I have definite plans of attending college after I graduate from my high school, Spring Woods. I have always dreamed of going to Rice University http://www.rice.edu/and I am not quite sure why, I just always have. When my parents would ask me where I wanted to go to college, I would always say, with no hesitation, Rice. They have a great school and when I think of college I think of the Rice campus. Its location is near home, it's right across the street from the zoo, Miller Outdoor Theater, it's basically in the Museum District and it's like 5 minutes away from Downtown. I have just always thought it would be a great place to go to college. Plus Rice offers both of the majors I am interested in. The only downfall is that they do not have Division Softball. At this time last year, that was perfectly fine. Actually about three months ago that was perfectly fine because I had no intention of playing college softball. But I joined my tournament team and have worked really hard to better myself and every step of it has been extremely fun and therefore my thoughts on college softball have changed. Because I think I would now like to play college softball, I have really looked into other colleges that I thought would be great schools to attend. One of those colleges, one I thought would be really fun to attend, would be LSU http://www.lsu.edu/. They have an amazing softball program as well as an amazing all-around sports program http://www.lsusports.net/SportSelect. They too offer both of the majors I have looked into and my dad and all of his buddies have been MAJOR Tiger fans for as long as I can remember. Another school I would be pleased to attend would be Baylor University in Waco, Texas. My best friends sister is currently enrolled and her brother just recently graduated from there and they both love(d) it. I went up there last year for the Bears Homecoming and it was so much fun. We saw the parade, Pigskin (short little plays created and performed by the sorrorities and fraternities), the bonfire and hung out in the dorms. It was the coolest experience ever! So my options are still opened and I will probably attend the college that offers me the largest scholarship, but all in all these are my top three!

Today I just finished learning how to make and customize tables on the computer! They are pretty fun to create and now that I know exactly how to make them they're pretty easy too! Right now I am so beyond tired that I can hardly function and the best part about it is that I have a POLYATOMIC ION Quiz in Chemistry next period. Can you say fun! But today is better than yesterday. I was so tired from Plano and really did not want to come to school but I made myself because I had a test that I didn't even study for. Well anyway, I was getting ready in the bathroom and everyone else was still asleep when the phone rang. My mom got out of bed, answered the phone, and said "what" very loudly and sudden. I new immediately something was wrong but not sure of what. She went to go get the cordless phone and when I asked what was up she shoed me off so I figured someone was just sick. Five minutes later she came into the bathroom with tears in her eyes and said that Mr. Beal had died earlier that morning. I was so upset. Mr. Beal was one of my close friends and an all around family friends grandpa. He was an assistant soccer coach to my our team and I had known him since I was probably 5. He was like a grandpa to me! I literally cried until I got to school so my day was really terribly Horrible!

I have another softball tourney this weekend!!! We will be taking a four hour drive to PLANO tonight, leaving as soon as I get home from school, arriving there sometime after 7, then I eat, chill, talk and go to bed just in time for me to wake up at 5 because we have to be ready to go, in the lobby of our hotel BY 6:15. We just got knew uniforms...they are soooo awesome! Last weekend in Beaumont there were three wedding receptions- 1 Friday night and 2 Saturday. We were invited in to the one on Friday and no we did not know the people. The FOB was so funny. He looked like an older version of Kid Rock-including the long blond(his was gray) hair- in an all white outfit-suit shoes and du rag...yes I said du rag. He was quite a site and by the end of the night his white, untucked shirt was was half unbuttoned and he was disco dancing in the lobby where we were hangin' out. It was hilarious! but he was extremely nice. He asked us where we were from and why we were there and coincidentally, he's from Bear Creek so he knew exactly where we lived and his daughter, the one getting married, used to play select ball too. Can you say SMALL WORLD!!!! It was lots of fun.

OMG! This weekend I have a College Exposer Tournament for Softball in Beaumont and then another C.E. Tourney the following weekend in Plano! It's gonna be so much fun but I am going to be SOOOO tired. Besides the fact that I will be playing softball for the next two weekends I will also be playing double-headers this and next Monday night @ Baseball U.S.A. Hopefully my teachers don't give me a lot of homework or Ima cry! Last Saturday I went to see the Funny Shorts Plays at our school. I know like every person there, I felt so special! It was hilarious. Tears were coming to my eyes I was laughing so hard. After the plays I went with my friend Amanda to Mountasia with her church. We GoCarted( X-tra fun), Putt-Putted (I won!), played games (so awesome that combined we had less than 100 tickets), and did the bumper boats with a bunch of little boys we didn't know and they decided to "GET THE GIRLS!!!"(Not so fun). Then Amanda's sister Katie took me and another girl from thier church home an went the wrong way. In other words it was a very eventful night!

I just got through finishing up Lesson 4 which was all about working with a template... We got to do this lesson with our groups which was lots of fun! Having one person on either side of me made it a lot easier. We were able to answer each others questions and we moved really fast and smoothly because of it. Plus my group is all girls, Kristen and Tahra, which is WAY AWESOME!!!!