These girls need some peacock feathers.

I know there's almost a month of summer left, but I feel like mine is winding down fast. Coming back from a two week trip is a really big shocker. Gas prices rose from 2.87 to 3.09, a war started in the middle east, the president swore into an open microphone, I got all this mail for colleges that all the sudden I'm supposed to start thinking about, my little sister grew a couple inches, and all the while this is happening, I'm clueless in Canada. Coming home was a little overwhelming, now that I'm finally settled in, my outlook is a little bleak. From now until the end of summer I work every week day at my job, which I love, but is hard, especially every day like that. Blake left for camp today and he's pretty much gone until school except for a week in the middle somewhere, which we're definately going to have to take advantage of. I'm going to miss that kid. The hardest thing right now is that I'm finally looking at the whole concept of not seeing the graduates much anymore. Small high schools are funny things because I saw Kristina, Dawn, Travis, Ellie, Karen, Evan, Adriane, Shelli, all these people every single day of the week, and now with band done, and even before then, I keep saying things like, we have to keep in touch and we'll e-mail, and all the while in the back of my mind thinking, I hope we do, but... I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks like that, I really hope not. School without them in a month will be so different, that's an understatement. Anyways, we really do have to keep in touch.

The last couple days have been exceptional. Sydnie came on Thursday. We went to see The Devil Wears Prada which was very predictable, but in a good way. I liked it. It was fun. Meryl Streep is amazing. Friday we did all sorts of thrift store shopping, and I picked up the last of my pictures from band trip and got scrapbook paper. It was a good day. Oh, also that night we through ourselves a 21st birthday party. We had cake and party hats and I opened Evan's graduation present from Sydnie, which she rewrapped later. It was one of those really random, spur of the moment things, that pictures just don' t do justice to and no one else really understands, but you remember for a very long time. I love things like that. Saturday was Evan's party. We got there first, which was fun and I think Sydnie really liked since she hasn't seen those guys in awhile. It was a very good crowd, which made for a very good party. The guys played soccer. Ellie taught me the cup game which I have never been able to learn, but finally got yesterday. We stayed pretty late, 11:45 ish, but I guess some people stayed until 1 or 2, I'm just not that cool. People kept talking about band. Dave made a really good entrance. Ben Folds. Pool. Good stuff. Being my usual clutsy self, I left all of my piano books there and and didn't realize it till we'd left so I don't know what I'm going to do about that. Evan can use them for awhile, most of them are his anyway. In the car on the way back Sydnie and I talked a lot, which was awesome, because I haven't had a chance to talk about any of it really. It was the sort of thing I always talked about with Adriane during the school year, actually it was the same thing, but bigger. It felt weird talking to someone other than her about it. I imagine it's good for me to move on and I'll still talk to her about it, because she's always helped. Once I got over how different it was, Sydnie really helped. Thanks Syd. We went to church this morning, and then Sydnie left around noon. We've talked about doing something like that for awhile and actually just doing it, was awesome. I need a new adjective.

I guess that's the update. I feel silly writing so much when I just made a big one a week ago. So sorry about that to both of you who read this. Love you all.