I predict 80% of all who read this look up what the title means.

Ugh. Sickness sucks. This morning at basketball practice Mackenna told me I smelled like coffee…and sickness. Great. Now it’s got its filthy claws sunk so deep in me that I SMELL like sickness. Great! I had a sinus infection last week, coughing, sneezing, headache and snot snot snot. And the last Friday I caught a stomach virus that kept me from doing all sorts of fun planned things, like eating a pie my mom made, going to see The Breakfast Blend with my friends[Sorry guys but because of what the name implies and because of the fact that your first gig was at a coffee house, I will always and forever think and have need of coffee when I hear your name], going to enrichment classes on Monday, and not getting to play the whole game against Grayson on Tuesday. Sickness SUCKS! I was up every hour on the dot on Friday night, and I spent the entire weekend on the couch sipping water and eating cheerios. And then to make things worse I thought myself cured too soon and overloaded my weak stomach on homemade black bean soup. Not good! I felt HORRIBLE Monday night and hence the reason I had no energy and didn’t get to play much Tuesday night. Mackenna made 26 points though! Earned us a dinner! We get a dinner if we make 20 points or more. It’s her record for the year. Woop woop Mackenna!

The worst part about being sick? I’m stopped up and can’t sing. The absolute WORST part. I hate not being able to sing!

Prayer for our basketball team, things are really hard right now. We’re going through some tough patches and we’ve had three girls quit the team. Meaning we’re down to five players. I’m not going into it any farther because it makes me furious but prayer would be appreciated.

Suddenly food takes priority over blogging.

Yawn. Its waaay to late to be typing a blog entry, but John and Seth are over and I heard them plotting evil things including silly string and shaving cream if I fell asleep. Seth is 14, John is 16. They’re both on the JV team with Jeremiah and they’re having a Call of Duty tournament right now. I jump in there every once in a while, but not often because I don’t want to dominate tooooo bad you know? -winks- totally school those boys on Call of Duty. I find a secluded area and snipe ‘em all. It’s fantastic. =]

So we lost our basketball game against a public school’s JV team today, only slightly humiliating. It sucked. Horrible game. The only thing that kept me from being in a crap-mood all night was that fact that we had tacos for dinner, which -laughs- makes me smile every time. And there was sweet tea. So life was pretty good.

On the way home from the bball game we had a sing-along with every song genre [genera?]  you can imagine. We went from the Numa Numa song to Heartless to Beautiful Girls to Mr. Mom. That’s alternative, hip-hop, and country, all in one sitting! Crazy! And then of course we had to throw in a few favorites. Mine being Replay of course. The best song EVER.

We’ve got three basketball games next week I think. Unless the game Thursday got canceled. Crazy! We’re first in district right now, which is cool. We haven’t lost a district game yet, and I’m not sure about the varsity boys but I think they’re probably in first or second. I’m so super proud of them. They’ve improved so much! They’re doing crazy good.

So now I’m surfing. Watching the guys shoot each other. Watching some videos. And taking the time to type a few lines while they load.

This is pathetic.

I reeeally want some vanilla hot chocolate. Don’t be hatin’ till ya try it! Ask for a hot chocolate with vanilla in it at any coffee shop. UHMAZING! Kid of an acquired taste, but really good!

 Trying to go over my arsenal of contraband items just in case I have need for them… silly string, super sweet  smelling lotion, tape, shaving cream, warm water, toilet paper… oh yeah, those boys better be worried…

I think I might go to bed. Or stay up and text no one because everyone I know is asleep. =]

Sweet dreams

I just drank a glass of extremely strong tea to discover it was actually tea concentrate. I should have known when I took a drink and my immediate thought was that Jeremiah must have poured coffee in my glass. My mouth still tastes like I chewed on about ten thousand coffee beans. Maybe…it’s time for bed? Yes… I believe it is…

Now if I can just remember where my room is…

I’m watching Quest for Camelot with my crew and Bethany. My parents are out for the evening and this was the unanimous choice for movie enjoyment. This movie has to be the Godfather of old-school animations. I loved this cartoon when I was little. [I mean age-wise not height-wise. Shut up Mackenna.] I love the way the hero of the movie, the main man, manages to be a prince charming while being so flawed. I mean take Snow White’s prince, perfect, unblemished, flawless in every aspect. Perfect hair, perfect accent, ideal in everything including being able to give Snow White exactly what she wants and needs. Now take Garrett, the PC [prince charming] of Quest for Camelot. He has greasy hair, shredded clothes [aHA! That’s what captivated Kayley -winks-], and to top it off, he’s blind! He can’t see, he lives by himself in a forest filled with creatures from a writer’s darkest imagination and he STILL manages to be everyone’s favorite character! He saves the day, becomes the hero, and gets the girl! Oh and did I mention? HE SINGS TOO! What skill. To be so flawed and still be top dog. What skill! Oh Lord…I believe I’m in love with a cartoon…

Oh and the villain. Written perfection. Creepy enough to haunt a child’s dreams, yet subtle enough so that they won’t need a parent to comfort them after dreaming about him. The ideal blend of chilling and intimidating to someone 7, 8, or 9 years old. At least, when I was 7 it was creepy enough. Kids these days would eat that movie for breakfast. Ruber was certainly bloodcurdling to someone like me when I was young. I mean, if the twitching of his left eye whenever he gets excited doesn’t freak you out, the fact that he can grab a handful of coals without being singed and create dragons out of smoke should be at least a little startling to some… It’s creepy OK?!?!

Well, my sister has done it. The ultimatum. My cute, innocent, easy-going, laid-back, little sister has broken her ankle. She is Capitan of our JV basketball team and she twisted her ankle by stepping on a rival player’s foot. She sat out the rest of that game and when she still couldn’t put pressure on it by the Varsity games rolled around we knew it couldn’t be just a sprain. A couple of X-ray’s and a creepy decrepit Doctor later and she has a slight fracture of a bone in her ankle. Poor girl! She’s so depressed that she’s out of games for at least a month. I feel horrible for her. Every time we head out to a game and I see tears in her eyes while she has to watch her teammates play I wish It had been me. Oh I wish it had been me! She didn’t deserve that. it shouldn’t have been her. =[ my poor, unfortunate sister chick.

Kayley: Why won't you look at me when I'm talking to you?... Oh. Oh, I didn't realize you were...
Garrett: What? Tall? Rugged? Handsome?
Kayley: Blind.
Garrett: ...You know, I always forget that one.

Oh my GOSH, he has a sense of humor too?!? Someone catch me.

Ahh [BTW Let me clear something up, when I say AHH I mean it like a groan. Like GAH! Not a sigh like ahhh. OK, glad to have that out of the way.] My parents and I have been watching Lost, we’re on disk 2 of the first season. I know, I know, barely into it, but we don’t have TONS of time you know. It’s a horrible show to watch at random times though. It’s such a cliff-hanger. Every episode leaves you hanging. And it doesn’t help that I’ve seen random episodes from random seasons. So I remember something that happened in the second season and wonder if it ties into the what happened in the first season because I haven’t seen so many of the episodes in between, so I don’t know…GAH! It’s so nerve-wracking! -head to brick wall-

I love the song Garrett sings in this movie. It reminds e a lot of my life. Not to sound like a depressed teenager on the verge giving in or something. -laughs-  I just like the lyrics. =] Makes me think of my whole "Courtship" battle. -laughs- Battle, I say battle, it's more like just one of those "agree-to-disagree" things.

Garrett: Like every tree stands on it's own/ Reaching for the the sky, I stand alone/ I share my world with no one else/ All by myself, I stand alone/ I've seen your world/ With these very eyes/ Don't come any closer/ Don't even try/ I've felt all the pain/ Heard all the lies/ But in my world, there's no compromise/ Like every tree stands on it's own/ Reaching for the the sky, I stand alone/ I share my world with no one else/ All by myself, I stand alone

Goodnight readers.

“FOR CAMELOT!!!!!”

Praise the Lord, oh my soul, praise the Lord.

Ahh Christmas time. My FAVORITE time of the year.  I;m sitting on the couch clicking away on my cute little laptop, byundled up with a fire burning in the fire place and snow falling outside.

Oh did you catch that last part?

SNOW FALLING OUTSIDE!!! IT’S SNOWING. OUTSIDE. RIGHT OUTSIDE THE WALLS. SNOW.

I’m only slightly excited about this…

Me and my fam are watching It’s a Wonderful Life. Cute movie.

Last Sunday was Christmas at my grandparents. So much fun! And some great pictures. =] my cousin Kerri drew my name and she got me a super cute shirt and an awesome bag! I fell in love with it! And then my grandma got me a spa set that I’ve been wanting. You know, body wash, lotion, hand stuff, the works. I love stuff like that. Smell good stuff! My boss got me a set too, it was a different brand though, but still a vanilla-y smell, my fav. =] so Christmas was good at the gpa’s. Good hang time with my cousin Kerri, Who I only see a few days every year, and a fun couple hour long domino game with my grandma, lil cousins, and my Aunt Vickie. That was fun. =] it was terrific. Fantastic day. And I had a great hair day too! That totally made the whole day better…

Aaaaand for Christmas, Joel got me the complete [so far anyway] set of Harry Potter DVD’s. Yay! Believe it or not, I still haven’t seen the 6^th movie, I was hoping I could get Mack and Han over sometime maybe this weekend to watch it. I’m watching it this weekend, not matter what! –laughs- I can’t wait to see it!

So now it’s Christmas Eve. And I’m just on here to let you all know that I hope you all have a fantastic day! A fantastic week! I’m so excited about tomorrow. I love watching my siblings open gifts. They’re so much fun! So have fun. Be safe. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[Check my Picasa!]

Peter Pan and Wendy turned out fine. So won’t you fly with me? - Jonas Brothers

I can’t stand that line. Wendy grew up! Peter came back for her and she had forgotten about him and grown up! They were not fine!!!! I hate that part of the story. I can’t believe she grew up when he was going to come back for her. Jerk!  Selfish idiot.

I don’t know if I ever mentioned it, about a month or so ago I got frustrated with my hair and got my mom to cut me some bangs. I just realized I’ve never said anything about it. Big deal I know you’re thinking, but seriously, my hair is really important to me! I’m not kidding, telling me my hair looks good is one of the biggest complements someone can give me! That and smelling good. When someone tells me I smell good, dude, I could look like crap and be perfectly happy. As long as I smell good. -laughs- I’m such a dork…

Hannah had her b-day partah on Friday, that was fantastic. Me and Katie, Mackenna, Kelci, Audrey, and Hannah hanging out and goofing off all night. We went outside and froze our butts off, came in and drank some hot chocolate by the fire, so cliché but so fun. We played Peaches to Peaches, excuse me, Apples to Apples, and then watched The Day After Tomorrow, probably not a good idea considering how cold we already were, so after that we watched John Tucker Must Die to make us laugh and warm us up a bit. After that was bed. Everyone else left early for the parade so Hannah and I stayed in her bed while her mom made pancakes, and after an amazingly delicious breakfast we took showers and had a jam session, took some goofy pictures, and then spent the rest of the day watching movies with Bethany and Micaela and the rest of the Vaughn’s. So it was an all around fun day. =]

We watched Forever 17, which I loved -laughs- and I’ve got to say one of my favorite parts was when these three girls are all over him, [him being a 40 something man in a 17 year old’s body] and he sits them down and starts to explain, “Girls, when you don’t respect yourselves and your bodies how can you expect anyone else to respect you?” And when the girls just make another seductive comment to him he looks up and says “This is a conversation for some other dad to finish.” And walks off. Gosh, I don’t know why, but it made me laugh so hard! -laughs- probably because I kept thinking of my Dad through the whole thing. -laughs- it was funny.

After basketball practice today Coach gave us her Christmas present for us, it was a gingerbread house decorating contest, and it was so much fun! I decorated mine as a log cabin and won first place [$15 iTunes gift card? Definitely will be used -laughs-] and Katie won 2^nd and Claire 3^rd. It was crazy and fun. there was icing everywhere. -laughs-

Mack’s b-day is tomorrow, I’m trying to figure out if I’m going to do something random and embarrassing like I normally do… yeah I probably will, but I need to figure out where. Hmmm… we have a game tomorrow… Mughaha… I could do something evil! I hope she has a good day though, I’m sure she will. =] because when I see her she’ll wish she’d stayed home. I always do something that embarrasses the snot out of her. Once at intermission I took her on stage during a play we were in and had the audience sing to her. Yeah… that was one of my better ones… that one cost about 5

lives, but hey, I’m like Super Mario, unlimited lives here baby! So Mack, you can beat me up as much as you want. Ha. HA! Just be ready… mughaha.

UGH, I need to go to bed. Check my Picasa, I have pictures of Hannah’s b-day and the gingerbread contest posted. BTW I’ll get you those pictures you wanted a.s.a.p. Han.

Sounds good, throw me up in the headphones; sounds good.

Sweet dreams my people. 

Hey guys, Happy Thanksgiving! This is my favorite time of the year. Amazing weather, awesome food, crazy good smells, and everybody seems to be happier around this time. I don’t know if it’s the fact that they get more time off work, or if they’re just looking forward to Christmas and the slow cooker they made sure everyone knew they wanted. =] BTW, I don’t want a slow cooker… that was just an example.

[In honor of Thanksgiving] Things I am Thankful For - by Danyell

·         Music

·         Friends

·         Sweet tea

·         Green bean casserole

·         The internet

·         Really loud bass

·         Family

·         The smell of pine trees

·         Cold weather

·         A fireplace

·         Brown sugar cured ham

·         Emotion

·         My siblings

·         Girl talk

·         Really comfortable clothes that look good

·         My parents

·         Really cool hats

·         College basketball

·         Cell phones

·         FailBlog.org

·         Pictures[so I don’t have to memorize events, I can just post them on the back of my closet doors LOL]

·         Laughing

·         The bible

·         Singing

·         Song lyrics that explain my feelings better than I can

So I’m at my grandparents house, typing away on my little laptop, getting pumped up about my favorite brown sugar cured ham that I know will be present tomorrow. X] Oh yes, it will be amazing. It really cold in here, so I’m curled up in my slouch pants and a hoodie absolutely LOVING the fact that I am cold. I love cold weather. Almost as much as I love music. Its close… very close…

Last weekend I went with Mackenna on her church’s Family Retreat, and it was a blast! It was at beavers bend and it lasted Friday night to Sunday afternoon. It was freezing cold, but had some seriously awesome high points, my favorites being attempting to build and float a raft with the guys, wading/fording the ice cold river/creek with Mack, Spence, Riede, and Micheal[I spelled it right Micheal!], laughing my head off at the guys trying so hard not to let us trip and soak ourselves in the river/creek, staying up until the wee hours of the morning having almost scary in-depth talks with everyone. I saw a different side of a lot of people this weekend. I asked so serious questions and got some serious[er] answers, I answered serious questions, and laughed too. =] I love my friends. So much! So overall it was a very productive and entertaining weekend. I enjoyed it immensely.

On another note, I think we convinced my grandma that there’s no need for giblet gravy this Thanksgiving! I think only 1 or 2 people actually ate it anyway, nasty stuff. it’s gravy made from chicken or turkey guts, to be specific. Naaaasty!

Ok, I think my aunt sandy, asleep in the living room, is sleep-talking…

I went to Frisco with the Vaughn gals and me Madre and Sister last week. That was SOO much fun. Sharing chuckles with Hannah about funny restaurant names, getting almost ALL of my Christmas shopping done, finding some disgusting coffee mugs and trying to keep my sister from seeing them[I failed…], laughing about funny people in the stores, pining over stuff I wanted but couldn’t afford, making sure EVERYONE knew I LOVED that bag and would use it ALL the time if I got it for Christmas[wink wink], it was an awesome day. I got so much shopping done. I’m almost completely done with all my shopping! Yay! I love Christmas. I spend way too much money on people, but I LOVE giving gifts! I love the looks on people’s faces when I give them something I know they specifically wanted, or sharing laughs when I buy a gag gift that totally makes someone’s day. It’s one of my favorite things to do I think… give gifts I mean… an amazing feeling. =]

Life is pretty dang good right now. I’m happy because of the time of year it is of course. I’ve had a pretty good day today, it started with a massive headache that kept coming back even after drugs, but I got in a better mood after getting to my grandparents. I had a heck of a time trying to decide what to pack for thanksgiving day, yes I’m one of the crazy girls that tries on a hundred different outfits, then I got out here and went with my grandpa to see my dad and sibs who had come down earlier because they’re camping every night were here this week[Hard ground? Cold air? No heat? And they wonder why I didn’t want to stay in the tent with them…], my dad my bros my sis and my two cousins Joshua and Jayla are camping, and then we had to go dispose of a dead calf. My grandpa raises cows and he had a 3 day old heifer [girl] who for some reason died this morning and we needed to drag it off. Poor thing, I hate that but there’s nothing I can do I guess. It was a cute little black calf, tiny little hooves. =] I named it Pecan, in honor of the holiday. Is that bad/ ehh… I think it is LOL. Jeze… I’m such a softie. Naming dead cows. Feeling sorry for them and then chucking them off the side of a hill? That IS bad!

I cannot wait for Friday! It’s Hannah’s birthday and I’m so excited to give her her gift! EHEHE!

Ok never mind, my grandma was in there talking to my Aunt. LOL, that was funny.

Yawns, I need to go to bed. I came home from the family retreat on Sunday and slept from 5 p.m. until 6:30 a.m.! And I only woke up then because I had work! Crazy! Someone once told me “Sleep is for dead people”, and I agree, IF I’m doing something worth staying up for LOL, if not then sleep is UH-MAZ-ING.

“And so, with the scent of cinnamon and spice alive in her nose, and the warmth of the holiday spirit in her heart, she slipped into sleep and into her dreams, where she was already enjoying the brown sugar cured ham stored in the icebox for the festivities in the morrow…” - An excerpt from the critically acclaimed book by best-selling author, Danyell Frankland.

Goodnight guys. Have a fantastic Thanksgiving!

Sweet dreams…

WHOA! She updated her blog more three times this month? I DON’T BELIEVE THIS!! Somebody grab that man that just fainted!

Side note- just because it was taken as something different, Yours to Hold it my God song, not a boy-crush song.

So my mom was coordinating a wedding yesterday that she asked me and some friends to help in. it ended up being me, Jeremiah, Micaela, Hannah, Jessica, Spencer, and Mackenna that helped and it was a blast! It ended up being a little cold, but we all have stellar hoodies so we were a-ok with it. it was Katie’s older sisters wedding so she was there and changed out of her dress after the wedding to help us clean up. she was so funny, she kept feeling awkward during the dinner, so between courses she would sneak out and hang with us in the kitchen. I laughed at her. -smiles- I got lots of cool pictures too. When they were “making toast” the brides dad stood up and gave a lil’ speech about Abigail, the bride, and it was so sweet. He was talking about how when she was born they started praying for her future husband and their prayers were answered with Richard and how Abigail was his pride and joy and then he was crying and he told Richard he was “giving him his greatest gift.” I had tears running down my face before he was even done! I was in the back next to the cake thinking suck it up Danielle! It was so cute though…

Mack and I wanted to re-dye our hair for the wedding so she spent the night Friday and we stayed up late being crackheads and cracking ourselves up. Then Hannah and Bethany came over early Saturday morning to get a ride with us to the wedding so Hannah bounds into my room, her hilarious self, and wakes Mackenna and I up. I think I threw something at her but I don’t really remember. I had only been asleep for a few hours so everything’s kind of fuzzy… but we had fun at the wedding. Spencer cracks me up. I wish I’d had a notebook I could have written down things he was saying. He is so funny without even knowing it. He and Jeremiah can get crazy but they’re so funny. -laughs- we were taking some boxes back to the house and Spence and I loaded them up in their mule and I told him “I’m driving!” he jumps in the driver’s seat and says “No way!” I laughed and said “No thanks, I’ll walk” he gives me a look and says “Trust me?” I laughed and hopped it the passenger seat. He turns the mule on and floors it, hits a rock in the road, and throws all the boxes out of the back. He braked and we looked back at the boxes scattered everywhere and I just laughed and was like “Nice Spencer.” -laughs- Oh it was funny.

Ya’ll want to know a good, catchy song that you can sing in the shower? [because I KNOW ya’ll are looking for those, I mean you can’t ever get enough of shower songs right?] Halo by Beyonc’e. Awesome song! Another one is Forever by Chris Brown. Holy cow! I love that song! I’ve been singing that song like crazy! Mack introduced me to that one and I’ve been listening to it like, a crazy lot! I really like it. Totally catchy, great beat, awesome lyrics, it’s a good song. =]

I gotta jet. Got co-op classes in the morning, then basketball practice after that. I’m taking Texas History[Because it counts as a class] and Go and Do Likewise but I think I’ve already said something about that… oh well. I felt like crap today so hopefully some good sleep will cure that. Catch ya kids later!

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