adios

ok so there's a lot that i would love to update about from the past week or so...including renee's wedding and the surprise going away party my friends threw me...but i really don't have time...

so all i'll say is..

renee's married to tony finally! the wedding was amazing! my friends have been amazing as well!! thanks you guys! the party was awesome, thanks for thinkin' of me. and also the group of people that followed me out of the church service sunday to say goodbye...you guys made me feel special! thanks!

also...got my SAT scores...only did better that 71% of the nation, kinda depresses me...wanted 90%

anyways...

I'm at camp now...will be for the next 8 weeks! with maybe 2 weekends home..

so far it = AMAZING! i'm loving my job and absolutely loving the people and things i get to do between working. i also love all the encouragement and learning taking place. love love love. :) miss you guys though...i'll be using this staff laptop on breaks (which this is my only one time until camp actually starts up on the 8th then i'll get 2 hours/day) so e-mails are totally ok to send...but don't forget to send me real letters because i like them better and will be able to check for them more often! :)

love yous!

dad i'm sure you'll read this...i miss you...and tell mom i miss her too!

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i just wanna stay right here...until never dawns.

Yay, yet another update. Aren't you guys so proud?

Let's see here...I left off with Sunday, eh? Well...Monday night Aaron Brown and Tommy came over and played a little gamecube, Tuesday night Tommy, Aaron P, and Monica all came over and hungout, Wednesday night Amy, Tommy, and I went to Doc...all around amazing times. I got to hangout with Christy Jeror (haven't seen her in FOREVER) and holy crud, we laughed sooo stinkin' much! No lies:) Thursday night Skippy came over and played mario party with me and Christa. Made me happy, I've missed chillin' with Skippy. We played a very addicting mic game until like 11:30. Tonight Skip, Tommy and I are going to Amy's movie party I do believe...Shall be fun. Renée's comin' home sometime tonight so I'll be chillin' with her tomorrow! Her wedding is one week from today! I'm so excited, and I look AWESOME in my bride's maid dress:)hehe.
Tomorrow night Tomes in planning a bon fire. yayness. ha
Sunday is the CFC BBQ...woot. Tommy's coming with. Let's see if he falls in love with my church.

I am currently on the phone with Sammy G....he's going to be at Renée's wedding! Fun stuff. *smiles*

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Isn't it strange?

It's so weird that I've been making a habbit of updating my xanga. I thought I'd given up on it...haha

soo....the week finished off nicely....

Thursday night I worked late so Monica and Aaron came by and hungout with me. Watched 'So You Think You Can Dance' and other fun stuff like that :)

Friday night was my chill night. Came home from work, mowed the lawn, then just relaxed because I needed rest for Saturday morning.

Saturday morning I had my SATs...Aaron Brown rode with me and afterwards we went to the Dairy Princess parade with Becca and Nicole. Met up with some cool people, like the Hogles, Cowsers, Schonbergs, and Scotts. Fun times. I got splashed with fountain water a lot. Thanks Aaron and Dave! After that Aaron and I went to McDonald's then to get Sarah, Tommy, and Amy. The 5 of us headed out to Massena, met up with Brian, Mike, and Alfredo at Brian's...hung out around town for awhile then went to the drive in to see Pirates 3. I was the only one there that had already seen it. Hehe. That was a late night, but a fun one.

Sunday I went to Syrcause with my family for my nieces first b-day/my sister's 30th b-day party. It was fun times :) I enjoyed it. I got home around 7ish then went over to Tommy's and hungout and played a little Pass the Pigs with him and Aaron. Those kids are fun.

I'll end with.....

11 days til Renée and Tony's wedding! Yay!

Oh the Joys of being 17

I'm not gonna lie, I love being able to drive after nine now!

So...fun stuff has been happening! Friday night after Crystal and Ryan's reception I spent the night at Aaron and Monica's apartment. We had deep conversation until like 2 in the morning or something like that. Monica had work at 8am...whoops. Sorry Monica. hehe. I got up around 10 and my brother had made a pot of coffee, so I got myself a cup and enjoyed a few games of Call of Duty 3 on his xbox 360 til about 2pm. Had some lunch from the partridge...then back to the 360 for a few games of Worms. I got to talkin' to Sarah and Tommy on the laptop (oh yeah, also...when I woke up my brother showed me that he had just made me my own desktop on his macbook. He's awesome!) and Tommy, Sarah, and I decided to hangout for awhile. I left Aaron's apartment around 5, ran into Monica as she got home from work and she said "Aww you're not staying to watch a movie?" so I told her I had plans with Tommy and Sarah and she said that they could come over too! Sweet stuff. So I got Tommy and Sarah and Monica had us all go on a quest for popsicles! hahaha...then we got the movie 'Thr3e', watched it, then a couple episodes of The Office. It was fun!

Sunday after church Sarah drove my car home (you did a good job girl!) then stayed at my place hanging out for awhile. I did major cleaning that day too. Monday afternoon Sarah and I went back out to Aaron and Monica's to chill. Got to see Renée and Tony because they were up! Oh, and Seth too! Went fishin' a little, had some pizza, made some music...all around good times. Aaron and Monica came over here that night and we played Apples to Apples and watched 'So You Think You Can Dance'! More fun stuff.

Tuesday I brought my nephews over here to play with Renée and Tony. We all ended up going fishing. Renée didn't catch anything, I caught 1 fish, Tony caught 1 fish, and Jackson caught 6!! He's the man....Mason caught a couple of dead fish he found on shore:-p Gross! Also...we played more Apples to Apples:)
Renée and Tony went back to Rochester that night, and they took Stitch (my car) with them because Tony totalled theirs. Now I drive either Candy's van or Bob's car...I seem to keep switching back and forth.

Wednesday I got Tommy, Sarah, and Amy after work and we played with my nephews for a little while. Tommy...you are very good with my nephews! haha, that boy loves kids! After that we went out to eat at Tony's in Massena. Sarah and I met up with Brian for a few minutes, then went back to eat. Afterwards...Doc. Good stuff. Service about prayer. The kinda service that makes you think. Neat-o. Brian called me after he got done with the lifeguarding stuff and we all hungout with him for quite awhile after service. Went to the park for a bit. More all around good times. I hadn't hungout with him in ages. 'Twas fun! Also, Aaron and Monica randomly showed up after Doc for a bit. They were in Massena to have dinner with Monica's parents.

So...I must thank....my night lisence!
and...awesome people!
and...AARON AND MONICA! thanks a lot guys for hanging out so much. It's much fun!

This week has been a pretty darn good one. It started off with fun sunday morning at NTC and Tony's pizzaria but a horrible sunday night which included someone verbally attacking me and I just couldn't wait to be around people that actually encourage me, believe me, and truly love me and stick up for me...which helps me to maintain my goal of being a true encourager..

but ever since monday life's been quite fun!

Monday at work my brother Aaron called me and invited me to go have dinner at his place with him and his wife. I accepted, of course. After I got there I got a phone call from Sammy G (my best friend who moved to Brooklyn) and he said "so you're at Aaron and Monica's?" and I said "um...yeah! how'd you know?" He replied with "your car's parked out front!" I was just like "what the heck! where are you?!" and he said "I'm standing by your car!" I flipped out! My brother's wife said I could invite Sam in for dinner so I FLEW outside, gave him a huge hug and had him come join us. After dinner we all hungout, played xbox 360, did some online shopping, watched random funny youtube videos, and just had a really good time.

Sam was up until this morning so I had him and Skippy come over Tuesday night and we all hungout out lookin at old pictures and watching the Mets game. I know I know, I'm not a Mets fan, but Skippy is!

Wednesday night I car pooled with Aaron and Monica to Massena and went to Doc youth group while they went to Alyssa's conert. Hadn't been to Doc in so long! Jeeves is the worship leader now. Cool stuff. I got to hangout with some pretty cool people. I think I'm going to start going regularly again! After Doc I went to Monica's parents house to see the puppy, ended up chillin' with Zac and Ethan in the driveway most of the time. After that I got to see Aaron and Monica's new house. Neat stuff. Then we went back to their aparentment and watched the season finale of LOST...they'd taped it. We ended finishing that up around 1 in the morning. hehe.

Today Monica's coming over to go tanning with me. This afternoon I'm going to Skippy's game and later tonight I'm going to go see Pirates of the Carribean 3 with Aaron and Monica. Yay.

Tomorrow I'm hanging out with Ames for awhile then going to Crystal and Ryan's wedding at NTC with Aaron and Monica. I hear there's a chance that Tony and Renée are coming up this weekend. If not this weekend, then next :) More cool stuff. haha



"What I want from you is empty your head.
When they say be true, don't stay in your bed.
And we do what we need to be free.
And it leans on me like a rootless tree.

What I want from us is empty our minds.
But we fake, we fuss, and fracture the times.
We go blind when we've needed to see.
And this leans on me, like a rootless...

Forget you, forget you, forget you
and all we've been through.
I said leave it, leave it, leave it,
There's nothing in you.
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good
then you can let me out
let me out, let me out
of this hell when you're around.
Let me out, let me out, let me out.
Hell when you're around.
Let me out, let me out, let me out.

What I want from this is learn to let go.
No, not of you, of all that's been told
Killers re-invent and believe
and this leans on me, like a rootless...

Forget you, forget you, forget you
and all we've been through.
I said leave it, leave it, leave it,
There's nothing in you.
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good
then you can let me out
let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around.
Let me out, let me out, let me out.
of this hell when you're around.

Let me out, let me out, let me out
hell when you're around.
Let me out, let me out, let me out
hell when you're around.
What I want from you is empty your head.
When they say be true, don't stay in your bed.
And we do what we need to be free.
And it leans on me like a rootless tree."

~Rootless Tree by Damien Rice.
A song that has had some meaning to me lately.