Day Four in Utah

Ok everyone, sorry about forgetting to put a picture in my last post. I forgot, but will try to do better this time.
Day 3
We had an AWESOME breakfast today. Sausage, eggs, orange rolls, cinnamon rolls, juice and more! Oh my goodness, our family is sooooo nice, and they have a long history of pets. At the church, Derrick gave us a talk about the day, and we were off! Another loud car ride…. Sigh. Our first round, nothing of interest happened. Kayla Danielle and I were a group together, and we all stuck little flyers advertising Derricks church, and a Christian book store on peoples door mats. Who knows what will happen with these flyers. (Actually, God knows!) I was terrified that someone might open the door as I was leaning over to stick a flyer under a mat, but no one ever did. So after three rounds, I was starving!! (Despite that big breakfast) still nothing exciting, except when Kayla tripped and lost her shoe. Now, the way this all worked was: Derrick would drop off a group or two at a street, show us a map and give us instructions, and we would walk down, and stick a flyer under a door mat, or through the door handle. After round four, while Kayla and I were making our way to the back of the van, Derrick gassed the car and it jerked forward a bit. I was already partly seated, so I just thumped down a bit, but Kayla was still standing, and she went flying down on her back into an empty row! My goodness she looked funny, feet in the air and all! Fortunately for her, we were the only ones in the van. Round five was nice and peaceful. On our street, it was our group and Michelle's group. Plus, the weather cooled down a little, which felt very nice. By now, I was VERY thirsty. Next, we went to the church for a little bit. After a race to the loo, Michelle invented a fun new game. Plus, I got a drink from the drinking fountain. Water at last… we had lunch at Chilies. It was very tasty. While getting into the van, Michelle tore her jeans on a place an arm rest had broken off! The funny thing was Max did the same thing coming in after her! So after driving forever, and after walking forever, we took a tour at the Brigham Young University. All we did was walk around on a roof and a guy explained what the different buildings were. My feet were tired of standing, so the tour wasn’t that great to me. But we did learn that Mormons paid less than non Mormons. Interesting… When we went home, we had a wonderful meal. It filled me up! This is a picture of Morphy by the way. After that, we played with Molleigh, (the daughter of the daughter who lived downstairs… she is nine) and did her dolls hair. This little girl is more mature than the rest of us! She has such patience with her little brother. Ttfn!!!
~Catie

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Day three in Utah

OK, time for day three at Utah!

Day 3

I scared Danielle this morning!! Ha ha!! (You will have to ask me what I did; I don't feel like writing it down, as it was not recorded in my journal) For breakfast, I had cereal and milk, but not together. The parents came home this morning, and were very nice. (OK, kinda complicated situation, but the mom and dad drive a truck most of the week, one daughter is married and living in the basement, (which is really nicer than the top floor) and another daughter lives upstairs and is getting married) In the car, we found Stephanie’s camera. We all sang, "Happy Easter" to the tune of happy Birthday in the camera, so that when she checks her photo's she will find a video of us! (At the time I wrote this, she didn’t know yet, wonder if she ever did find it...) The church service was great...they had coffee and cookies! Oh no, caffeine... So after the service, we went to lunch. I had enchiladas, but they were cold. So then we stopped at all the houses so we could change into casual clothes. I went like lightning! We then went to Wall-mart and played a fun game: everyone got one dollar, and the goal was to buy as many things as you could with just that dollar. I only got three colors of embroidery thread, so I lost by far! But they were pretty colors, and I will use them. Back at the church, we played hide-and-go-seek, and apples to apples. After that, we all just talked for a while. Boring, I know. For dinner, we went to sonic. They had tator tots!!! In everyone’s mad race for the coveted 'back seat' max got pushed down a ditch! Oh dear, I think Aaron was the culprit. Back at the church, we listened to testimonies of different people. They were awesome! I am sooooo hyped about tomorrow!
~Catie

My First Job!!

This will be another short, almost pointless post. Before I go into the specifics, you all may have been noticing how often I post nowadays. In the beginning, I would on average do one or two posts a month! My very first post actually stated that I would probably never be able to do one every day, but more like once a week. No, I am not trying to demonstrate my superior frequency in posting, I just happen to read my friends blogs more. And now that I actually READ blogs, I can fully appreciate a frequent poster. Now I will move on to the real reason for this post. Today, I filled out an application for (Hopefully) my first real job! You may be thinking what kind of job can there be for a 14 year old. I landed mine at a nearby swimming pool and tennis court area called Oak Park. If I do actually get the job, I will be working in the snack bar, maybe not the best job in the world, but it would be my first one and I am really excited that I might get my first job before Johnny gets his first job! Plus, Oak Park is really close to our house, so I could ride my bike there. I will let you all know if I do actually get the job. If not, I still have babysitting to earn my cash.

Day two in Utah

I was unable to get a picture in, so just use your imagination.

For today's post, I shall give you the second day of my Utah trip, straight from my journal, with a bit added, and a bit removed for full clarity among my fellow bloggers, and readers.

Day 2

I woke up with a cat on my ‘bed’! Our host family has three cats, one of which is a kitten. This cat, named Morphy, was very cute. I wasn’t very hungry this morning, having eaten a rather large dinner the day before, so I had milk for breakfast. (Sorry to bore my readers with pointless details, remember, this is from my journal) We were second to be picked up of all the girl groups. Don’t know (or care) where the boys are. So all the girls got picked up, and we met at the church for a quick overview of the day’s events, and we were off in the vans again. Our first destination was a lady who used to be a Mormon, and she told us all about the different things about their religion. When she showed us the outfits for temple marriage, I wanted to laugh out loud, they were so ridiculous! After we were done, she let us take some free pamphlets about different things relating to Mormonism. After that, we went to this creepy place called Hard Rock Café, with weird pictures, weird music videos, the place creeped me out! After lunch, we went in a mall for a bit. I sampled a hand lotion that smelt like cinnamon, and quite honestly, I loved it! A few of us girls went into a fancy clothes store, and Elise, Michelle and Kayla tried on some fancy dresses. Kayla was the only one who fit in her dress, (cause the others didn't realized there were zippers on the sides) and she looked beautiful in it! Next, we went to Temple Square, where the big Mormon ‘HQs’ are, in a way. We took a tour from two nice ladies. I felt bad whenever they mentioned things that I disagreed with. After the tour, we saw some brides and grooms after their weddings. The brides all had lovely dresses, and it made it hard to believe they had been dressed so ridiculously earlier. We saw one couple dressed before the wedding, and I just couldn’t believe how silly the would look very soon. We drove to a gas-station next, and got drinks. Many people got and drank energy drinks with two servings in them! EEEKK!!! We ate at another mall for dinner. I had Subway, and it was gooood! Some of us girls went ‘shopping’ but we only had ten minutes, and not one spent so much as a penny! For the car ride to our host homes, at least the boys were in a different car…peace at last! So we got home, watched the end of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the end of Pride and Prejudice, and the beginning of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Time for bed!
~Catie

A short meaningless post

This will be a very quick post, having nothing to do with my Utah trip. Sadly, the only purpose this post has in life is to inform you that I finally figured out how to have fun with my blog settings. To the well trained eye, and a faithful reader of Life of the Teen Drama Queen, it is possible that you might notice the different colors and design, the font for posting, the picture of a cute little hamster when I comment, even the color of the font!!!

Warning! In the very near, or very far future, you may experience blog changes within, or without. Do not be alarmed! These are all normal and necessary tests to determine the authors likes and dislikes of her blog.

My Marvelous Mission

I am quite sure that my fans out there are aware that I went to Utah over spring break for a mission trip. I had a wonderful time. I am also quite sure that you all are DYING to know how the trip went, and as I am not one to keep others in suspense, I shall gratify your ravenous desirer to learn about our mission trip. And so the story begins…….

On the trip, I kept a journal of each day’s events. The following several posts will most likely be excerpts from my journal for each day, with little bits added and removed for better understanding by my readers who would otherwise have no clue what I am talking about. Not that you don’t already……… anyway, before I begin the trip account, I must first cover some details that must not be underestimated in their worth for clarity in posts.

1: this trip took place in Utah. (No duh!)
2: Utah is almost completely inhabited by Mormons. (Or also known as LDS, (latter-day-saints))
3: Us little juinor highers, (There were 12 of us, eight girls, and 4 boys) were all paired up with a collage student. (Did I mention this was a collage/juinor high trip?) In a big bro big sis sort of thing.
4: Kayla, (My friend) Elise, (my arch nemesis) and myself had one collage girl between us, her name is Daniel.
5: we went to help out a church whose pastors name is Derrick smothers… he used to go to our church years and years ago.
6: I think that’s all the important details for now… so this time, the story will really begin!

Day One,
I woke up at six thirty, but didn't actually get up and shower till seven. My breakfast was scanty: String cheese, and a glass of milk. Michelle and I rode to the airport in the McAllister’s car with Elise Erin and Leigh. (All friends of mine, in a warped way…Erin is my best friend, but neither she nor Leigh went on the trip, as neither of them are in juinor high) we had a very musical ride. For lunch at the airport, Kayla, Michelle Elise and I ate at burger king. Elise had the most disgusting looking burger I had seen in eons… or maybe just months. We finally got on the plane. Kayla, Chelsea and I were in one row. I tried playing an in-flight trivia game, but alas! I am not gifted in the skills of trivia. Or in other words, I stunk!!! Michelle was better than me for crying out loud!! The flight was very short, and before we knew it, we were in Utah! A few of our cheap matching Utah
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broke during the flight. Poor Michelle was one of the unfortunates. All of our non-rolling duffle bags weighed a TON!! My poor shoulder was red before long, but eventually we got all the bags loaded in the cars. The ride to Springville took about an hour and I must say our van was far from quiet! Finally, we arrived at Derrick’s church, he gave us a talk about the next day’s events, and after that we were off to our host family’s houses. Me Kayla and Elise were all with Danielle. Michelle was all alone with her collage sis. Actually, she and Elise had the same collage sis, but Elise was with us for housing. So here we were watching sound of music on TV. Long day tomorrow!
~Catie

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To Scream or not to Scream, no Question Bout' That!

Some of my wonderful fans out there may be wondering a great many things at the moment you read this post. Maybe you wonder why I have been linking infrequent commentators, or what has been going on in my fun filled life? Allow me to try to answer them all in one post.

Starting with the linking. I got fed up with my rules about commenting, and I hate math, so now I will just link whenever I feel like it. If ur link is not up there yet, it most likely will be soon..... Or maybe not so soon. I don’t have all day ya know to just LINK LINK LINK!!!! I have a life here, so don’t worry.

Secondly, what has been going on in my life? To start out with, Johnny got his permit, and has started driving. The next two lines will now describe how I feel for his accomplishment.
AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There, now you know how I feel.

Also, this past weekend was a speech tournament for myself, and the self’s of others in speech clubs across California. All went well right up till the final round, in which I participated in. I had made it to finals in my speech on puppets, and as soon as I finished speaking, my voice started to drop. By the time I had finished packing up my speech stuff and was waiting for dinner in the gym, my voice was so bad I couldn’t even scream. I COULDNT EVEN SCREAM PEOPLES... DO YOU KNOW HOW DEVASTATING THIS IS TO A PERSON LIKE ME AT A TOURNAMENT WITH AN AWARDS CEREMONY AT THE END?????!!!?!?!?!?!? Since I still can not scream as I write this, I will now give one short yet loud scream in writing. Cover your fingers peoples, this could hurt. EEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! there, a strange scream in writing. Any ways, during the awards, while everyone else was screaming and clapping, I was left to: CLAP! Ya. CLAP! Ya. The WHOLE time. This tore me apart. And the worst part is, all my friends think it is wonderful that I can temporarily no longer be able to exert my voice to such lofty heights. Woe is I, the silent screamer. I can be thankful however that my voice wrecked after my last speech, which took fifth place I might add. Not bad really, two spots away from qualifying for nationals. However... this is NOTHING compared to some other peoples. My friends Holly and Tim qualified in their due, and Justin Willis at his first speech tourney ever, qualified. Yup, we all had fun. if I don’t comment or post for a while after this, its cause I am getting ready to go to Utah on a mission trip this Friday. That’s all folks!!