hey!!!!!! it was so good to log onto hear and see something from you. i always find our little chats entertaining! wow, you have been reaaaally busy! im so glad you are okay now! the swine flu isnt that bad over here but i had to get the shot for it anyways while I was in bootcamp. I just graduated bootcamp on the 18th of Dec. and I got to come home for 11 days. :)
I'm so glad you liked my blog about gay marriage. I myself am straight but I believe in everything I wrote, love was around before marriage was even invented. You love who you love and no person, stereotype, or law can change that. thank you and hope you find love in your life :)
hey!! i have been up to so much! i went to florida (as you can see from the photos) and i am absolutely exhausted. my friends are wearing me out! what about you? how have you been?
Thanks CJ! I like your story too. I also had a heart defect, unbeknownst to me, that sort of surprised me when I was 24. While it wasn't nearly as hard to deal with as yours, it truly made me re-examine my life. I would love to join y'all in the Great Barrier Reef in 2010. With work being what it is, I'll have to see... but I'll definitely keep it in mind! Thanks again for the comment!
wow, your trip totally beats mine! haha! and you will prob see a picture of my older brother soon enough. lets see...for tennessee, i get to go up there on the morning of the fourth. we will prob drop off our stuff at the hotel and then go straight over to my aunt and uncle's house, where the party is being thrown. they live by the lake and have so many toys, we had to pick their house to go to! haha! but it is also like a family reunion. one of my best friends, Cigi, is coming with us too.
my grandmother is probably one of the sweetest southern ladies you will ever meet in your life. although, she does smack me around when i get out of hand. but her cooking is finger-lickin' good. Imagine the best peach cobbler you have ever had, and then TEN TIMES BETTER! haha!
as for your games, thats the best kind of party to have! im still young, only 17 (18 in september) but me and my friends will stay up all night playing twister, apples to apples, life, monopoly (even though we never finish) and anything else you can think of. we love boulderdash! prob the best game you could ever play is with cards though. we love to play bullcrap. lol. too funny.
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Aww thanks so much for the welcome! Reading about The Buried Life guys really inspired me to get off my butt and actually start doing the things I want to do instead of just thinking about them.
Being in the choir for the Olympics and Paralympics in Sydney must have been such an awesome experience!! I was watching as much of the games as I could so I probably heard you! I really hope I get to volunteer in Vancouver/Whistler. I get so excited watching from home, but being there must be just so exciting!! As for the bagpipes, my ancestry is pretty much all Scottish and I've been doing highland dancing for many years. My Mom used to highland dance and my Dad and his Dad play the pipes. So with that and spending almost every weekend of the summer at one highland games or another I've fallen in love with them and the camaraderie in the pipe bands (the band people are always really friendly and hilarious to). It's so great you started playing! I'm amazed at how not so great the pipes can sound at first but then with a bit of practice some really interesting music emerges, and with just 9 notes!! Brilliant!
I also (sorry this is turning into a novel!) just wanted to mention how much I love how you started your "bucket list"! It's incredible how you looked the world in the face and decided to REALLY live, asking other people the same thing. What gave you that courage or boosted you into making that choice (I guess you'd call it a choice)?? I can only hope I would be as strong as you. You are definitely making ripples and they are rockin' to!
thanks, that's very generous of you. I'm in love with Australia, so you should really cherish what you have. I'd love to go there and visit and if I really like it there once I experience, might even consider living there.
haha, you live in Australia (one of my goals) and I know frequent Spanish (one of your goals) we should work something out.
I know Spanish as much as I know English. So, I know it pretty well.Thanks for the welcome comment though.
yeah, I have many simpler goals.. LIKE GOING TO AUSTRALIA! you should help me out with that one lol... but I also love your foster kids goal... I should probably shoot for two like you. but really I want to just adopt like a whole army of orphans and foster kids and stuff it would be like this giant diverse family... but Ill probably just stick to adopting no more than four at a time... have two of my own. and after the youngest turns 12, Ill ask their permission, and adopt if thats ok. if not Ill wait until they graduate High School and then Ill start adopting. good plan, nice talk!
yay! im glad to hear from you again! and thanks. another thing you can congradulate me on is my first speeding ticket!! haha! that was a funny thing that happened today, but you know, how can you let a thing like that bother you? the officer was so nice, and asked if i was okay to drive in the end, b/c i was so nervous! haha! anyways, i am so ready for the fourth of july here! i get to visit the fam. up in Tennessee. Im not looking forward to the 3 hour drive with the folks though. oh and my older brother. did I tell you I had an older sibling? yeah, he is like the other half of me (total jerk face sometimes tho). so what about you? were those parties fantastic or what?
Hi AGAIN! lol. sorry, i didnt realize you left a comment on my blog. silly me is still getting used to this whole site. anyways, i think you do some pretty amazing stuff. Sometimes i just get so...bogged down but knowing that the people i help out get to go to sleep with a full stomache, that makes everything worth it. 3 1/2 hours away huh? wow. im impressed that you do it at all!
I am not scottish. Im Irish but i was doing it for the fun. and man i had a blast! i got to hang out with the bands and i dont think i have ever had so much fun at a festival. ya know? most of the bands were from Canada though. hilarious guys. you should check out their music. they are called Hunting McLeod.
i think you and i have the same thing going! haha! i def. and known to bite off more than i can chew. but yes, im so excited about joining the navy, no matter how much my mother discourages me. haha! at the moment, it is 5:26 int he morning and im getting ready to go volunteer at the Scottish Games here in SC. then afterwards, i have to come home, do a superman quick change, and rush out the door to babysit...and then after that, go to my actual job! so i wont get home until 12 tonight. as my mother says, im "burning the candle at both ends".
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my grandmother is probably one of the sweetest southern ladies you will ever meet in your life. although, she does smack me around when i get out of hand. but her cooking is finger-lickin' good. Imagine the best peach cobbler you have ever had, and then TEN TIMES BETTER! haha!
as for your games, thats the best kind of party to have! im still young, only 17 (18 in september) but me and my friends will stay up all night playing twister, apples to apples, life, monopoly (even though we never finish) and anything else you can think of. we love boulderdash! prob the best game you could ever play is with cards though. we love to play bullcrap. lol. too funny.
Aww thanks so much for the welcome! Reading about The Buried Life guys really inspired me to get off my butt and actually start doing the things I want to do instead of just thinking about them.
Being in the choir for the Olympics and Paralympics in Sydney must have been such an awesome experience!! I was watching as much of the games as I could so I probably heard you! I really hope I get to volunteer in Vancouver/Whistler. I get so excited watching from home, but being there must be just so exciting!! As for the bagpipes, my ancestry is pretty much all Scottish and I've been doing highland dancing for many years. My Mom used to highland dance and my Dad and his Dad play the pipes. So with that and spending almost every weekend of the summer at one highland games or another I've fallen in love with them and the camaraderie in the pipe bands (the band people are always really friendly and hilarious to). It's so great you started playing! I'm amazed at how not so great the pipes can sound at first but then with a bit of practice some really interesting music emerges, and with just 9 notes!! Brilliant!
I also (sorry this is turning into a novel!) just wanted to mention how much I love how you started your "bucket list"! It's incredible how you looked the world in the face and decided to REALLY live, asking other people the same thing. What gave you that courage or boosted you into making that choice (I guess you'd call it a choice)?? I can only hope I would be as strong as you. You are definitely making ripples and they are rockin' to!
haha, you live in Australia (one of my goals) and I know frequent Spanish (one of your goals) we should work something out.
I know Spanish as much as I know English. So, I know it pretty well.Thanks for the welcome comment though.
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