An quote from my Salesian March Leadership Retreat application essay...

"I believe that through prayer, almost anything can be achieved."

...so I'm home sick today. I woke up this morning and just didn't feel right. At least today is one of those "good" days to miss. School gets out in an hour and 10 minutes anyway. Thankfully, I have my seniors to comfort me! Thanks to Leah, Kelly, and Chris for leaving me messages to feel better! I <3 them so much! I'm going to finish my Cuban sandwich now and lay down! Good Luck Lady Baron Basketball in Lakeland today in State Semi-Final play! :: Tiredly blogging, Austin ::

So today was another glorious Monday with no school. Gosh, I just love those presidents! haha! We did have a 9am sophomore retreat meeting though! Well, it's a new week and I'm really optimistic about what's to come. I have bought a new camera to replace my other new one that was damaged. This time, I bought a case for it! =) Sophomore retreat is going to be really great. It puts me out of school for another 3 days, but it's most definitely worth it. The boys have a regional finals game in Melbourne tomorrow and the girls have a state finals game in Lakeland on Wednesday. This game will most likely push back that day of retreat b/c everyone will go to the game. I am going to try and go. I have never gone to one of the finals games and I think it would be so much fun! Thank you to everyone who listened to me rant and rave about my not so awesome weekend. I <3 ya'll and don't know what I would do w/o you. :: G'night ya'll, Austin :: P.S. - I am really pumped about my Journalism Seminar/Workshop on Saturday with Lyndsey @ Poynter! It is going to be so tight!

Why do I feel like everything has just gone wrong this past week? Maybe because it has. I must move on because it's a new week. Thank god! :: Adios, Austin ::

Well, this past week has been filled with so much, I don't know where to start. All of our sports are doing really well. Boys soccer goes on to state finals next Wednesday and Thursday and Boys basketball is in regional play! I'm so excited! The news about the Salesian March Leadership Retreat (popularly known as MLR) took so long! I couldn't take it anymore, but was doing a lot better with the wait than I had expected. And the results are ... I GOT CHOSEN! I AM GOING TO NEW YORK! I'm so excited! We have a really good group going too - Myself. Johnny Barber. Tank. Mack Volk. Lisa. Kirsten. Megan Vu. Sam Burns! We leave the morning of March 6th and come home the afternoon of March 12th! I'm so pumped! The Grammy's this year were kind of boring, except when my girl Kelly won both her nominations! She cried when she won the first one! It was so fricken awesome to see her win!

((Credit: The first and number one Kelly Clarkson fansite, KellyClarkson.ca!))

Today was just another day at school. I was really tired from the long weekend and was not ready to go back to school. Thank god that I have a field trip tomorrow. Amber can't go with me to prom anymore. I'm MORE than completely bummed. It's all because of this stupid Sunday thing. I understand it had to do with the place and the rental costs and stuff but still, I really wish it wasn't on a Saturday so Amber could go with me. Ugh! I am going to go lay down before I eat dinner and then I am going to the Boys Soccer game. :: Adios, Austin ::

This weekend went by really, really fast. =( Friday Night - That big rain storm flooded my entire neighborhood and I was in for the night. I went to bed at fricken 9:00. Saturday - I did some family stuff in the morning/early afternoon then just chilled at home until I went and visited Lyndsey while she was baby-sitting her cousins. Super Bowl Sunday - I grabbed some lunch at Carmelita's with Lyndsey and then we did some minor shopping. Katie and Cindy's cable went out at around 2:30 and I was supposed to go to their house to watch the game. I guess something blew and most of the street was out. But luckily, the guy came (I felt kinda bad) and the tv was back up by mid 1st quarter. I wanted the Seahawks to win. I felt that they deserved it. The commercials were kind of lame along with the halftime show from The Rolling Stones. Oh well. We still had fun. Today (Monday) - I love Donny B! Not only is he a great saint, we got a day off in honor of him! So early this morning, Alexis and I met up with Katie and Cindy and I helped them go prom dress shopping. Random, I know. But, they always ask me for my opinion so it made more sense just to tag along. I'm such a nice friend! Katie found an amazing dress then we went and ate lunch and then went to another store. It wasn't too bad at all. We got done around 1ish and I was home by 1:30 (we were in Clearwater). So I got the sudden urge to workout, so I did that and then went and got my haircut. Tonight - Dinner. Red Badge of Courage Packet =( . Prepare something for my AP US History DBQ for tomorrow. Watch There & Back. Try and get to bed by 11. We'll see what happens! I have 4 1/2 hours till There & Back comes on. I can do it, right? :: Adios, Austin ::

So 200 projects at the St. Jude Cathedral School Science Fair turned into 225 and we had 13 of us. Let's just say it was fun in the beginning! I gave some kid a 20 out of 100 because his project was horrible. The grading rubric didn't have 0's as choices so I had to give him 1's on each thing he did wrong. Let's just say that if I would have been able to give him 0's, then his score would have been a 4. I know it sounds like I am h-core harsh, but I was just being truthful. We went to Del'Italia (now Gianni's NY Pizza) for some lunch. It is sooo good! After lunch, we went back to St. Jude's and had to rush like crazy to get the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places down in each grade and in each discipline (Earth, Life, or Physical Science). Let's just say that papers were flying and boards were being shoved in all different directions - it was pretty crazy. It was fun though and I am definitely doing it next year! So I pretty much just rambled about that. Oh well. I don't know what I am going to do now. Let's see what happens! :: Hugs Not Drugs ya'll, Austin ::