Guess Who's Driving Home!?!?!

MORGAN IS!!!!!

So basically it's 6 months and 17 days late but I got my permit!!!!

I really didn't study like I was supposed to... I just did a few practice tests and flipped through the handbook. But as long as you have common sense (along with a good sense of how far away 50ft  to 300ft is) I think you could pass not a problem!

I passed my very first try!!!! But barely, I got an 80% which means if I missed one more question I would've failed.... Except during the test when I went back to check over my answers I changed three of them and if I hadn't changed them I would've only missed one question (or maybe I would've gotten 100%, I really don't know) but I was like, "ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW!?!?!" But whatevs, I mean I did PASS!!!!

And some how I managed to find time to take the test in the midst of finals. How? I have no idea!!!
So sorry teachers if I fail your final, don't take it personally.

After the test and everything I was like, "Mom pleaseeeeee let me drive home!!!" And guess what I did?!?! I drove home!!! (At least partially home, my mom and I switched spots when we got to the highway because I really didn't wanna die my first day with my permit...)

I guess now I just have to learn how to not die while driving and hopefully not procrastinate getting my license as much as I did my permit!

I recommend staying off the roads!

This girl is!!!

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Things My Track Team Has Taught Me

The one and only Madison Carr got a hold of my computer and left the Internet a lovely message about how I am no longer going to Camp Daggett so I can stalk her. But let's face it, why in the world would I trade anything for my precious Camp Daggett? If you know, please tell me.

You may remember last week I told you how I was spending the weekend in the one and only Vernal. Well I realized I never told you why.

Basically I made the region team for track!! But you know I don't run, like at all, so I made it for the throwing portion of track & field. 

And I wasn't sitting around doing nothing all day as much as I thought I would. But that's not including the three hour bus ride both ways. That was a lot of sitting on my butt with nothing to do! And on the bus ride back we only had one bus for EVERYONE because EVERYONE made finals and the coached didn't plan on EVERYONE making finals. So this caused me to have to share a seat... at least I was with Lane.

Did I mention we were region champs for girls and boys?
Yeah, girls only beat Morgan High School by 1 point, that's
one 6th place Park City person instead of a Morgan person.

Speaking of the devil...

What?

I didn't say anything.

Lane's Jesus, I think you misread.

Anyways, she made it for long jump and she totally crushed the competition! I only got to watch her first jumps and I didn't get see her compete in finals, sadly.☹She did FANTASTIC! She reached her goal of fourteen feet for the season and she got sixth! Which means she was on that podium!!

Me?

Pshhh.

I know you don't care.

But since you asked, I didn't podium at all or make finals (except in javelin I was only one person away from making finals and I was like ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!) But I threw a personal record in javelin & shot put; Discus sucked but only because my coach didn't tell me I was throwing that until the day of so I hadn't practiced it in about two weeks.

Enough of this boring results stuff, on to the fun stuff.

So if you click the read more button,⬇ you can find out what my "throwing team" has taught me. (And you can see more pictures than you would ever want to see.)



What The Throwing Weirdos Have Taught Me

Disclaimer: You should know that to them, I'm not Morgan, I'm Beds. Exactly. Just like a bed that you sleep in.

This name came about by the wonderful Kambridge. The first week of practice I had cornrows still and lots of beads. And she couldn't pronounce beads so I became Beds.

I Hurt Myself A Lot

Wether it's getting almost knocked out by sprinters, randomly having my legs begin to bleed, always tripping, getting scratches or slamming my fingers in car doors, no one likes to point these things out to me more than these monkeys.

I Don't Talk Very Much

I really thought I talk quiet a bit but apparently I don't. I guess I just didn't have anything to say and at first I didn't really know any of them, so I just kinda kept to myself.

And here are moments that I remember that the topic of me not talking came up:

"Beds would be most likely to be the sociopath out of the group. She just always there, never talking, just observing and watching, plotting her revenge on all of us."

"You're so quiet compared to the other Freshman." (Let me point out the other freshman were Brody and Eli who are the most outgoing social butterflies you'll ever meet.)

I was asked many times, "Why are you so quiet?"

"Woah. She speaks!"

"What do you mean she doesn't talk? Morgan talks, you just have to talk to her and she'll respond, at least most of the time."

"Morgan's like a little sassy no talking person. She hardly talks but when she does, she's sassier than my twelve-year-old sister."

So, yeah.

Every Time I Throw, I Stick Out My Tongue

I can actually thank my mom for pointing this one out for me. No better way to prove to you by showing you.

Double chins and stickin' out the tongue is the only way
to throw far

How Normal People Dance

It was the week of Prom and everyone was exchanging dance moves (each out coach) and I was just kinda standing there awkwardly and then of course they made sure I learned all of them too for future reference.

I'm Stronger Than I Think

It was one track meet at Wasatch and Lane had her spikes on so I carried her up to the top of the bleachers to our stuff and it really was no big deal, Lane's as light as a feather. But coach Herr was in AWE that I carried her up the stairs bridal style and just set her down and was like "Humph no big deal." So the next day at practice he was telling EVERY SINGLE coach that I had carried her up the stairs. And he was like, "How come you aren't throwing that shot put at fifty feet? I think you're a lot stronger than you think. You just have to know in your head, that the shot put isn't heavy and put all the muscle you have into it."

We had to lift everyday after practice and I just didn't realize that I could add more weight. During each thing we had to do, everyone was like "Com'n Beds! Add more weight!!" One day when we had to lunges, I started with a 45 pound bar and by the last set I had an 80 pound bar on my back.

Tanner Than I Realize

Every meet we went, tons of people would ask, "Where'd you go? You're so tan!!" And my response, "Oh I just tan easily." And then they rant on forever about how lucky I am and they wish they had my skin blah blah blah.

Then there's Tressa who ALWAYS has sunscreen with her and is so worried she's gonna burn when it snowing.

How To Get Rid Of A Dead Body

If you've ever heard or been apart of a conversation with Tressa and Kambridge, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Wether it's getting rid of the evidence through a bathtub full of chemicals, making the body parts into dolls, eating the body or selling the parts on EBay, they have thought of every way possible.

They also gave me many clever ideas of how to make the body a dead body. The most disturbing part was about how elaborate the plans were, so if you ever need anyone to go bye-bye, just contact these two.

Along with their prank they plan to pull on the school, to fill the sprinkler system with blood then pull the fire alarm and blood will be spurting everywhere and they'd be in pure bliss.

I'm Short

Like I didn't already know that, but thanks for pointing it out.

I Wanna Actually Be Able To Play My Ukulele

At the region track meet there was this kid who was playing his ukulele and he had literally his whole team singing along with him. (And I was so determined to become his best friend, but that never happened.) It seemed like literally the perfect experience, they all seemed to happy and having fun. I want that to happen with my ukulele, everyone singing along, having fun and everyone's just happy.

So here's what you came here for, the pictures:

To hot to handle

Single as a Pringle and ready to mingle

We're cute

So Madison deleted the cutest picture of her ever laughing
in the rain off my phone and I have no way to get it back
so here's another picture of her and Madi laughing, but it's
not as good. Shame on you Madison.

It's a tradition for Lane and I to take a picture with the Union
sign and I zoomed in on her face, and isn't she beautiful!?!

I like this one because I have so much concentration on my
face and I'm not sticking out my tongue.

Trying to keep warm

I Don't Do Science

This past week I got to miss school to go to another school. I know, awesome!

But this school was wayyyyyy cooler!!!

It's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and it's a school that's all about science, (called the Teton Science School.)

Instead of sitting in a class room all day just waiting for the weekend to come, I was outside learning science hands on.

Before I went on this trip, science was definitely my least favorite subject but after learning outside in the actual world rather than a classroom, it caused me to enjoy science so much more!

I heard from past students told this trip was fun.

But that my friend, was an understatement.

This trip was the most amusing, entertaining, exciting and all around awesome school trip ever.

Each day we were on the tips of our toes just dyeing to know what adventure we would encounter next. Wether it was snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, doing the dishes, singing every where ever we went or building snow sculptures. I definitely made many memories and funny stories I'll tell over and over again. (Most that include Ally & Caroline.)

Here are the highlights of my trip:

• Marty the Moose sculpture along with our flash mob at dinner.
• Watching Ally ride the struggle bus while trying to climb up the hill on cross-country skies
• Cutting down willow trees as a stewardship project
• MAFIA!!!

  

  We took selfies during the night hike even though we
  may have sacrificed our vision for the next few hours

• Caroline's animal call video
• Building the snowman that was as tall as me
• Our water baby experiment 
• Seeing Le Tetons (Muy bonita) 
• Going down steep hills that were hardly even a hill and epically falling
• The night hike and everything that happened along the way
• Cleaning Hoo-Rahs while singing and dancing
• The cursed YOLO
• Lane's story about chasing a coyote

And along the way we actually learned tons of stuff. (I know shocking, it's not like we're on a school trip while at a science school or anything like that...)


So I was told I had to make sure to use science words in this post so here's my list of science words:

• Adaptation

  

  Our bus rides were better than yours

• Snow Layers
• Scat & Tracks
• Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
• Facets & Rounds

Okay just kidding. I can actually put those vocabulary woods into context.

WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH UNLESS YOU ARE MENTALLY PREPARED TO SEE THE NERDY SIDE OF ME, AKA THE SCIENCE SIDE.

The first night here we learned about the GYE (Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem) and all the species that live inside it using the acronym ASCAR. (A for alpine S for sagebrush C for conifer A for aspen R for Riparian.) Later on we had learned about behavioral and physical adaptations species have to help themselves survive the winter. FUN FACT: Did you know aspens have a layer of sunscreen on them to protect their photosynthetic bark underneath. We also dug three snow pits six feet deep and learned about the snow layers along with the difference between facets & rounds. Sara also learned that she likes to dig holes along with her hibernation cave. It was really cool trying to identify tracks out in the wilderness and kinda strange observing animals poop inside a container. The final thing I learned was the French fur trappers must have not seen some ladies in a very very VERY long time. (Hence the name Le Tetons.)

This trip was so much fun and if anyone who reads this has the opportunity to go, I 100% hands down, recommend it.

P.S. If you want to check out the blog for this trip, you can find other students who went and their fun experiences here.

The Results Of Boredom & Creativity

I just wanted you all to know that Ullr had a small problem truly understanding WE needed snow AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

I don't believe all of you did what I told you to do.

I'm ashamed of you.

The snow was delivered almost a week late and the snow was given to the east coast before us. That's 100% not acceptable!

Moving on....

So lately I've been into making movies.

Is that normal?

Eh.

Who cares?

Anyways....

Last weekend my activities consisted of homework, skiing, homework, scary movies, homework, some painting, homework, popcorn, and even more homework.

(By the way, teachers, I would really appreciate it if you would stop giving me so much homework over the weekend. The weekend is when I'm supposed to being #partyinghard not #doinghomework)

So it was a Sunday afternoon and I was supposed to work on my science fair project (Yuck!) with my dearest friend Tushig. But she didn't want to be seen with my in public (okay, just kidding that'd be 100% insulting although sadly I understand why.) So bored quickly engulfed me.

I was looking around my room trying to find something to do while thinking, "What is it that I could do on this horribly quiet Sunday afternoon?" 

FUN FACT: It was actually anything but quiet around the Fisher household. There were three fifth grade boys running around "working" on their science fair project.

My funtastic options included: cleaning my room (Nah.), making another batch of popcorn, helping my brother and his friends with his science fair project (No way José!!), or making some sort of painting.

So I went with the best option.

Painting.

And I had absolutely no idea what I should paint.

Then I remembered a post that a friend did on a DIY for tape art.

So that's were my inspiration came from with my own sort of twist to it.

But I wanted to make it even more exciting!



I decided to make a stop motion while doing the painting! I had never done a stop motion before so it took a lot of experimenting first.

I know you really don't care to know step by step on how I did this so here's a quick summary with how I did it and all the strange things that happened to me along the way.

My artsy pictures along with the totally awkward ones

I had to put my precious camera on my tripod that was raised all the way up, while aiming down at my painting table. (This is a lot harder than it sounds which also gave me many bruises that weren't appreciated from falling off the chair. Oh the joys of being clumsy.)

Then I had to make sure I took plenty of pictures while doing the painting. (Sometimes I forgot. Oops!) I know by the end of the project I had over one-hundred pictures. (For me, that's actually a bare minimum.)

But luckily pictures don't have the ability to capture smell.

Um... Morgan... That's a little random.

You should just be thankful that you couldn't smell what I smelt while doing this project.

My brother and his friends, thought it would be hilariously funny if they kept coming into my room and farting. And let me tell you, those farts were not pleasant in any sort of way.

I suffered through the farts and the falling of the chair without a broken bone or a loss of smell.

But overall my project was a success! The painting along with video turned out better than I expected or even hoped!

If you ever try this type of painting or a stop motion, I wish you the best of luck! ;) Oh and let me know how it goes!

P.S. Incase you didn't figure it out my stop motion is above and all the pictures above that are of my not-a-failure painting!

Excuse Me Ullr, I'm Over Here

This is a team effort.

I can't do this by myself.

I need everyone's help.

And when I say everyone, I mean EVERYONE!

But most importantly...

Your help!

What do I need your help for?

Calling to the snow gods!

Duh...!

(I know I'd be a great sales person, you don't need to tell me.)

My very intelligent father tells me that there's a Norwegian Snow God, named Ullr, and many sources from the internet confirm this. But, according to Wikipedia, there's also a Finnish Snow God named Heikki Lunta. So not only are we calling to one snow god, but two!

Why am I so persistent on calling to the Snow Gods? Simple. We. Need. Snow. It's just down right depressing how little snow we have.

Normally during Sundance we have a huge sledding party (Sleddance) on my GIGANTIC sledding hill but the past two years it hasn't happened. And currently it's dirt and bushes with a sprinkling of snow.

This is very imperative to call to the snow gods because currently they are very confused on where it is supposed to snow. Cause excuse me Ullr, but it's supposed to snow in Utah not the East Coast!

So I need your help to change this weather pattern, call to the Snow God, but most importantly, make it SNOWWW! And here's how I plan to do it.

The Four Steps To Call To The Snow Gods So They Will Make It Snow!

1. Sacrafice!

This is said to be the most important step because this is what initially attracts their attention. You could sacrifice your brother, mother or even grandmother depending on how urgently you need it to snow. Okay... just kidding! DO. NOT. SACRIFICE. YOUR. GRANDMOTHER. UNDER. ANY. CIRCUMSTANCES. I mean if anything sacrifice a brownie and some hot chocolate to the snow god. Maybe even a pig... Oink oink!

2. The Snow Dance Ritual 

Um.... I couldn't think of a better way to explain this than to show you myself. So enjoy this horribly humiliating video of me doing my snow dance ritual...

P.S. I don't have any friends to do The Snow Dance Ritual with but I'm sure you do. So do a snow dance ritual with them, because the more people you have, the stronger the force!

3. Hopes Of A Snow Day 

There are multiple things you have to do to convince the snow gods you are truly committed. You might remember doing crazy silly things in elementary school when there were hopes of a snow day. Yeah, well those silly little things are apart of this process of making it snow. And if you want it to snow you have to do each and every single one of these things.

Make sure when you go to bed tonight you wear your pajamas inside-out and backwards (bonus points if they're footsie pajamas) along with a spoon under your pillow. But before you do that you have to run circles around the table and flush ice cubes down the toilet. Make sure they are actual ice cubes, no crushed ice, it's a very common mistake. But most importantly you have to throw ice outside so they get the hint of exactly what it is you want.

4. Pray

Simple as it sounds. Pray to both snow gods individually and wait for the magic to begin.

Do I think these things actually work?

Of course I do!

Who do you think I am!?!?!

Jeez.

I mean my dad (the one who knows everything) did tell me about one time when my he was little, vacationing in Maine, he had a 103 fever and the forecast was rain. So you know what he did? He went and did a snow dance calling to the snow god, Ullr. Then he claims that his fever disappeared almost instantly and the forecast changed to snow.

That's enough proof for me and should be for you to.

Because you are going to call to the snow gods wether you like it or not.

At this point, you don't have a choice.

Since When Was Ten Years Ago 2004?

You know what's sad and depressing?

I can't even remember half of what happened in 2013.

A whole entire year, 365 days worth, went by and I can't recall very much of it.

That's just down right sad.

Maybe for 2014 I'll start a journal! Who am I kidding that'll last a day.

Anyways, I tried to remember what happened in 2013, and picked my favorite memories. These are just my top ten memories but there are many, many more. So if you care to know what they are, click the read more button below. Okay that sounds really lame so just pretend that never happened.



10. 5K's

I run about as fast as a snail and enjoy it about -20%. But this year I just so happened to run three 5K's and it was actually my choice! I know huge shocker!!! Two were Color Run's which is one of the greatest experiences, I highly recommend it, and the other was to raise money for my neighbor/teacher who had cancer. And who knows, maybe in 2014, I'll do even more! But don't get your hopes up.

9. Barenaked Ladies Concert

Oddly enough, this isn't a band of a bunch of naked ladies running around stage singing. Sorry boys but that'd be quite awkward... It's an all guy group and I went to their concert this summer with my family and another family. At the time of their concert I knew about three songs from their kids album; but this concert was an "adult concert" which means they weren't doing any of their songs from their kids album. So my friend Alexa and I didn't know any of the songs but it was still a party!


8. The Hungry Games

Image Courtesy To
Desert Star Playhouse's Blog

That's right, The Hungry Games. Not The Hunger Games. There's this magical theater called the Desert Star Playhouse where they make hilarious parodies of popular movies or books. Earlier this year I went to go see one of their parodies based of The Hobbit except I didn't understand half of the stuff because I've never see or read The Hobbit but it was still hilarious! So I went back later this year to see a parody of The Hunger Games called The Hungry Games. I can't remember laughing that hard in one night since the last time I went there. And what makes it even better is their amazingly wonderful popcorn and rootbeer floats. If you ever have the chance, go see one of their plays, you won't regret it!

7. ROPE SWING!

You know in the movie Grown Ups when whatever his name, goes off a rope swing and swings back to hit the tree? Yeah, well luckily that wasn't me!!! This year I finally got over my fear of the rope swing and I was like Tarzan swinging through the jungle!! And the whole reason my fear ever existed was because when I was younger I did the rope swing and completely belly flopped and let me tell you, that's the definition of true pain.



6. Ultimate Shaving Cream Fight

Shaving cream fights are so much better than a lame silly string fight. And this shaving cream fight wasn't planned. There was about ten girls over at my house for an end of the school year party and someone found a bottle of shaving cream. No one's exactly sure how or who started it but it was so much fun! We kinda attacked each other and were covered head to toe in shaving cream. But the real fight came when we had to rinse off in the ice cold hose and that was when the game of revenge began.


5. High School Tennis Team

This just about sums up the bus rides

First off I was so excited to make the team considering I only started playing tennis a year ago. But what made it even better was the fact that I made Junior Varsity! But the bus rides were a real party wether it was seeing how many people we could fit in one seat, making music videos, singing, the millions of Snapchats sent, attempting to do homework that doesn't get done and even trying to sleep. I had so much fun on the team and many more memories that I've sworn never to speak of. Shhhhh...


4. Spring Break

You had to go to each of the towers
& the maze continue in the back.

Normally for spring break we go camping which is fun and all but it's not all that exciting. But this year we went to Florida to visit my grandparents who own a condo in Panama City. Panama City has a beautiful beach that I was at all day, every day which caused me to get a major sun burn. Ouchies! But my favorite memory from this trip was when we went mini golfing and they had a maze next store. We thought, "Hey this will be so much fun, let's go!" And we were right about that. Except I was stuck inside for forty five minutes meanwhile my brother completed the maze in fifteen minutes. It wasn't only completely frustrating but also embarrassing. But I went back the next day and completed it in thirteen minutes which made me number one on the "Best Time" board.

3. My Last Year At Camp Daggett
My precious time at Camp Daggett as a camper has sadly come to an end. This past summer was definitely one of my best experiences at camp, we made so many memories that make me smile just thinking about them. But the greatest memory from this year was definitely our camp out. It all started when we were given the opportunity to do The Bear River Run. The Bear River Run in a canoeing trip down the bear river and campers haven't been able to do it in over twenty years.

Canoeing Images Courtesy To Camp Daggett's Blog

We canoed to our campout spot which is about halfway down Walloon Lake and everything was going as planned until we were warned there was a huge storm headed our way. We watched the storm travel over the lake until the point when our boat started to run away and lightning was right above us. That's when we all had to go to our tents and not long after we were told the boys tent was flooding and they had to come into our tent. So we had twenty people smushed into a five person tent, that was... fun. Long story short we ended up having to get rescued from the camp site with the help of the camp directors. Let me add the rescuing occurred in pitch black, during a huge thunder storm. But the best part was before the rescuing when we were all standing around a huge bon-fire in the pouring rain singing We Are Young.

We still got to do The Bear River Run the next day which consisted of many spiders, mosquitos, canoeing and singing of songs. This was definitely one of the greatest days of my life. I'm sad I'm no longer a camper but I am more than excited that I get to go back this next summer as a Progie. And no I'm not turning into a Polish sausage.

2. Michael Bublé Concert

HAVE YOU HEARD HIS VOICE?!?!?! HE IS AN ANGEL SENT FROM ABOVE!!! And let me tell you, he is one thousand times better live! And I'm in love with him and one day I will marry him, screw the age difference. Age is only a number, right? Okay Morgan that's a little obsessive, calm down! Anyways... my friend Madison and I went to his concert in November and it was the greatest night of my life! His face, *faints* his voice, *faints* his sense of humor, *laughs* (I know I tricked you on that one!)


1. Up On One Ski First Try!

So there's this thing called water skiing and basically you're on skis being pulled behind a boat and it's as if you're walking on water and it's tons of fun! The summer of 2012 I really really REALLY wanted to get up on one ski rather than just dropping one. Except I just couldn't get it! So this past summer I was more determined than Nemo was determined to touch that boat. And not only did I get up on one ski, but I got up my first try! I guess all that determination paid off!

I hope the few people who read this can remember more of 2013 than I did, it's kinda embarrassing how little I remember. But thanks to everyone who made all these memories & many others with me and I hope you #partyhard tonight. And 2014 is going to be great, I can already tell. So here's to 2014!

Blue Armpits

If you were offered the opportunity to be covered in chalk from head to toe, would you do it? I took the risk of being covered entirely in chalk and not knowing how long this chalk would stay stuck to me. 

This colorful experience is known as The Color Run. The Color Run is a 5K (3.10686 miles to be exact) run through color magically falling from the sky! Just kidding the color doesn't actually fall from the sky but that would be AWESOME!!! 

The Seven Easy Steps To Becoming As Colorful As Possible

Step 1: Find as much white clothing as possible so the color will be more noticeable. 

Step 2: Run through the color

Step 3: Roll in the color

Step 4: Repeat step 2 & 3 at each color station

Step 5: Cross the finish line

Step 6: Join the after party

(This is where most the color comes from)

By the end of the after partying, all the colors have
blended together to make an icky brown color

Step 7: Get the color "blown" off of you

Step 7 doesn't actually get all the color off of you, the rest you're going to have to scrub and scrub and scrub off yourself. And not even all of it will come off! (I discovered this the hard way) I walked around for days with bright blue armpits, orange elbows, and streaks of color in my hair! I even went to school with all this color on me! But in the end, blue armpits and all, being covered in color head to toe was 100% worth it!

Celebrate life even when you have blue armpits!