With my coffee cup in hand, I will tell you this:

Oh Cali Love..

This blog is not going to be very extensive, because well I’m in California and have better things to do! 14 members of the media programs (i.e. HTV and TFS) at Hillcrest are currently in Anaheim, California for this years STN (Student Television Network) Convention. Summed up, it is a thing that all the media nerds do! There are over 1,800 kids from 27 different states! The cool thing is that it takes part on Disneyland property so we are in the middle of all that is magical! Wednesday we got to play around and go on a tour through L.A., we all managed to burn plastic that day! Thursday is the start of this shin-dig and it ends on Saturday. We are all participating in different areas: Lindsdey, Chelsea, and Kaitlynn competing in the PSA competition; Chelsy and Mitch competing in Spot Feature; Kendra competing in Live Reporting; Brad, Chandler, Adam, and Nick competing in Music Video; Levi, Trevor, and myself are competing in the Commercial competion. Also wish us luck for our 7th Excellence Award!! Saturday we will get to play around in Disneyland, let that little kid in our hearts run free!

Enjoy the pictures! 

p.s. Coach Davis could not join this adventure this year because of personal reasons. We know STN is not the same without him and this is not a normal HTV trip either. WE MISS YOU COACH!!

A Day in the Life of a SENIOR… not

I will warn you now, this blog will make you tear your eyes out, please to not hold me responsible, you could have close this screen at anytime.

I woke up this morning at 6:45, fell back asleep until 7:30. And since I need at least 15 minutes to get to school and I was not in the mood to rush, I called my mom. She did a nice job of calling the attendance ladies (for the second time this week) and letting them know I will be late. When I get to school, I immediately get frustrated because my shoe will not stay on! The thought of being a hippie crossed my mind until I walked through a pile of spilt Cheetos, gross. I stroll my lazy butt into Calculus class to more frustration, for a month we have been learning how to do these long problems (derivatives) and now.. we are learning how to do them backwards. I stopped asking the question why a long time ago.

As my day goes on, the halls are filled with gossip about the cancellation of the LPA dance; it is the first time in school history that a dance has been canceled because of “insufficient ticket sales”. DRAMA! <- which I heard is just another way to spell high school. HA! Not many people are bothered by this cancellation because ‘LPA #2’ will be happening downtown, where parents can’t be invited by the PTSA (hence the reason for the boycott). Carnations got delivered to the classes today too. It is a thing Cabinet does for Valentines Day. It was all cute and stuff, but funny when someone gets an anonymous flower right after a big break-up with drama (of course the ex girlfriend is who delivered the flower).

As for the rest of my day: heavy snowfall, stolen cheese biscuits, and a tea cup puppy, small enough to be the perfect size for Kendra’s hands. After school, I have soccer off-season, code for running, blah. But then tonight our Boy’s Basketball team plays Lebanon. They are currently first in the Conference (not shared with any other teams, unlike the three last year) and we have high hopes. We thought it would be assuming to dress in LPA type attire just to be brats, but the decision was made to do a ‘Thug Night’ instead.

While I am so positive that my life is entertaining you beyond belief, I am done with this blog and I think I am going to do some more Boot Scootin’ Boogie with the girls. Yes, that is Springfield’s tax dollars hard at work. .. Educating the leaders of tomorrow.

Until next time, I don’t see a point to snow if it won’t even accumulate.

Home sweet home

It has been a wild start to the new year already.

January 5, my parents left for Mazatlan, Mexico and my grandma came to my house to stay with me. Now, for the past few years, my parents travel somewhere at the beginning of every year. When they leave the house, my grandma and I have come to expect less than lovely weather. One year, we had that big ice storm (yeah I know you remember what I am talking about, my parents don’t because they were in California) and another year, we had tornadoes! Well this year, the weather did not disappoint. We had extremely cold weather (I’m talkin’ the coldest days Springfield hasn’t seen for two decades) and lots of snow. I guess you could conclude now that my grandma and I are pretty tough gals when it comes to toughing out the wicked weather of the Ozarks.

I can’t complain a whole lot because January 12, I went with my mom’s golf team to join my parents in Mexico for a week. It is definitely up there on my list of favorite vacations. It was absolutely beautiful and extremely relaxing! You can’t really complain about 85 degree weather and sleeping in a house right next to the ocean, especially when back home there is still snow on the ground. I played a lot of golf, filled up on nothing but fresh food, and enjoyed spending hardly a thing (prices where definitely cheap). It was a fabulous week long trip, and after a few plane rides and a two hour car ride, I was home again.

The girls and I prepared ourselves for bitterly cold weather, much like what we left behind. We were in no way excited about the transition from warm, moist air to frigid, dry air. Lucky for us, it is a balmy 60 degrees in Springfield, not a complete culture shock. Ok, it may feel a little chilly to me, but my friends are enjoying the “warm” weather.

before I end another useless blog (because Coach makes us), I ask for you bored readers at home or in class, pray for my mother. She is in Houston right now having surgery to get her cancer removed. She will pull through, just a few extra hands her way won’t hurt. Also pray for Coach’s wife, she too is battling something at this time. Thank you!

Until next time, this is no sunny beach in Mexico, but it will do.

Chelsy Rea’s thoughts

If ever my fellow co-news director has said something wise, it was this, “I wonder what a snow-plowman does during summer?”. I mean, the girl has got a point.. But then again.. what does Santa do when it’s not Christmas? She almost smacked me for that comment…

And now with that thought turning in my mind, a different Chelsey is sitting next to looking at the radar, i think she just said a prayer for snow, and then some mean things if we don’t get snow. I bet the plowman is hoping for snow, bet his truck is all started and everything!

But my point to telling you all this is can you imagine how bored we must be if these are the main thoughts flowing through our adolescent minds?! Forget the Calculus class i am supposed to be in right now, and forget that big paper I have to write by Jan. 4. I want snow gosh dang it!!

This is what we get.

Well since Coach decided to throw two  brand-new things on to this staff this year… things are at the very least, interesting. Deadlines we can’t miss, and a website WE MUST KEEP UPDATED! Now in a teenagers last defense, we tend to be disorganized, unmotivated, and our attention span… have I told you about my dog?

Anyways, my newsbeat is behind for the website, my story missed deadline, and now I may be going to Tusla for my next story. And never again will I give up my cell phone for three days!

Nevertheless, the things we are doing this year are remarkable, don’t get me wrong, this opportunity is awesome!

Because I am really not in the mood to vent (or at a loss of attention):

Congrats to Marlee, our homecoming queen!

Our football team is doing awesome, we are on the road to St. Louis now, heading to play-offs!

Coach, you puke, I don’t know how you do it.

Magazine 170. DONE!

This is the first time I have looked at my blog site since my very last one which seemed forever ago. I enjoyed a summer and slept a lot since then so there is no telling.

Well this new year’s staff successfully completed their first show… and I hope you are sitting down for this next part, Coach gave us a B. That is something worth celebrating! That rarely happens for the first show. Its a brand new year and we have a lot of new things going on around here in the West Wing. The craziest part is that our show now runs on The CW (stepping up to the real world) and we have serious deadlines. If we miss the deadline, our show is off the air (a lot of pressure for lazy teenagers). Another weird part is that we have to incorporate commercials into our 28 minute show. Let me tell you first hand, that made doing anchor spots a pain.

I really hope that you, whoever you are, get a chance to check out this months show. Every story was shot during the summer and we have a pretty good variety. Did I mention it got a B??

Also, check out our schools website. It’s brand-new and is under the control of yes, HTV staff-ers. Ok that should be a cool thing… but it makes me a little nervous haha.

Well, it is time for me to do something productive. I think I will go make a pot of coffee.

Until next time… Having HTV everyday can really test a person’s sanity.