Love, Love Me Do

You know I love you! I'll always be true, so love, love me do! Alright so yesterday I got up at about 5:30… That’s right AM, lol. I did my whole “Ready in 10 minutes - wait where’s…?” thing and then entered the dark kitchen, an unusual sight for me when it’s supposed to be MORNING. I got out one of my most favoritest things to eat – a homemade pita with and egg, butter and cheese inside. Doesn’t that sound so healthy? My mom didn’t have anything to do with this one, after I started making pitas I decided I liked pitas but I didn’t like hummus so I eat other things in them. This is one of my favorites that I came up with along with something like a meatball sandwich pita style. I like them just with pizza sauce and parmesan because I’m not a big meatball person and don’t really mind their absence. Anyways so we ran around getting everything together, people kept running through the kitchen as I just sat there eating my pita thingy happily. Mom and Lex applied makeup – I ate breakfast ;). On further reflection I think their plan all along was to get donuts later but whatever. Kate, Lil, Lex, mom and I got in the car, I opened the gate as usual, it was really cold and I remember advising Alexis to put on a bigger warmer coat because it was cold, but she ignored me because she loves her black and white jacket. We got a call from Mrs. Fillmore, I answered my mom’s phone unwillingly, “Hello?” “Hey Tanya, we’re just-” “It’s Halie… Umm.. Here’s my mom…”. Anyone who’d only talked to me on the phone would really think I was mean! And illiterate. I should fix that. So anyways we dropped Katie and Lil off at grandma’s house and started off for 7Eleven where we were meeting the Fillmores. I tried to get my mom to let Brenten ride in our car, but I was still asleep and my persuasive skills were mediocre so it was a no. Mom and Lex got donuts in 7Eleven, I sat in the car trying not to fall asleep until Mrs. Fillmore brought me this elevator speech Brenten and Mr. Fillmore had written up to me. It was a long ride there, we turned up the radio (Which mom turned from 98.5 to Air 1, I almost always change it to 98.5 although I think Air 1’s epic). As I said before I was still asleep so my singing was horrible! Even worse than usual, but I loved it and it was really fun. It’s one of my newest things with my mom because she bought a pair of sunglasses she likes and one she’s decided she dislikes, so when she puts on hers I put on the other pair just for laughs. I’ve never worn them outside the car. So I wore the sunglasses and sang and sang and sang…. Yeah Air 1’s awesome ;). We finally arrived and the Ewens pulled up right behind us. It was still cold but we were all good. “Good morning, how are you today?” asked Mr. Ewen. I laughed, “Good morning! Me? I’m still asleep!” He laughed too and replied, “It doesn’t look like it - you’re smiling and talking.” SO apparently I wasn’t as slow looking as I was in my mind. The whole day was a blur really, we had the competition in a school gym and only 12 teams were there. We wandered around looking at other teams' projects but it wasn't long before Brenten realized a piece of their board was different from ours and when we tested our regular working programs it was clear that this was a fatal mistake. We had to rewrite several parts and our runs didn't go so well - several of our pieces were noncooperative or malfunctional and we scored 100 even for our first run. We were very optimistic though, we didn't let it get to us, we focused on the small victories one by one smiling and kidding around and high fiving. We went to Project where we encountered a very skeptic judge who was unimpressed by our play and kept talking about the similarities between our project and Obamacare and privacy issues. We forgot to say it was HIPPA compliant and we didn't actually have a trifold or handouts which I think might've helped our case, but we had fun doing the skit even if I stumbled over one of my more recently added lines and caused an awkward pause before I tried to correct myself in the line. It was actually kind of more like he was grilling us and the second juge only asked like one question. Then we went to Teamwork which we aced because we four are such good friends ;)). I mean really, I look at my friendships with a few of my friends like Brenten, Derek, Emily, Zach and such and it just makes other perfectly good friendships look almost akward because we're just so much ourselves together. Then we went to Robot Design, that went pretty well except one of our programs we were trying to show the judges had issues and destroyed one of the obstacles, I laughed nervously, "Ah we'll have to fix that, guys." and picked it up. They were really interested in one Derek built for the stent, funny that was Derek's favorite too. We should've showed it to them. Mrs. Fillmore made us wear our costumes around for the rest of the day. We had a LOT of fun!! And we shared lots of jokes, learned a lot and had an overall great time. I totally expected to be passed on to the next level but we weren't. We all did the YMCA, I did the motions at least, nothing more despite promting from various people - I just can't do things like that! There's no set way to do it so I have no confidence whatsoever that whatever it is that I'm doing is right... Anyways our team got the Judges' Award for as they said "Pretty much everything that could go wrong on the board for this team did, but they faced it all optimistically and with a smile." It was very true and I was being pessimistic when I said "So pretty much we failed everything optimistically..." because no, we didn't. We did really well and grew and improved our lives in my opinion (I almost just typed 'lices' instead of 'lives'.. "We improved our lices" that's horrible!). Afterwards I was disappointed to be leaving my friends even after spending the whole day with them! And we didn't even get to follow the Fillmores back "I think they're hooking up with friends" said my mom, thus dooming us to wander around without certainty where exactly we were until we finally used our GPS and found an In N Out Burger. Yumm. Then we stopped by Winco because my mom apparently knew what Tim Tams were and wanted some. We didn't find any but we bought some other cookies and went home. This time we listened to both 98.5 and 99.1 and by the time we got to grandma's to pick up the kids I was pretty much dead on my feet. I grouchily helped get the kids in the car and we went home where I joined the family for prayers before falling into bed and sleeping like a log until this morning when I realized I forgot to change my alarms from super loud waking me up at 5: 30... NOOOOOOO!!! Anyways Laterz!!