Merry Christmas!!

Hiya!! I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone! :)

I don't really have anything big to say, but I have to write an English paper here soon, so might as well practice going on and on about nothing right?

Christmas was great this year. I could tell ya everything that I got, but no need to provoke jealousy, right? I will say that we got an electric piano or keyboard or whatever you wanna call it. My favorite thing about it is that it has lessons right on there. They have some piano solos, and duets and other things on there. But the the best part is they have my favorite piano song EVER on there. Fur Elise, by Beethoven. So mom and dad are very happy about the head phone jack, because I play that all the time. Of course I mainly play right hand, cause I suck at left hand. But I can play them both, just...ve..ry.. sl..o...w...ly. Anyway. I love to play music. I want to learn how to play the cello. And I will learn someday.

I love the holidays. You know what I love? From like after christmas eve to after New years, you can eat, or watch as much T.V. or play as much computer as you couold possibly want. I mean, like for breakfast everyday since christmas I have had a bottle of coke and m&ms for breakfast and lunch. How flippin' sweet is that?!! And you get to go shopping and get gifts. And do whatever. With very little responsibility. I mean I still have to read a story for english and practice my clarinet (solo and ensemble in one month) but very little. Well and the occasionaly babysitting, but I mean all my little brothers and sisters have toys, so like, what is my job description? yeah. Nothing. Any way

Merry Christmas!!

Sari

Still sane...barely

Hiya!!

Yeah so the reason that I haven't blogged the last few days is because I can't blog on my computer. Yeah, only on my mom's. So I have to wait for it to be free.
But I am now!!

Now...what to put? Umm, I am not insane. Thanks to youth group. Really, if it weren't for Pink, I could be chewing through a strait jacket right. Not really. Oh to the petty worries of a 15 year old.

But... well 2 more days until christmas!!! Yay for that. I love Christmas. a lot.

But now I can't prattle any longer, so I will have to conclude this.

Bye!!!

This Could Be Goodbye

Right now I am just writing to say goodbye because this could be the last day you ever get to read a sane blog from me.

I am going to spend another all dayer with my 3 little brothers and sisters. They are quiet though, that is good. At least it is Christmas time. :) See I smile for you now. All hope is not lost.

Lol

Sari

Ooooo another blog! Slightly less than four months too PK.

Ok. The reason that I am blogging is because... I have a two hour delay... AGAIN!!!
I hate not going to school. You know how you are in elementary and everyday you rub your lucky rabbit foot saying over and over "Let there be no school. Please no school!" And you NEVER miss school? And then by the time you get into high school and rainy day Barbie just doesn't cut it anymore. You actually want to start talking to people your own age. Not 13, 9, or5.

And this just in. We are closed. I think I am going to go cry. DEATH to ALL bad weather. NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Tear* *Sob*

I am very disappointed in the school system. We can't be closed! *Sniff Sniff*

I won't even get to pass out my Christmas cards. :(

Or see my friends. :(

this sucks.

Surprise! A new blog. I know, don't die of shock. :)

So, obviously I am extremely bored or have a funny story or both. Right now it is both.

So, my funny story. Ready? O.K. Good. Here it goes.
So... today and yesterday schools were closed (even Monroe Central so you know this had to be bad) and my mom had to work, so it was just me and my siblings. Yay fun?? Umm... no. Claudia, our next door neighbor was over so Tobi was quite occupied play school, or barbie, or whatever the evil twins could think of. Brighton is 13 and prefers to stay in is room (I know! I am lucky) Leaving only Dora... the worst one when it comes to being bored, or anything really. So, before things got out of hand I decided to snip the boredom where it was at. I told her to get her christmas gifts and bring them to my room. She was of course elated and happy for the time being. But after Dora, I also had to help Brighton and Tobi... 'they' wanted to wrap their gifts too. Next I helped Brighton wrap his. He, by the way, attempted to match yellow christmas tags with the pretty baby blue and white wrapping paper I had picked out. Umm... no. Poor child, I am convinced he is color blind. But my funny stories come from Tobi. Tobi was the most hands on. She proceded to tell me that I was wrapping thing wrong and that I should fold this like this, and when I gave her the opportunity, she would show me the 'right way' to wrap gifts. She tried to tell me that I needed to put tape here, and that this color would match better. Silly five year old. But when we got to mommy's gift, I nearly died laughing so hard.

It started like any other present.
"Don't you think mommy will like her gift?!"
And I answered the same way I already had 3 times before.
"Yes, I am sure she will"
Then with total seriousness she looks at me worried, like this was the biggest thing troubling her little 5 year old heart.
"I think she knows what it is though"
Well DUH! Mom always knows what she is getting. She shows us, or wraps it for us or something, so for one reason or another gifts are never a surprise for mom.
"What makes you think that?" *stiffled giggle goes here*
"Well...*worried look* she picked it out for me."
I nearly lost it here. "Oh... *giggle* I am sure *he he he* she will like it" Here is where I ran out of the room. I had to tell mom.

Oh... poor Tobi. She must be so troubled. But this further proves my... er... theory. You see I am the "over achiever" Brighton is the "achiever" Dora is the "genius" and well... that only leaves one spot to fill... dumb as a stump. Just a theory but according to mom and Tobi's teacher it is wrong... still...

Then today, because I had wrapped all the gifts that are under the tree, there was not a gift there for me. I pouted and told Dora to go wrap my gift. She couldn't it was too "oddly shaped". So I pouted for a real long time. Then I went to pout to mom. She had mercy and told Brighton to wrap his gift to me. He put it in a box and I wrapped it. Life is so not fair.

Band is done

So I know that I have not posted in forever. But, eh... oh well.

As of this morning at 2 a.m. band was done. Well, except for the August 22 football game. But other than that, my bass drum days are over. Although I cannot deny a growing attachment to bass drum four and the fact that I will miss seeing all the Hagerstown people. Who knows, maybe I will march bass drum next year. It was a lot of fun. But anywho, we got 13th in the morning show due to a 13 point penalty, and 8th in the night show. We could have done better, everyone believes, had it not been for the fact that we had no power in the night show (their fault) and now power in the morning show because something happened and a keyboard caught on fire on the inside (we had to buy new ones) and the electricity didn't work after that. But any way, we still did well.

That is all.

Sari

Ok, so people have been wanting me to post this.

This is me after taking down my band braids, ugh. Can we say, "Bad hair day"?

Thursday and Friday were my first two competitions. On Thursday we got 3rd out of thirteen bands. We were beat only by Centerville and Muncie Southside. Friday we got4th out of 17 bands. This time we beat Centerville but were defeated by Jay County whom we had beat only the night before. We were also beat by Muncie Southside (again) and Anderson Highland (ooo shocker). So both nights were great.

Right Now I am basically just trying to blow the world's largest bubble. You would think that 3 feet of gum would be enough. Nope. Maybe I need to chew the other three feet.

Well, I will give you pictures now of my with the bass drum and maybe some video.

Not much

Ok so, yesterday I lied. Today was my 11th day. 4 from band camp, 5 from last week, so far 2 from this week.

Today was the longest day of band I have had yet. That is saying a lot considering We did thirteen hours of practice a day during band camp. 13 to 6. Big difference, with the six being larger. Anyway, long day tired.

Thursday will be my first band contest. It will also be my 13th day marching and playing the bass drum. Oooo fun. I wonder what people at my school will say if I wore a Hagerstown Band shirt on the first day of school? What about on homecoming? Ooooo that would be a hoot! The most unpatriotic soph of the century.

I counted today, 30 more hours of band practices. Don't get me wrong though, I love band. I just don't like right before practices. But from tomorrow on will be evening practices. so tomorrow is my last morning and afternoon practice. OH MY GOSH IT IS! That is... weird, scary, and exciting.

Anyway Buh Bye!
Sari

Band

I am back. Ok so today was day number 11 with a bass drum strapped to my front. It has really been three weeks at the end of the this week, but today was the eleventh day. If that make sense. I am really tired but all in all today was good.

Time flew by as usual, going from 9 to 11 to noon then slowly through the lunch break, (crazy I know, completely and totally backwards, lunch should be short, practice long, but the one hour of lunch takes longer than the six hour practice) The next thing I knew it was 2. We marched for like fifteen min. then had (what seemed like) a half hour break, then marched like half an hour and then boom! 4 o'clock time to go home. I am very thankful that lunch is so long and practice so short.

But even during these short periods, a lot of sun damage can take place. I currently have sun poison on my neck and am pealing like a banana on my legs and ears. I also have a pretty shade of rose pink on my arms, face, and upper legs. Oh, and heaven forbid I forget my hair is chock full of chunks of pealing skin. Please don't get sick, you discolor your keyboard. Yesterday while drying and putting away dishes my brother said, 'Would you rather have a million dollars or be rid of your sun poison?'
'Sun poison' I said. Then he added millions until he reached like 300 million dollars. I still chose to be rid of my sun poison. He though I was nuts. Dora agreed.

I guess I should say who Dora is. She is my sister. Brighton is my brother. Tobi is my other sister. In age it goes me 15, Brighton 12 (13 this month), Dora 8, and Tobi 5. And don't forget ma mere et mon pere. They recently celebrated their 4th anneversery. Then again they have married for 16 years, can you figure it out?

Well Ta ta for now
Sari

It's me again

Hello, it is me again. Not much to say.

Today I was in a water war, it was a lot of fun. I got there and hung out a little bit and then it all started. Pink was the first one to get me wet although... does it count when I volunteered? He wanted to show everyone his water gun and he said something like I just shoot Sari to show you. Only I would say 'OK!' Then I had to get Eric back for getting my brother orange. So, with water gun (complete with green cartridge) in hand I set off for payback. At first I had to make sure the green was just right so I tested it on Zach Moore and Samon. It took a little while to make it the perfect shade of green. But soon it was alright. So after a while I finally felt that the payback was complete. Eric's face was a nice shade of green (although shame shame it washed off). If only he felt he was done. (What you thought that he wouldn't get me whilst I was getting him? Yeah, as Cher would say 'As If!' [I was throughly soaked]) He called a truce... and then squirted me in the eye, in the middle of the truce handshake (stupid me thinking it was on the level) Yeah I didn't fall for it twice though. But he didn't really squirt me after that. Then we played a sort of water balloon dodge ball. And the we through water at people while they were swinging. I was honored to be one of the first swingers along with Zach Moore and Samon, (The very same two whom I tested the green water on) There is no sarcasm there. I was elated to be picked first in a game for once. lol. Then we went inside and had our lesson... Which was very informal ;) (For Pink if he is reading). Anyway umm... Bye?
Sari

Hiya!

So this is how it all starts. I had always seen my mom write on her blog and reading everyone else's and I am like, 'I want one!' So I got up and made one. Now, I don't know what to put on here. So umm... I am done with this one I think. Umm... goodbye?