To: Erik The Coolest Guy In The World

I'm dedicating this post to Erik Vachon.

In Loving Memory Of

Erik Vachon, October 31, 1982 - October 4, 2006

I really wish I could just call, and talk to him right now, tell him HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! He'd be 26 today if he were still here with us. I have no idea how hard this has to be on his mother and family, but LuAnn Schutt (his mother) is one of the strongest women I know, and I'm sure she's holding it together for the rest of her family. He was an amazing, outgoing, creative, funny, loving and a lovable guy, he just made everyone around him feel like they were important and valuable. Never take people for granted because you never know when you might never see them again. Because it's not worth it in the end to know that your last words to that person were hateful, or you didn't say goodbye because of something stupid even if you were only joking. Always say goodbye and tell them that you love them, no matter how upset you are it's not worth it to feel like a loser in the end who never said goodbye, take my advice.

When I was eight I swore I was going to marry him, when I was of age of course, he entertained the idea mostly just for my sake, but I like to believe that he would marry me in the future!!! I don't know exactly what happened or what he was going through, I just wish I could have been there for him, if that could have helped, and I wish he could just come back but we all know that doesn't happen in real life, only in fairy tales.

ERIK R.I.P

I miss you so much Erik, wish you were here to see me turn fourteen, but I'm sure your watching from somewhere. I'll never forget the awesome person you were and still are in every ones hearts who knew you. I love you and miss you. Here's the goodbye I never got to tell you.

Goodbye, I'll miss you and see you again someday!!!

P.S

I'm still waiting for you to propose to me when I see you next time! LOL!

Famous Quotes

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”
- Will Rogers


“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Christopher Columbus


“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
- St Catherine of Siena


“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
- Helen Keller


“We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”
- Talmund


"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
- Theodore Rubin


“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas A Edison


“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco


“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji


“When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Franklin D Roosevelt


“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill


“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
- Muhammad Ali


“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve


“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
- Sam Ewing


“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucious


“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas A Edison


“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”
- Donald Gardner


“Success is what you attract by the person you become.”
- Jim Rohn


“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”
- Hubert Humphrey


“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
- Jim Rohn


“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”
- Victor Hugo


“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”
- Po Bronson


“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
- Benjamin Mays


“More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”
- Anonymous


“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”
- Earl Shoaf



I dedicate these quotes to Ali, a girl you all wish was your friend.

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.
~Author Unknown


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
~Author Unknown


If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.
~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
~Grace Pulpit


There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've ever had.
~Author Unknown


Best friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
~Author Unknown


A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
~Attributed to Heather Pryor


What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~Aristotle


Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
~Flavia Weedn, Forever,


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~Oprah Winfrey


A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse


A true friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
~Frances Ward Weller


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
~Author Unknown


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
~Eustache Deschamps


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~Sicilian Proverb


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~Elisabeth Foley


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~Henri Nouwen


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~Plautus


A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~William Penn


Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate

No Ones Perfect

Have you ever had a person that you looked up to, or thought highly of and they disappointed you doing something stupid? I have, and it hurt terribly. When you look up to someone you expect them to live up to your expectations. You can deny it but no matter who you are, at one point in your life you looked up to someone. Whether it was your mom, dad, brother, sister, family member, friend or the neighbor next door, I don't know who it was or is. One thing you need to learn now is that no one is ever going to live up to your expectations, because their not you and their only human, not God. I have had a few people I admired let me down hard, and it took me a long time to get over it, but due to recent events I have come to realize that nobodies perfect not even me (I like to believe I am some times LOL). Nobody wears a halo, and nobody wants people to think that they do, it's okay to think highly of someone, because if you lower your standard and except anything you get from somebody than that makes you the bigger disappointment. No one wants to feel pressured to be perfect to please someone else, because if it's someone you care about and they care for you as much as you do for them than they don't want to let you down, it's probably one of their biggest fears, I know it's one if mine. I don't want to disappoint the people around me, I want to be someone people can be proud of to say that's my daughter, sister, or best friend. But if you have no standard for someone to meet than they have nothing to live up to, and no one wants that either. You have to find that happy medium, and except that no one is perfect, people will make mistakes and hurt you, just don't let that be your excuse to give up on someone. You have to expect the best out of everybody but be ready for the worst. Be disappointed in them, let them see how much their actions hurt you, but also love them, forgive them and except them for who they are. Because I will repeat what I said before, NO ONE WEARS A HALO!

Emotions...

Hatred is a funny thing, you get so consumed in how much you hate someone that you forget to see the good in others. All you do is see negative, and it makes your life miserable, hatred, anger, bitterness it will all just eat at you until there is nothing left. Until your nothing but an empty shell. I promise you it's not a life you want to live, no one wants to be your friend, people go out of there way to avoid you and you end up doing nothing but feeling sorry for yourself. It's pathetic and childish, you have to learn how to grow up and get passed it, forgive your enemies, it's one of the hardest things you will ever have to face. But once you forgive them (truly forgive them) you can move on and it will be like that person never existed, no one says you have to be friends just because you forgive them, and the thing you should always take from the experience is knowledge. What you will do differently next time, what you DON'T want to be like, and hopefully be a better judge of character and maybe you will be the one in a million who never has to face it again. Just remember don't let emotions, especially stupid emotion like anger or hatred run your life, I have personally seen it happen to people all my life, I'm seeing it happen in some right now, but don't be that person. Be the upstanding loving person that I know every living being has in them. Your not born with hatred, and it's never too late, you can still change your life to the way you want it to be, don't let people, circumstances, or emotions make your life, you control it so be better than that. Nobody will ever be perfect, I know I'm most definitely NOT!! But you can try to be the best person you can be, and that's all I ask for, because I am so done with people throwing their lives away because of like I said before, people, circumstances, or emotions.
So I want to wish you all a happy, loving, laughter filled life with the people you love and forget the one's that would put your happiness in jeopardy because their not worth it.

P.S
Family does not count in any of this, and always remember blood is thicker than water.

FOOTBALL!!!

Who doesn't love football? (I'm not actually asking for you to leave your opinion if you don't, if are a football fan feel free to leave a comment). LOL! GO CYCLONES! Last night Varsity kicked Coronado's butt, 49 to 0, today was JV and we killed them again 52 to 6. They left out of there with their heads held down in shame. At today's JV game, one of the boys from Coronado shoved one of our guys after the whistle (bad sportsmanship, they were loosing,) so they got into a fight and the kid from Coronado ended up getting his helmet knocked off. The ref's didn't see it so it never got called, and one of the parents from Coronado, in the stand came out of the bleachers (this guy had to be late fifty's early sixties) jumped the fence, poorly, and came out on the field. He started yelling, pointing fingers, shaking his fist, and then pulled something out of his pocket and started shaking it around, it was absolutely hilarious. I thought I was gonna fall over back wards and roll around laughing, he made such a fool of himself that they finally called the police on him, about five minutes later two cop cars showed up and the guy was finally quiet for the rest of the time. One thing I learned from all this is that if your older than twenty five you probably shouldn't be jumping fences anymore.
Alright well I have to go my sisters have a gym meet today so I have to get ready for that, I'll tell 'ya how it goes.

P.S
Happy Birthday to my baby sister she's turning nine today, she's growing up so fast, I remember when I used to change her diaper times sure have changed.
Ta Ta For Now!!

Real Friends

One thing that I have come to realize in my thirteen years of life, is that people will disappoint you, betray you, lose your trust, hurt you, etc. But if you can't get past those few or more people, then your biggest disappointment will be yourself. Because if you never get past the people that hurt you, and give others a chance, you can never move on to find the true friends that would do anything for you, love you, stand up for you, are there for you, know exactly what to say when your upset, and sometimes have to tell you things that you don't want to hear. I have been through many people that I thought were my friends, and in the end had to face reality. I think that if you try to please people and suck up to them, then obviously their not worth having as a friend. Now I'm not saying that you will never get into a fight with a friend, especially a best friend, because they are willing to face the consequence of telling you something you don't want to hear, and possibly lose your friendship if it's what it takes. But if you lose the friendship because you can't get over what they said to you, (if it's truly in your best interest) then you don't deserve a friend like that. And maybe it's time you take a look in a mirror see if what you see is what you would want to see in yourself or what you would want to see in someone else. Because if it's not, you might want to start trying to change that, I promise you will miss out and lose friends. Now should you tolerate a person (family doesn't count in this by the way) just because you don't want to hurt their feelings, so you would rather make yourself miserable NO!!! You don't have to be rude or nasty, but you tell them how you feel and if they don't like it too bad, it's not the way to live your life always trying to please other's. If someone doesn't like you for you, and you have to try and be something else to make them happy, than they don't deserve you as a friend. If you want a good friend you might want to start with having one like mine.

P.S
To my Best Friend,
I just wanted to say thank you for getting me through some of the tough times, being sympathetic when I was just being whinny, for being my shoulder to lean on, for always being supportive, pushing me when I wanted to give up and telling me to suck it up and drive on!

I love you girlie;)