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Gilly's
Glen
December 2001
So, in case you miss a day or two, you can catch up here. It's important to note that these are not like rants because they are 1)short and 2)uninteresting. So anyway, here you go.
12-31-01
Ok, I know I haven't updated in a few days, I'm a horrible person, so sue me. :) Anyway, half my readers were with me all weekend, so it doesn't matter all that much. That is unless people read, and don't bother signing the gbook, in which case, I don't care about you. So you want to know where I've been? It's not a big secret, I was at the Holiday Inn in Estes Park, with Emily. We went up Saturday morning, and came back today in time to exchange gifts with the girls. Linda came down, which was cool, cause I haven't seen her for a while. Emily and I hadn't had time to wrap gifts, so we did that and then met everyone at Applebee's where they went after opening gifts. We're going out later tonight, I think to the Cheesecake Factory, and then spending the night at my house. Jackie and Bron want to find a party in the meantime, but I don't really want to. Emily and I felt really cool, cause we bought each other gifts today, so we knew what we were getting. We saw Lord of the Rings, and please excuse the immature schoolgirl here, but Legolas is hot!!! Mmmm.
12-28-01
I'm so glad that it's the weekend!! I haven't had school this week, but work has kind of sucked. I don't have to go back in until Wednesday though, so that's nice. A whole 4 days off to relax! Woohoo! Tonight Emily and I went shopping, and I got stuff for almost everyone. We decided to go shopping sometime this weekend and buy stuff for each other together. That way we get exactly what we want. Whoa, I just got hungry, and realized I haven't eaten since lunch. Go me! Jackie and Brenda are determined to find something wild and crazy for us to do on New Years Eve, but I would much rather just hang out and watch movies. I'm sure we'll figure out some way to compromise. Anyway, I'm gonna finish updating and go to bed. My parents are leaving for Arizona early, so I can't stay out late, plus I'm exhausted.
12-27-01
*sigh* Tonight was a great night, which made up for today. I would tell you all about how horrible my day was, but I'm not quite sure who all reads the page, so I shouldn't. Yeah. But anyway, tonight Emily and I were going to go shopping for Christmas gifts for the girls. We ended up sitting in Denny's for two hours, big shock there. So yeah, I don't know when I'm gonna get my shopping done, cause I work tomorrow, and have to talk to my parents tomorrow night, and I can't this weekend. I'll find time somehow I guess. I have to talk to my parents cause they're going out of town for a week, to their house in Arizona (it just occured to me that I could upload a pic of the house sometime), and they have to tell me the rules. No parties, no guys over, etc. I have to laugh about the no guys thing, but I can't explain that one to you. There's really only one person who will get that, and I don't care about the rest of you. No wait I do!! Keep reading my page!!! Anyway, I'm gonna update some other stuff, so I'll stop annoying you with my boring day.
12-26-01
Arg. I got Windows XP for Christmas, and so I decided to set it up yesterday. It decided that my modem wasn't functional. Grrrr. So I'm not sure how long it's gonna take me to work all the bugs out. Until then my internet time is limited to what I can do at work. :( Anyway, yesterday was fun other than that. We threw a last minute surprise party for Jen, whose birthday was also yesterday. I spent some time with my family. Then I went with Emily's family to see Monsters, Inc. for a third time. I'm so cool. :) I can't work, so I think I'm gonna go home and mess with my computer some more. Hopefully I'll be back later.
Ok, I'm back for the last time. I ended up uninstalling XP, to check and see if it's my modem, or XP that has the problem. It's XP. I really don't have the energy to try and fix it. I'm gonna head to bed pretty soon anyway. I got my car washed today, for the first time in a long time, and it's all shiny and new looking, yay!!
12-24-01
Merry Christmas everyone!! Hope you all love Christmas just as much as I do. Right. Don't expect me to update tomorrow, cause somehow it's just too sad. Tonight I watched Portrait of a Lady with my parents. It was a really odd movie, we spent the whole thing trying to figure out what was going on, and waiting for the plot. There just wasn't one. The movie would have been much better if Brad Pitt or Heath Ledger had been in it, but oh well. Anyway, I need to get to bed, otherwise Santa won't come. :) I'll be back Wednesday.
12-23-01
So tonight I laid on my bed for an hour watching TV, cause I couldn't get up. Today I woke up at ten and was feeling motivated, so I wrote a book report that won't even be due until February. I'm cool. Oh yes. Then I went shopping. After five minutes in the mall, I wanted to kill everyone, don't you just love Christmas? *sigh* Then at five I had to go over to my Grandma's for a lovely family get together. Luckily both Craig and I go crazy with the whole family, so we just sat in a corner for the most part. My evil cousin Kendra was there. She's the kind of person who only acts nice to get what they want, which really bugs me. So I'm twice as sweet right back at her. In the middle of the festivities, Dina called, and we talked for a while. My little cousin, Jessica, who I share a birthday with, came looking for me, she was all worried. She's five, it was cute. After about two hours we managed to escape, only once my Grandma had finished telling me how she was planning to fix up one of their bedrooms. She wants me to live with her when my parents go to Arizona next summer, and even stay if I'm going to CU. Anyway, once we got home, I left again to go visit Emily, and Jen and Brenda showed up. The three of us left Ems at work and went to Borders and King Soopers. Then I went to Kohl's, and did some more shopping. Then I came home, laid down, and couldn't get back up.
12-22-01
Today started badly, and ended well, as everyday should. I was supposed to be at the Youth Center at 6 for snowboarding, and at 6:15, the phone woke me up, and it took me a minute to figure out why the time should mean something. When I did, I totally panicked. I wish I could have just let them leave without me, but I'm the only one who can get the food out of the Youth Center at 6am on Saturday, so I'm kind of indespensible. The day was a series of catastophes, which I don't want to relieve, but at least we didn't hit any traffic. I came home and washed up, and Emily picked me up and we went shopping. It was nice, because usually I'm the man, but Emily drove me around, even opening my door for me. We, of course, ended up at Denny's talking. But this week we kept it to happy stuff, which I can't disclose to you at this time. :) Oooohh, a mystery. Aren't you all dying to know? Haha! Never! I updated my Christmas list, and my Todo list, woohoo! I have to go to my Grandma's tomorrow night, which will totally suck, cause I don't want to be around anyone. Tomorrow I will explain to you all exactly why this sucks so much, cause I'm lazy tonight.
12-21-01
I meant to go to bed an hour ago, but oh well. I have to get up really early to go snowboarding tomorrow. Woo. I'm actually somewhat looking forward to it, mainly because I don't have to take anymore lessons. Unlike Jackie and Brenda. Hahahaha!! Anyway, I had a me-night tonight. Taking baths in the dark is actually quite fun, but more fun with one candle. That made no sense, but it's late and I don't care. :)
12-20-01
My room is really cold right now. I don't know why. I totally slacked off all day at work today, Brenda and I spent two hours looking for senior trip stuff. Then Amy suggested that we go to Ocean City, Maryland. The first two weeks of June are Senior Week. Basically all the seniors from up and down the coast go there and party for two weeks. Hmmmm . . . sounds like fun. You know, I know everyone says this, but I really do hate Christmas.
12-19-01
I just finished writing a crappy paper for english, and if I was smart, I would work on my Chem. homework, but I'm too lazy. It's not due till Friday, so . . . I went in to work today for the staff meeting, and when I walked in everybody clapped for me because of the whole college acceptance thing. They told me to go see if I had candy in my office. I walked over and saw that they had decorated my office with red and white (UW colors) streamers and balloons. I felt all happy. I love my job and my co-workers. Someone explain to me why I'm leaving them? *sigh* Can't decide what to do! Why am I so indecisive! I didn't see Emily at all today, which made me sad. I had a nice talk with Susan this afternoon though. She made me feel like I could go away to college and survive, which is something I need to hear right now. I feel sorta guilty cause I haven't done any work all week, but then again,why bother? Tomorrow we're doing our Secret Santa thing at work, the gifts are supposed to be homemade, so I'm giving my person one of my wheel throws from ceramics last year. It's homemade in that I didn't go out and buy it, so it works! I made cookies tonight too, yum.
12-18-01
*sigh* Today started out kind of sucky. I got run over by an asshole coming out of the library, and he didn't even bother apologizing. I bombed a test at 9am. Breakfast w/ Emily was fun though, as usual. I was pissy at my mom when she called me at work. Five minutes later she called me back. She told me a big package had come in the mail for me. Right then I knew exactly what it was. My acceptance letter from UW-Mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I called Dina, and spent a while on the phone with her jumping for joy and screaming. My co-workers thought I was crazy. Once I explained they were right there with me. Then Emily and I went to Starbucks to celebrate. I came home and my parents had cupcakes for us, with a candle in mine, like it was my birthday or something. It was so happy!! So now that I've gotten into my top choice college, I've given up on the whole schoolwork thing. Hmmm, not so good, but whatever. I got one of my Christmas presents early. Go me! *jumps up and down because she is so happy, and lets out an ear peircing scream*
12-17-01
Tomorrow is my parent's anniversary. Which reminds me, I have to get their gift ready still. I have a test in english at 9am, and Emily and I are going out to breakfast beforehand, like we always do. I haven't even begun studying for the test. I still have two book reports to write for tomorrow, and a rough draft of a paper, but who can resist updating their site?
12-16-01
I have done absolutely nothing today. I just can't wait for this school year to be over. We decorated the tree today, yay! I got to put up all 14 of my angels. They're one of those Hallmark series, I've been getting them since I was 4! Our whole tree is angels and teddy bears, my mom's. Then at about 8 we decided to watch Ten Things I Hate About You, which my parents had never seen. I think they were pretty amused, but some of the humor is pretty vulgar, which isn't my parent's style. Oh well, they asked for it.
12-15-01
Emily, you are my hero. Just wanted you to know that. When I got home tonight, I just stood outside for a little while, it wasn't that cold. I just stood there and looked around. When it snows, it somehow makes everything quieter. I just stood there enjoying the silence, and the pink polluted sky. It was beautiful. This is the kind of thing that gives me hope, makes me feel Christmas-y, which is good cause I haven't achieved that feeling yet this year. I had a really bad night last night. I woke up at 4:44, after only getting two hours of sleep, with blinding cramps. I crawled to the bathroom, cause I felt like I was gonna puke. 45 minutes later I was able to get back to my room to take some advil, then back to the bathroom to writhe on the floor by the toilet some more. I finally got back to my room and writhed in my bed some more before falling asleep. Guys, be glad you're not girl, because you have no idea what pain is until you've had cramps like that, where you just want to rip out your uterus to make the pain stop, but you can't because you can't even move. Hope that was descriptive enough for you, I could make it worse, but then you might stop reading this. :)
12-14-01
This week has been a bad week, and I'm not even sure why. Jackie and I were talking about this earlier. For our whole group the week has been bad, but not for any particular reason. Tonight was fun, we all just hung out at Starbucks for a while talking. Dina called and cancelled our study plans for tomorrow cause she didn't feel like doing it. This random guy that Laurel is trying to set Jackie up with came to Starbucks, cause Jackie told him we were there. That was . . . weird. Of course Emily and I got a lot of weird looks too. Hmmm. I came home and talked to Dina for a while. Then I decided that I just had to update my page. My parents got our Christmas tree finally tonight. We're going to decorate it Sunday. Maybe tomorrow during the day, since Dina cancelled, I can go Christmas shopping. Although the girls and I aren't doing anything until New Year's, so I can put it off for another week and a half. Plus I would much rather sleep in and be lazy tomorrow then battle with crowds at the mall.
12-13-01
I would have updated this sooner, but I was organizing my english binder, woo hoo. Today, I was dressed as a pirate, according to Jen. Because I was wearing my black lace up pants and a white collared shirt. Will someone tell me what pirates dress like that? And look half as sexy? Anyway, I had a lovely evening meeting tonight, and afterwords Brenda and I relived our "Embarassment Contest" from eighth grade. I spent my first two hours at work not working, cause I had nothing to do. Instead Brenda and I tried to plan our senior trip. We are going to California (down with cruises!!!). I haven't ever seen the ocean or been to a beach, and I would rather be free to roam the coast than stuck on a boat. I'll keep you updated on all the debates about this. I also have a party to go to for New Year's Eve, yay me!! I've also added to my Christmas list, so check it out.
12-12-01
Today was one of those days where people ask you how it's going, and you have no clue. I've been numb today I think, maybe it's cause I actually got a decent amount of sleep last night. We had a party in German today, and Frau Dwire threw M&Ms at me, cause I spoke in English. Work was ok, despite the fact that I forgot about our team meeting until I got there. Woops. I flirted horribly with this random guy on my way out. It was fun. I met my parents for dinner. Then I came home and actually got my homework done. Then I went and spent an hour at KB with Emily. We made plans for the weekend, yay! On Saturday Dina and I are going to do some actual work. Then once Emily gets off work, we are going to have an Emily and Stefi night. That's been my whole day right there. Woo!
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