Simply to say, I've had a very long and trying week. At the moment I have a lot on my mind and can't concentrate on one thing for more than 30 seconds.

1. Someone stole my $200 mp3 player that I bought with my own money. Needless to say, I'm really pissed off.

2. I'm currently cleaning my room, hoping and praying that maybe it didn't get stolen, and it just fell behind my desk or something... I'm not to hopeful though.

3. My creative writing portfolio for English was due this week. I think I did good on it, but I can't be sure.

4. End of Course's are all next week and if I don't do well on my Bio and engineering one, then I'm going to fail. Not really, but I won't have a very good grade... so I should be studying. But I'm not.

5. It's really hot outside and I love it, but I can't go out until my room is cleaned, so then when I don't find my mp3 player I can really freak out.

6. We had a work day up at church today and while we were waiting for people to show up, my mom let me drive around the parking lot. I almost ran into the one and only pole. I've only been behind the wheel once, and I already don't like it. I think we're driving later on too...

7. I've read about 10 books in the past month and need to write book reviews on them. I need to do that before I forget what I even read about.

8. Our school musical has been Wed, Thu, Fri, and tonight. I've worked in the concession stand Thursday night and last night. It was kinda fun, for the 15 minute intermission. Other than that, really boring because me and my friend have to watch the stand for an hour and a half before that. Either way, tonight I'm actually going to watch it. Then nobody will show up to help, and my choir director will be pissed at me and Kortney.

9. Wednesday night I was the only girl up at church for youth group [again] and we played dodgeball. I just sat in the middle of the court and let all the boys throw the balls at each other until I was the only one left on our team... Somehow I managed to get the two guys on the other time out, two games in a row. Then they started throwing balls at me. I was proud of myself. 8D

10. One of my best friends for like 4 years has suddenly made new best friends and she's ticking me off. I'm not one for drama, so I'm just letting it go, but she's slowly pushing me away and just ignoring me. She's also smoking and cussing all the time now, which makes me so... not exactly mad, but disappointed. She acts like nothing has changed. *sighs*

I can now legally drive with adult supervision. Watch out world! Here I come! :D

So, here's to say, I got my permit. :D And I must say, I didn't do half bad. I only missed 3 out of 25. They were mostly number questions, like "Legally, when do you need to turn your brights off when another car is coming?" I was like PSH. 350? It was 300. =P And just other questions like that.

I was proud of myself. :]] I think my mom was hoping I would fail, her and my dad. xD Nah, I came out all smiling and stuff and she just rolled her eyes.

Either way, I'm sure there will be many more entries related to my adventures. :D

If there is one thing I hate, it's speaking in front of people. I. Can't. Do. It. And I don't think I ever will be. My hands start to shake, my face gets red, I stutter and can't get my words out right so I look like a downright retard. Sometimes, I'll even get to the point where I cry--and I don't particularly like doing that in front of people either.

It's really embarrassing and it's something that really annoys and bothers me. But it's not like I can really do anything to fix it. Sure, I can practice talking in front of people and sure, I will have to do many different times in my life, but I'll honestly tell you I don't believe I'll get much better.

What really puts me over the edge is if what I'm talking about is personal. For example, my youth group at my church is going on a mission trip to New York to do construction work and to be eligible to go, you have to meet certain requirements. One of them is you have to give your testimony. Not a big deal right?

But if you're put on the spot, in front of thirty people, and you're told that you have to talk about something very personal, that is something completely different. So being the lucky duck I am, I had to off the top of my head come up with my testimony in front of 30 people, and I believe I already mentioned I don't talk in front of people very well. To simply put it, it didn't go well.

To top it all off though, one of our youth leaders wanted us to critique other people when they're finished. I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous. You don't criticize and critique somebody's testimony. It's like saying, "Your life story sucks. Get a new one." I don't think so. That is just something that you do not critique. Thankfully though, nobody critiqued mine, (I'm sure the main reason is they all took pity on little ol' me).  All in all, it was not a fun night, and I didn't even stay for church. One of my friends in college gave me a ride home.

I think I'm about the happiest person in the world at the moment. I could be on Cloud 9 for all I care because, I just got tickets to the Rascal Flatts concert. OH YEAH! :D

Ok, so I really got them last night, but I didn't blog about it 'til today. xD
To clear things up a bit, Rascal Flatts is my favorite band in the whole wide universe, simply saying. I absolutely love them. They have been to my city three times now, and I have not been able to attend the concert because each time I've been busy.

I was not going to miss them for the fourth time. And I'm not going to. ;D
The tickets were $67 which is a fairly good price, and I was really happy about that. But of course there was like a $10 parking fee, $8 shipping fee, and then the rest was a facility fee. So it all came out to $90.70. For real? I think that's a bit ridiculous to have to pay so much extra, but I am not going to complain further because I'm too happy. xD

So, my parents are going to pay for half of it for my birthday [two days baby! two days!] and I'll pay for the other half. I'm also going to be going with a good college friend of mine, and if it weren't for her, I wouldn't be going at all. So, she's my hero. <3

The concert is June 5th, so only 61 more days! :D

[OH YEAH! Rascal Flatts is performing tonight at the ACM awards as well as presenting an award. They're also nominated for top vocal group. WOOT WOOT!]

Forgot to mention: new layout! I thought since it was a new month, a new layout would be nice. ^^ Happy April!