some money and stuff...

Dear Student,
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choir tour and stuff

three weeks ago i went to disneyland with my family for spring break.

two weeks ago i went back to disneyland for choir tour.

one week ago i was taking a billion practice AP tests, taking a billion other dumb tests, going early to school and staying later, and really missing my sleep.

this week is still up in the air as to what could happen. busy? probably. and then saturday is PROM which i am going to and i'm so incredibly excited.

next week begins the week of AP tests. Calculus on Wednesday, English on Thursday, then going to Boise for the weekend for my cousin's wedding, the Music finishes those wretched tests on Monday.

two weeks from now any and all stress in high school will over forever.

and in 4 1/2 weeks from now i graduate from high school. "are you excited?" people keep asking me. well, let's just say a resounding HECK YES!!!

going back to choir tour for just a minute, i promised janice i would blog about how i sang in Disneyland with no clothes on.

once upon a time, we sang in Disneyland. we were back stage, all wearing our acapella robes, and, in the case of the chamber girls, wearing our long, bright blue chamber dresses underneath. well, Disney is very particular about who sings on their stages, and they like everything to be very uniform. they informed us that the chamber girls needed to figure out a way so that our chamber dresses wouldn't show out of the bottom. they didn't like that you could see 12 stripes of bright blue towards the ground. so we all went to the dressing room and tried to figure something out, and basically our only option was just to take off our chamber dresses. which we proceeded to do. so, i sang in Disneyland with only my bra and undies on under my acapella dress. it was a very liberating feeling. i think everyone should try it.

i have NOTHING on underneath that!

if you want to see more pictures of tour, go look at the hurst family blog. i don't want to put more pictures on here.

the end

hahaha

so, one time i went to disneyland with my family for spring break and had a freaking blast. and then i came home for a minute, and now i'm going back to disneyland for choir tour in two days. HAHAHA!

to do list...

• Individual English presentation---CHECK
• Group English presentation---CHECK
• Calculus assignment due tomorrow---CHECK

Still to do:

• Two more calculus assignments
• Take calculus quiz I'm missing
• Read Act II of Othello
• Othello quiz
• Go to the temple
• Seminary council social
• Write to Jared
• Learn about at least four more literary era's
• Read Silas Mariner
• Test corrections, due tomorrow
• AP Calculus practice test
• AP Music practice test

I'll quit now because this is clearly going to keep going on and on. Good thing there's TWO DAYS for me to get this done before Spring Break!

Bloody Eye

I know this is SUPER gross, and I'm sorry, but I'm also entirely fascinated by it. Apparently I broke a blood vessel in my eyeball yesterday, and while I slept, all of the blood spread throughout my eye. Ew ew ew ew.

How did this happen? you ask. Apparently, when I blew my nose yesterday, it burst a blood vessel. I KNOW RIGHT?! So lame.

And it won't be all healed for at least 10 days. Kill yourself.

Salt Lake Temple trip.

Warning: lot's of pictures. I took some AMAHZING ones of the temple. Last Friday we had no school, so my brilliant friend Whitney planned a trip to Salt Lake to do baptisms. What a winner! It was such a great experience, we had so much fun. I had a blast taking awesome pictures of the temple, it was a beautiful day, and I was with some of my very favorite people. Doing baptisms was a really cool experience. The Salt Lake Temple is BEAUTIFUL, inside and out. It looks like a castle inside. I was especially enthralled by the circular bathrooms! The font was incredible, everything was just gorgeous. And the most amazing thing is that the pioneers built it by hand. It really was a special experience to be there. I'm so glad!
After we did baptisms, we walked around temple square for a bit, went to the visitors center, talked to a lot of very nice sister missionaries, and then had dinner at a yummy burger place. All in all, it was a great day!

Did you know there is a SECRET back entrance to the font?!

All five of us.

One of my favorites out of the bojillion that I took.

Whitney took this one, what a winner!

In the reflection pool

Spring really is coming! This was outside of the visitors center.

I love this picture.

Standing with Christ

My delicious burger at the end of the day!

Sweater Swing

I went to sweater swing last night with one of my best friends, Todd. It was great fun. Since it happened on a school day we didn't have a day date, but for dinner we did a How to Host a Mystery Party at Whitney's house. It was fantastic. There were too many couples in our group so Todd and I were the same character because some of the characters can be either a boy or a girl. So we were this freak of a person who believes in aliens and stuff. We wore matching hidieous clothes and had alien tattoos on our necks. We ended up helping the aliens take over the world and made all the humans our slaves which was awesome. :)

After we took over the world we went to the dance and had a total blast! It was a great date and I'm so glad I went with Toddley!

I wish I'd taken some with the full costume and hair affect. It was basically awesome. I'll post the dance pictures when I get them.