OK

that is completely uncalled for.

sick sick sick.

I have been crazy engulfed in the twilight books. 

I'm on the 4th book and i'm obsessed.

I LOVE IT. 

you need to read them. now. like right now.

AND

I'm going to Disney World on SUNDAY.

SO MUCH TO DO.

Did you get my text yesterday?

I'm seriously getting sick of being the only one posting on this gosh darn blog!!!!! lol

I decided that since I couldn't be with you on your birthday, that I would celebrate by eating China Express tonight for dinner. Don't worry...I'll be thinking about you the whole time! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
YOU LIVE IN A ZOO!
YOU SMELL LIKE A MONKEY!
AND YOU LOOK LIKE ONE TOO!
HAHAHAHA! JUST KIDDING! I LOVE YOU!

You are my favoritest ever! Actually I haven't really made plans for my birthday. I'm going to lunch with some friends here and probably just hanging out at home with Hallie (which isn't so bad if you like running around like crazy and getting beat up) Oh well. I wish you were here though. Just another Tuesday in the life of me. 

I love you.

It's almost your birthday.......what are you going to do????? Eat Chinese? Go surfing? Stay at home and be a lame-butt?? Party all night long? Have a carnival party? Go to a drive-in? Go for a walk? Eat lots of cake until you puke? Get a new pet? Buy a car? EAT EVERYTHING? Go on a date? Skip down the road? Sing to yourself? Have a mega-GIANT-super-awesome birthday extravaganza? Call your best friend? .......Just some ideas for you! :) PARTY ON WAYNE!

INLAND HURRICANE IN CARBONDALE

May 9, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Gov. Pat Quinn has declared three southern Illinois counties disaster areas, following major storms.
Franklin, Jackson and Williamson counties are now receiving assistance from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
As a result of the storms, more than 63,000 customers were without electricity Saturday.
Southern Illinois University was forced to cancel its graduation ceremonies. Winds approximately 100 miles per hour toppled utility poles and knocked over trees.

It's still not clear if tornadoes touched down, but the governor is urging Carbondale area residents to take precautions during storms.
"I think everybody needs to use common sense when storms come along. That's exactly what happened yesterday. They were very high wind, but we're very happy to see that it appears that there was no serious injuries," Governor Quinn said.
Illinois state police troopers were helping direct traffic in storm-damaged areas Saturday, and the state transportation department was clearing branches from the roads.

As you can tell....I have no electricity. I went to my friend's house who has electricity about 30 minutes away to check my email. Most of the shingles on my roof is gone. Tom's girlfriend's house has a tree on it (about 1/2 of the residents in Carbondale have a tree down somewhere). There were about 90 trees on roads just in Carbondale. I was at school when it happened and you could hear the little kids screaming in terror down the halls. You could hear the roof peeling off of the building and things hitting the doors as they flew open and closed. It was pretty scary. Anyway, I'm fine, but we won't have electricity probably until Tuesday night. They are calling it an inland hurricane, because they recorded the winds in excess of 106 mph and it was widespread damage. CRAZINESS!

MOTHERS

Real Mothers don't eat quiche;
They don't have time to make it.

Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils
Are probably in the sandbox.

Real Mothers often have sticky floors,
Filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Mothers know that dried play dough
Doesn't come out of carpets.

Real Mothers don't want to know what
The vacuum just sucked up.

Real Mothers sometimes ask 'Why me?'
And get their answer when a little
Voice says, 'Because I love you best..'

Real Mothers know that a child's growth
is not measured by height or years or grade...
It is marked by the progression of Mommy to Mom to Mother...

The Images of Mother

4 YEARS OF AGE - My Mommy can do anything!

8 YEARS OF AGE - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!

12 YEARS OF AGE - My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.

14 YEARS OF AGE - Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.

16 YEARS OF AGE - Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.

18 YEARS OF AGE - That old woman? She's way out of date!

25 YEARS OF AGE - Well, she might know a little bit about it!

35 YEARS OF AGE - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.

45 YEAR S OF AGE - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?

65 YEARS OF AGE - Wish I could talk it over with Mom.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,
Because that is the doorway to her heart,
The place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she
shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!

Please send this to 5 Mom's today.

If you don't, nothing bad will happen,
But if you do, something good
will:
You will boost a Mother's spirits.

I move out May 31! YAY! What day of the week is your birthday?...I probably can't come. My professor just sent me an email telling me to hurry up with my research paper, so it looks like that is what my life will be until the beginning of July. SWEET. p.s. I'm still expecting you guys to come visit me this summer. I have not forgotten!

Oh. My. Gosh. That sounds amazing! I SO wish I would have been there with you. And I can't wait to see if Hallie will be into it or not. I don't want to force it on her but that would be AWESOME. That totally made my day. I love it. I kinda wish I could still take a dance class ya know? Just for fun? OR What if they had colorguard classes HA! That would be the day. Anyway...When do you move out? Soon right? I think you should come to Indy for my birthday :) 

Just sayin'

p.s. Hallie has pigtails now.

So....I was babysitting, and I was supposed to take Allison to dance. I had never been there before, so I just thought it was going to be kind of like in Olney....a room full of little girls doing some kind of hip hop dance whatever. Boy was I wrong!

IT WAS AWESOME! I walk in and there are all kinds of ballerinas walking around! Little ballerinas with their little pink slippers were walking in a line into a studio with mirrors down the entire wall. Ballerinas that looked our age were changing into their toe shoes and talking about what they need to fix in their dance routine. All of their pictures were on the walls. They were professionals! I had no idea this kind of place was in Carbondale.

It made me think of you and how excited you would be to see all of this. There was even a studio with two guys doing this CRAZY hip hop dance. There were probably about 6 or 7 studios in the building. All of them had ballet bars and mirrors. It was awesome. I found out later that they had tap there too! (Too bad we didn't know about this when you were here!)

I miss you so much and I hope I get to see you, Matt and Hallie VERY soon! I hope this made your day like it did mine!