A No Good Very Bad Day

Everybody has bad days. They are inescapable, no matter how hard you try. As previously mentioned, interesting things happen to me all the time. No matter where I am, bizarre circumstances find me.

Today should have been a normal day.

Famous last words.

1. I wake up only to remember that it is water day at the Child Development Center that I work at. I cannot find my only pair of water-wearable capris.

2. After taking EVERY SINGLE THING out of my drawers, laundry basket, and washing machine, I leave for work late, still unable to find the aforementioned capris.

3. After water day has begun and I have already been soaked by three year-olds armed with sponges, my father shows up waving my capris (they were in Cole's laundry basket of all places) and yelling my name. My three year-olds find this amusing. I do not.

4. On the way back from talking to Dad, I am, for the first time in my seventeen years, stung by a bee that wandered into my Croc and places it's stinger in my big toe.

5. This is also amusing to the three year-olds.

6. Having never been stung before and being an extreme hypochondriac, I assume I'm allergic and go inside to clean my aching toe.

7. Time passes, rather uneventfully.

8. I go to my car after work only to find that, also for the first time ever, I have locked my keys in my car.

9. I go to pick up my brother from my grandparents house and am forced to watch the penalty kicks of some soccer game because he has to see the end.

10. On the way home I am pulled over by Public Safety for the second time this month.

Please tell me this sort of thing happens to other people.

My life is an adventure. I can't wait to see where tomorrow leads. I will now go massage my big toe.

A Much Delayed Update

Ok, so I'm officially the worst blogger in America. I know. But that's what I get for starting a blog in the middle of chaos! Besides traveling and writing debate cases I've been working at the CDC and helping my parents get ready for their play, As You Like It, that starts tomorrow! I am so excited to see it come together with the audience!

Nationals went well. I did not break in LD, but I did make it through seven rounds of Spar debate (an abbreviated form of debate: each round only lasts about 20 minutes!) I ended up somewhere between number 41 and 70 out of 792 in that event. I won't ever know my number for sure. Alas. However, after I was eliminated Nichole and I were able to judge the National Junior Forensics League Original Oratory Semi-Finals! That was so fun and such a good experience! I found out later that one of the boys in my round who I gave a win to ended up being the National Champion!

I have loved all my traveling, but I'm certainly glad to be home. I'm so excited for the rest of the summer! Babysitting, working, selling Figgy Whigs cupcakes! How much better does it get? Hopefully all this extra time will translate into more blogging, since that's the reason it was started! So many funny things seem to happen to me, and I can't wait to write them down!

If you really want a laugh, come to As You Like It! This year's play is sure to be a hit! The cast includes old favorites and new additions! Tickets are still available for all nights next week, especially Saturday, and once again, Figgy Whigs will be available each night! We are having our top three flavors this year: Strawberry, Orange Cream, and the number one best seller, Reese's!

At some point I will post Nationals pictures and Summer Shakespeare pictures. We even have a trailer this year! Oooooh. I know, super cool. Stay tuned!

Debate, Day One

Phew! I survived day one. We woke up early this morning and headed over to Ben Davis high school, a ginormous school in Indianapolis. The school is big enough to house almost the entire tournament. We found my room really early, so we just sat in the hall and I worked on my case. My first round was in a teeny tiny office, so there wasn't room for Mom and Nicholee to observe. Too bad. They were able to watch second round, though. My mother was so nervous she thought she would have to leave, so she decided to sit my next rounds out. It was so nice to have someone to run and buy fruit and have snacks ready. At lunch time they brought in local food trucks of every variety! There was a taco truck, a health food truck, a potato and BBQ truck, a soul food truck, and a cupcake truck! We sure did meet a lot of interesting people in the food line! I ate delicious nachos with mango salsa. It was very nice. We finished my rounds and headed to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. They had gluten free pasta! So yummy! After a little retail therapy we headed back to the hotel to get ready for tomorrow! We'll see how it goes! I have two guaranteed rounds and then they break the top 60! I'll keep ya posted!

And We're Off!

Sorry about the lack of post yesterday, everyone. I was up late preparing for today and then fell asleep.

Anyway, today's the big day! I have rounds at 9, 11, 2, and 4. Hopefully I can give you a play by play tonight:)

We Have Arrived

Well, we are in Indianapolis. We left around 8:00 this morning, the car packed with snacks and more snacks. They were all very healthy, of course. Nichole and I spent the ride up talking, watching Monk,   Cranford, and our very old favorite, Andy Griffith! We love Andy Griffith. Mostly we just laughed. A lot.  We can get a little loud sometimes, so my mother deserves a medal of honor for putting up with us:)

We love you, Mom.

We arrived at our hotel with relatively little problem and headed upstairs to unpack. It's hard to believe that we could be living here for a week! I unpacked all my debate stuff. Oh yeah, that's why we're here.

Haha. Just kidding. I remembered:)

Soon it was time to find our way around the city. We discovered the Zoo, the Stadium, and the Conference Center where registration takes place. We headed downtown for dinner. It was so fun to run into other competitors from South Carolina! Nichole and I observed that you can tell which high-schoolers are competing. I guess we speech people stand out.

One of the highlights of the evening was the prom that was going on in the mall. It was held in what was a sort of atrium, but everyone had to walk around it, so they had put fences up. We enjoyed watching them through said fence. And yes, we got a picture in front of the prom sign. I will post pictures as I am able, so keep checking!

Yes, I've Been Procrastinating

As expected, I started this blog, did really well for a while, and then promptly stopped using it. I know you are all anxiously awaiting my sappy post. We shall see about that.

However, I wanted to let you all know that I will start blogging regularly again next week. On Saturday I am going to the National Forensics League competition in Indianapolis to debate, so I will try and keep you updated. The fact that I am taking my friend Nichole, the queen of taking pictures of every single thing that occurs, may help with the pictures I post. Maybe.

So, don't give up on this ole blog. I may keep it going, after all.

We shall see.

Oh, and as a completely random side note, my father's Shakespeare company does a play every year, and this year they are doing As You Like It. Check it out and get tickets at www.summershakespeare.org.

I know. I'm such a good daughter:)