well today is wednesday November 30, 2005. I am wearing my american eagle jeans (faves) a long sleeve green gap shirt, a sheer pink sweater with clasps on the front, my brown shoes with the pink bows, and my hair is up. my hair is now long enough to get into a ponytail and i put bobby pins it to make stick out cute. i have on my dangley silver earings that like swirl and i have my rings back on. i wear two rings all the time. one of them is silver and its a pinky ring. its actually my best friend hopes. you see, she went to gordon last fall and one day like right after we got back from christmas break, she came to school and told that she was leaving and going to covenant college in north georgia. it was tuesday when she told me and she was leaving saturday. i was very sad, needless to say, because we did everything together and talked on the phone all the time, and i was just sad. so before she left she gave me her pinky ring and i wear it all the time like a friendship ring. she's still at covenant. and now i'm gordon. but hopefully i'll be up there too in next fall, if everything works out. i wear another ring my fourth finger of my right hand. my parents gave it to me on my thirteenth birthday. its gold and it has an amythest heart in it. its a promise ring. so i alwayz wear those. i have a nervous habit of playing with my rings when i'm nervous, so i take them off when i have to give speeches and stuff so i don't play when my rings the entire time and get counted off for 'distracting mannerisms.'

i had to give a speech last night, so i took my rings off and left them at home, but they're back on now. my speech was on the importance of reading to your children. it was a really good speech. i practiced it like three times to myself in the mirror and i didn't know how well it was going to go, but it ended up great. i was really happy. i didn't even really have to look at my outline, i just remembered everything and just talked to the class and my teacher said that it was 'beautifully done' and she said that i would excel at anything i tried to do and that if i wanted to a teacher or something that involved public speaking i would be good, but that i would do well at everything. i was happy. :) and i even convinced nora, one of my friends in the class who has children, to read to her kids. i sat down and she was like 'i'm going to read to my kids more now. i already read to them some, but im going to set out like half an hour every day to reaad to them.' i was happy about that too, because it was a pursuasive speech and i persuaded her :). ok i have to go teach piano now. bbl