by the way...

3 days. today (saturday), sunday, monday. thats it. no more excuses about not wanting to go back to school shopping now huh?!?! well im ready and not even that nervous anymore. in the words of a good friend, "we're there to learn. nothing else." smart friend huh?! maybe i should keep him around...
but seriously where did the time go? i can still remember kindergarten for goodness sakes! sitting on the rug for story time, nap time (which by the way, kids don't want nap time! teens do! they don't fit that into our schedules!), playing power rangers with my best friend Evan, sharks in hot lava at recess. good times. i remember looking up to the "big kids" thinking i'll never get that old... will i?? but here i am. the big kid. always felt so far away but no it really isn't. life is short and goes by too fast so you have to cherish it with all your heart. every time i look at Kelle's blog i think "that was me 13, 14 years ago. i was that little learning to walk. and now im almost 15!" and also that, "that will be me in like 8-10 years!" i mean it seems so far away but the past 8 years went by in a blur and they keep telling me highschool goes by faster than ever. time is something you can't get back. so i say make every minute of it count.

"it's not the number of breaths you take that count,
it's the number of moments that take your breath away."


"it's not the years in your life that count,
its the life in your years."

the game

so so close!! the WHS football team lost 20-27 on Thursday but it was a REALLY good game! the half time show was pretty good too... :)
like i said i was pretty nervous about the whole first game thing but i actually did really well! it was really crazy because we were expected to do stuff that we (freshman) had never done or practiced: stand in block formation (went well), make a tunnel for the football team (crazy but i thought for a first time of never having done it it went really well) and the stand songs (songs we play in the bleachers which were easy to pick up on). but i thought i did great! i had the worst headache though and it started before we left and ended once i was sleeping. i felt totally drained as the drumline was practicing and stacey was all pumped and jumping around. i told her she needed to give me some of that energy!!! but then we got on the field and i was relaxed and focused and knew what i had to do and i did it! the next game is the 12th (day after my bday!) and we actually have to do our formations and stuff... scary!!! well thats about it!

Football, and base drums, and hallways oh my!

our first official game is today at like 7pm or so. i am so nervous it'll probably make me sick! i really dont know my part that well and being in drumline means that you cant just pretend to play. thankfully we dont have to march- just play in block formation- so that takes alot of my nervousness (if thats a word...) away! so yeah i better go practice before i leave.

oh yesterday was the 6th grade instrument rental night and i helped out like i have for... 3 years now i think. and my friend and i also went through our schedules so we feel more comfortable on the first day of school (4 days). so we went through mine pretty fast- i've done it several times now and feel better about it- but then we went through dani's and it took longer... for one we went up and down every hallway in the school i think trying to find one of her classes only to discover that it was right by her locker! genius! and then we went through it a second time.

oh! also my choir teacher of two years married my band director of 3 years! im so happy for them and it was really fun to catch up with her. (sad side note: i dont have her as my choir teacher anymore now that im in hs and when we have choir she's in the ms doing another class so i'll only see her like before and after school).
i think thats about it!

Whoa!

ok i just realized that school starts next week! yeah and i even named my last post "7 days left" and everything but i didnt even realize that that means school starts NEXT WEEK! 6 day! what?!?!?! and that means that my birthday is like 2 weeks away (a week after school starts on thursday)!! wow! time really does fly! i'll put up my birthday list this week... just incase! okay well i feel like a blonde now so im done! see ya!

7 days left

So i went school shopping and feel more and more ready to be at school everyday. k im still a little nervous but i'll get over it within a week of school- maybe less! being a highschooler both excites me and makes me look at myself and say "wait a minute didn't i just finish 7th grade?!" life is going by fast and highschool goes by even faster so i hear. im just scared that i... i dont know its confusing. i really want to take every advantage being a teenager has because i know it'll only happen once and i dont want to look back on my highschool years later on and say "why didnt i do that?!" you know? im really excited though. my mom asked me what i look forward to most about highschool. my answer was easy: drama. and then of course choir and band (though im still not sure i like marching band all that much) and then being with all the people i've known for 2 years (well not really 2 full ones but you know!) from drama. a friend who graduated when i was in 7th grade that i met through WHS's Fiddler on the Roof told me at the end of our 1st marching band show for parents and such said that he's been waiting for me to be in highschool for 2 years. that makes me feel good. and when i was working with Fiddler another guy (who was a senior as well) swore he thought i was a junior or something! i heard that some people were actually saying "where's chloe" "why dont i see her around school" when i was in 7th grade!! im really excited. today i had to get my concert band uniform fitted. its a dress. a black one in fact. i guess its not quite as bad i thought... but afterwords my mom and i ran through my schedule and i did my combination (actually thats what im most nervous about getting to and from classes and trying to remember my com!) i also met my math teacher who seems really nice and fun. im staring to get used to the idea of being 15 as well. that still kind of scares me. i mean 15?! seems to old. 1/2 way to 30 as a good friend told me (thanks alot). but again i cant wait. lots of things will be different in hs then ms so it'll take a while to adjust probably but i think i'll be okay. well i think that about wraps it up! see ya!

okay just a quick numbers update is all today oh except that i finally went to the secretary of state and am now a licensed driver (well level 1 anyway!)!!! yeah so anyhoo:
counting today: 12 days till school starts!! and i havent even gone school shopping yet!
counting today: 21 days till my 15th BIRTHDAY!! (bday list will follow a few weeks before!!)

yep! pretty exciting! i cant wait for highschool! i hope to take every opportunity i can in the next four years before college (now there's a scary though!!)

today

k im really gonna do it!! im going to get my haircut today at 4pm and its not just a trim. i'll try to do pictures if i have time (or can get my mom to help me!)!! also im actually going to the secretary of state today, we've been putting it off and forgetting but now i cant drive until i go soooooooooo...
and tomorrow is freshman registration and orientation!!

PS- 16 days til school starts!!!

SUMMER PARTY!!

our summer party was on friday/saturday and it was a blast! everyone had a good time and it was just so much fun! we went swimming in our neighbors/ my friends pool (he was invited of course!), did face painting, a hula- hoop contest (i totally lost!!), played [extreme] red rover (dangerous game- im really sore and in pain right now!), played the name game, played apples to apples, and just hung out from 1-8pm, which was when the guys (or Harold) left and Matt stayed till about 9:30 or so since he lives next door. aly and i were talking about it saturday when the rest of the girls left (we slept in a tent in my back yard) and we were both really happy with how it turned out. there was this relaxed, do what ever we want, comfortable, happy atmosphere the whole time- start to finish, and we both laughed at how well matt and harold got along (which is kinda hard to explain to people who dont know our group well but they are completely different, but know each other, but arent the type of friends who would like go over to each others house or what ever.) over all i wish the party never had to end. i love my friends so much and it was a so much fun to spend 8+ hours with them!!

VBS

so our church has a Vacation Bible School every summer that i usually help out with with the little kids. this year, however, i am on the worship team! it has been such a blast working this week that i'll be sad when its over on thursday :( the band is awesome and so are the actual people and our back stage "Tec Krew" guy John is pretty sweet too! our jr high youth pastor Kara is the Commodore Pirate and does an amazing job as always and the other two pirates are so funny! yep i've had lots of good times being a part of SAFMC's VBS this week!!

Egg Drop Soup, bread, milk and Greese, what's better?!

seriously!! egg drop soup is sooooo good. i got hungry and made some for... dinner i guess it'd be. and soaking a piece of bread in it with a cold glass of milk... heaven. but there's no heaven unless you add Greese to the scene!! which i did of course. Greese is like my favorite musical/movie ever!! well i guess thats not completely true because i also love Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma, State Fair, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, Hairspray, Sussical, Music Man, High School Musical (1&2), Sweeney Todd, the new Camp Rock movie, and OF COURSE Wicked!! as well as more that i cant think of. i absolutely LOVE musicals!! they are so much fun to watch and even more fun to be a part of! i totally recommend all the ones i listed to any one- well Sweeney Todd you probably dont want to show to kids, lots of blood. but yeah! so thats what i've been doing... not very interesting but oh well, im easily amused.

so it is now 9:00 pm and i've been alone for about 3 hours.

boredum

so i've been here for about an hour give or take and im really bored now! soooooooooooooooo,
i'll think of something to blog about... umm...well theres...no...yeah i've got nothin'. i'll come back in a few hours or so and maybe i'll have something then...

oh i just realized that my "times of posting" or whatever are all wrong it's 6:57pm now

home alone

one thing about being home alone is being alone. and that's what i am for the rest of the day! everyone went to east lansing to see family and maybe go to the music festival thing so im home doing what ever i can think of doing until they decide to come home. the only bad part is that they dont want me to go to the party next door :( :(

MUSIC!!

k as you have found out already, i -well my mom- finally put music on here!! so yeah! enjoy!!
love you!!

the fair

so wednesday and today i went to the fair! the first time i just walked around like everyone else and saw the horses, pigs, cows, ducks, chickens, rabbits, sheep, goats, and everything else which was fun but today i went back and rode with my friend Amanda!! it was fun and she helped and critiqued me which is good. so yeah i think that it ends this weekend but you should definitely come out for a while!! you dont have to stay for six hours like my friend did though :)
hope you're having a good summer!!!
Oh!! i also got my GREEN SLIP the other day!! i'll probably have to wait till monday to go the S.O.S. though

was i dreaming? if i was dont wake me up!

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant even tell you how amazing Wicked is! you'll just have to go see it yourself!
from literally the first song till we were already on the road coming home i was so choked up i couldnt believe it! like it was so powerful and amazing! and wow!!! i mean even their set changes are incredible!! i'd like to know how they do it!! but maybe thats just the tech in me... well maybe not. anyway it was absolutely incredible like blow your mind amazing. i would spend like $1000+ to see it over and over and over again!! oh i've made up my mind that im going on Broadway and i'll get the part of Elphaba and go all over the place!!

tomorrow

guess what? tomorrow i get to go see WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im SOOOO excited i don't think i'll sleep well tonight!lol! i absolutely LOVE the music- which i now have on my ipod and have been listening to for two days straight- and some of my friends have already seen it and said that it is amazing! woo hoo!! okay i'll try to calm down....

ps-i know you dont want to hear this but i'll say it anyway:
*29 days till school starts :) *

Range

well i found out what range is! yep saturday and sunday from 3-5pm i was in the career center parking lot driving 5 mph around the "streets" marked off my cones. we weren't allowed to use the radio (oops) or the A/C (oops) and it was really boring! oh well at least i'll be mailed my green slip soon!!

I'm DONE!

wow what a crazy week! to start, driver's training is done!!! i took the 80 question test on thursday and missed 2! best in the class!! i was so excited! but more excited that i don't have to go back until i take segment 2. then band week was monday through thrursday. i had a really good time overall! but oh man after the first day i was so sore and so much in pain i felt like i was going to fall over! i went home and took a bunch of ibuprofen, then took a shower and went to bed. next day i put my harness and drum back on and it was even worse then the first day with the bruises not completely healed yet and all. after that day though i guess my body adjusted to it and i didnt hurt as badly. id have to say that the best part of band week was seeing all my friends again, my grade and up. having Jessie in drumline made everything fun too!! i almost felt like it was Young Americans all over again in a sense; learning a whole show in X amount of days, in YA's it was 2 days but we had four days to learn the marching season songs and moves. thursday was our first "show" and it went pretty well i thought- even though i went the wrong direction at one point in a song :<>
yesterday my friend Dani from the U.P. came down with her dad, sisters and friend. it was really nice to see her again! we hung out at our house till a little after 8 when i went to britt's house for a movie party that i ended up leaving early from :( that was sooo much fun! we watched Superhero Movie which is pretty much the funniest movie ever made. today i have range which i really dont know what it is, something with drivers ed though. so im getting picked up in less than an hour. and i have it again tomorrow same time (3-5) after that i get my green slip which means that i can go to the secretary of state to get my learners license!! watch out people im driving now!!!
i think thats about it right now. see you later!