Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Sunday:
This was the walking tour day. Omg, it was my second whiny day. My MAJOR whiny day. Sorry to anyone who had to listen to me. It started out ok, just a subway ride, to Grenich Village, that was pretty cool, but it was mostly apartments. Then we saw all of the DO's, BRO's, HO's where all the yuppys, buppys, hippies, and the other groups lived. It wasn't bad, pretty cool to see, but it was kinda cold, and it was a lot of walking. Next we went to Little Italy, basically just walked through it, we didn't look at anything. Then we went to China Town. That was cool, got to do a little shopping and warm up a bit. I didn't buy anything thing, didn't get very warm either. But I whined a lot. ^^ Then we walked to the subway and went to Ground Zero. That was pretty sad actually. It's hard to imagine the Twin Towers being there when you weren't there 5 years ago. Then off to Battery Park to get on the ferry to go to the Statue of Liberty. Ummm, ya, no. That line SUCKED!!!!! GAH!!! I swear, I was about to cry, lol. I was soooo damn cold cuz of the ocean being right there. That is the only time I have ever hated the ocean, but I swear...Well, finally got on, I refused to go onto any deck other than the first one, so I sat on the floor of the first deck so I could stay warm. Then we went to Liberty island, and I sat in the restaurant place the entire time. I was upset, yeah, that I didn't get to see it, but I was just so tired, and I didn't feel like waiting in another line. So we (Sharon, Hayley and I) waited FOREVER!! for our chaperone to get back, and we couldn't go with Mrs. Ekren because we couldn't get ahold of Mr. Klemm. Yeah, so that was a waste of time. Anyways, after they finally all came back we waited around because we lost Darcy and Laura, then we finally left. We got on the ferry and got back to the main land and went back to the hotel. Yep.
Well, then we left for Blue Man Group. O.M.G. It was sooooo much fun!! I sat in the second row with Trevor and Mitch. They did lots of cool stuff, the marshmallows were hilarious. And so was this girl they took up on stage. Then they had this toliet paper stuff, only it was like those streamers, anyways, it was like a sea of paper! We were passing it to the front, but being in the front, I kinda just got covered in it. I got some around my neck though, and Alex O behind me decided he wanted it back, so he tried pulling on it which choked me a little, and this stuff didn't rip very well, but I got it off. Lol. Then I got my foot stuck in the seat when we were leaving, that was embarassing. But that was sooooo cool, I loved it. Definitly best part of the whole trip.
Well, that was Sunday. And day 4.
LE
Monday, March 27, 2006
Saturday:
Our third day in NY was probably my favorite. It started out with a trip to the Empire State building. On the way there I rode the subway for my first time, and it was not the most pleasant thing to do. There was a really gross hobo there, and that's all I'm going to say. (My favorite thing about the sub way though was the guy who stayed on the 6 train all the time and came around singing and stuff, that was cool. He was a good singer.) Well, the Empire State building was cool, although it was a little bit windy at the top, but the view was soooo cool!!! From one side you could see Staten Island (Statue of Liberty) and from the other Central Park. I bought a little crystaly thingy and some postcards for people in the store. It was pretty neat.
When we got done, Macy's was about a block away so we shopped there for a while. That was cool, I'd never been in one really, and I was sorta expecting it to be like a Ross (price wise) but it wasn't. It was huge and had lots of cool clothes. I just didn't buy anything. After Macy's, Miss had to have NY pizza so we went and got some. But then she started complaining that it wasn't the huge, deep dish pizzas she thought it was. We tried to tell her she was getting confused with Chicago style pizza, but she wouldn't believe us! Gah. Anyways, then we went shopping all over Times Square. I got really cool I *heart* NY pajama pants and a pen and an adorable picture frame, in which I put a pic of all the girls who had I *heart* NY pants, lol. I got a Hard Rock Cafe NY shirt (I love it, it's awesome), Ummm, oh ya!!! We saw an authentic New York protest, lol. That was kinda neat. Erm, we went to a awesome Hershey's store and bought a bucket of chocolate (literally), but I never got to eat any of it. *pouts* Then we walked to Rockefeller Center and watched people ice skate, stopped at the St. Patrick's Cathedral (you kinda get to wondering why we didn't march past the church, wouldn't it kind of make sense??) and then headed back to the hotel. Once we got there, people were deviding into groups for what they wanted to do.
I went with a bunch of other girls next door to the Nail/Spa place. I got a mani/pedi-cure and it felt so good! It was a lot of fun. My pedicure stayed on, but my manicure chipped off. Oh well. Mariah "lost" her money, so we looked for it for a long time, turns it was in her wallet the whole time. After that, we ordered Chinese food, gosh that was stressful. First we argued about what we were going to get, then we argued about who was going to pay, yadayadayada. It sucked. But when we got it, we took it to Trevor's room and hung out there for a while, it was a lot of fun. But we didn't have any untensils to eat with so we ate Lo Mein with our hands, haha. Then the other guys came back, and I was like, uhhh, let's leave before we agravate them. So we kinda booked it outta there, and I forgot to clean up the pop cans, sorry bout that.
Well, that was Saturday. When we got back to my room, we played a few card games in the bathroom as tradition says we must do, but those bathrooms are a little too small... Hayley and Caitlin and Danielle came back from Danielle's b-day dinner, they had gotten the Spamalot CD so we listened to that and then went to sleep (after making a few prank calls, lol).
LE
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Yesterday was the last Eskimos trip *crytearcry* It kicked Ass!!! Yes. Hannah got sick, so my mom had to come and get her, and my phone rang in the middle of my lesson thing. So my instructor was like "Don't answer it!! Gah!!" So out of fear for my life, I did not answer the phone. Ya, I know that wasn't really funny, but I don't care. Well, my class group was not very lively, I don't think anyone said anything to anyone else. Well, I am still pink, and not purple, I guess I'll just have to live with it. Grumble. After the class got out, I waited a while at the base for Jared and Mitch, and finally called Jared and he's like "We're at Sun's Pot!" ^_^. Me: -_- So I got back on the lift and met them up there. Woot food. We talked a while about how when ever someone meets Jared, they hate hate guts, but then you grow to love 'im. XD.
We left the lunch place, and went to Mary Jane, I don't even remember how we got over there...oh ya! We went down this black, that was fun. Jared went down the groomed part for a little ways, and I tried to spray him with snow, but my edge came out from under me and so I had to basically jump out of the way so I didn't hit him cuz I couldn't stop and I kept rolling down a good ways. Jeeze that was fun! I love rolling down the slopes, 'specially when you flip on a mogul. Flipping=weeeeeeeeee! And it get's you down the run a lot faster. Hehe. Well, then we went to the summit of the mountain, the line sucked!!!!! Gah! I believe that we are always waiting either on or because of Jared, lol. Well, I flew on the way down after we got to the top. Boo. Yaw. But then, after we all met up again, I was going on the straightaway going back to the base of the Jane, I was going pretty damn fast, and all of a sudden I just fell, soooooo hard. Omg, I was so pissed! I felt like an idiot. "Look at me! I can go fa-sledrhsnsjcdefhjdh...ow" I thought I caught an edge, but what did I catch it on? I think it might have been a lump of snow that didn't explode when I hit it, and it pulled me down. But I just did a face plant into the snow, ugh. I got the wind knocked out of me, and it hurt a little. And I think I might have bruised a few ribs, I donno. They are sore. But you never even know about those injuries usually till the day after.
Well, I was a big girl and got up again. Jared and Mitch were dancing all the way down, hehe. I was tempted to do the Chicken Dance, but I was worried I'd throw off my balance, and I didn't want to fall on the catwalk (or fall period) so I didn't. Well, we just goofed off for a while, enjoying the last trip up. Mitch got a weird call in the middle of the run, it was in spanish I believe...O_O. But yes. It's over, I'm so sad. Snowboarding is the best thing in the world, I swear!!! This year however, I found I was kinda reckless, I think I almost killed about 3 little kids? Yes, that seems about right. Jeeze, I am in such a giddy/happy mood. It's crazy, where did this come from!? Well, whatever, I like it. Heh. ^^
On the bus, gawd there were these two really, really, really, really annoying girls. They kept asking us what our names were, they knew Jared's, but it took them a while to realize what Mitch's was (or at least, it took them a while to finally realize his name is Mitch.) and they never found out my name. I told them when I got off the bus my name was Eileen (which is such a stupid name, they'd never believe me) Who here thinks my name is dumb? MEMEMEMEMEME!! OO! OO! PICK ME!!! Anyways, that was my yesterday. School starts tomorrow. Yuck. But you know what? Harry Potter's face will make it all better! ^_^ hehe, j/k.
LE
So this was one of two of my whine-y days. Lol. It was also Caitlin's birthday.
Friday:
This was parade day. Still wasn't feeling very great, and I couldn't eat breakfast. So I walked back to the hotel where we got our uniforms and stuff, and not wanting to wait for the elevator, Danielle dragged me up the stairs. I gave up on the fifth floor, and remembered my parents' room was on the fifth floor, so I went and crashed there, literally. They were trying to get me to go with them to Rockefeller Center, but I just wanted to sleep. Well, then Trevor called and he's like, let's hang out, and funnily, I sorta jumped at the idea, so I left and got ready and went with their entire group to Times Square. I didn't notice how long the walk was cuz I was still pretty excited to be there. Well, we got there, and it was amazing how lit up it was even in the day time. The only store we went in that day was the giant Toys R US store, lol. But it was still cool.
Well, when we got back to our hotel, we went around the corner and got subway, and then I went to Mitch's, Alex's, Sangkuk's and Trevor's room and we watched the parade on their TV. Had a pillow fight. That was fun. Then I had to go grab my uniform and get dressed. Back in my room Danielle and Hayley and Caitlin were hiding from Missy. So I got dressed and went downstairs. The room was like "*buzzbuzzbuzzbuzz* excitement!! 'Are you excited? I'm excited!'" So we loaded the buses. Once we got there, it was cool, and we were like yay! But then we realized that we were going to be standing there for a long, long time. And it was getting really cold. The parade was also backed up 2 hours, but some nice people let us in there slotso we could go early, but still. I was whining like crazy cuz my back hurt and I was getting tired of standing cuz you can't sit in uniform. My mom spent probably about $50 for hot chocolate that we just gave out to a bunch of people. When I tried to hand it out to people they thought I had like drank out of it or something. I'm like it's hot chocolate, no one's drank out of it, take it!!! Well, FINALLY we stepped off. I felt so out of place because I was wearing a band jacket and my hair was out of my shaco. Oh well, I was warmer and more comfortable than somepeople I bet. Although I prolly looked so stupid since I was on the back corner. My hands started bleeding, it was weird. Well, there weren't many people left when we started, but that was ok. We finished it and it felt cool to have marched now that I looked back on it, but then I was having a kind of not fun time. So we walked another 15 blocks (not that many) to the buses. It felt sooo good to sit down!!! (Oh ya, I forgot to mention this drum off that we and this other band had. It was cool, I guess they had never seen a cow bell?? And there were these two drunk guys trying to dance, and they later got arrested or so I heard. But that was pretty cool)
Well, then we went to the hotel where we had to rush to get redressed to go to the play. I looked like crap, oh well. I sat next to Sangkuk on the bus to Spamalot, it was very entertaining. They were passing these boxes of chewy bars back since we didn't have time to eat, and Kuk grabbed about 5 and shoved two into his mouth right away. Colin was all "You only get one!" And Kuk responded (with his mouth full of chewy bar) "I only haff one!" It was so funny. Anyways, the play. It was funny, I'd never seen the movie, so it was good. Afterwards we walked all the way back from Broadway to the hotel. For a while when everyone was all "It's soooo cold!" only my feet were cold, which was strange. I just hurt from all the walking that day. Well, we went to dinner at the breakfast restaurant. We couldn't get a table for all of us, so I sat with Mitch. It was a little quiet. But all of us were pretty tired I guess. Then we walked back to the hotel and went to sleep.
Well, that was Day 2 in NY, NY. Day 3 later.
LE
So I suppose all of the non-band members are wondering about New York. It was fun, although I was tired and kinda sick the whole time. I think I'll do this in like a mini-series, a new post for each day I was there. If you miss one, just go over to my window that has all the stuff like links and everything, and scroll down to the archives, you can see all the posts that way.
Thursday:
I woke up Thursday morning feeling like crap. I don't even know why I felt so sick, but I felt the way I did back in June when I was sick for two weeks. So getting to school was kind of hard just cuz I felt so icky. Anyways, I got there and went directly into the auditorium and hung out with Rachel and them. I was sad that a lot of my freshman friends weren't on my plane but it was ok. In the airport, when we were going to security after we got our tickets, our escalator just stopped, it was kinda freaky cuz I fell right into Nick and almost started a dominoe effect. Lol. Rachel said I just wanted to touch her boyfriend, lmao. Anyways, Nick got held up at security and I was waiting with Rachel for him and our group basically left us, or at least so I thought, they were just waiting down the stairs at the entrance for the little train thing. So we road the train and went to the concourse (when I was little I thought it said concord so I was always confused, and always thought United and Frontier were just a company that used only concords, but then why were the plane rides soooo long? Plus they cancelled those types of planes a long time ago.) We sat at the gate for an extra hour because our flight was delayed. But we played cards, I kicked ass at spoons, lol. We finally boarded and Darcy kicked Rachel out of her seat, so I traded with Shane White's little sister and sat next to Danielle. The actual ride wasn't so bad although once we finally landed, the air conditioners turned off so it got really, really warm in there and I was beginning to feel claustophobic but I survived. After we got all of our stuff, we got on the buses, and I sat next to Ginger. Ummm...heh, ya. She kinda talks to herself, once when no one was actually listening to her, she says "I'm finally home!" I thought "Aren't you from New Jersey??" But ya. The hotel. H-O-T-E-L. They didn't have the right size rooms for anyone, it sucked!!! We ordered rooms with two double beds or whatever, and ours was a king size bed with room for one fold out bed, or cot, and no room anywhere else. But a lot of other people had a ton of extra room, like Glen's and Alex O.'s room. Holy Cow!!!! It was huge! Well, not feeling great, Danielle and I stayed in the room and her mom brought us some pizza and me some soup. It was good. I felt like a loser the whole trip though, because all I did was lay in bed since I was so tired. Anyways, Hayley and Sharon got there about midnight, and they stayed up late talking. Grr. Well, that was Thursday, I'm working on Friday's now.
LE
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Have a lovely spring break.
LE
Friday, March 10, 2006
LE
Thursday, March 09, 2006
I also can't stand it that some people seem to have no respect for my feelings. Sure, I don't mind you telling me what girls you think are hot and everything, but becareful the way you state things. Telling me not to wear a shirt that you think is inappropriate on me, (because it is white and a little see-through) but makes one of the girls you think is hot look fantastic, is not gonna make me feel extreamly great about myself for different reasons. Be aware of that.
That's my rant, think about it.
LE
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
LE
Sunday, March 05, 2006
We started in Jillians, and were gonna play pool, but not everyone wanted to, then we were gonna bowl but they had some weird wait list thing, and about 10 lanes open, I guess they just didn't want kids in there. So we played air hockey (once we finally got the card to work) and this one shooting game thing, and a few racing games too. When we ran out of points on the card, Mitch and I went to play mini-golf. No one else really wanted to play, so they loitered. Mini-golfing was cool though, it was one of those black light, glow in the dark ones. I've always wondered why peoples' teeth will glow, but not their eyes... Anyways, the pictures were sooo cool! Some of them were strange and stuff, but they were still neat, and the holes were crazy. But I being the wonderful golfer I am, kept hitting the scenery with my ball, and it would roll back to me everytime, lol. But it was so much fun!
Afterwards, Mitch and I found Jared just kind of standing there in the hallway, talking on his phone. So the three of us walked around trying to find Jared a milkshake and we ran into Ryan and some of his friends. Then we went to the food court and I got some fries cuz I was really hungry, and we waited for Angie and Trevor. Jared wandered off again, so we looked for him in EB Games and saw Eric Davis in there, but we realized he was not in there after ten minutes, lol. We thought he was in the store with all the swords he was looking in earlier so we went to find him there. When we did find him, we had to walk back to Jillians cuz Angie's mom was picking up Jared, Trevor and her. So we stood outside waiting for her, and just hung out. When they were picked up, Mitch and I went back inside to wait for his mom, and we kinda just walked around Jillians again, thinking of ways we could annoy the people in there, lol. Then we were like, pointing out the weird people, hehe. When I got home, my parents and Hannah were gone, didn't get back till after I went to sleep because 1) I was so tired, and 2) They went to two movies, so they got back really late. But my Saturday was a blast.
Well, this was a really long post, but oh well. If you read the whole thing, you're crazy, XDXD. J/K. Bye!
LE
Thursday, March 02, 2006
10. Strange voices + annoying personalities. Seriously, no one can stand to listen to you cuz your dull and talk weird. XDXD, just kidding, but someone's voice is one of the first things I notice.
9. Missing sports, I luff them, and I couldn't do soccer this year because of band. Well, I thought I couldn't, I didn't know that we wouldn't practice that much. But with snowboarding, I'm like getting one more week, and I have to miss the races, OMG, I'm soooooooooo sad about that.
8. People who get mad at you for driving the speed limit, "I'm sorry, unlike you, I don't want a ticket cuz it is time consuming, and costs a LOT of money!!" I also don't want to die cuz some person was going to fast and hits ice then veers into my lane and hits me head-on cuz he can't control his/her car.
7. PMS'y girls, omg, they tick me off, I know they can't help it, and I must be just as bad, but their attitudes! XDXD. J/K.
6. All those couples who have to kiss in front of everyone, seriously, it's really kinda gross, and no one can really have a good conversation with you if you're only concentrating on sucking face. xP.
5. People who absolutely HAVE to have a boyfriend/girlfriend. Those people are like...annoying, cuz that's all the focus on in life, just hang out with your friends and have fun, even if you can't like make out with someone. (see number 6)
4. People who diss my friends, I won't stand for that. *coughnolanwalserhack*
3. Why is it that all the songs on the radio have to be slow love songs or rap songs about sex or how your girlfriend left you? I think there should be a little more up-beat, fun dancing songs (not any rap tho, I hate rap)??
2. My sister, y'all know why.
1. Just cuz I'm a girl, sometimes people think that I don't want to play like some games, like snowball fights or something, therefore I end up just standing there like, watching it all go on. I mean, I like those types of games just as much as any guy, and I don't like to basically "start it" it does no good really. So next time your like throwing stuff at people, and I'm standing there, don't like, just leave me standing there, I'll play, lol. I'm not gonna like slap you, well, I might, if you hit me in the face, XD. But don't throw Jared's back pack at me, I'll duck (I have amazin ducking skillz, hehe) and it will hit one of my other friends-sorry Ben.
Well, thank you for listening...er reading. Good bye, have a lovely life ^_^.
LE
Advice for the day: Be yourself, next time you feel so happy you could dance in circles with your arms spread out like you're an airplane, do it!! No matter who's looking, if they are your friends, they'll join you, (unless their "self" is a little too shy for that, lol).
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Speaking of New York, we leave in two weeks!!! Yay!! I'm so uber excited! I'm proud of myself cuz I have all of my music memorized, but I realized that I can't march and play any more. It was really hard today! I just started to realized that we play during 7th period during seasons, but other people have like math 7th, so like can they hear and see us? If they do, they may know our music just as well as we do, lol. Not that I care, lol. But I wonder though if they do see us, do they realize how hard we work? Cuz when people make fun of band kids, I mean, they obviously don't respect what we do, but you never see people making fun of football players, at least not to their face. Why is that? Sure they are all tall and strong, but so is Trevor, and getting hit by him with a bary sax can't be much of a party. Whatever, that was just the current thought I had in my head .^_^.
I've still got two days of Hannah-free-fun, but I'm sad I'm not an only child, lmao. Oh ya, taking french three when you aren't in the actuall class with the other french three kids is really hard! I like don't know when any of the tests and stuff are cuz no one ever does the log book, so it's really hard to keep up. But at least I get to play games on my iPod during class, haha.
Well, I've run out of things to say I guess, so I'm gonna sign off, bye.
LE