Oh Herkimer........

Today I talked to one of my best friends. She is WICKED funny! I have so many memories from Herk-towne filled with KT! We aren't ever really too serious with each other. We can go for so long without talking and when we do it's like there was never a time lapse of communication! She also let me in on a little secret... she got caller ID!!!! No more... "who is this?"!!! Maybe the next time she calls me I will answer and she will say "This is Katie"!! I call her Katherine b/c it pisses her off! And everytime I wear my Herk hoodie with the pink writing I think of her! My how times have changed!!!!!!!!

No more-
"Younger tucker girl in a push up bra"
drunken looks
not too many crazy nights
passing out at Denny's
Chas crying!
losing contact
hanging out with your folks
hating Cagny?!
skipping class
Jeff Carpenter
Jack Alaimo
Michael Ray!!!!! I bet you forgot about him!!! You two were WICKED good together!
Rick (good job!) you deserve way better
having Louie move my car, I am better in reverse now!
Ilion
Mohawk
Old Golds!
Smoker Friendly
many many more!!!!!!

More of:
growing up
being good with money!
learning... liking and appreciating it!
liking school
being on our own (for real)
having new cars
keeping in touch
and much more!

I felt happy (I feel happy!) before I talked to Katie! Imagine just how happy I feel now. I am not lost anymore...I found the track again! I thought I fixed it, but apparently it wasn't broken! One month until Keller Williams! Three more days until Pens vs. Canadians!!!! The trip from here to NC is about 10-11 hours, a nice road trip! I could even stop and see the Ross (es) on the way home!!!

Ohiopyle = one of my most favorite places!

I remember when...

Remembering.......

I remember when: (in no particular order)
Stephanie used to go sleep with Scott (and I couldn't understand this what-so-ever)
the balance beam in the kitchen
I stop, you stop, tatiana gu-stop
Binky bunny
hiding stuff in the woods and Lisa with sticks in her hair
a really long phone conversation with Lisa and her saying "who would've thought!"
becoming friends with my sisters
when I realized who I wanted to be and what I wanted out of life
squirt guns
Ohiopyle (2 times)
adult conversations
the songs you played for me
Waste
Wonderful tonight
the found your voice song and sleepy time
buzzkill to Andy's house
getting paid to house sit and wrap Christmas gifts
falling out of my chair in the cafeteria at Herk
smoking a cig in Meghan's house, like it was nothing!
the first time golfing
the 12 tries to finally get up on waterskiis
the first time downhill skiing
the excitement and anticipation of road trips
getting older and liking it!
"running" away to Saranac.... thanks Betty!
Lake Placid and all it's memories, Phish and Virginia!!!!!
hearing about Aaron M behind the bank after the Phish show
small things aren't the end of the world
missing HS, and then being glad I am no longer there!!!!!
how I used to think (in the "tunnel vision" days)
thinking "I will NEVER go back" and being glad about that
business cards
cookies
bad things and experiences can be very beneficial later on
that judging gets you no where fast!
Memorial Weekend 99 and my 5 gallons of water... "yah, I am leaving!" (Fauberts)
sooo many weddings and so little memories!
being Evie
wishing for wishes
childhood fears
the first time I realized life is what you make it
Office 111
Mr. Sovie
Proms
A.T.
my office
Cold Stone Creamery
the Saloon
Freddy's
speaking with the manager
being good at soccer
hating school, and then loving school!
great friends
the St. Lawrence River
Concerts... too many to remember (not that I remember that much of them!)
Breaking my face at the hip show
who's M-O-E?!!! (what a bunch of nerds!)
learning about football
Like Now
the first impressions
the first introductions
being good at basketball
thinking "I play college soccer!"
JA
Mortgage Hill
Hazing... and being sooo scared!
Mexico
Syracuse
Herkimer... good and bad
thinking things were the end of the world!!!!!!!
being and still am proud of myself
curls (not soon to be gone)
smoking Mistys at our first Phish show
what I was thinking when we arrived in Lake Placid
picking up the hitchiker!!!!!
skipping school, what was the number of excuses? 87?!!!! Thanks Mom!
becoming best friends with my mom
hard times and making them better

I love the feelings I get when I think of memeories, and of course this could go on and on. It's all about feelings, right now I feel very grateful! and extremely happy (I feel happy!)!!! I sometimes forget but I am proud of myself and who I have become. I tend to forget to be proud when I feel I didn't do my best at something, only to remember later, I learn from every experience, the good and the bad... succeeding and failing, and it only gets better from there!

Too busy feeling happy! (And hoping the Pens catch up before E gets up!!!)