Another List to Add to...

Among my friends, I'm known for making lists. Todo lists, bucket lists, qualities-i-want-in-a-husband lists, things-that-make-me-happy lists, pet-peeve lists, etc. I like lists. Recently, I made a list with two of my very good buddies. This list is called the "Last Summer Home" list. This summer, the summer of 2011, is the last summer that the famous trio will all be together before life happens. Here it is in all of its glory:

1. Have a food fight
2. have a paint fight
3. sleep under the stars
4. jump in a lake with clothes on
5. pull an all nighter
6. go fishing
7. draw a mural on the road (or other asphalt surface)
8. Dinner in the road or sidewalk
9. make a dutch oven dinner
10. winnie roast @ spring lake
11. carve our initials in a tree
12. hike up to the bathtub
13. day camp somewhere
14. walk through a drive through
15. Stay at the hotel in payson.. oh wait, we aren't 18... someday
16. Stuff our faces into a cake
    
17. Do a WAY good t.p. job
18. try 10 new foods
19. try dog food
20. dress crazy and go out in public
21. drive up to the old mine and take pictures
22. dance in the rain
23. make friendship bracelets
24. run through sprinklers
25. walk to walmart
26. milk a cow
27. go to a random kid's sports game and cheer
28. ride in a shopping cart
29. have a big fancy dinner
30. chick flick marathon

The list is subject to change, and I hope to post pics as we do the different things...This summer is going to be fantastic. Three months left. I can make it three months... i hope.

Time and time again, I promise to post, and time and time again, I forget. I get busy. I spend too much time on facebook. I....come up with more excuses. I'm not going to spend time catching the blog up....I think I'll just start anew. Perhaps you may see a picture here, or an article there...I'm not making any promises, but perhaps I will simply try to post more frequently... Here it goes.



Yesterday I participated in a solo/ensemble festival with my violin. I play Concerto No. 5, 3rd Movement by F. Sietz. It wasn't my best performance, but it was enough to earn me a spot at region. In celebration of the five and a half wonderful years I've spent learning this instrument, I've written a poem. Not a good one, but a poem nevertheless.

Me and My Violin

By Audrey Miller

Patiently waiting for the moment of truth

Wondering, will the judges see the proof?

Was it enough, those hours I rehearsed?

Or will I make a turn for the worse?

Silently I stand, and prepare to perform

I’m scared as my palms begin to warm,

My shaky knees become hard to constrain

As beautiful notes dance through my brain

I feel nervous at first, while everyone stares

And then as if to free me from all my cares

My bow sweeps across the string

Making my racing heart begin to sing

That connection that only a musician feels

Makes the hair on my neck stand up with chills

The music runs deep through my veins

As I let melody and emotion reign

I never dreamed I could play this well

With beautiful tone, and the perfect swells

It seems like yesterday, I was just starting out

With hopes and dreams, but also a lot of doubt

My heart is on my sleeve as I continue to stand

On that stunning stage playing the best I can

All fear is behind me, I think with a grin

As I play the masterpiece --just me and my violin.

I know I promised news on why I haven't posted in a while, and that will come, just not yet. Today I'm gonna post a few of my favorite pics that I've taken recently, as well as some of my favorite pics from this school year. Don't fret... More is coming. I promise

I know I've been very busy and haven't posted. Give me till the beginning of next week and I will have a VERY big event to post... That's right folks... CLeW is on it's way.

Running Out of Time.

This is it. I only have two years left till I move out, weird right? I want to make sure that I'm soaking in all I can because I'm only going to be a teenager and go through high school once. I want to be the girl who makes the most of everything, the one who works her hardest, and the one who people are going to remember as their friend. A genuine friend who they've laughed with, played with, and maybe even cried with. I want to look back in twenty years and not regret the decisions I'm making today.
High school is so rough. This first week of school has had me swamped. Maybe I'm being a little too ambitious with the classes I'm taking, but I just want to get the most out of what my school offers. Besides school, I've been busy planning a Community Leadership Workshop (CLEW) for freshman in my area, and boy it is a lot harder than I thought in ways I didn't think it would be. I know within a few weeks, I'll have everything under control again, but some days I just look at my planner (yes I know, what kind of dork has a planner) and think wow. I've got to be out of my mind (which is also probable). Don't get me wrong, I love it. I love being with my friends and learning how everything in our world works together to make is go round... literally. I think my favorite class this year may end up being Journalism, but we will see, many look promising.
Knowing this would be my second to last summer home, I tried to milk the experience for all its worth by doing crazy, random things with my friends. Below is a list of a few of our grand adventures:

• Creating a play dough village in the middle of the night
• breakfast on the side walk after pulling my first all-nighter
• daily trips to the snow shack
• planning a CSI movie and getting a snow cone instead
• jumping/dancing in the gutter when it was pouring
• watching chick flicks that made us all a little teary-eyed
• posing like freaks down town on main street
• Walking into a ATV store just to explore and sit on everything
• Nearly running out of gas in the middle of now where
• breaking down on the median of a highway
• getting serenaded by cute Mormon boys with flowers
• frantically producing a newsletter
  
• LOTS and LOTS of nerts
  
• just whatever else happened to pop into our heads
  

Sorry it's been so long... Summer just gets crazy I guess. It is late and I am very tired, but I promise, more is on the way soon!