April’s Blog ;)

Countryfest 2007…wow I seriously don’t even know where to begin…it was AMAZING!!! It was the best time of my whole entire life! The Countryfest weekend was from June 28 (Thursday) to July 1 (Sunday). Thursday was a kick-off party at the Hilltop stage, and the rest were at the main stage (unless mentioned otherwise).  

K, THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME WAS ON THURSDAY! Me and Toni were driving (well her mom was =P) from Grandview (where we were staying) to Dauphin, and we saw Trace Adkin’s bus parked outside of Smitty’s family restaurant. It’s a restaurant in, some place I can’t remember the name of =P, but it’s like only half hour or less from Dauphin. So obviously we wanted pictures of it, but when we were driving in Toni was like “OH MY GOSH IT’S ADAM GREGORY” and I’m thinking to myself yeah right…I mean how many famous people do you just see walking around some family restaurant? But sure enough, when I looked behind me in the truck, HE WAS THERE!!!!!!!! So I got out of the truck and he was standing there so I’m like “IT’S ADAM GREGORY!!!!” as loud as I could to Toni =P, so we grabbed cameras and went up to him! I got a picture of him, and Toni’s mom got one of me, him, and Toni, with him in the middle so his arms were around us =D =D =D!!!! Then he asked if we were going to Dauphin’s Countryfest and we said yes, so when it was time to go, he said he hoped to see us there!! It was so amazing!!! Then we got pictures of Trace Adkin’s bus.  

When we got to Dauphin, we got our Countryfest wristbands which we’d need all weekend to be able to get in for all of the days. Before any of the shows, we went shopping and I bought a lime green Countryfest hoodie =). At 7:00, we went to the first performance; it was Big Mike Callan for the kick-off party at the hilltop stage. I didn’t know who he was, but I got some pictures of him anyway. He was alright. Then after that it was Julian Austin! He was awesome and puts off an extremely exciting show. When he was going off-stage he was shaking people’s hands in the front row and I TOUCHED HIS ARM =D!! Haha it was awesome, and then when he shook my hand HE GAVE ME HIS GUITAR PICK =O =D!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy! Then after that was the BEST SHOW EVER. It was ADAM GREGORY!!!! He was my favourite out of everyone during the whole weekend! But then the mics wouldn’t work =( =(! So his crew tried to fix him, but when he was backstage me and Toni saw him and waved to him and he waved back =D! When the mics were finally working he came out and PERFORMED! Wow it was so amazing…he puts off a really good show! Then he smiled and winked at me and Toni on stage, then when he was playing guitar he came down and HUGGED US!!!! RIGHT ON STAGE =O =D!!!!!!!! We were the only ones too! It was AWESOME!!!! We were right up front until now, because people were being too pushy and it was getting dangerous so we left. After a struggle of getting out, we went to the merchandise stand thinger, and I bought an Adam Gregory poster, Adam Gregory t-shirt, and an Emerson Drive t-shirt. After that we got in line and then Adam Gregory had to end his show early because people were being rude and pushy, and knocked the fence in front of the stage right over, right onto the stage, so he went off because he couldn’t finish his show. I felt really bad for him =(. Like he came all this way to perform and people can’t even be respectful enough to move back?! Then he came out and signed autographs!!! I got his autograph on my poster, and he put “To April” on it, his signature, and a little heart beside it =)! It was awesome! I got a picture with him after that and a picture of him signing my autograph! Then Emerson drive was playing, but they were late due to people being too pushy, so when they started we were gonna watch them on the big screen behind the stage but it wasn’t the same and we were tired, so about half way through their show, we just went back to Grandview.  

On Friday, we watched part of Melanie Laine on the main stage at 5:00, I didn’t know who she was =P, but I got pictures of her anyway. Then we went to the merchandise tent and I bought a Trace Adkins t-shirt, a Dierks Bentley t-shirt, a Doc Walker t-shirt, and a Paul Brant “RISK” rubber bracelet. Me and Toni also went for snow cones, and while we were walking back to the stage we saw Julian Austin walking around Countryfest so we went up to him and got a picture with him =D!! We went for supper and then at 7:00 we watched Jamie O’Neal! It was awesome! Then after a change over , at 8:30 DOC WALKER CAME ON THE STAGE!!!!! They were AMAZING =D =D =D!!!!!!!!!!! I even got their autograph, and a picture with them!!! I was wearing my Doc Walker t-shirt and the lead singer said I had a cool shirt =P. Then after a change over, at 10:00 Trace Adkins came on the stage! He was awesome! After him, we left and went back to Grandview. 

After supper on Saturday, at 7:00, Rodney Atkins was playing! He was GREAT! After a change over, it was 8:30 when Jo Dee Messina came on stage!!! I wasn’t that excited for her at first, but wow…after her show I thought she was AWESOME! She puts off a really exciting show!! At 10:00, it was DIERKS BENTLEY!!! He was AMAZING!! Then at 12:00, we went to the Hilltop stage for NAZARETH!!! But the hilltop stage is so small, and there were so many people that it was really just a sit-and-listen kind of thing. But I did get some pictures; they’re not that great but I got some! Nazareth was AMAZINGLY AWESOME =D =D!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After them we went back to Grandview. 

Sunday was, sadly, the last day =(. First, we went shopping as usual, and I bought a Johnny Reid dog tag and two rings. We went back to the main stage at 7:00, and JOHNNY REID WAS PLAYING!!!! He was awesome and his music is great! Then after him we went and I got his AUTOGRAPH!!!! At 8:30 Carolyn Dawn Johnson was playing, she was GREAT! Afterwards I went and got her autograph, and a picture with her! Then at 10:00 PAUL BRANDT was playing! His show was AMAZING!!! He did such a GREAT job with his performance! After him we went back to Grandview for good…he was our last performance =(. 

This weekend in Dauphin was simply AMAZING. I’ve never experienced something so great in my whole life before, and I had the most fun EVER here! Meeting Adam Gregory was – and I’m serious, it WAS – the best thing I’ve ever done in my whole life before! Everyone we went to had an amazing performance and I would most definitely go again!!!! Hopefully I will next year! I also got lots of pictures!  

I’d like to thank Toni and her family, though, for taking me; it meant a LOT and I thank you so much for letting me in on the fun! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!<3<3 I’d like to thank Delaine, Paul, Carla, and Charlie as well (Toni’s family) for letting us stay at their house! I had a lot of fun you guys! =) 

I LOVED COUNTRYFESTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<333

Hey everyone=)

I’m just sitting here in class…bored…and decided to post on my blog, seeing as I haven’t in a while. I’m just so busy out with friends, homework, and with my personal livejournal blog and piczo site. Me and Katie were gonna work on our video during this time for the ITLP, but the geek key won’t work! We tried to upload the video from the geek key, and did exactly as Mr. Fisher said, but whenever we opened the video the computer would go mental and shut down. We thought maybe it was just our video, but it happened for a few other people as well. Maybe it’s just the geek key? I don’t know, but we’ll get Mr. Fisher to have a lookat it tomorrow.

Spring Break is coming up THIS WEEK COMING!!!=)=) I’m so excited! I’m not going anywhere special or anything, but my mom mentioned taking me and one of my best friends Lana to Thompson overnight. So
I hope that happens. I’ll probably just be hanging out with my friends over SB, hopefully if they go somewhere it won’t be for too long. I’m just excited to get off of school; I’m sick of it now…too much stuff going on…

So, this past weekend it was Toni’s birthday party! Well, her actual b-day was on Tuesday March 13, but the party was this weekend. Her mom took her, me, and Nikita to Thompson. We did a lot of shopping, and I got these two sweet shirts…one is Megadeth and the other is Slipknot, they’re two of my favourite bands, well besides Metallica (absoulte FAVOURITE), ACDC, Def Leppard, and Pantera =). They didn’t have any shirts with them on it out there though…hopefully next time. We went for supper to Boston Pizza with Sarviea, Dustin, Sariviea’s boyfriend Josh, Dee, Paul, Ann, and Josh’s friend Spencer. Toni’s mom was making us laugh SO HARD, hahaha you have no idea it was so funny we were like crying. Us people went to Siv’s house, and their friend Jordan came as well. HAHA Toni’s mom thought his name was Fez so when she walked into the kitchen she was like HEY FEZ hahahahaha and that wasn’t even his name =P. Then she said something else and Spencer spit his pop EVERYWHERE, omigosh it was priceless…they’re so much fun to hang out with! They’re funny and such a laugh, I can’t wait to hang out with them again. They might be coming here over the summer to go boating/tubing and stuff.

Anyways, the bell is gonna go anytime soon now so I’d better go, byee<33

- APRiiL <3 *

Heyyy,

I was on my livejournal.com account, and I came across this one person’s blog. I was reading it, and she was talking about how people want to ban the font, Comic Sans MS. Surely you all know what this font looks like. If not, there’s a sample of it on the link I’m about to provide you.

Anyways, check out this website and see what you think about the font being banned. It gives a few facts about how the font was to only be used for comics but how people use it everyday, so this is why they want to ban it. Have a look at the site.

What do you think about Comic Sans MS being banned? Should it be or should it not be? Leave a comment on my blog too, if you’d like.

April

Heyyy =D

Wow, it seems like I haven’t written in such a long time! I guess I have, like about anorexia and bulimia and stuff, but just about other stuff?, I haven’t really written. So I decided to write a post to catch up a bit.

In Math class lately, we’ve been finding the surface area and volume of composite figures. It’s really hard…or so I think it is…because there’s so many figures to find the surface area of, and it’s also not easy because Mr. Fisher isn’t here to help  us - he’s out of town for the entire week, well he was here for Monday morning, and he comes back tomorrow. It sucks that he hasn’t been here all week, because the math is really hard right now, and it would be better if he was here to help us out. So that’s what math class has been like lately.

LA and Social Studies has been pretty fun lately. In LA, we are in groups and we have to write our own radio play scripts, and record them on a program called Audacity. Download it on Google, if you’re interested. Anyways, I’m in a group with Dustin and Mary, and the suckish part about it is sometimes when you go to save it it’ll freeze…but we managed to freeze what we got done today. We’re about half-way done. All we’ve been doing on social studies is working on the ITL project, just researching our topic (mine and Katie’s is anorexia/bulimia/other eating disorders.)

That’s about it for school. Tomorrow, though, me, Randy, and Michael T. are riding the bus out to Anna’s house right after school!! I cannot wait…we’re going to have a photoshoot on the bus and at her house and we are just gonna hang out and have fun. We’re leaving at about 10:30 at night! And we’re also eating supper there (pizza) which will be really fun. I cannot wait; I love going to Anna’s house with friends because there’s so much to do there, and her house is so BIG and awesome!! =D

Anyways…that’s basically all. I’m in school and it’s almost 3:30 so I’d better go…byee<33

APRIL

Hey…=(

I am so not happy right now. Let’s just say I have a fever and I feel really sick =(. Both of my parents got it so I bet that’s why I got it. Anyways, my back hurts really bad from shivering…I’m really cold, but other times I’m boiling, but most of the time shivering cold. My head is on fire all of the time from the headache, and my eyes feel like they’re on fire. Anyways…enough about that. Moving on to happier stuff =)

Today is Tiffany’s birthday! She’s one of my good friends, and her birthday party is on Saturday @ 7:30. But today, since it’s her birthday, me, Lana, and Ashley went over there for supper. I was not feeling well…but at 6 I had to call for a ride home…I was not feeling good at all. Which sucks because I wanted to hang out with her on her birthday, but oh well. I’ll be all good for her party on Saturday =). It’s a sleepover, which is pretty sweet.

Anyways…that’s all I’ve got to say for now. I might be in school tomorrow but I might not be…I’ll wait ’til the morning to see how I’m feeling.

April

[HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIFF<3]

Hey!

I had such a fun weekend =D. I decided to write about it on my blog because it was pretty great =P. On Friday night, I went to Randy’s house with Mike T. All we did was watched two movies. First, we watched Frostbite which was okay, and then me and Mike watched Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, even though we’d already watched it. Randy played Runescape on the computer while we watched that. After the movies, we just sat around and watched TV, and went home at around 12.

Saturday was pretty fun. Mike was in The Pas all day, so I went to Randy’s all day and we just waited for him to get home. Randy showed me two of his guns and the bullets for them. We shot at this little target thing, and at a piece of cardboard. We shot a little dart bullet at the wall and it dented it =P. It was funny. Then we put the guns away and we looked at some money from around the world that Randy had. After that, we played Burnout 3 on PS2 and just sat around watching TV. At around 6, Mike called and said he was home, so me and Randy got a ride from my mom, picked up Mike, and went to my house. We had food (chicken burgers =D), and then we watched Swarmed. It was a pretty good movie. Randy and Mike left at around 11, and Mike slept over to Randy’s.

Then today (Sunday) I went to Randy’s at around 1 in the afternoon, and Mike was there. All we did was watch TV, and Mike left at around 3:30. Me and Randy watched TV and then I left at around 4. I came home for supper…and now I’m sitting here, writing this. Later on, though, like soon, I’m going to Darren’s. He just got back from the Dominican, so it’ll be good to see him again!

APRIL <3

Hey

I haven’t exactly been writing in my blog a lot…so I decided to come write a post just about anything that I can think of. Right now I’m sitting here in my desk on my laptop, but most other people are working on their Renaissance Projects. The only reason I’m not doing mine is because I’m done. I just finished my last newspaper article and the rest are at home on the desktop computer so all I have to do is print them. I’ll just use my geek key to get the last article onto the desktop. Then I’ll be all done, once I get some editing/revising done to them. It’s due on Wednesday and I’ll most definitely be done by then.

When I get home I’ll be by myself because my parents went to Thompson for the day and I chose to stay here, mainly because I didn’t really want to go . There’s a Valentine’s Day Dance on Thursday (February 15) and it’s $2.50 to get in if wearing red or pink and $5.00 if not. I’m going…I’m going to every dance this year except I don’t know if I really want to go to semi formal in April. I hate wearing dresses and getting my hair all done and stuff. But anyways I’m getting off-topic…my mom is trying to get me a pink tank/strap shirt in Thompson but if she can’t find one I have one at home I can wear.

I also heard that on Wednesday there’s a pep rally but I don’t know if it’s true. There probably is one, though - they usually have a pep rally for every holiday throughout the year. I hope they have good events , they always do anyway.

Anyways I think that’s all for this post…I just decided to write it in my spare time considering I haven’t written in a while. Oh and one more thing! This is kind of random but my friend just recently told me about a really good song so I downloaded it and it’s awesome! If you’re interested, you should download it: it’s called Tourniquet by Evanscence.

<3April  XD

Heyy. XD

Sorry I haven’t written in two weeks, but we were out for Christmas holidays, which lasted for two weeks! I had so much fun! I got a lot of stuff for Christmas, but the main things I got were a stackable stereo, Metallica DVDs & “Master Of Puppets” CD, iHome (plays songs from my iPod while charging it at the same time & has a built in alarm clock), a framed & signed picture of Eric Szmanda (plays Greg Sanders on CSI) from Toni, and DC clothes. What did you get for Christmas??

I think the best part of this Christmas Break was all the time I spent with my friends. Greg came for a visit which was good because he’s one of my greatest friends and I missed him. I also watched a lot of movies over the break with my friends, more than I can remember =P. Now we’re back in school which sucks because I was having an awesome break =(. It was also extremely hard to get up this morning. At least this day was pretty easy, but it was difficult to stay awake!

How was your break? What did you do? What did you get for Christmas?

Aprilllllll

Heyy!
How’s it going? Pretty good here, just decided to write about last night and the night before!

On Monday night I met Lana at Darren’s house, and then we met up with Darren, Kim, Bri, and Michael. We played outside and then went to Michael’s house when we got cold. We were there, and then Adam came down (Michael’s brother.) He had this staple gun haha, but it wasn’t loaded, thankfully. We were playing these deadly games like Toonies and Rock Paper Scissors I think it’s called, and then Kim had to leave. Then I left at 9, and then everyone else did too. I took so many pictures that night lol…it took forever to upload them onto my site.

Then last night I went to Darren’s house and Michael was there, and then Tiffany and Kelsey came. We went for a walk to Michael’s and had a snow ball fight in his front yard haha, then Darren fell in the snow and he had no boots on, and his sock had a hole in it and I put snow on it =P. Then when he got up he pushed me in the snow lol. Then we went to Sam Place’s AKA the recycling place, and then to Darren’s house, because we begged him hard enough =). We were just playing video games the whole time and listening to tunes. Then we had to leave at 9:00. Tiffany went home, and me and Kelsey went to Michael’s house. Kelsey left at around 9:30 and I left at around 9:45 - 10:00. I went home, straightened my hair because the snow ball fight made it so curly, went on my laptop, and then to bed.

Fun times in life lol…I hope I get to hang out with them again tonight =)

Aprilllllllllll <3

Hey! XD

How’s it going? Good here, just kinda bored! So I decided to write about my weekend (December 15 - 17.)

Friday:

Friday night I had a hair appointment, just a trim, my hair looks basically the same as it always does. Surprisingly it took from 3:30 - 7! Wow! My mom had to get her hair done too though, and I think the hairdresser was a bit behind. So after that I had a late supper of Angelina’s pizza and then went to the youth center. Haha wow, best time ever at the youth center! Have you ever heard of the game ‘quarters?’ If not, it’s when two people sit at either end of a table and fling quarters at each other’s knuckles lol. I played that except with a toonie! I played with Michael T., Kim, and Bri. It was a lot of fun, except now my knuckles hurt like crazy! Then I came home and, as usual, went on my laptop =P.

Saturday:

Basically did nothing all day, except for go on the computer. I babysat from 5:30 - 1, which was tiring. I got paid good though. I came home and went on my laptop for a while, then went to sleep.

Sunday:

Studied for my math test, and I had to clean my bathroom =(. Now I’m sitting here writing this, and if anyone calls later on tonight I’ll probably go out somewhere lol.

Aprillllllll =D