friday i'm in love!

Hey hey hey!!! I've missed you all (the two people that actually read this) so very much!! I have fun things to write about for once.

Like I said, Sam, Lindsay, and I were supposed to go to the movies on Saturday night and see the Passion of the Christ. So I called up Sam and made plans to pick her up early so we could get up there and everything. I also called Lindsay but she wasn't home, so it was just me and Samantha. When we got there, the 7:00 show was sold out and we spent like 20 minutes deciding what to do (see a movie?? go to the mall?? go to my house??). We finally decided to hang out at the mall for a little bit and then come back to my house and watch a movie or something. Nothing really exciting happened...we had had fun though.

We made plans to try again Sunday night and I called Lindsay again but unfortunately at the last minute, she had to stay late at work so Sam and I called up Sarah and asked her if she wanted to go since we had already gotten the tickets. Her boyfriend was there, and he wanted to see it too, and even though we didn't have a ticket for him, he came and prayed that it wasn't sold out.

Well it wasn't sold out and we all got to see the movie. It was extremely intense and it made me think a lot. Afterwards we didn't really talk about it, but Sam told me that it made an impact on her, and as for me, I don't think it necessarily made an impact on me, it just made me think a lot more about things like that.

The school week was a busy one. On Monday I worked and I closed Subway!! All by myself!!!! Yay me!! Rachel I met with Mr. V practically everyday to get the ticket sales and program stuff going. On Wednesday at youth group Sarah spoke up about how everyone always talks while the other Sarah is teaching and then everybody got quiet all of a sudden and Sarah started crying and blah blah. That place just makes me mad and Jen and I were talking about it and...I don't even know how to explain it. I feel like it has to be this big dramatic thing. I don't know why they can't just talk about stuff instead of TEACHING us, ya know? For example, I have never seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies nor have I read any of the books. To make a long story short, I know NOTHING about the story except the obvious. Now, the teacher, Sarah has this book called "Finding God in the Lord of the Rings" and it's all about the religious aspects of the book and the movie and she has been teaching it since before school even started!!! Every Wednesday I go into a classroom and listen to her talk abot stuff that makes absolutely no sense to me, yet I still go. It makes no sense to me, why do they have to find God in a stupid movie?? It's just a movie...for entertainment. That's all it should be. I don't know why they have to make certain issues into something that they're not. Jen and I have considered not even going anymore since it's pointless (especially for me) but I've considered it and I think that I'm going to go. At one point (basically the last year and half since Lois left) that I've been going there, I will admit it has been more of a social thing to see my friends...but now, going there on a Wednesday night I feel like I'm going for different and BETTER reasons than to see my friends. Usually I talk to Jen because Rachel has Tonya to talk to and Sarah has her boyfriend, and when we do talk we have serious conversations.

Ok...so anyways. Friday was a big day and I could probably write like 1,000,000 pages about all things we did but I'll try to make it as short and sweet as possible. Erin had the great idea that her, Kim, Lindsay, and I were going to go to this Flamingo restaurant...so we went after school since we had an early dismissal. Turns out everything there is written in Russian? or some other foreign langauge and it's not even the type of "deli" we thought it was. So we drive like 20 minutes in the opposite direction of where we eventually went and then we drove all around 20 minutes in the other direction looking for a place to eat. At one point we actually pulled over and started at the end of the main road and went down the road thinking of all the places to go. Then Lindsay and I thought of this great place called Panera's and we called up my mom to see if it was alright (she thought we were going nearby) and we went! Kim and I got this really big and really good Caesar salad and Linds and Erin got roast beef sandwiches. After I took them home, we HAD to stop at the 222 drive-in to get dessert - milkshakes!!! Even though it was considered a school day and it was only 2:30-ish and I KNEW that he wasn't going to be working, I was still freaking out about going inside, so me and Lindsay stayed in the car and Kim and Erin went inside.

I took them all home and then I had to drop off the program for the musical and then I came home and took a nice nappy nap! I woke up and talked to Sammy Sue online for a little and helped her resolve some boy issues. This question always seems to come to mind when my friends ask me for advice on guys...why are they asking ME?!?! I mean, I've never had a boyfriend or anything and I seem to be unable to communicate with any boys at ALL so how much could I possibly know, right?? Well Sam said that I'm "level-headed and reassuring and that I don't blow things out of porportion" which I guess is a good thing. Thanks Sammy Sue for all those lovely compliments!!

Ugh...It's impossible for me to write a short entry. Nothing exciting today...watched a little TV and then worked. Tomorrow is more working (just a little) and then taking my mother dearest to Wal-Mart...then homework, fun fun!!!!

Smooches, *Me*

P.S. With the whole Friday I'm In Love thing...that is me and Lindsay's favorite song ever!!!