Still Adrift

Speaking.

December 24, 2001

Well, yesterday was an interesting day. It started off very sad. My dad and I were going to go finish up some christmas shopping for my mom when we noticed that there was a railroad crossing blocked off and there was all kinds of cops and people around. So we went to my mom's work, which is right across the street from the railroad crossing where all of the commotion was going on. We went inside and my mom said a little boy, 2 years old, got hit by a train. There is a car wash right by the tracks and apparently a mother was vacuuming her car out and the 2 year old wandered too close to the tracks. The paper today said the boy was hit by the front of the train and it was hard to tell how far the body was thrown. When my dad and I were at my mom's work, there was a yellow tarp laying up against the train where the boy's body was. how sad is that? right before christmas. i just hope the little guy didn't feel any sort of pain...i'll tell you, god works in such mysterious ways. i will never understand. : (

Most of my afternoon and evening consisted of fighting crowds and traffic. i do not know why my parents insist on waiting until the last days before christmas to get stuff done....it's like this every single year..lol. habit i guess. ; ) probably wouldn't feel like christmas if we didn't do that. : )

it's funny, i was just telling my mom yesterday at the store, 'i was hoping that i would have heard from fullerton by now.' well, today, i got a letter from fullerton and i was accepted!!!!! Yay!! I'm so happy. : ) i was kinda worried, cause you never know what might happen...but i am happy. this is awesome...and scary all at the same time. heh

well, everyone out there have a great christmas! : ) and remember....



Now, i know what you're thinking...garfield again?? : Þ