what a week...

yes, i know i haven't posted since last monday. i'm sorry... life got away from me. i'll talk about lots of what happened here.

the mission on tuesday night wasn't as good as it was on monday night. i'm kind of disappointed. it was still good, but it wasn't great. oh well. i had a pleasant surprise once i got there... some friends of ours whom i had invited, but did not think would come, came to the mission on tuesday night. we stayed a little later than we had the night before - about an hour later than we had. ;) it was an enjoyable hour. thanks to the mithrandirs for accepting my invite!

wednesday - ugh. i hate wednesdays as it is, but this one was even worse than usual. i have a religion teleconferance class at 9:30 am that goes until 10:30, and i leave immediately after that for my chemistry class. after chemistry ends at about 12, i usually go to the YMCA and eat lunch and maybe do some school. however, i forgot my lunch and schoolwork. X_X i then worked from 1-5, teaching a couple of swim lessons and guarding for a while. after work, i had swim practice, which was painful. i have been ordered off of butterfly by one of the assistant coaches, who also happens to be a physical therapist. apparently, i've inflamed the AC joint in my shoulder, where the collar bone meets the shoulder blade. so i'm not supposed to do butterfly, because of the position that the shoulders are supposed to assume while pulling. BUT it also hurts to do freestyle and backstroke. it just keeps getting worse...it's going nowhere. and it HURTS. :P after swim practice, we had the mission, and fr. bruce went later than he had the two nights before. so i didn't get home until 9:30 or so. i left the house 11 hours before that. ugh.

thursday wasn't that bad, actually. i went to work, like i normally do, at 8. i work until 12:30, then go home, change out of my swimsuit, and eat some lunch before i have my latin teleconferance class at 1:30. (i think i need to mention that it takes me at least 20 minutes to get to work from my house.) after class, i took a test, sent in a couple of tests and quizzes to my teachers, then set up a stupid schedule for math. i hate math. i may be good at it, but it's horrible. :P oh well... i had fun thursday night. i went to the mithrandirs' house and watched sahara and the truman show. i hadn't seen sahara, and they hadn't seen the truman show, so it made for an enjoyable evening. sahara is... well, absolutely hilarious. love al. i'm still kind of fuzzy on most of the other names, but al is great. the truman show is also great. it stars jim carrey, and, in my opinion, is one of his greatest performances. not that all of his performances aren't great. if you haven't watched either of these movies...go to your library. ;) thursday was fun.

friday was... different. i'm just gonna leave it at that. i did borrow another cd from finwe mithrandir. good cd. it's family force 5, dance or die. oddly enough, i didn't like their last cd that he lent me. weird. oh well... it's good.

ugh. yesterday. well, i'm not sure that ugh is the right word. i had fun yesterday. i had to be at work at 8 am. ok, that IS ugh. i taught swim lessons until 11:15, took a shower, ate lunch, was back on the pool deck by 12 and guarded until 4. immediately after i finished closing the lap pool, i changed clothes for church and the dinner dance. quick explanation: this year is the 150th anniversary of the appearances of Our Lady to St. Bernadette at Lourdes, France. my church was founded 50 years ago, during the 100th anniversary celebration of this same event. we were wrapping up a year of celebration with Mass and a dinner dance last night. i was late to church at 4:30 because of work. i had nothing i could do about it, though... i couldn't get out early. after church, we checked into the hotel and joined the party. after eating a marvelous dinner, dancing began with (ugh!) a slow dance. i hate slow dances... you have to have a partner to dance them. and (i'm not sure if i've stated this before) i'm happily single, and very happy. what does a seventeen year old girl need with a boyfriend, anyway? i've got good guy friends, and that's good enough for me. i'm not ready to get married; why should i even look until i am? besides, i'm pretty well convinced that there aren't many diamonds in this manure heap of a society. men, feel free to try to convince me otherwise, but in my experience, i've found four diamonds. three of them are like brothers, and the other... well, he's beyond brother. he's one of my best friends.

how did i get on that tangent? oh well... after the stupid beginning slow dances (they played 3 right in a row at the beginning), they got to some good dance music, and i was GONE. i danced most of the three hours that the dj played. i like to dance. ;) love one song particurally. but OW! i haven't danced that much since a friend's wedding a year ago this past june. it's gonna hurt a bit, but i don't regret it. that fastish music starts playing, and i can't resist the call of the dance floor. oh well... happy days.

i shall leave now, with only a video in my wake. it's an odd combination of the YMCA song (you better dance along!) and pictures of my dog. cheers.



-enna