An Interesting Friday...

It started like any other Friday - history co-op in the morning, a performance in the afternoon, Godspell rehearsal (I'm singing BGV), and driving to Bowie (I'm playing pit orchestra for West Side Story with Bowie High School) when IT happened.

We had a green light and went straight; the other lane had a red turn light. A black Jeep Cherokee ran the light and crashed into the front quarter of our car, rocking the car and sending it over almost a lane's worth of road.

I screamed. I admit. Not to mention that seeing plastic go skidding across your windshield and hear the seemingly endless crunching and grinding and smashing of metal on metal was a little odd, as well as being thrown about the back seat (yes, I wore a seatbelt). Chris was driving, and there were three other people - including Caiti - in the car besides me and him.

We waited an hour for the police (yeah, no joke) and an ambulance (the other driver was hurt; their car had been destroyed), then another hour and a half for the tow truck. Then Mom and Dad (who had driven all the way up to Laurel, where the accident happened) drove us to the hospital to be checked out. There, they put us in blankets (I was shaking) and c-collars (those neck brace things - so annoying) for safety measures. After discovering that we were mostly okay, just shaken and sore, they gave us some meds and sent us home.

Yup. Just another day in the life... sort of :)

~MJ

Sorry not to post...........

hey all!

Well, unfortunately this might be my last post for a while. School has started back up, and as I will likely be very busy, I won't be able to post as much. I hope to post some pictures, at least on Flickr (my mom's account) if not here, but I'm not gonna promise anything because I don't know how my schedule will all work out.

thanks for understanding!

~Meghan

I'm Home!!

Hey all!

We're back : ) There are several pictures posted on our other blog (see below post), and I'll post more pics later. : )

Just a reminder: the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair is starting on August 13th (this Friday), and Chris and Caiti are King and Queen in the Fair parade and coronation on this sunday, starting at 5pm. We'd love to see you there!

~Meghan

IT'S COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well folks, we leave in *gasp* 39 1/2 hours!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! We'll leave for the airport to fly to Scotland (see Trip of a Lifetime - Take 2 post) at 2:30pm on Friday - in TWO DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, I just wanted to post the link to our trip's blog - I won't be posting much on this one, mostly just on that one :)

here it is: http://perduecrew.blogspot.com/

We'll try to keep you updated, but we don't know what our internet will be like.

See you all in a few weeks!

OOOOOOOOOOHHH and if any of you read this before tomorrow night at 8pm, come to Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD at 8pm to watch my brother Chris and I perform Macbeth with our Shakespeare camp! We need the support and would LOVE to see you there!!!!!

that's all : )

~Meg~

A NEW CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I finally got a new camera!!!!! It's a Canon Rebel EOS T1i, 15.1 megapixels, 720 HD video, an 18-55mm lens, and a 50mm bokeh lens. (if you don't know what all of that means, it just means that it's a nice DSLR with some good lenses) : )

Point being, I've been taking LOTS of pictures. Here's some:

our car radio (i was experimenting with light) -->

<-- a music stand








my violin teacher's dog, Annabelle -->

<-- playing catch

<-- she is SO cute!

my teacher has this ADORABLE cricket knick-knack -->

<-- a bush at church







This picture is kind of cool cuz i just clicked the camera and there it was!

<-- this picture was intentional







this is my new purse :)

<-- another bush at church. yes, i like bushes : )






um, the cutest dog on the planet - my dog Sparky  : )

and yes, he's laying on his back - look at his ears!!! -->

my sister's bed -->





so caleb was being photogenic - sort of...

<-- he was a little tired.............

the decorations at at wedding i was playing for -->

<-- this was taken with the 50mm lens - see the nice blur?







the ryans and their cousin ashley

my closet door : ) -->

well, that's all for now : ) at some point, I'll post my Picasa link - there's a bunch of funny pics there : ) I just have a photoshoot with Sarah, DJ, and Ashley to add : )

~Meghan

SUMMER CELEBRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I am officially exhausted. I have just survived a week-long kids camp for kids ages 6-10. I did the drama troupe and the lyrics for the singing. It was a LOT of fun, but VERY tiring! I had to be at the church every day at 7:00am (at the latest) and usually didn't leave until 2:30 or later. Today, I helped with set takedown and didn't leave until shortly after 5pm.

WELL ANYWAY, the main point of this post is to ask that if anyone had cool pics of Summer Cel they could email them to me so I can post them ; ) (if you want to). I took like one picture and I don't really like it ; )

Thanks!

~Meghan

UPDATE:

I've gotten a picture! This is part of one of the skits with the Pitstop gang : ) I'm all the way on the left.

Cathedral Fun

I went to the National Cathedral with my friends Carrie and Emily today... :)

So I know that there aren't many of the Cathedral, but Carrie, Emily, and I were having fun : ) and I LOVE THE SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!!!! ~Meghan BTW, the next two pics were from a different day...<-- the cathedral