06/19/87 Graduated High School!

6/19/1987

I did it! I graduated. All these months I've been waiting and out of nowhere it is here! I don't even know where to begin. i probably don't even remember it all!

Saturday Joel, Andrea, Brian and I went down to the beach. It was cloudy and a little chilly but we had great fun anyway. We went to Joel's beach house and ate lunch and then played volleyball on the beach, went in the water, took an ultra long walk, played games, let a toilet flush for half hour and then ate out.

It was the last time I got to see Andrea. She went to Girl's State and won't be back. It was really special. I never realized how much people cared until recently.

Tuesday I had my last back appointment so Monday and Tuesday I did a swim workout.

I called Andy and talked to him for a few minutes one night. I've gotten to see Karen loads this week which was great.

I went to wiffle ball at church on Tuesday and played my final YM/YW game! Wednesday Tonya came from down south. She stayed until today. We went to Relief Society.

Thursday was packed with Graduation practice and Graduation.

After school Chuckie, Dina, Joel, Tonya, Eugene and me went to have pizza together. We talked about old times and people and places and the future. It was a very happy time. In fact, graduation was really happy for me. I'm so exciting to me moving on! I don't feel a loss. I know they'll all be there for me if I need them. I was really surprised at how upset some people were.

Mike Fanelli's even seemed a little upset that I was going. Brian Rappa surprise me with the kiss I never got after the prom. Don kissed me goodbye and Time, Joel and Mike just gave me a huge hug. Tammy and Karen and I did real well and none of us cried. I'm not sad though. Not now. Of course the party ended at 1:30 a.m. and it took me until 3 a.m. to load my suitcase. After 3 hours of sleep and writing all my thank you notes I'm still surviving. Hopefully after I transfer I'll get a little sleep. I'm really excited about getting to Utah though.

I want to make new friends and do great it school. It would be great if I could lose some weight but that's not a priority right now. I like me and I have to convince myself of that. That's it for now!

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