[EDIT] Sleepover, my birthday, back to school

Okay. So I've been busy since I last wrote. My dad had his surgery on Friday and that went well. His arm hurts a lot now, though. But anywho.

Okay. So let's start with the sleepover for my dance team. It was AWSUMZ. It was at Shannon and Kelsey's house and it's a big house, so a bunch of the girls were like, "omgnowai." Of course, I'm used to it now because I've been over there a few times and yeah. We had everyone from the team there except Emily. So that's 7 of us. We started out playing Rock Band for a little. Then dinner (lasagna) and then we decorated our shirts. ^___^ Supa fun. We did black shirts/tank-tops/whatever and Christina brought pink puffy paint, along with two types of silver puffy paint. One was metallic and the other was glittery. So on the front we decided to write Just Jammin' with the pink in cursive, with a silver (glitter) '09 by it. That was hilarious. We're all sitting there like, "Uh... Who wants to go first?" 'Cause none of us wanted to go first and mess up. So we're all practicing on newspaper, like, "Does this look good..?" Finally Christina goes first when none of us were looking and that totally took the pressure off. They're all a little different, but they're awesome. We made one for Emily, too. Because that'd be mean not to. Didn't make one for Miss Amy, though, because, well... We all hate her. But I'll get into that later. So then we eventually end up watching Step Up 2. I lurve that movie! That dancing is AMAZING. So we're all really hyper aftwerwards and we get the great idea to make up our own hip hop dance. Omg. HILARIOUS. And really fun.

We didn't get too far, but then we all started talking about dance and how we should show Amy and she'd be all, "That's nice, now let's get to work." And THAT'S when we started complaining about her FOREVA. None of us really feel like we're getting better with Amy teaching us. Last year with Julie, I actually felt like I was getting better. Amy doesn't really push us hard enough. She doesn't even really do anything with stretching. Christina's been leading the stretching, but Amy never really gives us enough time. Like, Kylie was complaining about how we never do abs anymore. And everyone else agreed that we need to be doing them. Julie's warm-ups last year we pretty intense and I felt like I was being worked hard. And I LIKED that. Amy never really goes around and helps you stretch farther. And I'm pretty sure none of us can do open turns. Which isn't good. I know Victoria orginally said she would come in like, once a month and help us. She's been in twice. And those were the best days, I think. She works us, but I feel so much more assured and I feel like I'm working harder and getting better. One thing we said we should do is see if we could get Victoria in more often and maybe meet for extra practices too work on technique and stuff. Not with Amy. And if not Victoria, maybe Lou's daughter Lauren, because we know she'd work us hard, too. Because I know I want someone that will work me harder and everyone else does, too.

So anyways. We complained for awhile and we talked about a ton of other stuff that night. And then we went up to the play room where we were gonna sleep and got ready for bed and talked some more. So we were to bed by like, one or two. And then in the morning, Joan made Mickey Mouse waffles for us (that were actually shaped like Mickey) and we wrote our names on the backs of our shirts with the metallic silver puffy paint. We left them there to dry and Shannon and Kelsey gave them to us on Monday.

As for my birthday on Sunday.... It was AWESOME. Tori came over and it was supa fun. We talked for like, an hour after she first came over. And then we realized we needed to go busy. See, she needed photos for her photo class and I was going toI "model" for her. Lawl. We walked to Washburn and took pics on the playground. Super fun, but super cold after awhile. So we eventually had to cal my mom to pick us up. Then we promptly made cocoa and talked more. Tip for cocoa: To make it more chocolatey, melt something chocolate like a Hershey's kiss in it. We actually put a dark chocolate Dove in the cocoa. Yumm... We then made coopckaes which was supa fun. We made videos and I put them on le YouToobz. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C1D6E2D2A6306F8F

Then we played Pokemonz and I totally pwned her in the free battle, although she pwned me in most of the mini games. Or else the computer played pwned us. Lawl. xD And then she had to go... I'd talk more about it, but, well... You can easily see what we did by looking at the vids on le YewToobz. It was an amazing 17th birfday, though.

And then school started again after two weeks off for winter break. Blah. Not much to say. I actually missed yesterday. Headache-y feeling all day.

OH. And I suppose I should talk about dance on Monday night. Because there's a lot to do with Amy. I was totally being less discreet with my hatin' on her, but she didn't notice. It was... I dunno. Like, she was all (jokingly) saying she was a genius or something and didn't w get the memo? So I say something along the lines of, "Sorry, but no." And Shannon's just like, lol-ing at that. (Holy crap. I just turned lol into a verb. Although because I actually read as "lahl" instead of "laugh out loud" or a replacement for "haha," lol-ing actually makes sense to me.) So yeah. And just other stuff. And this one part none of us really like, I just commented on it like, "I don't feel like my leap is as good as it could be. I think the counts for that part are a little weird." To which she said I might not be getting enough momentum or something. And to which I mutter, "No... It's the counts." Luckily it was just loud enough for only the team to hear and not Amy. But yeah. I was being much more openly hostile to her than usual. Usually, I just try to fake pleasantness. I decided not to. Hmm.. Maybe she doesn't understand sarcasm? But yeah. Me and Shannon kept pretending to shoot ourselves, which made Christina lol.

ANYWAYS. I suppose I should stop complaining about dance. I love my team. The people are awesome! It's just... Our teacher sucks. And our formations are like, the exact same as Personalit Plus'. And their the younger pre-comp team. Which just shows that Amy has no creativity. And my mom was just like, "It's Victoria. Amy has to run it by Victoria." Uh, sorry mom, but it's not Victoria. Victoria actually helps. It's Amy who's making up the routines. Hell, we haven't even gotten to the end of them. Almost with tap, but I jazz? Hell no. So much for finishing them before winter break. Amy sucks at teaching. She actually taught herself something wrong one time. So she had to like, reteach herself (in front of us) before she could actually teach us. It was... bad.

OKAY. NOW I'M DONE COMPLAINING.

Other than stupid Amy, my life seems pretty peachy so far,
Keegan <33

[EDIT]
Lawl. I totally linked the wrong this. FIXED.