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I'm home for the weekend. :D :D :D
I love being at home for just the weekend. It's nice to get away for a couple days, not be stuck on campus, be able to go anywhere I want...very nice. But honestly, I know if I was still living here, I would probably die (or at least want to, like last summer).
Last summer was interesting. It had some major ups and downs, like my entire senior year did. It started with Ryan...the best thing that's ever happening to me. :) We went on our first date the evening before I graduated, even though we didn't really know it at the time...we were "just hanging out." But now we celebrate May 17th as our anniversary, because we decided that it was our first date. :D We went to Village Inn, and the carnival was in the mall parking lot next to the restaurant. I had gone to 14 graduation parties that day (yes, fourteen!), so I was full of dry sheet cake, finger sandwiches, and chips. So all I got was a Diet Coke, and Ryan got pancakes and a Sprite. I ate two or three bites of the pancakes. :) I like remembering that day...

And one month later (and a day), I went to my diabetes camp as a counselor for the first time. I missed getting to go my senior year because the senile old guy in charge of it had something against my mom...but I got over that, and I was a counselor this year. It was definitely one of the best experiences of my life. Roxy was my co-counselor, and we had the 7th grade girls, who were actually way way way way WAY better than I thought...normally I can't stand middle schoolers. That was major fun, and I was quite sad when it ended on the 28th.

I spent a lot of time with Ryan last summer, and I think it may have bothered my parents a bit. Not because of him, but because it meant I wasn't spending as much time with them. It was my last summer before college, and it seemed like I was hardly ever home. So we fought like I was in 8th grade again, all the time about stupid stuff. I regret that...but it's not all my fault. I needed independence, and I wasn't getting much of it. Sometimes my mom still treats me like I'm a freshman in high school, not college, and it gets to be REALLY frustrating. But I'm trying to be a lot more patient with people, because I tend to have trouble with that.

So anyway, I'm just enjoying my weekend at home. I went to the high school basketball games against Norfolk (yep, Megan's Norfolk!) tonight with my mom...both JV teams won, and so did the girls varsity. The guys sadly lost by one point. :( But it was really fun, and I got to hang with Madi again and see my girls win! :D I miss basketball...I just played for the first time since summer the other day, and it was fantastic! And tomorrow Ryan's taking me skating at the roller rink where he works...we haven't gone skating yet! I'm quite excited. :) So yeah...wow, that was a lot longer than I expected it to be...and I used way too many faces. :P hahahahaha...I love home.