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Well folks, I have yet another move to announce... this time it's to Hawaii. (Yes, I am being completely serious here.) It was kind of a surprise, and I'm a little tired of all of the packing and unpacking I've had to do over the last couple months, but hey! How many times do you get offered the chance to go live in Hawaii and be with family? Let me tell ya, not often.

I've grown (in my 4 weeks of being here) to really, really like Texas. Colleyville is a great place, it has everything you need, and if you want a little something extra then Dallas and Ft. Worth are both only 30 minutes away (mind you, not in rush hour traffic). Yes, I've come to realize what the actual meaning of rush hour traffic is, not the pretend 5 minute delay we sometimes had on Coburg Road in Eugene. This is messy, jerks constantly cutting you off, moving at 5 miles an hour (if that) for miles and miles. I'm not going to miss that, however I am going to miss a few other things.

My aunt and uncle, kids, grandparents, and cousin have done a wonderful job of making me feel at home here. I'm going to miss them terribly, because I'm only just beginning to really know them. I didn't really have a chance to know them because I had been living in Oregon while they were in Texas. I'm also going to miss my job, I love it. The girls are super nice and the managers are great. The discounts are also going to be one of those missed greatly, haha. The classes that I had here were really good too with awesome teachers. Ceramics and photography were my favorite, but you win some, you lose some, right?

I'm going to be living with my Aunt Jenica and her family in Laie, it's on the north shore of Hawaii close to BYU and right down the road from the temple. She told me that it's pretty much like living in the country, so it's going to be a big change from living in Texas where there are tons of things going on, tons of people; tons of everything. I'm going to be a nanny for my cousins over the next couple of months, and then hopefully going to school in the summer to catch up for the school that I'm missing out on right now.

Another thing, the dad is getting married! I'm happy for him that he's found someone he wants to spend the rest of his life with. It was definitely... a surprise, but oh well. What can you do? Hopefully I'll be able to go home for the wedding, but we'll see how that goes. If I don't, I won't be back home until the end of August! Oh baby, that's kind of scary to think about, but exciting!

My new address is going to be:

55-651 Lanihuli Pl.

Laie, HI 96762

Write me! :)

"You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person."

--Scott Sorrell

Sometimes.

Sometimes things happen in your life that make you wonder what really matters. There are things that you do that you wish you hadn't, there are things that you wish you could change about your life and yourself, there are things you wish you could change about other people... but what I've come to realize, is that that is what makes you who you are. All of your life experiences are just little pieces making up the person who you are to become. Yes, they may not necessarily be what you want at the time, but as my good friend said, "Shut it, grow a pair, and deal with it." It will all work out in the end.

Mhmm.

Well it seems that's I've somewhat turned into a Texan. I got the plaid collared shirt and some of my words have gotten a little bit of an accent to go along with them. I have yet to get the cowboy boots and hat though...

My negatives turned out great for my first assignment for photo class. I have a pretty cool shot that I printed today that's of barbed wire. It's drying though, so I'll put it up when I get it back. I'm learning a lot in that class and I hope to continue on learning everything that I can. It's great!

Last night I couldn't really sleep, the T.V. was blaring, the driveway light was on, the blinds didn't work, lots of things going through my head. I had it in the plan to go to a spin class this morning that started at 5:45, but when I couldn't call asleep until 12 I figured that wasn't the brightest idea. And so, I haven't worked out yet today. And I don't know that I'm going to. Maybe I'll go in for a steam room run later tonight, who knows?

The weather is pretty nice today, about 60 and sunny with a little wind. I'm really liking it a lot. It has been getting pretty chilly at night, but that's when you're supposed to be inside, right? I'm off to practice my speech that I just wrote for today's class, wish me luck.

Gee Whiz.

Well, I thought today was going to be a great day. In yoga I touched my forehead to my shins for the first time, woo! Then later I found out that my dad told everyone else but me that he's getting married. Now I realize why everyone was asking me if he had called or not. He finally did. He called back a day AFTER I called him and left a message. Glad to know that my dad didn't have the balls to call his own daughter.
Can't wait for this whole marriage thing to happen. I get to be ignored even more than before. Yay. Maybe he'll just stop talking to me altogether.

And just for the record, it's not Devry. Nothing against her. This is all on my dad. This happens no matter who he's dating. So stop telling me that she's great... that's not the point (and it's not "consolation") and I'm tired of hearing it.