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Well, for those of you I haven't spoken with yet, I am here in Houston riding out Hurrican Rita. WE tried to leave yesterday and had to turn around. We drove 6 hours and had only gone 15 miles, our gas tank was half empty and there is no gas from here to Dallas so we would have never made it. After all that time it only took us 15 minutes to get back home once we turned around. It was extremely frustrating and disheartening. But i think we will be safe here. I am staying with my aunt and her subdivision doesn't have many trees and her house is mostly brick and pretty sturdy. The wind has already picked up and it is really grey outside so we can tell Rita is on her way but no rain yet. The storm is continuing to move slightly east and in fact, it is supposed to hit Port Arthur head on now, instead of Galveston, so it may not even be half as bad as they first anticipated. We are on the far north west side, Jersey Village if you're familiar with Houston, so we feel pretty safe. My cell phone is still working right now but the network is busy alot. It's been taking me up to 10tries just to get a call through without is saying all circuits busy. I'm just glad I'm not on the road anymore- it was absolutely crazy out there. I've never seen anything like it. Here in houston even there are people camped at gas stations because their cars have run out of gas and they can't go anywhere else so they're waiting it out at the stations. We've even passed dead livestock on the side of the road. There is a horse about a block away, that I'm guessing died of heat exhaustion during transit and the owner just dumped it- it's horrible. Today the only stores open were the liquor store and a little corner store, so my family of course hit up the liquor store. We've got hurrican mix and margarita mix so we're gonna have hurrican ritas! I'll post again after the storm has passed, if we still have power. Take care everyone!
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[20 Oct 2004|12:05am] |
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so living in the ghetto that is houston has finally caught up to me. today at work, in broad daylight someone broke my drivers side window and stole my cd player. they'll only get like 5 bucks from it if they go to a pawn shop, because it was really cheap to begin with and its like 4 years old. my purse and everything was sitting in the passenger seat and they didnt take anything from it, so i'm pretty lucky i guess. anyway other than that everything here is pretty good.either community college is really easy or i'm a genius because school is going very well for me. my teachers all do that thing where they write the test grades on the board before they return the tests, and i made the highest grade in my class on all my tests. theres no way i cant pull off a 4.0 this semester, which will be the first time ever. other than school, work, and ryan i've just been watching a lot of baseball. the astros actually have a really good shot of going to the world series so everyone here in houston is going crazy. people have decorated their cars and every business has something on their marquee about it. well, i hope everything is swell with all of you. michele- i am especially happy to see a happy entry from you, keep 'em coming. cant wait to see you girls again, and of course i will be at the faint (no dragging necessary from cass). by the way i recently purchased the cutest note cards ever and i wrote all of you but i dont have current addresses for some of you, so if y'all could email them to me that would be great... amanda_allen02@yahoo.com
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[11 Jul 2004|11:38am] |
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wow...its been quite awhile since i last updated..so much has happened. as most of you know college station didnt work out for me and now i'm living with my grandmother in houston. i really like it here and happiness is coming easier than it had been. i'm still a little confused about what i want and what exactly i'm looking for but i think being here helps. near the end of my stay in denton, i just was miserable there, mostly due to my living situation with my sorority. i guess i thought that college station would be a quick fix to my unhappiness and it definitley was not. i feel absolutely terrible about what happened with cass. i never meant to let her down at all, but i couldnt stay there and continue being unhappy and broke...there was no way i could have supported myself in that apartment. on a side note if any of you ever wanna visit houston, my grandmother has another spare bedroom and i'm sure she wouldnt care with a little advanced notice. i miss all of you so much and i wanted to be at the last first friday so badly but my work scheduling didnt work out. i'm getting more comfortable at this sonic though, so perhaps by next month i'll be able to ask off....on a side note- to all of the sonic ladies, dont you just despise the junior banana split, maybe it's just me but that small thing is so hard to make and we get about a million ordered everyday.
on another side note- best birthday wishes to heather and steff....july birthdays are the best, its too bad we wont be having the big july birthday fest at cassidys house this year.
<3
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[26 Dec 2003|03:44pm] |
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so....i have a boyfriend. i'll post more later. <3
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[25 Nov 2003|11:31pm] |
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so i didnt go to school today, cause sleeping til 2 sounded like more fun. when i finally did get out of bed, i was fairly productive, i finally dropped my spanish class that ive been worrying about for like this whole semester. a little background info about why this class just HAD to be dropped: ive only gone to it one day, and that was the first day of school. that day our teacher explained that we didnt have to come to class ever, we were simply responsible for writing 2 papers, a 15 pg. one and a 5 pg. one. well as we all know i like to procrastinate a LOT so, the papers are due next week and i havent done anything for them at all and they are my entire grade for that class. well in any case i was really really nervous to tell this lady i didnt have my papers and i was just gonna drop, cause i could not afford a WF which is what i assumed she would give me. i went as far as to wear my sonic uniform to her office because i thought she would pity me more if she knew that i had to work in the fast food industry. well she dropped me with a W! so ive been in the best mood ever all day, and tommorrow im leaving for houston, and the rest of this week is gonna be sooo sweet...i cant wait. i think i get back friday- i have to see all of you over this break. last friday seeing you guys at the 3D porn was like a tease, cause it was such a short little visit. well, everyone have a very happy thanksgiving! <3
p.s.- on thursday i'm gonna be thankful for all of you
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[09 Nov 2003|01:07am] |
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so to appease jackson i am updating my journal, though there's not much to say really. we went to college station last weekend and it was amazing as usual. everytime i get back, i just cant wait to be there again. cass and jackson are going down for thanksgiving so im hoping maybe i can make a stop there as well, cause im pretty sure my family will be going to houston and its not that far away. while we were there for halloween i made a few mistakes, i wont go into all the details but it made me kinda realize what i couldve lost, in a sense. i just really appreciate what i have with hutch...i cant really say what it is, cause neither of us really know, but whatever it is, its good...i mean, i still like him after all this time, so thats a really good sign; cause we know how fickle i am. in other news, school is lame but im still doing well for the most part, so i cant really complain. this past week i hung out with michele and rachel several times and that was really refreshing. i never laugh with my sorority sisters like i laugh with you guys...i dont know, its weird, with them i just dont have those laugh-out-loud moments but with you guys we can just talk for hours and laugh so hard that it hurts. it kinda reminds me of that cheesy song about friends and one being silver and the other being gold....all of you garland folk are like platinum...on that note i will end this because its late and im getting delirious i think. <3
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[29 Oct 2003|04:29pm] |
im going to college station tommorrow AGAIN, because things have taken a quite different turn. things are so good right now, i absolutely cannot wait...<3 we will be attending a halloween party while there, and im gonna be a whore...but a classy one, if thats possible.
Michele...sorry about hooya, cass and i are leaving as soon as we get out of class tommorrow, but i definitely want to hang out sometime soon. <3
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[14 Oct 2003|10:47pm] |
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well the last 24 hours have been interesting to say the least. yesterday cass and i realized how burnt out we were with school and sorority drama, so we decided to take a little road trip to just get away for awhile. so after our meeting yesterday we coaxed lindsey into coming with us to austin to visit greg. we got there at around 1 this morning and stayed up late chatting. then we woke up and were gone by 10 this morning cause people had to work this afternoon. in total we were in austin for only 9 hours,5 of the 9 hours we were sleeping....dumb spur of the moment idea- i think so. i feel super guilty for missing class today cause i was on a roll. im thinking if i do really well this semester im gonna apply to A&M and UT. i really want a change of scenery and i love both of those schools, so hopefully i could get into one of them. in other news, things with a certain someone are pretty much non-existant now, im really stupid for letting it go on this long. to think i could be different was really naive. hahaha- this reminds me of the advice greg gave me last night..."there are bigger fish in the sea"...thanks for trying to help greg.
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its been a long time since a really worthwhile post, so here i go...
lately my life has seemed to revolve around school. i am already doing so much better in all of my classes than what i was doing this time a year ago. ive missed a couple of classes but nothing like last semester, when i would be happy if i made it to a class once a week. the sorority stuff is going all right, every now and then its gets stressful but luckily cassidy and i can keep each other grounded. sometimes we'll sit back and just laugh about how ridiculous some of this drama is, for instance if a new member wears an interesting shirt. in the sorority this is a drama...girls start freaking out and plan an intervention type of situation where we have to tell the girl she cant wear something like that because it may make our image look back. sometimes we really do start looking like an episode of sorority life. in work-related news i FINALLY got my job back at sonic. i worked all weekend and it was really nice to have money in my pockets again. however, i still cant spend any of it because i have to save my money for this weekend. we're going down to college station for a football game and i cannot wait. i miss football and school spirit so its gonna be exciting to be around all of that again. ill get to see hutch too which is gonna be awkward i think. im so nervous, there have been so many times ive wanted to just back out of the trip all together, but i cant let my insecurities get the best of me, so im gonna go and just hope for the best.
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this weekend was soooo much fun. austin is always tons of fun. it would have been better if a certain boy would have come down but instead rachel and i got really trashed and swore off college station boys...good times. the DKE party was by far the best party of the evening, their punch cant be beat. the delta sig foam party killed my cell phone, but i got a new one out of the ordeal so it all ended well. i got a new little sis tonight, which is always fun, hopefully this one wont leave....cause it really sucks that jessica isnt here anymore. weirdest thing ever happened to me today...i ran into my ex-stepbrother at collin creek mall. he works at this knife store in the mall, he's kinda scary now. in other news, i need a job really really bad. <3
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school started today and it is really lame, but i went anyways so i am really proud. we got 10 pledges and there are still many other girls interested in our sorority, so im really excited. this past week was both the best and worst week of my life. all of my hesitations and concerns about the sororoity have been lifted though which is a good thing. i was kinda getting dis-heartened by the sorority drama over the summer, but i dont feel like that at all anymore. we all had to work together to pull off rush, and we got 110 percent closer than before. im still exhausted and i have class tommorrow at 10, so i should get in bed. <3
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[10 Aug 2003|09:47pm] |
this weekend was amazing. we had like the worst luck EVER but it was still so much fun and we laughed a lot at ourselves and our situation. i think i will be the first one of the group posting so i get to tell everything. it started out with a very long drive down to new braunfels because we hit a lot of traffic. when we finally got to the campsite we requested a site near the bathhouse and the guy gives us this huge secluded lot about 5 feet away from the mens bathroom, so all weekend long there were men walking right by, and sometimes through, our campsite. that night we set up camp and went to dinner at a restaurant in town. the wait for the place was like an hour and then as we were waiting for our food, it starts raining on us cause we were seated at an outdoor table. our waiter zachary kyle justin made it better though cause he was hott. when we got back to camp our stuff was flooded out. the tents and bedding...everything was soaked. finally we got in bed, just long enough to get woken up at 6:30 in the morning to screaming drunk people and tons of cops. it was crazy. finally we got on the river in our tubes and everything got better. after lunch we went back for a second round of tubing and just as we got going in, it starts clouding up. it starts raining again, while we are stuck in the water. it was freezing and me and cass fell into the river at one point. when we got back to camp our stuff was all damp AGAIN. we started a fire and cooked up some potatoes, corn on the cob, and beans. it was delicious. after dinner we sat around the fire and had girl talk. it was cute. this may have been my favorite part of the trip. today we just woke up and headed back to dallas. we stopped in austin to see greg's sweet new pad. i cant wait to visit when school starts. now i'm exhausted. i wish steff, erin, and michele could have all come. i guess this just means we'll have to take another trip soon. <3
p.s.- i forgot one of the best parts of the trip...a policeman gave us beer! he wasnt working of course, but he was there with his family i guess, and came by and gave us alcohol before he realized we were underage. he didnt seem to care though. it sure was funny. oh yeah! i almost forgot about the other beer we found under the tree. some dude left his chair and black bag sitting under a tree on our campsite. im assuming he set it there while he was in the bathroom and forgot it. well, seeing as how it was on our property, i decided to be nosy and see what was in the bag, and it was beer! so heather grabbed a few and zipped the bag back up. about 10 minutes later this guy comes and takes the stuff, never knowing he was a few beers short. haha
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[04 Aug 2003|02:25am] |
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things are better i guess. my mom hasnt cried in a couple of days; therefore i havent cried in a couple of days....so we're making progress it seems. i finally talked to brian, and he's still not my friend. i'll still be here when he can handle it i guess, cause i miss him and our friendship. i've been talking to ross, aka hutch, like everyday til 4 am....its weird and im confused. i guess we'll see what happens. michele came up to sonic and chilled with me and rachel for like an hour last night, it was fun catching up and stuff. today was pretty blah. went to target with cass to get dorm stuff and ran into tiffany, my sorority sister. i feel bad. she lives like 5 minutes away from cass and we havent seen or called her all summer so it was kind of awkward. plus she's quitting the sorority so it was even more weird. then tonight cass and i went to chilis and i had waaay too much chips and queso. afterwards we headed to galaxy nine for american wedding. it was really really funny. in other news...i cant believe we only have 2 weeks of summer left. im sad. <3
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[28 Jul 2003|11:08pm] |
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okay girls, i looked up some info about our camping trip cause i still really wanna go. for the guadalupe state park which is really close to tubing it will be 13 dollars a day for a tent site. for 3 nights, divided by 6 people (i just guessed here), it breaks down to 6.50 each. plus there is a 2 dollar a day fee per person so in total it would be 12.50 each assuming 6 people came for 3 nights. im free next weekend, august 9th and 10th, is anyone else able to go then?? it will be lots of fun, and if needed we could stay less time. please lets make this happen before summer is over. <3
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today was good. saw 28 days later with steff, weston, and rachel. it was a lot better than i expected. it started out really slow but it ended up being really good, and scary. afterwards we checked our lucky lotto numbers and unfortunately none of us one, so we treated ourselves to some donuts. the crazy french guy that works there hooked it up. it was mighty tasty. then i came home to find a really entertaining post from brian. he always seems to know how to make me look like a huge bitch. what a pal.
<3 amanda
p.s.- the answer is that i dont feel bad. not one bit. im happy that youve finally learned to grow a backbone.
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the party last night was so much fun. i was amazed at how many people showed up. indeed it was like a high school reunion to some extent, which i thought was really amusing. while i could have done without buddy morgan yelling "we're having a party" every 5 minutes, it was still nice to see some other people from ol' g-town. i still can't believe greg actually fell in the pond, hahaha.
my night could have ended a little better, however. i had to take brian home at about 4 this morning and didn't get back to my house til about 5:45. that was the most tense car ride EVER. i don't think we're friends anymore. i don't really blame him though. meh... by next week i think everything will be back to normal so i won't stress too much or at least i'll try not to.
today i had to go to a "recruitment workshop" for the sorority. it was scary... i thought they were gonna kill me and cass cause we didnt finish the project we were in charge of. they weren't too mad though. i did think it was really funny how there was a huge cake for katie carr cause it was her birthday but yet no one said a word to me. that reminds me ... it was also quite humorous how only 2 of my sisters (besides cass) decided to show up for the party when almost all of them knew about it. it's cool though 'cause i realized that i had an amazing time without them, so maybe they're not as good of friends as i had once thought. i dont think i wanna go back to denton. can't we all just stay here and play summer all year long?
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p.s. thanks heather for supplying me with boones...the party wouldn't have been the same without my favorite bottle in hand. :)
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aww, my birthday was so good. so many people remembered and told me sweet things- it was really nice, thanks to all. yesterday was awesome too. started out with going to the zoo with cassidy, jackson, and drew. it was alotta fun. most of the animals were being lazy and not very entertaining but it was still good 'cause i haven't been there in a few years and well, it was only a dollar. later in the evening saw pirates of the carribean. that movie was sooo good and johnny depp is still hot. cassidy gave me my present after the movie since it was technically my birthday, and it was by far the best gift i received. thank you so very much cass. this week has already been so good and i still have friday to look forward to. i can't wait! <3
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[09 Jul 2003|12:30am] |
amanda
n. a person without a male.
"Reggie, that amanda is so expensive!"
.....wow, so my name is supposed to mean " a person without a male". i must be destined for lonliness or something. in reality, my name is supposed to mean "worthy of love". what irony.
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