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mercredi, juin 30, 2004
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I GET TO SEE ERIN TOMORROW!!! and she might come stay with me sunday night...i'm not sure why (i'm really boring and i have to write a paper, but..whatever floats her boat!) i'm extra excited, can you tell!? not too much happened today. i went to the club today with mom to workout. logan lacompe was there tonight. i remember when i had the BIGGEST crush on him. i guess he's already graduated from school...or will be really soon. i can't believe everyone's graduating...it's CRAZY! after dinner my family went to baskin robins for ice cream (mom's idea) and i got "america's birthday cake" ice cream. it was alright... i feel fat, now, though. i wish i hadn't eaten anything cuz i was feeling good after the workout...
days til richard comes home: 37 (hopefully)
days til the wedding: 46
days til "move-in day": 49
11:05 PM
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I hate these things as much as the next person … but you have to admit they are really fun...
01. Full name: miree janelle dornier
02. Nicknames: the only ones anyone calls me anymore are mi, mimi, sis, m, princess...i think that's probably it. and that's all in my family except "m"...that's from erin!
03. Screen name(s): swimfly816 (AIM)
04. Age:19
05. Grade: sophomore in College
06. Who inspires you? Family and Friends
07. How many siblings: 3 older and 1 younger brother
08. Birthday: nov. 4, 1984
09. Hospital where you were born: women's hospital in new orleans, la
10. Location of where you live now: spring and san marcos
11.Height: 5’6”
12. What is the best feature about you: haha...
13. Eye color: brown
14. Hair color: brown
15. Hobbies: uh....riiiiight...
16.Crush: hehe...i don't have a crush. i have a boyfriend, though...
17.Girlfriend/Boyfriend: matthew
18. If you could go out with anyone in the world, who would it be? well...let's think...nope, can't think of anyone...
19. When and who was your first crush: first CRUSH or first boyfriend? my first crush was probably in pre-school some guy...i dont know his name. my first boyfriend was chris in 8th grade...
20. What do you first notice about the opposite sex: smile and shoulders...
21.Your idea of a perfect date: just being comfortable, i guess...i'm over the "i want it to be perfect" thing...
26. what did you do yesterday: went to class...that's about it...
27. Last person you talked to on the phone: the terminex guy
28. Last thing you said: told david to cut the backyard first
29. Last song you listened to: wide open spaces on the radio
30. Occupation: Student
31. Dream Car: well...see...there's this volvo in a magazine daddy and i were looking at last night...i want THAT one!
32. Marriage: i'm not married, but i want to be one day...if someone's stupid enough to marry me...
33. Kids: i want some...more than 2, less than 10
34. Favorite boy’s name: hmmm...i dunno about that
35. Favorite girl’s name: hailey elizabeth
36. Where will you live? Where my husband and I can find jobs
38. What are you doing tomorrow? school...THEN I'M GOING TO SEE ERIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
39. Food: love it!!
40. Drink: water, oj, lemonade...
41. TV show(s): oh my...i watch the dating shows in the morning while i'm eating breakfast and lunch
42. Movie(s): Scary Movies (classic and new) and every girl loves a good chick flick
45. Actor: depends on the movie he's in
46. Actress: Sandra Bullock
47. Weekend Activity: swim meets...even though they're over now
49. Month: july
50. Book: anything by nicholas sparks
51. Holiday: july 4
52. Numbers: 8
54. Phrase too overused: "you're done...sometimes"
55. Toothpaste: crest original paste
56. Ice Cream: STRAWBERRIES
57. Candy bar/candy: Peanut Butter Cups
58. Radio Station: depends on my mood
59. Type of music: depends on my mood
60. Shampoo/Conditioner: hehe...whatever's in the shower
61. Songs: decisions decisions
62. Sports: to play-football and swimming; to watch-football
63. Relative: my dad's sisters...and mom...they're nuts people...but i love 'em
64. Hangout: where my friends are
65. Band: oh goodness...
*~PEOPLE U KNOW SIDE~*
66. friends: Do you really think I can list them all
67. Funniest: karen
69. Silliest: erin
70. Loudest: ann
71. Craziest: karen/britt/erin...when we get together...
74. The one you have, but wish you didn't: that makes NO sense … why would you be friends if you didn’t like the person
75. Smartest: haha...erin
76. Most good-looking: kim?
77. Ugliest: ahem … everyone is beautiful in their own way
78. Hottest: woah...uh...let's leave that under the table...
81. Anyone quiet? quiet...matt?!
*~ONE OR THE OTHER SIDE~*
82.*N Sync OR BSB: negative
86. peanut butter or jelly: peanut butter and HONEY
87. Matt OR Ben: BOTH… Duh!
88. Apples OR Oranges: oranges
89. Vanilla OR Chocolate: chocolate
90. Flowers OR Candy: candy
91. Romantic, Comedy, OR Horror: depends
92. magazine or book: depends...
93. tv or Radio: radio
94. Is the glass half full OR half empty? Depends on what I’ve been drinking
*~THE BELIEVE IT OR NOT SIDE~*
95. Do you believe in angels?: yes i do
96. Aliens?: nope … I think there is life on other planets … but not intelligent life
97. Heaven and Hell?: yes
98. Afterlife: yeah … but not reincarnation
*~THE HAVE YOU EVER SIDE~*
100. Been on a plane: yes...
102. Climbed a tree: the one in my front yard
103. Kissed a guy/girl: haha...uh...no...
104. Met a celebrity: nope
105. Met a president: nope
106. Been scared to get a shot: always...i hate needles
107. Gotten a cavity: yep
108. Shopped at Abercrombie and Fitch: uh huh
109. Ever had an online relationship: well...i'm not really sure how to answer that...so we'll just say perhaps
111. Said, "I love you," and meant it: why would i say it if i didn't mean it?
112. Skipped school: it’s called college
113. Loved somebody so much it made you cry: if you only knew...
*~WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR~*
114. Bill Clinton: “ I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
115. Lollipops: jessica
116. Dreams: *sigh*
117. Love: i wish
119. Boy Bands: too many
120. Boys: suck
*~THE THIS OR THAT SIDE~*
123. Dog/Cat: DOG
124. Blue/Purple: blue
126. Pen/Pencil: depends
127. Plummer/Trashman: Plummer … trashmen are stinky
129. Tall/Short: for what?
*~THE QUESTIONS THAT DON'T MATTER, BUT...~*
130. Do you sleep with a stuff animal? my frog prince ;)
131. Last time you showered?: this morning
132.If you were a crayon what color would you be: blue
134. Do you like this survey? Love it love it
135. What are the last 4 digits of your number? Home: 1852 and Cell: 5348
136. Last CD you bought? i have no idea...
137. How do you eat a Reese's: melted by the sun
139. Who sent this to you? missy
140. Did you read the whole thing? of course..
10:58 PM
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ben and mina both commented on my NEW shoes! glad they like 'em cuz the shoes were RATHER expensive...but totally worth it!
i'm SOOO sick of the rain. now when ben and i go to school, i look at how high the water in cypress creek is...and wait for it to go back down. it's been raining for, like, 3 weeks now...IT NEEDS TO STOP!!! i want my summer back. you know, outside tanning, spending the days at the pool, washing and vacuuming the car hoping to get a tan (even if it's a funny one)...stuff like that...
that class is the biggest joke in the world. we started late (12:50) and by 1:15 we were out. i got some highlighting for my paper done, but that's it. WHAT A JOKE!!! *sigh* i can't believe i'm actually paying to go to this class... he thinks you get IN blocks and swim ON water...WHO DOES THIS GUY THINK HE IS?! and today we got back our editorial letters. he didn't understand this sentence: "Perhaps if only 25% of [rape and incest] victims are for abortion and they are the only people allowed to even opt for the procedure, abortion rates will decrease so far that it will no longer be a major issue." PLEASE TELL ME HOW THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!! i got an A- on this one at least...that brings my average to a NICE ROUND 86. i'm not going to be able to get an A in this class no matter what i do. *mumbles* stupid ______ teacher.
i got my stuff from victoria's secret today...too bad only TWO of the things i ordered fit. i have to return the other 3 and ask for 2 of those in different sizes. i REALLY want that bathing suit...but the back is different than i thought it was going to be, so it just might not fit for me. we'll see, though...i suppose... maybe i should have just gone with a different style. but the bottoms fit...surprise surprise... i just need to lose a lotta lbs.
ann and i are going to barnes and nobles today to get a new book!!! I'M OVERLY EXCITED!!! i love books; i love adding to my book collection...i need a new/bigger bookshelf. i wonder if i can convince some certain person(s) to go to IKEA with me! doubtful, but it's worth a try, right?
i'm bored...i hate staying home all the time... at least i'm going to the Y later to swim. that should be at least a little fun. but, seriously, starting july 5th i'm getting up at 6:30 to swim. that'll be lots of fun and i'll have an excuse to stay in shape and i'll be getting up early which is good for me and...it's going to be great...if i can keep myself doing it! we'll see how things go.
i went to see if the lady that made my dress could make skirts for jessica and i for the wedding and she's not going to be in town as of july 5th...so she can't do it for me. if you know of anyone else who can make skirts (like sew from a pattern) let me know, cuz it's getting to crunch time and i NEED a skirt.
i ALMOST forgot i have to make a phone call so i'm going to go do that then wait for my call from ann saying she's ready to hit the bookstore! i'll write more later if there's anything else to say...
1:38 PM
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this is officially entry # 1015 in here. CRAZY how that number just kinna creeps up on you like that...
well, it was SOOO amazing tonight. i got to talk to erin AND karen...at the same time...on the same night. i miss those girls more than anything right now. i'm ready to get back to school... i want all that fun stuff to happen again!!! and i'm SOO happy for karen and the 20 lbs! I LOVE YOU, BABE!!
thursday night i'm going to see erin and spend the night with her! it'll be like the first sleep over since we were at school! i'm SOOO excited. i have to leave by 10:30, though, cuz i gotta get home before we're supposed to leave for louisiana. i'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited, can you tell!? if you wanna come with, let me know!
i wanna lose 10 lbs before i go back to school. looks like i have to get into that early morning swim thing that i tried to do. if only i could get myself to start. i'll start on monday...PROMISE!! i just need to recuperate from all this "other" stuff from earlier in the summer. it'll be fine...just give me some time!
i wish i had something interesting to talk about, but sadly, don't. i got back my english paper today, and like the other one, i got a B-. SUCK!!! i hate english with a passion...but not NEARLY as much as i hate my stupid, hippie professor. oh how i despise that man! sometimes i have to wonder which i hate more...the prof, sarah, or miguel. they ALL drive me nuts. *sigh* SOME people...
hope those of you who went to see spiderman 2 enjoyed it. let me know if it was good/bad/ugly so i know whether or not to spend $8.50 on it.
just noticed something RIGHT now... dutch semi-snores. he doesn't exactly snore, but he's got a REALLY loud deep breathing rhythm when he's deep in sleep. it's kind of cute...but he's right where i need to sleep... maybe i'll just sleep on the floor tonight and the dog can have the bed?! we'll see...
a NEW countdown starting today...
days til richard comes home: 38 (hopefully)
days til the wedding: 47
days til "move-in day": 50
12:14 AM
lundi, juin 28, 2004
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"I wish for you..." Comfort on difficult days, Smiles when sadness
intrudes, Rainbows to follow the clouds, Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart, Gentle hugs when spirits sag, Friendships to
brighten your being, Beauty for your eyes to see, Confidence for when you
doubt, Faith so that you can believe, Courage to know yourself, Patience to accept the truth, And love to complete your life. God Bless you!
I asked the Lord to bless you
As I prayed for you today
To guide you and protect you
As you go along your way....
His love is always with you
His promises are true
No matter what the tribulation
You know He will see us through
So, when the road you're traveling on
Seems difficult at best
Give your problems to the Lord
And God will do the rest.
11:56 PM
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2004 summer league swim team is OFFICIALLY over now. (and i'm sad...)
i have permanent marker ALL over my arm thanks SOOO much to courtney crain. awww...i'm gunna miss those kids...*tear* tamra and courtney gave me their addresses so we can be "pen pals" over the school year, so we'll see how i am about that...
oooooh! today i told mrs. crain that i would LOVE to accept the job for next year...if it's still being offered to me. she was a little afraid that i was going to "flake out" and go back to giammalva (which is being discussed currently) but i told her that i really liked it where i am now and don't want to change teams again unless i'm not being asked back to coach londonderry. we'll see what the 15-18 boys do; hopefully they'll do what's best for them.
curtis makes me laugh... just a comment...
i did loads of fun stuff tonight at the party. FIRST i got pushed in fully clothed then was "shark" for sharks and minnows; then it was getting too dark to play in the deepend (no pool lights in there) so we did stuff off the diving board and tamra was trying to teach me a dive (curtis and i had a "diving competition"); then curtis and i did ANOTHER competition--underwater no breathers and freestyle no breathers. he won the underwater (there and a body length more than me back) and i won the freestyle no breather (i went one and a half lengths and he went one and a forth). then tamra wanted to do races with me so we raced fly (i won), courtney and i raced breast (she won), we all raced back (i won) and then we did "washer dryer". i got dunked plenty of times, i got pulled underwater, i got my hair pulled, they told me to shave...loads of fun stuff. *sigh* i miss swim team. I HOPE THE SCHOOL YEAR FLIES RIGHT BY!!! ...but at the same time, i really miss everyone from school. i can't wait to see them again, but i'm going to miss everyone here. i suppose, as long as i get to keep in touch with people, i'll be fine. since kim and i have each other's email addresses now, we can keep in touch too.
i should be revising my paper (it's due tomorrow) but i don't feel like it. i need to go jump in the shower, but i'm not really in the mood for that either. i'm sooo lazy and...*sigh*...i just...yeah.
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10:52 PM
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something i noticed this weekend: there is a definite swimmer's body. it was interesting going from allstars to ponderosa and being able to tell the difference in body types...moreso with guys than girls. they're slim, 6-packed, toned (not enormous) armed, tan guys who KNOW what it means to point their toes. i'm not going to say that EVERY guy at ponderosa was really slim and toned or that no one at allstars looked like that, but...yeah. like, those of you who have seen david know what he looks like. he's bigger (muscle-wise) than most of the guys at ponderosa were. patrick, his best friend, however, is closer to what the ponderosa guys are built like. oh, all this made more sense when i was thinking it instead of writing it, but...i just thought it was really interesting that you can tell the difference in who takes swimming really seriously and swims year-round (be it USS or high school) by the way they look and how they carry themselves. *sigh* nevermind...it made more sense before...
5:10 PM
dimanche, juin 27, 2004
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~Hey ya'll, this is Karen again! it's been quite some time since i've been around in Miree's blog, but i miss her and i came around looking just to see what she's been up to. To tell you the truth i'm even more lost now b/c all i got from reading that was #1 missing her more and #2 realizing that i don't have a clue what's going on when i don't get to talk to her on a daily basis.
~I don't know about you, but i miss school. Not really class, but San Marcos. I miss crazy nights with Erin and Miree and Brittany. Fun times and carefree ways. I think summer time is nice and all, but maybe its too long. Maybe we could shorten it and have lots of little breaks. Then think of it, we wouldn't ever get tired of home or school, b/c we'd be switching between the two so much it would be MUCH BETTER, at least in my opinion.
~I have learned a few thing this summer. My latest achievement was how to mow. Yah, mow the GRASS. lol, I had only done it once before and i put this really ugly brown circle in the grass...my family told me that i would need to stick to vaccuming. ::sigh:: we are stereotypical. anywho, so i was at work (Canine Country Inn) *it's a dog kennel* and the play yards couldn't be played in because the lawn was so tall. I managed to open my large mouth and volunteer to take care of it. Bob, my boss told me that he thinks a college education should be able to figure it out. and leaves me without instruction other than to make sure i push the primer ball four times, not just three. WHAT?!?!?! Boy, i don't know if he knew exactly who he was talking to...I'm not so "mechanically inclined" but i gave it a try. AND I DID IT! man, it was loads of manual labor and i hurt the next day...but i never really realized the feeling of gazing at the yard after it had just been groomed until now. Today was exceptional because of the fresh mowed grass around me!!!
~Richard (yah, Miree's brother) called me this weekend. I think it was Thursday. We haven't talked since Miree and I were together at school, BEFORE finals. It is such a wonderful feeling when you can start a conversation knowing EXACTLY where you left off and feeling that comfortable talking to someone. It doesn't come by very often...so yah we talked just like before and it was AMAZING. I lauphed and smiled and haven't stopped thinking about it since then. I know, i'm a crazy girl. but when something makes me happy, then you tend to keep it around! The story is...i saw his picture on Miree's desk at school and just had to know who that boy was...it ended up being Richard and we ended up talking...our personalities click. He doesn't bore me....which is strange b/c MOST boys do. Its usually very hard to stay focused on thoes sorts of things. You get bored and you stray, most people agree...they just won't admit it. Anywho, i'm still waiting for him to call me back.....HINT HINT!!! :)
~So, the notebook is the best movie in the entire world, at least for right now. I cried and so did the rest of the theater b/c its just so GREAT, I won't spoil any of it...but if you want a picture of what Love really is or really SHOULD be, go see it! it'll enlighten you! or get you thinking....which is good for the brain!
~well, this wasn't nearly as humurous as the last one, i'm sorry. My co-author is busy tonight...but for now i'm gonna leave! BYEBYE...
PS BEING A GIRL MAKES LIFE EASIER IN LOTS OF WAYS!
11:24 PM
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CONGRATS TO RYAN MASSEY!!!!!! :-D i'm SOOO proud of your IM swim. 1:15.83...not only is it a personal best for you, you've SHATTERED the beginning of the year's team record (1:28.__), it's a TAGS qualifying time and it's 4 seconds faster than you swam last weekend at divisionals (1:19.__). AMAZING!!!! you may not have gotten high point 9-10 this year, but next year you'll be at the top of the age group instead of the bottom. i'm GOING to TAGS to watch you swim, so be ready for me...
the 13-14 girls medley relay got 2nd at ponderosa today, as well. CRAZY kids. if ONLY they had been swimming in the same heat as the girls who got first i think it would have been a really really really really really close and fun race to watch, but instead first and second (in different heats) blew away their competition so it really wasn't as much fun as it could have been...
david swam at allstars today and did...alright. i think we need to work on someone's IM, but...that someone doesn't want to swim with his big, assistant coach sister who just MIGHT know what she's talking about since she DID swim year round for, like, 6 years. *sigh* what to do...
i'm going to accept the job tomorrow, i think. i talked to david and i think he's going to do something for me about that so it'll be good. i just hope it all works out, though i don't really think it will. as long as they're happy, i'll be fine wherever i end up.
as for everyone else...i was overly impressed with the few swimmers who showed up to swim their events. i'm really excited about the 11-up party tomorrow. it'll be LOADS of fun.
matt has two jobs now, so i may never see him again... life stinks...(so does dutch.)
well...i had lots of fun and funny stuff to write about (like our waiter for lunch, courtney, vanessa and john, etc.) but i don't have the energy (i need to wake up early to write a paper) and i don't think anyone cares about any of my stories. karen's said she was going to write in here, so we'll see what happens...
11:17 PM
samedi, juin 26, 2004
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YAY ALLSTARS AND PONDEROSA KIDS!!! i'm sooo proud of everyone who qualified for either or both of the swim meets. i'll write more tomorrow when i have something to write.
funny story, though... ok, so i'm sitting in my NEW BIG CHAIR next to kim and vanessa when mrs. downey walks up. out of kind of nowhere, she says, "brittany asked me what safe sex was. she asked, 'is that where your parents are there with you?'" WOW! *hehe* ...i guess you had to be there...oooooor have hung around ann and i the past few days...*sigh*
i hate [you know what]!
10:31 PM
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well...today was rather eventful...i guess. i woke up EARLY this morning so i could get to swim practice, then called vanessa only to find out that they weren't going to have it...but then they did so ONCE again, i was the only coach not there... *ARGH!* anyway, kim called me and we went to willowbrook to go shopping for stuff. she found two dresses that could POSSIBLY be the dress she wears to her brother's wedding. good thing i had my digital camera with me! i took a picture of her holding up both dresses and they we put them on hold. i emailed her the pictures and hopefully the bride decided that one of them would work for the wedding...
when i got back from the mall, david and i went shopping at academy. i bought $100 tennis shoes...but might go return them on monday cuz i don't need them...but i REALLY like 'em... then we went to old navy to get him some pants. MICHAEL WAS WORKING TODAY, SO I GOT TO SEE HIM!!!! yay for that. he "helped us out" a little bit by standing next to us while david was picking stuff out. that was loads of fun. hopefully i'll get to do something with that "group" sometime soon...
after that, david and i went to subway (thinking that patrick might be working) and got some lunch. now, remember that it's about 3:00 at this point. when i got home, ann and i got to talking (i can't remember who called) and decided to go swimming...right after david and i ate...BAD idea... we did it regardless and...well...it was nice. then ann and i got the phone call we'd been waiting for...UNDIES SHOPPING TIME!!!!
too bad tonight didn't work at as planned. chris and matt spent the night with derek since he's back in town for a few days (no problem...really!) which gave ann and i the time we've been needing. i just...nm...i've already vented about it to the only person who would understand. what on earth were we smoking tonight?!
~on the table
~i wonder what all those other drivers were thinking...
~open brain, remove film, close brain
~oh, i can feel my fat cells getting larger
~by the way he's walkin i can guess where you're slipper's at
~*shrug*...how's THAT a lonely bone?!
~*gurgle**gurgle**gurlge* OOOOOOOH, i can feel my tummy rumblin'
~do you see that heel? do you want to die tonight?!
~prom dinner ALL over again...
i can't think of anymore, but i'm sure you can...
12:11 AM
jeudi, juin 24, 2004
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oh my goodness...i can't believe it happened. like...REALLY happened. i always, kinna, thought my mom would make sure it didn't. she's always been here to make sure it didn't. why not this time? why did it REALLY have to happen. i'm screwed. i don't know what to do... i want to cry but i know that's not the answer. i called, but no answer. WHAT SHOULD I DO?! *sigh* i'm so confused. i know it's my fault and there's no other explaination for it, but how i wish i could go back and change what happened... DAGNABIT!!!!!!!!! :'(
9:10 AM
mercredi, juin 23, 2004
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i'm beginning to notice that the only person signing (or commenting at all) is my AMAZINGLY AWESOME roomate. why won't anyone else post comments. i KNOW other people read this thing... *sigh* or maybe i'd just like to think someone else reads this...
11:17 AM
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today's gunna be a good day (even if i have to make it one). i woke up this morning at 5:45 to go to the Y and swim. i think i made it there for 6:15 and by 6:24 i was in the water. i only swam a 2000 (was going to swim a 2500 but changed my mind) but it felt really good to get in and swim. if i keep this up all summer (getting up early and everything) then when i go back to school i'll HAVE to continue cuz i'll already be in the habit of doing it. aaaand i'll feel gross about myself if i don't. (not that i won't feel gross anyway, but at least i'll feel a little better...and i won't be as fat...and it'll wake me up.) aaaanyway, practice was alright. i have a slight case of gastralgia at the present moment, but hopefully it will be gone by tonight so i don't feel like poop when i go to the astros game. (yes, i'm going to the astros game...)
well, i better go get some food in my stomach (if it'll take it) before i head off to pick up ben for class. *sigh* i hope today is better than yesterday was or i just might have to get up and leave...
11:10 AM
mardi, juin 22, 2004
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JUST my luck...er...maybe it is... well, ok. i got to the Y today at 4:45 like i was supposed to to teach lessons. i went into cary's office but he was on the phone so i waited outside the door until he finished "other business". when everyone else left, i went in to find out what classes i was going to be teaching...since amy called me on sunday to tell me i was teaching lessons. *sigh* turns out grayson took my classes so i don't teach, again, this session. i have to wait until the next session to teach lessons. i've figured it out... even if i work EVERY class i can for the rest of the summer, i'll still only make $300 at the Y. is it worth it? i suppose it probably is, since the chances of me finding another job this late are VERY slim to none, but at the same time, vanessa said they could use me as a guard up there, so maybe i'll work weekends at londonderry and i'll work weekdays at the Y. that JUST might work for me...since the Y is going to recertify me for lifeguard since i have to have that for swim instructor, my mom is going to recert me in cpr and first aid and the Y is going to certify me in aed and oxygen. oh the joys... aaaanyway, so now i don't have anything to do this week and next week, so this week i'm going to be david's "coach" and next week i'll find SOMEway to keep busy...i hope.
i cleaned my room today so i could go do something if someone asked me to. i EVEN remade my bed...this time with white sheets since they match my bedspread better than the green ones. perhaps i'll clean off my dresser since i don't have anything better to do. i have to go purchase a black suit. anyone wanna go with me?! (i already know which one i'm going to buy, but i thought i'd offer anyway...)
even though mom just washed a whole BUNCH of clothes, after cleaning my room, i found a whole bunch more that need cleaning. i think i'm going to go throw my sheets and blankets into the washer then while they're washing i'll clean off my dresser and when i finish with that, i'll throw some clothes in the washer and my sheets into the dryer and while all THAT is going on, i'll clean behind the chair. *dun dun duuuuuun* that should keep me busy the rest of the night. perhaps tomorrow i'll tackle the *gasp* CLOSET MONSTER!!!!
that thunder earlier was really wicked. i had to leave to go to school in it...*sigh* i don't do thunder and lightning very well from far away; i'm HORRIBLE when it's up close and personal...
off to do the chores...
5:39 PM
lundi, juin 21, 2004
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one of these days i'll learn to keep my mouth shut around you, but until then...i'm sorry...again...
11:23 PM
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i love my kids. i love my team. i love...i'm finished...
the swim team awards party was tonight. as you all know, we are the lightning bolts and, ironically, our awards presentation had to be moved indoors due to lightning. CRAZY, AIN'T IT?! j/k anyway, we gave out the awards (trophies, ribbons, medals, funny awards) and then they gave out the coach's awards. THEY GAVE KIM AND I CHAIRS LIKE VANESSA HAS!!! it's great! i don't know what i'm going to do with mine yet, but i have a feeling it's going to be set up in my room. kim and i were joking around about putting a little floatie on it with a beach towel and a beachball and an umbrella...stuff like that... we also got a team picture with out names on it AND an invitation to coach again next year. HOW AWESOME!? courtney made me open that one second...said she'd prove me wrong, though i'm still not quite sure how she did that...
after the awards, the kids swam and then when it got dark, the slideshow came on. vanessa, what were you doing?! that's some funny stuff you got on camera, mr. walke! *tehe* i can't wait to get my copy of it!!!
it was really nice to have the parents come up and individually thank me and tell me how much i meant to the team. gary told me that he thought i'd make a good head coach one day...if i was interested in the job. when vanessa found out what i told kim, i thought she was going to kill me. and the parents are all soooo supportive of us (well...for the most part) and it's really nice to be appreciated. now i wish i had told my coaches how much i appreciated them and all their hard work, but instead i was HELL for them all (except ginny...NO ONE messed with her...). *sigh* i suppose that's part of growing up and experiencing different things...
i'm going to miss these kids the rest of the summer. starting tomorrow, from 5-7:30 i'll be teaching little brats how to swim...if they'll listen...which they won't. that's what i liked so much about the swim team. they WANTED to be there...they WANTED to learn...they WOULD do what i asked (again, the vast majority...not everyone). not that i don't love teaching swim lessons, but...you know...
i don't remember if i've blogged it before, but i've never had a job (a paying job, that is) where i didn't wear a swimsuit. i've NEVER worn undies to work. how weird is that?! i mean, the only jobs i've ever had were lifeguard (2 yrs), swim instructor (this is 3 yrs), and now coach (1 yr).
what else happened today besides swim team stuff?! hmmm...well, i woke up this morning and didn't feel like doing ANYTHING but i went to the bank to deposit 2 checks and went to swim shops. over half of what i deposited was spent... i ordered some stuff off victoria's secret online (actually ordered it TWICE on accident, so when it comes i'll have to send one order back). i bought THREE suits today...well, four if you count the one i'm sending back from vs... 2 from swim shops (one-piece) and the other(s) from vs. i HOPE they fit... only other things i've ever ordered offline before were my shirts for the wedding...and i'd tried them on in the store before i'd ordered them. i HOPE these fit, but if not, i'll just send them back like the whole second order. i also bought a pair of goggles and a cap. the goggles are to replace the ones i broke on saturday preparing for the coach relay and the cap was cuz it was cheap...sorta... after class (just turning in our papers and taking the test--which he somehow misplaced) mina, ben, and i went to smoothie king to "celebrate" the second paper and first test being finished. ann came over, i straightened my hair, i got dressed, i left for the party...and the rest has already been blogged. i THINK that's probably all that happened today.
i better get to bed since mom said if i don't clean my room, i'm "grounded" so the plan is to wake up early tomorrow and clean before school.
oh...and mr. bellah, i KNOW you'll never read this, but we'll miss you greatly and thanks for everything you ever did for us. without you, i'm sure i would have lost faith in myself a long time ago. you have been greatly appreciated and will be greatly missed. come back home to us soon, but have fun while you're over there...
9:58 PM
dimanche, juin 20, 2004
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DARN YOU ROLLING FORKS SWIM TEAM PERSON!!! DON'T CALL OUR HOUSE ANYMORE!!!!!!!!! ...5 points...
i can't take it anymore. i never thought it'd have to be like this, but...who knew? i never thought i'd be alone when it happened, perhaps because i never WANTED to be alone when it happened, but that seems to be what it's come down to. *sigh* i just wish it could be some other way...
9:32 PM
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oh...cary had amy call me today. i'm working from 5-7:15 from now on. I GOT MY JOB BACK!!!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! i hate some people... ok, so the score wasn't right from yesterday. we didn't win by three points, we won by two first places. IF ONE MORE PERSON CALLS MY DAD WITH A DISPUTE I'M GOING TO GO OFF THE DEEPEND (like vanessa and mrs. crain thought i would when i found out about this one).
8:36 PM
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daddy's day is today!!! yay for daddies! i don't know where i'd be without mine. he's been my support system, my shoulder to cry on, my person to complain to, my hero, and most of all my friend for 19 years. i don't think you can ask for more than that from a daddy...especially if you're a girl...
daddy took me out driving in maggie ('58 MGA). he wanted me to drive around the neighborhood but i told him i didn't want to go if he was going to make me do that, so he agreed to bring me to the klein parking lot to drive around for a while and then he wanted me to drive home, but i told him if he got to our neighborhood, i'd drive around here. soooo...that's what we did. she's really forgiving with the shifting stuff...thank goodness because i'm not... i whined and appologized everytime i made her bark at me. poor girl...*sigh*...i'm just not a very good driver.
since tomorrow's the LONDONDERRY LIGHTNING BOLT'S end of season awards party, i'm doing the coach's funny awards stuff right now on my computer. i WISH i could say it all went well... i set ALL the pages to print and daddy and i left for driving. when i got back, 38 of the pages didn't have blue. no big deal EXCEPT almost the whole award is in blue. so i went downstairs and got a new ink thing. i set those 38 to print again and...what should happen but the yellow doesn't work. again, no big deal EXCEPT that the lightning bolt on the award is in...YELLOW! instead of finding another ink cart. and starting over, i think i'm just going to go back and hand draw all the missing bolts in. *sigh* the pains i go through for this team....
someone called my dad today (yes, on father's day) trying to dispute the score from yesterday's meet. they're not very happy that londonderry beat giammalva by 3 points and that giammalva beat rolling fork by 10 points. GOODNESS, PEOPLE!!!! granted, if we lost we'd be upset too, but we wouldn't go trying to find points for our swimmers...we'd just accept the fact that giammalva cheated and hope they're not in the same division as us next year.
i finished my paper, but DESPERATELY need to study for my mid-term, so i think i'm off to do that. if anything else happens, i'll blog it later...
8:17 PM
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Ingredients:
5 parts intelligence
1 part humour
5 parts joy |
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Top it off with a sprinkle of lustfulness and enjoy! |
Personality cocktail
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9:47 AM
samedi, juin 19, 2004
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i'm SUCH a happy coach right now! first of all, i would like to congratulate all of the LONDONDERRY LIGHTNING BOLTS on a season well done. even though we lost two of our meets, we pulled a FIRST at divisionals today!!!!! even though all three of the coaches were feel rather like poo today (kim might have the stomach virus that is, apparently, going around; vanessa thought she was gunna hurl the whole meet; i almost passed out a few times), we were BY FAR the most spirited team there...doing cheers all the time and always yelling for the WHOLE race for a swimmer no matter what heat he/she was in and no matter what place he/she was in. that's what i think i like so much about this team. they're soo willing to cheer for each other...at all times. it was really cool today to be doing the 7-7-3-3-1-1-1 "BOLTS" cheer and hear it echo through the nat. and then doing "lightning relays" and having parents and everyone join in...wow!
the final score was as follows:
6th place- bridgestone with 125
5th place- inwood forest with 205
4th place- memorial northwest with 249
3rd place- rolling fork with 369.5
2nd place- giammalva with 380
1st place- LONDONDERRY LIGHTNING BOLTS WITH 383!!!!!!!!
despite some of the...*argh*..."stuff" that happened today, it was a good meet. VERY close races. lots of yelling, screaming, jumping around...you know how it goes. i think i'm going to lose my voice again this week. i still have it right now, but my throat hurts REALLY a lot and...yeah. i was trying to yell down the stairs to david just a minute ago and couldn't get much out. i sound like a 13 yr old boy going through puberty. the coach relay was loads of fun, even though we were the ONLY team to do it. none of the other coaches stayed long enough to do the relay, so we made up some relays out of our swimmers to swim against us. i swam backstroke against jeremy and gary and WON!!!! hehe...oh...ok, so vanessa swam breaststroke, kim swam butterfly, and MRS. YOUNG and austin swam freestyle. YES, one of our team parents swam on our medley relay with us. she swam the first leg of the freestyle...and surprised us all. i don't think ANYONE actually thought she'd swim, but sure as the sun rises every day, she dove in (off the block) with all her clothes on and won the relay for us! she dove in and EVERYONE went wild. not everyday you see a mother swim on a coach relay, is it?
after divisionals, we (the team) went out to cici's for a celebration dinner. i can't believe the season's over! that's so...weird. i've heard that the team has "unofficially" asked all three coaches back for next year, but i don't know what that means. i'm not sure if we're all actually going to be asked back or not, but...we'll see. AAAAND i've heard that another (unnamed) team is trying to get me hired for next year. we'll see what happens, though... i LOVE coaching summer league. sometimes i think i get just a little too into the races, but...what can i say? i'm passionate about what i do.
last night i was over at the crain's getting my hair and nails done. it was sooo much fun. but that was after the "pep rally" at the pool...and the ko swimming thing...and the crazy errands i had to run. AAANYWAYS, ok, so we had a pep rally at the pool yesterday at 6 and cut up the watermelons we used for crazy olympics and then did loads of fun cheers (cuz we ARE the most spirited and everything). then the kids all got to decorate all the cars for today. it was lots of fun. oh...i'm gunna miss this stuff next week...and the week after. i LOVE working with little kids. TRISTAN MADE PONDEROSA TODAY!!!!!!! i was sooooo proud of him. aww...it was soo cute!
*tear* well, i suppose i probably should put some going out clothes on cuz i'm supposively going to the movies with matt, chris and ann in about 15 minutes. i don't know what we'll see...of if i'll watch any of it (kinna exhausted) but...yeah. if anything else interesting happens, you know i'll blog it later!
7:37 PM
jeudi, juin 17, 2004
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crazy olympics were today. i had SOOOOO much fun!!! it's so hard to believe the season's almost over. tomorrow's the last day of practice. anyway, back to olympics. if i knew how to post pictures on here (or i knew how to make a website for my pictures) i would do that, but...unless someone wants to inform me...yeah. anyway, so we get there, get all set up with music, flags, etc. and get through the 7-8 practice no problem. i think everyone had a good time with that. the "winning" team got pixie sticks while the "not winning" teams got air heads. then the 9-10s came but we only got through 2 events before it started thundering so much we couldn't ignore it anymore. thank goodness we got the kids out when we did cuz the thunder got REALLY close and REALLY loud...and the rain started comming. the crains and the walkes stayed through the rain for 11-up practice and tamra stayed with them so we chilled under the shelter thing and the little chillens gave us (being coaches) back massages. they were so cute. courtney and hailey sat on my butt...and their tailbones stuck right into my sacrum. OUCH!! j/k it wasn't too bad. the weather cleared up so they wanted to go do crazy olympics with just the 6 of them, so we did. it was, actually, really fun. i took my camera out there and put my shirt over my head so i could take pictures without my camera getting ruined and...yeah. it was loads of fun. then the 11-ups got there (all 10 of them) so we did crazy olympics with them. oh man...i love this team. what i would do to be asked back again next year...*sigh*... anyway, i took 147 pictures. (well...that's what i had when we were finished. i actually took, like, 180 or something but had to delete some so i could have enough room on the cards.) i just finished burning them to a CD for mrs. crain, who will put some of them in the slideshow for the end of season awards thing.
i can't believe it's almost over...just 2 more days and tomorrow's SOO busy. let's see what i have to do before monday...
1. jessica's tonight for movie--8:30
2. practice tomorrow morning--5:30 wake-up
3. private lesson with lauren after practice--til about 11:30
4. jordyn to H&H to get something for jared--til 1-ish
5. shopping with ann...if she still wants to go
6. KO for dives--5:00
7. divisionals pep rally--6:00
8. hair thing and then car paint--whatever time that is
9. make lunches and noodles and fruit things for divisionals--when i get home from the peprally
10. bedtime (not that i'll sleep)--11:30
11. wake up--4:45
12. leave for cy-springs high school for divisionals--5:00
13. warm-up--6:45
14. DIVISIONALS!!!!!!!!!
15. dinner at cici's--after divisionals
16. write my paper
17. study for english mid-term
18. church
19. sleep, i hope...
20. hang out with "the gang"
2-10 are tomorrow and 11-16 are saturday. you think i can do it?! i'm thinking PROBABLY NOT! talk about stressed...AND I HAVE TO CUT TAPE!!! goodness...
anyway, if anyone's really bored on saturday and doesn't have anything better to do, feel free to come cheer on the londonderry lightning bolts at divisionals (cy-springs high school) and then cheer me on in the coach's relay...if i end up swimming...
2:18 PM
mercredi, juin 16, 2004
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awww...i had a karen and erin moment just now. i was out running some errands and have been craving (yes, i know...it's not on my diet, but deal with it) some mcdonalds ice cream for a few days now, so since i was at old navy and there's a mcdonalds right there i stopped and got some. anyway, so i was eating my cone and thought about the day that erin, karen and i went to get ice cream and then went to five mile and on the way were talking about our tongues and comparing how we eat ice cream and...oh, i miss those two. i haven't talked to either of them in what seems like forever. I THINK I'M GUNNA DIE!!!!! :(
i got directions to divisionals today, so those of you who wanted to know, feel free to send me an email and i'll send you the directions.
3:53 PM
mardi, juin 15, 2004
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Artist/Band: Paisley Brad
Lyrics for Song: Whiskey Lullaby
Lyrics for Album: Mud On The Tires
(John Randall/Bill Anderson)
She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarette.
She broke his heart: He spent his whole life trying to forget.
We watched him drink his pain away, a little at a time,
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind,
Until the night:
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.
And finally drank away her memory.
Life is short, but this time it was bigger,
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees.
We found him with his face down in the pillow,
With a note that said: "I'll love her till I die."
And when we buried him beneath the willow,
The angels sang a whiskey lullabye.
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la.
La la la la la la la,
La la la la la la la.
The room was full but nobody knew how much she blamed herself.
For years and years, she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath.
She finally drank her pain away, a little at a time,
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind.
Until the night:
She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger.
And finally drank away his memory.
Life is short, but this time it was bigger,
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees.
We found her with her face down in the pillow,
Clinging to his picture for dear life.
We laid her next to him beneath the willow,
While the angels sang a whiskey lullabye.
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la.
La la la la la la la,
La la la la la la la.
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la.
La la la la la la la,
La la la la la la la.
5:50 PM
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oh MAN, that was crazy. ok, so i'm on my way down stuebner towards 1960 because i was going to office depot to get some things laminated (which i ended up not doing because i left my umbrella at home thinking i wouldn't need it and it was raining REALLY hard when i got there...so i'll do it another day). as soon as i turned onto stuebner from cypresswood, i could see the rain ahead. it wasn't like how you normally can tell it's raning cuz it's just really dark all the way to the ground. this one, you could see the streaks of rain. it was sooo cool. and not only that, but you could see it moving. you could see the rain moving with the clouds. IT WAS SOOO AWESOME! God does such wonderful things! so that's my story. it was sooo cool. ok, so needless to say, i didn't get the sheets done so now i have to do them tomorrow or something (before divisionals on saturday).
practice was canceled this morning for weather. that means the 7-8s haven't practiced yet this week...and all the stuff i did last night didn't need to be done. today was gunna be SOOO much fun. and if it rains tomorrow and/or thursday i'm gunna be rather pissed off. crazy olympics is gunna be fun...if we can do it. i guess we could just do one day of olympics...or maybe have them thursday and friday instead of wednesday and thursday. that way we can have pick-a-set tomorrow and can still use the board that i spent so much time working on. *sigh* that'd be nice.
i FINALLY got my chocolate covered strawberries from godiva today, but have yet to have one. i got 6 (one for each of us) but i think if we don't get together tonight i'm gunna devour them alone. *sigh* well...yes. i think i'm finished rambling. it's sleep weather...or movie weather. i should have asked chris if i could borrow the movie but i forgot. DANG IT! so now i don't have anything to do...except my paper, but i really don't want to do that. UGH! i hate school...class was canceled today, though, so i'm not gunna complain too much. both things i had today were canceled. i tried to go to the bank today, too, so i could deposit my paychecks, but...NOOOOOOO! they didn't have power so i didn't get to do that. i'm NEVER gunna remember again. i bought my dad's father's day present and got his cards, but...yeah. i don't feel like i've done anything at all. not only that, but i feel OH so fat and uncomfortable. maybe i'll change out of what i'm wearing and change into sweatpants and a sweatshirt; that's a nice idea.
3:52 PM
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Letting go, even if it hurts, doesn't mean you have to let go of everything. You just have to let go of the person and your feelings for her/him but the memories will always be there whether it's good or bad. Because everytime you remember those memories, it will always put a smile into your heart. And be glad that once in your life this person made you happy and put colors into your life even if it's just for a while.
Mistakes are part of life, everyone makes them, everyone regrets them. But, some learn from them and some end up making them again. It's up to you to decide if you'll use your mistakes to your advantage.
9:53 AM
lundi, juin 14, 2004
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sorry for the long time since the last post, but...yeah.
we won our meet against inwood forest on saturday by 212 points. i think the final score (off the top of my head) was 220.5 to 332.5. niiiiice job, bolts! after the meet i hung out with lauren and courtney crain then went to sonic with them. mucho fun! *sigh* i'm gunna miss these kids when swim season is over... (ps- matt, i lasted a whole 2 races...like, 4 minutes! kim's my witness.)
sunday i went to kf for the pentatholon to watch austin swim. CONGRATS ON ALL THE PLACE DROPS, AUSTIN!!!! it was nice to talk to him for the whole day. "i'm going to hell. and i'll meet you there!" so, here's a funny story for you... austin told me to stand at the end of the pool during his IM so i could cheer for him and he could see me and so on and so forth. well, he gets up on the block and i yell, "GO AUSTIN!!!!" then he gets in the water and everytime he takes a breath, i'm right there ready yelling "GO!" that works for fly and breast, but on back i did the kick thing and free i just threw my arms. when he got out of the pool he came over to talk to kim and i told us that some crazy psycho lady was yelling for him at the end of the pool...then he realized it was just me... *sigh* that's the last time i yell for anyone... j/k
after the meet i called chris because he had called me the night before and i was at harry...oh...i forgot. saturday night i went to see harry potter with my dad... horribly disappointing in my eyes. i think the new director did a HORRIBLE job keeping things similar. the...*sigh*...never mind. if you want to know how i feel about it, ask me on your own time...but have time.
anyway, so i called chris and he invited me out to dinner with his family for his sisters birthday but i declined the offer since i hadn't spent too much time with my family that weekend but he called me when they got home and i went over, didn't eat cake and ice cream and...yeah. it was great. i was there until, like, 3:30 this morning then i went to ann's til about 4 and...here i am.
i think that's probably the main points of everything that's happened recently. i'd complain if i had the energy to keep moving my fingers, but since i'm still a bit tired and i have to take a shower for class, i think i'm probably just going to go do that. i have to bring my paychecks in and make an eye appointment. remind me of it, k?!
10:54 AM
vendredi, juin 11, 2004
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THIS IS MY 990 ENTRY IN THIS BLOG!!! :-D i think i'm going to throw a party when i reach 1000... i just got back from swimming. i swam 1100 just now...which added to the 900 from this morning means i swam another 2000 today. i like this working out thing. i think it could work for me...if i keep it up...which we ALL know i won't... now off to the shower, but before i go, i thought y'all might like this ;)
| M | Modern | | I | Insane | | R | Relaxing | | E | Enjoyable | | E | Exquisite |
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2:45 PM
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well, i know, i know...i haven't been very faithful to this blog recently. aaanyway, funny things have been happening at swim practice, but...yeah. well, two days ago (i think that's when it was) ryan was getting ready for practice while kim and i were putting in the lane ropes. he yelled over to us that there was a crawfish in the water. not totally believing him, kim and i both kinna ran over to the shallow end and, sure enough, there was a crawfish swimming around in the pool with all the frogs. CRAZY stuff. i ran to get the net thing and ryan got it out of the water and then i threw it over the fence. that same day, at the end of the last practice, we were putting the cover thing back on the lane ropes and a HUGE frog jumped out of the cover and onto me. now, don't get me wrong, i'm not afraid of frogs or anything, but i nearly peed my suit i was so scared. luckily olivia and allison were still there (they are part of the "frog hunters club") and they came over and got the frog for us. hehe
we (the coaches) have been swimming the 11-up practices the past few days and it seems to make the kids swim more and work a little harder, probably because we're running over them and into them but...it's all good. the first day we swam with them, we did a 2000 (that's 80 laps...about a mile and a quarter) and then yesterday we swam another 2000 but i wanted to swim a mile and a half + 1 lap (100 laps) so kim and i swam a 2500 instead of a 2000. MAN it felt good. i came home from class and slept until my mom came into my room and told me that chris was on the phone...he'd called me 5 times on my cell phone but i was soooo asleep that i didn't get them. *sigh*
last night i went to ann's with chris and matt and we watched clueless. then we started watching mallrats but since it was 11:30 and i had to get up at 5:30, i went home.
i can't believe swim season's almost over! that's sooo sad and so hard to believe. i'm not gunna see these kids again, perhaps EVER...unless they ask me back again next year, which i doubt will happen. all we have left is the duel meet and the pentatholon this weekend, divisionals next weekend (if you wanna see me swim, there's a coach's relay at the end of that meet), and then invitationals the next weekend. THEN WE'RE FINISHED!!! but then i start working at the Y...i hope... i'm gunna miss coaching, though, cuz teaching lessons is SOOO much different. (speaking of which, i need to call someone about private lessons...)
ERIN MIGHT COME SEE ME SOMETIME SOON!!! :-D i miss her so much. hopefully she'll come soon, but if not, i'll understand....
well, i think i'm going to head up to the pool to get some exercise in for the day. i feel fat cuz i just ate LOTS of pizza (not on my diet). but...I GET TO BAKE TONIGHT!!! :-D
1:16 PM
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i know erin didn't write this, but i'm stealing it from her LJ so i'm going to say i'm stealing it from her...
Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice....now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, nevermind, you won't understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded, but trust me: in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind: the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive; forget the insults. (if you succeed in doing this, tell me how).
Keep your old love letters; throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of Calcium. Be kind to your knees -- you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40; maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body: use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it; it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance...even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions (even if you don't follow them).
Do not read beauty magazines; they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents; you never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings: they're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but what a precious few should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you'll need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old; and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse, but you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair - or by the time you are 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia; dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal--wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me, on the sunscreen.
1:14 PM
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My mail carrier told me that the US Postal service sent out a message
to all letter carriers to put a sheet of Bounce in their uniform pockets to keep yellow jackets away.
Use them all the time when playing baseball and soccer.
I use it when I am working outside. It really works. The yellow jackets just veer around you. And all this time I.ve only been putting them in the dryer!
It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them.
It also repels mice.. spread them around foundation areas, or in
trailers, cars that are sitting and it keeps mice from entering your vehicle.
It takes the odor out of books and photo albums that don't get opened
too often.
Repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when
outdoors during mosquito season.
Eliminates static electricity from your television (or computer)
screen.
Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your
television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.
Freshen the air in your home. Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a
drawer or hang in the closet.
Put Bounce sheet in vacuum cleaner.
Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through sheet of
Bounce before beginning to sew.
Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside
empty luggage before storing.
Freshen the air in your car. Place a sheet of Bounce under the front
seat.
Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill
with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti-static agent
apparently weakens the bond between the food.
Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of
the wastebasket.
Collect cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will
magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds. Wipe the blinds with
a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.
Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce
will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce
at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or
sneakers overnight.
Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.
Put a Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and
storing them. Keeps them smelling fresh.
1:10 PM
mardi, juin 08, 2004
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we swam practice today. all three of us...we all got in and swam with the kiddos today during the 6:30-7:15 "open practice". it felt really nice to get in and swim with 'em. we swam a 1000 in about 30 minutes. the kids swam a 1150 because they did a warm-up that we didn't do (we hadn't decided to swim with them until after their warm-up). oh, it felt good. i think i'm going to start doing practice with them on a regular basis. (haha...since there are only about 6 practices left...) *sigh* i don't want to make a fool out of myself at divisionals during the coach's relay by not being able to make it all the way across the pool.
i got pushed in again today. this time it wasn't funny, though...not that it was yesterday, but...yeah. i really wouldn't mind it so much if vanessa and kim got pushed in as well, but it's always me. WHY ME?! j/k
aaaaaanyway, my mom's already mad at me for being on here instead of writing my paper, so i'm going to go do that. *sigh* i HATE english...
8:13 PM
lundi, juin 07, 2004
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6:32.49 that's rather impressive for me! YAY! (and i'm ALL clean now!)
11:46 PM
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oh, i love those kids...and they're lucky i do. j/k no, but today i got pushed into the water TWICE by the kids. once i was dragged and thrown into the water (with no help from kim...thanks, kim) by the 7-8s after i finished tightening the lane ropes. they all kind of swarmed me and in a joint effort, got my shoes off and me into the water...fully clothed... no big deal. kim told them to swim a 200 fly as their warm-up as punishment for pushing me in the water. then after the 11-up practice i went over to the deepend to kid around with the 4 little girls over there and...well...one thing led to another, i ended up throwing them in and when i had olivia in my hands hailey must have gotten behind me and pushed me in. LOVELY HAILEY! so...yeah. two pairs of shorts and one shirt...totally soaked. at LEAST i didn't have my towel on, though, cuz i didn't have an extra one today.
so that was fun. class today was SOOO pointless. i woke up this morning and really didn't want to go to class, but decided to go anyway because our outline was due so i went...and it was the BIGGEST waste of time. that professor, while really cool, spends WAY too much time on random stupid stories and...yeah. but he doesn't keep us the whole time, so that's fine with me. i can't even begin to imagine how much it would suck if he kept us the whole 2 hrs and 10 minutes we're supposed to be there. usually he has us out by 2 instead of 3 and that, like i said, is FINE with me. i HATE english...with a passion...as i'm sure most of you have already figured out.
i'm writing a paper about post-it notes right now, so if anyone has any thing they think would help my paper, feel free to leave a comment! (and if you have a comment to make but not about the paper, those are welcome as well!!)
i'm off to take my shower now! i smelly (like chlorine) so...yeah. i know, it makes SOO much sense. take a shower to get right back in the water in 7 hrs and 15 minutes. what can i say?! THAT'S ME FOR YA!!!
10:59 PM
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i stole this one from THE GREATEST ROOMIE IN THE WORLD!!! (aka-erin jones)
PICK YOUR FAVORITE:
Angel Food
Brownies
Lemon Meringue Pie
Vanilla Cake/Chocolate Icing
Strawberry Short Cake
Chocolate Cake/Chocolate Icing
Ice Cream
Carrot Cake
NO...You can't change your mind once you scroll down! So think carefully what your choice will be! OK - Now that you've made your choice, this is what research says about you!
Angel Food - Sweet, loving, cuddly. You love all warm and fuzzy items...A little nutty at times. Sometimes you need an ice cream cone at the end of the day. Others perceive you as being childlike and immature at times.
Brownies - You are adventurous, love new ideas, are a champion of underdogs and a slayer of dragons. When tempers flare up, you whip out your sabre. You are always the oddball with a unique sense of humour and direction. You tend to be very loyal.
Lemon Meringue - Smooth, sexy, and articulate with your hands, you are an excellent after-dinner speaker and a good teacher. But don't try to walk and chew gum at the same time. A bit of a diva at times, but you have many friends.
Vanilla Cake/Chocolate Icing - Fun-loving, sassy, humorous. Not very grounded in life; very indecisive and lack motivation. Everyone enjoys being around you, but you are a practical joker. Others should be cautious in making you mad. However, you are a friend for life.
Strawberry Short Cake - Romantic, warm, loving. You care about other people and can be counted on in a pinch. You tend to melt. You can be overly emotional and annoying at times.
Chocolate Cake/Chocolate Icing - Sexy, always ready to give and receive. Very creative, adventurous, ambitious, and passionate. You have a cold exterior but are warm on the inside. Not afraid to take chances. Will not settle for anything average in life. Love to laugh.
Ice Cream - You like sports, whether it is baseball, football, basketball, or soccer. If you could, you would like to participate, but you enjoy watching sports. You don't like to give up the remote control. You tend to be self-centered and high maintenance.
Carrot Cake - You are a very fun loving person, who likes to laugh. You are fun to be with. People like to hang out with you. You are a very warm-hearted person and a little quirky at times. You have many loyal friends.
bold the item you are.
11:15 AM
dimanche, juin 06, 2004
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What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
1:34 PM
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i'm SOOOOOOOOOO sick of it. it's over...
as for my day yesterday...
we had a swim meet yesterday (duh!) against rolling fork and, as you probably guessed from the previous blog, we lost by 4 points. no big deal...IF we had deserved to lose by 4 points. NO! see, we SHOULD have won by 17 points but what does it matter, right? no big deal if john decides to do freestyle on butterfly in the medley relay when we're almost three body lengths ahead. no big deal if the other officials aren't paying attention (facing and talking to someone behind them) when swimmers DQ on relays (ie- leaving early and not touching the wall). whatever...i guess maybe that means we'll EVENTUALLY learn things for divisionals. if not, we're not going to place well. and i don't want to hear ANYMORE of "it's coach's fault. if she'd tell us we'd know better." WE TELL YOU EVERYTHING, YOU JUST DON'T LISTEN!!! on a brighter note, congrats to emily downey for qualifying for ponderosa in freestyle AND backstroke yesterday!
the car fire i wrote about wasn't connie, for those of you worrying. i was driving home from the meet yesterday and at the fire station on cypresswood (by preston wood forest) there were three firefighters standing around a burning jeep. i'm assuming they were practicing something but i guess it could have been someone's jeep that caught fire and they were lucky that it was at the station!? i'm not sure, but thought it was interesting enough to blog about.
at that stop light there was a stupid car holding three guys who went from the left turn lane to the right lane (backing up) and i didn't think anything of it. when we got to the light over the railroad tracks, though, they were next to me. i'm, of course, in my suit without a shirt on cuz it was hot and i...don't know what happened to my shirt at the meet... anyway, they were making crude comments but my music was loud enough that i couldn't really hear them. the light turned green and they, being all cool and everything, punched the gas and tried to show off their car or something. ok, so i'm not going to race you down cypress wood when in, like, THREE seconds the speedlimit chages from 45 to 30 and we're already going 50. are you STUPID!? apparently. anyway, so they get in front of me and the guy in the backseat did that little "come here" wave with his hand and when i didn't go any faster he flicked me off. WHAT ON EARTH?! i didn't do anything to ANY of them. i wasn't in their lane, didn't cut them off...i just didn't race them off the light. so why do i get flicked off? someone explain to me what i did wrong.
I'M SICK OF DOING THINGS WRONG. i really just wish i could...go away. i wanna have the opportunity from it's a wonderful life so i can see just how much better off everyone would be without me. i'm always pissing someone off without even knowing it, i'm constantly being called names that are MORE than uncalled for, i ruin things for people when all i try to do is stay out, i can't seem to do anything right.
jordyn, i think i'm done...
6:52 AM
samedi, juin 05, 2004
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331-327
car fire
stupid boys
i'll explain more later...
3:09 PM
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I HATE MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12:35 AM
vendredi, juin 04, 2004
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i LOVE those kids!!!! wow...i feel soo much better now. it was really nice to be able to spend 4 hrs over there and not even realize it was going so quickly. i miss 'em, but it's all good. just...had to blog it!
7:06 PM
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! WHY!?!?!?!?!?!!? ok, now seriously...you KNOW we're working on relays, starts, turns, sprints, etc. today so WHY would you...UGH!!!!!! ok. i hate being the "mean coach". i'm SORRY i'm not coach kim. WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT?! i try as hard as i can to be nice, fun, etc. i'm not the one who makes up the hard practices. i'm not the one that makes you do all that impossible stuff. i'm the one that yells because my voice carries farther and THAT makes me the mean coach?? i bring candy for you but i'm the MEAN COACH? *sigh* i don't know why i even try. i mean...i got in and...oh, never mind. kim left early today because she's going to austin so she can visit a friend. that leaves vanessa and i with the all the practices. NO BIG DEAL!! I LOVE MY JOB!!! however, the 11 ups don't want to work. they want to goof off and not do what they're asked to do. WONDERFUL! well, i was fine with them just doing sprints and then going home without a game (we play games at the end of practices on fridays) but vanessa wanted to do something else. that's fine with me too! i'm just the ass coach, i don't know anything; i don't make any rules and i'm ok with that. so we're going to do these little pushup things i make them do...for 10 minutes... let me just tell you they were SOOO excited. i was amazed at the "under my breath" comments i heard today. haha...not only am i the "mean coach" because i was the one with the watch and the one blowing the whistle, but i was a LOT worse names than that. but...IT'S ALL OK!!! the 9-10s have to hold streamline tomorrow on all their races and they all get candy on monday. do i think they're going to do it? not one bit. one person's gunna forget and get DQed for it and it's gunna be MY fault not the person who ruined it. but, you know what, i give up. i give up on it all. i can't do it right no matter how hard i try. i can't make anyone happy. i let the kids throw me in the water, i get in and swim with them, they hang all over me for HOURS and i'm ok with that. but somehow, i'm STILL the mean coach. someone explain this to me. maybe from the outside it's easier to see where they're coming from but from where i'm standing, i just don't understand. i give up...
11:48 AM
jeudi, juin 03, 2004
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well, i think i'm at that point now, where no matter what i do, it's not going to be right and SOMEONE'S always going to be mad at me. *sigh* i give up. i'm not a people pleaser and I REALLY DON'T CARE ANYMORE!!!! me and my floatation devices will just go somewhere else, thank you very much!
you know what sucks more than anything? having someone you don't even know hate your guts. how exactly does that happen? wow...beats me. and more than that...no, i really should just stop here. poor vanessa...i think that's all i have to say. ("no, it's not really white. i think it's more of a tan?!" *hehe*)
i put that stuff on my bed last night so i could sleep better. and i ended up being able to sleep through the night!!! YAY!!! hehe. i really shouldn't be posting right now because i have to get up in 6 hrs for practice, but...eh...who needs sleep, right? i'll just sleep tomorrow before i go visit the ZAWADZKI'S!!! i miss those kiddos. *tear* wow...and i've got a surprise for them...maybe. if i get it all "together" the way i'm supposed to.
i was supposed to go see harry potter tomorrow, but it turns out lee and i can't go at the same time, so i'm going to just go see it with daddy some other time. we saw the first two together and it's kinna like our "date" now. i love my dad. he's amazing...
practice is going well, i suppose. i miss ann but i got to see her tonight. i'm tired...i think i need more sleep but i can't sleep and i can't wake up. is there something wrong with me?!
oh...and i have to write a paper for english by monday and have NO idea what i'm going to write about. oh well...guess we'll see, right? we'll see.
well, i think it's off to the bathroom for clean teeth and clean face! NIGH' NIGHT!!!
11:29 PM
mercredi, juin 02, 2004
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well...i counted 'em. the total comes to 68. 63 "normal" and 5 "special". if you don't know what i'm talking about, feel free to ask...otherwise just...yeah. wow...call me crazy but i think i need some more! :-D
3:30 PM
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haha...yeah. so english is going to be a boring class. mina fell asleep like 10 times today...in 2 hours. we got our first paper assigned today. it's a "descriptive" paper about any tangable, inannimate object we can think of EXCEPT the paper clip. sound easy? OF COURSE...if you know what to write about. i was going to write about my marching shoes (cuz they're fun) but i think, instead, i'm going to write about a hair clip. MANY good uses. ;)
aaaanyway. so mina and i were waiting on ben today after class to leave and some guy in our class kinna seemed to be waiting on us, too. when we were leaving, he tried to start up a conversation with us about...well...i'm not really sure what. he asked if we all were in high school and mina and ben said they were and i said i was in college. he asked where i went to school and i told him. he was like "not bad. i go to a&m." like he's better than i am because he's going to a&m?! i think NOT! hehe...anyway, we all (i thought) went our separate ways but when i was getting out of the parking lot i noticed that ben and mina were talking. ben came up to my door and was like "not bad? NOT BAD!? what's that all about?" i laughed. anyway, i don't think we're gunna talk to THAT guy anymore.
along with all that, there's a girl in our class who seems to have a comment after EVERYTHING anyone says. and she's not quiet about it either. i think the girl sitting next to ben's a little afraid of us, but it's going to all be ok... i love those two guys! they make me laugh. this class is gunna be SOOOOOOOO much better with them in it. don't know if i'll pay more attention or not, but at least i'll have fun! anyway, i gotta put all my clothes away before matt gets here so he doesn't think i'm a TOTAL slob!
2:47 PM
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well...chris and i (again) are not friends. except this time i think it's for good. oh well...thanks for the memories, chris...
the first day of school was alright. I HATE ENGLISH!!!
stupid me didn't get enough sleep monday night so yesterday i was having a hard time staying awake. i got in bed at 6:45-ish to read and fell asleep...and slept until almost 10. my mom got mad at me cuz i slept all day so i wasn't going to sleep through the night (and this is something new because...!?) but i told her i would and went back to bed. i think i forgot to eat dinner last night. i wonder what they had...
aaaanyway, i better go jump in the shower and get dressed so i can head off to ANOTHER *fun* day at school. *grunt* i'll write more later if something else happens...which it probably won't...
ANN'S SUPPOSED TO COME HOME TODAY!!! we'll see, right?
11:39 AM
mardi, juin 01, 2004
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i wish people made comments on here. man...even if they're not the nicest things. i know you hate me, but...make a comment!
so i think it's really funny when someone you've known for...well...some time tells you something that he/she doesn't think you already know about him/her. little do they know, you've known for a long time and can't believe that they'd make such a big deal telling you about it now...after all that you've been through together. funny how that works out, huh?!
anon (yelling at me on the way home): WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME? I DON'T GET TO PLAY WITH 'EM!
oh the joys of being yelled at...
mina hanna and ben jackson are in my english class. that's gunna be fun...even if the class is gunna suck big toes. so the prof...if he's even that... he thinks he's funny, but he's not. he seems like he's gunna be nice, but...we'll see about that. today we had to write an essay with the topic being: "why (or why not) do you think education is important?" i wish i could say that my essay we well thought out and very intelligent, but then i'd be lying to you. that was probably the biggest bunch of BS i've ever written in my life. *sigh* oh well...it wasn't for a grade or anything, so i'm not too worried. had it been for a grade i would have AT LEAST read over it when i finished. mina and i have decided to share a book and, if ben wants to, ben's more than welcome to share with us as well.
michael...you make me laugh. i don't even know what to say to you sometimes because you just...oh...you make me laugh.
i left my watch at the pool today after practice. hopefully it'll still be there when i get there tomorrow morning. if it's not i'll be upset but then i'll go buy another one.
i'm back to reading harry potter again. rereading the third one so when it comes out (and i finally get tickets and go see it) i will remember what's going on and it will all be fresh in my mind and so on and so forth. anyway...yeah. i think i'm going to go read a little now, actually, and wait for dinner to be ready.
ooooooh...rob got the job!!!!!! he starts tomorrow morning at 8:00 i think. that's exciting...REALLY exciting! so...yeah. NOW i think i'm finished.
thanks for today, ps. i had a good time but sorry i dragged (is that right?) you around like that. is it really true about the neck, though!?
5:14 PM
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i guess this one's kind of how i feel right now. i'm so confused now...even though i know i shouldn't be. just...makes me wonder... good song, though. i heard it on the way home from chris's house. by the way, thanks for the hug. i really needed it!
You Don't Love Me Anymore
-Tim McGraw
She walks over to him and she says
Do you remember me
I think we might've met somewhere before
Southern Carolina is the place that comes to mind
But hey I guess you never really can be sure
Oh there's nothing like a true love
To go and make a fool of someone
Just like before
And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore
Then an old familiar feeling
Wraps its arms around the moment
And he says so many times I've tried to call
Well you'd think it's been a lifetime
It's been two years since I've seen you
But it seems just like no time's gone by at all
Oh there's nothing like a real love
To give you back the feel of someone
Just like before
And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore
Oh and how far we'll travel
For a place to heal our hearts
We watched it unravel
To why's tonight the hardest part
Then he says the weather's changin'
And it's icin' up the highway
So I guess it's time for me to hit the road
So she says good-bye and then before
She knows what she is sayin' she says
I wish you didn't have to go
Oh there's nothing like a true love
To go and make a fool of someone
Just like before
And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore
And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore
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