Happy bday to my momma, and my uncle greg!!

My gorgeous, amazing, smart, mother.. who I'm so glad to have :)

I love you! (You look fabulous in this picture, even if your son is retarded and I swear I'm not related to him!!)

We're off to Boonies tonight to celebrate, woohoo!

and tomorrow we're celebrating my Uncle Greg's 50th! Birthdays everywhere!

Sicko =(

So I'm home sick today, as I was yesterday.. I feel like complete CRAP! I've had a fever and I can't stop coughing and I end up coughing so hard that I throw up snot (maybe TMI but you'll get over it).

I was gonna go in today but I kept coughing violently and throwing up, as I still am. Tasting snot is gross.

=( I hate being sick.

Holocaust trip?

So my AP Euro field trip to the Holocaust museum was quite an experience, to say the least.

We had charter buses which you think would make the ride up more enjoyable, but I ended up getting sick (which I never get car sick *anymore*) due to an overly loud ear-piercing movie playing, the bus driver failing at driving, me snoozing, and other things. The movie they had playing was so loud it gave me an enormous headache, and 80% of us yelled the entire time at the people controlling the movie. It was awful. I did, however, get to sit with my friend Laura who is always entertaining.

So we get there and have from about 10:30 to 12:30 to look at 20 hours worth of information! I wanted to get to every exhibit and room so Laura and I kinda power walked, but would definitely stop for each exhibit and observe. I did cry, it was very, very sad. There was one exhibit which was a walk through through a Jewish kid named Daniel's life. You got to walk into "his house" before the Nazis came into power, during, and when they got sent to the ghetto. It was so, so upsetting, and petrifying to realize what human beings are capable of. I mean, I've always known, but it shows it in a whole new perspective. At the end of Daniel's exhibit there were little notes children between the ages of like 8-12 wrote to Daniel saying how brave he was, and how they could never be that brave.. and how he will forever be their friend and how sorry they feel for him. Ugh, it sucked. =(

After, however, we got to go to the Annapolis mall, which was enjoyable. I love it there. We ate and browsed around and such, and next thing we knew we were on our way back home. I forced myself to stay awake because falling asleep on the way up was a factor in my upset stomach.

Got back to Bennett around 4:30 and went straight to work, which could of potentially been good but I didn't get crap for tips. We had a fair amount of business for a monday but my pocket did not show such. -_-

Now I'm off to school.. then I'll be going to the barn to freeze my toes off!

Vent.

Seriously, what is the deal with teenage girls becoming so involved when they get a boyfriend that they forget about anyone who meant anything to them previous to their new relationship?

WHAT THE HELL.

I've had a boyfriend for a YEAR AND A HALF and I have never in my right mind done that to any of my friends. Not Autumn, not Kristen, not Taylor, not anyone.

I have, however had FOUR friends over the course of two years do this to me. Cute, right? I think so.

You never hear from them, when you ask to hang out you get a bullshit excuse that is so obvious that it's bullshit it's crazy. After all, I did consider these four best friends, so I'd like to think I had a clue or two as to how they behaved. Girls suck at lying, so bad.

Not only that, but once they do end up breaking up, that friend decides they want to renew your friendship. Really? Go play in traffic. I have feelings too, how would you like it if I had done that to you?

Out of all my friends I was probably the first to get into a long term relationship, and the only one who hasn't dropped their entire life for that relationship. 

Don't get me wrong, I loves my Jared, but no boy is going to completely derail me from school, work, or FAMILY/FRIENDS.

Ugh, I'm done.

I do apologize

but truthfully, I've had nothing exciting to blog about happen at all this week. I worked one shift, rode, going to RRR, hung out with Jared. You know,  normal stuff.

However! Tomorrow I'm going on a field trip to the Holocaust Museum.. So I'll be posting about that Monday night or Tuesday afternoon :}

Concert of epic proportions.

So as previously mentioned, Max and I went to a Slipknot/Coheed and Cambria/Trivium show in Baltimore last night. It was AMAZING!! We went general admission, meaning we were down on the ground near the band, and the venue held probably 10,000 people (there are a lot of seats there, too). Definitely the best show I've ever seen, and I've been to a fair amount. I did however, come home extremely sore with a few bruises. You get "pushed around" a lot at rock shows.. and this one was no exception. Probably the most brutal one I've been to. 

Trivium was good, but I only knew two of the songs they played (they only had a half hour set, though.) They were the first band on and the second they began playing their first song everyone went off the wall. Max and I were stuck next to this extremely EXTREMELY drunk girl in the beginning who was flailing everyone and screaming to her date that she wanted to get up to the front. He kept telling her she'd never be able to get through the crowd but she kept trying. Later on, I saw her crowd surfing and she got hit in the head. Then by the end of the show we saw her humping a different guy. I overheard several people ask one another "Are they trying to dance or having sex?" ...Weirdos.

Coheed and Cambria was up next, and they were excellent. I knew all but 2 or 3 of their songs, which I ended up enjoying regardless. They didn't interact much with the crowd, but they put on a great performance.

And last, but not least, was Slipknot.. after waiting 45 minutes in between Coheed and Slipknot (you could tell why we waited so long after the curtain came up and you saw their stage.. holy crap). They were amazing, and so much fun. I can't even begin to describe how much fun I had listening to them. Before they came on, I was completely beat. I was so tired and my legs felt like jello, but the second SlipKnot started playing I got a huge adrenaline boost and was fine. Their drummer is AMAZING, and had 2 or 3 different drum sets set up for him and he'd jump from set to set. One of his drum sets lifted in the air and did a flip while he was playing it... SOOO SICK!! Their synth player had a revolving stand he was on with a screen in front that showed us what we looked like. One of the other people in the band would randomly jump onto the thing the synth was sitting on while it was twirling up and down. They also had a giant baseball bat they'd hit a tin can with to make noises in some of their songs. AND at one point we all had to kneel down on the ground (general admission) and when Corey said jump up, the whole crowd had to jump up. It was amazing, and so much fun, even if I did get thrown around a lot and got a few elbows to the ribcage and people pulling my air and kicked in the face and things of the sort! You learn to get used to that after going to a lot of rock concerts. It was even better because over time SlipKnot's become one of my favorite bands. 

The show ended around 11, and Max ended up catching a drum stick (how awesome!). The second we got into the car I had a delirious moment of nonstop laughter for no reason and knew I would be sleeping the entire ride home.. which I did. I felt bad for leaving Max but he said he didn't mind, and before we knew it we were home at 2 AM.

I didn't end up waking up today until around 1 PM today, sleeping through my alarm to wake up at 9 AM and seven text messages when my phone was vibrating right under my head >.<. But being Valentines day, I got to spend the day with my wonderful boyfriend. We both ended up making each other heart shaped cookies (Hey.. it's a good idea..) and we went out to dinner at Chili's. We were going to go to Red Lobster but EVERYTHING was packed, and we had left at 4:20 to go out. Chili's only had a 15 min wait though and we both enjoy that restaurant.

All in all, good weekend so far!

Oh my goodness. Everyone must watch this

Oh my god, Ellen is a riot. So is this woman she is talking to. I love this show! (Wait a sec. for the vid to load if you don't see it right away.)