Musical

So, I have tons of friends in the musical. I'm seeing it tonight, but I've never seen the movie Grease. I'm wondering if I will find it hard to follow along... probably not, and everyone seems to be singing the songs!

I can't wait! The casts have put so much time and effort into it, and I can't wait to see it all put together! Plus, some of my friends have some pretty cool parts!

If you're going tonight, maybe I'll see you there!

Track

Track has started and after the first day i rembered how hard it was. My memory must have repressed the memories of tempo miles and running 20 200's and all of the other track workouts that our coach, coach sam, has thrown at us over the years. Now, being a Jr., i have to do varcity workouts which are even tougher and more intimidating. Although, i fifgure this is all very necessary because, being in mid-distance, i run the hardest events. The 800 meter run and the mile, both races take a comboniation of hardy endurance and raw speed. Despite all of this, i'm also rembering how much i love the hard work and exaustion that comes with it. This track season should be one of the best.

Brain Funk

This is going to be a very honest blog. For the past week and a half, I have been in a serious brain funk. Most of it consisted of meaningless anxiety and worrying about little things. This resulted in a serious lack of motivation and my afternoons being dominated by lazy napping. I'm really not sure as to the cause, but I feel like my confidence seriously faltered and I felt almost borderline OCD about everything.
Tonight I feel like I have finally come out of this fog and I'm so relieved. I ended up deciding that the only time that matters is the present and there's no point in mulling over the past or obsessing over the future. Through this experience, I have learned that presence of mind leads to less judging people and situations and more creativity and motivation. I feel like the thing that rescued me from this fog (beware impending cheese) was going to karate today and teaching my students and seeing how eager they were about life and learning and how silly I was to be worrying over everything. I apologize to those of you who had to put up with my dreary mood for the past couple of days. Now I have an enormous heap of homework to do from the time I spent anxiously sitting around doing nothing. The goal is to keep as busy as possible for the rest of forever in order to prevent myself from slipping into a brain funk again.

MLI-reaffirmed, and other fun news.

MY
LIFE HAS
BEEN REAFFIRMED FINALLY
I AM SO HAPPY
LAST NIGHT I PLACED 3rd AT THE AAUW SPEECH
COMPEITION
AND IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE
TWO OF THE JUDGES CAME UP TO ME AFTER AND SAID
THAT I WOULD HAVE GOT FIRST BUT I WENT OVER TIME
SO ONE JUDGE WANTED DISQUALIFY ME
BUT THE OTHER TWO WANTED TO GIVE ME FIRST
SO THEY GAVE ME THIRD AS A COMPROMISE

I couldn't be happier. For a while, I was wondering if I lost the magic - I hadn't won any speeches in a while. But this....

The judges (the two who wanted to give me 1st) came up to me after, and told me a bunch of nice things about myself, and...

I just couldn't be happier. The hard work you put into life is worth it, and it's moments like this that remind me of that.

Oh, and I won a nice $250 for a 5 minute speech.

The Cutest Photo

I think this picture is so precious.

Senior Ball: A Girl's Worst Nightmare

So last year, after Junior Prom, I was bored in Photo J. So I would look at prom dresses just for fun. One day, I stumbled upon my dream dress. Pink and sequins. Now that was me. It was $300. But I didn't care. It was my last year and I was gonna go with a BANG! So I called my mom and told her about it. That day we went to Nordstrom to try it on and it fit perfectly. So I went home and ordered it. It was an agonizing two weeks. Waiting for that perfect dress. Two weeks later, my dress came. I was super excited! My dress was here! I immediatley ran up the stairs and told my mom. Carefully, I cut the tape to open my box. I opened it...and there it wasn't. MY dress was not there. This was not my pink sequine Sean Collection gown I purchased. Here's the truth, I was crying. I was so sad. My mom called Nordstrom and they said they couldn't do anything about it. We had to return it and I had no dress for future Senior Ball.

I still looked at dresses. I saw the dress again online. I told my mom we had to reorder it again. Just one more time. I looked online and called her. We ordered it right on time. After, I went on the website and realized I got the last version of my dress. It was sold out.

Again, I waited two weeks. And finally, MY DRESS came. And it's amazing and perfect. Like me! Ok now that's a little conceited. Whatever. So BEWARE! This is my dress so don't get it.

Birthdays

February is an amazing month. Why you may ask? Because my birthday is in February! And other birthdays as well! Here's a list of birthdays in February:
February 6- Natalie Pinna
February 7- Ashley Brown
February 14- Elisabeth and Chris Hartman
FEBRUARY 23-NATASHA PINEIRO

Happy Birthday everyone! Enjoy February and bring presents to everyone!