well, i havent blogged in a while so i will try to fit it all in as few posts as possible. here goes!
for a few days, i worked for my dad filing bancrupcies. very hard at first, but i got the hang of it. not a lot of people know how to do it. i got $40 per that i did, and i made about $330 in just a few days. the most i made in one day was $120, but i worked about 10 hours total that day. i also went into a meeting with my dad, trying to convince someone to do their bancrupcy with us, and court, and i met with one of "my" clients to have them finalize, pay, and sign the papers so we could file it.
i bought my new 32 Gig Itouch straight after work on Thursday. i absolutely adore it, even though it was $400 and $450 with tax. ouch. at walmart it was 30 bucks cheaper, but they were out. so, i went to the apple store. i still owe my dad over a hundred, but that shoudlnt be a problem.
on thursday we also had a swim meet. I won the IM, and our Medley relay team got second. i got second in breast, it wasnt even close! and we got second in the Free Relay. however, i lead off, and we ahd the lead when i got out of the pool, so that makes me feel better.
friday, i went to see the 2nd transformers with Brooke, Kelli, Dustin, Kristen, Tyler, Trey, and Scott. after that, i went home and hung out with Koa, and ended up sleeping over with brooke. we ahd fun doing fireworks, watching Inkheart with Dustin, and just hanging out. today i mostly just hung out at home, and cleaned ect. in preperation for the beach with langfords.
i have an eye infection, so it is pretty ahrd for me to go outside. my eyes are so sensitive that i have to keep lights off and blinds closed to be comfortable. but then it still hurts. dad picked up drops for me, and they ahve helped alot.
tomorrow after church i am leaving with langfords so i wont be blogging for a while.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Koa
just a little update on Koa....
he is the cutest dog in the world,, the smartest, and the best behaved! it seems like all he wants is for you to be happy with him! he is following commands like sit, down, and come to some extent, and he hasnt even been trained yet! he is also really good about not getting into the house. to get outside, he has to go through the house, so sometimes he goes in when you open the door, thinking its time to go outside, but if you just say Koa, he will come right back. also, if you say "Koa, you stay right here, okay" he will sit where he is to show he is going to stay there until you get back.
size wise, he has already grown alot. when we both sit down on the ground, i am staring between his nack and mouth.
for fathers day, my grandparents got my dad a bunch of stuff for Koa. he got a brush, a frisbee with holes for teeth so he can carry it, a tick collar, a new food/water bowl, and some treats. we also just ordered his outdoor dog house. but, we have decided not to leave him outside for the night alone until he is bigger, in case a stray comes over. he is just to nice for his own good!!! an example....
nathaniel has 2 teacups and a golden at his dads house, and today he brought one of the teacups with him into town. he brough gracie, who is a few months older than me, old and frail, and sweet as anything. he was walking back into the house, and she started barking up a storm, trying to get at him while we wree trying to seperate the poor puppy from this terrible old fiend. lol. he was scared to death, and started whing after a while. we compared her to the mean old lady who lives down the street and scares all of the poor inocent kids. but no worries, she wouldnt hurt a fly. i dont know what got into her, she is used to other dogs being around.... oh well!
he is the cutest dog in the world,, the smartest, and the best behaved! it seems like all he wants is for you to be happy with him! he is following commands like sit, down, and come to some extent, and he hasnt even been trained yet! he is also really good about not getting into the house. to get outside, he has to go through the house, so sometimes he goes in when you open the door, thinking its time to go outside, but if you just say Koa, he will come right back. also, if you say "Koa, you stay right here, okay" he will sit where he is to show he is going to stay there until you get back.
size wise, he has already grown alot. when we both sit down on the ground, i am staring between his nack and mouth.
for fathers day, my grandparents got my dad a bunch of stuff for Koa. he got a brush, a frisbee with holes for teeth so he can carry it, a tick collar, a new food/water bowl, and some treats. we also just ordered his outdoor dog house. but, we have decided not to leave him outside for the night alone until he is bigger, in case a stray comes over. he is just to nice for his own good!!! an example....
nathaniel has 2 teacups and a golden at his dads house, and today he brought one of the teacups with him into town. he brough gracie, who is a few months older than me, old and frail, and sweet as anything. he was walking back into the house, and she started barking up a storm, trying to get at him while we wree trying to seperate the poor puppy from this terrible old fiend. lol. he was scared to death, and started whing after a while. we compared her to the mean old lady who lives down the street and scares all of the poor inocent kids. but no worries, she wouldnt hurt a fly. i dont know what got into her, she is used to other dogs being around.... oh well!
oh ya.....
did i mention....
we just started our 2 week dead peroid for soccer which is required by TSSAA for all high school sports in tennessee?!?! its kind of a big deal, i can have a life of my own for two weeks,
while working out on my own.....
trying to run every night.....
improving my speed and agility.....
working and chips and headers......
beconing the toughest player there is, and having the most heart.....
doing everything coach tells me.....
what kind of a dead period is this?
we just started our 2 week dead peroid for soccer which is required by TSSAA for all high school sports in tennessee?!?! its kind of a big deal, i can have a life of my own for two weeks,
while working out on my own.....
trying to run every night.....
improving my speed and agility.....
working and chips and headers......
beconing the toughest player there is, and having the most heart.....
doing everything coach tells me.....
what kind of a dead period is this?
recent fun
so, friday morning bright and early, we all headed up to atlanta for a little family trip. when we got there, we went straight to the 6 flags water park, called white water, with out stopping to even check into our hotel. this ws around 10:30 - 11:00. we then did many rides together, and some seperate, including the big family ride twice in a row, the 90 foot drop almost straight down that lasts about 3 seconds from start to finish (trey and dad) and no joke, it really does. and its a water slide. ahhh!!!!! the bohamian bobsled, the tidal wave, the tornado, the river rapids, caribean plunge, and many others. the best things were, 1. everyone was big enough and brave enough to do most rides. 2. you wait to get your tube at the bottom of the ride from someone coming off, then the line at the top of the actual ride is about 5 minutes or less. at the bottom, you can see the 50 % of people wipe who wipe out do so while laughing, and hoping that you will not.
after about 5 hours, we headed to the car, and went bakc to the hotel and dinner. mom and dad had to be at dinner before there "broadway" at 5:30, so they left pretty early. trey and i babysat the triplets in the 2 hotel rooms we had, until mom and dad got back.... around 11, or midnight.
the next morning we went home. soon after arriving home, syd, dad and I went to see Koa, and found Granny was over too. (my great grandmother) after hanging out with Koa and talking to granny, we headed for home. mom and i premade the cookie dough for dessert on fathers day, as well as the Crepes for his breadfast in bed bright and early. then, we headed down to the pool, and dad helped me with both jumping headers and diving headers. he wanted to try it out, but it was pretlty much a failure. then, i headed back into the pool area, and helped all the kids with there strokes. i got syd doing real fly, corrected all her IM turns, and showed her a few tricks for back. i think all in all we tood off a good 5-7 seconds off ther time, maybe more if she can remember it all! very succesful day.
after about 5 hours, we headed to the car, and went bakc to the hotel and dinner. mom and dad had to be at dinner before there "broadway" at 5:30, so they left pretty early. trey and i babysat the triplets in the 2 hotel rooms we had, until mom and dad got back.... around 11, or midnight.
the next morning we went home. soon after arriving home, syd, dad and I went to see Koa, and found Granny was over too. (my great grandmother) after hanging out with Koa and talking to granny, we headed for home. mom and i premade the cookie dough for dessert on fathers day, as well as the Crepes for his breadfast in bed bright and early. then, we headed down to the pool, and dad helped me with both jumping headers and diving headers. he wanted to try it out, but it was pretlty much a failure. then, i headed back into the pool area, and helped all the kids with there strokes. i got syd doing real fly, corrected all her IM turns, and showed her a few tricks for back. i think all in all we tood off a good 5-7 seconds off ther time, maybe more if she can remember it all! very succesful day.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
swim meet
we had a swim meet against northside Y on monday. i won the IM with a time of 3:10 in a meter pool, which is roughly a 2:53 in a yard pool. that kills my old PR, of about a 3:08!! sadly, they DQed me. it was for "recovering with my hands in the water" i think that means still having my head above water after breathing (on my fly) while my hands have hit the water and i have started my pull. at least, that is how Ben explained it. i still dont get it. it doesnt give me an advantage to do that, and the reace wasnt close, so why does it matter? oh well. i deserved to be dQ'ed, i messed up my back to breast turn...they just didnt see it.
breastroke i got 2nd, which i was pretty dissapointed in. i swam a 43, which translates into about a 39. that is a PR for me, but i still ahve a long way to go. dustin swims it in a 33.... but he dominates the 15-18 boys division with that time.
i swam in the 15-18 girls division for the medley relay. i did the breast leg. they combined us with the boys for 15-18, and another girls team or two. we got second, but we got creamed. by the time i got in the pool (the order is back, breast, fly, free) we were about 10 lengths behind. i cut it to about 7 during the breastroke, and beanne (our flyer) to about 5-6. it was a disappointing loss, but they just had a dominent backstoker, and we ahd an average one. it wasnt ever really a race.
we also got 2nd in the free relay. i led off, and had us in first by about 1/2 to one lenght, but we soon lost it. we ended up a good distance behind the first place team, but we also seperated ourselves from our other competitors.
the main problem was that that pool was amazingly shallow on one end, and about 10 feet on the other. so, you were almost scared to do a flip turn. i did them inb my iM, but my back almost hit the bottom, so i didnt in the free relay. last time we went there, Gabe scraped up his whole back doing a flip turn. it was really bad.
breastroke i got 2nd, which i was pretty dissapointed in. i swam a 43, which translates into about a 39. that is a PR for me, but i still ahve a long way to go. dustin swims it in a 33.... but he dominates the 15-18 boys division with that time.
i swam in the 15-18 girls division for the medley relay. i did the breast leg. they combined us with the boys for 15-18, and another girls team or two. we got second, but we got creamed. by the time i got in the pool (the order is back, breast, fly, free) we were about 10 lengths behind. i cut it to about 7 during the breastroke, and beanne (our flyer) to about 5-6. it was a disappointing loss, but they just had a dominent backstoker, and we ahd an average one. it wasnt ever really a race.
we also got 2nd in the free relay. i led off, and had us in first by about 1/2 to one lenght, but we soon lost it. we ended up a good distance behind the first place team, but we also seperated ourselves from our other competitors.
the main problem was that that pool was amazingly shallow on one end, and about 10 feet on the other. so, you were almost scared to do a flip turn. i did them inb my iM, but my back almost hit the bottom, so i didnt in the free relay. last time we went there, Gabe scraped up his whole back doing a flip turn. it was really bad.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
my scheduale
first semester....
1. gym ugh. of course i got it first, so i hav eto be sweaty all day!
2. business principals i have with janelle and savannah, should be fun
3. honors english trey barely squeked out an A... tough teacher. wish me luck
4. honors algebra...... with hannah, savannah and anna miller
this is during soccer and bball season. of course, i get my 2 hard classes when i have practice every day till at lest 7, or a game far away til really late.
2nd semester
1. honors biology easy peasy and i think with chealsey jordan
2. world history
3.family and consumer science home ec
4. computer apps w/ chealsey jordan
1. gym ugh. of course i got it first, so i hav eto be sweaty all day!
2. business principals i have with janelle and savannah, should be fun
3. honors english trey barely squeked out an A... tough teacher. wish me luck
4. honors algebra...... with hannah, savannah and anna miller
this is during soccer and bball season. of course, i get my 2 hard classes when i have practice every day till at lest 7, or a game far away til really late.
2nd semester
1. honors biology easy peasy and i think with chealsey jordan
2. world history
3.family and consumer science home ec
4. computer apps w/ chealsey jordan
father daughter campout and more
so, thursday night i slept over with Koa on the screened in porch. my grandparents are gone (at the beach with syd) so i thought he might like some company. he, however, was determined to prove me wrong! when i got out the sleeping bag to lay down, he started chewing it! so, i decided that that was not an option. after several failed attempts to get him to quite it, i just broght t back inside and replaced it with some old towels to lay down on. he chewed these as well, but it didnt matter. it was really late, I think some time between 1 and 2, and he was still wide awake. he made sure i knew this by licking my face, trying to eat my hair, walking on me, and all the usual puppy antics. so, i decided to go inside for the night. then, i awoke sometime around 3 to a major storm. i couldnt just let my puppy sit out there on the sceened in porch afraid, so i went out there with him. he was calm, but scared. he really just wanted to know that i was there with him....he wasn't alone. so, i sat and layed there petting him and telling him what a good boy he was until he fell asleep. not sure exactly what time it was at, but i would imagine about 4:30. then, i went back inside, and slept til about 6:30, when i heard him whining to be let out. i figured i had might as well just stay up. so, all in all i got about no sleep that night, even though it was good bonding with Koa.
friday night was the father daughter campout. after the customary smores, and after breaking up the fights between Katie Becker (age 11) and Madeline Ebbert (age 8) over who got to sit in my lap, we all jumped on the trampoline, fished, canoed, and got ready for bed. we went in the tent to escape the hoards of bugs, and discovered a breeding ground for spiders and another unidentifiable bug. so, Kelli Phillips and i said goodbye, and headed for the bug free tramp. although everyone gave us a hard time at first, soon brooke joined us. then ashlee ebbert. then katie. and hannah g left. soon, it was pretty much just hannah b in the tent.
for a long time, it was Kelli and I just hanging out on the trampoline talking, and jumping, and laying around, and then jumping again to make the motion sensative light come back on. then brooke came, and we continued with an added scary story added every here and there, and a mad run through the woods in the dark. everyone else showed up while we were laying in the dark talking.
when we fell asleep, i was on the far left, with kelli next to me, then brooke, and ebbert. katy laid across all of our feet. by morning, we were all in a bunch in the center of the tramp. i cant tell you how many times i woke up on top of someone and had to mover over!!! it was unbeleivable!!!
a quick story....at a few points during the night, brooke woke up. one in particular woke pretty much everyone up. she heard some kind of bird or other animal doing its thing out in the woods, and angirly inquired of us all loudly, "WHO KEEPS TOOTING?!?!" "is it you allie? katy?" (she continues down the list) it was halarious!!
in the morning, we had pancakes, and jumped on the tramp and just hung out and talked. good times. oh yeah, and kelli got stung by a bee. poor kid.
friday night was the father daughter campout. after the customary smores, and after breaking up the fights between Katie Becker (age 11) and Madeline Ebbert (age 8) over who got to sit in my lap, we all jumped on the trampoline, fished, canoed, and got ready for bed. we went in the tent to escape the hoards of bugs, and discovered a breeding ground for spiders and another unidentifiable bug. so, Kelli Phillips and i said goodbye, and headed for the bug free tramp. although everyone gave us a hard time at first, soon brooke joined us. then ashlee ebbert. then katie. and hannah g left. soon, it was pretty much just hannah b in the tent.
for a long time, it was Kelli and I just hanging out on the trampoline talking, and jumping, and laying around, and then jumping again to make the motion sensative light come back on. then brooke came, and we continued with an added scary story added every here and there, and a mad run through the woods in the dark. everyone else showed up while we were laying in the dark talking.
when we fell asleep, i was on the far left, with kelli next to me, then brooke, and ebbert. katy laid across all of our feet. by morning, we were all in a bunch in the center of the tramp. i cant tell you how many times i woke up on top of someone and had to mover over!!! it was unbeleivable!!!
a quick story....at a few points during the night, brooke woke up. one in particular woke pretty much everyone up. she heard some kind of bird or other animal doing its thing out in the woods, and angirly inquired of us all loudly, "WHO KEEPS TOOTING?!?!" "is it you allie? katy?" (she continues down the list) it was halarious!!
in the morning, we had pancakes, and jumped on the tramp and just hung out and talked. good times. oh yeah, and kelli got stung by a bee. poor kid.
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