hey!!! sorry i haven't been updating for a really loooong time. went on choir camp and had a blast!!! ate lots of bread (as most of you know) and got attacked by bugs. :P but it was most certainly fun!!! :D hope everybody'll have a great time at choir camp this year... too bad i'm not gonna be in ensemble. MUST. TAKE. PICS. OF. CROSS-DRESSING. DAY. (heehee seeing all the guys dressed up as girls is hilarious!!!)

well then i went to italy (rome and venice) AND HAD GELATO!!!!!! mmm mmm goood! had a great time with my cousin and running around. hehe we actually went down to the front desk in our hotel robes and slippers to ask for tape xDD a day after we got back, i flew to LA and had my wonderful week at PSAT camp at UCLA. woot!!! met sooo many new people and my roommates rocked! we stayed up late on the last night and pigged out on chips and candy (and spent about 4 hours packing where barely anything got packed xD i had to rush pack the last 10 minutes of camp while my mom was waiting in the lobby hehe whoooops XP)

rested for a week. well kinda cuz my cousins came over for nonstop sleepovers. we all had to cook dinner almost every night and we baked cookies!!! :D it was pretty... special lol what with four kids running around the kitchen trying very hard not to kill dinner but kinda doing so anywayz (the spaghetti didn't come out TOO bad even tho i took it out too soon and the ends weren't cooked. let's just say it was VERY "al dente" (sp) ^^)

just last week i attended a robotics camp (WOOT!!! i feel nerdy) and it was actually really fun! my team won yay!!! newayz there are pics somewhere online... dunno where (i'll have to check later) and now i've been CLEANING MY ROOM!!!! (oh the horror!! O.O) i worked quite a long time today (and altho it looks like it got messier, don't worry. i'm sure it'll be clean by the end of the week XD) i actually spent an hour moving all my nonschool books to my other bookshelf across the room. everything was in a double rows and alphabetical order in each section (manga, dvds, misc, series, fiction). after i finished i bent down to pick something up from beside me and BAM!!! my bookshelf shelf falls and all my books (including the harry potter series) land on my foot... -________-;; *sniff* all my hard work gone to waste (stupid bookshelf *waves fist*) aand my foot gets squished :P i was in shock for about half an hour. in shock = me standing there + staring at my books + mouth open + for 10 minutes + scooting away + pouting like my fave stuffed animal got taken away + running to my mommy :'( + we all laughed (*sniff* BUT STILL!!!!) LMAO newayz it was special. i think i'll just buy a new bookshelf.... and i will MAKE SURE IT IS VERY VERY VERY STABLE!!!!! :P

i hope you're all enjoying yourselves. yes, school is just around the river bend!! (pocahontas... just popped into my head xD) and we should all get-together :D

~erica~

p.s. i still haven't seen HP D: i need to find somebody to go with me before it disappears from theatres unless it already has. must see must see must see!!!!!! yeaaa you guys are in utter disbelief that i haven't seen it yet :P well i will, i telll you, i will!!!

p.p.s. <3 you all :)