As you may or may not know:

My sister is living at our house. It would be way fun except that she has two kids under 3 and babysitting is much needed 24/7. All the time. But the upside is that we have gourmet food like every night. I know she would beg to differ from this statement, but hey, it's gourmet for us.


We also got a new puppy! Her name is Maggie and she's a three month old purebred German Shepard. She has a black face and back and she is adorable and amazingly gentle. I didn't name her and "Maggie" wasn't my first choice but......meh. Too late, it seems. I call her when she's being annoying. My mom doesn't approve. Not "lady-like" enough? Heh it's my mom's first girl dog and she doesn't know what to expect.

Enough musing, I'm getting back to the facts. German Shepards are born with both ears down -- the eventually stand up on their own, sometimes one is up and one down for a week or two. When we got Maggie she was like that but now they are both up. She's not as fluffy as the show german shepards that appear first in your google image search, those are American bred GS'. Maggie is a real German GS, and her back doesn't arch down like those fancy shmancy ones, but I don't really like that anyway. I'm really excited because GS' are known for their eagerness to help so you can train them to do virtually anything from bringing in the groceries to helping a blind man out of bed. Famous handicap helper dogs. Yeah, Maggie is going to be my happy supertrain dog. She is SO bringing in the groceries by next year. I'm counting down the days.


I promise I'll get pictures of her on AHY SAP, but my phone got stolen so I can't take them by my own resources.


Oh yeah, so my phone was stolen. At school. During dance. It REALLY sucks. It's just like getting it taken away by a parent but you can't see the light of ever getting it back and it's more expensive. And you loose your contacts. Heh, at least I can look back on that one OCD post last Christmas all about it and mourn.


My parents are out of town right now, they just got back from a trip to Sun Valley, came home for 18 hours and then left for Wisconsin (there now). They'll come back after that and then leave like a week later for ARKANSAS of all places. Buisness trips for my mom, I assume.

So yeah, it's pretty hectic here. With babysitting nephews to potty training pups, we got it all.

Happy Birthday to my Old Man and Gal

This is just a short "shout out" (shudder) to my dad on his birthday, and my mom for her birthday ten days ago;

Thanks for all the times in St. George and hanging out on the weekend! Have a great day, Dad.

You are so awesome mom, no matter how many times you ground me (heh.) You are definitely the most talented person I have ever met, you could do whatever for your career and totally serve anyone else. You are a great role model and sorry I didn't post a congrats before.

Happy Birthday again!

My New Blogger

I'm losing my mind because nobody in the whole world EVER READS THIS BLOG! Yep, all the visits are mostly from me changing and editing my background or something.

I think I'm going to cry.

Please please please please COMMENT so at least I know that you have been here and it's not just my imagination! I'm going insane.

And I TOOK OFF THE BUTTERFLIES if that really bugged you. Besides, I know that you secretly love my new background because I sure as heck do.

Comment, please! Sometime soon!

Chow.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand ---

WE BROKE 1,000 VISITS! Whoo hoo! Many thanks to everybody who has ever read my blog. And to anybody who hasn't looked at my blog ever or within the last month, you should be shuffling your feet and twisting your thumbs while I hunt you down to kill you.

Have a nice evening!

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So I didn't do that whole thing about highschool. Big deal. Look, time's a little tight around here. It's kinda hard to get on blogger everyday.

But I will try to get on as much as possible.

Does anybody know what skype is? I've used it before and it's WAY fun. You see, because my firend Olivia moved to Costa Rica, we have to find SOME way to connect to her. Besides, even if we can call her for free, it still ain't as fun. Skype is like MSN messenger but instead of typing and seeing somebody's picture, you actually are TALKING (not through some dorky microphone or a headset hopefully) to the person on a camera as their [MOVING] face is talking live back to you. WAY awesome. And easier to communicate, too. In that way, you can REALLY see how the person is doing, by their facial expressions and surroundings than rather the usuall

LOL k like it's ok.

Jeeze.

Also, I'm in the drama club and in the school play. WAY fun. Looking forward to it. It's "Thoroughly Modern Millie". It was written about ten years ago but it takes place in the 1920's. All the freshman can only be part of the ensamble, but it ROCKS anyway to be a part of it.

I'm also trying out for the East High track team. After a little running experiment in gym on friday, I realized how much I really loved running. Sprinting, I should say, I CAN NOT do cross country. But anyway, I forgot all about my running days at Uintah Elementary. Hah, I beat ALL those boys back then. Yeah, so somebody told me in gym that I had to join track, and I easily agreed. I'll post more on it when I get more details.

Piano just got back from it's summer break. SIGH. It's all back to the usuall now. I think I'm going to cry. . .

Caroline and I are doing another two piano duet again. The last one at our recital was a big hit. Megan (the teacher) said that all the little kids in their lessons after that wanted to be like "those really good red-head twins" someday. I'm also learning a song called "Dancing on the (Berlin) Wall by David Lanz - he's that guy that did Cristofori's Dream. I know. Here's a video of somebody playing it so you can hear. It's kinda a grim happy. It's about the wall coming down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z6QHPLOncc and C.D. if you really are that bad with remembering famous songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBfFI-Xdrvs

And my other first dance class of this new semester is starting tomorrow. I'm taking dance at school, once a week at VT and twice a week at TDC. Pretty fancy, Eh?

I told you I was busy.

Anywho, the other day, I was staring blandly out the window of geography when I saw a little van pull up in front of the school. Two little girls no more than 10 or 12 jumped out and started running around and screaming. Then a Mom stepped out looking rather flushed herself, taking pictures of all the place. After a while they got back in the car and drove away. Everybody in the room who wasn't a freshman took one look, grunted, and got back to work. I wonder how much of this we are to endure?

Caroline's Sweet 16th Brithday Party -- The Slip-and-Slide!