Wow!!! Has it been a while!! It seems like forever since I've been on here. Finals are next week and most students up here are stressing but as usual I could care less. NOthing has really happened because nothing exciting ever happens in Neosho MO. Life has been taken over by practices, more practices, and then games. But most of the time practice is a lot of the same thing so I find myself being bored and finding strange ways to entertain myself. We are currently 7-4. Which I have found it difficult to lose a lot. Considering we only lost three games last year. But then again I was playing with my home girls - The Lady Antlers! Things were a little rough and I still have those days but I have finally got used to not being around a bunch of crazy cats! A.K.A. My friends! I am still unsure if I will come back here next year. I don't think any of the girls are coming back except for maybe 1 or 2. People in Mo are a lot different and sane and I dont like it. I like the crazyness and unexpected events that my friends were always full of. I am slowly learning to live without those moments. I'm not a big fan. I miss you guys like crazy. I always knew I loved you guys but now that I rarely see you, I have realized how unbelievably much I really do love you guys. Sorry I haven't posted in months. My xanga thing is kinda screwed up and it makes it really hard to type b/c if you mess up and backspace it takes it forever to respond. Ahhh Facebook may have a little to do with it as well.

This is me and the basketball girls on our first snow! The Brazilians have never seen snow before so they were really excited. They oved it but said they wished it wasn't so cold.

We stayed up until like 4 a.m. to pack the baseball guys's door shut. Then the first house we were did one of the guys comes out and is like what are ya'll doin. He was playing the playstation at four O'clock in the morning by himself. So we didn't get to do their house but they helped us do the other baseball boy's house. They couldn't get out the next morning. They had to call an RA to come dig them out. Denise the brazilian was in one of the houses and she had to climb through the window at like 6 in the morning. It was pretty funny. Except when we played a few days later and they packed us outta our house . We came back from playing a hard game and had to dig ourselves in.

It hurts to move. I am so sore from this stinkin boot camp that we call Crowder pre-season. The good thing is I absolutely love it. I love being sore, I love not being able to move with out complaining about it, I love all the blisters on my feet, I love all the bruises that are covering my body, I love getting up at 5:30 a.m. to lift weights, do an ab workout, attempt to do pushups, and run a little, I love trying to keep my eyes open in class because I am so tired, I love running 4 sets of 16’s frontward and backward, I love running suicides and up and backs, I love running when I miss a free throw, I love the way my legs feel like jello after practice, I love getting cramps in my legs cause I’ve never ran so much in my life, I love doing stations, I love scrimmaging, I love the four hour study hall’s, I love going to bed after midnight wishing I would have gone to sleep because I gotta get up early, I love it!

Anywho enough about love. i shaved my legs with my shoes on the other day. I thought that was kinda strange.

So after we took these pictures on here this last time, we had it bleached another time to make it actually blonde and not yellow, red, orange. I don't real have anything exciting to say because people up here have a different way of having fun and welll it's called lamoooo!!!! So I have to control my crazy side or I'll get beat up. I'm gonna break them in slowly cause they don't know how to have fun.

So for those of you who seen me this past weekend know I dyed the bottom layer of my hair blonde. Well Tabatha and I decided that wasn't enough so we bleached our hair. All of it.

Yeah we know it looks horrible but it's all part of the crazy game we play.

What's poppin peeps? School is awesome. I love it! WE just got our Brazil girls here today. One of them speaks a little English and the other hasn't a clue. So we've been like playing charades to communicate the whole day. The girls laugh everytime they say my name because they pronounce it merlena. In porchagues that means Lesbian. So they crack up everytime they see me. They seem cool though. I think I might actually have my schedule fixed now. I've met like every teacher on campus because coach C. has changed my classes everyday. i have a three hour golfing class with coach Green. anywho this xanga is not working so hott so I'll settle for short this time.

later vanillas

Aunt Thelma just fixed me lunch. Tacos! For those of you who have ate my Aunti's cooking know why it is important that I share this with xanga and if you haven't it sucks to be you!

Just got back from Branson last night. It was a good time.

I returned home to see my baby was back. My little Cougar had to go to the Doctor. I've been driving this huge Chevy  Equinox for a while. It was really nice. Usually I don't like big rigs like that because they don't take curves well and they shut down at 105mph. This one takes curves pretty darn good and well it doesn't shut down at 105mph. My car hydroplains pretty easily and I thought since this thing was huge then it wouldn't so it's raining and I purposely try to hydroplain and well it does hydroplain just as easily as my Cougar. The dealership said that I was driving way to fast and that is why my car keeps tearing up and I change tires so often. I told mom they shouldn't make the speedometer say 160mph unless it is okay for me to go that fast. Apparently I've really screwed over my car and got it all out of whack and it was just by the grace of God that I hadn't lost control with all the mess it's in. Mom says I have to learn to control my need for speed. I say if it kills me at least die fast.

I'm counting down the days until college. I can't wait to get out of Arkansas! I only wish Crowder was more than 3 hours away.