Shouting So Loud and No One Can Hear, at Least No One That Matters...

Hahaha, I had you there didn’t I, but NO. This is in NO way a serious or dramatic post that will show you my “pain” and/or “dilemmas”. This is actually just what the title says, “Shouting So Loud” I was screaming my head off cheering, but “No One That Matters” can hear, and that means that I cheered so loud but it didn’t make a difference, this all lead up to the … loss…of ... my… SPIRIT TROPHY!!!! Yup, true story, but hey, at least it was my dad’s birthday, which means I had some good food. That is about the only thing that made my day (yesterday) bearable, and the fact that I chilled at home, but more on that later. In all seriousness, I’ll now explain how I lost the Spirit Trophy.

                My little brother does ballroom dance for his school, and as his team usually doesn’t win much, we go for the Spirit award. Because obviously no one every wants the sportsmanship award because that’s just a hidden subtle way of saying, “You suck, but hey we feel bad for you, so here’s a trophy as a pick me up” or at least that’s what I think. Now that I’ve made it quite clear that we didn’t want the sportsmanship award, I’m going to tell you the reason why we never get any of the “best performance” awards, and I’m just going to come straight out with it ; there is just too many children who have no sense of rhythm or sense of hip movement on the team. See I told you I wasn’t going to sugar coat anything, back to the Spirit award. 

                My family is quite rowdy, so we have no problem making posters, yelling, shaking noise making devices (a soda can and bee-bee gun pellets, these make for excellent make shift maracas)and pompoms, and over all being very high spirited! For THREE HOURS STRAIGHT I cheered, clapped, yelled, and waved pompoms around like a cheerleader, and boy was that my low point (I really don’t like cheerleaders), all… for… NOTHING! Some team that didn’t cheer at all got the award, so now my outlook on this oh so special spirit award has changed drastically all because the announcer said the wrong school name (he just doesn’t know it yet). Just like with the sportsmanship award I now think that it is just another pity award. Yes, is sound very cynical and cruel but it’s the truth. At least all my cheering made my cute little brother smile, and the women behind me plug their ears, it was hilarious! Moving on to the rest of my day!

                It being my father’s birthday we went out to lunch, unfortunately because of the rain the electricity in our favorite restaurant went out, so we went out for burgers. Oh heavenly In-N-Out, those people sure do now how to make a girl smile on a rainy day! After my dad coached my sister’s driving it was time for me to sit down, and relax (some more). I decided to watch You Again, the movie with Betty White and Jamie Lee Curtis, side note: Does anyone else think of those digestive help commercials every time they see Jamie Lee Curtis? Because I do.

               

Now I suppose that's enough for you today,

Drop of Water :)