woops...

Um... I forgot to add this earlier. Thank God for Tim. Hehhehe... yeah!! He knows. -Lindsay

Release.

This whole week has been to least say amazing and yet extremely exhaustingThis is going to be a little corny, but I beleive I've grown up this week, if maybe it was only a little, I grew. Lets start by saying retreat was amazingly awesome. Many might have thought otherwise, but I took everything I learned and applied it to my life where I most needed it (understanding). When we first arrived @ retreat we all sat down in the main gathering room and we all talked to eachother, for many it was a first time to talk with people they had known for years, and never talked to. Then we went outside and just ran around and were stupid. Ahh fun...heh. But then later that night we went to confession. before we went in we were given the rules. This was the only time of the retreat that they demand complete silence, respect, and cooperation from each and every one of us. And I remeber lookin around the room at all of us thikning puh, yeah right like thats gonna happen. I looked around the room and saw (what I thought) was a bunch of kids that could care less about what these people were talking about, and could care less about anything that had anythingto do with religion. SO after the speech we were all given we all went into the chapel. The chapel is amazing. Very cozy, artsy, neat place. So as we go in, we find the chairs to be spread apart and all facing the middle of the room where a table stoody with a tall candle on it, and a bowl down beside it on the floor. As we entered we were given a piece of paper and a pen and told to sit in a chair. So as we all found a place and sat, music started to play. soft meaningful music. THe lights were off with only candles as light. We all started to write on our pieces of paper(our sins). I satand thought for a minute if I should really take this serioulsy, becuase I never truly had before. I always felt so uncomfortable with the sacrament of Reconciliation. But here I did not. So i began to write. I wrote every single sin that I had been afraid of saying before down on that little piece of paper. As I finished, I realized some sort of releif come over me. Some releif that I had not felt in a long time. THere they were everything that I hated about myself on a simple piece of white paper. How amazing that is. When I finished I looked up and decided to look aroudn the room. What I saw astonished me. Every single person was writing. But who I saw sitting around me in that chapel amazed me. I saw people who I had known for a majority of my life. I had known them since we were 6,7,8 years old in gradeschool just learning our alphabet. And here we sat toghether as 16,17 years old juniors in highschool preparing for the rest of our lives. Then I saw people who I had met in my first year of highschool who I had not taken the time to get to know. But here on the retreat I had my first chance to begin to get to know them. Then I looked in front of me and saw leslie. She turned and saw me looking at her and gave me a smile, and I smiled back. Here I sat with my friend, I suppose an old friend, but nevertheless a friend. We sat togheter in the same room for even maybe a short period of time, and I was sad. Not because of what she haddone to me, or what I had done to her. But because it was finally ok to sit in the same room and smile at one another. That it was finally ok for both of us to be happy. And finally it was ok for both of us to be happy for eachother. We all lived happily ever after, just not with eachother. She wrote that to me in our notes at the end. I will always cherish what we had, and will always pray to God that she remains happy and receives everything in life that she wants. And then I looked around me and saw my friends. I saw Sarah, and I thanked God for letting us become the friends that we are now. I thanked God for realizing I needed her in my life for me to ok and grow. And then I saw Joe Siebelts and looked at him and thanked God for letting me have such an amazing friend. A friend who gave me the gift of being myself. Through him I found myself and what kind of person I could be. And then I saw Natalie, I thanked God for giving me her as a friend. For having a friend who could broaden my horizons. A frined who taught me much more than any other 16,17 year old kid has the ability of knowing. And I saw Jo Ro. And I saw how happy and content he looked. And I thanked God for letting Joe be happy. And for hime being who he is, and having the ability to listen and talk with me. After I looked around the room. I got up and confessed my sins to the priest, I came out of confession and sat down and watched everyone slowly get up and burn their sins. I soon burned my sins, and they were gone. -Lindsay

Retreat

-Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle a war, love is growing up. -unknown Lindsay

FINALLY THIS STUPID BLOG WORKS

Finally!!!!!!!!! This blog hasn't worked in a week. Honestly. What use is a journal if its not available at any time of the day or night? I wrote a loooong blog about the retreat on Thursday, but it got deleted when the blog decided to stop! Death!!!! You guys are going to think I'm Lindsay because I keep using so much punctuation!!!!!!!!!! @!#$%^&*()_+- Okay, I'm done now. To begin with, the retreat was really good. I was surprised...it was just a great experience. I was afraid that it would be an endless mass, but I was very wrong. There were so many different activities, and we talked about current issues as well as religious ones, which made the retreat meaningful in a very real sense. I think the best part of the retreat was on the second day when everyone wrote notes to people telling them good things...it's so great to get notes like that. My favorite notes were from people that I wouldn't have expected to write me such nice things...you already know that your best friends care about you, but to realiz how much other people appreciate you...it's just an all-around wonderful feeling. Ahh the stereo in my car is amazing...I love it...I was blaring oldies reallllllllyyyy loud in the car last night. And I watched Aladdin last night, heh, love that movie :):):):):):):):):):) And today, I found my favorite CD ever (in Nikki's CD player lol) and it has the best songs in the world on it. For instance, the #1 best song in the world, "Cory Matthews," by Suspicious Delicious, is on there, along with the Ghost Busters theme song and the song "Dig" from Pochahontas, and lots of good songs from Bye, Bye, Birdie and Grease. Ahh it is absolutely amazing. My other favorite song, "Here Comes the Sun," is on it too...wow...amazing....seriously, if you just listen to this CD, you will get to experience what it's like being inside my head. It's a crazy world up there. *grins* Hehe so yes, it's actually been kinda busy here at work today...lots of phone calls, reservations, and annoying members with ridiculous complaints. But, I've still had time to update the xanga, look at blogs, eat a bunch of potato chips, read a heck of a lot about the zodiac, and totally makeover one of my t-shirts with a pair of scissors. So even being busy here is relatively quiet. Well that's all for now...I should do some work....our football team sucks....no offense, boys...food is good....the sky isn't always blue....umm yeah care bears...heh ok. Peace, love, and Krisy Kreme donuts YNatalieY

Testing

This is only a test to see if this stupid blog will actually publish something I say.

Happiness all over.

Hey um... last night was a blast. Tim met the fam. Heh, wow. Well not all of them just a certain select few crazy religious ones, thats all. Not to bad, besides the fact that a mentally retarded kid kept following us around. Heh, always intresting. And then Tim stepped in dog crap, so my family had to endure the pain of Tim the whole way home. Phew did it smell really bad. Heh!!!! Ohhh its ok. Thank God for colds!!!! Well tomorrow is my junior retreat day. Well actually Sarah and Natalie are also going on it. And I really dont want to go. That means I have to pack, and sleep in some place I dont wanna. Heh, good. And tonight I think Natalie and me might go up to dominic for the band concert. Meh, our boys!! Good. Um.. and I just found this song that I have, and I find it semi-appropriate.... When you get caught in the rain with no where to run When you're distraught and in pain without anyone When you keep crying out to be safe but no body comes And you feel so far away That you just can't find your way home You can get there alone It's okay, what you say is I can make it through the rain I can stand up once again on my own And I know that I'm strong enough to mend And every time I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith And I live one more day and I make it through the rain And if you keep falling down, don't you dare give in You will arrise safe and sound, so keep pressing on steadfastly And you'll find what you need to prevail What you say is I can make it through the rain I can stand up once again on my own And I know that I'm strong enough to mend And every time I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith And I live one more day and I make it through the rain And when the wind blows, as shadows grow close don't be afraid There's nothing you can't face And should they tell you you'll never pull through Don't hesitate, stand tall and say I can make it through the rain I can stand up once again on my own And I know that I'm strong enough to mend And every time I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith And I live one more day and I make it through the rain I can make it through the rain And stand up once again And I live one more day and night I can make it through the rain (Yes you can) You're gonna make it through the rain Heh retardness, but guess what guys my computer wont let me change my font or color. So if one of you guys (Natalie or Sarah) want to change it please do, because it looks like crap!! Mwhah!! Thanks!! ~Lindsay

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The Plan

It's finally Saturday...and im finally off work...woo hoo. yesterday was...eventfull...lets just say that. im not really gonna elaborate on it. and tonight the plan goes into action...muahahahaha. lol ok jk. but it better be good. so im gonna go take a nap, cuz im exausted and ive got a feeling i wont be getting much sleep. and lindsay, what country song was ur quote from? i dont think i know that one...but i like the quote! peace, love, and sneaking around! haha ;) *~SaraH~*

Yeah Cardinals!!!!

The cardinals are on their way to the World Series!!! Yay for them!! Yeah thats all I got. ~Lindsay "To much of a good thing, is a good thing..." -country song

Prank Calling Paper

Just finished my paper....it won't let me paste it in here, so if you want to read it, just ask. Good night. I heart you all. YNatalieY

Randomness of the World

God, today was full of super random laugh out loud roll on the floor moments. It started with Algebra, and Mr. Haug's silly jokes. and he kept poking fun at leslie. well tim would laugh hysterically at this, and finally mr. haug called him on it, in the middle of class, right in front of everyone. wow it was great. lindsay and i just stared at each other. we were crying, we were laughing so hard. then us history, which was gay, but lit was awesome. our paper (grr) were due today. mine was definately bad...im still in love with my last one...but anyway. so rob goldfarb read his, and in the middle of it it says 'you touched my g-spot' OMG the whole class burst out laughing. jeff had tears streaming down his face. it was great. we couldnt stop laughing for 5 minutes. wow. mrs potthast was hysterical. so yea. then death of cheer. meh. the stupid soccer players scored 7 goals in 20 minutes, but couldnt score another 3 in 40 so we could leave. what retards. its gonna suck so bad next year when the seniors(the only ones that can shoot the damn ball) graduate and we have no one left. oh well i dont care that much. ive got a feelin....ur feelin it too.... ^some country song...the part before that is even better, but i cant remember it. heh oh well. night! *~SaraH~*

Tissues

Yes, well, I have been reading about tissues for hours and it is driving me insane. Um, death to anatomy. I no longer like it. My only real break was to have dinner, and while I was eating I was studying my lines for the play because I do not want to be reprimanded by Mrs. Potthast...when she gets angry, she grows, I swear it. Ehh so today wasn't so bad. The morning wasn't so fun (death of Student Council meeting) but it got better as the day went on. Yay for friends who were there for me all day. Ehh did not go to the stupid game today because my back is dead. I hope Leebs doesn't kill me too much...half dead I can take....all dead, not so good. Ehhh my anatomy book keeps looking at me. I must bury it. Errm well death of lit paper due Friday. A process analysis paper. Yummy. Mine is on prank calling...well...it would be on prank calling if I had started it. But I haven't. Poor Sarah and Joe R and James have theirs due tomorrow...good luck kids. MY BACK HURTS!!! Thank you John for my b-day present, I heart it very much. Yeah Pink Ladies! I am looking forward to the rest of the week and hoping that things go well. I am very happy that my friends are happy...they deserve to be... Yes. That is all for tonight...I'm sorry that I haven't been blogging in much detail lately, I've been writing a lot elsewhere...private papers and such. But never fear...once a blog Nazi, always a blog Nazi....I shall return. *grins* Me heart my blog. Peace, love, and macaroni and cheese. YNatalieY

I Second That.

wow natalie i fell down the steps too. lol. my slipper slipped and i tripped and landed on my butt on the steps and jarred my neck. wow im retarded. not too much new tonight...i have to write this lit paper, and i have no idea how its gonna go. definately not gonna be one of my better writings....oh well. so i pretty much just posted this to say i posted for tonight...gosh im just so good right now...i really hope it lasts... love is not a science...nothing is proven... -i think thats how it went....something from gilmore girls that caught my attention... *~SaraH~*

I Heart Falling Down the Stairs

My back really hurts because I fell down the stairs. LOL. Second time in a couple of months, I think I'm turning into Lindsay. Hehe. I'll be at school tomorrow, though, even though I really don't want to. Meh everything is just crazy. I am hoping that it will start to be a good crazy instead of just mondo confusion. I think I have some of my friends ticked off at me...puh...I don't want them to be mad at me. But I know I have been wallowing...it's time to stop feeling so sorry for myself. It's hard though to get out of the doldrums when you have spent so much time there the past few days. I have, however, finished studying for French. I don't think that the test will be too hard, thank the Lord. I'm not so sure about everything else. Meh. I really have a lot to do, but I still cannot focus. It is probably because the computer is on. I always find myself talking to people and looking at blogs. Meh my mind is running too fast for anything else. Ok so that's all for today...good night all. Natalie

:-D

things that were implied are now certain. =) i realize that is kind of cryptic, but most of the people i know read this should get it....Lindsay and Krissy, thanks for helping me... thats really all that happened today. i missed natalie. :( and i really sincerely hope she is ok...im here for u, babe! so our school library has books giving advice on how to get high and how to avoid a hang over. im not joking. it was soo funny. and apparently u can mix beer and hard liquor, if the girl is over 16. wtf does that mean? we asked the librarian. haha. it was great. and theres a book called 'dead end: a book on suicide'. that is just mean. a book about sucicide should not have a funny title. hahaha. and mr barnhart is a queer. thats about it. now i must go...meh to chemistry...i just procrastinate for 2 hours and talk to jeff when i should be doing the gobs and gobs of homework...oh well...whatever... *~SaraH~*

Blahness of the World

I had a really good weekend too, but my memories are pretty much the same as Lindsay's and Sarah's, so I won't write all that out right now. I really just don't feel like it. Puh I don't feel like doing much of anything.

I've had a terrible day and night. No sleep...no, I am serious, I got NO sleep...and I've spent so much time trying to study, but that hasn't been working. And I still have to write a reaction report for creative writing, but I cannot bring myself to give up studying. I just can't.

And I'm sorry to those of you that I may have worried/upset/pissed off for not coming to school today, but I just couldn't. Duty and pain are battling themselves right now to determine whether or not I come tomorrow, either. Um, death.

And yay, Sarah, I am very happy for you. You deserve happiness so much.

Good night all. There is no love or peace here right now. But there are a lot of goldfish crackers.

Natalie

WOW.

This has been the best weekend ever. Starting with thursday, with tp-ing (oops i mean no we didnt...) till today driving all around getting our stuff from natalie's, it has been amazing. thursday, when we DIDNT TP anyone, linz and i stayed over at natalies and got up at *gasp* 5 am (after about 2 hours of sleep) to drop lindsay off at joes and go to cheer. the pep rally went awesome, and we nailed the routine at the game. i saw jake's dad and brother at the game...that was weird...it was good though. it didnt make me sad at all, it was like an even larger sense of closure. after the game (which we WONg 38-13 and had to do 110 push-ups!!!) we got chinese food and went back to my house. all i have to say about that is DUM DUM DUM D-DUM DUM DUM DUM hahahaha. wow. lack of sleep and spending 24 hours with the same people...goodness... saturday we had to cheer *grr* at 1:00. and i jammed my 3 center fingers on my right hand, and my middle finger is double the size it should be. HA. oh well. the dance was really fun and after was even more so :-D and today we went to denny's .wow. thats a lot. it has been a truly awesome weekend and now its ending with tons of homework...woohoo... but yea. i am so happy right now. im just content with everything and looking forward to where everything leads. its gonna be a truly great adventure. wow is all i have to say. =) *~SaraH~*

HOMECOMING!!!!!

What an amazing weekend. Heh. Um...... Friday night was amazing, go football!! Woo hoo!! Um.. Even though I was amazingly dead and in the worst mood ever all through school. After the football game we went to Sarah's House!! heh. And picked up chinese (I got sonic) heh!! Um.. and ate that and I seriously have never laughed as hard or as much in one place and at one time!! Heh, it was pretty funny! And saturday was hectic, still exhausted from lack of sleep, I got ready to go to homecoming. Hair=2 hours of fun!!! Meh. But I liked it, so o well!! Um.. the dance. We went to Macaroni Grill. Didn't like the food but again it was hilarious. So it worked. Um.. got to the dance and saw everyone. Everyone is so pretty!! heh!! Um.. and it was amazing. Tim your amazing! And so afterwards we went bowling!! meh... I stink!! Scored a big 34!!! Heh.... consistency is the key....!!! Yeah thats it... consistency!!! Um... well I had an absolutely amazing time this whole entire weekend. And it was good to many people!! Yaaaaaayy!!! It made me realize a lot of a heck of things. And I'm so excited and sooo happy that I have got rid of everything that ever gave me the slightest amount of doubt about anything this weekend. It's all gone!! And that makes me oh so happy, and excited!! Well I guess I have to go and see if I really do have any homework for tomorrow. Kinda falling behind with that!! Well I'm off!! Lindsay "My friends are amazing."

Yeah Birthday, Yeah Birthday!

Yay I am officially 17 today!!! Woo woo!!! Last night was awesome...I love my friends, they are amazing...and today is going to be just as good. All the classes are shortened (I'm in study hall right now) and we have the pep rally and the dedication of the new stadium. I had a message in the office this morning telling me that I have to read a prayer thing at the dedication as a class president thing...wow, I actually do have some responsibilities...and so I get to leave class early, YAY!! Does it seem like I'm the only one in this blog? Hrrrrm??? Hehe well I'll have a lot to write about later, I have to return to study hall. Thank you John and Lauren for leaving me nice birthday messages this morning! :-D And thank you for my presents everyone...I love them! Uh oh, gonna get caught writing in here, gotta go! Peace, love, and pep rallies.... YNatalieY

Getting Ready

Getting ready to go out! Junior/Senior wars, hehehehe. Yay for my birthday tomorrow! I'm going to be 17 in less than four hours! Pep rally is also tomorrow, and the homecoming game! Ah and my dress is here, finally...it had to be altered because it was too big....eeeee! I am excited. Hehe well sorry that's all for today, I need to go change out of my cheer uniform...we got to leave the game early because it was freezing cold and raining hard...yay for Leebs and free hot chocolate... Peace, love, and popcorn chicken from Sonic YNatalieY

Wednesdays

Wednesday is balanced so precariously on the edges of Tuesday and Thursday that it's a wonder sometimes that it never falls off. Honestly. Wednesday is almost a forgotten day; I think that if one day it were to disappear altogether, only the very observant would notice. Wednesdays seem to fall into the background of life; their only purpose seems to be as a milestone, a marker to indicate the middle of the week. Heh the thoughts that run through my head during class... PSAT today...ehh...not too bad...death of cheerleading afterward, from noon until 3...we got pizza though....and Joe and Joe and Lindsay and James came to watch. Then we went to Sarah's for awhile, which was fun :):):):):)Came home to do homework, not so fun. Blah of everything. Yeah. Peace, love, and color day tomorrow.... YNatalieY

Looking Forward to the Weekend

I have extremely sensitive skin, but apparently that is not what I have to worry about when I get a mystic tan. The thing I have to worry about, apparently, is breathing in the mystic chemicals. I swear to anyone out there who is willing to test this idea....my lungs are a lovely tan shade today. Really worth the money. Hehe. Yes, well, after school Sarah and I had a couple of hours to kill (well, we had a couple of hours to waste...it's mean enough to waste time, meaner still to kill it...) so we went to Tan Co. to tan for homecoming (my dress would look better if I was tan). And yes, so, who do we come upon there but Megan, Laura, Lisa, and Caroline. Everyone trying to get tan. Hehe cheerleaders. Then they left, and Jen and her mom came up there to tan, so it was one big cheerleader day for Tan Co. Anyways...I was a bit apprehensive at first to get a mystic tan because I have really sensitive skin, but I should've been worried about inhaling so much of that tan guk...it made me sick. Seriously. Puh. After that, though, Sarah and I went to Bread Co., and who was there but Mr. Liberstein (henceforth known as "Leebs"). He asked if we wanted to join him, but we were going to take our food back to Sarah's house and change for the game there. Puh. But I got sick and wasn't going to cheer, which is good, because they got out of cheering anyways...there was a downpour, apparently. Heh oh well. I am feeling much better...probably just needed some fresh air, or to lay down for awhile, or something. Heh. Just got off the phone with farm boy...hehe...I am smiling a lot again. Hey and everyone, don't think I don't know that you went shopping for my birthday yesterday...I am going to ask you what you got me...be ready....and afraid. *Smiles brightly and innocently* PSAT testing tomorrow...I am nervous...blah. I have to get over this fear of failure...it is ridiculous...(meh/puh^10)^2.!? I'm sure it will go fine. Heh. Maybe. Ahh this weekend is going to be amazing...my bday is on Friday! And homecoming on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday! YAY! Enough blogging for tonight...heh Junior/Senior wars this week...excellence...just wait.... Peace, love, and toilet paper.... YNatalieY

I HATE CHEERING...

...IN THE RAIN!!! torrential downpours, 15 cheerleaders, and pounds of polyester dont mix. trust me. its been 3 hours and my jacket is still sopping wet. and u cant put it in the dryer or it will shrink. isnt that wonderful? and now i am sitting here, freezing, and i cant take a nice long hot shower because the damn $25 mystic tan will wash off. grrrr. puh^2 to that. but i gotta go. amy is sitting here dying to get online to play games or something. hell i dont know. i will update tomorrow. two more days till dana comes!! *~SaraH~*

Quotes.

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you." "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." --From the movie Annie "People change and forget to tell each other." --Lillian Hellman "Football is 80% mental, and 40% physical..." --Little Giants "Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same." --Flavia Weedn You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. --Barbara DeAngelis "Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." -- "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." -- William Durant "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -- Vincent T. Lombardi "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." -- Pope John XXIII "Whatever you are, be a good one." --Abraham Lincoln

Duck, Duck.......GOOSE

What a game. Heh, I just got done playing this game with my mom, kellen, and camille. Heh, it was really fun when Camille decided to GOOSE someone other than someone "invisible" heh.... Oh it was amusing. Today again has been very relaxing. NO homework cause of PACT test tomorrow. So we get out early. And maybe go to Madisons. Mmmmm. Well school was fun and intresting as usual. I found out in Psychology after taking a Personality test. I am an Idealist. I found that the description of an Idealist fit me well. Meh... o well. Um... Junior Senior Wars are this week. And so far they have proven to be very intresting. Today at school the whole junior class was made to go outside to clean up around the school. ecause some jackasses decided to t-p the school and write our graduating year on the lobby doors. So yeah that was one brilliant move. And at the lueddeckes the seniors left a dead carcass of a deer on a broken down motorcycle with one wheel with a cigarette in the deers mouth. Ahhh...blah... So yeah day of intresting occurences. Not a bad day I would say. But definitely not a great one. Except I am very excited about this weekend. We'll see how that plays out. Oh I hope good!!! Heh, and I just took a palm- reading test. On www.tickle.com heh. Lindsay, your palm reveals you are especially good at Letting your love flow Hehehe. Yeah. Right. Um...Alrighty well I'm gonna go do something. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

Today's Events

Today, I: - daydreamed during pre-cal and payed for it when I didn't know how to answer any of the questions - ate cookies during Lit class - smiled (a lot) - remembered (also a lot!) - cheered in the freezing rain - received three high fives - ate a yummmmmmy Subway sandwich for lunch - was late to class after lunch and took the long way back anyway - went much faster than the speed limit...ahem...suggestion - spoke up to those moms on power trips at the game tonight, and probably became a person on their hit list - didn't care about the above, and smiled everytime they gave another stupid command - received some text messages from farm boy, which made me smile MUCHO - wandered the halls when I left French to go to the "bathroom" - looked forward to the weekend...my b-day and homecoming! - procrastinated - stopped at Walgreens to buy chocolate - brushed my teeth four times (so far) - was cold - made some chicken noodle soup - changed my mind a bunch of times - formed new opinions, and dropped old ones - sang really loudly (and really off-key) in my car - was slapped (LOL) - was a peacemaker - was a troublemaker - prayed - swore - danced in my room to embarrassing music - drank two Pepsis - received lots of support from my fellow cheerleaders :-D thanks girls - saw a large man in a blue poncho - washed the dishes - did I say smiled?? YES oh so much!!!!!!!!!!! - was teased - didn't care - blogged - was very, extremely happy And that is where I am right now. Such excellence. I am a bit tired...I want to talk to farm boy...puh...mucho cheerleadingness of tomorrow, PRAY that it does not rain...much as I ADORE rain, I do not like to cheer in it, especially when it is freezing cold. But I am thinking that I am done blogging for the day...ahh I so love this blog...yes. Well, au revoir! Peace, Love, and Taco Bell YNatalieY

Cheer = Death - Part 80

so doesnt it seem like cheerleading is always equalling death? yea thats cuz it does. times infinity. but yea. practice at 5 for a 6:30 game...incredibly stupid...but i will let natalie talk about it, because she is way better with words than i am and can describe the sheer gay-ness of it all so much better. but yea. other than cheerleading, which we did in the FREEZING RAIN, i might add, my day was really good. im exausted though. and i must go read scarlet letter...well, the pink monkey version that is. i heart pinkmonkey.com. oh and i absolutely adore the quote natalie posted. it sums up everything in my life right now. thats exactly the state of mind im getting in. and i think i like it. its so hard, but i know its for the best, and sooner or later everything is gonna be ok. not like it was, but ok. and dana is coming on thursday!!! woooohoooo!!!! nighty night. *~SaraH~*

Mormon Boys.

Yes well I talked to some Mormon boys today. Because they rang my doorbell and my mom was like dont answer it. And I did. Heh. So they talked to me about some bible thing. The mormon bible. It amused me greatly. They are calling back later. Hehehehe. Yeah so I just thought I'd at that in. Well good day. Um...bye. Lindsay

Joy, Happiness, and Love.

Joy, happiness, and love. Those three words sum up what I have been feeling these last couple of days. Oh I'm so happy with all of my friends. Everything seems to be clicking with all of us again (like its supposed to!!!) I know this is weird. But this is the most normal that I have felt since um... since last March. So that makes me extremely happy. I finally feel like a belong where I am right now in my life. I've settled myself into a place where I now feel comfortable and where I need to be. I feel like I've finally let go of all of my old hopes of ever reconciling with my old friends. Truly, I've rarely even given any thought to the fact of how screwed up my life used to be. I'm trying to focus on how wonderful my life is right now, and so much wonderful my life can become. All I need to do is let it. Give everything a chance to grow, and everything will be wonderful. Well I'm done blogging, meh. All of my family is now in here sitting by the computer. So I really dont feel like typing all of this stuff anymore. I maybe will later. Will see. Lindsay

Letting Go

Today I just really wanted to talk about this line I read in my downstairs book, which I finished today, but before I tell about it, I should probably explain about what I am talking about. During the school year, when I don't have a lot of time to read, I usually end up reading two books at a time; one book I only read when I'm upstairs, the other when I'm downstairs. I only ever read a few pages at a time, except on the weekends. Then I end up reading whatever book that happens to be on the level that I happen to be settled on. You can laugh all you want -- it's just one of my things. Anyways, my downstairs book lately has been Eve Green, by Susan Fletcher. It was really good, in a lyrical way, and one line on page 280 really helped me to realize what I was going to blog about today. The line went like this: "Hold the past up into the wind, unclose your hand, and let it go." That is what I need to do, and what I am doing. This weekend has been wonderful, unexpected, craziness of the world, and I am really happy about it. I wish I could tell you when I felt more free...but honestly, I don't even know when. I really don't. I just feel really at ease, even with this week o' death coming at me...if you really want to know my hectic schedule, just read Sarah's entry. I really have a feeling that I will be sick of cheerleading by the end of this week. Games every night but Wednesday, practice every day...puh...and I have to endure people on power trips every single day. If any teacher even thinks of springing a last minute test on me this week....well...all I can say is, "Beware of my wrath." But other than that...homecoming comes up next weekend...and Friday is my birthday! 17!!! I am pleasantly excited about it. But it does make me sad that I won't be able to wear my favorite Sweet 16 necklace anymore...oh well...I shall pass it on to Lindsay for the remainder of her 16th year, and then I will give it to Nikki when she turns 16. Hehe being 17 will be really good...somehow, it feels a lot older than 16...probably because of how idealic 16 sounds, and when it's over, it feels as if so many things have been learned that it's hard not to be older. I am going to try my best to keep being optimistic for the rest of the week...it shouldn't be too hard, really...and even though I complain about cheering a lot...I don't think it will overshadow the goodness and happiness of what this week leads up to. Happy Birthday to Matt this week too...his b-day is on Saturday! Yay! Yay friends! Yay farm boy! (Double cheers!) Yay life! Love, Peace, and an AMAZING game by the San Francisco 49ers.... YNatalieY

Platinum Blonde

so my hair is platinum blonde...no joke...i re-highlighted it so i didnt have 2inch roots next weekend for homecoming. i cant decide if i like it or not. my mom says it looks good. whatever. on the plus side, the conditioner makes it really soft and it smells really good. =) today was such a relaxing day. we went to church, and i babysat, and finished up my chem homework for the week, so i dont have to worry about it. and i dyed my hair :-/ and now im just sitting here trying to relax and calm down before going to bed and beginning the busiest week of my life, ever. this is a look at the upcoming week: monday: cheer 7-8am. school. game 5:00. tuesday: cheer 7-8am. school. game 5:00. wednesday: testing day (PSAT!) cheer 1-3 pm thursday: cheer 7-8am. school. DANA COMING! count people for p.i. 4:00 cheer 5:00. taco's with matt. friday: cheer 7-8am. homecoming game! 5:00. saturday: cheer 1pm. hair 4:15. homecoming dance! and we have to figure in t.p.ing and everything too, since its junior senior wars, i just dont know which nights im going out yet. and it probably wouldnt be smart to post what nights im going out...lol. so yea im just trying to suck up the last of the relaxing-ness before all hell breaks loose bright and early tomorrow. and ive been listening to my starting line cd a lot lately. im giving staind and breaking benjamins a break and whipping out the super popness punk stuff. it seems to suit my mood lately. and i like it. thats all folks! *~SaraH~*

In the Rain

Wow. Changes in my life since Thursday have been unfathomable. And I'm verrrrrry happy, so for those of you who have been worried about that lately, do not worry anymore. I am to a really good point right now...flying, spinning, dancing in the rain. Thinking about it, the wonderful craziness of this weekend started in the rain. I love rain. It's a good sign. A VERY good one. Rain is one of my things...it's kind of like this quote I found by clicking on the quote in farm boy's blog...the quote says, "I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind." Doesn't that sound like me? I personally think so. Heh, *grins WIDELY* sigh. So yes, as you probably read from Lindsay's blog, Thursday was amazing, and the start of the craziness of the world, as farm boy said. Sarah, Lindsay, Joe R, James and I went first to Pantera's to get yummy pizza; the boysies went to order the pizza first and the girls went into K-mart to get Sarah's mom a b-day present. While we were standing there, someone ran up behind me and grabbed me and scared me to death...it was Liz! Then we all went to eat pizza and we got out of the table to dance to Backstreet Boys songs from the jukebox, then went to Blockbuster on the way home to get movies, then to Sarah's house to watch the Cardinals' game. Joe S came over too, for he is major Cards fan, and we sat upstairs and watched the game with Sarah's sister and brother -- they are so cute! -- and we did the boys' hair with gel and it was great. James looked hilarious :-P only kidding, James. Well anyways, we watched some crazy movie (Thumb Wars) that Joe picked out at Blockbuster...scariest movie ever, lol...jk Joe...and since the girls were staying at Sarah's for the night, only the boysies had to leave...:-D...so we walked out to the car and that is all that happened on Thursday...nothing else...nothing at all. *Smiles VERY widely* But whatever did not occur, it did not occur in the rain. Friday night was great, too :-D Football game was lost to Cardinal Ritter by a large amount...the cheerleaders only had to do 21 pushups total...but after the game was the best, we went over to Lindsay's house to watch a scary movie that Jen told us about, "Stir of Echoes..." haha Sarah, that's what it's called. It was good. Before we got to the house though, I decided to race Joe R back to Lindsay's house, and I was winning by the time we reached Mid Rivers Mall Dr, but then I made a horrible mistake and lost my lead. Puh. So instead of continuing the race, Sarah and I made a detour through Sonic and got food. Then, at Lindsay's house, immense happiness. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Today...also good...more Cardinals game to watch...I am sorry that they did not win, but they will next time because their fans (ahem Mr. Siebelts) won't let them lose. Went to visit Joe at Dierbergs today and got to have a piece of brownie (mmm chocolate) and I went homecoming dress shopping with my mummy because the one I ordered from the catalog is backordered, and I found the most beautiful one in the world at Nieman Marcus (ahh what a lovely store), so I got that. Exact same dress as the yellow one from How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days. :-D I love it. Then my mom made me look at jewelry with her in Tiffany's (I know I know, twist my arm, right?) and ooh such pretty things. So yes, general goodness of everything, I am surreally happy. Ah the excellence of rain! Well, that is enough for today. Good night, all! Peace, love, and believing in the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow... YNatalieY

Hmm Hour Long Shower...

hola chicos. i slept till 1 pm today. =) it was amazing. then i took an hour long shower....ohhh was that good. lol. i heart showering. being clean is one of the best feelings ever. then i had to go ruin it by going tanning. not cancer box tanning, but mystic tan. it was definately an experience. a SMELLY experience. but oh well, im somewhat tanner than i was. (it was good, except for the dark lines on the inside of my wrist...oops...) then i came home, actually watched a little tv, and went to lindsay's then natalies. it was good. we watched the cardinals game and then some wonderful boy meets world. so now here i am. it was a good relaxing day. i wanted to put the last two lines from the poem thats in natalie's basement bathroom, but i cant remember them...something about life being good no matter the bad things...i dont know. it was good though. so if you would, natalie, put it in ur next post? thanks so much. good night! dont let the bed bugs bite!! *~SaraH~*

I Dont Like Scary Movies

today was the longest day ever. as lindsay said, there was cheerleading, pep infusion and taco bell. then i went home for 20 minutes and then left for 8th grade cheerleading. that was good. i talked to kathy for like a half hour about everything. then i came home and went up to cheer the dominic game. we got our asses kicked by cardinal ritter: 41 to 14. haha yea buddy. but our new stadium is amazing. that track is awesome. no more mud! then natalie and i went to lindsay's house, and watched echo of something? hell i dont know. hall of echos? oh i give up. kevin bacon was in it. it was really weird. joe and i layed on the floor, then on the couch. he kept me safe. =) it was cute. then joe romine brought me home. so here i am now, writing this and talking to joe and kurt. but im gonna go, cuz im exausted, its been a long day, and i wanna sleep!! sweet dreams!! *~SaraH~* ps...i need a boy...im the only one that doesnt have one, seriously.

Caught in the Moment.

Well last night was freaking amazing!!!!!! Ahhhh to be caught in the moment....... what amaziness...Ahhh I'm so happy about everything. Life is amazing, and so is every one else. Well today was an intresting day... As in the words of Liz..."we went to bed at the crack of dawn, and woke up at the crack of dawn." Ahh how it feels to have no sleep. So Sarah and Natalie had cheerleading this morning at 8 up at dominic. So they got up and left, and me and Liz left shortly after. And went up to QT to get cappucinos and gas. Yum!!! Then we went up to dominic where we dropped off our stuff for Spirit Infusion. Then we went up to city hall where the cheerleaders and pommers were practicing their homecoming routine. I liked it a lot. So we were watching the routine for the upteenth time, when Kathy Blattel walks over and asks me and Liz if we had our cars with us, and we were like um... no. Then she was like um... well here take the keys to my car and can you girls please drive this girl back up to dominic. So we say um... ok. (Did I mention it was raining) So we took the keys and Liz drove the brand new Trailblazer with only like 10,000 miles on it. It was beautiful. So we drove up to dominic and back, with the car in one piece. And we took a picture of us driving it for everyone to see!! heh!!! We were also blasting country music while driving it and singing and dancing really obnoxiously!! heh!!! So we go back and go back up to dominic in Sarah's car that seats 5 people, yeah we had 6. Oh well. And by now its only 10:00. So the days going by really slow. So we drop Liz and the two other girls off at dominic and Natalie, Sarah, and me go to Sarah's house to take showers, cause we felt gross. So then at 11:30 we go back up to dominic to help with Pep Infusion set up for homecoming spirit week. It was fun Natalie, Sarah, and me made the sign that the football players run into next week at the homecoming game!! Its beautiful!! Then we left around 1:30, and Natalie, Sarah, and me went to Taco Bell for lunch. And then I got home around 3:00. And I called Tim. Well so intresting longest day of the world!! Ahhh I love everyone!!! Especially Tim, I love you. And so I have to ref so games tonight (just 2 actually)... so I think they are coming over to watch a movie afterwards!! Oh these are the days. ~Lindsay~

Good Day

everyone is coming over tonight...so they'll probably be here in about 20 minutes... today was a really good day. i got my lit paper back... the one i posted in here... 98 in style 96 in content 93 in grammar 97 in organization 98 in success grand total of 96.4% i am so proud of that paper-- you have no idea. just all the emotion i put into it really helped me...you know? i cared about writing it. almost as if by writing it, i could finally convey my thoughts and feelings about everything into something worthwhile. and i think i succeeded in dooing that. whew. so thats about it. death of spanish test today. which really wasnt that hard, but knowing that it directly affects my quarter grade kinda puts a little pressure on, ya know? puh. but oh well. so thats enough for now...lindsay and james should be here soon...cya! if only all our problems could be 6-hour problems...and solved with a lemonade... (heh, not really a quote but oh well....natalie and lindsay will get it...) *~SaraH~*

Study Hall Once Again

Study hall ends soon, so this is going to be ultra-short. Boringness of study hall caused me to make up question/answer sheets for the game I was talking about last night, and I am going to attempt to pass them out to some of my dear friends before my next class. It is an awesome game, I assure you, hehe I am excited about it. In other news, cheerleading after school which will be okay I hope, and I'm sleeping over Sarah's house tonight with Lindsay and hopefully Liz. Don't know what's going on beforehand, though, but we shall see. Hehe farm boy. :-D Off to creative writing class in a few. Ta ta! Peace, love, and ermm rainy days! YNatalieY

A New Game

While reading through one of my old books, I came across a game that I used to love to play because of how amazingly clever it is -- a bunch of questions with answers that you have to interpret in order to find out things about the person you are questioning. Don't worry, most of you will hear about and get to play my game in the near future...I will end up asking you my questions and force you to answer them. It's neat though, I promise! :-D Today has been a really good day. Pre-cal quizzes were pretty easy, as was the French quiz, and all of my other classes have been going well. I must say, that as soon as I was finished with my paper, I realized how not hard it really was. It was actually kind of fun, because once you start writing things about how you feel (or once felt), it's easy to learn things about yourself that you never even knew. I got to reread all of my old journals from seventh grade, which was just so amazing. I really like the person that I was then...I feel like I could talk to my seventh grade self as I would talk to a friend. There are so many emotions in those pages...wow...it's so funny to think about what mattered to me then, and how everything's changed so that I care about totally different things now. It makes me feel kind of young. Hmm. Or old. I can't decide, really.

As for daily events...stuco meeting this morning, your typical do-nothing boringness that Eleanora and I constantly complain about without really hating. Sarah and I skipped cheerleading this afternoon (unknowingly) because when in the world did someone tell us we had practice on Wednesday? Umm, never? Good, that's what I thought. After school, Lindsay and I stopped at the Youth Ministry office and got forms for the Pro-Life trip! Woot woot! Me = excitement. We are going to have an awesome time, although there are some people that I wish were coming with us :( . Don't have much homework tonight, so I'm putting forth all of my attention into the choosing of a class ring. Eek, how I procrastinate...the order forms are due tomorrow, puh! And my mommy just realized how much money they are...I don't think she cares too much, she is just shocked at how expensive they are compared to when she bought hers...so blah, order forms are tricky little buggers, I am totally bad at filling them out. I know that an order form is good when it is Natalie-proof. Puh. And throughout everything, I continue to be very happy. Even with all of the things that have occurred in the past few weeks, I am doing well and am almost blissful, to tell the truth...ok, I am blissful. School has been kind for the most part, friends have been excellent, and life...life is being wonderful. I'm really serious in saying that I really think that God helped a lot in smoothing over my feelings about the past month. I am extremely grateful for how I feel right now. I'm done writing for the night. :-D Peace, Love, and a smile that can wrap around the world.... YNatalieY

Happy all over.

Yes, I am in an uncontrolably good mood these days. I think it has a lot to do with the people that I talk to every day. I cant help but feel a sense of belongingness and love. Meh, stupidness of me. But its the truth. Plus, this year has been (so far) not even comparable to the death of last year!! Ya wanna know what I did today?? NOTHING!! I went shopping with my mom and sister, and then I went to Dierbergs and the Joes for my mother. Heh, ahhh these are the days!!!! Well tomorrow night should proove intresting. Its a Thursday (but fakely its a Friday) and its all of my wonderful classes tomorrow (minus the Algebra)!!! So I'm very excited for tomorrow a day of nothingness. Then after school I think I'm gonna stay at Sarah's house (with Natalie too) and we are gonna do god knows what. And Joe wants to watch the Cardinal's playoff game somehow!! Hope they win!!!! And to top it off...its been 4 months of Tim and me....hehe!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I'm so happy!!! I think sometime this week, but I'm not sure when, it hit me, exactly how much I really do like him, I dooooo, heh!!!!! Well and the only other news I have is that I am once again broke, praying for more money to come in to me!! Because I just gave my mom 75 bucks for my class ring, and now I got a total of $4.62 left!! Thats gonna get me far!! Puh. So I need a job. Anyone wanna help??!?! It'd be appreciated!! heh!!! So yeah I'm gonna go now!! I'm excited for this weekend!!! Much money profits to be had in this weekend!! Woo for money!!! **** But how do you wait for heaven?And who has that much time? And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know that you were born,You were born to fly**** ~Lindsay~

Care Bears

im not quite sure i agree with this...but whatever. here it is. See what Care Bear you are. -sarah

Care Bears.

I took the quiz and I am Friend Bear. Meh, woo hoo!!! Well I'm exhausted some I'm off to bed, or rest or anything that involves doing nothing. I cant wait till tomorrow, its gonna be fun for some reason. Thursdays are awesome!!! (heh, only when they are considered a Friday)

~Lindsay~ P.S. I think I solved my "J's" problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo no more stress about that!!!!

babysitting...

chemistry blows. its not hard, its just so much work, and it seems like whatever i do i never do it good enough. meh. oh well. my own fault for taking honors :-/ i ordered my class ring today. its so perdy. i really really like it. and i got my last paycheck from snobiz. :( summer is officially gone. ok, so it was gone when school started, but now its even more so officially gone. im babysitting tonight, for the chilluns. emily and my parents r going to high school night up at dominic and im stuck with amy and luke. oh well. hopefully they'll fall asleep... i can procrastinate even more about studying for spanish. ehh i hate it. and i left my folder/notebook at school, so yee haw on that one. studying out of the book is gay cuz we dont even use the book. (meh/puh^10)^2 so thats about it. ill probably update later when im bored out of my mind from the kids... maybe someday i will see you again and you'll look me in my eyes and call me your friend... -once again, the amazing yellowcard. that song is the story of my life, i swear. *~SaraH~*

Care Bears Quiz!

Took a Care Bears quiz....everyone has to take it now and post the results in the blog. :-D

See what Care Bear you are. Time for dinner, I'll write more later!

YNatalieY

Later...

this is a continuation from earlier... i was watching gilmore girls and one tree hill tonight, and both episodes were filled with things that would have made me want to cry two weeks ago. but today, they barely affected me. sure, i noticed them, but not to the extent i would have. they made me think, but differently. it was almost in annoyance, like i didnt want to be reminded, instead of constantly looking for reminders. and i read natalie's narration essay. and all i can say is WOW. that girl is the most talented person i have ever met EVER. her essay made me think so much. i feel like i understand her so much better now. its insane. a wonderful insane-ness. =) thats all for today... you know you've changed when things that used to make you sad barely affect you at all... night night!

Goodness

Yes, goodness of life for the most part. Weird that I don't have a lot to say today...I could usually fill pages with my thoughts...but I am mostly content and surprisingly speechless. School was allright...cheerleading this morning was allright, too, but long....homework hasn't been too bad, the paper was easy once I got started on it. Everything for the most part is A okay. Time for some French and Pre-cal studying, so I will write more tomorrow...or actually write tomorrow, lol. Bah well good night!

All Over

i have an enormous feeling of closure right now. turning in my lit paper was the last physical thing i needed to finally move on. its hard, but i think its good. i was putting my paper on her podium, and it disappeared beneath everyone elses stories. it was physically out of my hands and into the mess of the world just with every one elses lives and stories. and isnt it kinda ironic how the place it started (potthast's room) is the place it ended? oh but im calling it-- when he comes back in november or whenever it is to visit, ill be in lit. HEH that will be interesting. but i swear itll happen. thats just how the universe works. so yea. but thats it. im so ready to move on. its a weird feeling. now if that OTHER person could figure out what the hell he's gonna do, thatd be great. Ta Ta for now... *~SaraH~*

IM BACK!

Hey y'alls, I finally just figured out how to do this again. Apparently my computer screwed up and my dad put higher security on it, so it wouldnt allow me to post. But I just lowered the security of the computer so its all good. Um... well i really dont know where I left off posting on this thing. So I'll just start from where I am right now. I am thrilled to be doing what I do every single day. For some weird reason, I find it rather amazing, my same old boring routine. Instead of just being blah all the time, I'm trying to find reason in my life, to always look at some positive side of my BLAH routine. I find it very exciting and thrilling to just come home in the day and find a spare 15 minutes where I can just lay on my bed in my room and blare music as loud as I want to and think about things. Oh those are the times!! heh!! This last weekend was amazing, I drove a lot. Well sort of, under the circumstances, I think I drove a lot. (Ya know not having a car and all and getting my parents car around their schedule, but ya know I'll take whatev') So yeah its wonderful!! But I'm sorry I got to run, I'm sure to be back now that I know how to work this stupid thing that calls itself a computer!!!! Been stalling way to long on not writing this lit paper, so a bientot!! ~Lindsay~

Like a Water Faucet

natalie, i am confused. is there a cryptic message in there somewhere? lol. all i have to say for today is that boys are hot and cold. i swear to God. yep. one minute theyr super touchy feely, the next they'r talkin about chemistry homework and being insanely platonic. what the hell's up with that??? so thats it for today. hot and cold, and its gay. *~SaraH~*

Only One Sentiment for Today

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Peace, love, and uhhhh sunshine and snow mixed together! YNatalieY

Jesus Shirts

lindsay and i wore jesus shirts today. haha. so thats completely random but what the hell. it was funny. so i overheard my sister and her friend...and apparently they have a list of places they want to make out with boys. HAHAHA. omg it was so funny. im sitting here on the computer, and i here my sister and her friend and my mom and her friends mom talking about 'The List' and i start laughing so hard. it was great. today natalie lindsay and i went to the farm to see joe. it was fun. we tried to go into the hay pyramid thing, but there were too many little kids and we couldnt. and we failed at the corn 'maize' (haha). oh well. and i washed my car. and armorall-ed and windex-ed it. its soooo perdy. but my dad took it to work tonight to show it off. all i gotta say is he better be back before i have to leave for school in the morning...i heart my car... =) and lindsay and i put gas in it this morning...heh that was an adventure... but other than taht my day was pretty normal. nothing too interesting to blog about... good night. *~SaraH~*

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Oh My!

Hola dear, devoted fans. I am sorry I didn't write again on Friday, or yesterday, for that matter. Been pretty busy! But I am here to catch everyone up, so here goes...

The rest of Friday went pretty well. Anatomy was the last class of the day, which led to amazing boredom. Megan and I held a wedding for our mechanical pencils -- THAT is how bored we were. And when we were supposed to be measuring the percent of body fat that we had on our arms, we kind of didn't....we were measuring the amount of body fat on our knees (5%), our ears (2%), and our noses (10%). As everyone knows, there is no fat on those places on the body, so it was all good. I was extremely happy for the weekend to come.

After school on Friday, I went to Sarah's house for awhile and met her friend, Kenny, then we went to see The Forgotten with everyone, which was ok but disappointing. The previews for it looked amazing, and I was so excited to see it -- PUH! But it was lots of fun anyways. And then Kurt came up to see Sarah at the mall and I made Joe and Tony stay with me so I didn't have to stand around stupidly like Kurt's friend was doing....honestly, he looked like he wanted to hit Kurt over the head with a shovel. Then Sarah took me back to her house and I drove my car home from there, and ended up getting home at about 1 am. Saturday, I took Nikki to see First Daughter which was really cute -- I was supposed to get her out of the house so that her gym friends could come over for a little surprise party. She was really happy about that, so it all turned out well. Honestly, I really like spending time with Nikki. It's weird that she's becoming one of my best friends....I tell her a lot of things, actually.

Later on Saturday, Sarah and I went to Joe S's house for the trivia night thingy...although our team was really bad at the trivia, we did REAALLLLY well at Cranium. I have to applaud James for his superior sculpting skills, Sarah for being able to draw with her eyes closed, and Joe S for some excellent humming. Oh yes, and I applaud Joe R for drinking 27 cans of Dr. Pepper....only a slight exaggeration....and myself for even attempting to act out the word "reproduction." Sheesh. Know what was really weird though? The former Fr. Brian was there...and I kept slipping up and referring to him as such, but its ok, because Joe S did, too...but its just weird seeing him as, well, something other than a priest. He is a super cool man, though, it was just unnerving. He was really funny though, and he thought James was the funniest man in the world. He also started to refer to James as James, which was really funny because at the end of the night, everyone was like "Good-bye Tim!" and he looked really confused, and I had to explain that JAmes was Tim's middle name and I just started calling him that awhile ago because it's more fun to yell than Tim. So, yes. Craziness. After the trivia night thing, Sarah and I went over to Lindsay's house to sleep over...we ended up eating cold pizza, lol...and we looked at the class ring catalog. I'm so excited about that! I'm still not sure what type of ring I want, though. Sarah crashed pretty early....well, not early, but you know what I mean....and Lindsay and I stayed up and talked about things. Heh, craziness. Then this morning, we had pancakes for breakfast and they ditched me to go to church (heh, just kidding you guys). Aww and they got to see my new puppy Cornelius (aka Cory, Corny, or my personal favorite, Corn Muffin)! Then we went and picked up food from McDonalds for Joe R, and we took it to the farm where he works. I looooooooove pumpkin farms, pumpkins rule, I bought one and I am still deliberating over what to name it. Maybe Alfred. We shall see. Also at the farm, we made Joe take a break to go through the corn "maize" (haha, maze) with us -- we definitely did not find our way through it. And Lindsay drove me there by herself (yikes!) and we almost died when she almost pulled out in front of someone, lol. Also, on the way home from the farm, we honked at all the people with the Pro-Life signs and waved ecstatically. Yeah, lol. So now I am here, writing, procrastinating, wanting pizza (real pizza, not fake). I am realllllllly excited about life right now, I am thinking. I don't know why, exactly, just everything seems to be going relatively well. I wonder if I have an anatomy test this week....I hope not.....hrrrmmmm. Well I'm off to do some homework (maybe) so I'll talk to you all later. Love, PEACE, and monsters under the bed. :-D YNatalieY

Country Boys-- Mmm'Mmm

sorry i didnt update yesterday. i didnt get inside till like 12:30, and my mom was makin me go to bed cuz i had to work early this morning. but yea. yesterday was like the day of many boys or something. lol it was so funny. there were all the people at school, and then around 6 kenny called me and he came over for a little bit (natalie came over too) and then he left and natalie and i went to the bowling alley and met joe joe and tony. then we went to the movies cuz the bowling alley was too crowded, and tim and lindsay came. then during hte movie kurt calls me, so him and this other kid come up to the mall when the movie was over, then back to my house for a little bit. it was weird, let me tell u. so yea. i worked all day today, MEH squared. gosh its so boring. but i impressed the managers with my buffness when we were unloading the truck, so that was cool. lol. and after work my family and i went to the pumpkin patch...and ooo man country boys. wow. lol. i wanted to go talk to them so bad, but they seemed really shy so i didnt. oh well. but my goodness. i love fall, and going to farms and seeing country boys. haha. and we went on a tractor ride thing, and i couldnt help but remember exactly two years ago, when i went to nikki's farm. my god that was amazing. nothing is better than being out in the country, by yourself, with a hot guy ur interested in. oh goodness its great. what fun. so now i just gotta find some farms and boys for this fall. lol. heh not gonna happen. oh well. whatever. tonight im meeting natalie at st joe's church so i can follow her to joe siebelts's house for some trivia night thing? heh no idea what it is, ive never done one. but oh well it should be interesting. and then we're going to spend the night at lindsay's. it should be a good night. my mom's pissed cuz i went out last night, and im going out tonight too. oh freaking well. im a teenager, i have a car, why shouldnt i be able to go out? oh man speaking of cars, i hope i have enough gas...uh oh...i think i do. at least enough to get to joe's to lindsay's and home tomorrow. so im gonna go now...i gotta get my stuff for lindsays. have a good night! *~SaraH~*

La Recette Pour le Sommeil Parfait

Or, as one says in English, "The Recipe for the Perfect Sleep." For creative writing we had to write a poem like a recipe, and I really didn't enjoy doing it much. It doesn't seem like a poem to me. Here it is: 1 tired, weary body, the lucky recipient of sleep 3 drops of calm, to soothe away fears 2 tablespoons of imagination, to insure the uniqueness of each dream 4 stuffed animals, to protect you from the monsters under the bed 1 soft comforter (down, if possible), to infuse sleep with warmth and comfort 3 books for variety, and 1 flashlight to read them with ¾ cup of darkness, to give light a chance to rest 1 cup of music often adds a spicy kick Sprinkle liberally with sweet dreams Pinches of thought, prayer, and anticipation can be added as desired But whatever you do – do not add an alarm clock. I'm in study hall, by the way, so I should probably get going. Take care all. Yeah Friday. yeah Friday..... YNatalieY