the 10 best things in the entire world!

1: friends! because without you guys my life would be so EXTREMELY boring... you guys make life interesting! Val you are like my little sister, I can talk to you about everything and anything and you never judge me, you just go along with it! Nicole and Karen, you guys are so awesome, you conspired to bring Nicole all the way from Langenburg to my party!! Kimmie, all those nights that we sat up in your room (or on the couch in the basement) eating corn dogs and talking about that guy (that we've both made out with)! Ashley because you are always there if I need someone's place to crash at, or drive me places :D and you know all the right advice to give me about Alex!! Jodi you are my all time BEST friend, we have been through some pretty hard times, but they've only made us closer... I never want to loose you!! Huckerbee you always keep me in the loop, and don't leave out one single detail! Lauren baby, I am going to miss you the most when you leave next year, I wont have one of me best friends there for me when people start bitching. Paul, I know, I've only known him for like two weeks so how can he be a good friend? well I can talk to him about absolutely ANYTHING, and he will always listen and never says anything bad, and I feel like I've known him forever, when really I just met him! And Kelsey she is one amazing girl, and I've known her since we used to go to the babysitters together, and she has been my friend ever since! And yeah, there is like a MILLION more of my friends (Allison, Mike, Erica, Krissi, Kelly, Adrienne, Ethan, Matthew, Chelsey, AJ, Kurt, Mark, Alycia, Gill, Shane, Chris, Eddie, B-rad, Carlyle........... and the list goes on) but if I said something about all of them this post would go on for EVER!!

2: family okay so I might not along with my family all the time.. but without them I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here! Robyn and I get in some pretty wild fights (and yes, most of you know the stories about the knives and the bathroom door...). And my Daddy is one of the best people in the entire world!! Busdriver/backhoe operater/gravel truck driver/welder/worlds greatest dad... he taught me how to weld, how to drive standard, and how party like a pro :P and my Mom... she is the best, like how many people do you know who will wake up at 4 in the morning and come pick you up [drunk] from a party in Shoal Lake (when you live in Elphinstone)... I love my family to death and if I ever lost them I don't think I could handle it!

3: my 1998 Polaris Indy 500 my sled that I got last year! I have had so many good times on this thing.. but it won't replace the 1986 Indy 400 that my dad first taught me how to drive back when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Or the 1980 Polaris Gemini that my dad bought me, yeah it only went 30 km/h but it was awesome, it was my first very own sled and it was kind of sad when my dad had to sell it this year! But, I don't even know how many kms I put on my sled last year (because the odometer thingy is broken) but with Mark and Grant comming to meet me at Trevors and take me back to Newdale almost every weekend... and hanging out with the boys ALL WINTER... because no girls ever sled with me (except Erin).... or that snow day when the 10 of us went sledding (me, Mark, Snez, Loz, Ryan, Grant, Cam, Trevor, Marcus, Erin) and then back to my yard where Mark and Marcus were jumping that giant hill... those were some of the best times I've ever had.

4: country music I remeber when we were just little kids, maybe grade 2 or something, and everyone was listening to Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys and The Spice Girls... and me, Jodi and Kurt were listening to country music... and we ALWAYS got made fun of (because country music wasn't cool).. but whos laughing now.. because now EVERYONE thinks this music rocks... and we listened to it BEFORE it was cool . I guess I can blame my love for country music on Candace and Ingrid, because I used to go to their house after school, and that's the kind of music they listened to, and I guess it just kind of rubbed off on me! And remeber, when Dan... Mark... Kim... or any of them other "foreigners" moved here... and they couldn't STAND country music... and now I bet (well Mark for sure) it's one of their favorite kinds of music... that's how we get down in a hick town I guess :P

5: high school well everyone thinks that school is this extremely horrible thing that they are forced to go to EVERY day. But I actually really enjoy going to school. I hate it when there's snow days and holidays for a long time (because it gets so boring sitting at home all alone) .. and yeah, I guess I don't really enjoy doing the work that much... but if I didn't go to school I don't think I would be such good friends with some of the people that I am.. and everyone is saying "oh I can't wait untill I graduate so I can just get out of here" but I'm the exact opposite.. I don't want to leave high school and have to go on to college and leave all my friends behind... and yeah, high school is hard, but college will be even harder, so enjoy high school while you can, because before you know it, it will be gone...

6: sports volleyball has got to be my favorite sport... and I think I am fairly good at it. And ever since I made the team back in grade 9 I have become closer friends with the people that are on it as well... basketball is definately not my favorite sport, but I love to play it (well I love to sit on the bench) partially because I get to hang out with my friends (even if it does cost $100+) soccer definately used to be my LEAST favorite sport, I hated playing it in gym... but then last year I played 2 games with the high school team and this year I actually joined the team, and had so much fun playing... because our team really isn't that competetive, it was really fun (and I scored 2 goals!!). I've been taking figure skating ever since I was 4 or something.. and ALL of my friends used to be in it, but they have all gradually quit.. but I've kept going, and I am NOT the most graceful person in the world, but I try my hardest and I think I am actually fairly good (well I can jump high :P) and track and field... well I used to be really good at high jump and sprinting, but then I kind of just gave up on it, and this past year I went to the track meet, and I did HORRIBLE.. I got like last in everything, but it was fun!!

7: grandparents wow, I love my granparents TO DEATH... first... my moms parents (Grandma and Grandpa Peters) well they are pretty much like a second pair of parents... when I was little I always used to go to their house for a week and just "hang out" with them... well actually I still do that :$ haha... but they are amazing people... and without them a very important piece of my life would be missing! Grandma Jean is my dad's step-mom... and I always used to go to her house after school and watch Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy.. and eat supper... and Grandpa Gerrard was my dad's dad... and he was one of the most amazing people I've ever met... I can always remember being with him when we were young.. and he was never a waster... EVERY time he cut the grass he would bring a bag of fresh grass for our cows and also bring the paper for my dad to read.. I guess it was kind of a tradition. I don't think I would have grown up the same without these very special people in my life!

8: trombone I started playing trombone in grade 7.. and had to sit with Bruce and Kurt (oh what an experience!) and then I kind of thought that trombone was a crap instrument to play and I wanted to switch to something more interesting, so I switched to the french horn but in grade 8 (most of you know the story of our grade 8 band experience) with VIRA we didn't really learn anything, and just sat around talking all the time, and we all quit after the first semester... but then I re-joined band in grade 9, back playing the trombone. And I have been in band since.. and I've even been to honor band twice... I am extremely glad that I kept on with band, and playing the trombone!

9: msn most people are like "oh I don't even like MSN" or never go on... but I really like MSN, I really don't like talking on the phone that much.. because of the awkward silences... but on MSN you can A) talk to more than one person at once and B) if there is a silence (or pause in the conversation) it isn't awkward, all you have to do is exit the conversation window :P .. and I have a lot of people on MSN who I have never actually met before (just friends of friends that I have talked to on MSN and become friends with myself) so I think that is super cool...

10: parties I know there is A LOT of people out there who don't aprove of people under 18 drinking and going out every weekend and partying... but teens will be teens right... you just kind of have to "go with the flow" and it's not like ALL teeneagers who go to parties go out and get absolutely WASTED every weekend... because that is just a stupid way to ruin your life.. and it's not even the alcohol that makes a good party... it's being able to hang out with your friends and even meet knew people.. like so many of the friends I have now I met at parties! Like Craig.. yeah maybe he didn't remeber the party that we met at, but still... if I never went to parties I bet I never would have met him... and like there are those "social gatherings" that are techinally still "parties"... like the definition of party is: a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc. it's just that people around here kind of just interpret a party to be a bunch of drunk teenagers, but its so much different than that.