Today is a very good day

today has been, and should continue to be, a wonderful day. it's one of those days where everything goes right when you're not expecting it too, and its just fun. for onething, its a beautiful sunshiney day, which would make today a good day all by itself, but thats not all. i had upward bound today, and in the morning our group had to do an infomercial about the top three characteristics we'd come up with that were important for personal excellence (advocacy, compassion, and confidence). we had figured out that we were going to do some kind of drug, and we were trying to come up with a name for it. bethy said something about just calling it excellence, but devvon heard exlax, so we went off on a whole spoof of exlax with- Ex-ILAX! it got rid of bad qualities and had side effects of our three good qualities. we had a complete presentation and powerpoint ready within half an hour, complete with a product description (me) logo (abby) poster spoofs (two peeps whose names i can't remember, sorry!) powerpoint (don't remember) script (bethy)....it was just awesome. then we got to eat lunch outside, and we talked about fun stuff like guard and choir, and then we spent the afternoon dancing! it was so much fun. we learned samba, tango, triple swing (which is different than the swing me and abby already knew, and it threw us off), the electric slide, the hussle, and a really simple dance i'd never heard of before, whose name i can't remember, which i couldn't spell anyway..so yah. but it was soo much fun, i had a blast. and then tonight i'm going to the mall to go get my prom dress- yay!

UPDATE- i now have a beautiful prom dress. we went to deb, and i found a really pretty one that i liked, but the price tag wasn't as pretty (120). there was another one about the same price i really liked, even though it was beige, because the design was so cool. they didn't have my size, though. i wasn't completely sold on the 120 dollar dress, so i went and looked at sears. the first dress i saw there was one with the same design as the beige one, but it was green! which was just so cool. it was hanging on the wall, though, so i assumed it was more expensive. as i looked at the dresses on the floor, though, i saw similar designs that were less than a hundred, so i tried it on, and loved it. while i was waiting for my mom to join me, i looked at the tag and saw that it was 140! i was upset, but i loved it so i convinced my mom that it was worth it and i would pay for it. then we were checking out, and it turned out it was on sale! 89.97! Still too expensive for a dress, but meh, you must adjust your usual rules when it comes to prom dresses.

The wind tells a story, listen.