Wow, I had forgotten that I had this thing. It's been a long time since I updated... since last time, I graduated high school and am pretty much having the most awesome summer ever. More later. Maybe.

Today at work, I had to work a long shift. Really long. Not one hour, not two hours, not even three, four, or five hours. SIX HOURS. I know, crazy right? Well to begin, it was weird because all these people from my school kept coming in, which is weird, since Apex is like a whole different town. I think they were going camping out at Jordan Lake. Still weird though, because I don't think thats ever happened before. Anyway, I was having a lot of fun with Joey, this other guy that works there. We kept playing these jokes on each other, and we were laughing pretty hard. Then my boss comes out and yells at me, and I'm like, "Sorry Dude." So, I keep working. By the way, side note here. Anyone who has ever worked at a fast food restaurant knows what I'm talking about, closing is the pits. Everything has to be clean, and you actually have to do work. Bummer. Anyway, after we close, we mop and all that stuff. By the way, I hate this job when the wrong people work. So we have about 7 or 8 broken cookies, and when cookies break, employees get to take them. Nobody wants them, and so Dave offers them to me. I told him I didn't want the cookies, and his eyes got all big. Then he laughed. He was like, "Yeah, okay Melissa. haha, they'll be here when you leave." So, wondering if perhaps he needed a hearing aid, I told him again that I didn't want them. His laugh turned to concern, and he asked me if I felt sick. I began to get annoyed, and said that I didn't feel sick, I just didn't want the cookies. He persisted. "Melissa, are you okay? Did something bad happen to you today? Break up with your boyfriend?" I said NO, I just didn't want the cookies. Still, he continued, "Melissa, there has not been one day since the day you started this job that you havent not eaten at least one cookie. Quite frankly, I am concerned." So then I was just like "FINE I'LL TAKE THE DAMN COOKIES." Okay, so I guess I do eat a lot, but I certainly hadn't been keeping count. Many times, the people at work had refered to me as "the garbage disposal," and many times my other managers had cooked a lot of food just to see how much I could hold, and I never ceased to amaze them when I ate it all and still wasn't full. However, it didn't hit me until this evening that that wasn't normal.

Oh well. Yeah. Good story.

Okay so i was thinking today, it dosen't matter if i suck at taking standardized tests right? I have pretty good grades, but more importantly, extra curriculars out the butt. Hopefully i can compensate.

Today was pretty good, the stress is starting to kick in with all these exams over the coming weeks. AP's start next, whoa i hope i'm ready. Well it was kind of a brain hurting day at school, but work tongiht was so fun it definitely makes up for it! I love my boss! He is seriously such a good friend! I guess I'm kind of weird, for some reason i always seem to get along really well with older people, sometimes better then i get along with people my own age. I wonder if thats weird. hmmm.

Nah. randy is really cool...he makes me lots of food!:)
Plus, everyone is work is so nice and we always have such a fun time telling jokes and stuff like that...it makes working not half bad!

Hope everyone has a good night!

Wow haven't written in this thing for a long time...

Well prom was so awesome, I had such a great time! It was so fun to see everybody all dressed up, we looked so gorgeous! Me and Mark had a lot of fun! Dinner was fun, even though i ordered this mushroom thing and it was $8 and it was so freakin tiny. OH well, the food at prom was really good, except for no one ate it! WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS EAT THE FOOD? Oh my gosh we had so much left over! Actually, I think we overbought on pretty much everything. Wow, we had a lot of stuff left over. Seriously, dancing was so much fun, although extremely uncomfortable in my dress. I really loved every minute!

And for all you people who said that prom wasn't fun, I'm sorry! I had really hoped that everyone would have a really fun time! But think of it this way, I actually heard on this on the Disney channel lol, "Every moment of your life should be the best minute thus far, and if its not, you should be trying to make it that way." I thought that was a good way of putting it.

Okay today I was flipping through the N&O before school and I came across these campaign ads that are SO funny... if you want to look at them they are on 13a and entitled: Ads from gutter desperation. I am posting some of the highlights.
By the way, if you are a republican, you may not want to read on.

Kerry attack ad:
While John Kerry was on active duty in Vietnam, George Bush was MIA (Missing in Alabama). Kerry has medals to prove what he did in the war. George Bush is using dental records. War medals v. dental records? You decide.

Kerry counterattack ad:
George W. Bush's dental records, if they are his records, show that he had nine cavities. If a man can't even take care of his own teeth, how can he be expected to take care of you? John Kerry: honor, integrity, brushes after every meal, always has.

Kerry Attack Ad:
Hi, I'm John Kerry. Some people have been portraying President Bush as a deserter, a slacker, and even a yellow bellied sap sucker. I refuse to engage in politics of personal destruction, so I am going to leave it to others to decide if President Bush was a deserter, a slacker, and even a yellow bellied sap sucker. It is irrelevant whether you fought in the jungles of Vietnam or in the nightclubs around Houston, or whether you were a decorated war hero, or even a yellow bellied sap sucker.

Those are just a few, theres a couple more. Very funny. Normally I would comment, but I have to say that these ads pretty much speak for themselves.

Oh, and to add to what I just wrote, I want to include a quote that I just found off of Tori's blog:

Sometimes the best place in the world is in a corner where nobody can see you cry.

How true it is sometimes.

This weekend I realized something. I realized that the hardest thing in the world is really really liking someone, and then being completely turned down by that same individual. It feels like being punched in the stomach. Hard. All you want to do is cry. But after awhile you just can't anymore because you have to put on a good face for the rest of the world. It's like there are so many tears inside of you, still just bursting to come out, but they can't. Another thing, being completely into someone and thinking that they might like you back and then finding out that it isn't true (at all) is humiliating. I guess all humans are afraid of rejection, and when it happens it is so embarassing. You find yourself wondering about what is wrong with you and what made this person reject you, and this only leads to lower self esteem, as far as I can see. I guess it happens to everyone at some point in their life...or maybe not. Maybe it's just me.

ugh...so sick of winter. i hate cold weather. it's just dreary...snow is fun once a year, but twice is too much.
so since i hate the cold so much, i figured i'd list other things i am not so fond of.
1)COLD
2) mean people
3) G.W.
4) people who talk about other people behind their back, if you've got something to say to someone, just tell it to their face. (i realize that i myself have been guilty of this, but then i get angry at myself for doing it)
5) people who say they are gonna do something and then don't, and don't even bother to say anything to you
6) taking LONG THREE AND A HALF HOUR tests (aka. SAT)
7) finally, squash. they just annoy me.

anyway...hope everone has a good weekend.