hey hey readers! ...or just tony?

i have a few minutes to catch up with you here...! i am so happy!

wow, great couple of days! tuesday night, great concert, not nearly as bad as i thought it was going to be. then to buckley to take care of a sick ian. wednesday, class, hung out at buckley, went "out" with joe (we so saw a UFO!) then back to my room. schwab came over, then joe left and ian came by as well. we hung out for awhile and then when they left galina and i were in bed. yesterday, classes, and then i gave blood. red cross people SUCK! they are BAD at the blood thing! after my near passing out experience, it was back to buckley with schwab where i took a nap and we watched a lot of tv. last night, we went to joe's to hang out with joe and rich, which was fun, and came home 1ish b/c i was really tired. today, stats, and then to tony's for an awesome cookout. it was so much fun, the weather was beautiful, the lake, good times, good times... hopefully we can do THAT again. it was great. then back for brass... yes, i came back, on a friday afternoon, for a brass class. we had a good time there too. it was awesome.

soon, BETA RHO is headed to joe's house in berlin to party it up beta rho style! :) it's going to be a great night... and tomorrow morning, we'll be back in time for kristen's breakfast.

spring weekend? it ROCKS!

peace ouuuuuut!

hey!

a few random thoughts from the day:

-quiet contemplation and reading is so good for you! i layed outside on a blanket for a good 2 hours today and read a book called "undress your stress"... it def gave me some new insights into how to not get so caught up in everything.
-did the buckley rounds today: visited tony, ran into ian, and ate dinner/hung out with schwab, joe, rich, & lauren. good times, def good times.
-now for the biggest part...

BETA RHO:
i don't even know what to say. all the things we went through, every step of the way TOGETHER... and now, it's all over. i am constantly reminded of footsteps... b/c i look back and i think that i def lost a lot of myself during those 8 weeks. i can't say that is a bad thing, b/c i am stronger and better b/c of it. but i know that it was my class that carried me through that. i know it was. they had me every single time. whether it was vocalized or just sitting in a room in quiet contemplation, and wow. it blows me away that i could possibly love 8 people this much. my class is a smaller division of a family i never thought could be real. the whole time, i was going through with my class thinking, yes, i have the best friends ever. but now? it's so much more. it is SO much more than friends. i love them, i can't even explain it.

ok i'm not making sense. lol. i've never been so happy to be this introspective!

...then again there will ALWAYS be that window in dayton...

till we meet again... :)

gooooooooooooooooood afternoon blog-readers! (glenn would be so proud)

yesterday was a good time... i woke up and took a shower, then went to my mom's to meet her and go to my memere's. at memere's, we ate and did the family thing. brian and johnathan (9 and 4, respectively) are a combination of holy terrors and bundles of energy, all at once, very dangerous. never a dull moment, i'll tell you that much. after dinner, we went outside and sat around in the sun b/c it was so nice out... then the frisbee game started. my little cousins (like i said before: 9 and 4) rocked us at it! they were so good! we had to teach johnathan how to throw it at first, but by the end of the game he was throwing it a good 15 feet! i was impressed. it was fun though, both my grandparents, my mom, my uncle, my other uncle... it was just fun! after that, my little cousins left and i did my oral history project. both of my grandparents were able to give me feedback, which is good, but i have yet to compile it all. it's gonna take me a while, i know that much...

on the way home from there, we stopped at ron & lorna's. ron remained dead asleep for the duration of our visit, but it was good to sit outside with lorna and most of ron's family. brooks (she's 4 too) was so happy to see me, she's the cutest. then, mom brought me back to her house (where my car was) so i could go home. i ate dinner with my dad (turkey sandwiches... mmm...) and the headed back here, picking up schwab on the way.

we got back right at 8... the kkpsi meeting was 4&1/2 hours long, whew. i got back here at 1:15-ish, after bringing my car back to farmer brown's with galina and matt. i had to do minitab and write in my journal (and i had plenty to say!) and so by the time i got to bed last night, err, this morning, it was... oh yes, 3:00! woohoo!

today is beautiful, and i had an 8:00 and an 11:00 but now? i have a whole lot of free time.

i am happy: i think some things in my life were thrown way off (aside from my family) in the past 2 months, and i think a lot of them have returned to me now. i am content again, which is good. i am genuinely happy. i think the part of me that was lost is not necessarily found again... it was definitely altered in some way, and i think the parts that needed to return are back, and the rest must not have been an accurate representation of who i thought i was. did that make sense?

there is so much else i could write, but it's def not for the public eye... sorry blog...

well hey, it's time to go outside b/c it is beautiful out and i want to enjoy it before it snows again! (<-- who knows, it could happen!)

...and if any other random postings show up here, it's all tony :) hmm, maybe i'll visit him at work today...? haha

peace!

Maybe if I click on this: http://www.enetation.co.uk/
I can figure out how to set up a comment system...:) Love ya Kelly...Have a GREAT easter...
-Tony

HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY JOE!

i think writing here is becoming an everyday thing?

today was a giant decrescendo in my book! i woke up at 10:30 or so. tony made my morning by sending me a picture of one of the 7 BABY BUNNIES that are now residing in southington. soo sweet. cutest little thing i've ever seen! then i called liana, the girl that marvin put me in contact with about the UCMB. i had lunch and talked a lot with her and her parents. when that was over (at about 1) i cleaned up the room and finished getting things ready to go to southbridge. on my way to buckley to pick up schwab, i passed ian, who was headed to towers to say goodbye/happy easter to me. so schwab and i stopped back at towers. it was nice of e to think to say bye before he left! once again, reiterating the fact that i have the BEST BIG BROTHER EVER!

schwab and i went to auntie cheryl's to pick up my mail... then to his house to drop off his laundry (his room at home is the anti-schwab!) and then i brought him to derek's house.

after that, i headed to southbridge. i called mr. c and he, krista, and jack were just headed out the door, so i was able to swing by for about 10 minutes and talk to them. it was great to see them. there isn't much i miss about southbridge, but c is definitely one of them. then i got gas and went to walmart to drop off pictures, and headed to applebees (best restaurant ever... mmm...) with my girls. it was good to see them, lots of laughs. then, i came back to the house. dad was headed to the carron's for a bonfire, so i figured since i had no prior plans, that i would join him. so i hung out with a bunch of my dad's friends and sat around a bonfire for a couple hours. the fire made me SO introspective. i had so much to think about while i was just staring at the flames. a couple times we almost set southbridge on fire... but thank goodness for that hose. :) ok i'm keeeding... but really, the bonfire was a good experience for me. i felt so good and relaxed staring at it. fire is amazing... it mesmorizes you and all at once you forget everything and remember everything else. it was awesome... i wrote in my real journal that it was "poetic"... and if i could write poems, one would be here about bonfires...

i am tired... i think... i don't know. i think i am bored tired. that might be it. and it has taken me a terribly long time to type this b/c i left my laptop at school and so i am on a real pc... something i haven't typed on for a really long time.

well anyway, sorry this is so long... i miss school already. :( oh well, back soon enough... (tomorrow!)

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!