spiders, future missionaries, tape, and southern america

so today started out pretty good. i woke up on time and got ready on time.(which is always a plus). And twinnies came and we got into sheldon and were off to another amazing day of high school. but something caught my eye. and oh my heck there was a NASTY spider crawling on ellie's leg.  

he looked kinda like that.. only there was one and one a bajillion. but when ellie realized this, she swerved WAY bad into the end of the shared lane.. almost killing all of us. the stupid spider flew and we couldn't kill it. cause we lost it. so me and my sister sat with out feet up on the seat, scared out of our lives. NOT OKAY!!!! !! gahhhh stupid spiders.. 

after that, we went to class like the good little children that we are.. eventually second period came around and me and my bestest chem friend decided that he was gonna write me on his mission:) awwwwww :) yep yep. it was pretty heartwarming. 

we have our pasta dinner coming up before region for cross country and we have it almost all worked out.. pretty much its gonna be coach c's and KARLLLL's second date:) its gonna be pretty great.. we were thinkin candle lit.. roses.. maybe even a table cloth??? yeah. we go FULL OUT.  but haha before we planned all this on the run, i had to get taped. again. the thing is, that it's not really helping.. it still kills. and yeah, tape doesn't fix anything, but it shouldn't hurt THIS bad... oh well... i. hate. tape. BAHHHHH 

the bottoms of my feet look like that. every single day. :P except i don't have hairy legs.. promise. 

anywho.. today i went to mutual for the first time in forever and a half... it was actually way fun.. i didn't realize how much i missed it.:) 

ha so i think i'm gonna go do some homework that needs doin... 

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance … you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. But when you are through, exhilarated and exhausted, at least for a moment everything seems right with the world 

where do liars go....?

so for the past week or so, i've been havin killer issues with my leg.. and when your shin hurts, it's kinda hard to run 6 miles.. so i went to the trainer at school. like 4 times. she rubbed me out and then taped my arch, tellin me that my arches are falling and that i need new 200.00 shoes. about that.. ya see, i'm 16 and i don't have a job.. nor do i plan on getting one in the near future.. mostly cause the parentals have made it pretty clear that my "job" is school, taekwondo, and running. so i'm only being the good kid my parents have asked for. right???
so i've been icing and stretching and doing everything that i was told to do.. then all of a sudden there was some kinda nasty lump on the inside of my shin.. oh joy... so i told coach and she said it might be a lactic acid pocket... or some kinda knot.. the trainer said that it was just a knot that would go away. Or it could be the beginnings of a stress fracture. And every day that i would go in after that she said it was more then likely a stress fracture.  Progressively, it got worse. To the point where walking hurt. So i limped:). But with enough advil, you could hardly feel anything..
Bob Firman rolled around and of course i raced. I sucked. But i finished. :/.. thing is that after that, i couldn't walk.. and stairs were death. good thing i live on the second story. But then my daddy noticed me looking all retarded and things so he asked my mommy to make me a doctors appointment. for today. yay... :p
Today i went to practice with hopes of coach c not being there so i could just limp my way home and call it good  for the day. but of course she was there. and i ran. we were gonna go for a 50 but i got to like orem boulevard when coach told me to go back cause i was limping way to much for her liking. so i ran back. well kinda.
But finally 4:10 rolls around and i show up at the doctors office.. there's a thing about doctors offices that makes me kinda iffy about the whole thing.. usually i'm just there for a physical but this time i wasn't.. hmmm... anyways i get there and dr crockett is all smiles. and he asks why i'm there. and i told him the story. Then he asked who i ran xc for and when i said  MV.. he looked at me with huge eyes and said "Wow. You guys have an AMAZING winning tradition and program." haha yeah doc.. we do. we are kinda the shiz... but he poked my leg all pro and then made me get a few x rays.
once they were developed, dang... i have pretty amazing legs.. that's all i can say.


BAHAHAH just kidding :)
But there was a dark spot on my shin and turns out it's a blood pocket thing.. and pretty much, it's just a shin splint that's kinda bad. so tape, ice, and advil should tie me over till after region :) yay. then i'm out for 1 to 2 months.. ha yeah right. 5 weeks tops. if that.. thanks doc:)

Pretty much, you lied to me ashley.. ( i think that's the trainers name...?) you failed me woman..

so that's my life up to the moment.. yep yep:)




Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle when the sun comes up you'd better be running. 

I DA HO!!!!

so this weekend at was homecoming weekend!!!! AWW YEAH! we all know what that  means... assemblies, long lunch, the huge game and, of course, the dance:) but.. ha this year, cross country was up at I DA HO for bob firman.. yeah.. we missed homecoming. the school loves us.
BUT missing homecoming wasn't even that big of a deal anymore. Idaho was SO much fun, i think that  when school rolls around tomorrow morning and we tell our stories, everyone is gonna be jealous that they aren't
cool enough to be on cross country. just sayin..
my day started out with a really good mornin side:) i had to go to make up stuff from last year.. so i got all my xc girls to come with. they all showed up on time.. i showed up about 30 seconds before the opening prayer. yeah. well. it was early. anyways.. they (i'm not sure who 'they' actually are) sang a really pretty song that was like 1360135136136 verses long. Haley was so into it. and i was kinda getting into it, when lauren turned around and said "how long is this song??!" to me and rach.. so i busted out laughing as reverently as humanly possible. we left early cause some of the girls had to turn in homework and i had to pay my fee.. oops. guess i forgot all week.. hahah sorry coach...
The bus ride up was eh, alright. it was as fun as bus rides got. We watched blind side and watching it on charter bus tv's, the screen was really dark.. its kinda hard to watch a movie about a big black man on a dark tv...:/ so i fell asleep.. when i woke up tho, dear old matt was nice enough to fill me in on what i missed. Good movie.
Oh mys.. people in Idaho are so different from people in utah.. for lunch we stopped in some parking lot with a few resturants around and were told to be back in an hour. so megs and kami and i went across the street to hit up jamba :) it was pretty much the best dinner in forever and a half.. when we were on our adventure there, we got like 3 honks and like 2 creepers who tried to talk to us.. keep in mind that we were on the bus for like 3 or so hours.. umm oh those idaho boys... finally, we got to jamba, and half the team was there.. haha great fun. OH! ha maybe its cause i haven't been to the jamba in forever here, but the cashier  up at twin falls yells JAMBA when you buy something then the rest of the workers yell JUICE. its kinda funny. it makes the whole jamba juice experience that much better
when we finally got to the hotel, we had just enough time to check in and get into running clothes to go check out the course. The course itself was pretty bumpy, dusty, and had the killer hill of death. It was only two laps tho.. (better then region when its like 3 laps:P) after that super duper hour of our lives we went back to the hotel and pulled off the impossible.
6 girls.
1 shower.
1 blow drier.
1 straightener.
45 minutes.
yea. somehow we did it!! well almost, i think here was 1 or two girls who didn't full on shower.. sorry ladies:(
but we got down to the bus and beat the boys! first time, the entire trip!:) go us!!! Our bus driver was an amazing driver. he thought we loved idaho so much, that he took us on a tour of the city before actually taking us to the mall. once he FINALLY decieded to take us somewhere where we could eat, most of the girls quickly discovered that food courts are expensive and not that great. so we ran across the street and through a few parking lots and found cafe rio:) There we thought that it'd be fun to start cheering in the middle of the food line... it went a little like this....
"WHEN I SAY CAFE, YOU SAY RIO! CAFE..." then everyone working and some customers went "RIO!!" and then a worker started the cheer:) we be trends setters.. or  cheer starters.. same diff..
On the way back, we made it known that the mountain girls were in idaho:) we cheered out heads off. i think we might just give the varsity cheer girls a run for their money one of these days.
There just happened to be a petsmart like across the parking lot from the bus.. so we thought it'd be pretty epic to buy a goldfish, name him, kiss him for good luck, and then have him live till the arizona trip..
So we bought Filbert Bruin Junior. He was a happy yittle guy.. he only cost 13 cents. but his food was like 3 bucks. We loved you THAT much Filbert. SO we took him home, after annoying the fish man, and let him live in the ice bucket at the hotel.. hehe.. then on race day we put him in a bottle and took him to bob firman.. there, he lasted almost all day... until nate started throwing grapes at him and then baylie let him go into the lake there... so we figured that was the end of Filbert Bruin Junior... RIP yittle guy...
The race itself was way fun. i broke 100 again.. and ran horribly. buuuuuut despite my epic fail, we still pulled off a 3 place finish over all:) atta girls:) jayvee boys took first, varsity boy took fourth and varsity girls took eighth. way to be bruins:)!!!!!!
The bus ride home was great great fun. It was filled with bus surfing, sleeping, random movies like ever after, waking up and having matt explain the entire movie again, back scratches:), rounds of baby do you love me, talking to the kids who NEVER talk to you, and a great great bus driver.
When people asked how homecoming was, i pretty much get to say it wasn't what i expected at all.. i thought my jr year i'd be at the game, then the dance the night after. instead, i got one of the funnest trips ever.... aww yeah<3

hello world:)

hmm so this is my first post in my blog.. in like EVER! pretty epic moment? i think yes:)
ha i know my little blog is kinda oober lame.. but gimme time and it'll be the coolest thing out there. i just can't sit down one day and pimp it out.. my brain would seriously melt.. so it might just take me a while. but promise, it'll get done.

so for the moment, that's it folks..:)