excitement.

excitement is everywhere. i'm at krissy's house. dan should be arriving shortly. we made manatee cookies, and a giant kiwi (the bird) cookie because ALLY IS COMING. we are going into nyc to retrieve her soon, and needless to say, i'm stoked.

i found out some stuff last night about a close friend, and i'm not sure i like it. at all. she could get in big trouble for it. oh, it worries me, cuz she's like a little sister to me, and i worry about her. oh well.

yay for camp friends :-D

and my birthday is sunday. i'm gonna be 20. i'm getting old.

life is good :)

school's out for summer.

i'm home, and despite the awful pollen here in new jersey, it's fabulous. i always forget how much i love jersey until i get back. it makes me happy. it's just something about suburbia and being near nyc...i suppose. or it's just the place i grew up, and it has emotional attachment. okay, enough sappy stuff.

i hung out with friends, which is always awesome. i really do miss the JCHS friends. and rink friends. etc. ally comes on friday and me and some camp people are going to pick her up in NYC which is going to be amazingly awesome. or wicked. or some word that means sweet. my kid sister also turned 12 today, meaning that today that also happened, and i can't believe she is 12. i remember the day she was born. my grandma today reminded me that we got bagels on the way to the hospital. oh, grandmas.

what else...my birthday is sunday and i'm going to be 20. i don't really actually know how i feel about that. wait, yes i do. i feel old.

i miss a bunch of my friends. but i'm also excited about this summer. it's a very bittersweet moment. i miss one in particular who is gallavanting on the beach. silly boy. oh well. i'm making it. i have to clean my room soon. or else my mother might hurt me. and also cuz ally is staying...oh the cleaning woes. i have a feeling that will be happening late tonight. well. that's all.

life is good.

i'm all smiles

wow. so much has happened in the past few days, and i'm definitely a giggly little girl because of it.
well, first off i passed my senior moves in the field for skating, which means i'm at the highest level for that, and that thrills me. it makes me feel really accomplished, and now i'm much more focused and into passing my freestyle and dance tests. awesome, right? yep. well. that happened, and skating tryouts happened as well, and they went really well. i am going to have two teams next year, and that makes me really happy.

other exciting news, you may ask...well, there's kind of a boy in my life. and it makes me feel all giggly and girly. this all kind of started like 2 weeks ago, and it's been quite awesome. we talked last night and well, i go home friday so it's going to be hard to start anything. but we're going to hold off until the fall. 'til then, we are going to hang out. we didn't really establish what we are last night, but that's okay. i'm okay with this. i feel like a little middle school girl. haha.

finals are looming, and i feel like i really haven't learned anything.

oh well. life is good. no wait, life is GREAT.

southern magic is love

i love my skating team, and i am so proud of them. they had their first skating competition this weekend, and needless to say, i am overly proud to be their coach. despite a small fall, the girl got up and kept going, which is what I was most worried about. I was so nervous, especially since it was my first competition as a coach, but my mom has really trained me well. and i got through it. with the help of some of the other coaches, of course. it was a whirlwind of a weekend, but i am so proud of them. they got 2nd (out of two teams), but i love how most of them are so excited to skate so much better and get first place next time. i also think i found another coach to work with me, which thrills me. every good synchro team has a male dance coach. it's awesome.

as far as life goes, it's great. a week and a half left of classes, then finals. and i'm home on the 18th. woohoo! then it's off to camp not too long after that. oo! here's a picture of my girlies. they skate to tarzan. this is before they got on the ice. i <3 them.

keep the faith :)

hmm. it's saturday, and it's been one of the first relaxing ones i've had in a while. it's been fabulous. work was good. i had some nice conversations and finally figured out my plan for nashville in 2 weeks. this makes me a lot less stressed, considering that was one of the biggest stresses of the week. now i just have to find a ride. . .that won't be too bad. i have tons of skaters driving up. thank goodness i have a team.

my skaters looked really good today, which makes me extraordinarily happy. i'm so proud of them since they've come such a long way. and then i have 2 skaters competing on may 5 in the beginner competition. it's just all exciting. :) skating has really made my life so incredibly enjoyable down here. yay.

i have been babysitting for the demon children, and they are really demons. i can't stand them.
no more of that. one more and i am finished.

a friend made me dinner on thursday night. it was awesome. and we watched movies and chatted, and needless to say, i'm glad i have that friend.

okay, i'm sleepy.
life is good.!

my alarm clock just scared the living hell out of me. and i woke up all frantic, and now i'm all jittery. it could also be because i have a latin exam today which i'm going to bomb. and i don't really care. i'm exhausted and crabby. granted, it is 8 am and no one is supposed to be chipper at this time. i have a really long day and just need to get away from school, which i am doing tomorrow night. that makes me feel soooo much better.

ok. so these jitters need to go away, cuz now i just feel like i'm really nervous and nauseous. ARG. the end.

i have found a new favorite place. and it is the hoover public library. i got a library card, so now i can check out lots of fun movies and books and music. it's so much better then the bsc library. there is a lot more fun stuff here, and it makes me really happy. i dunno what it is with me lately, but i've been finding that i've been yearning to spend time alone. that's really unlike me...but maybe it's because i'm trying to find out who i am with everything going on. i'm happy, i'll admit that. it's been great.

i went out last night...like real, big kid out. i went to a club. with ashley (a guy from the rink), his friend and sara. it was sooo much fun. in the words of sara "we danced like sinners". we had a blast even though the minute we stepped outside we nearly died because of the cold. i went to bed at 3:30 and then couldn't sleep. i think that's the latest i've stayed up from going out. i have stayed up that late for studying for cell and molecular biology. lame, right? oh well. i still have those big black x's on my hands, showing that i'm not 21. rub it in, stupid people, rub it in why dontcha. yeahh.

well, i'm going to look for a book on science careers. woo hoo.

i'm happy. i think i have a permanent smile on my face, and people around me are probably wondering why i'm so happy. and so are you. but that's because i have jesus in my life. and for other reasons...which, i'm not about to divulge.

life is good. :) and that's not a joke this time.