Here it comes (or goes?).

Tomorrow is my last day of high school! I think I'm going to miss high school. It's been good to me for the past four years. I'll miss seeing people and playing soccer and all the fun stuff. But I'm excited to start something new.

Graduation is Saturday! I can't wait to see my family and friends who are coming to visit. My party is going to really fun too. You should come. It'll probably start around 3:30 pm, if you're not going to the ceremony.

I'm loving the weather right now. Rumor has it, there are going to be thunderstorms tomorrow. I love thunderstorms. Really, I just love it when the weather changes in any way, but thunderstorms are almost my favorite. After snow, that is.

I played my piano again today. This time with my sister! Just like the old days... We were jammin'.

I still need a job. Hook me up if you know of anything promising.

Yes, I am still alive.

It's been a while... Too long, in my opinion.

I'm not entirely sure why I stopped posting. I think I just wanted to take a little break after passing my senior project. I was feeling the senioritis reallllly bad at that point and had no motivation to do a lot of things. I also wanted to make sure that I was writing because I wanted to... not just because I had gotten into the habit.

Anyways, today I was feeling the need to blog. How about we do a little catching up, hmm??

Those pictures up top are from prom this year. It was quite the night of fun. I went with a group of my girlfriends and their dates and, of course, my date was my boyfriend. Before the dance, we went from house to house taking pictures and eating delicious food that our parents provided for us. We had appetizers at one, dinner at another, and dessert at one more house.

What else? Oooh! I made my college decision. This fall, I'm headed to Eugene for U of O. To be honest, I'm not very excited about it. I really wanted to go to Missouri, but there are several reasons why that isn't logical for me, the most prominent being money. I know life will be good wherever I go, but it's hard to be jazzed for a school that is only an hour away and will also have a bunch of people that I went to high school with, none of which are my close friends. However, U of O did give me some decent scholarship money and in-state tuition is significantly less than out-of-state.

I have 7 days of high school left! Craaaazy. I can't believe it's almost over. I'm glad to be getting out though. It's time for something new, I think. I'm having a graduation party too! My friend Katelyn and I are combining for a party at my house right after the graduation ceremony at my house. If you're reading this, then you are probably invited. :)

Other stuff:

I'm all done with club soccer and am missing playing/running/endorphins, but knee is sort of hurt and is preventing me from working out.

I LOVE the nice weather we've been having. I have been spending a good amount of my time outside.

When I was in my projects class (it's interior design/home economicsish stuff...), I realized that I hate sewing.

I went to Outdoor School as a high school staff member and it was really good.

I really need to find a job. So if you know of somebody that is hiring, you should let me know. Pleeeeease.

I missed blogging. This post was slightly painful since I haven't done it for so long, but it needed to happen. I hope people keep reading because I like writing and I promise not to desert you for two months again.

help me!

For some reason, Blogger won't let me do paragraph breaks by skipping lines. It's driving me crazy!!! I'm sure it's probably annoying you too... I have tried everything I can think of. If you have any idea how to fix it, please please please let me know!

Love,
Kelly

lovely spring break.

Who invented spring break?? Because whoever he/she/they are, I would like to compliment them. Or marry them. Or do something that would show my undying appreciation towards this blessed week off.

Anyways, my spring break was awesome. I just got home from Seattle, for the second time in a week. The first trip was for a Christian youth event held at the Key Arena. It was a lot of fun and I got to spend some quality time with friends and people from my youth group.

I spent a few days in Sunriver/Bend skiing with my parents too. Mt. Bachelor was gorgeous - some of the best and prettiest snow I've seen in a long time. I had the best ski day of my entire life on Thursday. The snow and weather conditions were absolutely perfect. Even the summit lift was great without the usual harsh winds and bad visibility. However, I did pay for my fun.

Listen to me now, all of you. If you ever go skiing or snowboarding, don't decide that because you're invincible/hate the smell of sunscreen/hate taking off your gloves to put on sunscreen/it's not really thaaat sunny.. that you don't need sunscreen. Because you do. Otherwise, you end up with a nice sunburn on half of your face with a perfect outline of where your goggles used to be.

Yes, that is how I look right now, and believe me, it is not pretty.

Anyways. My second Seattle trip was nice and relaxing too. I slept for 12 hours one night I was there! Who does that? I know I haven't in a really long time. Perhaps that's why I needed to. I also got some quality shopping done at the Macy's in Bellevue and drank lots of Tully's coffee. It was very enjoyable.

Now I have to go back to school tomorrow and face a new trimester. Also, now don't start shedding tears yet, my senior project (this blog) will be over and done with (hopefully) by April 9th. That doesn't mean that I'll stop posting, it just means I will be doing it entirely for fun after that day. Wish me luck with my presentation!

what a life...

Spring Break cannot get here soon enough, let me tell you. I have been pretty darn busy these days. This trimester of school is wrapping up, which is a nice way of saying my life is rather stressful.

Mostly, just calculus is stressful. I think my math teacher might hate her calculus classes. She decided that one final wasn't enough. Instead, she gave us three. Three! Excessive? I think yes. But... silver lining: Tomorrow I will take my last high school math test EVER!

Soccer has also been hectic for me. Last weekend, I made three trips to Portland. I had another game in Portland this weekend too. I scored an epic goal though. It was in the last two minutes of the game and my team was down by one. I shot from far out on the left side and hit the right post of the goal and it bounced in. The keeper was this really obnoxious girl that I have been playing against all through high school so it was especially satisfying to score on her.

We found out the results from our cooking competition this week too. My team placed 11th, in the top third of the competition. I guess we were really close in points to a few other teams too.

At this point, I'm just looking forward to a week of vacation. I'll be in Seattle for about half of the break and in Sunriver for the other half. Hopefully, I'll get some skiing, shopping, and quality relaxing done. I'm hoping to see a concert of some kind while I'm in Seattle too.

my trip to mizzou!

Last week, I finally got in my visit to the University of Missouri. My dad and I flew out to Kansas City and then drove to Columbia where the university is. I loved the school! Everything about it so nice. The buildings are all well-kept and beautiful, unlike most state schools I have been to. Columbia has about 90,000 people and the university has close to 30,000. It's definitely a college town where everyone gets into football games.

The journalism school is really exceptional too. It's the reason I want to go there so badly, and I wasn't disappointed when I toured it. They have a lot of opportunities to practice journalism too, including a couple of newspapers and magazines and an NBC station for their broadcast majors. They just finished the construction on their journalism school last year, so the facility is great.

Also, I got to see my friend Sam Bookwalter on my visit. He took me to a couple of his classes and showed me around everywhere. I kicked his butt at ping pong too. It was definitely nice to have a familiar face in a place that was new to me.

The trip home wasn't so good though. One of our flights got delayed, causing us to miss our connector flight into Eugene. We ended up spending the night in Denver and catching a 6 a.m. flight home. I was also getting stalked by this creepy guy who was on our flight out of Kansas City.

The photos are all of the Mizzou campus except for the one on top which is a shot of the sunset from inside the Kansas City airport.

This trip made me decided that I really want to go there. It costs a lot for out-of-state tuition though. And I have my doubts about whether or not I could handle being so far away from home. I think I would be willing to make a few sacrifices for it. We'll see...

more photos... for your enjoyment.

The top two photos are of me and my team in our kitchen. The bottom one is the long table that held all of the food from each school along with their menus. There were some really interesting and intricut dishes from other schools. I should have taken some close-ups, but it was beginning to be a little food-pornish. What is food-porn, you ask? Pictures of really scrumptious looking food that make your mouth water. Or for the adventurous ones, the Food Channel on TV. Anyways, don't stare too long...