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Sorry everyone, I have not been on here in a while! I have been really busy and I will catch you all up! It is a bit of a long story, but I hope it is worth your while! (:

Hmm.. I don't exactly know where to begin! It has been soo long since I have done this, but my last blog was on not being able to sleep and because of all of your good advice, it is getting better! Thank you again!! Since around that time, I have started my Track and Field season in high school, I have put together a volleyball team for club ball, I have gotten stocked by not one, but two people, I have had my FBLA Regional Conference and I am getting ready to leave for SBLC next week, and I have almost survived through my junior year! YAY!

So to start the news off, Track and Field has been going great, but I am very sore!! I was not smart and I did not continue to work out after my hard-core volleyball season was over, so therefore I have been sitting around all winter being lazy. I had good intentions for working out, but I did not take my goals and put them into action. This is one thing that I have learned the most about myself over the last year or so! I need to get up, and take my great goals and plans and put them into action. So anyways, on with Track.. I have been competing in the hurdles competitions since I was in the sixth grade! I used to hate them with a fiery passion up until my freshmen year. I had a coach that was basically going one-on-one with me teaching me from the beginning how to hurdle correctly. I have improved so much and I know that I could not have done it without her! I actually look forward to the hurdles now and I was as good as our Seniors were when I was a Sophomore, so hopefully, keep your fingers crossed for me, that I will have a fairly positive future in hurdles. Right now, I just feel that I have to master the technique and I will fly over them! (: By the way, they are even harder then they look! Ughh..

Next, I believe, is my club volleyball team. Last year we sort of got cheated out of having a successful team, yet we still were strong and played really well. Because we live in a very small town, there is always lots of politics when it comes down to sports and a few other things. So last year, of course they decided to not put together a club team and also didn't tell anyone of this choice until it was almost too late. My dad and I decided to throw one together in less than 2 days. It was a tough project, but we did it. Our team was successful, but some of the parents and coaches were, of course, upset. So this year we did it properly and still got looked down upon. So we just have a great team that is out to get some extra playing time and have fun! We are having our tournaments on each weekend mostly in April and on into May! I can't wait!! We are going to dominate. Side note: The other team that was put together has a cheerleader as their defensive specialist. - No offence to cheerleaders at all, but she has hardly ever even played volleyball and is very, very preppy! -

Now on to the story that some of you may have skipped through to find... Yes, I got stocked twice! I know what you are all thinking.. "How can one girl get stocked twice in such a short period of time?" The answer is that it was completely coincidental. They were two different people and it was not really close to the same time, just a very ironically chain of events. It started a few months over when this kid (we will call him Cowboy) found me on MySpace.com and requested me as a friend. He actually went to the trouble to change where he was from to the same place I am from. Thinking that he was from around here, I added him thinking that he was probably just another hick that I didn't know (we have a lot of those around here). As it turns out, he was another hick, that I didn't know, but not from around here! Later he changed where he was from and told me the truth. How this next part happened.. I have no idea! All of a sudden he texted me one day telling me who he was and began asking me questions. I did not answer them because I am not stupid. Next thing I knew, he was calling me! I always gave him an excuse as to why I couldn't talk and hung up. So this continued on with him texting, then calling, then me blowing him off, them him texting me again, then me not replying. I began to get tired of it really soon. I wouldn't answer him at all and I told one of my friends and he felt it was necessary to talk to him about it so that he would discontinue this behavior. He called Cowboy, told him to back off because I didn't want to talk to him anymore and that if he didn't, the police would get involved. He did stop for a month or so, and then a week ago he decided that it would be a good idea to talk to me again. As per usual, I ignored him! Ironically, that was the exact night that we got freaked out! We being my friend Mallory and I were driving home from watching a late movie at the local theatre when we pulled up to this stoplight. A new-ish van was in front of us and he was speeding up really fast then slowing down so I kept my distance while driving out to her house. Then he pulled over in front of her driveway so that I could not pull in and after a few minutes he pulled forward and turned around at the dead end on the street and pulled over in front of her house and watched it for a long time until they saw her dad look out the window at them so they pulled away! We immediately called the police and had a very long conversation with them about the whole situation and even mentioned Cowboy's texts and calls from the past and just recently. We knew that it was two different cases, but it was still a little creepy. It turns out that Cowboy had a number that had an extra digit! Even after the area code and the 1 that you put in front for long distance calls. Plus, it was not a local number to anywhere around here. Also, when he contacted dispatch, they said that he had been in there multiple times in the past! So I was really lucky that I happen to say something to Mallory. Long story, but a major experience in my life!

I will make these last couple points brief. (: Sorry.

FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) is a club that I am highly involved in! I love it and I think what it represents is really important for anyone interested in business or involved in business. Anyways, we have a Regional Conference and SBLC (State Business Leaders Conference) that is even bigger. This year we were in charge of a lot in each conference. Regionals went really well. Most made it on to State that is coming up next week!! We have to leave at 4:30am. Ew, I know. But it is going to be a blast! Doing events, campaigning, Blazers games, games, dances, etc. It is a blast but at the same time, it is so fun! So on that note, wish me luck!! (:

Last but certainly not least, perhaps one of the most important, my junior year! We are going into our 4th quarter, which means that there is slightly less than 2 months left of school. Then I can officially say that I survived my junior year of high school! I just have to stay focused and keep my grades up. This is also one reason as to why I have been M.I.A. for quite a while now! After these two months is over and hard finals week is over, it is going to be summer which means that one of my best friends is going to be coming up to visit for a month or two! Yay! I cannot wait to see him. It has been way too long!

Well, thank you all for reading this as much as you did. That is a little bit of what I have been going through in the past couple of months! You are all awesome! (: Here is a little quote that I like to remind myself of during hard times: "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

Have a great day! (:

                                                   This is my sister and I playing volleyball this summer at a beach tournament! (: So fun!!

                                                 Haha. What can we say.. Ben and Jerry are our home boys! (: