hello and goodbye...

well, i'm back from winchester. i know... from having heard it... that some of you think that is about the worst place to spend a weekend. but you're wrong! lol... it was great... living in topeka, i don't get to see many stars due to the lights, but there i can see like 4 times as many, and when you're in the middle of a field talking to people and sitting on a car, it's really actually a lot of fun. for those of you that think my friends up there are actually non-existent with the exception of jordie- you're wrong... they call me a whole lot more than you do, which is sad and great at the same time lol.
busy weekend: i went to a youth retreat up there and slept in a car because we were too lazy to set up the tent in that sweltering heat (yeah it really was) and we even made a bonfire (yeah crazy, i know, but it's really just the tradition and the atmosphere of the thing that counts) and then i had church out there with the whole area of that denomination in the morning... i didn't pay much attention due to watching matt copeland make me a grass bracelet (which unfortunately fell off of my arm some 25 minutes or so after i got it) and trying to keep alex and james dean (i didn't know he worked at Taco Bell!) and my aunt awake, but other than that it was okay. then (funniest thing i've seen all summer... no joke) alex, matt, james, and todd kept us all entertained (and crying from laughing so hard) by trying to shoot water-balloons using a slingshot (ya know... the kind we use at our HS retreats?)... of course, they figured they knew how to do it... but james kept on getting sprayed in the face while he was filling them up and they never launched them right and they blew up all over them in the process (so all four of them ended up looking like they'd had a huge accident before the afternoon was over!) then back to topeka to finish off my senior pictures (it makes me kinda sad cause everyone else looks so cute in theirs... then there's me) which went relatively well despite the fact that it was still really hot out.
tomorrow i will be leaving for maine until the 10th... hmmm... that's a long time... however i'll see if i can keep in touch with some of you (or you can give the cell a ring at those times when you so desperately need me lol) so that should be fun i guess, cause my cousin's maybe gonna bring his fimaly up there too for the 4th and we're touring colleges to get that out of the way and we're just gonna relax (they say that... but yeah right! lol) so i guess it'll be fun. some of you i haven't seen for a very long time- we'll have to do something when i get home. anyways, i'll miss you all. jesus loves you! (i prolly do too!) don't get into too much trouble while i'm not here to get you into it! lol... stay classy t-town! (sorry if you don't get that!)