T-minus...2 hours???

We leave for Seattle today! I am way excited to see the family. I have not seen Grandma and Grandpa and the rest of the family (aside from Amber and Aunt Pam) since...the wedding (??) in May 2007. I am so excited to finally see everyone. Apparently, my little cousin Eldon is taller than me. We shall see. I kind of hope not. I am going to Seattle!

Snow on my birthday

Yes, that's right. There is nearly a foot of snow on the ground and it is snowing right now. My dad wants me to go outside for a few pictures. One of them will be with Britt and we are going to caption it "we left the snow in Utah for this...???" The second one will be of just me and it will be captioned "The day it snows in Oregon will be the day I turn 21...oh wait." I think we are going to get more snow before the day is over. Just my luck, we had a power outage right when I had to go to the bathroom this morning at 5:30am. Yeah, not fun to have to search for the bathroom in the dark when your eye's have not adjusted to it. Yeah, interesting morning.

Finals are a pain...literally!

The other day, both my dance teachers told the class what was expected of us for the final. We will have a written final and a performance final in both classes. Plus, my ballet teacher decides to give her exceptional students another assignment. We are to perform a solo or duet. Some of us (like myself) are able to combine another similar assignment with this one. So, I have spent the last three nights preparing a solo piece that combines ballet with modern (very difficult to do by the way). I have gone to bed every night very sore. I woke up this morning stiff and had to spend an hour stretching. Luckily, my ballet teacher is coaching each of our individual pieces. I am to go meet up with her at 9:20am to show her what I have so far. Yes, this is for a final grade. I asked her if the was optional since only half her class is doing this. She said no. So, I am spending all my remaining energy putting together a piece that is making me sore. You would think that I would be used to it by now. Nope, every three months or so (sometimes more, sometimes less) I feel muscles I never knew I had or that I never thought would be sore. Sometimes though, the same ones that were sore five weeks ago will be sore again because I have learned how to use that muscle more. I am so glad to have a three week break soon. I have been at school every night until about 11pm for the past three nights. I get to take a chemistry test today after I see my ballet teacher. Then I have institute (always my favorite class of the day!) My final in that class is going to be a sheet of paper and the class writes what they learned, how they are doing and if they plan on staying in touch with the teacher! Simplest final and I am way excited for it. No massive brain power and no physical power for both my institute finals! Finals are a pain and I mean that literally!

Dead Week? Sure feels like it.

I love the holidays! Thanksgiving break was amazing. I had lots of fun and I was glad to not have school for three days (five if you include the weekend). I was completely tuckered out last night though. I thought I would take a short Sunday nap to get me through the rest of the evening (I was only planning on my nap lasting about an hour). I crawled into bed at about 5pm. When I couldn't sleep I grabbed the book I am reading (Eclipse-yes I know I am behind). I finally fell asleep at 6pm. When I woke up it was still pretty dark out. I was a bit confused. My clock was saying 7:00AM. I falled to see the part that said it was morning so naturally I wake to get some "dinner" and noticed none of my other roommates were up. I was completely disoriented. Then, I ran back into my room, put on my glasses and looked at my clock and my cell phone time. It was seven in the freaking morning!!! I hadn't realized that I slept so long. I can usually never sleep that long unless I am completely exhausted. I must of been. Aside from all the Thanksgiving festivities I did massive amounts of work (school work or cleaning my room) and I could feel the results of it yesterday. I didn't realize I would be so tired. Maybe, the fact that this week is NOT dead week (although it sure feels like it) freaked me out a lot. I know finals are in exactly two weeks from today. Scary...and it's December 1st. That means 22 days until I turn 21 (since it is the beginning of the day today counts as a day). I need to sit for a moment so that I am not so disoriented...