geez....

my sister is getting married in 23 days!!!!  it is exciting!  i have never worn a tuxedo before... i can't wait!  so i said i was going to put something serious in here... well... maybe not...  a lot of stuff is happening right now and no time to get serious!  life is tons of fun!  the west side is totally awesome!  anyone who says otherwise is stupid!  i use exclamation marks a lot don't i?  oh well!  it just shows how excited i am about stuff! 

but since you guys wanted something serious, i guess i can pull out something... 

Take to heart your friendships because it is really important that we all have friends.  Enjoy your friendships, but don't ever fear that serious converstation or that unhappy moment.  Try hard to be the nicest person you can be.  Don't be stupid!  Stupid as in:

"Don't try to get a fly off your friend's head with a hatchet!" ~Chinese Proverb

And don't forget about a friendship with your parents either.  Seriously, i know we have all had fights with our parents or we dislike our parents or our parents just don't understand or stuff like that!  We may not always get along with our parents, and besides a few cases, i truly believe that our parents are looking for the best for us even though we don't think it is.  Honor thy Father and thy Mother.  I think God said that for a reason!  And it is better to swallow your pride than to have regrets about something later in life.  We all have had regrets, but we don't have to!  We can try to make things better, but a friendship is a two person thing.  Therefore, it takes two people to make it work out.  Our love for our parents should be more than unconditional.  They shouldn't be people that we try to avoid hanging out with.  And certainly, we shouldn't consider them inferior than our friends.  Our parents went through some rough times and they can, for the most part, understand troubles in our lives.  Enjoy your friendship with your parents because it won't always be there... Do you want to have any regrets for the day your parents die?  I don't.  So I urge each and every one of us to try, no matter how hard it can be, to be friends with our parents, and if our parents don't want to, then let it be.  At least we tried.  Thank you for reading this!  You guys are all friends to me, unless I don't know you... then come chat with me, so i can get to know you!

adios!

P.S.  I write this in memory of the fathers of Todd and Alex, who passed away over the last year...