Spring Break..for lack of a better title

Well, well, we have officially arrived at spring break of my senior year. Now, most of you would assume that I would be off traveling some foreign land(whether that be a foreign country or just foreign to me) but I'm not! I would be stuck in Iowa with nothing to do. All of my closest friends, and my boyfriend, have left for the week and I am currently looking forward to the 40 hours I will be spending at work this week. Granted, it will be a very nice looking paycheck, but not my idea of a "senior trip."

My boyfriend, however, is on what I would call a fairly decent senior trip. Him and four of his friends hopped in a van yesterday afternoon and took off for Florida. Now, to those of you who don't know these boys that would seem like a fairly good idea, but to me, I just laugh. First of all, they really didn't have a good plan until we all started harping on them about their lack of one. They were going to stay with Steven's uncle until Julie, Steven's mom, told them she didn't want them impoing on him for the entire week. Thus, they had no where to stay for 3 nights. Of course the boys made no other plan and when asked where they would find lodging in ORLANDO, FLORIDA during SPRING BREAK SEASON not TWO WEEKS before they were leaving, they said they would sleep in the van. HA! They finally found lodging with Sean's grandparents who live about an hour away from Orlando. Everything was then good and well. When asked what these boys were going to do in Florida for 5 days, the immediate response from all of them was, "GIRLS!" Again, HA! Three of the five boys are currently attached and all of them know they would be dead if they returned home boasting of girls. To make a long story short, they really don't have a very good plan, but I know that they will have fun if they can manage to not kill each other by the end of the week.

My best frind Ashley, however, went a different direction. She left for Mexico on Thursday morning and will be returning sometime next Saturday. She didn't go with friends, but rather her family and I know she will have a good time. Her plan was to sleep on the beach all day and then dress up and look "cute" at night when they went out to eat. One thing I know she is doing is swimming with dolphins today. This is a seemingly harmless activity unless you were my friends and I. Of course as she was telling us this one day at lunch, the boys thought that she was swimming naked with the dolphins. So for the last week and a half, we have been talking about how Ashley was going to swim naked with the dolphins. We told Nicole, one of our adult advisors to SADD, that she was doing this and Nicole told us her story about swimming with the Dolphins. She said that she had been swimming with the dolphins with another coulple and the dolphins kept swimming near the other womans tummy. The instructors asked the woman if she was pregnant and she said no. A few weeks later she called them back and told them that she indeed was pregnant. The dolphins have such ultrasonic hearing that they could sense the baby inside the woman. Thus, I of course had to call LJ, Ashley's mom, and warn her of this happening. Ashley was less than pleased but I am sure she is laughing about it right now. (In case you were wondering, there is NO reason for Ashley to be pregnant).

On another note, last weekend concluded my career in show choir. We participated at MoShow at Washington High School. We ended up placing 7th in the day show which didn't allow us to advance to the finals that night. Over all, the season wasn't bad. For those of you who have seen the show, you know that it really isn't your typical "show choir in a can" show this year. For starters, we took "Danny Boy," and Irish funeral song, and made it a rock song. I love the song, judges didn't. They thought we had distroyed the song and that it was a disgrace! Because of this, judges could not get past their personal tastes to judge us on our performance, what they were supposed to be doing. Therefore, we would get black-balled, and placed so low that there was no way we could win. Even though the judges with integrity knew that our show was fantastic and we deserved to win. We didn't do horribly because of this but it did keep us out of finals twice and it dropped us from grand champion twice as well. As the choir and I kept plugging away at the show and throughout the season, we did learn a lot about people, integrity, and ourselves. By the end we were performing for us and no one else. We contemplated changing the order of the show and decided that if judges didn't like us it was their fault. We were going to get on stage and perform our hearts out because that is what we love to do. And we did. We were happy with everything that we did and each show got noticibly better. With the competition season over, we now are looking forward to the end of the year show. For any of you interested, it is May 14th.

And the final thing I have to write about, PROM! Yes, I have the dress, and a few accesories, but no shoes. If any of you out there have anything dainty and shiny, please let me know. The dress is "sky blue," a reverse halter, meaning it comes to a point at the hollow of my neck and has straps that go down my back, has an a-semetrical line, and is sort of fluffy but not overdone. And for all of you who don't understand, I'll try to get a picture on this thing once I have the internet at my house. O yeah, I am currently at the library because the mother board on our computer is dead which isn't allowing us to use the internet. FANTASTIC!...not. Anyway, and I am sure that most of you will see it in two weeks when everyone is in town for the big birthday bash! But anywho, I have the dress, I have the boy, and I almost have a plan.

Dan, a friend of mine, asked Ashley so we are all planning on going together. He is a year younger but is in show choir with us and Ashley and him have been getting pretty comfortable with eachother on the long busrides to and from competitions. It has been fun and of course everyone, including Ashley, had an inkling of a feeling that he was going to ask her. He finally did once he realized that I was purposely leaving to give him a chance. It took him awhile to figure it out that I didn't spend all day last Saturday with the Midget Bake for nothing. He's a little dense and I guess needed a bigger hint. But nevertheless,spring is in the air and Prom is just around the corner. I am excited now. More to come when I have a plan and shoes!

Well, I leave you with that. That is pretty much the only thing going on in my life. Golf season just started and today I went out and bought myself a new set of clubs that are longer than the old and will last me a LONG time. They were reasonably priced, I believe, and they aren't bad clubs. And of course they aren't PING's or Calaway's or anything like that! I look forward to seeing all of you in two weeks. Happy blogging! And no college decision yet. That is way stressing my right now tho!

Word of the Day:

Embarazada: pregnant (no joke, on my last vocab quiz)

Arduously: demanding great effort or labor

The words could be getting interesting as we are reading Frankenstein in english right now. This book will be the death of me!