Looking Good From Here

It has been a long four years, but high school soccer came to an end last Wednesday. We lost in a shoot out to North Olmsted, who we can obviously beat. It was an emotional ending; but I am overall relieved that it is over. There was so much drama within the politics of our program, and we were not good. I had fun this summer and this season with my friends. This season people were trying to bring down my confidence; but I still have it in despite all that happened to me. Even though in the short run this season did not look good, I have learned life lessons from everything that has happened. 

I have so many other things to look forward now for the remainder of my senior year. The addition will be done soon, Thanksgiving and Christmas, possibly CYO basketball and Cleveland United, the ski trip, Spring Break, track, and much more still is yet to come. 

We began the addition on our house about 3 weeks ago. We have had the same kitchen since 1995, we needed an update. And my mom has wanted a new kitchen for the past ten years, and since it was her 25th anniversary and 50th birthday this year and we did not go on vacation this summer, my dad caved in. I will explain exactly what we are doing in these pictures below.

I am at where part of our deck currently was.
Right where I am is where the added on portion
of our house will be.

Right where my dad is where the addition
is going to extend out to be. The area left to
him is going to be our new outdoor living
room. It is not going to be too fancy, just
some added comfy furniture and a ceiling
fan.

Our house is going to look so different.

Right at this point the addition is completely
built up on the exterior, the flooring and dry
wall needs to be put up. This is our family
and this large wall behind my dad is going
to be torn down and the room next to it
happens to be our kitchen. So with the
addition and the big wall knocked down
it will be a huge open area.

This is the wall of our kitchen that is also going
to be torn down along with the other wall. On
the other side of that door is where the addition
is built up, thus extending that area back more.

This was quite shocking walking into
yesterday after school. They tore down the wall
and this is what our open space is going
to look like.

This is another view of the addition and of what the open
space is going to look like. We still have a long way to go
but the project will be done in about 5 or 6 weeks. I will
blog updates of our new addition along the way!

Otherwise from the addition, I've been listening to Taylor Swift's new CD. It was released Monday and I like almost every song.

Slightly More Optimistic

Well my life is not going that swell right now. But you know what I got to stop complaining about how awful it is because it's really not that bad. My life could be so much worse and I know there are millions of people out there suffering. I've just been a typical teenager complaining about the littlest things. But in reality none of this is going to matter within the next 6 months, or the next year, or ten years from now. So I just have to forget about everything that's made me angry and upset and enjoy life.

Love this saying, even though
people hate YOLO

 Soccer is heading toward an end. And what would you know, we ended up having the worst record in Shoregals Soccer history. We didn't end up winning the conference, and we only won one home game. WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT. Hey, we might have a chance at playoffs........probably not but at I'm attempting to be optimistic. As you know I have been disappointed with this soccer season, but I know that all of my experience of soccer is going to help me out later in life. I have learned to work hard, to discipline myself, respect, confidence, integrity, team work, and that things are always not fair and that things always don't go the way it's expected to go. I have made some great friends in the soccer program, had a lot of fun memories, and I played the sport I love. It has been a long ride, but it is not over yet!

My social life has been alright. I have been low key not doing anything fun or exciting lately. Homecoming was actually horrible. It was the worst homecoming yet. My order of most fun homecomings to most boring homecomings were: Junior year, sophomore year, freshmen year, and then senior year. Isn't your senior year homecoming supposed to be the best one? I had a bad mindset going into it, but I didn't think it was going to be that bad. The dance was so lame, it seemed like there was nobody there, nobody wanted to dance, and the music was horrible. And there were other things that I did not enjoy, but I am not going to say it on here. My favorite part was taking pictures with my good friends and seeing every one's dresses. Otherwise that night sucked!

I am so cool taking pics with my dog

YAY

the lovely king and queen

Molly and I looking dashing in red

Otherwise I have just been doing college stuff. I am almost done with my applications thank god! Unfortunately I have to take the ACT for the 4th time ): . The last good movie I saw was Perks Of Being A Wallflower. I wish I finished the book before I saw the movie. And our addition to our house finally started yay! 

*I WILL POST PICS OF OUR ADDITION IN THE NEXT BLOG (:

Excellent movie with Emma Watson who is in
Harry Potter one of my favorites

Why I Need To Leave

Right now my mood is pretty crappy. Last week was pretty rough. And as of October 1st, 2012, we are approximately seven months away from graduation. I should try to enjoy my senior year right? Well so far it has been what I expected it to be. Soccer is not what I pictured it to be. School is just annoying. The only thing I look forward to everyday is lunch because I actually like my lunch table this year. English with Stuebz is great, but it's first period so I am tired. The rest of my schedule is just kind of dumb, and AP Bio is just notes on notes on notes. People in my grade really make me mad, and on top of that annoying underclassmen. I NEED TO LEAVE AVON LAKE

1. CAGED

I feel like a caged animal in this school. I feel like I get treated like a little kid when I am in fact an adult now. I thought being the oldest in the school would be such a cool feeling, but really I just feel old and way too mature compared to some of the idiotic people in our school. Avon Lake is a bubble, and it really bothers me when many people complain constantly about how horrible Avon Lake is. Hello, we live in one of the nicest communities, you do not have to pay for anything, you have food on your table everyday, SO STOP COMPLAINING! Also I feel like this school tries to get good kids in trouble. For instance, Erin and I received an in school suspension for walking around during study hall. There are countless amounts of students that skip class and leave school and never get caught. Another reason is that stupid parent sign off on gradebookwizard. Before, the school would just disable people's accounts, but now they are threatening students with Saturday schools. I don't understand why you would punish a student for something that there parents did not do. What if that student's parents are not good parents and are not always there for them. So you are going to give that student a Saturday school because of their irresponsible parents? Okay. Okay. Let's pretend like that seems right. And in the course of my discipline that has occurred at ALHS, I've received 2 detentions and an office notice. My first detention was in choir freshmen year when Molly and I were throwing pieces of binder at each other and it ended up on this girl, who gets offended easily. My second detention was my sophomore year in Mrs. Bair's class, I had my head on my desk at the end of class and she thought I was sleeping when I clearly had my eyes open. And my office referral was this year in Mrs. Birkby's class I had my phone out before the period even started and she took my phone away to the office. I don't understand why I received all of those punishments. Like I said this school looks for ways to get good students in trouble. I am on the honor roll, I play sports, and I never do things like stealing and doing drugs. I just do not understand the system at this school.

2. SICK OF PEOPLE

Like I said earlier, I am sick of all the immature people in our school. I am also sick of the judgemental jerks in our grade. I am a lot different than I was two to three years ago. I just need to leave all the stupid drama and cliques. ELE (everyone love everyone) WILL NEVER WORK AT ALHS. Because people got to be immature and act childish. If ELE happened, every one's lives would be much easier. I am a goofy person, and people that do not know me have to stop judging me so hard. I am so done with caring about what other people think of me because odds are I will never see them again after this year. People at Avon Lake High School need to realize that there's more to life than high school. And all of the immature jerks that haven't been nice to me throughout my time at ALHS, I wish them good luck because it will be hard for them to do well in life after high school. I know that my time is not now, and I am happy it is not. Because I do not want to peak at 18. I cannot wait to leave all of this Avon Lake drama behind and move on to greater and better things. I am also excited to start completely fresh and new, people that will not have previous judgements on me. I know college is going to be better than high school.

3. THIS YEAR
This year has not been what I was expecting it to be. Soccer is definitely not going the way I pictured it and my social life has kind of gone downhill in the past two weeks. I am also not really looking forward to homecoming at all. And a lot of this has to do with one specific person. But hopefully I will bounce back from it and eventually make this year better.

College is going to be so great. And I WILL NOT BE IN THE AVON LAKE BUBBLE. I am not going to make it a point to avoid Avon Lake people, but I am excited to leave everyone. I will stay in contact with my good friends. Who knows what will happen? My senior year better start to shape up soon, I got to keep my head up work hard for college. And hopefully everything will work out just fine. 

Hopefully...