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[/justie]

10 July 2010

whoa. well, sadly, not a lot has happened since the last entry, i think. i didn't go watch the fireworks (nor the band ) on the fourth. i had a pretty good riding lesson this past week. though it's been so HOT. we've had to change my lessons to seven in the morning because it gets to be around 90 degrees in the evening. um. i've been watching so you think you can dance and rooting for kent, if any of you watch that. i passed my written part of my driving test, cause they call if you failed, and they haven't. i have my first in-car on the fifteenth at 8 in the morning.

oh, and i've been working on a new knitting project. quinn, i know you might not read this cause you're probably at your show, but i knitted it in gryffindor colours! it's a sort of pencil bag thing, that i think i might use as a purse. i haven't got it completely put together yet, but pictures will be posted! i'm so excited. i finished knitting the pieces in five hours. all i have to do is assemble and find some buttons. squee!
/end for now.

[/justie]

13 July 2010
i've noticed i start almost every paragraph with "so." lawl. anyway. so i had an INSANE riding lesson this morning. it. was. off. da. chain. okay, so i won't ever say that again, but seriously. it was awesome. today i have probably ran barrels the fastest ever. everrr! ;D i'm really giddy right now. lol. and my instructor said that soon she'd enter me in a contest. woop woop!

oh yeah, my awesome pencil bag i made!
HERE is me posing with it and looking awkward
and ANOTHER ONE showing the inside and still looking awkward
and yes, in the second picture, my pencil bag contains crayons..my sister laughed at me. but crayons are very awesome! which reminds me, how do you guys pronounce the word crayons? do you say CRAY-ons, or more like CRANS..?
/the end.

[maddi bb !]

Aw, Justie, you're cute! Teehee. (: That's awesome that you had such a good lesson! It always makes me super pumped after a good lesson. Also, I say cray-on.

[/justie]

25 July 2010

right. so a brief overview of my mini-vacation:
21 July -
me, mum, grandma, & my aunt headed to elkins, west virginia. we checked in to our motel and then went to the nearby park for some bluegrass/gospel music. random people from around town and stuff come and play guitar, fiddle, bass, harmonica, etc together and sing. we met up with some family that lives in west virginia and visited with them while we were there (my uncle from there was playing with one of the groups). there were only two cute guys in the whole park, and i'm sure they weren't dateable. one looked like he was probably 23 and the other maybe 19. around 7:30 in the evening we went back to the motel. i was so excited that the tv had the channel my dancing show was on (west virginia motels are known for poor reception).

22 July -
we left the motel in the morning and headed to helvetia, west virginia. i forget how long it took to get there, but it felt like an eternity. helvetia was settled by swiss & german immigrants long ago. they thrived and built a small general store/post office, church, library, school. the necessities. we stayed in one of the houses there, like an inn. there were 3 bedrooms, a living room area, kitchen, and a deck out back on the second floor. i took loads of pictures. the ceilings were so low i could touch them! it was really cute there. for some reason i kept thinking all that day that elves lived there. rotfl. we ate lunch & dinner at the restaurant across the creek and the food was reeeally good. homemade bread. yum. and the breakfast was great! a bowl of fruit and i had scrambled eggs, ham & toast.

23 July -
grandma's birthday. as i said, we had breakfast. then we left around 10:10 that afternoon headed home. it was boring. i took a nap in the car when we were near the border of ohio and when i woke up we had crossed into ohio and were at a rest stop. i called one of my friends to say hi and see if i had missed anything exciting. nope. nothing. about an hour from my aunt's house fromt the rest area. we finally made it back to her place. by the time i got home it was 6 in the evening. my youth group had met at the chruch at 4 to head out on our camping trip.
i'll post pictures of the inn soon!

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a summary of the camping trip:
mum took me to the campground where we were staying (only half hour away from my house). we snacked and visited, then one of my school's english teachers (who is the drama director at church) came by and we practised a couple songs that we'll be singing in church sometime. we had hot dogs for dinner, and some s'mores. it was a little later by now and annie, alex, devin, torrie, kara and scott (our youth leader, and teacher from school. he's awesome) went to go swimming in the pond again. carol (scott's wife) went home to put their baby to bed. me, sarah & pastor deb (i won't explain who she is..duh) played sarah's game that she brought - in a pickle. it was actually really fun. then the crew came back from the pond.
then annie, alex, torrie (scott & carol's oldest daughter, she'll be in fifth grade) and kara (torrie's friend, jared's little sister sixth grade) were gonna go take a shower. torrie and kara came back and said the showers needed money. obviously none of us kids had brought any, but alex & annie were smart (that twin thing, probably) and had a bottle of water they made do with. then we all played apples to apples (minus pastor deb, who went home for the night). it was incredibly fun. though i had to restrain myself from using tiger woods as my create a card, as the little kids wouldn't get it..and it probably wouldn't have been appropriate for church..lol.

then we had our worship time. scott led that and we talked about our abilities as a person, and in the spiritual way. it was really neat. it started getting windy. reeally windy. and there had been heat lightning. torrie had been scared and had her little bear and blanket wrapped around her, cuddled next to carol. and kara was a little scared and was on the other side of carol. we hurried and put all our food and stuff away before the rain came and tried to finish our lesson. it was thundering and carol plopped torrie down next to me, then kara next to her (sarah on the other side of kara). i put my arm around torrie and she curled right up next to me. i told her it'd be okay and all, and alex did something that was funny...kara was crying (silently, poor thing) and carol said she was gonna take her home. torrie went along and slept at kara's house. it started raining and we went to our tents. a few minutes later scott came to mine and sarah's tent and said we were gonna go back to their house, severe thunder storm warning. we go to their house and look at their disney picture albums. me and sarah had a laughing fit in which i was snorting uncontrollably. we didn't get to bed until about 2 AM.

then tarren (scott & carol's youngest..little over a year old) was squaling early in the morning. i was half awake then. carol brought her down and kept her quiet and stuff. then tarren walks over between mine & sarah's sleeping bags and stands there for a bit. me and sarah woke up and looked at her and i said "hi tarren!" she just looked at us like a deer in headlights. then she squealed and ran back to carol half crying cause her "tor tor" (pet name for her big sis) wasn't there. but she's the cutest little kid ever. then pastor deb brought donuts & fruit around 9 AM for breakfast. then we went to the camp ground to put our stuff away. we found a toad (gross! i hate toads!), and a mole running around. devin terroised it by trying to catch it with a cup. then we went back to scott & carol's to finish our lesson. we had planned that everyone was to go home around noon (either parents pick us up or we could be dropped off). we played a couple rounds of uno attack, and then we played several rounds of the game of things. i didn't get home until about 1:30ish.


/the end!


drill week starts next week, so i might not be able to post as much, or my muse might be low. band from 8 in the morning until 4. yeah. my idea of fun. actually, that's true. i get to see all my friends. and we're a family. seriously. it's cliche, but true. soo, yeah.

[/justie]

19 August 2010

Okay, I'll try to keep it short.

So I have a thing for this guy Michael. I told my friend Cate. Apparently she told our friend DR. She had her birthday party this past Sunday. Invited were: Me, Sarah, Thomas, Jessie, John, Michael, DR and DR's sister Steph. Me, Sarah, John and Cate already knew Michael and DR. Anyway. We had a TON of laughs. Like, bucketfulls. It was freaking awesome! We had cake and stuff, then we decided to go outside. So we were just messing around throwing apples and hiding Cate's flip flops.

Cate's stepdad lit the campfire for us and we all sat around it. Michael sat on this bench sort of thing and Cate goes, "Hey Justina, you should go sit by Michael..." Then DR goes, "Yeha, go sit by Michael.." My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe that A: Cate told DR (I didn't really mind that, DR's a good guy), and that B: They were publicly announcing this. I stayed in my seat and kept talking to Jessie and Steph. They kept nagging me about it. Then we all made s'mores and stuff and Cate came over and sat with us. "You should really go over and sit by him. I'll go with you" "Why?!" "Because he's a really great guy, and I think he's a good match." We just sort of all looked at each other for a little bit and then Jessie asked, "What about him?" Meaning, how does he feel about it. "I think he feels the same way. I'm pretty positive" Well that changes things a bit.

[size=1Michael had gotten up and was sitting in a normal chair next to DR and so me and Cate went to sit on the bench so I could talk to her. Then she got up and tried getting Michael to come sit beside me. I tried to tell her to stop. We decided to go back inside, which was when Michael, DR and Steph left with their (DR & steph's) dad. John was getting ready to go too, so he said he'd take me home.

-On facebook when I get home-[/size]
Here is mine and DR's conversation that Sunday night:
Me
i appreciate you making my life more awkward. thankyou. cheesey sarcastic grin
22:22 Don
You're welcome :]
Okay. Honestly, if michael wanted us to stop, he would have said something
If not there in front of everyone, during the half hour drive home
I don't know what his deal is...but I'll find out
mkay?
22:23 Me
on the inside i am agreeing with you
mkay i guess
it isn't like he sat on the freaking bench though
22:24 Don
I know
I have no idea what his deal is. But I'll talk to him
22:25 Me
mkay.
c:
22:27 Me
off to bed. thanks. C:
22:27 Don
No problemo! Sleep well[/size]

the end. Yeah. So I only got 3 hours of sleep that night. I couldn't fall asleep at all. So here is our conversation the next evening.

August 16
21:19 Don
For future reference: Cate and I, for some reason, aren't talking
Don't ask me, please don't bring it up to her
21:19 Me
yeah. she told me about that. i'm sorry to hear about it
21:19 Don
Just...to avoid awkward turtles
It's life
But I talked to michael...and he said "If I wanted to, I would have gone over and sat with her..." I'm sorry
21:19 Me
...
mmm. -shrug-
my life is pretty well screwed up as it is. i guess i'm not bothered by it.
21:20 Don
I know the feeling
I'm sorry

the end. So. Yeah. That's how it goes, I guess. But Michael's really awesomely funny and quite adorable. I had originally met him at driving school. I just hoped that maybe things would've ended up being different, but they weren't. So that's about the only exciting thing that's happened lately. [/blockquote][/font]

[/justie]

1 September 2010

i should've updated this yesterday when it happened. so my friend austin from driving school asked me to his school's homecoming. and basically invited himself to mine, if i didn't have a date. his is the 25 of this month. and christ (riding instructor) told me she'd be taking me to a show (a real show! like, for MONEY) sometime on a saturday near the end of the month. idk what day yet. i kind of hope they're at conflicting times so i won't have to go to his homecoming (but i'll feel a little bad because he's a pretty cool guy). but my sister and a couple of my friends are strongly encouraging me to go. i would elaborate on this, but frankly, i am not i the mood.

enjoy the following rant/events

we had an after school rehearsal for band. normally we go back to the middle school (longer story..) but director wanted us to practise the pregame stuff on our actual field. ok, whatever. we started rehearsal averagely. some people had headaches and stuff, but we did as best we could. we were rather lethargic going back to our sets and stuff, and director yelled that we needed to hustle more. people were forgetting stepoffs (because some of them weren't there when we learned the drill) and little things. so he yelled at us to bring up the energy and stuff. yeah, okay, he yells some when he gets angry. but he's never yelled like this. so i was starting to feel like poo (i already wasn't feeling great from all the hw i had to do). and i'm more emotional than i would like to be (i'm a pisces, what can i do?), so i was trying to keep from crying and try to play out my frustration. yeah, that didn't really work..so he yelled some more and we marched and stuff, and he gave us a water break and was like, do whatever you gotta do to get the energy level up, people.

ok, so one of my bffs (she's the field captain) called us in to a sort of huddle and asked what we needed to do to get the energy up and stuff. so you know how when you're trying to keep from crying and your belly does that heaving/convulsing thing? yeah, that's what i was doing to keep from crying. my friend brittany asked what was wrong and hugged me (i half pushed her away, i'll explain). so then we went back to our charted places and my other friend cora came over and asked if i was ok and gave me a hug. luckily the next sequence we didn't have to play, and i wouldn't have anyhow, i was trying to keep from crying (it's hard to play and not cry..i've decided). so we were halted and director was checking the form when kiersten (drum major, and great friend) came over and was attempting a conversation and put her arm on my shoulder. blah blah. our rehearsal didn't get any worse from there, thankfully. it just sort of stayed at the level it was at. which was the brightest side of it there could be.

i'm one of those people that doesn't like the whole huggy, "aww what's wrong" thing. i don't know why. i just don't. and i felt bad for not being more accepting of britt and cora's attempts at consoling me. i wrote them on facebook and apologised for it. they aren't mad about it, but i would've felt bad if i didn't.

so i still kinda feel like poo, but i'm talking to one of my other friends from another school, and he's kind of cheering me up. and i wrote on my other friend's wall, and it's all pretty good now.

[/justie]

5 October 2010
ok, sooo. here's what went down in studyhall today..idk if a conversation format would be better or if i summed it up...maybe both.

sum: so during studyhall we (me, brittany, trent, jeremy & señora were talking about chaperones for homecoming dance this saturday. senora is our studyhall teacher and organiser for the student council stuff). britt said something about mr pope (a sub we've been having rather regularily that is rather attractive and will fill in for one of our pregger teachers when she pops) being a definite chaperone for the dance.

britt: yeah, so mr pope is definitely gonna be there.
me: what!? he is? for real?!
*britt & trent look at me*
britt: yeah, that's what he said. so, what, are you coming now?
trent: justina...do you have the hots for mr pope?!!!
me: noo!! no i don't!
trent: your face is turning several shades of red.
*britt, trent & jeremy laugh at me*
trent: justina's got a crush on mr pope. woww!
me: no, i don't! stop talking! noo!
britt: justina!
senora: what's this? what's happening
*britt retells to senora*
*on the inside i am slowly dying*
*trent quiets down and my face turns back to a somewhat normal colour*
jeremy: actually, her face was like ten shades of red..
trent: yeah, really. justina! you like mr pope....your face is turning red again!

yeah...sooo. my life is semi-ruined. oh wait, i forgot the best part..

so somewhere in the middle of that:
trent: so can i request a song and say that you're dedicating it to him!!?
me: NO! I WILL MURDER YOU! *pause* No, wait..if you do that, i will say that you are dedicating a song to Randy!
(randy is a gay friend that actually hates trent's guts).
then we all laughed.

it's a good thing i wasn't going to homecomig anyhow. but britt and a bunch of my friends really want me to go. it's this saturday night, and i don't have a dress. but apparently i'm gonna go over to britt's house after band tomorrow and try on the dresses she has..she says that they should fit.. but i doubt that because not only am i fatter than her (ok, so i know i'm not like terribly obese, but i definitely have meat on my bones), but my boobs are bigger than hers (unless she is wearing some supercool bra that smooshes hers down, which i highly doubt. though i would love to have one of those). she says that her ribcage is bigger than usual and i'm just thinking "yeah..but my boobs are still gonna be poppin out, but okay..."
but...idk. maybe i'll go? my sister has a sort of formal dress i could squeeze my boobs into...it's sad when your boobs are bigger than your older sister's...but then again, she was in gymnastics and sports..and i was a fat lazy bum that only did a few years of basketball and ate. lmao.



ANYWAYS. soo..that was the highlight of my day. i hope it was funny/awkward/insertemotion for you too.

[/justie]

10 October 2010

okay, so, homecoming was lame. it was more fun hanging out with everyone beforehand than at the actual dance itself. they only played like 3 good songs, and the rest was "black people music!" (inside joke with one of my friends). and..yeah..that was the only exciting part of the dance. there was a lot of laughing when we were eating at the restaurant, and then we went back to catherine's house since we had like 2 hours to kill. so we chilled in the backyard and this sam kid that knows catherine came outside. he's a junior like me. and he was sort of attractive. and we all had loads of laughs. i had a headache from all the laughing we did. lolz. but i mean, it was a pretty fun night.

[/justie]

20 October 2010

OHMYGAWD! TWO THINGS!
1. I GOT ME SOME HARRY POTTER DEATHLY HALLOWS MOVIE TICKETS!! AHHHH!! for me and my friend jc.
2. See the following summary...

So our school was selling carnations for sweetests day. red was love, yellow friendship, and white was secret admirer. so i bought a red one for my friend natatlie as an ongoing joke between us. then i bought a white one for 'harry potter kid.' he's a sophomore and i swear he looks like harry potter. every time i see him in the hall i think "HARRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTER!" he looks nothing like daniel radcliffe, but i picture him to be harry potter. ok, so i sent him this white carnation and i only put a smiley face on it. apparently he was freaking out as to who it was (mutual friend curt was telling me the other day). so curt told me to write a note to him, so i wrote one last night about random stuff about me, and he gave it to him today.

curt said he read it and then started laughing (in a good way, i guess). so then i guess curt pointed me out to him sometime (cause harry potter kid doesn't know who i am, cause i have no classes with him)...so today during studyhall, our commons area (cafeteria) is adjacent to the gym. so he has gym last period and when they were done he was looking out the window in the gym door and was totally watching me. it was weird and adorable at the same time. two of my friends were like, "justina, he is totally creeping youu!!" so then we continued with our conversation, and i kept catching him totally watching me. then the bell rang for dismissal and we made some eye contact before i turned and finished talking to jc as we were leaving the commons.

soooo...yeah. curt gave me like a whole background check of the kid yesterday. and it's really weird because we like the same things. he can raise both his eyebrows - so can i (and i can wiggle my ears). he loves to read - so do i. curt said he's very descriptive, which i find immensely awesome given the fact that he is a guy. and curt said he used to be in band and play the trumpet. trumpet players never worked out for me, but curt said that he said he wasn't very good anyhow. lol. and there were a couple other things we had in common that were also rather random. and then curt told me that he was all nervous and stuff about it, which i thought was kind of cute.

i believe that is all. i have not acknowledged him in any way, as i have no idea how to go about doing that. nor do i have the balls to say something. i was going to say hi to him as he went through the commons 8th period, but he didn't walk by me. then i was gonna wave while he was creeping me, but i figured that'd be weird...

[/justie]

30 March 2011

so, an update is DEFINITELY in order. right now, the new cutie in my life is this kid alex. he is a freshman (i am now a junior, if you didn't know this), plays trumpet (i always fall for the trumpet players..), has dark hair and really pretty hazel eyes. and he smells really good. he's been sitting with me on the bus (when we leave from band to go to the high school). he is super funny and adorable.

i think like 2 weeks ago my town had its annual harry hawk day (basically an all day auction of junk), and alex & i spent pretty much the whole day there together.

i'm going to prom. i orginally swore off prom this year (cause i didn't want to end up buying two dresses - junior & senior prom) but brittany had been trying to persuede me to go and she asked if she hooked me up with alex if i would go and i said yeah, thinking he wouldn't want to go. well, i'm going to prom. and i'm actually excited.which NEVER happens. THIS is my dress. it isn't costing me anything, because i'm borrowing it from a friend.

the band is going to FLORIDA for spring break!! we leave this sunday at 2 PM and arrive there monday around 10 AM. we play in the parade on tuesday. we're there until like friday, when we get home. it's gonna be awesome. alex & i might be sitting together on the bus. it's gonna be awesome. my roommates are crazy and we're gonna have LOADS of fun. i've never been to disney/florida before, so it'll be awesome. we're not going to the beach. and we're not going to the wizarding world of harry potter/universal. the parents took a vote on that and they voted to cut that out and save $50. :'C harry potter land was my whole reason of going. but whatevs. and aunt flo is visiting this week, which means she won't be around for spring break. WIN!

i think you are all caught up now. cookies for reading!