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Monday, February 21, 2005

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:42:47 GMT

guard competition yesterday.!

right before the competition alyssa told us to think of a goal. mine was to catch the double-parallel during the sabre-flag feature. i did! :) in fact, i didnt drop anything. hopefully, the rest of my competitions will be like that. it was a perfect run or anything, right before shelbys solo, we all do this 'party' dance thing and then kick. but i left out the party thing so i kicked two counts too early. ughh i was front and center at the time too :(

our score was a 62. ahhh whenever we found out the whole guard started screaming!! if we get a 62 in nashville, we make it to finals. im soo excited about nashville! im rooming with brittany ellen and shelby.. were having a party in our room! not looking forward to the 10 hour bus trip on the way there. itll be worth it.

guard practice was great! as you know, at the last competition i broke my nose. during guard practice on thursday, i hit it with my flag. ouch. so naturally, i started crying. we redid that set and mallorys hand slipped and her flag hit me on the head. poor mallory.. i think she thinks i was crying because of her!! but anyway, joey saw me crying so he said, "pumpkin.. are you okay?" wow. it was so nice. i couldnt believe joey called me pumpkin so it took me a couple seconds to react.

so in honor of joey, my guard girls, and my 500th day of xanga i decided to get a new xanga.

www.xanga.com/xcallmepumpkin

love lizzy

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:51:01 GMT

more sleep = good day.

wow. i just got an email from elaine. (one of our winterguard coaches.) she sent all of us a tape of our show from the competition last saturday. whoaa.. we were awesome. we'll be even better this competition. im not gonna drop- at all. o yeah and i wont let shelby hit me. and im definately not gonna break my nose either.. but thats a different story lol

okay so i was looking for 15 SAT words that i could put in my essay about Thomas Jefferson. and this is what i found:

"HYPOCRITE (HIP-oh-crit) noun -- an insincere person; one who pretends to have feelings he doesn't really possess"

wow. ive always had this thing where i absolutely hate hypocrites. but apparently im hypocritical. but i dont hate myself.. but i hate hypocrites. but i am a hypocrite. hypocritical, huh?

valentines day: brittany was my valentine. and so was my father :) lots of chocolate.. so naturally i felt sick after lunch. goshh.. someone remind me not to eat so much fudge next year.. that was awful.

speaking of valentines day.. paul asked piper out; hunter asked alli out :) yayy

sorry, didnt exactly have much to say. lol come see the guard this saturday! love lizzy

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:56:06 GMT

^^"simply being loved." thats our guard's song. very repetitive- but i love it. our whole theme this year is love. i love guard. i love our show. i love all of the guard girls.

winterguard=love.

winterguard competition was amazing!! my leg didnt hurt during the comp. so competed! thank God. it would have been the worst day ever if i didnt. technically we didnt compete against anyone because last year we won state and moved up a class. but all the other teams loved it. some people were locked outside so whenever i let them in they circled around me and started telling me how our show was so awesome. yes, hard work pays off. :) that happened a couple more times throughout the comp, so by the end of the night around 30 people had told me our show was so great. i guess our run through was pretty awesome.

the fives caught. all of them. wow.

the flag exchanges caught. all of them(even me!)

the sabre exchanges caught. everyone of them.

and shelby lynn collier caught her solo.

whenever shelby caught her solo, the audience freaked out. they probably screamed more when she caught than whenever the flag exchanges caught or the fives caught. she did fabulous. lol, then she hit my hand. not so fabulous. she hit my hand so hard that, even though i was wearing gloves, i still got a bruise.

i think i broke my nose during the competition too. not even kidding. oops.

after i got home, me, shelbs, brittany, and chad went to the movies. lol, we saw hitch. i loved it! its soo funny. :) it ran late, so we by the time we left it was past tulsa curfew, went home ate chocolate. what a great ending to a fabulous day. :)

i cant wait till next saturday. competition number 2- lizzy.

ps. kinda made a mistake in my last entry. i said my fish was dying; i meant my fish is dead.

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:45:30 GMT

prepare yourself. this is going to be a looongg entry.

ohh!! tomorrow is my 500th day of xanga. how exciting!

Lent started!! yaayyy! i love lent. and its been going great so far.. had a fantastic conversation about it at lunch, and im closer to God than ever :) i guess thats what Lents all about.

my fish is dying and uncle sam died. please pray for him. it was his time, so i dont think anyone was very surprized. ill still miss him. my daddys at his funeral right this very second in Illinois. please pray for a safe return home. i miss him terribly :( somebody tell me that hes in a better place now. i need to hear it. :(

my mom and i just ate a TON of fudge. lol, she rocks. today she said, "with their makeup on they look like hookers." in front of some of my friends. their jaws dropped. lol, my mom is soo cool. shes not nearly as up tight as a lot of moms.

now onto whats really on my mind.. (this smilie needs some tears.)

guard competition tomorrow. practice yesterday. man, lets just say yesterdays practice ruined my day/weekend and could ruin the rest of the guard's too. heres what happened: the tarp crew came and tried to fold and unfold the tarp- lol, it was so funny! watching them struggle made me feel like a pro :), we worked on the exchange toss- thank God. im so bad at the toss. and got called out four times. time number 1: joey making fun of me because im so bad at the exchange toss. number 2: same thing.. lol im soo awful!! time number 3: joey complimenting my jazz run :) time number 4: alicia asking me to do the pirouette/double-stag for the rest of the dancers. i think she likes me- which is nice- i like her too. yay for that. oh yeahh, and after guard- my momma gave all of us chocolate.

sounds pretty good, huh? so why is it ruining my life?

well, joey was working with the rifle line so i was just sitting down in the butterfly so it looked like i was stretching, even though i was talking to Mallo more than anything, lol. i didnt realize we would be learning more dance work about half an hour later. so we started with the dance work- i was a little stiff, but i didnt think much of it, so i kept working through it. about 15 minutes later, however, my right leg litterally started to twitch. it didnt hurt or anything, it was just weird. i got home a couple hours later and felt stiff, but i had so much hw i only stretched for 10minutes or so.

this morning i woke up and my right leg started to hurt some. i took pain reliever; went to school- no big deal. but after 3rd hour i asked ellen if i was walking funny, i felt like i was limping, she said it wasnt so i ignored my leg once again. by the end of the day, my leg was unbareable. i went with shelby to a sports trainer, promising myself i would take pain reliever whenever once i got home. but on the way back, i was stepping over something with my left foot and landing on my right- not a good idea. i didnt really make a huge deal out of it, but it HURT LIKE HELL. once i got home and went up the stairs it got worse. much worse. so i just layed on the futon instead of practicing with shelby and then going to the mall with chelssy (so much for our party weekend ). went down the stairs for dinner, and it hurt even worse.. if thats possible. so my mom and i started to talk about it during dinner...

so she was telling me how if my leg hurts as much as it does now, i shouldnt reherse with the guard before the competition. that made me soo sad. more than anything, i wanted to practice. this was waay more than devestating. but then i decided to ask, "what if it hurts right before the competition.." my mom told my theres a possibility that i wont perform. so, obviously, i started thinking of how i could say it miraculously healed in a matter of seconds. but my mom said,

"dont lie about your leg- dont tell me it feels fine when it doesnt."

how she did it, i have no idea, but she definately read my mind. the end.

chances are, hardly any of you actually read that whole thing. so if you didnt.. heres a summary.. i let my muscles get cold. i danced. i pulled a muscle. i ignored it. i walked. i hurt. i ignored more. i hurt more. i couldnt/cant walk. guard competition tomorrow, but i could be watching from the sidelines. and it was all my fault. this sucks. the end.

im so sad/mad/confused/stressed out/pissed/scared that im gonna go sleep.

wish me luck. wish the guard luck. Lord, please, help me heal.

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 03:42:46 GMT

-dont hurry love. ohh you'll just have to wait. she said, "love dont come easy; it's a game of give and take."-

i love that song! if chelsea and i ever do a duet it would definately be to that song. :)

i got my camera developed so its.. picture time!!

thats what i look like at a recital..

this is what chelssy looks like at hers. she had a lyrical competition tonight. i wasnt there, but i know they did great. ahhh shes so unbelievably gorgeous.

i was looking for the lyrics to 'i love you more' and i found this picture.. ahhh i love that song. definately my 2nd favorite. :)

by the way.. i have one word for you: Hairspray. i miss that night- it was amazing :)

chelsea again.. no lyrical make up and you can see up her nose but shes still beautiful. :)

us at a band shindig.

me and alli. these arent from the camera i just developed.. but i was working on my picture wall and noticed these. look.. the big one is this past summer and the small one is from 5th or 6th grade. lol, were in the exact same position.

lol, i guess somethings never change.

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so i was looking at my brother's girlfriend's xanga.. shes so cool and it turns out that their two year anniversary is coming up!! :) so my brother said he loved her in her comment. hes so sweet!!! so i clicked onto his xanga.. i knew he was going to LA for a trombone choir, but i didnt look at the hotel where hes staying:

i wish you could look at it.. its AMAZING. holy cow.. $169 a night..

ugh. dork. im jealous. i wanna go to LA. it has my initials. thats cool. :)

Happy Anniversary Fred and Kelly!!!

Thursday, February 03, 2005

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 02:43:19 GMT

--absolutely amazing day--

reasons why my day was great..

1. i got my pictures developed- lol, im completely addicted to pictures, i have a full wall of them. :) if anyone has some good pics.. let me know!

2. i definately just aced my latin test- i only didnt know one question! :)

3. im retaking my government test over the weekend- class average= D.

4. practiced guard with brittany and shelby- lol, definately had some funny convos (im betting the fifteenth!) and shelby did her solo SIX TIMES.

5. absolutely no drama for almost a week- that does not happen much in a teenage girl's life.

but back to my pictures.. there are soo many funny ones! at NCDA monique chelssy christine and i made a wishing well out of our toilet- 3 pictures of that. a couple pictures of Ellen, elizabeth, lauren and dia being seductive.. lol those are interesting. and my personal favorite.. a picture where chelseas looking up.. lol you can see up her nose.

ill try to post them later.

im gonna go hang my pictures on my wall :) love lizzy

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:49:31 GMT

this- beat- is.. outragious, so contagious.

ugh, i have 1, 2 step stuck in my head- that song gets really annoying.

so guard. wow this past rehersal was by far the best i think any of us have ever had. the captains gave us a little 'pep talk' right before guard started- it actually helped! thanks everyone :) we did some of the dance work too, lol, that was interesting! one of the things we did was actually a ballet move (i cant spell it but its pronounced, "con-tra-toughn") that ashlea has to do in her ballet recital dance. so she asked me for help. ohh i love it when people ask me for help.. it makes me feel smart. :)

this week has been one of those 'rollar-coaster' weeks. one days is really good and then the next is awful. does that ever happen to anyone else? like wednesday, for example, i found out i have a really bad grade my lang. class but thursday, obviously, was great. i hate that. i wish things would be more consistant. like the weather.. wasnt it 70 degrees last week?! i cant believe it snowed..

on to other things.

this weeks been really confusing. youve probably heard the saying 'its a small world'. nothings really happened to me before this week that relates to that saying. but A girl IMed me on monday and said she had no clue who i was, but someone put me on her buddy list. i didnt know who she was at first either, but once we started talking we realized that we were good friends in around 2nd grade. but at the same time its amazing how big everything is. Whenever i went over to annas, there was a guy there that i had never seen before. he'd never seen me either- lol, even asked each other if we went to jenks. turns out hes been here since 2nd grade and ive been here since preschool, but weve never seen each other. that makes me wonder.. how many people are there that i see every single day in my class and just never notice.. its kinda sad.

by the way- ive seen that guy everyday this week in the halls. lol, God has a sense of humor.

Alli!! happy birthday alli!!

love lizzyy

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:39:20 GMT

man i love this song- its one of those i can listen to over and over again.

on thursday i had a rough day. lots of crying after guard. actually, lots of crying before guard too. so friday i didnt go to school. yay for mental health days. i definately needed it. so i did studied almost all day for a math test we have next wednesday. i have to make an A on that test. wish me lots of luck.

fortunately, friday night was much better. i found out anna and i made regionals for NHD and later chelsea and i went to go see the band concert at the tulsa PAC. it was so great!! gosh, the wedding dance was fabulous. i love it :). afterwards i went to chelseas and i watched titanic for the first time (even though chelssy fell asleep during it, lol). usually i fall asleep around 2 or so, but that night i stayed up til 6am. lol, im so proud.

saturday i went to annas to watch little black book. lol, that movie was kinda weird.. but i still liked it.

that was my weekend! time for church!

love lizzy.

happy birthday fred (the big 20!) and anna!!

(.. i cant believe my big brother is twenty. its kinda sad. )

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:48:04 GMT

not much to say! but today i practiced guard with brittany and shelby. now shelby and brittany can do five's and i can do a quad. (yeah, i can even catch it.)

lol, just thought youd like to know!

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:16:53 GMT

^ yay! i am so looking forward to reading this book.

anna and i turned in NHD today. yeah, ours rocked. we did it on the hippies. there is no way someone can have a better topic. :) lol, we even had the big 60's flowers and such. i hope we get to go to regionals. yayy for missing school! and i got 3rd place last year, so hopefully well do better this year, but i doubt it. i know im kinda bias- but our project rocks.

so i just got back from a basketball game. no i wasnt there for fun. i was there for band. whoop-dee-doo. i was planning on doing my homework there, but that definately didnt work out. :) im lazy. but during halftime i was definately impressed with the pom routine. no offence, but i really didnt expect them to pull off triple pirouettes. wow. they definately proved me wrong- it was awesome! speaking of dance..

ballet was great today! i got new pointe shoes so they were nice and pretty!! i always like dancing in new ones; they seem to make things easier- even though it hurts more. jazz however, was either really good or really bad. havent decided yet. theres a section in the dance where me and two other girls do some ballet, but this class the two other girls were sick so i was dancing by myself. knowing that, we're about 1/3 of the way done with our dance, so we showed it to ms debbie, our ballet teacher. after we had finished, ms debbie had a weird look on her face. so mrs nancy said,

"yeah i know.. the ballet section needs a lot of work. it used to be so great- i dont know what happened." yeah ouch. that was mean. but ms debbie said..

"what are you talking about?! the ballet section was great!!"

:) so im not sure if i should be happy cuz mrs debbie likes it, or mad cuz mrs nancy doesnt. :( i guess it doesnt matter. its definately going to be better next week. im gonna prove her wrong. yes i am. ..i hope.

happy birthday claire (anna's sister) and daddy!!!