thief?

so, now, here i am in atlanta, visiting my grandpa. i like atlanta, but sometimes it can get boring - there's not too much to do at my grandpa's house. it's more fun when my cousins are here so there's someone else my age. i mean, i love my grandpa a lot, but sometimes his stories can get a little redundant. well, all the time. it's also hard to find wi-fi sometimes - it's pretty good in the attic, but it's really hot. also, if i get right by the front door i can get it from the neighbors. is it a crime to steal wi-fi?

i'm hoping we'll do something exciting tomorrow, but i'm looking forward to coming home - i want to hang out with my friends! this is like, my last chance before we're all going our separate ways... it's so weird to think about - we're going to be in college! ahh.... i dont know what to think...

well, goodbye for now!

vacation...

so, i've been in florida the past couple days - it's been fun! we went to universal yesterday and islands of adventure today and last night. my brother and i rode all the roller coasters last night when it was getting dark - i think i saw the sunset upside down for the first time in my life! it was really pretty. there's a really big roller coaster that they're building that was supposed to be done back in... april? but it still wasnt open. darn. better luck next time...

being there reminded me of the band trip to universal my freshman year. did the duck die? hahaha... there are a bunch of things that happened then that seemed insignificant, but seem to matter to me now...

one thing about being gone for like, a week, is i dont get to see people. i'm running out of chances. we'll be gone next year and i wont see everyone and i'm wasting time when i could be hanging out or whatever. and, i'm still waiting, but it's harder to wait. maybe i should do something, but i'm not a very.... um.... i'm not very good at making things happen faster, no matter how bored i am. i think i'm good at not saying what i mean, though, which can be good or bad.

well, another pointless post... but, it gives me something to do... i just hope i'm not keeping people up...

so...

this past week i've been so busy! we had vacation bible school at church and i helped out in the preschool crafts - it gave me something to do, but it got kind of tiring - all those little kids! but it actually went by pretty fast and i think it went well. i've also been taking care of a bunch of animals, but i'm almost done with those now. oh, and i got to play lazertag on... tuesday? that was fun, but i lost... haha

yesterday i finally had time to do something fun, which was good. i went to a graduation party - it was a pool party which was perfect because it was about a gazillion degrees outside. they were trying to teach their dogs how to swim, but i'm pretty sure that's something dogs just sort of know. i've never heard of swimming lessons for dogs. a few years ago, we took our dog (a beagle) for a walk right after a hurricane and the road was flooded so she had to swim - she'd never been in deep water before, but she was good at swimming, and beagles arent even supposed to swim! but - it was fun!

but anyway - i had to leave the party pretty early... to petsit. again. haha. then after that i had to go to church to practice because the band (i play keyboard) was playing this morning and every day next week (we have another camp thing for middle schoolers that the high school/college kids are leading) but me and my brother had to leave before we even played...

man, this is a pretty pointless post... but, i'm bored now, so...

a while later i went to play capture the flag and when i got to the park only one other person was there, and then another guy showed up who i dont know too well and we waited for a while for more people to come. eventually more people came and we never actually played capture the flag. it was fun, but sometimes it was awkward for me because i didnt know everyone and i didnt know the people they were talking about. hopefully a real game will happen sometime, and maybe i'll get to go, but i'm not sure because, like i said, i dont really know all of them and maybe they'd rather have just their group of people that i'm not in...
we almost got locked in the park, though, because we had to go to walmart - some sort of emergency run... i dont really know about it, but, oh well - i'm so out of the loop on a lot of these things, but someone told me later. i think walmart would be the perfect place to play capture the flag, though! hint, hint. by the way, michelle meadows is an awesome backwards driver. i think she wants me to say something else, too, but i'm not going to. ;) i'm never specific enough - i dont like saying everything in a blog...

oh, and there were fireworks!

i've also got orientation tomorrow! hopefully it'll go well, and maybe i'll finally get my own computer! i'm thinking i'll get a mac, but i dont really know how to use them. it'll give me something to do, though! haha

i'm sure there's something else i wanted to say, but i never remember until after i've posted things... so, goodbye for now...

waiting.....

i feel like i'm waiting for so much, but i don't always know what. i'm waiting for something exciting, i'd like to think. i've been so busy these past few days, and the rest of this week looks busy, too - so much work and stuff, and no good time to do fun things with friends. i guess that seems selfish, but i'd really like to have some time with friends soon - before we're all too busy and away at college and everything.

i guess there might be more specific things i'm waiting for, but.... i dunno. haha, that doesn't explain much. i would rather be vague.

i'm waiting for a good beach day when no one's busy or out of town.

i'm waiting for our trip to florida.

i'm waiting to get my own computer...

i'm waiting for the end of our epic game of dots.

i'm waiting to remember the word that i probably made up

but right now, i need to stop waiting to petsit - i have to go!

thinking about the future...

so, it's finally happened. i've created a blog, due to the persistent urging of several friends. also, it's probably a pretty good way to keep in touch over the summer and through college so i thought, what the heck - i'll make a blog. oh, and, it's late-ish and i felt like doing something. haha - almost as good as procrastination!

but i digress.

well, for those of you that don't know, i just graduated high school, and, despite what most of my friends are saying, i'm really going to miss it. maybe not all the work, although i know college will be harder, but i'll definitely miss the people! i had so much fun this year, it'll be so hard for me to leave everyone! but, i just found out who my roommate is - she seems really cool! we're a lot alike - and that makes me slightly less nervous about college.

i love music so much, it was almost easy for me to choose to become a music major, until it was too late. i never want to stop playing, i don't know what i would do without music! but a lot of times i have my doubts about becoming a performance major. i don't think i'm good enough, and, no matter what anyone here says, i know that i am not currently good enough to become a professional musician and make any sort of living out of it - it's pretty scary - i mean, what am i gonna do? but, we'll see how freshman year goes. maybe by then i'll have things figured out.

i do have more to say, but i dont know how to relate it to this, so i'll be back when i've better organized my thoughts.

so long, for now!