Official Title: Student Sweeper

My Official Title?
Student Sweeper
What it really means?
I'm a janitor.
at Cherry Creek Elementary.
haha

what a job.
and i've had it for a year now.
but hey it earns me money.
how else would I be able to pay for my portion of my car payment every month, or pay my parents back for part of my trip, or my part of dance classes, or all the extra little things I like to buy.
good things about my job? i just listen to music and text the whole time, i dont have to work nights or weekends or holidays, and it's not that hard.

I don't know though...sometimes I think about it...and really I go in everyday after school for FOUR (well i guess technically 3.95) long hours and clean.
Yep.
Vacuum.
Empty Trashes.
Clean Desks.
I guess sweep or mop every once in awhile.
all the things a janitor would do.
but atleast I don't have to pick up throw up or clean bathrooms or anything gross like that.

Thats a long time though when you think about it...
thats like 2/3 the amount of time we sit at school.


Thoughts from work:

• my ipod is my best friend
• i will always appreciate clean windows and drinking fountains
• "blue skies" is more then just pretty sky. its a cleaner
• big loads of paper is a lot heavier to throw away then you think
• the elementary school is one of the scariest places I know (i get scared and scream on a daily basis)
• the faculty room always has some type of left over snack or treat
• we like to raid the fridge
• we like to hide out in the rooms without windows
• picking up trash outside isn't just something people do for community service
• i would love if we had wifi at the school
• sometimes you find yourself having the most random conversations with the people you work with
• 5:30=breaktime...meet in the art room
• sometimes teachers can be messier then the students can
• there is nothing more annoying then woodchips
• glitter never vacuums up
• gum in the carpet is annoying
• it's funny when people try to talk to you when you have your headphones in and music blasting
• new teachers are funny
• 65c. = soda :)
• the basement underneath the school is the scariest place
• sometimes huge spiders like to crawl on the carpet. so we catch them and spray them with cleaners till they die
• 5 more minutes always means 10 more minutes
• giving daily advice to jared on how he shouldn't do drugs and should go to school
• me and kelby arguing on whether SF is better or SHS ....obviously SHS
• setting up chairs for programs is annoying
• wednesday means disinfect the desks
• apparently kids can trip on dirt on the gravel...so we have to sweep it up
• hand prints on glass windows are terrible
• it would always be nice if someone would just volunteer to do my job for me one of these days...

oh im sure there are so many more things i could think of to put on here...
but i can't think of them right now.

i just cant believe
that i have thee lamest job ever
i'm a student sweeper :P

High School Sweethearts

My parents.
High school sweethearts.
Actually, technically Jr. High sweethearts.
How come it worked out so perfectly for them?
I'm sure their relationship wasn't perfect or always easy and I'm sure they went through rough times that I don't know about...
But it sure seems perfect.

<3
hahahahaha so funny looking
but so precious

They met at the welcome back dance at Springville Jr. High School when my mom was in 8th grade and my dad was in 9th grade.
My dad still claims to this day that he knew he was going to marry my mom from the moment he saw her.
Whether that is true or not, I don't know, but it still is cute either way.
From then on they were together, and they will be forever.
My dad would walk my mom home from school.
They would go get ice creams together after my dads (rotary or quality, I can't remember) football games and my mom cheered (for snowdairy I think.)
They went to almost all the high school dances together.
They were there for each other all through high school.
There are pictures of them in their Springville high yearbooks together.
I read their yearbook signings and they are the sweetest things ever.
My mom waited for my dad on his mission.
And they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.
Pretty much the most perfect fairytale high school sweetheart story ever.

So how come if our parents love life story was so amazing...

Then why does it suck so bad for me and my brothers?

One of my brothers had a serious girlfriend in high school and we all loved her then.... Until she broke his heart and he hasn't been as close to anybody since then. And I know how much it hurts him as he gets older seeing all of his friends get married and wondering when he'll ever find someone.  He is so funny, sweet, caring, and loving and I know any girl would be so lucky to have him and I hope he finds someone soon.

My other brother thought he found the one. Yet she kept going back on forth on whether she was ready or not to get married. Finally they figured things out and he proposed this last weekend. Yet already a day later she is saying she doesn't think she is ready. It is crushing my brother. I love him so much and i was so happy for him. He is the best example and he deserves to be happy.

And then there is me.

Amanda.

You want to know what my name means?

'Worthy of Love'

How ironic

Especially since I've never been in a relationship before.

I just wish I was like my mom and had someone to be with as I went through high school.

Even if I didn't end up marrying them.

I don't know it would be nice to just not have to worry about not getting asked to dances.

Or to have someone to walk around the halls with.

Or just someone to to talk to.

Or just to show they care about you.

I don't know...
I guess I'm just complaining about how me and my brothers love life sucks.
I just know that it hurts all of us.

But somewhere out there is someone for each of us.
I know it.
I guess we just have to wait

And eventually we'll find our own fairytales.

saturday snapshots

every saturday I'm going to try and upload a few random pictures I took throughout the week

my yw :)
sis robertson's last day

most amazing rainbow(s) i've ever seen!

Limit the Ladybug
our math class friend

Jared is a creeper
oh the people i work with...

first day of school

meet kelby
the student sweeper
we have the best job ever
not

SF vs. SHS football game

Remember when it was summer...

oh wait. that was only 5 days ago....

so really im writing this blog because cason and michelle want me to write about our adventures of our last day of summer.

so here it is

THE LAST DAY

i can't remember all the way, but i'm pretty sure i probably slept in...till like 11 or so.

cause it was summer...and thats just what you do.

you sleep in until you wake up.

Then if i recall right i picked up chell and cason and we headed to the res.

oh wait. i just remember...i got my hair done that morning.

so anyways we headed to the res.

sometimes i kinda speed...

.....just a little...

okayyyy....maybe a lot

............................

haha okay just kidding. no worries. my car was accidently on kilometers per hour instead of miles per hour and we couldn't figure out for awhile why it said i was going so fast when i really wasn't

so we had some fun with that.

so then we arrived at the res.

and i couldn't get my hair wet.

so there was to be no pushing me into the water.

which was kinda nice not to worry about.

and of course we brought the air matress.

res+sun+air matress=relaxation and pure happiness

so ya the res was fun.

then we stopped at the little acorn for some food.

which was delicous.

yummy oreo shake..

oh ya i owe cason a dollar i think..

anyways

then later that night me, chell, brad, and taylor met up at casons house

and watched

INSIDIOUS

ahhhhhh!
so scary

and of course cason scared me right at the beginning of the movie.

not gonna lie...im kinda scared just thinking about it

way good movie though.

i forgot how much i like scary movies...

but hate them at the same time

ahh! this song is sooo creepy.

i wanna cry

okay no.

but ya way scary.

and the worst part was going home that night.

and walking thru my house around all the corners

in the dark

with just my cell phone as light.

i guess i could have turned the lights on for a few minutes if i was smart

and i tried to go to sleep

but still freaked out

so yep. that was the last day of summer

so much fun.

wish it was still summer

[the beginning of the end]

yep.
today was my last first day of high school.
this is it.
senior year.
<3

FIRST LUNCH OF SENIOR YEAR
SONIC STYLE
yeah...school kinda makes us crazy

yeah...I'm not really sure how I feel about today.  Kinda good, kinda bad.  I don't know...I guess it's just school.
I feel like the first day of school is always kind of a let down.  I always seem to get excited because it is fun to go back and see everyone.  Then your just wondering all day long who is going to be in your classes...and then it seems like the people you are hoping to be in your classes never are...whatever...

I don't know today just felt like blah all day long.

First day the halls are always super crowded and nobody knows where they're going and you barely even see some people.
Then it's first period and you've only been sitting there for 10 minutes and your already dying of boredom (yes me, michelle, and conrad were sitting in photography wondering how the heck we were going to make it thru the day).
Then you move on to your other classes...like for me, AP CALC, and you are already stressing about the class and you haven't even had your first assignment.
And then you go to your other classes and there always seems to be those annoying people that you wonder when they will ever grow up and you can't believe you have to go a whole semester being in the same class as them.
Luckily dance company is always a nice little break from the rest of your classes.
Eventually lunch comes.  oh sonic. what would I do without you.  That *strawberry real fruit slush* was definitely needed today.
And when lunch ends you can't believe you actually have to go to 4 more classes...
It is always funny when you have a new teacher and for their first day they think that they can just be nice and ask you to not talk quietly...haha they'll soon learn you have to be strict.
Finally maybe you get to a class that is somewhat interesting and you are actually excited to go to that class and learn something. {thank you ms. leek and your psychology class}
And then of course the seminary assembly ruins everything...even though it was good, but you were hoping to see if somehow you got lucky and got Bro. Perman again...or atleast see who your teacher was or who was in your class....but no you have to wait for that till wednesday...
and FINALLY you make it to your last class...and of course its the one that your dreading most. Hardly anyone you know is in it...and yep I'm not interested in Physics at all...even if that class isn't going to be THAT hard.

At the end of the day it hits you that these are your classes for the next semester...whether you like them or not.

I dont know. I guess today was kind of a let down.
I need to get more excited.
Afterall...it is SENIOR YEAR.
got to make the best of it.

P.S. I HATE YOU

......or atleast I'm trying to

i just wanna be flexible

yeah. i know. if i want it that bad, then i should work for it.

right?

yeah thats why right after im done posting this im gonna go work on it :) okay?





no big deal, right?
can't everyone like lift their leg up behind their head?
i know these dancers are probably professional, but wow.

really i just want to be able to do the splits.
i'd be so happy.
cause i'm like thee most unflexible dancer you'll ever meet.
so i gotta go work on it.
just thought hopefully by looking at pictures of flexible dancers it would get me motivated to work hard.
we'll see if it happens


especially since i have auditions in like a few days :/

World Traveler

I love traveling.
that's all there is to it.
I've been more then lucky over the years to visit so many places.
Some trips i've won, others have been centered around sports events, some all on my own, and some with the family.
So where have I been?

Countries---

MEXICO - 2001
my family went on a cruise to mexico when I was super little
(Ryan is missing, he must be taking the picture)

CANADA - 2009
Glacier National Park
went with my parents and my grandma

ITALY - 2009
went with some friends and local tour group
The Colosseum



SWITZERLAND - 2009
went with friends and local tour group
Absolutely beautiful country



FRANCE - 2009
went with friends and local tour group
Eiffel Tower :)

ENGLAND - 2009
went with friends and local tour group
London Bridge



IRELAND AND SCOTLAND - 2011
Went with my family, minus colby, plus my grandma
Visited all of the places Ryan served on his mission



AUSTRALIA - 2011
People to People Program-Student Ambassador
adventure of my life

If you count airports, I've also been to Germany :)





STATES---
I've visited...
Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakoda, UTAH, Wyoming
Again if you count airports...then also Texas and New Jersey.




 

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
National Make it With Wool Contest
Went as the Junior Division winner from Utah and traveled with the Senior Division winner



NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Went with my family to watch
the Utah Utes play in the Sugar Bowl!



WASHINGTON DC
National Finalist in the Do the Write Thing Competion

 


HAWAII
went with my family and cousins
looooved it <3




















So grateful ive had the opportunity to go sooooo many places.
so where to next?
My goal is to visit all of the states before I die.
If I could pick anywhere to go in the world right now it would probably be New York, Spain, or Greece.
But....I think I'm gonna stay in Utah for a little while...I've had my fair share of vacations for awhile :)