What Else Is There?

Sorry guys, but since school is over, i had to do it! I'm gonna miss these guys!

Aaaaah my fellow band geeks, we come in peace!

Check out his frowny face! KC is so cool!

Freakin' Jeff!!!!!! haha

Clay and JC, not much past what you see, I love 'em anyway!

This is the real Scott Heinrich

Now this is sooooo Patrick, so i had to use it.

Moving on to the almost normal people!

Shy and Sariah, Shy is well shy so he hates my camera.

You can't tell by this picture, but Robby is a strange, strange child.

Brooke! my crazy ninja!

Abbey and Kayla, amazing dancers that march to there own drum.

Bree, ummm well, what you see is what you get! haha

Nick and Grace, my dramalama friends!

This is probably my favorite picture out of them all, on the right is Sierra, then Tionna, Gina and Ragna.

And since i showed you such a lovely picture, now i must show you the other side! DUN Dun dun...

This was on a Personal Progress trip on the way to California, which is why we're all so crazy!

-living in different worlds, under the same stars-

-'Elf'en that lives in a 'schu'-

Believe Me, I Know

K, so not a whole lot has been going on right now, so i figure i'll post some things i've written for, well, whatever.
So, this first one, is a poem i wrote before i realized how lame free verse is, it does develop some rythm though which is why i like it.

Jungle

It's a journey we all must take,

For some, it's a cave, a desert, an ocean

Mine, is a jungle.

Too afraid to climb trees,

I creep along the forest floor.

A Tigress

Camouflaged from my prey

My target is fast and hides easily

I must strike

Before it leaves me helpless

When I pounce

I change

No longer afraid, I'm left a new challenge.

A Bird

Young, not having left my nest,

I must try my wings

Let them strengthen and grow.

I must leap

Before I'm pushed into the real world

My wings catch the wind, and

I change

No longer carried or fed, one last challenge

A Snake

Skin hard and pale,

Ready to shed

But afraid to touch the rock.

I must change

Before I'm forced to lose myself in a new

I rub the stone.

Skin falling from me

I change

A woman

No longer looking over her shoulder

No longer shying behind other glories

No longer behind youth

Ready to move forward

To change

K so, that's that. now this one's more interesting. Cuz it was more something i thought would be interesting to do.

Dear Future Husband,

I love you, and there are some things that need to be said. I know there will be times when we fight, all relationships have bad times. But does that mean we sacrifice all the good times to avoid the bad? No. I love you. And although I can be stubborn, selfish, cynical, and sometimes downright mean--I can also be faithful, loving, warm, and even, sometimes, funny. You probably drive me crazy, with your weird little habits, quirks. But it's the little things I catch every now and then. The way you play with our kids, how you'll get me little trinkets, just to prove you're always thinking of me. The smirk on you face after you've made me laugh, the way you hold me, terrified I'll shatter on contact. We'll make plans to do things together, and things will get in the way. I'll be hurt when you say you have to stay at work a little longer, but don't worry, it'll make your home coming that much better. If I forget to mention how lucky I am to love you, know that it's on my mind, and I'm trying very hard to SHOW you.

-With all my heart, I love you

-Ellen Marie ________

Interesting huh? well, i figure, i should give ya something so there ya go!

-living in different worlds, under the same stars-

-Ellen Marie ________

Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care

Wow, so much to talk about, so little time. Okay, so the past little while has been pretty crazy; first, there was preference, then region band, *yay! we went to state!* then a big ordeal of a funeral, then Senior Ball and a lot of other things in between. So to start out we'll say it starts with preference, yes i asked as usual but it doesn't matter this time considering it's a girl ask dance anyway. So i asked sariahs brother ammon, and instead of typical style dance day *is anything typical with me?* i had work then we went to dinner, so that xs out the day date and group. then i went to the young women broadcast after which we went to pictures, where i asked if i could hop in with another group for pictures *cuz i have to have it all* After that we went to the dance which was held at the Ford car dealership. haha i came home early from that which is funny cuz i don't think i've stayed all the way through a school dance, but stay for every stake dance. I had fun. So then there's this thing called condo week, where my friends family gets together and rents a condo for the week, *actually, it ended up being two weeks but i don't mind* I gotta spend some time with my friend Shy, swam a LOT, laughed even more, and started liking him more than i expected to. the next week was Senior ball and i didn't get asked *:(* as usual, but i got an email from Parker saying he was on spring break, and that he might be able to come down and go with me yay! so i got all excited, bought the tickets and for some reason, decided i should have a back up person, so after everything was figured out, i waited for him to email me telling me whether or not i would be going with Parker or Shy. Then the thursday before Senior ball i get the email, saying he wouldn't be able to come down :( *pout* but i had a back up plan remember? so i call Cheyenne and thank goodness *even though Parker and Cheyenne are two different guys so i no longer had a group that he'd be comfortable in* and once again thank goodness, he said yes. So friday was REALLY busy, i get home at 4:00 with maybe a half hour to clean and get ready for the next two days. I went to babysit 2 dogs, and 2 toddlers, in other words i had to have 4 sets of eyes and a lot of arms. slept over at sariahs house, and sang at a funeral the next morning, which, i thought i sounded dreadful *why people insist i sing in public, i'll never know* anyway, so the WHOLE ceremony, if we include the luncheon at the end lasted from about 11:00-3 or 4ish so i had an hour to be ready to be ready for cheyenne to pick me up. When Shy got there he did NOT faint *told you so Sariah* haha and we went to go do pictures which we xd out when we decided to go waste money on a not even half eaten dinner haha again. I think we drove more than anything else, which i think Shy LOVED, and we only went to the dance for about and hour, then went to go see 17 again. I officially love that movie, and Shy and i agree that that's the best school dance we've ever been to.

-living in different worlds, under the same stars-

-Ariellen

I Make A Good Cowgirl!

This is me and my friend Cody, he was my date, but sometimes really camera shy.

haha, this is gina and harley, one of my favorite pictures of them!

So this one was at texas road house, i didn't have very much food, but i thought i was going to explode!

I love this one, cowboy hats are... scratch that, hats are my favorite to wear!

Okay, so these are just some pics from this way fun double date i went on with my friend Gina, my date Cody, and other friend Harley! Fun huh? Well, first we went to the rodeo, Ginas friend Jay got us free tickets cuz he was in it, and it was sooo much fun, I haven't been to a rodeo since i was eight! So anyway, after that, we went to Texas Road house, which fits perfectly with the cowboy theme, and I ate myself sick, even though i didn't have much food. Haha. So it was about 9 when we decided to go to the "twisty park" and i didn't know what the heck it was so when we get there, there are all these fun little things that you can play on and you get really really really reeeeaaaaalllllllyyyy dizzy, and you cannot stop most of them once your on, i rally did think i was going to puke. But it was way fun, i LOvED it!

-Elmer

Single Awareness Day

Woop. Dee. Doo. Valentines Day, the one day of the year where anyone who's anyone has bragging rights to say, "i have someone to love" well hey! how about those of us who don't have anyone? what do we get? a box of chocolates? flowers? what about a stuffed animal that says "i love you"? nope. we're stuck with going to a dance with a boy we don't even like, with people we don't even know, wearing a dress that makes you look like and oversized eggplant. No, i prefer to call this day, "Single Awarness Day" not that it's really bad to be single, just depressing for those of us who live in the real world, where you don't get "true love" in high school, where a single red rose and a romantic dinner are only in movies. Where a girl named Cinderellen has to work from 9:00-4:00
and go to the ball with "Prince-not-so-Charming" then straight home to her wicked step-father before the stroke of midnight. The End

-living in different worlds, under the same stars
-Cinderellen

Maybe that IS what friends are for

I was on my way home from Red Robin with my friend Tionna, and out of nowhere I tell her how ready I am to leave St. George. I tell her everything, about how i feel about living at home with my family, especially with all the stress and tension thrown around, only to apologize minutes later for dumping all that on her. She tells me "that's what friends are for" and i protest (as usual) telling her that i don't like to add to peoples burdens by being so unhappy, because if you know me, and i mean REALLY know me, i'm not that happy. She told me that she was a little sad that i don't talk to her about that kind of stuff any more. That i don't share my burdens with her, i don't want to be that way though, it scares me when so many people know me the way i really am, because i don't like that person. Of course, i didn't really tell her this, cause i'm sure that would scare her. I think i should also protect my friends from myself, that is to say most of them, i'm a crutch, if i break down i don't think many of my closest friends could walk. THAT is what friends are for to me.

-living in different worlds, under the same stars

-lil schu

trouble in not so paradise

Okay so i know i've missed a lot, but the internet at my house doesn't work so well. So let me fill you in on this huge christmas break. Well the first few days were normal, so glad to be out of school, sleeping in and getting ready for Christmas, and then there was christmas which felt like a regular day, just with presents. Then about 4ish is when my family went to las vagas to spend some time with my aunts. i had a first there when we had crab for dinner, and then we did some more present exchanging. the next day was okay, we went to see the sites went through way too many casinos for my liking but overall it wasn't too bad. we finished with the vinetian hotel, which we would have enjoyed so much more if we weren't dead tired from walking around all day. Any way we kept that routine til about 2 on saturday and when we got home we found a letter from our sister who went home for work. Apparently she decided to elope with my first, maniplative, egotistical, jerk of a cousin. she told the people at both of the places she worked, that she would be working full time at her other job. Then she packed up everything she owned and left. And she was married the day we got back from vegas.the next few days were pretty miserable. but new years eve came and i spent that with my best friends sariah and shaylee and sariahs brother ammon at first night. we walked saw the lights did that sort of stuff went to visit some friends who went bowling the we came back for the "kiddie fireworks" and this guy was acting like every bang of the fireworks was a gunshot. it was actually reallly funny at first, then not so much, any way later my friends go to make there hands warmer and the same guy who was being "shot" was there and asked them to be his first kiss! obviously they said no, they didn't even know the guy! so none of us got a new years kiss, o well. but we went back to sariahs house fell asleep on a couple of couches and went to and awsome party with our friends that were bowling the night before. Alright so techniquely im not allowed to be on "social sites" on school computers, so i have to go now! more later!

-living in different worlds, under the same stars

-Sparky