SNOW SNOW SNOW

For lack of a better idea... i will continue this ongoing rant about the alarming amounts and heaps of snow PA is currenting encountering. You may think this is a little excessive... 3 posts all related to the same broad topic. I figured however that it was completley acceptable consdiering the two other coauthors got a chance... i think it would be unjust if i didnt speak my mind also... and i think we broke a few records or something. So i think its worth your time. At first i thought the snow was siiiick. 2 weeks off school. BEST THING THAT EVER HIT LATROBE. This was back in the day when i was ignorant and dumb. Latrobe school district is currently working its way to the end of june schooling and soon enough we will hit july and then possibly the entire summer of 2010 will be nonexistent. this is my nightmare. The snow will never stop. i am convinced. its an outrage. I am normally NOT a snow hater. but this is getting out of control. here are a few cons that result in this ridiculous snow storm of february 2010.

-weekend plans spoiled
-school taking over summer
-coldness
-many injuries caused from the deathly snow and ice
-excessive shoveling
-inconviences, INCONVIENCES!
- cancellations of everything you do in life
-loss of animals/pets due to snow levels accumulating too high for heads.

Therefore, we are in a crisis. This is a time to come together and bond. For unity and cheerfulness.

Will we make it through this...
Will the snow ever end...
Will Greater Latrobe School District ever taste summer...

Dear Snow, thankyou for your appearance this year. you have helped to make this winter and christmas a white and enjoyable one. However, you have overstayed your welcome. please go home now.
Sincerly, Indeifnite Cacophobia


(my deepest apologies for the lack of photos in this post. my computer is having a mini spaz attack and wont let me add any. )

A Winter Adventure

I thought I should build onto Kim’s snow week post, seeing as we still have obscene amounts of snow. So yesterday Caitlin and I went to a birthday party for our friends Kayla and Tessa. They were both turning 18, so naturally we went snow tubing. We had to ride an hour away to get to the snow tubing place. Now everyone was super pumped, but I especially was because it was my first time going tubing. When we got there we all piled on our winter gear, grabbed a tube and got in line. We were all anxiously waiting when finally a man wearing a fluorescent yellow vest came out and told us the rules. Then they started the “magic carpet” that you stand on and it pulls you to the top. When you get to the top you have 2 options: the big hill or the baby hill. We went big. Go big or go home. My first trip down Caitlin and I linked our tubes together. We started whizzing down the hill, snow spitting into your eyes, wind rushing over your head, the drop you feel in your stomach when you go down a dip. What a rush! I was so ecstatic we HAD to go again. Caitlin and I teamed up with our good friend Erika a.k.a. Buttons (or butt for short). We did not walk the entire time. We ran to the magic carpet, pushed people to get to the top, ran to get off the carpet, and ran to get in line. Then we went down the hill and repeated. We like to make everything a competition so we would try and beat other people by running everywhere and cutting people off in line. We beat woman with ears on her hood, man who thought we were annoying, and most importantly our biggest victory was over foolish teenage boys. We got 17 trips down the hill in 2 hours. So at this time it’s 8 and we haven’t eaten since we got home from school at 3. WE ARE HUUUNNNNGGGRRRYYYYYYY!!!!!! Luckily it’s FREE pizza, popcorn, drinks and hotdogs day!! The best day ever! So we ate 5 pieces of pizza each and a liter of rootbeer each. Then we almost barfed. So then we ate cupcakes. Then we rode back home, jammin’ to Ke$ha the whole way.

Snow week

This year will always be the known as the year we got 2 winter breaks. Christmas is the obvious one, but due to a crazy blizzard that hit Latrobe ferbruary 5th, we got a week off of school. The only difference was this time was not planned and each night the entire school had to check the website to see how much longer they could procrastinate doing their homework. That's right Uglies, a whole solid week of cancellations. It can't get much better. :) So what if it cuts in to our summer? I want break, and I want it now!

the top of the fort

I spent my week doing numerous things, but the highlight was building Fort Shine (the name is an inside joke) in Caitlin Egan's driveway. From the snow that piled up from shoveling the driveway we made the best fort known to man kind. We made a room for her dog (our most frequent visitor), a main room (big enough for 6 people), a tunnel to another room (big enough for 2-3 people), and a snow tunnel slide(can get dangerous). This fort will go down in history. Don't believe me? Check out the siiick vid at youtube.com/caitlin6793 and be amazed!

inside the biggest room!

WeAre

Me and Tori, co-author of this blog, rap to everything in our lives. For example, when we hate someone, we rap, when we want candy, we rap, when someone is in our way, we rap. This went on for some time then we started getting fans, and people started to like our raps. Then one day we decided to share our skills and go public. We started a band/duet/musical group/rap group. We like to call ourselves "WeAre". On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, WeAre's Debut album The Show was released. It includes 9 songs on the album and is selling for only $0.99! This is a deal. GET IT NOW. The songs include: Babies in the Way, Tool Fool, High Pie, We Run This Show, Rollin in the Car, Creepers, Candy, Ticket and We Have Friends. Music Videos to Rollin' in the Car and Candy will be appearing in the next few weeks.

All the songs on our album are inspired from our lives. We will rap about anything and everything. If you have an idea/suggestion for a new song. leave it in a comment and you may see your idea included in our second album titled, "WeAre Not for Free", which will be released in early april.

Here is an excerpt from the song We Run This Show:

go go go

we run this show

we arent even slow

are you a friend or are you a foe

you dont even know

welcome to the show

center stage spotlight spotlight on me

people linin up to see

from sea to shinin sea

WeAre's style/genre is a mix between rap, seductive, psychadellic, futuristic, techno, hip hop, and a party/club beat. This can only be described as "Other". All 9 songs on the album are incredibly catchy and will be stuck in your head from the first time they hit your ears. There is a leak currently on youtube that came out a couple days before The Show was released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrpvwJkKg_w

go check it out! The leak includes a small portion of three popular songs on the Cd. We Run This Show, Tool Fool and We Have Friends.

Join the Facebook fan page WeAre!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/WeAre/334718190728?ref=ts

thanks for reading uglies! adios! :p

Weight Room Champs

With the 2010 track season fast approaching, my fellow distance runner and co-writer of this blog, Caitlin, and I have been working out in our school’s weight room daily. Our routine is as follows: ride the elliptical machines until we get dizzy and high, run a lap around the school (1000 meters) as fast as we can (our PR is 4:23), buy candy from the vending machine, sit in the locker room and eat said candy until our ride comes.

So step one: ride the elliptical machines until we get dizzy and high. Now after school we have to change super fast and run to the weight room to make sure we get the good, fully functional ellipticals. Otherwise, the whole day is thrown off. When we were weight room noobs, we could only go for 30 minutes. Now we are rising up to be stars of the weight room, and are at 45 minutes. We usually listen to our I-pods, laugh at the toolfools who use the gym, or make up raps (look out for our CD being released on Tuesday). This usually is enough to keep us entertained until the last 10 minutes. The last 10 minutes of our workout are the most intense. We are so tired that we are dizzy and laugh at everything and we have runner’s high. Then when there is one minute left, we crank up the resistance to 10! (We usually stay at 6) Then we have to go as hard and fast as we can in that last minute. Then after we are done we do our good deed for the day and wipe off our machines with the sanitary wipes.

Step two: run a lap around the school as fast as we can. So at this point we are high and extremely tired. So we get a drink from the water fountain. Then we go outside in the freezing weather wearing only shorts and a t-shirt and we start the timer. Then we sprint as fast as we can, trying not to pass out or die. As we get to the junior high all of the babies leaving school get in our way and we have to dodge them like an obstacle course! It’s madness! We make it back to the weight room, barely in one piece and stop the timer. Our fasted time ever is 4:23. We try to break it every time we do our lap. After we are done with the lap we take a few minutes to catch our breath and be able to walk straight again.

Step three: buy candy from the vending machine. Then we crawl back upstairs to the gym lobby with our emergency dollar bills in hand. We take about 10 minutes to decide what we want (although we get the same thing every time-the crispy crisp crunch- accept they are all out now!!!). Our dollars slide into the machine, we punch in the number that we want, and the delicious, mouthwatering, juicy, sweet, sugary, tasty, melty, crunchy, perfection candy falls into our hands.

Step four: sit in the locker room and eat said candy. This is my personal favorite time of our workout. After we buy our candy we go back down to the locker room (this takes about 10 minutes since we are so high) and sit and eat it! We laugh at everything and say crazy things to the other girls in the locker room. Sometimes we try to stretch, but it never seems to work out and we always end up lying down instead. After our candy bars are gone (this is a devastating moment) we grab all of our crap and sllooowwwllyyy walk back up to the lobby and wait for out rides.

So all of this seems super cool and awesome, until the toolfools took over! Now we aren’t allowed in the weight room on Mondays and Wednesdays because the football team is in there. Track season starts in three weeks, and football season doesn’t start until next school year!! It’s an outrage! But unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it so we just sucked it up and joined the football team so we can still workout. Jk, but that would be pretty BA. So now you know the full length version of what our everyday crazy, running-filled lives our like. Impressed?