One more day and my summer is over. :( boohoo. Oh how I will miss the days of working 9-5 (really), going out to lunch with my IET buddies (after the endless debate on where to go), hanging out playing NERTS with the roomies, taking pictures with the webcam (sometimes videos *cough* *cough*...right dani boy?), going out and staying up until the wee hours of the morning....

Looking back, this summer has actually lasted a long time. Seems like ages ago when I stood in front of a bunch of nervous transfer/freshmen students for Summer Advising, played Text-Twist, and chit chatted with the ITX boyz. I even took a couple of classes the first part of summer and got to know a few very neat people. Back at work we've had some interesting times too...spending an entire day in a little room with the same people, you're bound to see and hear some pretty funny things. :) Some of the comments were so funny that we began writing down all the random quotes that were said on a piece of paper that hangs on the wall. Yesterday, I created a new project for myself to put that random quotes paper on the web so that each time something new was said, we could add it in a nice easy-to-use format that could be updated easily rather than scribble it on a piece of paper hanging on the wall. Hmm...wonder if I could get away with doing that on work time. heehee...just kidding.

This summer has been quite eventful. It's consisted with a lot of ups and many downs as well. The downs have been very hard and made me question a lot of things in my life, but they also led me to realize how great the good things were. I got to see how a good friend would be there just to sit with me, cry with me, wipe away my tears and snot (thanks Aldy), laugh with me, and just be there to be my friend not only for the happy days but also the sad days. And I know more now than ever that it is one of the greatest things when your parents stop being your parents but become your greatest friends. Family and close friends are more valuable to me now more than ever and I know that have gained more than I have lost.

I discovered new things, new places (Frys) heehee... and had a blast overall. I got to play around with my webpage, learned an unbelievable amount of stuff at work, learned to play Blackjack at a casino (BAD Sharene! BAD!), got to show my ID for the first time at a bar. I'd say this has been a pretty good summer. :)

There have been many memories made that will be remembered for years to come. Although I don't want it to end...I guess I'll be ready for my classes to begin. After all, only 3 more quarters and counting until I graduate! I might as well get crackin' on it, right?

I LOVE the country group, Rascal Flats. My favorite song, "It's Not Just Me" has the most amazing lyrics and the singer puts so much heart into it, it leaves me breathless everytime that I hear it. The many other songs by Rascal Flats have a very similar effect on me. Well, around Christmas time last year, I downloaded a bunch of songs by Rascal Flats. One of them was a Christmas song with SheDaisy another country group. The tune was nice and I really liked it. So I listened to it a lot. I was doing my hair and makeup this morning and was listening to a bunch of mp3s that I haven't listened to in awhile. This Christmas song came up and was playing. I was singing my heart out to the chorus, "And I did it all for you...I did it all for you this Christmas...all your dreams...will come true..." Thinking to myself, wow what an awesome song. It's a nice little Christmas love song. So I put it on repeat singing it over and over. Then I started listening to what I was actually singing and it didn't quite make sense to me. The first line talked about how she sold his Rolex to buy herself a Versace dress....and she did it all for him. I was like...huh??? Anyways, thinking that I must be out of it because my late night out last night, I continued to sing my heart out. Finally, my curiosity got to me and I decided to look up the lyrics to this song. Twist of the Magi by SheDaisy and Rascal Flats. And I thought it was a sweet love song! heehee.

So I got a new webcam today. I'm such a nerd... So when I get the new webcam, I tried to set it up when I got home. Of course this thing comes with no instruction manual so I figure that it's a pretty easy setup right? WRONG! After popping in the CD and installing all of the drivers etc. I restarted the computer and got an error message saying that it is missing some .dll file. Great, so I went to go look for it, but had no clue as to where to find it. Luckily there was a handy dandy tech support number to call on the box, so I called and the guy on the phone was helfpul enough to find it for me. This was of course after he led me through the whole process for the WRONG camera, but that is besides the point. ;). So I'm all excited trying to get the camera to work and experiment by taking pictures. For some odd reason, everytime I saved, it only let me save it as a .avi file and I wanted a jpeg. So I did some roundabout stuff to my pics until then to entertain a couple of my friends. I went through the help sections of the program along with the tutorial, but there was nothing about just saving a picture and not a video. Perplexed, I read the box again. There on the box, it said, "take and edit pictures using Mr. Photo." Mr. Photo?!? What is Mr. Photo...turns out when I installed everything, I happened to miss installing Mr. Photo who is the picture taker. Duh! heehee. So I installed Mr. Photo and the cam works now. Pheww....