So this is the new year...

January 2008.

what are my new years resolutions....hm.

1. keep my gpa and rank where they are until graduation.
2. finish my ap portfolio, make it incredible, and hopefully get a 4 or 5.
3. save more money for college and such.
4. write morgan, david, and other missionaries more often.
5. the standard- eat healthier, excercise more, drink more water, floss....type. : )
6. drive safter [stop speeding as much...and texting while driving]
7. buy more cds, stop pirating my life away.
....i'm sure i'll think of more later. always room for improvement.


So i'm really excited about life. This might sound lame, but really, the future seems so exciting to me right now. Scary, yes, but exciting.
I wish i wasn't just looking forward though. I wonder, does everyone get the feeling that all they're doing at some moment is waiting...or looking forward to something in the future?
I feel like all i'm doing is waiting. What gets me through the week is the thought of the weekend, and what gets me through the weekend is knowing that next week is coming, and then the week after that will be here.
I am content where i am, and i don't want time to pass by so so quickly....but on the other hand i really just want to get to these upcoming places in my life.


January was for the most part a good month. [There were some annoying things and people i had to deal with and get over....] Although i did have to go back to school after an incredible break but my econ class went to a mock-trial-court-thing, it was alot of fun.
and i got to hang out with alot of kids from my class that i don't normally get to see.


Dana, Clare, and I went and saw Juno and then went to NewBrookland for what i thought would be an awesome show. Baumer makes me happy, but the douchebags who push people, even girls, around tick me off. Oh and speaking of douchebag...and words of that kind. i accidentally said 'effing at the dinner table the other day when i was describing something that happened at work, and my parents flipped out. They think it's equally wrong to say 'effing as it is to actually say the f word. And i accidentally called my sister a douche too...hahaha. She has been calling me pottymouth since then. Annoying.




February.
I had a great valentine's day...and week for that matter. Flu-sick Keith came back from NC and we all got the get together again. I really missed him, i haven't seen him since christmas and it's so awesome when we get together and go to yesterdays and coolbeans...it's really an unhealthy ritual. haha. Oh, Dana did her Senior Choreography Showcase. She choreographed this awesome dance about the murder of Mata Hari to Ceremony by New Order. It was pretty incredible. And then Mary also came to town, I forgot how much i missed that girl. It really makes me sad and nostalgic when i think about my friends who left and have gone on and really just sophomore year.
I did one of those surveys on myspace asking all the lame questions and it asked what my favorite year was....hands down my sophomore year. 2 years ago.
morgan hadn't left yet. david was here and my best friend. laura and i became great friends. the supergroup was at it's peek. tiffany was still close. keith and mary were still at dreher. we did west side story at school, morgan was even in it. it was a great show, all of my senior friends were still around. i was martha corey in the Crucible and we took it to competitions and won best in state and got a superior rating. it was a really great experience. there was no unnecessary drama with anyone really with that group that year, like the horrible stuff we dealt with junior year. josh was going to school and working here, so all the family was pretty much together. i had the best summer of life...with trek and my favorite EFY thusfar. it makes me sad that of all those components of my favorite year only a couple remain.

There was a dance, and this boy danced with Mary and he said to her "my parents are truckers, i've traveled all over, and i really think you'd enjoy shopping in Montana."
hahaha.
really, i laughed at this for forever. He said it as a compliment type thing, or just a filler for conversation. i mean really....who says that?

Two really really great movies i saw at our indie theatre were Not There Yet, the flick about Bob Dylan. it was incredible, Lars and the Real Girl....my gosh i loved this movie.


March

I drove 3 hours to savannah, to Savannah College of Art and Design to visit Bess and go see Ben Folds. I missed this girl. and her insane faces. The drive was long but savannah is beautiful. and the kids that go to school there are awesome. i felt like i was just surrounded by immense talent and it made me really envious, and wish that i was going to an art school. i know it'd be real hard and competitive, and wicked wicked expensive...but it just felt great there.

We all went to dinner and then saw BEN FOLDS.
It's the third time i've seen incredible ben. and with bess too. every time the venue has been so different, college gymnasium, amphitheatre on the grass, and in a cool downtown theatre. one show we were on our feet the whole time, morgan getting in fights with people because he wasn't using 'proper concert etiquette'. one we had a picnic pretty much and sat on the railings and danced around. and then this time, we sat the entire show, which really erked me, i wanted to be up dancing around. for the encore everyone stood up....but it just seemed strange. ben did record some of our singing and clapping for the new album, so cool.


SPRING BREAK!!

Washington D.C.
my fam packed up the minivan and headed up.
i've been before so i wasn't as excited as everyone else.
i was mostly just excited about the art galleries that i didn't get to see in 8th grade.

I'm the only one who really cared though. Really, my dad is so impatient, he can't stand lines, or walking slow for that matter. So he was trying to wiz-bang through the centuries. I was walking towards him when he walked out of a corner room with the twins and was like, 'there's nothing to see in there, come on.' Want to know what was in the corner? Renior, Cassat, Monet. i really hope he was joking, but i don't know.


Oh, here's something else. In the Modern Art Museum you can take photos but they have to be on flash....my sisters probably took 8 pictures accidentally forgetting to change the setting. It made me mad. Chandler actually when she was taking a picture of warhol's flower...like swiped her hand purposely touching the print. wtf. i was standing beside her and was like...CHANDLER! what is wrong with you, you can't touch the art, and a security guy came and told her how much it was worth. she got all offended by my huge reaction but i mean really, you're not very bright if you...ugh.



my family rushed me through all the modern art work and i would have gladly stayed in their gift shop for hours looking through books and such, but no, we had to go look at the air and space museum, boo. i did get a 1 cool book and a couple post cards, which i intend to keep for myself. maybe send one to africa.

we took the liberty in some back rooms with no one around to jump. : D

We rode the subway everyday. I really loved it, getting on and off at all the different spots, carrying my book and ipod with me, and just reading on the ride. I want to live somewhere were theres a subway....it would have been so cool preteen, or even now, to just be like i'm taking the subway downtown or to the mall or movies.
except...we were walking out the door kind of late and the bell dinged and hannah was right behind me but didn't make it through the door. haha, we lost hannah, we had to jump on another train and find her at the next stop. it was kind of scary. but also kind of funny. she was like 'you guys owe me an icecream' when we finally got her. i bet people were annoyed with us tourists. so clueless. dad tried to hard, i bet we spent an hour the first day trying to get on the right track.


you can't really tell, but we're outside the lincoln memorial and the waiting pool and washington monument are behind us.

and this...i think i pushed hannah off the bed and the twins always give up when they're pushed and just topple over...and so this move started a fight. dad was in the corner laughing and taking pictures while mom was telling us to be quiet, but still laughing.







and i'm a killer wedgie giver....just ask hannah.


this is just cute. i'm thinking about postcarding it.

you're not allowed to jog. oop.


hannah is a pansy. and i'm a strong giant. so i helped her out.

that's the white house. it's smaller and less impressive than i thought.
i still winked though.




Happy Easter. Maggie loves easter....this is her last year.
this is her this year....she got a haircut...and looks like a rat.

seriously, when i came home i screamed with i saw her...not cute anymore.
and look at her tail. gross.
Easter was nice though, instead of getting lots of chocolate and candy that i wouldn't eat anyway unless it was like low calorie anyway, mom got me (and the twins) a few books. : D
the best easter will always be when we got 4 baby chicks....daisy, sunshine, big bird, and eeyore. and maggie ate then a month later. so great.


meagan, dana, and i went to charleston. we mostly went for urban outfitters.
i spent like $100, and meagan and dana spent alot more than me. ask them how much.
but who cares, our clothes are cooler than yours.

it was really cold, but we still went to the beach. and jumped around.
and wrote things in the sand.

RAY-BANS.
dana has real ones.
meagan has giant hipwazee ones.
and i have really fake ones.
we're cool. ha.

spring break was alright. i got to spend a long time with my family and we toured alllll of washington, it was great. i had some fun days with my best friends.
i got to spend an entire night talking to my favorite person.
i prom dress shopped.

and just like everyone else i dread going back to school....
my rents told us to be reverent....we danced. oops.

and then dad tried to be the camera man again....he failed.
but i love this clip so much.