This week's Friday Five

When was the last time you...

1. ...sent a handwritten letter? A few months ago. I keep writing them and then forgetting to msil them, so I have all these out of date letters piling up. It wouldn't hurt to get one to motivate me(hint hint, Alicia).

2. ...baked something from scratch or made something by hand? I don't cook or bake, but I did make a cake from a package. As for hand made, I constructed some displays for the store.

3. ...camped in a tent? Summer of 1998, I think. I don't like to camp, but we went to the Yukon and it was kinda fun.

4. ...volunteered your time to church, school, or community? *Hides gulitily* I just don't have time. I was planning to volonteer as a crisis counsellor, but then my life spun out of control.

5. ...helped a stranger? I help people at work everyday... I also gave this girl the dollar she needed for the bus.

posted by Justine 3:33 PM

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Okay, Blooger is being a bitch. The link for Savannah Stories is http://www.geocitites.com/Savannah_stories so I hope this works.

posted by Justine 7:56 PM

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I'm chatting with my girl Ashleigh and I realized that I need to post this link! She's in the UK and I miss her, so to show her I still love her, her link gets posted. This is the portal to her website, Savannah Stories. It's based on the boys of the Society(some more then others) and it"s a riot. It may be funnier to us, but take a look anyway. To my pride, I'm making an appearance in on story later on. I begged Ash for months to let me be a char and now I can't wait to see what she writes.

posted by Justine 2:45 AM

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Sentance of the Day has now become Fun Sentance of the Whatever. To kick start this new idea, may I present the first Fun Sentance of the Whatever!

"The vamp look is great... but maybe you should try a lighter colour," Adi, my co-worker and friend, tactfully dissing my makeup.

posted by Justine 12:48 AM

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Okay, so it's 2:15am and I can't sleep. I've been thinking about High School alot lately, mostly 'cause last year at this time, I was graduating from grade 12. Two of my roommates are moving out come Sept. They are two of the four of us 'Society' members who moved in last September. The Society was/is the name of our group of friends from high school. Chris moved out in May and Heather and Logan are leaving in Sept, which leaves me.

It's funny, because since moving out to Vancouver from Delta, I've become more of a seperate entity. I stay at The House six or seven days a week, I visit my parents as little as possible and because of my rehersal schedule and working full-time, I rarely see my Delta friends. Don't get me wrong, I love my friends and miss them a lot, but we just seem to be drifting apart. Heather, Logan and Chris went home every weekend and some days off.

You have to know the back story to see where I'm coming from. In grade 11 it was me and the boys: my best friend Joe along with Keith, Noah, Logan, Navin, Anil and Chris. We made up the core group. Where ever we went, it was me and the boys. Slowly, we aquired new people. When she broke up with her boyfriend, my friend Heather came back. Jon, Chris N, Imalka, and a few others joined. During gr. 12, the lunch group swelled to between 10 and 15 people at any given time. We aquired the name The Society. Through all this, I was a core member. Pivotal(I like to think), I was The Girl and I clung to that, even as Kim, Jenni and other girlfriends joined us. I asserted my strength by protecting the other girls and beating up the boys(or trying). I was always involved with everything. After grad, the summer between high school and university, was the best summer. We spent all of it out late, driving and hanging out and getting closer. When Heather, Logan and Chris announced they were moving on out, I eagerly joined up. I don't think they thought I could do it. I was a slacker in school, planning, but never doing. But I wanted this. So it did it. I got a job in Vancouver and made enough for a deposit and rent.

When Heather, Logan, Chris and I moved into The House, we were a unit. Mike, Matt and Fraser were the others. But, as I started to work and they were in school, we started to pull away. Their lives were a more hectic version of high school(in my eyes) and mine was completely different from school. Even I was a bit different. I wasn't as angry or violent and I spent more time with Mike and Matt. I could just relate a a bit better. Then Chris left. He had been spending more time in Delta and decided to get a job there. He moved back in with his parents to save money for school. Until today, I hadn't seen Jon in two months. Until yesterday, I hadn't seen Noah in weeks. I haven't even talked to Joe or Keith or any of the others since our party Apr. 27th. A few weeks ago Logan and Heather went to Amber(Joe's girlfriend)'s place for an informal party. I didn't get asked or even mentioned about it before I said 'Hey, where ya going'. It hurt, but it also showed how our lives have revolved out of the same orbit. I wasn"t really a member of the Society. Sure, I still have my membership, but it's more an honerary than anything else. Once Heather and Logan leave, I"m probably not going to see anyone anymore. People mostly stopped by to see Logan and Heather anyway.

I feel like I have a seperate identity now, not just Justine-from-the-Society. I'm becoming a person seperate to some of my friends and as much as it hurts, it's a person I have to become. I spend my evenings on the couch with Mike, Matt and new Kris, or going to the bar with Mike and his friends. I feel like that, because they really didn't know Justine-from-the-Society, I can be the person I'm becoming and not worry about how different she is from the old one.

But, it still hurts.

posted by Justine 2:43 AM

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because i thought this picture was pretty, laura of mewing.net told me this: "you enjoy sitcoms, popcorn, horses, and perhaps surfboarding. you lost your virginity either very early (under the age of eleven) or very late (over the age of thirty). you take politics and religion very seriously, and when you were a kid, you had a penchant for getting lost in shopping malls and/or amusement parks. your favorite color is most likely blue or green, and you are terrified of spiders."
whatever will laura tell you??


Well, that's interesting.

posted by Justine 6:46 PM

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Well, I like this one.

posted by Justine 6:32 PM

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