You may think this is a bit early, but the camp ground fills up fast and we're gonna have to reserve within the next month, so here goes...

Emily's 2nd Annual Birthday Cabrewing Party!!!

When?: June 16th, at 3pm- 18th

Where?: Duggan's Family Campground, Pt. Austin, MI

It's gonna be a whole lot of camping and canoing fun. Must be 21 years old or older to attend. camping is $20 per person per night, 4 person max per site. Canoing is $10 for the whole day (we will only be canoing on Saturday). BYO beverages, food and camping supplies.

Hope you all can come! RSVP by March 27th.

first of all...

PROPS TO VINCE YOUNG AND THE LONGHORNS!!!  excellent game, kids, excellent.

now, i've been thinking over the past couple days that i need to move to florida. i'm so sick of the miswestern gloom and i'm starting to get depressed. the only problem is i love my job and i don't wanna leave little miss ava. i know i could find a killer job down there, but i just started workling for craig and nicole and i would feel horrible leaving after only a year.

there may be a chance that we (craig, nicole, ava and i) will be moving to north or south carolina, and if that happens then i'll just stay with them, but i doubt it's gonna amount to anything. i just really need a change of climate. i'm gonna try to get outta here for a week this spring and go somewhere like florida or cali, but i'm poor an i need to save for a car cuz mine current auto is pry gonna kick it in about a year or 2.

i'm joining jenny craig on monday, i've gotta lose this weight by summer and ithink jenny craig is a good program, also, i think that it's a legit way to lose weight and most people don't gain their weight back with jc cuz it's not so much dieting as learning portion control.

and........... elise might becomming to visit me tomorrow night... i hope she can make it, i haven't huing out with her in forever! our schedule's never work out to where we can kick it. hopefully we can make it work this weekend.

Currently Listening The Colour and the Shape By Foo Fighters Everlong see related

well, it has come and gone... and i'm back where i was last year, wondering what this year will bring. i never would have thought i'd be where i am now. but it's a better place and i'm glad i'm here. things are good in the hood as one matt swartz would say. man i miss that kid.

anyways, new years, i spent with a bunch of peole i didn't know cuz i didn't want to drive all the way home just to party at colwood. so i went with a friend of a friend to MSU and i drank with a bunch of people i didn't know and met a lot of new people, but no one that i really got along with well, besides this one professor that was there. he was pretty cool. his name was nick and he brought some evermelon... which, for all of you who don't know, is a watermelon that is soaked in everclear. 190 proof... omg, i had 4 peices and i was pretty much done for the night. anyway, theguy was so cool, but i didn't really get to hang out with him alot and then i left real early so neither of us got a chance to get eachother's number. i definately felt like we clicked. he was my new years kiss, but it was just on the cheek, so does that count? i dunno. anyways, that was my new years, hope yours was more fun!

well today was fun. i hung out with ava and she was a very good girl. tomorrow we have a gymboree class at 12:45, so i am excited about that. then we are going to the mall and i have to do some heavy duty christmas shopping. i am so behind on shopping right now, it's crazy. i've only bought one gift so far and it's not even an important one for an important person.

the college group that i went to on saturday night is sponsering a family that goes to the church and so we were all assigned an item to buy for one of the kids in the family. i have to buy an outfit for jonathan, he is 2 and apperantly his family is really por and they hardly even havea  place to live. keep this family in your prayers. the whole thing is anonymous, but i  can only imagine how horrible it must be for this single mom of 2 not to be able to buy her little boys christmas presents. it's so sad. it makes you really appreciate what you have and kinda makes my christmas shopping seem trivial.

i'm in the middle of a spat with my sister. erin seems to think that going to missouri for new years would be a better idea then doing something incredibly nice for my mom. i don't get her reasoning for not putting our mother first, nor do i understand why on earth ANYONE in their right mind would want to go to missouri of all flippin places for new years, i mean, come ON! what is probably going to happen is erin will go to missouri and the rest of us will go to this thing we're going to with out her because she cares too much about what she wants to do and not about mom.

i may be being a little harsh, but i really am pissed at her for basically being a little bitch for the last 2 years and this is just one more thing to hate her for.

tonight sux cuz prison break is on hiatus and that means my monday night tv schedule is empty. as is every other night the week. lost is on a 6 week break too. what do i have to look forward to on wednesdays now? nip tuck is taking a break too, but i don' tknow for how long, i love nip tuck, 'cept for all the grafic surgery scenes. last weeks was a little too degrading towards women for my liking, but overall, i enjoy the show. the gauntlet II is premeiring tonight, so i think i'll watch that.

on a very important and meaningful note i decided to put my promise ring back on that my mom and dad gave me for my 16th birthday. i never really wore it cuz i didn't really care about "purity" at that time in my life i was more concerned with being a little ho bag and slutting it up. so obviously i have done my fair share of things that i regret and after repenting last week, i have decided that the old emily that was is no more and thus a new emily has emerged, one that wants to be full of God and do what God wants. one that will keep her body and heart pure for her husband, who-ever that may be, whenever that may happen. i'm very happy with my decision and proud of my courage, i hope you all will rejoice with me in this and keep me in your prayers as running from sin is about as easy as it is to memorize the table of elements.

well, smells like dinner is ready. peace

 

ps

did i mention how much i miss matt swartz? cuz i do... miss him a lot.

I just posted pix of the little girl i watch. her name is ava- check them out, she's adorable!

 

anyways, so much for my girls night out last night,. everyone cancelled on me, which i guess should be expected, but still that left me with a potentially boring night.

it turned out to be ok though. i went out to eat with nicole (ava's mom) and ava. we ate at this fabulous burrito place, where you can make your own burritos. i loved it. thats my new favorite resturaunt. after that we came back to the house and watched anchorman. any night you watch anchorman makes it an incredible night in my opinion.

it was fun to hang out with nicole. we had some good conversation, mostly about my love life or lack thereof.

tonight i might stay home. my aunt called me earlier and wants me to go christmas caroling with here and my uncle in dearborn, but i am not really interested in that so much at this point. i gotta call her back and give her an excuse, but i'm having trouble thinking of one right now.

i may go to church tonight, but i'm not sure. they have a college group that meets on saturday nights at northridge, but i'm afraid to go by myself. i know i gotta get out of my comfort zone and meet new people, but i am having a problem making myself do it.

 

well, i promised a few of a you a more detailed post about my thanksgiving at home, so i'll try to do it now.

wednesday night i made it to the airport and back to tuscola county and then to the bar with out really having any major delays, although the weater got horrible around 2pm when we left... it was kinda like blizzard conditions. good thing we had a sober driver... thanks rose! but we spent most of wednesday night at colwood, the little hole in the wall bar that is in the middle of nowhere. i met my cousin ryan and his best friend nick there and those two were already quite trashed... when i saw nick a few days later and mentioned the night at colwood, he said," you were there!?" ha. real good nick. any how, i had fun hanging out with ryan, though i have two huge bruses on my leg from where he was hitting me over and over for no reason. also got slapped in the face repeatedly by the same drunken kid, again, for no reason. the highlight of the night was when ryan was trying to snort some tobacco and got it all over his face... i shoulda left it there, but i was too nice and wiped it off.

rose drove us home from the bar and i stayed at elise's house with kerry. we definately didn't go to bed until at least 4am and i woke up and drove home to my parents. i was home by 7:30am. it was thanksgiving and i didn't even get to take a nap which was most of the reason i just went to bed by 8pm instead of going to ryans for some beer and hanging out with more family. the highlight of thanksgiving: that night was the only good sleep i got the entire time i was home.

the next day my sister meredith and i went to meet my friend bailey and her little sister for dinner and shopping in birch run. it was pretty uneventful, i bought a watch and a couple shirts. then i went home and got ready and went over to kerry's and met peruski and all three of us went to the bar and met earl, melissa, melisas's new toy doug, and chris, greg and kyle. kerry and i finished off 3 pitchers of beer and took an abundance of shots bought by who knows... then kerry, earl, peruski, melissa, doug, chris and greg came over. we played a lot of eucker, me and chris only lost one game, but the means we had to shot gun a beer each, which i did very gracefully and faster then chris.  i'm very proud of that.

then after that, it was like 3am and greg really wanted to go play pool, so we went out in the blizzard and drove over to gregs house to play pool. highlight: 4 of us in the 3 seater truck in the horrible roads and everyone was drinking beer. not the smartest thing ever. anyways, we made it there and we played 2 games of doubles. chris and i won 1, greg and kerry one 1 and then we left to go back to kerry's. this was not before we woke up half the people in gregs house. we ended up taking a winter crop tour through fields and got back to kerry's by 5am. i then proceeded to go back to my house and take a shower and dry my hair and laydown on the couch until 6:15am when my dad got me up to go to the game in detroit. i slept the whole way there and was running on fumes the whole game. i slept on the way back from the game, but we took a detour to flint to pick my mom up and my grandparents house. we didn't leave there until 4pm, didn't get home until 6pm and then i took a nap.

ryan picked me up at 9pm and we went to pick nick up and then headed to kerry's house. she had a party out at the cabin behind her parents house. weren't a whole lot of people there, but it was fun. besides the fact that ryan and nick left me there for about 4 hours while they went to go do whatever wherever. highlight: kerry's parents and sister nad brother-in-law come out to the the party and eevryone ate home made beer jerky. while ryan and nick were gone, i got pretty drunk (about as drunk as ryan was on wednesday night) and when they came back, i wanted to fight ryan. kerry said i punched him and that is why my knuckle is split open. i called him yesterday and apologized.

it was really good to spend the weekend with old friends. its funny, i've never been close to ryan, but this weekend was a bonding experience between cousins, i was glad to get to know him better and i think we're good friends now. hanging out with ryan was the highlight of my thanksgiving weekend.

i left yesterday afternoon at around 3pm to come back here to northville where i will be until i come home for christmas on friday the 23rd of december. if anyone would like to come and visit, feel free, i have absolutely no plans for the next few weekends and i'm gonna probably need some company.

alright, well, that was my weekend in the long elaborated version... hope you enjoyed it.