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All right, all right. Argh. This weekend we're on a reality TV show without the TV. It's called Life Without Mom. It's been all right so far, I guess. The only thing that happened to me that probably wouldn't have if she was here was that I forgot my basketball bag with my purse inside at the gym last night. But thankfully, my wonderful Dad went and got it for this morning and nothing was missing from it.

Thursday night we played Spirit in basketball. It's their JV team, which also includes at least 3 girls from their freshman team. We lost by one point. And then we played Dikaios last night and won, 46-8.


Next Thursday Mom and I are going down to San Diego to preview one of my college choices. Here's the schedule, which sounds like tons of fun:

Thursday: February 15th
3:00 p.m.3:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.5:30 p.m.6:00 p.m.7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.10:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.
Visitors arrive/move into dorm
Parent & Student Panel Discussion
CFAW Campus Tour
CFAW Dinner
Open Dorms (until 10 pm)
Women's Basketball Game
Intramurals - Basketball
Intramurals - Basketball
70's Movies/Activities in the Main Lounge



Friday: February 16th
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Class
9:00 a.m.
Class
10:00 a.m.
Chapel – Ricky Page, SDCC Campus Pastor
11:00 a.m.
Class
12:00 Noon
Lunch
1:00 – 4:00

Free time Activities: Art show, Solid Rock Cafe Live Music, Solid Rock Cafe CFAW Prospective Student Interviews
4:30 p.m.
Alumni Arrive
5:00 p.m.
Dinner Reception in Pavilion & Dining Hall *
7:30 p.m.
Drive-in Movie - between Center Court & East DormAnnouncement of Homecoming Court
10:00 p.m.
Broomball in Mira Mesa

And also Saturday, but the copy and paste thingie went crazy.

My friend Katie is also going and so is another girl from my senior class. Katie and I are both really excited. Maybe now this whole thing about me going to college next year will finally sink in.

And this is why I haven't posted in a while. I have nothing to say. So bye.

Blogging has almost become a thing of the past for me. Ah, no time to idly let my fingers wander over the keys, no time to stalk-*ahem*-keep up with others. Mostly that is because there is really nothing exciting going on around here. And my feelings are usually in a tumult (no, not over boys) or just clopping along like an old mare. I don't share the tumulty ones and the old nag ones are just...well, you get the picture. And don't laugh at my word-pictures.

Conference was great, a good time had by all.

And of course...USC WON THE ROSE BOWL!!!!!!! Ahem. Thanks, Caleb for supporting the team you know you should be supporting all the time.

I've been having to act like a mother lately because my mom got called for jury duty last week. School, food, basketball, babysitting!! All of those without a mother! Just kidding. She's only been gone two days total.

This past weekend we went to the desert and stayed with our friend Rachel. We spent the night Sat night and on Sun morning broke the (frozen) pipes so we didn't have water. On Sat night we had chili and custard and crazy cake and played Mexican Train with Charles and Tom. Then on Sun we went to Jim and Jan's modular (don't you dare call it a trailer) and had meeting and lunch. Bryce and Barb, Bryce's parents, Erwin, and Doreen were out also. Gwen, JoEllen, and I were the youngest ones there. The age gap was from 17 to about 45. It was still lots of fun. Good food, better stories, and loud laughs.

Speaking of mothering, I have to teach my 4-year-old class all by myself tomorrow so I'd better get to bed.

What a cutie!

Drew and the little girl Bethany wanted to take home with her.

This is Martin, who I wanted to take home with me. I'm bouncing a ball for him, which he was quite enthralled with.

This is Sophia's brother with Karly.

This was the little girl who attached herself to Stephanie. Her name was Sophia.

Well, tomorrow is Christmas. Needless to say for my fellow Southern Californians, it does NOT feel like Christmas at all. In fact, tomorrow is supposed to be a pleasant 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Lovely. It's been over a month since I last posted (hehe) so there's a lot to catch you faithful readers up on.

Let's see...

School...

I applied to four colleges and have so far been accepted at three of them. At WJU, I have an $8000 academic scholarship waiting for me, and it can be renewed every year with a maintenance GPA of 3.0. Whoohoo!! And then at SDCC I potentially can get $32000 or $24000 over four years depending on how I do in the competition I have to participate in to get it. Confusing I know. Read it a few times and it will make sense. I promise! I also got accepted to SU, where Stephanie is going, but I don't really want to go there. I'm really excited about going down to SDCC in a couple months for a preview weekend. I was driving down the 5 yesterday through SD, and I really love that area. Big trees, big houses, big freeways, the ritzy beach feel, if you've been down there you'll know what I'm talking about...Right now that's my top choice.

So why was I driving that far down the 5 yesterday you ask? Well, it was because I was on my way to Mexico for the first time. Our little "youth group" and Sid and Linda and their neighbors Mark and Diane took shoebox presents down to an orphanage in Rosarito and then had lunch and went shopping. =) It is truly amazing how much poverty is there. I've seen pictures and TV reports or whatever, but it's quite a different thing to see it in person. Even the "clean and neat" neighborhoods are still what we would consider the poor section of town. I can't imagine living like these people do.

We went to this orphanage and it was amazing. Well, the experience was amazing, not the orphanage. I was told that this location was a 1000 times better than the place they were in last year, but there's also no guarantee that they'll be in this place next year. We met Mark and Diane's son, who is the pastor at the Calvary Chapel in Rosarito, and drove to the orphanage with Cindy, who lives in Rosarito and spends most of her time in the orphanage, and Jesus, who is the associate pastor at Calvary Chapilla.

Some of the kids there are so affectionate! Within 30 seconds of arriving there over a washboard road, Stephanie had two kids hanging off her. One of them wouldn't leave her for the rest of the time. I found a little boy I wanted to adopt and got to hold him and open his shoebox for him. They were all so loving and unselfish. Everyone helped everyone else open their presents without shoving or grabbing or "That's mine!"'s. One little boy even shared his gum with Drew and Sid, even though he only got one 5-pack. Pictures can tell the story somewhat better...

Okay okay. Sheesh Brittanie, so impatient!! =) So here's what has happened while I haven't updated...

I've gotten 2nd in our volleyball tourney, taken another SAT, went to Disneyland and had a wonderful day, started basketball, sent in college applications, did school, heard about USC losing, watched USC beat Oregon and Cal, went to a volleyball party where we were up til 4 in the morning, and I think that's about it.

Yesterday at the game, a somewhat drunk Mexican man told me he "loved my eyes". Weird. And the Cal tuba player fell down while they were highstepping through the endzone. Ha.

Does this explain the wedding picture?

Well, yesterday closed another chapter of my young life. It was my last last last volleyball practice. Us senior girls (woohoo all 5 of us) got in a group hug and "cried", which involved more obnoxious wailing than anything else. It was sad though. These girls, except for Tracy, have been with me since I was about 9 years old. Larissa and I have many good memories of coed volleyball =), Rochelle and I have been basketball buddies since that was coed too. Katie is my long lost twin, and we've had a lot of fun together over 8 years. Not that we'll never see each other again or anything, but that's just one thing we've enjoyed together that's gone. =( Don't get me wrong, I'm sooo HAPPY to be graduating and out of high school this year, it's just all the "lasts" that get me sad. Especially since I love love love volleyball and am NOT looking forward to basketball.

I brought cupcakes to make it better and for Larissa's birthday, which was yesterday. (Happy Birthday Larissa!) They were french vanilla, but I added some vanilla extract and cinnamon to the batter and frosting. I experimented and it worked!! Yay!

Saturday is the volleyball tournament, which is, again, the LAST one.

I'm depressed. I'm not ready to grow up. But highschool is dumb. Boys are dumb. I want to move on and become a grownup.

I'm ready to grow up.