No Pants Party

Before going any further, I should inform you that most of my close friends are guys. Karoline & Lucy are the only 2 girl friends that I have kept an actual friendship with over the years.

I have these 3 guy friends that I've known since middle school and became really close with senior year as we shared our science class. Brian, Sam, & Ace. I've always been kinda close with Brian & Sam but Ace just kinda came out of nowhere. Let me give you a quick summary of each:

Brian- 7 out of 10. Not the brightest crayon in the box but deep down he's a super sweet guy. I must mention, for blogging purposes, he is very well off...aka....rich. Has an amazing house. We call it the Great Gatsby house of our town. Also must mention that he dated Karoline back in middle school days.

Sam- 9 out of 10. Very good looking guy I must say. We have that love/hate relationship going on. He's always making fun of me and saying mean things, but it's all just for laughs & giggles. Girls are always drooling over him. Basically has his hip attached to Brain as they are ALWAYS together.

Ace- 5 out of 10. Literally just a funny guy. He never fails to make me crack up. He's always in & out of our little friendship circle.

Now that that's over, we can get on to the story.

So Brian invites Sam (who basically lives there), Ace & I over to his house. I bring along Karoline with me so they don't gang up on me as they usually do. We get there around 8ish & chill in his backyard like always, which is even better than the inside of his house. We sit by the t.v. & watch baseball. Catch up, since it's maybe the 2nd time we've hung out all the summer. Around 10, due to the fact that he lives on lake, mosquitos are basically eating us alive. Brian suggest we go over & sit by the fire where the mosquitos aren't so bad, so we go ahead & do that. Ace leaves about a half hour later & now it's just Brian, Sam, Karoline & myself left. Here is where things get interesting.

The fire starts to get a little too hot for me (it's a summer night in Florida!), so I head over to the pool to dip my feet in for a while & Sam follows me. We sit side by side talking & watching the stars because there was a meteor shower going on. Sam & I have really good conversations when it's just us. After about 15 minutes, Brian & Karoline head over.

They then dare me to jump in the pool, fully clothed. If you've read all my posts, you know I don't back out of dares. Granted, I'm wearing a maxi skirt & a tank top. My skirt floats around very unflattering. Karoline says she wants to go in & would take her yoga pants off but she is wearing "inappropriate underwear" (her words, aka thong). Brian, with his handy dandy little iPad looking thing, taps a button & all the lights from the backyard & pool turn off, leaving us almost in pure darkness, only the sky lighting our faces ( wow, that was intense). Karoline, then being her crazy self, takes off her yoga pants  & heads into the pool. At this point I'm like screw this skirt, so I take it off. Brian & Sam already have their bathing suits on, so they just take their shirts off & dive in. We made it awkward for a second, boys on one side of the pool, girls on the other, but it's not like we could see each other anyway, so we got over it.

We got bored of the pool & then headed to the hot tub (making sure the guys went in first & did not turn around). Sam & I on one side, Brian & Karoline on the other. We talked about cool thing & dumb things, I honestly can't remember, but it was a good time. We saw so many shooting stars & made wishes. Sam kept asking me what I wished for but I couldn't tell him or it wouldn't come true,  & then he would tell me the same thing whenever I would ask him. I sensed a little flirtation going on, but I can't really say for sure.

Karoline & I left Brians house about 2 a.m. with his towels around us. We went to Taco Bell before heading home & sat in my car & talked while we ate. For the past year or so, Karoline has had a thing for Brian. Not a huge thing, just a little one. I've told Brian this because I can, & he has told me that he kinda has a small thing for her too. They just don't tell eachother! They both know, but have done nothing!

Moral of the story, Karoline & I just want to make out with Brian & Sam.

100 views!

Even though most of the views on my blog are from those dumb spam websites, it still feels awesome. I'm really proud of my little blog. I hope someone out there has found humor in my life. Not many exciting things have happened this past month, so I'm sorry for no exciting posts. Things will soon pick up though. I leave for BYU-Idaho in 27 days! Words cannot express how stoked I am for this.

All my friends are leaving this weekend for their colleges & it's so bittersweet. Growing up with almost half of my senior class (which is about 1,000), I have seen them all grow into such amazing young men & woman. Of course you have those that are not on the right path at this time in their life, but I have faith that they will soon learn what life is out of high school.

But I am going to miss them so much. I forget sometimes that they will all be able to see eachother on weekends with a 2-4 hour drive in between them, while I'm going to be half way across the country.

I'm ready for this. I'm ready to meet new people. I'm ready to get out of my comfort zone & be more social. I'm ready to study hard during the day & have crazy fun at night. I got this.

Also, if you are an actual person reading my blog, please comment to give me an indication that I'm not writing to Internet Space. It doesn't have to be about anything, you can just say Hi or anything! I would love to just know that someone is reading & all my views are not just from spam. This will also give me the encourgament to post more often.Thank you!

Roommates

I have been waiting for this moment for the past 6 months. It's a big deal. I'm going to be living with these 5 girls for 4 months straight. Ideally, I wanted all of us to be freshman, so we could go through all the new stuff together & get to know everything together. I also wanted us all to be complete strangers. It would just makes things so much easier & more fun if we all had to get to know each other.

But of course, the exact opposite happened. I've got a girl with the same exact name as me, which is always fun. She has a friend with her, Michelle. Natasha's older sister ironically was put in the same apartment with her & her 2 friends. & then there's me. Natasha's older sister, Regan, & her 2 friends are like 20 & 21 so they already know BYU-I. It's just crazy how it all went the total opposite on how I wanted it too.

When I first found out about the whole ironic situation, I was really bummed out. They all have some sort of connection which is the last thing I wanted. I'm so bad at putting myself out there in the first place, much less when everybody already knows each other.

Natasha reached out to me on FB & we have been talking for the past 3 days. We seem to be really getting along & have a lot in common. So my spirits have gone back up & I'm so excited to meet these girls.

P.S. We got a balcony :)

Coincidence or not?

So a couple weeks ago, a couple of my friends & I were just getting back from watching a movie & decided to chill in the parking lot of IHOP. By this time it was already midnight so what better to do than play truth or dare. We did some funny stuff, spilled some secrets, & then it was my turn. They dared me to call Luke.

It had been a solid year & half since I last talked to Luke. We ended on neither good or bad terms, it was just like, we stopped talking. He had since moved out of state for college while I was finishing up my last year in high school. But now, he was back for the summer.

For anyone who knows me, I don't back out of dares. I play by the rules, so I did what I was told. I called him. It rang.....and rang....and finally went to voicemail. But that didn't give me a free ride. They then told me I had to leave a descriptive message stating it was me & saying that I just wanted to see how he was doing. Is that embarrassing or what? But I did it anyway.

A week went by and nothing, not that I expected him to call back or anything. I was on my home from work & I look over & see a black jeep. Chandler has a black jeep, so I automatically assume it's him, but right before I give a wave, I realize it's not him. I do a double take & realize that it's Luke. He must have gotten a new car, because before he left for college he definitely did not have a jeep.

I try to avoid eye contact because I'm awkward & that situation would be awkward. This was the first time I had seen him in over a year! He gets behind my car and I'm flipping shinannigans. My car is pretty recognizable so I'm sure he's figured out it's me. We go our separate ways after almost 5 minutes & I'm relieved. I can finally quit gripping my stirring wheel so tight, I don't have to worry about how good I'm driving, it's over.

I get home, check my phone, & see a text from the one & only, Luke. The text message was as followed:

"Heyyy! Sorry for such a late response. I've been really busy lately! How have you been?"

Coincidence or not? He never mentions in our conversation that he saw me on the road, but it is what it is. Although my feelings for him had been long gone, seeing him after so long was refreshing. I mean, he's gorgeous. I literally thought I was the shiz when I dated him. I was a normal junior girl & he was this tall, captain of the baseball team, president of  NHS, senior guy. It was all dandelions & rainbows til he broke up with me out of nowhere. I honestly did not see it coming, but it didn't hurt me as much as I expected.

Anyways, we texted for like 2 days, but it was just about his time in college and me moving to Idaho in a month. But then it was over just like that.

It was fun while it lasted.