Last night was seminary graduation, and I'm a certified graduate from the Richfield Seminary now! How special is that?!?! I feel pretty cool about it. Here are some pictures!
After graduation I chilled with Matt, Alan, and JD at the Youth Center for a while and it was a party. One graduation down, one more to go!
haha so I look pretty sad in this picture, but I'm not in nearly as much pain as i was when I first woke up in the recovery room. As for now, I'm on my percoset fix chillin at home. Tomorrow should be a fun day at school!!
Don't ask me what exactly these pictures are, because I really have no clue. All I know is they are the pictures Dr. Richards took with the scope when he was looking around. They say something at the bottom, but I can't decipher it.
This is the coolest picture, I think. It shows the pins he put in to hold everything together. Pretty intense stuff. I was told he did everything he possibly could have done to my arm short of amputate it, hehe, He trimmed the ligament like he did last year, then he pinned the bones together to hold things in place and finally heated the ligament to tighten the collagen and strengthen the ligament.
I go back up to see Dr. Richards in 2 weeks to get my stitches out, and I'm sure to have some more sweet pictures then. I'll be sure to keep you updated on whats going on!!!!
I'm warning you now, while the movies are loading up, the movie can be pretty graphic, I only posted the one I can stand to watch. Don't forget to check out the two other posts I did today about what else I've been up to this weekend. Leave me some love on the comment sections!!!
This is what Dr. Richards is planning on doing to me tomorrow as an attempt to finally fix my wrist so I can do what I want. Lets pray this works. If things go as he planned, I'll have two pins in my wrist holding the Scaphoid and the Lunate carpels together to try and stabilize the Scapel-Lunate ligament, which is located right where the X scars are on my wrist right now. (Not the nast-o y, the little crosses right on the back of my wrist.)
Everybody wish me luck and I'll let you know how it goes!
Thursday night when I got home from work, my mom asked what my plans were for Friday night. I told her nothing really, probably just chill at home, and then she asked me "how about going to the Jazz game?" I was stoked! They already got tickets and it was going to be a party!
When I called Brandon Friday morning to verify the plan of him picking up me and Tommy, he freaked me out and said he didn't get the tickets he had bid on, and had to make sure he got some other ones. Once he checked his email, everything was clear and he got the tickets, and we were good to go.
We stopped at Sonic for some dinner, and before we had even left Provo, I was the only one in the car without having something spilled on me, and if that was any way of showing how the game was going to go, it was going to be messy. When we got to Salt Lake and found some parking, we started walking toward EnergySolutions Arena. We finally met up with everyone, and just as we finished crossing the road to the arena, one of the "Event Security" people said Trent couldn't take his pole into the arena. Brandon hid it somewhere, and we all went in. Brandon had got 4 tickets together, two singles in the same area, and Sara had got 2 other tickets together. When we figured out where we were sitting (the very top row, not even in the stadium seats, in fold out chairs above that) My mom, dad, Julie and myself were on the side of the court these pictures were taken, and Brandon, Tommy, Sara, Trent, and Manda were all on the opposite side.
The Jazz kept their decent 20-ish point lead clear through the 2nd quarter until the Rockets rallied to make their lead only by 4 at the half. It was kind of scary to have the lead be that low, but in the second half, the Jazz worked it and ended the game with a 113-91 win. It was awesome!
The first picture is of the teams warming up before the game, and the second one is after we won! It was sooooo awesome. Right after half time, Brandon came over to sit with Julie, and we cheered it to the max, trash talking McGrady and Mutumbo. It was awesome and I was so happy I got to go! The game didn't get over until 11:30, and we didn't end up getting home until 2:30, but it was so worth it! It definitely made up for not doing so hot at the Band Festival. It was a great birthday present for Tommy, Graduation present for me, Trent, Manda, and Brandon, and a great way to kick off my last weekend of using my wrist at semi full capability.
Here's to cheering on the Jazz to victory over the Lakers!!!! Go Jazz Go! Deron Fence!
So this last Friday was State Band, and it was a bittersweet moment in time. I had a party riding the bus up with my friends; we rocked out to random songs and had an overall good time. Everyone played with Emily's hair, and Melanie got me some funny pictures of random people sleeping so it was a good time.
When we finally got to UVSC, it was time to warm up to be ready to perform at noon. We got on stage and played our songs. It definitely wasn't our best performance but I thought we performed decently. When I asked Mr. Thompson what our scores were before the next band started to play, he gave me the disappointing news: we ended up with a II, a II-, and a III+. That was really sad, considering that we've averaged Superiors all of my other years I've been in high school, and this was my last time I'll play my sax for at least 4 months, maybe even forever. Kind of disappointing. But, the rest of the day was pretty much awesome because Brandon picked me and Tommy up at the mall, and we got to chill with him and his friends and play RockBand (My last time playing guitar/bass/drums in RockBand for a long time.) until my parents showed up to head up to the Jazz Game! Thats for the next blog!
Well, its been a while, and a lot has happened this week that I can enlighten you on, but I'm deciding not to. Maybe I'll update you on it later, or you can ask me about it.
However, today, before I went bowling with Melanie and Matt, I made an awesome discovery, and my crush on Rivers Cuomo has been rekindled.
I bring to you . . . .
I’mma do the things that I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing to prove to you
I’ll eat my candy with the pork and beans
Excuse my manners if I make a scene
I ain’t gonna wear the clothes that you like
I’m fine and dandy with the me inside
One look in the mirror and I’m tickled pink
I don’t give a hoot about what you think
Everyone likes to dance to a happy song (Hey, hey)
With a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along (Hey, hey)
Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the charts
Maybe if I work with him I can perfect the art
I’mma do the things that I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing to prove to you
I’ll eat my candy with the pork and beans
Excuse my manners if I make a scene
I ain’t gonna wear the clothes that you like
I’m fine and dandy with the me inside
One look in the mirror and I’m tickled pink
I don’t give a hoot about what you think
No I don’t care,
I don’t care
I’mma do the things that I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing to prove to you
I’ll eat my candy with the pork and beans
Excuse my manners if I make a scene
I ain’t gonna wear the clothes that you like
I’m fine and dandy with the me inside
One look in the mirror and I’m tickled pink
I don’t give a hoot about what you think
Strange title, sweet song. I dig it. It's really catchy. I can't wait for the new album to come out (the RED album). 6.24.08. Be ready. Go HERE to listen to it.
PS- That picture reminds me of my brother Justin . . . crazy stuff.
Today was definitely an adventure. It started out this morning when there was no Jazz Band, so me and Tommy got to sleep in an extra hour. When we were finally ready to go at 7:30, we loaded everything up and went out to the barn to get in the car. When we got out there, the barn was empty, which meant I forgot to park my car in the barn last night. It wasn't a big deal because it had been raining all night, so the windows weren't frosted, but by the time I got to my car, I would have rather had the windows frosted than what I found. I had left the sunroof open, so the front seats were completely soaked from the rain. No bueno. Luckily, my mom let me take the truck so me and Tommy had dry seats and warmth to ride into town with, and we weren't even tardy!
So today was Region Large Group in Gunnison today. That means that the whole Symphonic band loaded up into a bus and two excursions to play our hearts out in hopes to make it to state. I ended up on the bus, sitting next to Matt H., Matt C. and Melanie, which = partytime! Here's an idea of what we did.
First, I convinced Matt to let me take some pictures of him, so he started having loads of fun w 
with Melanie. . .thats why he has a bloody nose!
Then, Kenzi threw us a bag of Swedish Fish, and we had loads of fun!
Me and Matt were fishy gansters, and then we tried to eat them off our chins!
I finally remembered I had a bag full of Smarties with me, so I taught them how to eat a Smartie. After I finished, it was Matts turn to show off his skills:
When we finally got to Gunnison we listened to Manti and Gunnison play, then went to lunch, and then we played. Afterwards, we listened to Grand and San Juan, and a certain Freshman was having a blast diggin' gold, if you know what I mean. Me and Matt laughed our heads off and he was literally crying! It was so much fun.
When we finally got back to the school, it was after 3 so I was late to work, but Mr. Thompson hadn't showed up with the trailer containing my sax yet. That meant I had to chill at the band room until he showed up, which wasn't until about 3:30. Then I waited with Matt to see if he made it to State Solo & Ensemble with his piano solo (which he did). It was the most exciting thing ever!! After Mr. Thompson told us we took straight superiors so we were going to State, we left and I gave him a ride home.
Then I went to work and totally did not do good. I was dialing on the new Panel and a little bit on Brand, and I didn't get any completes at all.
The big thing of the day was when I finally got home. I walked in the garage door, and my family was sitting in the living room, all on the couch. My mom said "Hi Lauren" and I said "Hi Mom!". Then I looked at her. She was lying on the couch, with her leg propped up on a bunch of pillows. As I got closer, I saw she had a great big black boot on her left foot. Turns out she broke her ankle this morning by walking into her office in the basement and slipping on a magazine. She even had some pictures of the un-coolness on her phone. It looked totally deformed and dislocated. I can't hardly believe it, I think its insane, especially after Trent breaking his ankle less than a month ago, it seems like more than just a coincidence. I feel really bad because she's having troubles with the crutches, and I won't be here much to help her out. Its really a bad situation, but there is lots of people that have offered to help. Jeri actually took her to the hospital this morning and brought us dinner tonight. Nan is going to be over tomorrow for lunch, and I'll stop by since I get out of school early. Who knows what the rest of this is going to be like. I hope she recovers quickly and perfectly. We're just praying she won't need surgery like Trent. That would be no bueno.
Anyways, thats my big story of today. Hopefully things will calm down for the rest of the week, I mean, its only Monday! Tomorrow is Sterling Scholar interviews, Thursday is Dad's Birthday, and Saturday is Tommy;s Birthday. Lets hope for a safe, fun week!
