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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
6:45 pm	So this week has really sucked.  First we had a soccer game on Tuesday and I played on an injured ankle and it got blown in the second half.  But the game ended up going into over time and our seniors refused to play so PD throws me back in the game on an injured ankle.  That really hurt but they needed me so I played.  We ended up losing so that sucked but it was kinda a good thing too.  Well today I went to see my good friend Brandon at PT.  I have a lot of good friends there.  He took a look at it and this was the results.  I have a sprain, a possible calcium bulid up, a possible torn tendon, and a fracture.  Yes, he says I broke my ankle.  That's good to know seeing as I've been walking on it all day.  So I'm stuck in a brace and I have a doctors appointment on Friday to see if I really have all Brandon says I have.  So we'll see and hopefully they don't put me in a cast, I'd probably just take it off anyways.  (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
6:54 pm	What the hell!!! Sometimes I can't believe the stupidity of my brother.  We got in the car this morning and our car starts beeping.  Low fuel.  So I say,  "hey, low fuel"  and my brillant brother says, "it's lying"  and we go to school.  I get out of the car and Tony leaves to get coffee I guess.  So they let us out of school early so Kim and I couldn't do that thing for NHS after but she still needs a ride home.  Mrs. Bowman has seen Tony drive and for good reason won't let Kim ride with him.  So I end up driving.  I get in the car and turn it on.  Low Fuel.  Our gas gage was actually passed the empty line.  So I say, Tony, why didn't you get gas and he responds, its lying, we have enough gas.  So we start driving and I get in the left hand turn lane to go to the Speedway on Corunna and Linden....and the car dies.....we have no gas.  So of course Tony starts cursing and screeming at me so I tell him, told you we didn't have any gas.  So I put it in neutral and Tony gets out to push.  Tony couldn't get it up the hill to the Speedway so poor Kim had to get out and help along with somebody who worked at Speedway and some guy in a van.  So we get gas in the car and Tony gets in and says....That wasn't my fault.  How the hell wasn't that his fault?  He thought we had a 13 gallon tank.  Sorry to break it to you but we have an 11 gallon tank.  And besides, if the car says low fuel, you put fuel in it, you don't wait until you have a gallon left! Current Mood: frustrated (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
6:44 pm	Alone I really hate being home alone.  I can't tell you how many days I come home and am alone for 3 hours or more.  The frusteration is killing me.  I am like 3 days ahead in most of my classes because I come home and have nothing to do so I work ahead in classes.  I think I need to start running again or something.  Oh well, I really have nothing else to say.  (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
6:17 am	Red Wings The Red Wings game last night was awesome!  My mom and I had to get through a bit of a traffic jam on the way there which was very frusterating.  There were a few accidents.  But we got there all right and parked our car at the Joe and then took the People Mover to Greektown.  People Mover...isn't that great?  It really demonstrates the intelligence level of Detroit.  Everywhere else people call them transits or subways but in Detroit it's people movers.  So we got off the people mover and there was a guy playing is sax trying to get money.  He was horrible, I can play sax better than he can and if you've ever heard me play.... We went to the Parthenon for dinner.  I wasn't all that impressed.  The art on the wall was definatly not Greek.  It had Greek themes but it wasn't Greek.  They also had weird food.  They lit my cheese on fire...that was kinda cool.  Then my mom and I split some sorta platter which had like spinach things, eggplant things, stuffed grapeleaves,  and lamb.  It was ok.  We shopped around a bit too.  I'm studying ancient Greece in Humanities though and I think I annoyed my mom by telling her all this info on what was in stores and stuff.  Then we went to this huge church (St. Mary's?) amd looked around.  It was very beautiful and someday I'm going to go to a mass there.  I do wonder why they put a rosary in Jesus' hand in one of the grottos/  Just a little strange. Then we took the People Mover back to the Joe and took our seats and watched the game.  The Red Wings beat Minnesota 3-1.  Shannahan scored the first goal and they played the Irish Jig which we are actually playing in band class rigt now.  I also got put on the big screen which was really cool.  Anybody see me on TV?  Probably not.  But the game was really good and the ride home was very long.  That's about it.  Current Mood: sleepy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
10:31 pm	IT'S OVER!!!  No more marching, no more cross country...nothing!  What the heck am I going to do with myself?  I'm really glad though, even if it means I'm going to be completely good.  My doctors are sorta screwing with my meds at the moment so in a few weeks I probably would have run into a lot of trouble trying to do anything.  So I'm really  happy that it's over but I obviously don't have a life because this is all I can think to put in. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
8:48 pm	We won!  Ahh, revenge is sweet.  My coach started me next to that number 11 girl.  I'm a lot faster than her so I beat her to every ball and each time she took me out, but I took her down with me, so she had some nice bruises and a pretty good limp by the end of the game.  Once it kinda sucked though because she took me down and I basically did a flip and landed out of bounds on a water bottle.  I broke the water bottle which honestly I've never seen happen in a soccer game before so it was pretty funny.  Probably not the best thing for my back though because it doesn't feel so good, not to mention I got wet and was wearing a white shirt.  That didn't matter too much later though because it rained a lot and hailed a little too.  But I scored the first goal about 35 minutes into the game.  It wasn't a beautiful goal or anything, but it was a goal.  We got a free kick outside the 18 and the Romeo set up a wall so Meiser did the smart thing and instead of kicking it she passed it accross to Kirsten.  Kirsten took a shot but it was slippery and not very good.  Her shot reflected off of Baitey and came right to me.  I had an open net so all I had to do was tap it in.  Baitey got a hat trick in the 2nd half so we won the game 4-0.  Pretty exciting.  Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Michigan Fight Song (1 Comment |Comment on this)
12:59 pm	Soccer game today!  This time we're playing Romeo on our turf and I'll get to seek my revenge on that evil number 11 girl.  What fun I shall have today!  Well anyways...I really doubt anyone wants to watch the game but in case you do its at Broom Park, 3:00.   I was sorta hoping to talk to someone today but he's not on and my dad needs the computer.  My stupid brother broke the other one.  If you guys want to get a hold of me you'll just have to call me.  So I guess I will see you guys later.    (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 14th, 2005
10:05 pm	Well.... I don't really know what to say about this week.  After not being on meds for 3 days I started having some really bad effects and my doctor could care less, so I'm currently trying to find a new doctor.  Then I realized just how insignificant I am, yet at the same time I found out that I do have friends outside of band.  So then something good happened.  I managed to get all those knots out of my calf.  The bad news, I have a major strain in one of my tendons.  Yeah, that was so much better than tight calfs, I got to run a meet feeling like I had a knife stuck in my leg.  Not to mention my time was horrible.  So that really sucked.  Then, today, the band painted some stuff for our show and put it in the band room.  This means the band room smelled like paint fumes.  Now, having just gotten over my chronic migrains I'm still overly sensitive to smells.  So I got a headache today.  Wonderful.  I ended up missing cross country practice so I could go home and try to get rid of it.  Thrash is going to kill me on Monday.  Well, it turns out I didn't manage to get rid of it and had to march and everything with it.  That wasn't so good.  Not to mention I ended up having to sit by myself...again.  What the hell is wrong with you people?  I am one of the first people in the bleachers and when you guys get there you just sit as far away from me as possible.  Oh well, it doesn't matter.  I'm just sick and tired of the ups and downs of life, because I  have definatly reached the downs. Current Mood: depressed (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 9th, 2005
4:55 pm	Clarinet Day Clarinet day was so awesome!  First, they kicked off with a concert on Friday night.  Eddie Daniels and Caroline Hartig.  That was a very good concert with the two playing classical and jazz duets.  So then we get home from that pretty late. Saturday Don picked me up at 6:30 in the morning and we went to Donna's Donuts and then headed for MSU.  We didn't have trouble getting to MSU, but once we were there we had trouble finding our way around the campus and ended up parking at lot farther away from the music building than we needed to.  But we got there in plenty of time because we were the first people to register.  Then we had a rehersal where all the clarinetists got ran through the music we would be playing for the concert.  It was awesome music too.  Not easy, but not really that hard either.  We played Rondo all Turca by Mozart, Finagal's Cave Overture by Mendelssohn, and we played Mississippi Rag which was by far my favorite piece.  Don and I both had 1st part but what was really cool was we had just gotten the music, but when the whole group played it, it was like we'd been practicing it for weeks. Then Doctor Hartig gave a lesson on improving tone quality and advice on warming up.  It was very informational although not nearly the most exciting thing that we did. Morrie Backun is a guy who fixes clarinets for the top musicians in the world such as Eddie Daniels and he taught us some easy cheap ways to keep our clarinet in good shape.  I'm definatly going to have to try some of the stuff he suggested.  Then he took one of Eddie Daniels's brand new LaBlanc clarinets and began customizing it to Eddie Daniels in front of us.  He did this by taking, I guess you'd call them razors, and sticking them in the holes and shaving the wood.  Every clarinet in the room cringed when he did that.  It was pretty funny.  He also had these barrels and bells that he makes that really make a difference in the way you play but they were like $700 so I probably will never get one.  So then we sorta went on break and Don and I checked out the venders that were there.  They didn't really have anything that I wanted or could afford though.  There was someone there who was "fixing" clarinets so I had him take a look at mine because my E flat is leaking.  So he took the spring off.  Well then that just made it so I couldn't play B, C, D, or E so that obviously didn't work so I asked him to put the spring back on which he did,  but he bent the spring and its playing worse than it was before.  I'm so mad about that.  Don and I also went to the Noodle Company on Grand River, for lunch.  The food was so good! When we got back we took a seat in the auditorium to listen to what Eddie Daniels had to say in his lesson.  It turned out a bunch of college kids had prepared pieces and they went up and played while he offered ways of improving their playing.  Very educational but by that time the early morning was getting to us and Don and I were both falling asleep.  The rest of the night was basically concerts galore.  They were pretty good, but just too much.  Oh, I did get to talk to Eddie Daniels though and get his autograph.  It was just so awesome!   Don and I are definatly going to do clarinet day again next year!  Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: Eddie Daniels (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
9:58 pm	Life is Good Let's Go Red Wings!!!   This has been a pretty boring week.  I've been alternating between hyper, tired, and just plain out of it.  So Tuesday I had a doctors appointment.  It was pretty interesting.  To sum up, they don't know what to do with me anymore so they're taking me off meds, which probably won't turn out too good, but I'll humor them.  Also on Tuesday at the clarinet sectional I got the section to sing the Batman theme song while marching a basics block...that was fun.  So today was the Red Wing's first game of the season and they won 5-1.  YAY!  Also, Matt took me to Bennigan's today for some very yummy food.  Thank you Matt.  That's about it though.  Tomorrow I have a xc meet tomorrow which I probably won't run very good at because my calf keeps going into spasms and is as tight as a mooses butt during fly season.  Sorry, I love that analogy.  Life is good! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
9:51 pm	Homecoming Homecoming was a blast. Although I felt very clever for wearing one of the most comfortable dresses, everyone looked great! After I got all the painful stuff out of the way like nails, hair, makeup, and dress, Matt came and picked me up at 3:30 and we went to his house for pictures. Then our parents just talked to kill time while we just sorta stood there. The good news is I managed to get the boutinier(sp?) on this time without help! Then we headed over to EQ's house for pictures, which lasted forever, but we got some great pictures out of it. Then Matt and I went back to his house because he forgot the tickets *cough* and then we went to Ruggero's. The food was yummy and dinner was fun. Then of course we went to the dance which was wonderful, even though there were only 2 slow songs and the rest was basically music I don't know how to dance to. So we left the dance and went back to EQ's for a movie and a huge bowl of brownies and ice cream which was very yummy. We were watching Hitch. I was sorta tired though and fell asleep. But I had a great time, and I'd like to thank the Queens for their hospitality and I'd especially like to thank Matt for taking me and being such a great date! I hope you all had as great a time as I did! Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: My beautiful singing (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
1:12 am	I've decided that school is horrible for your health.  First, teachers give out homework, which causes stress and long nights where you only get 5 hours of sleep.  I did a research paper last year on how school doesn't allow students the right amount of sleep and the affects that can have on people...trust me, not good.  Also, school does not allow you to eat when you need to.  Normally I don't have a problem with this one but for some reason I got really hungry during second hour today and by 4th hour I couldn't hardly stand and I felt like I was going to pass out because I was so hungry.  Third, school does not allow you to go to the bathroom when you need to.  How much you want to bet all those people that hold it at school are going to end up with kidney and bladder problems a few years down the road.  Fourth, at school you sit at a desk all day inside surrounded by other germy people.  So as we share germs we also get fat and lazy from sitting at school desks all day.  We also get very pale because we don't get enough sunshine in our lifes.  Now I'm not saying that learning isn't important...we just need to find a more effective way of learning.  I mean, what happened to the good ol' days of elementary.  I learned just fine and I got to sleep, eat, pee, and go outside when I wanted to.  Why can't high school be like that? Current Mood: exhausted (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 26th, 2005
9:44 pm	Powder Puff Juniors Won!!!!! I didn't really play much because they honestly didn't know what to do with me so they put me on kick off, and that was a good choice.  I retreived a fumble that allowed us to score another touchdown giving us the lead.  The game did get close in the end though.  29-28.  Wow!  Exciting stuff! Current Mood: bouncy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
8:52 pm	Just in case you guys are interested in what the doctor had to say, this is what she said.  6 months ago I had a bunch of tests done but they never gave me the results.  Well, my thyroid test was high but I don't show any of the symptoms of that problem except for the fact that I have bleeding problems.  The other problem is that I am still in pain, and the doctor doesn't know what to do.  So she did an abdominal today on me.  I'm going to get my blood drawn again.  And then I'm getting another altra sound.  Then we are going to double up on my doses of meds which might make me sick so don't stand too close to me.  Then, depending on how things go, I may have to stop sports/activities altogether and they may have to do a scope on me.  To make things simple though, the doctors don't know whats going on or what to do.  So unfortuantly for me I'm going to have to put up with this for a while longer. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
9:53 pm	Is it just me or... So life really sucks right now.  It turns out that little sprain in my ankle is turning out to be a huge problem.  My cross country coach thinks I'm going to run tomorrow when right now I can't really walk all that well.  But that stupid little sprain has caused me to favor it which has caused my knee to hurt and has also caused my stomach to hurt worse than I ever thought was possible.  I'm having trouble making it through the school day because of it again.  Not to mention it seems like my friends ignore me at school and at band.  Honestly, I can't remember them saying anything to me today.  Then, when I'm home my parents do nothing but yell at me so that haven is taken away now.  All I really want right now is a really big hug and I can't even get that.  So I guess that means I'm feeling a little attention deprived too.  But as always I'll just keep pushing through...there has to be a reward somewhere in all of this. Current Mood: frustrated (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 18th, 2005
5:55 pm	So my soccer game today was just wonderful.  We lost but that's not really what I care about, I'm just sorta on this team for fun and to keep my skills up.  However girls in Romeo have attitude problems.  I wasn't even going to play today because my ankles are breaking down and I'm getting sicker by the hour, but we only had one sub and it was a little warm out today so I decided to help a little.  They started me at right mid and left me in the whole half.  Number 22 apparently couldn't compete with me so she kept trying to take me out.  It got really annoying.  So then second half they put me on the left side.  About 3 minutes in I'm sprung on a break and there is no one around me.  So I take it to the corner and send this beautiful cross in and I watch my cross go to the center of the net.  The goalie and one of our girls was going for it....and unfortuantly that's all I saw.  At that moment number 11 slide tackled me from behind.  Funny, I wasn't even near the play when she did it.  So my coaches took me off and wouldn't let me back in because I'm pretty nasty when it comes to retaliation.  So fun game.  I've decided I'm having a pretty shitty day though.  My neck is so sore I can't even touch my chin to my chest or move my head very much at all.  I can't really walk all that well because of my ankles and I've been so sick all I feel like doing is sleeping and I can't get in to my doctor until like next week.  I really need to get rid of something.  But I'm going for 4 years varsity xc so I'm not giving that up.  And soccer is only on the weekends, so that's staying too.  I would really like to give up band because first of all the people are annoying the heck out of me.  You guys have this really conveinant way of pissing me off.  Second of all, I don't have the strength to play anymore, I'm struggling just to play in class, imagine what marchings doing to me.  Third of all and probably the biggest, huge lack of respect.  With a few exceptions my section doesn't respect me and worst of all the directors don't respect me.  Unfortuantly though the counslers and my parents won't let me give up band so I'm looking towards another solution.  Either yoga or therapy.  Apparently yoga is supposed to be a stress reliever.  Therapy would help me overcome this huge depression I've fallen into and possibly calm this overwhelming hatred I've been developing towards people.  Or I can suffer in silence, which seems to be working at the moment.  Oh well, I'll pull through...I always do. Current Mood: crappy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 12th, 2005
9:34 pm	AGHH! I think I'm going to die of insanity this week, check it out Monday: 2:30-3:30 powder puff, 2:30 XC meet @ Kersley v. Davison, 6 open house, 7 NHS, 8 clarinet lesson Tuesday: 2:30-3:30 Powder puff, 3:30-5:30 XC, 5 clarinet sectional, 6-8:30 band Wednesday:  YAY! my day off!  2:30-3:30 powder puff, 3:30-5:30 XC Thursday: 2:30-3:30 powder puff, 4:30 XC Cheasening Invitational, 6-8:30 band Friday: 2:30-3:30 powder puff, 3:30-5:30 XC, football game Saturday:  I guess we're planning a movie night at my house....bring your own mat because we definatly don't have furniture! Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 11th, 2005
11:49 am	Ok, so I've had a really weird morning.  First, my mom wakes me up and says, "Get up, you're not going to church this morning...you're running instead.  So I got up and ran 5 miles.  I was so stiff though from my soccer game last night.  I had to stretch at like every mile.  But the weather was good this morning so I don't care.  So I showered after my run and then read some of the Bible because I missed church.  Then I was sorta tired so I layed down to go to sleep but then Gabby started doing weird stuff to me.  You'll never believe this but she stuck her paw down the back of my pants, pulled them out because they're really big on me, and then stuck her head down them.  That was a little too much for me.  She got demoted to the floor after that.  So then Tony and I were mock boxing and to try and throw him off I started calling him Cueball because he has no hair.  But then he was like, I'm not bald, I have fuzz now.  So then I started calling him Fuzzy, and he shot back, "that's Fuzzy Wuzzy to you!"  So yes, very strange morning.  I can already tell this is going to be a good day, there is only one thing that could make it better..... Current Mood: amused Current Music: Still Rock and Roll to me (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 8th, 2005
9:56 pm	Alright, that's it!  I am changing my name.  This is the second time in two days that I have been refered to as a male.  HELLO!  I am definatly female.  Ok, so I got this letter back from the DNR which referred to me as Mr. Alex Hatcher, so I was thinking no big deal.  I mean, how many women fish?  So I let that one pass.  However, in the Flint Journal they refer to me as "he"  What the heck!  The guy even talked to me in person...he's knows my mom and my grandpa for chirssake!  So what is this sterotype that Alex is a male name?  It isn't!  It can be both.  But since our society still can't grasp that I am forced to change my name to something more feminine.  Once I figure out what I'm changing it to I'll tell you.  Until then....I don't know, I'll think of something creative. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Fat Bottom Girls (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
5:22 pm	Well, we started school....Not much I can really say about that.  After an extremly stressful last year it seems like I have really easy teachers and classes.  So hopefully this will be an easy year.  At least this year I have a lot of friends in my classes. I can already tell Tuesdays and Thursdays are going to be insane though.  School, then cross country, then band, not to mention if I have homework.  Talk about exhausting.  But tomorrow I get to run cross country practice so trust me, it won't be bad at all. OH!  I got a new car!  No more Grand Marquis.  I got a 2005 Saturn Ion.  I guess the color is called Dragon Fly green, but it just looks green to me.  Now all we have to do is sell the Marquis....anyone interested?   Didn't think so. Current Mood: drained (Comment on this)