I Can't Believe It

So camp was this week. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh it was soooo great! So we get there on Tuesday and we find out that most of the stuff (ONLY IN MY TENT) got wet from the rain. So we had to air it all out. FUN! My stomach started to hurt and I really felt like I had to puke. So while everyone was working I got to lie down in the leader’s tent on their bed and sleep. TWAS GREAT! So then we went down to stake and we had an okay lunch. The leader in charge of food is very organic. We had certifications where we were taught how to do CPR and stuff like that. After all that boring stuff we went back up to camp and we played "Little Sally Walker." It's a game where one person is in the middle of a circle walking around while we sing then when we stopped the verse and went to the chorus that person would dance in front of someone and then they would switch places and the new person would do the same dance. That was very fun so then we had our skit. We all had to wear bonnets one day at camp so we played props (like from who's line is it anyway) with them and some of the girls aren’t very creative. We had dinner and it was yummy and if I could remember what it was I would tell you. That night our tent broke YAY! Not. This is how our tent went, it was a 6 man tent and it had a window down the middle. So it had 3 girls on 1 side 3 on the other. So when the tent broke the side that didn't have a door (my side) was where everyone had to go, but not all of us would fit. So 1 girl went to another tent with 4 other girls. The next girl slept with an YCL (youth camp leader) whose tent wasn't set up down where it was suppose to be. The 1 girl left was getting on EVERYONES nerves and had to stay on our side of the tent. That was bad. But we did manage to steal all the other camps flags so HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Then on Wednesday we had the trek. We all had to wear our long skirts and bonnets. Then we had to push and pull actual hand carts. These were our hand carts. Then around that part you would pull it with was a rope that was attached to another piece of wood. So we had 3 girls in the front, 3 behind them, and 3 pushing. So we had to pull it out of the camp and we were at our first stop. There they gave us babies (sacks of rice around 5 lbs), and names of actual pioneers. So the girls on my handcart didn’t shut up about how hard it was (mind you we had only gone like 1/5 of a mile) So I took charge and told everyone that the less we complain the faster we get done. Well the leaders (who can’t help us) thought it would be great if I "broke my leg." So they made me sit in the cart and I couldn't say anything. We got to our second stop and my leg was "healed." There a man told us of how he (the character he was playing who actually lived) came to find us and give us food. So we all got beef jerky. We kept going along the path until we rounded a corner and we see YCLs dresses as angels standing in front of a ditch and they tell us that our babies have died and we need to bury them. So me being emotional I started crying then we sang this song. It's called Come, Come, Ye Saints and this is the last verse, "And should we die before our journeys through, Happy day! All is well! We then are free from toil and sorrow, too; With the just, we shall dwell! But if our lives are spared again to see the saints their rest obtain, Oh, How we'll make this chorus swell, All is well, All is well." Holy crap I couldn't breathe. So we continued on our trek and we find that our water has been "poisoned." So now we have dumped all of our water just as we are about to go up the steepest hill of our hike (were about 3/4 of a mile through our 1 mile hike). So now 1 first year was crying and it was horrible. So then we sang a song to get us up the hill. Near the top there was a place to stop and get fresh water. There like 3 of the girls on my cart were in tears from being so tired and wouldn't stop bagging on the leaders for making us do this. So we stopped them and basically told them to grow a back bone. Just much nicer. We got to the top of the hill and there is a woman who waves us in and she calls forward her husband who is dressed as Brigham Young. He tells us that he is thankful that we went 2,400 miles to get here. (The pioneers who we were representing went that long we only went 1 mile. It was like "you think you're tired when you only did that 1 mile when these people who actually had to go through their children dieing and their water being poisoned and being without water for days at a time did this for 2,400 miles?!" sort of thing" then the woman who brought us in came up to us individually and told us what happened to each of the pioneers we were representing. She didn't say mine but one of my leaders lost an eye, and another lost her child. It was very moving. Then right before we left I was walking by myself and I heard "good job" like in my head. It wasn't my voice either. I think it was Lucy (my pioneer) but that’s just me. Then nothing much happened that night. The next day though . . . . . . Oh it was great. Around 12:00 pm it started to rain so much that there was a river going down the mountain and where there were bridges over small streams there was still a bridge, it was just about 4 or 5 inches under water. So like everyone is crying saying that they are scared or cold. And everyone is screaming. Eventually we (meaning my leader who was an actress and can sing and myself) sang at the top of our lungs while everyone else used their quiet voices to sing. This way the leaders could get head counts to the men who were staying up there. They put a movie in the projector and we watched it while the leaders talked. They finally said that we were going to evacuate the camp. We were only to bring with us what we could carry. So we ran up to camp and packed all of our stuff into 1 tent. By now we stink and we are soaked. Then we had to pile into a car. My dad was one of the men up at camp watching over us and I got to ride home with him.
Today though we went back up to camp (just the men and then Bailey and myself) to pack up tents and what not to bring back to Vegas. When we got up there mostly everything was dry. If we would've had dry tents and dry clothes we could've stayed. It was quite the experience.
Anyway next week is LVA camp so I must stop typing and wash my clothes that stink to high heaven.
<3

I Can See It Now

So on Saturday the girls and I went up to the camp to set up tents and what not. It was great!! Here is MY picture of camp

Yup that basically it. So I'm staying at camp 11. The hike up the hill is horrible cause it's very steep. But there is no one staying at camp 10 so that little dot next to my camp is a Porto-Potty, and we'll be the only ones using it. So it wont smell that bad!! WOOT! So yesterday we got up there at like 12:00. It was about 105 in the valley and about 65 in the mountains. Felt great. So we set up our tent and its going to hold 6 girls. The tent is a 10 man tent and is split down the middle. And 3 of the girls I'm tenting with can be a little annoying and the other 2 I'm okay with. So Madi and Ali are staying with me on one side and Jessica, Sydney, and Kendall will be staying on the other side. They are all good friends and don't like us so this is a good grouping. Then we thought that we would have to eat out of mess kits. Our camp leader, Sister Smith, bought us plates and knives and forks and good cups and everything it was great! Then as we were setting up the supply tent it started to HAIL!!! It hurt and we were screaming and trying to set up the tent at the same time so my dad was all "GIRLS GET UNDER THE CANOPY" So we did but we realized that one of the doors on our tent wasn't closing right so we sat there in the rain trying to close the door. The rain stopped before it closed so we were drenched! Then we went over to camp 10 because that was my first camp site. There was this sheep there. Like a wooden sheep hanging from a tree. It had the word EWE on the back so we called it Ewe (ewey). Then the other ward that is staying at our site stole Ewe from our tent and put it in their tent. After all of that we went to In-N-Out and there were these REALLY hot guys there. Its too bad we looked like crap from being the the mountains. Over all I think camp is going to be great this year!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!

OMFRIGGENG!!!!!
Okay so someone prank called me so me being me i called them back. They were all "hey Harvey!" (who names their child harvey anymore?!) So I was all "Call me again and I'll call the cops"
So guess who calls me?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!
KLINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was all "Hey Harvey. *Laugh* sorry Brooke my friends wanted someone to prank call. I knew you'd be a challenge *laugh*"
"Thanks *laugh*"
"So why don't you ever call me anymore?"
(b=me K=Klint)
B-because I have a life im sorry
K-oh and I don't
B-IDK I never see you anymore
K-oh
B-yep
K-I'll call you tomorrow
B-I'll be waiting
K-Or you could call me it would make me feel special
B-You are special
K-Luff you *laugh*
B-Love you too Klint *laugh*
K-Bye Brooke
B-Bye Klint
IT WAS AWESOME!!!!! I jumped and screamed and was all SQUEEEE!



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My Friend

I don't know what to do. There is this friend I have. If you went to school with me you know her. Lets call her . . . . . . Cindy (not even close to her name). So we were really good friends but I wouldn't call us best friends. So on Tuesday I went to a party and she was there. She was fun to hang around for the first like hour. The party it self was horrible. There were like 40 kids under the age of 15 running around this beautiful house and the only adult was the hosts mom (who is in a wheel chair) and she really wasn't doing much about anything. So when kids started jumping of the top of the stairs onto a mattress "Cindy" said she wanted to. So I said "okay but when you break your neck I will say I told you so." Cindy then picked up her studded flip-flop and hit me repeatedly on both arms before commencing to jump off the stairs. Then she was all lets sit on the couch. So I sat on the corner and there was room on the other side of me to sit. NOPE! She shoved me over and sat where I was sitting, then proceeded to put her legs on me. She is kinda short so her feet were like right in my face. EW! She was all "lets go to my house" The one time I went to her house all the adults were smoking and drinking, one of which offered me a drink. So there was no way I wanted to go back there. The party still had 2 hours left though. So I tried everything I could think of:

• I'm tired
• Have stuff to do tomorrow
• My head hurts
• Not feeling well
• I even used cramps

All of these were lies but she some how had a way to fix all of them. So as she went to jump off the stairs again I texted my dad and said "Pick me up NOW." The party was being held like a 5 minute drive from my grandparents house. So he was there like SUPER fast. Cindy was like "lets hang out on Thursday. So all day she has been calling me and texting me. I've ignored her every time. But how do I say to her nicely that I don't want to be friends with someone who hits me, and where I don't want to hang out with her because of the way she acts. I don't want to blow up on her or anyone else again. I just need some help dear readers of mine. so

HELP!!!

Solutions

So my cousin Adrianna recently was EXTREMELY THIN! So we were all "what did you do" i felt like I was watching an infomercial. She was all " I did Nutrisystem" in that like fake sing song voice. But totally true. So recently we were looking over everything that the plan offered. It sounded really good. But some of the food was weird. We would order from Costco because it costs about $30 less. The downside is I cant choose my food. Here is some of the things they might send me

http://www.costco.com/images/Content/MISC/PDF/358760.pdf

Yup that split pea soup sounds so yummy *barf*
Anyway i think it will work so I'm going to start right after camp is over. By January i should loose about 30 to 40 lbs at least that's what Adrianna tells me :D

Girls Camp

It's that time of year again folks! Yup, it's Stake Girls Camp. Let me catch you up on this.

Every year during the summer the Stake Young Women's (so all the girls that came to youth conference) go up to Camp Stimpson in Mt Charleston A week of about 120 teenage girls and about 36 women over the age of 25 to about 50. It's a real hoot.

So this is my third year going and I must say that as much as I love going to girls camp some of the girls there drive me up the wall!!

My first year was really good. I was Chubby Bunny. If you don't know what that game is, its where you take a bug marshmallow and you put it in your mouth and try to say "chubby bunny". You keep adding marshmallows and trying to say chubby bunny until you puke, swallow them, or spit them out. So i was at 21 marshmallows and i was up against this 4th year. So Kristi is yelling at me and i shove the 22 marshmallow in my mouth at the same time this other girl does and she just chucks them all over the place. Mind you we are standing on a huge piece of plywood in front of some bricks that are placed in the ground. So lets just say we had to get some new plywood. But our camp leader was all rude to us. The YCL's (youth camp leaders) had been stealing girls stuff and making them dance for it at opening and closing flag. So we had left like our journals and mirrors and Becca (my sister) left her medicine out in her chair. (she had a fever blister and was trying to get rid of it) So when we came back from opening flag and all of our stuff was gone we just hightailed it down to the YCL's camp and started asking for our stuff. When they said they didn't have it we just thought okay we'll just get it back at closing. So when we didn't get it back we went up to camp almost in tears. Then our camp leader came out of her tent and said "Who wants their stuff back" in like a sing-song voice. I wanted to claw her eyes out! She wasn't called for our camp leader next year.

So my second year was worse. I hate my young women's leader. Okay not hate but she gets on my nerves and she was pregnant last year for camp and we shared a camp with 2 other wards. THERE ARE 12 CAMP SITES AND WE HAD TO SHARE OURS! So there was 36 girls in 1 camp site. So the second day we were there we had a hike. The worst hike of my life. It was up a mountain for like 5 miles or something. It was 100 degrees outside, and were not allowed to wear shorts only pants. So they kept saying, "there's a waterfall at the end!" I was like okay its worth it then. Want to see the waterfall? the water was warm and it was like 7 drops like every 10 seconds. Horrible. They made up lunches before and they were all soggy from our water bottles. Not worth it. And then the leader i hate comes up to me and says Caitlin is homesick.

What would you like me to do about it?! So that night she made me give up my nice air mattress and mummy sleeping bag (which is like the best you can get cause you you tighten it around your neck then wear a binnie so your head stays warm) on the good side of the tent up against the mountain, for her small thin sleeping bag on the floor (not even a bed mat) on the bad side of the slope of the mountain. The next day she didn't feel any better. They expect us to babysit this girl who doesn't want to be there and she flat out said that to everyone. Then the last day came. It was great i was finally leaving camp. to get down to where all the cars are parked is like a 20 minute walk downhill and about a 5 minute drive. So one of the other wards leader said "all the girls have to walk down the hill and the leaders will take the 2 cars." So we have to hike up the hill to go down the hill. So were like half a mile down the hill when the leaders drive up to us and say "WALK FASTER!" and drive away. So a truck was coming and it had some steps on the outside and the tail gate was up. So we asked if we could hang onto the car as it drove down. So about five minutes later we pull into the lot and the leaders yell at us for bothering these people. Worst year ever.

So Camp is next week and I'm excited because my whole family is going. Cancer free dad and camp hating mother Included. My friend's mom is camp leader this year and her husband owns a Bajio in town (BETTER THAN CAFE RIO!) and he is bringing some up. I think this year will be good. I hope.

Goals before School

So I've been thinking alot lately, which is new for me, about what i want high school to be like for me. And all I've figured out is that i want to look better. And now you are thinking
"oh here she goes again with her vanity and always having to look good"
so if you don't care to read this stop now!
Okay in my mind to feel good about my self i have to like the way i look. So this summer i have been hitting the gym and doing Yoga in my spare time. I have alot of spare time. I started counting my calories. Let me tell you that i used to be the first one in line to make fun of calorie counters. And now i am one and i understand why they do it. I am about 50 lbs over weight. So i hope to loose at least 10 before school and if I'm lucky maybe 15. Next is my hair. I dyed it red in middle school. Like BRIGHT RED. Ya that had to be the worst idea I've had yet. So i thought well red fades fast. Well that is for everyone but me! It is now 1 whole year later in like 2 weeks and there is still red in my hair. So i streaked my hair with blond so it would grow in better. But now my natural color (which is quite ugly because its like a gray brown ) is now growing over the blond so i have this like line on my head where the highlights end and my actual hair starts. Plus I cut it about 3 months ago so it sat like on the top of my chest. My hair grows like a weed though. So now it is now over my chest and onto my rib cage. I want it to do this but i have horrible split ends from straighting my hair everyday and even curling it. So I'm going to have to cut off about and inch and a half. THIS SUCKS! My mom said i cant do anything to my hair until right before school starts. So my hair shall keep growing and the split ends will get longer. WOOOT (sarcasm). Next my feet. Now if you're still reading this I must say WOW you do enjoy people complaining about their lives. Anyway back to my feet. Since about 5th grade i started wearing shoes that my heels were not covered. Like flip-flops and heels. So my heels started to get dry and crack. I know you've all seen the ped-egg commercials. My feet are really that bad. Like they bleed sometimes. So i started putting medicine on them. I went from having 6 cuts per foot to 1 deep cut on each foot and dry skin. I think this is the best progress I've made so far! This is about it the rest of me i love!!! Especially my chest i must say that is my best feature lol :D

Latin

So i was watching Room Raiders 2.0 yesterday on MTV. (Me watch MTV no way!! lol) And there was this one girl Nicole. On her wall she had the phrase Oderint Dum Metuant. In Latin that means, let them hate so long as they fear. I thought it was a pretty cool saying so i made it my motto. yup its at the top of my blog now :D

You Know It's a Good Day When. . . .

• You can fasten your belt a loop tighter
• You go to the library and find all the books you were looking for and more
• Your mom hasn't yelled at you yet
• Mom buys you In-N-Out
• Dad makes homemade Pizza
• You're home alone with the pizza and the laptop on!
• You do laundry
• You have brownies
• DBSK (DUH!)
• You get in the pool and the only one who notices your tattoo of JaeJoong Oppa on your leg is your younger sister!
• JaeJoong (everyday is good because of him)
• You beat Kingdom Hearts for the BILLIONTH time

Well I must be having the greatest day EVER!!!!!!!!!

iPhone

Okay I am a Ressembol Ranger. We are a group of fans started by Vic Mignogna. He has played some roles in anime most people know. Edward Elric, Tamaki Sou, Dark Mousy, and a bunch of others you can look up on your own! Well being a Ranger my leader, General Pam, often sends me updates she gets from Vic himself. So I open my email, which I don't open this one that often cause i get alot of spam, and I have 3 messages from Pam. 2 are about Anime Expo and how there will be a Funimation booth, and about special Full Metal Alchemist Brothers pens that there will only be 200 of. The third ones subject was eBay so i was intrigued. I open it and it has this link http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? . So i was all okay whats this. A signed iPhone from Vic that last time i checked was going for over $1000!!!!! I would rather buy the phone and take it to a con and have him sign it. Lol sometimes fans crack me up. Don't get me wrong i want it but i wouldn't pay that much money for it!!!!!

"We'll See You Then!"

Man that phrase never gets old. I just finished watching the last episode of OHSHC in English. I watched the series once in Japanese and then bought the first half for my birthday. I was going to wait to buy the rest for my birthday this year but then i found out that Funimation uploaded the entire series to Youtube! Happy day in my house. Anyway, i watched the last episode and when the music started playing when Haruhi snapped the reigns i just burst into tears. Like full on coughing and choking and breathing deeply with sobs in between. It was horrible how upset i was getting but then i realized why. I have been following this anime ever since before it was licenced for Funimation. I waited to know the cast and i jumped and screamed when i found out who they were. I asked for the DVDs everyday after it came out. Even after it came out i read Caitlin Glass's blog on the production. (her birthday is in Nov. so that makes her cool!) The sobs didn't stop until i got in the shower. I normally sing in the shower because no one can see me only hear me. So i got in there and just sat under the water for a few minutes until my crying stopped. Then i wanted to sing but the only songs that came to mind were the opening and closing themes for the show so that all i sang for the 20 minutes i was in the shower. Can i say that my sisters wanted to slap me :) I love that show and i recommend it to everyone and even will let people borrow the DVDs i do have. It will always and forever be in my heart.

Nicole

Nicole and i have been friends since kindergarten. She has always looked out for me and me out for her. Like when i had a thing for 666 (if you don't know who he is he went to K.O and was in my musical theatre class) she told me it was a bad idea because he does drugs (if you don't know who he is now your insane.) So when she like a guy named Anthony (who i think is gay) i totally told her was cute and to go for it. Now Anthony is one of my greatest guy friends. Recently she started liking this kid Jake. He is a year older than us and is a total skater PUNK! How do you go from liking GAY guys to SKATER PUNKS! So i thought okay i never really got to know this guy. So the other day i went to Nicole's house. He was a total jerk. He was mean to everyone including Nicole! and to top it all off he called me a Bisnatch (actual word was used). So i got on face book and talked to Anthony. He agreed that Jake was a real jerk and that we needed to talk to Nicole. So i said i would do it first. I let her tell me everything she thought i had done that stupid. She told me a few things then i said my turn. I told her Jake was a butt hole and that she could do better. She said that quote "I reaaaaaallllllllyyyyyy like Jake and if you don't like him then oh well for you." I have never wanted to slap her ever but at that moment i wanted to pull my hand across her face and say "YOUR AN IDIOT AND YOU NEED TO CLEARLY THINK THIS THROUGH!!" did i. . .no. But i did ask her how many of her friends have called me a 'B'. She said jack (the guy she liked before Jake). Then she went on this spiel about how I'm not a 'B' and they just don't know me well enough. I asked her is she told Jake and jack that. She said she told Jack that but not Jake. The second you put boys before friendship is when you know something is wrong. So I didn't even reply i was so upset. So just now she tells me on facebook that she is over Jake because Anthony talked to her. WHAT?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! SO WHEN YOUR BEST FRIEND TELLS YOU SOMETHING IS OH WELL BUT WHEN THE BOY YOU USED TO LIKE TELLS YOU SOMETHING ITS LIKE GOD HAS COME TO YOU IN PERSON AND HAS SHOWED YOU THE LIGHT!!!!!!!!! I'm so mad at her right now! And i know how selfish i sound but oh well this is my blog and i will sound the way i want!