a note from a teacher

"I just want to let all of you know what a joy and privilege it has been 
to be your Social Studies teacher these past four years. Go on to bigger 
and better things and I will miss all of you. Try to stay in contact not 
only with me once in a while but your fellow graduates, it will be worth 
it in the long run. I have said before, this is the most talented class 
I ever taught so go out and prove me right.
Mr. B"

just a little more of that birthday

pazookie's and movies. loving life.

grad night

sadly grad night was just so-so. we left on time and all happy just to find out that only two and a half hours of the actual night get to be spent in disneyland. then everyone is ushered to california adventures. and no one was happy about that. both parks were also open to the public until eleven pm so really only three and a half hours were spent in the park as a real graduate. and the first couple hours at disneyland were a mess and miserable. i never thought that was possible at disneyland. but then i have never been to disneyland with a group of 14 people. worst thing in the world. we all got through the gates into the park and almost instantaneously split up and got lost. and the pathetic part is that it wasn't just one single split. actually thinking about it now is really funny. the boys in the group dashed ahead while the girls went into the main street shops. soon a few girls decided to go find the boys, then more girls decided to go find the girls who where trying to find the boys. and that happened for a while until we were all separated  eventually {after nearly 35 missed calls} we met up in line at space and that took up half the time in the park. after the ride no one would listen to me when i said i was a disneyland pro and could get us anywhere and so instead we walked around in a circle back out of tomorrow land onto main street and through the other entrance back into tomorrow land. my friends can be idiots sometimes. we sat and ate dinner and eventually because we were all miserable decided to split up. half staid in the park for the last twenty minutes and we headed to california adventures.

that is when the real fun began. other then the tediousness of wait in ridiculous lines and everyone complaining about one thing or another... it was pretty decent fun. i mean this is the happiest place on earth you can't really be miserable the entire night. so we went on rides and joked around in line and had fun. i think in the end we ended up going on five or six rides. so not the best but my group was being a debbie downer and didn't want to do anything with a wait longer then 10 minutes. and they didn't want to dance. shame on them. {that is one thing i am excited for this summer. shaking my booty at cool clubs and stuff!} 

the end of the night was just as bad as the beginning, so thank goodness for that middle being decent. we ended up just sitting around outside of soaring because everyone was so tired and being lazy. i wasn't about to go find a different group so close to the end of the night but i wouldn't have just sat there if it were my choice. i mean. i paid money to be there. i wanted to party. so finally we headed back to the bus and sat on there for an hour. we left the time we were supposed to be arriving at home. because of some stupid kid that left the park without letting anyone know and because of two kids that got arrested for blatantly smoking in line. so we all sat on the bus waiting for them and then finally we got back home. i was able to sleep for four hours before i was up and of to work for the day. 

but that was the adventure of disneyland grad night. 

18

yesterday was perfect. (except for two hours.) my friends are literally as amazing as you can get them. i got up an hour early and headed to denny's by school with erica, for my free birthday byo grand slam. after we went across the street and bought a lotto ticket/ scratcher. the lady could tell that it was my first time buying one because we had no clue what we were doing. then we got back to the car and erica found me a lucky penny with my birth year and i scratched it but didn't win. we went off to school were i got to play with my kitty, billy and go to art class. then i stopped at home for a birthday run and after made my way to the premiere of gatsby. which was so much fun to wait in line for!! erica then got off work, everyone enjoyed some costco pizza and friends treated me to a pazookie at bj's. so thank you guys!!! you made the day unbelievable and so memorable! i can't believe i am so blessed with amazing friends and i can't believe that i am 18!!!!!

now. pictures.

30 minutes left of being a minor.

i can't believe it. in thirty minutes i will be eighteen. this week just flew by. almost like a joke of hey lindsay!? enjoy life! because it is going to go by this fast. and then life proceeded to speed up and zoom by. and now i'm laying in bed knowing that in half an hour i will be a legal adult. good golly! who knows what the future holds! all i know is that tonight? i spent the night with erica and her awesome sister jessie and they made me a pre-birthday spaghetti and meatball supper with yummy ice-cream for dessert and then we gave each other manicures and had a lot of laughs. i love those girls to death. 

so thank you, childhood. it's time to say goodbye. even though i will always have a part of me as a child at heart i am so excited to be able to fully be called an adult and yet so scared. yay! future! these past 18 years have been such a challenge, good times and many bad times but they all have made me into the strong, independent, blunt and funny person i am today. most people might not have been able to make it in my life but i love challenges. they make you who you are meant to be! so guess what? i am ready for a whole butt load more. bring it on adulthood! 

18 here i come! 

brunette and blondie

that's what we call each other. 

she is one of the closest people i have in my life and so i decided to dedicate this entire post to her. who knows if after high school we will stay best friends but right now at the moment she is one of the best i have ever had. it's a funny story, actually... how we met. and then there were those definite rough patches in our relationship, like anyone else. but here we are today. three years later. and the best of friends. and she makes an awesome one at that. seriously. we have the most amazing conversations. they would probably just make everyone laugh though. like how to talk to a dude that's really a girl but pretending to be a dude. or our disagreements on pitbulls. yeah so our conversations are mostly meant for us but who cares.

i met erica sophomore year. and here is the funniest thing. i didn't like her. sophomore year i thought i was so cool and popular. i wasn't. i was a shy looser. lets be honest. but here's the other thing. so was she. except i didn't think i was and she didn't care. she wore kitty shirts and had kitty binders and doggy folders and she was all about the animal rights stuff. she still is today but she doesn't go around wearing them on her clothes. she was really quiet and awkward. and i was judgmental and mean to her. she tells me today that she thought i was trying too hard to be cool and it came off as silly. so, pretty much, we both thought the other was weird and disgusting. 

and then junior year rolled by. truth is we were becoming who we are today so there was no more room for judging and, you know, we both become cooler. i stopped trying to fit in with the popular kids and accepted who i was. a weird, sarcastic and crazy person. and as soon as i figured that out, the right type of friends just instantly filled my life. and i was so blessed. and as soon as erica stopped wearing kitty shirts... well. we became friends then. and it was like a bomb went off in friendship land. 

now she is this amazing person. who can be a little air headed. but we both can be, so that's why it's perfect. she gets my humor and we never have those awkward moments where no one knows what to talk about. we are either always talking or it's just awkward. but not because we make it awkward. it's awkward because of something silly that we want to laugh at. she is probably the best at boy advice and she is good at pretending to be a boy. you know those moments when a girl has to run a play-by-play by a friend before she actually does it? she is terrible at keeping plans and we have had fights about that but recently she has been doing a kick-ass job at it because she knows that it is important to me. she is really sarcastic and i'm really sarcastic back. we argue. we argue like nobody's business. like tonight. we were on skype and she called me a know-it-all, so i called her a bitch, she said you know you love me and we just started laughing because she knows i do love her. that's just who we are together.

she might have that natural beauty and i will always be competing for guys when i'm with her but hey. i can love her anyways ;)  the funny thing about our nicknames to each other is that we are both actually blonde. but she looks ten times better as a brunette and i will forever be a natural blonde. she told me that if she goes back to her natural color and i get engaged she will dye it back for my wedding. so that we can forever be blondie and brunette. but those nicknames came about because we were scrolling through pinterest and there was a quote saying this: "every blonde needs and brunette best friend." and i was like 'ohmygosh. this is so true' and she was like 'ohmygosh it so is'. and we were like yeah. that is cool. and so that quote has stuck with us ever since.

not only is she one of the most amazing friends but she also understands my humor. to a t. and she will always answer my calls. or call me back within five minutes. we are important to each other and that is such a blessing. i love the times we spend together and i am so excited to continue our friendship once high school ends. we are both crossing our fingers that together we will be friends forever. 

birthday week!!!

i can't believe that in two days i will be 18!!! oh my dearly goodness. it has come so fast and yet so slow. time just flew. and i'm sure every post from the past few days says the same exact thing. this past weekend was a crazy whirlwind of fun. on friday i went with a group of friends out to see the new iron man. it was stunning and amazing. after we went to an early dinner, late lunch. (screw societal times for meals) and then did a little shopping. lex, one of my best friends bought a scarf. and i thought it was cute. actually. she had me choose it. which i thought was strange. then i get in the car and she wants to blindfold me. i let her but keep telling her that if she tries anything like the call i will kill her first. so she sprays perfume in my mouth. and she will never forget that. then she leads me somewhere and bam! surprise party for lindsay!! accept i was sort of expecting it so it wasn't that much of a surprise. but still! what an amazing way to start birthday week! the party was so much fun and it made me feel so blessed to have the friends in my life that i do have!

the rest of the week will probably be a crazy blur as well! today went by very fast. it was our last actual class  day of high school. next week we have finals, the week after that we get to sleep in and the week after that is when all the crazy stuff happens. all these emotions are running through me right now. my last monday of class went by smooth and amazing. it's scary and it makes me want to cry thinking about that. like... this is it. less than a month of anything to do with high school. definitely makes me want to cry. anyways. yes. today was my last monday and wednesday will be my last wednesday. obviously. thursday will be my last thursday but it is also birthday thursday so it can't really be normal!

we are celebrating my birthday as a family on wednesday night because thursday i will be jumping from school in the morning to plans with friends in the afternoon back to soccer practice and across town for a birthday dinner with friends before the freaking gatsby premiere! the entire senior class is pretty much going. we are dead excited. our english teacher will probably end up tagging along as well because she knows that we are the only class that has loved the great gatsby as much as we do. after that we will all go home and get enough sleep until friday afternoon when we gather on a bus and head to grad night!! so yes. birthday week will be one to remember. maybe there might even be a crazy moment involving a tattoo parlor. but who knows ;)