Cornerstone is tommorow, and I couldn't be more ready. It's going to be amazing. I'm determined to love every second of it, but I'm sure that will be no problem. Seeing Relient K and Copeland will be the best two things that have happened to me all year, if not my life.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

I'll be sixteen Sunday, and that's about all there is to say. I'm ready to live, so that's exactly what I'm going to do.

i don't feel myself today
just a figure in a big monopoly game
struggle is the price you pay
you get just enough just to give it away
i'm sinking, but i'm floating away
throw me a line so i can anchor my pain
the fabric is about to fray
the fabric is about to fray

maybe you could take a look at yourself lately
maybe you could take a look at yourself lately
maybe you could take a look at yourself lately

things keep coming and i keep wondering
i start feeling the walls close in
things keep coming and i keep stumbling
i start feeling i'm strong enough to break
oh, i start feeling i'm strong enough to break

been running through my mind today
scenarios to add to your hypocrisy
no one ever takes the blame
but everyone is searching for a cure to the pain
nothing ever seems to change
oh, nothing ever seems to change
we just play like broken records in a deaf man's charade

maybe you could take a look at yourself lately
maybe you could take a look at yourself lately
maybe you could take a look at yourself lately

things keep coming and i keep wondering
i start feeling the walls close in
things keep coming and i keep stumbling
i start feeling i'm strong enough to break
oh, i start feeling i'm strong enough to break

carry on, just a pawn, and the same old song
i'm still holding on
the fabric is about to fray

maybe you could take a look at yourself lately
maybe you could take a look at yourself lately

things keep coming and i keep wondering
i start feeling the walls close in
things keep coming and i keep stumbling
i start feeling i'm strong enough to break

things keep coming and i keep wondering
i start feeling the walls close in
things keep coming and i keep stumbling
i start feeling i'm strong enough to break
oh, i start feeling i'm strong enough to break

"Strong Enough to Break" by Hanson. I love Hanson more than you could ever imagine. It's not even fathomable.

No one go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end.
(Dan Zandra)

I can no longer allow my past or present to control my future. "Release your inhibitions" is right. I don't want to allow small things to get to me anymore. I shall no longer cry over little, petty things. I am young, but I am strong. Correction: I will become strong. I'm on my way.

P.S.- Wish me luck at the auditions for the school musical today!

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Last night I went to Kimmie and Elise's chorus concert, and they sounded so beautiful. They did a medley from RENT and I almost cried. I was so proud of them, I felt like a mother! I couldn't stop smiling.
Today yearbooks were passed out. I was on the yearbook staff, and I didn't even get a yearbook! Maybe I'm just whiney, but that seems pretty messed up to me. Do you agree that that is crazy? Anyways, I have a lot going on in the next couple of weeks/months. This afternoon I have an eye appointment and tomorrow after school I have musical auditions. All of next week I'll be cramming for my Algebra 2 EOC, and then I'll take (and-cross your fingers- pass!) it on Monday. I won't have to come to school Thursday or Friday of next week, because I have no exams those days. Monday will be my last day, unless I come back Wednesday just to say goodbye to a few lovelies. June is filled with exciting stuff, such as: my sweet sixteen!!!, my little brother Josiah's 9th birthday, my little brother Laban's 14th birthday, CORNERSTONE, hopefully getting the job at PacSun and other things here and there. I'm entirely ready for summer. In fact, I don't think I could be more excited.