2nd Week of Senior Year!

2nd Week of Senior Year!

(It's been a rough week)

I am trying a new format this week! Please let me know if you prefer last weeks or this weeks! This week was busy, busy, busy! I am slowly getting used to being busy all the time. Of course through each weekday I go through a regular school day with all my classes listed in the last blog, and I have 8th hour out, so I get to go home and prep for anything I have going on later in the day and I even take much needed 30 minute power naps before I head off to practice.

Monday: First official free day in an entire week! I had no work and no extracurricular activities after school! This was so relieving, I spent the day watching movies on Netflix and catching up on some much needed sleep! Of course I did all of this after watching the solar eclipse that occurred! We hit totality around 1:24 PM. You could hear birds singing their night song, crickets chirping, and see the 360 sunset. The entire high school went out to the house of orange where we were handed our eclipse glasses. They played sun themed music, we played life size Yahtzee, UNO, Twister, and just chilled with friends while witnessing a once in a lifetime opportunity. 

Tuesday: And sleep is no longer a thing. At cheer we stunted all practice, we hit some really cool stunts, and have tried out some really cool new stunts. After practice I went home took a quick shower and ate some dinner before I head off to musical rehearsal an hour and a half after practice. I am at school until 10:00 PM rehearsing music and lines with my amazing cast mates. We also started script reading in front of the class! MY FIRST LEAD ROLE SCRIPT READ! I got lots of compliments which I was not expecting and I am so grateful for! Also I had taped my wrist at practice because it was sore from stunting, when I got home and ripped it off... it also ripped off my arm hair. UGH.

Wednesday: 2nd Official Free Day! We finished script reading Beauty and the Beast! I got out of school at 1:30. I finished one of my English scholarship essays this day. After that I SLEPT. I can feel my singing voice slowly wearing down and my energy levels decreasing rapidly lolololol.

Thursday: Cheer practice we reviewed all the chants in dances in preparation for the first football game the following day. I was pooped after practice! After practice I went to musical rehearsal where I proceeded to be worn out. I totally butchered my solo parts in the musical. It is very hard weaning off of a recording, I also cannot read music so in the Broadway recordings I was listening to they had some different notes from what I was supposed to be singing. My voice was so tired from yelling chants at practice, my whole body and soul just was not present at rehearsal. But I greatly appreciated the encouragement from my cast mates, teacher, and pianist who are very understanding and kind. I am working on retaining my high notes again because I lost my upper register over the summer. Mrs. Potts has some EXTREMELY high notes (well super high for me right now anyways.)

Friday: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. ITS GAME DAY. WHITE OUT. ONE LAST RIDE. After school I proceeded to go home and take a 3 hour nap. Naps are slowly becoming a daily ritual since I am not sleeping well AT ALL. I wake up about 6 times every night. Pregame and running flags across the field after introducing the Orangemen was actually fun and less scary than I thought. But I might have been in fight or flight mode and  running on adrenaline trying not to get trampled by the football players. Orangemen won! Dances, Stunts, and Cheers went awesome! It was a lot of fun! BHS Band had an amazing half time show!

Saturday: HOMEWORK DAY! Realized I messed up something in my big toe joint (weird I know.) But it is swollen, bruised, and hurts when I bend or put pressure on it. I woke up at 8:00 AM to clean my room, do laundry, and 4 homework assignments. I finished Psychology, Precalc, and revising my first scholarship essay. I did not however finish my 2nd scholarship essay because I lost inspiration. Hopefully going to finish it Sunday night. But tonight I called it an early night @ 9:00 and headed off to bed because I work Sunday! 

Sunday: Thunderstorms are not my dogs best friend. This made sleeping very hard, but I was also already having a hard time sleeping so whatever. I worked, did not finish my English essay, and went out to dinner with Danni to clear my mind. Writers block really sucks. Its due Tuesday :((((. Also made some super rich and cheesy mac but it was too decadent to eat :(((( another reason why I went to dinner with Danni.