You and I

by Ingrid Michaelson

Well lots of things have happened since I last posted huh?

First of all, school got out (happy day, joy joy!). I then went to the lake accompanied with my 4 best friends who I mention all the time. Here we are looking beautiful, as usual:


I got home from the lake and went straight to church choir tour in which we traveled to Dulac, Louisiana. I was on a landscaping team (even though I hate the outdoors and the sweltering heat of Louisiana). I ended up having a great time though and we really made a difference on how pretty the community center in the area looked.

This was before all of our hard work!



This is after:


After 4 days of working and showing people how we can show Christ's love even through landscaping, we visited New Orleans which I enjoyed a lot!


I then came home for a couple days of relaxation and then headed off to Nicaragua on a mission trip. There I learned a lot of things about my relationship with the Lord and was able to love all the adorable little Nicaraguan children! I even got to practice my Spanish! The kids loved taking pictures with my digital camera. Example:


The last day we were there, we went zip lining and I went upside down! wooo!


So that's just a little taste of what I've been up to this summer! I'm leaving Sunday for a camp with my church in Panama City called Big Stuf and after that I'm home for a while until I head back to school August 10th! I promise I'll write more often y'all!

I Know You Want Me

by Pitbull.



Today I stayed home sick (not with the swine flu, don't freak out just yet). I had meant to actually go to school when I woke up this morning, but I felt awful, so I just stayed home.

I'm ready for summer y'all. It's all I can think about and it's the only thing I make any conversation about. I'm glad because I get out of school May 20 and then the day after I'm going to some graduation parties, and then the next day my friends and I are going to the lake. I have this group of friends that I just refer to as "the usuals" because they are the people I am always hanging out with, so yes, it's the usuals going. They had wanted our guy friends to come along, but that makes everything so much more difficult, plus being completely honest, I didn't want the guys there. Girls weekend is meant to not have guys in it, after all.

Once summer starts, I really won't be around often. Not at home. Doing things with friends or on trips really. It's going to be weird, being without a computer and all.

Also, met a guy at a party 2 weeks ago who I think I get along with pretty well. Kind of manipulated him into asking for my number, and he texted me for a while yesterday and said he would again today. I know, I know. "Why doesn't he CALL you Leah?". Well you know what, I am fine being all lame and texting for now so mleh!

I Love College

by Asher Roth.

Today for the first time in about a month, I have had no homework at all, nothing. For this reason I decided to watch a TV show I had always heard about, but never watched. Said show is called Greek, and I love it.



I know it's a TV show and it's nothing like real college and yaddah yaddah blah blah, but I think I've just caught senioritis. I want to go to college. Now. It's all I've talked about at school. It's all my friends and I can think about, and all my senior friend's graduation parties coming up are not helping me not want to graduate just yet.

I WANT TO GRADUATE ALREADY GOSH DURN IT.

Girl

Well, remember how I said I'd write every day for BEDA? Nope, not gonna happen. I am incredibly lazy, I'm not gonna lie. I've been so lazy recently, it's ridiculous. It seems like "I can't be bothered" has been my excuse for everything. In all reality, I like being lazy. I really do care about my grades and doing my work, but after about 12 years of constantly working ahead and doing all of my work, I can't do it anymore! I really, really can't. I guess it's good in some ways to take a break, but I really should focus on my schoolwork, as I'll start applying for university soon.

Today was a good day. My friends and I made a list of everything fun we want to do in the next year. It includes:
1. College tours (Georgia tech, University of Georgia, etc)
2. Road trip to Charleston, NC
3. Cruise to Mexico for Spring Break
4. Concerts (Beyonce, Jason Mraz, Kanye West)
5. Spend all free time over the summer at the lake
6. Clubbing (Fake ID for Jessica needed)

Lots of other stuff I can't even remember, but it was great. I love looking toward my future. See you tomorrow..if I feel like I can be bothered ;)



This is an old picture, but these are all my girls except Katharine. As you can see in the picture, we're a bit retarded sometimes.

Call the Shots

So I realize it's been a while since I wrote a blog and I guess it's a bit late to do the "blog everyday April" thing, but I might just start now. You'll have to live with me being a procrastinator. I'm trying to think of everything that has happened since I last wrote and maybe I can cover all lost time in little summaries or something.

Today I'll start with prom.




That's the girls in my group, we all had dates, but whatever I don't feel like putting another picture. Prom actually sucked. I legit wanted to cry my eyes out when I got home the next day because I did not have a good time T_T Maybe next year will be better, but i don't know. Part of it was the fact that my best friend is dating a guy who I used to like and never told anyone about it, so seeing them together was kind of crushing. I did enjoy taking pictures though, I love having pictures taken of me. That may sound materialistic or bad, but it's true XD So our limo pulls up and it smelled really badly. I was afraid I was going to smell like crap after I got out of that limo, because it was seriously like ew.

We got to the restaurant and thankfully got out of the car. I was bored at dinner because I was stuck trying to talk to my date, who I don't even know that well, and my friend's date because she avoids him at all costs. Dinner was delicious, but boring for me. We get to the dance and start dancing and it's fun, but then I realize my date has gone missing and sometimes you can't dance without your date or you look retarded. Turns out my date ate too much and got sick. Lovely.

About 9pm that night, while we're at the dance, I get a call saying that the police arrested our limo driver as he did not have his permit with him. Now our prom was in Atlanta, so this means that my friends and I, all 12 of us, are stranded in Atlanta because our driver got arrested. Of course I call my parents and my Dad and Ansley's Dad have to come pick us up in minivans. HOW EMBARRASSING!

We went to Jessica's house after that, and I guess that was alright, but still just seeing my friend and her boyfriend made me so jealous. Now I'm not bothered by it at all, but then I was and I made myself all sulky about it. I did beat a bunch of boys at Foosball though, so that's cool. That's pretty much it.

It just wasn't fun.

I'll tell you about Mexico tomorrow :)

What's your flava?

Oh hello there, I happen to be tearing myself from a marathon of the Real World to write to you about my life. Yes, yes it is so. To be honest nothing too interesting has happened, but whatever I'm making you sit through this anyway.

Last week I had an awful headache and got to miss two days of school, but now I have a tonnnn of make up work to do which I really can't be bothered with. I took the SAT yesterday morning and it was extremely easy, nothing difficult at all. If I do well enough my first try then I won't have to take it again. Last night I stayed up with Zach, Adam, Rosy, and Vivien until Rosy went to bed, so I followed. I STILL HOPE I CAN GO TO ENGLAND. If not then Rosy better come here :)

I went shopping, so that's fun! I know you probably don't care what I bought, but I'm showing you anyways, so suck it.

Alive with the glory of love

More news. Bad news I should say.

The man I rear ended a month ago has hired a lawyer and we think he might fake an injury to try and get money from us. My mom just said "until we know what this man is going to do with the lawyer, England is a definite no". We're not sure why the guy hired a lawyer, but we got a sheet that we have to fill out from Motlick and Associates which is not good.

Why does he have to do this to me? He wasn't hurt at all and there is almost no damage done to his car! Plus if he sues us, then England is an absolute no as we'll have to hire a lawyer. If he doesn't do anything, at least I know that my mom is considering letting me go to England still. Just pray for me PLEASE. PLEASE pray that he doesn't sue me and we have to go to court. This is ridiculous. I didn't know that people could be such assholes :[