Fünfundsechzig

Dun dun dun! That means 65 in German.
SO! (Said like zo)
Uhm... as you can tell, I'm really random today. I'll try to stay on track, but I highly doubt that will happen.
Today is Lydia's birthday party AKA Sarah is going to die day. I also have a 2 hour rehearsal. I need to sew the straps onto the swan tutu still..... >.<
What else.......
I dunno. Uhm. I'm waiting for a call............ CALL ME! Wait... you don't even read this. Uhm. That's it, I think.
Hugs and Kisses
~Sarah~

Okay, I lied

Fear? Pah. I'm not afraid of anything.
This is what I say. Yeah right. God reminded me that I'm only human yesterday. I have a bajillion fears. Natural and supernatural, as weird as that sounds. Yesterday, I was at the Lifeteen Prayer meeting. I went up on the altar and was just asking for peace. There was someone praying over me. All of a sudden, a shiver runs through my body. I don't think about it, but it happens again after about two minutes. They get more and more frequent. After about 10 minutes of sitting up there praying, shuddering, and my sister and Jalen coming to pray over me, I get slain in the Spirit. It was cool. I was just laying there, totally conscious, looking around, then I shudder again. And again. And again. They got really bad. I was really scared. I could control my body. I could look around. I could talk. But every time I did, I would shudder. I was so terrified. I start whimpering each time I convulse. After about 5 minutes of that I start screaming in terror. I don't know what I was afraid of. I was just afraid. I was covering my face, screaming, crying, I couldn't hold back. I started lashing back and forth. I held onto my friend's hand for dear life. Then Brad (one of the core leader guys/prayer dudes/head honcho) and his friend Erika brought me outside. We walked around and I felt a lot better.
After the prayer meeting I talked with Brad. He said it was either Jesus doing something in me, or a minor attack. From what I was experiencing, I'm pretty sure it was an attack. But he said since the warm room, all the people around me, girl roller coater emotions, etc. the experience was intensified, and I got freaked out.
If that ever happens again, what I really need is someone to hold me, and calm me down. Oh my goodness, it was so scary.

Mulan ~ that went really well. The Mushu's Chorus was really fun (right Liv?) except one of the performances, the staples on my fan got stuck to my shirt, then my pants... and dropped. >.<**
Uhm......... nothing really exciting happened.... 'cept I made new friends. Wewt. Brandon, Amie, Gretchen... and that's it. Well... friends who will actually remember me.

The Importance of Being Earnest ~ that went really well too. Friday we had an awesome audience, 'cept I blanked during the first scene. I was good through the rest though. Saturday our audience was okay. They laughed at random parts though...... I totally forgot the 'is Miss Cardew connected with the blahdeeblah...' line though... *tear*

That's about all I have right now..............
Oh, I had a weird dream last night... >.< It was... interesting, to say the least.

Hugs and Kisses,
~Sarah~

Here's for you, Spence

Jeez... I write your name on the board... I make posts just for you... I'm like a servant or something! *smile*
Anywho. Summary of the past three weeks... Extravaganza, Tech week for Mulan, Mulan, Tech week for Earnest, Earnest. Today. Tomorrow - German test I haven't studied for.
I will make more detailed accounts of these things tomorrow or some other time, but I have need of sleep. So!
Nighty night,
Hugs and Kisses
~Sarah~

Explorers, High School, Friends, OH MY!

So, I'm at St. Luke's right now waiting for my stuff to be printed, my DVDs to finish burning and stuff like that. Extravaganza starts at...6:15. My worship dance girls will be here in 15 minutes. Two by four (Michael) scared the bejeebers outta me. Waiting waiting waiting for DVDs to burn......... I'm going crazy.
Over the weekend I had a terrible cold so I hung out on the couch for about.... 12 hours. My brain left, and has yet to return. Stuffy nose is bugging the crap outta me. Or snot...... Sorry that was bad. You can slap me. Whoever you are.... :)
Hm... I'm actually wondering how many of you follow this/visit here regularly. Post if you read this! wewt.
Iain is sick too... with exactly the same thing as I have. And so are a lot of people around here.
Uhm... I have nothing more to say, except I'm freaking out a lot. I have a show every weekend in May... and I'm already stressed.

Hugs and Kisses
~Sarah~

Sick sick sick sick sick... again.

Uuuuuuuugh. My throat is the size of a pin right now. I think it's an allergic reaction from those Halls Vitamin C drops. Grump grump grump.
Also, my mom thinks I'm just being lazy. Urgh. I'm so frustrated right now. I can't do anything, I can't go anywhere... UURRRRRRRRRRG.

I've been stuck on the couch since......... 9:30 ish. That's 6 hours. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I feel like an itchy vegetable! Like... a zucchini! Gwarg!

Okay, I'm done freaking out now. Tuesday is the last day of Explorers. *panic*
I need to polish the dances with my girls. I need to get costume stuff. I am kinda freaking out.

I need to do costume stuff too. Meaning I need emails. Meaning... I need to email my mom right now. Just a minute. Ah, what the heck. I'll finish that later.

Uhm.................... yeah. I'm done. Bye bye.

Hugs and Kisses
~Sarah~

It's May! Sugoi....

By the way, if you didn't know, sugoi is amazing in Japanese.

So, my dreamboat is in the hospital. She had a blood clot in her arm, but now she's all better!!! YAY!!!!! So, once I see her again (sing) we can waltz! ^-^ I love you, darlin'!

Life is pretty darn good right now. I have so many amazing friends who are full of the Spirit. It's great. Ever though almost everything that's happening right now is stupid, confusing, horrible, or just plain sucks, God blessed me with friends to get through it. I don't know what I would do without you guys. Thanks.

Hugs and Kisses
~Sarah <3

Avoiding Cleaning

I'm still really happy. I'm so silly.

I really don't want to clean my room right now... urg. But if I'm not finished by five I can't go to the dance tonight. I don't know what to wear though... *laugh* I'm being such a girl.

Adventurous? Not really. At all. The only reason I do that stuff is because I know my friends will be behind me. I know that if I get hurt they'll be there to help me. I know that if I fall, they'll pick me up. I have probably the greatest friends any girl could want. I know I can trust them 100%. I know they love me, and when they lecture me they have my best interests in mind. Why can't every one have as great of friends?

Ha! As I'm writing this the greatest character came to door, delivering mail. He sounded like... I can't even describe it! He was really really funny!

Alright, on to other matters.
Today still is horrible. The weather is gorgeous. I'm still smashing myself over the head for being myself. I'm going to a fun dance tonight... I'm really happy. I'm really stupid. I'm really silly.

Urg. I know I shouldn't complain. There are 4 billion people in the world worse off than I am. Probably 1 billion going through the same things. But I still want to complain. I shouldn't. So I won't. Whining is annoying anyways.

I'm cleaning my room. Or... supposed to be. I'm avoiding that, even though I really shouldn't. My room is always a mess. I really should keep it cleaner...

I borrowed four books from Jalen... and finished them all within a week and a half. They're awesome books. They're from the Fairy Tale Retold series.

I should get back to cleaning now... *grumble grumble*
At least I have a room and enough stuff to keep it messy.

Hugs and Kisses
~Sarah~

Why am I so happy?

So, Yesterday and today have been the worst days ever.
Explorers happened - I usually dread that, except for the friends part.
Physics happened, ugh. I totally thought test 15 was due next week. Turns out it was due yesterday. Crap. Then I hadn't gotten my lines memorized. Crap. Then I forgot the story at Pre-Pro. Crap. Today, Sydney attacked Lydia, really badly. She had to go to the doctor's and get it treated. Rachel's freaking out, Sydney may have to be put down, and I'm holed up in my room trying to tune it all out.
So, why am I so happy? I don't understand. I'm not just happy, I'm giddy. I feel like a little five-year-old girl who just got a pony. I'm that happy. What's up? Oh boy, butterfly attack.

Alright, I should get back to homework. Ugh.

Hugs and Kisses,
~Sarah @}--

Oh, also. This is my favorite picture EVER! I took it as a black and white, and used photoshop to make it look awesome.

Story time!!

It was springtime. The weather was gorgeous: seventy degrees, sunny, and not a cloud in the sky. A hawk soared in the blue sky in large, lounging circles. Acacia looked up at it, thinking of nothing in particular. Today was perfect. Jason had asked her to meet him by the Magnolia tree at three. The Magnolia tree stood at the top of a small hill where she and Jason used to play games together as children. He wanted to practice fight with bokens, curved wooden Japanese swords. He had given her a small foam one for practice, but she was eager to move on to a wooden one.
The hawk flew away, and Acacia was shaken out of her reverie. She quickly walked back to her house, talking long strides, and retrieved her foam boken. She looked at the clock; it was two thirty. She hurried to the back door, grabbed her notebook, a hoodie, and sneakers, and ran out the door. There was a slight breeze and her long auburn hair fell around her small, attractive face. Her deep brown eyes sparkled in the sunshine and her cheeks glowed peach with the heat of the day.
She reached the hill where the beautiful, now budding, tree stood. It was two forty-five, so Acacia placed her black sword in the green grass, and sat down with her back pressed against the tree for support. Twenty minutes later, she awoke in pain and yelped. Jason was standing there, his blue foam sword crushing her little sneakered foot.
“Gah!” she cried out. “Pressure point! Pressure point!”
“Oh, sorry.” He released his grip on the boken and it fell to the ground. He offered Acacia his hand and helped her up. “Sleeping on the job, eh?” he said, smirking. His scruffy light brown hair shifted in the wind, and his brown eyes danced in amusement. “You ready for some fun?”
“You bet!” Acacia said cheerfully. “I’m going to kick your butt this time!” She grabbed her boken and ran behind the tree, although it was much too thin to conceal her. Jason shouted out a mock battle cry and leapt behind the tree, swiping at Acacia. She pointed her sword straight up to block and jumped out from behind the tree, swiftly swung it downward onto Jason’s shoulder. He dodged, spun, and chopped at her feet. She jumped, but a little late, so Jason’s sword clipped her left foot and she tripped. After taking several steps to regain her balance, she whirled around, only to receive a soft strike in her side. She groaned, disgusted at herself.
“Again,” said Jason, grinning. Acacia ran at him with a roar and swung her boken hard to his left side. He easily blocked and brought his sword gently down on her shoulder. “Again,” he said, no grin on his face. Beads of sweat were now forming on Acacia’s forehead, but Jason’s face was still dry. Once again, she rushed at him, boken raised, but he effortless sidestepped her blow and her side.
“Alright,” he said, breathing evenly. “We’re going back to basic training. There are only five strikes you really need to know. The rest is blocking and parrying.” He swung his boken down and touched her red hair lightly. “One. This one is quite dangerous, so please don’t do it full out.” He winced at the thought. Then, his sword whooshed through the air parallel to the ground and touched her left shoulder. “Two. Not quite as dangerous at all.” He did the same attack, only touching her right shoulder. “Three. Same as two, just on a different side.” With his boken at a forty-five degree angle, he hit her left leg. “Four. Again, not as dangerous.” He repeated the swing and hit her right leg. “Five, same as four. Now you try. One!” Acacia lightly brought her boken down onto Jason’s head. “Good. Two!” She swung towards his left side. “Three!” She swung towards his right side. “Four!” Left leg. “Five!” Right leg.
Jason had blocked all her strikes with great ease, but smiled when she finished and said, “Very good, very good. Now, the blocks are quite simple. One!” She swung her sword down, and he brought he sword up, perpendicular to hers. “Two!” She swung her sword and he met it with his so they made a perfect X. “Get the picture? Now, I’m going to attack you, and block with a perpendicular strike.” He swung, one, two, three, four, and five. “Quite easy, yeah? Alright, let’s try this again.” His sword started slowly, and built up speed. Acacia was keeping up quite well. “Keep it in! Not too far, though, or else you can’t strike.” He mixed the order, and she seems to stay with him, but after thirty or so strikes, she got tired and let her guard down. Smack! Acacia cried out in pain, her side smarting where Jason’s boken made contact.
She groaned, “A break, please? That last one got me good.”
“No!” There was another dull pain, this time on her leg. “Your enemy won’t stop, so you can’t. Again!” He hit her with another flurry of attacks, but this time she kept her eye on the blue blade and blocked most of his strikes. Sweat dripped off her nose, and she moved her hand to wipe it away. Just at that moment, Jason brought his sword down with more force than he intended on her head. Acacia’s head swum and she dropped to the ground, dazed.
Jason tossed his boken in the grass, and knelt down beside her. “You okay?” he said, his voice calm, but his face concerned. “Come on, up you go.” He grabbed her hands and pulled her up. “You’re lucky I didn’t finish you off when you were down,” he laughed. Acacia’s black boken lay in the grass next to her so Jason picked it up and handed it to her. “Here. Let’s go again. This time you try to hit me.”
Acacia took her boken and took a stance, staying lightly on the balls of her feet. Her head still spun, but she tried to hide it with a smirk. With a mock battle cry, she hit his sword with hers. The dull plunk of the foam hitting was the only sound she heard, beside her own grunts and shouts. Finally, after five minutes of her aching arms swinging back and forth, she landed a blow. It was light, but she hit him on his left leg. Running twenty feet back, she let out a whoop of victory and jumped up, punching the air.
Jason grinned widely. “Excellent, now we’re ready for a real fight.” He swung his boken in a wide arc over his head. “Come and get me!” Acacia ran back, laughing, her boken trailing behind her. She swung with all her might towards Jason’s left side, but he parried and thrust his sword into her right side. Acacia squealed, ran back, and charged again. This time she got in two swings before being touched by the blue boken. She charged again, this time the fight lasted two minutes before she was disabled, and her sword flew seven feet away and she watched it like a cat. The next fight lasted five minutes, but again, she was disarmed.
Finally, Acacia decided to just fight defensively. Jason came at her, and all she did was block and parry, block and parry. Occasionally, when she saw a weak spot she would attack, but mostly she defended herself. Thump, thump, thump. The sound of the foam swords colliding was almost hypnotic.
Finally Jason made a blunder. He raised his boken too high, and tried to slice down onto Acacia’s shoulder. She took the opportunity to hit him in the left side, then his left leg. Finally, she had won. They both stopped, hands on their knees, and looked at each other, panting. Jason threw down his sword onto the grass and held out his hand. Acacia shook it and said, “Good fight. Thank you.”
“No problem,” he said, breathing heavily. “Good fight. I’ll get you next time,” he said with a mischievous smirk on his face.
“Oh, you can try. I’ll always beat you in the end.”

What do y'all think?

Sore and happy

Shadow of the Bear, Black as Night, and Waking Rose are awesome books. They're part of the series a Fairy Tale Retold. My favorite is definitely Waking Rose. I think there's another book, but I haven't read it yet. The girl Rose is exactly like me. Same personality, same problems, but she has red hair... *sigh* I wish I had red hair. Hooray for photoshop! I wonder what I would look like... Hrm....... I'll have to look into that.

Last night was absolutely amazing. We went to the Sparrow's for a bonfire sort of thing, except it was around a fire... stand?? Like a torch type thingy... Or a stand up fireplace!!! Yeah! That works.
We had a very long battle. It was soooo much fun!!!! Jalen went into a bloody rage and WOULDN'T DIE!! *fume* I killed him so many times though!! Bye the way, we were fighting with duct tape/foam swords, not really ones. Finally, I gave up on the sword and just tackled and pinned him. It worked... for a while at least. The we roasted marshmellows!! Yum yum yum. The we played cutthroat mafia! That was immensely fun. I was mafia twice and for at least three games I was murdered (or chocolated) first. *laugh*
By the end of the night, I was so sore and so tired I couldn't even hug people right. I spun out of one and bashed my head on a van. Ugh. I am now extremely sore and have at least... *counts* three bruises. Also, my shoes are covered in grass stains. Probably my legs and skirt too, although I haven't looked.

I learned how to say I'm short in Japanese yesterday. Watashi wa hikui. Jalen has a Japanese-English dictionary that, for some strange reason, I was looking though. Don't ask why. I do very strange things when I'm tired. Like write random phrases. Roses smell like carrots.

I have so much going on in my brain right now, but I can't think of any of it. Ever get that feeling? I'm totally swamped in everything, but I don't know what everything is.

I can't wait until Tuesday.

Hugs and Kisses
~Sarah Rose~