whoa. rachel. is this real? wat happened? im here for u buddy. im here for u.

HUGZ!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the book, "East Wind: West Wind." Everyone should read it. I love how deep it is and how all the events build off of eachother creating this complex chaotic plot that slowly sprials off in two extremely opposite directions.

Happy New Year. I can't believe it's all ready 2010. 2009 went by way too fast. That year was one of the best years of my life. And I'm determined this one will be even better.

We finally went ice skating, but darn it, it had to rain again. We went anyways and we had a blast. Some of our friends had never been before or had only been once before. They were super nervous. We tried to calm them down as much as we could. We finally would take them by the arms and plow them along. It was kind of like the scene in "Bambi" when Thumper is teaching Bambi how to ice skate. That's actually exactly what it was like! Haha, just call me Thumper.

Darn. We're not going ice skating...again. Most of the other kids can't come. But we're going next week hopefully. Ug, I wish I had cable. I want to watch all the late night t.v. shows. Especially the Jimmy Fallon one tonight but I don't have cable so that is probably not going to happen. I love staying up late. I'm a night person. Always have been. My dad used to called me an owl cause I was always up so late. Funny thing is, owls are my favorite animals.

Oh my goodness, I just realized how much I like those doodles in the background. I can't wait till Tuesday. I get to ice skating with my youth group! If it doesn't rain...grrr. I want to see my youth leaders try to skate. I know one of them was really hesitant about going cause he doesn't want to hurt himself but I begged him to let us go. And he said yes. My other youth leader was completely the opposite. He was so thrilled about going.

Ahhhh! All my friends are growing up! I don't want them to leave me. I love them too much...No more sleep overs at the church, no more caroling, no more playing football on the quad at JMS, no more going out to lunch, no more running through the fountains, no more playing "hey cow!", no more just sitting and laughing at stupid dorky thing. "And others strains of woe which now seem woe, Compared with lose of thee, will not seem so." -Shakespeare's Sonnet 90