the4thangel04

How embarrassing. Fox News decides to show up in Manhattan, KS! Yes...they did some all american new years eve! Well yeah! So we have a tradition in Manhattan we do a ball drop too! Only it's an apple not a ball! They've been saying it's a time honored tradition. Bull shit is what I say....it's only been going for about two years. This is number 3! So Pozek calls me and says hey they're in your town. They have the apple. I'm like you mean the apple that drops like two feet. Yup that's the one. O how funny! Manhattan, KS is the shit Y'all. Better yet our ball is in Aggigeville. It has probably like 10 bars in a 20 yard radius. Great place for college students! Awesome for families. Oh, I'm so excited. I hope y'all enjoyed watching my tiny hick town and their great facilities in aggive ville!

We went to blockbuster to get some movies for tonight and my little sister was helplessly wandering around looking for the sequel of the emporer's new groove. Y'all no u saw it! The Movie is called Kronk's new groove. Well Lauren being the stupid kid of family walks around the movie store for a good 20 minutes asking all the employee's for krunk's new groove. After she got done asking for it they employee would be laughing so hard that they couldn't answer her. So she moved on. Oh lauren. How you entertain me when your stupid. Is there ne chance that I was adopted?

So as y'all may recall one of my previous entries was about my disfunctional family and how the rest of you live in wal-greens. And my family lives in the trash can of the wal-greens parking lot. Trying to be inside wal-greens but most definately not making it! Well anyway my little sister, mom, and I had a good day. We went to Topeka to try on our dresses for our parents' wedding in hawaii. The women completely freaked out cuz i didn't have a strapless bra and because of my rib cage.....cuz it's abnormally wide (hence the reason my snow tutu suffocated me!)...and so the dress was ordered in a size up from my normal dress size. WELL...hello i know my boobs! i mean really...i was like yes i have bra that will work! come on! did she think i just woke up with my boobs yesterday! Well whatever she dug up a bra and nasty one so i put it on! This lady was hilarious though! O god i wish i had a camera she had like pins up and down her skirt she had a pencil and pen in her hat and she had like 3 different types of tape measurers around her neck! WOW! It made my day i think. Then we went to best buy! Now I was supposed to look at digital cameras but i kind of didn't! I really wanted this new motorolla phone that has a digital camera built into it. So we left topeka and went back to manhattan to look at the phone. It only holds like one picture. So now i have to go back to best buy and find a camera. I might just wait until i get back to lynchburg. Ok so we finished the day with card games. It was fun! We had a great time. So i decided i could have a wal-greens family if i got rid of the 3 youngest kids! Leave us with a family of 4! But actually my siblings can really be cute! But most of the time they're a pain. O god and u now what else was great about today. My parents bought swiss cake rolls and dr. pepper! AWWW i was in heaven! It was great! Little Debbie is my boo-flower! Her and I are best friends!

Awww yet another day in the life of my disfunctional family! Not that the majority would know what that is cuz y'all live in perfect. Go move to Walgreens! Anyway we went to this place called Chucky Cheese on Steriods. Basically it's a carnival inside where you can spend a whole lot of money on basically nothing. I guess it had awesome DDR and a great laser tag place but you know me and that kind of stuff I'm really not good at it. So I spent my time getting ahead on english! I read the color of water which is ok but just not too interesting. Then after about 4 hours at this stupid place we finally left! Then we went back to the hotel. But not before my brother threw a fit about not getting the prize he wanted. On the way home he got the lecture about not crying because men don't cry! God was that funny. I'm so glad I'm a girl and can cry because I would crack up if I got that speech. Then I slept for 4 hours because hey i can do that. But the kids fought about whose turn it was to use the bathroom and my mom got angry...suprise suprise! Then we went to the plaza to look at lights. Now I don't know...well i'm pretty y'all don't know this but Kansas City is the city of fountains and is really pretty this time of year because they have carriage rides to look at all the lights hung up by the stores and everything. They have 278,000 lights that stretch out for 75 miles. It's awesome! Monica and I took lots of pretty pictures! But then my brothers got into a fight on the way back to the hotel so family fued once again! Anyway it was ok....i really like the plaza and oo yeah it's designed after Syville, Spain. There is my history lesson for the day. Anyway i really want to see the producers but i can't cuz my mom is saying that i went and saw rent and i don't know it's confusing. I decided that my mom is a movie nazi! I think she doesn't want to see producers cuz she hated rent. How do u not like rent. Anyway sorry i only write really long notes but deal with it!

So for christmas my immeadiate family has christmas early because we go out of town for christmas and it's hell trying to get the seven family member's presents plus our luggage and all the other presents for my aunts and uncles into two vehicales. So anyway tonight it our christmas eve. Well, so at about 10:30 we start bringing gifts down from the attic and I start arranging the stuff under the tree. I get like halfway through and my mom is like...what are you doing?....i'm like what does it look like i'm doing.....i mean i could be stuffing a turkey! My decides that I have to many large gifts on the right side of the tree. So I start moving a few stupid gifts to the other side of the tree! Then 10 minutes later carissa now u have too many small gifts on the right! OMG! i'm thinking to myself...who gives a shit in 12 hours the stupid thing is going to be cleared of gifts anyway! But I didn't argue and started rearranging this tree again. I think i'm done about 15 minutes later all the gift are sucessfully placed "under" (around) the tree. I step back to admire my work cuz y'all know that i've worked hard at this point. Then my mom walks in the room. Carissa she says...you have way too many gifts with that wrapping paper together. She starts pulling all the gifts away from the tree. I want to shoot my mo min the face. She says start over! START OVER!!! Ugh! 45 minutes later i got it right! It took me like an hour to put stupid presents under the tree!!!! OMG! Is my mom they only person who is OCD like that? or do y'all have parents who hover over you while you arrange gifts. I don't know. But o what's awesome is the gift my little brother gave me. The kids give gifts on "christmas eve"....but he gets me an electric windshield clear. It gets all the ice off your windsheild! I'm excited! O yeah and i chopped all my hair off.
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That's my little sister's xanga and she has a picture of us tonight. I look so hot don't I. I'm just for sure 5 million guys are going to call me because of this picture. JK! Horrible picture sorry! But hey that's the picture. I don't think VSA is going to be too fond of my hair because ms. faesi told me when I asked her about a haircut that they all like my hair long. Why it's just my hair that they like I don't know. I mean plenty of people have their hair at the length that it is currently but whatever. I'm donating it all to locks of love. That's why my hair was grown out to the length it was. It took me 6 years to grow it out. In 6th grade one of my friends mom lost all her hair to lukemia (I can't spell)! So that's when I decided I wanted to be able to give someone hair i guess. But I'm excited. I feel like i did something really nice for someone! And if VSA complains I'm just going to be like why can't u make this a publicity thing for y'all. "you guys" are giving to the communitty! I'll send an old pointe shoe signed with some vsa thing on it if they want me to. But they can't say nething about it...or i'll just be like are u saying that u diagree that it was awful for me to give my hair to some poor innocent child with no hair and cancer! That'll shut them up real quick! What do you think!

Other funness of the day! Parentals go physco on me about college. They were like do u have a plan B. I'm like hellz no! Yes it's bad a i no...but they were like carissa you prolly won't get into ocu. You suck at tapping. Then i'm yelling at them cuz they haven't seen me tap. And yes it's most definately my weakness....i mean it's down there with hip hop but i can fake it well! And plus at the interview I had they said that if you have a weakness in one of the 3 areas it was ok because most of the students do! Plus it's not like I plan on being in 42nd street...come on! Then I was like well i can sing at my audition and that would give me bonus points and then they went off about how i can't sing. Ugh! and my parents wonder why i have bad self essteem? I mean really! My mom went to talk to Ms. faesi to thank her for letting me do a night of snow (no my mom did not call in to get me that night like most of the population thinks) But anyway ms faesi was like she is always so hard on herself and has low self essteem. Anybody else shocked. Sorry i'm pretty sure the majority of vsa has self-esteem issues. As far as i'm concerned my selfesteem is fine! So wow this has been a really long entry but hey i think it makes up for all the time i haven't updated it! HAHA! Did anybody even get this far before scrolling down. I'm pretty sure i would've done the same thing!

I AM SO SORE I CAN'T EVEN MOVE! Ms. Graves came!....that should say it all. Now she's a great teacher, but her classes kill. My hips started screaming as soon as she walked in the door. They felt the roundajambs enlairs coming on! And FRAPES! Who does like 50 triple frapes! I want to know! Oh, then I go to snow to find.....ooo opppps carissa forgot to tell u, u have to go in today. My body wants to shut down after that. Then wonderful opening of act two. And after that cats. Ms. Thomas killed me. She walks in a teaches the first two counts of eight in probably four seconds! I almost died! And a cartwheel. My wrist tendinitious is back y'all! Beware i might have to wear braces on them from now on! Tommrow is only going to be worse! O body forgive me!....And too bad if it doesn't....it still has to work tommrow ne way! Sucks to be it!

What a day! I woke up at 4 in the morning to get on a flight in manhattan. So I get on and they take their sweet time to get off the ground. Now I was supposed to leave at 5:45 and they didn't manage to get going until 6:15. This would've been fine but I had a flight from kansas city to charlotte leaving at 7:00. So when I landed this air lady came running torwards our plane and was like "ANYBODY GOING TO CHARLOTTE HAS TO GET OFF THIS PLANE AND ONTO THE NEXT PLANE NOW! WE'RE LEAVING!" So I hike up to my terminal in Kansas City and jet onto that plane. Now of course I'm on the plane with the screaming baby. It cried the whole way there. It cried for the entire two and a half hours! So when I finally fell asleep I dreamed I was in Disney World for the senior trip and while we all were on it's a small world (why we rode that i don't no) the puppets stopped singing it's a small world and started screaming like the baby. Then I woke up! So I get to Charlotte and I walk over to my gate. I have like two hours so I start reading and after 30 min. i see Sarah d. So I go sit by her and then I was like....yeah i'm hungary so we go get pizza and ellen calls and tells us that she is delayed in atlanta. So we're like hmmm....maybe we should make sure we're not delayed. No we weren't delayed! We were canceled! So we are waiting in line and I call ms. faesi and she informs that we should just get there when we can. Then she was like carissa i meant to call u during break to talk to u about something. She tells me that she doesn't want me to worry about cats. I was like...ok....she said we're encouraging everybody to tryout. At this point I'm like what?...she was like yeah that's right we're encouraging everyone to tryout. So ummmm....well what would u think. So I'm trying to get another ticket and I'm like ok wait so ppl think i'm discouraging other ppl from trying out? what is up with that. So I get to the front of the line and the lady is like ok I can get u 2 on the first flight for tommrow. So here is a list of hotels. OK fine. I can stay in Charlotte over night. One problem. I'm a minor. I can't get a hotel. I bring this to the lady's attention and she's like ok well umm....she doesn't no what to do. So she consults with another lady and they type a million miles a second and say we'll we're going to overbook this flight for u two. It leaves at 3:35. So sarah and I have 4 and a half hours to do nothing. So we walk around and decide that if our flight gets delayed anymore we're going to go to New York City and stay there for a couple nights. But out flight is not delayed so we wait by the gate for like three hours. Then when they start getting ready to board sarah and I stand by the gate and race to the podium as soon as they call out zone number. We're on a damn plane and that's all that mattered at the moment! So we're in the air and about to land. I see sonic and up we go again. What the fuck i think i was right there. The captin comes on the speaker and says uhhhhh we missed it! U MISSED IT....HOW DO U MISS LYNCHBURG! i don't no but this dipshit of a piolit can. So we circle and come again. So we're in lynchburg. I get off get some money to pay for my parking and go to the bathroom before going to baggage claim. We'll i left my wallet in the bathroom and i soon find myself face to face with a police officer who gives me a long lecture about responsibility! BOO! it's not like i haven't heard enough lectures in the last week.....boo! So then I get back to baggage claim to find what? they lost my luggage! AGAIN. This is the third or fourth time that this has happened. So I got to explain to them what it looks like. I go to a women who looks like she is going to help me but she just stands there. I finally tell a guy and he says he'll call me. Now i'm still waiting for my luggage....but a flight gets in at 1030...so hopefully. Well then i get to dance. YAY dance! Now i've missed everyone terribly...but as for nutcracker...i could've waited! We so opening forever and move on. Arabian was well yeah....lets just say we're not all quite there yet. Then flowers comes.....could i have fucked up ne more then i did. I'm afraid to think. Then finale.....well i did worse then flowers. Mr. Bosman tells us that we couldn't be worse! O boy! and so ends the day of hell....but wait it's not done I still have a whole bunch of hw. And to those of u who actually read this......sorry i sounded bitchy earlier today....but it was just one of those days...ya no!

I AM SO BORED! SOMEBODY PLEASE SHOOT ME AND BRING ME OUT OF MY MISERY! Actually I am bored, but I miss y'all! I can't wait to come back. MONDAY!....the only thing I'm not looking forward to in nutcracker. I feel like I'm not ready yet. But then again, does anybody feel ready? I'm sure the show will turn out wonderful. Anyway stressful three weeks ahead! We'll get through it! And I'll definatley going to be making regular starbucks runs, so anyone who dragging come find me! Hope everyone has a great rest of their break!

Oh Boy! I'm so sad! I'm might go into depression or something! Shelly has left VSA! I'm going to dye without her I think. She was so funny! And she was such a nice person! Blah! and she's gone. I'm so sad! She is going to move to Atlanta to stay with Renee and Alex to dance at Metropolitan Ballet Theatre. It's a really good studio complete with an amazing dance teacher but it's not going to be the same without my shell shell! Mr. Bosman classes are going to be different, that's for sure! But I'm sure we can all say that we're all really going to miss her!

GEEEEZZZ!!! OK so today was orientation and Mr. Brooks is heading all this stuff and what not....that's fine! But today....two days before the program starts, he informs us that we are wearing all black! Ok I only own ONE black leotard. So what am I supposed to do...go buy 5 billion other leotards for the this year like this moment? Ok so I have about 40 other leotards but they are all colored! So they told me that I could wear those to modern and rehersal. Who is really going to change their leotard in the middle of the day? I mean geeeezzz! So they said that we can also wear those on the weekends...well unless there is a guest teacher. WHAT'S THE POINT? They'll prolly bring in a guest teacher every week. I'm really pissed cuz I have to go buy all these new leotard when I just got new ones. That are colored! Man I hate this...I understand that they want us to be uniform but they could've given us a little more warning! It's so awful!

So I got to the dorms today finally! Only after three days of driving and like a billion hours in stupid hotels, I finally made it! So my mom and I decided to put on differnt flooring on. So we went to Lowes and got this foe wood PEEL AND STICK squares. We bought 14 boxes of them and each box was so heavy. I'm mean they seriously were heavy. So we had to haul all that out to my car and then bring them to the dorms. Well then we pulled up my carpet to find mounds of glue and soot stuff. Under all the stuff was a beautiful wood floor. But to get to that floor we would have to sand for days and I definately wasn't going to do that. So we started putting on these squares and when you get to the edges you have to cut the squares just right so they can fit. But OMG! It takes forever to cut the squares and if you mess up like I didn't about a billion times, you have to start over. Well, we finally finished but geezz it looks far from perfect. It looks ok though....it's doesn't look horrible...but word of advice just never put down squares. OK so I'm back in town and everyone come visit and see my new flooring. Hey I know it's really dorky, but I'm proud of it! So come see it!

Ok! So I know everyone has been totally stressing about college and everything but I can tell ya, I feel ya! So I'm trying to pack everything and I discover that since I'm taking my car I can't bring as much stuff. So I'm trying to purge and it's not really working! I mean all my stuff that is here in Manhattan is important stuff. And I already purged a bunch of stuff while I was moving out of VSA. Ok so then today is just packed...i have a hour and a half of voice and then i have a dance lesson from 7-8 but i have to get there like 40 min. before to stretch. And in between that I have to mail these postcards that I've had for ages, go get my little sister a charm for her braclet because I broke the other one! And I have to pack everything else! I'm freaking! Ohhh and on top of that I woke up with the intentions of cleaning my car....INSIDE AND OUT!.....but it's raining here....and now it's starting to storm.....UGH!!!!.....this is just like december for me!!!WHY!!!!....AND I don't know what my classes are and I don't no how to get a parking pass? ANYBODY!.... And I have to get a rug for my room! BLAH! Well I hope everyone else is having better luck than I because I've just about had it here!

OMG! So, I got to see Hello Dolly this weekend, and I got to sit in row EEE! I could see EVERYTHING! I'm mean everything, I could see their microphones and I could see them sweat (which wasn't to cool!) And they're were a few girls in in the cast that went to the college that I want to go to, and I met them! They told me like everything I wanted to know about the audition process and the college itself. It was awesome. Also the theatre that I went to was and outdoor one! The stage is under a roof but the audience is outside which is awesome. But anyway they have cement stars with famous people's names on it. They're was a Ginger Rogers one and people like that. But in the new section there was a KRISTEN CHENOWETH one! Man I could of died. Ok, I'm obcessed, but I don't care! I didn't have a camera though but I really really wanted to take a picture of it! UGH! And my sister was extrememly embarassed that I like freaked out but I bet some other people would've too! So yeah! But it was really cool. OH, I also got to meet the duded that played Barnabie (I don't think that's how you spell it!) He was sooo hot!!! But he was really nice too! His name was Brian Sears I think! He's from the Kansas City area where my mom grew up so he had some family members there and left out conversation to go see them but he came back to finish up with us, which I thought was really nice! O yeah and I also met this chick who was the horses' butt! Which my friend Kayela thinks is going to be a my future job! Well, at least I'll be on the stage! But yeah she was really funny. So yeah that's they Hello Dolly Experience! Hope you enjoyed!