yesterday was the ACT. it was nice knowing that some other girls in my class hadn't taken it yet and were in the same testing room as i was. we talked before we started and that woke me up which was really nice because i needed to wake up more! so we took that..
then last night was the fall concert. it went really well. all of us were afraid that it wasn't going to go well. but it was awesome...ok. so alto's struggled a little. well alto 1's did at least. we had trouble hitting a couple of our notes. but it's ok because i dont think that you could really tell. and three of us were frustrated because we were getting our notes earlier and then during the end of the song we STRUGGLED with it..
today we went to church and then i worked from 4 to close. it was really cold out today though. it was kind of raining /snowing. and today was trick-or-treat too. :)

dad asked me today if josh had gotten his birthday present from me yet. i told him not yet. i'm pretty much over it. it's sitting behind my couch. i think that it'll be there until we move and then i'll keep it for my other room.
the birthday present i get/make for people are always crapped on. gr.
oh and on november 1st i'll probably just end up showing everyone on this blog and on facebook what the gift is because it seems to me that everyone except josh cares...frustration...

ok i gotta go. i'm tired and i gotta get up early tomorrow.
comewhatmay...
teia

wow. i haven't really posted anything this week. not much has happened truthfully. it's been a "blah" week. i talked to erika from dad's work a few times. she's pretty awesome. then i don't know...school has been going on. this week was pretty much a "blah struggle". :)
tomorrow i take the ACT and then the choir concert is tomorrow night.
i'm kinda excited for the choir concert. our practice today went really well and that's always encouraging.
the ACT, however, will be interesting. i'm a little nervous right now. i'm taking it and that's a good thing. i just hate how some people were like grilling me about how i should have taken it last year and giving me crap about how they are planning to take it in a few months so they can study for those months leading up to it. ...um thanks. those comments really helped my self esteem.
anyway. that's about it on saturday...on sunday i work. i really wish i could make it to bible study at andrew b's because it's a really fun time. and sometimes i say way more than i would expect myself to say. oh well. that's the fun part about it though.

ok. time to finish my salad and study hardcore for this test tomorrow morning.
comewhatmay..
teia

last night was really fun.
ok well this whole weekend was a really good weekend.
friday night a bunch of us from work went to dinner together and then we went to a corn field maze thing.
it was really new and exciting. kelly was screaming and i was screaming and laughing. ;) so kelly was pulling me through the mazze thing and i tripped and fell twice. i was laughing so hard.

yesterday was pretty relaxing. we had the zoe auction/dinner event. it was really fun. i didn't think it was going to be awesome but i got some really good laughs out of it. at first it was kinda boring but then carly and jared showed up which was awesome. and i got over my selfish being mad at others. the house was AMAZING. josh sang the night away.
i talked to mandi and mr. pope for a while. then dad and ryan decided they were going to race. dad won. hm.
later in the night. i was kneeling down because i was tired of standing and i was talking to mandi and all of a sudden i hear this girl like screaming/yelping and she was falling over. onto me and she landed on me. i was laughing so hard ...well i was trying not too because it was funny but i didn't want to laugh in her face. she was drunk. :)
then josh, kellen, two girls, andy (the owner) and i listened to josh play some of his music and then some coldplay and skillet. it was really cool. very interesting conversations too.

on the way home we hit a deer. more like it side-swiped our van. we're all fine but the van it a little beat up on the passenger side. there's some dents. that deer had to have been big.

today we went to church and then hung out. i've been wasting my day on the computer. then i went to borresen's for bible study. it was on prayer this week. it was really cool to talk about. we got some really good insight.
yah hey vah hey. :) i remembered something.
then i came home and talked to erika. she had some awesome advice. we talked for over an hour. and it was a great time. emotional, inspiring...

now i'm sittin here
i have some things to look over and then sleep.
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teia

oh saturdays.
right now i've been trying to get aidan to go to the bathroom for over 20 minutes. he keeps talking about how he'll get a treat if he goes to the bathroom on the potty. he gets really distracted and i think he forgets he's not just sitting there. so here i am sitting on the bathroom stool doing things on my computer and he's sitting on the toilet talking about the ladybugs. how the ladybug is crawling on the floor and it will go in his pants because it's crawling on the floor. by this picture he realized he didn't have to tell me he was almost done for the 15th time.

besides that i've taken some more fall pictures today and edited more pictures.
yesterday was a really fun time. once again the workers at out and out saved up our tip money and went to dinner at ramano's for pizza and then headed over to meadowbrook corn field for a fun time in the corn field. kelly and i were walking together and ran a lot of the time. haha. we're dorks but it was so much fun. at least i thought so. we ran ran ran and then i fell....twice. yeah about that. my pants were pretty muddy because it had rained a little bit last night and then it was slippery and i was being pulled behind someone to run faster. halfway through the cornfield the power went out. it wasn't just "the power went out". it really did happen. the security guards were like ok what do we do now? so by the end they told us that we should take out our cellphone for the rest of the dark way.

so that was my night full of muddy running and hanging out with my friends from work.

ok i gotta go get aidan...it's been 30 minutes now..........and he's pretending the bathroom is a race track or something and the cars are racing past him....soundeffects and all. and background music.


comewhatmay...
teia

in honor of my "three months till my birthday as of today day" i was going to put up a new template background thing but i couldn't find one that i really liked so we'll just keep this one for a little while longer. or until i find one that is awesome. :)

today was a weird day. i wasn't feeling well. i felt like it was a friday. i got really upset during journalism and it just was not good.
tomorrow we're going to the corn maze with work. it's going to be fun. we'll take some pictures and have a blast. first we'll go out for pizza and then head out to meadowbrook. before we leave i'm buying hot chocolate or some sort of warm drink.

right now i'm pretty exhausted. i can't really fall asleep earlier than 1130. this past week has been horrible with trying to fall asleep and stay asleep so i've been exhausted.
hopefully this weekend i'll be able to get some sleep.

happy birthday alexis!!!!!! today she turned 17. yay.

ok time for me to rest up so that i can do some homework in the morning or something like that.

yay friday.

comewhatmay...
teia

work work work.
it's been a crazy week at work. i've been working with kelly a lot lately. she's cool. we really get along and have a lot in common. we worked 3 days together this week already and will be working together tomorrow night too.
i've worked 21 hours this week which is kinda nice except for the fact that i haven't talked to kristin since last sunday. it totally sucks. and i think we kinda figured that there would be times when we wouldn't have time to talk. but this sucks. i just love talking to her and hanging out with her. and right now I MISS it. on the way home from work tonight i was just thinking about how the last night she slept here she was laying here and she was like , "teia. i don't know when we're going to be able to see each other next." it really hasn't hit me. i'm hoping that soon i can go down there but i guess we'll see. nothing is really going to change our friendship though...we're far away but we still talk and have lots of good memories.

this friday we're going to a haunted corn maze with some people from work! awesome. :)
i'm pretty psyched plus i'll probably be so freaked out and hopefully i'll live through it without peeing my pants. oh man....

work work work. this week i'm working on monday and wednesday.
today i think i heard lose my soul on the radio at least 3 times. i love that song but every time i was in the car it was on. ok time for me to check over my homework...make sure i have all of it ready to go for tomorrow.

comewhatmay...
teia

fall is here.

this tree i took a picture of is SO awesome. this part is obviously bright red and orange-ish. the other half is pale yellow and the the bottom part of the tree is still green. there are so many colors in this tree. i love it.

it's been just about a year since we moved here to WB. actually i remember it was like the 14th and 15th. we had so much fun that weekend. now we're in a different time and with different friends. if some of us have those friends.

the weekends are not filled with singing turkey lurkey or calling out about all the peacocks in a room. they are now filled with work and coming home and doing some laundry. there are no more koolah nights as much as we all want them. movies and paradise drive nights are far in our minds. singing and going to the beach memories are drifting away like the waves from the sand.
they are not filled with dressing up and looking silly while standing on the dock or getting all dressed up for the "night games". they are not full of talks on the phones for hours.

we've grown up and we've grown apart.


i love fall. i could stare out the tree in the front of the house for hours. i wish i could just climb it and find out where the colors start to change from green to yellow to light orange to dark orange and the deep red. it's so pretty.

the only reason i don't really like fall is because it leads to winter and as much as sometimes i love the first snowfall and sitting on swings in dresses, barefoot in the snow. :) it's still a little cold for me. i just love being able to wear shorts and tank tops. instead of being in sweatshirts and jeans and socks and gloves more like the layers and layers of clothes. although they are really comfy clothes sometimes it just does not cut it.

pretty soon it's time to bring out all the christmas music and go shopping for presents! yay. only like a month before that insaneness begins. :)
time for me to get some ice cream and read it up before sleep, church and work tomorrow.

comewhatmay...
teia

frustration.
ok see the thing is is i don't really like waiting for a ride after school. but i'll wait because what else am i going to do. i try to get involved. i've tried out for just about every play and musical our school has offered and i haven't made it. i did volleyball for 2 years. then i got a job. i liked volleyball but i wasn't good at it and i know it. i was fine. i knew the basics and got stuff down but i also screwed up a lot. i tried to push myself to do better and better. but that just ended up making me mad because i would screw up and get upset with myself even more for screwing it up again. i got a job and now it's a big hassle because we've moved and everything. it's like i have to keep changing jobs until we find somewhere to live for real. to stay.
i tried getting involved in chamber choir.
i didn't make it. i worked my butt off for 3 years and then come this year i worked my butt off for that month and a half so far. and then the people for chamber were announced and i didn't make it.
so you cannot tell me that i need to get "more involved" because i've tried and failed everytime. i've failed and i can't fail again. i just want to do something that i'm great at and something that makes everyone proud including myself.
so right now i'm just going to sit like a bump on a log waiting for my ride after school because i have to and that's what is going to happen for the rest of this year.

comewhatmay...
teia

last night we celebrated elise's birthday at the mineshaft. it was a really nice night...well inside it was. outside, however, was pouring raining and kinda cold. we had some good pizza and then headed up to the game room. isabel and i totally rock at colorama II. we got over 150 tickets just from that game. i don't really know how many we won from that game because we played it so many times. i ended up having a ton of tickets and there were all those small toy things that you would get but i didn't find any that i really liked so i just picked out some quick and then we came home.
i can't believe that elise is 7. yesterday was her golden birthday. sometimes she seems so much older because i guess i was like 10 when she was born but it seems like it was forever ago.

other than that this week has been kinda crazy. i've worked both monday and tonight for 5 hours after school. then i come home and do some wonderful homework and then the next day starts. thankfully this week has been going somewhat faster than last week. the bad thing about it going so fast though is that i have the ACT on the 25th so in like 2 weeks and also the end of the 1st quarter is next week! ahhh. crazy.
ok i really should get some sleep so i don't get sick!
comewhatmay...
teia

this past weekend was really crazy. friday was a fun school spirit day. we had a lot of fun at the pep rally. audra, erin and i sat next to each other and we just cheered along and laughed really hard. then friday night we had the powderpuff game and the bonfire. juniors and seniors beat the freshman and sophomores 34-0. yeah it was pretty awesome. then saturday morning i got up bright and early. cleaned up my room a bit and went to work. after work i went to the homecoming football game which we lost 30-20 against heritage christian. after that dad picked kellen and i off and dropped him off for dinner and we went to the concert. it was AWESOME. we were able to sit on the side in like the 4th row. when we walked in josh wilson was singing. i couldn't place where i'd heard his name before but then i recognized his 3 minute song because they play it on K-LOVE a lot. then "matthew east" came out on stage and got us warmed up and sang a couple of acoustic songs. we had an intermission where i bought 3 posters and some buttons. oh man...i'm a dork. :) then he came back on and he sang and showed some video clips. it was fun. then he made up a song about wisconsin. it made me laugh. after the concert i was the 2nd person to see him. the kid in front of me was really nice. he kept talking and talking about all the people he'd seen in concert and how excited he was to see mw. it was really nice. then he showed me some of his dance moves... haha.
so zoe got to meet him and i had him sign some posters. i felt really bad because my hands were freezing cold the whole night... anyway it was a really nice time. it was awesome to see him in concert again and for his something to say tour. awesome.
dad, jen and i drove home and then got ready for everyone to get back from the dance. we ended up having a fire in the fireplace and talking for a while before we got a movie started.
sunday morning was so tiring. we were at church at 730 to sing for choir. after that i came home and talked to kristin on the phone and slept the rest of the day. once i got back up again i did homework and fell back asleep.
so it was a crazy homecoming week and weekend. i'm kinda glad it will slow down for a while now but am going to miss the excitement of last week. ok i gotta get to sleep.
come what may...
teia

october...yay.
yesterday was pj/robe day. it totally felt like a thursday and i really had it in my head that's what day it was. and then i realized it was only wednesday. so i missed pushing daisies and was exhausted. today was superhero day. i didn't dress up like a superhero...i know. LAME. that's okay. my school spirit has shown throughout the week. :) tomorrow is school spirit day. im thinking of what i can wear. ill look ridiculous but that's totally fine with me.
after school is the powderpuff game and then it's the bonfire! yay! i'm excited.

then here's the thing. yesterday i get into the car and dad's like i have good news and bad news. im thinking oh crap what. he's like so i got matthew west meet and greet passes...and i finished with "for this saturday" and he nodded. so i had to make the decision whether or not to go to the homecoming dance or to the matthew west concert. i really struggled because i really enjoyed last year's dance. i had a fun time. this year is different. i'm sure i'd still have a great time but i think i might even have a better time at the matthew west concert. and it will be a new experience. yay. so i had to tell some people today that i wasn't going to the dance. i told erin and i thought that she might be mad at me but right now it seems like she isn't too mad. so that is what is going on.

i hope i don't make any wrong decisions. it really was a hard choice.
ok i have art to catch up on and then some sleep!!!

comewhatmay....
teia

homecoming week!
this week is going really well right now. on monday was twin day. some girls dressed as siamese twins. other people did a really great job too! erin and i were totally the sameee! even our jeans looked alike even though we didn't really plan that part. then today was generation day. teachers were teenagers, seniors were elderly, juniors were adults, sophomores-toddlers and freshmen were babies. us seniors were awesome! :) a ton of people got really into it. i got some really cute pictures of zoe today too!
tomorrow is pj/robe day, then there is superhero day and school spirit day.

ok im going to finish up some cookies for extra credit and then i gotta check over my homework. ill write some more in the coming days...

oh here's a picture of zoe from today!
come what may....
teia

cookies! michael came over today looking for isabel and she wasn't here. so he hung out for a while. we decided to make cookies...yum. we made some snickerdoodles. love them.

kellen has a bone bruise. he has crutches but right now at home he's just hopping along on one leg because i guess he doesn't feel like using them. whatever. the doctor said that he's out for at least 2-4 weeks. we are blessed. i know everyone especially dad and kellen are happy that it's only a bone bruise opposed to a broken leg because then he'd be out for basketball this season also. so those are the details as we know them right now.

i think what really bugs me about the whole kellen thing is that there are so many rumors going around. everyone always knows everyone else's business. sometimes it is an okay thing. other times is just annoying.
then i think about the hospital. right after the "project" fiasco happened on tuesday we told dad. he said that it would really hit home if something actually happened this week where a person had to go to the hospital and was hurt. i know this is totally different then what "happened" on tuesday but still. someone was hurt and now maybe people will be more careful about the project choices they choose.

i doubt that that whole last paragraph made any sense but i'm just putting it out there.
ok. i'm watching selah, elise, ethan and aidan right now.
otherwise, everything else here seems to be going alright...i guess we'll see about that in a few hours....

come what may...
teia

you know when there's a tv show that you watch and it has the voice-over at the beginning or end of the show? i think those are cool. they change your perspective on what happened in that 1/2 hour or hour. and they get the view from an outside source most of the time. on tuesday, i was writing and i re-read over what i had written and it sounded like i had written a voice-over. it was about being tested and what we will do about being tested. i would type it up and put it on here but i left it at school. so we'll see when i bring it home next time and maybe i'll put it up.

i'm glad it's saturday because this week was just not a very good one. so hopefully this weekend will be better although it's going to be tough because kellen got hurt last night at the football game. at first they thought it was broken but i guess it wasn't...i'm not really sure with specifics because i was somewhat sleeping on the couch when dad and kellen got home. when i woke up all i said was crap. dad asked me what was wrong and i told him that i had really wanted to finish watching the pursuit of happyness. i've tried watching it probably 3 or 4 times now and i keep getting interrupted or falling asleep. so maybe i'll watch it today or something. after saying crap i got up again and started washing dishes. this is the second middle of the night dish-washing i've done. i end up being wide awake at 1 in the morning so i wash dishes.
ok i am going to get some coffee and see what is going on for today besides work later in the day.

come what may...
teia

right now i am so exhausted. this morning i woke up at like 430 part of it might have been from the fact that i'd thought i'd slept in past my alarm clock and the other part was probably that zoe was crying.
on monday zoe turned 6 months old! we had a little birthday party for her. ethan and aidan wore birthday hats. aidan sang happy birthday in a video. :) i made brownies and some tacos for dinner. it was just a birthday fun night. but zoe was just having a hard night. she's been trucking through the past few days. i keep praying.

fall is finally here. the leaves on all the trees seem to be changing colors all at different times. some trees were already changing colors a few weeks ago and now some are just starting. i know...i'm pretty observant. here's a picture of aidan from our walk yesterday:
this was his "i really dont want my picture taken" face.
here's a picture i got of the sunshine and some leaves that had fallen:
and finally here's a picture of me and the new haircut! yay!
ok now it's getting late. and im getting tired once again. so it's time for some sleep, so i can get up in the morning and learn some wonderful things at the "el-dub" .
night.
come what may...
teia

today was an exciting day. erin and i went homecoming dress shopping. she found two dresses. i found 0. gr. oh well. i got some other real cute stuff. including a sweater dress that i might wear tomorrow and some amazing shoes. kristin's got me hooked on shoes!im pretty psyched.
and i got my hair cut! ahh. it's short. we'll seee what everyone else thinks...eeek. i'm a little scared. and i can't believe it's this short. oh well. anyway. i made this awesome comic book thing on my computer and it turned out really cool. what else. i dont know i've just had some really awesome days. ill post pics of my hair cut and some things i bought soon. i have to finish this project and then i have two more tonight! ah. oh and tonight we went to borresen's bible study. it was noah, kelsey, kellen and i. it was a really good time. we talked and got into the word. awesome time. i can't wait till next time.

ok. well im off.
come what may...
teia

happy birthday josh.
love you.

so it's late and im kinda tired.
i'm tired but i dont want to sleep. which really sucks because i know that tomorrow is going to be a pain in the butt day then.

we have a shortened day because it's ALREADY mid-quarter.

at work i was talking to some people telling them i was excited for our shortened day because it was short. :) and that it was already mid-quarter. dad told me that it meant i was 1/8 done with my senior year. these people at work were like really? you're only a senior? what?
i guess at work people think that i'm older than i actually am.
so yeah. that's kinda funny.

friday is josh's birthday. he'll be 22.
and it's dad's cousin's birthday too. lauren...i'm not sure how old she'll be ...19 i think.
anyway i was starting something for josh's birthday but i don tknow when i'll see him so it's pretty pointless as of right now.

homecoming is also coming up really fast. it will be on oct.4 !
i really have to find a dress. erin and i might look around this weekend if we really feel like it. ;) but i guess we'll have to see how we're feeling.


oh and lastly before i crash.
i love fruit. it's like all i'm eating these days. today i had 2 plums, a peach, and 2 kiwi. it's awesome. LOVE IT>

ok i really have to go sleep.
come what may...
teia

ironman, the dells and madison...oh my.

this weekend has been insane. on friday over 23 people called in "sick" for school. all these people that signed out of school attended the McCain-Palin speech. so far i've heard from many people that it was pretty awesome.

after school dad picked up me and isabel and we drove home to hang out with michael hennessey. he's this really awesome guy from TX who is trying to set the world record of ironman races. meaning in one year he will swim, bike and run in 23 races. the race altogether is a little over 140 miles long meaning it will be 3,220 miles...i think if i did the math right. :)
he hung out with us on friday night. we talked and then sang some...of course. hahaha for some reason i busted out "think of me" and he' slike i love that song. so we listened to it on the computer while michael made us cookies.

it was really confusing because michael maziarka was over and then so was michael hennessey. so we started calling m.m. = michie. haha. cause josh calls michael, michelle. so running michael made us some amazing chocolate chip cookies. then he's like hey teia. do you know this song that won best song of the year? i was like umm. i dont know maybe..whats it called. so he youtubed it and played it. i was like I LOVE THIS SONG! it was falling slowly from the movie once. he said that it's one of his favorite songs. ;) yay.

after talking and hanging out with him. yesterday morning we got up and said bye and good luck and that we'd meet him at the finish line.

then we all quickly packed up and drove to the dells where we stayed at the wilderness. it was ablast. we had access to a ton of waterparks- indoor and outdoor. yesterday it was pretty chilly so we stuck to the indoor ones. we went on this one ride called the hurricane. it was amazing. then i ended up falling asleep pretty early. i was so tired and for the rest of the night i was in and out of it. this morning we got up, ate, and got ready for more waterparks. we went to an indoor one but the water was kinda chilly so we decided to try an outdoor one today. it was a great idea. the breeze was somewhat cool but the water was really warm and the sun felt wonderful. they had a two-story lazy river that you had to take your tube on a lift thing to the upper level and then a slide down to the other level. it was awesome. there were also 4 body slides, where you would grab a mat and run to the top. at the top of the ride all the people would get in and race to the bottom, while laying on your stomach.
we all had a really nice time at the place and are exhausted now.
on our way back we detoured to madison to see the end of the ironman race. it was an awesome experience. we were able to see the end of the marathon and the race had been going for over 12 hours when we were leaving. i cant imagine being able to swim, bike and run for over that long amount of time. we met up with michael at the end of the race and took some pictures with him. he was tired- duh and we were really excited to see him.

then we came home.
the end.

sorry bout the abruptness of this post. im exhausted and my eyes hurt. time for sleep.
ill post up some pics soon.

come what may...
teia

saturday.
i love how i just put the day's at the top of my posts. there's not really a better way to start them i guess.

nice relaxing day for the most part. i worked from 10-3. then i went to the LW football game and the store.

kristin and i have been talking a lot the past couple days. which was really nice becuase it was so weird only talking to her for like 5 minutes the past weeks.
now we've finally caught up with everything. :)
it's so fun, having a friend, no matter where they are to just talk about random things. and sometimes we have that silence but it's like nice cause then we start talking about something else.

today i also saw meredith. she's SO cute. she was pretty content with kaitlin when i walked up so i talked to mrs. staub for a little bit.


if anyone has any good books for me to read let me know.
i really like melody carlson, gail levine, meg cabot. but i'm definitely open to new discoveries.

::most random post everrrrrr::


come what may...
teia