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I've felt like writing in here for a while but there's always been other things to take up my time. So now as I let the icecream soften so I can turn it into cinnamon icecream I shall type a bit. First of all, I am now 19 years of age. It's so strange to think that. The thing is I can remember when I was like thirteen and not only did I think I was old, I could picture what I was going to be like when I was so 16 and ancient. And what I pictured is rather different than the final product I think. I was supposed to be this sophisticated, gorgeous, stylish, incredibly smart person who never had to erase or hit the backspace button. I like myself well enough most of the time though. A lot of things are more wonderful than I ever would have imagined. I always used to make lists of things I wanted to accomplish either before I was thirty or at least in my lifetime. I'll have to find a couple and type them in here. It'd be interesting to see what I've actually done.

Kris and I always used to talk about how we've grown especially as far as how college changed us. For a while I could never quite nail down how I had changed but I think I know now. It's my confidence level. I'm not positive if it was college that did it or working in the cafe. I loved my job there. It forced me to come into contact with every group of people on the campus. Of course occasionally there were embarrassing moments where people thought I knew them because I'd served them there and talked to them, but I didn't remember them from the many people who'd come in there. And my job at TLC has made me a lot more confident. I kind of noticed it today when I got to go to Therapeutic Horsemanship to help out with a camp(yay I got to go back!!) I was the person introducing myself to everyone and finding out how long they'd been there and how they started. I kind of like being that person. Oh, this doesn't mean I'm still not a bit uncomfortable in certain groups. But I'm feeling pretty good about myself and I like that I can feel pretty good about myself.

Tuesday was my birthday and it was wonderful. Scott came over about 10:30 and gave me his gifts. He is such a sweetheart. He gave me the Art of the Lord of the Rings which I have already read most of already and loved. He'd also been working for a while on a picture with all the characters from LotR on it. It was beautiful and is now framed and hanging in my room. I love it. Anyhoo, then we went to Busch Wildlife. We uh..."navigated" our way through the park and finally ended up in the same spot we sat last time, at this pond on this rocky bank that kind of jutted out like a peninsula. We skipped rocks and messed with the little fish and then read to eachother from my Edgar Allan Poe book, then I read him my favorite parts of the Bible. It was hot and we were sweaty just sitting there but it was so nice. As the sun grew hotter and we got sweatier, we left and went to Michael's in search of a frame. I found two I really liked, but we decided to wait for the coupon they put in the newspaper each week. We then ate Chinese at a delicious buffet(i love eggrolls) and Scott actually outate me. I was proud and I really did try. Why is it that my favorite food is the food that fills me up the fastest. It's not fair. Then we went to his house where I was presented with a little mug and candle with my name on it. His family is so sweet to me. I hear stories about having a hateful significant other's family. Glad I don't have to go through that. As long as I don't ever run into one of their cars, I'm good. lol. His mom also mentioned that she had the Michael's coupon so back to the store we went and bought the frame. He then took me home so I could eat dinner with my family and he could go to his exciting college orientation, something he was really looking forward to. lol.

I'm going to go flavor the icecream before it melts so I will finish momentarily.