… and it’s awesome. I recommend you listen to all of these songs.
So I Tried a Little Freddy
1. Grace Kelly by Mika
2. How Lucky We Are by Meiko
3. The Remedy (I Won’t Worry) by Jason Mraz
4. Raindrops from the Sun (Hey Hey Hey) by Imani Coppola
5. Fidelity by Regina Spektor
6. Better by Regina Spektor
7. Everything by Michael Buble
8. Answer by Sarah McLachlan
9. Boys with Girlfriends by Meiko
10. Mercy by Duffy
11. They Can’t Take That Away From Me by Frank Sinatra
12. On the Radio by Regina Spektor
So we’re actually falling-asleep-tired, but I just thought I’d share some exciting news as a “preview” for my next entry. I’ll have pics tomorrow. Miss B. read an online tutorial (I’ll give the link tomorrow too) on how to curl hair, because she has straight hair and doesn’t know how to deal with those of us who have curly hair. So Sierra has been begging to get her hair restyled, but Miss B. didn’t know how to do it until now. She spent about an hour doing it tonight. (Maybe that’s why she’s so tired?!) And Sierra looks amazing!! I have to say, Sierra has been so nice to me since the moment I came here, and she’s just downright fun to be around. Tomorrow I’m going to take my round 3 LMPT picture too (I know I was supposed to stay on top of things and get them done way ahead of time…but we hadn’t got the logistics for this one figured out yet. We still haven’t really got it figured out, but we figure we’ll run with it). At the moment we’re having a sleepover. And yes, Harper is invited. I had to, because she was in the room at the time. She and Miss B. are really close and they seriously have unspoken conversations. Sam is really close to Miss B. too, maybe even more so, but they don’t discuss things in secret in front of other people. They just joke around and pretend to hate each other, which is funny. The secrecy drives me nuts. Anyway, Sierra joined us because she’d been hanging out with Hope, who’s downstairs trying to deal with Baby-Ruthie. Hopefully Emily will help her now that Sierra’s joined us. There isn’t any more room in Miss B.’s room for any more of our sleeping bags unless we don’t want to all face each other, so Sierra’s just going to have to share with someone for now. Also, Sam is playing guitar. She’s actually really good at it. She’s playing a bunch of Meiko stuff, which makes me extremely happy.
OK, I was homeschooled, right, so I really don’t know too much about normal school. Well, everyone I kept talking to said college is really difficult. I honestly kind-of think that once you hit a specific point, the material doesn’t get that much harder (at least in subjects like history), just more detailed and specific. And you are just expected to think more. It’s not as bad as everyone made it out to be. Plus we have tons of free time. Miss B.’s friend gave her a scrapbooking kit and she said she might let me work on it. That would be so cool – I’ve never scrapbooked before. Hope is still trying to trick me into doing Relay for Life. I don’t want to. Harper said she is going to do it, and Sam said she probably will then too but really, I would just feel uncomfortable. Hope is totally pumped about it, Harper’s kind-of embarrassed (why, I am not sure), and Sam doesn’t want to leave me alone if she doesn’t do it, but I can tell she’s really trying to support Hope.
16 random things about me (idea stolen from Miss B.’s facebook):
1. I am a competitive ice skater and just placed third in nationals.
2. I have made my own ice skating costumes ever since I started. My mom and coach help.
3. I am really good friends with my coach, Coach OH!
4. It takes me a long time to trust people. I make friends pretty quickly but my very good friends are few and I’ve known them for a long, long time.
5. I am pretty outgoing and some people might describe me as brutally honest and/or blunt.
6. I am fascinated by medicine. I want to be a pediatric oncologist who specializes in leukemia.
7. Coach OH! is supposed to move to Omaha soon, but in the meantime I am working with a new coach who is really cool, but he’s really demanding. I like that in a coach.
8. If I had gone to “normal” school I’d have missed so many days I would have probably been kicked out.
9. This past spring and summer I sailed around the world with my venturing crew.
10. I was never a Girl Scout, but I did take ballet. Those are like the two essential elements of girlhood. I am back taking ballet now because of skating.
11. Miss B. has this box of popcorn on her shelf that she won’t share with me, and popcorn is my favorite food. When I smell it, I can’t resist making a bag myself or stealing some from wherever it is. It’s like an addiction.
12. Contrary to a lot of homeschoolers, I’ve never taken an online course. I like having someone there in person to teach me. I have taken classes with other kids before I came to college.
13. I’m not sure if I want to have kids, but I think it would be after I got my career established. But I do want a big white wedding. And to marry a lobsterman and live on an island in the blue bay. No seriously.
14. I am still waiting for a prince to come whisk me away on his white horse. I LOVE Disney films.
15. I like to go around singing random lines from songs, really off-key. Currently my favorite is “How Lucky We Are” by Meiko. It tends to drive people crazy.
16. I can tie every knot in the Boy Scout handbook, except for the noose. I refuse to learn that one, for obvious reasons. I love tying knots. Learning them can be hard at first, but really rewarding, at least for me.
You know, there are five gazillion things going on in the world than whatever you were complaining about right now. So just stop.
I know awhile ago I was talking about how I’m not really sure if I believe in God. Well that hasn’t really changed, but I want it to. Hope, Harper and Sam all have really strong faiths, even though they believe in different things. I don’t know what I believe. But I was listening to them last night – not really doing anything, just listening (Miss B. was watching Grey’s like obsessively… so if she was doing nothing, we felt justified). And one of them was complaining about something and Sam said, “Well, I’m going to pull a Mrs. M. here, but you just need to shut up and offer that up to God. There’s noting you can do about it.” Wow. Imagine letting it just disappear and leaving it up to someone else. Sounds good, right? (Mrs. M. is one of Miss B.’s friends, by the way.)
So then I thought that I would really want to be able to do that. I’m technically Catholic, but I don’t really practice or anything. I have a lot of questions and doubts. I get really pissed off at my life a LOT. But what Samantha said made me think – maybe I brood too much.
Then I heard this song by Meiko – I’ve heard it before, but I really listened this time… and I kind-of got from it not that she totally hates where she is in life at that time, but more that she has hope it will get better, and that hope makes her feel like her life will be ok. My life is OK, compared to a few years ago. According to that song, I’m kind-of at the point where I can say how lucky I am. I mean, I could go to the Olympics. That’s pretty amazing considering the rest of my life.
So I think maybe I like my life. Or I will soon. I feel now that that acceptance needs to come with me thinking more about my religion. But it is really nice. And when that morning comes, I’ll make coffee and you’ll read the paper. We’ll talk about our plans and I’ll keep saying how lucky we are.
In honor of Miss B. I posted the Cleveland performance… haha.
Well, Miss B. did something really stupid the other day… she thought her class was at a different time, so she missed it! She said she was really embarrassed because now the professor knows her name and he doesn’t know anyone else’s name. But apparently he seems understanding. That is her Honors II class, and I am in the other one on Monday-Wednesday-Friday. I’m not really sure why I signed up for that one because I don’t have a lunch those days, but I like my teacher. Professor. I always forget to call them professors, unless I am talking to them, in which I call them Dr. ____.
Today in Creative Writing, we were talking about why we like writing, and what inspires us to write. I took that class because you have to have a writing class for pre-med, and everyone says comp sucks. Since I’m in honors it was OK to skip comp and take an upper-level course, and I think it will still count. Miss B. is an English major, so she bypasses any pre-med writing requirements. Well anyway, one person said they hear certain lines of lyrics, or a snippet of conversation, and those things stick in their head and they feel like they need to work them into their writing or come up with something similar. Usually for something to get stuck in my head, it has to have a good snippet of melody too. I don’t think I’ve ever heard something someone said that stuck in my head like that, unless it was a compliment I wanted to write down (like from Coach OH!), or a funny joke. So I guess I have! Anyway I kept racking my brain for what line I’d been repeating constantly, and I was just like… duh! “I know better not to be friends with boys with girlfriends, oh, I know better than that, I know better./You be the victim and I’ll play the bad guy, yeah I know better than that, I know better.” I’m like obsessed with that song.
Do you have any lines rolling around in your head right now? Miss B. said when “Love Song” came out, she stopped counting how many times in a row she listened to it at 30. She just couldn’t stop singing the refrain and thinking about what a unique idea it was.
Before I say anything… let me say that I am still obsessed with “Boys with Girlfriends”. I don’t even know why, because to be honest it really has nothing to do with my life. But it’s just so catchy! I can’t stop singing the refrain. And Meiko’s voice is so unique which makes the song even cooler. I am listening to it right now. If you haven’t heard it yet, WATCH THE VIDEO. I even posted it for you!!
I think it is really cool that I am making some online friends. Hi Sophie and Sabine!
So I’m at Creighton! Cool, no? Although I did some extra classes with other kids, I am totally used to homeschooling with just me and my brothers. It’s weird, but really fun to be in class with other kids. I’m so used to commenting on EVERYTHING though that I am not sure if the other kids are used to that. On one hand, it’s a little intimidating because all of these other people are watching me, but again, I have done classes with other kids before so it’s not totally new, and I’m so used to just discussing everything automatically. It should be a good experience.
I’m doing pre-med. I’m going to be a pediatric oncologist. I haven’t decided though what I actually want to major in. Since I came in second semester I am taking General Bio II. It honestly seems like review so far, but I did a lot of bio in homeschool, since it’s my favorite science. My favorite class though, is my history class. I did a ton of AP testing so I actually have sophomore standing. I am taking a class called History of Plagues, Epidemics and Infections. It is basically the most AWESOME class ever. When I go to the library, my favorite books to check out are either nonfiction ones about medicine, or memoirs having to do with medicine. Well, in this class we are reading all these cool books about epidemics that have happened – or MIGHT happen – like cholera, the plague, bird flu, TB, and cancer. It is so so so interesting. And on the first day the professor asked us what our favorite disease was. I had to think. I am still not sure, my default is CML, but there have got to be more exciting things than that.
Like over break, Miss B. and I read this book called Bitten, which is about the weird things that happen when you get, well, bitten. You can get the WEIRDEST infections. Then we were watching Mystery ER and they have these multiple-choice things before the commercials where you have to guess the disease. Leishmaniasis was on there and we knew it. It was so exciting. It’s this disease spread by a sand fly in South America and Asia. It causes these weird sores which we looked up and are pretty disgusting. But anyways, it was a good book, and I considered leishmaniasis for my favorite disease just because I got it right on the multiple choice! (Even though I usually get those right, if only by process of elimination, like knowing what the others are or that it would be a genetic disease, etc.) So I know that is a really weird question and it probably grossed you all out… haha. Harper, another girl at OWT, likes to watch those shows too, so she usually watched them with us. It was fun. Miss B. says she usually makes Sam watch them because she has funny reactions and is too nice to say she won’t. I think it’s really cool that I found someone who watches the same shows as I do.
Hope is here at college with me. She usually goes to Julliard, but Miss B. told her about how we’re having a Broadway star, Michele Pawk (Mayzie in Seussical), living on our floor this semester, so Hope decided to do an exchange program so she could live with her. As far as I can tell, Hope is really obsessed with celebrities, especially Broadway actresses. And apparently it’s really easy to do exchanges between any schools that any of the other OWT girls are at because you just room with them and the College Connections program transfers credits and stuff. (I don’t know why I’d leave Juilliard to go here though!!) Hope isn’t in my history class, she is in History of Musical Theater. But she listens to me go on about it and seems understanding. She is really into Relay for Life, and keeps trying to get me to do it but I think it would be a little weird. Anyway.
Harper and Sam are supposed to get here today. Hope and I took some pictures of ourselves, so I should have those up soon. Today I forgot that my history class was only on Monday and Wednesday, so I flipped out about getting the homework in online, and then almost went to class! Luckily I checked my schedule! The whole classes-on-different-days thing is really strange, but kind-of nice because you have a lot of free time. Miss B. is rushing sororities so she is never here. Hope wanted to, but she can’t because she’s not an actual Creighton student, and they don’t have sororities at her college. I wasn’t really interested, and since I just got here thought I’d do it next year if anything. Kit-Kat sent us an email that they are rushing (they are back at OWT doing some sort of “self-study” semester…?!). Anyway, their sororities are Kappa Iota Theta and Kappa Alpha Theta. Hmm.
Also, I think it’s kind-of funny that I had to make a separate tag for Hope (“Hope S.”) because apparently I talked about “hope” already. Haha.
This video totally cracks me up. I am so so so glad I’ve never had this type of experience. Although a lot of people seem to think that I am really spoiled. This really pisses me off. Yeah, I have a lot of stuff. But that’s just it. Stuff. I don’t have a lot that they have, but they don’t realize that.
“Oh you don’t know what you’re dealing with do you, with your perfect little Jezebel…”
I’m not going to go into it, because I don’t want to attack anyone. (And I would be accused.)
I don’t even have a best guy friend… Of course I’m friends with Trent, aka the kid at the rental counter, but I’m leaving so we’re not going to be best friends.
That’s right, only a week! WOO-HOO, Paris, here I come!
To "flutz" is to screw up a lutz, basically, and it's the last thing you'd ever want to do at Nationals, Worlds, or Olympic Trials.
However, I have been known to flutz. Even double-flutz. We shall see.
"Flutzing to Vancouver" is a fictional blog told from the point of view of the character Cate Flannery. It does not represent anyone actually involved with US figure skating. For more information on the OWT Girls visit [here].
