Dorothy Gayle Fahey

OMG HOMECOMING IN COMING UP AND WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO PREPARE! so, like, we're definitely having a pep club meeting after school tomorrow. and i'm going to call the president of the alumni association tonight and things will start HAPPENING.

OMG IT'S OUR LAST HOMECOMING!!!!!

oh my gosh! i've been so busy that i forgot about htis even though mrs. olives reminded us on tuesday. anway, daddy kept us here and it sucked a whole lot, all the wind and rain. but it wasn't as bad as YOU KNOW. and now there's another one coming and i can't wait until hurricane season is over.

but the first week of school if over and my classes are HARD! and we won on friday night against baton rouge! ian you did a REALLY REALLY good job! yay team! also, the marching band was awesome, and benny looked so cute in his drum major uniform. although i don't know why tony was there with ruby gillis. i thought he and claire were hooking up but i guess i was wrong! i think that this week us cheerleaders are going to debut our new routine. and now i have to sleep because, ugh, school tomorrow. i'll do my journal homework later.

omg that wasn't fun at ALL. :( but i my tonsils are gone and my doctor thinks that i won't get strep throat now. which is good because that HURTS. :( but i missed both cheer practices this week and i slept all the time i think. and ben couldn't even come over because he had marching band every day.

:( I have to have my tonsils taken out. :(

omg mom said that i can have a birthday party! but she said it had to be on a friday night so it's going to be on july 25. i don't know any other details except that she said no alcohol and i have to invite ben's sisters and parents which is okay because i like them like time and stuff but i'll let everyone know! and i know it won't be as fun as tara or lucy or iago's parties but i hope people still come to it and now i just sound pathetic.

:) i think that you all need a puppy update. i haven't been able to upload any pictures yet but she's so cute. she's a cocker spaniel and so sweet. she really likes ben and follows him around whenever he comes over. oh! i named her toto. i had doctor dave take a look at her because you always should do that whenever you get a new pet, and he said that she's in really good health! the day after i got her mom and i went to walmart and got her a bed and a collar and a leash and everything. chewtoys and stuff.

anyway i went and saw jay at his race last night and he did really well even if he was wrecked. i went last night because i can't go next weekend because of the fourth of july and we've got plans and stuff. not much, but mom wanted me to stay close.

i guess i should tell what i'm doing this summer. mainly i'm working at the vet's office and looking at colleges. we're going to go to baton rouge in july or august to have a tour of lsu. otherwise i'm not doing a whole lot until we start cheer practice up again. we're not going on a real vacation this year because we're saving up for a trip somewhere REALLY nice next summer, before i go to college.

mom wants me to run for miss appleblossom in the fall.my parents are talking to one another again.

OMG I HAVE A PUPPY! :D

at least they're talking again. sort of. i wish they could be normal parents. i guess like ben's, who obviously love each other. i mean, mrs. isaacs is having a baby. ANOTHER baby. yeah, i get that i'm adopted and that mom can't have babies. but it's just crazy that they only pretend to be happy and think that i'm fooled. sometimes i wonder what it would have been like to have been raised by my real mother. the one who gave birth to me, i mean. did she love me? did she hate me? i don't know anything about her and i wish i did.

i wish cheerleading started sooner. at least ben's going to teach me to drive a stick. i asked jay about that at tara's party and he started laughing. i'm pretty sure he was laughing at me but at least he was nice enough to not tell me he was laughing at me. and he really is a good kisser but i think that's as far as it's going to go.

next week i start at the vet clinic. mornings only.

omg i got home really really really late last night but mom still made me go to church today early so i could do confessionbut it was okay because the munchkins sang a song about fathers and they made cards during sunday school and they were really pretty. i made my daddy one because brittany said i should and she was RIGHT.

anyway, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to anyone reading this who is a father. we're going to applebee's for my daddy because mom says it's too hot to cook in the house and dad wants a steak. i think i'm going to get a quesadilla. mmm. then i think that we're going toget ice cream at the hop and we might go to a movie.

omg tara before i forget, your party was so much fun.

omg you guys i have been soooo busy that i forgot that i should probably do this thing. but i don't know if i want to. i'm soooo happy about the track team going to state and how well they did and with everyon

i think that some of you have really messed up ideas about what friendship is, and that makes me really sad. it's not putting one person before another. it's not being mean to another person just so you look good to another. friendship isn't conditional one thing or another, and i feel like that's all i'm seeing.

i lied in my best friends essay, because i didn't want to hurt anyone. but you know what? i do have a best friend. her name is jules, and she's one of the sweetest, kindest people i know. some people call her weird, but she's not really. she just sees the world differently than everyone else and i think that's pretty awesome. she's there for me, and she isn't afraid to dance in the rain, or to share a joke, or to be there for someone else. that's what a best friend is. they're a person that you connect with better than others, but that doesn't mean that your other friendships mean less or are not just as good.

so to all of you who think that only losers have best friends, i DARE you to say that to my face on tuesday at school. i dare you to say it to ben, erik, or pete. i dare you to say it to tara or lucy or to steven or tony. i also think that you need to take a look at yourself, because maybe there's a reason that you have to claim you don't have a best friend or something. maybe it's because you haven't given anyone a reason to consider you their best friend, even when they themselves are being not just best friend material to you, but FRIEND material.

is it true? someone tell me if it's true!

i think it's really gross the stories that go around this school sometimes. and we all wonder why people do such horrible things to one another, when if we were just NICE things wouldn't be like this. so if i hear one more person say anything about ben or ryan or kim or ANYONE on the track team, i'm not going to be happy. you shouldn't spread rumors about people!

i don't know if this week is going to be very good. a few of the kittens at the vet's office where i volunteer got sick, and one of them died yesterday and doc dale isn't sure if the other one is going to make it. so i'm really sad right now and i just really don't need everyone being like this to one another!

i was going to tell everyone about the stories that the munchkins told me in the nursery today, but i'm too sad.:(

oh gosh, i hope that the private filter thingy on this works. i heard that the staff can read them if they want, but i guess it doesn't matter because if they do. maybe. i don't know. anyway, i've been thinking a little about tommy today. i was really surprised when he made those threats. and scared, because i guess i didn't think he would ever do such a thing. and now it's like everyone in the world has forgotten about it and they don't even talk about it.

i'm the same way, but maybe there's a reason we don't talk about him? i don't know. but i guess i want to know that he's okay, because i was reading last month about things like this and daddy said something about how people who make threats like that don't have any friends and are freaks.

i guess it is just wrong because i thought he was okay. maybe i should have told him that. :(

sometimes being a teenager is just really HARD. :(

OH MY GOSH APPLE CREEK! you all are so awesome! the track team won today and the soccer team won! and yesterday the tennis team did really good!

who's going to the baseball game tomorrow! YOU ALL SHOULD!

omg i nearly forgot! i got madonna's cd yesterday and it's REALLY GOOD!

gosh, ms. olives' assignment for this month is sort of hard. it's not that i don't have any friends, because i do! i just don't think that it's fair that i have to choose only one or two people to call my best friends. i have a lot of friends and they're all my friends for different reasons. tara and lucy are my friends because we're on the cheerleading squad together, but they're my friends for more than just that. they both can be really sweet and nice, and they give really good advice. they're always there for their friends and i think that is awesome. ben's been my neighbor since forever and he's my friend! he drives me to school most days and sometimes we go get ice cream cones and eat them on the way back.

oh my goodness, who else? ryan! ryan is a very good friend! he's on the track team and he's always cheerful and wants to make sure that people are all right. i'm really glad he's my friend. jules is such a sweet person! she has really good ideas and always listens to people. steven is REALLY cute and always nice - and smart! it was really great how he and tony did all of that work to make sure that cindy rella was the actual prom queen because jen macbeth was so horrible.

doc dale at the vet clinic is super sweet and last week he let me help deliver a litter of kittens - they were SO tiny and cute! he's very encouraging and listens really well, too. he told me that if i continue to do as well as i am in my classes and work really hard, i'll be sure to get into vet school someday. he's very encouraging to me, and always has been.

so those are just a few of my friends! i feel really bad because i couldn't name everyone like tessa and claire and dante and andy!

oh my gosh, i completely forgot to say YAY for the dance team! i didn't get to go to the competition last night because i had to study like CRAZY for the chemistry exam today, but i was there in spirit tara, fee, and tessa, and everyone else! i really wish i could have been there because i KNOW that it would have been awesome to see!

and now you're going to STATE and i'll totally be there to cheer you on!

i'm really sad now that i have to choose between soccer and track on friday. it's definitely not fair. anyway, i have to go study more for the statistics exam tomorrow. chemistry wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be but that probably just means i failed it. and then thursday is environmental science and that is definitely going to kill me. thank goodness i'm done with ap exams after this week.

i think i'm the only person in the WORLD from apple creek who is awake. it's like my buddy list is just DEAD. anyway, prom was really fun last night. everyone looked so pretty, it was like a rainbow! which makes sense, you know, because it's been raining so much and then the sun came out for a little while yesterday. so we were the world's rainbow for a little while. or at least apple creek's. that's a pretty thought.

YESTERDAY WAS RYAN PARISH'S BIRTHDAY! happy belated birthday, ryan! i have a card and a present for you, but i'll give them to you when i see you!

okay, i'm going to go lay down for a little while. i didn't get NEARLY enough sleep and i need to be able to concentrate to study for my exams this week. oh my gosh, i'm NERVOUS!

i just need to say again that all the girls looked so pretty. it's like we were all princesses for a night, and the boys were prince charming. okay, naptime FOR REAL now. and add me to your buddy lists! i was inspired just now to get a new one so i'm trix are for kids. because trix are colorful.

byyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeee! <3!

( The Dorothy Gale for Apple Creek )