I was suppossed to meet Ben for a hike tonight at the park--Ben never showed up. Instead of going home and being bored, I decided to go for a hike.

THe hike was nice, gave me a long time to think. Unfornately, I also lost the keys to the truck on the trail. I searched the trail until dark crying, and then called Jamie and told her. Jamie and Joe ( Read more... )

ONE. Give peoplemore than they expect and do it cheerfully ( Read more... )

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't ( Read more... )

"But didn't work. 'Cause, you know why? When I didn't have Laura, I couldn't have me. Because everything I am now has something to do with her."
     -Davida Wells Hurum

College is incredible, someday I will do an actual update...it'll probably go on for pages and pages ( Read more... )

Last day home. I move into Nazareth tomorrow. I've been kind of clingy this week-Mom, Jamie and I had a girly afternoon yesterday and we layed out on the sun, I spent all this morning with Dad and tonight is my last night with Mom. Dad always gets the mornings with me before he goes to work, and Mom and I eat dinner together every night, watch bad ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting day. THe time seems to drag more and more slowly, leaving me way too much time to think and remember.

THe highlight of my day was that I finally called Daniel, after promising to do so for 3 or 4 months. He's still the same old Daniel, except that he's even more happy than he used to be. He's such a good guy and I would be ( Read more... )

-Making Chris Domanti "smell the flowers" by sticking it in his face at waterfront while we waited to go up to lunch, him and Matty C doing it on our way up the "cool trail", constantly getting squished into a "Joelle sandwich" on our way up the trail to lunch.

-Matty C and I playing the slapping game on our way fromt waterfront to lunch.

-Singing " ( Read more... )

Now onto my summer. This summer was incredible, I couldn't have asked for a better senior summer, minus one large portion. I even survived living in a tent, I loved my tent from the first night I was in it.  These next tidbits probably won't mean much to anyone else, but if I don't write them down, I don't get to look back on them, so here it goes.

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I have not updated ALL summer, so this very well could be a long one ( Read more... )