365 Days of enTrujiasm

365/365 :’)

The last. After 365 days of this, this is the last picture.

Today, we finalized the band council list for next year. Figuring out who’d replace us. Man, heavy.

We took pictures of our skits in drama, too!!! Here is a scene from Crysanthamum. I love the little mouse ears :)

We had Joseph rehearsal after school, which was frustrating as always, even though the reward will be amazing (of course!). Then I went and cut all my hair off, and here we are, I have really short hair (actually a little too short, I’m really a little uncomfortable about it, but its done and it will grow it will grow IT WILL GROW. IT WILL GROW). I just cut off the past 3 years of my life, no biggie. New life, new hair.

New blog, too- I can’t imagine my life without another 365 :) (http://whentrujwas18.tumblr.com)

I can’t even begin to say how different I am now than I was 365 days ago. Got accepted into college, got broken up with; taken people out of my life and added others and brought some back; made music and words; been terribly sad, horribly happy, and utterly insane.

At the end of the day, you’re another day older. And tomorrow I will be 18, which is a special day. I don’t feel older. I still love spongebob and Disney movies and falling in love. I still don’t like ordering at restaurants or talking to dentists. I still like glow-in-the-dark bandaids. That’s most important of all.

I’m still me.

And hey, thank you for reading this, even of it’s only this one entry. Thank you for being a part of my year, and I hope you enjoyed it!

Much love, Allison Truj

364/365

The day before my last blog entry. Oh geez.

Today was not a good day. I can’t even talk about it because the internet has ears, but in general, I’m just done. I’m a passionate person, and I put everything of myself into organizations, relationships, people, friendships. I’m sick of always feeling overlooked despite giving everything my everything. I’m sick of feeling like I’m not good enough for things I know I deserve.

In better news, I recorded a new song today!!! Here is a magical peice of Lee’s equipment, the new mics that look like cylinders. Magical cylinders. Note Fretless bass and banjo on the wall. (Not THE fretless bass or THE banjo. fretless bass and banjo).

I love recording with lee. We made something special today; when we finally post it, you’ll know what I mean. When I listen to it, it makes me happy. And seldom little makes me happy anymore.

I’ve also decided that I’m going to start a new blog for my eighteenth year of life. I can’t imagine my life without this blog.

Would you follow it?

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This is THE CHAIR- Section leader auditions today, THE HORROR. oh man. I remember mine. Actually, both of them. Train wrecks. All of them. But somehow they made me section leader and I’m pretty terrible at it, but here we are.

The wood shop is just an awkward room, much too dangerous for an audition of any sort.

(Hi kayla!!! I accidentally sent you an anonymous question, lol).

362/365

Today was the first day of Senior Spirit week, elementary school day! I wore my Miller Heights shirt, which still fit pretty well (although I’m pretty sure that boobs were never meant to be in that shirt) and carried around my little huskie doll that I’d bought in the school store, the one that was “limited edition” that they ended up just giving all of us because no one bought them. Cheap.

But anyway, yeah.

We also had Raisin rehearsal, Freddy rehearsal, and I had an eye appointment after that with an awkward little man who had hair that reminded me of nose hairs. But I have contacts now, HOORAY! (I ran out and I’ve been useless for the past few days. I have no peripheral vision in my glasses.)

Note the “I love Allison” on the dashboard, that was from Caitlin after she heard the song I’m performing at Open Mic this friday :) ALL OF YOU SHOULD COME. IT’S NEW. AND I LIKE IT.

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There was lots of rain today. Actually, a ridiculous amount of rain. So of course we barbecued. The Trujes are admittedly intense about their grilling. It’s something I’ll definitely miss in college.

Here’s Ashley in the middle of the rain storm, being a boss. She also has a broom.

360/365

Saturday! Woooooo.

I spent the day writing songs and reading old diaries, which is an activity I’d like to accomplish more, but it’s good that I don’t or I wouldn’t have any diaries left- I’d throw all of them away! I was a stupid kid. (I’ll be saying the same thing in a year I’m sure, and I’ll be quite embarrassed, you all having read this and all).

The main book on the day’s reading list was a diary I kept from Freshman year until the first half of my junior year. I forgot so much about that stretch of time- It’s weird; like, being in a relationship made me forget about a lot of stuff I used to care about. People, more importantly, romantic interests I’d pushed to the side who have been magically reappearing in my life. Like, I’d forgotten to the extent I used to love these people. I love a lot, always will, always have. Heart on my sleeve. Even now, though the sleeves have been pushed down a bit.

I went to Lowe’s with my mom to buy outside furniture, which looks more like indoor furniture anyway. I love these chairs, but they don’t make them for big kids.

Oh, wait- I guess I’m a grown-up next friday.

Next Friday.

I’m turning 18 next friday.

I won’t even be writing in this blog next Friday. Weird.

359/365

*cough cough* the entire senior class was ill today. How unfortunate, yes?

We were able to power through as some of my closest friends went to the Bethlehem rose garden for a scrumptious picnic! I made bruchetta, which everyone liked and that made me happy. There was lots of food. And it was so. And it was good.

Isn’t this a hipster picture? Oh memorial man pushing a circle, you so crazy.

We then proceeded to play on the playground like little kids, and Elias pushed me entirely too fast on the swing. It was glorious.

We also did some treasure-hunting with Keith and his yellow GPS of all-knowing. THAT was interesting. I broke a shoe. Worth it.

We also found a cat named Charity who was rolling around in the middle of the street trying to commit suicide and ended up being late to practice because of it, which was unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. Glorious.

I loved today. I want a million todays, on repeat, forever and ever.

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Today was an ENTIRELY eventful day.

The first stuff that happened was the Freddy Award Nominations, a tradition in our area as an award ceremony hosted by the state theater for high school drama productions. I wasn’t getting my hopes up for many nominations due to the unfairities that usually occur, but this year was different I guess- we got FIFTEEN out of twenty nominations, and we basically got nominated in all of the categories we possibly COULD. It’s an incredible feeling, like all the drama and hard work really paid off, but we don’t need awards to tell us that we had an amazing show. We certainly did. But, as Wescoe says, the awards are “sprinkles on the icing on the cake.” :)

Next was the band banquet. New location, the Green Pond Country Club, but the same awards and the same vibe :) I gave an awesome senior speech, and Ashley and I were the two musicians selected as ‘outstanding musician(s) of the year’ (yeah, it usually goes to one person, I don’t care. ;)).

It was a really successful day, my goodness, it seems like everything is finally paying off!

But here are the important things; my friends, who, despite any awards, I will miss dearly. These are the beat days of our lives, and I’m wasting them by being busy and heartbroken. I plan on spending as much time with these people as possible.

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Our drum majors and their mad majorette skills; I just think this is a really funny picture, especially the expression on Scott’s face! :)

This was before going off to Raisin in the Sun rehearsal where my cast memorized their lines and acted amazingly, although AP testing went on until 3:30 in the black box so we were performing it in the graphic arts classroom. Great cast, great play. I love every second.

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I had my AP government exam today, where i drew really pretty pictures and wrote poetry all over the prompt and pages that said ‘there is no test material on this page.’ It was ingenious. Realistically, I probably got a 2. FML.

Here is Stephen in tech concepts, he is a poop but he reads my blog so I suppose he deserves this ;)

So, I wasn’t in drama class today because of testing, and I hear through the grapevine that some pretty heavy stuff went down. What’s worse than ignorant people ruining drama? Ignorant people disrespecting the people who least deserve such treatment. I’m so sick of this school and the people who I’d rather never think about again. Take your MTV-closeminded-sheeple attitude and just go away.

(But hey! I only have to suffer 10 more days of school!!!)

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Here I sit trying to convert these RAW files to JPEGs and dying. I just want to upload some of the 114 photos my mom took from prom!

Today was an off day. I forgot my clarinet, my ukulele, and my djembe (one I needed for band and the latter two I needed for drama), plus my purse and I’m pretty sure I left my coffee cup at school. I’m a wreck.

My head’s just been spinning this whole time, trying to look back and not repeat past mistakes. I carry my heart on my sleeve, anyone who knows me knows that. These past two months I’ve tried to pull down my sleeves, but it’s getting hot, I need to push them back up. Exposing that heart.

Forgive me, it’s going to take a while to get back into the poetic groove. Time to go write, I think :) Let’s hope we make a metaphor out of it!