spring break!
Sunday, Apr. 11, 2004 - 10:41 pm
ah, this spring break has been very good - relaxing, fun, stress-free, etc...
here's a run down:
friday, after getting about no sleep all week and staying up almost all night to finish my metamorphosis paper, and skipping 4th to work on it as well, my family and i left for charleston. i think i was asleep before we were even out of clemson. haha. but anyways! that's beside the point. we went down for the cooper river bridge run. so once we got there, we met up with my aunt and her friend and then we pretty much went to bed, since we had to get up at like 6 the next morning. saturday i ran the bridge run, almost all of it, after not having run since november. i was really suprised that i didn't hurt that much. so that was pleasant. a guy had a heartattack while running with his 20 year old daughter and died on the bridge. it was sad. i passed by him... i don't know, it was just sad. don't really know what else to say about that... so moving on. after the run i met up with laners and her family and we went and looked at some day school for isaac to go to and then we looked at like 12 houses. but it was fun! i didn't really care what we were doing. haha. then we had a little bit of time and we went "alligator hunting" -- isaac found us some alligators! haha. that was cute. then we went on the beach for about... 10 minutes. but it was the beach so it made me happy! haha. and i was with lane! haha, okay, then they drove me back to my hotel where my family went out to eat at this place that had the best grits i have ever tasted in my life, i think i could eat those things forever! haha. another random sidenote from that dinner was that our waiter was really nice and me and him were like kidding around with each other and i was like "how old do you think i am?" and you know what his answer was? 12!!! HE THOUGHT I WAS 12! haha. and i laughed at him and i was like... uh, i'm 18, i'm about to go to college!, haha, THE FUNNIEST REACTION I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE! priceless! it was so worth him thinking i was 12! i think he almost passed out or stopped breathing or something. it was SO funny! haha. and then when this other waiter asked me where i was going to school next year and i said clemson he like whisled and was like got some brains in the family! it made me feel... funky. haha. esp since i don't think i spelled whisled right up there so i don't know how much that shows my "brains" but whatever. i'm getting way off topic here. haha. anyways!
sunday morning we woke up and drove to my beach house and we left on wednesday. it was nice, i love the beach so much. i think it's the most beautiful thing in God's creation. and i always just feel and see and hear God so well at the beach. i love it! it was really cold so there wasn't much beach action, but i tried to get down there when i could! haha. and i liked to read my bible a lot on the beach. it rocks my world! it was just relaxing and i had a lot of time to just think and figure things out. ya know? and i really needed it a lot. it was very relieving and made me happy! o, and on wednesday on the way back our freaking car told us we had a flat tire, and so my parents made us stop at the bmw plant for an hour and a half to see what was wrong with it and it turned out to be nothing! i was like.... I COULD BE HOME RIGHT NOW! it made me.... grr! haha. but whatever. that car... to smart for it's on good! anyways!
then on wednesday when i got back i went to the whatever his name is trumpet dude's concert thing. lane, val, and i sat together and we had fun. haha. we started dancing at one point! haha. and ooo... haaha, that's just too funny! then lane and i went to waffle house where we saw these stupid girls who made us want to... hurt them. haha. then we ended up at my house and we stayed up til like 2 or something just talking and such. and our PLAN- was to get up and watch the sunrise on the dike, go running, and then go to breakfast. well... we woke up and just spent like 20 minutes deciding whether we were really going to do it or not! we finally decided that we could just see it from my deck! haha. so we go upstairs and "watch the sunrise" for what couldn't have been more than 10 minutes and so the sun was barely even up and it was still pretty much dark and we decide it "sucks" so we are going back to bed. so then we're "going back to sleep" and we look out the window and it's all pink and purple and orangeish and we're like "oh, that's pretty, time to go to sleep" and we didn't get up until 11. haha. so then we decided to go the fashion shack were we just dug through bathing suits for literally like 45 minutes. and we kept being like "we can't do this any more!" except we just kept on doing it! and it made us like... lose our minds! and we just like ran out and we were screaming! and then i was trying to drive to go run and i almost like ran a huge grey van off the road and i was just like "i'm so flustered! those bathing suits make me! ahhh!" it was so screwed up. haha. then we, well lane went running and i tried my best. haha. it sucked on my part and i definently decided i need to start running and working out. b/c.... i just really need too! haha. then we split and then i spent like all day reading the lovely bones (which is like the absolute best book on earth!) and then lane, val, and i went and ate dinner at mr. dipps to visit rena because she works there. so that was fun. that night i stayed up until like 2 reading that book because i absolutly just could not put it down! on friday my mom and i went shopping and i got all these clothes which i don't think i really needed but that's okay i guess. and we went and took my prom dress for alterations. then i had an unsuccessful trip to the library which was stupid. and then brittany came over for awhile and we were laughing like crazy and we went to the store. i don't know, random but fun! we came up with new nicknames for each other: dt(me) and porkchop (brittany). haha then that night i decided that i had way to much clothes and that i was going to give a lot of them away. so i spent like 3 hours going through every peice of clothing i own. i ended up giving a lot away but keeping a good deal too... it made me feel rediculous. i have way to many clothes even after i gave a lot away. i don't know, it made me feel real selfish b/c some of the stuff i own i hardly ever wear, anyways i'm gettin off on a tangent here. then i think i stayed up kinda late playing tetris, b/c i'm addicted to it. haha. but i can't really remember, and whatever it doesn't really matter. saturday morning i woke up at like 9:30ish so that i could go buy lane a present since she was getting baptized the next day. but first my mom had to take her...matress pad (i really don't like the way that sounds) for her waterbed to the laundry mat. and my mom was like... freaking spazzing out! i don't know what the heck was wrong with her! but she wa sjust freaking out about everything... it made me laugh, haha, i was like you really need to chill out! haha. and then we went to like every jewelry store imaginable until i finally found what i wanted to give lane. haha. anyways, so then LANE'S brillant plan for "a bunch of people" to meet at 12 mile beach from 1 until 5 went into action. the "bunch of people" just ended up being me, lane, brittany, rena, mason, omar, jenn and val were there for awhile, and leigh howell met us later on. so we ended up just standing around for about three hours in the parking lot talking and throwing a freesbie around and me freaking out b/c everyone was ... harassing me and trying to take my clothes off me! haha. it was lots of laughter too, haha the mexicans "we don't discriminate... we just describe"!! haha, oh man. so then we finally figured out that we wanted to go walk on that new boardwalk thingy they built over like behind the bagel shop that goes over the lake and stuff. so after spending like 20 minutes figuring out who was gonna drive and such we all get in our cars, and me and lane are in mine, and i go to start my car! and the freaking battery is dead! and so then president alison (brittany's stepmom) came and helped us out and i had to take it to the shop and it was just this huge ordeal. haha. but anyways, we eventually made it to the boardwalk and we had fun there. except for when lane, rena, brittany, and leigh were talking about how they were gonna have SOOOO MUCH FUN NEXT YEAR! and i kept being like "you guys... that makes me sad!" and then they would be like well you'll be in college so it won't matter, you won't talk to us. it made me so depressed. i wa slike.... geez i wasn't really hoppin and ready to graduate and i'm really not ready now! but whatever, i also understood what they were saying. so then we left. and i came home and... i think i just played tetris.haha. who knows. oh, and i watched friends too! mm... makes me so happy! and then sunday was easter and i got up at 4:45! and then went to the sunrise service for lane's baptism! it was a really pretty service, and lane... baptized you know, pretty big awesome beautiful deal! i loved it! then i went to my church where i almost fell asleep b/c i was so tired. haha. but it was good too. and then i came home and went to bed for about and hour and then we went up to my aunt's house for dinner, which was very very tasty if i do say so myself! then my family, like the crazy people we are, sat around and watched the end of the masters and we were really into it. haha, but it was fun, i liked it!
so you know, on my spring break nothing spectacular happened and it was random but it was lots of fun! i had fun hanging out with lane and seein a lot of the people i don't normally see! it was cool! very sress-relieving and such... so now only about 6 more weeks and I'M OUT! haha. except for... i'm really not THAT excited about it. haha. i really hope that at least for just like... this first week my life is not stressful, or at least not nearly as stressful as the whole month of march was. haha.
oh, other random notes. i read one foot in eden and the lovely bones over break and they are both fantastic books! very very good! i enjoyed them both a lot! and i also listened to the new jars of clay cd i can't tell you how many times. it's a great cd i love it! haha, just thought i would... you know, offer some suggestions!
