Anyway so I have A WHOLE BUNCH to say and all the time I want to say it... so be prepared!
;-)
So I suppose we can start with Friday...
I worked at Powell. It was a relatively good day... but still pretty weird considering we were all still in shock over losing Rebecca. Everything was pretty low key the whole day.
I did get excited, however, when Billy sent my a picture from West Point (where he pretty much spent the whole day on Friday)...
With it Billy Said, "This is where i will live. Its connected to where i will eat. The grass in the middle is the parade grounds. We got to ride a bus through the campus. Off in the distance we could see them practicing for R-day. The buildings are unbelievable how big and old they are. I was extremely excited when i found out the name of the town right outside the gates is highland falls. Do you know the significance of highland falls?"
So as you can tell he was pretty excited about his trip. And for those of you who don't know Summer Highland Falls is the name of a Billy Joel song... lol... so we know why Billy was excited about that one! :-)
So to make him happy I took a picture with Craig in his sexy tux to send back to him and let him know how much we already missed him!
O yah... and I'm totally stoked about my West Point sweatshirt I get to wear while he's gone! (I got that and Mikel got his birks LoL... hey he's not gonna be using em so why not?!?) haha Anywho... So like I said work wasn't all that bad. The wait got pretty bad... but nothing me and Jami couldn't handle. I think I might have gotten home around 7 or so. Then I went and ran about 4 miles BY MYSELF!! SAD TIMES!!!! But it was all good I guess... Michael picked me up half way down to the Middle School and drove me the rest of the way down there lol. That was rather interesting to say the least.
So after the run I went home and took a shower and chatted with Billy while I went to Wal-Mart to pick up some film... which has som pretty good pictures on it which I'm pretty happy about. I LOVE PICTURES... Have I ever mentioned that?!? lol So as I was getting off the phone I made my way to Sonic... cause o yah... that's right... I'm addicted to the Powerade Slush!!! So of course I had to take a picture with it and send it to Billy since its the first one I've had in a long while that he hasn't had the joy of paying for! lol
I know... I'm a dork... but I loved it so I figured it deserved ample blog time.
So I tried to go to bed relatively early so I could get up the next morning and run the Cove Lake 5k. We got there around 7 to check in and what not... stretched... warmed up... then ran. I ran it in 22:09 (for 3.1 miles) which isn't all that bad i suppose. The course was actually a lot harder than I thought it was going to be and in high school I ran a 3 mile course there in 21:something ususally... so i wasn't too disappointed. It made it ever more exciting that I got first in my age group (14-19) and I got a cool little trophy and everything! :-D Here's me and KT after the race...
And before we took that picture I got in the car to find that I had received a pix message from Billy which included the following...
So of course in a split second I was absolutely jealous!!! I mean... its perfect.... its even got the little yellow taxi in the bottom corner... you just can't beat that. It was also appropriately titled "Nuff Said". and his message with it was "Do I have to say anything else?" I was so excited for him! I can't wait till I get to go there one day!!! ;-)
Here are some more he sent me later Saturday night after they got back to their hotel...
Aren't they awesome?!?! His dad e-mailed me some really good ones as well... and those have Billy and his Fam in em so they're even better! (But they're just a little too large for me to put on here unless I wanted to take the time to resize them so these will just have to do for now!) They went and saw the Empire State building, saw The Prducers, and apparently Billy ate a hot dog from a real live NYC hot dog street vender! lol Get Excited!
So after the race and what not I went home and took a shower... took a shower little nap and then headed out West to get my Bride's Maid dress and shoes. I spent Flippin' $$100$$ (of my own money might I add) in LESS THAN 30 MINUTES!! Now THAT is depressing! The dress is pretty cute though... I think I'll probably get it altered to where its shorter after the wedding and I may actually where it again sometime. And considering I'm going to have a 50$$ pair of dark purple shoes that won't match ANYTHING... I better atleast wear it more than once! But really though... I'm pretty excited about the wedding (Kayla is going to be my date lol) and all the fun stuff we're gonna get to do before. (It will be my first bachalorette party!... I don't think I'll stay in the room while the stripper is there though... that just disturbs me a little bit!) Anyway... moving on...
So I spent the majority of Saturday night at good Ol American Eagle...
Here's a random picture of my and my work friend Jennifer that I sent to Mark cause we had nothing better to do with ourselves lol.
I didn't end up getting out of there till 11 or so which is pretty sad considering we're usually out by 10 during closing shifts. They have got to learn 3 people can't close the whole store in less than an hour after a Saturday night!! goodness...
So I had a nice drive home and and even better couple hours once I got home. I think me and Billy had one of our most random long conversations... Something I'm definitely going to be missing these days so I'm glad I got to talk to him for a long while. Then when both of our batteries were about to die it was time for bed!
I woke up the next morning and headed to work. Had to do a bunch of cleaning and junk before we opened which I didn't enjoy all too much... but the day itself was pretty fun! I got to wear my new skirt too!! woohoo... O yah... I forgot to mention I bought myself a new skirt and tank top and got Stephanie a shirt as well. EVERYTHING IS ON SALE AT AE YA'LL! So if you need some new digs... and you got a little cash flow... it's the place to go... YO! Ok... wow... sorry bout that!
So after work I changed and headed over to Temple Baptist (in Ft. City) for Brittany's bridal shower. Gotta love being one of two girls under the age of 40 woohoo!!! Atleast there was cake though!! heck yes! Then I went over to Brittany and Bob's apartment and chatted with them for a little bit then headed back to my house.
Kay came by and we waited for Kara to get there and then the three of us headed out to Oak Ridge for Rebecca's receiving of friends. And man let me tell you... that was NOT EASY. Granted... we weren't best friends or anything like that but this girl really was an awesome person!! There's been a lot of people pass away in wrecks and what not over the past several years but I've never really known any of them. I mean... I worked with this girl for 12 hours... only a week ago. We talked about her going to college and getting her senior pictures done next year and I taught her how to use T9Word and her brand spankin' new cell phone... and now she's gone. I know all I can do is pray for her family and friends who are still very hurt by her loss im sure... but sometimes it just seems a little unfair.
I dunno... but like I said... it was a rough exprerience but when her dad met us he told us she used to come home everyday talking about how great all the Lifetouch people were and how much fun she had a work... so atleast her time this summer was enjoyable!
So after that we headed back home. Dropped Kara off at the Roach's. Then K and I went back to my house to change and head down to the track. Had a nice little chat with Andrew when we called Kara to see if she wanted to go... but it only ended up being the two of us.
On the way there Billy sent me this...
That was part of his "last supper" lol. I believe he said he went to TGI Friday's. YUMMY!!!
Then it was time for exercise. I actually got Kayla to run a whole mile! LoL (two laps... then we walked about 3... then ran two more). I was very proud of her!! Then Billy called and we had a nice short chat until his mom made him get off to sign thank you note he still hadn't finished haha.
Then we walked a little more then went to SoNiC... Betcha you can never guess what we got!!! ;-)
After that we went by Kayla's Mamaw's house. We sat and watched some really random stuff on TV... ATE... (MMM... CORN!!!... haha!)... Michael took this beautiful picture of himself... you can't really see it all that well but I think you get the picture...
Then Kayla took me back to my house and as I was getting ready for bed I got one last pix message from Mr. Mynatt. I told him I wanted a picture of him in his glasses and he gave me one! :-D
I think he was ready for bed! haha...
So I went to sleep and then I got a nice phone call from Billy (at 5:00 in the AM) and talked to him for the last time before he bacame an official "New Cadet". He said they were in the car on their way... I was definitely sleepy but I was definitely awake enough to realize this was a SAD TIME!... but an exciting one just the same...
I went back to sleep for a few hours then got up and got ready for work. It was the last day at good ol PHS and please let me tell you it wasn't too fun! I got to work with Kayla though so that was definitely a big plus!
I'm not gonna lie... it was pretty busy... but we spent a large portion of the day writing Billy letters and coloring him pictures out of Kayla's big coloring book! haha We're really hoping he doesn't get in trouble or they don't make him do push-ups for them :-\. If he does I'm sure he'll let us know REAL QUICK! Mr. Kennedy and his kids came by too!! It was fun to see him cause I haven't seen that big hairy man in a while! I got him to write Billy a little note that I included with my letter. Alana wrote him one too! So hopefully he enjoys that. I wonder how long it takes mail to get down there.... Guess we'll find out soon enough.
So yesterday was definitely a Tear Down day which is NEVER any fun... but it wasn't all that bad at the same time. I fell on MY FACE... LITERALLY!... out behind the cafeteria when we were loading the vans. Just ask Kay or the other girls on the crew and they'll tell you how freakin' funny it was!! Kinda scary... but still Very Funny!
We didn't leave the high school till about 8:45 and we had to go back to the office and clock out and what not. (YAH for 12 hour days!... NOT!!). So we were gonna go play tennis but since it was so late we decided to watch a movie instead. So Me, K, Mich, and Che-Ad watched BE COOL <--- POINTLESS WASTE OF TWO PERFECTLY USABLE HOURS OF YOUR LIFE!!! Trust me on this one... Just Say No! So after the movie my friends left and I went to bed! It was raining outside so I fell asleep to the sound of rain falling on the roof... you can't beat that!
... woke up this morning... got ready for work. SCRUNCHED MY HAIR... I know... kinda WeIrD... but I was in the mood for a change from the norm. Met some of the crew at the office and then drove out to West High School. I work with Kayla AGAIN (and trust my I'm definitely not complaining!). It was pretty busy today... we shot 42 kids but it wasn't that bad since almost 75% of them got basics.
About half way through the day we tried to talk Mark into bringing us some food (since he only lives about 5 minutes away from the HS). BUT NOOOO... his car had to go and poop out on him so he couldn't. :-P This was our response to try and get him to find a way to come see us... haha...
It didn't work... but atleast we tried!!
We wrote Billy some letters again (and we're not obsessed or anything I swear... I've just heard from EVERYONE that the best thing to do for someone is BT is to KEEP WRITING. Everyone says getting mail is the best part of the whole experience so I'm just trying to do my part.) Kay and I didn't have her coloring book today but we got a little creative with a Tracking Card.... LoL...
And whether you try to deny it or not... YOU'VE GOTTA ADMIT THOSE ARE PRETTY DARN CUTE!!! haha Again we're really hoping he doesn't get in trouble or anything and he better appreciate it cause we were both pretty excited about it! lol
We had to use highlighters though so his brown eyes and my brown hair were a little hard to do. We were gonna try to make the girls hold hand and the guys be on the end but it didn't quite work out that way but we figured Michael and Billy at gay all the time anyway so we figured we'd leave it! WE EVEN GAVE HIM BCDs!!
Ok anyway... so we were at West till about 5:30 then we drove back the office.
I came home... changed... had a nice chat with my dad... then went down to the greenway to run. I did atleast 4 1/2. I saw Grubb and Brad which was rather interesting. I met up with Grubb and got to run with him back to the high school from Broadachres so that was fun.
Then I came home and now I'm sitting here trying to decided if I'm hungry enough to fix myself something to eat. I don't think I am... So I'll prob just go to my room... do some crunches and go to bed!
OOOOOO!!!! And the exciting new of the day is KAYLA IS DEFINITELY COMING TO THE BEACH AND DISNEY WORLD WITH ME!!!! I'm soo friggin' excited!! Now all we gotta do is find a place to stay (which is a little easier said than done) and work out some of the details...
Sorry I haven't updated in forever... this kinda turned into a little novel didn't it?? O well you can just be like Kayla and preschoolers and just read it for the pretty pictures right Kay?!? (what am I saying... she won't even read this far down since there aren't anymore pictures lol).
Gotta get up and run with the CC team in the morning at Victor Ashe Park. Gotta get ready for the Fireball 5k on Sunday night!! WooHoo!
Well I believe I'M DONE!!
I LOVE SUMMER!! I just wish it wasn't so "sticky icky hot down here in the dirty dirty south!" haha
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13: 8-13.
*TIFF*