Quick Update

Not much is going on in my life except

- Today I found the cutest Lilly dress on sale for 1/2 off [yes I bought it]

- School begins tomorrow

- Lacrosse Begins and I don't have any cleats...

- In Boston it's raining :'[

- And Gossip Girl is on tonight!! [one of my friend's friend saw them filming the season finale (she thinks) and it involves Chuck and Blair...]

Sincerely,

D

SHOF, Henri Bendel, Lilly, and our new secret company... unveiled

Picture Mall of America... okay, take away the water park and the aquarium... and the huge food court. You are left with hundreds of stores. Just in case you have never been to Aventura Mall this is what it is like. Aventura Mall contains possibly the biggest Forever 21, and all of the great stores you can probably guess. Anyways, at the Lilly store I finally got the Lilly crowns I have been chasing after plus two decks of cards, and a pink and green turtle robe. Also at Aventura there is the famous Henri Bendel store.

Okay, so SHOF- the Swimming Hall of Fame. If you remembered I told you that some of my friends were nationally ranked swimmers. Turns out today was the Sectionals at the SHOF, where swimmers who make the cutoff times get to race for national ranks. But here is the exciting part, in the museum part of the SHOF, my cousin was listed as a masters champion, in the International swimming hall of fame.

About the secret company, I will talk [or rather write] about it tomorrow, but if you absolutely must know now, you can find out what it is at teamgrill.com

Sincerely,

D

Miami to Mexico

Wow, it feels like I haven't posted in forever. Ah, at least I have an excuse [I was sick {again}]. It was really quite funny though, you see I only have a common cold, but I have asthma, so everybody thought I got the flu or something like that.

Enough with sad news :[ I have some good news, I am leaving for Miami tomorrow but [I don't think I mentioned] I'm going on a cruise! :] There is Internet on the ship so I can post some pictures of the trip. I am a little bit freaked out about Miami though because ever since I got out for Spring Break I've had nothing to do, so I watched [WAY too much] CSI Miami.

Did anybody see Gossip Girl last night?? Carter??? Nate??? CHUCK??? Blair??? Dan??? aaahhh it left me with so many questions, mostly "What were you thinking"

And What is up with Gossip Girl Insider "Because the Gossip Girl producers and the CW are so cool, we were sent a copy of this episode and have seen it. We'll post a recap for you later in the week!" What is this about them getting the next episode early [yeah I'm jealous]

Sincerely,
D

Swim Championships

First Off, thank you Pouty for calling right before my race [sorry I couldn't talk I was in the bullpen]

Anyways, to be quite honest after a while of swimming I think I started taking third place for granted [in certain races]. So you can probably guess [drum roll please...] yesterday in the breaststroke I got third place! It's not official yet but that's what the electronic timers told me. Haha, I would like to thank the doctor that told me I would never swim again because without him making me indignant, I probably would have had less motivation :].

Also, our Medley Relay got fifth place [I was on a team of eleven and twelve year olds facing 15 and 16 year olds]. And... I also got tenth in the freestyle against 100 people :].

In Other News:

-In one week Winter Term will be over and I can start wearing Lilly Pultitzer skirts to school again [and madras]

-Also In One Week I will be headed down to Florida [I'm still trying to work out the Palm Beach Trip]

Sincerely,

D

Free Music by Carolina Liar <3

The iTunes free single of the week is by my favorite artist Carolina Liar! The sing is called "Show me what I'm looking for" and it is awesome [in my personal opinion] although "I'm Not Over" is still my favorite [by far] anyways, you can listen to the song at the bottom of the page [It's the first song on my playlist]

In Other News

- I am going to re- decorate my school binder in a Lilly pattern [but I can't decide which...]
- Spring is almost here [a.k.a lacrosse season]

Sincerely,
D

Exams

This Week and Next Week is Exam Time for Winter Term :[

Sincerely,

D

Swim Championships are coming fast

I have officially decided a.) this month I WILL complete NaBloPoMo [lol], Anyways, tonight's swim Practice went really well, and we had a little race. There is a guy on the team that my coach seems to think I compete against. [well maybe a little bit, but that is a whole other story] So anyways he decided he would have the three other kids in my age group race me. Also, all of the 10 and unders were watching putting a lot of pressure on me to impress them :].

At first I was like "No Way," but he told me to pretty much toughen up and get on the block.

The flip turn killed. We were all basically turned up until the 25 yard mark, and then at the flip turn it hit me, why can't I just put all of my energy into this one lap and move as fast as I could possibly stand.

So to make a long story short, I won by two tenths of a second [and impressed the little kids], but here is the other thing, I cut another whole second off of my time. That is two seconds in one week!!

In Other [Swimming] News:
-I found out one of my friends is ranked tenth NATIONALLY in swimming :]
-I found out that one of my other friends that I also used to swim with is only three seconds slower than Dara Torres :0

Sincerely,
Deborah

Weirdest Swim Meet Ever

Wow okay first of all championships are in one week and I am freaking out like crazy. Second of all I managed to cut down my time to some where in the 28 seconds [point something I couldn't understand the timers] but a whole second :]

About that freestyle race, [it was so weird]. I'll do a play- by- play:

1.) I was in the bullpen after getting my card and waiting on the bench with these girls who were .3 seconds faster than me [I was freaking out about that one]

2.) I got up to the blocks and everybody started freaking out even though I was in the right heat and event

3.) My coach who was also the announcer was like "Deborah come over here"

4.) He told me I missed my event even though my event was just about to dive off the blocks

5.) My mom started freaking out

6.) I then got my own personal Heat with my name and everything

It doesn't seem that weird when I read over, but let me tell you, when your coach is like "Okay Deborah will be doing a solo swim today, Deborah step onto the Block, Deborah take you mark...." it feels really weird with about 200 people watching you

Not to mention he was talking about me the whole 28 seconds I was swimming, and asked everybody to give me a round of applause, and nobody did [I was glad but it was also really awkward]

Whew,
Anyways In Other News:

-Jackie has a short story contest on her blog, it is a free- write but here is an idea, you could write an alternate ending to Twilight [just a thought coming from a judge :) ]
-Just when I thought spring was coming a huge snow storm came

Sincerely,
D