a bit about myself

felt like doing this. so here we go.

i've learned that sometimes the best things in life come from hard work. sometimes you get lucky and things come easily, but it's important, as corny as it sounds, to count your blessings. i like when things come easily- i know i'm spoiled and i like that i don't have to pay my phone bill and i get my own car. those are all great, but in a way i feel like i've had to work for those too. if i didn't work hard in school, if i wasn't responsible, if my parents didn't feel like they could trust me, i wouldn't have my own car and i'd probably have to pay my phone bill, or maybe i would just have a not so cool phone and less text messages...but the truth is that life is not measured in how many text messages you're allowed in a month. life, if you're going to measure it in text messages, should be measured in the text messages that are filled with those inside jokes that you'll remember forever, that will never get old. i've grown up a whole lot this year and i get told that i sound a lot more like i'm 30 than 19. i've learned a whole lot. sometimes the best things don't come just from hard work, but from believing in doing something that you never thought you'd do, like go away to college. maybe, just maybe, i'll ride a loop the loop roller coaster...but then again, i don't see that as a life experience that measures up to going away to school.at this time last year, i'd have rather rode that dumb roller coaster. now i'd rather go back to school! and not because it's the lesser of two evils, but because Salve is one of the best things that's ever happened to me. it's no longer something to be afraid of. but as i mentioned in one of my earlier posts, it would be nice if i could have everyone in one place. before i went to Salve, the only people i missed were my cousins, who live all over the place, and Laura, who moved to north carolina. i missed my summerstock friends during the year, but there was the security of knowing that they were just an IM (we IM more than call in most cases) away, and before we knew it the summer would be here and it would be time for another show. even when i was done with summerstock, we still saw each other more during the summer because we all had more time. now i feel like a grown up...no more summerstock, but rather a nine to five job which i do love, but still...and now i get to direct a summer show, God willing there are enough kids to pull it off...but as i said, there is as solution to EVERY problem. Michelle and I were talking about good-byes before and how much they suck. they do. they really, really do. even though i don't see them as often as i used to since college, my aunt Viv and Uncle Jay are moving to Maryland and i think my parents are avoiding the subject. but i couldn't help but hug them very, very tightly when they left our house on Sunday. now i'll have to miss them. i'll also have to miss Charlie and Jeanne from choir, even though i don't see them all that often since college either. but now i'm missing everyone at school and there are just so many people to miss and not see a whole lot. but in every case, we all know that we're all there for each other. communication is so easy these days. almost too easy. i think that's all for now. i am, after all, becoming quite the grown up and i need to go to bed because there will be a whole lot of insurance to look over in eight hours from now.