chemistry

ok so i had a crazy hard chem two test today that i didn't study for. im pretty sure i failed. and this test was just a review test of chem one stuff! its bad. if i did this bad on the first test, i cant imagine how the rest of them are going to be. it took me the entire hour and a half to do it and i still didnt finish it. she said we could finish some of the problems tomorrow. i guess this means i will have to study hard for the tests. i've just been kinda stressed out about some stuff lately. im a member of 8 clubs. i really need extra curriculars concidering the only one i have is playing volleyball freshman year. speaking of volleyball, the hendersonville-mt. juliet game is thursday at mj. everyone should come watch! i know im going seeing that i know people from both sides. we also have our first football game friday against wilson central! not only is it our first game but its against our rivals. all the football games this friday seem to be against rivals. i guess that's enough rambling for now.
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church council meeting: funnnnn.... not!!!



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ok im back

i just had to take a break from blogging for a while. also i was in a bad mood for like a week so i didnt want to blog while i was in a bad mood.

so i finally got a car! i have been waiting for this car for 2 months. i had been driving either the pickup or my dad's car. im so excited! i cant wait to drive it.

i dont remember if i've already said this but if anyone has comcast cable then watch channel 9 between 11:11am and 1:20pm and you will probably see me on there. (i currently do sports) my school's news station is the only high school news station broadcasted all across the state. so its pretty cool.

oh yeah, summer sizzler was a few weeks ago. it was fun but i had to eat some pretty nasty stuff (jello with vienna sausages, prok rines, kidney beans, and olives all in it. there may have been some other stuff too but i dont really wanna remember..) we got in a little trouble for doing some pranks. the pranks were funny but there was a little incident where something went wrong and we got in a lot of trouble. it was bad.


tonight i went to "5 quarter at the corner" it was good. i saw some people i hadnt seen in a few weeks and got a chance to hang out withmy friends i hadnt hung out with in a while. it was bad though because i went to get on the interstate to get there but got on the wrong one so we got really turned around. so then we decided we didnt have time to go to a real restraunt so we went to wendy's. well then we were going to go over to hhs to the football game buttttttt the football game was at station camp. so we just decided we would go hang out at the church for a while. so that was what we did. it was fun. oh and janie got paid to put on the bear costume. yeahhhh, it was hilarious!


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i dont wanna blog anymore. maybe later on. oh yea cara's bday is today.


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new school year

so today was our first official day of school. it was only 2 hours but we still had to go. i'm so excited about my classes. in each one i have a lot of cool people. in my electronics media (bnn9) class, i have some of the same people from last years bnn class. so it feels the same. third block i have chem. 2 with cara! i havent had a class with cara since 7th grade! let alone any lunch blocks. and now we have both. its exciting. then in fourth we have 35 students! i think the limit per class is like 32... yeah.

first block: bible history
second: electronic media
third: chem. 2
fourth: advandced alg. and trig.

so my work load might be a little high this semester but im not playing volleyball agian this year so that will free up some time.
random story: this guy in my second class sent in a cartoon idea to nickalodeon because they had a contest. he also sent in one of the cartoons he had already made. well he won the grand prize! so he and his family get to be flown to california and stay in a five star hotel on the beach! nickalodeon is coming to our school to have an assembly in october or so. its so cool!
this semester is gonna be so much fun! i know it


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past few days

last night my parents and sister went up to indiana to help my cousin move back here. that means i had the house all to myself. my cousin's house up in indiana was one of the houses on the underground railroad. she says that sometmes her radio would just come on and rap music would be playing and she never listens to rap. she has a closet in her bedroom with another little door in it that when you open it, there's a tunnel that goes all the way down to the basement that the slaves would go in. i think its kinda cool. i also went to the simpsons movie last night and i must say it was the funniest movie i've seen all summer! it was so good. i highly recommend going to see it!
random event of the week: this past wednesday night at youth, linda locke led because jonathon was out of town. we watched a movie about umcor and then all went to sonic and let the church pay for each of us a drink. that's usually what a night with linda leading is like. a video and something free. another time she lead we all got treated by the church to baskin robins!
school starts for wilson county this wednesday!! im half excited as it's my first year as an upperclassman. but the other half is disappointed becuase this means practically no more free time. we finally get our yearbooks that day too!
summer sizzler is next weekend! im excited. it's my favorite conference event.



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OMG!!!!!

i just found out that relient k and switchfoot (my two favorite bands ever!!!!!!!!!) are going to be on tour together this fall!!!!!! how awesome is that?!!!
latas






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youth 2007

heyyyy! this past sunday i got back from youth 2007 in greensboro, nc. we stayed at the sheraton hotel and it was right next to a 3 story mall! i went to that mall everyday... partially becuase that was practically the only place to get food. well it was fun other than just the mall. our worship feast area turned out great! there were so many people coming through everyday. we had a tight schedule to go by each day so there wasnt really that much free time unless you skipped the "splatshops" aka the workshops. we would get up each morning and go to morning devo. then get out to the convention center for the morning session. right after that would be mid-day prayers then lunch. we either would go to the splatshops or just have free time untill dinner and after dinner we'd go to night session. the night sessions lasted til about 1030 and we would go back for compline (the night-time devo). after that we could stay up as late as we wanted and that was usually about 1. each night we had a different band preform in addition to our house band-fusebox.



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there's more pictures on my flickr

heyyyy

this past saturday night i went to our youth group lockin at laser quest all night! yesterday we went to the morning service. we were so tired. we slept in a room during sunday school and the 11 oclock service. we left for nashville shores around 1230 for the conference night. it was so fun. the whole time i got a total of 2 hours of sleep but it was really fun. im leaving in the morning to head up to greensboro, nc for youth 2007! im really excited and i dont really know what to expect. i think its gonna be so much fun though!



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good month

my june has been extra busy starting with my birthday then right into fresh. (the evnet formally known as t.y.a.c.) along with annual conference. then our church had our vacation bible school. as soon as vbs was over a good size group left for our mission trip to john's island, sc. that is where i am now. this internet connection sucks so it might be the only post during the week. oh yeah and this is also my first post on my new..... macbook!!!! i got it for my bday. it's incredible! anyway, the houses we are working on here are in need of some major work. we are trying to get them up to code so the government cant take them away. the first house is a habitat home and we are drywalling and building a front and back porch. the other house has had some water and termite damage. the group working on that house has to pull out the ceiling and floor and replace it. im working on the habitat home so i dont really know a lot about the other home's condition. i'll post pictures on flickr and on here when i get a better connection. hope all is well with everyone else. more to come later.



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preparing for a packed summer

since i go to a wilson county school, we get exactly 2 months of summer break. well my two months are going to be action packed! first its my sister's 18th birthday then shortly after is my sweet sixteen! my madre is a delegate at the tennessee annual conference and im an alternate for the youth. chances are i'll be going to that at least one of the days. vacation bible school at our church the week after that. i'm volunteering for that and on the last day, we leave to go on our sr. high pilgrimage to john's island, sc. we get back on june 30th so i have a slight break for the first week of july. then its off to youth 2007! i really think that will be a fun trip and im looking forward to that. before you know it, school starts back august 1st. this will be my first school year ever without my sister being in school, too. = ( then summer sizzler is that weekend. (and thats the brief version of my summer...)


even though my summer is busy, i think i'll find myself with a lot of down time. probably not much blogging time though so it might be a while before i post. i'll try to squeeze in some picture here and there but its likely this is it for now. ttyl


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end of school

so i finished up with my finals today. i am now a junior! sarah, my sister, finally graduated last night. that was pretty cool. there were a bunch of people graduating that i knew but i must have gotten really distracted because i seemed to have missed seeing them walk across the stage. jonathon got his nose peirced!! we had always joked around about it but he actually did it. who knows what to expect next. im in a pretty mellow mood so i guess i'll talk more later.


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coffeehouse numero uno

hey. so a lot has been goin on the past few weeks. a bunch of people have graduated and our youth group had our first coffeehouse. that was a blast! and if you didnt come, you missed out on some great music!

first off, my sister had her ROTC banquet and she got stuff for being on the drill team. this is her with my parents.


wilson central high school graduated last night. my sister's boyfriend and michael clapper where two of the 250 people to graduate.



this past wednesday our youth group had a coffeehouse benefiting darfur. we had a great band-the psalters-and a lot of fun.


we raised about $250. something we had people do was put there red hand prints on a sheet and we will send it to president bush. some people wrote a message to him after they did the hand prints.

over all my last few weeks have been great. i still have to take finals next week though. i cant bfeleive how late we're doing them. mt. juliet's graduation is tuesday of next week and sarah, my sister, is graduating!!! im so excited!

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whats up

so recently (last week) my sister had to go to daytona to compete in the national JROTC drill competition. of course, my parents and i went with her. we were down there for 5 days and the last day we went to orlando to go to islands of adventure. it was so much fun! her team placed 4th once and 5th once and in the singles, someone placed 5th. considering there were 50+ schools there, 5th twice and 4th is pretty good. i think there were 3 schools there from tennessee and they were all from middle tn. the day before we left, it started to get crazy windy. it was so windy we literally had to hold on to something so the wind wouldnt blow us back. when we were in orlando, the weather was really nice. it was about 80 with a breeze so it felt great.


also, some of you may have heard about that consignment dress shop that burned down. if not, then a consignment dress shop burned down thursday night in hermitage almost to mt. juliet. the night it burned down, my sister had just gone there and gotten her prom dress. she had 2 there that she was selling and a bunch of girls had their dresses there getting them altered. all of it is gone now and the lady that owned it didnt have insurance. i dont know what she's planning to do about the dresses she lost or if she plans on trying to open another one but its so weird that my mom and sister were just there hours before it happened. we think it started because she had a tanning bed in there and that sparked something. it was so cramped in there because it was so small and was overstocked with dresses so once the fire was started, it wasnt likely it was going to be isolated.




on another note, in about a week our youth group is sponsoring a coffee house benefiting darfur, a region in sudan. we'll have a band-the psalters- and some snacks. come if you can-wednesday, may 23rd




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this is how the sr. high spent their youth night...

last night, the junior high youth, along with jonathon, went out and did their own "destination unknown" trip leaving the sr. high behind. we walked over to sonic and when we came back we watched a short video on something (i dont even remember what it was). after that, tyler had found some caution tape and someone else got some saran wrap and we started to wrap jonathon's car. then later someone else went in to get some trash bags and we put them over his tires and exhaust pipe. the pictures are before we finally finished but they're a pretty good visual. when jonathon got back, he was saying he wishes there was a way to keep it on there and still drive it. it was a very fun night and the saran wrap brought back some memories.

destination: unknown

tonight for youth, jonathon didnt tell us where we were going or what we were doing until we got there (i think i've gone on a mission trip like this before...). well we ended up going to opryland hotel and we had to find one of our youth helpers and he gave us something we had to have to get back on the bus. it was just a poker chip and we didnt really use it to get back on the bus but i guess the idea of it was good. then we ate at micky d's.


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happy friday the 13th!

funny starburst commercial

sorry if nobody else finds this funny.

happy easter!

haha.





but seriously.

happy easter!

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good friday

a year ago today... that was a good friday. = )


a hearty shalom to ya all.