Renaissance Festival!

On Saturday we (as in frank and i) went to the Renaissance Festival in Apache Junction courtesy of Country Inn & Suites-Mesa, AZ. Frank got two free tickets (and needed someone to take) so he invited ME to go with him. It was soooo much fun and the weather was perfect!! I Couldn't have asked for better weather or better company! It Rocked!! Here are some Pictures!

We started it off by getting breakfast from Crispy Cream!!! one word... YUM!

When we got there We walked into a store to see how much renting costumes would cost, just for a good laugh (umm... WAY to expensive!) So we came out and took a picture with these fun worker people! :)

Don't be jealous :)

 These things were awesome!

There was a petting Zoo thing... That is a horse behind me! It was huge and had spots like a cow!

Yes he did swallow that balloon! All the way! and then popped it in his stomach!!! It was crazy! He also swallowed some swords and hammered a nail into his nose! EEWW!

Turkey Leg! It was yummy but i couldn't finish it all! It was bigger than my head!

Frank and his "Are you serious?!" face. haha it was huge!

The Fire whip guy! he was cool! good thing he was bald!

Me and my beautiful hat!!

Waiting in line!

TO RIDE AN ELEPHANT!!

I know... We rock! (Don't be too jealous)
The cool "Moon" 
Don't worry this is Lemonade and it was his third one of the day! It was tasty I'm not going to lie!

You can make up your own comment on this one :)

All in all it was an amazing day! We also saw some fake Jousting, ate bread bowls, saw a bazillion girls wearing basically NOTHING, some jigly bellies, WAY too many boobs (or sides of them, or cleavage), Bob the dead skeleton show (not appropriate for children, probably not appropriate for me... haha),  a buncha drunk people, (haha) a man in a kilt, a man walking around with dung on a platter, a performer riding a unicycle on a tightrope (that was was amazing!)!, fantastic drummers (i have video of it, but this computer is stupid!), and a butt load of other stuff! It rocked! 

I LOVE THE RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL! 

My Tennis Valentine

So yesterday was Valentines day, and like most of you know (or all of you) I don't have a valentine. So I was planning on having a girls "Single awareness night" with a bunch of my girl friends! I was so excited, but i had to wait for it to come. Well, Then around 3 i get a text, and it says, "Hi Michelle! Your phone was off so I'm texting you. Do you want to be my Tennis Valentine?" (side note: This is from the same boy that i went to Barns and Nobel with on Wednesday night. If you don't know what I am talking about than you can read my "Life" post.) I was super excited! So I called tori and she told me that it was totally fine to miss the girls night and to go have fun! (side note: I only asked because we had been planning it for a while and i didn't want to bail out on them.) I warned him, and told him i didn't know how to play tennis and i was REALLY bad. But he was convinced that i was probably better than our doubles date so it was all good! (hahaha... Little did he know how serious i was). So he came to pick me up around 7 and we headed to the courts. We talked about random things and laughed a lot while we waited for the other two to get there. :) We also practiced hitting the ball up against the wall for some practice... I hit a ball over the wall (ALL the way OVER the wall to the parking lot)........ and it wasn't on purpose either! I'm pretty sure I'm REALLY bad at that game! haha but he kept at it and kept teaching me and i started to get the hang of it, when the other two got there. 

  They warmed up a little and then we tried to play the game. Key word tried... haha there really was no game involved we just served it to each other... And the game has a really weird point system! It's kinda ridiculous. We tried though right, that's what counts! And not only was i just bad, It was SUPER DUPER cold out side so i couldn't hold the racquet or swing my arm fast enough to hit the ball! (again my hand eye coordination is all out!) Well, then we finished that and then got closer and just hit it back and forth rather than playing an actual game and me and the other girl were good at that! (haha) but we could tell that the boys wanted to play a real game so we sat to the side and talked a little and they played. I believe her date beat mine by 2 (but it's all good).

Then we left and went to The California Pizza kitchen! It was really yummy! We decided on the BBQ chicken pizza, I was kinda scared! But it actually turned out really good! 
Then we headed to the other guys house (sorry, i know it's confusing but i don't know if any of them would be OK if i use them in my blog so I'm just not going to) to make to smoothies and play some games. (side note: the smoothies weren't too bad but they didn't use ice cream or milk in it.... they used water..... ya it wasn't the best smoothie i've ever had but it wasn't the worst either...) And we played a card game that lasted FOREVER but it was so much fun! I don't remember whet the name of it was, but me and my date were sitting next to each other so we were on opposite teams, and so me and the other guy were on a team, and we kicked there butts!! haha it was hilarious. Anyway!! haha i had a blast on valentines day, and i hope that everyone else did too!!! 

I'm super bored... should be doing homework... This sounded more fun! :)

You know the rules... These things I have accomplished (not just in the last year... ever)
1.Been in a car accident
2.Started your own blog
3.Slept under the stars
4.Played in a band 
5.Visited Hawaii (soon to be bolded!!!)
6.Watched a meteor shower
7.Given more than you can afford to charity
8.Been to Disneyland
9.Climbed a mountain
10.Held a praying mantis
11.Sang a solo
12.Bungee jumped
13.Visited Paris 
14.Watched a lightning storm at sea
15.Taught yourself an art from scratch
16.Adopted a child
17.Had food poisoning
18.Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
19.Grown your own vegetables
20.Seen the Mona Lisa in France
21.Slept on a train (from New York to New Jersey)
22.Had a pillow fight
23.Hitch hiked
24.Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
25.Built a snow fort
26.Held a lamb (i've dissected a lambs eye... does that count?)
27.Gone skinny dipping
28.Run a Marathon
29.Ridden in a gondola in Venice
30.Seen a total eclipse
31.Watched a sunrise or sunset
32.Hit a home run
33.Been on a cruise
34.Seen Niagara Falls in person
35.Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
36.Seen an Amish community
37.Taught yourself a new language
38.Had enough money to be truly satisfied
39.Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
40.Gone rock climbing
41.Seen Michelangelo’s David
42.Sung karaoke
43.Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
44.Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
45.Visited Africa
46.Walked on a beach by moonlight
47.Been transported in an ambulance
48.Had your portrait painted
49.Gone deep sea fishing
50.Gone without food or water for 24 hours or longer
51.Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
52.Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
53.Kissed in the rain
54.Played in the mud
55.Gone to a drive-in theater
56.Been in a movie 
57.Visited the Great Wall of China
58.Started a business 
59.Taken a martial arts class
60.Stayed up for 24 hours with NO sleep at all
61.Served at a soup kitchen
62.Sold Girl Scout Cookies
63.Gone whale watching
64.Got flowers for no reason
65.Donated blood, platelets or plasma
66.Gone sky diving
67.Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
68.Bounced a check
69.Flown in a helicopter 
70.Saved a favorite childhood toy
71.Visited the Lincoln Memorial
72.Eaten Caviar
73.Pieced a quilt
74.Stood in Times Square
75.Toured the Everglades
76.Been fired from a job
77.Changed a lightbulb
78.Broken a bone
79.Been on a speeding motorcycle

80.Seen the Grand Canyon in person

81.Published a book
82.Visited the Vatican
83.Bought a brand new car
84.Mowed the lawn
85.Had your picture in the newspaper
86.Read the entire Bible
87.Visited the White House
88.Killed and prepared an animal for eating
89.Had chickenpox
90.Saved someone’s life
91.Sat on a jury
92.Met someone famous 
93.Joined a book club
94.Lost a loved one
95.Had a baby
96.Seen the Alamo in person
97.Swam in the Great Salt Lake
98.Been involved in a law suit
99.Owned a cell phone
100.Been stung by a bee

37/100 .... man i got some livin to do... :)

Anyone else that's bored and doesn't want to do there work should totally do this :) ... haha

Life

Hello those who still read my blog.

(ps this is REALLY long... just for warning...)

Sorry it's been dwindling lately. I've been super duper crazy! With school and all my classes, trying to keep up, directing things for school, and also choreographing/directing the musical at Mesa High School! It's been so much fun! I love working with the kids. Yes sometimes they can be a little crazy and a little too much to handle, but over all i love it! It's my job since I'm thinking about it 24/7. I even have stupid dreams about how the levels are going to be and how they need to say a certain line, or act a certain way... I think i was cursed from my mom! Haha i guess you can say it's a great blessing and awesome talent! But i can't run from it. I always think about it :). But it's all good!
Anyway, i wanted to write what classes I'm taking... I know it's already a month or so into the new semester, but you'll get over it.... ok i first started with 22 credits... actually i think there was more but i dropped a class (or two). But once school actually started i had 23 credits! That is way too many for a normal person to have. I was taking:
MWF: 9:00- Intro to exceptional learners (this class taught me how to teach kids with disabilities). 10:00- was rhythm and music for dancers (It teaches dancers the language and music of the musician.... which i already know since I'm both. So it's a fun class) 11:00- Music Comedy (you sing musical theater songs... that's all, so it's not hard) 12:00- Dance perspectives (this is my honors class, and it's probably my hardest, just having to remember everything... it's basically all dancing all around the world... hence "dance perspectives") This is when i go home and eat some food, do some hw, and then at 3 i head to the school (mesa) to teach/choreograph... I'm done at 6 and head home to finish homework, and eat food, and then i relax like a vegetable and let my brain relax from the day :).
TTH: 9:00- Healthful Living (you learn about health... obviously, this one is kinda difficult too just because the subject is so broad...) 10:30-Jazz dance (FAVORITE CLASS) 12:30-private voice 1:30- SRO (it's a musical theater group that's at the college.... it's not that exciting, but for scholarship money i have to take it... so i am.) Then at 3 again i head to the school (mesa) and choreograph! (yay) Oh and i had a computer class that was online, but in reality i didn't have ANY time to sit down and figure out the class. SO i dropped it right away.
So i had all these classes and i was doing really good up until last week, it was impossible for me to do some of the assignments in my intro to exceptional learners class, so i had to drop it... :( i was so sad because that was one class i was really in to! But it's all good i can take it next sem...
OH and i'm taking HIP HOP!!! (on friday nights! haha another favorite!)
Ok so that's my school life, then i have a social life! (i know it's hard to believe! but start believing!) I have been going to a whole bunch of YSA activities with Tori, just because it's no fun being losers so we go to make new friends! Well we have made some, and they are really cute! (obviously they are boys) and they are super fun to hang out with. (and super cute) well... one of them asked me for my number (not saying names) and we've been trying to hang out, but i've been out of town, and crazy busy, but tonight we finally hung out! And it was so much fun!
He called me up and asked me if i wanted to go with him to Barnes and noble, because he had a gift card and needed to go so he could use it up. haha, long story short... we didn't find anything for him to buy, we just walked around making fun of books, talking about different types of books, and just talking about RANDOM things, and he showed me pictures from his mission, since there was this HUGE atlas. It was so much fun! I'm really out of the whole dating aspect of life, so it's fun to get into it, and feel cute and giddy :) Yes i'm super giddy... like a school girl! haha! I thought i would be really nervous, just because i had no idea what to say or how to act or react around him, since we haven't really hung out THAT much, but it was successful and awesome! Anyway, ya about the title... life going great! I'm loving every minute of it! :)
toodles...

Finished project!!!

If you would like to see my beautiful Music Video That Tori and I made (bahaha) goto youtube! 

and type in the search box: Yeah, Jumpin, Put a Ring on it, Bye

I'm not going to lie it's basically the funniest thing ever. So if you need a good laugh check it out! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJD0Zl-2O8

(or just copy and past this!)

ENJOY!!!

Road trip to..... Tucson?

This weekend i had a competition that i competed in, It's called Classical Nats (National Association of Teachers of Singing) and it was in Tucson the pits of AZ. (seriously) I had a blast though. I prepared 3 classical pieces of music and then sang them for some judges and got feedback... That's how i look at it... Because if i go into it wanting to win and get the money i freak myself out and flub lub... or screw up... 

I Got a ride with one of the girls at school with me. Her name it Halli and she is awesome, she is actually supposed to be in high school but was home schooled so she is at the community college now and she is a kick butt singer! Anywho, i drove down there with her, her mom, and her dad, and we stayed in a little condo! It was awesome! And they were SO kind. They didn't make my chip in, or even pay for my own food! They just kept saying "Oh no, it's our treat... It's on us. You are a great travel buddy!" So i didn't have to spend a penny! Which was a GREAT blessing because i don't have a penny! (seriously!) So we go to Tucson around 6:30 friday night, and my time slot to sing was at 7:30 and Halli's was at 8:30 (we weren't in the same division because she is younger, so we weren't competing against each other) We got to UofA at 7 and i warmed up with my pianist and then went and sang! I had so much fun! and i ran into a bunch of people from high school that i haven't seen in a couple years because they are all going to NAU... That was a treat for sure! Well, than I waited around and talked to them for a little while we waited for it to be Halli's turn... Then she sang. And then around 9:45ish we FINALLY got to eat dinner. (we ate at On The Border). Then went back to the condo and Halli and i were going to get into the Jacuzzi outside, but they closed at 11:00 and that's when we got home, so we missed out..... But.... We had a Jacuzzi tub so we put on our swim suits and put bubbles in there and just relaxed and jammed out to music! :)

Our Feet are black because we forgot to grab our flip flops and out feet were KILLING us from wearing out high heals... So they were NASTY black! haha her mom kept telling us we were going to get a disease! hahha

We kinda overflowed the tub with bubbles!! haha it started to over flow!

Well, Halli made finals and there were 18 people in her division and there were 22 in mine and we didn't have finals... which was kinda scary because that meant that they already knew who was going to get the awards and they didn't have to see anyone again.... And thats a lot of girls and so i hoped that i was one of the top! Well i had to wait until 2:30 to find out who won and it was a long day. I walked around the town a little bit and laughed and talked with old friends. Got a Jamba Juice and that had to hold me over till dinner. Well finals were at 12:00 and there was a master class that we to that went from 1:00-2:15 and and it was about auditioning and what to wear and how to act (and i'm really glad i went, it was a great learning experience). Then it was onto the awards! And the after show! I knew i didn't win because there were a butt load of people that have been actually TRAINING there voices for this, but i was hoping for something atleast! 

Halli's devision was 3rd or 4th to be awarded, and she got 3rd!!! It was so exciting! Then it was my devision! and i got 4th! out of 22 without having finals! That's good! I was so happy! I didn't get money or anything i just got a piece of paper that says honorable mention... haha but still! 

So even though it was a VERY LONG weekend it was well worth the experience! And because Halli placed she got to pick where we were going to eat, and she picked "Olive Garden!" It was more than delicious! Loved it!

SO it was a fun weekend! Hope everyones went as good as mine! :)

Party!

This is just pictures of me, tori and deb dancing and being beautiful while getting ready for the night!

 I believe we were dancing and BELTING to hairspray and some old school hip hop mix! It was pretty awesome!

Homework?! NOPE!

So thursday night i went over to Tori's to watch The Office and to study and do homework! It was a hilarious office episode, and then it was time to do homework.... We did awesome for like the first 2 min. Then we didn't want to anymore. 

tori: "Umm... I don't want to do this anymore.... (hiding her face) lets go see a movie"

Me: no hesitation "OKAY!"

Tori: "okay lets look at movie times...oh look there are NO movies out! Freak!"

So we went back and started studying and doing homework again! and again it was only for like 4 min this time...

Tori: "Lets make a music video! I have a whole bunch of crazy clothes!!! OK?"

ME: again no hesitation "OK!!"

SO that's what we did.... we changed clothes and video taped us dancing as ugly as possible to random music!

Now we are in the process of editing it and making it awesome!!! YAHOO!

video to come! :) 

Ok a figured out what the heck i did and fixed it! So problem solved... sorry for no updates lately i've been kinda crazy busy doing homework and stuff... I'll give an update later! 

peace out, 

Michelle

PLEASE HELP!!

my blog is freaking out! And i have no idea why! I went to just change the background, and the whole thing went ballistic! The original background wont go away! Now it's stuck between two and i can't switch it! PLEASE HELP!