What's really been getting at me lately:
see, swimming is over in five weeks, and normally, i'd be pumped about it, but this is my last year. my last year swimming in high school. my last five weeks swimming in high school. that phrase just doesnt sound right. for the past 3 years i've been wanting to graduate and get the hell out of here for college, but now i'm starting to think that i'm really going to miss things like swimming, no matter how hard they may be. i don't know what i'm gonna do at our banquet when i have to give a speech. it's the end of an era.
i can't imagine not joking around with the girls on my team or getting fired up for our meets and doing S.A.s
and yeah, i'll probably end up swimming in college, but it's not the same. i guess i just have to make the best of the last few weeks before they're over.

well, it's over...senior homecoming
i think as a whole it went pretty well....there were some good parts and some bad parts...
but it's okay cuz i got to get my hair done and wear a pretty dress! :) lol

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well i dont think i could be more pissed off right now. my homecoming date, aj jensen, who i will now refer to as fucking asshole, ditched me. see, today fucking asshole imed me and was like "i cant go to hc with you, sorry babe, i told you already but you werent listening."
which is bullshit. he never told me he couldnt go, and then he tries to blame it on me like i was the one who made it happen? dont think so
so i start yelling at fucking asshole, and hes like making excuses and shit. i wanna kick his ass
not only did he use me for "just in case he ended up being able to go," but he ditched me a week before my senior homecoming.
i hope he rots in hell
he showed total inconsideration towards me and on top of that it was for a god damn hockey game.
like a week ago fucking asshole started acting like a fag, and he asked me to have a relationship with him. i told him i was too busy, but really i said no because the thought of dating him makes me wanna puke

that's all i have to say on this matter. girls, if you meet aj jensen, never talk to him. he's better off becoming gay cuz no girl in their right mind deserves to have to deal with him.

*sigh of relief*
this was one of the longest weeks of my life...with club meetings, school, swimming, and homework, i didn't even have time to think!
pretty much every one of my teachers likes to give homework, so there's never a day that i don't have it. so basically i've been sliding my way out of a lot of it....only the third week of school and already trying not to do homework!
swimming has been hard as hell, i've been working my ass off so i'm really really tired....consequently my times have sucked ass this week, but i know it'll pay off at the end of the season
i just don't know whether this is going to be my last season or not....if i swim in college i'm gonna go to a small school in michigan, like hope or kalamazoo....if i don't swim, then i'll probably end up going to a bigger school like u of m or maybe even go out of state...
i just don't know what i wanna do
it's strange how much my mind has changed over the past three weeks....i went from thinking "the only place i would ever go was california" to thinking "maybe i'm not ready to handle the responsibility of being so far away..."
the world is sorta starting to scare me at this point. i mean, we run around all of our lives, competing, learning, and busting our brains out, and for what? just to be successful. and what does it really mean to be successful anyways? having a lot of money? sometimes i don't think that's even important at all. i just want to grow up to be happy doing something i love, whether i'm rich or poor....
all my life people have been telling me how successful i'll be, how smart i am, how i could get into any college. and now the time has finally come and i don't know what to do. i guess i'm afraid of making the wrong decision. i mean, what if i end up at a college that i hate?

i need to face reality and get over it....hopefully i'll be able to make the right choice

wow....i have never known being tired until the past two weeks.....
today, i got up at 5.30 for morning practice, went to school, had an nhs meeting, went to practice, and game home for dinner and homework....
tomorrow i have a varsity club meeting before school, then school, a spanish club meeting, a float meeting, and my swim meet....hopefully i'll be able to keep up with it all!!

*sam*

wow, it's been a week since i've written in hurr....and my life has completely changed! we started school last week...it's okay, but all of my teachers like to give a lot of homework....we crushed wayne in our dual meet, and took third at the EMU relay meet....only eight points behind dearborn so i think we can beat them this year!! :)
but yeah, we're gettin down to the nitty gritty with swimming...haha....morning practices started today, and i was late for the first one cuz my car is possesed and it sealed itself shut!!! we had to call the police at 6 this morning to come and get it open....so that was a fun time....
other than that, well let's see, oh yeah i'm a SENIOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!it's awesome being the oldest so now i don't hate school as much....can't really think of much to write about so until next time...
*samantha elizabeth*

so, i guess i'll pick up where i left off. wednesday was a pretty good day. I spent most of it cleaning and getting ready for our team dinner because it was in my backyard. the food was awesome, and everyone brought something different...but the person who was supposed to bring silverware just decided not to show, so that went well....
then after the team dinner, whitney and i took kyle and mike and went to see freddy vs. jason....just a little hint *don't go see that movie, it's terrible*
thursday was pretty sweet b/c i got to sleep in since we had a meet....grosse ile, dewitt, and bloomfield hills andover were there, and we killed them all!! :) also, our 200 medley relay qualified for states, megan dolan qualified in the 100 breast, margaret haley qualified in the 100 fly, and i qualified in the 50 free!! considering that the times are even harder to make than last year, i can already tell we're gonna be awesome this year!
friday was kinda boring....we had practice as usual. that night i went with megan, whitney, and jessica to the football game, but we left early and went home because it was boring....
yesterday was a pretty good day....even though it started off kinda shitty. at practice, we had to wear fins for the second time this week, and they cut into my blisters so bad that my feet were covered in blood. yuck. one good thing about yesterday was that it was my last day working at the pool this summer, and to top it off, we were sent home early because some little kid threw up in the pool!! talk about good luck. so after work, i went home and took a nap for a little while, then i showered and went over allison's with lynsi....we just sorta hung out for a while and went home later...

~Good news/Bad news in my life~

*GOOD*
-state qualifyer!-
-team captain!-
-no more working at the pool this summer!-
-senior!-

*BAD*
-school starts in two days!-
-don't have a date to homecoming yet!-
-summer's almost over!-

well, at least the good outweighs the bad....
until next time,

~*~Samantha Elizabeth~*~

geeze, swimming takes up a lot of my time. this past weekend was our swim team campout. even though it was reeeeeaaaalllly dirty and rustic, we had a good time.....saturday we did a ropes course like 30 feet up in the trees, and it was pretty scary but pretty cool at the same time. and even though it was terrifying for some of the people on the team, we all did a good job encouraging each other, and every single person on the team made it through the entire course!
fun stuff from this weekend....
-penis mom elephant-
-ar-ma-dil-do-
-****'s bulge in the harness =o-
-the lifeguard who couldn't do his job-
-baptists drowning in their lifejackets-
-me and tony 2-on-5 volleyball...haha-
-get low-
-peeing in the woods (or at least trying to)-
-mary's facial expressions on the ropes-
-making friendship bracelets-
-one two three on the air mattress-
.....and too many others to count......

so anyways, when i got home from the camping trip, i showered and took a nap, then went out to tv diner with my family....it was the slowest service ever, but the food was good

then yesterday i got up and went to practice from eight to 1130, it was long and boring...
i came home and cleaned for a little bit, then i took a looong wonderful nap, then went to allisons. we went with courtney and lynsi to marshall fields to find out about spring break (oh yeah, im going to jamaica!!!!), then shopped around for a little while.
then we got dressed up and went to olive garden, cuz we're really cool. afterwards, we went to lynsi's for a while, then i came home and went to bed.

then this morning, i went to practice again, and we got our team suits....only one thing to say about them
U-G-L-Y
oh well, i dont really care as long as i swim fast. then i got home, and i was supposed to work, but there was no power at the pool so i got let off!!!
so whitney, hannah and i went to 12 oaks and did some school shopping. i got a few things, and then we came home.

now i'm sitting here eating dinner, waiting for this storm to pass

*samantha*

hmmm i'm kinda bored so i guess i'll write....
yesterday was a strange day. i went to pick up my proofs from my outside senior pictures, and i get there, and there's five fricken pictures in there! the woman took like 20 when i went there, but then only five turned out! what the hell.
so then i went to take this u of m health and stress survey at a hotel in woodhaven. it was extremely long and boring, but they paid me 50 bucks to do it!
the only bad thing was that it took so long that allison and i didn't have time to go to the travel agent.....looks like i'll never go on spring break!
so then after that, i went to practice, it wasn't too horrible. i'm getting used to dying for four hours every day.
after practice, we had a little campout-sleepover shindig at whitney's house....definitely some funny moments to be remembered from that experience.
but staying up till two in the morning, sleeping on the ground, and getting up early for practice doesn't really make a good combination.
anyways, practice this morning was okay, but my shoulders popped out like every two seconds, so i came home and iced them afterwards.
now i'm going to get my picture for my school id

hasta luego...
*samantha*

soo, i was definitely right in saying that it would be a while till i wrote again because of swimming....it has definitely been a busy week.
we had double sessions all last week. i guess they were pretty hard, but now that i look back at them it all kinda melted together into a looong time of holding my breath.
plus, we got to miss a couple of practices because of that blackout that happened on thursday. that was a pretty strange experience, and it sucked not having ac for a while, but other than that, i don't really have anything to say on that matter.
anyways, yeah, i got through the first week of hell without much of a problem. this week so far has been a little harder, but not too bad.
i actually kind of feel good when i work this hard, and i'm beginning to like the pain, because i know the more i hurt now, the faster i'll be later. pretty sadistic, huh?
today i'll have a busy day....i just got back from practice, bret made us pancakes at the end, it was soooo good.
now i have to go to prestige to pick up the proofs from the second part of my senior pictures, then i have to go to woodhaven to take this u of m survey thingy. i don't really wanna go, but they pay you fifty bucks to do it, so hey, why not?
then after that, allison and i are going to the travel agent to check out trips for spring break! :) i am sooo excited about it.
finally, after all this other stuff, i have to go to practice again, but it shouldn't be too hard since we're doing a test im set.

until later....
~Samit~

*My last weekend of freedom*
so here's what i did....try to contain yourself from the excitement *cough*

~Friday~
I had to work both shifts at work....the first one went by extremely slow. At the end of it i got stung in the back by a bee....it sucked.
But the second shift was pretty good. It ended up storming, and to everyone's surprise, we got sent home at 630 and paid until eight....so for the hour and a half i went home and watched tv because i still wasnt feeling well from thursday. So i guess you could say i'm a professional television watcher, since i was getting paid while watching tv! hahahaha

~Saturday~
today was actually a lot of fun. we had our car wash for the swim team, and in 5 hours we raised over 700 dollars!! for the most part, a few other of the girls and I stood on the corner of West and Westfield and flagged people down. Actually, we kind of harassed the people with their windows down while they were stuck at red lights until they gave in and came to the car wash. Let me tell you, I now have confirmed that one of the only benefits of being a girl is that you can use your body to get guys to do what you want. hehe. we got so many disgusting hornball guys to come to the car wash just so they could look at us in our bikinis. we would even convince little teenage boys to let us wash their bikes for a dollar. so many people asked us to flash them, i thought i was gonna kill the next one who did by the end of the day. now i know what it feels like to be a hooker, standing on the corner all day!!! :P
anyways, after the car wash, i went home and showered. then i went to bahama breeze with mark, emily, and luke. it was fun, but afterwards we were all kind of exhausted so we went home.

~Sunday(Today)~
Today was uneventful. I was trying to relax all day since hell begins for me at midnight tonight. I slept in, cleaned for a little bit, showered, and ran to the pool to find out my work schedule. Then I came home and took a nap. My mom woke me up for dinner, and we had like 50 children over our house because our neighbor, who already has seven children, was in the hospital in labor with her eigth. So a few of her kids were over, plus a few neighbors, and like five cousins. We had a barbeque type thing, then hung out by the pool for a while.
Now I'm just relaxing, trying to soak in my last few hours of relaxation before swimming begins!
It will prolly be a few days before my body has stopped being in shock from swimming, so i'll write sometime next week!!!
until then....
*Samantha Elizabeth*

wow, twice in a row ive taken like a week to write. so here's what i've been up to
-sunday-
i worked the first shift at the pool, but someone crapped in it (big surprise) so we got sent home early. then i went back for the church rental thing and we made about 35 bucks doing face painting and hair wraps.
-monday-
i went to practice, as usual and had kind of a lazy day. i went over to my gramma's for dinner, then my aunt and i went out and got gelato.
-tuesday-
got up and went to practice, for some reason running was really hard today. after that, i went home and got ready, then i took my brother to the mall so he could get new shoes. i went home and took a nap, then got ready and went to the crosby, stills and nash concert with my aunt jenni at freedom hill. it was pretty cool, even though it's not usually the kind of music i listen to. there were a lot of hippies wearing tie dye and flowers and dancing around, and a lot of people smoking weed. i re injured my back from sitting on the damn hill, but i guess it was a fun time. all in all, it was a very interesting experience.
-wednesday-
i went to practice again, even though i was tired from the concert the night before. i had to work both shifts, and my back was absolutely killing me by the end of the second shift. after i got home, i showered and went over allison's. me, her, and kristen did darrin's dance grooves for a little bit, watched some tv and then i took kristen home and went to bed.
-thursday(today)-
i was supposed to get up for practice this morning, but i felt like absolute crap. i woke up at like 5 in the morning and could not fall back asleep cause i was achy and nauseous. that kinda sucked, so i slept till like noon, and now i feel mostly better, so i'm gonna shower and see what i can make of the day.....
-sam-

i haven't written in like 5 days, so here's what i did for the past few...
*~*TUESDAY*~*
i didnt really do much, i went to practice in the morning then sorta hung out for the rest of the day
*~*WEDNESDAY*~*
i went to practice in the morning, it was pretty easy. then i had the outdoor session of my senior pictures at elizabeth park. i think it went well, but the photographer woman had the hairiest legs ever(eww). and to top it off, i got poison ivy on my arm from some bush or something and it itches like a mother.
*~*THURSDAY*~*
i went to practice in the morning, but we didnt do much. we ran two miles, then did some abs and leg lifts and stuff, and went home.
i worked both shifts at the pool, but at like 330 someone crapped so we got to go home till five.
*~*FRIDAY*~*
this was a sweet day. i got up really early and left with my aunt, cousins, and some other ppl and went to cedar point. even though it was a friday, it wasnt that crowded. let me tell you, the top thrill dragster is the most amazing ride you will ever go on! and when i went on it, our car flew all the way up to the top of the hill, and slid back down backwards cuz it couldn't make it. it was sweet! i got home from cp around 2 in the morning and went to bed.
*~*SATURDAY(TODAY)*~*
today i had to work both shifts at the pool, and the first shift was incredibly boring and slow. the second shift was the swim club party, and our team had games and face painting and stuff to raise money, but at like 6 someone puked in the pool so we hardly had time to have people play the games. the pool closed early so now i'm here!!

until next time....

*~*Samantha*~*