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well right now its currently 1:31 am and i am super tired.."why don't you go to bed" you might ask...i can't i have to stay awake because in an hour and a half i have to leave to Decorah (a 3 and a half hr drive) for a mock trial tounement...no one is awake and i am just sitting here being extreemly bored thinkin ok could have slept a little longer bcuz it didn't take me as long to get ready.......well blah blah blah...thats bout it..................

im not sure who all reads this blog but i just thought that id post pictures of me in my younger years on here so that ya'll can see how cute i used to be..i honestly dont know what happend...ne wayz this blog is called "Christina @ College" so i figured its time i actually write about college. college isnt has hard as some people make it out to be but its no peice of cake either. you have to work hard, study hard and do the homework your assigned to do well in class. if you actually try then college can be a great experince...so far my problem is that im to social. i like to talk to people so im never in my room...i also find it hard to study during the day or in the evening because there are so many people in the dorm that the noise distracts me so i never end up studing until after 12 or 1 when half the dorm is asleep including my room mate...so i sit in the den with my books reading about geology, politics, any number of topics for my english class and i just study...i often loose track of time and i dont end up going to bed until 3 or 4 in the morning but i dont have my first class until 11 so its ok...i have the worst sleeping pattern and i find it hard to fall asleep if its b4 2 am...i tried to go to bed at 11:30 last night so that for once id get a good nights sleep..but i laid there for 2/1/2 hours thinking why cant i sleep...i think that from now on im just going to have to get in bed at 11 and just lay there until i fall asleep and eventually my sleeping pattern will go back to normal (well i hope it will at least)

ne way i joined the mock trial team here at college and it is a lot of fun..its hard work but during practice when the case all comes together its amazing..right now i play the victim but i dont wanna go into to much detail because i think every mock trial team has the same case and if for some reason this blog is read by the wrong person our team will still be ok... ne way my team mates are really nice and i think that on saturday ( our first tournement) we'll do pretty well...im exctied..the only thing is that we're leaving at 3 in the morning and i cant decide if it would be better for me to get in bed at 8 and try to sleep until 2 then get ready or if i should just stay up all nite...hmmm its kind of a hard decision but i think im gonna go with the get as much sleep as i can then get up at 2 to get ready...but im gonna talk to some of the other people on the team tonight to see what they're gonna do and then base my final decision on that... well im gonna stop writing now but ill add more to this later...and ill try to keep my blogs about college...being as that it called "Christina @ College"

Prom

prom 2005 (megan, me, jessy- holding kendale)
prom 2004 (jennifer, megan, kendale, jessy, and me)

family pictures

fam pic summer 2005
fam pic summer 2001
fam pic summer 1998
me tricia ashley and the lil girl we went to visit
me mom tricia aunt cheryl and edan (aunt cheryls daughter)

more pictures of me in my younger years

me at the beach in hawaii
me on my bed...
me at the dinner table in the process of signin I love you
me and my aunt cheryl at my grandpas fan shop
me ... haha wow look at that face

pictures of me as a lil kid!!!

me and my grandma JoAnn and grandpa Bob at my moms wedding
me in the tub..
me at christmas
me on the slide
me doin the hula in hawaii before we moved to iowa

me and parts of my family

me jennifer and tricia...
me mom tricia and jennifer
me tricia and jennifer
me jennifer and tricia

well school is kinda like wow....i really am wondering whether im gonna pass this one class and im gonna talk to the teacher today bcuz if there's no way i can pass then im goin to drop the class and re-take it next semester with a different teacher...well so yea... i prolly better get to class so as that i can do semi well on this test that i have to take...

time to move on

so...i have been sittin 'round waiting and hopin that me and eric would get back together but now i just dont care..i am ready to move on and boy i tell ya college boys are HOTT! well just thought id say that so people who read this dont think that im still waiting for some guy who obviously wants some other girl..but then again he keeps goin back and forth but i am not up for that so he can just stick with her...

my life...

um kay..so i still like him..i cant help it...there is no chance of us getting back together and yet my heart wont let go...what is wrong with me..i need to get over him and move on to someone else...life isnt fair.. :( well thats bout it for now bcuz i have to get up in 5 hrs and sleep is good...

life..

Ok so im in college now and i have the great oppertunity to decide what i want to do with the rest of my life. It is a hard thing to...i want to do so many things that i think i would love one day and hate the next..i want to become a childrens activist lawyer or a social worker so that i can help all the kid who could have a better life. I want all children to be able to grow up in a loving and happy environment. I want all kids to grow up with the same opportunities..and yet..im not sure if i will ever go after one of those careers bcuz i know that i cant help (save) everyone and i dont know if i'd be able to sleep at nite knowing that if maybe i would have done something different one more child would be living in a better situation.

A freind asked me what i want. I dont know what i want. I want there to me no more fighting. I want world peace. I want to get rid of drama. I want to grow up and have a family of my own one day. I want to fall in love and have an amazing life and yet i dont know if that will ever happend bcuz im scared to let my self fall in love ever agian bcuz i dont want to be hurt like i was EVER agian. I want to graduate from college and know exactly what i want from life...

love..

UMkay..so i know that love is an important part of life..if you know me then you've heard me say that i dont believe in falling in love. Well, that is a load of crap. I have found out that love does exist you just have to willing to put your self at risk. You have to be willing to get hurt. You have to trust that person. I hate that. People should be able to fall in love and not have to worry about getting smushed like a bug. I was told to trust him or it was never goin to work out. So i trusted him. The first time in my life when i cared so much. B4 i just didnt care bcuz what was the point, i didnt believe in love so it didnt matter. I guess that ppl say its better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all. But man i tell ya..it sux. I dont know if its worth the pain. I'll admit love is a great feeling..i dont know how to expain it...idk if it was even true love or just like silly puppy love but man it hurt when...i dont even know what happened...I've decided life is complicated and maybe ill just stick with the safe side..to not get to attached so that i dont ever have to feel this (that) way ever again..but then mabye im not living a whole life..im not sure...ill have to think about this and let ya'll know later...

this past summer at clearwater beach in florida

So these are some REAL bad pictues of me that i found posted on my sisters picture thing and well being as that they are of me i thought that id let ya'll see how fat i looked this summer...this is me at clearwater beach in florida.
me and my sister tricia at clearwater beach in florida..im on the board shes pullin me
me and my sister tricia again...
this was taken when i wasnt ready i was puttin on more sun screen which didnt really help bcuz i burt ne wayz bcuz the sand was white and the water was clear and the clouds did a really sucky job of coverin the sun so it just wow...it was bad...but it could have been worse...ne wayz..

duck tape challenge

ripping off the duck tape (not so much fun :( ) 

duck tape challenge

me taped to the brick wall 

duck tape challenge

me being held up against the wall 

duck tape challenge

one arm done 

this is me getting ready to be taped to the wall for the linden olympics duck tape challenge 

sarah the room mate...

this is sarah shes my room mate..shes really nice shes just not smiling in this picture 

college..

ummmkay...so college is goin great...but the other nite i found my self in the hospital (not to worry i'll be ok) and yea ne wayz i have a kidney infection (i dont even know how u get a kidney infection) ne wayz i was there for four hours and they gave me an iv, took some blood and sent me home with some pills so yea...well im super tired so thats bout it for now...