Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Life Update on Lizzy

I saw Jon's blog and decided that I should do a "life update" also. School is going to be over in three days! This year has gone by so fast. I can't even believe it! I reciently made Sophomore president of Davis High School, and I am way excited. I haven't done to much yet except pick our jacket, pick committee, and go to a bbq. I will have meeting in the summer and I will be in two parades. During the interview, (the one where they decided who is going to be pres.) I thought I did terrible. They asked hard questions like, "what talents do you have that will help contribute to sophomore class president?" The only thing I could think of was that I could sing, and I didn't have any idea how that could help me. I decided to say I was creative which is not exactly true. Kanien is creative. I am just weird. I am excited to do the interviewing for next year. That is going to be fun. Oh yeah, the sophomores got stuck with yellow jacket AGAIN! The last sophomore officer told me that she always got called, "banana peel," or "rotton banana."

I also work at lagoon in the ticketing department. I don't love going to work, but it is fun to get out of doing yard work. Actually work isn't all that bad. It is usually fun at the beginning, but then I start to want to leave, and when they start letting other people off who came in before me it makes me a little mad. I also hate counting money at the end of the day! It was my 4th time working at the ticket windows on monday, and my first time not being more than 5$ off. Usually I am way off because I miss a twenty, or I add wrong, but this time I was only 1$ over on my first try! If you are more than $5 over or short they make you recount everything! The good thing about lagoon is my department. I like working in ticketing. It is by far the best department. Our supervisors are so much fun. Most of them don't get mad at you, and you just joke around with them a lot. It seems like there is always food in the ticket windows that somebody has brought, so that is fun.

Today was the cross country meeting at Davis High. It made me feel really guilty for neglecting running for the past few months. I ran today, and I was feeling ok until I realized that I was running about a 10 minute mile. That is way sad! I am going to be so slow! Oh well, all I can do is train hard now. Coach Talley told me that I should be doing the medium workouts, but today I did the slow one. The workouts he wants me to do range from 3 to 6 miles, along with trail runs, tempo runs, and fartleck runs. I think that in a few weeks I will be able to get into the mode of running again. Me and my friends from Cross country are "going to find a six pack." this summer. That is going to be interesting. As soon as school gets out I have EFY from the 5th to the 10th. Then I have a week of nothing. Then from the 19 to the 23 I have girls camp. This summer I also have Cross country came in late July. Oh yeah, we have a cabin trip with the McCanns, (which I will not be going of there is no water.) and family vacation. HOLY COW! That is a lot of stuff! Well, it should be fun! I hope that everyone is doing well and getting ready for summer!

3 comments:

Jon said...

OK, Lizzy. I can't believe I just read that. You'll really stay home just because there might not be running water?!!??!? You need to go camping some more. Being at the cabin without running water is still about 16x10^23 times better than being at home. I understand how it might be tough in the winter...but it's actually much easier now that you can walk to and from other people's cabins. Didn't you hear that Kanien and Amie even took showers up at the VanMitzell's? I guess this is a useless conversation anyway, since Dave is going up to get it fixed in a week or so.

Caroline said...

I'm so thrilled I was included in your summer plans. I can't wait to see you in your yellow jacket.

Laurissa said...

Congratulations on being elected and sailing through the interview! You will do an awesome job. Post a picture of you in your yellow jacket, okay?

Also--keep running! You can do it. The improvement you see after running continuously for a year is so incredible you won't believe it. Even if you just do 30 minutes a day when you're not training with the team (and maybe a long run on the weekends). If you do this by your junior and senior year you will be really fast, I promise! Good luck with everything, it's fun to be busy, a lot better than doing nothing!