YEAH!

Being an unsocialized homeschooler with no friends, one of the extracurricular activities I participate in is called YEAH! [Youth Educated At Home].  We are a group of thirty or more high school age homeschoolers that get together once a month just to hang out.  Sometimes we have an organized activity day such as Lazer Tag, Bowling, Roller Skating, etc.  Other times we just go hang out at someone's house.  either way, its pretty awesome.  If you are homeschooled and are reading this, and don't know about YEAH! please feel free to ask me about it.

Not only do I attend these events, I am on the Board of Directors.  We meet the first Wednesday of every month, usually at Starbucks (we might change locations to Politos though), to discuss and plan.  Generally, our meetings start of with consulting the dream book.  I know this sounds weird, but we all have very strange dreams and there is this funny book that tells you what your dreams mean.  Now, personally, I don't believe that if you have a dream with the devil in it, its really about your spouse, but whatever.  Its still very fun.  During our meetings, also known as Tea Parties, we review previous events, our finanial situation, and what we are planning for the next event.

The nice, leadershiply thing (I'm VP of the group) to say would be that we couldn't have our group without all the wonderful people of YEAH! but personally, I think we could have meetings without the group.  If the group had to stop meeting for some reason, we'd probably still have our Board of Directors Tea Parties because they are really awesome and fun.  One of my duties at events is anouncements and game planning.  Basically, I make announcements and plan games (bet you didn't guess that!).  Once I got asked if I had started the whole group, which I didn't take claim for because that wouldn't be true.

So yeah, thats just a little bit about YEAH! don't you agree that name is confusing?? Sometimes conversations go like this:

Bob:  "Do we have anything planned for Friday night?"
Sally: "Yeah."
Bob: "What do we have planned?"
Sally: "Yeah."
Bob: "No, but WHAT do we have planned?"
sally: "I told you Yeah"
Bob: "and i asked WHAT not IF"
Sally: "YEAH"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY CANA (its not her bday yet)

So right now, it is 11 pm, and I am at my cousin's house, having an EPIC DANCE PARTY!!!!! The amazing, fantasticular Tami Waterson came to this party (I know right, a famous person at this party, AWESOME!!!) and GUESS WHAT!!!!!! ("what?!") SHE IS HELPING ME WRITE A BLOG ("Yayyyy!!!!").  She also attempted to teach me some dance moves because you know, she is famous.  And all famous people can dance and sing. I am not famous.  People from the disney channel can't dance or sing either.  They are fake.  Especially Zac Efron because.....he is ugly and can't dance and sing because he is dating another fake person named Vanessla Hutchersonface.

Also I have beautiful hair tonight, Becca curled it for me because I was scared to.  OMG PEOPLE ARE STRIPPING.  hahahahaha not entirely, just mostly but its just girls and we are all clothed don't worry, its ok.  Don't worry Be Happy now, woo-oooOOOOooooOOOOoooWOOooOoooWOooOOooo don't worry be happy now.  Ugh what are we listening to??? Ewwww is this Justin Bieber??? I thought this was like Taylor Swift or some other girl...hmmm guess not.  I wonder if he smells like a girl too? hmmm.

Back to hair.  I am too scared to curl my own hair because I would mess up or burn my face off. Which would hurt lots.  I WANT A PET CHICKEN.  But I would be scared of them.  They attack my feet.  oh no Tami don't cry, its ok!  The dark isn't so bad!!!! SHHHHH.  Becca turn the light on! NOW! She didn't, sorry guys.

Okay, if you guys who are reading it made it this far and understood what was going on....you must have been here.  Maybe you were here and still don't.  Maybe you weren't here and understood and are really awesome.  YOU ROCK!!!!  Hope I didn't scare anyone away.  I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! YOU"RE SO PRETTY! I like your shirt, and I wish I had your shoes.  Also, I like your shiny toes. TOES! hehehehehe.  Okay, thanks for your patience with me and the famous Tami Waterson!!!!!

Peaches and Cream

Today has just been "one of those days."  It's been tiresome and a bit stressed.  I'm so sick of drama.  I'm so tired of people being mad at me for stupid reasons or being mad and not telling me why or mad at me for something that isn't my fault.  I'm tired of people getting worked up over nothing and acting like my life is all peaches and cream (haha inside joke moment, sorry), and that I don't have problems and their little issues are so horrible.  I hate being accused of things just because someone doesn't know me as well as they think.

Sometimes I wonder if people look at me and think "wow, her life is great, she doesn't have any problems." I have problems just like you and everyone else, I just don't make a huge deal about it and get mad at everyone for it.  I'm not some shallow ditzy blonde that has to go crying to her friends because someone said something and I was offended.  My friends probably know this better than most, but I rarely go crying to anyone (very very rarely, close to never).  And I'm not gonna sit here and say "you can think whatever you want about me" because you can't, I'm not gonna let you think I'm something I'm not.

Speaking of what I am and am not, I've always wondered what people do think of me, especially today.  I know I can ask you to tell me what you think of me, but if anyone answered they would say all these great things and be nice, and if I had bad qualities they didn't like they wouldn't be honest.  So for any honest people, feel free to point out what you don't like about me.  but really.  Do people really think I'm someone who would go running and tell everyone their secrets and I can't keep my mouth shut and have no respect for what is and isn't mine to share?  or that all I do is sit and talk $%!# about people with my little group of friends?  I'll admitt, I'm not perfect, there are times when I might gossip a little, but can you honestly say you never have? I'm not proud of it, and i'm not trying to shurg the blame.  If you think I sit and talk about you, please please ask me and I will answer you trutfully.  Generally, if I talk about someone its because I'm having conflict with that person and just need someone to talk to so I can think through it with another opinion.

Some people just make me want to shake my head because I feel sorry that they don't understand how to communicate.  What good is it to sit and be mad at someone?! UGH JUST TALK TO THEM!!!! Most of the time, if you get their side of the story and try to see what it was really like, you find you don't have much to be mad about.  And if they are at fault, let them apologize.  Sure, you can still be cautious about trusting them and maybe not be so buddy buddy or whatever, but at least forgive them and don't sit and be mad and never talk to them again.  Trust me, its not the end of the world that they did something or said something.  They probably weren't trying to hurt you, even if they did.

**Deep Breath** Okay.  I'm done raving.  It actually is nice to have this written down, telling you all this.  People used to tell me when they were having problems.  Sometimes people I never talked to came to me for advice.  I miss that.  I miss helping people.  As far as I know they didn't stop because I went and talked about them or told all their secrets (no one ever really told me secrets, they rarely use names or anything).  They probably stopped because things got better.  Or they found someone else.  People like to do that to me, find someone else I mean.  Probably one of the reasons I don't run to people, they've stopped running to me.  Everyone has someone else.  Except for God, of course.  Unfortunately, thats one of my problems too.  I stop running to him alot.  A lot of people go through bad stuff and think "where is God?".  I usually find myself thinking "Where have I been?". 

This is a legnthy post, so I'm gonna finish writing now.  If you want to tell me what you don't like about me, please, I'd love to know and I won't hate you for it.  If you want to tell me about any crap you're going through, please, I'd love to help.  If you know any REALLY REALLY funny jokes, videos, stories, whatever, please, I could use a good laugh.

Random Ramblings

Hey y'all. I just wanted to say "y'all".  I didn't post yesterday, but thats okay because I never commited to posting every day.  Just found out that some cats really like bubbles! I like bubbles, bubbles are great.  I also end of eating them sometimes [they taste like soap].

So it was super sunny out today.  I like it when its sunny, plus I watched a homevideo shot in Florida [nicely done Becca] which kinda makes me miss the sun, and summer and all things warm.  Maybe I'll go in the hottub tonight, I think that sounds great.  Random thought!!!! I got tortured today! Haley gives the scariest ever back massages! EVEN BETTER RANDOM THOUGHT I GOT TO PLAY SONIC R TODAY!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!! yeah, I'm a nerd, its okay.  No, its not okay, its AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

My mind is wandering today, it does that alot.  I get on one thought and BAM I think of something else.  You probably don't care, but I just got super hungry all of a sudden.  I don't know why I'm so mentally hyperactive today, but its kinda fun. I'm thinking of playing Just Dance 2 but maybe not we'll see. AHHHH BUBBLES!!!!!!!!!! Okay, I'm gonna go now. See ya later, Alligator! haha

Superhero Thursday

Well, I sold my horse.  And guess who it was to? THE SAME LADY WHO PAYED ME BUT THEN COULDN"T TAKE HIM AND NOW CAN ARUGHAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So I had to call like three people and tell them he was no longer available.  Actually, I only called one, I emailed the others.  I hate talking on the phone, so I didn't like it.  Hopefully, he'll be leaving April 2nd.

Also, today is Thursday.  HAPPY SUPERHERO THURSDAY EVERYONE!!!!!!  Every Thursday, I wear a superhero shirt, a tradition I started at Lake Ellen last summer.  I've missed it only three times...including today (oops....), but its only because I forget its Thursday.  I lose track of days a lot, especially with there not being youthgroup this week, because I usually just remember that if I have youthgroup, I wear a superhero shirt the next day.  I'm gonna make up for it and wear my batman boxers tonight I think.

As it is Thursday, that means tomorrow is Friday! I'm having a Halo Party tomorrow, which is weird because I'm a girl.  Even weirder yet, its my and my mom's party, so not only am I a girl that plays Halo, so does my mother.   I'm mildly excited for it :)

I went to Tami's birthday party last night, which was fun, but I only got 2 hours of sleep because I think four other people in the room snored.  Snoring stresses me out, so even when its quiet, I'm stressed out from it and can't sleep.  Quite annoying.  But oh well, I guess, just means I had to take a nap today.

Hmmmmmm I think thats all for today.  Adios Amigos.

Puddle Jumping

Last night, while chatting with Cana and trying to share my last post on facebook (yes, I'm a multitasker, I know, its amazing), the power went out.  Its been a while since thats happened, and as I had a headache I decided just to go to bed [sorry for randomly leaving, cana!].  Last night, I went to sleep to flashing lighting and rolling thunder, which I quite enjoyed, and this morning I woke to a blizzard.  How often does that happen?!

I love thunderstorms.  Thunderstorms are exciting and put a bit of thrill in an average day.  I've been enjoying the snow all winter and want it to stay because I love snowmobiling and snowboarding, but last night reminded me how much I miss the rain.  More importantly, I miss puddle jumping.  Theres a bit of childish excitement you get from putting on rainboots and jumping in a big puddle of muddy water. As kids, we used to walk along our rather long driveway and see how close we could get to overflowing our knee-high rubber boots.  Sometimes we even would walk around our nasty leech-infested pond doing this.  It often resulted in very wet children.

Thats one of the fun things about living next to a marsh, I guess.  It also results in many adventures, such as traveling through the Swamp of Sadness with Atrayu, or through the Dead Marshes with Frodo, or Spools Swamp with Link.  Naturally, we've outgrown those games (for the most part...), but they were great fun!

Letters to Mom

Earlier today, my mother decided to clean out her closet.  Among going through old clothes and things, she found a basket filled with random little notes and letters from Me and Emily to her and Dad.  There were the usual "I love you mom" and "Happy mothers day" notes, and how they were the best parents in the world.  There was also a note from me, which she let me read.

It was about two pages long.  As soon as she gave it to me, the words I HATE MY FAMILY popped out, as they were written rather darkly.  Laughing, I read the note.  Basically, it told them of how because they weren't letting me take one of the FCE (Family Consumer Ed) I wanted to take.  Apparently, my eigth grade, thirteen year old self thought that we didn't have a good enough family to know what one was like.  I also mentioned that they didn't like my "only friend" and she was the only person that cared about me.

All of my accusations were, of course, false. The person I said was my "best friend" is someone I recall not even really liking, but hung out with because my other friends hung out with her.  My family does and did care about me, and I really doubt FCE could teach anything about what being a family is.  But I'm glad I wrote the note, because it was a great laugh!

Later today, Emily and James came over.  We played some Mario Kart, which I was winning until TJ so kindly joined and then the stupid spiked blue turtle shell became my constant downfall.  Also, it snowed YAY!!!! which unfortunately turned to sleet.  I am quite enjoying the thunder and lighting right now though.  I miss thunderstorms.

Horse Shoes and Hand Grenades

So for the past few months, I've been attempting to sell my horse, Buddy.  Its not that I don't love him, or he isn't good enough for me, but I never ride him because I'm at camp all summer, and honestly, I could use some extra pocket change.  About a month ago, I had someone come and look at him, after finding him on a website that I posted this ad on.  She really liked him but couldn't afford him right away, so declined.  After not selling him for a few weeks, I decided to call her again and offer her the option of putting a downpayment on him.  She came back for a second look and gave me $200.

Great right? Horse ALMOST sold, awesome.  But ALMOST only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.  Few weeks later she emails me telling me she is not going to be able to come up with the remaining $200.  Thankfully, she agreed to letting me keep the first 200 as it was a down payment [plus...I already spent it].

So here I sit with a not even almost sold horse.  Within a day of reposting my ad, I get two new emails, as well as someone who had previously been interested.  One of those three is a lady named Karla S. who is very interested in him.  Tonight, while going through  some documents (coggins, registration papers, etc.), I notice a Bill of Sale from a Karla S. [I know her full name, but I'm not gonna put it on here just cuz] to a John Somebodyorother.

CRAZY COINCIDENCE?!?!?!?! I think so! I don't know yet if she's the same one, but I sent her an email asking if she lived or previously lived at the address of 983- just kidding, I'm not giving you the address.  Those are just random numbers.  I guess we'll see if its her or not, but I hope it is!  It would be so so awesome if one of his previous owners bought him back!

Thats all for now.  Just wanted to share that with some people.  I'd also like to share the fact that I AM AWESOME with you with this link.

life starts NOW.

WHOAH.  Yep.  I have started a blog.  At this point, I'm sure no one is reading this.  Maybe someday someone will start and they will come back to read this.  My very first post.  Should I take a pic and document the occasion? Nah.  But clearly, you are reading this, so thanks!  Nice to see you!  I don't even know where to start with a blog.  Hi, my name is Marybeth, I like the color green, blah blah blah.  I'm sure at some point I'll get around to all that.  I honestly don't know what to tell you.  The only thing that stands out to me is that I'm listening to the Beatles (Act Naturally).  Irrelevant, but so is life.  I am going to go customize my sweet fantasticular new blog now, so see you soon!