Monday, November 29, 2004
Wow. I just finished researching the colleges i want to apply to and am more confused now than when i started. I can't do this on my own...i need help.
I had a great lunch with Chris on Sunday. It was fun. We talked about stuff and stuff, i learned alot about myself - some i could see coming and others completely new. It was good.
Well, i have to go learn how to write an essay (any tips/pointers/help are welcome!), so i will converse with you all at a later time. Sorry this post is so short.
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I had a great lunch with Chris on Sunday. It was fun. We talked about stuff and stuff, i learned alot about myself - some i could see coming and others completely new. It was good.
Well, i have to go learn how to write an essay (any tips/pointers/help are welcome!), so i will converse with you all at a later time. Sorry this post is so short.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Over The River And Through The Woods... - Plus, The Intensity Of Boredom
Going to Grandma's for thanksgiving. It's really boring there - small-town Oklahoma - but it's where my beloved Grandma lives. The intensity of boredom there is so high, you walk in the door and it feels as if the fun is slipping out of you. It's not really that bad, although it feels that way sometimes. I'll be taking a project to do, and i should be mostly done with it by the time i get home. If it's not, apparently i wasn't bored enough *wink, wink*
Anyhoo, i won't return until late Friday night, so the earliest i can blog again will be on Saturday, but i may not blog until Sunday. We'll see. Thanks for reading, and comment. I never know how many people are reading this. Or possibly the lack of people reading this...hmm. Makes you wonder...
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Going to Grandma's for thanksgiving. It's really boring there - small-town Oklahoma - but it's where my beloved Grandma lives. The intensity of boredom there is so high, you walk in the door and it feels as if the fun is slipping out of you. It's not really that bad, although it feels that way sometimes. I'll be taking a project to do, and i should be mostly done with it by the time i get home. If it's not, apparently i wasn't bored enough *wink, wink*
Anyhoo, i won't return until late Friday night, so the earliest i can blog again will be on Saturday, but i may not blog until Sunday. We'll see. Thanks for reading, and comment. I never know how many people are reading this. Or possibly the lack of people reading this...hmm. Makes you wonder...
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Best Anniversary Present Ever - Plus, Are You Who You Want To Be?
My boyfriend and i celebrated our 6 month anniversary yesterday, and it was a blast! I was to go to his house at 10, and then we'd watch movies and hang-out and eat and stuff all day. He showed up at my house at 8, came in my room to wake me up, then we talked for a while, then he took me out to lunch at the Olive Garden. We were celebrating my birthday too, and he almost had the waiter bring people to sing at me, but decided against it (phew!). Then we went to Gameworks and played. After that, we went to his house for dinner, then he took me home. It was a fantastically wonderful day!
There's a song that has been infecting my thinking recently. Here are the lyrics. Tell me what you think about them.
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Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life
And today is all you've got now
And today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything that you dreamed
that it would be when the world was younger,
and you had everything to lose?
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over.
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
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I think it makes me cry because i'm not who i want to be. My dreams are coming true before my eyes, but i am not who i thought i'd be when they happened. It's just made me think.
Seanathan and i went Christmas shopping today and for my christmas present he got me the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. No, the movie wasn't made after it. This is about six MIT students who learned how to beat Blackjack and took Vegas for millions. Great book. I'll let you borrow it sometime - all you have to do is ask. But yeah. Shopping was fun.
Switchfoot rocks.
The end.
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My boyfriend and i celebrated our 6 month anniversary yesterday, and it was a blast! I was to go to his house at 10, and then we'd watch movies and hang-out and eat and stuff all day. He showed up at my house at 8, came in my room to wake me up, then we talked for a while, then he took me out to lunch at the Olive Garden. We were celebrating my birthday too, and he almost had the waiter bring people to sing at me, but decided against it (phew!). Then we went to Gameworks and played. After that, we went to his house for dinner, then he took me home. It was a fantastically wonderful day!
There's a song that has been infecting my thinking recently. Here are the lyrics. Tell me what you think about them.
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Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life
And today is all you've got now
And today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything that you dreamed
that it would be when the world was younger,
and you had everything to lose?
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over.
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
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I think it makes me cry because i'm not who i want to be. My dreams are coming true before my eyes, but i am not who i thought i'd be when they happened. It's just made me think.
Seanathan and i went Christmas shopping today and for my christmas present he got me the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. No, the movie wasn't made after it. This is about six MIT students who learned how to beat Blackjack and took Vegas for millions. Great book. I'll let you borrow it sometime - all you have to do is ask. But yeah. Shopping was fun.
Switchfoot rocks.
The end.
Friday, November 19, 2004
Crazy Weekend - Plus, What Day Is Today?
I have a great weekend planned - it is very full and will be tiring, but i'm positive it'll be a great weekend!
Oh yeah, and TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!! I'M 18!!!!!!! WOOT!
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I have a great weekend planned - it is very full and will be tiring, but i'm positive it'll be a great weekend!
Oh yeah, and TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!! I'M 18!!!!!!! WOOT!
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Haiti Was Great! - Plus, There's No Place Like Home
Oh my gosh! Haiti was amazing as usual. It was fun yet tiring, and i was ready to come home by the end of the week. I missed all of my friends, and was so glad to see the few of them that came to the airport to greet me into my native country. I love you all - thanks for praying.
My internal clock is all messed up now. I've been getting up at 5:30 (and before, on some days) every morning the past nine days, and have been ready for bed, nodding off to sleep tired at 8:30 at night. It's crazy stuff.
You have no idea how happy i was to be in my own bed last night! I slept in 'till 11:30 and loved every minute of it! I haven't slept that well in a week! It's good to be home.
My parents are gearing towards preparing the house for selling. It'll take a while, but the sooner we start, the better. We have to go through everything and decide whether we want to keep it or not, the deciding factor being whether we will use it in Haiti or not. Yes, my parents want to move there - they have since '91. I can't wait to visit them once they move - i'll be in college (or out of it - you never know how long it'll take) by the time they move, but i'll visit them regularly. It'll be great when they do!
I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow - i can't wait! Bon Dye beni nou tout! (God bless you all!)
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Oh my gosh! Haiti was amazing as usual. It was fun yet tiring, and i was ready to come home by the end of the week. I missed all of my friends, and was so glad to see the few of them that came to the airport to greet me into my native country. I love you all - thanks for praying.
My internal clock is all messed up now. I've been getting up at 5:30 (and before, on some days) every morning the past nine days, and have been ready for bed, nodding off to sleep tired at 8:30 at night. It's crazy stuff.
You have no idea how happy i was to be in my own bed last night! I slept in 'till 11:30 and loved every minute of it! I haven't slept that well in a week! It's good to be home.
My parents are gearing towards preparing the house for selling. It'll take a while, but the sooner we start, the better. We have to go through everything and decide whether we want to keep it or not, the deciding factor being whether we will use it in Haiti or not. Yes, my parents want to move there - they have since '91. I can't wait to visit them once they move - i'll be in college (or out of it - you never know how long it'll take) by the time they move, but i'll visit them regularly. It'll be great when they do!
I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow - i can't wait! Bon Dye beni nou tout! (God bless you all!)
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Freakishly Long Time - Plus, Haiti Is Here
Whoa! Sorry i haven't written in so long. The first week and a half i really had nothing to say - then the internet got flaky at my house and every time i tried to get online it wouldn't work. I know, excuses are for losers, but i'm a loser, so...
Ok, to catch up on where i left off:
The homecoming game was intense - you all know the score.
The dance was incredible! There were some miscommunications leading to a couple of mishaps, but all-in-all the night was amazing. Josh looked more gorgeous than usual, and i felt like falling over when i saw him. I had a blast at the dance! I even ran into a few people that i knew! It was great!
SAT's: I MADE A 1080 ON THE SAT!!!!!!!! That means that i can now get into the college i want on my SAT scores alone! I'm pretty pumped about my score! I know it seems small, but for a homeschooled student that's almost a year behind, i think i've done myself pretty good! He he he.
And now for what's been happening recently:
I finally have the college that i want to go to, and two backups just in case. Here are my choices: 1-Palo Alto College, 2-Texas A&M University College Station, 3-McLennan Community College. Palo Alto and McLennan both have Veterinary Technology courses, whereas A&M only has DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine) degrees. Palo Alto is in San Antonio, which means that i'd be in an urban setting. I'd prefer suburban, but i'll take what i can get to get the degree i want. It's only two years.
I chose Palo Alto as my college of choice for several reasons. 1) It allows me the things i need to become a Veterinary Technician, 2) It's in San Antonio, only 1 hour and 29 minutes from the college where Josh will be going, so i can keep dating him and see him as often as i do now. 3) It is also 5 hours and 13 minutes away from my current residence, meaning it's too far for my parents to visit every weekend, but still close enough that they can visit every so often. 4) It is in State, so the fees will be semi-cheaper. These things have been the deciding factors in my college choosing.
We finally leave for Haiti in one day and a wake-up (as Brent would say). I'm mentally ready for the trip but my clothes aren't packed yet, so i'm not completely ready. I'm really having a hard time with the idea of leaving. This is odd for me because i usually am the one telling my friends to get a grip when they're sad because they'll miss their family and friends when they go on a three-day holiday. I realize that this is for 10 days, and i am going out of the country, but i didn't feel this bad about leaving last year when i went on the same trip. I'm sad about it already - i almost can't wait to get back from the trip just so i can see my friends again. Yeah, i'll probably cry when i leave, a mixture of the fact that i'm an emotional female, that i'm leaving on my friend's 18th birthday and can't spend the whole day with her, and that i really and truly am going to miss my friends back in the States.
Hey guess what? I turn 18 in 17 days!!!!! I'm pumped.
I found out that Stacy (one of my Haiti Teammates) has the same birthday than me. She's 11 years older than me. Stacy turns 29 in 17 days!!!!! She's pumped. I think.
I really can't think of anything else that's going on. Since i'm leaving Thursday and will be gone for 10 days, there won't be another update anytime soon. Sorry for not having done this earlier, i know how much my feelings mean to you *erupts in side-splitting laughter*. Ha. Anyhoo, enough making fun of myself. I have to go get ready for midschool now. Ta!
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Whoa! Sorry i haven't written in so long. The first week and a half i really had nothing to say - then the internet got flaky at my house and every time i tried to get online it wouldn't work. I know, excuses are for losers, but i'm a loser, so...
Ok, to catch up on where i left off:
The homecoming game was intense - you all know the score.
The dance was incredible! There were some miscommunications leading to a couple of mishaps, but all-in-all the night was amazing. Josh looked more gorgeous than usual, and i felt like falling over when i saw him. I had a blast at the dance! I even ran into a few people that i knew! It was great!
SAT's: I MADE A 1080 ON THE SAT!!!!!!!! That means that i can now get into the college i want on my SAT scores alone! I'm pretty pumped about my score! I know it seems small, but for a homeschooled student that's almost a year behind, i think i've done myself pretty good! He he he.
And now for what's been happening recently:
I finally have the college that i want to go to, and two backups just in case. Here are my choices: 1-Palo Alto College, 2-Texas A&M University College Station, 3-McLennan Community College. Palo Alto and McLennan both have Veterinary Technology courses, whereas A&M only has DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine) degrees. Palo Alto is in San Antonio, which means that i'd be in an urban setting. I'd prefer suburban, but i'll take what i can get to get the degree i want. It's only two years.
I chose Palo Alto as my college of choice for several reasons. 1) It allows me the things i need to become a Veterinary Technician, 2) It's in San Antonio, only 1 hour and 29 minutes from the college where Josh will be going, so i can keep dating him and see him as often as i do now. 3) It is also 5 hours and 13 minutes away from my current residence, meaning it's too far for my parents to visit every weekend, but still close enough that they can visit every so often. 4) It is in State, so the fees will be semi-cheaper. These things have been the deciding factors in my college choosing.
We finally leave for Haiti in one day and a wake-up (as Brent would say). I'm mentally ready for the trip but my clothes aren't packed yet, so i'm not completely ready. I'm really having a hard time with the idea of leaving. This is odd for me because i usually am the one telling my friends to get a grip when they're sad because they'll miss their family and friends when they go on a three-day holiday. I realize that this is for 10 days, and i am going out of the country, but i didn't feel this bad about leaving last year when i went on the same trip. I'm sad about it already - i almost can't wait to get back from the trip just so i can see my friends again. Yeah, i'll probably cry when i leave, a mixture of the fact that i'm an emotional female, that i'm leaving on my friend's 18th birthday and can't spend the whole day with her, and that i really and truly am going to miss my friends back in the States.
Hey guess what? I turn 18 in 17 days!!!!! I'm pumped.
I found out that Stacy (one of my Haiti Teammates) has the same birthday than me. She's 11 years older than me. Stacy turns 29 in 17 days!!!!! She's pumped. I think.
I really can't think of anything else that's going on. Since i'm leaving Thursday and will be gone for 10 days, there won't be another update anytime soon. Sorry for not having done this earlier, i know how much my feelings mean to you *erupts in side-splitting laughter*. Ha. Anyhoo, enough making fun of myself. I have to go get ready for midschool now. Ta!
