"

-After scaring her about a spider being on her leg when it really wasn't, she was complaining that I almost scared her half to 'deaf'. I'm not sure how you scare someone to deaf.

-After a summer bible school thing we were invited to, Grace climbed into the car we were riding home in. A girl that was her age sat in the back, and because of the girl sitting in a carseat similar to a baby's, she exclaimed, "It's a baby!" The girl was very upset afterward for being mistaken for a baby.

-When the newer King Kong movie came out, we bought it as soon as we could. While watching him getting put to sleep so they could lug him back, Gracie began balling. However, when he fell off the Empire State Building, she made no sign of emotion whatsoever.

-Years ago when I began to need pads and bras, Gracie would get very envious and complain, despite my protests, "I want those!" One time she actually attempted to steal my pads and use them. It didn't work out so well.

-At her baptism, Gracie had to be dunked more than once into the water because she kept tipping her foot out of the water. She complained that she 'wanted to be like a princess'.

-Gracie used to ask our mother, "Mom, when will I get to have a big butt like you?"

-When she decided that she didn't want bangs anymore, she had the brilliant idea to cut them off.

-My baby brother Case was running from us while my mother was off to get her keys. My little sister Grace asked me to hold her paper so she could get him. I told her, "No." Five minutes later when I was holding him in my arms and she was ahead of me, I asked her to hold my ice cream so I could get a better grip. She shrugged her shoulders and in a mocking voice answered, "No." Serves me right, I suppose.