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<lj-cut text="umm yeah, so i love these things, so deal with it"><lj-cut text="Optional text here">10 Favorites...
Favorite Colors: white and purples
Favorite Foods: reubens and sushi and eggrolls.  And bacon.
Favorite Songs: "Overrated" by Thriving Ivory
Favorite Movie: When Harry Met Sally
Favorite Sports: tennis
Favorite Season: spring
Favorite Day Of the Week: Thursday
Favorite Ice Cream Flavour: I don't like ice cream!
Favorite Time of Day: 2 pm -ish


9 Currents...
Current Mood: FREEZING and hungry
Current Taste: that taste that you get after you wake up from a long nap
Current Clothes: jeans, white tank-top, sheer blue top with swirls, hair barrettes
Current Desktop Picture: random wheat field that reminds me of Gladiator
Current Hair Color: dark blonde
Current Time: 6:18pm
Current Surroundings: Van Gogh posters, flash drive, deodorant
Current Annoyance(s): my new diet :/
Current Thought: my forehead itches

8 Firsts...
First Best Friend: lauren, then kate
First Kiss: I'm assuming we're not counting first grade...so that would be eight grade with Mark Hudome
First Screen Name: smileygrrl90
First Pet: sparkey. Or maybe Cheecko, can't remember which came first...
First Crush: Luke (Blank) in pre-school.  Man he was good looking :)
First Music: Eifle 65, B*Witched, Creed (don't ask), and Spice Girls
First Car: umm, i think you mean ACHY ACHY ACHMED!! (a.k.a 2001 Chrystler Cirrus)

7 Lasts.....
Last Cigarette: my previous life
Last Drink: alcholic or just in general?
Last Car Ride: coming home from school today
Last Kiss: hmm...gonna have to go pretty far back for that one....probably Bryan Canavan, 10th grade
Last Movie Seen: Hope Floats
Last Phone Call: To Erin to cancel going to the Y with her cause...well i guess i was just lazy
Last CD Played: My August mix made for me by the lovely Katie-lynn  a.k.a Buckwheeeaaatt

6 Have You Evers....Have i evers?
Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Friends: unfortunately no
Have You Ever Broken the Law: i've run a couple red lights accidentally. And when i was nine i knocked over a lamp post at the flea market. Why would anyone sell lamp posts at a flee market?? 
Have You Ever Been Arrested: my current residence is, in fact, the slammer
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: once i think
Have You Ever Been on TV: does the morning announcements in Elementary school count?
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't know?  Well i did play spin the bottle, but i pretty much knew everyone there. Except this kid named Kevin...

5 Things....
5 Things You're Wearing: potato, rifle, candy necklace, silver stake (for the vampires!), a keyboard necktie, go-go boots
5 Things You've Done Today: Took a sociology test, calculated all my calories, ripped a sock, ate some cold chicken fingers, blinked
5 Things You Can Hear Right now: my loud computer, Doodle barking, my keyboard as i type, SILENCE, my spit when i swallow
5 Things You Can't Live Without: God, my family, blankets for stupid winter nights, the sun, water
5 things You do when Youre bored: look at people's facebook pictures and try to decide how much they weigh (it's my thing, okay?), watch Tyra, fill out these crazy questionaires, sleep
5 Places You've Been To: England, Scotland, Valdese (TOTALLY fits right after the european countries), Texas, downstairs (of my house, definitely in not any kind of dirty, sexual way, just for the 13 year old boys who read this)

4 Do you's...
Like sushi: absolutely
Have a crush: yeppers
like alcohol: blech
Like taking pictures: who doesn't?!?

3 People You Can Tell Anything To...
1. God
2.el Kate-o 
3. momsies

2 Choices...
1. Black or White: white
2. Hot or Cold: HOT
1 Wish...
my 30 lbs. would lost itself
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1. Where were you 1 hour ago?
in my parent's bed watching tv

2. Who are you in love with?
Scott Chambers

3. What is the largest amount of money you spent in one store?
oh dear...maybe $200? But only like, once
4. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?
many things in fact! My flashdrive, my post-it notes, a little piece of paper with my password for Parent Assist on it...okay maybe not as many as i thought

5. When is the last time you went to the mall?
with kate a few weeks ago to find sunglasses
6. Are you wearing socks right now?
um, hello, did you not read the "5 Things you did today" question?!?

7. Do you have a car worth over $5,000?
I hope so...probably not though

8. When was the last time you drove out of town?
Well I didn't personally drive there...but probably my cousin's graduation party last June

9. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days?
no way, Juan

10. Are you cool?
Define cool. Because i do rock, but on the other hand i make lame jokes. ex: am i cool? Just call me Dr. Freeze!

11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
water

12. What are you wearing right now?
we DEFINITELY went over this one

13. Do you wash your car or let the car wash do it?
i'm terrified of car washes, so that would be a no to modern technology. I'm good with the ol' bucket and dishsoap routine
14. last food that you ate?
i can't remember that far back

15. Where were you last week at this time?
probably right here, looking on facebook

16. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week?
nopers

17. When is the last time you ran?
I run periodically to escape the ghosts of my past

18. What's the last sporting event you watched?
a few seconds of football at kate's house with mr. T (her father, not the black man with the bling)

19. What is your favorite class?
British history, but mostly b/c of Mr. Townsend
20. your dream vacation?
a beach somewhere, where it's nice and warm. Or Scotland, if it had the climate of Florida. 

21. Last persons house you were in?
Lori's? I think.

22. how old are your parents?
42, 48

23. Are you in love?
i refuse to answer on the grounds that it is against my religion

24. Do you miss anyone right now?
madison :(

25. Last play you saw?
Sound of Music last year

27. What are your plans for tonight?
eating dinner...can't quite think much beyond that. I'm hungry.

28. Who is the last person you sent a message to on myspace?
bahahahaha

29. Next trip you are going to take?
to my grandma's on saturday for a bridal shower (not for my grandma...that would be weird)
30. Ever go to camp?
Came Skylar :shiver: i don't want to talk about it. Oh and Jesus Camp with Lauren  a few times

31. Were you an honor roll student in school?
yeppy deppy (or yes, in my native language)

32. What do you want to know about the future?
if i will ever be able to fall in love

33. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne?
nope

34. Are you hungry?
good lord.

35. Where is your best friend(s) located?
in my imagination! psh just kidding, probably at her house, or at swim practice

36. Who is your best friend?
Katelyn Sophia Trela IV! (minus the fourth part)

37. Do you have a tan?
do i ever have a tan?

38. How old do you want to be when you have kids?
proably like 29-ish.  Or 72.
39. Do you collect anything?
ticket stubs

40. Who is the biggest gossip freak you know?
Probably Kevin

41. Last time you got stopped by a cop or pulled over?
never!

42. Have you ever drank your soda from a straw?
i LOVE soda from a straw. I like to pretend we're in a war and the soda is rationed, and i drink very slowly so i don't gulp down my monthly allowance.

43. How do you like your drinks?
...through a straw?

44. Do you like hot sauce?
only on Black Eyed Pea Pattys
45. Last time you took a shower?
last night

46. Do you need to do laundry?
nah
47. What is your heritage?
part irish, part french. i'm just gonna say irish from now on. 

48. Are you someone's best friend?
What kind of question is that ? Are you doubting me?

49. Are you rich?
I'm rich like Michael Jackson is black with a big nose.

50. What do you think of the person who took this survey before you?
she's wonderful!

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1. How tall are you barefoot?
5'4

2. Have you ever smoked heroin?
Do you smoke heroine??

3. Do you own a gun?
I own 37 of them.

4. Who's your best friend?
.....................we'll not go through this again

5. Do you get nervous before "meeting the parents"?
Uhh no not especially.

6. What do you think of hot dogs?
i just ate one!

7. What's your favorite Christmas song?
that sad one that goes "have yourself a merry little christmas" actually, that may be the title.
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
water, if anything

9. Do you do push-ups?
yes

10. Have you ever done ecstasy?
who takes these surveys?
11. Are you a virgin?
just like Mary! (except i don't have jesus growing in my belly...i don't think...not unless jesus is made of hot dogs)

12. Do you like painkillers?
no

13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
I seduce them with my gyrations and my feminine wiles

14. Do you own a knife?
Just a pocket knife that i bought from Claires when i was 12. Why does Claire's sell pocket knives, you ask?  Perhaps we'll never know...

15. Do you have A.D.D.?
i don't thin---what's that??!!

16. Middle Name?
Paige

17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment
1. urinate (as in i have to)
2. my throat hurts
3. why does supper smell like pumpkin pie?

18. Name the last 3 things you have bought
1. a candle
2. a pizza
3. chips and dip

19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink.
(a) Water
(b) Tea
(c) MILK

20. What time did you wake up today?
6:00

22. Current worry?
this pimple on my face

23. Current hate?
Ashley in my british history class

24. Favorite place to be?
home

25. Least favorite place to be?
outside in the cold! 

26. Where would you like to go?
Greece

27. Do you own slippers?
i think so. not glass ones though

28. Where do you think you'll be in 10 yrs?
hopefully in england, on a date with my british or scottish or irish fiance

29. Do you burn or tan?
neither


31. Would you be a pirate?
i would be a pirate wench

32. Last time you had an alcoholic drink?
spring break with my aunt, the cop
33. What songs do you sing in the shower?
moon river
34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a child?
alligators that would eat my hand if i let it dangle off the bed

35. What's in your pockets right now?
absolutley nothing

36. Last thing that made you laugh?
probably something erin said at lunch

37. Best bed sheets you had as a child?
my unicorn ones. they matched my room. it looked just that that girl's in Zoolander.

38. Worst injury you've ever had?
when i cracked my tailbone. or my knife wound.

40. How many TVs do you have in your house?
3

41. Who is your loudest friend?
Erin 

42. Who is your most silent friend?
kate
43. Does someone have a crush on you?
i think maybe so

44. Do you wish on stars?
no, but i talk to the moon

45. What is your favorite book?
how can you decide?

46. What is your favorite candy?
reeses' pieces

47. What song do/did you want played at your wedding?
just something pretty and meaningful 

48. What song do you want played at your funeral?
jeez, i don't know. 

49. What were you doing 12AM last night?
trying to sleep probably. or actually sleeping.

Hi, my name is Sarah, and i am pissed off.
  Since when did it become a requirement to have a boyfriend in order to hang out with your friends?  But because i am single does not mean that I should be excluded from events. 
First of all, it's not like i wake up every morning and say "hmm, i think today i'm going to NOT get a boyfriend."  This isn't my choice!  I don't have a little controller to take care of different aspects of my life;  Do you want a boyfriend today? "click"  Do you want to be single this week? "click, click" 
The day i actually decide that i'd rather be single and lonely, surrounded by all my happy "couple'd" friends, that's the day when i will be okay with you excluding me from your little parties because i'm a "me" instead of an "us."  
  Second, did it ever occur to anyone that maybe they're the ones with the warped view of life?  Maybe, it's NOT normal to date someone for two years of high school, and then plan to attend college at the same place so you never have to be apart until the day you're married.  Maybe I'M the one who deserves to be awarded for not falling for the first asshole i meet.   But no, instead, i get punished because the universe doesn't like that i haven't met anyone that i felt a connection with.  Oh, of course, i'm sorry universe, I should have been paying better attention.  Maybe if i'd ironed all my skirts and put on some extra-shiny lipgloss, we wouldn't be in my awful "single situation" right now!  Guess i sure dropped the ball on that one!
The worst part is not that i wasn't invited, because, honestly, if i had gone it would not have been much fun, seeing as i was the only one out of seven that wasn't paired up with someone they "loved", no, the worst part is that i wasn't even a factor in the thought process.  It's like, because i'm not in a relationship, there's an automatic block that seperates my name from everyone else's.  My name never came up in the conversation because i don't have a boyfriend.  And that right there is why i'm upset.  I don't care if i ever have a boyfriend, but that fact that i'm no longer even on the same level as every other human being...that is unfair.

So. I got in to UNCG. Already. 98% of me is SOOO excited. Just thinking about it makes me ready to pack my bags and get outta here. But every now and then, that 2% creeps up and stops my heartbeat and chills my skin. I got into COLLEGE. ALREADY. It's been a month since we started school. Everywhere i go now, i'll listen to people talk about college and the stress that they have applying to so many different places and their procrastination at not writing essays, and then, inevitably, someone says "well, sarah doesn't have to worry about it anymore" and they all look at me with that look, and then of course there's always that one person who hasn't heard the news, so i have to go through the story again and smile when they tell me congratulations. It's not that i'm not excited, it's just that every time that happens, no matter how much i want this, and how much i know other people would kill to be in my position, somewhere deep inside it feels like i've been punched. What am i doing? I can't go away to college in a year, i'm not old enough! I don't know what to do, and that scares the hell out of me. Now that college is real, is tangible, i'm afraid. My life is finally going to start, but what if i don't do it right? You only really get one chance to make the right choices, i don't care what people say. What if I choose a career that i end up hating? What if i've gotten in way over my head, and college just kills me. What if i marry a guy who i really love, and then ten years later we realize we don't love each other anymore? What if i spend too long on my career and don't have time to raise a family? What if i spend too long raising a family and don't have time for a career? All of a sudden, we're supposed to make life-changing decisions, and we aren't old enough!!! How can i possibly know at this point what will make me happy for the rest of my life? The more i tell people i got into college, the more i feel dread creep into my fairy tale.

Do you know what I love? I love looking at the moon through my window while i'm sitting on my bed. I love that. Something about the moon makes me feel like it's winking at me. Like it sees everything that I do and it's smiling in an amused, disconnected way. Kind of like the Mona Lisa. But much bigger and white and up in space. A big, spacey Mona Lisa.

Also, on a much stranger and totally unrelated note, i think there is something wrong with me. For whatever reason, i seem to be attracted to middle-aged men rather than men my own age. My my own age (and really any age before 30) just looks like pricks to me, but it's only because they're not in thier forties yet. So yes, i'm a creep-o fondit-o and i'm going to wind up in the newspaper for being the only 18 year old in Matthews who married a 46 year old. Ah, well.

Well, it's time to say it. I guess there's no more going around it. The truth has to come out some time. Here it is. Are you ready? Here i go: I am getting older. >>gasp!<< Yes, my friends, the time has come for me to admit to this hideous and cruel truth to myself. One minute you're here, thinking how good it feels to be youthful and healthy and alive, not burdened with the "adult problems" that everyone says will await us just beyond the horizon. Then, before you know it, it's time to be "responsible" and "independent". All of a sudden, you're looking for jobs and wondering how you're going to pay for your gas this week. It is the ultimate irony: we spend our childhoods wishing we could be older, more free like our older siblings or cousins or friends' sisters or whatever. Then, we finally get to an age where we embrace our youth and our lovely childhood and the rest of the world bitterly shoves us into the cold light of reality. Isn't that dismal for you? But all is not lost. If we are lucky, we have a younger sibling with which to live vicariously through. And now we can be the ones who can say those trite phrases that no one listens to, like "enjoy this childhood while you've got it, because you'll want it back someday!" or "you think these are problems? Just wait a few years!" Why do people always say that? Is the concept of growing older and older and losing your childhood not scary enough to a kid without some idiot adult telling you that all you have to look forward to is wrinkles and (bonus!) a heap of problems we can't even begin to know how to deal with? No wonder suicide rates in teenages are through the roof. That's when it finally hits us that we've come to the end of the innocence phase of our existence and the only parts of our life left are the ones that are consumed by the "really bad adult problems that make you want to die".
Also, on a side note, i would like to point out that even though now i am apparently officially a non-kid, isn't it funny that i still have silly and ridiculous thoughts like "I wonder what George is doing right now, this very instant" instead of thinking about the "adult situations" like world peace and how to stop global hunger and--what else?-- oh yeah, how i'm going to pay for gas this week. :/

I don't know what it is that I'm looking for.

So, Thanksgiving is almost here, and I'm almost a year older. Seventeen years, and what the hell do I know? Absolutely nothing, that's what. Every year, I look back at the previous one and think about how much I've changed. I had hoped that this past year I would really grow and learn how to fix my mistakes. Did I do that? No. If anything, I became less aware of my problems, and my mistakes got worse. Not that I'm complaining. I'm grateful for a lot of really wonderful things. And since it's Thanksgiving (almost) I feel like I should be talking about those things. But, really, isn't everyone thankful for the same stuff? When you ask people what they're thankful for, don't they all pretty much say "my family, my friends, my life, my dog, ect." ?? I'm thankful for those things too. I just wish I could have also added "oh, and I'm thankful for how much I've grown, and learned to understand my own self-issues and grown from them." But I can't say that because I totally haven't done any of that. I guess, in the end, it all boils down to this: I can't say what i want to say to the people that need to hear it. I wait to long to do it (or i never do it at all) and then they leave, or they forget about me, or they move on with their own wonderful lives, and I'm always here, left behind, regretting all the things I didn't say when i had the chance. I guess i just thought, when I met the "right guy", if there is such a thing, that all of my bullshit would just calm down and go away, and the words would just fall out of my mouth, because I'd know that it was right. But the "right guy" has come and gone, and now here he is again...and I can't do anything. I'm never going to be happy, and it's all my fault. I guess I'm overreacting. I am only 17 after all (not even, yet) but whether we're talking about marriage or we're talking about high school relationships, the fact remains that I am lonely, and I'll never not be lonely because I can't do anything right. I am ruining my own life. Can't blame Jamie for this one, because he, like all the others, is gone, and now it's just me left to screw everything up.
Oh yeah, happy holidays.

I hate being a grown up. Has anybody ever told you that it sucks? Because it does. You make one or two mature decisions about your life or your future or whatever, and all of a sudden people are expecting you to make all kinds of adult decisions. Well, hey america, I'M 16! I'm not freaking 30 yet. I haven't even gone to college yet. And already it seems like my whole life i've been making the "right" choice, and i've done the "mature" thing. I've always seen the bigger picture and i've always done what's "best for my future". But do you know how much that sucks? Because all i want to do; all i can think about, is being a kid. Or just a damn teenager. Why not quit my job so i can go to my family reunion in Indiana? Because it's not the responsible thing to do? Because an adult would NEVER make that choice? Well since when did 16 count as an adult. It's amazing; no one considers 16 to be an "adult age" when it comes to important things like voting, drinking, getting married, having sex, buying a house, ect. And yet, as 16 year olds we're all expected to grow up and start acting responsible for our lives. We're now expected to make sacrifices for things because we're mature. So which is it? Are we kids or are we adults? I sure wish someone would tell me so i'd know what to do with myself. Because right now, all i am is pissed off.