Haircut

Just really quick, for those of you who haven't seen me in a few days, I got my hair cut. Here's a before and after photos:


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Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge

That was a mouthfull! But, that is what I found myself doing yesterday. My mom got an e-mail a few weeks ago telling us that we were invited to join some other home-schooled kids for the testing. It was hard, I knew it was going to be, though. I'm pretty sore right now, especially in my abs! Ugh! We did 5 events: 1 mile run/walk, 'V' sit and reach, push-ups, shuttle run, and sit-ups. It was fun so niether me or my friend (Social Butterfly) cared that we didn't get any awards. Though we were both very close! We both came in a few minutes slow on the run/walk (3-4 to be exact :p ) and niether of us hit the mark on sit-ups either. Oh well, at least we had fun! That's all that really matters! Officially, each of us got the 'participant' award (along with everyone else that I knew there). 'Participant' being less than 50%. Gag. Well, at least we can say now that the Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge is 'unfair' because obviously we don't have a problem. *wink* JK Thanks for reading!

Tech Week

Ugh! What more can I say? My week has been totally packed! Not only do I have a larger amount of school to do than usual this week, but spending 4-5 hours (sometimes more) at the theater every night can be really draining! The past two nights, I've been at rehearsal until 11:30 at night! I've been trying to post for some time but I simply haven't had a chance. This has been the order of my days this week: Get up-late! (My mom lets me sleep in because it's tech week! :] ) Eat, do school, possibly have a few minutes to do something, curl my hair (with my thick hair it takes approx. 45 min. I'm getting better though), try to scarf something down, get into micing clothes (The clothes you wear underneath your costume that they put your microphone on in), do make-up, then rush out. When I get home I have about 2 minutes to check my e-mail and get a snack before I have to go to bed. Talk about tiring! Well, tonight is opening night so we're about to unveil our show to 400 people. Though some might cringe at that thought, I find it rather exhilarating. My only problem is that I've confirmed that I'm definitely allergic to the mic tape that they use, so I have to change the side that my mic is on every night to try to avoid breaking out (it doesn't really help that much...) Oh, well, I guess I'd rather break out for a few days than not be a lead. I'm just scared that the kids won't want to talk to me after the show. That's what happened to the Beast in Beauty and the Beast! Whatever....I just don't want to force the kids to talk to me if they don't want to. Your prayers would be much appreciated!!!!!

Lead's Joke

So, at my theater company, they have a tradition where, every show, the staff pulls a practical joke on the leads. (For Beauty and the Beast they told them that they really weren't doing B&B after all, and for Les Mis they gave them a sheet of paper telling them that they absolutely had to read the entire book of Les Miserables-unabridged-within 10 days or they would forfeit their part!!) Normally, they do it at the leads orientation but, this show, they said that they didn't have time to come up with one....hmmmm...... So, we went through rehearsals without a leads joke. Until, that is, last night. We were sitting around before rehearsing last night and our director tells us that the co-writer and producer of the show is coming to see it, and at first we were excited, but then we realized that if he came, we would have to do the show exactly as the script told us to! (If you have ever seen or read a script, I'm sure you know how silly some of the directions could be. In our show, instead of flying, Charlie and Grandpa Joe are supposed to run around the ground singing about how great it is to be in 'mid-air'. Ugh!) So, they were talking about how many things we'd have to do differently for quite a while until one boy finally figured out that it was the leads joke and we all laughed, very relieved!

Your friendly neighborhood blogger, ; )
Livie

Last Night

So, I went to see the musical that my B.F.F.N.M.W.'s in last night. The musical was good but my favorite parts were the parts that she was in. ; ) She was in the teen chorus, and I'm glad she was because the little kids didn't get to do much. After the show we took her and her mom out for dessert at Big Boy. It was the same Big Boy that the cast likes to meet at after the show, so, not only was it crowded and loud, but it took us over an hour to get our two scoops of ice cream. Nice. By the time we left, it was 12:45 and my mom and I still had an hour drive ahead of us. We dropped off my friend at her house and then started our drive. We hadn't been going for more than 15 minutes and the car began shaking. All I could think was, 'Oh, don't break down! Please, don't break down!' It turned out that we had a flat tire. Great! 1:00 am and neither my mom or I have jackets. Thankfully, approx. 5 minutes later, a cop car pulled up and they were able to change the tire quickly. We were back on our way and we arrived home at 2:00 am and went straight to bed. This morning I slept until 11:30! So, that's an over-view of our night last night. We were just happy to off the road before the bars closed at 2:30! That was God's providence! Well, bye, and thanks for reading!

Computer

I'm really excited right now because we just got a new computer. My grandparents decided that they would bless our family with a new computer with the money that they got from their tax refund. My older brother (the computer whiz of the family) went online and chose all sorts of custom features for it to have. Then he ordered it and it arrived today. I'll probably post from it later. It's really cool because the computer we have now is kind of out of date (Windows 98) and the new one will be able to run new and better programs. My brother is about to set it up so I can't make this post very long, but I'll try to get on later!

My Busy Weekend

It's Sunday and I'm really tired right now because I had some late nights the past few days. On Friday, my parents went to a viewing for my dad's aunt (my great aunt) who died last week. It wasn't that hard on me because I'd only met her like 3 times in my entire life but it's hard knowing that she was my 2nd cousin's grandma and my grandpa's younger sister! Well, my parents came home and my mom and I stayed up watching a style make-over show that we love until the wee hours of the morning (I have no clue what possessed us to that insanity!). On Saturday, my parents went to the real funeral and I stayed home with the kids because my older brother and one of the younger ones went to a friend's house for a sleep-over. Then another brother had to go to soccer practice, and a friend of mine came over. She and her brother stayed the night and we rented Charlotte's Web to watch. I bought a great big box of Nerds (good to eat, but not before bed, as we found). Yum! Then we got to sleep at about 1 am and woke up at 9 am for church. We tried to make fry bread (an Indian dish I made for school) for breakfast but they came out burned and we didn't have time to make more, so we just slapped some cinnamon sugar on top and ate them as they were. Then we went to church and I played some basketball on our hoop (My older brother put it up again, yay!). Following which, I went to rehearsal. Wow, that's a longer post than I've written in a while! That'll give you something to do while I'm formulating my next entry!

Bye,
Livie