dear diary, It's been forever! I've been pretty busy these last few days. Hardly had time to sleep, let alone get on the computer. Anyway, I want to get all caught up. I'll start with today. School was okay. There are two kids who say hi to me and occasionally joke around with me, but they're not necessarily friends. They're nice though. I finally talked to the counsler today, and she was like freaking out over my good grades--'cause hardly anyone got good grades before they came to Cache. Which is strange, because I wasn't really a "great" student at Sky View with my B average, but at Cache I'm like a super-genius rarity. Anyway, so my counsler signed me up for a college prep class as well as giving me a book to prepare for the ACT, which I'll hopefully take in March. She is REALLY excited. it was weird, 'cause adults at SV couldn't care less. The bad news, however, was that if I wanted to come to SV next year, I'd have to get like three credits during the summer and after school to catch up. Of course, if I stayed at Cache I could graduate EARLY. But I really want to go back to SV. So I guess I'll have to get cracking on those extra credits. The stake dance last Saturday was SO fun. And there were DEFINITELY a lot more people than usually come to a HP dance. It was great. I loved playing and dancing with friends. Oh, and there was a cute boy there, who I finally got up the courage to ask to dance. It was cool. :) I've been helping out these past few days with the SV play. It's been really fun, but made me miss SV and everyone so much. I love drama. Not just the performing and the acting, which is obviously wonderful, but the whole spirit and all the busy-ness and drama and work that takes place behind the scenes. I spent a lot of time with Garrick at the plays. He was on the publicity crew, or something. Anyway. Garrick is kind of my weakness. Every time I spend time with him, I fall in love with him. And then I don't spend time with him and I go back to normal. It's just that he's so SWEET. Like this one night especially, he sat by me and gave me his jacket when I said I was cold and gave me his candy and told me I looked pretty. What girl can resist that? None. And Garrick knows that. Which is another reason i never fall completely in love with him. One minute he'll be focusing all his attention on me, the next it's on another girl. *shrugs* But he's still a sweetie and I still love him. Um... other news... OH YEAH! Okay, I'm not good at short explanations, so bear with me 'cause there's good news at the end. So I finished my driver's class online, and have been waiting for a month for them to send the paperwork to Tom Olsen at SV. Once my counsler gets the paperwork, Mr. Speth looks at it then gives me my paper saying that I passed the tests. So yesterday I called Mr. Olsen for like the 15th time asking if he had gotten my paperwork yet. So he said, "No, I haven't. EHS has 22,000 students and it takes some time to get things done. Call me later this week." I was like, FINE! I mean, he was RUDE! And I couldn't believe it'd take a whole MONTH. Today I decided to call Mr. Speth to see if there was anyway I could get my license without the EHS paperwork. So I began to explain that the paperwork hadn't been received yet, and he said, "Yes it has. It came last week. In fact, I've already seen it." WHAT?!?!?!?!?! IT FREAKING CAME LAST WEEK? MR. IDIOT TOM OLSEN SAID IT HADN'T COME YET! Oh I was soooo ticked off. But I just thanked Mr. Speth and told him I'd be by sometime to pick it up. Of course, now that I know I can get my license, there's like no time to do it. Hopefully tomorrow, maybe not. But I can't believe that stupid Olsen! I've never liked him. Ugh. I'm coming down with a cold. That is really, really bad. I can't miss any school at all, but I'm so terrible at going to school when I'm sick. I felt like crap all today, and that was just the beginning! I hope I don't get any more sick. If I miss two more days, I'll 1/4 credit my classes. That's very bad. So I'm kinda worried about that. I miss boys. They can be so much fun sometimes. When they're not being stupid and/or jerks. But some boys are really wonderful. Like Garrick. And... Hmm. Well, I'm sure there are others. Oh that reminds me. Jeremy ushered for one of the plays, but we didn't really talk. At all. He looked really... I don't know. He said he was tired. But it was weird to be around him and not talk to him. *shrugs* I've been kinda depressed lately. I think all the stress of a new school and a new ward is getting to me. I just miss being in my comfort zone with all my friends. My comfort zone is nice. I like to stay inside of it... All this change is getting to me, really. Do you ever wish you could go back in time where everything seemed so much simpler? I need to start writing again. I miss writing. Love, Lisa Ann