AML6349: Hi Ashlee! So sorry I missed you! My husband somehow opened up AIM on this computer and didn't know it (he's kinda AIM illiterate - lol). I just woke up like 20 minutes ago!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: Hi Annette!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: Oh, no worries, happens to the best of us :-P
AML6349: How are you?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: not bad at all, just recupperating from the holidays and TRYING to get back into the swing of things with school
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: which, by the way, is proving highly unsuccessful
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: lol
AML6349: lol - what level of school are you in?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: junior in high school, so almost done
AML6349: Oh yeah! Are you excited to get out?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: yes and no, I always have been becuase, ya know, you're "done"
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: but at the same time, the closer you get, the farther away you'd rather push it
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: quite the idiom
AML6349: What I found strange was that I had been going to school with the same people since around 7th grade... and I went from seeing them every day to not seeing them at all. It was a strange feeling... I missed people that I normally didn't even want to see.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: that's what I'm thinking, like this huge chunk of your life just gets up and leaves
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: especially seeing as I've been in the same school since, well, the beginning
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: such a long time ago, lol, which is hard to say at only 18
AML6349: You've on the verge of graduation and I'm on the verge of my 10 year reunion - I feel old!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: although I did start late, I'm a year older than most people in my grade
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: yeah?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: that's fun though, there's so much more to life than high school
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I'm just ready to get out and see it, experience it
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: good or bad, not neccesarily the bad, but things happen
AML6349: Very true.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: oh my gosh, I LOVE your smileys!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: mine are just plain boring
AML6349: lol - thanks. I don't remember where I got them from... my favorite is: &
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I love the lips, gotta go with the lips
AML6349: Kissay face!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: the crying one looks like the blob from the anti-depressent commercial
AML6349: hahaha
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: lol
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: so, what about yourself?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I hear you have a daughter?
AML6349: I'm a 27 year old stay-at-home mom and, yes, I have a 2 year old daughter named Shanley. Would you like to see a picture?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: absolutely not!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx:
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: once again, my boring smileys return
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: lol
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx wants to directly connect.
AML6349 is now directly connected.
AML6349: Ok, one sec, gotta find it.
AML6349:
AML6349: That was from her 2nd birthday party.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: oh my gosh!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: she is SO adorable
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I bet you show her off all the time ;-)
AML6349: lol - I try to. I think she's precious but, of course, I'm biased. She looks sooooo much like her daddy.
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AML6349: Her name is Shanley.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: she's so adorable, I love her name too
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I love her socks, lol
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I wear socks like that under my starbucks uniform, lol, gives it a bit of a flair
AML6349: Starbucks, eh? That's cool - I've only been there once, at least 4 years ago.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: it's a fun little place to work, minus the hats
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I'm just not much of a hat person, what can I say?
AML6349: lol - I hear you there. I had to work in a bakery before and we have to wear giant chef hats. How embarassing.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: how neat! Lol, I would of kept is as a souvenier
AML6349: I think I might have! I don't remember... I quit a few months before I got married back in '98.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: we can cross our fingers
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: so, are you ready to start the game?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: well, although, I guess it's "technically" already begun
AML6349: Yes, I am - this is great getting to know everyone! I'm currently talking to you, Gracie & Taylor.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: they're nice, well, everyone is so far
AML6349: Have you met anyone else yet?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: Gracie and Taylor, as well
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: Stephanie was a little bit hard to talk to, but I think she may have just been preoccupied
AML6349: She messaged me earlier too but I missed her.
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I cannot believe how hard this is going to be
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: I mean, of eighteen people you JUST met, HOW do you decide who to vote for?
AML6349: I guess you just go by who's been around and you've gotten along with to start.
AML6349: Hey, I need to go take a shower & change a smelly kid's butt. Talk to you later?
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: Absolutely, sounds like you'll be having a blast and a half
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: don't have too much fun, now
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: :-P
AML6349: lol - talk to you later!
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: ::hugs::
xXHoRSeSHaCkEDXx: bye!