A New Chapter. . .

     And no, I don't mean a new chapter in one of my stories.  This is a new chapter of my life.

     Evening, everyone.  Well, I am officially an high school alumni, now.  Graduation was Sunday (May 6) and I am so glad it's over, just not for the reason you'd think.  I'm glad it's over because the days leading up to it were so stressful and emotion-boggling that I'm still feeling the effects of it.  Ugh.  So.  Much.  Drama.  It's true, I am glad to be out of high school, but only a little.  In truth, most of me didn't want to graduate.  For one, I had just gotten to know some people I hadn't taken the time to get to know before, and now, all of a sudden, I don't have the time I want to get to know them even better.  It's rather sad, and I'm going to miss them.  In the course of my senior year, I made some new friends, and sadly, lost some that I thought I'd be friends with forever.  Graduation really is the ultimate friendship-tester.

     My sister made me a beautiful scrapbook for my graduation gift.  And get this: she made it out of brown paper bags.  It is very, shall we say, interactive; it's got pockets, and little flip-opens inside, with gift cards in little homemade envelopes, CD's, and pictures hidden everywhere.  It's so awesome, and she'd been working on it since January.  Talk about love.  Here are some pictures:

     Those are all the pages, in order.  Isn't that awesome?!  I love it!

     So, the one person I was hoping would come to my reception, didn't come.  I don't think he even came to graduation.  I was disappointed, because I was hoping that him coming would signal the end to this ridiculous silence that has been between us for almost two years.  He did add me back on Facebook, today, though.  Better than where we were, I guess. 


     I know that there was more stuff I wanted to talk about, but I just can't remember at the moment.  So here are some pics from graduation:

My entire class; I'm in the front, fourth from the right.

Me and my older sis

   

Me and my mom

Me and my bro-in-law

Walking down.  From left to right: Me, James, and Meriam

The five of us, from left to right: Kayla, Meriam, Anna, Me, Sarah

     Until I remember what else I was going to tell you:

This is Maximum Sunshine, signing off.  Αντίο και ο Θεός ταχύτητας.