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7/19/2001
im back. im sure no one misses me, but im here anyway. i haven't blogged in a long while but i've been really busy. for the past two work weeks i have been at band camp from 8-4. after camp i've either gone to glasgow and stayed until 10 or later or i've come home and written guard work or drill for hours on end. i've just not had time to blog at all. maybe i can do better. i really do enjoy doing this blog stuff. and a few nights this week, i think it really would have helped for instance...yesterday was horrible. nothing seemed to go right what-so-ever. the band director hadn't written the guard in with the band on the drill like he was supposed to so we guard couldn't really do anything. we got behind a whole lot and it sucked. things just seemed to go wrong all day long. and then i got home around 5, took a nap until 6 and then ate dinner. after dinner i worked on guard stuff for 4 hours. i had to do so much stuff. write work and drill for one song and drill for two others. crazy stuff. i was in a horrible mood and blogging would have helped but no time. anyway, on a happier note, today was a wonderful day! i was outside for 7 hours in the hot sun, but wonderful. wonderful b/c things worked well and the guard was able to catch up with band. along with that, i also got excelent comments on my austin powers dance and drill. the director even had the whole band turn around, not march and just watch the guard. that made me happy. and then, with my wonderful eye, caught a totally messed up set of drill. the director had the band set in an oval from the 30 to the opposite 40, but on the drill it was from the 35 to the 35. it would have messed so many things up if i hadn't of caught it before he went on. it just goes to show how much attention they give what they are doing over there. anyway, that made me feel good for helping out the band.
anyway, that was my day at camp and after camp all i had to do was write work for secret agent man. it is short and they have huge flags here so it wasn't a big deal. i finished doing that stuff BEFORE 7:00. i didn't know what to do with myself having free time. i played two games of spades with david high on the zone and now i'm here.
i can't believe that tomorrow is the last day of camp. it went by fast, but slow at the same time. i'm very pleased with the way my guard has worked, overall. but, not so happy with the way the band works as a whole. it isn't very organized and it put a whole lot of stress on me. i wasn't supposed to have to do all the drill like i did. and i have not been payed near enough for the work i have done. i don't want to sound like a bad person or whatever, but i have worked harder than any of the other instructor's and im getting paid the same amount of money. i started working on flag work in june. i worked through my lunch breaks and other 15 minute breaks writing drill and perfecting other things. i came home 3 days last week and 3 days this week and worked on average, 3 hours per night on that stuff. and i also spent last saturday and sunday nights writing drill and work. and all of this for a total $400. i don't think so. never again. i never knew what i was getting myself into. and it really hasn't been horrible. i have had a lot of fun with it. i love doing guard and its been great getting back into it....but it is just the point of the matter, you know? if they want me back next year, i'll have to ask for more money! so, enough about that.
what else is up with me. i haven't seen or talked to my boyfriend since saturday. don't ask whats up cause i dont' have a clue. i guess i'll find out eventually.
i'm going to the t-ville fair tomorrow night. my guard girls talked me into going and then i managed to talk david high into going, too. i hope it is fun. with david there, we can make it fun. if all else fails, we will just make fun of people or something.
im taking my girls out for dessert at lunch tomorrow. that is my treat to them for being such a wonderful group to work with. i'll be going to their practices as often as i can until school starts. i'll have to get/make them something real before i leave them.
so, a lot of my friends are in chicago right now having lots of fun. actually, only 4 of my friends are there. david high and carrie bailed out, too. but, i know that i am missing a wonderful time. anyway, i did get to see britta on tuesday night for awhile! it was so great to see her and i can't wait to spend more time with her this weekend and the beginning of next week. yea for britta being home!
okay, i don't know of anything else. i need to write some letters and get to bed early tonight. gotta big night tomorrow night. adois!
jenny 10:52 PM
7/14/2001
i know, its been awhile and i never got around to going into the 4th of july. basically, we shot fireworks at michael nunnally's house and then went to my mom's apartment for my first party in forever. we played some games and ate lots of food. some of us played frisbee golf and i ended up talking with david high and staying up until 6 the next morning. it was a wonderful day. there were so many details, but for some reason i think i have other things i should talk about right now.
first, i am really tired right now. i got 2.5 hours of sleep last night. i went to bed at 5 and got up at 7:30 to go to work at towne and country at 9. i worked 9 hours today. and this past week i taught at band camp. color guard instructor, yep, that's me. anyway, after teaching camp friday i went to glasgow for some fun times. after dinner with my mom i went to david high's to chill for awhile. we went to get him a frisbee and then threw it around for awhile. eventually we went to mcdonald's to get judy, his mom, a coke. i got one of those fruit and yogurt parfaits. it was wonderful. i highly recomend it. anyway, after that i went to get david pike at his workplace. he wasn't there, or at his house, but i waited with his parents until he got home. at that point, nearly 10:00, we went to the square to play frisbee golf. wooohoo! this is a fun thing to do, even though i am horrible at it. it was david pike and david high, michael nunnally, jaamal and me. i think that was it. i didn't play any further than the 2nd hole b/c david pike lost his frisbee and i was nice enough to let him use mine to play. so, after that we decorated david pike's car and david high's car. it was great fun. lots of "d"s and "d^3." eventually we made it out to david vance's house for games with him, matt garrett, ranjana and the frisbee players. first taboo and then trivial pursuit. woohoo. my team won both games!!! go us! i didn't get too tired until half-way through the second game. that is pretty impressive since at that time it was 1:30 and i had been up since 6:45. but i toughed it out. after the game playing we talked forever and ever. david high and i once again stayed out late as hell talking. this time until 5. crazy stuff but i love it. i just can't get enough of this late night stuff.
so, this morning it was hard to get up, but i got going pretty well. i made it just fine until about 2 this afternoon. i was doing inventory and this was when doing the same thing over and over got old and boring. i did make it quite well. i used to be an old pro at staying out til 4 or 5 then getting up to go to work by 9. it was good to see i still had a little something in me!
so, back to band camp. everything is going well. i have been stressed at times and things have been not so great at times, but in general, my girls are really nice and they work pretty well. and, i am getting 50 more dollars per week now. that is great b/c it really wasn't worth it for what i was getting paid. i still would like to have more, but i understand that they don't have much of a budget.
okay, so, im not going to chicago now. it turns out that the trip is on wed-fri. i just can't miss three days of camp and leave them hanging like that. i have worked so hard to get them where they are now and i know that if i leave everything will go down hill and "jenny's guard" will suck. i don't want my name behind something that isn't good. you know....so...i hope they have fun in chicago, and i'll probably regret not going, but i've made up my mind. i'll still have to pay for my ticket i guess, but if i were to go, i'd probably spend way too much money.
okay, i have a whole lot of stuff to do. i have to clean my room, i have three loads of laundry to do, i need to write letters, and i have to work on some guard stuff. oh, and i want some of that stuff called sleep tonight, too.
so, until sometime later. bye bye!
jenny 9:41 PM
7/06/2001
oh my gosh. that is about all i have to say about how pissed i am at this blog. i just wrote an extremely long blog and i did the whole copy thing just in case something went wrong. then, right before i went to post, i added a sentence so i cut and pasted my "adios" and i went to post and it said that i was not signed in or something. so that one stupid cutting and pasting "adios" ruined the copy that i had made of the entire blog. oh my gosh. dangit. i wrote for 40 minutes on that thing. it was about my wonderful 4th of july. i wrote everything. i doubt i'll rewrite it. maybe i will sometime, but i don't have time right now. night.
jenny 11:27 PM
7/02/2001
Dangit, I actually feel like blogging and I can’t get online to do it. I guess I’ll type it here on word first and cut and paste again.
I haven’t felt like blogging in awhile so I am excited about this blog. I can’t remember the last time that I did blog. I have no clue where to begin or what I even want to say.
I finally finished my 8 day marathon of working. Thank god. Unfortunately, I won’t be working again until Sunday and after Sunday I won’t work until the next Sunday and so on. I only had one day, Saturday the 28th I think, on the schedule but I think I will be able to get those Sunday hours, too.
Luckily I’ll have the money from band camp. If it weren’t for that I’d be broke come a couple of weeks.
David pike finally got home. That was exciting. Maybe things will get back to normal soon.
I have snacked all day long. It is horrible. I think I ate a cupcake, two or three cookies, some peanut butter nabs, and there has to be more….but I feel so gross. I need to get out and make a couple laps around the farm. Slim chance in that happening. Oh well.
My latest bit of excitement came today when I made plans to have a party! Yes, me have a party! I can’t wait. Its going to be a 4th of july party at my mom’s apartment. Woohoo. It has been forever since I have been the hostess of a party. I hope that it is as fun as I plan on it being. I am inviting whoever wants to come and the only rule is, you have to bring a game. Hehe. Not really b/c I hope that more ppl will be there than there are fun games. And that is still a lot of ppl. The only thing is, I don’t have any fireworks or places to shoot them. We’ll just have to go somewhere else for that.
Tomorrow I have to take mammy to tville and after that I HAVE to make up some guard work. I have slacked today and didn’t do any. Sydney was here so that was my excuse. And my other excuse is that I hadn’t had a day off in forever and since making up guard work has to do with my work, I didn’t want to do it today.
Sydney, that cutie. Anyone who has not met sydney is missing out. She is a doll. Today andrew got her to call me jen-jen. So that is my name now, jen jen. She says that better than jenny.
Tomorrow is my dad’s birthday and I am very excited about it. I get to give him his money clip and hopefully one of the other things will come in, too. He better like this as much as I am anticipating him liking it.
I came up with a good birthday idea for my mom today. Her BD is the 27th of this month. My idea is a mouse pad of a pic of sydney and me. Her to girls! She will love it!
Fear factor is coming on now. I watched that show the other day at my mom’s house. I really got into it that time. But I think it was just b/c there was this one girl with an attitude and I kept watching in hopes that she would lose. Well, she won and I was pissed.
I am very behind in my letter writing and I feel horrible about it. I think I may do that now since I can’t get online. I wrote chris davidson one today. I feel worse about his than in do about the others b/c he is at bootcamp. If I were at bootcamp I’d better be getting some kickass letters.
Ohwell, gotta run now. later
wait, i am back. all i have to say is that i love microsoft word. i wrote this blog there and i didn't save it. my computer locked up and i had to shut off my computer. i went back to get the blog and it was still there! man i am excited! woohoo! thanks microsoft word!
anyway, i got pissed off sometime in between there. this is why. my brand new yellow shirt got some pink crap on it in the washer. i have no idea how this happened and i am very upset about it!!!! i guess i'll get over it. im out now!
jenny 9:54 PM
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