Wow...

I'm at the swimming pool right now, the boys are having private swimming lessons, and I'm in awe that they have internet here. I'm not complaining though. I'm just in awe.

Its a simply beautiful morning. Nice and cool, but sunny.

I'm a little grumpy though, I didn't get much sleep last night. Come to think of it I haven't been sleeping well at all lately, but I'm really paranoid about taking meds to help me. Eh.

Lists

~Places I never want to live in the US, as of now~
1.) North Dakota
2.) South Dakota
3.) Wyoming
4.) Florida (Unless I have a fabulous beach home.)
5.) Missouri
6.)Arkansas
7.) Louisiana
8.) Texas

~Places I MUST visit before I die~
1.) Greece
2.) Italy, Venice specifically
3.) Denmark
4.) Ireland
5.) Spain (This is a MUST.)
6.) Russia, focusing probably on Moscow and St. Petersburg (What else is there babe?)
7.) Japan

I want to visit many more, but I think I can tackle this list with no worries. I'd really love to see Africa as well... and I should probably visit Bali. Oh and Cuba. Gotta go to Cuba.

Ha ha...

Tennis and cigarettes, fabulous.

Guh!

APPLE PLAYED ME!

Dash their new ibooks all to hell! I HATE technology,

A night of Tennis drama.

Well that was interesting.

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Our evening started out quite uneventfully. Mom, Emily, and I were home alone because Dad and the rest of the sibs were in CR. We ladies decided to eat dinner at the country club, and then we went and got groceries.

Pretty basic right?

Well, after the groceries were put away Emily and I thought a little tennis sounded fantastic. A cold front came through today, so the weather was finally fit to play in.

Another little interesting fact about today, was that I got my tennis dress in the mail. I ordered it from tennis warehouse, and was STOKED to finally have it. It is a beautiful red Diadora tennis dress... guh. I love it. So I got to wear it to play tennis tonight. There would be no baggy Iowa T-shirts for me tonight, I had a fitting, fabulous Diadora dress.

Emily and I played for about forty minutes, and then Laura shows up and well, the party starts of course. *wink wink wink*

I don’t think I’ve ever described our courts before. There are two fenced areas, with two courts each. We call one area the “Old Courts” and the other the “New Courts”. The new courts are much better, and we always use them. Oh and the courts are located in a park with lots of trees, etc.

So yeah, wow I’m rambling.

Anyways. We’d been there for about an hour when this car with a bunch of guys in it drives by and the guys whistle and yell “Yeah, shake that ass!” at us. Charming, no?

We shrugged it off and then kept playing. The sun set, and I remember hearing a car park up by the playground, and car doors shut. That wasn’t odd though, punks always hang out there, so I just dismissed it.

We played for probably forty five minutes after I heard that, and then the lights went off. It was completely dark, the sun had set a long time ago. We had forgotten to check the timer, which sucked because when the lights go off it takes about fifteen minutes for them to charge back up. That's the only bad part about the new courts.

So Laura said she was going to jog around until the lights charged again and I said Em and I would play at the old courts while she did that. The lights at the old court turn on right away.

I grabbed my racquet and a couple of tennis balls, and headed over to get the lights on. I heard Emily run up behind me, and I switched the timer on. Then I looked over at the bushes that were like eight feet away from me and I see a group of guys sitting there on the grass, in the dark, hiding, and watching us. I tensed right away and Emily saw me and said “Camille?” and then she saw the guys and said “Lovely”. I was so freaking pissed. The guys got up and started running away, and I just spewed obscenities at them. I can’t believe what a dirty mouth I had, I just felt so violated and angry.

We heard Laura yelling and I screamed at her to get over here now! She made it over all right, and the creeps got in their car and sped away. It was the same one that had driven by before.

I know it might not seem like that big of a deal, but we were all incredibly disturbed at those guys. There were peeping Toms! That's all they were! They were hidden, and they were watching us for nearly an hour. It just makes me sick.

So yeah, that was interesting.

Sharpies are good for your soul

Out of the picture, out of the frame, and now when you see me, nothings the same!

Hey everybody! Its almost midnight, it has been an amazingly long day, but I’m full of energy right now! Soooooo, lucky you!

Latest highlights in the life of your favorite frump girl. (I better be your favorite.)

1.) The weather has SUCKED!

2.) Swimming is so much fun, but I don’t like what chlorine does to my skin. Dash it all. Oh and I had a total blonde moment and I thought that maybe I would leave my contacts in when I went to the pool the other day, and that worked out great until I swam under water with my eyes open for about forty feet and when I came up for air one contact was gone and one was under my eyelid. HA! Talk about pain. After I got the little jerk out we had some good laughs though.

3.) Do any of you know that song “At Last” - By Etta James? You know the one, it goes “At last, my love has come along, my lonely days are over. And life is like a song...”. Okay, so my entire life I have thought she was singing “Adolescence, my love has come along...” Adolescence, not “At Last”! Arg! So I just found out last night that she never said adolescence, and to take the perfect opportunity to use a dramatic metaphor this being a blog and all, my world is now falling out from under my feet. I simply cannot believe this.

4.) I have tennis shoes! Real awesome Wilson tennis shoes! They feel wonderful, I adore them. The girls and I all bought shoes, we are stoked.

5.) We gave another bead class tonight, it was a great one. Four different people came in with special orders, in addition to the others who bought kits, so I had to dash around and get them designed while Mom was giving the lecture and wow... what a crazy busy class. it was fun though. It still blows me away sometimes that so many people come to our classes, it’s just weird.

6.) As mentioned before, the weather has been CRAZY, and we’ve had some wicked storms. I can see some fantastic lightning flashing outside my window right now, looks like we’re in for it again tonight. This has been such an odd summer. Whoa, the house just shook. (Thunder.)

7.) The girls and I have been very bitter towards couples this week. Usually we think most of them are cute, but we’ve been grumpy and unforgiving of any mush lately. I think we’re turning into a bunch of old biddies, at least Emily and I are. Laura... well... she is still Laura. (*sigh* Boys, boys, boys... eh Laura? *wink*)

More to come, the day has finally caught up with me, and sleep calls...

Indeed

I just fed darling Pim Pim his dinner, ahhh. He's such a good little fish.

On that note, we have a new pet! He's a three week old tan colored kitten, and he's a doll. Long story short, the vet in town found him covered in gasoline, and quite a few people contacted her about having the little guy, but she called and offered him to us.

So now we have him! He is Emily and Erik's, and his name is "Cliff". (It took forever to pick a name, but when I thought of Cliff the other day we knew it was a fit for him.)

He is a DOLL. Such a stocky little guy. I'll have to take pics.

It's still dang hot.

Oh how I long for the days when I could don a fabulous black coat and scarf and walk in a bitter cold wind. We tried to play tennis again today, and only lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. It was awful, the girls and I all felt like we were going to vomit from this INFERNAL heat.

We saw "Forces of Nature" at the IMAX yesterday, it was seriously steller. If any of you get the chance to go, it would be worth your time.

And now... its off to the pool, the only exercise we can do in this STINKING heat.

Sit with me, in the lovely AC.

It is so hot here I cannot believe it. Everytime I leave a building my glasses fog up. This is CRAZY. We couldn't even play tennis today it was so bad. Seriously, uk! This sticky wet HOT weather is so weird. It's like we're in a jungle but minus the cool foliage and tigers and stuff. Plus there aren't any cool monkey kingdoms with treasure around. So that like, sucks.

It was a bead class night, and it went pretty well. Donna came, which was nice. We made a decent amount of money considering the size of the class, so that was cool. (Ha, "cool". Nothing is "cool" around here lately.) Oh, and Becky came too and she saw this necklace I made with a bunch of hill tribe silver and this pendant and just loved it, so I sold it to her. I had originally made it for myself but eh, I didn't care.

We might go to Iowa City tomorrow, but we're not sure. I hope we do though. Iowa City means Coralville, and Coralville means Scheels, and Scheels means tennis shoes without chunks worn out of them, and tennis shoes without chunks worn out of them means a happy Camille.

Um so yeah... am I pathetic? I'm really beginning to think I am. But... I don't know, and lately I just don't care. If I'm happy, and not being totally lazy, which I never am, then I don't care if I'm pathetic. I don't even know if pathetic is the right word. Am I too content when I shouldn't be? Is it okay to be happy with yourself once in a while? Gosh I hope so. It's not that I'm even THRILLED with myself, I'm just relaxed right now. It's good, it's good.

I do want an army green Jeep though. Something that Rafael and I can drive around on his off days. <--- (Okay now THAT, is part of the pathetic I am refering to. HA.)

'Brat Camp' friggen rocked again tonight. I love that dang show.

Emily came in to my room about fifteen minutes ago like she always does when I'm going to bed, but I was in the middle of writing something and she started distracting me and I kind of snapped at her. It wasn't bad at all, but I never snap at her, and now I have this awful guilty feeling in my stomuch. Every night we do this thing when we say goodnight, in brittish rock star voices, and together, we say "Well, as they say... GOOD NIGHT!" but it's like we're ending a Rolling Stones concert or something and it's just a way to give us closure for the day and make us stop talking. It's just what we always do.

We didn't do it tonight though, and I know it's because I snapped at her.

Guh, I hate things like this.

Uggg?

???????

My three favorite escapes as of late:

1.) Music.
2.) "Bull" by Maggie Mahar, a history of the stock market.
3.) The tennis courts.

.....

Mother - Went - Insane - Again - Today!!!


My sisters and I are becoming one person as of late.

Chelsea keeps calling about that road trip - I'm an awful friend!

We're giving two bead classes this week - We're not ready!

Sharks are amazing - Shark week on Discovery makes me want to stay out of all water forever - And I love water!

Emily's tennis shoes, and mine as well, are completely falling apart - Too much toe dragging - Can't wait to get to Scheels!

STOP.

The mail has told me...

...that Peter Friedrichsen is indeed a good man. And this I willingly admit.

*Dons headphones*

In my dreams...

Our Ocean

In the morning...

Get to the point!

a.) Monte and Camilla had a good time.
b.) Our party yesterday was a SMASH.
c.) Seth came and played tennis with us last night. (bizarre!)
d.) The friggen Espy awards SUCKED. I want to murder Matthew Perry (What a wretched host) and do something very violent to the producer as well. It was such a joke. They made time for all these lame jokes and skits, had an excessive amount of commercials, and then they would bunch a ton of good awards together and not even show the other nominees! (One of these was the one we were watching for, Best Male Tennis Player, which Roger won.) It was unbelievable.
e.) We're going to Batman Begins again tonight. Woot.
f.) I had a cookie for breakfast! Wow!

My hands are tied and I can't find my feet!

Dash Laura's new music... I like it!

After all, an embrace is just a fancy hug. Remember Camille's words of wisdom, and your life will be blessed.

*Sprakles*

Monte and Camilla are here. Em, Mum, Camilla, and Camille (That's me!) went to the Cedar Falls art fair this afternoon. It was SOOOO hot, and Mum and Camilla took a lot of time at some boothes that I really wasn't that impressed with, but otherwise it was fun. I bought something I love, I paid too much for it, but I don't care.

Member...

Camille: "...and remember when Laura and Andy like totally left the party and we were like "Okay where are they?"?

Emily: "Oh yeah, that was sick."

Camille: "And as for now she wished that she was anywhere, with anyone, making out. That's Laura's motto."

Emily: "In a porta potty, with Brian Peppers. Anywhere, with anyone, making out."

Camille: "Amen."

Laura: "Guh!"

Emily: "Something wrong, Laura?"

Camille: "Do we offend?"

~

Holy frick I was watching television tonight, which is a little odd but I was ironing so that makes sense, and this show was on ABC called "Brat Camp" and it was completely intriguing! The show is about this group of troubled teenagers whose parents have sent them to the "Therapy" program which is pretty much just rouging it in the wilderness with councelors but it was really fun to watch, and it made me want to be one of those councelors. So many of them just... Lectured. I mean some were passive and totally cool, but... I don't know. I just think it's something I could really see myself doing. Mom said so too. It's a crazy show.

Nice and Clean

Thats what I am.

Monte and Camilla are coming for a visit on Thursday, they leave on Sunday early in the morning, and then we're having thirty guests up to our house for a company picnic.

Tomorrow we start getting ready.

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See...

...the fun thing about having your own blog, is that you can control it. And thats fabulous when you're a girl who won't be bitch slapped by a boy, considereing he is a boy and can't bitch slap because he's not a bitch!

HA HA!

There are a few good things in this world, and two of them are hand dyed silk cords and lemon wedges.

Tres Sparkling

I have been really, really happy these last few days.

I don't know what it is. Is it summer? Is it the fact that I just don't care anymore? But how can I not care when I sometimes do???

What am I talking about? I'm not sure if I even know.

Mum, Erik, Sophia, and I went to CR today, as usual. We dropped Erik off at the gym, got some breakfast, and took Sophia to 'Duck Park'. (Aka, Noloeridge Park.) She and I played with her stuffed bunny Tulip, we pushed her on the swings, taught her how to slide, etc, etc. Then a sweet little girl asked if she could play with us, and so I went to talk with Mum while they played house.

It was a lovely, lovely morning.

We went swimming again this afternoon. I think I could swim forever.

There were some hitches in the fun though. Lydia was there, and so we 'talked'. (Aka, I listened to her ramble about her life and nodded and said "Ah" when appropriate.) Aaron was there as well. Uggg. Someone needs to teach him how to be subtle. When you're ten feet away from me and talking with your friends about the girl with black hair all while POINTING me with your hand, I just might notice that. GEEEZ.

Other then that, it was fun.

And now I've finished my work for the day, and its time for the nightly tennis.






I don't want summer to end.

Three Things

1.) Yesterday was a blast. Total oldschool learning fun.
2.) I have a bag of frozen peas wrapped up in a towel and strapped to my leg. I landed really funky after a forehand whilst playing tennis with Em tonight and I seriously hurt my shin, and it feels weird but I won the game. Woot.
3.) Rafael or bust.

^

I've been really bad about posting anything interesting lately, sorry about that. Not like any of you expect anything different but you know, sorry all the same.

Things have been alright, they'd been getting really good this week, but then some more junk happened and we're kind of back to square two with that. If it was really bad today I would have said we were back to square one but it wasn't THAT bad. Meh.

I'm really, really tired right now. We've been doing very summer-esque things lately. The girls and I have been waking up early to play tennis because of the hot weather, and then Emily and I have been going to the pool with Mum and the kids. Just like in the old days. I love swimming.

We just got back from Jay and April's wedding. If you're close to me, you'll know what I insinuated by stating that.

Sounds like we're going to be taking a summer road trip tomorrow, so sleep calls.

C~W~M~S

"You know Paul M. kind of looks like Joe. Only shorter."

"I don't think so."

"Really? He has his eyes. Joe had pretty eyes."

"Joe was an idiot."

"Yeah, I'd forgotten. Thank you for reminding me."

"Eh."

"What are you doing?"

"Trimming this. Watch out, you're going to spill that."

"No I won't, I always do it this way."

"Fine, it just looked like it was going to spill."

"I know."

"I'm so glad they're not fighting anymore."

"Me too. He hugged her today, and she smiled."

"I saw that. It was nice."

"Yeah."

Y more works de fire!!!

So I'm cheating with Spanish and making crap up, sue me.

Happy Fourth everyone, may we all enjoy our liberties and independence and so forth... Indeed.

We drove down to celebrate with the Fellers at their new house today, and it was fairly nice. We ate a lovely meal, had some nice conversation, and then the girls and I SPLIT and went shopping for a bit, right before we went to...

... the Williamsburg tennis courts to test them out. Muhahahaha, even when visiting friend we need a tennis break. It was quite fun, they weren't as good as our courts of course but better then nothing.

Then it was time for more fireworks, this time laying on our backs, on blankets on a hill. Wow, I just used "on" three times in a sentence. How horrendously repetitive of me.

Happy Fourth!

Fireworks...run!

I love how every year, we forget that they shoot off fireworks at the fairground the Sunday before the fourth.

It never fails, we forget every single year. I love it though, because what always ends up happening is Mom yelling "Guys! We forgot about the fireworks and they just started them! Get in the van!".

And no matter where we are, or what we're doing, we stop and RUN out to the garage and pile into the van.

That happened again last night, only I think they were having some problems last night and never got many fireworks going up in the air. It was still fun though. The kids and I ran around in the soccer field (Most of them were barefoot), and the boys did gymnastics tricks to amuse us.

We got tired of waiting after a while, and decided to go for a drive in the country. The sky was really dark and clear last night, and we could see the fireworks displays of all the other towns around us. It was beautiful, they looked so small. Sophia said they looked like "Fairy Fireworks".

I love things like that.

Wimbly!

Roger just smoked Andy in the final, it was a THING of beauty. Guh, we're all in awe. Laura's pissed of course, but when isn't she? ;-)

Naw, shes not really pissed. Just sad.

We're so glad its over though, we've been sitting on pins and needles ever since it started.

GUH! Roger won. All is right in the world, at this, very moment.