I can’t believe that the semester is almost over. Only one more week of classes before finals start.  I have the worst finals schedule ever!  I have 3 in a row on Monday, Self-Management, College Writing, and History, my music one on Wednesday night, and my Environmental science one at 8am on Friday.  My Monday is bordering on child abuse. Oh well I’ll get through it and Christmas will come soon enough.  I bought 7 tickets to Holiday at the Pops for the day before Christmas Eve… I’m sooo excited. They are first balcony, front row center. So now I am the poorest person ever. I can’t even afford to go out anymore. I went out to the Loft on Tuesday, it was a lot of fun.  I probably won’t be able to go out the rest of the semester, that’s how poor I am.  Over break I think I’m gonna be working at least 2 jobs.  I know I can already work at the Pharmacy and up front of S&S if I have to but I’m trying to get a job at a bank to get some extra money.

Oh yeah I just got a brand new digital camera so hopefully I’ll be posing a bunch of pics!

Michelle, me, and Christina at the First Floor Football game

December 1, 2003.

I can not believe that it has been a year.  A year ago today my life along with everyone else’s was permanently changed.  It was a year ago today that I was awaken by that phone call.  A year ago today God took someone from this world and lead him into heaven.

Tommy Siever. Now there’s someone we won’t ever forget. He was such a great kid and an all around wonderful person.  I still find it hard to believe that he is gone and I honestly still think about him everyday.  With his passing I think more about my life and what really matters in it.  I remember his dad’s speech on my graduation day.  He spoke about how a philosophy teacher once filled a jar with golf balls and asked the class if it was full.  When they said it was he poured pebbles and asked if it was full, then he went on to pour sand and coffee in the jar.  The jar represented your life.  The golf balls were the big things: your family, friends, health. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, home, and car.  And the sand was everything else, the small stuff in life.  If you put the sand in first there are no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. He went on to say how you should always take care of you golf balls first, they are what’s important; the rest is just sand.  When we all heard this, you know he wasn’t just making a speech for the sake of making a speech. It had meaning behind that came from the heart.  It was that nothing in life is more important than those golf balls and they can’t ever be replaced.

There are still so many question that have been left unanswered.  Why and how this possibly could have happened are questions that I still think about a lot.  I remember this week last year so clearly.  Time basically stood still and everyone was in absolute shock.  I’ll never forget Mrs. B that day, and how she talked to us about the situation.  I remember the silence and desolation that surrounded everyone.  I remember going to the funeral mass and waiting for over and hour and when the clock finally struck ten the church doors opened and the silence of that last hour was broken by uncontrollable sobbing as Tommy’s casket was carried down the long aisle of St. Peters.  I experienced emotions that day that I will remember for the rest of my life.  It was the feeling of pure emptiness and sadness.  

My thought and prayers are with the Siever’s today and everyday. I hope that Tommy has finally found his peace and is watching down on us with those sparkling eyes and beaming smile.  Forever in our hearts…

                        "And I know you're shining down on me from heaven
                          Like so many friends we've lost along the way
                              And I know eventually we'll be together
                                              One sweet day"

Hey there!  I haven't updated in a while because I have been soo extremely busy.  I guess it's a good busy because I really am having having the best summer. I've been working almost forty hours a week which has been generating a lot of money for me.  But I also have the time to just hang out and be with my girls.  The red head finally returned this past week after almost a month of being away from me.  Two blondes, a brunette, and a red head... "reunited and back in action" -lyn.  Yesterday Lyn slept over after the Sox/Yanks game... by the way Yankees Suck.... then we had a very productive day.  We woke up pretty early and went to the gym for an hour and a half.  Then we drove to Foxboro to pick up this boy from Finland who is saying with her aunt.  And since we were already in Foxboro we figured we would drive another few exits to kidnap Miss Alisa Jacobs.  Then we all (the four of us plus Liss and Allison) headed down the cape for a show and hung out after.  I just got home from the Blueberry Muffin and seeing the buffalo... I FINALLY GOT TO SEE THEM!  

So Saturday was the Country Music Festival... and I missed it.  I couldn't get anyone to cover me at work. Yeah, and it totally got rubbed in my face when the girls came into my work with coyboy hats and all!!!  I was really bummed but I mean Melis did call me a bunch so i could listen to some songs :)  I saved $90! and I made $90 that day so I just keep telling myself I made $180 and I feel a lot better.  Satruday I was also really bummed because I couldn't leave work early enough to go to the Coast Guard Academy to visit people.  I talked to Erin about them and it was soo great to hear how they all were and stuff. I got to talk to Jen and I was soo excited.  Kevin called me Sunday night from somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic and I literally screamed.  I really miss them all sooo much. I miss how stuff was like two months ago.  I am waiting until Thanksgiving to watch the other Harry Potter so I can see it was Erin, Jen, and Kev.

This week I am like not working at all. It's my "mini vacation". It's the only week out of the whole summer that no one in the pharmacy is on vacation so I have no hours to take.  I have my usual weekends and the front gave me 4.5 hours in five days. So I work tomorrow and that's it.  But hey i wont complain cause i am sooo loving it. Well, I'm out. got stuff to do.

It’s been forever since I have updated. I apologize. It seems like the last few weeks I have been going non stop. Between work, the gym, and hanging out with people I have had no time to just sit around. Not that that is a bad thing, it’s just I feel like I need to just stop and chill for a few. I’ve been working a lot. I’m in the pharmacy every weekend for 16 hours and where ever they need me during the week. I’m going to meet some new people tomorrow to babysit so hopefully I’ll get some money there as well. I’m so glad that Rach and I decided to join the gym. Last week we took an advanced step class and basically got out asses kicked. I sooo felt it the next day. Today Erin, Meg, and I through Kevin, Jen, and Danielle a going away party because they leave for CGA in like 4 days. I’m just not gonna discuss that right now because I honestly think I would start to cry. Another day maybe. Also, today is Lauren’s birthday… Happy Birthday Shmaps! On Monday night two blondes, a brunette, and a red head went down to Falmouth. The boys had an awesome show, and later on we met up with Bethany and Kate. Had a fun night with everyone…. would you rather…. I ended going to be around 4:15 and woke up at 6 because dear old dad left his precious claming license in the Jimmy so I had to get it to him in the morning. Yeah that just ruined everything. Oh well. Things could always be worse. Anyways, I’m really tired and I have to get up kinda early tomorrow so I’m going to bed. Night night!

yeah it is finally here. the time for fried ice cream, wonderful people, beach days, sleeping in, $400 tickets & Texas Hold'em apparently, sleep overs, car markers, late night phone calls, movie bums, the CD of fun, the neon, red sox, great thursdays, and anything else that has a lil wingage.

the summer has begun...

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