Life of Dakota

So, I had this on FaceBook, but they removed it (something about copyrighted music. whatever). Then I uploaded it to YouTube where the audio was disabled. Now 'll try here.




http://youtube.com/dakotathecrazyguy

So, not much has been going on lately.

Just co-op classes. Chemistry... blech...

I'm taking Guitar, it's fun so far. I think my teacher will give me a simple song to learn next week.

I'm also taking art. I'm working on an oil painting of an oak tree.
The first week, while I was drawing it, Mrs. Lee asked me what kind of tree it was.
"Ummm... I don't know... An oak?" "I want you to work on it this week, and when you get here next week, I want you to tell me what kind it is."

Later that day, I passed her in the hall and she asked if I had decided what kind it was.
"It's a MAGICAL tree!" lol

The painting is comming along good. She is having me paint the sky without using any white, so the sky is a little dark... I'll post a pic later when the sky is %100 finished.

So, not much interesting has happened lately.

I finished Breaking Dawn exactly 24 hours after I bought it.
I'm currently reading A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.

We recently got a Best Buy here in town so we went last week.
I got a laptop case and a program that lets me get ringtones and pics on our phones (yay!), and a laptop case. Dad got a battery/charger for his camera, and Mom got an iPod knockoff. :P (It's a Sony)

I also got season 1 of EUReKA on DVD. I'm dying for season 2, which is out on DVD, but I also want to get The Sims 2 Apartment Life expansion pack. I'm pretty sure it will be the last expansion pack and it has a lot of features I want. It comes out on the 26th of this month.

And then I want to get another Idina Menzel CD.
She is an amazing singer. I think she has 3 CDs out, the newest of which I have.
She is best known from her in the original cast of Wicked the musical as Elphaba (The Wicked Witch of the West) but she has been in other Broadway musicals including Rent.
She also stared in Disney's Enchanted as Nancy Tremaine (The main guy's girlfriend).



I am one of the web designers, along with my Mom and Uncle, for The Northeast Louisiana Christian Homeschool Association Co-op. www.nelcha.org So I've been pretty busy with all of that stuff.


And, that's about all I can think of at the moment.
More ramblings to come.

P.S. Looky! I added a new logo to the blog!

Here are some of my favorite photos, paintings, and drawings.



Bayou Du Verte

There's no "I" in Team

Elephants

This was a while back, But I decided to go ahead and blog it.

(Image may be pixelated. Click HERE to see the full version.)

As High school comes closer, and closer to ending, more and more of my friends are graduating.

This year, some of my good friends graduated. Katlyn, Stephanie, Morgan, and Emily. (Though I know almost all of the graduates.)

The ceremony was nice, all of the graduates walked down the isle and onto the stage.
Katlyn led everyone in the pledge of allegence,
Steph gave the opening speach,
Ned, Steph, and Julianna sang while Jenny played the piano,
Thewe was another speach,
We watched some videos that someone made of the graduates kind of interviewing them, and asking about their favorite high school moments, what they liked about homeschooling, etc.
Then, the parents came up and gave their chidren their diplomas.

Kind of hard to believe that I'll be up there soon.

All 7 images in the photograph were taken by me, and photoshoped together by me.

Over a month actually.

Lets see...

Elijah (my brother) is sick AGAIN!
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
He now has Strep Throat.

Last night was my homeschool group's Jr./Sr. banquet.
This year it had a medieval theme and most people dressed up in medieval costumes.
(I didn't bring my camera so I have to wait until someone posts some pics on FaceBook)
Since I'm a Sophomore, I got to be a server along with Molly, Kelsie, Gary, and Billy.
We helped our chef, Mrs. June, in the kitchen helping fix salads and put the meal together on the plates.

My night went something like this:

At 6:00, my ride picked me up.
At 6:30 we arrived.
Then I started clearing off a counter and laying out the salad plates onto it.
Afterwards, all five of the servers went out and gave everyone their glasses.
Then, me, Billy, and Gary set up sort of an assembly line fixing the salads while Molly and Kelsie fixed everyone's drinks. Then Molly came and put the dressing on the salads.
Once that was done, and all 41 salads were completed, we began taking them to the tables.
Once we served all of the salads, we realised that our guest speaker (who was sitting apart from everyone else) didn't have a glass or a salad so I rushed back to the kitchen, grabbed a glass, put some ice in it and snatched the salad stuff from the fridge and quickly put it together and took it to him.
After their salads, there was a couple of contests. So the servers get a break, right? haha No.
We were all in the kitchen in an assembly line butting the food on the plates.
Then, the contests were over so Billy and Gary started taking plates out so it was only me, Molly, and Kelsie fixing plates. I was going back and forth putting the chicken and corn on the plates, Molly was putting rice and gravy on the plates, and we kept messing up forgetting to add one thing or another. Kelsie sprinkled some pecans on top of the chicken. She apparently can't multi-task. :P
Then, when Gary and Billy had served all of the plates, and everyone was eating, we got to take a five minute break and eat! Yay!
It was so hot in the kitchen, especially with 7 people in there, so we went outside to eat.
While we were eating, some of the people got up to dance (there were two people there showing them how to dance).
It was fun to watch, but they just kept going, and going, and going, and going, and going...
Mr. Danny wondered if they were supposed to dance until all but one group had passed out and they would be the winners. lol
Then, everyone returned to their seats and we started taking their plates.
While that was happening, Molly was in the kitchen putting slices of cheesecake onto plates.
Once we got all of the dessert ready, we put them on a table outside the kitchen, but since it wasn't quite time for them to eat it, Gary had to guard the cheesecake. lol
Then they were finally allowed to eat their dessert and all of the servers were in the kitchen helping clean up.

Finally it was over. The Jr.s and Sr.s were having their pictures taken.
And so all of the servers got a picture taken, too.

Then Mom came to help clean up. Ugh, I wanted to go home sooooooo bad. My feet were killing me from standing up so long. But, we helped put up plates, sort out the silverware, and put the glasses back in boxes. But Elijah was feeling bad, so Mom decided to leave early.

This morning we took him to the doctor and found out he has Strep Throat.


I had a lot of fun last night, but I am so glad I am a Jr. next year, and won't be a server. lol
I haven't got a chance to talk to any on the Jr.s or Sr.s today so I don't know how their side of the kitchen wall was.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

I have been dreading this for months.
I either haven't had time to work on it, or when I do have time, I'm sick and don't feel like it.

And sincle it's FRIDAY and I have hardly anything done, Moms letting me skip it.
Now if I can just do the same for Jr. year and Sr. year, it'll be great. lol


Sick Update:

Elijah is still in the hospital. He is feeling better today though, so he should hopefully be home soon.

Yesterday, I started feeling soooooooo much better. I was only caughing, and then only when I talked a lot.

Today, I feel about the same so hopefully I'm getting better too.