Well, summer is coming to an end. Only a week and so many days until we pile back into our school desks and listen to the ramblings of our teachers, once more. Luckily for the class of 2006, it's our last year:) However, it's our most challenging, as we have our final ACT and SAT and SAT IIs to take, colleges to apply to, and an *ideal* college to choose. So, to the class of 2006, may this be our best, most relaxing year. May we actually like each other this year. May we be happy when we say our final goodbyes. Because, regardless of how much you think you'll stay in touch, chances are,  you won't stay in touch.

Anyway, summer is coming to a shockingly fast close. So, it's time for me to summarize the highlights and low times of my summer. Are y'all ready for this?:)

Highlights of the summer:
-My birthday get together
-Week long trip to Hawaii
-Meeting Heather, Chris, And Josh
-Hangin out in M'boro w/ Heather and Chris
-My 3 week long fling with Josh
-Michael and Jesse. Enough said.
-Gettin' a bit tipsy with Natalie
-Barry. Enough said.
-Zack, Michael and Jesse at Opry Mills. Enough said.
-8 days in Lakeland Florida with the Haywood Hills Baptist Youth Group
-Proving that I am, indeed, beefy to a Methodist preacher.
-The OTHER Josh.
-The Lake Shore Baptist Church Youth Group.
-Free Styling. May I never try it again
-The long drive back home from daytona
-MY CAR
-My totally random call from Blake, a guy I dated THIS TIME last year
-Getting 5 prank calls a night from Blake's friends
-Doing a couple of prank calls myself
-Getting a bit tipsy before church, and then going to church.
-Just flat out getting wasted
-Finally going on that second date with Blake

Low times:
-ACT
-My birthday(my real birthday, not my get together with the friends)
-My three week long fling with Josh(for the record, i don't regret it.)
-My journey to Dekalb County
-The aftermath of my journey to Dekalb County
-Having to spend a full 8 days in Lakeland, FL with a few people.
-My grandmother being diagnosed with lung cancer
-Being shot down a full 4 times this summer.
-Jesse. Enough said.
-My AP test grades.
-Not seeing any of my Hawaii buds after we got home.

Overall, I'd have to say this was a pretty awesome summer for me. I've dated a full 5 guys, gone to two amazing places, and gotten the best tan i've had in years. So, i'm pretty happy with how this summer worked out. Maybe next year's will be even better, hopefully it will. Now to finish this off

Favorite Memory:
My week in Hawaii with Josh, Heather and Chris.

Least Favorite Memory:
The aftermath of my trip to Dekalb County

hey guys, i'm back:'( man..let me tell y'all somethin. hawaii is awesome as hell. next time i go(i'm goin again next year and playin for texas) i ain't comin home. nooo freakin way man. but let me tell y'all what happened:)

tuesday mornin we got to the airport and ran into this girl named heather that i had met at the meeting back in october..and so we stood in line with her..well we saw this boy in line with the same shirt (king kamehamea) as us...so she went and asked him if baseball was goin on at the same time..and he said yeah! heck yeah baby! imagine our surprise..and joy. haha. anyway, so we got through and went and put our stuff down, ate..got on the plane..flew to cincinnati and all that good stuff. then we got there and we seriously had to run to our next plane..we got on there..9.5 hours to oahu. it was awesome. i sat beside this chick named krista..she's a jerk and a half though..she's got her dang head stuck half way up her butt. you wouldn't even believe it. she seemed nice at first, but nah..her and her friend jill totally detached themselves from the rest of us. anywho, some of them tennessee boys..all of them actually..were finer than hell! i was happy. lol. movin right along..we landed in hawaii and got to the airport and waited on the shuttle, loaded on and got to the hotel. once we were there, we got our room assignments and what not..i got to room with heather! yeah! there were supposed to be 4 people to a room, but the two girls that were supposed to room with us didn't want to, so they just came in and stole our mattress instead.  i'll explain that in a minute. so, we start unpackin and claim our beds and stuff...and we get all dressed up nice and go down to the front lobby..we were two minutes late so we got into trouble with the coach. lol. already! but our clock was slow, so it ain't our fault, you know what i mean? :) anyway, we ..i forgot what we did tuesday. oh yeah, we all went shopping..well..the softball girls that were from tn that roomed together(there were only 6 on the team actually from tn...) left us..so we hung out with the boys...and we went to the beach. and there was this fine boy named josh. heck yeah. this is where i start talking about josh nonstop...anyway, so we went to the beach, pretty as all get out, by the way, and hung out there until about 10:30, which is when we went back to the room. there was this little wall thing in the ocean at the beach..and josh helped me get up on it...and..the waves definitely knocked me off..and i was crushed and caught under the waves..and he helped me. it was nice. but yeah, that was tuesday. already hangin out with boys :) oh yeah, and ..the four of us, me, heather, chris, and josh...all went swimming. just us three. and josh was flirtin with me like whoa. and chris..definitely tried to kiss heather.

wednesday-we woke up at 6:30 am. yes, six thirty in the freakin morning. can you believe that?? i couldn't sleep a wink! so i got up and what not..then we left for pearl harbor. omg..it was so freakin sad. i cried like no other. no joke. josh was followin us around though...but heather was upset, because her boy, chris, wasn't. so...yeah. but anyway, so us three were hangin out at pearl harbor, and i was sittin by him and whatnot...and then we left pearl harbor to go to the flea market i think...so we went there...and hung out. i bought two bathing suits for 25 bucks..you can't beat that. heather and them spent like..100 bucks...on like..0923487234 items. the prices at that flea market were seriously out of this world. after that we went down to this little beach...uncle nick stopped there(he was our tour guide) to show us some endangered turtles..it was so awesome. :) then..we went to a different beach for about 2 hours..and that was awesome. i swam with the boys...and heather and bryce(a chick on team TN)  then i layed out a little bit. josh told heather he really likes me that day...after that we went to the dole plantation ...pretty alright place. we went somewhere else too...where they had coffee and nuts and stuff..but i forgot where. but we were done around 5. then after that...us 4 just went and chilled at the beach until we had to go to this meeting at 10. orientation...yep. pretty much tellin us not to steal, drink, do drugs...so forth, so on....because we'll get caught. the boys did all of those. and none of them got freakin caught. lol. then ...we went to sleep.

thursday-the boys had their first two games, so the first half of the day, heather and i were sittin up at the boys games. we road into their games late though, so we were ridin with the GA team...MAN. let me tell you somethin, peaches aren't the only good things in GA. ah dang. anyway, they lost both games....the teams they played ended up gettin 1st and 2nd though, so it's alright...after that, though, we had to go straight back to the hotel and get ready for a luau. it was ok...not what i expected it to be, but ok. josh, heather, me, and chris ended up just leaving during one of the shows and walking down to a beach that was close to it...and we hung out down there. my mom got mad about it and a lot of crap was said that night..so josh called me and...listened to me rant about it for a little while.

friday- we got up at 4:45 am to go watch the freakin sunrise. no freakin joke. no shit, true story, as brookes and josh would say lol(long story..) but anyway, we watched the sunrise, and then at like..6 or something...we went and walked like..4 miles to a starbucks. we sat there until 7:30. then we left, and walked 10 miles around the island..by the time we got back to where we started from..it was about 12. and...we walked by this guy who was offering for them to shoot guns and stuff, and they really wanted to, so they did. so me and heather walked off looking for a general market..and we couldn't ever find it, so we went back and sat down outside the place that they went, and the guy started talkin to me. and i asked him if he knew were the guys were and he was like "no, i think they left." and we were like "what..no shit?" and he was like "yeah..i think they're gone." and we were like "nah..they wouldn't have left." and so we sat there..and he asked me why i was there, and i told him for softball and he asked if i was in school, and where i was from..and i told him TN and he said he's comin to TN...and he said he's part french and part african..but he wasn't black. but anyway, so..we kept talkin and he asked me to teach him how to play softball...and he said he'd teach me to play tennis, cuz that's what he plays, and to speak french. then he goes "you're very pretty" and about this time, the boys are walkin back out, and he asked for my e-mail address..and i didn't know what else to do, so i gave it to him. so josh walked up to me, and put his arm around me and kissed my cheek. and was like "what's up baby?" dude, these sentences i'm writing are bothering me...anyway, bottom line, they wanted to kill the guy. after that, we found out that he told them he wanted to meet a nice american girl...and they think he was tryin to fish them away from us..but we kept on walkin around after that, and then we went swimmin.  then...around 4 or somethin we went and got ready to go to the olympics. basically all it was, was a fear factor of eating sushi, and some island foods that were apparently nasty as all get out, tug-o-war, dizzy bat, and bubble gum relay. it was funny. tn got 2nd place in tug-o-war. go us. then everyone started dancin up on the stage..man them texas girls were bein freakin hoes too! oh yeah, they're the ones that stole our mattress the first night..and never gave it back. anyway, they were...gah. it was nasty. georgia boys were likin it though. but, then we, me, heather, bryce and gabby(another chick from team TN) dragged josh and chris away. and went swimming. brookes came, too...but gabby, bryce and brookes ended up leaving. so..we were swimmin around and i was just sittin there in a corner after swimmin some laps..and josh comes over and starts messin with me and crap and kisses me. surprised the hell out of me. oh, and he held my hand after the luau the other night. forgot to mention that...but then we got out of the pool and left...we were cold. so we went and sat in some chairs in the lobby until about 10:45. heather and i fell asleep in chris and josh's arms..it was awesome. we were out cold. josh was like "Y'all need to get some sleep" (in his cute little country accent...) so..we went to our rooms and said our goodbyes..and went to sleep. and ..i had one hell of a sunburn from bein out in the sun for...18 hours.

saturday-girls had their first two games. lost both games. lol. after that we went to the boys games. boys lost their first and won their second, putting them 4th out of 5th. way to go boys! apparently, when josh got up to bat and busted the hell out of the ball..i jumped up and screamed "HELL YEAH!" but i swear i don't remember sayin that. i know i jumped up and was takin pictures. but i don't remember screamin anything. after that..we went to shop and what not...and eat. it was fun. i'm not sure, but i think that was the night we caught up bus to the walmart. let me tell you somethin...crazy as freakin hell. it was cheap..and a bunch of hawaiin stuff on sale. plants and all sorts of crap. i was like "yeah this is where it's at baby" after that, it was like..10...we had to get all the way across the island to our hotel before curfew at 11...and  no bus would take us back. then we saw some people fighting. some high as hell guy...and some woman who kept yellin at him..she almost made him hit her. i swear man! it was scary..heather and i were freakin out...josh was like "i'm goin to take this mother f*cker out" it was funny....when we got back to the hotel we had like..10 minutes left so we walked and got burger king..then we went back to the hotel..ate and slept.

sunday-had our last two games. lost our first one. 14-0. i played terrible in that game. at least i made contact with the ball though. i missed every ball that was hit to me, sadly. but um...shoot..what was i sayin, oh yeah, second game..we won. just like the boys. i got the breath knocked out of me once..i hit the ball down the first base line..and the girl was bein a big, fat witch..and she stuck her dang elbows into my stomach then slammed her glove into it. she was blockin the baseline..so i decided i was goin to try to run her over, even though she outweighed me by a ton....but yeah..she got me with about 2 feet left before the base..and i crawled to the base, i was bound and determined to at least run through..and started spittin..i couldn't breath for the life of me, man, seriously! it was awful. i almost threw up....but, then coach asked if i wanted a break and i said hell no and went back out and played. played both games, the whole time:) go me. after that..we went back to the hotel to get ready to go play glow in the dark putt putt, and we said we'd be ready by 3:30, but heather decided she wanted to do a little shoppin first..so..that's what we did. and we didn't end up getting ready until 4. well, josh didn't like that. so..he called and hung up on me twice. and chris..told heather about this other chic he had been talkin to. so both of us were pissed as hell....well...me, heather and chris were walkin down the street and we look over at BK and see brookes bangin on the window, ...josh is with him. they all definitely left us. so we went in and i ignored the hell out of him. i wasn't even wearin his necklace that he told me to wear. and THAT pissed him off. so here we are, pissed at each other...then finally  i tell him i'm mad because he hung up on me..and he apologized...and i told him it was more so the fact that chris was playin with heather's emotions the way he did, because he freakin asked her out earlier in the day..then sprung that crap on her and said "let's just be friends" heck nah! but yeah...we were ok. then we went to the arcade..and walked around there for a while..and chris kept askin me what to tell heather to make it better..so i gave him so advice, and he took it, and they are ok now too:) yay....then brookes and them left..so the 4 of us went to T.G.I.Fridays. yummy! i love that place. let me tell you! and josh paid for it..he wouldn't let me pay for anything. at all. he paid for that, he paid for starbucks today..twice today actually....anyway....then we walked down to the pier and watched father of the bride on the beach..it was so nice, seriously. he just kept kissin me and telling me how much he's goin to miss me and stuff. then we all just walked around and went inside....then around 11:50, they came into our room and slept with us:) but that..well ...yeah. definitely against the rules. it was awesome though:) perfect ending to a great week.

monday-is today monday or tuesday? cuz to be quite honest.i don't know. i think it's tuesday..we left monday...at 7 pm hawaiian time...yeah so it's tuesday. ok. monday we woke up at 7..but of course...all of us were so tired that we didn't want to get out of bed..so we just rolled around a little bit...and fell back asleep..then josh woke up and kissed me....and fell asleep..and i woke up and kissed him..and fell back asleep..and that kept goin on until about..8. then they left..and all of us got our crap packed and set it by the door for pick up..and left the hotel at 9 to get starbucks. after starbucks, we hit the beach one last time....then we walked around to BK to get a drink(me and josh and brookes) and ...some cracked out woman was sittin there with crack nails on her fingers and toes talkin to herself..it was scary as hell. and this texas girl threw somethin at her and pissed her off. the witch almost came after us...but then josh and i went back to the beach....and yet again..he told me how much he was goin to miss me. i'm startin to get sad again. anyway..we went back inside...because it was like...3:30 and we had to be back by 4...and talked to danny..the guy who organizes everything..and i'm goin back next year and playin for the TX coach, cuz she likes me. heck yea:) and heather, josh and chris are probably goin again too! :D how cool is that!!!! :D i'd be freakin happy as all hell! but yeah,...we hit the airports after that...and that's when i started cryin....then on the plane i fell asleep. and josh did too. we held hands..and kissed some too....and he had a few tears himself...and he asked me if i was goin to keep in touch..told me not to forget him and made me promise....and i'm cryin again.  so he gave me his hat from baseball and put his name and number on is...and we swapped phone numbers and stuff...and...yeah. we slept.

tuesday- landed in cincinnati at ...10:30. and we had a 2 hour lay over. it sucked, but hey..it was 2 extra hours with him..even though he was with brookes the whole time. but we sat on the plane back to nashville together too..and i started cryin when it took off...and fell asleep shortly after.it was an hour long flight...and i didn't even realize it because i was asleep. all i remember is closin my eyes and BAM...*intercom*"we're now approachin nashville airports..." i busted out cryin. and he leaned over and whispered "don't be sad. just don't forget me" which made me cry only more. we got to the airport..got all of our stuff..and he hugged me good bye and told me to seriously stay in touch. and...he left. i cried harder than all hell. but...me heather and chris agreed we're calling him to make plans for one weekend real soon...we decided next week..i should make it this weekend. this sunday. maybe monday. none of us have jobs. and all except me have cars. lol...so. but i'll be in murfreesboro..and we could all meet somewhere there and come back to my grandparents and hang out. that'd be so flippin awesome. but he called me...and made sure i was home alright...and we talked and he said "seriously..stay in touch with me..." and..i said i would. and i told him to call me whenever he feels like it. and i told him about the plans for next weekend. so. yeah. maybe...we'll see. i hope......sigh.

so..yeah, recap, the week was the best week of my life. and...i definitely did not want to come home. i want to go back. now. right. now.

gah. i'm sad as freakin hell. my heart hurts. blah. the end.

i wrote this exact same thing in myspace. i didn't feel like writing everything out again. sorry it's so long. it was an eventful week. other things happened too..but...yeah.

my mom and i resolved our issues, more or less, about the whole softball thing. pretty much, i blew up at her and told her that i'm tired of her pushing me and making me do everything her way:D this happened thursday. it led to a VERY interesting birthday. which, i would explain, except, i've already written about it once, and i don't feel the need to write about it again.

see, natalie made me get a thing at myspace. and except for the fact that i have NO CLUE how to change the format of the front page, i kinda think i like it. much more than xanga. it makes my heart skip a beat. and it makes me get butterflies in my stomach everytime i think about it. except...not. but it's still really cool. and, like, you can search for people in your area, and do this thing called linking and networking, whatever those mean. but it's neat. and it rocks. and well, xanga kind of blows. except, my friends are here. and this is the one way for me to stay connected with you all over the summer. so i think i'll update sporadically, just so i can keep in touch with all you lovely people. but, if you want to actually read about what's going on in my life..then feel free to journey over to myspace and take a look at my thing. if you can't guess what my name is on there, well, then you're nuts. because...it's not hard. just, keep in mind i'm not the slightest bit original. therefore, when i think of something i like, i keep it forever and a day. and that's all the hints you're getting because i don't really want everyone from the school seeing that one..like they see this one:D

i'm leaving for hawaii in ...43 hours! yay!

so, i'm leaving on tuesday for hawaii. i should be more excited than i am, right? right. like, i'm excited because i'm going to get to see a ton of new people, and i'm going to make new friends and i'm going to see a place of the U.S. that i've never seen before, and i'll have 4 days of sight seeing with these people that i don't know..that's exciting. and i'll have a full 26 hours on a plane and a full 2 hours of layovers. but i also have 3 days of softball tournaments. now, see, up until about 3 weeks ago i was more than excited about this. i was ecstatic. i couldn't have been happier about the fact that i was going to get to play a college level softball tournament..in HAWAII..with the LEE UNIVERSITY softball coach! i mean, honestly. THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY. now, why would i not want to do this? well, because my mom has taken this sport, that i once loved and adored and wanted to play in college, and manipulated it into something i hate. she's pushing me and making me do everything HER way. i know i have to work hard if i want to play in college. i'm working out. i'm staying in shape, i'm going to the batting cages. i KNOW how hard it's going to be to do the whole college-level softball thing. trust me, i do. i've watched interviews with college level ball players..i know. it's awful. i've talked to coaches. but yet, she feels the need to push me and always do nothing but talk softball with me. I DON'T FREAKIN CARE. i LOVE softball, but God. just SHUT UP. i DO want to think about something else OTHER than softball every now and then, ya know? that's all i used to think about until she came along and started saying "ya know, perhaps you should change your stance and close it a little more" no mom, coach told me to do it the way i am. so shut your dang mouth. and tonight, like 5 minutes ago, she goes "alright, when i get home you need to be ready because i'm opening the garage door and then we're going to the batting cages in smyrna." uh..why? we have batting cages here. "because, christie. those are faster. you need to work on your speed. your weight problem has really caused you to slow down a lot." thanks a lot mom. i really freakin appreciate it. i've been working my butt off at softball for 14 years. FOURTEEN FREAKIN YEARS. since i was 3 years old i've DREAMED about playing softball in college..and my mom has ROBBED me of that passion. she's doing the same thing to my softball that she did to my basketball. and i hate her for it. and i hate her for making me hate me.

-christie

Ahhhh dude. Friday was flippin awesome. let's go into detail, shall we? We shall.

Ok, so I woke up at like..10:30 and got all cleaned up and started cleaning the house and all that...and just as i finished cleaning the house, the doorbell rang. it was erin! hooray! guest number one at 2:00. then shortly after, kristen showed up. and 8 short minutes later, amanda. so..we all sat around and talked for a while..and a good hour or so later..natalie came. So we hung out and talked..and then we ate spaghetti. man, that was interesting. what we talked about, shall remain a secret. all i will say is, set it and forget it! :D and TURKEY:D good times, good times. anywho, my mother then got home with the junk food, thank God, so we went outside to help her carry them in. at this point it was 430, so of course, boy number one, nick b. was there. shortly after his arrival, justin arrived. and we continued our talking and making fun of each other and mitzi(my dog) and then Josh came in. and let me tell you, that's when the party really started. NOT. haha just kidding josh. anyway, so then skeeter came and blah. then nicholas. yay:D  but anyway, then we all went to the mall. and we ate. and we met up with carrie there. and abinash was there! so..he came along with us, because he and nick and kristen are friends. so it was fun. and, then we realized we forgot matt. so i was all frantic and stuff..and i called my house to tell them that we forgot about matt and my mom said he had already stopped by and sent him on his way. luckily, he showed up at the mall. hooray for matt. after we ate, we went into the arcade for a little while, which is when one of my ex's showed up and i ran away:D yes, i ran away. because he scares the freakin crap out of me. and he hung around for a little while. blah. scary guy. thank god i ran before he saw me. anywho, we went to rocketown after that. erin, amanda and i decided that we wanted to hit on a few skater guys. however, that turned into just amanda. and then i saw one very cute guy. and amanda opened her mouth and said "hey, you're hott" to the guy and he just looked at her. it was amusing. notice i'm just giving a few highlights because i don't feel like going way into details. moving on, oh yeah, skeeter and carrie left after the mall. ok, back onto the guys. so amanda found a guy that she liked. so we told kristen to tell him that she thought he was hott. well, kristen thought that we meant I thought he was hott. so she told him that. it was funny. so a different dude asked what i thought of HIM. and i said "uh..he's...attractive..i guess?" turns out he was 14. WOO! go me! so, later on amanda asked for his number, and he asked for erin's. good times, good times. before all this, though, we were downstairs getting trampled by some weirdos who THOUGHT they knew how to dance to metal. uhhhhhh. throwing your elbows into someone's eye isn't dancing, bonehead. they were about to get killed. not by me, but by natalie's boyfriend. oh yes. it was on.

anywho, after that, we went back to my house, at this time it's 10. so we went back, and we watched movies. now, before i got home, apparently josh almost got run over by some guy that he could've sworn was nick. but..it wasn't us. so he got the license plate number. WAY TO ALMOST GET KILLED. then we ate cake. wow, that's like a news report when they're talking about poor old ladies getting brutally murdered, then they say "speaking of murder, i'm dying to see the new Star Wars movie"  ok, back on track. we watched Saw. Scary movie. freaky. we talked after josh and nick left. which was at 11:30. and then we went to bed about 2. natalie and amanda left at 7:45. kristen left at 10ish..and erin left at 2 after we watched little black book. it was amazing.

so, overall..my weekend was amazing. besides my friends almost getting killed by wannabe hardcore 12 year olds at rocketown, amanda getting pissed at erin for being infinitely more attractive than her, and skeeter admitting he wants erin more than anything, it was great. :D i love my friends.

so, ben made me feel really bad about not inviting him, which i felt bad enough anyway. but i gave him a huge piece of cake today. so now it's all better. :D and jeff made me feel bad because i forgot to remind him. but i didn't have his number so that's on him. butthead.

i'm done. i'm happy:) oh yeah! and i got great things. an AMAZING cd from erin. i've listened to it non-stop. let me tell you, my church elders don't like it very much. lol. it's a tid bit different than dashboard, but it's still cool. i'm enjoying it. i need variety. i got a $10 gift card to starbucks and a hugeeeeee coffee holder from nicholas. that guy knows me. and i love him for it. i saw it and i swear my jaw dropped to the floor. i felt like screaming and jumping up and down. i got a really awesome key chain from josh..it signifies my belief in God and i love it. and it's a nice reminder to me that God is there to pull me through everything. i got the most sweet and thoughtful "walk through memory lane" from natalie. it was a little carebear thing..but inside it popped open and had pictures of me and her through the years..and memories of things we've liked, things we've been through, styles we've been through, pictures..it was sweet. it made me cry. i got a $20 dollar gift card to wal mart from carrie. seriously guys..thank you for  coming and making my birthday great:) i really enjoyed it.

-christie