playtime is over

drumline camp last week was an amazing success. our show is stinkin' amazing even though it only took us a week to get it to look mediocre. we had lots of laughs, lots of ninja games, lots of star stretching, and of course, lots of making fun of the cheerleaders and then getting lectures about why we should be nicer to them. following such a lovely/traumatic/painful week, i had girls weekend con mi madre. we painted at open studio at a local studio called ARTichokes. we went to the spa and got pedicures and a massage. the massage was nice but very weird, not sure if i would do it again...then we watched sleepless in seattle. i came back to my dad's house and came to realazation that, playtime is over. i still need to finish my summer reading, i've convinced myself that i will not wait till the last minute to finish, but this books are BAD. i mean one is about a guy who kills his father, who was king, marries his mother, and doesn't even know it. then tries to avenge the former kings death and comes to trealize he killed the king aka his father. i mean, who wants to read that! then i have the odysey to read, oh joy. i also realized while checking my email that drumline will soon be into full swing, and i will no longer have a life, thank you miss tyler. lastly, i realizied that school starts really soon, and that sucks. i wish i was at kamp, when playtime, is all the time.

band tent hut! oi!

this is the blue devils, they are a professional drumline



drumline camp has been an amazing load of fun. we have marched (a lot) auditioned (3rd bass drum yay!) practiced, and stood at attention for an ungodly amount of time. standing at the "set" position is the most uncomfortable thing in the world. shoulders back, stand up straight, feet at a 45 degree angle, sticks on the side of the drum, standing aprox. 3 inches above the drum, head at a 45 degree angle, and you just stare. Punishment for not holding the position? push-ups. i'm not sure what they do in england (our band director is british) but i think you can be sued for that in america. that doesn't sound like a lot of fun, and it isn't. the fun part is playing sock wars, having water balloon fights, quoting a very potter musical, and laughing, a lot.

the sound of drums

don't google drumline, our line is way more legit than that. we wear cargo pants and t-shirts that say "this is how we roll" on them, like i said, legit.

yay! this week is drumline camp! this week will be full of fun, hard work, sweat, brit jokes, and i'm sure a lot of sarcastic humor. i am trying out for bass drum, which i am super stoked about, but also really nervous. miss tyler said she will be bringing her golf clubs to camp, i don't think she will be hitting balls though. if mr. k is there we are probably in for a good round of dirty humor, followed by a prayer, and a lot of marching. i'm just glad i won't be marching in my skirt.

Bye Bye Summer!

thanks to my little brothers nanny i have more recently lost my entire summer...i think i'm gonna cry. she decided to quit, whatever happened to 2 weeks notice? currently, after finished the dishwasher, changing sheets, vacuuming, and cleaning out my brothers pigsty (aka room, i am waiting for laundry to get done, so i can go fold it. if i had to lose my summer, i was kinda hoping it would be to a job, so i can pay for kamp next year. oh well life happens...but i'm not gonna lie, this sucks.

Dave is my new boyfriend

i went to go see despicable me for the second time today. i generally frown upon those who cannot wait to go see a movie again until it comes out on dvd, but i had to do it. the first time i went to go see it i made 7 trips to the bathroom with my younger brother...so it made a little more since this time. my favorite part of the movie, the minions! they are fluffy, little cylidrical yellow things with goggles and legs. they wear overalls and speak in total and complete giberish (one thing we hold in common) my favorite, dave, he is impatient and accidentaly fires a missile while gru is giving a talk, he also gets punched by another minion. good movie, nope, great movie, oh yeah

no more excuses

ok, so maybe i haven't posted for a while, maybe i have a brazillion excuses as to why. but do you care? i doubt it. so this is the lowdown on what has been up with me.
So, July 1st - I didn't do anything, surprising
July 2nd - Nada dudes
July 3rd - Drivers ed, joyous as always, learned to turn around like a billion different way and probably used at least 30 driveways, went to "the b" aka our neighbors flake (that's farm with a lake) and the boys shot off bottle rockets, and smoke bombs, and rigged nerf guns to shoot farther and hurt people, typical. girls went swimming in the lake, which is really more of a glorified pond. we stayed there until we saw a water snake. then, of course, there was high pitched screaming followed by the boys blowing it out of its hole with a firework, then blew it to smithereens. good times
July 4th-had a mini-party at our house, had our neighbors over, fireworks got canceled, went to see "grown ups" instead
July 5th - my dad and denise had the day off so we just chilled at home
July 6th - driver ed, parallel parking, always a great time
July 7th-...idk
July 8th- finished drivers ed, YAY!
July 9th - spent the night with an old friend, love her!
July 10th- Harrison's birthdays
July 11th - My puppy's birthday and my great grandma's birthday, went to youth group and found out that the KAA service trip I was going on might not happen because not enough people signed up...i wanna cry
Other highlights-finished month 1 of victors crown!
blah blah, i'm a lazy person...doesn't post often, whatever...the end

oops, my bad

i accidentally forgot to publish anything for like a super long time. probably cuz i haven't done anything recently. i finished drivers ed today, and i think i lost phone in their car. so if i don't find it by tonight i will be calling buggin' and cruisin' driving school to see if i can retrieve my cell phone. i spent the weekend with my daddy-o which is really fun. we didn't do much, but it is always fun to spend time with that side of the family. i'm still not doin' much so, that's it

what's new, oh, just everything

hello world. it's me again. i was in the letter writing mood, so just about every single person at k2 got a letter. i spent the week at my grandma's which was fun. she only lives a mile away from me. i visited my great great aunt marge stevens in the assisted living facility, my great grandma in the rehab facility after her knee replacement. oh yeah, it was fun business. my family is not typical and this week i have just been wishing for the typical all american family. if there is one thing that i learned at kamp this year it was that your experiences shape you, so i guess i'm thankful for it. i'm almost done with my first month of victor's crown. i don't have anything to say...just watching cheap reality shows that no decent human being should watch...i can't believe they make money off of them. the bachelorette (Spelling?), ridiculous...but yet i watched it

i am so excited!

i have been so bored lately without the constant activity of kamp. today i went to a financial responsibility course, am i boring or what? so in order to turn this negative situation into a positive situation (funniest skit of my life!) and decided to do one of my favorite things, which is making lists, about all the things i am excited about.
1.) wipeout - best show EVER! they find the biggest goofballs in america, the type that make us all embaressed to say we hail from the US. then they make them do a ridiculously amusing obstacle course
2.) drivers ed - believe it or not, after the ungodly boring class that i was forced to take for nine hours i will actually be learning how to drive from someone who has real experience in teaching people how to drive. i really don't like driving because it makes me anxious, and super stressed. i am pretty stoked about getting more confident.
3.) figuring out how to raise the money for kamp - again it comes to that time when i need to earn a large amount of money. it is sometimes amusing to look at what i am will to do just to go
4.) doing amazingly stupid things for not reason - nuf' said
that's pretty much what was on my mind. i am still thinking about kamp a lot, i think i have more severe withdrawl than everyone else...

Kanankuk in Pictures

Me on the the faith pole, God gave me crap knees, and my knee gave out at the top, i got sweet scratches down my legs to prove i did it

my spectacular cabin

Vero helped me do my hair for galactica and we put a beach ball under it

Kabin 7 on the night of Hoedown Showdown, my hair stayed down for a good hour before I put it in a ponytail, i was really proud.

how lucky am i?

i have only had the most, i don't even know what it is, day ever. it started out with me, obviously. i slept through my alarm, which is pretty much near to impossible since the volume on the alarm is only like 8 quatrillion times louder than the loudest alarm in the state. so i didn't get up till 10:00ish. then i went to my church's garage sale. i pretty much just held whatever my mom told me to hold and/or threw at me. i saw one of my youth ministers, and he used to work at kanakuk, and was so stoked that i was back just so he could talk to me about it. no one from around here goes to kamp because they all go to camp tekawitha (techawita, teckawithha???), LAME-O! anyway, he came back after working at kanakuk and made this camp teckawitha thing, but it is so not as good as kanakuk. anyway, then i went home, joy. and i had a lovely nap, joy. then i got up, put on my black dress that i really hate, and my black shoes i really like, and drove to gardner, which is in kansas. i went to my great grandpa's funeral. i knew that he was back in the hospital before i left for kamp. my dad kept me updated and on the thursday before i went home, my dad told me how awesome he was doing. he was doing really well up until he died on friday. it really wasn't real for me until i went to the funeral today. as much as i'm going to miss him, i'm really happy that he gets to be back in heaven with my great grandma. he really was one of kind. he was 97 years 11 months and 9 days old when he passed. he loved his wife and treated her like every man should treat his wife. to him, my great grandma was the greatest gift God could have ever given him, and he let her know that every day. he was really committed to Christ, and loved Him with a passion. i know for sure that he is in heaven. when i was at kamp my counselors told me, God wouldn't take him until i was ready. although i might not have thought so, i know now that i am ready, and have learned a lot from the life of my great-grandpa. i cant even express how thankful i am that God blessed me with my great-grandpa for all these 15 years of my life. how lucky am i? really, really lucky!

It's only been two days?!

I cannot believe it has only been two days since i got home from kamp! i am insanely bored because i am so used to doing something every single second of every single day. these are the days when i especially wish that there was a k-life close to my house! so far, since getting home from kamp, i have managed to do the following.
1.) get sick with a nasty cold (thank you lizzy!)
2.) do 15 pages in my victors crown book (that way i get it done BEFORE i go to kamp next year)
3.) work on my technology summer credit (blah)
4.) sleep, alot
i have recently come to the decision that i should be able to stay at kamp all summer next year. i don't care how it happens, but it is happening. somehow, every year kamp gets better and better, but at the same time faster and faster! i can't wait till i'm old enough to do a job like meredith's, or ashley's, brooke's, or just be a counselor. i guess till then i'm stuck paying my own way to kamp and going for only two weeks. now that i have managed to thuroughly depress the world, i think i will return to watching this ridiculous movie with my brother. he has such weird taste in entertainment.

Kamp was here, and now it's gone...

So I worked all year to raise the money to go to kamp, and it seems like I was there only three days and here I am again, ready to start back up and go at it again. This was only like the fastest term of my life! I 'll breaker' down for ya.
KOMO 7 IS LEGIT!
Megan and Madison were in my cabin again. Wouldn't be kamp without them. Katie was there also, so this is our 3rd year together. There was Allison, who shared my extreme dislike of all dairy related products. There was Alynna, who got sun burned and became my tomato twin. Gracie, Lizzay, Vero, and of course, Kailey. My counselors were Laura and Christine. Other totally sweet people I got to meet were Brooke and Ducky who ran all around. The K-wet guys, who taught me how to wakeboard. Ashley Robbins, who did an amazing job explaining the "guidelines" of kamp. Joe White, the name says it all. Adam Donyes, who is a really good speaker, and obviously very passionate about what he does. Meredith, who ran cabin checks,leads dancing at K-life and parties, and never ceases to make me laugh. Laura, our UC, who got stuck in a laundry bag last night, joined us for breakfast almost every morning and for devos almost every nigh, Whitney, our kitchi. Mckall White (did I even remotely spell that right?) and Brett Buckner, the amazing kickapoo princi. I just realized that I met a whole lot more people than I thought.
I had sooo much fun, that it would litterally take me 14 days to explain the 13 days that I was at kamp. So here are some highlights.
1.) learning to wakeboard
2.) Laughing till my stomach hurts at least twice a day
3.) Pterodactyl, RAWR!
4.) Reading the stories written in the bathroom stalls
5.) Showing everyone my super sweet Spiderman jump
6.) Cheez- ballin' it up for karnival, somehow I got stuck in the easy dance
7.) Dominating the Kiowas in like every competition
8.) Having rude table conversation
9.) PARTAYS!
10.) Skits, and k-life
Pretty much anything that happens at kamp is a highlight.
Quotes of the term as decided by komo 7
1.) "pterodactly, rawr!" ~Megan
2.) "Girlfrand!" ~Christine
3.) "Let's turn that negative situation, into a positive situation" ~Rocky Road Youth Group Troupe
4.) "These aren't rules, they are more like guidelines, except not" ~Ashley
I'll get some pictures up, but I gotta go unpack before any wild animal start attacking my trunk. Anything that can make it home from kamp deserves to be washed.
Be fun, colorful, and full of kamp spirit!
Libby

Catchin' up

I feel like I am running after people who kept moving while I stood still! I was so focused on school that when it was all said and done, I was surprised that it was over.

This week I have been getting ready to go to kamp ( Double yay!) Practicing piano (yayish!) and watching Miss Tyler's hilarious dog, Hunny (yayness!) I'm gonna post pictures about what I've been doin'. Oh yeah, and I did SWEET on my finals. 92% on Bio, 98% of theology. 97% on world geo. Math is STILL not graded.

Maybe not with the pics...computer is SLOW

oops

So yes I accidentally posted a blank post, here's the breakdown of the week
Monday
Nothing
Tuesday
Mrs. Slowik told us she is pregnant. She promises she will come back so I can have her again junior year for American lit.
Wednesday
Mrs. Wertin subbed her own class since her student teacher was gone
Thursday
Nothing
Friday
Had a party for Miss Anderson (student teacher) because that was her last day. Sad she is leaving, excited to have Mrs. Wertin back, she is an awesome teacher. Had a drumline gig at Saint Paul. I rode is Miss Tyler's car, always the party car. Gotta love Miss T. We tried to teach her how to not be British, and say America, didn't happen. How does Hugh Laurie do it? The world may never know

Yes, I dropped off the face of the Earth...

Dear World,

Yes, i temporarily dropped off the face of Earth. My second semester has gone by SOOOOO fast! I am loving SJA with a burning passion! My school is only the coolest thing ever! I joined swim team, I'm not so good, but I'm having fun. I went skiing in Breckenridge, and tanning in Florida. My dad got married, and I payed for kamp myself. Life is goin' good. My current favorite thing in the world is school. My favorite teacher got a student teacher, which was a good thing and a bad thing, but she is leaving this week , so I get my fave teacher back. I hate world geography and the small of dead pigs for bio in the morning! My british band and drumline teacher officially controls my life. I love everything about life right now!

Sorry again for the long absence!

Love Libby