Driver's Ed

Wooooooooooo! Wooooo! What is all this wooing you may ask? Well it's for one reason and one reason only. I am starting Driver's Ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That means I get my learners when I turn 15! Yaah! That's coming up by the way! ;) So far it's been a good little class. Lots of notes though. My friends keep asking me if it's slack. I always reply with a "HA!" That is not the case with Driver's Ed.
I'm required to have 30 hours in class training and 6 hours in car training. I am so excited!
Of course when I get a car (which won't likely be when I turn 16 or maybe not even the year after...) it has to be yellow. Not puke yellow but a nice dark yellow. That is my only requirement.
Well there is some pretty corny videos in Driver's Ed if I must say so myself. There is crash test dummies talking and cheesy jokes. Don't get me wrong, I love cheesy jokes just only when they're said by me. :)

The Torch was Amazing!

I definitely can't stress this enough! Carrying the Olympic Torch was amazing! In my opinion however, it went way too fast! According to my fans (my family and friends :P) I pretty much sprinted my three blocks. I will forever regret that! Don't get me wrong, the time I had running with the torch was breathtaking.

It was so hilarious because when all 20 of the torchbearers for Swift Current were on the shuttle (to take us to our starting points) this 13 year old boy named Nick was so worried that a sniper was going to be there! It made everyone laugh! When we stopped for awhile I noticed there were some people outside the shuttle. They had signs that read "Anti Olympics". I was so mad at them I was going to flip them over the couch! (Haha metaphorically speaking of course!) They didn't make me lose my spirit though!

When I got off the shuttle I got emotional. It was so amazing I cried. My fans were there all wanting their picture with me and the torch! I felt like a VIP. No scratch that, a celebrity. The torchbearer before me lit me torch (the kiss of the flame) and I ran! A media truck was ahead of me snapping pictures and taking video. I can get that all for free later on the web! Woop!

A family came up to me after at the celebration afterward. They all wanted me to take a picture with them. So I let them. Then they asked, "Is that the real torch?!" And I said yup. Well that got them all bug eyed. They wanted to hold it! I was kinda unsure so I gave my dad a heads up just in case they tried running off with it! That thing was worth $400! But it was a once in a lifetime chance and all so yeah.

Overall I think I had one of the best times of my young little life! :)

(I'm also pretty sure that counted as my fifteen minutes of fame.)

Tomorrow is the day!

WOOO! I'm so excited! Tomorrow is the big day! The moment I get to carry the torch!
Sheridan has donned herself my personal trainer. According to her I have to do 20 push ups every night (if there's one thing to know about me, i do NOT have upper body strength and doing one normal push up is a tough feat for me!), carry a bottle of water in the air every evening (the weight of the torch), and going out to the pasture and chasing cows (to build endurance). Whether the last one is for her own amusement or for real I'll never know. I'm so pumped! If you want to watch me carry the torch go to this live web cam of the torch broadcast at 6:36 PM CST (Central Standard Time) tomorrow.
www.ctvolympics.ca/torch/follow-torch/index.html

!!!!!!!

Well what do you know? It's 2010! That totally just hit me.

I'm Carrying the Olympic Torch!

This is absolutely ridiculously HUGE news for me! I've known for a long time but I thought I'd let you know about this a week from D-day. hahaha. Anyway, I'm carrying the torch for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games!! I have all my gear and all my information. Sunday is the big day!

I got this awesome opportunity from a place I told you about quite awhile ago. Do you remember Sogo Active? Well that was my ticket to scoring the torch.

Of course, me being Miss Procrastinate I left the offer to actually one week after the deadline so as you may assume I am not buying my torch. (boo on me....) But I get to keep the uniform. (thank goodness!) I've got to say when I signed up for Sogo Active I expected nothing. But here I am now! Wow....am I getting corny or what?

It's funny because when I got my forms it was so precise that it made me laugh. And I quote "You will arrive at the meeting point at precisely 6:36 PM." Hahahahaha. It sounded so professional.

I'm still in shock but still so excited! Is that possible? Being in shock and excited? Oh well.

Times Like These

You know those moments in life where everything seems to be working in perfect harmony and nothing seems off-balance? It's times like these I love, the random and the miscellaneous.
Our family had a nice walk in a park in a nearby city the other day that was full of lights. It was amazing. The weather was quite cold and I dropped my camera a few times but hey! It was definitely a moment of perfect harmony for me, that walk in the park.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! :)

Random Popcorn feat. Hally, Ace and Jessie

"I'm telling you, life keeps getting harder and harder."

"Do you like my new hairdo?"

"Woah! What do you think you're doing?"

Hey Guys!

Hally and Ace "fighting"

Ace

Hally


As usual I haven't been up to date with all this blogginess but I'll let you know that I update my twitter more often than my blog. So if I stop for awhile you'll likely find me on twitter! Well there has defineatly been a lot going on! I got puppies! They are so cute! One girl, Hally, and one boy, Ace. They are border collies. Our older dog Jessie didn't take very well to them at first and growled at them but now she acts like their mom. It's so adorable. Tricks? Well that's not exactly happening yet. We have tried teaching them hit the hay! When we say hit the hay they're supposed to head to the barn to sleep. Sorta working. Sorta not. But anywho I have pics of them to show you!!

Pirate Talk

Ok this is so random but I think I figured something out about the way pirates talk. You know how they're always saying "Ai!" and "Arr!"? Well I think they're saying the alphabet. Ai is I and Arr is R. All the accents in the world were taken so they just decided to elaborate on the alphabet. Next thing you know, they'll be going around saying Ell! (L) and Ess! (S) till they use up the whole alphabet! Yep that's what I think :)

Crazy Comforting

The other day my dog past away and I was in a really sad mood. (Don't ask about how he died, i don't want to talk about it....) So my friend called me up and told me to come over and bring the rest of the family. It happened to be my dad's birthday. She told me she was going to cheer us up with cupcakes! Yum! When we got there she introduced me to "Ingrid". Before you all go and think this is an old lady I will tell you it's not. It's a huge bowl of icing. HUGE. She told me to taste it and you could feel the sugar crystals crunching in your teeth. Yikes. But anyway she had made baby Ingrids (chocolate cupcakes with Ingrid icing) and cinnamon apple streusel cupcakes. There was also "Betty". That was the chocolate icing. We ended up having to make more Ingrid because the first one was a flop. And you all know how cooking with one of your best friends can be. Let's just say I had chocolate all over my face and there was chocolate covered tomatoes and yeah. NEVER EVER try chocolate covered tomatoes. Take it from someone who knows.....In the end it did comfort me...strangely. We didn't leave empty handed. We got to take some Ingrid babies home!

Crazy Invention!

Ok am I the only one who thinks this is ridiculous? I mean come on. This little gadget was featured in one of my moms magazines that she got in the mail. And yes it's for real. You can actually buy this thing. The Hotdog Toaster is for the people in the world who have no time to cook hotdogs the normal way. When I look at this I have this feeling that somehow they wouldn't quite taste the same anyway.

Blogger Block

As you've probably noticed I haven't been very frequent on Blogger lately. I'm going through one of those "phases". (And no it has nothing to do with growing up...) It's pretty much like you feel an obligation to your blog but you don't have the mojo to write about stuff. So please forgive me. These phases happen every once in awhile. I'm going to think of a name for this.....hmmm....Blogger block? Sounds good.