Friday, December 28, 2007: So a lot has happened since the last time I've updated...sort of. I mean most of it was just hubbub about getting my new coach, but even little stones make ripples...what with moving him in, getting him situated, et cetera. But hey, it was worth it.

I hope everyone had a great holiday. We did...but somehow going to the beach on Christmas isn't really..."normal" (relative to the rest of the country, that is).

YES, only three days until my birthday.

Sunday, December 2, 2007: Fine, fine, I'll give into this silly "blog tag" fad that's been running through my oh-so mature parents and friend's blogs. However, beggars can't be choosers and I know of no one else who actually writes in a blog other than in silly communities like MySpace and such. So without further ado:

1. I prefer Shakespeare to Harry Potter.

2. For fun, I bop my family members with one of those PT foam rollers my parents use to do their silly exercises.

3. I'm often a "head-case" (thanks, Dad) during the period right before swim events against certain acquaintances and "flip out," causing my whole race to turn out subpar.

4. I'd rather spend a Saturday at home reading, drawing, and swimming than going out with a group of friends.

5. I wish I could be like the Flash. Perhaps the super-speed detail would assist me in my 500 Freestyle.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007:

(original webpage found here)

Sunday, November 18, 2007:Obviously staying up to about midnight with five other girls eating pizza and drinking soda doesn't help my swimming. I'm not going to elaborate, but trust me, it's not something you want to be doing.

Anyway, I wish everybody an early happy Thanksgiving. Or at least, my grandmother as I'm assuming she's the only one who reads this.

(I think I'm getting better at this photoshop thing).

Renee was so cute back then. When she was that age she couldn't walk around and destroy things.

Sentimental..

Significant events that happened around the world during 1993 (the year I was born):

• Apple introduces the Newton, the first version of the first personal digital assistant (PDA). It is not very successful.

• Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as President of the United States of America. 

• In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.

• The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.

• NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

• The World Wide Web was born at CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherché Nucleaire, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland, www.cern.ch).

• A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido. My father was in Sendai at the time.