i woke up this morning with one of my headaches. so i decided that i would go back to sleep and possibly go into school a bit later. but...i didnt wake up again until 1:00 in the afternoon. there goes that idea. so with all this extra time on my hands i decided that i would update my blog, as it has been a long time since i last did so.
lets see...what has happened in my life?
on april 7th 2008 i officially became a brace-faced, tinseled-teethed girl. woot woot! i hadnt told anyone about them. i wanted it to be a shocking surprise. haha. i got them in the morning and then went back to school with them. the reactions were fun. my teeth didnt start to hurt until about 9 that night. i just popped some pills and went to bed. the next morning was awful but somehow i made it through. the following days were definately not too much fun. my tongue would get swollen from talking and singing so much because in the back it would rubbed against the bands on my back molars. i didnt cry over my braces until thursday night, which was the worst time. all day thursday i felt pretty good. i was like, "schweet! im getting used to these suckers!" well they just had to prove me wrong i guess. that night my whole mouth was just throbbing. i tried drinking hot chocolate and that helped...until it was gone...then the pain seemed worse. plus the wire that i have in right now is heat activated. so if i drink or eat something really hot or really cold, it tightens and i can feel it do so. not too fun. i then tried really cold water, with the same results. i probably overdosed on painkillers that night. but that was the first and only time i cried about the braces. the pain is impossible to describe unless you've gone through it. one of the only good thing about braces is that you have to eat more slowly. so that means by the time you're halfway through what you might ordinarily eat, you're full. so i've lost some weight. not too much. but a little bit. so braces have other uses than straightening teeth. =]
on april 9th, i went to gettysburg PA for my honors social studies trip. we're all becoming civil war buffs this year, as that is like ALL we study! haha. but it was fun and we have many...interesing pictures. =] my lunch was interesting...consisting of a yogurt smoothie, jello, and other such loverly foods. i saw my greatgreatgreat uncle or cousin or whatever he is to me. his statue(s) anyway. john reynolds, a famous civil war general who was killed by a sniper on the first day of gettysburg, is related to me somehow. excitement! that day was also a little eye opening on some other matters. one of which led me to lose my date for the ninth grade dance. not lose...give up? break off? well lets just say i told him that i didnt feel comfortable going with him to the dance anymore. so im now dateless...unless you count katie...*wiggles eyebrows* =DDD
thursday i had dress rehearsal for the talent show, which is this week if you'd like to come, and then my voice lesson. still getting used to my braces. i've been told that i make funny faces inbetween the verses of the song im singing...but thats not my fault!!! and mrs. black told me that she was "so sorry! but you know someday you'll be grateful that u have this wonderful smile! now lets sing!" haha gotta love mrs. black. =]
friday april 11th, i became a mother...to a african american, plastic, computer baby. micah ayden manthey. yay! my dad went into the hospital friday morning. but i didnt know that until i got home from school.
i decided to go to the dance with micah, hoping that i wouldnt regret my decision. the dance marathon was on friday and the cause that they supported was the american cancer society. the dance was longer than usual because of this and they had special guest speakers. mr. wade, who i got to know through Unclaimed carriages, is a survior of skin cancer. he was one of the speakers and quite a speaker he was. he had almost everyone crying. i dont remember when i started crying. but there i was, sitting there on the floor with a little baby, surrounded by at least 100 sweaty, smelly teenagers and teachers, and i started crying. i pretty much lost it. ashley held my hand and spechty was hugging me. im not one to cry all that often. i hold stuff in until i nearly burst. not a good habit i know. i hadnt really had a good day on friday, considering the braces and the how ninth grade dance deal. and i really felt like i needed to cry, but couldnt just make myself. i really needed that cry. after mr. wade finished, katie, emily, jordyn, amber, jt, and lots of others came over and we all started crying together. we had this little cluster of people and i am so grateful that they were there for me. i felt this enormous release. after that i was so much happier and lighter. i thank God for that night and im so glad that i went. i needed that and He knew that i also needed to be surrounded by the love of my best friends to go through that instead of being alone at home that night. the rest of the night was great. micah got passed around, having more dance offers then i did. =[ haha but i still had fun. he didnt cry until right at the end of the dance and then preceded to eat for the next 20 minutes at least as emily and i left the dance, found her mom, and headed home.
micah kept me up pretty much all night friday. my dog was really confused by this crying baby. it was amusing to watch. on saturday i went to bea's and had fun there. micah officially likes phantom. or at least he respected the fact that i love it and didnt cry through the three hours of the movie. good baby! we had fun spending the day together and went outside for a bit. we were limited in what we could do but took some nice pictures outside. then i went home to an empty house and was lonely. but then my mom and brother came home eventually. micah once again kept me up most of the night. he's a pig. then sunday morning, i had to drag myself out of bed and get ready for church. he didnt cry all through the sermon until the very end. you wouldnt believe the reactions i got from some people. most of the adults that came up to me thought that he was real. so many people did double takes and it made me laugh. also, it was the first time most people had seen me with my braces. many surprised faces. =] i received a jar of dirt from richard...long story. haha. then we headed home.
at four, (W)hoops started. im not much of a basketball player. and with a baby to take care of...it was interesting. i fell on my elbow at one point...made it all tingly for the longest time. i was scared that i hurt it. but its all good. micah only cried near the beginning. good baby once again. the teens were beaten by the parents by 2 points...boo hiss! but it was fun.
youth group was interesting...during free time before youth group actually started, micah got passed around some more...and threatened. some people had some AWFUL IDEAS about how they were going to torture my baby. evil evil people. =P it was singing night for youth group and micah slept through it. one of the songs brought some laughter and great memories back for some of the girls. behold he comes...riding on a cow....yeahhh great times. =DDD
micah slept through most of the lesson. near the end of it he started to cry. i chimed in and it was really loud! i was like oops sry! then he wanted to eat so i decided i could just sit there and feed him. but the noise that he makes when he eats is really really loud when there is only one person talking. so i headed to the back of the church where i could still here mr. k but was far enough away so that i didnt distract anyone. he finally finished eating and i went back and sat down. in less than 2 minutes he started fussing again. when he fusses that soon after eating, it usually means that he needs to be burped. usually. so i stood up to go back and burp him. as i got to the back of the sanctuary tho, he started to cry harder and i realized that he needed to have his diaper changed. megan looked back at just the right moment, saw the panic on my face, ((for i didnt want to go running back up there with a screaming plastic baby to get the diaper)) and came running after me to the bathroom, diaper in hand. i changed him and we calmly headed back out the the sanctuary. we sat down and got settled. THEN he started crying again! i was like *throws hands up in the air and exclaims in frustration* only i couldnt...cuz i was holding a baby. so i chimed him in which was really loud and must have, stupidly, told him to shush...which must have seemed rediculous to those around me and might explain the laughter i heard as i heard towards the back of the sanctuary to feed him again...
then the lesson was over and we had prayer, which micah slept through. good baby!!! after that, kristen, megan, and i headed out to find richard because he still had some surprises for me. one of which we found out was the peppermint tea that he'd been drinking all evening and some of which i had stolen. =] but then he said that megan and kristen couldnt be around to hear. so they skipped off singing "we're off to see the wizard" creating a more awkward atmosphere in their wake. richard, micah and i headed off to the kitchen where richard made more tea and asked me to his formal. =] i said i'd have to check my schedule. kristen had the hilarious idea of penciling in a full day on the day of the formal and then showing richard that i was terribly busy. haha. it was great. =P
i then went home, ate at 10 for the first time since 1 that afternoon, and eventually went to bed. micah kept waking up again and again and always wanted to eat! what a piggy!!! but at 4:30 i prayed that he would just shutup and i could get some sleep, as i had to wake up in about an hour to get ready for school. he did. yay! but then at 7am he "died". so that was the end of micah ayden. i then had to go to school, drop him off at the fcs room, put all the stuff away, and head to my locker. i was late for homeroom and everyone was like HOW WAS THE BABY! and i was like CANT YA TELL!??!?! i felt sooo tired all day. but the day went well and i finally made it home.
then today i woke up with an awful headache...lovely. but i think i really needed the sleep after this weekend.
so thats pretty much a recap of my life in the past two weeks. this has gotten pretty long...so i'll stop. but things coming up...thursday im singing at the talent show, friday im sleeping over at erica's, saturday im working at the youth group car wash fundraiser, and sunday is pretty much going to be my usual crazy sunday that i love! =]
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