Hey hey, so I haven't touched this thing in a while but i think i'm gonna blow off the dust. I've been wanting to write down my thoughts just to get them out of my head buuuut I won't be able to do that right now. I must do homework... Why is it that I think of other things to do when I have homework as well... annoying. I'm looking forward to not have to do any school work over the summer. It's getting old. Well, seeya later

Erik

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Wow, I don't even know where to start. Life's been alright. Kinda boring but alright. I haven't done much lately. It's been hard for me to manage my time lately with so much free time. I end up doing nothing or taking 5 times longer to do something. I wish I was more efficient with my time.

Anyway let me talk about some things that have happened in the last month. A while back I bombed a pretty big hill on my friends longboard and wrecked at the very bottom when I tried to jump off to avoid going through a red light. I had slowed down a bit but not as much as i needed to obviously. haha. My elbow and shoulder got pretty scraped up. My friends were following behind me in a car and said at one point I was going almost 30 mph. It was so tight. About two nights ago we had a bunch of seniors who were checking out the school stay in different rooms on our hall. We messed with them so bad. First we took off the doors to the showers and put up really legit signs that said due to a shortage of water, there must be at least two people to a shower. They photoshopped our school presidents signiture on the signs too. It was pretty hilarious. Oh I also went ice skating last night. It was really fun. My feet are still feeling today. Sucky rental skates. I'm starting to get really invovled with Young Life and am loving it. It's such a good ministry. God is teaching me a lot right now. I just love being in His presence and living a life for Him even when it gets difficult. Speaking of difficult, this time of year is always hard for me. I find myself being down a lot more. I'm trying to find the balance of accepting it as a season of my life but not letting take over me. My parents are "monitoring" me for signs of depression. I don't think it's that serious, it's just a time in my life where a reflect a lot more.

I'm going home in three days. I'm pretty excited. It'll be really nice to see the friends and fam. But most of all I'm looking forward to seeing CJ. I love her. She's pretty much amazing. I don't mean to brag but I picked a winner. She's really excited because she got accepted to Whitworth up in Washington. I'm pretty stoked for her cuz she really wants to go there... It should be a good five days hanging out at home... Wow all these things are starting to come to my head so bare with me if I start jumping to a ton of different things... I can't wait to see how my brothers are doing. Ian has started to play the violin. Hopefully I can do something fun with both of the little guys (they are not that little any more!) I really want to try and go surfing with Isaac. He's goes all the time now and is getting pretty good. He's also getting dreads with his long blonde hair. It should look really awesome. Can't wait to spend some time with him too. I miss him now that I'm at college. I can't wait untill he comes and visits me. I also can't wait to see my parents. Wow, so much to do in so little time. Good thing Christmas break is only three weeks after Thanksgiving break. Wow I just realized I've written a lot. Probably to much for you guys to read. Sorry. I guess I'll just stop here and save the rest for next time. Hope everyone is doing well it's been nice talking to some of you. Have a good turkey time errbody!!

Erock

Oh I almost forgot to tell you guys that I want sky diving for my eighteenth bday. It was so awesome Here's some pics.

My friend Chris and I who came down to visit and go skydiving

haha need help there bud

This is the whole group besides CJ who came down to visit the weekend after my bday. Left to right: Chris, Me, Sean, and Jeff. Just cuz I wanted to tell ya. Oops I forgot about my good buddy Seth who was there. He just didn't go sky diving. Sorry buddy. Good thing he doesn't read this. haha

my parachute!!!

This is CJ's senior portrait that I just felt like posting cuz it's gorgeous. Hope you don't mind Ceej

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wow man. I'm horrible at keeping in touch with people. I really really want to call a lot of you BFAers. I want to keep in touch. You guys are amazing. I need to start writing this stuff down so that I make sure I really do it. Well, it seems I haven't said much about my life. Well college life has had it's ups and downs. I'm really trying to find people that I really connect with. It's hard but it's also only been a little over a month. Man it's gone by so fast yet it seems like I've been in college forever. I better enjoy it cuz in four years i'm gonna be outta here.

I've gone to the beach, thrown water ballons at wasp nests and people, smoked hooka, been bored, hung out. I just had a birthday two days ago. It went alright. My mom flew down on friday and came with my Grandpa to pick me up Saturday morning. I went to my grandparents house in Orange County and spent the night. Today (or yesterday if you're counting hours) some of my friends bought a cake for me and a girl whose birthday was the sixteenth. It was really sweet of them. I'm now the big one eight and I think I'm going to become a smoker. Well maybe i'll update more. this was like the longest I've gone without updating. Kinda sad. I thought about it but I just didn't. I hope everyone else is doing great. I've been trying to keep up with peoples xangas.

ps oh yeah i'm going to a death cab concert on Dec. 5 and i'm totally stoked.

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