a new goal?

i'm going to run for sbo next year.

am i going to fail? probably...but hey...it's worth a try. so that means this year..i gotta step up my game..be more enthusiastic..make more friends. and just..be happy :)

so..the end. that's my goal.. :) i cant wait.

pac man and cry baby eyes.

well. one. you can now play pac man on my page. i expect to see all of you addicted. because i am.

two. cry baby eyes. today..i went to school with the biggest..puffyest...redest cry baby eyes. i cried all night from 8 to 11. we dropped off merrit and i was just..crying crying crying i couldnt stop. it felt really good though..i'm not gunna lie. i miss her already. ah poop.

well. school was good..i guess. um math is dumb. my teacher is a freak! that's not a lie..she's crazy..but at least she teaches good :) uh the rest was dumb. but seminary was good :) i love seminary. the end. i'm bored of this.

school, school, school!

well..now that all the summer fun is over..it's back to school time! secretly i was really excited to start..but then as it grew closer and when we came home..i wasnt. i wanted to just start running in the opposite direction and never stop. but then monday august 25 rolled around..and i rolled outta bed and amazingly made it to school on time.

wanna know my schedule? well...nobody reads this anyways but i'll tell you.

1. financial lit.
-pretty sure i accidentally went back to freakin kindergarden class. she talks like we're babies. and she makes us play these baby games. and she's just a weirdy. but whatever..it's a party. oh and i made a new friend..she's really nice..her name is corrine.
2. ap us history
-the teacher is awesome. there are about a billion of people in the class that i am in love with. and...everyone thinks i am a freak! woop. it's gunna be a hard class...but it's my goal to pass the class..and the ap test :S
3. theatre.
-okay yeah..i am a little bit of a theatre geek. but...i love it with all my heart. i do have a hard time performing on stage alone..or with people i dont know very well..so it'll be hard at first but everyone seems really nice. :) i made a friend named jake. he's pretty awesome...except we dont talk..we just sit next to eachother because we dont know anyone else.
4. fashion strategies.
-i am a fashionista. that's all i have to say. it should be a super duper class. except i am the ONLY girl...i promise the only one that is not a minerette. so i kinda feel like...weird and dumb but..whatever i dont care what they think anyways. oh and i found sev! my best friend from 6th grade!
5. math 1010.
-ew ew ew. that's all i can say.
6. ap lit.
-gouge my eyes out now. one. i have to read. two. i dont know anyone in that class and really i feel dumb. okay i know like..two people. but i still feel dumb. two. i have to take two ap tests. three. i hate reading! but i love the teacher :)
7. umm..uhh. oh! weights!
-woop woop! party with coach gross. haha...i'm excited. i met some people...i dunno everyone in there is pretty awesome though i like it a lot.
8. seminary.
-well...i have brother bird for any of you that know him. he's..interesting. but i'm just going to have a good attitude and...get something out of it! i have a way fun class..even though they all think i am insane. but i am..a little bit.

but my goals for this year:
1. dont judge people too quickly.
2. dont like/dislike someone because of what i have heard about them.
3. be outgoing
4. let my light shine!
5. do my homework...haha
6. make friends
7. dont be embarrassed of my opinions

we're coming to america...

well...after 3 weeks of going going going...it's time to go home. and...although i'm really sad that i have to return to real life...and leave this beautiful country...i'm kinda ready to go home. it's just...time. so after my last blog...we went into this little baby town like 10 minutes away from our hidden castle home that i loved so much.

there...we drove around for about 7 hours trying to find a dumb parking spot...but thanks to the pony show and the circus...there were none. we found one on this GIANT hill...and our little baby car almost killed us. i wanted to cry a little bit because is was so scary....you have no idea. then...we decided no on that..and found some other one somewhere i cant remember. so we walked around for a while until we were hungry. the town was so weird..and it was miniature. i didnt like it that much to tell you the truth.

then we went to dinner at the guys bar or something..i got this pizza..ah it was so good you have no idea! then we walked to the bakery for some more treats :) and i got a delicious eclaire...i dont really know how to spell it but whatever. then we went back to the hotel and i took a bath...then watched british soap operas for about 17 hours..then we went to bed.

blah blah blah..we woke up...ate gross stuff...then went on a wonderful walk! it was the most beautiful day..perfect temprature...blue skies...and a slight breeze. but i havent been feeling good lately so i just was...sick and whatever. but it was still a wonderful walk! so we did that for about an hour...and then packed up...we were our ot there around noon....and we hit the road in our dumb tiny car. luckily today it was mostly big...wide...main roads :) so none of us got too sick. so we stopped for lunch..walked around there for a bit..then we came to our hotel at the airport. it's pretty nice...just doesnt compare to our castle room though...ah well.

so after getting here we crashed in our rooms..only to watch more olympics and even more british soap operas. then we ate some dinner at the hotel..and now we're just sitting here being dumb.

tomororow we are leaving...at like 10 thirty in the moring...and then we have like a 7 hour flight to new york..then a 5 hour lay over :S then we have...a 5 hour flight home..so we should be back at like 10 thirtyish in the night. what a day eh? :S gah. oh well..i'm going to watch more soap operas now...so..bye! :D i cant wait to see everyone!

living like a princess :)

august 18th.

so today we decided to do what's called.THE RING OF KERRY. reminds me of the ring of death..and lemme tell ya..it was. the roads were so winding, and my tum tum hated it..so much. but it was really fun! we started pretty early because we wanted to beat all the old people in their giant buses on the tiny tiny roads.

so our first stop was heritage village where guess what i saw!? THE WORLDS SMALLEST HORSE. it was so precious. i wanted to pack it in my pocket..or make it give me a ride...whichever works.

then we went to these really cool fort kinda things...and climbed on the walls there..took a tons of pictures and what not. it was really awesome! and super windy :) then not too far from there, there was this giant old castle with a billion cows just roaming around there..so we took our picture with the cows..and i was scared for my life. then we ate some chocolate sandwiches and apple juice, and got on the road...yet again.

oh then we stopped off at the beautiful beach...and got some irish rocks..and the irish ocean attacked me and my shoes :) so i was drenched...and freezing! it's so cold here...i'm not even kidding

then we went to this windy windy place up in the mountains. it overlooked the ocean and what not..and it was so so pretty..but lemme tell ya it was so windy i almost blew away. and my mom was wearing a poncho..dont ask me why..but it really almost took her away..i have never seen something so funny in my life! i about died. that that'snot a lie :) so we hung out there...laughed our guts out...then we drove and drove and drove some more and more on the twisty roads of death...then we went to dinner and mr. macs again..because it was pouring rain and we didnt wanna have to walk around trying to find somewhere to go..so we just went there..then we went to the internet cafe and just hung out there for a while.


august 19th

we left our grammy's house B&B to head to...THE CASTLE! :D but we wanted to make one stop first. so after driving for about an hour...and then we took the ferry across the river..and drove for about another hour we made it to the glorious cliffs of moher! but...it was raining...and it was so foggy you couldnt see a thing. so we ate some more chocolate sandwiches, with our chocolate cookies, and a chocolate muffin, and..all the chocolate you could ever imagine...and then we decided to go back up there to wait for the fog to lift.

well..we waited and waited and waited until we saw a blue spot in the sky. oh the glorious blue spot. so FINALLY it lifted..and oh let me tell you...it was SO worth the wait. it was absolutely gorgeous! you could see forever and ever and...ah..it was just so pretty...we couldnt capture it in a picture..and i most definately can't capture it with words..it's just something you have to see to know how absolutely wonderful it is.

so then after hanging out there..and me getting really sick..again we took another really long drive to find our castle. after probably 2 hours of driving...and a lotta tiny skinny scary roads...yet again...we got here. it is absolutely beautiful! but i feel a little out of place. for breakfast they serve like freakin lambs liver and i was like..who the heck in their right mind would eat that at all..and for breakfast nonetheless?! but oh well..we went to dinner just at the pub here..and they set us at this freakin coffee table..and a couch..and two REALLY uncomfortable chairs...but we were all half out of it from driving in the car for so long we just laughed..and laughed..and laughed...until we died. then we just hung out in our FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL ROOMS! my parents bedroom is like forever and a half away from ours though..so we dont see them really because it's a hike just to get from one room to the other. you have to go through these hidden doors...down a hall..down some stairs...down another hall..down some more stairs..and through another door and hall to get to our room. it's so pretty though! our window looks over the river...and me and abigain share this giant bed that you could fit about 17 people in. and we have a couch. and a tv. and some chairs. and they have robes! and about 5 giant mirrors. and 2 desks. and a sitting room outside the bathroom. and a huge bathroom. ah...it's just absolutely wonderful. oh and the towels! they are not like dumb hotel towels that you cant even wrap around your body. they are huge! i love this place! i could totally live here :)

anyways...today we're just going to hang around here since it is such a long drive to anything, and tomorrow we will be driving forever and a half..back to dublin to the airport hotel and we leave friday morning :(

we should be home around 10:30 pm friday night.

oh. embarrassing story i never told you. the day we went to that fort...like the 3rd day we were here i think...um we were driving around town and just caught in a jam so we were just sitting there and there were some kids sitting on a bench just talking..so i was just watching them..i dunno because they were in my looking lane or whatever...but all of a sudden one of the boys just looks at me and does his readable lips and says STOP LOOKING AT ME. but really..what do you do in this situation..give him thumbs up? i just kinda awkwardly turned my head...and me and merrit just busted up laughing because i did that exact thing to someone onetime at a stop light to some guy in the other car. i guess what goes around comes around.

august 15th-17th...oh wonderfully wet ireland!

Well today is Sunday. We don’t have internet access but I’m just writing it so I can remember then I’ll post it when I FINALLY have internet. I’m sorta dying without it! But anyways…I’ll start with..the day we left Dublin. WELL.

My most embarrassing story of today…I was super hyper…and I had “this little light of mine I’m gunna let it shine..this little light of mine..i’m gunna let it shine, blah blah blah” so…I just opened our window and sang it at the top of my lungs out the window..and I was totally just..belting it. Well our hotel was in a “L” shape…and we were right next to where it bends. Well…little did I know that there was a conference room on the other side of the L thingy…and of course they were having a conference and their windows just happen to be open, and there were about 15 people sitting there, I was so embarrassed..but oh well we left like 10 minutes later

then We drove and drove and drove all day forever and ever in our baby mini van with all three of us cramped in the back…pinching and fighting. We played the ipod game..which I would HIGHLY recommend. :D alls ya gotta do is put the headphones in…and turn it up all the way..and the other person picks the song..and you sing at the top of your lungs. It’s hilarious. So after driving for a while we stopped off at this gas station and they had like a subway kinda thing so we got sandwiches for lunch. Mine was absolutely disgusting..i’m not going to lie I wanted to throw it out the window. I think it’s because on their sandwiches they use sprinkle cheese…and I hate it! I hate hate hate it! I wanted to cry…but I didn’t :D

then we drove for a while and decided to go to the crystal factory :D it was so cool! We got to see how they like…freakin start out with it way hot and they shape it and stuff..then like how they cut it…then engraving..and what not..i dunno. It was really cool. I loved it…but secretly wanted to steal everything there. But don’t worry I didn’t :D

so then we decided to just go to our bed and breakfast. Oh let me tell ya that was an adventure and a freakin half. We drove all around town…everywhere. Up and down tiny roads..it was so scary…we almost died..like twice. And we were so terribly lost..it was hilarious though I’m not going to lie. Driving on the wrong side of the road is just…weird. And the roads are so so so small! And everyone just parks in the middle of the road…sometimes people just stop and flip their hazards on then just throw it in park…it’s weird.So after FINALLY finding our precious bed and breakfast we unloaded..sat around for a while..blah blah blah I cant really remember what we did..but we went out to dinner at a place called the white house, which was pretty good.

I finally found somewhere with chicken fingers…and let me tell you..they were divine. I have never been so happy in my life. But let me go back to our bed and breakfast :)It was so cute! It was like these peoples house…with like 6 or so rooms. A tv room, a sitting room, and a breakfast room. And me and Abigail and Merrit finally got to have our own beds! And I was so happy..i got the queen size bed, and I was just in heaven. Finally in like…3 weeks I didn’t have to sleep with someone…or in a tiny sliver bed!

So the next day we woke up…did our getting ready thing..ate some yummy breakfast…and headed out to BLARNEY CASTLE! But it was raining..pouring..the old man was surely snoring. But we had high hopes! So we went there…and hiked up the gazillion amount of stairs that we had to hike up. Oh my gosh..it was so scary..it was pouring outside so it was super slippery…and of course the freakin steps were narrow...and super twirly…and oh so very scary. I was crying. But finally we got up there…and it was so beautiful! Then we just hopped right in line to kiss the lovely blarney stone…which is supposed to give you the gift of eloquence…I think that’s how you spell it. It’s supposed to make you talk better. I wanted to kiss it like 17 times. But you know…if you think about it…it’s kinda grody, how many people have really kissed it…kinda grosses me out…but whatever.

Haha to kiss it..you have to lay down on the ground and bend over backwards while holding onto these handles and freakin do a backbend to kiss it. But it was exciting! Haha I loved it…I’m pretty sure I got the gift. I just talk and talk and talk and never stop anymore. My family love it!

Oh man oh man oh man…we went on this walk and what not..and Abigail..oh Abigail..she had her arm around me and we saw a bench…so we were walking across the grass and she pulls me over to the bench..but I go sliding down down down the hill..in the mud. Oooh I was so mad. Everyone was laughing at me and I wanted to beat them up so I stood up with my muddy left half of my body and stomped off…into the trees..i was going to run away..but then I remembered I was in Ireland…in some freaky castle that I had no idea where I was…and I was scared..so I stomped back off to the entrance and I wouldn’t talk to anyone. I wanted to kill someone…like 5 times.

But then we got in the car…and drove away…and I was still really mad. I still kinda am…it was my only pair of pants! And now..they’re dirty!So thennnn..we decided to go to the butter museum. Oh let me tell you…COOLEST THING I HAVE EVER BEEN TO! Haha..just kidding. It was horrible. We might as well have put some money in the toilet and flushed it away…it was a total waste of money. But whatever…now I can say I went to the butter museum. They just like threw random things out..it was just weird…I dunno..i hated it. I was wet and cold and ornery..and it was just really weird.

Then we went to this dumb bell tower..and it was dinging for like 3 hours! It was way funny…because they were playing like you are my sunshine and what not. I was really weirded out.. after that I was hungry..and still in a bad mood at my wet muddy jeans..so we went to some mall food place..it was way good! They had like sandwiches and wraps and soup..and whatever else I dunno. So we ate there..and I was happy after that.

Then we walked around there for a while.So then kinda over by our B&B there was this fort thing from like the 15th century, or something like that. I cant really remember. It was really interesting though they used it from then until 1922! Our tour guide was kinda annoying because..i couldn’t understand a word he was saying and he just talked and talked for 2 and a half hours. So by the end of the tour it was beautiful weather! And so we sat around on the grass and just sat. it was so lovely…overlooking the harbor and what not.

So then we went a walkin’ to find a dinner place and of course they picked icky yicky Indian foody. Luckily I was so tired I wasn’t even hungry..so I didn’t even have to eat. Then we went back and I read..and watched JAMES BOND! Then I went to bed in my queen sized bed! :D :D :D

Then today we did the get ready and eat thing, and packed up and left.So we didn’t have as long of a drive as we did the other time..but it was still really long! So we decided to go to a cave and go there and what not before we went to our next bed and breakfast. I was scared of it. It was wet and dark and scary. But I saw a lot of the..cool stuff there! Haha whatever..can you tell I’m tired and half out of it? Well I am.

So there we met the lady that owned the land it was on..she reminded me of grandma pearl so so much! Ah how I miss grandma pearl :( but she was way funny…she gave us a book and whatever of the place and I just loved her!

Then we were starving so we went to find our B&B and here it is! It reminds me of a granny’s house. The house is pink. The walls are pink. The curtains are pink. The pillows are pink. The comforters are pink. The pictures are pink. Everything is pink. And it’s the granny pink..you all know what I’m talking about. If not you’re crazy. Oh and don’t worry..there is a bunny towel holder in the bathroom. Haha but it’s cute…I love it.

But for lunch…guess what my mom pulls out? My least favorite thing..beef jerky…and my other least favorite thing..peanut butter crackers. That’s all. I was so mad and hungry…but we decided to go to ross castle. There they had this awesome rockin boat tour that we went on..and we saw this was cool like 4th century monastery, but we didn’t get to go in it or anything but I wish we could have! It was cool to see it though. Then we just saw the mountains and the trees and the birds and the fog and the rain drops and the clouds. And everything else that was there. Oh and a jail and a castle, of course. There were about a gazillion islands. I want to live on one all by myself after this vacation. 3 weeks with strictly your family is a little bit like…listening to somebody chomping their gum in your ear.

Anyways we left there, we were hungry from our horrible lunch experience, and so we went to dinner pretty kinda early. I really really wished we could find a freakin Mexican restaurant that’s not 50 miles away. But we went to some place..called..mr. macs or something. I’m not totally sure…but I got this really really yummy hamburger…and I was so so happy. To eat. And now we are just in our B&B just sitting here..my cute sister who I love more then anything is so cute and nice and she’s being really crazy. But she’s so cute. I just want to steal the cuteness off of her..cutie little tush. (Merrit made me say that) :DNow she’s making me go beat up my daddy. So…bye bye :)

ugh..

hey everyone! um..so last night i wrote like a 3 page blog..about all of what we've been doing..but i cant download it onto this dumb computer in the internet cafe..so..whatever..i'm just not going to tell you. too bad. read merrit's or my dads or something. maybe i'll post it later if we have internet in the castle tomorrow.

:) lovey you.