so austin was pretty much the coolest thing in the world. coach mac took the girls to see her old sorority house which was pretty sweet. they get cooks and maids and it's cheaper.. i didnt plan on being a sorority girl but dang.. tia spit ice in nina's face when she fell asleep on the way down to austin and nina asked her how old she was. we ate bbq and then went and ran like 4 miles in the sun the day before a race almost puked all over ourselves.. :-/ nina and leia and tia and i stayed in one room and diana and erica and sierra and coach mac stayed in the other. all the boys looked pretty hot for our night on the town and coach mac wrote us all little cards and got us ribbons. colby came a little after dinner, then we girls went and found 6th street and the Dizzy Rooster from real world. despite efforts to stay up late because the race wasnt until 1145 saturday morning and it didnt matter anyway, we fell asleep at 1130. tia took an ice bath for her shin splints before bed and one of the marcus girls asked her how she still had nipples left. come to think of it, it was a good question. so despite our dehydration, the humidity, the heat, and our mentality that it didnt matter, tia got 5th place westyn got 11th and overall we varsity girls pulled off a nice finish. nina is a baller cause her knee is killing her and erica definitely picked it up this week. my time wasnt so great but thats ok cause.. mayyyybe we're going to state.. and we'll be back in austin again :) mile repeats tomorrow. school sucks.

not gonna lie, summer was awesome. even with working and running and everything it was awesome. im not one to get romantic with anything, but seriously... amazing. basically i spent every waking moment with hannah em and jen, half the time we were with ben and ryan too, anddd... it was sweet going to bed whenever and getting up whenever and doing whatever. so uhhh now? school was okay today. cross country is officially back even though we've already had a month of practice, and it's gonna be awesome. the fish seem so extremely small that it blows me away. when last year's fish came i felt like i knew half of them and now.. i know about ten. but whatever. all my classes are pretty much the same teachers with the same group of kids i've always been with (amazing as the enrollment just hit 2400) except p/ap pre-cal, so not much to adjust to. mom's still there which yes, people think would be horrible, but it's not that big of a deal to me. i like my mom and im not gonna try to hide that i have one.. i mean, no one materializes out of thin air one day. so for my senior year next year i've decided against cramming in all the AP classes i can fit before college. it'll be high time to have a life, and i'm ready for it.

at church theyre talking about gettingn rid of our four family groups. i have to say, it would be quite disheartening. especially after PFD finally won at our last Pine Cove. theyre also having trouble finding a new youth pastor. im not worried though, God will provide.

what are you going to be when you grow up?... haha that line always comes tagged with the elusive "when you grow up". it's not so far for any of us anymore. honestly, who knows what they are gonna be ??

everyone deserted honore and sarah and me for running camp this week. so whatever we're gonna have fun with the fishy. i missed my girls like crazyyy :)

so anyway. here's some stuff i learned this summer:

1. deoderant can and does melt

2. the warnings on the shaving cream bottles that say "contents under pressure do not fully submerge in water" dont really mean anything. nothing happens.

3. norma jean = marilyn monroe. she was married 3 times, died at age 36 from an overdose on sleeping pills or something. and was also rumored to be sleeping with president kennedy as well as his brother? hmmm "goodbye norma jean. though i never knew you at all, you had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled. they crawled out of the woodwork, and they whispered in your brain. they set you on a treadmill, and they made you change your name."

4. elvis was actually a blonde who dyed his hair black all the time.

5. my love for harry potter is surpassed only by my love for God and friends/family. oh heavens

6. a mcalister's club comes with turkey ham bacon swiss and cheddar cheese lettuce tomato lite mayo and honey mustard on toasted wheat bread.

7. you have to be 21 to gamble, not 18? whateverrr

8. the word "amen" literally means "and i do believe it"

9. God's blessed me with amazing friends

10. there is nothing at all fascinating about the chicago world fair of 1892.

11. node010: why dont u just sleep with me
      brandon's not very good with wording..

12. "kaput" is a funny word

mmm this summer is the best summer ever. spent last week in arkansas for a kind of methodist conference camp up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. the old people are cool. except this one old guy .. gets close or kinda touches us when he hugs us or stuff? and always hangs out with the older women or the teenage girls and flirts and stuff and.. i dunno i looked him up and he's not a sex offender so. yeah whatever. so blake and i came home and my mom's like look what we got! and she shows us this big vase with rocks in the bottom and water, and theres a little fish floating at the top and a little fish lying on the rocks. so we kind of look at it and blake goes "mom they're dead" and she says "i know, they're so easy to take care of!". she's apparently not gifted with fish. mmm also got a job at mcalister's today i got offered one somewhere else while i was gone but i'm gonna turn it down becauusee mcalister's is closer and now sarah works there as well as kacie, and ryan and laleh already worked there and hopefully soon emily will too. so last night emily and hannah and i went to a surprise birthday party for lauren at her rich aunt's house haha which is always nice.. and today emily and hannah and ben and i went swimming in jen's pool cause she's gone even though i have a pool. it was more fun. one of my friends just turned 16 today and her dad surprised her with a 2000 mustang convertible. dang.