so lately i've been wondering why no one has been writing anything.
and then i realized that neither have i. [well, nothing that anyone else can see, anyway.]
but i've been quite bored without updates on everyone's lives.
so thanks for getting on that, guys. :D

i've been on vacation in pismo beach since sunday and before that i was in san diego visiting my cousins and going to orientation.

thursday the twenty-ninth: 
i went to the ap bio review session. 
it kinda sucked. it was nice being back in the bio room [for an hour] but after a while i just wanted a nap.
plus the room reeked of fish. i can't remember if it always smelled bad and i got used to it or if it was a new smell, but it was not good.
after wards i had to drop off my records at the doctors and get some shots. i went alone and i haven't had shot since 1998 so i was a little freaked out. it actually didn't hurt that bad. i ended up with three shots, two in each arm. they made me lay down for ten minutes cause i was light-headed, which made me totally nervous to drive home. :/ 
i felt crappy after wards- i was achy and hot and i had a headache. so i lazed around the house and watched mtv dating shows and ate mac and cheese. 
that night we drove down to my cousin's house in san diego because orientation started at eight the next day.
i met my cousin's girlfriend for the first time. he's my age but going into his senior year. it was a little weird.  his girlfriend's name is lauren too. she has brown hair. she likes the same kinds of music i do. she is of average height. she takes ap classes and is pretty smart. 
i was like FUCK. YOU ARE DATING ME. THIS IS WEIRD.
but she asked him out so i guess its okay......?
she was cool though.

friday the first:
i got up at the crack of dawn for orientation, which consisted of lots of random speeches about joinng clubs, going to class, and not doing drugs. two of which i definitely plan on doing. guess which two. [hint: i'm not much of a joiner.] i picked classes [which was a bitch, really. there are so many choices/difficulties/SHIT. i'm exempt from a bunch of classes because of ap's but it wasn't any less confusing.] we drove around my dorm building [which is off campus a bit- hopefully extra walking= no freshman fifteen. unless its the freshman minus fifteen. :D] i'm excited and nervous [both of which people keep telling me. "Aren't you excited? but you must be nervous to leave your entire life....." thanks for that. yes i am, okay!?].
that night my cousins [ben, alex, and jackie], my brother, ben's friends and girlfriend [josh, bijon, and lauren] all piled in their minivan [[alex rode in the trunk :D]] and went to in and out and bowling. it got awkward because ben kept grabbing his girlfriend's ass [why anyone would want that is beyond me.] then we went back to my cousins house and watched some of fight club. then i talked ben into taking me and his girlfriend to get breaking dawn at barnes and noble. i started it that night- it was amazing.

saturday the second:
we came home around lunch time and i proceeded to lock myself in my room with breaking dawn. i didn't finish before i had to go babysit the two kids across the street. i watched annie with the oldest one until she had to go to bed and then i watched tv. i didn't trust myself enough to focus on the kids with breaking dawn in the house, so i left it at home. i went home around ten and started reading at ten-thirty. i started on page three-fifty. i took a break around twelve and tried to sleep with two hundred pages to go. i couldn't. i stayed up until three reading the rest of it. i LOVED it. i promptly passed out.

sunday the third:
i had to get up early [six- ugh!] to drive up to pismo beach for our family vacation.
i crashed in the car for three hours and then watched a dvd on my laptop until we got there.
we didn't do much- walked around, shopped, checked in to the hotel.
i got the pull out bed the first night and evan got stuck on the inflatable mattress. i always try to get the bed first because sometimes evan decides to stay on the floor the next night too. he didn't this time.

monday the fourth:
we went shopping in the morning- i got three pairs of vans on sale. :D
around tweleve was my appointed time to sign up for college classes. i couldn't take one class i wanted and my schedule is the opposite of emily's, which sucks. i have good classes, though. [art history, writing, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy]
then we took a little boat out on morro bay. we got to take ginger with us. it was really fun, puttering around the bay. we went waaaaay past where were suppossed to and the guy who rented us the boat called us on our cell phone to tell us to get back in the boundaries. 
we saw a couple of sea lions and sea otters.
i got stuck on the air mattress that night. it was freezing so close to the ground. i was not happy.

tuesday the fifth:
we woke up early and packed up all our stuff. we took ginger to the beach and let her run in the waves. it was super cold, so after wards she shivered intensely. later we went kayaking in morro bay, where we'd boated the day before.
i got angry because my mom and brother kept cutting me off. plus they were way better kayakers than i was, which didn't help.
we saw tons of otters super close-up. i got sunburned. D; [i'm dying of heatstroke right now.]
on the way home, mat texted me, inviting me to go to warped tour with him, kevin and chloe. 
i felt [and still feel] super bad for ditching lain's birthday party [which is on the same night], but i've wanted to go to warped tour since i bought my first warped tour cd in 2004. i would sell organs to go and all i have to do is pay forty bucks and bribe kevin with gas money. 
so i'm going. :D
i am so freaking-beyond-words-excited to go.