Courtney's Cauldron

For Fall Break I’m heading to Michigan!!!! YAAAAYYYYY!!!

Can’t wait to leave! Which I’m supposed to be gone already…so, later!

~Courtney

Sticky notes are probably my favorite invention in the world. Well, maybe they’re right between erasers and duct tape, tied with paper clips.

Sticky notes are amazing because you can right little notes to ANYONE!! Your mom, your friend, yourself, God, whoever!!!!!

Then you get to stick them ANYWHERE!!!! A book, the wall, the ceiling, under your bed, wherever!!!!!!!!!!!!

And you don’t even have to write a note on them!!! You can draw on them, decorate them, scribble on them, rip them apart, make them into some sort of origami figure, or just stare blankly at them and maybe something interesting will happen!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus they come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, decorations, width, length, hight, and numbers!!!!!!!!!

I think I’ve proven my point when I say STICKY NOTES ARE FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Courtney

Have you just had one of those situations where you curse yourself for accidentally texting the wrong person?

You have a whole long spiel ready for a certain person, who you’ve been texting with for a while now, and then you hit the wrong name. You realize your mistake just a second too late, and scream out loud because its the wrong person. You check your outbox, maybe it didn’t send! But no, it says very clearly “Sent to…” and the blood drains from your face. Now what? Should you text them back immediately to say “wrong person” or should you ignore it, delete that cursed message from your phone and pretend you have no idea what said awkward-message-recipient is talking about when they inevitably bring it up. Should you continue texting the person you were texting before? Maybe send them the message that was initially sent for them, or should you stop, since now you have to worry about another person. And to make matters worse, you forgot you were in a public place, so that scream you gave out only moments ago, that was heard by EVERYBODY, and now you have to explain what is wrong or who died, or whatever they ask you. Or maybe you don’t know anybody, which just means that everyone standing around is giving you weird looks and that just makes you feel even more awkward! And then it happens: they text back. “What the heck are you taking about!? What does this mean!?” That is the point where nothing good can happen. Turn off your phone and leave wherever you are.

Okay, true, it depends on who you accidentally texted, and what you accidentally texted them, but seriously, have you ever been in this situation? At Ihop yesterday (or this morning…since it was like 12:30am) I was texting my friend, I told her I didn’t know anyone at the party she (and everyone else I kind of knew) had just left from. I accidentally hit “mom” instead of “Said-friend” (I mean, hello, it was after midnight! I was tired! I wasn’t really reading my phone correctly!) Again, this is AFTER MIDNIGHT and I just said I was out, and DIDN’T REALLY KNOW ANYONE. Yup, that was weird. Then there was that whole scream thing I had to deal with, especially since it was a bunch of kids from school, we were celebrating the end of the play. As you can imagine, my mom flipped out, people thought I was a freak, and it was still after midnight. Yup, that was fun.

~Courtney

For this years play, “The Crucible” I joined light crew. I wanted to more involved with after school activities (well, that and I wanted to hang out with my friend after school…said friend then proceeded to drop out on me.) As it turns out, light crew- or any play crew fro that matter- is not something to be taken lightly (haha, a joke! Get it! Cuz it’s lights, and it can’t be taken lightly! Get it! No… Oh, okay then…)

This year, there are fewer crew members than ever before (there are only 8 people in all of crews, not just lights, 8 total), most of us are new at this, and the actors have had a rough time getting their lines down. We haven’t been able to have a full tech rehearsal, which means that we haven’t known how our lights, sound, or props are doing. The DAY BEFORE our first show, the tech teacher tells us we have to redo most of the lights, because the timing is off. Our light head had to stay late alone and redo it all, I’m sure that was fun! (NOT)

Luckily, the show went well(ish) and no major problems arose (well they did on Thursday, when everything went wrong, but the other shows went well!) so YAY for that!

~Courtney