.::back in da Ville::.
Oh I love southern Illinois. Why you ask? Because it's where all my shoes are, that's why.
I got up this morning at 10am and drove from Erin's house back to mine. Her mom came into her room just before she left for work and tucked us both in and kissed our cheeks. It was dang near the cutest thing I've ever seen. I fell back asleep with a huge smile on my face..I love Erin's mom!
So, Paducah was too much to handle. There's no way I could stay there for the whole summer anymore. I see to many stupid people I never wanted to see again. They smell. I do have some great friends there, but I just can't deal. My life is in Lexington now (everyone from Lexington may breathe a sigh of releif now...I'm coming HOME). At the same time, it was nice as heck to to out with Dycus and Marmot and have some girl time on Tuesday night. That was a special night...we just sat around talking about how nobody will ever replace our friends from Lone Oak in our hearts...we'll hopefully end up living near each other again at some point above Coyote Ugly...haha...
Paducah gives me the creeps. I love it, but it creeps me out.
Aaron Peeler has not changed a bit, neither have Rex, Ben, Beau, or any of the fellas. I'm glad they havn't changed. I liked them just how they were.
As for tonight, I've got to organize my pictures onto disk as they have nearly killed my poor iBook. Too many pictures! (I've got nearly 400!!!).

.::we're going to kentucky, we're going to the fair! to see a senorita with roses in her hair::.
Oh kids, I am so excited! This very afternoon I will be seeing my dear buddy Erin in Paducah. I'm going to be there for two days just catching up with her and even seeing Dycus as well. There's no telling what all junk we'll get up to...just like old times. They will be showing me pictures of their boys and I'll be showing them pictures of ITALY. Even trade, I think!
I've got a sneaking suspicion that my appendix is about to explode. I'm not kidding....I'm not sure exactly what it is, but the pain is coming from an area near where my appenxix is supposed to be (thank you Yahoo!Health). It's not really acute, but more like a dull ache. I can only hope that one of my ovaries is dying and finally deciding to leave me alone. Maybe the other one will take the cue that neither of them will ever be necessary to me and just frigging disintigrate.
I was reading some of the book of Acts last night, since it's that time of year for the Holy Spirit and whatnot for us Catholic kids. There was this weird tapping at my window, and it was really starting to freak me out. So I moved back out of my window and over to my bed to read. The tapping stopped but I'm pretty sure it was Satan trying to get me to stop reading the Bible or something. Weird. Maybe it was a hummingbird. Those little guys are pretty stupid when it comes to windows.
So anyway, in this book of Acts, I was reading about all the exciting stuff that happened to the Apostles after Jesus jumped up into the sky like a pole vaulter (what goes us must come down). These two angels were sitting there watching the men of Galilee look up at the sky and they said, "HEY! Idiots! Jesus went home for a while but he'll come back in just the same way as you saw him leave. So stop looking into the sky. Morons." *paraphrasing may not be Biblically accurate*
Ok, so they went back down the mountain and appointed a new guy to take the place of Judas and then all sorts of hell broke loose. This one guy Stephen was stoned to death but as he died was begging God to forgive his murders. Stuff like that. It beat the heck out of any book or movie I've ever seen...you guys should check it out. It's pretty interesting. Either that, or go see 2Fast2Furious. Whatever floats your boat.
The Benjamin Gate (my fave band *ADRIAN ROX*) released a new CD while I was gone called Contact. It's really butt kicking, especially this song called "Overkill." Pay notice to the updates on their website...Adrian is engaged now! That's so cool...she's got such a powerful voice...dang I wish I could sing like that somewhere else but my car! Ok, so, if you're wondering who her fiancee is, Jeremy Camp, I challenge you to check out his website and read his biography. What fire that guy has walked through. God bless him.
Ok, I'm siging off for now kiddies. I'll be back in Lexingtonia some time next week probably so keep your eyes peeled. First person to find me and give me a hug gets, well, a HUG! Stop being so greedy! Did you really think I'd give you money just for seeing me? I put my money on Kelly for seeing me first...I'm so excited to see my soprano diva and watch girl movies with her again! xoxoxxo *mandy loves you*

.::summertime blows me away::.
"What is Mandy up to these days?" I hear you ask. Well the answer my friend is that I'm reading books, writing, learning some new chords on the old guitar (finally) and visiting friends. I took Jackie out to eat in St. Louis last night and tomorrow I'm heading back down to P-town to see my old buddy Erin. It's shaping up to be a great summer. I really love just laying out by the lake and reading books and eating fruit salad and ice cream. Life doesn't get much better than this. Heck, I even figured out how to play a few songs yesterday out of the blue with that stupid book I bought. Who'd have thought I'd ever even pick it up?
I'm looking to be back in Lex Vegas at some point during the week next week, but I'll probably be a bit hard to find. I'm going to be searching for a guitar teacher, preparing to move, looking for a group to do outdoor climbing with, and trying to find my Journalism professors from the past to talk to them about graduate school. My senior year is looming on the horizon and I'm starting to get the feeling that grad school is in order for me at some point in the not so distant future. Masters degree here I come! I'm going to take Katie Couric's job.
I hope you guys are having a great summer...full of good music and old friends.
I'm starting to make out goal lists for this fall with plans of action...I've got a lot of hopes for what I can accomplish this fall and I'm not going to let myself down. If all goes according to plan, I'll be so frigging busy I won't even have time for stupid boys and their dumb games. Boys are stupid. We should all just throw rocks at them!