Recap 09

Every year I do some sort of summary of the year, since the last day of the year is tomorrow and I'll be busy I decided I better do it now!

January- I actually hardly remember a thing about January. I remember I rang it in with Evan. He played our song and we slow danced a few minutes before the clock struck midnight and then I had my first new years kiss. It was pretty awesome :) My second semester of college started this month. Um....other than that I don't think there was anything else.

February- I think this was another dry month. Evan and I celebrated our first Valentines Day together. He bought me chocolate covered strawberries and we made E&K spathettin.

March- Don't remember squat about March either. Damn, my memory really is going.

April- Went to Pittsburgh to see Rent with Meranda and Stephanie. We met Anthony Rapp (woot!)

May- End of second semester of college. I'm happy I did a lot better with that one than my first one, even with my four online classes! I also went on a small memorial day weekend vacation with Evan and his parents to Kentucky. We visited Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home, Mammoth Cave and Kentucky Down Under.

June- Probably random junk. It was summer and I remember the summer was a good one.

July- Celebrated 4th of July with Evan and his family at the country club. We also went to the zoo the next day. Had crewfest at Put-in-Bay. Other random festivities I'm sure.

August- Went to the Columbus zoo with Evan and his parents for my birthday. Also celebrated mine and Kali's birthday with a delicious ice cream cake. Started 3rd semester of college.

September- Bunch more randomness.

October- more randomness.

Novemeber- see above.

December- Went to Walt Disney World. My first time on a plane and to Florida. I really wish I was still there, snow and cold weather make me depressed.

Well that's about it. Usually there is a buttload more but I don't feel like flipping through my calendar to find some things.

Disney Day 4

Saturday December 12, 2009

Evan and I started with breakfast in the food court of our resort and then took a bus to Magic Kingdom. From our hotel, Magic Kingdom is the furthest away, it takes about 15 minutes to get there. When we arrived we hopped on the Walt Disney World Railroad and rode it until we got to Mickey's Toontown Fair. We then walked over to where the Dumbos and Cinderella's Carosel are and rode It's A Small World. The song does get annoying after awhile and I think who ever came up with that ride was high on something. Once again, another Disney boat ride! *gasp* Imagine that. So we rode that and of course our feet were still killing us on this day so we decided to take it easy. I met Ariel and we ran into the Fairy Godmother behind the castle on our way back to the front. The Fairy Godmother was odd. She asked me where I was from and said thank god I wasn't from Canada because she's seen too many Canadians and they are very rude. I don't think that was Fairy Godmother-like. I happen to think Canadians are very nice, at least in their own country. Anyways after that we grabbed lunch at Casey's. Evan is always raving about their mini-corndogs so I decided to try them. Unfortunately they tasted just like they do in my oven at home so I wasn't too impressed and disappointed I didn't get the regular hot dog I was contemplating on getting. After eating we watched a parade and then went back to Frontierland and looked around a little. We then left to go back to the hotel because of our aching feet. After relaxing in the hotel most of the day we went to Hollywood Studios for our dinner reservation at Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano. It was decent. I was upset that they didn't have regular spaghetti, only the kind with seafood. I got some sort of chicken ranch pizza that was pretty good but nothing to rave about. After dinner we walked through the Osbourne Family Spectacle of the Dancing Lights. It was pretty cool. I did get to experience fake snow which was more like that foamy soap you wash your hands with. It does look like snow when it flies around though, if you're not really close to it that is. After walking through the lights Evan and I left to meet Matt in Downtown Disney so we could see the Princess and the Frog. It was a very cute movie that I will be buying when it comes out and is on sale. After the movie we went back to the hotel where Matt stayed the night so we could be ready for Sea World the next morning.

Disney Days 2 & 3

Continuing on...

Thursday December 10, 2009

We woke up early to get to the parks close to opening. This was one exhausting day that left me to never get up before park opening again. So anyways, we got up and went to the food court to have breakfast. I had a bagel and cream cheese which is what I had almost every morning. It was cheap, filling and yummy. After eating we headed off to the bus stop to go to Animal Kingdom. We went to Animal Kingdom first because it's a tradition for Evan to go to that park first so I decided not to break tradition for him. As soon as we got in the gates we rushed to the Kilimanjaro Safaris. We only had to wait about 15 minutes. The safari was awesome. We saw a ton of animals and they have it planned out really well, minus the corny story line that Evan said they added in, but speeding through geysers is a ton of fun. After the ride we got off and ran into Evan's parents. They had fast passes for the safari ride and the cast member standing by the fast pass line gave them two more so we could ride again. Which we did. Our second time riding we got to see a 'raffie eating from a tree. It also started raining so some of the animals were going bonkers. When we got off we walked toward the tree of life and looked around in some of the shops in the Africa area. We ate lunch at Pizzafari which was pretty good, not the best but it tide us over until dinner. After that we went over to the Asia part so Evan could ride Expedition Everest. He loved it. We also went over to Dinoland USA and he rode Dinosaur. He didn't like that one so much, said it was too loud. In the gift shop by Dinosaur I found my Animal Kingdom safari journal I had been looking for. You put stickers next to the things you see in the park and at most of the gift shops you go around answering questions about animals and are given a special sticker to put in your book. I filled out what we had already done. We then left Animal Kingdom to go back to the hotel and relax a little. My feet were starting to bother me because I'm a smarty who only brought converse to Disney World. Bad move. We rested some and then stopped in Magic Kingdom to pick up our passes and wristbands for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party that night. We took the monorail over to Epcot because our dinner reservation was at Coral Reef, an epic win restaurant. We were seated with a great view of the aquarium that covers an entire wall of the restaurant. I had what I thought was the best steak in the world, until we ate at Le Cellier Steakhouse. It was so good. With our free dining plan we got to have dessert with everything too so I had creme brulee. Yummy stuff! After eating we rode the Seas with Nemo and friends because it was right next door. Crappy ride. Evan said it used to be better. I got sick of hearing "Nemo? Where are you Nemo? Ohh." Then we rode Spaceship Earth which is in the geosphere. I enjoyed it, the end was the most hilarious thing ever. In the beginning they take your picture and Evan and I weren't really paying attention and at the end they take your face and put it on an animated body and you're doing things. Whatever Evan was doing he was always looking to the left and I always looked bored. Omg we almost peed our pants. After Spaceship Earth we went back to Magic Kingdom for the christmas party. The first area we went to was Tomorrowland which is my favorite area, next to Adventureland. We went on the Monsters Inc. laugh floor. Hilarious. Evan's dad was "That guy" and he let me keep the sticker he was given. We went on Buzz Lightyear's Spaceranger spin. One of my favorite rides. I wish got to ride toy story mania in Hollywood Studios but for some reason that one is always swamped. We rode Tomorrowland Transit Authority then made our way over to Frontierland to go into the pin store to get the exclusive MVMCP pin. Then we found a spot by the castle to watch the fireworks. After the show we went to Pirates of the Caribbean. It was an okay ride, nothing special. Disney has a buttload of boat rides. I met Jasmine and Aladdin and then we went into the Hall of Presidents. It was pretty interesting. They had animatronics of all the presidents, even Obama which they just added in May. They had spots where you could get cookies and hot chocolate for free. The cookies were kind of blah but the hot chocolate was amazing. After that Evan and I were exhausted and it was after 11 so we took a bus back to the hotel and rested up for the next day.

Friday December 11, 2009

We started off the day with breakfast and then went back to Animal Kingdom so I could collect stickers from the shops. This didn't thrill Evan too much so I told him instead of Hollywood Studios in the evening we could go to Epcot. It took us a couple of hours to get everything and of course I found some characters along the way. I found Rafiki, Pocahontas, Thumper and Miss Bunny. After I found almost all the stickers, a couple of them were out of stickers :/ we went over to Epcot and waited for his parents to meet us in Mexico. We ate at the quick service restaurant there which had the most amazing nachos. After that we rode the Mexico ride in the pyramid. The scenery inside was gorgeous. We then travelled on to Norway, China, Germany, Italy and Japan. Japan was probably my favorite. The people were super friendly and they had a ton of cool stuff. I bought a good pair of chopsticks and Evan and I did the Pick a Pearl. You pick an oyster from a tank and they open it and clean it for you and you keep the pearl that's inside. Evan went first. His was 7 1/4mm and had an orangish pink tint. Mine was 7 1/2mm and it had a slight pinkish tint. Evan was so excited about this! I was very surprised. After Japan we were getting tired and had to get going to the Contemporary Resort for our dinner reservation at Chef Mickey's. We still had about an hour and a half to wait so we looked in shops and sat around on very comfy chairs and talked. The dinner was decent. You don't really have much to choose from there so it probably wouldn't be somewhere I would go again. But it helped me from having to wait in line for the main characters. I met Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Pluto. After dinner we went back to the hotel and had a very cold swim, but I've had colder!

Disney Day 1

Okay, so it occurred to me that I have no journal entries or anything about Disney since I don't write in a journal anymore. So...I need some way to remember it and writing it all down would kill my wrist.

Alrighty here goes:

Wednesday December 9, 2009
Evan and his parents and aunt picked me up at 6:00 am. We had breakfast at the McDonald's down the street then headed to the airport. It was my first time flying and first time being past security in an airport since they stopped letting non-passengers into most of the airport. Our flight left at 8:55am. We had a really bad take-off because we were going against a large snow front that was coming. I felt dizzy and light headed and my vision went out for a few seconds but that happens to me when I'm going up in things, even elevators. I hated the plane ride the whole way down. I would look out the window, be in awe then start freaking out. I was much better when we landed. In fact I was beyond excited seeing palm trees, sunshine and stepping off the plane into warm weather! We rode a monorail to get to the main part of the airport and walked around looking for where the Disney Magical Express bus would pick us up. There were a ton of people waiting for a bus! We had to wait about 20 minutes before one came that we could get on. I took several pictures of palm trees because they excite me. We got on a bus that took us to Pop Century, our resort. It was about a 30 minute ride from the airport to Disney property. Evan got a picture of the Walt Disney World sign for me. When we got to our hotel we found out we were in the 50's century of our resort. It was the farthest building on the right, only about a 5 minute walk from the shop/food court/check in area. There was a swimming pool in our section shaped like a bowling pin. Only one of our rooms were ready so we put all of our carry-on luggage in it. Our checked luggage would be picked up by Disney and be waiting in our hotel room later in the day. We went down to the bus stops and waiting for a Downtown Disney bus so we could get some food. We ate at Wolfgang Puck Express. I had a Pepperoni and Mushroom pizza that was pretty good. We then looked around Downtown Disney for a bit while we waited for Evan's friend Matt who lives down there meet us in McDonalds. We met up with him, looked in some shops then went back to the hotel to relax some. After a few hours of relaxing we went back to Downtown Disney for dinner. We ate at Planet Hollywood. It is the largest one in the world and has 3 stories to it. We ate on the second floor with a wonderful view of the huge screen that shows music videos. They played a ton of good songs in the beginning, then not so many as our dinner went on. After dinner we walked around Downtown Disney some more, I bought my dad a Harley Davidson shirt and I bought a huge scrapbooking kit. After we went back to the hotel and showered and went to sleep ready for our first day in the parks.

Damn, lol I'm glad I didn't write this because even typing it is making my wrist hurt! I need a break. I'll add more later, in pieces :P

happy happy :)

So I do get to spend New Years Eve with Evan :) I'm happy now.

We went to the mall for a little bit this morning, I didn't find anything but we got some food. Going with mom to Walmart tonight to pick up my Disney pictures. I can probably start working on my Disney scrapbook later.

This summer I think our vacation is Gettysburg and going down to some other battlefields in Virgina. I'll be in Virginia twice this year. April we're doing Spring Awakening in Detroit, maybe going to NYC in April too (that would be AWESOME!). Our road trip to see Prowant will hopefully work out, though it should be interesting quite a few people and their luggage too. I'm also hoping for Chicago in August! Mers and I want to look around and be all tourist nerdy.

Hoping to finish "Splendor" today. The last book of the Luxe series. It's soo good and I only have about 90 pages left. Then I think I'll start "Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister."

Christmas Tree Is On Fire

It's Christmas. I've never been big on holidays, especially this one but it turned out alright. Christmas Eve sucked as usual. My family hardly notices my existence. Not to be ungrateful but is it bad when the dog receives more than you do? And my cousins get everything they've ever asked for and more. Once again, not trying to sound ungrateful but damn, does that mean everyone else gets spoiled? Especially when we aren't buying for everyone in the family anymore. So now all of the crap that doesn't go for anyone else goes to my cousins. Makes me hope they don't grow up to become brats. I never received as much stuff as they did, yet alone everything I ever asked for. But meh, whatever. Like I said, Christmas isn't my thing anyway.

Today I went over Evan's as usual. His family does spoil me and I feel bad about it because I have no idea what to get them in return. I feel bad just giving them a game (I bought them Apples to Apples, we played it a couple of times today. They seem to really enjoy it) and a gift card for the Macaroni Grill. When they bought me two disney world t-shirts, a crystal glass slipper, two disney picture frames, a $50 gift card for olive garden (it's mine and Evan's favorite), a disney world photo album, candy, a pin and lottery tickets. Evan bought me a little crystal penguin and a pin set of all the countries in the world showcase at epcot. I paid for half the cost of his new DSi and I made him a small scrapbook that has pictures of stuff we did through this year. We had filet mignon for dinner that was delish. Tomorrow we're gonna go out to the mall for a bit so Evan can put some games on reserve.

I'm very bummed I won't be able to spend New Years Eve with him. His parents are going down to Columbus and my parents wouldn't let me stay at his house after midnight knowing his parents aren't home. Hopefully we'll be able to work something out.

Meh anyways, I don't even know what my parents bought me. My mom always buys me gift cards but I never know for where or how much.

i slept in till after 11 today. i haven't done that all year. i'm angry >.<

Tell Me About It, Stud

I just finished Evan's christmas present! It's....oh wait a second. You'll have to find out later in case Evan randomly decides to read my blog...muahaha hi Evan. You aren't finding out this way!

Anywhoo I got some scrapbooking done today. Only one page of the 4 I still had to go but it's better than nothing. I finished one of the pages of the crew spread. Just one more of those, the beach and the Nickelback concert and the book will almost be filled. All I'll have left is 2 christmas pages, one for the crew party and the other for christmas over Evan's and new years. Then I'll be shifting over to my new scrapbook but mainly working on my Disney one.

Blehh, I think I may start working on putting my spare photos in a photo album. I filled one completely for high school and now after I've cleaned I found a ton of others that need to go in a book because they're filling up my photo box! Or I can read some more of a book. Or I can straighten my room...or I can scrapbook some more. Jeheeze so many options but I don't really feel like doing any of them. :/

Lala I guess I'll go eat some grapes or something. Grapes sound good :)

Things Taken In Moderation

Not in a good mood today. In fact it's kind of a "oh hey, i think i realized how my life really is now and i don't like it one bit." Ever have one of those days? Something has been bothering me for awhile and it's not like I can say anything because people just aren't allowed to feel certain ways about things anymore. This is one of them because I've seen someone else do it and everyone goes against them. It may seem like they're just being pissy or whatever but it's just not something you can say that won't have people go all off. Ugh.

Anyways Disney was all fine and dandy, if you really want to know about it than just fucking ask me because I'm not typing it all out on here so you can spy on my life without saying a word to me.

Moving on. My grades were better this semester which I was most happy about. Not like they were nasty before but better is always good.

I'm hungry. Why the hell am I hungry I just ate?

*itchy knee*

Anyways that's about it. Honestly this whole time I was gone I noticed I can live without the internet and kind of prefer not being on facebook because it's annoyingness level has now skyrocketed. Everyone joining pointless groups filling up space, that damned socialinterview shit that posts freaking everything. Yeah, I feel like bitching and if you don't like it then stop reading this!

Ohio weather fucking sucks. Now it's all gloomy and shit, is it that hard to get some goddamn sunshine and green leaves back on those fucking trees!? Winter is some retarded ass shit let me tell you. And we'll probably end up getting record snowfall again. We get record snowfall with only one day off of school because that's just how that shit works.

I should have just stayed in Florida. Nobody would have noticed and I would be happy in the warm sunny-ness and always having shit to do because 'oh hey! theres actually shit to do in florida unlike in OHIO where there is NOTHING.' I'm only 19 and I've already been laid off from my first fucking job. What the hell is that all about? Once I graduate from college I probably won't be able to find a job because THERE ARE NONE.

Don't things just piss you off?

ugh, i need sleep.

Bok

I am done with fall semester! Woot! *jams* It was a pretty good semester but I'm glad to have over a month off of school. It will be nice not having to worry about homework and papers and tests and junk for a little while. My grades are starting to come in.
Art & Music for Young Children: A
World Religion: B
Parent Involvement: A

I'm expecting a B in Mythology and it can either be an A or a B for race and ethnicity. I really hope it's an A because then I'll have made the deans list with a 3.6. That would make me so happy. It would also give me more confidence for next semester.

Anyways *drumroll* the day has arrived! I'll be waking up in less than 12 hours to have breakfast at McDonalds and wait at the airport to board our plane to Florida!!! I'm so pumped. This week vacation after a super busy semester will be so relaxing. Although I'm trying to force myself not to fall asleep right now because I'm so tired from getting up at 6:30 this morning.

See you in a week! <3

Giddy-Up 409

For once in my life I actually finished a paper on the original day I said I was going to do it that wasn't the day before it is due. I feel accomplished :) Now my mythology final paper is out of the way and all I have to do is my brief race and ethnicity one that isn't due until Tuesday but I'll do it tomorrow after I go shopping so I can relax on Monday and Tuesday.

So here is my plan for the week:

Sunday- go shopping with mom, do race and ethnicity paper.

Monday- turn in mythology paper and sell textbooks back, pack, do more scrapbook pages maybe even to the point of finishing the ones I still have to do, review notes for intro to world religion and look over chapters for race and ethnicity.

Tuesday-take 2 finals, hang out with sara and pretty much enjoy the last day of the semester and prepare for vacation-ness of wednesday.

Wednesday- get up at 5am, get picked up at 6am, plane leaves at 8:55am (hoping for no delays although it is supposed to be snowing here then) we will arrive at Orlando International before noon then go check into our hotel, go to Downtown Disney for lunch and look around, play mini golf and also relax and take in Florida-ness.

Woot! Everything feels more relaxed that I have that big paper out of the way. 4 dayys, well now it's kind of 3 since today is almost overwith. <3

And I'll Stay With You

So holy crap. It's december!!! I can't believe this year is almost overwith already. It's been epically amazing.

I was very productive today. The only things I have left to do of my room are under my bed, my nightstand drawer, bookcase and cleaning up a little bit left on the floor along with vacuuming. This will get done tomorrow as I am exhausted. I cleaned and organized my desk. Cleaned out all of my storage boxes and organized them and did most of my floor. Yet I'm still sitting here wondering how it got this messy....

Tomorrow shall be productive too. Although I need to actually focus on school stuff once I'm done cleaning. Boo. I'm dreading working on my mythology paper. It's gonna be poop only because it has to be 300 words longer than the others we've done in there. How the hell am I supposed to shit out another 300 words? Bleh. Anywhoo at least my reading days have been productive even if it's not focusing on school stuff. Evan needs to tell me what day we're hanging out this weekend so I know which ones I have to work on my paper. Blehhh so anywhoo that's about it for now. Getting prepared for disney-ness! 8 dayys!! <3

You Gotta Get Angry, You Gotta Get Meean!

Goals for Today

1. Do at least 2 loads of laundry.

2. Clean off dresser and desk.

3. Clean from middle of bed down to dresser (including underneath) muaha you can't put it off forever!

4. Laugh at the guy on the quad shoving a burrito in his face. *laugh* check.

5. Do minute paper for race and ethnicity due thursday. Might as well get it done now since I will be cleaning tuesday and wednesday.

Last Christmas, I Gave You My Heart

Florida is now basically 9 days away! I'm sooooo excited. In preparation for my trip I have been cleaning my room so when I return with my new goodies I know where to put them and I can get started on my disney scrapbook right away. After the pictures are printed of course.

My laundry has dwindled down quite a bit. My goal is to have everything done on Wednesday and then work on my final paper for mythology. :D

This week shouldn't be that bad. I have tuesday and wednesday off of classes anyways because those are reading days. Tomorrow I sit through boring mythology (last class woo hoo!!!) and then we're having our final art lab and a party in art and music for young children. I'm taking oreos <3 Tuesday I'm going up to the BMV to get my state id and to walmart to pick up my pictures I've printed and work on some scrapbooking this week so I have my regular scrapbooking done before I come back. I haven't done any scrapbooking pertaining to this semester yet! I'm so behind. I'm still missing stuff from summer too so I'll be busy with that.

I'll also start packing soon. Luckily by doing all of this laundry I can see what I have and it's easier to pick things out.

Suuuper happiness <3

White Friday

Happy Black Friday!! Even though it's looking white outside. Yuck. First snowfall. I was hoping it would have melted already but it hasn't. Anyways Thanksgiving was better than normal. I went over Evan's and we had Denny's (yay!) since we both hate thanksgiving food. We played a bunch of games with his family after that. We played Uno, Yahtzee and Pictionary which Evan's mom and I fail at because we kept rolling 1's and 2's when nobody else would roll them at all.

After that Meranda and I visited Brenda at Michael's and I found some stickers and something to make for Evan for Christmas. We then went back to Merandas and woke up at 1:45 am to go get Kelsey and Sara to go to Old Navy that opened at 3am. Kelsey and I bought fleece zip ups which is my new love. Wearing it is like you never left your bed in the morning! We waited an hour and a half to get them and I also bought a dark blue tank top because I don't have one and needed one. We didn't get out of there until about 5am then went over to Target just as they were opening. It was nuts! All of these people flailing around with their 40inch tvs. Kelsey was able to get her iPod she wanted, in a gorgeous green color. Then we went over to Kohls and was sick of standing in lines so we purposefully didn't find anything. Got home about 6:30 am, fell asleep about 7:15 and woke up again at 10 to go to the mall with Kelsey and Steph. Nothing at the mall that they won't have every week until Christmas.

I'm taking the rest of today to relax. Nap time!

To Do! 11/whatevertodayis

Alright so I have some things that MUST get done today.

1. Do at least 2 loads of laundry, stop slacking you need socks dammit.
2. Clean room enough so my dad can get in to change the light bulb on my ceiling. I haven't had a light since August and I need one so I can finish my room before I leave.
3. BS my race and ethnicity biography. I can write a ton more crap about a made up person then I can a real one.
4. Start using those teeth whitening strips again. They need to be used before the expiration date!!!
5. How about just clean your room? Some of it anyways. I want to see a full trash bag!!!
6. Read the next chapter for race and ethnicity and do the minute paper. They lie, it takes longer than a minute but it needs to be done so you don't end up being a degree-less hobo.

*ahem* I think that's manageable.

Uncontrollably Bouncy

Today has been a pretty productive day and for that I am proud of myself. I put together my art and music for young children portfolio so I can turn it on on Wednesday, a week before the rest of the class since I'll be leaving for Florida when we're supposed to get them back. It's all done and looks pretty damn amazing if I do say so myself. But I still have two more class days to add to it for tomorrow and sometime next week. I can't believe there are only 4 more full class days left. That makes me happy I survived yet another semester of college and gives me hope for the next one. Another big leap toward summer!! (Yes I'm thinking about summer already)

This weekend was pretty awesome. Thursday Meranda and I went into Cleveland to eat at Tower City and lotto Wicked tickets. I was so freaking excited when we actually won front row and center. It was a beyond amazing show, no wonder everyone I know that has seen it has liked it. We got a special button that is on my corkboard, with my real pieces of flair. Yay awesome!! <3

Friday I went to Evan's to keep him company. He found out Thursday that his eardrum had broke and that's what had been causing him ear pain the past couple of days. Luckily it will heal and should be better in about a month. His pain is subsiding too. It broke because of his really bad allergies so now he's taking Claritin D so his nose and ears can drain and it won't cause all that pressure. Maybe he won't snore as much now :) Saturday I went over Evan's again for his aunts birthday. We went to Outback and then went back to Evan's and had cake and ice cream. I was so full I didn't have to eat until just a couple of hours ago. Mmmm subway.

So that's about it for now. I'm hoping to do some laundry but my mom has been hogging the machines. Bleh, guess I might just have to do it during the week. I can't believe I have to start thinking about what to pack for Florida already. It's crazy that it's only 17 days away. Gahh yay!

Aaaaand You're Totally Oblivious

Sitting in my classroom because I'm only an hour early you know. I usually come in here and sit and do whatever because there isn't a class before mine and the door is always unlocked. It's also peaceful and next to the vending machines when I need to nom and slurp.

I have two papers due tomorrow. Both of them kind of no brainers and for once I actually started them and even have one pretty much done before today. I have one for World Religion that I basically just have to type out my religious beliefs in an organized fashion and the other is the other half of our first exam for Race and Ethnicity. We could pick out of 4 prompts and I chose the opinion based one about immigration because I kick ass on opinion papers. Then again, who doesn't?

So Evan and I basically hung out all weekend which never happens. I always only see him once a week. Saturday I went to his house after the TAB meeting which was amazing because Jessie and Kristen were there and we never really talked about anything book related. Mostly about "a little incest." Anywhoo at Evan's we watched Pirates of the Carribean because I haven't watched it in forever and it's one of Evan's favorite movies. (is it raining outside? geeze it sounds like rain is pounding on the roof. *checks weather* probably not. the radar has nothing over us yet...i guess its the freaky heater doing its thang again) so we watched that and at at Oh Boys which was exciting because I haven't been there in awhile. Yesterday we went to what was our last trip to the zoo this year. I have never been to the zoo so much in my life. It made the 3rd time going to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the 5th time going to a zoo this year. We also went over to NASA and spaced out (not literally). Mostly Evan's dad and I wanted pins but their store was closed but we got free postcards, a sticker and a bookmark. I can't believe their moving the center to downtown Cleveland by the science center. OMG I want to go to the science center! The last time I was there was for a field trip or something I think in the 8th grade? Maybe? Possibly? Kali do you remember this? Maybe it was in elementary school. But I could have sworn Mr. B was there.

Anywhoo I want some food but I don't feel like spending eighty-five cents for a bag of chips. Although if there is a Caramello bar in there...

23 days!!!

Just One Night Couldn't Be So Wrong

This week has been kind of eventful. Sunday night Meranda and I got coffee and taquitos at Speedway and went to the beach, broke the law and stuck onto it while its closed for expansion or something. The sand was freezing but of course the water was warm. We saw fish bones from a pretty big fish. Kind of creepy at night. Then we went to the Super K in Amherst because there really is nothing else to do on a Sunday night. Good times. We bought some scratch off lottery tickets and I bought one for $1 and won $2. So I won the dollar back for my taquito and the one I paid for the ticket. Monday hung out with Sara along with Wednesday night. We had Panera (nummy) and shopped around some. Tuesday I went over Evan's to get my very belated birthday present. He bought me 'Up!' which came with a regular copy and a digital copy to put on my ipod. It also came with exclusive Disney pins which I was also excited about :)

Last night Stephanie and I kidnapped Meranda to take her to Cici's because she's been sick, wanted to get out of the house and wanted pizza. It was my first time there and I definitely hope to be going back. Nothing better than a pizza/pasta/soup/salad/amazing brownie/cinnamon roll buffet! Om nom nom. We did that and went back to Meranda's and watched 'Confessions of A Shopaholic' which is a good movie.

Today has been blah. Played the sims a lot, cleaned some, watched some tv. Right now I'm pondering what to eat because I haven't eaten since noon. Going to a TAB meeting tomorrow which hopefully will not have that pesky catholic preaching/republican mother. I don't care what your religious/political views are just please don't preach about them at a meeting where we're supposed to be discussing books!

26 days holy shit!

Thirty-four GAH!

Finished my observations for this semester today, woo hoo! No more until next semester. Now all I have to do is focus on my clinical on Monday and then most of the stressful stuff of this semester will be gone. Thank god. I think this has been the easiest semester so far.

34 days til Walt Disney World!!!! Holy crap I'm super excited. I specifically signed up to have my clinical on Monday because it is the 9th which will mean exactly one month until we leave. *dorking* My super excitement had faded away but now it is being unleashed because of how much closer I am to leaving. I also found out that the Princess and the Frog actually opens in theaters the weekend that we're down there so Evan and I are going to see the midnight showing at the theaters in Downtown Disney. Woot!! Of course we may be tired as hell the next day but oh well.

We have our dinner reservations made. A couple of them we were the last ones to get a reservation for that day.
December 9th-Arrival date, eating at Planet Hollywood in Downtown Disney
December 10th-Coral Reef restaurant in Epcot 5:25pm
December 11th-Chef Mickey's in the Contemporary Resort 8:30pm
December 12th-Mama Melrosa's Restaurante Italiano in Hollywood Studios 6:40pm
December 13th-Hanging out with Evan's best friend Matt that day. Going to Tampa to visit the Florida Aquarium, checking out the Gulf of Mexico and randomly wandering around Florida. Who knows where we'll be eating.
December 14th-LaCellier Steakhouse in the Canada pavilion in Epcot 8:30pm (I heard they have amazing Canadian Cheddar Soup *om nom nom*)
December 15th-Crystal Palace at 6:00pm
December 16th-Departure date. We'll probably just have lunch in Downtown Disney. I think our flight doesn't leave until 5:30 or something.

Hmmm...I think I'll go play the Sims now. I've gone and gotten myself addicted again after about 2 years of sobriety.

Scribbles

Busted my way through yet another paper. Ugh. So glad to have that overwith. Now I just have to worry about lesson plans. Thursday I'm doing my last observation and lesson for this semester (yayy!) and my clinical is on Monday both of which I have no idea what I'm going to do. My clinical is a music lesson and my observation lesson is art so it's not like I can use the same one twice :/

I've come to notice that I may just enjoy being a virgin forever. I mean what can be so great about a stick in your hole? Its like having a stick up your ass except on the other side of your body. I bet it's not all it's cracked up to be either. Just a random thought.

Festering Wounds

This weekend was pretty awesome. Thursday was trick-or-treating for Elyria, not like it mattered because I didn't do anything for it. After class I baby-sat my two cousins up until trick-or-treat then went home and ate some Wendy's. Steph and Meranda then kidnapped me and we went to walmart dressed up. Stephanie was Flo from the Progressive commercials, Meranda was Martha from Spring Awakening (big surprise there :P) and I was Bella Swan/Vampire/Severus Snape. It was a long story how this happened.

Friday I went to the Moose Lodge to have dinner with my parents, grandma and Aunt Linda. I had a yummy burger that was loaded with pickles and made me happy. Afterward I stayed the night at Sara's and we looked at wedding stuff. We think her boyfriend DJ may be proposing on Christmas which would be pretty freaking exciting!!! We would then have a wedding to plan which sounds stressful but very fun as well, especially cake testing!

Saturday Evan and I hung out and went to the corn maze in Wellington with his parents, Michelle and Ebert. It was a very good time minus the fact that people had stole the stamps from the stamping station so we couldn't stamp our paper. Which I was mad about because I wanted it for my scrapbook. Anyways it was the perfect Halloween night. It was nippy, the moon was out and would periodically go behind clouds. It was awesomeness <3 Later that evening the crew had a little get together and we played about 2 1/2 hours of Apples to Apples. It was pretty much a riot. Then again when isn't a game of Apples to Apples? We also had ramen!!! Haha and Hershey's when we were waiting for Meranda and Brenda to get off work.

Yesterday Steph, Kelsey and I went out to Avon Commons and had Panera and looked around in Kohls and Marshalls. We ran out of time to do Old Navy and Target so we're doing those some other time. In the evening the family got together at my grandmas for her birthday. She is now 77. We had a really good chicken/beany/vegetable soup with pumpernickle bread and salad. She had won a free ice cream cake from some radio station so we also had a huge ice cream cake which I nommed so happily.

Today was blah. I woke up at 7 to be really tired and told my mom I was skipping mythology because I wanted to sleep a few more hours. She happily went back to bed as well. Tomorrow is my early day, blehh. This one I can't skip because we're actually watching an interesting movie in race and ethnicity. I have to do my mythology paper tomorrow which I'm not too excited about. At least it's not a big one and I can always redo it.

Adventure!

This weekend ended up not being a complete failure.

First of all Pittsburgh was canceled for Saturday because it being all rainy and crappy. So I couldn't find anything to do on Saturday. I was supposed to hang out with Evan but he ended up not feeling good so I got to be bored at home for yet another day this week. At least my mom and I ended up watching Talladega Nights and ordered a taco pizza. That lifted my spirits. Today was a pretty good day. My mom, grandma and I went to the mall. They had "Splendor" the last novel to "The Luxe" series that I absolutely love. Now I have to rush to finish "The Lost Symbol" and two other library books I have before I can read it. I cannot wait to see how it turns out!!! Then mom was shopping around for tire prices since she has been needing to get new tires for her car. She found a really really good deal at NTB but they said it would take an hour and a half to two hours. Since I didn't have the Lost Symbol with me I just asked her to take me to Evan's down the road. So I did get to see Evan this weekend even if it was only for a few hours. <3

Apparently we're going to Macaroni Grill on Tuesday. I love it there. You get to draw on the tables. And their tiramisu is amazing.

Goddammit I can't stop sneezing today. I've noticed that light makes me sneeze. That's always a fun one, especially now when I'm staring at my laptop screen. I just keep freakin sneezing!

Gaggle of Geese

This week has been pretty bleh. Uhm...Tuesday I believe Meranda and I went to Oberlin to hang. Grabbed some ice cream went in little shops, took artsy pictures. That was a good time. Very at peace. Wednesday sucked. I caught 24 hour flu. My temperature was almost 102, I was achy all over, sore throat, would break out in sweat and freezing, it was awful. The next day I was fine with only slight sore throat and now I just have nasty phlegm. Yesterday I did pretty much nothing, along with what today will look like. But I am completely fine with that.

It's all rainy today which I'm also fine with.

Behh, nothing else.

Tacos!

Bleh. I feel like rambling.

So anyways I get to schedule my classes for spring tomorrow. While looking through the list of classes that I still need to take I realized I'm scraping the bottom now. Whatever time a class is available I'm pretty much going to have to take it. This makes things a pain. UGH. The next two semesters will be hell. Especially my student teaching one in the fall, it's basically TEE all over again but with a 2 hour class in the evening and 3 other classes including a lab science. YUCK. Anyways I have to check with the Ashland partnership rep. to see if I can transfer a semester early since I'll be finished in the fall. Hopefully this all works out ok. The only problem is I don't know how I'm going to pay for any school past spring semester. My bank account is dwindling down. Fuck this damn expensive schooling.

We got to visit the children's learning center on campus. Before I went there I ran into Lorrain at the library and she told me to apply at the learning center for a job. *DING* Perfect! I love the learning center, the kids are so much fun. I played with these two little boys at the building block station and I did not want to leave and go to class to take a quiz...who wouldn't? Anyways so we had to sign up for our clincials in the learning center. I'm doing a music lesson on November 9th with 25 kids. Haha this will be interesting. I have no idea what to do the lesson on so I'll have to start hunting :)

I need to set up an appointment with the education councilor so I can officially declare my major, since I haven't done that yet...*emailing*

Wind Turbines

And once again I manage to have "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" stuck in my head. Thanks Meranda for reminding me of that song!!

This week has been kind of uneventful. Wednesday and Thursday I went to the Washington Avenue Preschool to do observations and teach my lesson so I could get half of my observations done for class. I think it's dumb how I have to skip classes in order to get these done for another class. Anyway, those ones are done and since 2/4 of my classes were cancelled on the days that I missed anyway I say I planned it pretty damn well. My lesson did go well even for 3 year olds. Wednesday night Sara and I hung out where I burnt my finger. It still feels gross and it ripped open last night. Bleh.

Thursday was uneventful. I did my observation then sat around at home watching the 4th season of Sabrina, of which I finished this morning and am currently working on the 5th one.

Yesterday went to Wittenberg with Brenda and Steph to pick Kali up and bring her home from fall break. No wonder you chose to go there Kayes because it had a very nice and relaxed vibe along with the gorgeous fall scenery and large spiders dying on Wally. We all had a great time and had FAZOLI'S! Oh how I miss my fazoli's. Om nom nom. :)

Germination

Well here I am sitting in the library on campus being bored as hell. At least I brought a book to amuse me for the next hour until class starts. So I went to my 2 1/2 hour long class today and we were done in 45 minutes. Seeing as it's the first day of the class I'm not surprised but then she told us that we don't have to come in on Thursday either! Sweet, I get to sleep in. So now I don't have to go to class until next Tuesday.

Skipping classes tomorrow to do my observations. They're due in about a week so I figured I should hurry up and get them done. On this observation we get to teach a lesson. I don't know what I'm going to teach. I decided that I'll do my music lesson for this observation and do the art lesson for the next one, which I'll schedule for the same place to make things easier. Woot! Can't wait to get those out of the way and focus on figuring out what I'm doing for my clinical. Instead of teaching the class with our clinical we are going to the Learning Center on campus and teaching the children there. This should be interesting seeing as there are a TON of children there.

I think soon to be elementary teachers just automatically attract children. Kids like to cling to me and are always coming up to me randomly and starting a conversation. Maybe they just know I have a strong inner child. It amuses me. hehe.

Can't wait to go visit Kali at Wittenberg (BERG) on Friday! I think I may just call it The Berg. It sounds cool. Anyways excited about that! Woot!

Going to Half Price Books and Platos closet later today with Mers and Steph. I'm hoping to find some cheap jeans and a button down hoodie. Buttons keep looking more and more appealing.

Off to go read more of the Lost Symbol. I'm such a slow reader with these things, only because the text is microscopic and its kind of thick. I'm hoping to be about half-way done by Friday. Luckily finish it sometime next week :)

Yo!

This weekend was crazy busy. But it was an awesome weekend.

Friday, Stephanie, Kelsey, Meranda and I had planned on going to the Sonic in Parma for nommage. We got there and had some amazing food. I had a bacon sonicburger, which for once they didn't forget the bacon, chili cheese tots and a watermelon slushie. All very much amazing. About halfway through eating Stephanie realizes that she can't get the car to start. Apparently her battery had died so we were stuck in out little sonic parking space for about 2 hours before AAA came and freed us. It was a good time though. :) Afterward we went to Michaels so Meranda could use her discount to get scrapbook stuff. Then we went back to Steph's and chilled for a little bit.

Saturday I went over to Evan's because his dad was having a big clambake/lobster/crab legs/the women don't want to eat seafood so we had chicken get together with some of his family. I couldn't muster up the courage to eat a clam because A) I could see its digestive system, B) They're cooked alive, and C) I heard they have a rubbery/chewy texture and I hate that texture in food. But I did try lobster and crab legs which both taste the same...like the butter you dip them in. I highly enjoyed my meal of marinated chicken, cheesy potatoes and corn on the cob!

Sunday Evan and I went to the Toledo zoo. I think this is my favorite zoo now. They had a ton of random extra stuff like a scale to see how much your weight compares to different monkey species. I weighed as much as a female chimpanzee and Evan weighed as much as two female chimpanzees. I got to see giraffes extremely close up, seriously the giraffe was 2 ft. away from me. AND DAMN! When those things are right there bam in front of you, you definitely see how tall they actually are. Needless to say, I felt extremely short. We also got to see a elephant really up close. Probably about 10-15 ft away. Also freaking huge. It was really cool because we got to see them give it a bath. It would pick up the hose with its trunk, fill it up with water then lift up its trunk to its mouth to drink. It was so cool. I also got to see penguins!!! Love love love the penguins. It was a pretty awesome weekend :)

Today was the start of the exact middle of the semester. I survived the first half very well. In fact I'm extremely proud of myself because I have all A's and B's. No nasty C classes! My online class finished today and I ended with an A so I'm pumped. Tomorrow I start my 2 1/2 hour a day Race and Ethnicity sociology class. I'm not so excited about the 2 1/2 hours but hopefully my professor will let us out early. I looked at the roster to see if there was anyone I knew. Apparently there are 3 Kelly's in the class and my professors last name is Kelly. I think this may get a little confusing. I'm not used to having class with other people with the same name as me yet alone two others! I haven't bought the book for this class yet but I'm hoping I won't have to because I really don't want to spend more money on this semester.

Weiner.

Dear people next door,
It is not necessary to set off firecrackers in the road at 12:30 am. If you are trashed, which I think you are because I heard you singing "Uptown Girl" with slurs, take your party elsewhere. I like to have a good time as much as the next person but I don't want to listen to reject tryouts for American Idol or have light come in through my window followed by a bang which made my life flash before me because I thought someone had a gun outside. Great job, you probably gave all the old ladies have a heart attack. Screw you.

thnxbai

Bugaboo.

Talking to Evan about Disney World. I'm soooo excited. Tomorrow it will be exactly 2 months. :D

Hmm...this week has been lots of fun. Monday went on yet another spontaneous trip to Crocker Park and the beach with Meranda, Steph and Sara. I tried some juice from Liquid Planet, damn is that stuff refreshingly amazing. We talked about stuff we want to do within the next couple years on these really colorful and comfortable, albeit hard to get out of, chairs on the lawn in the middle of Crocker Park for awhile then went to the beach and was sad to see that it's under construction. I've never heard of a beach being under construction but now I have. They were adding large stone rocks to stop the dirt from the cliff to stop falling down. Great time, even though I was supposed to be doing my religions paper. But it got done.

Tuesday had a blast with Sara. We went to Southpark and had Panera. We got lost on the way to southpark, ended up behind Midview, saw these weird gray partridge looking birds. I learned that Sara can see weird birds on the side of the road, but not notice that the SUV in front of us had stopped. Haha that was fun. We worked on her boyfriend DJ's christmas present which is one of those fleece tie blankets. Those things make me want to pull my hair out. I don't know how people can make a ton of them. Brenda gets major kudos for all of those pillows she made for christmas. :) We also talked about random stuff and made ice cream sundaes like we did right before summer started.

Yesterday and today I get to veg out. Did some laundry and started watching my season 3 dvd of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I love amazon.

I didn't realize how many roadtrips we plan on trying to take next year.
April-NYC
May-Virginia/Washington DC
July-Kelley's Island
August- Chicago

I'm super excited. Life is good :)

Knobs.

uggh. i'm torn between two things. i really hate this because it's really hard and really crap and i don't even know how to feel about it at this point in time. gahhhhhhhh *rips hair out*

i need a vacation. a really long one. somewhere far away where i could just think and take pictures and be all touristy.

people are starting to annoy me a lot more easily. i don't know if it's because i'm less tolerant or they're more stupid.

i hate when people shove their heads up other peoples asses. live your own life for earths sake...damn.

bunnies are cute. i saw a baby one rolling around in the dirt earlier. oh...to be a bunny.

this whole 'allergies with the changing of the season' thing is pissing me off. why the hell did i just now develop allergies this year? and why does it have to consist with the two most annoying things in the world, stuffy nose and sore throat?

homework is bullshit.

wooden pencils are fucking annoying. they don't write smooth and they waste trees. you also cannot refill them with lead.

i just giggled at the thought of the washington monument being a phallic symbol. whats not to love about a country that has a big white penis?

wollybears are the shit.

why do i always need to take an hour long nap everyday even when i get 7 hours of sleep? wtf.

overused phrases are annoying.

if you don't get it by now i'm frustrated. i just need to get thoughts out. this is in no way relative to your life. please carry on.

men should have to shave their armpit hair. why do women always have to be hairless all the time and men get to be all hairy and lazy?

i'm glad my eyes work. i don't know what i would do without them.

the human body is complex and interesting.

clean laundry smells amazing. shit. i need to wash pants tomorrow.

i want to kick you.

why do i want to kick you?

seriously.

Rambles.

Well hellooooooooo October. You swept in with cold temperatures, at least those blasted mosquitos are gone. HA! In your face ya nasties.

Anyways nothing spectacular happened today. I'm just bored and ran out of things to watch on youtube so I decided to update on the first day of the new month then find something else to do.

Bleeh. So it's now 68 days til Disney. In almost a week it will be only 2 months. I'm super excited yet keeping my cool because I want to save the excitement for the week and days before. This year has gone by soooooooo fast. I remember starting my countdown for Kentucky at 70 days and it came before I knew it.

Mmm I really want some sonic. A slushie and a burger sound amazing. It would be better than that frozen chinese that I did have.

I think this post will be for rambling.

Only 3 more months in 2009. I wonder if 2010 will measure up to how great this year was? I'm going to assume so. I babysat my two cousins yesterday and earned $25 dollars. I was pretty happy about making money again even if it wasn't the job and the amount I was used to, but it's better than nothing and I got to spend bonding time with my cousins. My cousin Kaitlyn who's 5 is almost a replica of myself. We have the same hair, eyes, facial structure, body type (from when I was 5 as well obviously). I'm hoping maybe I'll be able to babysit more so I can save up more money for stuff to do. Especially if we do the big roadtrip to Virginia next year and if Evan's parents still want to go to North Carolina and since we're going to Detroit so I can see Spring Awakening and know for once in my life what Steph and Mers go on about all the time. :P

Hmm...more rambles. I need to scrapbook, I'm waaaaaaay behind. I have to do: my birthday at the columbus zoo, going to the beach, the nickelback concert, end of the summer party, apple fest, crushers game, random college junk, and straight no chaser concert. Holy crap. 8 pages. Maybe I'll do one tonight.

Fetus? Penis? 'Raffie?

Today was a fun fun day. After class I went to Stocker to have lunch with the girls (and colored dinosaurs!!!). Brenda made me a pink bracelet for breast cancer awareness month (thank you Brenda!!) that I was pretty excited about. My wrist is just filling up with bracelets.

After hanging out with the girls, Evan and I went to the mall and had lunch. I got JJ's grill bourbon chicken which I hadn't had in a long time. Evan bought me cookies <3 and I bought his Kingdom Hearts game for his birthday (so its a few weeks late, my present doesn't come out until Novemeber :(. ) We looked around the mall for a little bit then went back to his place and watched Man vs. Food and Whos Line. Then we watched the Haunted Mansion where I kind of fell asleep at the end. Ate a delicious dinner of grilled chicken, corn, peas and scalloped potatoes. Yum!

Went out with Sara for a bit tonight, which always makes for interesting times including tic tac toe penises instead of pieces.

Now I'm going to figure out what book to read next. I finished Night last night and now I don't know what to read because I finished all of my library books and haven't gotten back to get new ones. Grr.

Get Your Head In The Game Potter!

Oh yay, another Monday.

This weekend was crazy busy. Thursday I hung out with Sara some. Friday went over Merandas with Steph and Brenda and made yummy cupcakes and friendship bracelets out of embroidery floss (note to self: buy some and make more bracelets). We watched the movie version of RENT to get ready for the photoshoot the next day. Meranda, Stephanie and I went to the lake again but this time there were big waves that would crash against the pier and we stood there waiting to catch a wave and get soaked. There were a couple really good ones :)

Saturday morning was the photoshoot which went very well minus the rain, but it really wasn't that bad. I was the perky hobo with the pigtails thats in the broadway version and Angel. Meranda was my Collins :P We did the shoot in Oberlin which was pretty much amazingness. I had never really walked around Oberlin that much and grew to really like it really fast. We found this small creek that had a bridge and some interesting stone steps. I fell in love. If I ever need to do some serious thinking I know where I'm going now. We ate at an ice cream shoppe named Yesterdays. I love it there too! They had cheap good food and amazing lemonade.

Saturday evening was the Straight No Chaser concert. They were freaking amazingness. We got autographs after the show and they were really nice and talking to everyone, not all stuck uppity. We even waited until after everyone got autographs and got a picture with all of them. Hopefully we'll be going to Canton in December to see them again.

Sunday I went to the mall with my mom and grandma even though I knew I should have been working on my song and fingerplay file for art and music for young children. Soo...I started it at 6pm sunday evening. Finally finished at 12:30am. Got to bed at 1:00am, woke up at 6:30 am to do work for parent involvement. It's been exhausting. I was so glad to be home from school today. I made spaghetti with whole wheat organic pasta today. I don't think I'll ever go back to regular pasta because the flavor on this stuff is phenomenal.

Classes went well today. That mythology paper I was fretting over a couple weeks ago we got back today. 85% baby!! Apparently I didn't do as bad as I thought. In fact I did pretty good since almost everyone else got a 78%. He's even letting us revise them for more credit. I'm aiming for another A for this class. That will give me 3 definite A's I think I'll have this quarter which I'm pretty ecstatic about. Over the weekend we had to make an example of different clays for our clay lab today in art and music. I was assigned "ooey-gooey cornstarch clay". I was highly amused by this stuff, although it was extremely messy. I was covered in cornstarch most of the day. Everyone was assigned different clays so it was pretty cool messing around with all of these different ones.

Meranda and I went out to North Olmstead. We both took books to sell to Half Price Books. I got $5! So I ended up buying one of those Moleskin teeny tiny address books that I can keep in my purse. Then we went over to Platos closet which OMG is screaming spend your checking account on me. The only problem was a lot of the stuff was shrunk so you would normally have to get a size up. They had a ton of stuff in small which wasn't helpful. Most of it looked like kids sizes because of the shrinkage. But I found a tank topish thing for $4 that is dark purple and has white buttons with gray polka dots and a little stitched heart on the side. It's so soft too! Me loves <3

I'm happy I've been able to read a ton of books since school has started. I just finished "Sams Letters to Jennifer" by James Patterson a couple of days ago. OMG amazing book. You must read this. I liked it so much I bought his "Suzanne's Diary to Nicolas." Right now I'm reading Elie Wiesel's "Night." I loves it but it makes me very sad. I really need to stop reading the Holocaust books. They're just downright upsetting. :(

cheers! <3

I Wanna Rock N Roll All Night

So I went to my uncles showing last night and it was beyond awkwardness. Freakishly I actually remembered some peoples faces but didn't have names to go with them or what they are to me. I found out my whole life while everyone had cousins they could talk to and junk I missed out because I found out I have about a million and one cousins on my moms side along with several aunts and uncles I never knew. It was just mind blowing. Practically all of these people are my relatives and I knew nothing about them and they haven't seen me since I was a baby!! I feel jipped of family-ness. But, yet again, nobody is my age!!! The closest is like a cousin once removed named Christopher who looks like Evan and he's 17. Other than that everyone is over 30 or younger than 10. It was so weird.

Anyways school is going fine. Nothing interesting going on this week except I learned NOT to sit on the benches next to an ashtray. I made that mistake and man I haven't inhaled second hand smoke in a long time since the public smoking ban and hol-e-crap that junk is nasty. Bleh.

His Dog Is Big. If You Knowattamean?

So much has been happening this week it's nuts.

Alright, umm Saturday night went to Steph's for a bonfire. Brenda and I got there first then had creeper Meranda arrive and sit in her car behind us when we didn't know it was her. That was a laugh. Then we kept faking drug deals and singing RENT songs. XD I love how somehow my life revolves around RENT. Then everyone else arrived and we made s'mores (mmm I want one right now) and chatted it up. Jess actually was available to come which made me happy because I hardly ever get to see her. Meranda and I cuddled under a blanket and all that jazz with very sexual jokes. When don't we get sexual?
Also Saturday night I found out one of my uncles passed away. I hadn't seen him since about 7th grade even though he lives down the street and around the corner. We have the showing to go to tomorrow night which will be VERY different since it's my moms side of the family and most of which I have either never met or don't remember meeting because I was very young.

Anyways Sunday, nothing really happened. Went to the grocery store with my mom, bought food seeing as that's what you do at a grocery store and thats about it.

Monday I skipped mythology because I really did not feel like going. So I wasted time in the library and junk. Went to my first Crushers game in the evening with Brenda! I had an amazing time. I thought it was funny I finally went to one of their games when its for the championship. They won by a grand slam! Most epic grand slam, major kudos to number 5 because he had a buttload of pressure on him. Anyways, they're now tied for the games against River City and have game 5 in Missouri. Hopefully they'll win the championship. At least one team from Ohio could say they're worth something.

Today was also most epic. Haha no classes to skip because World Religions intrigues me a lot and my professor is amazing. If he could teach all of my classes I would learn so much more through examples with squirrels. Had "lunch" with the girls in Stocker then went home and lazed around. Get on facebook to find out that Meranda has had a bad day and Stephanie needed to go up to the college to look for her cell phone so we ended up going to look for it at the college with no luck. Then went to Crocker Park, sat in Meranda's car for about 20 minutes playing MASH, got out of the car to sit in front of Barnes and Noble to play more MASH then make our way to the chess tables to end up playing checkers and having a boy take pictures of us. He's Meranda's lover <3 We then hightailed it to hot waters and waltzed around on the beach while making fools of ourselves and enjoying the beachyness. It was amazingly weird not having any little waves come up. It was like standing in a huge pitch black bathtub.

Gahh, this week is soooo busy. I don't even know if I'll ever get my project done thats due on Monday. Eek!

what's that?

oh heyy! *ahem*

i don't remember the last time i wrote one of these so i'll just cover this past week.
-school
-went to the new sonic in parma with evan
-had a small party at meranda's to get prepared for the rent photoshoot. this included watching rent live on broadway and singing songs. "honest living! honest living!"
-had a whole day with sara, which i enjoy bunches since i usually only see her once a week like i see most people, college turns people into hermits. damn work.
-finished some books! this makes me happy i have reading time again.
-found books at half price books yesterday. im addicted.
-found rejected scrapbooking supplies at target yesterday, yay!

byess

A Poem.

I'm confused.
Confusion sucks.
I like,
Pie. Booyah.

Trinity

I'm noticing a trend. The world will have 3 leaders.

1. Disney-leader of the entertainment business.
2. Wal-mart-leader of goods and services.
3. Google-leader of the interweb.

Up and Down The Boulevard

I found my two older scrapbooks today. The one I had in elementary school and the one from 8th grade to the end of junior year. A lot of the stuff I've already forgotten about. I found stuff from when I went with GATE to see Liz Murray and Kyle Maynard. Pages that were loaded with signatures of my friends at the end of each year. Most of them I don't even have any contact with anymore. I'm happy I at least have the memories of back then, if not in my head its on paper that triggers it in my memory. I realized I feel pretty damn satisfied with how my life has gone so far.

So today is 9-9-09. It amuses me. :)

I'm surprised at how well this semester is going so far. I've noticed if I have an amazing summer, the next school year will be great too. Summer of 06 was amazingly awesome (yes, I found the scrapbook pages to prove it) and so was this past summer so I'm expecting things to go really well further into the school year. I can't believe I've been in classes for almost a month already. That's crazy!

Jeheeze, is it really Wednesday? It feels like its Thursday for some reason. Maybe that's because I know I only have one class tomorrow which will consist of discussing Buddhism, which I'm finding to be quite interesting. Hinduism blew my mind. They have some very interesting things right there. Gah I love that class.

Anyways this past weekend was good...I think...I don't really remember it too well already. Maybe I should have blogged about it sooner. Oh yes! Friday was the first home game at EHS for the season. It was super weird being there and also super weird being there with a bunch of the band people who I'm used to seeing on the field...not watching football with. It was a great game though. They hauled ass against North Olmstead winning with 3 epic interceptions. After that we went to Steph's for a bonfire which was followed by craziness and a sleepover. Needless to say none of us will ever need drugs, we just seem naturally drugged up when we're in the mood.

Saturday the double date was canceled because Sara got sick so Evan and I ate at Qdoba and went to the mall for a little bit. We went back to his house to watch some Man vs. Food (I love that show!!) and other randomness.

Sunday I went to Crocker Park with my mom. I found one of those little cardigan thingies that I'm in love with at Hollister, and on sale! Like freaking half off.

Monday I went with Evan to his grandmothers to celebrate Labor day with a cookout. It was fun and man do they make amazing mac n cheese. Nummy.

Tuesday was Evan's birthday, the big 2-0. We went to Quaker Steak and Lube and stuffed our faces. I freaking love it there OMG! Evan got the buffet and had me try a ranch chicken fritter which was amazingness. I had him go get me another one. Yum yum!

Party Like A Rockstarr

Wow, it's September! That's craziness.

Life is going very well. I've finally been able to relax some this week, for the most part. Of course the weekend will be hectic as weekends always are. Probably doing the EHS football game friday night with a bonfire which would be pretty sweet. Visiting our alma mater. Mini road trip/double date on Saturday to Fremont with Evan, Sara and DJ. We're gonna play mini golf, go to their mall, make dinner and possibly go up to the beach for a stroll. :) Sunday shopping with the moms and grandma. Monday, omg do I actually get a free day Monday!?! I bet the family will want to get together as usual so probably not.

I finished the 3rd Luxe novel, Envy!! OMG it's like my favorite series ever. If you haven't read them read them. They're like Gossip Girl meets the 19th century with awesome historical accuracy and social taboos and all that fun stuff. Me loves. So read it! "The Luxe" by Anna Godbersen is the first one. I'm now reading "Prophecy of the Sisters" by Michelle Zink which is also really good. Jessie if you're reading this I know you would like this one. It's all mythological with dark twists and cha ching, not another teenage book about vampires. Thank god. No offense but it's getting annoying. Yay to having enough time to read books again!

Evan's birthday is on Tuesday and he'll find out if he got the job at Angelina's. I hope he does, it would make him happy which would make me happy.

Next weekend we're going to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and possibly the art museum. I'm beyond excited, I'm a museum freak.

97 dayys!

~peaceizzy

The Funky Chicken

This past week and weekend have been going well. Thursday I had a quiz in World Religions and I only missed one. Friday was my last day of work. It will definitely be one I'll remember. Around 3ish I told Jen to get the flags outside because it looked like it was going to rain. So she got them and we took a cart downstairs to sort it. About 10 minutes later when we were finished sorting we took it upstairs and saw that it was in total downpour mode. Janet, our director, was then telling everyone to go in the basement because of a tornado warning. So we turned right around and took the cart downstairs and went on the far end of the basement and stood there while everyone else was cleared down the stairs. So we ended up getting an extra half an hour break because of the warning. Hehe. After work and some of the rain and thunder was still going on, Brenda picked me up from work and we went to Twist and Shake to meet up with Steph, Brittany and Mers. They were dead because of the storms so we were able to get our ice cream right away. :) Then we went to Stephs and watched Wizards of Waverly Place the movie, which actually wasn't that bad followed by 17 Again which was good. We played with Whittle some and Meranda was being a creepy cat lady. :P

Saturday after Steph dropped me off back home I showered and watched TV until I got ready to go over Evans. We hung out at his house for a little bit, he got his new camera which was the new model that replaced the one I bought at the beginning of the year. I'm pretty jealous, it has a no shake thing where even if youre shaking the pictures will still come out amazingly clear. Mine is so freaking sensitive its a pain. I should have just waited for this one to come out. Oh wells. So he got his camera and we went to Outback. Yay! One of my favorite restaurants. We ordered 3 appetizers because with 7 people you kind of need a lot. We got Aussie cheese and bacon fries, a bloomin onion and some chicken, mushroom and bacon quesedillas. All of which are beyond amazingness. I ordered a 6 oz outback special steak with creamy onion soup and garlic mashed potatoes. Yummers! After that we went to the All American Sports Center to play mini golf. I came in second place behind Evan's aunt who only beat me by one. Lol Evan was in last place.

After stopping at Evan's for a little bit we then went out to the fair. Which I really need to remember it isn't all it's cracked up to be so why do I feel I must go when it comes around every year? Although my fresh squeezed lemonade was amazing. I decided to save getting cotton candy for the apple festival. Mmmm cotton candy. Anyways we walked around and saw chickens, and duckies!! And huuuuuuuuuge bunnies. Some of them were about the size of a medium dog. I had no idea that could get that big. But it was fun and I was glad I went.

Doing some homework today and hopefully getting to the end of the book I'm reading so I can work on the other 2 I just took out of the library.

Disco Stick Is An Innuendo

104 days til Disney!! Gah, it's getting closer all the time. I'm so excited! XD

Anyways, nothing really is going on. I just felt like I should blog for some reason. Or maybe no reason at all.

Grr. So I wrote this poem about 3 months ago that was written on a piece of notebook paper on the floor of my room...before I cleaned it. I forgot it was down there and ended up pitching it and now I will never remember that poem again because that was the only place I had written it. I find that sad. I actually really liked that poem of mine too. Grr. Hehe well that was random info.

Only two more days of work. I think I'm going to have too much time on my hands. But I can fill in that time with pleasure reading or something. The possibilities are endless.

Almost finished with my second week of the semester! Whoot! Only 16 more weeks to go! At least I believe it's 16. Damn I want some chocolate.

I need to read more of the book I'm on. I've been stuck at the same chapter for almost a week thanks to the addictiveness of facebook. It's both a blessing and a curse. Okay, maybe not a good choice of words but whatever.

Booyah!

C'est la Vie

Things seem to be going so good this week! Ah, I love life.

Evan got called back to get a second interview at Angelina's. It's kind of ironic how I'm losing my job and he might possibly be getting one. At least one of us will have a job! He's also focusing on getting his license at the end of next month. This will leave me in heaven. He promised me we would do a 3am Steak and Shake run. :)

Going to Olive Garden for lunch with my mama. I looooove Olive Garden to the extreme. Then we're going to Avon Commons, doing a little shopping around and going to Apple's so I can get Ravioli-O's, the amazing ravioli version of Spaghetti-O's. That was my childhood right there.

Wednesday and Thursday are full of school stuff and work.

Friday is my very last day of being a Page at the library :( But it will be made up for with a girls night at Steph's for all of us that have junk going on that we just need a night to forget about. Mmm twist and shake here we come!

Saturday Evan and I are going to play mini golf and have dinner at Outback with his family! OMG my two favorite restaurants in the same week! Woot!

<3

Bliss <3

This weekend hasn't been too eventful but tonight was amazing <3

Originally Evan and I weren't going to be able to see each other this weekend. When I was on lunch break today at work, he texts me and asks if I would like to go to dinner tonight when I got off. Hecks yes! So I get home and change then he picks me up and we went to Applebee's and had a yum yummy dinner. With an amazing dessert.

After dinner we went to his house and sat on the swing in his backyard and watched the sun go down. It was absolutely amazing. It was a little cool, when I got too cold he took off his button up shirt and covered me up with it. We just sat there and talked about random things. It was a great time <3

Going shopping tomorrow! I hope I can find some cheap jeans and fall clothes.

That's life.

Bleh. I hate period cramps and headaches. Especially when they hit you at the same time. At least I'm off work today. I can't believe I only have a week left there. :(

I need to do my Parent Involvement work. Grr. At least it's not due until Monday.

You Shoulda Known By Now

Two days into the semester now. One of my classes doesn't start until October so my work load is mostly reading, a few papers and mostly quizzes and tests. All of my professors seem awesome so far. My mythology professor looks and sounds exactly like Anthony Hopkins. It's kind of creepy but it just makes it more interesting to listen to him. My world religions professor is like Mr. Daniels. Looks and acts just like him. It's so weird. But it's going good so far. I told myself I will have all of my work done before the weekend so I can relax. I'm gonna make that happen dammit!

Hehehe student life was giving away squeezy balls. YAY!

Holy Testicle Tuesday

Meh, alright this is a little late. The concert friday was AMAZING to the bigillionth power. All the bands were great, the drunks were funny and there is nothing like getting lost on your way back home.

To start off with we stopped at Subway before hand thinking we would be able to eat in there. WRONG. We had to eat at one of the picnic tables right outside of where they were checking bags while thousands of people were entering. So we snarfed to the point of almost barfing because we got more food thinking we would be able to make it last the whole night. Next we finally get done eating and get in line. I had a blanket with me, sunscreen, my camera and ticket. They made me empty out my pockets which have tons of change in them and my cards and money. Then they tell me I can't take my blanket in. Worse yet, blankets aren't allowed, but freaking towels are?!! Towels and blankets, same basic freaking concept. So Steph and I hid our blankets in the woods right by the entrance along with several other people. First act was Saving Abel, which played a few songs I didn't know, but played a few songs I did know and was happy to hear. The second act was Papa Roach. Now this guy has an addiction to the word fuck. He seriously couldn't say a sentence without saying fuck or any other form of the word. Luckily they played quite a few songs I knew and liked and only a couple I didn't know. Third was Hinder. I love Hinder, but they only played a few songs from their old album of which I love. They mostly played the newer stuff which I wasn't familiar with. But they were the best opening act. Then Nickelback! OMG they put on one kick ass show. There were only about one or two songs they played that I didn't know. It was just amazing, they played some of their older stuff which I hadn't heard in awhile and it was just astonishing seeing them play live. Now I can check that off my list of bands to see in concert.

So the ride home was definitely the most interesting part of the night. While getting out of Blossom we took a left turn instead of the right turn that everyone else was going. So we followed this widing twisted road and turned off onto another. This is when everything that leads up to death in a horror movie happened. We were surrounded by woods for a good 7 miles and it felt like we would never get out of that hell hole. When we first figured out we were lost we randomly started seeing patches of fog on the road. We passed a cemetary on the right. A few scattered houses and thick woods followed. We came to a part of the road that we couldnt see where it went until you were going down it. A closed off covered bridge that was not lit up. In fact, nothing on this road was lit up except for our high beams. Right after passing the closed off covered bridge (which I had to look up, its called Everett Road bridge, is the only covered bridge in Summit county and was built because a old couple tried to cross the river in the 1800's and fell in the river and died. It is said at night you can see a man walking by the bridge at night with overalls and a straw hat along with a lantern light. Thank god we did not see these I was freaking enough. Yes, I'm a chicken shit.) a random car appeared behind us and would randomly turn off and on their high beams. Creeeeeeepy.

After we finally got out of that mess we stopped at the worst McDonald's I had ever been to. We told the guy to hang on a second while we figured out what to order. Get this, he turned off the light to the menu in order to get us to start ordering. What an ass. Then he would keep giving us our total after every thing we ordered when we weren't done yet. We said screw it and left and hopped on the turnpike were we stopped at a rest stop and had overpriced Burger King with several other people from the concert.

All in all it was amazing. There were 18,000 people there.

Damn, I need to get to sleep. Fall semester starts tomorrow. I can't believe the summer is gone already. It really has been the greatest summer of my life so far and I'm hoping next summer will be just as good if not better. <3

Oddities.

Yesterday was a blast. We celebrated mine and Kali's birthday (and Kelsey, she was there in spirit), Jessica's going away party since she's moving to Virginia :( and just an all around end of summer bash.

Kali and I started at East Rec for some swimming. I really wanted some pizza because I love their pizza, but they didn't have any. Grr so I was stuck with nachos. And 3/4ths of them were just end of the bag crumbs. How fucked up. Anyways they also didn't have slushies anymore so the pool now fails in the food department. But we had fun. I forgot that when they have breaks where everyone gets out of the pool that if you're over 18 you don't have to get out. We had the whole freaking pool to ourselves! Well, minus the arguing couple but they were easily ignorable.

We then went back to Kali's, changed and took our blood pressure on the sidewalk while we waited for Stephanie to pick us up. Haha don't ask.

We arrived at Brenda's where she had prepared us an AMAZING chicken parmesan and salad dinner. Then we went to pick up the ice cream cake and head over to Stephanie's for a bonfire. All of us had a 3 inch wide piece of ice cream cake. It was crazy! But oh so delicious. I don't remember the last time I had ice cream cake. We sat around the fire, played Apples to Apples then went to walmart and played hide and seek for 2 hours. We were getting good at finding hiding spots. Great time <3

Well shit.

I lost my job. Kind of. I still have it until August 28th but that's it. I'll be unemployed just like 10% of America. It fucking sucks. Just 9 days after my layoff date I would have had one year. It really blows. Grr. Anyways they're messing everything around. The library is going to have a new makeover. The AV department will not exist, it will be combined with the reference department. Hours will be changed crazily. Like they're going to be open a whopping 3 hours on friday and saturday. How retarded is that? It's nuts so in a way, I'm glad to be leaving.

Bleeh. So yeah. Happy birthday to me.

It's Sofa King Hot

Bleh. I'm sofa king bored. Actually it will be a thank god when school starts because at least I'll have something to procrastinate with. Or maybe even do. I dropped my online intro to humanities class because I got a letter from the professor and she wasn't willing to change when stuff was due for anything. Including the final which would most likely be only posted on a day I would be on vacation so I said screw that. I need shit to take next semester anyways, I'm running out of classes to take already. It's just one less expensive book I have to buy and a whole lot less work I have to worry about.

Olive Garden went very well today. Evan was super nervous because he doesn't really get to hang out with my family that often so he was super polite and it kind of freaked me out. But in a bigger way it was cute that he cared enough not to be a prick. Not like he can be a prick anyways.

It's been way too hot today. I probably wouldn't be complaining if we had a fucking air conditioner but we don't and I didn't feel like spending 100 bucks for one for myself this summer when I probably would have only had to use it a couple of times. It would just be nice if it cooled down enough tonight so my window fan would actually work very well. But it isn't so I have to sweat it out tonight. I cannot wait for that cool front to come in! Luckily it looks like there is supposed to be good weather for the festivities on Thursday and Friday. Whoot!

Turing 19, The Last of My Teenage Years

My birthday was tons of fun. Evan and his parents picked me up a little after 7 and Evan had brought me one of his amazing bacon and cheese bagels that he should just make a ton of them and freeze them for me so I can have them whenever I want. I wish I had one of those a lot. We went down to Columbus to go to the zoo. It was OSU day so they we're really crowded and people we're wearing all of their buckeyes stuff. Except for Evan and I who freakishly wore the exact same color plain blue shirt. We had lots of fun seeing all the animals. I can't believe they didn't have zebras or giraffes. What kind of zoo doesn't have giraffes!?! But they made up for it in having penguins and manatees. The penguins were so funny, although they smelled pretty bad. It was a ton of fun.

After the zoo we went to Evan's grandmas apartment in Columbus. This was probably the most amazing apartment complex I had ever seen. It was really fancy with little sitting areas randomly placed everywhere, a communal bookshelf with books in a sitting area and it was for older people. When I get old, I think I want to live there. As long as they have a pool, which I don't know. While we were there I met his aunt from Mississippi. I love his family, they're just like mine so I never feel awkward or anything. We stayed there for a good 3 hours. By then it was about 5:30 so we started heading home. We stopped at an Applebees in Mansfield. Evan and I did the 2 for 20 and I got a steak and french onion soup. *om nom nom* Then I came home with tons of pictures.

Today I'm going to lunch with my parents, grandma and Evan to Olive Garden. I loves me some Olive Garden!

I Am Certain There Is Too Much Certainty In The World

Grr. So it's been 2 weeks since we found out about budget cuts at work and we still have no fucking idea what is going to happen. Most libraries have already decided what they're going to do and we have no fucking clue! Well, at least us staff don't, but the people up top have to have some idea and it's all "confidential" and they won't tell us squat. I'm sick of always going into work and never knowing if I'll be asked to leave when I get there or not. It would be a miracle if I didn't lose my job because I am so low on the seniority list. Everyone at work is tense. It was such a happy environment when the levy passed and now everything is sullen. Nobody hardly speaks anymore, it's all hush hush. If they're going to lay me off I want to know as soon as possible, but instead its being drug out. They don't want to stress us out by saying anything, but it's not saying anything that is stressing us out! In just 1 month I'll have been there a year. Just one. I wanted so badly just to make one year somewhere, I'm so close. I'll be extremely lucky if I make it.

I go back to school in a week and a half. I'm also stressed about that. School majorly stresses me out, especially when I'm giving myself high expectations. I want so bad to make the Dean's list. I feel like crap knowing my dad went to the same school and was on the dean's list. Then again he only took one class a semester and I'm taking six so I probably shouldn't even compare myself to that.

Everything just comes at once. Hopefully I'll be able to enjoy my birthday on Saturday. Although the day of my birthday usually ends up sucking, I'm hoping that will be different this time. Gaaaaaah.

Brown Chicken Brown Cow.

So yesterday we finally made it to an actual beach this summer, yay! We had a great time with 2 fake-out beaches, a drive through subway, an actual beach and then movies and going to Hershey's. It was perfect beach weather and a lot of people agreed because there were quite a few people on the beach. We went out by the rocks and climbed on them, but then we were yelled at by one of the park people. Then we walked along the shoreline and tried body surfing in the small waves. I moved about 2 feet with my best one. Haha if my butt wasn't as big and didn't sink I probably would have went further. After a couple hours of beachy-ness Steph dropped us off so we could shower and get all of the sand, or attempt to get all of the sand, out of places where sand does not belong. She then picked us up a little later and we watched Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, one of my favorite movies and went to Hersheys. They had my Mackinac Island Fudge!!! I bought that, then really wanted chili cheese fries and a frozen lemonade so I bought those too. We then went back to Steph's and watched the American President. It was a good summer day :)

Today I'm going to clean some of my room. I swear I will! I might even take progress pictures. In fact I think I will so I can feel accomplishment in Kodak form.

Crewfest 2009

Yesterday was the 1st Annual Crewfest! It was soooooooo much fun. It makes me more excited for when we do another one next year. :)

We all left for Put in Bay at 9:30 am and got to the ferry boat dock around 10:45. We took the 11am ride to the island. There were 10 of us in our group even though it was mostly 7 of us that stuck together the whole time. When we first got there 7 of us decided to walk instead of paying for transportation (which was probably our best decision) and then 3 went and took the bus and we hardly saw them after that. They ended up being the ones that missed out. Although the walk took us an hour to get to downtown Put in Bay from the ferry boat it was most epic. We were sweaty and singing random songs for most of the way along with random conversation.

When we first got downtown we were pretty much starving. I hadn't eaten breakfast and for the others breakfast was already digested. We ate at Frosty's Pizza and Bar which is my favorite place to eat on the island because of their amazing pizza. We got the family special which included a 12 inch pizza, a huge salad, drinks and breaksticks all of which are amazingness. After eating we walked into some of the shops downtown and relaxed in the park while taking some pictures and going on the swings. After that we walked over to Perry's monument where 4 of us went up to the top and 3 of us stayed in the grass and relaxed while waiting for the others to get done. I kind of wish I did go to the top so I could have gotten some pictures from above because when I was there before I was younger and didn't have a camera. But oh well, next time I swear I'll do it for the pictures :)

We then did another walking journey to get to Perry's cave which seemed like nothing after the walk we did earlier. The cave tour was exactly how I remembered it from 3 years ago but it was nice seeing it again and being able to better compare it to the other caves I've been in this year and seeing it with the whole gang. They still give the same stickers at the end hehe. Stephanie and I then did the gem hunt and bought the bags of dirt to sift in the "river" for the hidden gems. We both found some really good ones. It was running at 7pm when we finished all of this. There were some of us that wanted to go to the beach so we could wash the sweat from all day off and cool ourselves down. That lake had never felt so refreshing! It was the perfect time to be at the beach because nobody was there! It was just us and the coastline. Although it isn't much of a beach, its just big hard rocks that kill your feet when you step on them. We then had a trek back to the ferry dock and meet up with the others who didn't go to the beach. There was a Scoops ice cream place right by the dock so we all bought ice cream. I had amazing Macinac island fudge ice cream. Out of all of those times I've been up by Macinac I had never had their fudge. Now I know the amazingness. It was the perfect ending to our epic day as the sun set on the lake. We took the last ferry out at 9pm. Seagulls flew right next to us on the boat which was pretty cool seeing them so close while they fly.

It was pretty much an epic adventure. I'm really glad we didn't rely on transportation while on the island. We saved some of the environment and were able to take in some of the island that is usually passed quickly by when people visit it. We found random stuff on the side of the road, like a pair of sunglasses and a bottle opener shaped like a palm tree, saw a small plane take off at their little airport and even found some nice flowers. I love my crew <3

Excitement Should Come In Moderation....Screw It

Yay! My mouth is basically back to normal. The only problem is cramming some food in there when it is too big but other than that it's good.

Bonfire over Stephanie's tonight :D I love spending time with my girls, especially in summer when we all aren't nearly as busy. Tomorrow will be our "crewfest" and we're going to Put in Bay for an adventure. Next year will be Kelley's Island. Haha, it all should be interesting. Especially when there will be a group of about 11 of us.

I can't believe school starts in less than a month. I'm kind of excited. I want to get better grades than spring semester although I did pretty damn well, if only there wasn't that one pesky little C.
Goal for this semester: No C's and at least a 3.3 gpa. I was so close in spring. I really want to boom my gpa up so I can get into phi theta kappa so then my college years didn't feel like a complete waste.

The weekend of my birthday will be amazingness! Minus working all day the day before but after work I'm going to dinner with my parents (I'm thinking Olive Garden?), the next day leaving early with Evan and his parents for Columbus to go to the zoo and visit his aunt and uncle and then Kayes n Kel's median birfday party with the crew on the 9th! Mmmmm ice cream cake. Me likey.

We have the plane tickets for Disney ordered!!!!!! $180 round trip to Orlando on Continental. We're leaving at 8am on December 9th and coming back around 5pm on the 16th. I'm so excited! My first trip even more down south. Yay! 2009 has been a good year.