Senior Year Already?

Good evening cyberspace! It truly has been a long time! What can I say? Life is busy. I had a wonderful last summer home filled with friends and work and some family time too. With this school year finally here I figured it was about time to get back on the blogging wagon. School has got my life a little crazy, but I love it. Here are a few other things I love:

1. The smell of new books
2. Opening my locker
   
3. Eating lunch on the patio
4. Writing in my planner
5. Friday night movies with my sister
6. My mom who makes me butternut squash soup when I can't eat solids
7. When my friends laugh at my jokes even though they aren't funny
8. Going on super fun dates with super fun guys :) (I really like this one)
9. Eating ice cream
10. Reading my old journals
11. Singing at the top of my lungs to the radio and then forgetting the words

Anyways that's all for today. Pics are to come!

Day 3

A picture of your favorite show..... This is what we call the chill with your little brother and sister show. We love this show. We could seriously pile in our TV room and watch Psych for hours and be perfectly content.
Can't wait for the new season coming this summer :)

Day 2

A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest... This was a tough choice... I've been blessed with many friends that I've been close with since young childhood. However, my sister Kassi takes the cake on this one.


Kassi and I are so alike and different at the same time. Over the years we've fought, laughed and cried together. She is one of my best besties. Love her!

30 Days of Me... day one.

I'm gonna give the ever so popular "30 Days of Me" thing a whirl. I'm not saying I'll get everyday, or that I'll even finish, but hey, where's the fun of it if you already know everything.


Day One
Fifteen facts about me

1. 1. I love singing along with the radio.
2. My favorite soda is Root Beer.
3. I secretly wish I was an artist.
4. I love eating doritos in my tuna sandwich.
   
5. My closet is color coordinated. I am a tad OCD about certain things.
   
6. Flip-flops are my footwear of choice.
7. Wearing my hair in a high messy ponytail helps me concentrate.
   
8. I have always wanted to have my own pick-up truck.
9. I like boys who are comfortable in their own shoes and fun.
10. I LOVE disney and disney/pixar movies.
11. My first celebrity crush was Donny Osmond, soon followed by Orlando Bloom.
12. I like to play in the mud.
    
13. I've always wanted to be able to play the piano well.
14. My favorite actresses are Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson.
    
15. I love spending afternoons with my friends doing random and totally illogical things.

That's all folks!

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.