• Graduated
• Bellydanced at Areej's house then fell asleep watching Pride and Prejudice and drinking papaya juice
• Spent a week sunbathing, laughing, and dodging psychopaths in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, with my 3 crazy girls
• Customized and waited for and finally received my wonderful Dell Studio 15 laptop
• Slept in
• Got hired as an Eat'n Park prep cook and worked many 8:30-3 days portioning meats and making strawberry pies
• Downloaded Civilization IV and spent late nights playing with Ryan, followed by AIM conversations that lasted until 6am, and started to fall for him... (Who am I kidding? I fell for him in April.)
• Completely and mysteriously lost touch with Ryan, which still puzzles and upsets me at times
• Turned 18 and celebrated with Katie at Mad Mex
• Went to Launch at W&J, and got my schedule for fall
• Partied with my fellow graduates: my party, Mike's, Katie's, Beth's, Ashley's, Jamie's, Lindsey's, Megan's
• Attended the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (after re-reading it, of course)
• Facebooked
• Went to the zoo
• Practiced my driving (soon I should get my pathetic ass to the DMV for my test)
• Swam at Brenna's
• Sat through all 3 hours of Les Misérables at the Benedum and enjoyed it moderately
• Discovered the wonders of Ebay and just how much I can spend on online shopping
• Expanded my wardrobe with many trips to the Savvy Fox, one trip to Goodwill, and several orders of Threadless tees
• Got lost downtown with Katie while searching for Millvale
• Saw Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band with A.A. Bondy and Deep Sea Diver at Mr. Small's with Katie!
• Defended myself from being put in a trash can by Ed
• Peeled off my once-in-a-lifetime tan
• Gave Katie her grad gift: a collage of edited pictures and Lamb
• Got a lovely burn mark/scar on my left bicep while baking Honeybuns and Snowtops at work
• Bought a Wild Card phone, which cannot be activated until September 18th due to the incompetence of its Ebay seller...
• Partied with Ed, Hope, Jesse, and Jesse's friends - Rockband and football and tomfoolery
• Dropped my phone in the toilet
• Watched SYTYCD
• Ordered The Sims 3 and began Pinstar1161's Legacy Challenge, complete with a wonderful blog that I'd be honored for you to visit: http://theshadelegacy.wordpress.com/
• Shopped for college
• "Dated" Jesse... his house, Olive Garden, mini golf, District 9, talks in his truck, hugs & kisses
• Celebrated Great Grandma's 90th birthday
• Played in the Trivia Bowl with Mom, Dad, Grandmother, Grandfather, Judy, and her boyfriend, and lost royally
• Was hit on by a landscaping guy at work and handed a "call me" note with his phone number by my MANAGER a week later
• Got Uncle Brian's old PS2, since he bought a new one
• Bought DDR on Ebay and managed to beat a few songs on expert
• Gave grandma a tour of W&J
• Spent more time than I should have thinking about Adam
• Wished I could attend Joerg's wedding in Hungary (though on second thought it may have been rather painful to watch him get married after thinking I loved him last summer)
• Searched for the cheapest copies of the textbooks I'll need for fall, bought them, an then proceeded to find cheaper copies...
• Cleaned my spare bedroom, which literally was a junk heap of nearly everything I've owned since birth, throwing out many bags of trash and donating just as many bags to Goodwill
• Made an earring holder from a photo frame, hot glue, and some mesh instead of buying one for $20
• Ignored my journal
• Visited Presque Isle with Dad
• Posted the occasional tweet on Twitter
• Avidly read MLIA.com and FML.com
• Played a few songs of FFR to ensure that I don't lose my skills completely
• Went to the Crawford County Fair with Mom and Dad and ate a 1 foot tall twist ice cream cone in its entirety
• Rode everything at Splash Lagoon, including the Hurricane Hole, which launches you at 40 mph into a funnel and then haphazardly drops you through a hole into a pool (and suavely pulled the top of my bathing suit back on before resurfacing at the end)
• Drove a tractor
• Found this website, thanks to the link Miss Dora posted on FB
• Finally activated my online banking after months of site failure
• Watched some preseason Steelers football
• Rode in Pap's hot rod
• Played Farmville (HA.)
• Ate several trays of ice cubes
• Packed up my favorite belongings to take to W&J

So long, sweet summer...