sarah

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:26:37 GMT

OBAMA '08

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:29:57 GMT

joy passed away on saturday. although i had only met her a handful of times and spent time with her on keswick, she always remembered my name whenever i would come to church. she'd IM me asking how i was and if i was coming by soon. she was such an angel and i know she has moved onto a better place. the world would do good with more people like joy. <3

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:15:44 GMT

italy.

wow. it was simply beautiful there. everything from it's culture, food, history, and more was amazing. i simply loved it there. it's a stunning place that i recommend visiting. there's so much to it! i did so many things there and probably in a day or two i'll post pictures up. =)

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:01:07 GMT

i leave for italy in 2 days. wow. the summer has gone by fast. i can't believe the trip's already here. i hope italy lives up to its reputation. i believe it will not let me down.

today was also the last day of rutgers tennis camp. it was fun and exhausting. i'm glad for a break. i get to sleep in tomorrow. it's the best thing i'll get this week. i've began every sentence with a noun. mrs.oram would not be too appreciative of that style of writing.

i finally watched fight club last night. it was a magnificent piece of film. it lived up to the book quite well.

well, that's all for now. ciao, until next time.

you came along, and you cut me loose.

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:38:56 GMT

well, ocean city was... relaxing, in a way. it was nothing special, just a nice break from the suburbs. i love just sitting on the beach, reading, or swimming. it was just a chance to get away. there were some pretty big, uh, douchebags down there though. yeah, you don't curse when you're seating right next to a 5-year-old who will repeat anything you say. oh, and it was pretty disgusting seeing a family who kept their 3-year-old on a leash. that's probably one of the most demeaning inventions, ever. they're kind of funny though, in a sick way.

anyways, i'm home now, but only for a week. next saturday, i leave for a ten day tour of italy. oh my, i am truly thrilled to see italy. i love traveling and seeing the world. there's so much more out there than new jersey. new jersey's great and all, but it's not exactly culture rich. we have our own culture, i guess you could say, but it's nothing unique. sometimes we have to expand our borders, search for new places we've never been or even heard of. many people need to stop thinking that new jersey's the "most fucking insane place ever," because truly, it's not. i love nj, but we're not the center of all creation. sometimes you just have to experience something different.

i'm ready for a change in my life, also. something... big. i hope i can find it here. i know something's waiting for me, i just haven't discovered it yet.

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:30:51 GMT

i'm leaving tomorrow for ocean city and coming back on saturday. =)

home!

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:18:31 GMT

well, I'M HOME!

wow. camp was amazing. really. i had so much fun. it is definitely something i am doing again next summer.

so many things happened, i met many new people, improved my tennis skills, and got a HORRENDOUS tan line. yes!

i'm going to aleigh's now, but i will definitely do a full update of camp tomorrow. cyaa!

:edit:

okay, here's my camp entry.
well, the whole experience was fucking amazing. it was my first time at a sleep-away camp for that long, and i loved every minute of it. i was lucky enough to make friends on the first day and stick with them for the rest of the week.

here's what our day schedule looked like:
wake up early, eat breakfast, digest for half an hour, drills for 3 hours, lunch break for an hour or so, matches/games for 3 hours, dinner, shower, night activity!

each night we did something different. it's good that our camp has only about thirty or so kids staying overnight so it's not hard to take us all out. on the first night, we went out to ice cream. then the next night we went to the mall. ahh that was so much fun. at menlo, sam, erin, and i went crazy shopping. we went to victoria's secret with max, whose nickname is fuzzy balls... haha. wow that was a lot of fun. then the next night we went to see pirates of the carribean! and then the next night it rained so we stayed in and just chilled in the dorms.

the people at the camp were a lot of fun, also. i became friends with a bunch of girls from hunterdon central, who were quite fun! one of them, alexis, is going down to ocean city the same time as me so i'll probably see her there. oh, and the counselors... boy, were some of THEM cute. this one... well, every girl could not keep her eyes off him. he was a huge flirt, but ah, he was good lookin'! and another one, bobby, became my buddy! haha. i nicknamed him captain morg. =)

overall, i just had an amazing time. i really improved my skills, and left with some awesome memories. i'm going back for another week for their day camp later in july. wooooo!

here's my photos. there aren't that many, but you can look!

so anyways.. i leave for ocean city on tuesday. and tonight, well... i'm going to have fun. =)

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:59:35 GMT

so, i will be at rutgers tennis camp from tomorrow until thursday. i'm so excited. wow. love it.

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:36:50 GMT

WOW. soooooo today was so great! and so was yesterday! i should recap!

sooooo yesterday, i worked a full 10 hours! fun? yeah, way boring, but straight after i went to tennis. and then after tennis, my mom and i went to fresh food kitchen for our first time. damn, is that place good. their food is so healthy, natural, and just delicious! and after fresh food, we went to go pick up ANGIE STIRES! ahh i love that girl. so angie came over my house to sleep over and first we just chilled a bit. then we played some N64, haha, and watched Clueless and Dirty Dancing. then we just talked until like 4. that girl is soo great!

so then angie left at like 8 in the morning, then i got a call from kelly telling me i didn't have to work today (YES!). so all day i just chilled, worked on a lot of photography, read, ran(!), and did whatever. then at around 7:30, david was supposed to come over, but he called and said he couldn't. so i was sad and whatever, but then, twenty minutes later, he rings my doorbell! so it turned out he could come! so that was awesome. then he, my mom, and i went to circuit city where i bought my NEW CANON REBEL XT!!!!! oh wow. it is a SWEET camera, and it very professional. so, after that, the insurance, and memory cards, i spent all of my $1000 dollars. and i feel great because it's money that i earned, with no help from anyone. what a great feeling.

so anyways, after circuit city, david came back to my house and we played N64! ahh!! yeah, we played like 4 different games, and i kicked his ass in all of them... just kidding. =) acutally, i totally beasted golden eye. haha it was a fun night.

so nowwwww, i'm very tired and need some rest. tomorrow's going to be great too! shopping and then alex's house with kellay for some swimming! hooray!

cyaaa.

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:47:30 GMT

so, i'll be spending the next 3 days with the posse. oh yeahhhhh. crazy shit. i'll cya all on wednesday!

:edit:
location - laura's room
time - 5:53

sooooo i guess it's time to update on yesterday/some of today. yeah, so yesterday, i DID NOT WORK! yes! because i had to clean, and my parents were going away, andddd jess and i were going to colie & melissa's house to sleepovah. yeahh that was a lot fun. i hadn't been to their house in a long long time so i had soo much fun. colie did me and melissa's nails, which was pretty funny. and then jessie tried... yeah no. i just have soo much fun there, plus, it was AWESOME seeing billy... bahahahha. billy's so cute. =)

and then todayyy, jess, laura, kathy, colie, melissa, tina, and i went to the beach. =) =) =)
that was amazingly fun. it was my first real trip to the beach in a year. and it was sooooooooo great, even though the water was pretty freezing, hah. it was nice just tanning and swimming with the posse. AWESOME. <3 they're hot.

so now i'm at laura's house and i'm staying here for the night with jess, tina, and possibly melissa. yeah sweeeeeeeeeeeet. and we're going to celebrate a milltown 4th of july! hooray hooray! yeah yeah. bye kids.

i do believe it's true that there are roads left in both of our shoes.

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:55:20 GMT

so, (i always begin my entries with that word) i'm at laura's house. wooo! yeah, it has finally hit me that it's officially summer. when i wake up at like, 11 at the cancio's, it's officially summertime. so let's begin with saturday.
saturday night i slept over steph's house with ginny, ang, and aleigh. those girls are truly my best friends, ever. we had so much fun, and we made these boxes, kind of like time capsules that we're going to open in 3 years when we graduate. i can't even think about graduating yet though. i just ended freshman year! it's way too soon to think about that.
so then yesterday, i didn't go to church because i was tooo tired. haha. then i went to work. ahhh work. it was really funny yesterday though. i love the people i work with.
after work, nikko and laura picked me up and then we went back to my house. we had dinner then i went to laura's to sleepover. we just chilled and watched nikko's band play, which is really cool by the way, it was a sort of r&b group? yeah. cool. then laura and i just chilled for a while until her friends max and alley came over. they're pretty cool toooo. and then nikko decided he wanted to take us on a road trip that was originally going only to monroe, but half way there, we decided to go to the beach. so, we arrived at belmar at one in the morning. that was so awesome. it was my first time near the beach in a year, and it was soo great. i missed the beach so much. it was so different at night, and just seemed soo vast. so for a while, we just hung out on the beach, then walked and got something to eat, and then went home at about 2:30. i loved going there in the early morning hours. it felt so much like summer, like the definition of summer: going out places late at night with my cousins. awesome.
so now i'm sitting in laura's room and we're going to go home in a while and go out to the mall or something. and tonight? well, i think i know what i'm doing, possibly. =)

:edit:

so, i ended up not doing what i thought i would last night, but that's alright. instead, laura came home with me, helped me clean up a bit, and then we went shopping crazy at the mall. and then out to johnny carino's! yay! and then we just hung out here and she slept over so she could drive jess to field hockey camp... hah. i love hanging out with my cousinssss. <3 =)

she was shakin' her hips.

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:11:02 GMT

soooo, today was the last official day of freshman year. what a year this has been. it's had its ups and downs, but it's been the best school year of my life. i have become such a different person. i have grown and matured in many ways. i don't look or act the same as i did last summer. there's too many things that have happened to write them in here, and even if i could, i wouldn't. i've met many new people this year, probably because i've become more outgoing. a select few have really changed me, and i'm thankful for them. i've gained new perspectives and am truly myself. i know i say this in every entry, but i do love how life is. life can surprise you. there have been times where i thought my life was terrible, hated it, and wished it would change. now that i think back on those times, i wouldn't change them for the world. everything that has happened has helped me build what i am now. there's nothing more i can ask for.

it's officially summer, and i just can't wait to dive in.

show your world to me.

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:28:18 GMT

well, today was the last day of finals (there's band tomorrow... but that doesn't exactly count as a final.) there was heatlh... which was so easy. and spanish, uh, yeah. spanish. well, i studied my ass off for it today and it really didn't do much. it was an impossible test. ah, well, i just hope it doesn't affect my overall grade too much.

tonight is jessie's graduation from BCMS. =) aww i remember last year. that was a lot of fun. i don't miss BCMS though. i sort of hated it. middle school wasn't fun for me. i'm glad i'm out of there. i like somerville much more.

2 days left. oh fucking yes.

let the sun wrap its arms around me.

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:36:50 GMT

oh gosh. life has been treating me so well. first off, i achieved what i wanted to today. it was my own personal goal.. and i totally got it. yeahhhh. =)

but anyways, this morning, since i have lunch fifth period and don't have a final, me and some of the bio kids (gin, ang, taylor, miles, scott, etc.) went to friendly's for breakfast/study group. ahh that was fun, especially when miles and matt engulfed 20 sugar packets each then ran around the parking lot... and miles almost got seriously injured when he jumped in a shopping cart that was rolling off the parking lot ledge... haha. it was a lot of fun.
then the bio final was AMAZINGLY easy. i did so well on it, i can tell. but now, i have to study forever for spanish. oh my, am i nervous for that one. i'll be spending my whole night studying for that, and then maybe an hour or so i will devote to health. (nahh.)

so, yeah. school's out on friday. AWESOME. and then summer will begin. OHAOBVAJSDOIASHBOIAJE!!!!! i am too excited.

ocean eyes.

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 03:16:30 GMT

SUCH an awesome day. really. it was the first day of finals, but they were awesomely easy finals (english and art... jokes.) so, after finals, i went to BCMS to pick up my sissy, then we dropped her off and i went to lunch and then to work. work was great. it was me and ryan, so you know that it was gonna be fun. haha. so this weird new guy named 'dave' comes in to pick up his check, and he's wearing a shirt that says 'wanna see my tatoo?' so ryan's like 'alright, i'll ask him.' except.. the guy high-tails it out of there before he could have. but i know he would've asked if he had gotten the chance.

after work, i took so many pictures of my sister and her date/friends. they all looked GORGEOUS in their dresses and suits. i love the time of the dinner dance because everyone just looks stunning that night. it was soo cute.

thennn, i went to henah's house with people. haha wow, was that funny. i had soo much fun. those kids are wild, but i love them so. i took some crazy photos and alex took some crazy videos. hahahahaha <33333. awesome.

so basically, life is amazing. and i'm feeling fine.

watch out... it's a rant.

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:44:12 GMT

i can't stand when people copy me or other people or cheat. when someone says that copying is the biggest form of flattery... well, that's a bunch of bullshit. what it really is is that this person is too shallow and weak to come up with anything original that they have to live off of someone else's ideas. what gets me even more mad is when people take MY ideas and say that they're their own. wow. grow up. you won't get anywhere in life if you do that... or actually, you probably will, since many of the people who succeed in life are huge fakes and have made their way to the top from other people's work. or by cheating. cheating is for people who are too lazy to do any work. they seek instant gratification in the simplest way. seriously, do your work and then you won't have the 'urge' to cheat.

and really, you don't always need everyone's approval to do something. who cares if something may seem embarrassing, or if someone will make fun of you for it. chances are, it's all in your head and no one really cares. do what you want to do. life isn't going to be fun if you always live by what other peoples standards, not your own. an outsider's approval won't better yourself. it won't make you a truly better person. start thinking of your own ideas and forget about what other people might say. don't stress over the approval of someone who isn't worth you time. just be comfortable with yourself.

(end rant.)

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:49:22 GMT

so i had an interesting night yesterday... or really early morning today.

at about 1 a.m., our alarm system goes off, and i'm kind of freaking out since this is the first time this has happened in the middle of the night. so i go into my parents room and my mom picks up the phone to call the alarm company, but there's a problem. our phone lines are dead. then, i really start to freak out. i over analyze things and well, you can only imagine the things running through my head. so my dad calls the company on his cell phone and we start calling our phone company and a police car comes to the house. my dad walks outside and sees my neighbor outside too. apparently, his alarm system went off and his phones are dead too. the cop said it was probably a downed phone line and nothing to worry about. so, that was it. and i went back to sleep at like 2:30 because while the phone company tried to fix our phone lines, they called us constantly. and wouldn't stop. so phones were going off the whole night.

but alas, i was still a trooper and went to school on time on three hours of sleep.

and now i have two art projects i have to finish. my oil pastel landscape looks AMAZIN'... but my surrealism one.. eh. ah, well, school's basically over. i just wish i had more time to work on these projects. i'm a perfectionist when it comes to my art and have to have all the details right.

oh, and i just started reading "breakfast of champions" by kurt vonnegut. it's an interesting book, not to mention extremely amusing. i've got a list of his works that i want to read. i'm excited in a way...hah. =)

you see, i know a few of your favorite things.

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:14:34 GMT

yeah so today was pretty good. i laughed quite a bit. actually... all i did was laugh today. also, since i don't have a book (GRACE!), i've been doing sudoku puzzles in all my classes... haha. i sorta just stopped caring about class. sure there are finals and sure i still have some tests/quizzes coming up, but i really don't feel like it. summer is in 2 weeks. TWO WEEKS!! i'm soo excited. i'm still working on the parents to let me go to canada with kelly for a week... but they're thinking about it.

ahh life is just getting better and better.

oh mmm, what you say?

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:17:57 GMT

so, maybe i'll revamp this old thing. i dont know. so many things have happened in the past month and a half. good and bad. there've been many changes, and i'm steadily moving ahead into my future. i've been kept busy, and i've been going out a lot. i finished an excellent book, and it has opened up some things to me. i've met some awesome new people, and i've lost a few friends. it's funny how one month can go by so quickly and so many things can happen. but that's life. and we just deal with it.

so i guess i'll start this again, with real entries, not like this catch-up one. i'll have more time once school and finals are over (2 weeks!). i can't wait for this summer. it's going to bring more suprises and events than ever. it's going to be good... i can feel it.

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:58:18 GMT

i cannot wait for summer. it is going to be quite unforgettable. rutgers called back, and i'm in for the 2 week tennis course. this is what my july will be like: a few days off then i'm going away for a week at RU tennis sleep-away camp. then a couple of days after i come back from that, i'm going to ocean city with my aunt for another whole week. then a couple days after i come back from there i spend the next week enrolled at RU tennis day camp.i am going to be so busy! i love it.

and finally, my family has decided on a place to go to for vacation.

ciao l'Italia.

hm.. possibly last entry?

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:31:32 GMT

so, last night i went to kelly's house for our oscar movie night extravaganza with justin and taylor! i must say, the movies we watched (brokeback mountain, crash, walk the line, & anchorman.. the exception. haha.) were quite amazing. it was hard for me to choose my favorite. it was between brokeback and crash. both movies were in totally different genres, but ruled the ones they were in. brokeback mountain is by far one of the best movies i have ever seen. it's so much more than the "gay cowboy movie." actually, it's not even that. it's a true love story. when you start watching it, you have the mindset that it will be just about gay cowboys.. but as you get into it, you forget about gender. it just forms into a wonderful and painful love story. it's excellent. definitly a winner.

then there was crash. oh wow. that movie was also excellent. it is most definitly not the heartfelt love story. it is quite far from it. it is a movie about racism, stereotypes, and how we all are somehow tied together. it really makes you think as you watch it. it's a well produced movie, and i believe it deserved the oscar.

walk the line was good too, though not best-picture worthy. it did though, make me a huge fan of joaquin pheonix.

so, that night was a lot of fun. i also was taught how to play chess, thanks to kelly. haha i never knew how to play until now.. i guess that's pretty sad. now, i really like it. and i am going to become a master at it. haha.

only 4 more days 'til easter! and junk food! (though i did cheat yesterday and ate some of the funfetti cookies i brought to kellys. oops!) but yay, i am excited! i get to see family and the posse! =)

i love spring break.

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:11:23 GMT

i told you all i would become bored of keeping an online journal.

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:53:14 GMT

so, our family, thanks to my father, has just acquired atleast 2 new amps and a new drumset. i am going to have lots of fun with this. =)

oh, and is my short-lived track career over for the season? maybe, thanks to a possible stress fracture. cool? definitly not. i hope this doesn't screw up my tennis either. gah!

so basically....

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:16:15 GMT

last night was amazing. it was probably the best concert i've ever been to. coldplay has so much talent and stage presence. our seats were amazing. i was with great people. the whole night was basically perfect. i was laughing all the time, especially when we placed bets on the people in front of us, laughed at that girl's tiny head, and mocked dancing. it was great. i've had the most fun i've had in a while.

i took close to a hundred, but i'm only posting these few.

ginny, steph, me, ang.

when they played yellow, all these huge balloons fell from the ceiling & were filled with gold confetti.

coldplay.

this is my favorite shot from the night. they were playing fix you.

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:36:21 GMT

yeah, so, it's been a little while since i've updated.
so, to recap:
-teen arts was amazing. well, not exactly. the results of it though, were great. my photograph was selected for state art reproduction, which means it will go on a state teen arts calendar or card or something, and then it was choosen for a second show. it really made my week.
-track has been cool. we had our first meet on wednesday. i missed my hurdling event because it was the same time as long jump. vaughn wasn't exactly too thrilled with that. haha. and then i sucked at the 200m. it was so cold outside, i made scott go and get me his sweatshirt. haha. i also went through about 2 different varsity jackets, none of which were mine.
-i finally saw starwars for the first time ever today! haha. david came over and we watched "revenge of the sith". i must say, starwars is pretty good. it has such an intricate plot. i really payed attention to it, unlike other movie that when i get bored, i totally disconnect.
-tomorrow is going to be an AMAZING DAY. even though i have to get up at 6:15 for work (boo!) and go to tennis, at night i will be going to the COLDPLAY CONCERT!! yes, i love stephanie rae, who got us amazing seats for free. her dad has got the connections! haha. we are going to have so much fun, i really can't wait. it's going to be me, steph, ginny, & ang. oiajgoiajsdoifajsd this is really going to make my year, so far.

oh, and other people have been amazing. i've been having a good week, well, atleast today was so good. i'm on a natural high, baby!