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I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't even know he was still alive! I haven't read anything by him (yet) either.
I have to brag. I think that I totally aced my math test today!
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anyone else have anything like this??
I do. I had a best friend growing up, we'd been friends since we were two. She lived just a block away from me. We did everything together. She went on vacation with my family, we dressed the same, like the same things. Everything. If you needed to find one of us, you just needed to look for the other. We had our typical fights growing up, but nothing serious. We got into jr. high and started hanging out with different groups. I still considered her my best friend. But she started to change, and not for the better. For some reason she had to be popular, and she didn't care about any of her friends that weren't popular. I became one of her "cute friends", like she was friends with me to be nice. But when we were alone, it was like old times. (And I'll admit, I was a little nerdy in jr high, but hey, who isn't?)In high school we drifted even farther apart, we still saw each other because we rode the same bus, and I was in theatre and she was in choir so a lot of our friends were the same. And then she met Scott. He totally swept her off her feet, I was so happy for her. He seemed like the perfect guy for her and she was happy with him. But she started change because of him. I realized that he was really judgmental of people and it was affecting her. Scott didn't like sharing her, so I didn't see much of her. Well things fell apart for them, he suddenly stopped calling her and after two weeks she went to his house. He hardly even looked at her. Turns out he had gotten into a lot of bad stuff. Drugs and such. Called her a lot of nasty names. I wanted to punch him. Or at least fork his yard. But it broke her heart and she became bitter about everything. I couldn’t depend on her for anything, we were supposed to sing a duet for a recital and she told me the day before the performance that she couldn’t do it. But I tried to help the best I could. A few months later started dating Taylor, and I really liked him. She was still bitter and decided to hate him. When I was with her I couldn’t talk about him because she’d get so upset. We were in a group together for a dance and I warned him ahead of time that she might not be nice, and she wasn’t. When Taylor left for two years I needed all the support from my friends that I could get, and she wasn’t interesting in what I was going through. The day after he left I stayed home from an activity because I just didn’t feel up to it. When she found out she just said “fine then, I’ll take care of your responsibilities, she didn’t care that my guy had just left for two years. It was hard, her and Taylor were my best friends, and I basically lost them in the same week. We graduated and she went away to college, and changed completely. She became obsessed with her looks and nothing at home mattered. Her brother got his Eagle in Scouts, and she didn’t even come home. (her college is only an hour away). She says negative things about my university, because somehow its not a real college because I live at home. And just stuff like that. Its really hard she was my best friend, I did all I could to stay friends with her, and now she only calls me when she needs something. Anyway that was really long winded, but it was a long story.
But I know how you feel Jamie, I’m sorry that happened to you and your friend. It totally sucks.
*grins sheepishly* wow, that looks even longer now that i've posted it. Sorry everyone! :)
Kimberly, I'm very intrigued... what does it mean to "fork" someone's yard? Anything like tearing it up with donuts?Also, I hope you don't answer this girl's calls when she only calls you when she needs something. She sounds like a toxic friend and maybe you need to lay down the law and be like "Look, I want to be friends with you, but not when you act this way, have this mindset, etc. So unless you have changed, don't contact me anymore"
I have those "growing apart" pains too.. But I'm ok with it. Just a part of life that really sucks
Lynn.. forking someone's yard is when you put a bunch of plastic forks in their yard.. with the part you eat off of stuck in the groud. It's a tiresome job to fork someones yard. My bf did it for his senior prank at high school to the yard in front of the school. I understand too Jamie. My best friends from high school are gone. Not literally, but gone out of my life. My BEST friend from high school got engaged and followed her to another college. It still sucks. Last time I saw him, he was in town and came over but talked to my bf the whole time and it was like I was his friend's gf. It was so weird. Because he was also my bf's friend, but I was waaayyy closer to him. I don't know. I'm just sad I'll never get that friendship back.
You are right Lynn, and I do avoid her calls. She is the perfect example of a "fair weather friend". I'll be there for her if she truly needs me, but I won't fall for the "lets go on a road trip, oh wait I don't have a car" type of thing. (thats another story). She is moving from her college this year. (Snow College, it only has 1500 students.) to BYU, I'm hoping the change to a big university will help her grow up a little.And yes forking is a tiresome job, but very satisfying ! :)
I know how you all feel. I am not very good at keeping in touch with friends when someone moves or whatever comes up that distances us. That is one of my biggest regrets is losing touch with best friends. But then I think about it, and it goes both ways, they never really made the effort either. Now it's hard for me to make new friends (girls in particular) because of a trust issue I developed after one of my best friends from high school treated me and my other best friend really bad. We just recently had our 5 year HS reunion (so weird!) and she was there. We all really miss each other despite the crap in the past, so we put it all behind us and hung out all night catching up. But things will never be like they were. It really bums me out how many awesome friendships I've had that don't exist anymore.
haha ok yeah I have heard of forking. Didn't they do that on Dawson's Creek for graduation?I go to a really small school too (like 800 and only 300 residentials) and some people here just can't GROW UP. Maybe that is her problem.
Random: But I passed my second PLACE test! It's a test that we have to take in order to student teach, I am sure some people have heard of the PRAXIS that is nation wide, but the PLACE is the Colorado state test. Anyway, Special Ed. majors have to take the Elementary Content and the Special education generalist. The elementary one was somewhat easy and I passed but the special ed. one was really hard!! I was so nervous I wouldn't pass and might have to take it again! But I passed and I was so excited!!! Yay!!! Just wanted to share!
That's awesome, congratulations Janet!
Yay! Congratulations! You should go treat yourself to your favorite ice cream. :)
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Thanks everyone!! I really appreciate it!
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My neice is 8 and completely girly, so she had to straighten things up. So she and her brother who is 6 went through the books to decide which ones they were going to read, and to straighten by ones I have read versus ones I haven't read.
Then, at the wise old age of 8, she has decided she is going to read all 4 Twilight books this summer. She said none of her friends have read them yet, so she is going to be the first. She has gotten past about 5 pages, but it takes her quite awhile. She is barely starting chapter type books.
My nephew, isn't quite as excited about reading, but he picked up a book, flipped through it, then another, finally coming to one that had a book mark in it. He turned to about 20 pages past the book mark and informed me I would have to read all this to "catch up to him."
Kids are so funny.
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She isn't too healthy, and lives at an assisted living type place, so her apt is really just a small loft type size, everything is in one room. My sister is going to get her slippers, and my mom is getting her flowers. Any ideas? Let me know. Thanks!
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Hooray Jamie! Even if it's not your dream job, it may be able to open some doors for you (like, internships with Forever 21's corporate headquarters or something like that)I got really exciting news yesterday too. This new stable is opening up in my hometown and it specializes in hippotherapy. My mom has been talking with the lady and my mom's going to be volunteering there. My mom used to be a big time rider but we don't own any. As a volunteer they're going to let her ride 3 days a week for free. My mom called yesterday and was telling me all this and then she said that she told the lady that I was majoring in speech pathology. Apparently the lady got really excited b/c one of the kids they're going to be helping this summer is nonverbal and she would really like me to come help him/her. I wouldn't be paid, but I would get to ride for free like my mom and it would be a really good experience to mention on grad school applications. I can sorta ride but I'm not very confident. I'm really hoping that I can become a confident rider this summer. But now I'm kinda worried b/c I'm not at all confident with helping totally nonverbal children. I'm going to research it.
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Yay Jamie and Lynn! That's so exciting!Jamie, I bet that it won't be as bad as you might think being a sales associate. :)
Lynn, I'm jealous I would love to be able to go riding more. I'll bet working with that child will be amazing, I worked with disabled adults and loved it.
I don't have any plans for Valentine's Day, seeing as how my boyfriend is in Cambodia. :-P I think I'm going to get together with a few of my friends watch some chick flicks, and eat our favorite foods. :)
Congrats ladies!! That's way exciting!! Jamie you give me hope for my boyfriend to get a job! Hooray!!
P.S. So I am really excited. I am going with my dad's family to Grand Junction this weekend to see my aunt and uncle and go skiing. I am so excited! But the best part is that my b/f decided to go too! He never gets to see that side of my family, so I am really excited!! My New Year's resolution is to spend more time with my family and not use school as an excuse. I did it last year and missed out on spending a skiing weekend with my family to work on homework! Boo!! So I am really excited (even though I still regret not going last year) Those are my V-day plans too. Just being with my family!
sooo...I'm an executive officer of SGA this year and I really love it. There are only 7 of us. I'm a rep to the board of trustees.. and I really like it. But the guy who is our treasurer is going to be running for prez for next year and he thinks I would do well as the Judicial VP (I've filled in for the JVP before) and so I am thinking about running for that.. but the JVP right now will probably run for re-election (she never does any work and like is totally disconnected from the group. Like, all the rest of us will talk to each other but she never talks to any of us.. like she's too good for us not b/c of shyness. AND she misses most of our meetings. whatever)
anyway, I don't want to run against her b/c she's an athlete and I'm sure she'll get the athlete vote (which is 90% of this school)
(btw no one ran against me last year which is how I got my position. No one ran against anyone except for prez. but now there's all these freshmen who are like all involved and want to be officers I guess)
so I'm kinda leaning toward stayin in my current position (which I love too so it's cool) but then just today this one freshman girl I'm close to said she wanted to run for my position maybe. I'm freaking. I really want to stay on SGA. ugghh. Idk what to do. Should I run for JVP? Should I run for re-election? My heart will be broken if I lose.
I always say take a risk. However, if you really love the position you're in then what's the point in leaving? That's a hard one. I really don't know what to say. I say do what you think you'll enjoy more because life is too short to do something that sucks!So...random. My great-uncle passed away. I don't really know a lot of that side of my family but I knew him somewhat well because him and his wife and daughter live across the street from my grandma. His daughter is a few years older than my sister and me and so we would play a lot. She's our second cousin, my dad's cousin. (Families and their positions are fun aren't they? Haha) Anyway, the funeral was today. I haven't seen my uncle in a very long time but it was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. There was a lot of family there and just seeing him brought back good memories. He was just a great guy. My great-grandma was there and that's hard because she had 7 children and only 2 of them are still alive. All the rest have died from some sort of cancer.
I don't know, it was just hard. I had to come back up to school today after the funeral and no one was home. I was so incredibly sad and lonely. I don't really know what it was. It was just hard. Even when my roomates are here I still feel alone. I just want to be with my family right now! Sorry that was kind of random and didn't make sense at all. Just needed to get this out there.
I'm really sorry Janet, that sucks...
Janet, I'm so sorry for your loss. My great uncle died last spring & it was more overwhelming & upsetting than I was expecting it to be since we weren't terribly close, so I understand the way you're feeling.
Janet, I'm so sorry...it totally sucks losing people you love. My boyfriend and I are going through that right now, because we found out last night that a really close friend of his (and therefore a friend of mine) just died. It's almost like I don't want to do anything but stare at a wall, because nothing seems to be worth it...I don't know if that makes sense...
I know what you mean Kelsey. It always surprises me that the world continues as if nothing happened. It is hard to lose anyone whether they were old, young, sick or healthy. I'm sorry for both your losses.
Ok I really don't mean to be a downer but everything seems to be crasing. So I talked to my boyfriend tonight and he is really, really depressed about not having a job. I don't even know what to do. I really think he just needs to get a job, any job but he's been doing that and when his last seasonal job ended he was determined to get a "real" job. He won't even talk to me about it anymore and hardly talked to me tonight. It's just getting really frustrating and I don't know what to tell him because anything and everything I say just seems to piss him off more! Any suggestions?Thanks for the condolences (did I spell that right? Haha) I really don't mean to be a downer but I am sure everyone has been there when everything just keeps crashing down! But it has to come back up eventually right?
Janet, you're absolutely right, it does, and will come back up for you.
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BYE!!! :)
Spring break for you, already?! Lucky! Safe-trip wishes, and bring back lots of
So a little while ago I was dating this guy that I really liked, we dated for about four months and then he left to serve as a Missionary for our church. And he is coming home tomorrow! I am so excited and sooo nervous, I haven't seen him in two years!I'm going to the airport with his family tomorrow to welome him home. :O I don't think I'll be getting much sleep tonight. lol. :)
Kimberly that is very exciting!!! Let us know how it goes! Good luck! :)
Well I got to see Taylor! It was so fun waiting in the airport with his family. I made a poster saying welcome home Elder Young, I had his little niece hold it. I waited while he greeted his family, they had even brought his dog. Since he hadn't been released he couldn't hug me. He walked up to me stuck his hand out and said "Handshake". lol, I busted up laughing when he said that. I bought some Hershey's Hugs and gave those to him instead. It was so good to see him! Now I just get to wait and see how things work out. :)(and if you don't live in Utah half of what I said probably made no sense...)
So I had a book day with a few of my friends today. We're on spring break so we decided we'd go to our favorite book stores and make a day out of it. There is this huge book store called Sam Wellers in Salt Lake, it has three floors of used and rare books. I ended up buying six books for about $30. Now I just have to decide which one to read first. :)
Sooo at our school SGA has this big dance around the end of the school year called the Inaugural Ball (Iball) where the new SGA officers are announced. It's the only dance where alcohol is allowed so it's everyone comes. haha. usual it's in late April and this year it got moved up to March 28! arrrrggg. I soooo need to go dress shopping. I'm so unprepared. It's stressin me out.In other dress news: my friend already ordered the bridesmaid dresses and she brought me mine today. I like it pretty well only I was vain and had her order it on the small side... and it won't zip up all the way. oops. I've tried it on like 3 times today and once it did zip up the whole way .. it was just really tight. I don't want to get a size bigger so I'm just going to work my ass off. I'm leaving it hanging in plain sight so that it guilt trips me.
I have 14 weeks. That's enough time, wouldn't you say? I just don't want to wake up a week before the wedding and be like "oh, my dress still doesn't fit." aack! Seriously, can I do it?
Of course you can do it! Its so hard to eat well in college. Maybe if you plan meals at the beginning of each week it will help. Eat big meals in the morning and a smaller meal at night. And it sounds like you don't even need to loose much.You can so do it girl! :)
Lynn it is possible! I lost about 6 pounds in 2 months, but it is really showing and I can fit into smaller clothes. So don't think you have to lose a whole bunch of weight; think in inches. Just don't eat a lot of junk, replace it with fruit and veggies (low cal and yummy!).
GO LYNN!! We all believe in you! Let us know if you need some help pushing you along! Haha :)
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