I'm going on a family-vacation to Detroit (to visit uncles and grandparents) and then Chicago (to visit other grandparents, other uncles, and aunts) It'll be fun.
A merry Christmas to all, and too all a good night!
I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding Up my sleeve
Thank goodness it's winter break. I do love having long breaks. Summer is the best, no doubt, but Winter Break is fabulous, too. Our new New Zealand friends are amazed how long we get off for school in the summer. It's funny. I got a huge amount of candy today at school. Lots of my friends had huge bags full of individual bags of candy they just handed out to anyone they wanted. I didn't have things to give them back. I got some presents for my better friends, ones I thought about for a while, but no randomly handing out candy canes for me. But I do feel bad when I don't have something to give them back. Next year I plan to recycle gifts, and just give people the candy bags I've already gotten. Then, I won't be overloaded with hersey's kisses, and I don't feel bad about not having a gift to reply with. =)
They love to tell you Stay inside the lines
Speaking of gifts, Em gave me Reading Lolita in Tehran and THINK. She had lovely enscriptions on the covers of each, which made me cry. I can't believe she's leaving next year. She got into Princeton earlier this week, so she was psyched. This reminds me of when the Nichols moved away all those years ago. They were excited, I think, until it actually happened. They don't admit it now, but it's true. My best friends seem to be drawn to the East Coast. Bummer. I will miss Emily so much. I think my emotional levels will peak next year, without Emily to watch out for me.
But something's better On the other side
Our swim meet went very well yesterday. I was stoked. We beat Cherry Creek, who are favorites for state this year. By 100 points, or so. So it was fun, although both teams were playing games, not swimming their best swimmers in their best events. I even won backstroke (because Lahey and the 3 other Creek backstrokers happened to not swim it). But I was excited. We have the CO Invite tomorrow. I'm really excited for that. YEAH! I do love swim meets. And at this one there will be no emotionally unstable swimmers who need their resident zen master (me). We're all experienced, so I can relax. HAPPY HAPPY WINTER BREAK!
I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above
If I had a boat I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony I'd ride him on my boat And we could all together Go out on the ocean Me upon my pony on my boat
Emily received her acceptance letter from Princeton today. She was overjoyed. I was happy, too. It's great that she got in, I think of all people, she deserves it the most. It's been her dream school since 3rd grade, or something. My dad asked "Why does she want to go to New Jersey" and I don't know. Princeton is probably something special. Although I don't think I want to go. I find it very very hard to imagine that I will be worked up next year over what college to go to. I want to go to a challenging college, but I think I could be happy anywhere. I'm sure CU offers fabulous courses, but other people may not want me to go there. I don't think CU has a swim team, though, so it gets crossed off my list anyway.
Speaking of lists, Christmas is coming soon. I am psyched. We're going to visit family, which shall be fun, but family is usually stressful. I also hope to go skiing a few days. I haven't been yet, and that's a major bummer. We went Christmas shopping on Saturday, it was fun. My mom made Angie and I get "Holiday clothes" to wear to nice dinners and such. I saw this GORGEOUS green dress, though, that one would wear to a dance or something. I've decided I really like green. A lot. Not as much as purple, because I do have a sense of loyalty to my favorite color since preschool, but green is quickly moving it's way up the rainbow. haha. I'm barely hilarious. =) Happy monday
They're gonna put me in the movies. They're gonna make a big star out of me. We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely And all I gotta do is act naturally.
We had our swim meet against Boulder today. It was awfully fun. I do love swim meets. Freshman seem to be more and more emotional. I don't understand it. Emily and I had a very theraputic conversation (it wasn't really a conversation, it was IMing) afterwards, venting our frustration. I know how it is to be nervous for an event. I know what it's like to be disappointed afterward, too. I even admit, I've cried before AND after several races in my life. But I was always embarassed to be sad. Who likes those multiplying crowds of people wanting to make you feel better? Not I, said the fly. But these girls are crying and pouting for the purpose of getting attention, as far as I can tell. But, what can I do? I'm really quite an enabler, it's truly horrible. tsktsk.
But I got my State Cut today, hooray!
My English class is so intense. Our real teacher, Mrs. Gardner, had to have back surgery, so she's out for the rest of the semester. (which is truly terrible, because she was a marvelous teacher) So, Dr. Wei can to teach up. She's absolutely insane. It's crazy. I had to remind myself to breath in that class, because I was afraid if I passed out, she would have something to say about the style of my fainting. AGG! It's crazy.
Mrs. Cady said that she would come to the swim meet, and she didn't. I just shouldn't get my hopes up, anymore. I think she's destined not to come to any meets.
Wow, that was a lot of complaining, again. I should really stop doing this. It's not good for my image. =)
I've never been in love before I thought my heart was safe I thought I knew the score
But this is wine that's all too strange and strong
I'm full of foolish song
And out my song must pour
Last summer (or the summer that just happened- I never know which to call it) The Nichols came to visit, after we had gone there for a week, they came here. We played pictionary for 3 hours straight one day. It was fabulous. Really. It's amazing the memories that can come out of just a board game. Last week both Mrs. Cady and Mindy told me how I'll really only remember the sports things that I do during high school. That because I care about swimming in a different way, I won't remember the months I spend in school as well few hours at spaghetti dinners or swim meets. Our swim meets did go well this week. We had two, one against Eaglecrest, and one against Fort Collins. I didn't swim against Eaglecrest, Bob had our lower-varsity and JV swim for that one, just to give all the girls a chance to swim. Fort Collins, however, is a contender for state this year(as they were last year) so he had our best available swimmers swim. Most year-round (USS) girls haven't made enough practices to be legible, though. We won both meets because of the last relay (4x 100 free relay) So that's great. I don't think Bob cares too much about dual meets, but it's nice to have a few wins under our belt. I don't think we beat Fort Collins last year. We swim against Boulder this thursday. That should be fun. But we've beaten them the last 27 years or something. =) It's amazing how our football teams are pretty much exactly the same, while our swimming team is so much better. Hmmmm.
I should go read my history text book. I dislike this whole history-thing. I'm not going to take it next year, I don't think. I'm going to take the minimum class required- five. Maybe 6 if I decide to take Biochemistry second semester. I should really talk to my counseler to figure out what to do. I have never been in to see him. That's probably a bad thing. Meh. I don't really care.
