Graduation!

Graduation! It finally happened! Sorry for getting to this a little bit later than planned. But anyways it rocked! I loved every minute of it! Although the actual ceremony was a little bit long, I still thought it was very good. I liked it more than Mom and Dad that is, but I also had a nicer chair to sit on :D! But everything was pretty basic. We went to the ceremony, we went outside and took hundreds of pictures, we went and ate lunch at Grogg's (yum!), and then I went to Grad Spec. So it was basic but it was such a major blast! I felt really quite proud of myself. I graduated 11th in my class of about 240 kids! I was, however, disappointed because I was one chair off of the first row. I would have been but they put student body officers in front of everyone else, including valedvictorian, and that pushed me back about 6 chairs. But oh well! I was still happy I was far up there!

Speaking of Grad Spec....I WON! Well sort of. But I did break the King Family Curse and won something at Grad Spec. I actually was called during the first part of Grad Spec to win something but I took a risk and told them that I wanted to wait for the Senior Prize drawing. Apparently if you win something else, you cannot win the Senior Prize, which is a desk, computer, printer, camera, and some other stuff. So I waited for the Senior Prize. For that, they call 20 seniors and eliminate them one by one to the last person, who gets the prize. Well my name was called for the 20 seniors! But I didn't win. I was the first person called to say that I didn't win it. Sigh.. But that is ok! For being one of the 20 I won a few things. I won a box of sprite, snake-eye dice things, an old (smelling really bad) lotion bar, a paperweight, and $10! I felt pretty great about it!!

Anyways...it feels amazing to finally be graduated! The only real thing that I will miss from High School is my friends. I will miss them like no other! A lot of them are leaving for other colleges and I am still depressed about it, but I do have friends staying here!! Thank goodness! Other than that though, I am just plain out happy that I am in college (despite the fact that it makes me feel extremely old!). I have been ready for college since my sophomore year! It finally came! YAY!

Here is a video of graduation. It is pretty long and most of it is just me with my friends, but if you have 7 minutes of your crazy schedules, check it out! It is great!! Or so I think!! PS- The first song in the video was our graduation theme if you wanted to know. The other song was just one put there because I didn't have another song and I really like that one! And I am really really sorry if you cannot read the subtitles on some of them. They looked bigger when I made the movie!

Updates!! Woo!

My life the past few days have been so stinking hectic!! I have not had a free moment for the past week. There has been constantly something going on! So I will just let you all know what has been going on! And sorry this is soooooooo long!

First off..PROM! Prom was this last Saturday and I had a blast! I went with Brandon Gagnon, the awesome guy next to me! The funny thing is that he only asked me 2 days before Prom. It was really funny...and sudden! But even though it was last minute, I was super excited that he asked me. I had so much fun that night! What we did was we went and had dinner at Boyd Marsing's house (he is the guy in the lower picture-we were in his group), then we played some guitar hero, and then after that, Brandon and I went to his house. His mom had wanted us to go over there for pictures and such (we did that alone because everyone else in our group had to promenade, and we didn't! yay!). Anyways, we went to the dance after that and danced the night away, and then went back to Boyd's house after to have dessert and watch a movie. We watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Note to others~it is the weirdest movie ever! It was the newer version and I had no clue what the heck was going on. But that is it! Prom was incredible and I was so excited I got to go with Brandon! Here are some pictures!!

Brandon and I!

My (pretend) attempt to pin the boutonnier on him. That was just a pose! Mom really pinned it on him!My corsage!! It was really pretty, and good considering we went in there together to get the flowers and had no idea what we were doing!!

Brandon and I, and Boyd, who was in our group as well!

Next thing! Well all day Monday and Tuesday I have been doing CEUSA training. That has been really fun as well. We did a ton of fun activities to get to know each other. We also had many workshops where poeple came and told us how to be leaders and how to set a good example. They were fun. It did get boring a few times just because I was dead tired, but all the same, it was really good. Funny story!! So we went bowling Monday night and I was in a group with three other guys there (PS~I creamed every single one of them with my new high score of 144!!I got a turkey!!). But I went up to bowl one time and I threw the ball down the lane when all of a sudden the swiper thing, that swipes all of the pins away, just fell down! My ball crashed into it and knocked all of the pins down! (it really did give me a strike!) But I was so scared. The swiper just came out of no where! I turned around right when it happened and everyone else had this look between shock and laughter on their faces!! Luckily, I didn't get into any trouble, but I was terrified! The worker there didn't seem too upset at me so......I guess I am ok!

Finally! So today I had to take the Calculus AP test! It was insane! It was the longest, most annoying test of my life. I went down there at 7:30am and got home at about 12:20pm. Worst test ever (not include the AP Biology one I took last year!)!!! But I totally think I failed it. I did feel good about some of the multiple choice questions, but on the free response question...I totally bombed those. On those ones, you can't just guess and get away with it. You have to show all of your work and everything. It stunk. Big time. I am extremely worried that if I don't pass it, my math teacher, Mr. Bianco, will hunt me down with me being the Math Sterling Scholar and everything. And he would too! He has thrown desks and chairs and garbage cans at students! I think he would hunt me down! (seriously!! but even though he terrifies me, he is like my favorite teacher! he is hilarious and a really good teacher!) So ya, I am scared of that. But I am super happy that it is done! That is what we have been preparing for all year and it is finally done!! YAY!! I can breate once again!

Well that is pretty much it from my life! I am still working on getting Mom to post on here, but so far, we have just been too busy to really get anything done. Right now I am posting and Mom is still at work! It is just way toooo crazy here at the King household! We can't wait for summer!!

CEUSA, Here I Come!!

I don't know how many of you knew this, but I applied for CEUSA, which is the student government for CEU, and guess what? I made it! I am officially one of the Event Directors for the college now! I am so excited! The Event Director is pretty much is charge of planning, organizing, and carrying out all of the student activities at the college. Yay!! There are also three other directors, so that does lighten up the load a bit, but still, YAY!!! I am so excited for college! It is going to be super amazing!!
~MeL

Job Hunting, Oh How I Hate You So..

Being jobless...not as great as it seems. I enjoyed the first few weeks of it, but now I am just plain out bored. I spend my life lying around and sitting on the couch. Sigh.. So I have started job hunting and let me tell you, it is so not fun. I have barely started and I am so sick of it. The worst part of is that there are not many jobs in Price that do not include handling food, and I have no desire to work with food..at all. I will not become some miserable cashier working the drive-through (no offense to those who do!).

I don't think that I could ever work at fast food! I would have some sort of freakout! I would end up like this lady here... freaking out!! Or, I would end up like this guy here..bored to tears..

So in conclusion...I really really REALLY hate job hunting.

PS~ Here are some random comics about food places that I found. Enjoy them. They are funny!!!!!

Train Station Dance

Mom showed this video to me yesterday, and I just think it is dang hilarious! She got it in an email from a friend, anyways, there are some other videos like this on you tube. One of them is where a group of people just freeze in a train station for five minutes! That is funny. But if you have already seen it, watch it anyway because it will make you smile even more! It made me laugh extremely hard!!

Senior-itis

Finally! School is almost over! At least high school anyways. But either way, I am super excited that I just started the fourth and final quarter of school. I only have about a month and a half before school gets out. And I cannot wait! Woo! Also, today I went and had my senior pictures taken. If there is anything that makes you feel really old, it is when you take your senior pictures, especially when you put on the cap and gown. We took a few of those, and boy did I feel super old. I just couldn't believe that I really am graduating in less than two months. Awkward... Even though I am old, I am sooo excited to get done with it! WOOOO!! And for your benefit/interest, I have added a countdown to the day that I will officially become a woman!! :D
~PS~ I will post my senior pictures when I get those back, but that won't be for a bit...sigh.

~MeL

Apparently I can't sit with Widows...

Yesterday, I went to the Spring Glen church ward because a few of the other Seminary Council members were speaking and I wanted to hear them. Well Rebecca Goodrich and I arrived a little early (like an hour! we were told the wrong time!), and so we decided to just sit down and wait for our teacher to come. We parked ourselves on the very last comfy bench in the chapel. A few minutes later, this older lady walks in and heads right toward us. She stopped right in front of us and just stared at us. Finally she tooked at me and said, "You are in my spot." At first I thought she was just joking around, but she looked totally serious. So, trying to be polite, I simply said, "Oh I am sorry, Would you like us to move?" I thought she was going to to just say that it was alright and that she would sit somewhere else. Well instead she said, "Ya, this is the widow's bench. This is where we all sit." I just sat there shocked. I couldn't believe it! Rebecca and I just started laughing (although we toned it down because the woman was still standing there waiting). The woman then said that we could sit down at the other end of the bench, just not where we were. So we moved. As soon as we moved over, the lady immediately sat down. I just kept laughing to myself, trying not to burst out. To the side of me, Dayton Martindale (the other semiary council member speaking) and his mother were laughing so hard. They were turning their heads away to make sure that the woman did not see them laughing. I was really funny. One thing I have learned is that apparently, I can't sit with widows...
~MeL~