Lover Gone

Lover gone, this song is a good one
In four years I’ll be anyone but for four years long I was there where you are
Lover gone, this song I swear is a kind one

Peggy Sue

Try so hard

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/judy_garland.html

Marriage x's 2!

After all of the excitement of Nikki and Justin's engagement, I got a text from Jessica on Monday night.

SHE'S ENGAGED!

Yes, my best friend is getting married.

We've been friends since 9th grade and honestly, nothing has ever come between us. I love her so much. If we both didn't have a single sister, we would be each others Maid of Honor.

I'm so happy for her! Her and Phil have been together for 7 years, and it's about damn time.

Ohhh, the time has come in my life... everyone is getting married. Yikes!

Poor Bryan, he'll never hear the end of it! :)

Marriage

What a great weekend!

Friday we had people over. It was great great fun! A couple of people stayed the night and we went to breakfast in the morning... alllways fun! Bryan got super-upper drunk and puked. :( Gross... Bosley and Brody played all night long and were tired all the next day. Poor Kyle the single dad now. :( Girls are stupid. He's a good guy.

Saturday we had Bryan's work party. Again, a lot of fun. A little weird because everyone there had 10 years on us, but I felt comfortable after a while. One of Bryan's friends asked if I would go with Bryan if he was offered a job in SC. =X! Eeeek!

We slept our pa-tooties off on Sunday morning! It was grrreat. I love sleep. Waking up is my least favorite part of everyday. Then we took Brody on a nice long walk in the field. After all that we went to Nikki's house for her and Justin's 'lil graduation party. Justin had proposed! :) We knew he was going to, he mentioned it to Bryan on Friday while they were over. Nikki and I had just been talking about the week prior, when we met in Brighton. She was saying how her and Justin said they were going to get married after they both graduated but that she assumed he had forgotten about it. Ooooh but he hadn't! :) She also mentioned something about there not being someone to help her plan and I offered to throw her Bachelorette Party. :) Little did I know if would be so soon. I like Nikki, her and I get along really really well. I think it's because we both don't enjoy drama...

I will admit, I'm jealous. It's every girls dream to get married. But, I'm in no rush. Bryan and I will have our day soon enough. :)

Update

Bryan, my dad and I all went to the Red Wings game last night courtesy of Belle Tire. I didn't really want to go, I just wanted to sit at home and be lazy. But, I went anyway and I'm glad I did because I had a good time. Too bad they lost. :(

I finally got my volleyball check. Don't worry, it was only a month late after getting lost in the mail. Of all the mail, of course, the one thing that I was looking forward to would get lost. Anyway, I paid off all of my credit cards and still have some extra money for Christmas. I didn't have a ton of debt, it was just annoying to pay every month. Now it's time to get my score up so that I can consolidate my student loans and hopefully get a mortgage within the next 2 years.

Bryan and I are good. Very good. We usually fight for a week and then we're perfect for 3. We're having our first get together at the new place on Friday. A lot of our friends are coming out, which is a rarity. Usually everyone is busy, but this one seemed to work. Kyle, Nikki & Justin, Brandon & Erin, Jessica & Phil, Tim & ???, maybe my sister, Aaron & Julian (hehe!), Nick, Romiro, Katie & Ryan, Beau... Not a bad get together if I do say so myself...

Ace and Brody are good. I wish I had more time to spend with Brody, but I've chosen volleyball. :( I'm not home all day like I was with mandy. We need to get him neutered, and I feel bad. Ace has been attempting his escape more and more, which worries me. I don't want him to climb a tree now that we're on the bottom floor. But, he's a good cat.

I found out Mandy might be really sick. She can't use her back legs very well. (She's only 3.) Steven said the doctor said t might be some sort of neurological disease and that scares me. Poor girl, she's so good.

I found out my volleyball schedule is a lot more intense than I had planned. From January-June I'll be busy 2-3 Saturdays of every month. I will be out of town 6 of those dates: 3 in Indiana, 2 in Grand Rapids and 1 in Chicago. While I'm young I guess...

My stomach hurts... I miss my bed.

Goodbye for now.

xo

Combinations- Eisley

I, I saw you there, wanted you there
I, I knew that it was best for me
You brought me back to that place in my heart
I thought was gone, oh so long
I was unhappy now it's gone
And I'm moving on, moving on
I'm moving on

I went for so long
And I was so wrong
And then I met you
And now I can't live without you
And I don't want to
I've done that all my life up till now

Pass the evening, bring tomorrow
How could we know that night would bring us into daylight
Combinations all around us
Fill our heads with the love we've been feeling
For time long past

I went for so long
And I was so wrong
And then I met you
And now I can't live without you
And I don't want to
I've done that all my life up till now

All the time, darling now, oh
All the time, now we'll have to make it up
We'll make it up, oh
All the days, darling now, oh
All the days, now we'll have to make them up
We'll make them up somehow
We'll make them up

I went for so long
And I was so wrong
And then I met you
And now I can't live without you
And I don't want to
I've done that all my life

I went for so long
And I was so wrong
And then I met you
And now I can't live without you
And I don't want to
I've done that all my life up till now

Volleyball, Volleyball, Volleyball...

You know, after leaving Scraft and going to Eastern, I really thought I would be done with volleyball. I was burnt out from the season and assumed I was ok with letting go. Of course, I missed it like crazy after a year of not playing.

Well, I can't go back and relive my "glory days", so now I coach! :) It's stressful a lot of times, but it's also a lot of fun. I've met a ton of different people and it's nice to stay busy. Parents aren't always the easiest thing to deal with, but a lot of times, they're really great and caring people. I just have to remember to have a thick skin, and that I can't always please everyone.

Anyway, this week it pretty full with volleyball and Bryan isn't too happy...

I'm coaching a travel team. We have practice twice a week for 3 hours each and then 1-2 tournaments a month starting in January. But, I volunteered to help out in tryouts for the local team on Saturday and also volunteered to fill in for an adult league on Friday. So that's volleyball Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Ahhhh well... last day of work before the weekend! Woo! I don't want to stay out incredibly late tonight, but I wouldn't mind going and getting a beer. Tim's bday party on Saturday...

And that's about it...

xo

South Carolina

Bryan's company might move to South Carolina in 2011.

What on earth will we do if they offer him a job down there?

And if they don't, what on earth will we do if Bryan doesn't have a job?

It's a lose-lose situation.

Crap.