Current mood:	happy
Current music:	the monkees - daydream believer

so this is the new year... and i dont feel any different

the past two weeks have been amazing. this was the best break ever.

Dec 16 – king kong w/ sarizzle, emmy, claire, and mia. wow was it long.
Dec 17 – mikejahn’s for some guitar and hanging out with derek, covello, dan, and eliza
Dec 18 – woodfield with sarahg, paula, and gia. good girl time, got some cute stuff. later megan and amanda’s Christmas party at megan’s house. afterwards went to sarizzle’s with matt and tarak, played mariokart and monopoly and listened to the beach boys.
Dec 19 – lifeguard recert. Later Oly Christmas party/secret santa. Afterwards went to sean’s house with laura, sarahg, gia, childers, and molly. watched 40 yr old virgin in sean’s awesomely cool room
Dec 21 – last minute shopping. work with sean and laura. gia, lauren wong, maureen, and sarah met us at oly. We all went to barnes and noble starbucks for some hot chocolate, magazine reading, and chit chat
Dec 22 – oly ski trip! Sarahg and I rode up to alpine with sean. It took a really long time to get there for some reason, but we finally got there and hit the slopes. I really sucked and fell a lot at first cause it was my first time skiing… but everyone stuck by me and by the end I was a pro. sean was the only snowboarder that did not cut us off. The ski lift was our fav part. On our way home we went into the toll lane with the automatic change thing, and no matter how much money we put in it, the stupid arm would not go up and let us go. Sean got out of the car and started picking up change from the ground and chucking it in the thing, but no dice. Finally we just backed out and went into another lane. Later we blew through an ipass lane. Take that, stupid robbing state of Illinois. ::shakes fist::
Dec 23 – vfw show with mikejahn and covello. Mmm krispy kreme and Coventry
Dec 24 – Christmas eve. Church and dinner with the family
Dec 25 – Christmas! Santa was pretty good to me.
Dec 26 – portillo’s and garden state at mikejahn’s with mccarthy for a bit.
Dec 27 – work with sarah. Afterwards went to wendy’s with laura, sarah, and Kayla. After that went to riley and chilled at the park, talked about new years etc.
Dec 28 – work till 6. left and came back to meet sarah at oly at 7. went to panera for dinner. Came back at 8:30 to meet gia, laura, and maureen. Went to gia’s to watch the syphilis lifetime movie, shes too young. Had some good laughs. Went to mickey d’s and threw stuff at the minivan in front of us cause they were jerks.
Dec 29 – plans to hang out with someone made me really happy, but I was kinda let down when it didn’t. decided on oly bdubs night then. steve miles, joe, brian d, kari, brian o, gia, Lauren wong, sarah c, sean, molly, amy, megan lyons, maureen, mel, and kendra were also there (I think I got everyone).
Dec 31 – woodfield and water works with the family for mom’s bday. Then time to get ready for new years! Went over to paula’s dinner party around 8. sarahg and brad were already there. Other people came throughout the evening, mostly bg’ers. We talked and played guesstures and took pics and ate and had a grand old time. We had quite a crowd by the time 12 was approaching. We got all decked out in masks, and hats and noisemakers and drinks and all gathered around the tv to watch the ball drop. As we counted down from 10, I realized that there was not really anywhere else id want to be at that moment. Hugs and wishes for a happy new year were shared. I was sort of swept away in that moment. A new year, a chance to start with a clean slate, forget the bad from 2005, but keep the good with me. Its now 2006, the year of graduation. The next 5 months are going to go by so fast…
Jan 1 – slept till laaaate. Got up and showered, and hung around the house. later went bowling with mikejahn, covello, dan, eliza, sarah fader, derek, jill, nick, and tony. Afterwards went back to mikejahn’s and chilled in his room, listened to musica and dane cook.
Today – lounged around the house. went to shoe carnival and ulta for shoes and shampoo. Stopped by oly for this week’s schedule. And now im sitting here in awe of how fast these two weeks went by, thinking of all the good times, not wanting to go back to school and finals and homework and blahhhhh. But it will be ok.

"This Will Be My Year" - Semisonic
Thursday's crush is a Friday night rush
And a Monday morning cry
It's the tail that you keep chasing
And it gets away every time

New Years Eve and it's hard to believe
Another Zodiac's gone around
While you drank yourself high on hoping
And watched the ceiling spin from the ground

Counting down from ten it's time
To make your annual prayer
Secret Santa in the sky
When will I get my share

Then you tell yourself
What you want to hear
Cause you have to believe
This will be my year

Pound your fist and cross it off your list
But you know you're not that strong
When the man at the stop light catches you
Singing along to a brand new song

Well maybe it's Trash or the overnight smash
that brings a Ship crashing through your wall
So you can make your grand departure
From a world getting way too small

One wheel in the ditch
another Spinning in the air
Put your pedal down to the floorboards
but you're not Getting anywhere

Then you tell yourself
What you want to hear
Cause you have to believe
This will be my year

here’s some pics from fun over the past two weeks.

covello really liked the pillow
 
awww sleepy covello

oly xmas party! me, sarahg, laura, jessica, theresa, topher

laura has a funny laugh

santa came! and sean

sarahg eating meat?! ::gasp::
 
nice face topher

sarahg made a mess, so she vacuumed. everyone thought it would be funny to throw more stuff on the floor during the process, making it a never ending clean-up. mike shoenbeck threw himself in her way.
not so good pics of alpine
hey its me skiing... and im on my feet!
 
me, sarahg, and some ninja we found at alpine

me and sarahg looking hot at new years
 
jen... la homcoming queen

HAPPY NEW YEAR!


 
since when do giraffes bowl?