Constant Demand

Due to the constant demand from a friend here is a new blog post. If you haven't noticed I am not the biggest blogger in the world but here is the run down of about the last three or four months.

While attending Maeser Prep, I signed up to be the props master for the Secret Garden, The Musical. Little did I know this was more than I bargained for. I went and told the drama teacher that in the past I had been a stage manager, and that I knew I had never worked for him and that it was my word against his judgment but he took me on very quickly. It didn't take long for me to have more than one assignment. I was reading lines, making posters, building and moving sets as well as props, as well as taking notes for him, the cast and crew. I was running around like a chicken with out a head. Then I found out that Cam, the director, was in another product at the same time that he was trying to get us ready for our show. He would leave rehearsal early to go to his other rehearsal and leave me there to run practice. I was credited as the props master and that was all. On closing night, he made it back to the school after his own show before curtain call. He came up on stage and said "I was very irritated the way one of my techies was credited. I would like to make a change to the props master. Hadleigh Craig was more than that. She was our student director this year." He then had me come out on stage and be recognized.

I'm not attending Maeser next year. For more than reason. We can not afford 400 dollars in gas a month. I miss my baritone. I love the viola by my baritone was my first love. I need my life back. I miss sleep and my local friends. I will be going to Bingham High School this fall. Yay... I am already in the marching band and will be playing in the pit orchestra for Beauty and the Beast as well as non audition band and orchestra. I will be finishing my required credits and taking AP music Theory.

MOMMY IS GETTING MARRIED! That is all I have to say on that. Well mostly. I love the guy. He's IS MY DAD! He has been around much more than my father every has. I can't wait til December now!

Trek was pretty awesome. Other than getting sick the first night, falling face first in the river, and getting my sleeping bag soaked through. I had to do my laundry on trek, and roast my shoes and sleeping bag over the fire. Yay ME!!!

What is it that I normally put here? Is a quote or a book? I can't remember.

Random Quote of the Day.
--Why are they in the shower?
--Hadleigh
--That's the elevator.
--Alex

Book of the week
Kiss my Book, by Jamie Michaels

PEACE!
--Hadleigh

Catch Up

Yes yes I know, it has most defiantly been more than a week since I last posted. Very much so since I last posted. So scold me all you want, not that anyone really reads this. I know that it is just a creative outlet for me!!

Anyway school is awesome! I absolutely love it. It is so worth getting up every morning at 5 just so I can be ready to go by 6:20. So worth it. I AM NOT BORED at Maeser. I was bored at my other high school. I love Maeser! There are so many anime geeks there. Its funny because last weekend was Anime Bonsai, which is the Anime Con here in Utah and I had probably ten different people ask me if I was going. I wish I could have gone, but I couldn't. :(

I love playing the viola. Its fun but at the same time very challanging. I don't ever really remember the baritone or the tuba ever being this hard. But I'm glad its hard, because I am in a class of 7th and 8th graders mostly and they are all learning the theory aspect of music. While the teaches them I sit there and work quietly on my own going over fingerings and ever bowings. Orchestra is really the only class I am bored at all in.

I'm also trying out for the Girls Basketball team, so I have practice twice a week. Its a lot of fun already. A lot of the girls I know right now are from the team, and they are so nice. Before practice we all take turns braiding each others hair so it is out of the way. They have just totally welcomed me into this group that they have already had for a year. I feel like one of them. The genuinely want me to play with them. :)

Today I took the PSAT/NMSQT in class. I'm not really going to go into that because that's not important. What I am going to go into is what we did after. After we take this test we do service projects. My class decided to make fleece blankets for Primary Childrens, Shriners Hospital, and homeless shelters, and I was in charge. In just over an hour and a half we made 15 blankets!! I was so proud of my class, and my teacher was so proud of me for putting it all together. I can't wait to take pictures of all the quilts and take them to the hospitals and homeless shelters. :)

So all in all I am totally in love with Maeser. Not going back on this choice. :) However, I do miss my brass instruments:(

Random Quote of the Day:

"Dat-da-dah. We're dead."
~Hiccup
~How to Train Your Dragon

Peace!

--Hadleigh

Update, Crazy things

Wow. Just wow. It has been a crazy last week since I updated you last. So here it goes.

I got to be in the Mormon Miracle Pageant for three nights in the Christ in America scene. It was absolutely amazing. It was like I was really there. It is totally an amazing experience that I am never going to regret. I got eaten alive by mosquitoes that week. (Who knew mosquitoes is spelled with a q?) Right after I was done staying with my cousins I went to youth conference with my ward. And I have to say that whole weekend I was thoroughly spoiled rotten.

The first day I was there (which was the second day everyone else was) we were going to do a service project. However when we all got up that morning we discovered that my sleeping bag and my jacket had gotten left at the pageant that night. So while all the other kids went to go pull weeds and lay sod at a park one of the adult couples that was there drove me back to Manti to try and find my sleeping bag. After we found it and got back to camp, Sister Gale gave me the option of going to help with the service project, helping start lunch, or she said I could go take a nap in her trailer. Needless to say, I took a nap.

Later that day we went to the lake. Normally the leaders are very pushy about getting me to do things with the other kids, and usually I just do, but this time they just let me sit around in the leaders area and just sit there. It was great. Sister Dayhuff also went and found me a nice shower house and one of the other leaders went with me to go shower. On that trip I also didn't have to cook at all, I barely helped clean or set or take down camp. I was so tired by the end of that week that the leaders just let me kind of kick back and not doing anything. They didn't even wake me up during testimony meeting when I fell asleep.

Once I got home I went to the SMG Flogging Day Party. (It's just a summer party). I got to play with my cute nieces and nephews and I also got to see one of my best friends and her cute daughter. I ended up spending like two hours playing with her and her daughter at the park; in the dark. It was so much fun.

Now for a little not fair thing.

I went in to Maeser to take their math placement test. I took entrance into Pre-Calculus test. I didn't make it. They are putting my in Algebra 2 again. I have taken that class two years in a row. I would like to be done with it.

Random Quote of the Day:
"After I re-conquer Ba Sing Sei, I am going to re-conquer my tea shop, and play pi sho everyday."
--Uncle Iroh.

The bed is calling!
--Hadleigh

I'm really doing it

Wow. I'm really going. I'm really going to be going to Maeser Prep next year. Today I went in and took the math placement test and probably made it into Pre-Calculus. After that we went to the uniform store and bought my Maeser Prep blazer because it was on sale. We then spent another hour trying on all the other parts of my uniform so mom could write the sizes down so when she gets a chance she can just pick up one or two things a pay check.

We also tried really hard to find a dress that I could use to make a Sokka (from Avatar the Last Airbender) costume with, but failed. Epicly. Later when I showed mom what I was looking for she said she could make it so we hurried to Joann's to buy the fabric to make it. Now I'm excited. She said it would be easy and I could do it on my own. YAY!! I'll have a costume to wear to the movie premier!!

Random Quote of the Day:
"Today is worth, two Tomorrows."
--Mark Twain

--Hadleigh

I'm babbling

School. So yeah. Its pretty much over. I have rehearsal for the performance during graduation on Tuesday and then I perform in grad on Wednesday. Other than that its over. Despite what many people think I'm really not that sad about it being over. Sure I should be going to Maeser next year and probably will be, I'm not that sad. Sure I am going to miss my friends but, I know where they are, and will be. I will also finally be like every other teenager in the world and have moved for once.

For those of you who are wondering why I chose to go to this school and why I am moving here it goes.

1. This school is a liberal arts school. They strongly focus on getting kids into universities and on English and History. I plan on being either an English or history teacher.
2. I need to be closer to my horse.
3. This school is a small school environment. Only 15 kids in a class. I learn better in small groups than big ones.
4. For those of you who are LDS and understand this, I prayed about it before I made my choice. I have been told that Lehi is where I need to be. I have work that needs to be done there.
   
5. Both me and my mom hate the house we are in, and need less yard to take care of.
6. I have recently been having some problems with some teachers at my school.

I am totally stoked for girls camp this year. I am a YCL and am so excited. There is going to be a lot of fun stuff going on this year and I can't wait. I also get to stay with my cousins in Manti for two weeks and help with the Manti Pageant. I'm excited for that too!

Check out my other blog that is dedicated to the book I am writing. The Prince and the Falcon.
www.princeandfalcon.blogspot.com

--Hadleigh

May 20th, 2010. I really hate it

So today I had a orchestra concert and so I didn't go ride my horse like I normally do on Thursdays. Very shortly after I get this text from the girl who I ride with that said "priorities." I texted her back and told her it wasn't my fault that I had an orchestra concert and that I didn't control the days they were held, and if she was going to continue to chastize me for putting SCHOOL before riding, I would quite riding. She then said "gosh take a JOKE!" I promptly told her it was not funny. She then argued it was to funny. That is not something funny its hypocritical because I know for a fact that she skips riding to go to her own orchestra concerts. Do people agree with me or her? Did she have any right what so ever to do it? Especially when she knew I wasn't going to be there?

I hate when people do that.

Other than that today was fairly okay. Other than the THIRD migraine this week. My mom finally took me to fill my prescription, and so now if it happens again I can do something about it. In History I make 40 paper wishing stars while we were watch Pride and Prejudice. (Not wanting to watch that.) Physics we watched Mythbusters and I made another 20 stars. Gym I play monopoly and Egyptian rat screw. Math I did my assignment and then played speed solitaire with Kayla.

The concert went just fine and I almost have my life back! Only a week and some left of school!!
Other than my final project for computer tech and my final for band to make up my concert I missed that's really all I have left. My final is an eight page paper on the song We Didn't Start the Fire By Billy Joel and the history behind it.

Sleep is calling

--Hadleigh

May 18th, 2010 Migraines

Ewww.... today totally sucked and so did yesterday. We don't know why I got them but I did. Migraines. I think it was my body telling me to calm down and sleep for once. Between two band concerts this week and CRT testing and the AP test my system just needed a rest for once. Mom came and picked me up from school yesterday after band class (which didn't help the whole migraine thing.) and then I went home and literally crashed out on the couch for like five hours almost straight. Mom had to go back to work, at like 1 but I barely even remember her leaving I was so out of it. When she came home after her shift was over we went to the library for me to return books and movies and for me to get new ones. (Which after a whole day of staying home, I've already watched and read all the way through.) Then she bribed me (with good Mexican food) to go to Savers with her. Which I had done not two days earlier with my brother Alex. (By the way, that was awesome, and so were those Slurpees)

Anyways, I woke up this morning and my head was still pounding from yesterday, so I didn't go to school. I got up long enough to tell mom I wasn't going to school, to tell my ride I wasn't going to school, and drug myself. Then went back to sleep until almost noon. I watched a lot of TV and read a whole 200 page book and I think I had another nap. Mom also called my band director and told him I was sick and wasn't going to be able to play in the concert tonight. That was nice. One less stressor on my shoulders.(All though I still have one on Thursday.) And now he is going to make me make it up. I'm sure its going to be some lame essay or playing in front of him, just to torture me.

For those who don't really know me that well when I get migraines, they hit suddenly with full force. I can't see, they hurt, I'm dizzy, usually can't feel half my body because it has gone numb, and my body just shuts down. The second my head hits a pillow once I get one, I am asleep for at least three hours. And usually once I've slept for a few hours its gone. I've been getting them since I was in the first grade. Not only that but I cluster. That means I get like three in one week. Usually they are consecutive, so let's hope I don't have another one tomorrow.!

--Hadleigh