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Country: Italy
State: New Jersey
Birthday: 1/18/1985


Interests: devouring Chinese food, watchin my boys (the Yankees), taking random drives around EB, volleyball, going to concerts, & the other usual 18 year old bullshit


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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

As of Monday, July 21, I am leaving in exactly a month. Well, now since it's Wednesday the 23rd, it's less than a month! Well...yeah. That's it. It sucks.


Monday, July 14, 2003

Here’s a story to go along with the store that I’m in literally every day…TARGET!

Ok so last week sometime I’m at Target getting a few necessities (hair moose, face wash, shaving cream, etc.) when I get to the shaving cream aisle.  Now I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the shaving cream aisle at Target; let me tell you, it’s truly amazing.  There are rows upon rows upon rows of all different brands and scents of shaving cream.  Who knew there was such a selection?  They don’t have that much of a selection at regular grocery stores, specifically Shoprite.  Well, anyway, I was with my friend Melissa Kvidahl and she was trying to convince me to buy her shaving cream but I was insisting that I not change my brand and still buy Skintimate.  (I forget the name of hers – something else that begins with an S.)  So anyway, after much debate, I decided to buy the Skintimate brand.  Well, as if choosing brands wasn’t enough, I now had to choose the scent that I preferred.  Now I usually bought Glistening Pear but Melissa was trying to tell me to try something new.  (Just to give you a time estimate – we probably spent a good 10 minutes in the shaving cream aisle just debating on which ONE can to buy, when in reality I could have picked one and moved on.)  So anyway, as I was talking to Melissa, I decided on getting the one I’ve always bought – Skintimate Glistening Pear shave gel.  (Yes, I know all of that for nothing. But wait, it gets better!)  Well before I go on I must tell you that the way the shaving cream cans are loaded on the shelfs are the way that if I took one can, the rest in that row would instanteously move forward to the front. (It had that kind of action towards it. Kind of like vending machines but not quite the same thing.)  Then there was this plastic bar going across the entire row of all these different brands of shaving cream that holds all of them in place when they instanteously move forward so they don’t fall out.  Well, I guess you can pretty much guess what happened from there.  Yes, I was talking to Melissa, not paying attention to what I was grabbing (even though I knew I was grabbing the Skintimate Glistening Pear shave gel) and I must have take it out forcibly and knocked off the bar that was holding them all in place.  There it happened.  One by one, every single can/bottle/whatever of shaving cream/gel/lotion/whatever fell out of their specified rows onto the Target floor while my mouth was open wide in disbelief.  They didn’t stop flowing! They just kept pouring out. Everyone stopped to see what the commotion was all about.  Then two women wearing Target gear came up to me and asked me if I was alright and if I was hurt.  I of course, said I was fine and proceeded to deeply apologize for the mess.  Then Melissa and I walked away feeling guilty that we weren’t helping them pick it up, but we eventually got over it.  So that’s my story.  Hahaha!! Isn’t it great?! I know you didn’t really have to know that but I thought it was entertaining, didn’t you?


Monday, June 23, 2003

I thought of this "song" today and thought that it was VERY appropriate. This man gives amazing advice. So just relax and read. It's called "Everybody's Free" by Baz Luhrmann.

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of [2003].

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists; whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experiece. I will dispense this advice now:

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh nevermind, you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You're not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind; the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.
 
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't; maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't; maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. What ever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either - your choices are half chance, so are everbody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way your can. Don't be afraid of it, of what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in you own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines; they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents,;you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to you past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse, but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with you hair, or, by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the diposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.


Sunday, June 22, 2003

CONGRATS CLASS OF 2003! I've had some unforgetable memories that I will cherish for a lifetime. I will miss you all!

P.S. I leave exactly two months from yesterday (June 21). This is absolutely ridiculous!

P.P.S. Project Grad was amazing, hilarious, and definitely unforgetable. From the bus ride TO Drew University all the way to the hypotist show. It was an amazing night!


Wednesday, June 18, 2003

I would just like to dedicate this entire xanga entry to my best friend, yes, she's my best friend if ya'll didn't know it...Miss Rebecca (Becks) Lauren Ullman. Do you know why I'm dedicating this xanga to her?!? Cuz it's her birthday today!!! Wooohoooo!! (well it's really 12:15am but we'll pretend it's still June 17, ok?) So yeah, that's all I really wanted to say.

HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY BECKS!! I LOVE YOU!!



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