The land of Ketchutopia.

My Language Arts teacher gave our class the assignment to come up with a short story that resembles the book Fahrenheit 451, in that it includes the element of technology and future possibilities of society. I wrote my story... and I didn't do the best job ever. I had three ideas that I wanted to run with, and this is the one that stuck. I wish I would have had more time, because I could have made a really BOSS story... but It's alright. :)

Anyways... the point is, through writing this story, I started to think about Elementary school.... In fourth grade, when I moved to Bloomington Hills, I got to go to a brand new school, and make brand new friends. It was the only time in my whole life that I've ever moved, and I'm so happy that we did. I made great friends, and I was quite a creative little soul!

I wrote a story called "Ketchutopia". It was about my friend Delon, who LOVED Ketchup. He would put Ketchup on ANYTHING. He said he would even eat it with Ice cream... (I never witnessed this). My story included Delon, as "King Leir" a kid named Lane as "Sir Burgess" and my friend Peyton as "Lady Peyton". It also had a talking ketchup bottle...

I wish I could find the story, so that I could post it for you to read, but I can't. :( I'm pretty sure that I could re-write it, because I remember everything that happens. There is an election for kind of Ketchutopia, a brand new territory on some continent on the world... There was a scandal in which Lady Peyton and Sir Burgess fixed the election so that Sir Burgess would win, and King Leir would lose. Lady Ketchup Bottle was King Liers wife... and she found out about the scandal, and had Lady Peyton and Sir Burgess arrested. King Lier came out on top... and in the end, he was so excited that he accidentally drank his wife! (Because she was ketchup....?)

This is a really long post... and I'll be surprised if anyone reads it. I guess that the point of this post was to let everyone know that through writing my story about the future, and the possibilities of the downfall of society, I realized that It's already happened to me. I think that I forgot how to be creative... I mean I can take boss photographs... but they're images. I didn't come up with them. Heavenly Father put things there for me to capture their beauty. In writing creative stories like this, you can really grasp how creative your mind is.... I used to be REALLY creative... I mean... a land called Ketchutopia? A talking Ketchup bottle? Yeah... I was good. I think as time has gone on, and I've shoved so much knowledge into my mind, I've gotten lazy. I listen to all of the things people tell me to think, but I don't come up with things to think on my own.

None of this probably makes any sense to anyone but me... because I'm really good at not making sense. But I thought I would share anyway. :)

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Summer Bucket List

Chantry the Pantry created, what I interpreted to be, a Summertime Bucket list. :) It was a good idea, and Ms. May says that you can steal ideas as long as you make them your own, so I've been ALL about the stealing of ideas lately. :) Here's my version... of a Summer Bucket List.

• HANG OUT WITH CAITY! A.T.T. :)
  
• Go Camping
• Play Fugitive
  
• Go to the River
• Get a tan line
• Build a fire (by myself)
• Camp on the Strip
• Spend more time outside, than inside
• Stay out all night
• Stay awake all night
• Snargle
• See Harry Potter 7 part 2
• Camp at the river
• Sneak out
• Run. Errrrry day.
  
• Walk to the temple
• Go to the Temple... often
• Get the school's History done
• Finish all three of my EHS classes
• Ride my bike everywhere
• Golf
• Try every flavor of Snow Cone. Again.
• Paint a picture
• Make a new friend
• Have a bajillion and five movie parties in the back yard
  
• Find an amazing place in St George that I've never been before
• Go to the lake
• Hike Angels Landing
• See a shooting Star
• Finish the 'firepit area'
  
• Attain a new lens
• Finish off all of the photos in my 'Photog. ideas' folder.
• Add to the Quotebook... at least once a day
• Don't let work overwhelm me
• Build a Fort
• Make new inside Jokes
• Watch airplanes take off at the airport
• Learn the seconds... third... fourth... and possibly fifth and sixth pages of Paganini's Caprice 24
• Create a Masterpiece
• John. Every. Flipping. Day.

There are so many more things that I know I could add to this list... I AM SO EXCITED FOR SUMMER! :) oh my heckkk.... Could you just come already? Math is the Devil... that's the only thing I'm dreading right now. I'm kinda scurrrd for my A.P. Test, but what happens, happens I guess... Language and Orchestra are the only classes that I have solid A's in, right now. I have soo much to do. :(

The tenth Piggy Bankkk.

Sons and Daughters of... - Courtney
Perdition! - Nicole
No.... - Courtney
Liberty? - Nicole
What would make you think perdition, then Liberty? - Courtney

It was all downhill from Birth - Maddie

If you wanna pay me, I'll go get naked for you. - Kameron

Why haven't you got your letter yet? - Nicole
Because Russians are stupid. - Sarah

So wait.. there's two floors on the bus? - Tylor

I don't even lie. I'm like George Washington. - Nicole
You mean Honest Abe? - Jess
Yeah... that one. - Nicole

Guys... I don't even like texting when I'm dry... - Nicole

For number five I got 20=100. I'm just gonna put No solution... - Devin

We got the chicken fights out back... - Brother Evans

Here's a get out of Jail free card by Judge Ludlow - Brother Evans

You're hilarious and it's making my food move in ways it shouldn't. - Kashara

Guys... why is there a naked man running across the street? - Nicole

Brock shot the strip. Then he had to clean up after his mess. -Doman

Why does mom give us socks for every holiday? - Emily

Nicole... that's like both of us having Mac n' Cheese, and you stealing mine instead of eating your own. - Emily

Mom, tell emily not to put koolaid in her hair! - Nicole
Emily don't put Koolaid in your hair. - Mom
Why not? - Emily
Because nicole says. - Mom
What the heck? Nicole isn't the president! - Emily
Well I'm historian. - Nicole

My dad actually grew up in an Amish community... My family is just a joke. - Nicole

Stop it you crazy Jew! - Caity

What's not to like about me? I'm foreign and I'm nice! - Elena

I had blood on my finger of the foot. - Elena
Toe? - Nicole

Eww.... this floor is pointy! - Elena (We were at the river walking on the sandy rocks...)

We see Elena in a magazine, foreigns gone crazy at the airport. Flight Prices raised, foreigns get angry. - Sarah

Guess who died while I was doing my math homework?

How did I know?
I was actually on Facebook, stalking up the stats, instead of solving problems....

Holler at you America.
I am sooo not mad. ♥

Topic: Embarrassing traits.

Everyone has them.
Things about yourself that you think make other people find you AWK!

Lately, I've been thinking about all of the embarrassing qualities that I have, and how I could change them. THEN... I got smart. Why would you change yourself? Embarrassing things are some of the qualities that make you... you!

I have a friend who always teases me about some of the weird quirks that I have... When I realize that I have these quirks, sometimes I try and refrain from doing them... i.e. playing with my hair, and rephrasing things that have already been explained to me "So what you're telling me is...".

The point is.... the weird/annoying/embarrassing things that we do, make us who we are! And you shouldn't ever try and change them... for any reason. :)

State Solo & Ensemble

^Jess and I brought Scooters to ride around on... because last year we had to walk everywhere, and that was just no good.
^Brandee and Ty came to see us!! It was sooo gr8! :)
^ Tian, Jess, and I had a fun photoshoot... thanks Jordan. :) hahah
^Oh yeah... this is what we went up there for. hahahah. Almost forgot.
^This is us watching Kam work out.


So I was looking through my State S&E photos... and I had to decide on five of them that defined the WHOLE trip... to upload. (I don't want 8,000 pictures on one post.) These were the ones I chose! State this year was SO much fun! I don't know why I was so worried about being sick... I barely remembered that I was sick the whole time! I had so much fun and I wish every weekend were like this! We have sooo many inside jokes now, and I made friends with people that I barely knew before! I loved state, and I hope we make it next year! :)