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Track Banquet, obviously

This is what I miss about going to local schools: the ability to walk to friend's houses. Yes, I walked to quite a few graduation parties around my neighborhood.

Graduating girl on the right

Red pepper spread over bread, chocolate pudding pie and peaches!

I clearly have a favorite child in Kate plus 8

Party Hopping

I woke this morning to thunderstorms. It was so hard to get out of bed but I obviously got up alright. I met Katy for a spinning class at 8:30am. I'm absolutely loving the fact that I have friends who are willing to come to crazy workouts with me. Today's class was actually a slower speed and not as tough but I still enjoyed it. But in the end, I think I will still run not matter what. Nothing will stop me. After class I was thinking about the many graduation parties around town that might have to move the party indoors to accommodate the weather but I walked out to this glorious morning.

I ran some errands on this cool Sunday morning. I have said many times that one reason I workout is for the endorphins but it seems like today it didn't really kick in. Yes, I shedded some tears while driving (not safe I know). I think with all the graduation parties today it has hit me even harder that this is the end. Really, I can't wait to be done with high school. But I don't think I'm mentally ready to move forward either. This in part also have to do with letting things go. I hold on to things pretty tightly for those who don't really know me. But I know and trust me on this that everything will be fine and once I adjust it will be fantastic. I just need to get this out there. One fact that I have been recently telling myself is that these people are still going to be on earth. They are not going anywhere. We may be apart but we will see each other, still be friends, keep in contact and this is not the end of something but just a continuation. It's an obvious fact I over look all the time.

Amanda's grad party! Wellesley sisters! I'm so excited for the fact that we are going to be together since we're both going to be so far far from home. But she and I were good friends through middle school but things fell in high school naturally since we didn't go to the same school. But it makes me smile that we get along as if we haven't missed a day in each other's lives. Pretty cool!

Side note: changing school has really made me value friendships and all the time and effort it takes to keep things going. I love my friends.

Her graduation party I would so in terms of food was over the top. Catered food+catering people=stuffed belly. They were making begium waffles and I could seem that wonderful buttery waffle the second I walked through the door. nom nom nom... I had a quarter with HUGE dollop of sweet whipped cream, lots of berries, pecan and cinnamon chips. Yum. I think this was the best waffle I've ever had in me entire life. But of course, I'm a huge sucker for whipped cream. When I worked at Four Seasons, I always made the whipped cream when ever we needed it and I may or may not have sneak a few finger for you know quality assurance. :)

I also had caesar salad, mini frittata, red pepper, asparagus, some of my beloved pineapple and um another huge dollop of whipped cream and berries and cinnamon chip and pecan. I definitely moaned when I had the whipped cream. It's just too darn good.

waffle topping

chicken salad in pastry puffs

turkey roll ups

caramelized bacon

embarrassed but think it's too funny. This is the ultimate consequence of shopping at popular stores. This is why I like smaller hole in the wall stores. I don't like to match or be like everyone else. But I love Mollie so it's all good. Going to these myriad parties made me see so made old faces. Mollie and I went to middle school together and it's just like we never missed a day with each other.

I had just enough self control to pass for the sweets after much whipped cream.

My beloved next door neighbor, Marissa's graduation party. Do you remember how we bumped into each other at spinning class? Graduation parties=traffic and parking. In fact the traffic is more hectic around town because of the Memorial Golf Tournament almost literally in me backyard. Okay may be not, but it's literally up the streets.

Good thing I live next to her because she is one popular girl with lots of visitors.

Me and Marissa

I was still full so I had to pass on the food. This is me playing with mirrors:) Silly me.

Tell me one odd or peculiar thing about yourself: I have double jointed hips meaning I can pop my bone in and out of the socket and you can see it too. People with super hard core bodies scare me. I would like a tight ab but I also wanted a little soft blabber. This makes for a third answer but that's okay. I think/brainstorm best when I'm pacing preferably in circles so I don't have to think about where I'm pacing.

Nerve Racking

Hi y'all! I'm worn out. It's been so busy these past few weeks as everything accumulate to this coming graduation week. Now I think I finally realize the end to a period in my life. As morbid as that may sound, you understand that you go through different stages as your life progresses and this is one of it. I have mixed feelings about it. It's difficult to put into words because there's so many implications moving on. First, as much as I'm excited to finish high school, school is all I have known in my entire life. However, doing senior project has opened my eyes to the possibilities, good and bad, in this world. While it's exciting to now dictate your own life, it feels like you're now precariously hanging between high school and college.

Goodness, I'm tired and stressed. Tomorrow is going to be another jam packed day: graduation parties, Memorial Golf Tournament, track banquet, working on presenting my project, etc... But I'm definitely the kind of person who likes to be busy and be doing things.

This is a short recap of yesterday: I must say, there were too many trucks on the road.

I have effectively demolished this package of graham crackers in the last 18 hours. It's a lot.

I went to bed around 1:30am and got up at 7am naturally. I wish I could have slept in but I also hating sleeping away the day. I had to be at St. Johns to rehearse at 10am for a 11:30 wedding. Like I said before, this gig program literally throw people together who never played together to play at various events. Today was rather eventful. One was a former CMC student and is now a graduate student at Rice University studying music who was intimidating to play with. Another was an undergraduate also studying music and the cellist was a junior in high school. Interesting age difference. Oh yah, breakfast was scramble eggs with muenster cheese and spinach and cherries and almond milk and another couple sheets of graham crackers.

Leaving four days = leaves me with a "to do list"

I got to the Franklin Conservatory Park just fine but once we were in there we could not find the wedding place since there was more then one wedding. The info that they gave us said to start at 11:30am but it was definitely pass that time when we found the right location. Fortunately the wedding was inside cause it was thunderstorming in the morning. And fortunately for us, it was pretty much the only air conditioned room in the whole greenhouse complex. I was thankful indeed since the groom wanted us to play past our contract time. What were we to say no?

After three hours of straight playing, every time I straightened my arm I could feel my tendons pulling in my arm. It was a little painful but the pay is so much better then working at Graeter's and I got to do what I loved to do, that is to play flute.

Don't laugh but we were shocked when we were cued to play with only half the room full. What I mean by half the room full is that there were 19 people watching the whole wedding with two bridesmaids and two groomsmen. I have never seen such a small wedding with literally a 10 minutes ceremony.

We were offered some hor d'oeuvres. It was a heart shaped bread with thick layer of butter and some egg (?) It was much needed to play through lunch for three hours.

See what I mean but thick layer of butter? Ridiculous.

By the way, I disapprove of the braidmaid's dresses. It was greyish blue floor length dress. The ones form last Sunday's wedding were so much better.

I stopped by Whole Foods but in the end I decided against it and just sort of walked around. There's so many people...

Love love love avocado!

I really believe in supporting local farms as oppose to buying commercial products. First it's harmful to the environment to grow crops the way it is so you can have bananas from Chile or milk from Montana. Second just google and trust me why you should support local farmers. It's like the whole organic notion that it's all or nothing. We obviously do not buy local regularly but one purchase do make a difference.

One of my favorite brands of yogurt.

Hot food bar.

Gelato.

I got home about 4pm. It's a wired almost depressing feeling when you're always on the go and when you stop for a minute you're like "whoa".