the year before my senior friends graduated;; dances, senior dinner, senior trip to washington dc, great sports seasons. just overall amazing. but i think 2010 is going to be even better because its a new beginning aka college! which i am both nervous and excited for at the same time. because i have options!!! woo for me. but i haven't decided yet because i'm waiting on my number 1 choice.

christmas is my favorite time of year because i love the cold. its going to snow tonight into tomorrow so christmas will be white in conn.! [sidenote: conn. was ranked #50 in the happiest state poll lol and 51 was new york--well that doesn't surprise me too much] but yeah so today i went to mohegan sun for lunch with my family and tomorrow it's going to snow so i plan to stay home and get work done. i wrapped my friends presents today so i didn't' have to worry about it this week. but i have full days of school monday and tuesday [when we are basically doing nothing] and then wednesday is a half day and i'm spending it with my "sister" who's coming home from college! we are going driving to random places, blarring music. fun. fun. then thursday my family is coming over for christmas eve and then christmas more family is coming over! yayyyyy! love christmas. then the 26th my family and i always go shopping. 27th i'm going to rhode island to see my mom's cousins who are great. and the rest of the week i'm chilling probably with my friends and new years eve is spent with my college amigas who are home for winter break.

woah long journal.

what are people's plans for christmas? anything awesome?

as a senior this year i am going through the many stresses of looking for colleges; waiting to be excepted etc. so i have decided to start a photo project that kind of represents my senior year and gets me ready for college....you'll see :) i'll start today !

well i am just writing a letter saying how i will not be on buzznet [most likely] at all until around november because i started volleyball today and practice was 8-11; 1-3 and the first three hours was conditioning so i am poooooped. and with volleyball practice/games on top of the outrageous school schedule i got going on and hopefully working i wont be on buzznet as much as i like. :(

xoxorachael

Biker Jacket- Forever 21

Birdie Rain Boots- Target

&more dressessssssssssssssssssssssss :)))

thats pretty much it though because i just bought hair curlers the other day which was a great purchase!

so i started freaking out and couldn't remember signing up for any contest but then i remembered i did it a while back and i ended up winning two tickets to see my favorite highway friday @ the webster underground in hartford :)

i've never won anything in my life [other than dumb things] so i am SUPER EXCITED to go to this concert because i wanted to go in the first place but i am broke, just got back from warped tour, and it was sold out because the venue fits 200people max which is dumb because they should have it in the theater but whateverr

so today i got another email saying i'm on my favorite highway's guest list which made me feel really special [even though its not really that amazing i guess...but i'm excited]

but another great thing about this week was i got my LICENSE -finally :)

i'm getting MONEY! because i'm working at a sports camp this entire week :)

and i went shopping the other day and got an owl shirt from forever 21 for 4bucks, black pacsun jeans from a consignment shop for 12bucks!, and a pacsun cardigan for 4bucks. --so i had some great deals

& i passed my AP TEST :)! which i was worried about because english is not my best subject

& i got an A on my first APbiology summer work assignment

but i do have to start working on more summer work for UConn english & AP biology which sucks but i could have worse things to do but i was working at a farmers market and they decided to close it because it wasn't making any money so now i have to go see if i can find another job for the summer which will be nearly impossible but worth the shot...

how's everyone else doing?

did anyone else go to see the cab? and how was it?

for anyone that was planning on seeing year one i strongly recommend against it unless you are in the mood for a completely dumb/no plot kid of movie. OR just want to stare at michael cera all night (which is what i did lol :))

so me and my best friend meaghan

took my bestest friend marissaaaaaaaaa out for her birthday; she knew we were going to see year one because she LOVES michael cera but what she didn't know was that we were inviting her friends stephanie and priya from other towns. so when we walked into the movie theater we were getting out money for tickets and such and marissa was like this is enough right? and i was like is it enough for 5 tickets and she was like whattt? there are THREE of us here and meaghan was like well rachael took the liberty of inviting priya and stephanie and marissa started freaking out! it was great i'm was so happy she loved my idea =D

then after the horrible movie we went out to coldstonee...delish coffee ice cream!

and while we were waiting for rides [since none of us are legal to drive each other yet :(] we took some pictures before my fucking camera battery died which i charged right before i left and it lasted all of 5 minutes.

marissa L meaghan R

they were going for the looking sketchy outside of a police station look-- my best friends are weird but i love em!

i'm getting my hair cut tomorrow real short and i'm PUMPED! i've been waiting for so long to get it cut but i haven't had time lately with softball and school and busy schedules in general so finally tomorrow at five i will get it done!!

i've been worrying a lot lately about what i wanna do with my life; i've wanted to be a physician assistant for a long time which requires five years of college and a crap load of work so in order to prepare i am taking

ap biology

ap calculus

uconn english

physics

psychology

spanish 5A

i'm definitely going to kill myself and i think i'm going to lower down the levels of some of my classes like calculus because its ridiculous how much i've got going on here!!!! why do i bring this upon myself i'm insaneeeeeee literally.

well hopefully life is less stressful tomorrow peace outtt

xox rachael

it's just one of those times that you just wish you were far away at college because of everything that's going on in your life that pretty much sucks. well my "friends" are being bitches for the most part although my best friends are still there :) my coach is being dumb, my mom is bitching at me about everything and got so mad at me just because i thought i was getting my haircut tomorrow but then she was like nooo nooo i sent you that email remember blahhh blahhh blahh and its just like i'm sorry i dont remember!

sorry i'm blabbing. but i'm watching another cinderella story hoping to relax and then i'll probably go in my room and draw my meg and dia picture which i'm proud of how it's turning out.

well thats my sucky life right now but we all have those days...i'm just not in the mood right now. i wanna go run again because i was a fatty and had pretzel/chips & dip which makes me feel gross so i wanna go run my mile and hike the hill again because i'm trying to watch what i eat and that wasn't good :( that doesnt' help my mood either.

now i have to wait until next fucking tuesday for a haircut FUCK MY LIFE. i hate stresses.

and not only did we win but the other team playing beat the no. 1 seed in the conference which helped us out a lot because after playing almost two games in one we had 45min to relax and then play the no. 4 seed who we kicked butt 6-2 declaring us CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!

idk how that no 4 seed knocked out the no 1 seed but they did and we WONNNNNNNN!! it basically made my life cause we have been working so hard for this and we did it :D!

i've also lost 10 lbs since becoming a vegetarian and it feels great because i hate my body and really wanna loose more weight before senior year and stuff...so i'm off to a great start!!

@metropark; i saw this the other day when i was shopping and i kick myself for not buying it then :(!

@forever21; i need a new pair of flip flops so i am planning on buything these

@american apparel; i also need a cute summer dress because in june i am going to a wedding at cape cod, ma and i need a cute summer dress just to chill out in