...Think we can survive it?

Hallelujah! Only 18ish more school days until freedom!
(Yeah, I know. I have exclamationitis today. It's all good though because an exclamation point shows all sorts of emotion! Which I am indeed feeling. :p)
OK so not entire freedom. There's still work. And stuff like that.
Lovely.
It's so strange to think of next year being my last year in high school.
Even weirder yet, is the fact this IS the last year for a lot of my friends, and my cousin Aubree.
I'm rather sad that she's leaving. Europe this summer, then Ephraim for school next year.
Odd.
Time really does go fast. And it just keeps speeding up.
Remember when you were little and five minutes seemed like forever! Or when three months of summer seemed equal to the nine spent in school?
Total childhood naivety and deception!?!
How come no one told me that time really wasn't as slow as I thought, or that I'd be graduating before I could even blink?
(Oh, right. They did. Haha. But what little kid ever listens to that stuff? Uh, not me apparently.)
There are a handful of girls that I know who are either graduating seniors this year, or else freshman in college, who are engaged.
Um, do you KNOW what this means???
I COULD BE GETTING ENGAGED MUCH SOONER THAN I'VE ANTICIPATED!
Not that marriage is a bad thing, or that getting engaged soon would totally rain on my parade; I mean really. By all means, Mr. Prince Charming, come sweep me off my feet as soon as you want.
(Almost. Gimme at the bare minimum two years.)
Although I'm not too worried about having to worry about being swept off my feet.
I can't really picture anyone willingly submitting himself to my oddities and strange dramatics for time AND all eternity.
(Yes, cliche, I know.)
I actually am more on the side of Maria (the adorable foreign exchanged student from Germany.) She told me the other day that she didn't love cats or anything so she was planning on becoming a crazy cello lady. Cellos in her front yard, hanging from trees, the worn gloss reflecting it's melancholy life of being a 'pet' of Maria. :p She also would have a plethora of cellos inside that she'd play creepy circus music, way too many octaves high.
Although I'm pretty sure that being a crazy cello lady would work better if I actually played the cello
(Wow, hold up. Newsflash. It has most DEFINITELY been a long tiring day because I just attempted to spell 'played' 'plaied'. Yeah. English major- to be. Right.)
So instead of cellos, I'll be the crazy... maybe I'll just be crazy. Hmm. Sounds about right.
AAANyway.
Enough of this rambling.
But before I finally stop this chattering,
Book review time. :D
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton.
(Who by the way is a girl. Didn't know that.)
She began writing this at FIFTEEN! OK, so that makes me feel good. All my writing attempts are silly cheesy, not very good stories that are basically gorgeous girls and charming guys who fall in love. (Aka, what I wish my life was like. :p)
The Outsiders, (if you're a crier) is a tear jerker at some moments. Given the fact I was already a basket case when I was reading it, I pretty much depleted my tear ducts over that stinkin book. But it's GOOD. It makes you think about society, and human interactions. How 'the other guys' feel, and things like that.
It's all so true too. The 'greasers' and the 'socs' are the main groups, and the greasers all think that the socs have it so good. They have cool cars, lots of money, all the girls. Life is paradise for them obviously.
But Ponyboy meets a girl at the theater and they talk for a while,
but what caught my eye was when she stopped and just looked at him for a minute, then stated that life is rough on both ends.
He thinks about it for a while, wondering how in the world could being rich and getting away with everything be tough. But he's a deep fourteen year old. It's actually really enjoyable to be 'in his head' and hear his thoughts. He brings up new perspectives on things.
Anyway,
point being, it's great. And if you haven't read it already, please do! :D

Random quotes for today. Or maybe just for this moment.

"It makes sense. When you get stabbed, they fix you with knives.... a needle is a relative of the knife: sharp, pointy?"

"Duh, he's a boy. They live for this goldfish swallowing stuff."

"This feels like chapstick!"
(Haha, so funny. You had to be there.)

"The shoulder? In the office?.... It's HIM!"

"Put your stretchy pants on....... TONIGHT!"
(Twins make our lives so much more... unique. Haha. They're nut cases. There's even hand actions to this one.)

"Shannon! Shannon!! Quote book! Put it in the quote book!"

"The babies keep saying, 'I want, I want...' THIS!"
(Hehe... best home video)

"Sometimes we have to pick on people who pick on us to make us feel better.
It's not very righteous, but it's ok, because we feel better inside." :p
(Contradictory?)

"He works for 5 Buck Pizza.... and he delivers."
( :D Best girl's movie night of all times. And the eating lizzards and hyper space? Ptsh, it's un-beatable.)

"-It's only 30 minutes,
- No, it's half an hour stupid."

"It's like asian cannibalism."
(Huh?)

"Not that taco, or that taco.... THAT taco." :D

"I have a word! ... I mean a phrase!"

"Cinnamon? Cinnamon my foot! It tastes like cinnamon ON my foot!"

"That's IT! That's it. I am SO going on a romantic detox. Who needs boys anyway? It's not like they're useful. Or cute. Or fun to be around.... NO! Wait! Detox, Detox!"

pride and prejudice, colleges, piano, summer, cut grass and texting.

Well, I'm going to say it's safe to assume just about everyone else is as busy as I feel because it seems like it's been forever since people have posted. Of course it could just be that I never check this anymore, but hey.
School is coming to an end.
Do you even realize how WEIRD that is?? I counted down yesterday in Geography while I was being murdered via boredom. We have 22 school days left. Where has the year gone?? And next year I'll be a senior. (I still feel too little to be a senior, like maybe I should still be making mud pies in the back yard rather than touring colleges.)
And speaking of colleges, my cousin Maycee and I went to Snow College in Ephraim to attend a "Snow Blast". Basically we drove down in her car (haha, following my parents :p We were mostly independant though, right?) and discussed the devilish torments of boys. And girls. And mostly just drama in general. We got there and met the cutest girl, Laura (something that starts with a W.) who is engaged, along with two of the other Ambassadors there. They were HILARIOUS at the table when we were eating dinner talking about weddings and plans and Texas. And shopping. :p (Maycee I hope you read this because only you can fully appreciate that part.) Anyway, Laura gave us a tour of the campus, (COOLEST MUSIC BUILDING! .... and lots of other cute buildings. I really like Ephraim :D) and after lots of walking, bell towers, and flights of stairs we went back to the 'noise hall' (?) and split into our housing groups... we stayed with one of the Ambassadors in her apartment... which by the way was adorable. I'm so excited to graduate now. :D Anyway, her rather attractive next door neighbors came over (apparently they do that every time there's a snow blast :p) and they visited for a while. Then there was the hay ride and dinner at Roy's pizza place thingy... and more 'scenery'... and then we went to a bon-fire where a SUPER scenic pre-dental major guy decided we needed to play "Bum Charades" :p where you have to spell out a word with your bum in the air. I can't decide if it's probably borderline inappropriate because you're not only giving people permission to look at your *ahem* behind, but you are ENCOURAGING them to watch your silly bum-wiggling. :p Although I can't blame anyone, because it is quite hillarious. :p So after way too long of mud, and bum charades and burning three couches we went back to the apartment. And it was like a giant girls' sleepover horror. haha. Actually it was really fun.
Next topic!
Summer. :D (ahhh!) Beautiful, wonderful, warm summer! No school, no homework-
no homework. :D :D :D (double ahh!)
It's been warm- finally- and so windows in school and at home have been opened for the cooling down of it's occupants. :D And I can smell mowed lawns, which flips the switch for flash backs of summers' past. :) I love it! It makes me think of Circleville when I had to mow the lawn and I hated it. :p And the 'island' in the front by the white fence with the quaky trees. It's beautiful! And green, and shady... I miss our old house a lot actually. And our trampoline :) (sigh) good times. :D haha. I miss our yard and our lane, and my bridge. :p And the pastures and old haunted houses. :)
(wow. cliche of smiley faces. Geeze Shan, calm down.)


There are only four-ish more Tuesdays before school gets out. Which means only four more days to teach piano before summer break.
I'm torn on how I feel about it though.
Gracia and Allisen are sooooo adorable! :D I'm going to miss them; Gracia and her intense concentration while she counts "Quarter, quarter quarter, half-note-dot" and wiggles her head to the beat. :) And Allisen's shy grins while she pretends like she doesn't absolutely HATE being at piano lessons. :p They're cute girls, I hope they come back next year for sure.
Emily and Bri are planning a good behavior party.
And I cant even remember what I was going to say about texting but I must go now.
I have to get ready to go to this stake dance class thingy for youth conference...
random, but way fun!
I"m excited. :) I love dancing.
.... so uh, aurevoir? :p