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As I was combing through mounds of crap accumulated from eons ago this past weekend, what I came across was nothing short of amusing - my old HS journal. Even though it only contained three measly entries, it was more than enough to have me rolling on the floor with laughter (ROFL, for old time's sake). It wasn't so much the content, but the Jappy-Long-Island-tone. I have included excerpts from the journal for your enjoyment.

certain names have been omitted for anonymity sake, all others (including grammatical and spelling mistakes) have been kept in its original form

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March 24, 1998
Dear Diary,
Boy... *sigh* ... what a day! So tired yet at the same time, I was a hyper this morning. I meaning, so much is going on Today, me and ##### got into one of those "mother-of-all" fights. It's like WW III! Okay, so here's the story, #####'s bra was unhooked by this mother-of-all-pervert, Mike Goldmocker, and when ##### told Mike to hook it up for her, he felt her up! Now that is just sad, I mean like, Mike can't find another girl to feel up but her?! Okay, let's not be mean here, but since ##### "was" one of my best friend, I went up to Mike and was like "I heard what happened, keep ur hands to urself!" That's all I said and he just, like, played dumb. I was like "whatever" and left...##### found out and blew up in my face, but I really dont' care, I mean, I don't really wana be friends with her anymore. She gets on my nerves a lot, always making me carry her guilt trips. Today, I was just like whatever & we're not friends!
PS - I think Tanya likes me.

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July 13, 2000
Dear Diary,
What a day. Camp's awesome. This kid, Andrew Lynch, is the most adorable kid in the world. I love that kid so much. Anyway, the purpose of this entry is b/c of hate and anger. My ##### is the biggest BITCH in the world....Let me tell you about what happened today ~
at like 8:00pm or something, Judy, Vicky, Stephanie and I went to hang out and stuff. So to be like whatever, I told them that I was tired and I wanted to get home, so I called. My stupid ##### picked up the fuckin' phone and was lke blah blah blah blah I don't want you to hang out with friends on weeknights b/c of camp. that gets me so madd fuckin' bitch who the fuck does she thinks she is fuckin' asshole. I hate her. She never lets me out. She's the devil and she is hell. That's why I'm not afraid of hell b/c I live IN HELL. Anyway, I'm tellin' her that I'm not taking the job the "counselor" is offering me.

PS - I HATE HER

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Yeah, like, I'm so glad I don't, like, talk, like that anymore. It's, like, totally embarrassing. Totally. Okie I'm outty.

DC Homecoming

After 3 years of living the suburban lifestyle, we have finally made the decision to get the hell out of here. Actually, this decision was pretty much 3 years in the making - We always just talk about it and never really put those words into action. Finally tired of complaining about it, we decided to do something about it so after Thanksgiving '06, we went house hunting and have found the perfect place. After having moved 4 or 5 times while in college, I should have known finding the perfect place was the easy part; the hard part is packing, and the hardest part is throwing enough stuff out to fit in our new, 1-bedroom, apartment.

We always knew going into this, we would be trading space for location, I mean, come on, we're moving back into DC, we were more than willing to do this tradeoff. But, instead of a 2-bedroom like we have now, we are moving into a 1-bedroom unit, which, honestly, is not all that bad considering we rarely ever use our guestroom. It is located on one of the best streets in DC and we are more than thrilled to move. Our official move in is next Friday, Feb. 2nd. Excited, yes, exhausted, that too!

Now we're just trying to pack up 3 years of crap and condensing it into one 10' U-Haul truck and a small SUV. This is what our current beautiful apartment has turned into:

What our beautifully decorated living room turned into...


Another view of this atrocity


This was once a gorgeous bedroom..hard to imagine

But, I keep telling myself that it is for the best - We are moving into one of the most exciting cities on the East Coast! Please check out my website for more pictures if you are interested! Link is provided to the right of this website under "Links".


For more pictures, go see the Photo Section of my Website

Proud Brother of an Independent Sister

Recently, Teresa had the opportunity to leave the prying and always vigilant eyes of my parents and live on her own while she's doing an internship with Disney for 5 months down in Orlando. She left this past Monday and is having the time of her life (the good and the bad). From not having to pay for anything while living at home to paying rent, grocery, school supplies and such on a monthly basis is quite the jump; and she's learning that money does not grow on trees; a hard lesson I learned after leaving college.

Teresa now has to work at Disney and really account for every penny that comes in and goes out so that she has enough money at the end of the day to feed her belly (it's a paid internship, and her housing gets deducted right from her paycheck). I can completely sympathize.

I remember back in those days when I was working at our local video rental store and Jonathan was AU's equivalent of a meter maid. We were both making minimum wage ($8/hours) and, often times, after rent, utilities and transportation, we barely had any money left for groceries. For almost six months to a year, we were eating nothing but rice from the Chinese supermarket (we had to take a bus there, and often times, we had to wait over an hour on our return trip in the freezing cold). On a good week, we would go to Safeway and get a tomato and an onion, cook it with soy sauce and that would be the topping on our rice; otherwise, we would just have rice with onions and soy sauce since onions are cheap. Jonathan had to take the bus, instead of the metro, to work to save money. A normal 30 minute trip on the metro is stretched to an unimaginable 2 hours just for one way with a transfer at Friendship Heights and another 10-15 minute walk to the AU Shuttle stop where Jonathan had to hop on to get to the main campus, which took another 15 minutes, provided that the shuttle is there at the time of his arrival. Luckily for me and for us, I could walk to my video store; which was only a few blocks down from where we live (the video store is no longer in business). Because we were so poor, we had to rent out our second bedroom and, at any point, a couple is living with another person, it never fares out well for either party, and we endured all this until the winds of change came sweeping through our front door. After a year of what I can only call a humbling experience, I landed a job at the Associated Press and quickly worked my way up the corporate latter. Jonathan worked really hard and relocated to the AU Library where two years of hard work got him the promotion to be their in-house graphic designer. Even though money is not an issue for us any longer and we're able to buy anything and everything that we want and still have money to save at the end of the month into our many savings accounts, we will never forget what we have gone through to get here. That experience helped mold me into the person I am today, and Jonathan, through it all, the good or the bad, has always been there to be my ground to keep me strong and collected.

Teresa, if you're reading this, at any point when you leave the house and live on your own, it is always a humbling experience, but it is with these humbling experiences that you build character and find out really what you're made of. In times of hardship, true character shows, so take this wonderful opportunity and run with it. Like I tell you time and time again, do everything with confidence and always with an open mind. Trust me, everything will come out golden! We're Lee's for goodness sake; nothing stops us! We will ALWAYS get what we want!!

Happy New Year to all....

And to all a good night!