I've decided that it's time to devote a blog to COLOR GUARD! :)

In color guard, there are three main types of “weapons.” Flags, Rifles, and Sabres.

Flags are the most basic of the three, then Rifles, then Sabres after that.

In color guard, there’s also a lot of terminology that people outside of color guard don’t understand. There’s also a lot of dance in color guard, so there’s all that terminology to learn as well.


There are a lot of different things to do while twirling a flag.
Cones (Stirs, there are many different names)
Single Spins, Double Spins
Hits
And many more
Confused Yet?

There are also a lot of different things to do while spinning a rifle.
Single, Double, Triple, Quad, Five, and for some, Six. These are all tosses that spin a different number of times in the air
There are also a lot of cool tricks that can be done and made up by the performer

Iowa's Famous :)

I didn't know Iowa was so famous, until I read this:
114 year old (oldest in world) died Tuesday. She lived in Iowa :)

If you add this to Ashton Kutcher, Herbert Hoover, and Grant Wood, I guess you could say this state is becoming pretty famous!

But if you compare us to somewhere, like, say, California, we look pretty petty...
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Gordon, Mark McGwire, Richard M. Nixon, Serena & Venus Williams, Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, and many more... We look a little petty, don't we? :(

Oh well, we're proud of what we have, aren't we?

Awesome Blogs!

Through Facebook, I have found this amazing blog called Healing after Homicide. It's about a lady who, like me, lost her father to murder. She has her blog linked to my personal blog (not my school blog) and vice versa.

Through this blog, we're able to talk about many different things regarding homicide and what has been going on in our lives since the incident.

It has realy helped me alot, and I'm glad I've found it!

Another blog are my Big Sister's blogs, Thoughts Put into Words, and Unstructured Thoughts of a Demented Optimist. This blog helps me because a) I know what's going on (good and bad) in my older sister's life, and we're able to connect with eachother through blog posts and the comments made on them :)

Thank you both for creating these blogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thunderstorm!!!

It’s storming! Thunder, Lightning, the whole shebang! I love thunderstorms, as long s I can watch them from the safety of my home :)

I woke up in the middle of the night last night to lightning filling up the whole sky. I stayed up for a while watching the lighting and listening to the thunderclap and the rain hit my window. I love thunderstorms! :)

I know they can lead to Hail the size of golf balls (or even softballs) or Tornadoes that rip apart a whole town. That's bad... But until things like that happen, I love Thunderstorms!!!

Google=Topeka?

Check out this awesome idea between Google & Topeka...

The governor of Topeka, Kansas decided to rename the capital city "Google." Google, in honor of this decision, renamed their website "Topeka," starting today, April 1st.

Oh, by the way... this is an APRIL FOOLS joke! Awesome joke to put in newscasts all over the world, isn't it?!

25 Days!

My cousin gets married in 25 days! I’m so excited! I get to go out to San Francisco and see my cousins and my aunt and uncle again! I’m really excited!

(Second time in history all my cousins on my dad’s side will be in the same room at the same time!) :)

It’s also a special day for my cousin that’s 10 years younger than me. It’s Special Friends’ Day at school, and I’ve been invited to go spend the day with her. We’re both really excited about that. I mean, wouldn’t you be excited to be able to go back to being 7 years old again for a day?! Bring on the naptime! Lol! Just kidding.

I’m really excited for my cousin and her fiancé. I can’t wait for him to be part of the family!

25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days 25 days!!!!!!!

Yeah I’m a little excited, sorry!

Local News Updates

I NORMALLY HATE LOCAL NEWS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO WRITE ABOUT! I HATE HOW THE PRESS WRITES, NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT THE FAMILIES THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT OR ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT! I'M JUST WRITING TO WRITE. AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHY. I JUST NEED SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT!

Junk Food Addiction
Citizens today, according to KCRG’s recent article, may find themselves eating more and more junk food. They say this could be due to an addiction to junk food. They say that once you eat a little, you eventually have to have more and more of it. Ever crave chocolate? This could be why.

Wal-Mart Man Dies
If you haven’t already heard this, there was a man run over in a Wal-Mart parking lot by an elderly lady. She was instructed, after accidentally running him over, to not move her car because it cause more damage. After the police got the elderly lady’s car off the man’s neck, he was rushed to Intensive Care. A few days later, the man died. In my opinion, many people are being more careful and are being more alert when driving through parking lots.

Eighteen-Month Old Baby Dies

I always hate hearing about these. Another baby dying. Personally, I think its Shaken Baby Syndrome again. But we’ll see I guess. Maybe I’ll be wrong. I sure hope so. I feel so bad for that poor little girl. She was so little – she had her life ahead of her. I hope they figure out why this happened and if it was caused by another human being, I hope they are prosecuted with the worst possible sentencing.