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me: Hey Candis!

Candis: Kimerly?! LUH YOU! (is it wrong to never want the days of "Kimerly" to end? Or the days of "luh"?)

me: Love you too. What are you doing?

Candis: ummmmm playin'.

me: That's cool. How's Florida?

Candis: BYEEE!!

me: Ok, you're done?

Candis: No! (I can totally see the smile on her face at this point. Her big cheese-face.)

me: How's Florida? Is it hot there?

Candis: No. It's good. Uh-oh.

me: What uh-oh?

Candis: Uh-oh! Uh-oh!

me: What happened, Candis?

Candis: Dog uh-oh!

me: You have a doggy now? That's really cool.

Candis: Yeah. Bye!

me: Ok, bye Candis. It was good to talk to you again.

Candis: Yeah... Miss you, Kimerly. Miss you.

me: I miss you too, Candis.

Candis: All done now.

me: Ok, bye Candis.

Candis: I Luh you! Luh you and miss you!

me: I love you and miss you too, Candis. Bye.

Candis: Talk to you soon, kay?

me: Ok.

Candis: BYEEE KIMERLYYY!!!

And at that point, she was done talking. She wanted to go back to playing with her toys. For her birthday, back in March, I got her a pink shirt with a matching pink hat and an adorable pair of little blue jeans, and her mom says that she loves the hat; she wears it a lot. :)

The End of the World?

(This post was originally going to be a youtube video, but my camera is dead and I don't feel like waiting for it to charge. So I figured I'd just type up what I was going to say.)

Ok, so supposedly the world is going to end (or something like that, anyway) tomorrow. Just in case you were worried, IT'S NOT GOING TO.

The world was going to end in 1994. It didn't.

The world was going to end in 2000. It didn't.

The world was going to end June 6, 2006. It didn't.

The world is supposed to end December 21, 2012. It won't.

The world is supposed to end tomorrow. It won't.

People seem to have the fascination with the world ending. It's really ridiculous, and it's getting quite old. It's to the point where it's almost boring, really. I mean, "oh the world's going to end? Again?" Right?!

But anyways. This thing with the world ending tomorrow. It's the really religious people who think that, right? I'm not a religious person. At all. I don't like religion. But I'm not one of those people who are like "People shouldn't be religious! Religion is stupid! Blah blah blah." That's not me. I'm more like "Ok, cool." Just don't try to force your beliefs on me. That WILL make me not like you. But anyway, I'm kind of rambling on.

If you don't care why I don't like religion, just skip over this whole paragraph. But, if you want to know why I don't like it, here ya go: weren't there a lot of wars and stuff caused because of people's different religions? And people couldn't accept the other people's religion? Like... I wasn't exactly one who paid attention in history, because that class was SO BORING to me, but weren't the crusades a religious thing? And they were really bad, right? And even on the internet, people will fight over religion. But anyway. Religion (more specifically: people who are EXTREMISTS in their religion) is kind of like... Ok, it's cool you've got something to believe in, but there's people who take it way too far. People who don't take credit for their own actions because they didn't do anything on their own accord because God (or whatever other higher being) made them do it. They did it because God wanted them to, or some other nonsense like that. And the people who think that their religion is the best/right/whatever religion and who look down on people with other religions. And people who hide behind their religion, saying things like that being gay or whatever isn't right because God said so in the bible. And people who believe in Heaven or whatever because of their religion, I feel like it's just because they're so scared of death and dying, that they want there to be something else. And I mean... I'm not religious, I said that already, but I kind of think there might be something more after this, but I don't know. I don't think anyone really knows. I want there to be. But I don't think it's Heaven or Hell or whatever; I think it's more a reincarnation thing. But that's just me.

Ok, so back to the world ending. It's not going to end. And tomorrow night, when we're all still here, I (and every one else saying that this is all BS) get to say that we told you so. It's really really ridiculous to think it's going to. I mean, one day, it might. And at the rate we (the human race) are using up all our non-renewable resources (I think that's what they're called?) and polluting the Earth, and destroying our planet for the future generations, at the rate we're going, it'll probably end sooner rather than later. But not tomorrow. Not December 21st next year. Not any time really soon.

If the world ends before I see Taylor Swift in concert, I'll be pissed.

A Million Views for Connie!

I think a good way to start off this post is to wish a huge congratulations to Connie Talbot. Why? Because... check out the view count on her “Someone Like You” cover.

The view count on the video page hasn’t updated yet, but look at the view count on the search page.

I really hope that screen shot shows up big enough to see it clearly. But if it doesn't, it's showing the current view-count at 1,001,738 views. CLICK HERE to see it, if you want to.

That's over 1,000,000 views. One million views. One million. And that's something special. I know there's people out there who will say "it's only special because she's 10" or some other nonsense like that. But it's not "just because" she's ten years old that this is impressive; it's an impressive number for anyone, at any age.

But, keeping her age in mind, how many other 10 year olds have over a million hits on one of their videos? Willow Smith and Jackie Evancho are the only two who come to mind. But neither of them have had a simple home video, recorded just for fun, hit the million mark yet.

This isn't the first Connie video to go over a million views. Her audition video for Britain's Got Talent, on the channel behindthesecret, has nearly a hundred million views. And there's a video of her singing "I Will Always Love You" on a channel called XDeathLoRdz with over 27 million views. But this is the first video on Connie's own, official, youtube channel to hit a million. And it's just a simple home recording. It's not a song she recorded in a studio. It wasn't an appearance on a television show. It wasn't a concert. It was Connie singing at home in a hallway by the staircase. And that's what makes it special - the fact that it's a nice, simple, home video that the Talbot family decided to share with the world.

Thank you to the Talbot's for posting that video. Thank you, Connie, for singing that song. Thank you, all of Connie's fans and everyone who watched the video and passed it along, for doing just that. And, again, congratulations on a million, Connie. We're all here supporting you, and it'll be no time at all before we're celebrating another million milestone!

Pictures :)

These pictures... these pictures, right here... I took them. Yesterday. In my grandma's yard. :)

The first one says "Don't be afraid to make a wish on the seeds of a dandelion." and the second (which personally, I like better) says "Dream with your eyes open."

And, this is really random, but do you guys know who Jessie J is? If not, go look her up on youtube. She is FANTASTIC. Anyways, I freaking LOVE her voice. And her songs. Like, I first heard her song "Do It Like A Dude" and I didn't really like it that much, but it grew on me sooo fast, and I kinda love it now. But her songs "Rainbow," "Nobody's Perfect," "Price Tag," and "L.O.V.E"... I love them. Like... LOVE. A lot.

Also, Cody Simpson's song "All Day" is amazing.

Oh, and!!! Today was my last Monday at school for the semester!!! I just have tomorrow and Wednesday, and then I'm DONE here! It's so surreal to think that I've been done with high school for two years, that I've been in college for nearly two years now. It's crazy.

Dear you, from me

Dear Candis,

I know you'll never read this because 1) you're two and most likely can't read yet; I don't know many (or, any, actually) two-years olds who can and 2) because even if you could read, I probably wouldn't show you this. But I want to write it anyway.

Anyways, Candis, you have no idea how much I miss you living at the apartment. I miss you. Your aunt misses you. TT misses you. Grammy and Nanny miss you. Brother misses you. Daddy misses you. I think you get the point; everyone here misses you so much. I know you're still little, and people think that you won't miss everyone here because you're so little that you'll probably forget us. But I know you won't. Remember when you and mommy and daddy moved to West Virginia for a few months? I missed you then too, and I was scared that you would forget me... but when you guys came back, you still knew who I was. And that made me so happy.

I don't know if this will ever be like that again, because I don't know if you and mommy are ever moving back to New York again, but I know that you still miss me. I have tears in my eyes right now, writing this. I don't want to cry, but I am. And I'm sorry about that. But anyway. When your aunt called mommy the other day so I could talk to you, I could tell that you missed me and still knew who I was. Two of the first words you said to me on the phone that day were "luh you!" (love you!).

I miss you so so so much, Candis. It hurts, how much I miss you. I feel like a part of me is gone. People say that I don't miss you like your family does, but I know I do. I know I miss you just as much as they do because family is the ones who are there for you no matter what. No, we're not related, but you're still my family. I wish that things were better here. I wish things were ok. I wish you and mommy had never left. I wish you and mommy could come back someday. You were such a big part of my life for so long. I knew when you guys left that I would cry and be upset and angry. I knew I would miss you. But I thought that as time went by, I might miss you guys less. But I don't. Miss you any less, that is.

I wish nothing but the best for you and for mommy. I hope that things are ok for you guys now; I hope everything is better than when you were up here. You're growing up so fast, and I hate missing out on it. But I know that things weren't the greatest for you and mommy here. I just hope they're better there.

When the "Surprised Kitty" video shows up in my suggestions box on youtube, I think about watching that video with you and TT, and your adorable "one more!" every time the video ended. Or that time when you told Grammy that you didn't want to go to McDonalds because you wanted to stay with your "Kimery," and TT said to me, "Candis likes you more than McDonalds." Or how about when I told you that you're too dang cute for your own good, and your response of "I know." Do you remember when you and TT "decorated" my laptop with your new stickers of Dora and Tinkerbell? I still have those stickers on my laptop. I'm not ever going to take them off.

I miss hearing your laugh and keeping an eye on you and TT when you guys played together. I miss you telling me you didn't want me to leave when it came time for you to go to bed and me to go back upstairs to my house. I miss being able to stop you from crying just by giving you a hug. I miss you walking over to me, putting your arms up and telling me you wanted "uppy" to get me to pick you up. I miss playing Ring Around The Rosie with you and brother and TT. I miss you always wanting to wear my sweatshirts because you liked that they had hoods, and I miss you wanting to walk about in my shoes all the time! I even miss when you and TT (and sometimes even brother) would make a mess with the toys and the DVDs and everything, and me being the one to clean it up.

This is getting long, so I'll wrap it up here. I know it's dumb, but you have no idea how much I wish that I could wake up in the morning and find out that it had all been a bad dream, and that you and mommy never actually left. I can't believe that on the 21st of this month, it will have been 3 months since you guys left! Time really did fly by so fast for me. You have to know that I was busy with school and everything, but I never once stopped missing you. You are such a smart little girl, and you're so special. Don't let anyone every make you think otherwise, ok? Promise me that no matter what happens in life, you're going to stay the sweet, silly, lovable, adorable person you are. Don't try to grow up so fast; you're only a kid once.

I miss you so freaking much, Candis. There's not even words. I hope you're doing good. I hope you and mommy are happy. I miss you, but I want what's best for you and I know that what's best isn't here. Not right now, anyway.

Love your Kimberly.

One down, 4 to go!

Intercultural Communications? DONE! The final was tonight, and it was A LOT easier than I was expecting it to be, but that could have been because Christina and I studied for it for quite a while beforehand. Whatever the reason was, I'm just happy it wasn't that hard. :)

So now, this is what I have left:

American Lit - 3 classes left, but two of them are when we're taking our final and then we're not really doing anything the last class.

Public Communication - 3 classes left, but I think we only have to go to two of them. I give my last speech in that class tomorrow!

English Lit - 3 classes left, well 2 and a final.

Educational Psych - 2 classes left, but I think we only have to go to one. I'm not entirely sure about that.

I can NOT believe that the semester is pretty much over already!! Where the HECK did the time go?! It seriously flew by so ridiculously fast. And I have my schedule already made for the Fall semester, so I'm happy about that. I just... can't believe... this semester is nearly finished. That's insane!