and everything starts today

throw the caps, they're gone

so i'm blogging today because someone thinks I don't blog enough. Hey. I just blogged yesterday--you're impatient.

graduation was this weekend. Mom and I went to Marci's party saturday night. It was nothing special, just a lot of her family there. It was very crowded. Then on Sunday, we started the day out at Brooke's. She had awesome food and a picture wall. At 2:20 Jason and I left for Brennan's. We were supposed to pick up John at 2:30 in Olsburg. We were a little late, and sure enough, John calls at about 2:31 with a "Where are you? What time were you supposed to pick me up? and what time is it now?" He is so responsible according to Jason. Brennan's was packed with family--I tried the fruit and dip--it was good. I can assume the cheesecake bites were good since both Jason and John had at least 3 of them. We had to leave early so I could go to Hattie's. We stopped in Olsburg to drop the two of them off and I continued on to Hattie's alone. Her party had a ton of people there also. I talked to her in the kitchen for a while, then we went to the lodge and I talked to her grandmother. Her grandma loves me. Of course she loves a lot of people, but I think I'm special. It was so funny to watch her get all excited over Hattie's presents. She could hardly stand to watch Hattie carefully unwrap each one and take all that time to read the cards.

I left a little after 5 for home. Where I got dressed and had a small difficulty with my hair. It didn't want to stay up in my Japanese pin. I got a call from Diego saying that he was now at Brennan's and where were we? I informed him that we had been there earlier and that if he hadn't gone in to see that movie, he might have seen us. Then since I was escorting the seniors I got into a long discussion about why that was important and I had to sit up front the whole time in a pretty dress. Which was ok with me because I like my pretty dress and don't mind sitting quietly in the second row for a hour and a half.

I walked in with Jordan and had to keep his attention focused on me because I could tell he was a little nervous. Then we had to stand and watch all the seniors file in behind us. Do you know how hard it is to keep a fake smile on your face for 16 or so couples walking in to a slow graduation song? I can tell you it was extremely hard. I spent some time trying to get some of the seniors to laugh as they walked in. Dora and Becca were last in. They took there sweet time, too. Then we sat down for the long haul. The Valedictorian and Salutatorian speeches were shaky--there were a lot of people there to listen to Bill Snyder. Now that I could have stood to skip. I wasn't looking forward to it too much in the first place. He droned on forever. I had to entertain myself somehow. I found myself laughing because he was saying the same thing for the umpteenth time. "Now I'm gonna end with this...priorities...let me tell you a brief story...I wanna leave you with this thought...blah, blah, blah." When Bill Snyder says to you, "Let me tell you a brief story," say NO! and run in the opposite direction. His brief stories are ANYthing but brief.

when it was finally over I found myself being pushed out the door in a mad rush of people with Jordan close behind. Mom made some rude gestures at me that I will not repeat or explain here. Finally, we made it out, and I wandered over to talk to Diego. He said something about me looking nice and I said "I told you." He thinks I don't take compliments well. I thought it was rather funny considering our previous conversation. I'm going to speed through this next part because it is much of the same thing and quite boring actually. Went through the line, had to keep Marci from crying, saw Mrs. Klinker--our retired middle school science teacher, talked to some people, saw Lauren's burned legs, took some pictures, then left for Dana's party.

Dana's was crowded, I had some food (I've decided that I did a running poll of the food at each of the parties I went to and it was all pretty good. I had a glass of punch at Marci's, too). The best part was seeing her get Debbie Brighton's grad present. Debbie is an artist and she drew a picture of Dana's horse for her. Dana is probably one of the best horse people I know and that picture meant a lot to her since she had to sell some (some? all? not sure) of her horses this year.

After that I went home and hung out with Jason, Diego, and Kris. We played with a beach ball in Jason's room for a while. Then Jason and Kris played FIFA. I think Kris lost one game 7-0. Geez! I think even I have done better than that. At some point during a game Dad came down and told me I needed to go bed since I had school the next day. What a downer! School? Who needs it? I could have skipped all my finals and still managed A's in all my classes. But oh well. All in all, I had a great time.

posted by Caity @ 6:26 PM