1. Tomorrow I'm leaving on a jet plane . . . (I know you have the tune in your head now.) I'm off to California with Sanae, Mrs. Uber-cooler-than-I-could-ever-hope-to-be friend and photog, and together we are going to the greatest photography workshop ever. ever. ever. Did I say how cool it's going to be yet?
ok, you get my point. I'll be back next week, so if you're in the neighborhood, say hi to Mark and my crazy kiddos.
2. Some freak-a-zoid totally hit our van tonight. Seriously. Mark took the boys down to the Smiths and while inside shopping for ice cream and goldfish, some whack-O hit our van. URG. So, hey, if you're the wierdo that hit my van, you owe me big time. And when I find out who you are, I'm going to (the following comment has been removed from this blog post because of it's inappropriate material)
3. Henry, my cutie patootie boy, entered a conceptual math competition. Three lower-grade finalists were chosen out of the entire state. My Henry was one of them! Gosh darn smarty-pants kids . . . gotta love 'em.
4. LTUE is next weekend. Say what? (I know that's what you're thinking). Well, if you live in the Utah County area and your a closet writer or out in the open about your dream of one day becoming an author, or if you just want to find out how to get started, the LTUE conference is for you. First off, its FREE! Secondly, there will be quite a few NY Times best-selling authors there to ask questions to. Third, it's a freaking blast!!! If you want more info go to: www.LTUE.org
5. If you're still reading, and believe me, I totally think you're the greatest thing ever now, could you please tell me your most embarrassing moment from high school? I need some material for the book I'm writing right now, and I would love to extort your teenage nightmares that you probably never wanted to relive.
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mine happened when I was a football manager the first year, my junior year. Our job was to run balls in and out of the field at each play so we, naturally, were on the sidelines. Well, I was standing with one of my friends and not looking at the field, just talking and holding about 4 footballs. Next to her was this news camera man (we always had local news covering the highlights of our game, we were 6A).
Well, next thing I know, both my friend and the camera man took off running in the opposite direction and i look toward the field only to see our quarterback and 2 linebackers headed right for me. I dropped the footballs and turned tail to run when my foot landed in a small divot and i fell...with 3 padded football players on top of me.
The only thing hurt was my pride...=)
Does that help?
I'm SO sorry about your van! Personally, I'd start looking around for Rhode Island license plates...sucky, sucky drivers. Yay for Henry!
sorry about your van, that stinks but have SO much fun in CA!!
As for my most embarassing moment I had quite a few but one that will always stick out in my mind was. . .
I was a junior & playing soccer with my club team. One of my team mates had a really beautiful older brother (who was in a bunch of my classes at school). We were just finishing up practice & we were shooting on goal. I ran out into the parking lot to grab balls that didn't make it in the goal. As I went into the parking lot (it was quite empty, just the cars of my coaches, teammates & a few parents) I tripped on the curb & then hit the trailer hitch that was on the back of my coaches car. . . oh yeah and that uber cute older brother was sitting in his car & saw the entire thing. But really I tripped because I had my eyes on him & not what I was doing & was trying to look cool. So much for looking cool. I was in horrible pain & just bawling as I laid in the parking lot & of course uber cute older brother came running to my rescue & took me to his dad's office (he was a dr down the street from where we were practicing) to have me checked out. Thankfully I just had a sprained ankle & really ugly (and painful) bruise just above my hips.
So much for looking cool for uber cute older brother. But hey he even called me that night to see if I was ok & talked to me in class more than usual after that so maybe it wasn't so bad after all (though I still hurt for awhile).
Hey, I'm off to California tomorrow too!
Ew. I'm sorry about the van too! That sucks.
LTUE is going to be awesome. I can't wait.
Have fun in CA. =)
OH Dana! That is awesome, funny and so embarrassing! I love love love it!
Viv, that's awesome. Good writing stuff there! I love it.
I was a freshman in H.S. (Oregon H.S. is 9-12) and I had just gotten one of those wrap around skirts. Lunch was just starting and I used the restroom before heading to the lunch room. (Our lunch room was at the elementary school which was a little over a football field away). It was really windy outside so I didn't notice how drafty it felt under my skirt. Once I got to the lunch room my friend pointed at my skirt - I thought she was complamenting me so I said "thanks, it's new". She then ran across the lunch room and untucked my skirt from itself. The bottom of the skirt had gotten tucked into the top after using the bathroom. I had walked around for 5 minutes showing everyone my backside and nobody said anything!!!
I'm pretty sure high school was one giant embarrassing moment for me. Junior high was worse, though. I'll give you one of those:
I was in the school play and my part was decent enough to have a microphone attached to my costume. The tech guys thought we were all too dumb to figure out how to turn them on and off for each scene, so they told us to leave them on all the time and they would control the volume from the booth.
Anyway, I was backstage for a scene. It was long enough that I was out in the hallway to keep the stage area clear. I was working off some nervous energy by walking around and singing "When I'm 64" to myself. Suddenly someone ran up to me and covered my microphone.
My mic had been on the entire scene and I had been singing over the loudspeaker for at least two minutes. The kids on stage tried to play it off, but it my voice was unmistakable and everyone knew it was me.
If you thought I couldn't get any more graceful, think again: We all went out to Taco Amigo after the show. As the boy I was crushing on walked by my table, I tried to take a sip of my soda. Unfortunately, I was too busy gazing at him to pay attention to my drink and ended up shoving my straw pretty far up my nose.
Oh, I could go on and on.
PS - If my memory is correct, I think that boy may have been the brother-in-law of the lovely Mrs. Fugal (see above comment). Maybe not, though. I changed my mind all the time.
Ha ha ha...Jen and Bradie those stories are HILARIOUS! I'm totally dying right now.
1. So exciting! I'm so very happy for you.
2. Suck-tastic. Dang.
3. Fantastic! Dang!!
4. Can't wait.
5. I can't think of any embarrassing high school moments (I'm very good at repressing bad things), but I do have one from grade school that might work. I was wearing a skirt... not a tight one... and when I sat down, my skirt went up, leaving my underwear showing through the square hole at the back of the chair. I didn't realize this happened until the note that the kid behind me wrote that said "Look at Peggy's underwear!" made it around to my friend at the other side of the classroom. I guess that one was un-repressable.
I can't believe someone would hit your van and take off!!! I'm so sorry. :(
Hmmm.. embarassing high school memories? For some reason I remember other peoples embarassing things and not my own. lol Well, nothing to terribley embarassing must have happened, because I can't remmeber. now jUnior high.. Let me know when you write a book that covers that time frame. :)
So i was in 9th grade and was talking to my main man---k i was just crushing on him but i thought we had potential, sigh-and i set my backpack down so i could do the cool kid lean against the locker next to his. We made plans and as I turned to leave, i'd forgotten my backpack was on the floor. i tripped on the strap that my foot was now entangled in and as i fell i reached out for anything to steady myself. unfortunately what i grabbed was his...package. i stood up embarrassed, not because of the graceful fall, and awkwardly pretended nothing happened. needless to say our plans fell through.
My most embarrassing moment was being stranded in the middle of an intersection when *someone* (who I was teaching how to drive a stick) saw a cute boy, forgot she was driving and jumped into the back seat. I was totally embarrased because I had to slide over the the drivers seat and get us out of the intersection because we were in the way of traffic. hahaha! Oh wait, that should be YOUR embarrassing moment. Or, this time I almost got into a fight with a cheerleader from Payson but instead squealed like a pig and hid behind my friends, oh wait, you again. Hmmm, I guess you had enough embarrassing moments for both of us, I can't think of one. :-)
Erin! Just saw your photo website. It's beautiful!
Smiles from Hawaii,
Kristen
K, I have the best most embarrassing HS moment. But I refuse to leave it in a place where others can see it. You'll have to get the goods from me personally on a later date :)
why do you need other peoples memories. I hung around you enough in high school to have witnessed a few of yours and you should have a near arsenal of writing material!
Oh...and if you'd like. I have three or four journals full of embarassing moments that included you. So, feel free to loot through them. (plus I have photographic evidence of several said memories.)
ha ha ha.
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