Followers

                                                        
     Hey! So, I was trying to make my email let me follow people and I think I might have made it work? But I'm not getting emails or anything, so I'm not really sure! So could you all tell me if it worked? I should now be following:
*Elizabeth W.
*Arielle
* Hannah W.
*Clare
* Elizabeth N.
* Hannah D.
*Abby
* Emma
* Dr. Elemis Potts

    And if anyone else has a blog,  would love to follow you, or whatever I'm doing. Leave me the link in the comments! I swear I'm not technologically impaired (ok, maybe a little) I'm just trying to figure out a way to fix this without getting a whole new email!

Christmas!

Merry late Christmas! I am back from watching Doctor Who, so here's the promised post! Yay right?

     So... I know that Christmas is all about Jesus and family and all that great stuff, but at the same time, I get stuff yesterday and I think everyone needs to know about my new stuff. And I want to know about yours? What did you all get? Comment and tell me! Here's a abridged list of what I got, because I don't think you find it incredibly interesting that I got a worm thingy in my stocking.
* Tickets to go see two plays at the Pikes Peak Center
*Gift card for Hollister
*Three gift cards for Amazon from assorted relatives
* One manicure set, one pedicure set, and four things of nail polish
*Jenga ( if that's how you spell it, I'm to lazy to get up and go and look.
*Doctor Who series 9
* and a few other random things.

     You know what? I'm going to not give you the not actually inspiring at all post that I was thinking about doing because I can't think of anything to do. But ya, Merry late Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!! I'm sooooo happy it's finally here! Not so happy it's almost over though :( Tomorrow I'll do a full "Christmas haul meant to be inspirational but not" kind of a post, but right now I'm watching my new Doctor Who and just wanted to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! <3

Sooooo close!

Christmas is in just a couple of days! What happened? Time goes so fast! But is anyone else as excited as I am? Schedule:
Monday (today): Finish up all the homemade presents
Tuesday: Christmas shopping with my little sister's friend.
Wednesday: Christmas party @ friends house
Thursday aka Christmas Eve!!!: Santa' Workshop and church
Friday: CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

     What about you all? Anything epic happening with you for the holiday season?

Old friends vs New friends

     One of my favorite books when I was little was Friendship According to Humphrey, and I still vaguely remember a couple of the quotes from it. One that's really stuck with me was something about old friends being gold, but new friends being silver. I've remembered that quote a lot lately because of how my life's been going.
     I have a lot of great friends that I've had for five or more years. And then I have the group of new friends that I've known for less than a year for most of them. And they're a lot different. I'm definitely not saying that either of these groups are better than the other, I love all my friends. But they're different.
    The group I've known the longest are mostly all near my age, either 15 or 16 now. My newer group of friends are mostly a lot older than me, a few of them are as old as 18. Both groups are crazy and I love it, But the longer known group of friends make more jokes, well the new group are more physical about how crazy they are, there's a lot more pain with this new group! The group I've known for longer are all girls, with the guys not being that close of friends. The new group is both girls and boys.
     But almost none of the people in these two groups know people from the other group. And neither of them are better. But it's weird how things change isn't it? When I was 9 I would never have wanted friends than were three years older than me. But now I do have friends like that, and I love them.
     My old friends know me better, and I wouldn't give them up for the world. If I went up to one of my new group friends and said "Argentina has good beef" they wouldn't get it. But I love all my friends, even though they are very, very different.

Friends

 

In the six years that I went to Thursday Classes, I met some of the greatest friends of my life. I have had many friends over the years, but this group was by far the best. I knew that all of them cared for me, and I loved them with all my heart. I still do.

But I'm not able to go to Thursday Classes anymore, and a lot of my friends from their aren't going anymore either. It's understandable I guess, It's been six years and lot's of things change. Ages 9 to 15 is a little bit of an age gap! So things have changed.

But it's sad. I can't count on Thursday Classes anymore to let me see my friends once a week at least, more if we got together outside of Classes. Now I have to plan seeing each of my friends for weeks. It's much harder. Some of my friends I haven't seen for months, and some I don't know when I'm going to see again.

The Christmas Ball is coming up soon, and for the first time since they started the balls, I won't be going. I used to be able to give out my Christmas presents to all my friends there at the ball, because I'd know you all would be there. Now I have to search and plan a time when I know that I'll see you one at a time and give you your presents then. No more gift giving all at once.

Practice for Our Town has started up now, and that means that soon I'll be able to see a lot of you every week again. But even now, things are different.

I love you all so, so, so much. I'm really glad for the strong relationships that we all still have. I wouldn't change my friends for the world. I miss you guys! <3

Update

Sorry that I'm not following any of my followers back! I got my email a while ago, and it's not set up with the new version of Blogger, so I can't follow anyone. I'm trying to fix that still! Thank you all soooooo much for following me!

Tech week and jitters

This week I had practice every day of the week. I started out all gung-ho, "I can totally have a sleepover, a party, and a four hour tech run today!". No longer. Now I am more " I can't even remember running that scene yesterday and I'm about to pass out."
Every day has gone until at least 8pm, later most of the time. And I'm super tired. My conversations are very intelligent. A tidbit from a couple days ago:
me: *coughs*
J- "what?"
me: "I didn't say anything."
J: "what?"
me: "what?"
J: "who?"
me:" how?"
J: "cat"
me: "Giraffe"
J: "How dare you say giraffe!"
me: "sorry!"

See what I mean? And in this week only I have said both adoikable instead of adorable and headbrush instead of hairbrush. This lead to a lot of singing " Where is my Headbrush!" backstage.
AND THE PLAY IS TODAY!!!! I'm sooo tired, I hope I make it!

A very good couple of days.

I spent a couple of hours last night watching Barbie with my friends. I should mention that we are all at least 14. But we loved it.
Before that I went to play practice and let a girl who was probably 11 or 12 do my stage makeup when I was the first person who she has ever done makeup on. I was terrified. But she actually did a really good job! Better than I have ever done! I also ran through a mistletoe scene many, many, many times. I think that the rehearsal went really well.
After that I stayed up late writing stories about romantic cannibalistic puppets. And if I may say so, we are absolutely hilarious. We also baked a wonderful blueberry muffin cake and ate pizza. We also got crazy at one in the morning. Looking back, not that much that we said was very funny, be we thought it was.
Today I went to rehearsal again and loved it again. You've got to love a bunch of people who are totally OK with freaking out about a mouse named Fredrick that just ran past the room, well simultaneously telling each other that they love each other, hate each other, balancing coconuts on other peoples heads, and putting on very bad stage makeup and looking like they have black eyes.
Yes, these days have been amazing.