Ridin' along in my automobile
Say Cheese!
So, we're driving down the interstate. We drove a LONG way. I had a book, I haven't read very much of it though. Today I looked up from my book once and I saw this van.
And this guy was waving at us.
It made our day, made it interesting. As they were passing I read the van. Mt. Vernon IL. That's near where we were going. So close that I recognised it. We played leap from with them for a while, they waved everytime. Then we saw a car with newly weds in it, which gave me and idea. I should take pictures. After that we got the previously mentioned pictures. We passed them for what we thought was the last time and then pulled off at a rest stop in Padukah. It's the hardest rest stop to get to in the world. Anyone who has been there knows what I mean, you have to exit, go trough a stop, turn around in a circle, and merge with another interstate before exiting immediately to the right.
No that couldn't be them. No way. They stopped at the same rest stop, they must have been right behind us. One of the girls asked if I was the one that took the picture. No, it wasn't me, that was my sister. Apparently his name is Joey, and while I don't think she meant to take a picture of just him it just so happened that's how it came out while we were driving down the road. We stopped to eat in Mt. Vernon but we didn't see anymore of the Central Christian Church after that rest stop.
We got a few funny pics. This'll teach him not to frown at me. Now everyone can see you.
Smile!
VACATION
I'm going on vacation. I'll be gone for a while. If all goes well I will have internet service tomorrow night and the next day. AOL service--yuck--but beggers can't be choosers and I'll take what I can get. After that I will be completely disconnected from the outside world. Not even a cell phone signal can get to where I'm going. But
if I'm lucky I will have service again after that. I will be taking lots of pics while I'm gone and if I have internet service I will get them online.
Now--back to packing. Fun, Fun.
Hey! What's goin' on in here?
So I haven't posted in a few days? That's no reason to spring this on me. My blog has been moved to a better server. I haven't looked around too the only thing different from what I can see is the layout of the post thingy. Anyone else moved to a new server? I hope it makes my page load faster.
I know I probably should have writen this earlier because I have already forgotten some of the stuff I wanted to mention. The whole wedding was beautiful and I'm really glad I got to be a part of it. So, where should I start. We had our hair done at the Rock and Roll Salon, we were really impressed after the consultation but were really dissapointed with the way they did our hair. They did Katie's hair in a french twist with curls on the sides, but they were already frizzing before she got out of the chair, so later Lori had them fix it, but instead of taking the twist out they just hairsprayed the curls to her head. Up close you could see that there were a few strands that had been left out, but if you weren't too close it looked pretty good, very classic. In the end her mom took it down and did her hair, it looked really good that way too, in fact the pictures with her hair down came out much better. Brittney's hair was easier, they just pulled it back and curled the ends, she has funky colored hair right now (red with blond streaks at the front) which made the style. Brook has short hair so they just curled the ends out, but the curls started to fall before we were all done and they had to re-do it, and ended up yanking her hair out with the curling iron because the stylist was paying too much attention to what the other stylist was doing with Lori's hair. Lori's hair also ended up looking very nice, but she had a tiara and they didn't set it in very well, so her mom had to keep re-setting it and I think they ended up pinning it in. My hair came out good, well I couldn't really see it because it was all behind me, but I think it came out well, it was pulled back with banana curls falling down my back, but the woman cut a couple inches off those curls without even asking me if it was okay or telling me she had done it, the only reason I knew was because I saw my hair on the floor. After we left the salon we went back to Lori's and had lunch, they got a platter of sandwhiches (which was really nice of them and we were starving). We were all ansy and it seemed like we waited forever until we left for the church. We all got ready and their was luckily not too much crying because I'm a sympathy crier and I look horrible for a long time after I cry. Jeffrey, Lori's youngest brother, was the groomsman that walked me down the aisle. He was so tall I barely reached his shoulder in heels (which always seems so wierd because I remember when he was really young). I don't really remember walking down the aisle at all, but I do remember most of the ceremony. The flower girl and ring bearer were so cute, though the flower girl did get restless in the middle of the ceremony, and I could tell she was ready for it to be over. The ceremony went off without a hitch, no one fell or anything--not even me! We waited around at the church for a long time for the pictures, I heard that their photographer was really good and I'm excited to see how the pictures come out. The reception was so much fun, I danced nearly constantly even though I was dateless, actually Katie, Brittney, and I were dateless and Brook's boyfriend Jack didn't really know anyone and you could tell he was bored, so he ended up leaving early. So we all ended up dancing together a lot. I even slow danced with Katie once. I really had a good time. And I had one of the wedding bells from the gifts lori put on the gifts she got for us (which was a really beatiful necklace) so we passed that around the table and took turns ringing it. Silverware on the glasses was louder but the caterers took our place settings right after dinner. You could tell they were embarrassed that we kept doing it and they probably thought we were annoying but I figure that newly weds should take any opportunity to kiss each other that they are presented with. The whole thing was really fun and I hope that Lori enjoyed it. Both her and Gene looked really happy and I was really happy for them (as was everyone else). And I'm glad that I don't have to drive around following people all the time. I was so lost most of the time because I live on the other side of the county and therefore go to all the different places from the opposite direction. They get back Sunday and I told her mom to let me know when they get in so I could see the gift opening, but then I remembered that I'm leaving for vacation on Friday. So I won't be there. But hopefully I will be able to get ahold of her on the phone when she gets back so that I can talk to her before I get into the hills of Missouri where there is absolutely no cell phone service at all. Okay, Okay I think it's about time to wrap up this post.
The wedding was great. Absolutely beautiful. I have so much I want to write about it. But right now I'm a little too worn out to type it all up. Not tired, because I couldn't get back to sleep this morning (which usually happens when I have a lot on my mind)--Just worn out. From what I've heard of my cousin's wedding it was also very nice. The pictures are being developed as I'm writing this. I took exactly 100 pictures at Lori's wedding--filled my 16mb card completely full. I got some good ones, and some that looked good but on the computer they are blurred. Oh well. I have to find internet space to upload the good ones. Lori made an absolutely gorgeous bride.
Lori and her Father, Tom
So, here are a couple pics. Busy day tomorrow too. Can't wait to see what they do with my hair.
Lori and Gene (bride and groom, in case you couldn't tell from the shirts).
Brittney (bridesmaid), and Lori with the some of the church decorations.
Busy day today. Busy day yesterday. Tomorrow I know two people who are getting married. So what did I do yesterday? I got ready for it. Bought cards and gifts and pantyhose. Woke up very early to take my car to the shop hopefully it will be ready by 9:15, so that I can get back here, pack it up, and get to the church (to decorate) on time.
Yesterday I woke up at 5:00am to the alarm. No, no, not the alarm clock, the house alarm. We have the super-duper load siren, so that my mom can hear it while she's at work (next door). I thought about not getting up, you know because if someone broke into my house then I think I'll just let them roam around and not get in their way, but that passed and I ended up sprinting to the panel to turn it off, mom beat me. She turned it off but didn't look to see what area it was in. We called the alarm man, he said he would check it, he didn't. So anyway, we have no idea what happened. It might have been a defect in the system, everything was locked except one door, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't that door as it's right by my room and there are piles of stuff of both sides of it.
Then I woke up again to thunder that had my window shaking. It's been poring here since yesterday. Well, we did get a break yesterday afternoon. But the streets are flooded all over the place. Not enough to make them undrivabe, just enough to make it a pain. They did close down one part of the major road that I need to drive on. I heard it's been raining a LOT in Atlanta, something about it being the same amount of rain as in Somoa (sp?) but since I didn't know it rained a lot there it didn't mean anything to me. Anyway they said it should stop raining in Atlanta this week but it will keep raining here. One more week 'til vacation. Maybe it will have stopped by the time we get back?
So I'll be decorating a church this morning, and then this evening I will be at a rehearsal dinner. Tomorrow I'll be mucho busy with the wedding and all. I'll be taking pictures like crazy for the next couple days, I hope I get some good ones.
Last night I was standing in my mom's bathroom while she was taking out her contacts and I saw her rice flower and shea body wash that she bought while we were shopping for my friends bridal shower.
Me: "Are you still using your rice flower and shea?"
Mom: "Yes, but only on the weekends."
I thought it was funny.
I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to a few of my closest friends (well, okay, this will take a little more than a moment).
Jenn has been a very close friend of mine since highschool. Jenn is my crazy friend. Not that she is actually crazy, but that's how I would describe her in words. When I found out we were going to the same college together I was so relieved she would be there. Jenn is very strong minded and not afraid to share her opinions. She has made me mad on more than one occasion, but I still love her. She always remembers when I'm going on vacation and my birthday, she always remember that I told her I have a test and calls me later to ask how I did. She does this even though I never remember exactly when she said she was leaving, and even though it takes me weeks to actually get her gifts to her. I do remember her birthday, I just can never get even a card to her on time, it's the same with christmas. Jenn joined the national gaurd after our first year in college (she did this because they agreed to pay for school, it didn't take long for her to figure out they weren't really telling the truth), she left USF one semester after that. She is now waiting until september, when she will join the Navy on active duty. We are all hoping that she will be able to join the navy before they call up her gaurd unit. The last thing anyone wants is to see her in one of the worlds hot-spots. According to her the Navy will be safer, and hopefully by the time she gets through basic and AIT the world will have calmed down a lot more than it is now. She is such a solid friend, I hope that that never changes.
Lori is my angelic friend. She has always been so innocent to me. Lori is very conservative where Jenn is not. For this reason they have never gotten along with each other. Over the years it has gotten worse and a girls night out with them is impossible. This is something I really regret. But I know that niether of them would be who they are if they didn't stand up for their beliefs. Last year while I was on vacation in July she met her husband to be. She had known him when they were kids but they had lost touch. By the time I got back she was sure he was the one, and by August she was waiting for the ring. I kept telling her that she shouldn't rush things but she was sure he was the one. I believe it was in September that they were engaged. Lori made him bring her to my house that very day so she could tell me. I was still worried that they were rushing things but I don't think any bride to be has ever been as excited and happy as Lori was that day. She will be married this Saturday and I will be there in the bridal party wishing her well. I was sure she would have us in big pink dresses with big giant bows, I don't think there was a single person who wasn't surprised when she told us she was going to have a black and white wedding. Lori has always been there when I needed some encouragement and understanding. She knows I will gaurd her secrets as if they were mine and I know she would do the same for me.
Brook and I aren't conventional friends. My mom is a single mom and there was something that she wasn't going to be able to drive me to when I was in highschool. Brook rode the same bus I did and knew that we didn't live to far from each other so she volunteered to drive me(well her family drove actually). That began years of carpooling, and my senior year, when I got a car, I drove her to school nearly every day. She's never seemed like a phone-talky person so we only ever talk on the phone when it is necessary. She is very striaght forward and I know that I can trust anything she says to be true. I don't think that she has ever done anything that she wouldn't admit to. She is a very hard working person and even though she has had several set-back with school she has never given up. For these reasons I truely admire her.
I think I am probably the most boring person in the world. Nothings really going on in my neck of the woods. I went to the dentist today--No cavities! I also called FAMU again to check on my status (and because I like to bug them, if I have to wait then they have to deal with me). I think I must be the only person they haven't responded to. They seem to know me, the girl I talked to took another message for Mr. Bailey (who I think is her imaginary friend because I've left three messages for him in the last 4 weeks and he hasn't called me back). Then she told me that she sent out a bunch of declines on friday but I wasn't one of them, and then she said that she had recieved my final transcripts with my degree statement this morning. So you see, I think it is a plot, they know exactly who I am, they just want to torture me.
If anyone happens to know a good place to live in Tallahassee that is close to the FAMU campus and would like to share that information with me...well...they'd be my hero.
Still no gift for my friends wedding, I'm such a procrastinator. I also have to get a gift for my cousin, whose wedding is the same day. I'm not so worried about my cousin, but I want to get my friend something special. So, I have to go look at the registries and see what's left.
Oh, and someone came to my site by searching yahoo for "crazy boobs." Hee hee...
I just found this blog that is really quite funny. It's about this guy's adventures as a planetarium speaker. I recommend that you read the
6/12 entry about SportDad. Hilarious.
My friend in getting married next Saturday. I still don't have a wedding gift for her. I wanted to get something really great, something memorable, but I just can't seem to come up with anything. I have to work on that.
I still haven't heard anything from FAMU. I sent my financial aid stuff in already, and they chose me for verification. I recieved the original letter, and the form I needed to fill out. Then I recieved a second notice. I still took my sweet time turning it in. But finally I got the thing filled out, and copies of my taxes and W2. I sent it in. Today I got it back with a letter telling me that I hadn't been chosen for verification. Okay. But then tell me, why did I have the form? Why did I get two letters about it?
I did all this financial aid stuff knowing that I still didn't know if I was even going to be attending the school. I think that makes me very dedicated. It's now the middle of June. August is in a month and a half, even if I get the letter tomorrow and go get an apartment, it's going to be in the ghetto. I'm going to get shot. I wonder where you can get one of those bullet proof vests at?
All this waiting is really getting to me. It's like I'm in one of those movies where the person is stuck on top of a train that's about to go under one of those low bridges. If I don't get off the top of the train I'm going to be slammed into the bridge. There is a helicopter coming, with a rope for me to climb up. If it gets here in time I will survive. But the wall is getting closer and closer and soon it won't matter if it gets here because it will be to late for me to climb up. That bridge is coming awful fast.
Do you suppose if you were swimming along in the ocean and noticed that there were sharks, that if you stopped moving the sharks would leave you alone?
My blog seems to be taking a very long time to load these days so I have decided that I am going to clean it up a bit. I'm removing some of the remotely hosted pictures, and replacing them with links to the pictures. Hopefully this will help move things along. I understand that this is one of this template's flaws. It apparently always takes a bit longer to load than other templates. But I really like this one, and Since M told me how to post in color, I've decided I want to keep it. So for now, I hope removing some of the pictures will help. Sorry if none of what I've said makes sense.
I just got one of those site meter thingys. It's actually pretty cool. I don't get much traffic though. The interesting thing is the amount of people who come to my site from searches for Orange County Choppers and American Choppers. I only wrote about it once (well twice now), but it seems that I am fairly high up on the search lists. I bet all those people are pretty dissapointed. So, I'm going to add a link to my chopper post.
Stupid!
It's June. I still haven't heard if I even got an interview at FAMU. If I don't get in, I have no idea what I'm going to do. If you've been reading for very long then you know that I really do expect to get in, I have a good GPA, I took all the right classes, well-rounded education, involved in extracurricular stuff, University honors program, etc... But it's JUNE! 2 months until classes start. Even if I found out that I was accepted, would I be able to get an apartment now? One that's not in the ghetto. Because it can't be in the ghetto, I would get shot..the second I got there. I keep calling, and they keep saying they are working on it. But now I'm thinking that it's just me, they have something personal against me. There is also the whole racial thing that scares me. My favorite thing about
FAMU's website is the link to the
Black archives. Yeah, everytime I call I probably re-affirm their suspicion that I am white. I'm soooo not getting in, it's freaking JUNE.
So if you hear about a mass murder at the FAMU pharmacy college, then you will know that I didn't get in. Don't worry, I'll get off on the insanity plea or something. No jury would convict me, it's June.
My friend is getting married. I'm a bridesmaid. We got dresses. Mine was too big. Actually it was really just to big on top. And it was really really to big on top. I mean, in order to wear this dress people must have needed to be a ZZZ cup or something (and if they were then how would they open the door? Their chest would stick out way to far and their boobs would hit the door before their hand could reach it). Anyway, I had to have it altered. And since I always just buy my clothes to fit me, I didn't know of a good seamstress. The woman I took it to did a terrible job. She took it in too far in the hip area, so now it's too small. She let it back out while I was there, but it wasn't enough. Now I can get the dress on and it would be okay, but it's still just a little to tight. So now I have to loose 10 lbs. Also she just took it in in the back. So now, the front puckers out like it's too big, but I can't reach forward with both my hands.
And this happened after I finally got my car fixed after taking it to the mechanic about 15,000 times for the same problem.
It's making me wonder if anyone ever does a job right the first time when I am the customer. When I walk in do people say, "Oh, we don't have to worry about her, what's she going to do to us?"
Today is a
very rainy day. It's
rained a
lot.
