It seems that I have been failing miserably at holding up my end of the blog. I just checked and it has been right around 5 weeks since my last post. Although there has been much to blog about it that time frame, there has also been so little time to do so. Luckily I have a sister in Australia that wants to keep up on my boring life. With a reminder on facebook to please write a post for the blog, I finally got the motivation and time to sit down and do my Transfer update.
I'll start with softball. I did start practice for this lovely sport 5 weeks ago, but I can't say I've been having as much fun as I would like to. As much as I like the sport of softball, I forgot how slow the game moves and how much drama can occur when there is that much time for talking. I already had a musical for that... But anyways, this year, instead of second base, I have been playing shortstop. I do like this development because instead of having to worry about taking off the first baseman's head, I get to throw as hard as I like, which is a nice feeling. I've also been consistently batting 2nd in the lineup, but I can't say I like this as much. I'm not all that hot at hitting, but oh well. I also was picked as a co-captain this year along with 2 other girls. I was a little afraid at first that this would cause some tension on the team, but luckily all seems to have smoothed out fairly well. I can't say that I do anything too exciting as a captain either, though. Listening to the PIAA rules before every game gets more than a little boring, and I have only had 4 games. Oh, another good thing about softball is that the face mask rumor that I heard before the season was false, so I only have to put up with an annoying mouth guard instead, which is just my coach's personal rule. I feel quite sorry for anybody that has to listen to me yell out the play all the time because it has to sound like a jumbled mess of garbage, but I haven't gotten any complaints yet, so it can't be all that bad. The other good thing about softball would be that in practice I get to wear my favorite orange hat! That aspect of the sport never fails to make me happy. I guess softball isn't all that bad now that I look for the good parts. Oh yeah, just for you Charity, to keep you updated, we're 3-1, not that I care though.
On to the musical. I participated in the production of Guys and Dolls this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. At first, I thought that because of the lack of effort and time to work with, the entire show would be a huge embarrassment, but against all odds, our small cast pulled through to put on a presentable musical. I've been told that my dancing was actually fairly decent, but that doesn't change the fact that I hated almost every second of it. Actually, that's a lie. After I learned not to worry about how dumb I looked, I loosened up some and let myself have fun with the other actors. I have been told by my family that my shimmying could still use a lot of work, but all I have to say to that one is that I'm a McDonald and not much else can be expected. The costumes for the dances are a whole different story though. The dresses and one rather revealing skirt were just a little too much for me to feel comfortable in, but I dealt with it reasonably well in my opinion. It's probably not good that one of my favorite parts was on Saturday night when Chelsea actually slapped Ike instead of fake slapping him, but that's just because he made fun of me so much for the costumes. I took two main things out of the musical, which both scare me, but for good or bad, I can now walk/run/dance in heels and put on my own lipstick. Oh dear, I'll be a girl before I know it.
Speaking of being a girl, I'm scaring myself more and more every day. I'm genuinely excited to wear my new dress for Easter on Sunday... It's a nice white cotton dress with blue flowers and green stems that I got on Saturday when I went shopping with Mom, Aunt Jayne, Rachel, and my twin for the day, Roberta. After Michelle's bridal shower at which I won a vase of beautiful pink flowers (and yes I just called something pink beautiful), we all went shopping at the mall. Both Ro and I got new dresses while all Roberta got was a creeper picture with a cardboard cutout of Edward Cullen. She was my twin for the day wearing the other half of my favorite green jacket though, so I gladly took that creeper picture even if Rachel wouldn't. I almost forgot! Before we went to the mall, we had to stop at Red Lobster (aka Easter Bunny Lane) to make sure Roberta was given the full tour of exciting things to do around Transfer. There were many odd un-Eastery rooms, but the almost to the door line was well worth the wait.
I feel like I'm forgetting some of my many activities to report on... Oh, ensemble of course. First, a funny story from last week. So you would think that playing all the sports I do, I would get injured at some point in time. I received a pretty nice scratch down my chin and a fat lip, but of course I don't get it at a sports something or other. No, I get cut with a giant piece of cardboard at ensemble. I am more than a little stupid sometimes and way too obsessed with frisbee, so when I see a giant circle piece of cardboard, what do I think? Frisbee! Sadly, Dan was not very good at aiming such a monstrosity, and instead of into my outstretched hands, the wonderful piece of scenery flew right at my mouth. I had a terribly lame story to tell anybody that asked about my cut, but at least the ensemble people got a kick out of it. Good news on the topic of ensemble though! I have been demoted to the second row instead of the front row! Yay! I would like to think that it's because my terrible dancing has finally been noticed, but really I'm just too tall to be in the front row and too short to be in the back row.
Oh, there's church stuff too. Youth group is interesting as always with all of the Jr. High boys. This past week was especially fun when Mom and Laurie were in charge. We all got to help bake chocolate chip cookies, which was amazing of course since we got to eat some of the cookie dough. While the cookies were baking, we also got to run around and play sardines, which I thought helped considerably to expend some of the boys' energy. To finish off the night, we had an Easter bible quiz with the warm cookies as prizes. Also this Sunday for Easter, I am going to be "Kristen, the world's oldest caterpillar" for the Sunday School skit. Added to my piano playing duties, Sunday should be fun. I'm really excited too, though, because I have been told that I get to eat Easter dinner/lunch at Grandma's house this year! I love Grandma's cooking!
Well, I feel like this post is ridiculously long enough, and I can't think of anything else at the moment anyways. Hopefully, it won't take me another 5 weeks to write a new post, and I'll try to write another one sooner!
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Kristen and Wes having a push-up off.
My favorite Easter egg.
