True Scary Scary Adventurous Story

I meant to blog this story a while ago but I have not had the time. Anyhow... last Wednesday night it was almost midnight and I could not sleep, everyone was in bed except for my dad who was (well I had thought he was) upstairs reading. So I started up there to tell him I couldn't sleep. As I was on the stairs I heard him talking to someone, I had no idea who it could have been considering it was 11:55 p.m. So I went up and sat on the couch and saw he was outside on the balcony on the phone. He was saying things like " Yeah they're heading up the hill now, they look like they might be in their mid-twenties." When he got off the phone he told me he had been talking to the police, because he had spotted to teenagers in our alley trying to open (no, not ours) a garage. We watched from the balcony as two police cars pulled into the alley and started looking around. Soon my dad and I ran downstairs because a policeman had come to talk to him.

My dad and the cop were outside while my neighbor came out of his house after seeing all the lights and the 3 of them stood out there talking for a while, soon my dad came inside and we went back up to the top floor as he told me they were sending the dogs after them. 

We watched from the balcony for a little while longer, but then I had to go to bed at 1:00 a.m.

As far as we know they still haven't caught them.

True Story.

Ramona!

Ramona Quimby at the Children's Theatre started on the 17, and it has been very tiring.

Tues.-Fri. is 4:30-9:30 p.m. (5 hours), Sat. 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. (9 hours) and Sun. is 12:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. . The only day we have off is Monday.  

For Tech week (on stage, lights, costumes, technical stuff) it is 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Then a break from 4-6, then more tech from 6:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. That is for a week.

Wow.

Thurston: the final road trip

In August 2007 my family went on vacation for a week and we left our two dogs Jekyll and Thurston with my Grandma. Thurston was very old (around 15, 16) and sort of sick, while Jekyll was blind and not quite as old as Thurston.

                               Jekyll                    Thurston
                                                                 

We came back and picked up the dogs about a week later, but in the following week, Thurston seemed to be growing more and more sick, my family used to, and still think, that he was homesick and missed us while we were gone and that's why he grew sick, and most people agreed because my  Grandma had treated him really well. Soon he could not feel his legs anymore and we had to feed him in his bed because he couldn't walk. He was going through a lot of pain and someone had to be with him every minute, so after about a day and a half, we had to put him down.

 That picture is when they were on their way to my Grandmas house.

More Pictures

Here is a picture of me now.

That is me in ' The Miracle Worker' at Torch Theatre where I was Helen Keller.

The Olympians

Next, I am going to be Ramona Quimby in Ramona Quimby at the Children's Theatre, but I am missing out on QUITE a few things, such as the Fun Fair at my school, which is on Opening Night, and a ton of school because each day there are 1-2 performances during the day, so I am missing some fun days at school to. But the worst one is D.I., see, D.I. is a team that I am on with 5 other kids at my school, it stands for Destination Imagination, and the first time we meet, we choose a challenge, there were 6 choices, 4 of them were mostly just improvisation, the other two were mostly building, and our team chose one of those. Our challenge was to make two machines that worked together to do at least two tasks, such as tying a knot, lifting the other one, stacking, catch and release etc. So we chose to do lifting, where the first machine has to lift the second, stacking, and catch and release. We also had to design a skit to go with the theme of working together, so we made up a skit about a Robot Olympics, that takes place in 3012, and it starts with the kid who was playing the announcer, playing the Olympic theme song on his saxophone.

Announcer: Hello and welcome to the 3012 Robot Olympics the triathlon of lifting, stacking, and catch and release, we have here the Dragon Team, designed by (Japanese name and Japanese name).

My friend and I were the Dragon Team, and we found some some Japanese names on the Internet.

Announcer: And over here is the Tiger Team, designed by (Japanese name and Japanese name)

Did I mention this takes place in Japan?

Announcer: And here we have the other team designed by six American kids. We will start here with the Dragon Team... Go!

Me (to my friend/other robot): Ready? Okay, on the count of three I will lift you, 1, 2-

Friend: What?! I thought I was going to lift you, I was programmed to do it.

Me: No! We talked about this on the way over! I am going to lift you!

And it went on like that until...

Announcer: Enough! Disqualified!

Me and Friend: What? Disqualified?! It's your fault! (pointing to each other)

Then the rest of the play goes on with the 'Tiger Team' fighting with each other and getting disqualified, then it was time for the machines; the lifting went well and so did the catch and release, but then the stacking came... We had to get at least 3 objects stacked, and they had gotten 3 already, and one of the manned machines was on it's way to stack the 4th one, when I looked at my watch (I was timekeeper, and we had 8 minutes), and I was supposed to just say

" They only have 1 minute left" when (of course) they had a minute left and my watch said 6 minutes 36 seconds, so they only had a minute and a half left! And I knew to stack just one took a long time, so the second I could, I said my line and they were still stacking the 4th one! So then of course, the 4th one get stacked but the pile falls over, luckily, 3 still stayed up by the time the Timekeeper called "Time!"

Later our team and our two coaches went to the award ceremony, where they find out who is going to the State Competition or not. There was also another team from my school (because there were 12 kids who wanted to do it and they split it up) and they had chosen to do a different challenge, which means both of us could  win and go to State. The Ceremony was AWESOME!!! AND... both teams made it to State! 

And then the second I got home came the bad news, I called my mom and it turns out that I can't go to state! It is the day of a Ramona rehearsal!!!!!!! 

 

The Matrons Daughter

If you are reading this you just might have read my mom's blog 'Minnesota Matron', so obviously, I am her ten-year-old daughter. 

First I am going to explain the title of this Blog... I live to act, sing, or dance, I have been in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at SteppingStoneTheatre

No, this is not from The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, this is from The Sound of Music, where I was Marta (thats me with the braids). Anyway... I have been in 4 shows at SteppingStoneTheatre; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Prince and the Pauper, Almost to Freedom, and Anansi the Trickster Spider, Stepping Stone is probably my favorite theatre of all time, everybody there is SUPER nice, and I have met around 75-80 kids from all the performances there. Then right inbetween Prince and the Pauper and Almost to Freedom, I got into the Home Place at the Guthrie, yes THE Guthrie, well I was pretty excited about that, and it's funny how different the Guthrie is from SST (Stepping Stone), at the Guthrie there was one other kid in the show and we shared the role of a poor Irish girl named Maisie McLaughlin, that was a great show, I got to meet Sarah Agnew, Simon Jones, Charles Keating, and a whole lot of other people, one of the best parts was snack central, see, in each dressing room there were six lockers, Sarah Agnew shared a dressing room with two other women, and they were so nice and awesome, that they filled an entire locker with candy for me and the other girl who shared the role, they would find out our favorite candies and fill up the locker, then they named it snack central.

I'll blog more about other shows, and soon I'll have more pictures!!!!! Anyway... be sure to read my moms blog, Minnesota Matron.