sunday sunday.... quite the weekend. friday night was an interesting night. it was caroline's 22nd birthday (but she was in dubai) and kelsey called me to tell me that she's engaged. which i wasn't surprised about at all, it was only a matter of time. the biggest suckfest, though, was that i won't be able to go to the wedding. hers is on the 18th of december, but i think i'm leaving town on the 16th of december. in which case, i would miss her wedding. so, to celebrate/ mourn, i went out with antoinette. we ended up at lizard lounge (only the hippest 18+ club in dallas. since club purgatory was shut down). there was a crazy expensive cover charge, and the DJ was from sweden. which means instant coolness. we ended up being out dancing until 3:15 in the morning. no one else came with us cause annie and anthony didn't feel like going to greeneville (where we were earlier) and ian had to "stay home because maggie [his dog] was sick." there was only one photo from the night:

careful. you may be blinded by coolness?

saturday we saw toy story 3 as a family. and... then i started feeling kind of sick and the next morning i felt even worse so i stayed home from church and attempted to nurse myself back to health. (still feel kind of gross).
now i am reading atlas shrugged. someone commented (since i made it my status on facebook) that it was "so shitty they couldn't read past the first page." i beg to differ. i think a lot of great works kind of start out a bit sluggish and you have to work your way into the intricacy of it. and then, once you've figured out the plots and characters, you can start to understand the beginning. the next read around, it isn't so boring anymore. and i didn't even think it was bad. from the first page on, it's like reading a roadmap of exactly what our country is dealing with right now. the strange feeling and need to, for some reason, put other countries above our own while our infrastructure crumbles. stuff like that. its great to read about competence and people that work hard for quality goods. since everything is cheapened now, and everyone hires friends, leading to horrible companies (and governments) that are run inefficiently.
its a must read for any intelligent person. in my opinion.
i go back to utah august 11th. CANNOT believe it. also, have to start eating healthy. i think i'm beginning to actually hear my liver crying.