i'm having a garage sale saturday and i am going through my *suprise!* garage. suprise is one of those words that i can NEVER remember how to spell correctly, no matter how many times i try. like the word receive (recieve?), fourty (forty?) suprise (surprise?) commitee (comittee?)...drives me crazy. because of my lost wallet, i have been writing quite a few checks. they all seem to be some derivative of $40. that's fourty? forty? why can i not remember which one it is?

anyways, i came across a folder that has my essays from high school. hilarious! my words of wisdom, as a ninth grader, on friendship:

true friendships are few and far between in the modern world. many people have aquaintences, not friends. in your busy lives, we forget simple things such as help with a particulary difficult task, hugs, and heat-to-heart talks. in our materialistic world we put ourselves before our friends too often...through this experience i learned how i must respect the feelings of my friends if i want to keep them

i found some great pictures, too. maybe i'll post them tomorrow. :)....

update: it's tomorrow. it seems as if before every dance in HS i posed on the bench in our front hall for a picture. me as a freshman (prom), freshman (homecoming), sophmore (homecoming), junior (prom-check out my FIRST pair of birkenstocks under the bench). hahaha. emptying out the garage is becoming entertaining. ok, maybe not for y'all, but it is for me. :)