This is an article my sister Kimmy wrote, check it out:
The word 'like' is, like, not pretty
When my 4-year-old unleashed it, I finally realized I need to stop this verbal tic.
By Kim Schmidt
from the May 23, 2008 edition

Champaign, ILL. - I say "like." Like, a lot.

I am a product of my times. I cut my teeth on John Hughes movies and lace gloves. ( Read more... )

I've been crushed.
 Goodbye hopes, goodbye dreams.

What really pisses me off is that half of the flight tickets are being sold online...who are these people?  why would I ever pay 150 for one ticket on the upper balcony? They have got to be crazy.

    This past year has whipped by, can you believe that next week is Thanksgiving?  Well, I made my one year mark without smoking on Nov. 14, I never thought I could do it.  This past year has been quite a roller coaster, but I think I will make it out alive...(as long as my cardiologist calls me back ( Read more... )

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I turn twenty and I literally fall apart, what's with that?

Maybe it's from the endless hours I work at a job that no longer seems to care about my well-being, yet all I do is care about other's...maybe it's being so worried about everything and never relaxing anymore...maybe it's the lack of "summer nights" and low-income jobs... I miss coming home ( Read more... )

today was a really good day.

really.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. -John Wesley

NIck and I got a gym membership.  I am going to try and lose 25 pounds.  I am having surgery August 1st, I hope that helps me lose the weight quicker.  I cannot wait to be fit again, maybe I will have more energy.

Today is the start of a new me.

....as long as the weather persists.


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life is full of surprises.