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    <updated>2008-05-15T12:07:39Z</updated> 
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        <title>approaching the half-way mark!</title>   
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        <p>so i havnt written in a long while... the end of my sophomore year is approaching! almost 50% done with high school!!!!!!!! and josh graduates next saturday! wow. life&#39;s happening pretty fast. since i last wrote, i caught my hair on fire, lost my job, broke my tailbone,&#160;and got disowned by my mother [my birth mom, not my mom mom]. this has been an interesting &#39;08 so far! it&#39;s funny, cuz everything sounds negative, but it&#39;s actaully going pretty good. well, let&#39;s just say, life is unpredicatble. i&#39;m probably not gonna write as much as i used to. i&#39;m gonna be pretty busy this summer. i&#39;m looking everywhere for a new job, hopefully one that pays more than my old shitty job of taking orders and making pizzas. welll, adios, y&#39;all.</p>
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    <entry>
        <title>falling up.</title>   
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        <published>2008-04-15T12:17:05Z</published>
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        <p>right now i&#39;m at an extreme point of happiness. everything is almost almost&#160;perfect. it doesn&#39;t have to be entirely perfect, just almost. and it&#39;s almost there. ya follow? lol. my grades are better than ever. 2 B&#39;s, 2 A&#39;s, 1 C, 1 D. i just need to get those last two up a bit and keep them that way and i&#39;m home free. then i&#39;ll have the rest of my life back. currently, i&#39;ve just got work, school, and sometimes i get to spend time with josh. the parts i&#39;m missing are church, friends, and the rest of my time with josh. speaking of josh, our relationship is great. i really do love that boy. today&#39;s a half day at school, so we&#39;re gonna spend the afternoon hanging out at my house. shall be fun! :] this just feels almost foreign, this happiness. i love it, but it&#39;s just not something i&#39;m used to. i&#39;m used to being pushed around, crowded out, and lost in a sea of depression. i&#39;m sure my psych would say my prozac is kicking in, but no, that&#39;s not it. it wouldn&#39;t just start working randomly after two years of ineffective use. this is just life going well. :] </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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    <entry>
        <title>familiar oblivion.</title>   
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        <published>2008-04-09T11:47:45Z</published>
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        <p>life&#39;s going so fast, changing so fast, i can&#39;t even stop to think. i thought i knew how it would all turn out, then everything changed, now i barely even know where i am right now. not that it&#39;s a bad place to be, it&#39;s just... different. i&#39;m used to being in control of my life. now... i&#39;m not. everything&#39;s flying by, and it&#39;s just so scary. finally having everything semi-predictable, then the tables turn in a flash. it&#39;s slightly confusing. not that i&#39;m not happy, though. actually, i love it here. i love being happy with what i have. it&#39;s just taking some getting used to, that&#39;s all. </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>SB&#39;s over...</title>   
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        <published>2008-04-07T12:07:45Z</published>
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        <p>so spring break&#39;s over, and i&#39;m kinda glad, but yet i still wish it never ended. but i really want to get the rest of this school year over with. School&#39;s not horrible, but i like summer better. So, a summary of spring break: friday josh got his wisdom teeth pulled, so the rest of the weekend i went over to his house about 6pm&#160;til 9ish to spend time with him, although no kissing was allowed. lol. Tuesday, he was doing a lot better, so we went to see a movie. Thursday, i went to the mall with mo and amanda, which was a fun girls&#39; day. friday josh came over to watch movies. saturday i had to babysit, then i went to josh&#39;s. sunday [yesterday] he had an interview at kroger [he got the job!]. it was a&#160;pretty boring week, but pretty fun too. restful, definatly. We&#39;ve been getting on each other&#39;s nerves a bit, but we&#39;re okay. Some of my friends say we argue like an old couple, which we sometimes do. lol. like today, before the bell we were sitting in his history class and a girl walked in and asked if we were together and i said yes. he had his headphones in and said &quot;what? i can&#39;t hear you.&quot; so i said &quot;well, maybe you can hear if you took out your headphones.&quot; and she laughed cuz we sounded like a married couple. we also argued about how he walks too fast and never waits for me. he sometimes annoys me, but no matter what, i love him, and i always will. </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>SB &#39;08</title>   
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        <published>2008-03-27T16:07:54Z</published>
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        <p>i can&#39;t wait! spring break is a good time of year. i never actually go anywhere though. i&#39;m staying home this year too. i might spend time with josh though. he&#39;s getting his wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow. we&#39;re gonna hang out a lot next week though. we&#39;re gonna go to the dollar theatre on tuesday to see national treasure: book of secrets. i didnt really want to, i wanted to see cloverfield, but josh got movie picks this time, so i get picks next time!&#160;lol. i&#39;ll pick a chick flick! jk, nah, i wouldn&#39;t torture him that much. lol. i&#39;m so tired right now. i&#39;m prolly gonna go home, IM josh for a couple hours, then go to sleep. he said he might come over tomorrow afternoon. he doesn&#39;t have to be at the dr.&#39;s til 3:10, so that allows a good bit of time for us to hang out before. gah, i&#39;m SO tired. i&#39;m gonna go play gameboy for a while. adios, y&#39;all. i won&#39;t be back on til after spring break. you think i&#39;ll spend my OWN time blogging? heh heh heh. </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>my own pursuit of happyness.</title>   
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        <published>2008-03-26T11:49:20Z</published>
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        <p>i&#39;m almost in a daze of happiness. everything&#39;s going pretty well. me and josh are doing better. everything was kinda rocky for a couple days, but we&#39;re ok now. and i had some issues with friends that are getting better too. and the best part, i stood up for myself! i cussed out that bitch. she thinks she can tread on me and attept to make my life a living hell, but she can&#39;t. i have many ways to succeed in making her life hell, but i don&#39;t. but if she doesn&#39;t stop, i will. beasley was proud of me for standing up to her. she tried to say that beasley was saying stuff about me, but i knew better than that. beasley is my best buddy through and through. he would never do anything to hurt me. and that&#39;s where i drew the line and got in her face. i told bease about it and he was like &quot;yeah!&quot;. lol. everything in life was kinda suckish for a while, but it got better when i realized that i&#39;ve got some pretty amazing people in my life. i&#39;ve got an amazing boyfriend who would do anything for me [josh], a best buddy who stands up for me and who&#39;s always there for me in my time of need [beasley], a best friend who i can talk to, although she covers her ears and does the whole &quot;lalalalala. i can&#39;t hear you.&quot; thing when i get into the details she doesn&#39;t want to hear [mo], and some other amazing friends too. i used to always think i was alone, but i&#39;m not. josh tends to think that he&#39;s a loner and he&#39;s always been on his own, but when he does that i correct him, i say &quot;no your not, honey, i&#39;m here for you, and i always will be.&quot; right now i feel pretty freakin&#39; fantabulous. and i think i like it.</p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>gah.</title>   
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        <published>2008-03-21T13:45:34Z</published>
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        <p>i&#39;m so tired, i&#39;m coming down with some sort of cold, and i have a headache from hell. josh wasn&#39;t doing too well this morning either. he got in a fight with his mom, so she won&#39;t take him to church tonight, so i&#39;ll prolly give him a ride to church. monica&#39;s having parent issues too. everything&#39;s pretty depressing around me right now. damn my head hurts... i&#39;m about to go up to the science office and take a nap. i feel like shit. tonite&#39;s good friday, which will be depressing church. my family pretty much canceled easter dinner cuz grandma got her teeth pulled. lol. redneck family.&#160; well, i&#39;m gonna get outta here and go to sleep. adios, y&#39;all.</p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>typical rainy tuesday.</title>   
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        <p>almost almost almost ungrounded.</p>
<p>gotta bring up astro and genetics a couple points,</p>
<p>geometry up a bit more,</p>
<p>and i&#39;m FREE.</p>
<p>i should be free by spring break...</p>
<p>but it sux cuz josh is getting his wisdom teeth pulled on the first day of break...</p>
<p>but he should be better a few days after that,</p>
<p>so i can prolly hang out with him some time at the end of break.</p>
<p>i might go to mi&#160;madre&#39;s the first couple days of break,</p>
<p>or go hang out with kayt if mom will let me. </p>
<p>but anyways...</p>
<p>today&#39;s started out ok, </p>
<p>except for the rain.</p>
<p>the sky is leaking!</p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>study hall is always so boring,</p>
<p>i&#39;m in the library,</p>
<p>grabbed a spare comp in the middle of michael&#39;s english class,</p>
<p>mainly a bunch of rowdy losers... </p>
<p>gah, i can&#39;t wait til i&#39;m ungrounded so i can have a life,</p>
<p>ok prolly not much of a life, </p>
<p>just hanging out with josh a lot, prolly.</p>
<p>gah i hate stupid nosey teachers</p>
<p>gotta go...</p>
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        <title>if i could go back in time, i would do this all again.</title>   
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        <p>it&#39;s wednesday finally! just waiting til friday, like always, hoping to get ungrounded soon. ha, like that&#39;ll ever happen. especially since i was so stupid last night... i snuck a boy into the house! josh, of course. and i got caught. caught in a lie, that is. i never lie! and i never do stupid stuff like that, but i did. and i don&#39;t know why. it was kind of an impulse thing. i never act on impulse! but we hot to hang out for a while, which was fun. we were goofing around and he said sumthin stupid, so i bit him on the hand, and he moved his hand away quickly, and my lip got caught on his ring. slightly embarrassing and now painful. i have a slightly fat lip. just in the corner, tho, so it&#39;s not too visible. THAT would be embarrassing! lol. so right now, i&#39;m out of study hall waiting on mrs. fouse for peers practice, the abstinence program where we teach middle school kids about abstaining from sex. lol. i told josh that i was in peers and he just laughed. why, i don&#39;t know, but he laughed at me! grrr. lol. well, mrs. fouse should be here soon... adios!</p>
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        <p>so my best friend mo thinks that i was totally going for the &quot;owen&quot; thing with josh. owen from &quot;just listen&quot;, that is. he&#39;s giantly tall, is never seen without his iPod, can be slightly mysterious, and has an extremely annoying sister. and he&#39;s totally against being a jerk. which is awesome. but i never really thought about the owen thing til mo brought it up. it does kinda seem like it. she said there&#39;s one part totally missing: he doesn&#39;t have anger issues. [thank God!] lol. we have a lot in common, and he&#39;s really sweet. he has a nerdy side, but i like that in guys. last night he came in to get pizza cuz he knew i had to work. i put in my discount for him. i was on the phone when he called though, so i didnt get to talk to him. but, lol, when he walked in i smiled at him and stuck out my tongue. he just laughed. i got sick after he left though, cuz i haven&#39;t been feeling too well. and i went home early. i talked to him on the phone for a couple hours. he helped me feel better. he&#39;s always there when i need him and he helps me to calm down when i&#39;m stressed. i say anything negative about myself and he tells me no. i&#39;m tired, he&#39;s okay with my laying my head on him and fall asleep. i seriously think he&#39;s my mr. perfect. he&#39;s a.m.a.z.i.n.g! when i say sorry for something [normally something stupid and unimportant] he always says &quot;it ok&quot; and if he&#39;s there with me, he smiles and sometimes grabs my hand or whatever. he makes me SO happy. yesterday i was kinda bummed cuz i wasn&#39;t feeling good, but i was so happy cuz i had been talking to him via text message and he was talking sweet like he sometimes does, and mo called me and beasley was im-ing me, and they were both really bummed about something or other that wasn&#39;t going well, and a few of my other friends were also freaked out cuz they think they&#39;re pregnant. i was feeling bad b/c everything was going well for me, and bad for them. when things go bad for a person i care about, i almost can&#39;t stand it. it just hurts so much for me to see suffering and pain. then i told him about how it was bugging me and he called me once i got off the phone with mo. and i was just kinda depressed and started crying and i was like &quot;you understand how i feel?&quot; and he was like &quot;yes. i feel that way right now, cuz it hurts me to see you hurt like this.&quot; and i was like awww, that&#39;s so cute! and i cheered up almost immediatly. i was like &quot;you&#39;re so sweet. i&#39;m glad you&#39;re here for me.&quot; he&#39;s just so awesome. i was hanging out with him this morning too. i was really tired and still not feeling good, so after a while i fell asleep with my head on his leg. [he was in his desk in study hall, i was sitting on the floor next to him]. i still can&#39;t figure out why, but that boy is just so special to me. he helps me so much and he just cares so much. :] i&#39;ve been thinking since it&#39;s not that far off, about what to get him for a graduation present. right after grad, he&#39;s going to cali for his internship. so i won&#39;t see him this summer. i don&#39;t know what to get for him. i&#39;m thinking about drawing or painting something for him. or getting him a new iPod since his old one broke. haha. but not til i get a new one for myself cuz i don&#39;t even have one yet. lol. well, it&#39;s almost time for the lunch bell to ring, and that&#39;s good cuz i&#39;m hungry. adios, y&#39;all. </p>
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