tashtash

Craziness

2010-04-22T17:10:00.003-05:00

The last three weeks of April are and will be so hectic. I have a presentation and a paper due for a college class. I was gone from 4:20 in the morning to 8:30 at night on Wednesday, and I have SO much school work to make up. I have work on both Friday and Saturday. I have the ACT next Wednesday, and the PSAE on Thursday. I'll be gone from school on Friday too, because I'm going to Keokuk to decorate for Prom (I'm on the prom decorating committee). Saturday is Prom. I will have a week-long break, and then I'll have exams for an additional week. We had voting for prom court on Monday, and we got the results on Wednesday. I made it onto prom court!!! Me, Kayla, Maria, Morgan, Ashley, Q, Luke, Seth, Brennan, and Seth are all on prom court. Q is my escort!! This is exciting, but it also adds to my craziness. We're going out for dinner sometime next week.

Wdding plans #1 - Colors, ring, and cake

2010-02-07T19:09:00.009-06:00

My friend Amanda has a school assignment to plan her wedding. She asked me and Lexi and Amber if we wanted to do it with her. Of course I said yes. What teenage girl would say no?

This ring is my favorite. It's simple and pretty. Lexi was saying she didn't like it because it was too simple, but I like it - it can go formal and casual. And, this isn't even the ring I'll choose, I'm sure.

First I'd like to mention that I would like my wedding colors to be red and white. They're classy, but not white tie extravagance. Plus, I can have red and white roses for decoration.

I like this idea to have cupcakes. I had never even heard of having cupcakes until I saw some pictures. But I like it. No one has to cut all the pieces for everyone. I went to a wedding where someone was assigned to stand by the cake the whole time, waiting for people to come and ask him to cut pieces for them of their desired size. Not at my wedding. With cupcakes, I wouldn't need to provide forks or plates - just napkins. And have you ever heard of someone having offered to "send a piece of the cake" to an unfortunate person who missed the wedding? Cupcakes would make that easier to accomplish. I also like the cakes below. I'm feeling a little iffy about the cake on the right, because I'm not a fan of frosting-with-cake, when it should be cake-with-frosting. There's only one frosting recipe in the whole world that I like.

'If you like smoothies, and driving for 21 hours.'

2008-06-18T12:06:00.006-05:00

I know it's been over a month since I last

posted, but please forgive me. Since I last

posted...I was an alternate for state track,

and I didn't run, but I got a varsity letter.

School got out on the 21st. I went to Cali

on a school trip; I went to Six Flags and

Universal Studios. I had my 4th year Girls

Camp hike & camp. While we were hiking, I

fell, and I will post some pictures of my shin.

It's lovely. Girl's Camp! The weather has

been so freaky! We've gone from this-

to this- !

These are our kittens! We may keep one, but

is anyone interested in a kitten or two, maybe

a mommy cat?

In my next post, I will post pictures of Girl's

Camp.

I'm looking at my classes for next year, and

I'm confused beyond all reason. argh I've been

planning all my classes as the classes Millard

provides, and the classes of my new school are

way different. haha I can't figure out what I

want to do. humph We have everything for the move figured out, and one day after we get there, I will be going to a tri-stake Youth Conference. We'll start driving on the 14th, get there the 15th, and I will take a lot of pictures while we are driving to post! Doesn't this look so good? This picture was taken in April, but I've been making smoothies all summer. They complete my life. My favorite: 1 banana
orange juice
blueberries
yogurt
almonds

"Oh baby, baby"

2008-04-12T16:45:00.004-05:00

As I forgot to mention in my last post, Mia took (most of) those pictures on Easter, in my Easter dress. Others were at state FCCLA. We had a JV track meet on Wednesday. It was pretty enjoyable, hmm, except for the fact that it was snowing!, and it was at Juab, where the wind is ALWAYS blowing. I ran the 100 meter dash, and ran in the 4x1 relay. second to last. Oh, baby. We gave up and left before I could run in the 200. Mr. Bob was there, and he let me wear coat. We all thought we were going to die of hypothermia.
At practice on Thursday, I found out that Groesbeck signed me up for the 400 meter dash on Friday at an invitational meet at Juab! What! I had NEVER ran a 400 before. (That's once around the track) At practice I ran one to get the hang of it. Tiffany said it looked good, but I could barely carry my blocks back to out them away. Jannet offered to put them away for me. I love Jannet.
On Friday, a couple of guys brought camping chairs, so me, Kensie, Elias, Rendon, and Jens sat in them(rotating between a couple of other people as the events came and went). We were all huddled with blankets, and sitting on each other's feet, trying to stay warm. Daddy and Noah came to visit us. TONS of parents came. Rendon went to do the pole vault, and I taught people to say "ganbare!" In the pole vault they keep raising the bar higher and higher, and if you hit the bar, you get a mark. three marks and you're out. Well, Rendon had hit the bar twice, and he was running to jump again. We were all yelling "ganbare!, Ganbare!".....he hit the bar. Silence. Then Elias said "Ganbare." haha
After a couple of hours, they made the first call for the 400. As I was walking over there, I was so nervous, I thought I was going to pee my pants. They called out who was going to be in the first heat. someonesomeone from somewheresomewhere and Natasha from Millard. What? The first heat? Only one other person? What was the world coming to? So this other girl was a no-show, hmm am I racing myself then? They put me in the second heat, in the second lane. 7 other girls. foo. I was maybe going 85~90% on the first 100, and I was getting ahead. The second 100, I was taking big strides. By the end of the second 100 was where Millard was camped. I was in the lead with a big gap in back of me. Everyone was cheering for me. I started sprinting fast. Still ahead. Then I heard someone behind me, with people shouting "Go, Mary. Pass her. You can take her Mary." Thanks. That makes me feel good. She passed me up. I tried to go faster, but I couldn't swallow, I couldn't breath, all I could do was think about putting some more clothes on, and keep running. I finished in second. Considering it was my first try, I'm feelin' pretty good. Oh baby! I walked back to our camp site, and tried to drink some gatorade we brought, but I couldn't swallow it. Rendon stopped me and said; "Hey Tashi, I was watching you. YOu did a good job." People were watching me? My butt hurt to bad, I was going sit down when Jumbo said; "We were watching you, and I was like, she just hit her wall." So that's why I couldn't run faster. It all makes sense now. So I sat down. It didn't help. It hurt even more. Mr.Bob walkes over looks at me without saying anything, and shakes my hand. It was kinds funny espesially since he had out his hand on my neck only a little while before.
We sat around for a couple more hours we filmed people saying "Usopyon", and "Ganbare", and "nandeyanen" and "jane". They're on Lexi's camera, so she should post them. We re all freezing our butts off, so we would yell "Keel, let's go home!" "Nathan! Home! Bus!" but they wouldn't let us leave. Me, Kensie, Jens, Elias had to run the 200, which was last. Groesbeck made us run. I n my heat there were three people. Me, Kensie, and some other girl. I know Kensie's faster than me. This will be nice. On the curve, I was behind them, but I was catching up. Gradually, I was getting closer to Kensie. We were tied. Then we hit the finish line. She was soooo mad. No comment. Squishee! Ume?! In our garden a couple of days ago, I took these pictures of our apricot tree.

'He's the Reason for the Teardrops on my Pillow'

2008-04-02T23:58:00.011-05:00

My Easter eggs!

'I've been dreaming...'

OwOW! Hot babe!

BEAutiful...!

Emma and I.

Mims.

My Mims.

No comment.

You and me?

Mia's request.

'You make me wanna scream!"

oo la la

La!

Look at those guns! Oh baby.

Strut that runway.

Catwalk.

Me with my posters at state FCCLA.

My fatties. *sigh*

osenbei osenbei yaketa kana?

The back of my FCCLA shirt.

(same) Let's party!

Nori.

My new Hollister shirt I bought. Cute.

"The Prestige."

2008-03-08T15:35:00.006-06:00

TV Reviews

You have to kidding me. Elementary school? My dad's is Junior High level. Hm. I was excepted to said party. It was so fun.I left straight from track practice, in my B-E-A-utiful attire Lexi made me wear that day. I still haven't recovered. If only you knew how many strange looks I got the entire day. You would be crying. I wore red and white striped leggings, pulled up to my knees, with my Cat in The Hat sweatshirt. I looked like a Dr. Seuss character. To top it off, my foot-apparel consisted of my fluffy, pink slippers. From 4:00~6:00, we got ready for Bryan's surprise-welcome-home-and-late-birthday-party. It was so beautiful. We ate pizza, bread sticks, cookies, pop, and pie. we scooted around on scooters, danced, beat each other with balloons, played Guitar Hero, and made music videos at Kelsey's house. If I can, I will post the music videos on here. I can't even begin to describe them. After you've recovered from crying about my horrendous outfit, you'll start crying again from the beauty of the videos. We had to leave Kelsey's at 9:00, so we then migrated a block down to Wade's house. We watched his home-videos for a while, then we started watching Bruce Almighty, before the girls had to go; the boys were sleeping over at Wade's. Wade was censoring the movie for us, muting it when necessary, and muting unnecessary parts. So, all summed up, it was spectacularly fun.

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2008-03-02T19:00:00.004-06:00

Now, when was the last time I posted? Too long ago. My birthday was happy, and Valentines was happy. Kelsey was my valentine. Yeah, baby. I have to prove to Wade and Sharpie that I'm a party animal. What? I know. Don't ask me. I'll tell you if I'm excepted. So things have been getting better. Compared to when the school-year first started, I'm so much happier. The school year's almost 3/4 of the way done. Can you believe it? I can't either. I'm not the background collage anymore. I'm making my way to the picture that tells the story. That reminds me-our extended stout family wen and saw Minerva Teichert's display at the BYU art museum. Mana came to visit that weekend. Sadly, she was sick most of the time, and wasn't able to participate in Fillmore's 'many' activities. It is my turn to be sick, with a sore throat, stuffy nose, and severe ear pains. I'm hoping I will feel better in time for the first day of TRACK tomorrow! Oh yeah, baby! There's also a fireside tonight that I wish to attend. Recently I've heard many people sympathize for me on how terrible it must be to attend meek little Millard High, and recent move-ins have also made their complaints. On the contrary, I prefer to have a small school. I know either everyone's face or name, if not mostly both. Walking to every class, I can say hi to at least 5 people. It's nice. If your good buddy's not there, you can still talk to someone you know relativly well, and they know you some-what, so it's all good. You're close with everyone, the only problem is your personal life. Everyone knows if you're in a relationship. Half the school will know who you like-after one day of school-if you tell ONE person. It's crazy, but I love it. Speaking of which, I don't like anyone, but I've still 'got my flirt on'. "Flirting is a womans' trait; she must always keep in practice." This is true you see. I need to go work on my Easter dress now, so TTFN. Today the sky was beautiful. I was riding into my valley on the bus, and all of a sudden I felt like I was bathing in the sun. The clouds that had hovered over me for so long had made a circle in the sky, and left a patch of bright blue right over my head. The way ahead was clear of clouds, the sky was a brilliant blue, and the sun shone behind me. It seemed to say, "See, I've been here all along, and you've nearly forgotten me. I'm right here, I'm behind you."

'You can stand under my parasol'

2008-01-24T22:05:00.000-06:00

So I'm in computers right now. I just got out of chorus, and Mr. Bob (Mr. Shields) gave me a B. geez. I'm I'm I'm....angry! (haha) He also let me explain what a downbeat is to the class, because I got an A on my test. That made me feel accomplished. hhmmm. I'm sitting next to Janette, who is playing a strange game on primarygames.com, while I listen to my iPod. That's right. I finally set up my iPod. I was thinking about the world's busiest intersection today. It's pretty cool. Nest to the Tokyu Hands book store. I remember when my mom took Lexi and I there once, and she bought me the 3 Frog & Toad books. She then took us to TGI Fridays for dinner. I think my dad met us there, too. That was a fun day. It's almost time to get out of class now, so I'd better go now. toodles. Why is it, that we tend to give our hearts to those who don't give in return? Though of the day.
Shoot for the moon; even if you miss, you'll land among the stars

'Stop the Snow, Stop the snow, Stop the Snow'

2008-01-07T15:19:00.000-06:00

I'm tired of the snow! As Soon As the snow melts, it snows again. Argh. We had an exceptionally good Christmas and New Years. And guess what? Do you have the desire to know what? It's my birthday, that's what. And I'm excited. I'm very excited. I've been so talkative during school today, people probably thought I was rather weird. I don't blame them. I was unbelievably tired, yet extremely talkative. Strange mix. Ever had that problem? Yeah, I know how you feel. I'm sure I annoyed the pants off of people. And also guess what? The end of 2nd term was last Thursday, and once again, it's that time of the term, where our grades are finalized, marked, unchangeable, saved, and gone down in the book as such. I raised all but 2 of my grades compared to last term. School's looking pretty good. Making more friends. Oh yeah, baby.

So lets lie in the grass & stare at the stars & live through the moment, figure out who we are.

"Sleddin' in a Winter Wonderland"

2007-12-04T19:07:00.000-06:00

Fall is officially over! We woke

up to a white winter wonderland on Saturday

morning. After lunch, I went sledding with

Lexi, Sam, Cortney, Rex, Ethan, and the two

Jessicas. Afterwards, Ethan, and Sam came

over to drink hot cocoa. After that, we watched

movies from our Tokyo Stake days.It was nice.

Lexi had to go to work, but after that, her and

Gina and Sam picked me up, later picking up

Kelton, then getting hot cocoa at Maverick.

~"Oh bring us some freakin' pudding."~ haha

On Sunday, we had our normal church routine.

At 6:00, we went to Christmas devotional,

subsequently singing in Messiah practice. We're

performing the Sunday after next. Yes, very

jittery. On Monday, we went sledding again,

because Gina wasn't able to go on Saturday.

At first, we went to North Park, but the hill

there was not adequate for sledding, so we

tried June Brush Hill, but it wasn't steep enough,

and there wasn't enough snow, so shortly after

this, we took Lexi to a work meeting, met up

with Spencer, Amanda, and Jessica Melville, then

went to June Hill(different from June Brush)

in Meadow, and had fun going down once.

We went home, decorated the Christmas tree,

watched Mr. Kruger's Christmas. Daddy

took Lexi and I to Maverick for hot cocoa,

then watched Elf. Today, me, Lex, Gina,

Spencer, and Amanda went sledding again,

this time at a hill in Holden. I had to bail

a million times, and got hurt more than

thrice. I got wet and muddy. It wasn't

pleasant. I stubbed my pinky, and hurt it so

bad, I couldn't move it. Ouch. Now I am

sitting on the couch, and I still need to clean

the bathrooms. Life is confusing me.

Here are some of my thoughts lately;

"It's a Wonderful Day in our Millard High"

2007-11-27T20:16:00.000-06:00

Thursday was mid-term, and I despise my

grades! Mr. Greider gave me a B+! I worked

my butt off in that class, and I got a B+!

Gracious. we have our Christmas tree up, but

we only have lights on. It's time to get the

advent calendars out! It's so exciting! the Iron

Man was yesterday and continues today. Sweaty

guys in wrestling uniforms. I promised Baby

Ras I would go watch him, but when I went

yesterday, I didn't see him. I saw his family. The all look the same. They're so cute. Why must life be so confusing? Especially

social & personal lives. argh. It's exasperating.

Well I need to get ready to go sleding right now,

so hopfully I can post more today or tomorrow.

Best friend: the ones that you can only stay

mad at for an hour because you have important

stuff to tell them.

'Cause I had a Bad Day'

2007-11-03T13:23:00.000-05:00

Saturday, we had a family party with the Stouts,

party-ed our guts out, then Lex and I went to

Noah, Sam, Caleb, and Angus's movie premiere

for their zombie movie. They had some guest

stars too: Eden, Leah, and Kelton of people that

I know. After that, Noah, Eden, Sam, and Ethan

came over to our house and we played Balderdash

(the new version) We had fun~Aquatic Pineapple

Bubble Shampoo, American Peanut Butter Association,

Big Bubba's Hot Chocolate...~fun. I've been feeling

nerdly lately. Sunday morning, I went to the

Camp's house, with Katie, Josh(Camp), Courtney

(Jensen),Sam, Jessica(Wall), Osten, Tito, Gabe,

and 2 girls from Delta, and "Carl drove the big

grey van" to TLT. We had fun. It was at USU,

where many 4-H activities are held. TLT is a

4-H activity thingy, where we basically learn...

how to be leaders..., pretty much the same stuff

as Teen Council. We did some cool science

experiments. Lots of people came and talked

to us. They told us about other 4-H groups we

could join, ways we could 'help around our

communities',and stuffs like that. Lunch and

dinner on Monday was in the Marketplace, and

in the words of today's youth, it was awesome.

There was a costume dance and karaoke on

Monday night, but I was sick, so I wasn't able

to attend. I decided USU is in my top 3 colleges.

BYU is still #1. I've really been wanting to

write a story lately. I will, eventually. Not

right now. The first term ended on the 19th.

My grades for the first term are;

English A, 93

Algebra A, 96

Chorus A, 105

Computers A, 94

Biology A-,91

Foods A, 102

PE A, 95

Seminary A, 107

Advisory A, 100
I was relatively happy. My GPA was 3.95.

Biology was amazing. At mid-term, I had

forgotten to give some assignments in, so

I had a C-. Despite my 3 Fs, I raised it to a

A-. Cool, huh? I think my end-of-term-test

was in the top 10 of the class. Happy day.

On Halloween, Lex and I were supposed to

take Mia and Noah trickor-Treating, but

Lexi invited Gina and Sam and Ethan too.

We then went to our ward party. Me Lexi

picked up our sleepover stuff from our house,

then went to Kaitlynn's birthday-party-

pioneer-dance. My goal for the night was to

Nate to dance. Katie and I come up with some

schemes, but we had to leave early. I confronted

him about it later, and he confessed to me

that he had. Yay. I did the finger polka, and

then danced the Virginia Reel with Sam. To

make sure all the girls had a partner, they

had each girl put one shoe in a pile, on one

side of the room. All the guys lined up on the

other side of the room, then when Carl yelled

go, they all ran to grab a shoe. Whoever's

shoe they grabbed, was who they danced with.

A whole bunch of guys went sliding in their

hurry, and slammed against the wall. Ouch.

Caleb grabbed 3 shoes-what was he thinking?

So Sam went up to him, and said "Give me

my shoe back!" Sam's shoe had fallen off, and

Caleb had grabbed it, thinking it was a girls'

shoe. Sam also took another shoe him, because

he hadn't got one. It was mine. I had fun with

Sam. He kept trying to fling me. haha So then

Gina, Lexi, me, Ethan, Sam, Kalem, and George

went to Gina's house,where we played Phase

10(I won) and went on a Halloween walk to

the 'Big House' next to Gina's house. I swear

it's haunted. Then, the guys left, and us girls

watched Premonition and The Notebook.

Cute! We finally went to bed, and Lexi and

Gina woke up at 7, whereas I woke up at

10. This is Thursday. We had SEOP's we had

to go to. It was pretty good. Sorta boring.

Friday was fun. Just one of those days where

everone seems to do something funny. I

Algebra, when we were supposed to be doing

assignment, Matt kept making kissing noises.

after a while, Dillon turned around to see what

was going on. The expression he pulled was

so funny. I started laughing. Embarassing.

In chorus I went to sit by Nate, since we were

both sitting alone. I had fun talking to him.

We talked about random stuffs. I get to sit

by him in 2 other classes. I sat with a seat

inbetween us, since he doesn't want to touch

girls. But not because they have cooties. haha

Nate's my buddy. We both get to be villagers

in the musical. So, I came home, watched my

younger siblings, helped Mom, ate dinner,

and ate cookie dough with Mom, while watching

The Princess Bride, and the new Freaky Friday.

'Behind These blue-ish eyes'

2007-10-25T18:28:00.000-05:00

Hola So, being the end of the term, it's been very,

very, busy. English, I had to type up an book report with one-day's notice. Algebra, I had to catch up on 3 assignments, and we had a pretest last time. Chorus, okay. Computers, I had 2 assignments. In Biology, we just had a test, and I had to type a report(We had a presentation a little while ago. I put the whole slide show together, and looked up all the information, while my partner did nothing. Mr. Greider came up to me the other day, and said "Have you given in the report for the hotspots?" I said, " No, I don't think so. I'll try and get that to you today." pretending like I had it waiting in my locker. I had to hurry with my computers assignment for the day, then type it up, while my partner did nothing.) In Foods, I've been dandy. PE has been peachy. And seminary has been extraordinary. We changed seats the other day. I like my spot. I get to sit by Nate. Nate's my buddy. Some people (ehem..Emily..) were curious about our running schedule for the summer....
Monday AM - Hard Run 4-6 Miles Monday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Tuesday AM - Easy 4-5 miles Tuesday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Wednesday AM - Hard Run 4-6 miles

Wednesday - PM Easy 3 miles Thursday AM - Easy 4-5 miles Thursday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Friday AM - Hard Run 5-7 miles Friday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Saturday - Medium 5-7 miles Sunday- Rest Hopefully, this will improve our running skills. Coach Moat asked me, Lexi, and Shelby to recruit people next year. I told him how I had helped recruit 13 people for Youth Court, and he said, "Ok, it's up to you, Natasha." haha

Adiós

" Wise Men Say 'Only Fools Rush In.' "

2007-10-21T16:14:00.000-05:00

Life has been so busy, and crazy,and scary, it's disturbing. Last Friday(the 12th),Lexi, Ethan, and I went to Gina's house to hang out. It was so stinkin' fun! We played Mario golf, and l aughed our heads off the whole entire time we don't know why we were laughing. Some of it wasn't even funny. haha So after laughing our heads off, we went home. The next morning, we went to the Harvest Festival with Gina. The volleyball team was doing a fundraiser there, and so we helped them. MacConell came, and he brought his new puppy, Nikki. She's adorable! At 4:30ish, Gina took Lexi to work, and me home, but at 9:00, her and Kortney pickerd me back up, and went to pick Baby-Ras up, went to Mavrik (where Baby-Ras bought an over-flowing ice cream cone), then drove across the street to pick Lexi up from work. We went to Gina's house again, and Ethan met us there. We watched Disturbia. It was disturbing. Baby-Ras(AKA Josh) kept trying to scare us girls. It wasn't funny. We all thought we were going to die. I felt really bad afterwards, 'cause when the movie was done, Josh said his parents probably wouldn't have liked him watching it. When the movie was done, we had 13 minutes to get to Fillmore, drop Josh off, and drop Lexi and I off before midnight. On Monday, I was supposed to be on a Biology field trip, but I was getting braces.Nice, huh? Yeah, they're beautiful. They've already started moving! Happy day! They firs couple of days, my mouth was so cut up to the piont, it hurt to swallow! Tuesday, Youth court was canceled, so Lex and I went to Mac's(MacConell) house. We watched A Walk to Remember. Because of his sisters, he has lots of chick-flicks. It's funny. On Wednesday, I got to miss school(agian!) because I went to cheer my fellow team mates running at state. Bourne brought this sugar free chocolate and fed it to everyone. It was barf-worthy. Everyone got mad at him. "Why'd you feed this to us?" "Eeeewwww! It's gross!" Him and Lexi had a perfume fight-on the bus! He would spray Lexi with his colone, and she would spray him with her perfume. All the girls started screaming, and rolling down their windows. The girls took state, and we went to eat at the Rodizios in Trolley Square. We saw where the shooting was. The girls found a beautiful sale, and bought some cute shirts. On the way home, Mr. Anderson made us stop at Home Depot for his own personal reasons, then stop at Walmart for the 2nd time that day. Since we didn't want to go into Walmart, me, Lexi, and Mac went into Payless. Lexi got a pair of sneakers & a pair of black heels. I bought a pair of sneakers. Mac wanted(needs) a new pair of shoes, but he didn't like any of the shes we picked out for him. So he's still wearing the same black shoes. After school onThursday, our Lexi & Gina & Tashi threesome went to the seminary building so Gina and I could get our scriptures. We ended up staying and talking to BrothersLeotcher & Rasmussen. I was telling Br. Ras how my braces have given me a speech impediment, and Br. Ras told me a great story of how his dad had pretended to have a speech impediment for his room mate. Long story. A friend of his room mate's who thought he actually had speaking problems, asked him to double with her, his room mate, and her room mate. The whole date he purposely talked funny, and when the date was almost done, he blew his nose, and said, "That's better." in a normal voice. haha We went to pick Sam up, drove to Mavrik, drove Sam home, then quickly drove Lexi and I home so Lexi wouldn't be late for work. We got out early on Friday, so me, Gina, and Lexi kidnapped(not really. We asked permission) Josh, and went to Gina's house to play. We had so much fun. We played Apples to Apples and another game whose name I can't remember. We got bored, so all 4 of us hopped on Gina's 4-wheeler, and we drove to White Mountain. We played in the white sand, told funny stories, then drove home. Josh had to sit on the back, where there's this rack for putting things on. It vibrated really bad because it was right above the engine. It took Josh a while to recover. He kept saying, "My butt...the vibrations....the pain...". haha We drove back to Fillmore, returned Eragon to Video One Stop, and bought shaved ice while we were there. We sat on the swingsat North Park while we ate, then drove Josh home, drove Lexi to work, and then drove me home. Gina had to go to Ephraim. On Saturday, our ward went and did Baptisms For The Dead. That's my first time doing BFTD in the Manti Temple. We all went our seperate ways, and that night, me, Lexi, and Sam went to watch the volleyball game. When the game was all done, we went to Gina's house, with Kaitlyn, Ethan, Kortney, and Mike tagging along. We played Apples to Apples again, and we laughed our heads off again. We ate chips and dip, and drank grape Shasta, which makes us go crazy. We kept laughing like maniacs. Mike and Ethan would make fun of mine and Lexi's nad Gina's laughs.
I found this cute little quote.
Somewhere between the procrastination and the homework, and the incessant forwards and the friendships, and the nasty cafeteria food and the calls to each other complaining about crushes.Somewhere between the phone calls to old friends and the "I miss you's"and the "I love you's", and the "What are we doing tonight's" and somewhere between all of the changing and growing. Somewhere between the classes and the skipping classes, and the studying for tests, and the pretending to study for tests, I forgot. I forgot what high school is all about. I forgot what it meant to cry. I forgot that pretending to be happy doesn't make you happy. And that pretending to be smart doesn't make you smart. I forgot that you can't just forget the past in fear of the future. I forgot that you can't control falling in love. And that you can't make yourself fall in love. I learned that I can love.I learned that it's okay to mess up, and it's okay to ask for help and it's okay to feel like crap. I learned it's okay to complain and whine to your friends for the whole day. I learned that sometimes the things you want most you can't have. I learned that the greatest thing about high school isn't the parties or the hook-ups, it's the friendships, which mean taking chances. I learned that the things we want to forget are the things which we most need to talk about. I learned that letters from your friends are the most important thing. And that sending cards to your friends make you feel better. But, basically, I learned that my friends - old and new - are the most important people to me in the world, and without them, I wouldn't be who I am today.

'Lord of The Freshmen!'

2007-10-07T22:14:00.000-05:00

I'm sorry I haven't posted in like, a month! I'll just say how busy I've been, and try to make another posting this week. I'm a freshman in HIGH SCHOOL, I've got 8 calsses to pass, 8 teachers to please, I'm running Cross Country, I'm in FCCLA(Future Career Community Leaders of America), TLT(Teen Leader Training), Teen Council, Youth Court, GYC(Governers Youth Council), I'm getting braces, I'm going to be in the upcoming musical, 'Beauty And The Beast', and I have a personal life, as well as a social life to handle. I need to go to bed now. I'm giving a presentation in Biology tomorrow. First period. My partner didn't do a single thing. She just sat there, and looked at her nails while I did all the research. arrrghh. She better not make me get a failing grade. I went to the football game on Friday night, and it was super fun, but it was raining, the wind was blowing, and even wearing 5 layers, I almost froze. I got to come home, and drink hot chocolate though. Yum! 3 people on the opposite team got hurt. One of them got a head concuction, and a ambulance had to come. We got so cold during that 20 minutes. We had 8 people squished under 1 umbrella. My toes went numb. It was fun to watch the little freshmen buys acting as water boys. They looked so small compared to the juniors, and seniors, who were also wearing their pads. We won 35/0 may I add.
Don't blame Gravity for Falling in Love.
-Albert Einstein

'What Time is it? Time of Our Lives. School is Back in!

2007-08-26T21:05:00.000-05:00

здравствулте!
I can never seem to be able to

eat enough breakfast. By 10:33-ish I'm always

starving. Not a very happy Tashi. There is so

much to say. I won't so it all tonight.

Here are my classes:

A day

1. English

2. Algebra

Lunch! And there was much rejoicing!

3. Chorus

4. Computer tech.

B day

1. Biology

2. Foods & Nutrition

LUNCH!!!

3. Participation skills & Techniques( AKA freshmen PE)

4. Seminary

And lunchtime devotional after lunch. Fun!

One of my teachers is dyslexic.

It's funny. He's so random all the time. He says

stuff like "Tut tut. It looks like rain."

It may be a bit early, but I'm

starting to plan out my life. I won't go into

details now, but yeah.

см.
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'Hoodalalee Hoodalalee Golly What a Week'

2007-08-11T22:23:00.000-05:00

Hello
We just got back from EFY(Especially For Youth). It was so fun!!! I really, really, really want to go again! "In the words of today's youth, it was awesome." haha Our group was the For Beholds. There was so much walking involved. I had to mummify my feet in tape for blister prevention. It hurt. On Thursday we had to wear Sunday clothes the whole day. That includes wearing heels the whole day. I gotta tell ya. Before one of the dances, I lathered myself in deodorant so I wouldn't smell of unnameable substances. But as I was putting it on my forehead, I got some in my hair, and it looked like dandruff! I wasn't able to get it all out. Talk about embarassing! We had fun screaming and cheering about everything. Our counselor Petey knew all the other counselors, and so he would have us yell something different to everyone. Our main call was hoodalalee. Or, hoorah, or kapow, or "Hey, so-and-so" really awekward. It was fun. We would also scream for Br. Buckner(Our session director), and Br. Bowman until our throats hurt. Brittni lost her voice. It was funny. Lara had some SUPER cute shoes like these, but hers were black. CUTE! We hads LoTs and lOtS of good lessons.

One was about 'faking confidence until making confidence.'

They also kept talking about how texting

constantly is bad. We had to leave our cell phones in our

dorms for the whole day except at free-time. They kept talking about how girls shouldn't

readd magazines and stuffs because it tends to make girls

depressed, and it junks up your mind. hhhmmmm....... Breakfast and dinner we would eat at the Cannon Center,

but lunch would just be a sack lunch. They were very good.

But one of the days we had Subway, and that

was good.

okay, everyone has a COW(Crush Of the Week)

when they go to EFY right? Of course, right. So the girlsand

decided to right down who they liked on piece of paper, and

swap papers, and see who liked who. Yeah, I thought this

one guy was cool. Arielle tried to talk us out of it saying, that

she did it once, and no one liked her, and she felt really bad,

and she didn't want anyone to get their feelings hurt. But, we did it anyway. Hhhmm. I ended up

regretting it. 7 guys liked Lexi, and one guy liked every girl

except Arielle(now I felt bad), me, and Lindsey. awe well.

When am I gonna see him again anyways right? Pizza night was awesome. Our group got 8

pizzas, 2 dessert pizzas, 2 things of ice cream, 2 packages

of cookies, 2 sodas, and a galon of fruit punch. Afterwards,

we all got our mattresses, stripped them of their linens, and

played matress dominoes. We all squished eachother. We

kept saying "One more time" about 8 times, until it was 15

minutes past lights-out. We filmed it 3 times, and gave it in

to the slideshow on Friday. "It was awesome". For the dances and games night you needed

closed-toed-shoes, which I sorely needed. So, on our way up

on Monday morning, I popped into Pay-less and bought some

formal, and informal shoes. May I add that they are darling?

But I didn't think about walking around in new shoes and

getting blisters. Both dances were awesome. There was modesty,

there were good songs(so you don't have to worry about awkward

songs when you're dancing with a guy), no swearing songs... and

the guys had to ask you to dance. Altogehter, 8 guys I didn't know

asking me to dance. "It was awesome" Derrek taught me some

swing dance moves. Girls dig guys that can swing dance. One time

I asked this random guy to dance, and it ended up he knew Mikako

and Chase Adams. I thought that was cool. And 3 (cute) guys

complemented my dress. They said they thought it was cute. It was

nice how the guys would hold the doors open for the girls, and escort

them, and one guy carried my bag for me. So nice!

Adeus

'It was a Pool Party For The Cool People in Our Fam'

2007-07-06T11:40:00.000-05:00

여보세요

I'll start by telling you about my 4th of July.

After watching the parade, me and Lex hung

out at the State House Park with various peoples.

After that we went to Kelton's pool, then went

to watch fireworks with whomever we pleased. They were pretty good. I bought

a glowing bracelet. Shaylee & Suzie bought one too.

Last Saturday we went toNorth Park.

Jessica and I were swinging, and I kicked my flip-flops

off. One of them landing in agigantic pine tree. I looked

for it, but I couldn't find it. I was really bummed out. On that same Saturday Fillmore was

almost evacuated. Our parents weren't home at the

time, and it was a bit scary. We could see the smoke. The sun turned pink, and Kanosh was

evacuated, but it ended up someone just freaked out,

and they were ok. Brendon who workED at the Subway

by Cove Fort thought he saw Cove Fort burn, and the

gas station blow up. Cove Fort was miraculously saved,

and what he saw blow up was propane tank. Still scary.

Shanlee's birthday was on Thursday, so

she had a party on Tuesday. We went to Seven Peaks.

That was fun. We mostly hung out in the

wave pool. There was this one slide that was scarily evil.

It was a free-fall. But you're not in a car, so

you leave the slide at one point. Evil I tell you! Terror.

After we left Seven Peaks, we went to the Provo Towne

Center Mall. I bought new flip flops since the incident

mentioned above left me flipflopless. They are cute, orange,

and stripey. We got dinner at McDonalds. Now I've twice in the US. haha. On Friday, we went to Target,

Gardner Village, and a pool party at the Salmons house. Stephen

and Jordon didn't come. whew Lex and I just hung out with Mia

& Noah. Fun fun. At YCC I got a Target gift card, which I spent

on Friday. I bought lot's of new make up! Hooray for make up!

We slept over at the Cowdells, and went to the

Gateway Mall with them the following day. We were only able

to shop at American Eagle because we had to go pick up Daddy. I bought a cute, new, cute shirt whilst we were there.

And I would like to mention that I found my

flipflop.

안녕

'Summer Lovin'

2007-06-29T17:39:00.000-05:00

Γειάσου,

Sorry I haven't posted in like, a month!

I've beenvery busy doing things like Girls Camp,

Youth Court Conference, Teen Council, filming

music videos, and air hockey tournaments.

Have I ever mentioned that I like grapefruit?

It's so tasty and delicious. Camp

was way fun!!! Lots of smores!! Mmmmm!!!!

We also learned this thing where

you cook muffin batter in an emptyed orange.

Girls Camp was so spiritual! I wish I could feel

like that all the time! Only a couple days after

camp we went to YCC(Youth Court Conference)

That was way fun too! Me, Lexi, Megan, Noah,

Sam, and Austin were the only people from

East Millard County that went. Youth Court

itself is awesome. We get to be actual judges

in an actual court room, actually judging actual

law-breakers that are actually our age. haha

Look on Lexi's blog for pictures

of YCC. Eden wasn't able to go to Girls Camp

because she was in California. The bum! JK

There was pretty scary people

that would hang around us at YCC. Like Mike

(Poor Megan!!), and Doug. Doug sat with us at

the banquet. He kept looking at me. Not very good.

At the dance he asked me to slow

dance with him 3 times! The 3rd time he asked

me, I told him, "I can only dance with the same

person twice." After that he backed off. At the

banquet he was playing with his iPod when he

asked "Who wants to listen to a bad song?" Before

he could pronounce the 'g', Lexi said "No." Then

Noah and Sam said "We don't like bad songs."

Yay! He kept swearing. Hhhmmmm.

So, Yeah. YCC was fun. Yesterday

(Thursday) Me, Lex, Sam, Noah, and Kember

filmed a music video for Sam & Noah's 4-H

project. It was so cool. One of these days when

Noah sends it to us, either me, or Lexi will post

it. It's so good! OMG! Teen Council was fun too.

We made neck coolers for soldiers fighting in

Iraq. We filmed some of the movie at the library,

so we went strait from the library to the Court

House. When Noah Kershisnik was backing out,

he accidentally went forward, and hit the curb.

He didn't know it at the time, but he made a

hole in his oil tank. We made a huge puddle in

front of the Court House. We used kitty litter

to soak it up. His car had to be towed. After

that we went to Sam's house to film some more.

We got 5-buck pizzas, and babysat Sam's neices

and nephew. At around ten, Eden, Noah, Sam,

Kember, Jessica, and Gina came over to watch

the Hollywood version of Pride and Prejudice.

Kember brought Berry Collossal

Crunch that we snacked on. Yay! We also ate

chips, Chrystal Light, and kettle pop corn. Yummy!

I'm so excited for the 4th of July! I'll see tons of

friends, Steveon & Jordon(haha) are coming, and

we might go to Lagoon with them that Saturday.

We plan to take Coke cans for a

discount. Lagoon is freaking expensive man!

Baby Gracie has to pay $28 to get in! She's not

getting on any rides. Anyways. Fun stuff.
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'People here! People there! People & Relatives Everywhere!'

2007-06-02T12:07:00.000-05:00

Hallo
This Sunday was our grandparents me, Lex, Jordan, and Stephen to sing sacrament meeting. We sang janice Kapp Perry's Song Of Testimony. Grandma said "When you were singing, it just made my little heart pop like ET." I was fine right up until right before we sang.
Mandee had told everone at school that she had a hot cousin coming on the 4th of july, and we had to meet him. (Still looking forward to that) She brought a framed picture of his whole family to school to show us. So I told everyone I had some cousins coming too. "They're going to sing, so if you come to 3rd ward you can see them". At night games on Tuesday, Jaisha said, "Sorry I wasn't able to see your cousins on Sunday". Then _______ said "Oh my gosh! I was sitting on the front row, and while they were singing I was like drooling." That made me laugh so hard. I couldn't see her, but Lexi said she saw her and she thought it was kinda weird that she was slumping. Lexi just thought she was tired. ha! Isn't that a great story? Everyone said our singing sounded pretty. Yay! Hardly anyone was in sacrament meeting because most everyone was on vacation. But, we had 100 relatives over, so it made up for it. Then, the 100 peoples came to our house, (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!) and we played with our cousins, and 1st cousins once removed. Stepheon & Jordon slept over in the barn. We played, stayed up telling scary stories, and woke up at 8:00 so we could go 4-wheeling with the Kesslers. they're stepheon & Jordon's cousins once removed. So they're my cousin's cousins once removed? that was my first time to go ATVing. after that, we went swimming, but Jordon didn't have a swim suit, so he borrowed one from the Kesslers. Then we stopped at Duanes on the way home, bought FOOOOOOOOOOD, and watched Night at The Mueseum. After that thing's went a little down-hill. Steveon started ignoring Lexi, and doing stuff like playing the piano. Kinda weird. They hitch-hiked a ride back home with some people.
On Tuesday peopleinvited me to play, but I said I couldn't go for the first bit, but I would join them later, if the would give me a call. They forgot to call me. They finally called at 9:20, and invited me to night games. Night games was pretty fun, exceptDallin was weird.(Wow! What a surprise!...) Hekept telling Shaylee's little brother to pet my hair. Gross!
Auf Wiedersehen

'Graduation! Summertime & We're Havin' Fun'

2007-05-28T21:52:00.000-05:00

Bojour

Graduation was fun. Everyone was dressed up. It was so weird. Lexi recorded some stuff on her camera, and I saw that I was slumping! All and all, it was pretty fun. Afterwards, we got doughnuts & punch. the bathrooms were cramed full of people changed out of their dresses. After that, it was a pretty normal day, except we didn't do anything. We just played all day. During 8th period, the 8th graders had a water fight. I got soaked. Bourne squirted me down after he said he wouldn't. Marcie didn't think I was wet enough, so she dumped a full bucket of water on me. I had to walk home all wet. My wet jeans made my bag blue. Annoying!
The next day was the last day of school. I had 1st period normaly, but second & third was spent in the gym for the awards assembly. During fourth & fifth period, the 7th & 8th graders ran around the gym signing eachothers yearbooks. I got 34 signatures! yay me! That was a fun last day of school.
Me, Mamoo, Mia,Noah, and Dad-squishy went and saw Pirates 3! OMG! It came out a day early in Fillmore of all places! It was okay, but it wasn't nearly as good as the 2nd one. Jack wasn't as funny. Everyone thought the monkey was so funny. Personally, I don't like it when they make the animal do weird stuffs to make people laugh. I saw it again the next day with Shanlee, Jaisha, Shaylee, Lexi, Sherokee, Mandee, and Melissa. I couldn't have only seen it once! Shanlee & Jaisha kept gasping at the intense scenes. Shanlee started bawling when Will died. I like Shanlee.
Saturday was the YW yard sale. We made about $360 for Girls Camp. I helped. I bought a muffin(that I made), a lazy dazy yum bar (AKA magic bar)(which I made), and 3 shirts. Before we went to the movie, peoples came to our house, and helped us make 4 pies, brownies, lemon bars, lazy dazy yum bars, muffins, and cup cakes for the yard sale/bake sale. whew! Hardly anyone came, because Traci's sisters Winter & Tami had a yard sale as well, so everyone went there. aw well. We still had fun.
When we got home, we cleaned the house, went to the hospital, stayed there forever, cleaned the house again, went to bed, woke up,cleaned, went to church. I will tell you about that in a later post.
Au revoir

'I'm in the Mood for fighting'(just with water.don't worry)

2007-05-22T21:26:00.000-05:00

Hello
On Friday I got pulled out of school early to go see Throughly Modern Millie. I didn't know we were going until the night before. We watched the play with Jill, Mic, and G'ma. Afterwards, G'ma & G'pa went to a opera, while us & Jill went to Sonic and home.
Saturday we were planning to go to Mt. Pleasant, but after a series of problems, we ended up not going.
Kelsie invited us to go to a Daughters of the Pioneers meeting to serve food to people. It was pretty fun. Shaylee went. I'm glad she did. We were going to get together afterwards, but Jeisha & Shanley invited her to go to a waterfight at North Park, so I went there with Shaylee. I was excited, because I couldn't attend the water fight at the Field Day on Thursday. Lexi invited herself to go. Jeisha, Shanley, Shaylee, Lexi and I were the girls. Dallin and some other guy were the only guys, but we had it be girls against boys.
We made our own war cry: Feitasu! And we named ourselves the Klenobens. Hey, it was the brand name of the hose that helped us. On the way home, we stopped at Video 1 Stop to get shaved ice. I heart shaved ice. I invited people to my house, and we played air hockey, jumped on the tramp, and ate cheese sticks.
Yay! My graduation's tomorrow. I worked so hard at Fillmore Middle School. Yah. I'm going to wear my darling dress I got from modeling. Mr. Blad was pronouncing my name wrong when I would enter. I had to pluck up courage to tell him he was saying it wrong. It was awkward. He was pronouncing it Natacsha. He would do a short A as in 'cat' instead of a long a as in 'moth ball'. Kind of annoying. Vaarwel

'Singin' on the Isle'

2007-05-15T18:35:00.000-05:00

Ciao!
Okay, I have to tell you my 'I thought I was gonna die' story. No one else I told seemed to like it, so sorry if you fall asleep. Sherokee & some 7th graders invited me to go tubing on Friday. I was really happy and excited. There's the dance, we're going tubing, there's night- games, Lex and Dad come home, and other I would miss out on.
The Stucci's drove me over to Shanley's house. It ends up I knew her older sister. How weird is that? We got dressed, and waited around for the other girls to show up. Shailee, Sherokee, Shanlee, Suzie, Mandee, Melissa, and 3 others girls whose names I don't know came. We all got inner-tubes, and took turns blowing eachothers up. Hard work man. But nothing compered to what we were about to do.
We all set out, and it was pretty scarry. Most of the time I couldn't stay in my tube. The creek would drag me along, with my legs hitting every single rock. We got split into 3 groups. I was the middle group. 4 of us had our tubes tied together. Suddenly, we come across this log lieing across the creek. We had to get out of our tubes, and take turns getting over it. When I got out of my tube, I somehow got knocked under the water, and couldn't get up for, I bet ya, at least 15 seconds. I couldn't find the top,and if I did, innertubes were in my way. The rope tangled around me, and things were pretty ugly. I thought I was going to die. Meanwhile, everyone else started screaming "Natasha!" (although I couldn't hear them)"She's caught under the innertubes! The rope's around her neck!" I didn't know I was chocking, but most of my body had gone numb from the chill of the water.
The mountains were melting, and the current was much stronger than we anticipated. We finally got out of that mess, but people still kept getting hurt. We found a good place to rest. 3 girls chickened out, and ran away with our only cellphone onle we were pushed into the water. Soon after, Melissa anounced that she thought her knee was hurt, possibly broken. We had a panic moment. The 7 girls that were last decided to split up, with capable people with Melissa to help her. Aparently I'm capable, because I was 1 of those 3 with her. We had to keep stopping and resting for Melissa, and the other group got way ahead of us. We found a place where the water was more shallow, andthere was some land sticking out, so we stopped on the land, and sent Mandee to tell the others to wait for us. It was a depressing time for me,Suzie, and Melissa. Melissa could barely walk, Suzie was having a melt down, and I was asking stupid questions like, "So, who did you dance with?"just to make conversation. We were moving our innertubes around so we could sit in the sun, wewere asking eachother what our favorite songs were, and singing them. We were yelling down the river; "Mandee! Where are you?", crying into eachother's shoulders "We're going to die!", and telling jokes like, "10 friends set out on a creek to go tubing. 3 leave. The 7 other girls get seperated, one, of whom, broke her knee, and they send out 1 girl to tell the others to stop. She never comes back, and the 3 others are stuck on an island for an hour, asking eachother who they danced with". That joke was Suzie's. so, yeah, We were stuck there an hour. We even considered writing SOS with the nearby logs in case any passing helicopters see it. It was pathetic.
We finally decided that we had to get off the island-thingy. So, we cut the rope attaching the tubes together, with a piece ofwood that was lieing around so we could tie each end to trees to help Melissa cross. Just as we realised the rope was too short, the people who owned the land across the creek came and saved us. Suzie cried. "We're saved". She kept saying. My lips had turned purple. We crossed, and hoped we could get a ride in the golf course excebition lookin' car, but Sister Stucci gave us a ride. Aw well. We took Melissa to the hospital, then went and picked up everyone else, who had made the phone call to save us. They were alright, except they had to climb 5 barbwire fences, and Mandee twisted her ankle, with her sock drenchedin blood. But it ended up she only had this tiny scratch, but it bled alot.
You should see mylegs. My thighs are covered in bruises, andmy grandma put this plastic wrap lookin' stuffthat helps skin grow back, on my shins. Sick. I felt bad for Shanley. She felt lik eit was all her fault beause it was her idea to go tubing. She cryed when we went to her house and told her everything that happened from the time she and 2 other girls left. Everything ended up fine though. I don't think I'll go tubing for a long time. haha
Arriverderci

'I've Got Music, I've Got Rythm'

2007-05-12T10:22:00.000-05:00

I had a bunch of assignments on Thursday and Friday so I felt a little bata-bata, but I got it all done by fifth period. The dance was during sixth and seventh period.
Me and a bunch of other girls walked in late 'cause they wanted gum, so I kindly shared with them. The first 2 dances I sat there watching people dance, but a guy named Born(spell) asked me to dance. He was nice. He would actually talk to me. The next couple dances I sat there, until Dillan asked me. That was really weird, and awkward. He was like Napoleon Dynamite the whole time, looking to the side. I would ask him a question, and he would answer in as less words possible. In the song we danced to, the guy stiopped singing, then the music stopped a little while later, but he let go and walked away the second the guy stopped singing. hmm kinda awkward. After a couple more dances I asked Sherokee to dance. Don't think we're weird. People have done it before. Everyone was pointing and laughing at us. C'mon, it's not that weird. We're not les.
After a couple more dances, a guy named Mitchell in the 7th grade asked me. He would kinda talk to me. He kept showing his gum though. Sherokee was on 1 side of me, and Melissa on another. Melissa was trying to tell me something, but I couldn't understand her, so finally the guy she was dancing with gave me a thumbs-up. Supposedly, he a hotty that everyone likes in the 7th grade. There was a pause in the song, and Sherokee and her guy let go, and were about to walk back to the stands when the song started again. Embarassing.
I didn't get asked for anymore dances. Sherokee's mom drove us home, so we could get our swim suits and such to go tubing in the creek. I'll tell you all about that in a latter post. It's a long story! We had night games at 9:00. We were going to play night games, but there was only 5 girls, and 1 boy, and after the creek, we were all like hhhhwwwwwwvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaaaa........, so we watched Napoleon Dynamite. I left early, cause my family was coming home. Lexi didn't want to listen to anything I had to say, and only wanted to talk about what she did, so I was a little bummed out.

'Shall we dance?'and some teasing along with it

2007-05-08T18:24:00.000-05:00

hola! Yesterday Bailee and Krystyn took me to a movie store which also sells slushees. Don't go to Ikspiari anymore Lex. These are bigger, cheaper, and there's more flavors! I woke up at 6:50, made my bed, and atebreakfast until 7:05, showered, got dressed,and did my hiar until 7:35, and got out the door in the nick of time at 7:40. I have to walk Mia to school. It's not her fault she has short legs and wlks slow. I got to school at 7:57. Iwent to all my classes, and was a very good girl.In lunch I only ate my applesuace, brownie, and water. Don't worry. I came home and pigged out on cookies. I also finished off my slushee. My mom bought this dough stuff you just have to peel apart and cook. She never bought stuff like that when I was little. While they were cooking in the oven, I looked at the package said it expired last Christmas Eve. They still tasted good. At lunch recess, Sherokee tachi asked me if I wanted to play with them. "We're going to throw eachother" Now doesn't that sound a little violent? It ends up 2 people would hold 1 persons hand, and launch them into the air. Peoples went 10 feet. It was so freakin' fun. During lunch I was sitting with Sherokee, Shailee, and Melissa, and they said there was a dance on Friday. I got all pumped up-my first dance! When the sudden realization struck me. Friday? Friday! That's when Lex and Dad are flying in, we see Gloria, and the Stout aunts get facial etc(while I babysit their kids). Hhhmm as much as I want to see Gloria, and Lexi & Dad, I really don't want to babysit, and I really want to go to the dance. So I walk in the door, and say "The most distressing thing happened to me today; there's a dance on Friday. and someone asked me to it." My mom froze. Grandma slowly started turning around to face me. "Sherokee asked me." Ha! Blood went back into my mom's face. "Oh. I was gonna say 'I didn't think they had date dances in 8th grade'." My grandma seemed very relieved. Sherikee & I had decided to go together. In one dance the boys ask the girls, in another the girls ask the boys, and then it's whatever. I'm kind of leaning toward...well, would you be totally crushed if I didn't show up at the airport? But isn't that the best story? I learned today that caffine is a depressant. It makes you hyper for the next half~1 hour, but after that you become tired, aggravated, and eventually, depressed. So watch those sodas you're drinking. And all sugars. My wise thought for the day. Adios

'We Came to America!-Last Month!'

2007-05-07T22:35:00.000-05:00

Nihao

the Friday before I started school, I went to

the school to register. We were in the school

office when 3rd period ended. Someone started

screaming "Who's that? Who's that? Who's that?",

until someone said "It's a new kid!". Thanks alot.

The following Monday I started school. My mom

and I sat in the office for most of 1st period while

the secretary was filling out papers and the such.

the called in a girl named Tristen to be my buddy

because she's in all my classes except one. The

secretary asked her to show me all the classrooms.

While we were walking down the halls this hall

monitor named Trey started following us and

asking questions(he's a hall monitor 'cause he got

kicked out of band) "Who are you?" "Where are

you from?" "Naipan?" "Naipan?" "Naipan?"

"Naipan?" He finally understood.

When I told my dad this story on the phone,

he asked me(after a slight pause); "Is he retarded?"

Almost. So he follows us to my locker, and

asks me "Are you in 8th grade? Dang it!" And

walks away. Okay... I go about my business

trying to remember people's names, meeting

new teachers(some of 'em taught my mom!),

and dealing with a broken locker. I hate my

locker! After 1st period, I was walking down

the hall toward my History class, when Trey

says "Hey, Natasha" loud enough for the whole

hallway to hear(including the principal), and

after I had walked away, I heard him say "She's

my girlfriend." What??!! I think you're dreaming!

That was really weird. When I was walking

home from school with Sherikee, and Shailee,

him and his two friends were walking very

close behind us. I'm surprised they didn't step

on my feet. Then Trey says "So, you're from

Russia?" Huh? What about that whole incident

during first period? "Oh, 'cause so & so is really

excited." This made me feel terrible 'cause so

& so is an adopted kid from Russia. Sorry!

Then he kept saying "Natasha. Natasha. Natasha.

Natasha." till I answer him. He doesn't have

anything to say. When we turned, and went

our ways, he bellows "Bye Natasha." Yeah.

This is my scary story. I'm only telling this

story because he has not said anything to me

since, so you don't need to worry about a freak-o

(believe me, I've heard stories. He's a freak-o.)

stalking me. My science teacher used to teach

my mom, and my math teacher was a good

friend of my uncle's in 3rd grade. He used to live where Sherokee lives. Sorry Sherokee, I

don't know how to spell your name, or Shailee's.

School lunch is so sick-o, I only drink my water,

eat my veggie and fruit, and maybe some fries.

But don't worry, I stuff my face once I get

home. Someone asked me if I was going anerexic

'cause I wasn't eating enough. What? Do I look

anorexic? So, besides my crappy locker, and

a crappy lunch, I like school. Ask me questions.

Saichien

'It's a Busy Life'(with some celebrating)

2007-05-06T15:41:00.000-05:00

Konnichiha

Sorry I haven't updated in nearly 4 weeks.

Mia's B'day was the 15, and Noah's was the

17th. Not long after celebrating Noah's b'day,

the Nanjo's came, we danced OkGo, and we

drove to the airport, where we got in a metal

tube, got off, and were in a completely different

country where it was still the 17th, and drove

to our new home. Weird. There was a work

party at my grandparents house(AKA Our house),

so we saw my mom's side of the family. There

was no one my age. That next week was rather

dull. I was living with people who had an age

range of preschoolers, Kindergarteners, middle-

aged, and elderly folks. So, since I was bored

out of my mind, I decided to go to school. I was

planning to just start in August with the new

school year. OMG! I'm going to be in High School.

I've only had homework twice this week. In

Japan you have homework everyday. If you

don't have an assignment, they create one for

you. I have 8 periods yet I get out at 2:45. In

Japan, I get out at 3:00 when I had 5 periods.

But, we only have 1 recess, and our breaks

are only 5 minutes long. In Japan there's 2

recesss', and 10 minute breaks. In my next

posting I'll tell you about my classes, and teachers,

and funny happenings. TTFN.

Sayonara

'Shopping and Squeeing'

2007-04-10T19:40:00.000-05:00

Jumbo!
On Thursday we went to Ikspiari with Maika & Ribeka. we went to Missha first, and I was having really bad blackheads that day, so I thought I could try putting some of the sample makeup on to cover it up. But it wasn't working, so I grabbed a cotton ball, and put some 'Clear Refreshing Water' on it. It was sitting by the cotton balls, so I guessed it was for taking tester makeup off with. It made my skin feel really shuppa-shuppa (Urara!). And when I got home, my nose was (almost) healed! So I'm going to Ikspiari with Lexi tomorrow, when she goes modeling, to see if I can buy some. after that, we went to Claires, Lush, the dress store, and maybe a couple others. aren't you proud of me? I didn't buy a single thing! And, I found out yesterday that the American Eagle stores are updated the day I fly into America! OMG! I really need to go to PayLess. I have no summer shoes. Church, or casual. I got blisters when I wore last years church shoes to the temple. We've been seeing the Nanjos too much lately! (In a good way!) We saw them at YC, April 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 6th, 7th, and 8th, then again yesterday. We'll see them at Seminary this Saturday, at church the next day, and, they're skipping school to see us of at the airport. Yea! I gotta do my school work now. Peace out.
Adios!

'The Sound of Youth'

2007-04-03T21:11:00.000-05:00

Yay! Yesterday we went to Nakano, and played

with the Youth from the stake. We played Signs,

Sardines, Wink Killer, Nanndemo Basket, Missionary

Tag, and danced Ok Go!. It was fun!!!! And,

we saw Elder Judd for the last time. I'm going

to miss everyone! Everyone who was there

signed a good-bye-message on a good-bye-card.

I especially liked the Kusume boys', and Nanjo's

messages, and I will keep on loving them Always

And Forever! Chiba-kun, Shunnichirou, Yuuichirou,

Yuuki,Yoshiaki, Yoshuya, Mana, Maika, Ribeka,

Nobuaki,Lexi, Tashi, Yuuji, Kouji, Tomonori,

Ari, and Ayumi went. That's 17 people. But,

only Kasai ward can come to the temple on

Friday. Why can no one come? On the way

home, we stopped at Gap, and got some cute,

new dresses for Gracie(just in case you don't

know, this is the baby's name-to-be). Her first

name is going to be either Felicity, or Suzzana

unless they come up with something else. But,

she's going to go by her middle name Grace. And,

her last name will be Stout. I picked that one out.

I've had lots of songs stuck in my head lately.

new ones, old ones, classics, classical ones, Pirates

of the Caribbean ones. Pirates 3 is coming out in

a little more than a month. Yay everyone! I

must go now, good bye.

'Japan Cry'

2007-04-01T18:54:00.000-05:00

I can't believe how many garbage bags full of

things we have gotten rid of, but how much

stuff we still have. It's like, we get rid of things,

but more keep appearing, so no change happens.

It's kind of annoying, and somewhat disturbing.

The first day of Youth Conference was fun! (that's

all I participated for). I didn't get to dance with

Tomonori, but I'm ok. Hmm, I have nothing to

say.

Church was fun. Next week we'll be going to

the Koiwa building for General Conference,

and the week after that will be me, Mom, Mia,

and Noah's last week at Kasai. We're planning

on going to the temple to do baptisms on

Friday, and the Nanjos will come home with

us to sleep over, and we'll party all night

dancing, playing Uno, and watching movies.

Yay! And in the afternoon, we'll go to semonary

together! I'm not sure if Anna & Erika are

coming. Anna wasn't making sense. ah well.

I believe we've decided we're leaving on the

17th. Noah, & Austin Rodenberg, & Asami,

Yamagata & Nick DeMann's b-days. Yay!

Mia's is on the 15. Easter! She was born

on Easter. I found out where the 'crap' comes

from yesterday. It was kind of weird. It comes

from the last name 'Crapper', who the first

toilets were named after. Wonderful thing to

be named after. "Lucky..."

'A series of fortunate, & somewhat unfortunate events'

2007-03-25T18:33:00.000-05:00

Our American Eagle order finally came today! I got this darling 'graphic T'. Isn't it darling? It's a bit see-thru though, so I'll have to wear something under it. But it's still cute. Spring vacation today! But I still have to do school work, because I was sick Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We've all had it throughout the week. It consists of a runny-nose, achy muscles, coughes, sore throat & lungs from the cough, head aches causing eyes to hurt, and fevers. scary I tell you. Mia & Noah still havefevers. And, today is Noah's interview for his visa. If this goes good, we can move back in mid-April. (AKA: around Mia & Noah's B'days) This is probably why I had the dream that I mentioned in the previous posting. Everyone who's been saying they'll come visit us for years but haven't, you gotta come within the next couple weeks. From Wednesday, we've doing deep cleaning around the house, and we've thrown 7 garbage bags full of things away, and given 13 away. and we're putting out some magazines right now to recycle, and there's still more to get rid of. And I am not looking forward to the game closet whew!

'While I was sleeping'

2007-03-19T19:01:00.000-05:00

I had a weird dream that Our whole family was going to the US for only one day just for Mia's B'day. If that were only so... While I was uploading the icons for this post, Mia looked out the window, and started getting mad at our cat Pippin. So I asked her why she was scolding him, and she said that "Pippin is eating himself! He's licking his leg!" When I was refilling the kerosene tank for our heater, I threw one of my mom's jackets on, since it was right there. Noah was beside me putting his coat on before we went outside. Noah suddenly realised that I was wearing a jacket. He got all excited and started patting ny stomach as though he thought since I had Mom's coat on, maybe I had a baby in my tum. I had to take him on the train to meet my dad to get medical check-ups for his Visa. He was very cute until we had to go home. It was right when he was supposed to be taking his nap, so he didn't feel like he should have to walk, and I should have to carry my bag, the diaper bag-full of stuff for him- And Noah. We had a big fight when we were almost home, and he was crying 'cause I wouldn't carry him. I finally had to throw one of the bags down, pick him up, and get the bag later. People I knew where looking and everything. And now, I have change an extremely stinky diaper because it made Mom throw up. At least he called me nice afterwards. On Saturday we had a before-Youth-Conference-meeting. It was so boring. The leaders planned it, and made us play this 'game' that adults like to enforce apon children at school & church even though no one likes it. Everyone has to go aroundd introducing themselves to eachother, and make notes on a piece of paper. This time, there was 16 squares, and the leaders would draw a name, and if you had written that person down, you mark it. So it was bingo. If you got a bingo you earned your group for Y.C. points, and since our group only had 3 people(everyone else left), we didn't get ANY points. People made fun of us. Is it some kind of curse I have to never end up in the group with the energetic, talkative, fun people? They always seem to be grouped together. Are the leaders plotting against us? What has become of the Youth? it's turned into the leadersdo what they want. They plan what activities they want, when they want. And, the Youth go alongwith it. If I make a suggestion, I'm always outvoted. The leaders only ask "what;s in it for us?" They come to the pilaties activity they planned, but when it comes to Y.C., they make the parents drive. And they force the parents into it weeks in advance, asking you over, and over if you'll go, till you finally say yes. Once again I say "What has become of the youth?" Enough depressing talk.

The sakura are starting to bloom. Only the white ones. I picked

one off, and plan to press it in rememberence as the first sakura

of the year.

'Oops I did it again'

2007-03-11T05:34:00.000-05:00

I ate too much sugar, and my stomach is now

regreting it. Our kind bishop went to Cozy

Corner and got us cakes for White Day. This

is the first time the men of Kasai returned

Valentines treats to the women. There were

cheese cakes, chocolate cakes, cream puffs,

custard tarts, ann tarts, crepes, swiss rolls,

and eclaires. OMG! And then, Daddy gave

us each a Tolberone bar. yay! I got my

Personal Progress completion certificate in

sacrament meeting! I'm finally done! When

we got home, we got to eat my daddy's chicken

soup for lunch. After reading, sewing, and

sudokuing, Noah helped me make peach

cobbler. He's turning into quite a cook. He

knows each cooking utensile-ware, and can tell

the difference between pies, cakes, cookies,

muffins, and cobler. After it had cooked and

cooled Noah helped me, yet again, to make

ice cream. It was quite yummy. I found my

five year old camera the other day, and have

been trying to download pictures, but my hard

work has so far been in vain. I'm gonna try on

a different computer, so we'll see how that

works.

Lot's of stuff

2007-02-27T17:58:00.000-06:00

Em is here! and, we've been eating junk food everyday! Scary!....Couple days later, Em is gone, and I'm going on a diet! Not. I resolved things with my misguided YW leaders, and I don't have to do my Personal Progress over again. Yea me! I just have to write my testimony, and Bishop Kawaminami will give me my certificate thingy next Sunday! Yea! Me, Lexi, and Pops are going to immogrations in 2 minutes. Gotta go.
5 hours later... We had a wonderful fieldtrip today. We took the train Kamamatsucho during rush hour. And got to breath in toxic fumes while gazing the beautiful scenery of buildings that looked like they somehow survived the WWII bombing. Then we waited for about an hour or so till it was our turn to go to the counter. Daddy bought us Fanta & Pockys. Yea Daddy. I have a strange rash on my face, so I put calendula on it this morning. The walk back to the station was super windy, and dirt kept hitting my face. It hurt. When me & lex got on the train, she looked closely at me and said "What happened to your face? There's little black things all over it". I looked at my face in the mirror, and I had specks of dirt all over my face! I couldn't get them all off! Not to mention the wind had blown my hair everywhere!

Happy Valentines Day

2007-02-14T18:00:00.000-06:00

Hello folks, and Happy Valentines Day to peoples in America, and belated Happy V-Day to those in Japan. Last night, instead of our parents going on a romantical date, they stayed home, and the 4 'big' people partyed with chocolate fondue, apple pie, cheese cake, cinnamon crisps, and Cheaper by The Dozen 2. Yes, we hadn't seen it til now. Mom got Dominos pizza for dinner. How surprising & mezurashii. Since there'ss Parent Teacher Conference, Mia's been getting out at 2:00 the past 3 days. Around noon today, Sister Kawaminami just said "ojamashimasu!" and walked in to our house. It was for a good deed, she was giving us some gyouza that she had made at Enrichment Mtg. to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and Mom hadn't been able to go yesterday, because she wasn't feeling well, but it was still really weird. It's not the first time it's happened though. I'm going over to the Welch's soon to babysit because S. Welch is going to school to watch her daughter study. I need moola so I agreed. I bought some cute pants off of American Eagle, and and I owe Mom 3, 791 yen. I was $31.27, but with exchage rate, it's more expensive. When I checked today it was higher. It was sent to Em, and she'll bring it with her when she comes on Monday hopefully. I haven't mentioned them to her yet.

Survey from Lexi

2007-02-05T02:41:00.000-06:00

I am a " winter person"

I own over 10 pairs of shoes

My favorite color is something dark

My favorite show is on MTV

I am currently in high school

I have my drivers license

I have at least one ' x ' in my screen name

I have to straighten my hair every day

I need to go shopping

I own over 20 disney movies

I spend over an hour in the morning getting ready

I've seen a live play before

I've been to a concert

I've read all the Harry Potter books

I've seen all Lord of the Rings movies

I like watching non-fiction movies

I think golf is the wussiest sport

I like getting comments on my xanga

I haven't missed an episode of The O.C.

I have at least 3 siblings, not including myself

I have a job

I have owned over 50 Beanie Babies

I was more of a Barbie child

I was born in the month of September, or later

I've lived in over 5 houses during my life

I was born somewhere outside of the United States

I sleep with a stuffed animal

I own a cell phone

I have my own computer

I collect something rather out of the ordinary

I love someone outside my family - MAIKA!

I own tickets to some kind of seasonal event (sports, etc.)

Surveys really do cure my boredom

I hate when people misspell things

I'm a health freak

I love taking pictures

I love reading

I love eating

I have more than 5 posters on my walls

I like playing board games

I play basketball or softball or baseball

I play hockey or football

I play no sports

Math is my worst subject

I have been baptized

I like water more than pop

I'm obsessed with my mirror

I hate feet

I love Laguna Beach

I'd rather watch the Real World or Road Rules

I browse Xanga when I'm bored I love Oreos I am a dork

I have 3 pets

I overuse the word like

I miss the backstreetboys

I wish I was still 4

I have a boyfriend

I am single

I never made out with someone

I never broke anything on my body

I don't take crap from people

I like to take pictures

I have wings

I have been to a concert

I have a name with 11 letters in it

I have a nickname that begins with the letter K

I watch Mad Tv

I have no bedtime

I have 7 phones

I have 3 computers

I like to wear spikes

I like to sing

My favorite color is yellow

I am origional

I like to chew ABC gum

I can dance as good as spiderman can fly

I spell you "yoOh"

I am polish

I consider myself good looking

I read at least 20 books a year

I like to blare music

I have more than 2 cell phones

I have never flunked a grade before

I like the smell of permanent marker

I am scared of the dark

I have had 10 or more detentions

I have a crush on the Math teacher

My I.Q. is 120 or higher

I don't label people

I go to church

I would rather burn than drown

I would rather drown than burn

I read the book Computers for Dummies

I don't like country music

I cried to the "Concrete Angel" music video

I wear orange eyeshadow

I have blue lipstick

I have more than 20 purses

I like the snow

I walk in the rain

I could never hurt anyone

I have 7 screen names

EFY

2007-01-23T17:30:00.000-06:00

I'm not sure what went wrong with that posting down there. The words disappeared, so I deleted the posting, but it still appeared there. Weird. Did you know that coming back into The States from Central, and South America you'll be needing a passport from now on. Scary. Our dad registered us for EFY at BYU for the end of July, early August. We might not get in because our parents registered us on the last day possible, while we were sleeping. They woke me up to me ask for my social security number. That would be fun if we could go. I wish Maika could go. Our parents are going on vacation just the 2 of them for the first time in 13 years. They're going to Guam in exactly 1 week. Our Auntie Em is coming on Monday to babysit us. Can't wait.

What we'll be doing this week...

2007-01-15T17:48:00.000-06:00

As Lexi told you, we went to see Eragon on Friday. I really liked it. Maika wants to see it with us on Wednesday(Ladies day), but I have no money! I only have $60 people! Happy Birthday Bradey. It's Bradey's birthday today or tomorrow depending on where you are. Have a great B'day! Instead of mutual on Thursday, we're doing baptisms for the dead on Friday. Me, Lexi and Anna are going early to eat at Baskin Robins, and help Anna with her Personal Progress. I'm almost done with mine! I'm trying to finish it before my birthday. We're going to the Tokyo Quilt Show on Saturday! Lexi and I didn't enter anything, and my mom's didn't get excepted. but, we can shop for fabric, and other quilting do-dads.

Mia's first day of school

2007-01-08T18:01:00.000-06:00

Mia went back to school today! Hallejuyah! I can do my school work in quietness now! I went over to the Free's house yesterday to play. They each had a friend over, and I was Anna's friend. Erika had a girl from school named Ella over, who's from England. Kent's friend was Japanese, but goes to K International School too, and can speak English. This morning, when I was telling Noah he couldn't do something, he asked me "Why not?" I didn't even know he could say that! And 2 days ago, when I was to pointing to letters, and asking him what they were, he knew them all from O~Y. He could even pronounce W. Sudden intelligence. He's a cute little monster. I'm felling very overwhelmed. I want to finish my Personal Progress by my birthday, I need to finish 2 lessons of school work by the end of the month(including 6 hours of service), hopefully be able to take my 4 exams this month,plus make time for working on my quilt, reading, and my other hobbies. Mia's calling... goodbye.

Goodbye Christmas!

2007-01-02T22:30:00.000-06:00

We took our Christmas decorations down today. I really want to go somewhere today with some people besides my family, but everyone's in a different country, or they're busy celebrating New Years. I got the test scores for the finals test I took the other week, and I got an A-, and an A- over all in Eastern Civilizations. Yea me! I've been doing lots of sudoku and kakuro lately. Do you like sudoku? I like sudoku. I don't like kakuro, I have to keep taking occasional peeks at the answers. I'm naughty. Tonight's gonna be a full moon! Throw a party! People are leaving me to go shopping! Abandonment and woe. Surprised the store's open..I'm gonna go do some more sudoku.

Christmas & New Years!

2006-12-31T22:24:00.000-06:00

You probably saw pictures of our Christmas morning on Lexi's blog. At 12:30 I went to babysit the Miura kids, because S. Miura was having her sesection(spell?). We played outside with a ball, went inside and played Cheat, old maid, and old gramps. We played hide-and-go-seek around their house, but that became tiring, so we played tag outside, and seeing Shou-shou's friends playing dodgeball, we decided to join them.(Sarasa(girl) is 10, and Shoushou(boy) (aka Shoutarou) is 8). Sadly, I looked like a pathetic looser, embarsing Shou-shou, because I just couldn't catch the ball! No matter how hard I tried. Then Shou-shou accidently hit me in the face. It took a while for it to stop stinging. The baby was successfully born at 2:?? pm. They were able to go see him at the hospital at 4pm, after washing their hands, faces, and changed their clothes. They named him Hiroki after B. Miura. The past couple days we've been playing lots of games we got for Christmas, such as, Battleship(Pirates of the Caribbean version!!), Mastermind(Don't play it with my mom!), Imagine iff, Risk, and Noah's tacoyaki game. On New Years Eve, we got home early from church(which Lexi and Mom didn't attend), we played lots of games with Mia and Noah, had a traditional cheese fondue dinner, sent Mia and Noah to bed, played Mastermind with mom, played Risk with Mom and Dad, Imagine iff with Mom and Lexi, watched a count down on Disney Channel, watched the Disney Land fireworks, talked with Mom, Dad, and Lexi for a bit, got ready for bed, and went to bed quite content. I woke up at 10:20 and corn flakes for breakfast. I took Mia and Noah to the park for about an hour, came home, ate ramen for lunch, and while my parents went on a date to Monsoon Cafe for lunch, Lexi and I watched a movie on Disney Channel. When they came home, we we watched Praise to The Man but Noah wouldn't let me watch the touching end, because he kept asking for candy canes. Annoying! I made mochi treats(yum yum) for dinner tonight, so we had a true Japanese New Years, and Daddy made apple crisp for desert, even though we don't need anymore deserts. haha

School's out!

2006-12-21T20:52:00.000-06:00

School's out!yea! I finished just a little while ago. Lexi finished last Thursday. It's the eve, of the eve, of Christmas Eve people! Celebrate! Nothing going on tomorrow, but Sunday is Kousuke's baptism. yes! His dad finally said yes! He can come to activities now, so long as he keeps his grades up. So while Lexi and I are at the baptism, our other family members will be preparing for Christmas Eve, then we come home, do stuff, go to bed, wake up, and open presents. yipee! On the second, I'll most likely go back to my school work... I've finished 2 and a half credits, and have 3 and a half more. No!!!!!!! I don't know what 7 other lessons to take.

Another day...

2006-12-19T17:39:00.000-06:00

My mom shut the shutters in my room tight, so I slept in. I woke up an hour ago, it's 8:45, and Mia's still not awake. I have to do Pre-algebra today! Ohhh. I don't like my teacher. He doesn't do a good job of explaining things. I still need to buy my mom's Christmas present. Besides Noah, who's will arrive tomorrow, I have everyones wrapped. Yay me! Oh darn it we didn't get the garbage out. We may survive. Mia just woke up. Oh, no! I think she's staying home! Wait, there's a Christmas party... ooh, no, She won't make up her mind. Yes! She's going! sorry, little mix up back there. I can still study is screaming in the back round, but I don't know what it is, I can't stand it when Mia is screaming. I can't concentrate. It's the way she screams, or the pitch she screams at, I just can't stand it, sadly. Especially when I have to do algebra. I only have today, West Civ. tomorrow, algebra on Friday, and I'm done! I can have Chrismas vacation.

An announcement I need to make

2006-12-06T05:40:00.000-06:00

Nothing out of the ordinary happened today except I deepcleaned all the toys out of my room. There's someting I need to say that I'm very mad about. You might be ooh-ahing over some pictures Lexi posted on her blog yesterday. I took those pictures when I played outside with Mia and Noah the day before while Lexi was working on her xanga site. I meant to post them on my blog, but before I could get around to it, Lexi took them from me without asking, and posted them, and won't even say sorry, or why she took them without asking. Very, very rude.

I'm so lucky!

2006-12-01T22:50:00.000-06:00

We might put up our Christmas tree today or tomorrow. I'm so gonna fail Chinese! I can't stand it! Mia's little Christmas shows are driving me crazy! I like Pingu, but Barnie, Bob the Builder, Rubba-Dubbas, Angelina Ballerina I can't stand. I get to listen to Barnie right now. I'm so lucky. I'm tired my dad didn't let me sleep-in today. It's Saturday! Mia and Noah came and jumped on my bed, yelled, and turned the light on, and off. src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3300/3584/320/35487/flower3.jpg" border="0" />

I want my mommy back!

2006-11-27T01:14:00.000-06:00

I'm so bored! I want Mia and Noah to hurry back! But, I can't go meet them at the airport because I have my singing lesson just as we need to leave. So I'm gonna spend the time cleaning the house. My dad says we probably couldn't fit everyone in the car anyhoo. Don't you love making up your own words and your own spelling? I love to. It's so fun. I want to be like Yuli. She has a good attitude about everything, she's fun, she's very very thoughtful, and she's really really kind. I've turned into a slob. Oh no! I was being really good around the time Nat and Jason were here, but then I saw my Halloween candy thrown into a corner,(you know the rest)and then, Thankgiving! Bad! I tell you!

Yea!

2006-11-24T00:51:00.000-06:00

I sent in my Lesson 3 writing Portfolio, and am almost done with Lesson 6 Writing Portfolio. Then I'll be done! After that I just have to take the final exam, and finish pre-algerbra and West civ. during December, then I'll have the rest of December off! Yea me!!!! Our Thanksgiving dinner without mom went pretty well if you forget about the chunky gravey, pumpkin pie without evaporated milk, and the rolls that did not rise. We still had a happy turkey day. If you go on Lexi's blog, she has a picture of our dinner. She'll also appreciate comments. Young Women's in excellence is tomorrow, and we just planned what we're gonna do on Sunday. I'm still not exactly sure what's happening. Come home mommy! We miss you!!!!!! And I want to squish my mi-mins, and No-bins. Only 4 more days! We can make it!I wonder if Noah's cheek has healed. Noah can speak English now! When we talk to him on the phone, he can tell us what's going on, and he says Tashi instead of Asi. Lexi's name was Ai. You could barely tell the difference. We're going to Disney Sea soon. Bye-bye!!!

Movies

2006-11-02T00:27:00.000-06:00

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqhFv2xuC9Y&mode=related&search

Darn computer...

2006-10-30T21:15:00.000-06:00

I haven't been able to post for a while. Aaarrrggggh. Something went wrong with the computer. I've been having a hard time typing today! Let's see, updates, updates, you probably know we're missing half the family. Natalie & Jason are coming to visit from the 11th-19th. I wonder who's gonna watch their kids. They've been saying they'd come for the past 10 years! My dad talked them into coming after implying that they were scared. I'm so happy! Visitors! And, Mia & Noah won't be here to cause chaos! Although, I'm in charge of meals, I don't know what to make! Oh, dear. Lexi's in charge of laundry, and she was drying some towels in the dryer this morning, and they weren't dry enough, so she ran the cycle again, and when they came out, it was like a sauna! steam everywhere! she had me go hang the mup to dry, but they were burning hot, soaking wet, slimey, and smelt weird. And then, when I was making myself a...thingy for lunch, with melted cheese and salsa cooked in a tortilla, the salsa kept dripping onto my pants through invisible hole in the tortilla. And I have to go out of the house today too! To take halloween cookies to the Miuras and Kawaminamis. We took some to the Nanjos, Murakamis, and Ochiais yesterday. I made a masterpeice! I made a Napoleon Dynamite cookie! I cut out a gingerbread man, made his hair with orange frosting and butterscotch chips, gave him moonboots with chocolate chips, and in green frosting wrote Vote For Pedro with a toothpick. It took 20 minutes! We gave it to the Nanjos. I really wanted to take a picture, but gosh darn it! Mom took the camera! I also made mummies, skeletons, pumpkins, and spider webs.

Friday

2006-10-06T00:27:00.000-05:00

Mia has an Undoukai tomorrow, but it might get rained out. After her undoukai, I'm going to Emi's house to sleep over through to Sunday, and watch General Conference at the 3rd ward building. Lexi doesn't feel good, so she doesn't want to go over there, and Emi doesn't feel ggod, so she doesn't want to come here. So I, alone will go, and probably meet up with Emi at Nakameguro. I don't know how, or when I'm getting home though. Ahhhhhhh!! Henceforth the cute icons, Summer is officialy over. It's been raining the past 3 days or so, and my toes are freezing!! And over the past few days, I've found that my body's crooked!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh!!! When I run I flail my arms, when I breath, my left shoulder will stay down, but my right shoulder will go up!!!! Lexi laughs at me!! Cruel!!! But last night at mutual, Maika and Mana said they're totaly crooked too. Halelujah! At mutual there were no leaders there, so we did little crafts for a while, then danced HSM! Then we just sat down and chatted about life, funny experiences, things we should do together, and the like.

2006-10-03T22:35:00.000-05:00

My dad's leaving on a buisiness trip today. he's going out the door as I speak. Lookey lookey! http://www.flixster.com/video.do?displayVideo=&videoId=2814653&topVideosThisWeek=

My, my, this here Anakin guy

2006-10-02T22:42:00.000-05:00

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My weekend

2006-10-01T23:37:00.000-05:00

On Saturday, I babysat from 9:30~ 3:30 so my parents could go to a "Energy Doctor", and Lexi to Maika & Mana's school festival. At 5:00~ is the Relief Society satalite thingy, and our friend Emi who lives near the church building they're showing it at, really wanted us to come so we could see eachother. That means we have to leave a little before 4:00. Then Lexi calls us at 3:30 asking if she could take purikura with Maika. Where has she been all this time?! We tell her to hurry home as fast as she can. At 4:45 me and my mom run into her on the way to the station. We got there at 6:00. We talk Talk TALKed with Emi. And NoBoDy recognized us!(Those from the English wards) We saw Elder Wood, and Sister Hing! Now Emi wants to have a sleepover throughout all next weekend! The problem is, is that we have a stake Youth activity on Monday, that we most definitely NEED to go to. And it's General Conference weekend, and Mia's Undokai on Saturday! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Lexi caught a cold, so she didn't go to church yesterday. She missed alot! Atsushi had us do a disscusion for the first time in Sunday school, Anna didn't critisize anything about me, AND............................................... We have a new Young Women!!!!! An exchange student from Las Vegas. Harmony La....... I forgot her last name. she staying is NakaKasai, and though she might not be able to come every week, that's still good!!!!!

Baptisms

2006-09-29T01:14:00.000-05:00

We went to the temple testerday night.!! The brother who performed the baptisms did it different than usual. He'd hold you under forever!, then when he'd pull you back up, he'd throw you! I tripped all 20 times! I kept loosing my footing! Before we went in the temple, we all ate ice cream at Baskin Robins!! Lexi got "Cinnamon Roll...something"(In the words of lexi) I got Suprise MintNight, Maika got "Caramel Ribbon something, what she always gets" (Lexi again) While Chiba-kun, Shunichirou & Yuuichirou shared a smoothie to save money. Afterwards, when we were walking to the station, he stopped at McD's to get some dinner(a little late). And while we were on the train, he said "I hate when I only eat a little, but it's only because can't eat any more. I only ate 3 burgers. You know what I mean Yuuichirou?"(Yuuichirou agrees) "What! 2 is plenty!"(Says Maika) "Really?! I usually eat 8 (Says Chiba) But keep in mind that a McDonalds hamburger in Japan is 1.5 times smaller than in America.

Missionary & Youth Evening

2006-09-27T00:00:00.000-05:00

This posting's a little late, but here's what we did at Missionary and Youth evening. There were like, 5 new Elders! The Adachi Elders gave a lesson on testimonies, the sisters taught everyone the activity called Chain Murder. Sounds creepy, but it's way funny! (Elder Judd!!!!) 3 people leave the room. While they're absent, the rest of the group decide 1. The scene of the crime(where it happened) 2. The occupation of the murderer 3. The weapon used. Some one is chosen to act these out(ex. Mr. Noah) Then, No. 1 returns to the room. Mr. Noah must act these 3 things out to No. 1 without using words. If No.1 thinks he understands what is being acted out to him, he touches his nose. Once he thinks he knows them all, No. 2 comes in, and he must once again act it out to her without words. She does the same to No. 3. Then No. 3 announces what he thinks the 3 things are. Then they all see if anything went wrong, and if so, where. And you just keep playing more rounds. Ours ended up very strange.(our Elders are weird!) It's fun! Then, we ate snacks and departed.

2006-09-17T23:26:00.000-05:00

It a super fun game! Each person receives a piece of paper. at the top you write a sentence! Don't show it to othwer players! Pass your paper to the person next to you(1). Receive the the person's paper from the other side of you(2). draw a picture explaining the sentance. Fold down the sentance so you can only see the picture. give it to (1). Receive another paper from (2). Write a sentance on it. Keep this going until there's no space left. There kinda has to be at least 4 people, so you loose track of who's is who's. Remember the weirder the better! Here's some of our funniest ones: "A quilt is a wonderful kind of thing, so lift up your voice and sing! (picture) Granny sings with joy becausr she drew scribbles on the checkers board. (picture) Elderly woman hobbles while humming a tune because of some messy patchwork. (picture) Feeble grandma mistakes a stained glass window for sheet music so she atarts to sing. (picture) Wobbly Grandma turns a stained glas window into sheet music & performs a solo." "'What do we live for, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn'(Pride and Prejudice) (picture) Two couples, each living in destitute circumstances, laugh at each other's misfortune. (picture) G'ma & G'pa angrily scowl at young lively children while saying hahaha (picture) Grumpy old people laugh at spritely children's antics. (picture) Old gramie & Grampie extend arms out to buch-toothed infant with 1 curl on top." "'It is a truth universally aknowledged, that a single man in possesion of a good fortune, must be in wanr of a wife'(Pride & Prejudice). (picture) A young man daydreams of a bride. (picture) Bob wants to go to Vietnam because the woman have no hands and have chicken feet. (picture) A young man sails a paper sail boat across a pond, which is discovered by a young woman, promting her knee to break and she grows chicken feet." Here's some funny quotes from some because we couldn't have words in the pictures: "Clown man sweats all the facial features off his face so a sign swears at him" "raggedy Anne does her fraction division math without numbers" "Super Vampire cat, clad only in a shirt, spews profanity as he flies thru the night sky" Lovely huh?

Mia's Undokai

2006-09-17T23:21:00.000-05:00

Me &...

2006-09-16T19:15:00.000-05:00

To...

2006-09-13T09:01:00.000-05:00

To:Lexi

To:Those born in January

To: The Nanjo sisters

To:Those who want it

Girls week

2006-09-11T23:00:00.000-05:00

My dad's off to the phillipines, and we're having a girl's week complete with chick-flicks. Fun fun! Especially since my dad thinks almost evrey movie is a chick-flick. His theory: Does have yearning?(Yes) does it have car chases? (No) okay, it's a chick-flick. This afternoon we watched The Glenn Miller Story, and I liked it very much. I really like the music. i love stuff from that era.

Mia&Noah

2006-09-09T02:43:00.001-05:00

Mia: I love you Noah: I fell...Both:Lexi's spraying us! Mia:My sticker fell off Noah:Uh-oh Lexi:Noah! You sprayed the neat-freak neighbor's car!

Interesting experience...

2006-09-07T03:20:00.000-05:00

My mom and I had an interesting experience yesterday. We went to Disney Sea, and seeing as we don't want to pay the 2,000yen fee, we parked at a near by park for free. There just so happened to be a guard there waiting for these kinds of things, so he kept saying "Wait!". But when we'd turn around, he wouldn't do anything, and look the other way and stuff, so we trudged on, walking faster eventualy turning into a run, when we hear this piercing whistle blowing. We turn around, and would believe it? He was blowing it at us! Turning back to him, he just keeps saying "No. Car." and the like. We'll ask him what he wants, but he just keeps repeating it over and over again. Finally he says "You can't park here. You were going to go to Disney Sea huh?" We say "How do you know? You have no proof. " "But you were going to huh?" "But why were you yelling at us back there?" " No I wasn't" Guy, how dumb do you think we are? So, we walk off in the direction of the park, and take a long-cut through the park, to Disney Sea. We get in line for the new ride, which opened on sep. 4th to celebrate Disney Sea's anneversary(and Gloria's birthday). After we waited in line for about 15minutes of the 70minute wait, my mom starts getting really worried that the guard will give us a ticket or something. so we return to our car, trying to avoid the guard, but when we look over there, he's trying to avoid us! in a little boy type way, hiding bedhind pillars and the like, but still trying to look at us, allowing us to see him.

Sunday at Kasai Ward!!!

2006-09-03T06:08:00.001-05:00

Tashi's Sunday... Wake up at 7:55, take a shower, pack, get ready,.... go to church, go to sacrament meeting, look for hidden notes around the church that some Young Men from the stake had hid, go to Sunday school, remain in the same room; which is the bishop's office, for Young Womens(Now you know how small our church is), wait around with Ribeka while our older sisters are in seminary, almost starve, come home, make dinner, eat dinner,(consisting of sour cream enchilada, Mexican rice, bakchoy(spell?), and nashi.Yummy!), hang around, eat brownies(our weekly tradition), and write onmy blog while Noah falls asleep. The End

Noah's first flipflops

2006-08-29T19:39:00.000-05:00

Aren't they darling?

Water fight

2006-08-28T21:05:00.000-05:00

Cute, wet Noah! Eating Winter melon soup Tashi made for lunch after water fight! Yummy!

Quotes...

2006-08-26T08:07:00.000-05:00

"I can't..." "Shall we dance?" "Pirates!" "What was fun at camp?...uh, Everything!" "Tokyo Stake YW are so fun!" "Yessssssssssssssssssssssss" "Ow!" "You guys are so awesome!" "Let's go torture Elder Judd" "Peace Out"

Fun!

2006-08-23T20:11:00.000-05:00

I hope the youth activity today wil be as fun as the last one! All Youth! The only leader there is only 19! Fun!

Yesterday

2006-08-22T22:00:00.000-05:00

Yesterday's funny quotes: "Woman!!!" "And the bad guys are like..." "It's gonna make me have to pee!" "No. All I got was like, a big, fat maru on my paper." "Sit by me...but I love you...even if I wasn't forced to be with you all day, I still would(Sister missionary)" "I'm like, so freakin' grateful!"

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2006-08-22T21:27:00.000-05:00

Capn' Jack Sparrow...

2006-08-17T19:29:00.000-05:00

AshleyT. & ZacE.

2006-08-16T03:53:00.000-05:00

First Posting

2006-08-15T00:38:00.000-05:00

HI! This is my first posting please reply!

*tashtash*