Cheerleader U!

Ok so there's this show on WE. It's called CheerleaderU. Last season it followed the University of Kentucky. Basically Kentucky dominates in college cheerleading. They've won 16 nationals championships since 1985. They've won eight championships in a row, and they're extremely good. However, their eight-title streak was broken at the 2003 Championship by the University of Central Florida. UCF also took the title last year at the 2007 Championship. Cheerleader U premiered their second season last night that is following UCF this time to see if they can defend their title. The video is of their winning routine at the 2007 championship. I really like this season so far, there were two episodes on last night. I actually like it better than the Kentucky season. I think because UCF is more of the "underdogs". They've only won two national championships in their whole history of their program, and Kentucky has been dominating on the national level for over two decades. The team consists of the best 8 girls and 8 guys cheerleaders in the school. They work extremely hard and do things that I sometimes think are impossible. Their extremely talented athletes and it's amazing what they can do. Its just amazing how hard they work.



Ok so there's another cheerleading show as well! Haha. It's called Cheerleader Nation. It actually follows a high school team from Lexington, Kentucky called Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Their cheerleading program has won the UCA high school cheerleading championship for the past 5 years in a row. The show premiered when they won their 3rd championship. Their absolutely amazing for their age and the fact that their in school all day. The video is their 2008 routine. There's rumor that there's another season coming out but who knows! Jenna Moody, if you know her she's a freshman and she was on varsity at our school for football and basketball! She's moving to Dunbar for her junior year to cheer! She's ridiculously good and if she wants a chance to cheer at a really good college like Kentucky or somewhere around there she basically has to move down south because they take it way more seriously. It's only her and her mom after she sister goes to college and they decided to move there around next summer! So that's wicked cool:).



Ok so this team does have their own TV show! Haha. But their a high school team and I stumbled upon it a couple months ago and think their wicked good. I actually think their stunts are actually better than Dunbar's :X At least their sequence in the beginning! But their really good and thought they deserved the recognition! :)


Ok so I think I'm all caught up on posts. If not Kriegs let me know cause I'll post away! Thanksss!:)

I'm not dying!

Well lately the biggest argument in my house has been about my room. I actually have a really nice room. I live in whats called the "attic" at my house. It's finished and it's not really that big, it's pretty decent in size but it's not like it's a whole entire floor. I have two walk-in closets and a queen size bed that I just got a couple months ago that I love! I have a futon, and a TV, and just a bunch of basically all cheering stuff on all my shelves. I actually moved up there in 9th grade, however I came back downstairs two weeks later because I thought it was way to scary and I hated being up there by myself. But then in 10th grade I moved back up there. Might I add as well that I have put a lot of time into that room! Throughout the past year I completely redecorated it. The walls use to be wood and were a woodish color, but over the summer I painted them brown. My dad actually did it but that's not the point. Then I did like a pink tan & brown color scheme. That's the color of my bedding, and I have a lamp that matches it, and the walls go really good with the color. I had to save a lot of money to do all of it, and my TV and all the furniture I bought as well. Now to the argument. My sister seems to think that I am being a "completely selfish self-centered little brat" if I may use her words, for keeping the room while I go away to college. She thinks that it's a waste to keep all my stuff in there. I'm actually really pissed about it. I'm not dying I'm just going to college! Ill be back for all the breaks, and since i'm just in Syracuse I could come home occasionally on some weekends and I'll need my room!. My arguments to her are that I worked really hard for that room and deserve it. I'll be home enough that I could definitely be allowed to keep it especially considering I'll be home for the summers. She's NEVER in her room and she's a complete slob so the room would just go to waste anyways. AND she's going to college in two years anyways, so then who decides who gets the room them? All in all, I'm keeping my room. My parents agree with me.:) Even though I love my sister she is being completely absurd by thinking I would EVER give her my room:)

Catching up!

Well if I did my calculations right I missed about 3 blogs. And since I SUCK at every other subject in school:), I really want to catch up on these cause I really need the grade. Plus blogging is awesomee:) But for this one I'm going to blog about RYLA. RYLA stands for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference. I went to it last June in 2007 and it was held at Hartwick College. I would like to add that the campus there is absolutely horrible when it's humid and gross out. It's so hilly and takes forever to get to the dining hall and dorms. But anyways, the juniors are getting interviewed for RYLA 2008 soon which makes me super sad cause I would LOVE to go again. Plus, I got a letter in the mail today about the RYLA 2007 reunion at the end of this month. Let me just start with how amazing the conference was. It was probably one of the most rewarding weeks of my life. I had so much fun and learned so much about myself and made so many good friends. I still talk to my roommate at least three times a week to this day. It actually was her birthday yesterday!:) I would go back in a heartbeat if I could. I could seriously write about this for a lifetime. It was just a week for learning about leadership skills and communicating with other people. The first day we were separated into "small groups". Mine was called the "Barber Shoppe" because our counselors last name was Barber. We met with the small group at least twice a day for an hour or two to do activities and talk about the day. There was at least one guest speaker a day, and might I add that they were all HILARIOUS. They were really open and some cursed like it was their job and said probably TOTALLY inappropriate things haha, and that wasn't why it was so funny or cool it was just how they tried to relate to us as much as they could and get us to open up and not feel awkward considering we were with a bunch of people we had never met before. We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day in the dinning hall and each meal was like two hours long so we had at least an hour to go back to the dorms and hang out in the lounge area with everyone. We had a dance one night, and a RYLAthon, which we competed with our small group against all the other small groups with physical activities they required teamwork and leadership. Then the second to last day was a whole day of doing all these crazy things with your small group. Like we had a group of at least 13-15 people and we all had to be standing on this tiny block so like I was on some one's shoulders who was one someone elses shoulders. It was crazy, it was like dangerous what we had to do! Haha but it was so much fun. Then every day for an hour we met with an "interest" group that we chose on our own. I did public speaking. Then the second to last day there was a public speaking contest for everyone who was in the group and I won! :) The cool thing about it was public speaking was totally not my thing, I'm actually a HORRIBLE public speaker as you could tell in class, but my speech was about something I truly believed in and I put my heart in the speech and it was definitely rewarding. Then the last day we had a banquet with our parents. Because I won the contest I had to recite my speech at the banquet. I didn't tell my parents and they were wicked surprised! It was so sad to leave. We all sang a song together at the end and it was wicked corny but we all opened up so much during the week we had so much fun doing it. I still to this day talk to a ton of people from there. I have the job I have right now because of a person I met from there too. I absolutely loved it and I missed so many things but I don't think I could describe everything in words. It was absolutely amazingggg and I wish I could go back!

The high of high school

I guess I postponed blogging this last time because I've had a really hard time deciding what I'm going to say about high school. Ya know, do you talk about the drama, the athletics, the academics, the clicks? Do you say I can't wait to get out of here or I can't wait to start my next journey. Because in reality their the same just different interpretations. The snow days, vacations, delays, games, exams, heartbreaks, friendships, memories, was it all worth it? Was the past four years of madness defining yourself worth it? Did you make it count enough? Did you embed those memories in your mind so you won't forget them?

When I read through a lot of the girls posts most of them said high school equals drama. Thats only true if you let it define who you are. So many people are wrapped up in having the last word, being right, being the center of attention. But is it worth it? In 20 years is the manager of a major corporation during your interview of a lifetime going to ask you how popular you were in high school? I sure hope not.

I've seen a lot of people change in the past four years. Change friends, change personalities, change their style of clothing. I'm a prime example. I don't have the same "group of friends" that I did when I was a freshman. And my best friends now, we lost a few a long the way. But Marie, Nalia, Kathleen and Victoria have become a huge part of my life that I could never describe on a blog. But in the midst of seeing everyone else change around me, I found myself. I found the type of person that I am and who I want to be. And that's the point of high school.

It's not the drama. There's no drama unless you make it. And if you're one of those people that posted about how much you hate high school because of the drama and you cant' wait to leave, then you should really look back and see how many times you caused the drama, or how many times you could have stayed out of it but instead decided to become involved and then blame it on the drama itself. Everything is what you make of it. And while I believe that during the past four years I found myself, I believe some others lost themselves. And I worry for those people, and hope that their next journey leads them in the right direction.

The past four years of my life have been unbelievable. The laughing and the crying, the arguments and the memories, it's such a high I don't know why anyone does drugs. You have to live in the moment, and pray to god that you'll remember it forever. Because these are the days of our lives, and your throwing away a lifetime if you can't wait for it to be over.

Response to Nick's Post

Well since it's March, and it's the season of Kathleen's birthday, so I decided to post about something that many people probably are unaware of. I have personally thrown or participated in throwing Kathleen three surprise birthday parties. I know, I know, crazy. One was thrown at my friend Elizabeth's house, one at my house, and one at Marie's house. I remember the one at my house I had a Barbie birthday cake, trick candles, and I gave her gag lotto tickets. Then the one at Elizabeth's house, I lied to her and told her I was going to my friend Cassie's house for the night on her birthday and asked her not to hate me. She was pissed and thought I was like a horrible friend when in reality I was at Elizabeth's house setting up for her party! :) Then when she got there, my two friends Elizabeth and Kelly brought her downstairs and she was talking about her bra and everybody downstairs started laughing but we were able to say surprise! Haha. Thennn the one at Marie's was a pretty eventful entrance. We told Kath we were going out to dinner but we brought her to Marie's instead and said we had to go downstairs to give her her frame (we went through a phase where every birthday we gave each other a big collage frame), and Stephanie fell down the stairs lol. But I think Kath was still surprised even though we were pretty concerned about Steph! Haha. Ok well there it is, my devotion to Kathleen's birthdays. The End. :)

Here I go, Scream my lungs out

My blog today is about how I absolutely love Yellowcard. Their definitely one of my favorite bands. I did my record review on them earlier this year. I think my favorite thing about the band besides their music itself is the fact that they have a violinist. I think it's really unordinary to see that in a rock/punk band. They've developed a lot since their first album in 1997. I think the violin really set their music aside and caught the attention of many of their fans. Even though I have a picture of the cover of Lights and Sounds, Ocean Avenue is definitely my favorite album of theirs. Their on tour right now with Secondhand Serenade, whom i love! My friends call them secondhand smoke and make fun of me for listening to them but hey thats ok! I would love to see them on tour buuut the they play in New York on March 15th which has two problems. That's Kathleen's birthday, and their already sold out! Oh well, hopefully I can see them in concert soon! Plus I recently just heard the acoustic version of Only One. It's been one of my favorite songs for a wicked long time and I don't know why I've never heard the acoustic version but it's so good! Check it out!:)

Mandatory Post!

After looking at everyone else's post I kind of caught on and I think I'm suppose to blog about another blog. Well I don't know if this works but I had a tough time finding a blog to post about. Then I found one on the Le Moyne website. It was actually wicked cool. It's a student blog from a freshman, and his major is pre-med which is what I'm doing next year. He talks about the food at Le Moyne, why he chose to go there, a typical night at Le Moyne and a lot of other cool stuff that I didn't know about. There's like 4 other blogs from students on the website I just chose this one cause he was a freshman so I figured I'll be going through what he's going through right now just next year. But I'm definitely going to check out the other ones!

http://www.lemoyne.edu/blog/tyler.asp

Watch theseee

Even if you hatee cheering these are siiiick. And a threw in a pretty funny one!

Taste Buds

Ok well since I have a few posts to catch up on I figured I would do a couple in a row right now. My first one is about taste buds and how they change over the years. My parents always told me when I was little "someday your going to love these" or something like "I use to love those when I was a kid". I never really understood what they meant, and thought it was just another one of their "I had to walk to school when there was 3 feet of snow of the ground" kind of stories. But I realized they were right. Your tastes bud definitely do adjust as you get older. When I was little my babysitter use to drown us in tomato soup and grilled cheese. Not literally, but that's what we had for lunch every single day. So when I got to the age of maybe 7 or 8 I hated that meal. But throughout the past two years or so it's become one of my favorite meals. Another thing is I've always hated cotton candy. Even when I was little I use to hate the smell of it when Nicole would eat it. But now I love it, not the cotton candy as much as the artificial flavored cotton candy things like ice cream and Popsicles. And last but not least, I wouldn't even dare to eat peas if my life depended on it. But Kathleen can attest to this, St Joe's had the best peas ever. So from 7th grade on they've been my favorite side dish! So my conclusion is that your tastes buds change with your age. So maybe that leaves hope for meat sauce, anything made in a crock pot, or meatloaf, because I really don't see myself liking those things anytime soon!

Hopefullly tomorrow:)

Heyyy everyonee. Sorry Kriegs I know I haven't posted for a couple days but I can't seem to shake this flu thing. This is the first time I've been home alone since I got this stupid thing and my parents haven't been checking on me every two seconds so I figured this was a good time to blog. This thing is a pain. Like one second I'm freezing and need like a million blankets, and then two seconds later I'm sweating. I really want to come to school tomorrow so I can at least get all my work so I can do it all over the weekend. The sore throat and the coughing which would probably annoy the crap out of everyone I can deal with. But every morning I wake up with like 103/104 temperature and theres no way my parents will let me go to school. Sooo my plan is to set my alarm for like 4 in the morning to take a couple Advil, which has been lowering my temperature pretty good, so then when my parents come to check on me a couple hours later my temperatures pretty normal and i can come to school:) So hopefully ill see everyone tomorrow!

Cheering uniform handins

So the phone chain went around today, and uniform hand-ins are tomorrow. I know to a lot of people cheerleading is probably the stupidest thing they've ever heard of and the farthest thing from a sport, but to me it means a lot. And no matter how many surveys people make or try to put it down it's been a really big part of my life since I was probably in around 3rd grade. It's the one thing that I've been good at even though I had to work really hard to get to that point. I feel like I should be graduating now. Like the school year should be over cause cheering is over. It's like tomorrow I'm saying goodbye to my family of 16. It's crazy how fast August through now went. It's like I said everyday that I couldn't wait until I could just go home after school, and now I feel like I would give anything for just one more practice. But in reality, my senior year is basically just starting. Who knows what could happen. ha:)

Icee or slush puppie

Coey boeyyys falling everywhere on her crutches so i have to make this fast so i can help herr!

Buuuut i'm here to talk about the most annoying thing in the world at skateestate. Ok so there's two machines in our snack bar and one says "icee" and one says "slush puppie" and seriously who doesn't know what a slush puppie is, like it has all the little bottle with the flavors like duh. I can't tell you how many times a day somebody says "i want a cheery slush puppie", i make it and then they say noo I wanted that thing and point to the other machine. Might I add that the word Icee is huuuuge and its right on top of the machine in clear view. So then they either ask for a new one or ask for their money back. And we're told to just give them a new one. So here i am throwing away two dollars of skateestates money because people don't know their drinks. And then i've learned to say "well do you want this one or this" and point to some machines, and sometimes it works, but then sometimes you get the people that really know what their talking about and their like "umm im pretty sure I said icee" in their rude sarcastic voices. Sooo the moral of the story is if you ever come to skateeskate double check the name of the drink you want:)

I hatee hypocriticalll jerkkkks:)

Ok I just wanted to start my blog off with: Get a life and don't read other people's stuff if it bothers you that much:) Second, I would just like to state that I have completely stayed out of the cheering battle. I haven't posted anything on facebook or on my IM away messages or profile. However, rude people that shall remain nameless, like to accuse other people of doing stuff that they never did. I have accepted the fact that we lost, the judges I went there to perform for gave us the highest score of the day, and to me I accomplished my goal, trophy or not. On top of that this was the best season ever and I feel like I have a second family of 16 other people and wouldn't trade this season for any trophy or any 1st place championship in the world. That said, if you have a problem with reading cheerleading stuff on facebook or wherever people like to claim they see it, DONT LOOK AT IT. And don't be a hypocritical jerk and post two things basically doing the same thing your complaining about.
Secondly, I really would like to take a second to give Johnson City a lot of credit. I haven't gotten the chance because I've been TRYING to stay out of the cheering conversations and battles, even though people still accuse me of being in them. They really stepped it up this season and did amazing at the competition. They totally turned their whole cheering program around and I couldn't have been more impressed. They had a great routine with a ton of difficult stunts and tumbling in it. I think they deserved to place higher, but they were more than satisfied with 5th place which was heartwarming to see. Good Job JC:)
Anddd my little sister had her first surgery today:( She had a couple really pulled ligaments in her ankle and she waited until after cheering to get them fixed! So shes in a lot of pain:( Soo i'm gonna watch movies with her tonight:)

Partying up on vaca

Wellll this vacation I have been partying it up. Haha ok well not really but i've been working alllll break and partying coordinating at SkateEstate! Not to mention I had to do laser storm a couple times, which usually isn't that bad but repeating the directions over and over again can give you a head ache. Pluss our rock wall is out of order, so all the parents who bought an all inclusive birthday party get pissed cause instead of using the wall now we let them do two games of laser storm which takes up more time. Buuut i'm off to the zoooo again!

Kathleeeenieeee where are youu

I cannnot find Kathleeen's bloggg! Sooo Kath lath if you see this please comment on this so I can add you to my linkss! Or if somebody else see this before her please sendd me to her link cause I can't find her:(

Dream Job!

This is an easy one for me. My dream job is to work in the operating room in a huge hospital. I've looked at a lot of things throughout the past couple years in the medical field and I have come to the conclusion that the OR is for me. I like anesthesiology, OB, neonatal surgery, and pediatric surgery. I'm not saying that I will never change my mind, because people keep telling me that people change their majors 90% of the time. And I do believe thats true, and I really really really want to be a doctor. And I'm willing to prove people wrong that I'm not going to change my mind, but most importantly I know my heart is very set on it and thats what is important. I want a job where I'm basically on call 24/7 and I'm never bored or have nothing to do. I want to have to make a life-changing decision for someone else all the time, and be good enough to make the right choice. I want to save lives, and cliche as that may sound. What I would love to do is change my last night to Luchetti. That's my real family name but I guess my great-grandparents or one of the "greats" changed it when they came over from Italy. Just because I think Dr. Luchetti sounds better than Dr. Lockett. But hey, I have a lot of time to decide on that. All I know is I want to go to school for a really long time. And I want to work in a very busy and well-accredited hospital, where people come to me for advice, and where I'm good enough that people come from all over to have me as their doctor:)

Soooo I would just like to say the wii is an amazing thing. Yesterday was the first time I ever played anything on it and it was super fun. I played American Idol and me, v, and Nalia played the tournament. I am proud to announce that we are the next American idol. We kicked butt. I think my best performance was to 'it ends tonight'... even though i did pick some songs that were a little to high for my liking. Thenn I sang somewhere over the rainbow on expert difficulty.. and yes thats right I got a 'good'. I think i'm gonna quit my day job:) Buuut today is Tuesday which means its ONE TREE HILL DAY! yay:) Sooo I am off to my cousins to stay there for the night (and my cousins boyfriend broke up with her yesterdayy so i have some serious counseling to take care of) And thanks everyone for your support about the competition! Esp ruggs, i'm impressed! It means a lottt!

Not wanting to blog right now

Ehhh today was kind of bitter. So we went almost last at the competition, which was a good thing. And after watching all the teams we got really pumped and knew we could do really good. Then we went on, and half our team didn't hear the music when it started cause everyone was cheering for us and our whole opening tumbling sequence got screwed up and looked pretty bad. But then the rest of the routine was really good, and everyone told us we were amazing and were gonna win and blah blah. And then awards came and our JV won which we were really pumped about, by the way the DJ announcer person sucked he was a new one and he was horrible at it. And then we got announced as the second place winners and Chenango Valley were announced as the STAC champions. As if we weren't already wicked upset, we tried to make the best of it and shake it off. Then when we were down on the floor about to leave we got our score sheets and we got a twenty point safety deduction for something really stupid, its a really long story so i'm just gonna spare the confusion for everyone by not trying to explain it. So raw score we had 350 points and CV has 337 so we would have beaten them by 13 points which really sucks. Sooo all in all it was a pretty upsetting day.

Cheer Comp ahhh!

Okkk so tomorrowss my last cheering competition everrr! It's crazy how fast time flys. Cheerings so different from any other sport because you work so hard all season to get a routine that sticks and is flawless and you have one shot at 2 minutes and 30 seconds to prove to everyone your the best. If you don't really follow U-E cheering, which I can imagine is the majority of people in the high school, for the past three years Chenango Valley has won the fall cheering competition, and U-E has won the winter competition. And this fall we tied, so the rival between us is increased to the max tomorrow. And there's rumors of other schools being pretty decent so it should get interesting. Wish us luck!:) I'll post the results tomorrrowww!

Oops!

I skipped a day, shooot! I didn't even realize, it must have been on the snow dayyy:( Which I spent watching One Tree Hill at my cousins, since I gave up Greys Anatomy for lent which might I add was a horrible idea. I guess I really have to work on this punctuation and spelling stuff, since Kriegs last post. I tend to add a lot of letters to my words. But anyways, rumor has it that the writers strike is over, yet grey's still doesn't have any new episodes. Which is a good thing considering I can't watch it. During the snow day I realized how many times they play the weather forecast on the news. I mean seriously, they say the same thing every two seconds. And it's weird because it seems like the news people sugar coat it a little. For example, before I knew school was canceled I was up around 6AM and I was watching the lady weather person, and she said that the roads might be a little slick but should be an easy ride to start your work day. Easy ride? Right, thats why all the schools we're closed and it even got worse as the day went on. I know that their suppose to seem cherry and optimistic, but sometimes I think that the weather reporters need to be a little more realistic.

Valentiness Dayyy

Okkkk... so todayy was probuably the best valentines day everr so far:) Me V & Marie went to oakss... and all got the penne vodka parm like always. Then we went and saw 27 dresses which was cute and funny. But Marie and I decided that we really don't like movies that much because when your so use to watching episodes of like One Tree Hill or Greys Anatomy its hard to sit and watch a two hour movies when your use to episodes lasting less than hour without their commercials. Don't get me wrong I love movie, and lately i've been having an OCD of buying them, but sometimes they're a little dragged out. But anyways, after the movie V drove home and I was on a little bit of a sugar high(because of all the sour candy we snuck in that we bought at Rite Aid)... but needless to say it was a fun nite:)

Physical Educatorsss

I don't mind physical education. I think the activities are pretty well diverse. There's dance, swimming, and fitness, it's pretty well-rounded. However, I think this new rumor that gym class is going to be graded by how well you perform rather than you effort is bull. I don't think thats right. If their going to do that then they need to split the gym classes up by athletes and non athletes, or something of that sort. The problem with physical education is the educators. All of them or not bad, some of them are actually really good teachers and deserve respect and cooperation. Others however, which I will remain nameless, set themselves up to be disrespected and ignored. If you treat students like their less of a person because they ask a question that you might think is a stupid question, or if you judge them by what sport they play or how well they play, then you shouldn't be allowed to teach teenagers that are going through what's suppose to be four years of learning about themselves and figuring out what they want to do in life.