Happy Birthday to My Sistah!

Happy Birthday Bri Bri!

It's my sister's birthday today!

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Thank you Brianna for the many wonderful years together!  Thank you for being an amazing sister, best friend, and example to me.  I couldn't ask for a better sister. I hope your birthday is a memorable one.  Love you Bri!

Wow.  Today the "craziness" finally kicked in.  YARG!

Well, that "crazy" I was talking about earlier finally hit me.  I have so much to do!  I was having panic attacks all day, but my day started out stinky from the very beginning.

I woke up with a migraine and a terrible sore throat, had a horrifically bad hair day, my breakfast spilled ALL over me in the car on the way to school and I almost died while trying to clean it up, and after hitting every single red light I arriving late to school.  At this point I accepted that I had a horribly bad day ahead of me.  Then, at lunch I needed to run out and grab something out of my car.  I run out there and see that my keys are inside my LOCKED car.  Called my mom and started hyperventilating as I tried to tell her about my keys, which turned into me bawling in the parking lot to my mom as I vented about everything going on.  It was crazy.

Then in my next class, something hit me.  I remembered my post from a few days ago!  "I decide whether my day is good or bad."  Duh!  So I wrote down everything that was bugging me or that I  needed to get done, ate some chocolate, splashed my face with some water, and was brilliant.  After that my day started getting better and better.  Came home to my sister's birthday party and had yummy cake.   Made everything better.

But then, I looked at my list of things to do, and realized... I have a heinous amount of things to do!  Not only throughout the next couple days, but during Spring Break nonetheless!  That's just rude.  But I'll make sure I keep chocolate with me at all times, so in case I need to "decide" to make my day better, I'll have a plan of attack.

State!

Tomorrow is my State Theater Competition!  Woo!  I have an all day event for our One Act portion of the competition, and then the next day I compete in three rounds for my monologue event.  Wish us luck!

 To Bri, 

Here's a virtual birthday cake.  Yummy!

Full of Crazy.

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

"Thanks" goes to rest and chicken noodle soup.  Thank you for your comfort and healing properties.

Waiting For the Crazy to Kick In.

Nothing much is going on so far.  This week is scheduled to be SUPER busy and crazy, but over the weekend I made a promise to myself to take this week one day at a time.  And it's working!  So far all the craziness hasn't kicked in!  It's great. So I hope to keep that up.

As far as craziness goes...

Remember that competition piece my school did of "The Laramie Project?"  Well, our team competes this weekend at State!  So that is exciting.  But that's not even the craziest news...  due to those "important faces," I mentioned before, showing up to our Showcase, we were just invited to perform "The Laramie Project" at a district-wide principal's meeting on the 27th!  Crazy huh?!  Bah!  Everything's "crazy" right now!  On top of that, I might have to get my tonsils out.  Definite no bueno.  But, nothing's official yet.  They're still watching the little suckers, but I'll let you know when I get more information on that.  Hopefully I can keep them! 

That's all for today! I'm gonna go eat some more soup.

Stay healthy!

The Update

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Shout-Out goes to my very best friend, Kate.  Thank you for your friendship.  Last night was the greatest! I'm glad we can make the best out of anything together!  It was so fun, and I wouldn't have replaced a moment of it to go to that stinky Prom.  Our fun and laughs are priceless.

My Frɒm Update!

Last night was bomb.  Frɒm went exactly according to plan,
and I wouldn't have wanted to change a single minute.

After sleeping in, having a delicious breakfast, and tidying up my room, Kate came over.  After I got ready, I did Kate’s hair and make-up, and we got in our pretty prom dresses from last year to take some pictures.  Then my wonderfully proud mother took our pictures while we were all prettied up. She was just so sweet telling us how beautiful we looked, and we felt pretty good!  We felt so pretty, and it was so fun to dress up even though we weren't going to the dance.         
 

After that we drove to Salt Lake City and decided to hit the 7:05 showing of the new edited version of The King's Speech at the Broadway Centre Theater.  It was such a great movie; very inspirational with a beautiful message of having confidence in your own voice, which was appropriate when we thought about it.  Then we drove around for about a half hour searching for our restaurant, The Red Iguana. Once we finally found it, it was close to closing time so there wasn’t a wait, which was nice.  It was a great atmosphere and the service was amazing!  Our waiter, Geraldo, was the best and was so good to us.  The food was SOOOO good and very authentic.  We ordered dessert, and when the big plate of sopapillas arrived he told us that no one has ever finished the whole plate before and he doubted that we'd be the first. 

      

Needless to say... we were the first!  Ha!  We downed that sucker in like two minutes!  It was awesome.  He came back to our table and freaked out when he saw we had actually finished. He couldn't believe it and, to be honest, I couldn't either.  There was so much on that plate!  (I'm pretty sure it had something to do with us coping with not going to Prom.  Subconsciously, I bet we downed that plate to cope with the situation and stress eating was the best coping mechanism our brains could conjure up.  But I didn’t mind… it was delicious!!!) 

Anyway, after Geraldo was done laughing he asked us why we were in Salt Lake.  We told him our sad story and he was very sympathetic towards us.  By the end of the night, we were the best of friends with Geraldo and he told us our dessert was “On [him] tonight.”  He also promised that if we ever come back, we just needed to "ask for Geraldo" and he'll give us the "hook-up," meaning we won't have to wait the two-stinking-hours.  It was so cool!  The night concluded with us falling asleep to Meet the Robinsons in our PJ's.  It was the best.

The night had not been wasted!!! 

Even though we didn't get asked to Prom, we made the best of it and went out ourselves.  And what came of it?  Well, we:

• Got all pretty in our dresses and still got our Prom pictures.
• Had a night out in Salt Lake.
• Saw a great movie.
• Had yummy food at a new place we had never been before.
• Had a whole plate of sopapillas for FREE! ("Free" makes everything so much better.)
• Made a new friend.
• Got "the hook-up" at a popular restaurant.
• And a stronger best friendship than ever and a million more inside jokes to prove it.

I think that’s a pretty nice list!  It was so fun and relaxing to just go out with my best friend.  I don’t regret not being asked to the Prom.  Before, it was easy to get down on the matter, but after Frɒm being such a huge success, how could I want anything else!  I wouldn’t trade the fun I had for anything.  Thank you, Kate!  Thank you, Geraldo! And thank you, Frɒm!

P.S.  Here's some Frɒm-night pics:

It's "Friday, Friday..." and "We we we so excited!"

Huzzah!  It's Friday!!!!!

Speaking of Friday...
Check out this version of Rebecca Black's music video.  Epic.



Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Thank you Mom and Dad for being amazing!  You always know what to do to make home the best place on Earth and a comfort to come home to.
I love you!



You're Assignment...

As Rebecca Black once said, “Tomorrow is Saturday.”
  Ah… and it is, Rebecca… it is.

Which brings me to my next topic!  Frɒm!
 “Frɒm” is a form of the word “Prom.” (That funky "a" is a phonetic vowel.  So instead of pronouncing the word like "from" the "uh" sound
that the “o” makes is now an "ah" sound.  Fr - ah - m.  Make sense? 
In simpler words, say it so it rhymes with "Prom.") 

      Last year, I attended my Junior Prom and it was perfect.  This year, however, both my best friend and I will not be attending the Junior Prom… for we are Seniors!  (Well, that, and we also weren’t asked… Woops!)  So instead, we plan to have our own Prom.  A fake Prom.  A friend Prom.  Frɒm!  We figure we deserve to have a “Prom night” while we’re still in High School, and as graduating Seniors we’re taking advantage of the idea!  I’m actually very much excited!  Tomorrow will be full of fun and goodness that will make Prom look like an eleven-year-old’s birthday party at Chuckie Cheeses!  Which could be awesome… but that is not the point!  The point is, even though a girl may not be asked to Prom, or to any dance for that matter, doesn’t mean she’s not worth a night out.  A girl deserves the occasional pampering, and if a guy doesn’t make it happen when you’d like, then YOU make it happen!  Grab your best girlfriends and head out for a wonderful night on the town!  Those nights can even be better than if you had gone to that dance.  You never know!  So take advantage of your womanhood and set sail into the starry night for an evening of your choosing.           
  
        That is your homework for the weekend!  So do it!  
  
        And men, you have homework too.  Grab a girl and take her out why don't ya!

P.S.  I better hear about how you did on your “assignment.”   … YAY!

"The Marines Invaded My Gym Class"

Happy Almost-Friday Day!

WOO! WOO! Tomorrow's Friday! I cannot even handle it.  My crazy week is almost over! 

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Remember that Showcase I was telling you about?  Well, that is now over and done.  It was our last show before State last night. Everyone who performed was truly inspirational and had such grace with their work.  The pieces I was in felt successful, so that made me feel good!  AND there were also many important faces there last night that seemed to like our stuff too.  So… YAY!  Everyone involved, it was a pleasure performing alongside you these past two days, and I know you will all be so happy with what you bring to State next week.  And to those who came...thank you! It was an amazing turn out and I couldn't have asked for a better audience!

Story of the Day

On the wonderful note I left on last night from the Showcase, I was sure that nothing could stand in my way of having an amazing happy, relaxing, breeze-of-a-day today... until I was blessed with a “gentle” surprise.
     In gym, my teacher was so kind to hand the class over to four, buff, angry, tattooed, and highly trained Marines.  I was dying with excitement.  As the class proceeded as usual (running, stretching, warming up, etc.) my heart was all a flutter when I heard the loudest, most booming voice I had heard in my life.  One of the Marines ordered us to sprint to the wall across the gym.  As soon as we started running he quickly started counting down from ten.  No one knew what would happen when he reached zero, but we sure-as-Hannah knew we didn't want to find out!  Once he reached zero we were still running. He yelled at us and said we weren't fast enough and ordered us to “Try again!” and we sprinted back to the other wall.  This went on about five or six more times. Then he taught us how to respond properly, using phrases like "Yes Sir!" or "No Sir!” or "Aye Aye, Sir!"  If we didn't respond loud enough, or with the right command, we'd sprint more.  Well after this went on and on, and a kind few refused to follow the man's orders, so therefore we all had to be punished.  However, instead of more running they gave us crazy exercises that made our bodies work muscles I didn't know existed!  Once they felt satisfied with how hard we were trying and how correctly we were responding we began the training.  Throughout the work-out we did exercises that Marines use to train with during their boot camps.  This is all fine and dandy for them, who are buff and toned and do this every day, but sometimes I wonder if they forgot we were a group of average kids in a high school gym class (for the sake of the story, I'll just pretend they did).  Once we were done with our training we all collapsed on the floor to die.  It was the hardest work out I had ever done in my life; however, I pushed through the pain and finished!  It was the most self-fulfilling feeling (say that five times fast... self-fulfilling feeling, self-fulfilling feeling…) I had ever had in my life, and the sweat dripping down my face and neck was just "pain leaving the body." 
      I woke up this morning craving a good day, and I almost had it until the Marines invaded my gym class. I was sure that I was going to feel worse when it was done, but in the end, I felt better than before!  And then I realized, it was mind over matter.  At the beginning of class, I decided my day was ruined when I saw the Marines, but throughout the training I decided to push myself and keep going.  I decided to make it.  And in the end, I decided to have a good day.  So lest you think you "deserve" a good day, or whatever, just know that yes, you will always “deserve” a good day, but ultimately you decide to have a good day.  Good things may happen throughout your day that make you feel "Yeah! My day really is good!" But terrible things may happen too, and things can go wrong, and it can be SO easy to destroy that happy feeling if you decide to let it; if you decide that you can't learn from it or can’t brush something off.  So, from now on... wake up deciding to have a good day!



Here We Go!

63 Days Until Graduation!!! (Above you'll see me jumping for joy.)

Happy Monday!

I hope your Monday was as fast and productive as mine seemed to be.  Despite waking up late this morning, everything went today as planned.  I was attentive in all my classes, got all my homework done in class, and rehearsal today got out an HOUR EARLY! Which makes me smile.  So I got to come home today and have a nice relaxing dinner of green beans and mashed potatos and can take my time getting ready for my performance tonight.  Oh, right.  Tonight and tomorrow night is my school's State Theatre Competition Showcase.  This is just a little free show where we show audiences the pieces from our amazing school that placed and/or made it to the State Competition in two weeks.  I'm very pleased to say I made State in two categories and I'm very excited to show people what everyone has been working on.  We have the opportunity at the end to share a One Act that is rarely shown to audiences, "The Laramie Project."  It's a touching story with beautiful and real messages within it.  It is a documentary of Matthew Shephard's death.  If you've never heard of Matthew Shephard, or want to learn more about "The Laramie Project" click here. 

Wish me luck!

Catch Up!

Here's me in a small summary:

I was born in Washington, moved to Tennesse, then back to Washington, and then to Colorado.  Throughout those changes I developed a passion of figure skating.  I started skating at age 4 and quickly progressed into the competitive track.  I feel very accomplished and blessed with skating.  It has taken me to other countries to share what I love and compete for my country.  It has also given me amazing opportunities to perform acts of service through what I love to do.  At 15 my mom remarried to a wonderful man.  This resulted in my family doubling in size (from 4 kids to 8) and moving to Utah.  After starting a new life in Utah, I had to put competing aside and I started coaching.  With skating a little less crazy, I decided I needed to discover any other hidden talents I had in me.  While at my amazing high school I picked up acting, singing, and dancing.  I am quite into theatre now and plan to pursue a major in BFA Acting over my next years in college. (At least, that's the plan for now.)  So, here I go… trying to finish out my last couple months in High School before I start my life elsewhere.

Now here's some pictures! Woo!

One Big Happy Family

Theater!

Getting Cozie!

Howdy fellers!

My name's Cosette, but you can call me Cozie.  This is my little blog about the last two months of my high school life and taking my next steps into the world.  Feel free to read and get to know me as I learn new things and transition into real lifedom! 

Talk to you soon!