my crazy cousin

last night i went to Kaley's house and spent the night. then we hung out all day today. it was so fun! it is awesome having a cousin your age who is actually really cool. i feel like we would be friends even if we were not cousins. shes crazy but its okay. she makes me laugh a lot. it was really great getting to spend some time with her. we didnt do much last night but today we went to where she gets her hair done and she got a perm. it was very pretty! then we went back home and rode the four wheeler and swung on a rope they have hooked to a tree and played the wii and all that fun stuff.





i am hoping we can start hanging out more often. i will see her again on December 13th i think for a family Christmas party Kathy is having at her house. i am really looking forward to it. we have a pretty cool family :)

8th grade sucks - volume 1

welcome to 8th grade sucks. this is the portion of my blog where i talk about how crappy school is. feel free to just skip over these (yes, there will be more). it is mostly just for me so i can vent. i am starting this because today was a bad day and i wanted to write about it. but then i was like...i have a lot of bad days. so why not just start a whole volume of 8th grade sucks posts? so, here is goes.

first of all, it is cold outside. i absolutely hate cold weather. especially at 7:00 in the morning. but that's really not a big deal. just though I'd add it. okay, so first period i have gym which totally sucks because me and gym just don't go well together. here's an example why: you play stupid games that cause you to collide with a much bigger person than you that happens to be a stupid boy with stupid boy friends. and the colliding totally makes you slam into the hard gym floor. the stupid boys get a lot of joy out of that. or at least the stupid boys at my school do. thank goodness you are okay and only like 8 people saw you. shwew. but enough of gym class. it could have a whole post for itself but i have other things to complain about so ill continue. the next bad thing was math. we had a substitute so of course everyone was doing whatever they wanted and not caring if the substitute was watching. especially the girls in my group. we only got like 8 problems done the whole class period if that explains anything. i am really hoping that substitute didn't know our names or was either too nice to let ms. day know who was misbehaving. i am on ms. days good side and would love to stay there. and then science. oh science...how i hate you. there are lots of reasons why i hate science. its just one of those classes i dread every single day. so nothing new there. lunch was not wonderful either. the whole time i got to listen to my 3 friends talk about someone one of them likes. "he is hot!" "no hes not!" "yes he is!" "have you ever looked at him?!" yeah...you get the point. well...being a normal, curious person i ask who it is and they wont tell me. that wouldn't bother me if they hadn't been talking about it the WHOLE lunch period and acting like me and my other friend didn't exist. i kind of overreacted but it really annoyed me so i decided to pretend they didn't exist either. then when they did decide i existed again, they wondered why i was mad. hmm...i wonder why. but anyhow. that was partly me just being annoyed and overreacting but it still wasn't good for my already bad day. nothing much happened the rest of the school day. i started my homework and didn't finish until about 8:30. i missed church because of it and that made me mad. why of all days did they give us so much homework on a Wednesday? i just don't understand. and on top of that i am just majorly exhausted by the sleeping issue last night. i took a sleep tab tonight so hopefully i will rest good.

so i am not totally negative, for each 8th grade sucks post i will add something positive about my day. so here is today's: the bruise on my behind from slamming into the hard gym floor isn't that big.

if only i could sleep...

i am so tired right now and should totally be in bed but of course as soon as i laid down i couldn't go to sleep. i just don't understand. i never sleep good anymore. and it pretty much sucks. i don't know what is wrong with me. every night i lay down and cant go to sleep and then once i do go to sleep i wake up all the time. it is very annoying. and it just makes me extra tired during the day. i seriously don't know what is wrong. maybe it is this stupid brace. that could definitely be part of the problem. or maybe my bed is just not comfortable at all. that's a good possibility too. or maybe i have a lot on my mind. hmm.... but that's nothing new. i always have a lot on my mind. and no, its not necessarily bad things. sometimes, but not always. a lot of times it is just something totally random. like last night i knew i would have to write a children's book today for my LA homework so all last night i was thinking about what i would write about. it was SO annoying. or sometimes i have a song stuck in my head. that is even more annoying. but tonight i don't know whats wrong. i just cant sleep. i just don't think nights are good for me. now sleep is a very good thing. its just night. i hate it. I'm sure if it was the middle of the day i could fall right to sleep. isn't that weird? i think so. well...i am so not looking forward to school because of course i will be exhausted. but i am getting used to it. sometimes i just wish i was a bad kid who didn't care about my grades so i could just sleep during class. ahh....wouldn't that be nice? it wont happen though. i am not bad and don't plan on ever being bad. so i guess i will just be tired. oh well.

pictures from my fun filled weekend

sorry again about there being so many. i just have so many favorites! :)

a fun filled weekend

i had a very good weekend! on Saturday we cleaned and then Emily came over and we went to the town square to listen to music. by the time we got there it was almost over though. we only got to hear one song but oh well. it was still fun to walk around and take pictures. then we went to Gaye's house to visit. after that we went to Barnes and Noble and the dollar store and Wal Mart and then took Emily home. yesterday Amy and Peyton and Sarah and the kids came over to eat for Peyton's birthday. I asked Emily to come back so she could meet everyone. she had never met the kids so i thought she might want to. they are cuter than ever! especially Ainsley. they stayed pretty much all day which was awesome. we ate, played frisbee and baseball and monopoly. Amy killed everyone in monopoly. it was just luck though. :) i took lots of pictures this weekend but i am at school so they are not on this computer. i will post some of them when i get home. they are also on facebook for those of you who are friends with me.

tomorrow is Veterans day and we have no school. hooray! i am so excited. it was much easier starting my Monday knowing i only had one day to get through before another break. we are getting spoiled with all these breaks. not that I'm complaining. i just know after Christmas it is going to be hard because we are going to have no breaks. i guess i better enjoy it while it last. well...i am done for now. but i will post pictures later. happy Monday!

happy birthday Peyton!

today is my big brother's 33rd birthday. i cant believe it. hes growin up. sniff sniff. hopefully i get to see him this weekend. i think we are planning on eating out with him and Amy and the kids but i am not sure of the exact plan yet. but anyhow....happy birthday brother! you're the best.

:) love you!

rewind

I am bored so i am going to rewind time and blog about the beach. We went to Corolla, NC the weekend of October 10th. it was really really fun! it was awesome getting to hang out with the family some! a lot of our family lives in Virginia so we don't get to see them a whole lot. my aunt and uncle were there, quite a few cousins, mom, the siblings, and Asher and Ainsley. i think that was everyone. oh, and the new baby of course. :) unfortunately Amy didn't come because of Shakori Hills which stunk. we missed her! it was a lot of fun though. we spent most of our time at the beach and at the beach house playing games and relaxing. it was nice. i really hope we do it again next year. here are some pictures from the trip...

(sorry there are so many. i really did try to limit how many i put on here.)

i have no clue what was so funny but they were trying really hard not to laugh

this is my cousin kaley. shes pretty awesome.

Sarah and Asher

they loved this

these are my cousins Amber and Emily

me and Sarah

Ainsley! isn't she adorable?

baby bump!

so fun... :)