Happy Days

After a tediously long wait, we finally heard from SOAR regarding our roles in Seussical. I was badgering my uncle earlier this week, but he wouldn't crack. My godfather is the music director for the show, and on the SOAR Board of Directors. Unfortunately, he believes in "fairness", whatever that is. 

But alas! The cast list has been released! I found out this morning, and I was aghast! 
My official role is a Featured Dancer! Which I find quite hysterical, because I am about as coordinated as a blind elephant with three legs. Yeah. But I so thrilled!

 All of my siblings got parts, as did my dad! Libby - Cadet and Jungle Animal, Ben - Who, Dad is General .. . .General. . .Uh. . .Well, I don't know his whole character's name, but it's a pretty big part! I'm very proud of my family, my cousins as well, who are also in the show! Congrats y'all!

Here is the full cast list!

A fun little anecdote I want to share happened in Theology today. Our priest comes into our class one friday a month and teaches, and today happened to be one of those days. The topic of today's lesson was "Morality and Evil". We talked about how we all encounter evil, sometimes even daily, and how we may be contributing to evil without even knowing it, like when we pay taxes. He then asked us if there were any examples we could think of where we would be assisting an evil or evil act without knowing it involving taxes. One of my best friends, Sophia, raised her hand hesitantly and said kind of quietly,

"Obamacare?" 

Let's just say that it took quite a long time to get all of us, including the teacher and priest to calm down after that! Sophia made my day! I'm actually still laughing a little.

More to come, stay tuned!~

The Lazy Song

I AM BORED AND SWEATY.

There, I said it. I'm done. 

I have nothing to do, since I just finished my book and the next book in the series isn't at the library yet. I just got done with an easy track practice, and it's hot out. Yuck. Sorry, I'm not that interesting.

Here are some entertaining gifs for you:

~More to come, Stay tuned!

19th Nervous Breakdown

I have found there has been a theme this week. That theme would be being busy, crazed, and nervous. I'm sure you are asking yourselves,"Oh, Amanda, what on earth could make such a wonderful, stunning, intelligent and confident young woman - like yourself - feel crazed and/or nervous?"

Yes, yes I know. I am sorry to break the news to you, that even Broadway worthy actresses (such as myself*) get nervous! It's true! I am waiting on the results of my audition for Seussical  at SOAR. I auditioned on Sunday, and was very nervous. I do feel, however, that it went really well! I am excited and anxious for the cast list - hopefully I make the cut!


Secondly, I am nervous for the upcoming conference meet. I am hoping to be selected to represent Buffalo as one of the girl discus and shot put throwers. I am also being forced by one of my coaches to try triple jump. Fingers crossed!

~More to come, stay tuned!

*note the sarcasm

Busy Being Fabulous

I would like to begin with apologizing for not posting and/or updating y'all on the life of me *flips hair dramatically*. I have been extremely busy. With what I will tell you now.

Firstly, I have had track practice almost every day last week, including a meet yesterday, and one tomorrow. However, due to yuck weather we have had practice canceled today and Monday (yay!). I am glad to have the afternoon to myself, but when we are all unconditioned and unprepared for meets, it doesn't look to good. 

As for the Tuesday meet, I did pretty 'eh'. I threw discus, shot put and jumped the long jump. I've been thinking of dropping long jump, and the most recent meet did not help to sway me into continuing it. I scratched the first jump, got 8'8" on my first jump (which is really bad if you don't know. . .A good, normal jump is around 10-11 feet), and my second jump was 9'3". My best jump ever was 10'1", proving that the long jump is not my best event. 

My discus throw was 53'1". I am proud of that distance, but like I said, it wasn't my best. I just know I can do better! It infuriates me that I'm not improving. . .erg. 

My shot put was 25.8', which is the same as my highest throw. :/ Oh well, you can't always win, right?

Secondly, my cousin Lindy, was baptized! It has been a very eventful past few weeks for the Beaudry family! Lindy didn't cry once, and she looked adorable in the family baptismal gown. Lindy, welcome to the church family, baby! I love you the most! (Libby will say she loves you more than me, but I promise she's lying).

This is my favorite picture of Linderp*

(The Stitch was a present from her favorite** cousin)

Here are the pictures I have from the baptism. Now, keep in mind that all of them are unattractive. Quite frankly, I have been laughing at them since I took them. . .Or since I viewed them. My personal favorite is the one where Sol looks quite eldritch. I am so good at photographing***!

Ta-Da! More to come, stay tuned! 

*My nickname for Lindy, because I'm a horrible person

**Me, obviously

*** Note the sarcasm

Oh the Thinks You Can Think!

My Auntie Ellen and her son - Kaz - have been asking me to audition for SOAR's Seussical the Musical.  Every other year ( give or take a few) I have done a musical over the summer. I really do love to do the shows, I always have fun, but they have some consequences. . . For example:

- It takes up the whole summer

- Rehearsal last up to three hours

- Rehearsals are almost, or always ever night

And this year, I have some strange desire to do this musical with my cousins, even though I did one last summer (Oliver). When it was suggested the first few times, I cringed and shook my head at the thought of doing another musical this summer. But the fun show started to appeal to me. I got all of my siblings on board, and then mom went to put the rehearsals on the calendar (providing we got a part), and we ran into MANY conflicts. 

Libby is unable to audition due to conflicts, as well as Maddy. Ben just decided not to. . .But I really want to! Which is strange, because I am usually just a lumpy potato who doesn't want to do anything. The problem now is that none of my family members want to do it but me, and mom would have to drive me twenty minutes one way every night for rehearsals, just for me, and I don't want to inconvenience her. 

I think I'm still going to do it, but, erg! Any suggestions? I need help! 

~ More to come, stay tuned! 

Homeward Bound

As a celebration of Cinco De Mayo, my gramma and Auntie Lisa closed on their new house! They bought a house closer to us, in Buffalo, about a month and a half ago. It was a very quick buy, and we are all very excited! 

After school and track practice today we went over to the empty house and had our own little pizza party! Domino's had quite the line out the door when we went to pick up the pizzas, so I guess Cinco De Mayo was inspiring other pizza parties. 

We spent the evening exploring the echo-y house, and vacuumed. There was an overlong amount of vacuuming, but if it means that they get to move in faster, then so be it! 

After vacuuming and snarfing down pizza, all four of us kids decided to play a game of kick ball. We used rocks and trees as make-shift bases, and Ben coincidentally had brought a kick ball to school. Yippee! The game ended how you think it would have ended - in screaming, yelling and tears. There were many arguments about who was on base, if that kick was a foul, who was on who's team, if the teams were fair, etc. . . It was mainly Ben yelling at Libby, Libby yelling at Ben, Maddy yelling at Ben, Ben yelling at Maddy, and Ben and Libby beating each other and Maddy with the kick-ball. 

I was by the fence making friends with the toddler neighbor boy. I'm kind of off in my own world. 

I am very excited for the big move! I know Lisa and Gramma will love their new house, as will the herd of cats that comes with them. Gramma, Lisa, congrats on the new house! I love you both so much! And I hope you know that I will permanently be seated on your couch. 
Good luck!


~Stay tuned, more to come! 

Yet Another Movie

Yesterday, after helping my gramma finish up with her garage sale, we went to see another movie!

If you don't already know this, I will tell you now. We see a lot of movies. Roughly one a week. My dad is addicted to movies, I don't know why, but now that I can see all the PG-13 movies, he takes me with!

Now, we do go and see the occasional Disney or Dreamworks movie that comes out, as a family. But most often, it's just dad and I on a date! 

Okay, back to the topic. Last night we saw the Jungle Book   ,,and that was one strange movie! That was nightmare fuel right there!

Allow me to elaborate. The movie had one real-life character, and that was Mowgli. All the other characters and animals were animated to look like real animals. And the animation was good, but it was still creepy. Ka  - the giant snake - was played by Scarlett Johansson, and it was very. . .different to hear the snake as a woman instead of a man. She was very creepy, and the movie took a dark turn from there, and she wasn't even the worst part!

King Louie, the giant, monkey, was huge. I mean just massive. Louie offers Mowgli protection from Shere Khan( the tiger hunting him), in exchange for fire. Mowgli, even though he is a man, doesn't know how to make fire, or control it, and is chased out of the abandoned temple by King Louie. This part was scary! It involved a lot of jump-scares and a scary, orange King Kong chasing a little boy. Not my idea of fun!

The scariest and/or creepiest part of the movie would be Shere Khan, the massive tyrant tiger who is trying to kill Mowgli. Shere Khan is present through out the whole movie, but he does many horrible things. The most shocking and scary thing he does, is when he and the wolf-pack leader are talking ( and at this point in the movie Mowgli has run away from the pack) about Mowgli, the leader of the wolf pack - Akela, makes a peace gesture toward his pack and Shere Khan. Now, Shere Khan not only refuses the offer, but grabs Akela by the throat and hurtles him off a cliff! Not only that, but Shere Khan murdered Akela in front of his kids and wife. I will say that the wind was knock out of me at that point, and tears were pricking at my eyes.

So, if you are ages 8+ you can see this movie, but as for anyone in first grade or younger, it's too creepy! I was scared! I wasn't expecting it to be super fluffy, but it was just. . .strange. I do not suggest taking anyone 1-5, but I'm not in charge, some people might say that it was okay. I did not enjoy it, but clearly some people did. When we got to the theater, it was full. And the movie had been out for two weeks! 

I give it a C- rating. 

Ted and Kristin, if you are reading this, Lucia and Eloise would hate it! It was weird, and very gruesome. 


Here are some comparison pictures:

More to come! Stay tuned.