. . . . . . . . . . . .~*So I lay my head back down
and I lift my hands and pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope*~. . . . . . . . . .
That isn't nearly all of them but I thought I would go easy this time! ahaha!!
**Alice and Dani, go to photobucket, and you can get the ones you want! Just ask me what one it is, and I'll give you the password again, if you don't have it still! LOVE!
i feel like i've already made some new friends this year.
*giggles.. te he. how 6 year old did that sound... i dont care :)
tomorrow will be the first days since school got out that i can just be with keegan from the time i get out of school to the time i go to bed. no work, no nothing..
me and stacy made brad and keegan watch laguna with us last night. im thinking it should become a weekly ritual... mwah ha ha.
School
So right now I should be where most people my age are at.
School.
Lisa is a retard and woke up late so now were going to miss first hour and I have math first hour and I don't really want to get behind but theres really nothing I can do about it. I can see were going to be missing alot of school this year lol.
I'm so tired. I stayed up really late putting songs on my i-Pod since I haven't done that in forever...
I guess I'm sort of grounded if thats what you call it. My mom and I got into this stupid fight yesterday and thats all we do lately because she doesn't like the things that have been going on. W/e. She was like "and we'll see if I let you go out next time". Oh well, I'll still go out whether or not she said so. She is just saying that to make it sound like I can't go out but when it comes down to this weekend, she'll let me. So basically the whole grounding thing is a waste of time.
When my family left to go back to Oklahoma on Sunday it was really sad. I never even get to see my Grandpa and that is really sucky. When my mom and him and started hugging and saying goodbye they both started crying and then I felt bad so I started crying. I think we will probably end up flying there pretty soon.
Anyways I think I'm going to go back to sleep until 8:30 when Lisa is supposed to get here...
I guess I'm lucky. When your mad you don't miss people and if you stay mad it's like you never knew them at all, that way you don't have to feel sucky about it. Thats all very true and it makes me hate you more and miss you less.
even though i have breakdowns, and even though we can fight.... neither one happens often or lasts long, and at the end of every day i can tell myself regardless of the situation that im part of a beautiful relationship with my best friend...... and if it feels like at times the whole world points out my flaws and imperfections, i know that there's a place i can run for protection, because when you hold me everything else melts away and its just us.
:)
kourtney, stacy, brianna, kelli, and taryn.... you guys are great... thanks for lifting me up when i needed it. it really helped. :)
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2005 11 September :: 1.54pm
:: Mood: Sick
:: Music: D.H.T.-Listen To Your Heart
My Past
I want to not care about what happpens but I still do. It feels like your taking that spot away from me or taking my place. I hate chasing after people but sometimes I guess thats what I have to do. I just want to for once be able to talk to you and tell you how I feel but in all honestly you probably wouldn't understand. I'm always holding back because I'm afraid of what you'll say and our converstaions never open that much anyways. I guess I just miss the past.
Now all I have to do is keep telling myself your part of it.
Im still holding on and I shouldn't do that anymore!!!
*sigh*
Anyways Friday I hung out with Lisa for a while. Akaysha came over for a while too so I watched her. Later on I went to Brie's house and a whole bunch of people went to Matt & Stuarts. They live in GR and on the way there we almost hit someone. She ran right out in front of us and it was sort of scary. Good thing we didn't hit her, or more of Andrea didn't hit her lol. We stayed at Matt & Stuarts for a while and then we went and stayed at Steves. Saturday I went to Grand Haven. It was so pretty and we ate at this really awesome resturant on the water but I forgot what it was called. Then we went to this Italian store and bought all this italian food that you can't buy in a normal store, then I came home and Trista was here so I finally got to see her. After that maryhoe and I went to Nicks for a while and then we ended up at a guys house named Ryan I think. I can't remember, I was not drinking at all but I just can't remember whos house it was. We hung out there for a while and then we went to another guys house. I forgot his name lol. He was weird and I kept getting hit on and it was scary. We stayed there until 5am and then we had to bring Jordan back to Bries house and then we had to come back to my house to stay since wherever we were at was right down the road. I fell asleep at 6:30 probably and I just woke up before I started this whole journal entry. Nobody is here and I have noo clue where everyone went but I definately do not feel good so I think I'm going to go back to sleep soon.
Andy Milonakis lol:turn to your far left
Andrea: wait is this my left....?
Andy and I: noo that would be your right lol!
wow you crack me up.
Brie: well who did you tell
Me: *holds three fingers up* I only told two people.
lol "he looks like reptar" "seen/saw him" ...oh the great times we have brie.
We talked. Everything is better I guess. I only wanted to be friends and nothing more so thats what we are and thats that.
i hate this. im stuck awake because we just ended on bad terms and now im all upset and crying and hating myself and he's just fine having fun with his friends, doing whatever the fuck he wants to do. and guess what.. its my fault. god i hate myself. i always do this. when i get accoustomed to something.. its not easy for me to let it go. i got used to seeing him alllll the time.. and when i dont get that attention... i cant take it. and i dont care if that makes me selfish.. and then i do care, and then i dont again. and im just so confused. i havent been this upset so FREQUENTLY in a long time. and espeacially tonight... we never end phone conversations on bad terms... but tonight is different. well different in the way that this time when we fought scott could here. thanks alot, make me look like a total bitch in front of your friends. is that what you want them to think? do you get some sort of joy out of people feeling sorry for you because of your crazy girlfriend? "oh no baby you're the only one i want, you're the girl i want" what boyfriend wants to make his girlfriend cry all the time... its like you wont give up until i start crying.. except tonight.. you know that i am, and you dont care. because YOU'RE upset becasue of me. it doesnt matter that i've been sitting at home ALL fucking night waiting for you, at least YOU were having fun. yeah... FUN lets drive an hour and a half and spend 30 dollars... you better not EVER complain to me about not having money. "well i got payed today" and so what'd you do? you went out and spent it right away. "its 11 dollars and that includes food" which it apparantly didnt. "its only 45 minutes away" which it wasnt. "i call you back as soon as i know if we're in the final 4" which you didnt. "i just didnt think to call you, i dont know what else to say" there ya go.. didnt think to call me. because thats how it is..... your breakdancing has nothing to do with me. im the unsupportive girlfriend who calls you and doesnt want to get off the phone because she's upset. i should have just come home and said fuck the battle, fuck keegan, i dont wanna know whats going on, and just went to bed on time like i planned. i didnt think i would be up this late. but yeah... i can see you tomorrow because YOU'RE free... because YOU dont have plans. whenever it works out for you because you're things are more important. *your job: "im paying 400 dollars a month for my car, arent you happy i got a new car?" "you dont even act happy about my new job, if i would have known you'd have gotten so upset i wouldnt have applied" *breakdancing: "yeah... its super important, we're not getting paid, probably wont win, and hey lets spend money in there while we're at it." "oh and hey, lets take my car because nobody else in the world drives"
seriously.. i am such a self concious person. one of the things i said in drama class today was that one of my biggest fears is that people will see me only for the things i do and not actually see me. my biggest fear in my relationship is that he'll just see my faults and what i dont do. i try so hard. in everything. im the president of the student senate, editor of the yearbook, red flannel queen, throw a relationship in there, school work, tryting to be more "active" in my family so my mom gets off my case.... its exhausting. and sometimes i just cant do it. i get so overwhelmed and what do i do? i keep going, there's no breaks. and i feel like if i fail or if something goes wrong somebodys gonna say "look what she did" im terrified of failing. im so self critical. but nobody would know that. i have alot of "friends" but hardly anybody knows me. keegans one of the few that do and that makes it hard because it would be so easy for him to hurt me. and im so scared of that. i always have a gaurd up with people, and for once i dont. and i hate when i sometimes think... "what are you doing erika" whats the matter with you... why are you letting someone it.
when i let someone in, that means im at their mercy. anything they say or do could affect me. and it doesnt help that as much as i may say i dont care what other people think of me... i do. very much. and im very defensive. i mean... what the hell.. i've cried more in the past week than i have in the past 2 months. thats not healthy. i dont cry. im supposed to be the strong one. what happens when i cant be that.
i pride myself in being strong and not letting things get to me. i've always told people, no im not emotional... so what the fuck is going on with me. lately i've just felt that i have no one. that nobody will EVER know me. that nobody will ever understand me.
one of my biggest fears is that i'll never fall in love and be alone forever. it sounds stupid, but its so true. the experiences that i have, and the things that i've seen, and am still witnessing my mom go through have shaped me in more ways than i can even count. im just so critical when it comes to love, that im afraid i'll never find it because i'll never be satisfied. just with mymoms situation... shes still dealing with chris. i thought when we left it was over, and finally our lives would turn out.. and they have, but he still has that same power over us. i swear he's satan... and im just a little person, its not healthy to feel so much hate towards one person. and when i get so angry i dont know what to do, and i dont know how to express or deal with my anger so it all builds up and then it subsides and just more or less burries itself away. so then i have all this built up emotion and it always just comes out one night. and thats the night where i talk to my mom and i cry and tell her why i hate myself and confess my insecurities and bring up the past and all the terrible things that for some reason im still not letting go. and then she makes me feel better and i move on. but it never fully goes away.... it always comes back.
i dont even know why i get so angry with him... he's right, it is my fault. i AM the one who overdoes it, who blows things out of proportion. he's always telling me that. "you're being irrational" "your making to big a deal out of this" "you're making me feel bad for ...." and then when i finally talk to him about it tells me that its not all my fault.... well does he know me at all to know that everything he says to me sticks with me. and every lie that ANYONE tells me sticks with me and makes me question myself. and feeds more into my insecurities.
right now... he's fine. and here i am sitting alone venting to a stupid online journal where anyone who reads this will judge me on some level and im just making myself more vulnerable.. but what else can i do? keegans not here for me and made it very apparant that he was done talking, and my moms sleeping. those are my two people. the only two people i have, and i cant depend on either of them to be there whenever i need them. and i know thats not right, and of course somebody wont always be able to be there. but this is what happens. i over think and everything comes out. everything i hate about myself comes out. i mean i have stacy... and she knows me pretty darn good, but its different. its the facts that she knows, not the emotions. and thats not a bad thing.. because i dont know here emotions either and she's just an amazing friend that i can trust anything with. but its hard to let that gaurd down to anybody... obviously since i've only done it twice. im so afraid of realizing what a small number of friends i have. most people just assume things about me that are completely untrue. i hate drama and i HATE when somebody says something bad about me or doesnt like me. not because i think everyone should like me, or because it pisses me off... but it hurts. it really hurts... and when i start to hear things about myself, i start to believe them. it doesnt matter if i know its not true. i start to believe them, and then i fear that other people will start to believe them. prime example is that whole ordeal with mitch and the senior group. i felt so attacked, and he called me such horrible things and then people in his journal that dont even know me said such terrible things when in reality what i said was taken so far out of context. his purpose was to make me look like a preppy bitch. so what did i do. i tried to defend myself, and in turn got even more names, and even more hurtful things... but i couldnt help but defend things. and you may say that it doesnt matter if somebody who doesnt know you says shit... well yes it does. i take offense to it greatly. i just want to be liked. more than anything i need acceptance... because as a child i didnt get it from key people in my life that i should have gotten it from. and then at 10 losing my grandpa was the worst thing i've ever experienced. i know alot of people say that their grandparents are their best friend, and who am i to say that they're lying... but for me my grandpa was my best friend, and the only father figure i ever had. i was with him all the time... the only place i ever wanted to be or ever was was with him. he took care of me and my mom because it was just the two of us. and so i never stopped to think that hey... all my friends have a mom AND a dad. when i lost him my world stopped spinning. for once i was alone with nobody to tell my secrets to and it all happend to soon. and on top of losing him chris and my mom got seperated, and it was just terrible. so many times i just need him, and he's not here for me. and sometimes i find myself angry with god because i just feel like he's been taking things from me and targeting me for so long. i just want to feel that protection that my grandpa gave me.. and the security. i need those things. and at times i feel like keegan doesnt care, or doesnt know, or doesnt care to find out.
im so self concious in everything... i hate my face and my body and the fact that if the red flannel pageant required a talent, i wouldnt know what to do. i feel talentless... like i cant do anything. theres nothing special about any of the things that i can do. i get so jealous of danielle because she plays the piono so beautifully. i just feel like all my friends have an outlet, and i just lack one. what would i do... get up there and create a yearbook template? i cant sing, i dont play sports, i dont play an instrument, i dont even feel good enough for my drama class.... so how can i expect to run for high pageants? in the past couple of months i've basically given up on that. why do i do that? i just give up on dreams. and at the same time i dont. i've achieved so much sucess in high school... but then again i dont get all A's, im not the teacher favorite, i dont play sports, i fit into NO social group whatsoever. i feel like im not popular enough to be "able" to talk freely to those people, i dont fit in with the circle or the goths or whatever they call themselves now because im "preppy".... and so if im not preppy enough, or depressed enough, or athletic enough, or smart enough... where do i fit it at? im just erika.
i need to just get used to that.... im just erika.
whatever... fuck this.
and see, then thats my next step... to say forget it. thats why i do what i do.. i'd rather let things burry down inside me then to deal with them, because in all honestly it just hurts to much.
im tired, but am i sleeping? nooo.. why would i be sleeping when the phones just gonna ring as soon as i fall asleep. i honestly think this whole thing is so stupid. its not even the crew.. its 2 and then some random fill in. whats the sence in even going then if you dont even think you're gonna win. they got there at 6, and the breakdance battle didnt even start until about 9:30... but thats all cool, because they were warming up... for THREE hours?! oooook. i was feeling kind of bad about not going cuz i had to work, but gauranteed i would NOT be in a good mood if i was still stuck down in god knows where. yeah, i hope they win and all.... but i'll be happy when this whole stupid thing is over.
in better news: tomorrows stacys bon fire.
in worse news: i have to work tomorrow through tuesday... mmm
in even worse news: im so fucking tired... gahh.
Hey. I haven’t wrote in here in a while. I haven’t been online in like a week and a half but I don’t really have a reason to anymore. Things are pretty good. School started yesterday (obviously).
First hour I have math with Modisher. It’s pretty dumb if you ask me. Cohen is in my class and he sits right next to me ;) We have five Ashley’s in this class. Three of us sit at one table too so whenever he calls on us we all get confused and so now April said she is going to change her name to Ashley so we all can be Ashley’s. She was joking. If you didn’t get that.
Second hour I have US History. It’s really boring but I have Elyse in my class. Of course, the one person we can’t stand, "Samantha" is in there. Ugh. This year should be interesting.
Third hour I have Spanish Two which also will be boring. Mrs. Ryan is crazy and I established that last year. I sit by this boy and he talks to himself. He scares me but Luke and Aaron sit behind me so I guess that makes everything alright. Mrs. Ryan wont let me change my spanish name. It was Preciosa last year and now she insists that I keep it since she can't let go of it. Why I don't know, thats just what she said and plus Matt and Bruce would always call be Precious so I guess I'm keeping that name. Not that it really matters.
Fourth hour I have Advanced Drama. It is going to be really awesome this year since I know most of the people in it. I’m excited for that.
Fifth hour I have English with Eilola. She is weird and I don’t think I like her. Who knows.
Sixth hour I have Anatomy. This will be a really fun year because Bruce, Sam Ballew, Amanda, Megan, Tyler, Jewski, Logan C, Ashley, Austin, etc are all in there and it’s fun. I sit by Megan, Jewski, and Logan.
Seminar is actually cool. Kourtney is in there which is cool since we don’t have any classes together.
I seriously have like 4 classes with my cousins. Everywhere I look Travis is sitting next to me or behind me and then theres Tyler there too. It’s crazy.
School is fun. I have had a lot of homework in these past two nights but it’s alright.
Things are that much better without you at school. I don’t have to deal with your drama and neither does she. I’m so glad your out of school and off to college.
All I wanted was my life back and that’s what I got.
Lisa is at my house every morning and after school. Were always hanging out now and somebody has a problem with that. Oh well they can get over it. We’ve been friends for a long time and we always will be!
My grandpa is flying in from Oklahoma this weekend. I haven’t seen him in like, I don’t know, five years maybe. I miss him and he’s coming up to see us since we haven’t seen him, duh!!
I’ve been busy lately with shopping, hanging out with friends, school, modeling, homework, everything you can imagine.
My mom seen my old fourth grade teacher yesterday (Mrs. Underwood) and she asked her if she remembered me and she was like “Ashley, Ashley Sonego” and then she went on telling my mom how she would love for me to come in and see her and how she hasn’t forgot about me and how she’s definitely coming to our graduation since we were her first class and that she misses me. It’s good to know that I can’t be forgotten.
Oh, and OF COURSE she would like him. Why wouldn’t she, because I LIKE HIM and here she tells me that nothing is going to happen anyways. I can’t help but like him even if I try not to. He’s just him.
It’s pretty clear that your obsessed so I’m going to stop wasting my time liking him and like the other person that I’ve liked for a while now.
Yeah well I have to get going. I need to do my US History homework and my drama homework.
This weekend-Matts with my pie!! I loooovee you. And thank you for helping me with (boy) haha.
Alright this is long but I just feel like I should update since I haven’t in a while.
Oh and The O.C. Season Three is on tomorrow!! I'm so excited I've been waiting my whole life for it. J/k but I've waited all summer so I think I should celebrate it and have a party with Brianna!!
I want to go on msn messenger but I just can't. I don't want to even see your online because I'm so disapointed in you and we'll probably start fighting over something so I'm just not going to go on it for a while. A loong while.
I just love how I keep typing even though I said I was going to go five minutes ago.
well, first few days of college are over and ya know what?! I LOVED THEM!! AND...I am seriously like the most nervous person ever! and I didn't even get nervous, the whole idea of it never even bothered me a little bit. and I HAD SO MUCH FUN! I met somebody in my algebra class and we're going to sit together tomorrow, and Jon and Mary are in my psychology class, and I don't know anyone in my music class or my english class, but I KNOW I'll meet somebody, ahah it's easy for me to talk to strangers! yeah!! but I have to read a whole entire chapter in my psychology book, so I really should get going on that, and I have to read for english and type out some answers to questions and stuff....hmm...I already did my math!! yeah!! man!! I'm lovin' it! ahahah, and this weekend I'm going to Ferris to stay with Alice and Dani is driving over from Central!! It's gonna be so much fun!! YEAH!!! I can't wait!! muah!! you all make me so happy!!!
there was something else good too! OH YEAH!! I got a new job, so when the ice cream shop closes I'm all set!! I don't have to freak out and worry anymore about what I was gonna do for my car payment!! YEAh!! but I bet you're all wondering where I'm working, right?! ahah.........well.........I guess I can tell you. I am going to start at Awesome Tan, on the corner of 17 and Northland, you know the one, !! in the little strip! Yea, go me!!! ok all you bitches! and those of you who arn't too!! ahhahaHAHAHAHAH!! love to you all!! MUAH!!!
I hope everyone one of you is having fun at school, or whatever you're doing! I'll come to the high school someday and see you all!! and I'M ABSOLUTLY COMING INTO YEARBOOK!! ok that's enough!! BYE!
I guess this is what friends do. It doesn't even matter now. You missed the whole point. I really need to stop caring, that could be a start. Why even have feelings for you? Why even have friends?
Anyways I just got home from the mall or malls we could say. Lisa and I went to The Lakes mall just so we could go to Hollister. We had to bring Brina with us and she was horriable. She made me carry her the whole time and when she actually did walk she would run away from us and then I would just ignore her and she would scream "Ashie, Ashie hold me". It's sorta funny how she can't say my name right. Oh well shes cute anyways. Then we went to Olive Garden and she kept talking to the people directly behind us. I thought they were going to get mad at us but they actually liked her. We wanted to go to Woodland mall so it tooks us forever to get from The Lakes mall to Woodland mall. We got lost and then when we were on the freeway I accidently made Lisas car go into Neutral and we didn't know what happend until ten minutes later. It was fun but we suck at directions. Seriously.
I got The O.C. Season Two today in the mail so that makes me happy. It definately made my day. I'm going to stay up all night watching it.
Thats all for now I guess. I've got too much on my mind.