annawhittaker

2009-02-28T22:38:00.000-08:00

Handsome boy. I like this picture with the sun behind him.

2008-11-10T21:07:00.000-08:00

Messin around with a new camera. I think it turned out pretty good!

I'm Baaaaaaaack!

2008-01-09T23:04:00.000-08:00

You all better be damn excited to hear from me again. Not that anyone was really looking at this but hey, i can dream.

Its been over a year since I last posted and you guessed it, a lot has happened. I'm still together with the same boyfriend, things are moving along swimingly, I'm still going to school...off and on...And I'm working my butt off. (not that I had one to begin with)

I started workin at a place called hastings and in less than a year, was able to work my way up to a manager position. I love it. Although the pay is less than adequete. I get to work with people all day, play with money all day, get ahead on movies, books, and cd's that are coming out, and make coffee! Oh, i love making coffee. Which reminds me, after here i'm gonna look at Bed Bath and Beyond for a specific coffee maker.

And with that, i'm done. Off to Bedbathandbeyond.com!

more goings on

2006-05-25T20:36:00.000-07:00

woooooo wee, its been a while since Ive been able to get on this. Its now 3 weeks after school is out and Im working full time. again. and looking for more work. Aint life grand like that.

The musical went really well, I got a lot of good reactions to it. apperantly, I can laugh really funny. I was even told that I was better than the girl who did the original broadway show. I watched it and I much admit, I was a bit more entertaining. I played little red as more of a little girl. In the broadway show, she really didnt do anything. Sometimes it was funny when she did say a punch line with such a serious face, but other than that, shes a LITTLE GIRL. act like it please.

I will be working all summer to try and save money so I can go back to school, but I dont know if it will work out. I pray it does.

Im about to turn 21 this year. only 2 months left. Its all rather exciting.
My boyfriend and I will have been together for a year in June.
not much else is going on, Im bored right now so I guess Ill go fix dinner now.

things are going fast

2006-03-05T17:05:00.000-08:00

well, its only 1 week and 3 days till opening night for the musical. Its getting really stressfull for everyone. We are all getting our lines and the songs are coming a long, but at the same time, everyone is also really tired and stressed and its going to be great when its over.

At the same time, it will be sad. I wont know what to do with all the time I have to spare. I wont have to go to rehearsal 4 nights a week and I wont have to practice my lines and songs and I will have so much time on my hands.

What to do with it all, what to do?

2006-02-03T18:28:00.000-08:00

I LOVE Wicked.

2006-01-31T22:32:00.000-08:00

playing foursquare in the lobby

2006-01-30T00:11:00.000-08:00

another "great" picture of my room mate, Kiva, and I.

2006-01-30T00:10:00.000-08:00

She made me do it, it was all KIVAs fault, She said she would love me forever if I sang, "I will Survive". I dont know what I was thinking

2006-01-28T12:48:00.000-08:00

A week into rehearsal and Im feeling a little ovewhelmed. We have been learning songs this past week and the director wants us to have all the songs memorized by next Saturday. That gives us ONE more week to know them. But it is fun and I am enjoying almost every munute. The rehearsals are very busy and you have to take every moment you can get and use them to the fullest. Next week we start working on scenes and choreographing and blocking them. This is the first time Ive done any drama, so I dont know what to expect on anything. I just show up and do what they tell me to do.

I also am going to be volunteering at a school for my OPE stuff. I dont remember what it stands for but its for Oregon teacher liscensing. I am really excited to be able to be in a classroom and help students. I hope i get to be in a music class. Thats what i want to teach when I get my degree. Ok, thats it for now. Gotta be a productive student and do homework.

2006-01-23T09:43:00.000-08:00

Since the words are a little small, Ill tell you what it says. Captain Redbeard, I love tradition as much as you, but It might be time to hang up the hook. Yaar... I know

2006-01-23T09:40:00.000-08:00

this is a funny cartoon I found online.

I got a part!

2006-01-22T11:09:00.000-08:00

well, as stated in a previous blog, I was trying out for my schools musical, Into the Woods. I tried out on Wednesday and Friday and they called my yesterday (Saturday) and told me that I got the part of Little Red Ridinghood!!! If you know anything about this play, its a semi major role. Its not the MAIN character, but if you take it out, you dont have a story. I even have a solo song I get to sing!! It's all VERY exciting.

Editing

2006-01-21T11:31:00.000-08:00

I figured out how to add links to a website. All by myself. YEAH! I feel smart. I feel like I can conquer the world! well, wait. no, not really the world. But a website, definatly!

2006-01-19T21:02:00.000-08:00

this tells guys how to lindy hop without actually knowing how.

2006-01-18T17:30:00.000-08:00

Well, those two pictures are finally up. I have tried and tried to send them and for some reason it would not work. But low and behold, I try it one more time, and it works! YEAH!!! The one dressed as batman is my room mate, Kiva. She really likes batman. I couldnt think of anything to BE so I just decided to be some sort of superhero. thats what the sign on my shirt says. I was wearing Kivas purple spandex, and my swim shorts and a yellow shirt and a blue towel as a cape and since I had some left over fabric, I decided to make a mask.

2006-01-18T17:29:00.000-08:00

Kiva and I dressed up for costume day at Corban College. 2005

2006-01-18T17:28:00.000-08:00

trying to send this picture for the 8zillionth time

2006-01-16T10:11:00.000-08:00

Well, I got back from my amazing weekend of dancing last night around 1 in the morning. At about 2 sunday afternoon, my feet started to go numb to everything that they were doing. I was still dancing, but they didnt know that. And my calfs hurt right now, due to the fact that when you dance this type of dance, you should be on the balls of your feet at all times. It gives you more balance and allows the lead to be able to change directions at any time. But other than not being able to walk upright, I am GREAT!
I learned so much this weekend. I hope to be able to take classes from these people again some day. They are amazing teachers. They went really fast, but they way they taught, everyone was able to keep up. I just hope I remember all the cool moves they taught. Steven Mitchell taught us a jazz routine, the was sooo.. much fun. I remember most of it, but the sad thing is that I cant get the song on itunes. I would be able to remember a lot more if I had the music to it as well. I guess I will have to look somewhere else.

dance class

2006-01-13T14:19:00.000-08:00

Today, Im going to be at a dance class then all this weekend I will be dancing! Im soooooo...excited you have NO idea. Its going to be intense but Im ready! i hope. I leave school in 3 hours. Ah! I have to get some homework done first. Ill write all about it when I get back. Toodles!

new semeseter

2006-01-12T14:35:00.000-08:00

Well, Im back in school and this semester is looking busy. I have 12 classes and 9 of them are one credit. (music major) I am also going to be trying out for the musical that the school is putting on. Its going to be "Into the Woods". I cant wait! I was told I should be Little Red Riding Hood. I dont know much about the charachters though, so I guess I will just have to be happy with what they give me. The auditions are on wednesday next week so I will have to come back here and tell y'all what part I got. Well, since after looking at my previous posts, I wont write a novel this time.

Thanksgiving break

2005-11-30T17:57:00.000-08:00

Well, I just got back to school a few days ago from thanksgiving break. It was a way needed break. I left on tuesday and went straight to my boyfriends house. It had been a month since I last saw him. I was a little afraid of crossing the Blues (a mountain pass between Pendleton and La Grande) but there was nothing to fear. Except FOG. There was a lot of fog. When I called Tony and told him how much fog there was, he laughed cause there wasnt anything in Boise. It was all blue skies and sunny. But who had the last laugh, ME! When I got there at 5:30, wooee! it was REALLY foggy in Boise. But thats ok, I made it home and thats all that counts. We went to see Harry potter on IMAX which was...Amazing! It was a good movie to begin with, then put it on IMAX and its even better. On our way back we stopped to Sportsmans Warehouse. I tried on a few different backpacking packs and we looked at sleeping bags and thermarest mats. If I want to go backpacking, its gonna take a lot of money to get all the gear I need!
The next day I went shopping with my friend shelly for all the groceries i needed to make dinner. I had a lot of fun at costco, where I did my famous "I'm stuck in the milk cooler" routine. It got raving reveiws. I think Ill have to take it on the road some day. But I got all the food I needed and Tony and I set out to my grandmas house. When we got there, I started cooking. I made 2 pumpkin pies, an apple pie, cranberry sause, rolls and I peeled and cut a bunch of veggies. I ended up going to bed around 3:30. Then waking up around 8:30 to put the turkey in at 9. you can safely guess that I was pretty tired that day. And then eating the turkey didnt help. So we had a really good traditional dinner and I must say, I am a darn good cook. Then, my cousin wanted to learn how to dance. So tony and I started to dance. My family was entertained and my cousin really had fun learning to Lindy Hop. Shes a ballet dancer and she does all sorts of other dances, but Lindy is a partner dance and I dont think shes done much of that. It was cool being able to teach HER stuff when its usually her that teaches me dances.
Tony and I left Grandmas house on Friday and we went back to his house. And guess what! It snowed! I love the snow, even driving in it. I dont like it when other people drive in it and they dont know how to. but I dont mind driving or playing in it.
Saturday we went to my parents house and I learned how to play Dominos. (I beat him, though he would never admit to it.) And I made lunch, grilled cheese and tomato soup. Then Tony and I helped my dad move the new fridge in place of the old one and we had to movet the old one and take the doors off the new one to change the hinge so it opens on the right side, then we had to move all the food from the old one into the new one and then dad said there was a small fridge downstairs that needed to be taken outside so we had to do that. Oh! and I forgot, the old fridge had to be moved downstairs too. OYE! using a dolly to move a fridge down a flight of stairs is pretty difficult. But we did it.
After we left my parents house, we went to Wilsons house. Wilson are friends of tonys. They are actually twins but one of em wasnt there. WE hung out with Ryan W and watched a few people play a game of Quarters and get drunk. or at least they were starting to get drunk. Me only being 20 didnt drink. I did play a few rounds, but drank water instead. Its actually a lot of fun.
Sunday, we went to church and then we went to barnes and Noble. Looked at books for a while then we stopped at REI. a happy place for both of us. we really just stopped there to waste time. I had to leave in a bit and it wasnt enough time to do much of anything. but it was fun. We headed back to his house so I could get my stuff together and head out.
well, that was my thanksgiving week and I enjoyed it. It was a well needed break and Im excited for christmas break in 2 weeks.

At school

2005-10-11T18:05:00.000-07:00

Wow, Its been a while since I posted last. I forgot all about having a blog. A lot has happened since my last post. I counseled at camp, I moved to Salem, Im in school, and Tony and I are dating! Woo hoo!

School has been going for over 6 weeks and we are about half way through the first semester. I dont have a whole lot of homework, and so far Im keeping on top of it. Although I did get a paper back from my writing class and I made a few comma errors. So that cost me a lot of points. BUT, the good thing is, he is giving me another chance. I have to turn it in on Thursday. A lot has happened at school. As I said in a previous post, I said I would be homesick after a few weeks of being here. And boy is that true. Really, im mostly missing Tony. But I get to go home on the 21st. Thats in 10 days!! Im so excited! This is going to be a really long 10 days. Im also missing the kids at the daycare. I have a bunch of pictures of them and I realize just how much I loved working with them. Being able to play with them and teach them. Expecially the hugs, I really miss my hugs from my kids.

Oh! Hey! let me tell you about my room mate. Her name is Emily and she is awesome. but she and I are complete opposites. She loves PURPLE! and has purple everywhere, whereas I have more neutral, dark tones in the things i have. Her bed is PURPLE, mine is a dark red and brown quilt. She has pictures of her and her boyfriend everywhere, I have one picture. But she and I get along famously. Weve made cookies together and done other things. And surprisingly, our room is still clean. I know, i know, your very impressed that college students could keep a room clean for more than 2 weeks. Well, BE AMAZED! be very amazed.

Im sure there are a lot more things for me to say but thats all I can think of right now. Ill be back with more.

Getting impatient

2005-05-26T20:40:00.000-07:00

Today was my best friends last day working with me. She and I met in Jr. High but never really did anything till High school. And even then, she was the one who called me. But only once a year or so. Then I went to school for choir and we got to be closer friends there, but not a lot. It was only after my parents moved out that we got to be really close. Now you may be asking, Why would the parents move out when isnt it that the kid moves out when he/she reaches 18? Well, after my grandma died in December, my parents decided to move up to my grandparents house up by Idaho City. To take care of my grandpa. My dad loves it up there and my mom enjoys the wildlife. So back to Shanna. She would stay the night with me a lot because it would be scary in a house all alone. She and I started an exercise regimin, which only lasted about 3 weeks, and I got her a job at the daycare that I work at. She was AWESOME! the kids loved her instantly. She was vibrant, energetic(I was) and loved to play. Sometimes she and I would start to dance in the hallway and kids would be laughing at us. Thats what we did. We danced, played, talked and had A LOT of fun. Now shes off to work in Red Fish Lake, Idaho. Im really excited for her. Shes going to be great. But now I just have to wait for my turn. Im waiting for the camp season to start so I can go to McCall. Ill be a couselor there for 5 weeks. Then Im going to move to Salem OR. Every time I think about it I get a little more nervous. Im going to be moving away from EVERYTHING i know. Ive been to Salem but I dont really know what it has to offer. Im getting nervous because I dont know what kind of people Im going to meet there. Or if Ill be able to handle being away from Idaho. I cant wait to get out but I love Idaho. Im thinking that im going to be ok for the first few weeks, then when it really sinks in that Im hundreds of miles away from my family, Ill probably get home sick for a while. But by the time I get over that, it will be thanksgiving break, then a few weeks later, christmas break. Then I will want to get back to my friends in College. uh, wow, that sounds weird. COLLEGE. college. College. woah, cant say it too many times. I feel like an adult. And I dont wanna grow up. I wanna stay young and single forever. I wanna do all sorts of thing before I get married and have kids. One thing I will do is go to Austrailia. Shanna and I are planning to go in 5 years. By then I should be graduated. Shes already saving for it. I didnt think it was a real plan, I really wanted to go and said we should, and She said yeah. LET GO! So she started to save for it. She says she already has 600 dollars for it. Great job. She also plans to pay for most of my portion as well. Knowing that im going to be poor white college trash. Well, I cant wait for my life. Right now its on back order and I want it NOW. I wanna go to college, graduate, go to Austarailia, go to Scottland, go to Europe, Do all sorts of things there and then I can get married. I CANT WAIT!

last class

2005-05-19T17:32:00.000-07:00

Today is my last gym class I will be taking. Only because it costs so much to keep up and I wont be getting free classes after this Saturday. (sigh) I have enjoyed every minute of my classes. When i first started, I could do a cartwheel and a handstand. I was fairly flexible and oh yeah, I could also do a front tuck on the trampoline. Now I can alomst do a back handspring unspotted. I can definetly do one with a spot, Ive done back tucks on the tramp and Ive learned how to do a front hand spring. Its sloppy but I can do it. I am in the midst of learning front tucks on the floor and Get this, I can almost do a round-off-back-handspring. sounds inpresive eh. Not really, its just a back handspring after a round off. which is a cart wheel where you land on both feet instead of one at a time. Im sad I wont be getting free classes anymore. But now I can spend my Thurdays dancing. Which i really want to start doing more often, before I leave for college. I want to dance more so I can find a place in Salem and dance there and not feel like a total dweeb. So I look like i know what im doing a little. All I got now is step-step-rock-step. and a few spins. and a swing out! woo! be awed in my presence. Now all i gotta do is ask my favoritest sister-in-law to teach me. since tony works. poo on him. Im done blogging for today. bye

Life questions

2005-05-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

Here are some questions to get your mind thinking.

Why is it that a shipment is sent by truck and cargo is sent by boat?

Where does the cork go when you "put a cork in it"?

How much wood CAN a wood chuck chuck?

If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Why do we celebrate high school graduation when they just go back to school for another 4 years?

What if the hokey pokey is what its all about.

How many pickels did peter piper pick.
I will return with more, after these messages...
I hope this invokes some serious thought into your mind. I know I question my very own existance because of these ideas. Have a nice day!

college

2005-05-01T15:18:00.000-07:00

This year I am going to Corban college in Salem OR. Im really excited and am starting to get nervous. For many reasons. One I will be away from everything I know, two, I have to get SHOTS! turns out when you are homeschooled, you arent required by law to have all your immunizations updated. But then when you go to a college, they like you to be shot. I need about 3 or 4 boosters and updates. AHHH... I dont like shots. Oh well, Im a big girl, right? Then when you go to college you have to have some way of paying for it. Most colleges that my friends went to were not that expencive. But me? no... I had to choose a very expencive college, 25,000 a year expencive. WOW, thats a lot. Thankfully, I am poor white trash and can get quite a few grants. so far I have ABOUT 10,000 in grants and scholorships. now I only owe 15,000 to the bank or what ever loan agency I choose. oy! a word of advice to all you freshmen in high school, SAVE NOW!! College is not that far off. Put 50 dollars of every paycheck youget from now on into a saving account and then that will help a little bit. Well, I am very hungary right now. Going to quiznos! Bye

college

2005-05-01T15:16:00.000-07:00

IT COST A LOT OF MONEY!

2005-04-26T18:42:00.000-07:00

I hope I dont break this thing

2005-04-26T18:37:00.000-07:00

ooh, im blogging!

FIRST POST!

2005-04-26T17:59:00.000-07:00

First Post