my turn!

now these are my pics from san fran
key word there is my; meaning i took them so don't expect much! i aint no photographer for sure!

this is at alcatraz (above)

view from alcatraz (above)

creepy pic of the jail bars at alcatraz (above)

the boat is leaving us!! jk these are the gardens down the side of alcatraz along with the mill thingy. at alcatraz (above)

it's coming! or we're going, this is alcatraz from the boat. ignore the man in the corner (above)

a juggler at the pier bouncing a ball on his knee. he was really funny. (above)

once again my photo genius! uhh this is dad realizing the sidewalk ran away. (above)

and he's down for the count! (above) this is at the antique arcade place that my mom insisted to go to. the below is for alison and for my friends i couldn't resist. (below) *see what the belly dancer does on ho day off*


yes he is shirtless and no he is not falling over, he is spinning on his bike. it was a competition between the skateboarders *boring* and the bmx peoplez. so sue me he was cute! (above)

surprise! your on camera, teehee. this is alison and her parents squinting at the menu at the yummy mexi resturant we went to. (above)

this is just to mess with your senses! not really i'm just to lazy to sit here and figure out how to turn it around (above and below). (above) one of the buildings in china town. (below) a church just out of china town... we were waiting for our trolly/bus/cable car.


one of the only pictures of the cable car museum that turned out well. these are the cables that run the cars. there's little signs that tell you what streets they run under but they didn't show up.(above)
now for the festival!


peoplez of my culture all jumbled together in the costume part of the parade. (both above)

i was being run over and pounded on by the mallets for the drums. i wanted a picture to place on my tombstone. (above)

the cute kiddies that were placed under torture and public humiliation to march in the parade. must've been one of the many day cares or elementary. (above)

the yummy shaved ice that saved our lives. (above) it was probably from one of the many stalls (below)


at this point i just lied down and died. the fans were pretty though! (above)

and that was our trip from my two disposable camera's. i ran out of film really quick but i was happy i had the chance to mark my own memories. thanks mom! this trip was really fun but there's always more to see and i really hope we can visit again soon. besides we have an awesome person who i want to see again *cough* alison *cough*. teehee hope you enjoyed my lovely pictures i'm open anytime. i will have business cards soon! teehee just kidding i suck at pictures. i'm rambling by the way so you can totally stop reading now. unless you actually enjoy listening to me which is really strange and means you either need a life or a vacation. whichever comes first. anyway feel free to comment! gah! spell check isn't working! grr. i will eat it later. for now you have to deal with my extremely bad spelling. this is what happens when you use big words like ectoplasmic goo.

friends stink

Well it's not Jr. High without all the drama right? anyway it's almost common knowledge that i have no time in my life to have fun with my friends. It's my life and i'm used to it. I actually had a lot of time before track started. After i joined though my time has been strained. One of my best friends said she would join with me. I was just overjoyed about it. None of my friends have ever been involved in track. Then she just changed her mind. I wasn't very surprised if she had actually gone to the practice then she probably would've given up anyway. So i told her that it was unfortunate that she had changed her mind and i really wished she could've joined. Well a couple of weeks passed with hard work and a lot of pain. i was crazy stressed what with homework and track and soccer and cello. I figured, hey i can still talk with my friends at lunch and on msm messenger. and i did. just not with my "best" friend. She went off with the other group of our friends. I said well alright then i guess that's okay i'll just play cards with my other friends. well now that track's over i thought Yahoo! i got time to get back with Kristin and become friends again. well i guess i don't matter anymore she'd prefer to hang out with our other friends than me. she did in fact tell me to stay away from her when she's hanging out with them. yeah way to make a girl feel loved and included right?

In other news. i just found out that my private cello tutor has spinal meningitis. fuuun. i feel sorry for her and wish her the best.

i'll probably end up editing this later cause i was kind of in a rush.

babysitting fun

When spring break is getting dull the best thing to do is well why not go see Wicked?! yeah i wish. instead though i got to do something funner than sitting on my butt for hours. We got to babysit the funnest cousins ever! Harry and chilly/taco/cart and their little bro fussy got to come over and play.
harry made his own character on the wii fit. and patiently waited until he could get to the fun games!
fussy was great. although everyone was worried he'd be well...fussy. Harry was a big help with him too. Chilly/taco/cart was running around and being a little ball of happy sunshine so much so that i only got a picture of the back of his head. It was a great fun day. and i still think i didn't need to be paid. (hint hint meemer) after all it's just a fun day to play! This i must say was the greatest fun i've had all break!

soo
my friend misty had a birthday, we all know how that is. so her lovely family reserved a table or two for us to have a party at a fun center. We rollerskated i kicked every ones butts at Dance Dance Revolution. I even taught Anna how to skate! i take pride in the fact that she even bought a pair of used skates while we were there. i was so happy. of course the fact that she ways at least thrity pounds more than me was a little frightening when she used me to stay upright. but yeah the best party ever. I love skating a lot, especially going fast. the rink was a little small and really crowded but was fun when they were about to close cause it was almost empty. I even had to help my evil arch enemy Krissy skate. So then i go home and Misty's family is really weird, they are very fun. So there was a cake sitting on the counter. Misty's dad picks it up and i catch on to what he's thinking. i enthusiasticly nod yes. So does joscyline. So he goes into the living room and then Misty's mom mouths no not yet. so he goes back in the kitchen and puts it down. Misty takes a laptop down stairs and comes back up by then her dad had chickened out and Joscyline takes the cake and shoves Misty's face in it. Misty shoves back. The one ending up with the most cake on their face is Jos. Misty having almost none. so then i come home and i get attacked by the puppy. I was scratching Izzy when all the sudden the pup knocks the wooden lid to my moms ceder cest down on my head. much pain and now i have a headache. all in a days work right?

Watch the sidewalks!!

For those of you who i haven't gotten to yet guess what!! i got my learners permit for driving wooh who! I enjoy the freedom but there's always a leash of course. The whole fact you have to have a licenced driver thingy kinda sucks cause when i drive with dad he picks at me and I haven't driven with my mom yet but i'm pretty sure she'd be hanging onto the seat holding her breath around corners. I like driving with Bookie thought, she's fun. Dad always offers to let me drive every time i don't have my permit with me though which drives me nuts... It's always fun though. I can't wait to get my licence for real.

In other news there's about nine weeks of school left. we're in the last term starting tuesday! it's kind of scary that next year i'll be going to high school. I'm gonna miss some of my friends but i really look forward to some of my classes that i hope to get in.

in other other news track season is starting up tuesday as well. and so is outdoor soccer. i have two outdoor soccer teams and one of the practices overlap which really sucks and if i have my math right on two days of the week i'll be running four hours a day. That'll whip me right into shape! i just hope i can survive with tons of homework swamping me plus testing plus track plus soccer!! gah! i'm insane! I'm pretty sure my "hollow leg" will show up more often in dinner though. i'll be outside a lot so at least i'll be tan and my hair will be a blonder color! lol. i just hope i can slow down my soda drinking.

i'm so happy it's getting warmer though, it kinda amazes me that one week we were huddled in our coats cursing the cold weather and pretty soon we'll be stripping to shorts and cursing the heat. but it's funny listening to all my teachers warning us not to get spring fever and go all hormonal on them it's really funny.

wish me luck i'll need a lot of it!

soccer troubles

well i now play in Ogden, well should have for at least four games. When they first mentioned the new session for indoor soccer we agreed to play. Now this was awhile ago before i got sick then it hit me, the walking pneumonia as my mom now calls it. anyway i missed three or four games just from being sick. then we all decided that it was just too far to play. so we sent a nice simple text to our manager saying that there was no point to me playing a few games and then that's it. our team hadn't even had practices since I've been sick. all the sudden a few days after we get a really rude reply from the manager saying that it didn't matter that we still needed to pay the $40. if you ask me that's ridiculous. she also made it sound as if i had to be there. after much grumbling and yelling we really had no choice but to pay to stupid lady the stupid money. so today(Saturday) i set my alarm and went to play. i still have a cough and can't run as well as i normally can so i have people yelling at me because I'm not getting to the ball the manager being absolutely ridiculously rude to my parents and i can't breathe at all. i start panicking because my coach isn't listening to me and I'm about to throw up and i seriously can't breathe. lets just say i barely made it to the bathroom in time... I got so stressed because i feel like i let my team down because i can't run i can't stay in for very long and we only had two subs. so combined with the sick and the screaming i feel like it was the worst game ever. we lost too by the way. wise and smart mom says just let it roll off my back and heal up as soon as i can. i just need training, conditioning or something.

dun dun dun! hamster hunt! and snowboarding!!

my lovely black, fuzzy, cute hamster decided it didn't want to stay in it's lovely cage Friday night. We had some guests that night, BJ and family came over and we had a lot of fun talking and catching up with the funniest family ever. (except maybe meemer and them.)
anyway i got up early, early to get ready to go to embarrass myself on the slopes of beaver mountain ski resort. Well as i am rushing, half asleep to get ready for the long drive and fun day, i look into Kuma's cage. No hamster. Well that was one way to wake me right up. We looked my room over but no black fuzz ball. great. We left anyway, dad promising to look for her.

We got to McDonald's for yummy first breakfast and transferred cars and drivers, Bitt took us to her apartment for a little while as she grabbed some much needed items. We left and arrive with time to spare. (Had to skip second breakfast, we were on the road. I was ravenous for lunch by the time it rolled around.) So we rented boards, looking like we knew what we were doing (yeah right) and fooled around for about two hours until our lessons started. We had a nice instructor (very strong too) who taught us very well and by around one-thirty i was flying down the slope, only on my butt or face about 30% of the time.
And now i'm paying for it, I took two hard face plants, i think i pulled a couple arm muscles and i know i bruised my knees really bad. But it was fun, tai and i loved hanging out with our almost long lost cousin and her boyfriend (woo hoo! lol) even if we had to skip second breakfast and tea time.
We came home, played Indiana Jones, only to teach her how so she could relay the info to our aunt, and showed off on guitar hero, and played snowboarding for the wii fit. yeah ironic isn't it.

So back to missing hamster. After our cousin left we, tai and i, were completely sucked dry of all energy. I get really annoyed with our certain new puppy who is barking up a storm at the bottom of the stairs. the entrance to the entrance of my new room. I resort to the last resort, which is use our shiba's keen hunting sense for my hamster to find it. (don't put her in the hamster ball while kimiko's around) So i let the dog into the basement and shut the door behind me, tai following close behind, my backup of course. So our lovely devil dog sticks her nose into the mattresses in the corner then goes to the middle of the room where there's a pile of confetti and garbage. She runs to the door and then back to the mattresses. hmmmm. hinting much? So i pull apart and ta DA! a fuzz ball looking like a ninja hanging from both mattresses. I tell tai to grab the flashlight in my nightstand and watch out for traps-err obstacles in my room. The little thing moves and i shout for her to get dad instead. she hands me the flashlight and runs up to get our dad. He comes down, moves some stuff and turns out to be hardly any help at all. (sorry dad, but thanks for moving stuff!) i catch my hamster after two attempts in which the hamster demonstrated amazing Houdini skills. and run to the cage and box tape the lid shut. mission accomplished, kimiko and izzy get a treat and we're all happy. yeah right. Kimiko still sits and barks at the bottom of the stairs, probably yelling at us for taking away her second supper.