Mehleena Edmonds

HTV got to go to Hawaii over Spring Break and it was absolutely amazing. I loved everything about it. We laid on the beach for hours with no worries. However our time spent there was short lived, we had a rude awakening coming back to good ‘ol Springfield.

Springfield is cold and seems even colder when you’ve been in 80 degree weather for over a week. I’m having Hawaii withdraws. I’m still not adjusted back to our time zone and I just want to go back there. I’m friends with people we meet there on Facebook and stuff. Looking at their pictures and through mine from the trip make me miss it even more. I want to live there. Our weather here is annoying and inconsistent. Boo…

Depressing blog I apologize, I’m just home sick for a place that’s not my home…

This past weekend was the start of the fun times ahead of me these next few weeks! Let me just give you the list of things I’ve been looking forward to, that are finally here!
1) Buzz-A-Thon (already happened!)
2) LPA: our dance this Friday!
3) Springdale Volleyball Tournament: my absolute favorite tourney!
4) HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!: we leave for Hawaii the 15th!

As you can see the next 3 weeks or so are going to be amazing! I can’t wait to relax on the beach and get a nice tan while eating some pineapple.

Back to Buzz-A-Thon real fast; it was a lot of fun. I was here at the school from about 8:30 AM to 2:30 AM and I slept all day Sunday basically. Alex and I anchored for the first time and I have to say I think we did pretty good. Despite the fact that we had just been scared 5 minutes before our hour. Thank you AC, Brady, Jordan, and the chain-saw…

Anyways, I’m way too excited about everything to even talk about it…

So until the next post…
Which will probably be after Hawaii..and I’ll be tan….

Ahhh!

One of the worst feelings is being ignored. No one enjoys the neglect that occurs. So why do people do it I ask? Why?
I have been sick for the past 3 days and haven’t been at school. I have been trying to keep myself busy at home by watching season 2 of House and season 4 of Gilmore Girls. I have barely talked to anyone for 3 days and as result I’m pretty talkative now that I’m around people other than Doctor House and Rory Gilmore.
So as I prepare to write my blog I pause to tell my friend Curty (thats what I like to call him) about the season of House that I have been watching. I was describing the season finale, which is very good by the way, and he seemed interested. But on the contrary, Curt (thats what I call him when I’m upset with him) was not interested. As I talked about this suspenseful episode he watched a video about Star Wars! Not even about Star Wars the movies! Oh no! It was about Star Wars….THE VIDEO GAME!!!! That’s how unimportant I am…

Jerk…

Like with many families seeing a movie on Christmas Day is tradition, but this year the movie my parents wanted to see (National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets) was packed so they didn’t want to go. So instead my dear friend Meagan and I went to P.S I Love You. I can honestly tell you it is now one of my new favorite movies. I can safely say that just about any girl who sees it will either: A) Cry B) Laugh C) Want to find a hot Irish man to marry D) All of the above.

For me it was D, but mainly C. Oh and not just any man, Gerard Butler. He is very attractive (sexy is a better word), can sing, and has a smile that can make any girl melt. Not only that he is a great actor who can play many roles. Most guys would know him from 300. Granted I’m sure they wouldn’t agree with his sexiness but most girls would admit that they were paying more attention the the abs in that movie than the actual movie…
It is a good movie though…even without the abs.

All of that to say go see P.S. I Love You!!!!!

So, as of now my grade in HTV is apparently lower than it should be. All because my blog wasn’t posted. However, I clicked post last week, on a blog I had written, but it obviously didn’t post. As a result I will write another.

My HTV partner (for life I might add) Alex Tabor and I finished our story “Whose Video” for last months HTV. By watching you may think, “Hey that was pretty good, and must have went smoothly.” or you’re thinking “Wow, that story sucked.” Okay well, if your thoughts fit closer with the first comment, thank you and if they fit closer with the second….I’m not your biggest fan (no offense we just worked really hard ). Anyways we worked on that peice for weeks, doing research, interviews, and just trying to make it work (Project Runway reference). Well, let me take you back to the day of our deadline: November 15, 2007….
***imagine crazy dream sequence movie transition music inserted here***
I am in class, anixously awaiting the end of my school day so I could head down to HTV and get our story finished, when I hear some news from Alex. She was in the HTV room working dilligently on our story and then tragedy strikes. When I say tragedy, I really mean two Broadcast 1 kids, we’ll leave their names out of this (*cough* Bart and Josh*cough*). These two punks weren’t paying attention and somehow unplugged the computer Alex and I were working at. (Side Bar: If we hadn’t had been on I-Mac Island this wouldn’t have been a problem, Thanks Coach.) The screen goes black and a sense of fear and panic come over Alex. We had lost all of what we had done that day on our story. There was no way of getting it back. That included not only the things on our timeline but our entire written script for the story. Which with this kind of story was very needed. So we had to start back at where we ahd left off the day before. Which may not sound like that big of a deal, but we had gotten a lot of work done that day. As you can tell, our story got finished on time and everything’s all good. However, those two (Bart and Josh) are lucky I wasn’t the one in the room when it happened. I hope they know how lucky they are. I’m pretty sure they do, I’ve been sure to tell them. So in the future, there will be no Broadcast 1 kids near our computer.

I love the writers of T.V. and movies. However, right now I am a bit frustrated. I am on their side that they deserve more money, I mean come on they do right the scripts to the shows we all know, love and spend hours upon hours watching. If only those dumb guys in charge of their paychecks would realize that. Do they realize what they’re doing to all of us? My friend Alex is a religous “Heroes” fanatic, and I’m concerned what she might do if the show doesn’t return. I haven’t stayed too caught up with many shows, sad to admit. I was recently introduced to the Office and I am in LOVE with it!! It is so funny and never a waste of time, in my opinion. Since I was introduced so late in the game, the lack of new episodes hasn’t affected me just yet. I know it will soon though, I finished season two over Thanksgiving Break and let me tell you am I anxious about what’s to come in season three. Snce I am behind in the season I can just go rent season three and hopefully by the time I finish that the writers strike will be over and all will be well with the world. That is how I plan to survive through it. I will rent as many seasons and watch as many episodes online as it takes for me to distract myself from this strike. I just hope it doesn’t go as long as it’s predicted……one website said it would be around this time NEXT YEAR!! They can’t do that, they just can’t…..

Well, according to the title of this blog I am finished. However, I will leave you with this: I have started kniting and I have finish four (almost five scarves) and I suggest it for anyone who is stressed. It’s really relaxing. Maybe you should take up knitting, Coach Davis….just a thought.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the topics this time around, but oh well. I don’t have anything better to write about.

If there was a way to get everyone to agree to follow a few simple rules, I so would take advantage of it.

1) No “fishing” for compliments.
-Which basically means intionally setting other people up with the oppportunity to compliment you.

2) No putting your hand up for a high five and then quickly removing it as soon as the person approached with the opportunity of the high five starts to “five” you.
-It’s mean and there’s no point.

3) Take embarrassingly candid photos of you and post them for all to see.
-They may keep them for their own fun but no showing them without that person’s permission.

4) Drive like an idiot
-No explaination really, pretty self-explainatory.

5) Lie
-There’s really no point to it.

That’s my little list, I would add more but I think I’m going to be a little late on blog deadline…uh-oh. Sorry Coach

Until next month…..

I don’t get all that embarrassed very often, but I do have a few stories I would prefer people not remember. One of those would be my fiasco with a yellow pole; it was out to get me I swear.

It all started out with me being hungry before open gym one Thursday night. For this one time only I decided to eat semi-healthy and go to Wendy’s for a turkey sandwich Wacky Kids Meal with yogurt and granola. This is what I get for trying to be healthy. I should have just stuck with good old Mickey D’s.

I knew I wouldn’t have time to go in and eat so the drive-thru was my only option. I hadn’t had my license for that long so I was being very careful despite what you might think at the end of this. Well, I ordered my Wacky Kids Meal and started to pull up to the first window.

As I turned my car I started to realize I was a little close to this brand new yellow pole, but for some reason instead of stopping I continued to move getting closer and closer to this yellow beast of a pole. Next thing I knew my side mirror has been taken out by this awful metal monster, but did that make me stop the car? No, I kept moving and as the mirror folds into my door, the yellow paint scrapes across my burgundy door, and my door is now dented. When I finally come to a stop I feel like an idiot and the lady at the window is asking me if I’m ok, which of course I am, just angry and feeling really really dumb.

I get through the drive-thru and just park. I call my step-dad, because I knew my mom would freak. Oh but it can’t be that simple, guess who answers my step-dad’s phone? That’s right my mom does. So she’s semi-freaked, mad, and just happy I didn’t hit a human. I meet them at the school and by this time I’m furious because it’s pretty hard to switch lanes without a mirror!!!

My mom walks over to me and my damaged car (which is actually her car…uh-oh) and looks it over. Then she grabs the mirror and bends in back to its appropriate place. Yeah it went right back where it was suppose to be. Did I know that her mirrors were made to collapse if hit? No, no I didn’t. As soon as she moved it back I just started crying….

Oh and in case you were wondering, no I didn’t get to enjoy my Wacky Kids Meal. I was too mad to eat.

Okay, so I can explain the reason for my delayed blogging and it’s not my fault. It’s no one’s fault really except the blog itself…dumb blog page. Moving on to my topic…..
My Favorite Story/ Dream Story….
Well the Lou Zamperini (sp) story is pretty amazing. For any of you who haven’t had the chance to watch it I highly recommend that you somehow find it and watch it. I don’t want to tell you what happens because that will defeat the purpose of me telling you to find it… So just watch it for yourself
I assume Coach wants to know my favorite HTV story…
There have been so many good ones so I’m going to talk about my dream story. If I could cover anything in history it would be the Spartans, that’s right like in 300. I think I’m obsessed with that movie to be quite honest. It would be an intense story with intimidating characters that’s for sure. I can just imagine the cool shots of flying spears and screaming Spartans. Although I’m not quite sure how I would do on the battlefield, I mean their motto is “Come home with your shield or on it,” not my cup a tea really… it would be a pretty sweet story though….