IF I STAY UP ALL NIGHT WILL THE MORNING COME FASTER,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

* tomorrow we are going on a very exciting trip. we are taking the girls to disney world. i am so excited. we have never gone on a big vacation like this before as a family. david and i have been married for 20 years and this will be the third big trip that we have been on. i really don't know who is more excited!!!! the girls are so excited. i really don't know if i will be able to sleep tonight.

* we are going to be there for 8 days. we are staying inside the park. we are also going to hit every park and do everything. we really love water parks so we are gong to do both of those. might make it easier to handle the heat and the humidity.

* i am most excited about seeing disney world through my daughter's eyes. experiencing the rides with them and all of the shows.

* i am so excited that david is going to get to go with us!!!!! for a while there he was not going to be able to go. but praise God, he is getting to go. i want so many wonderful memeories to come out of this trip for the girls.

* i will be sure to take lots of pictures and post them. here and on my face book.

* i took the kids from our church to camp this past week. what a blast we had. we went to dry gulch in ok. it was awesome. this was bekahs first time to go. she absolutely loved it. hannah loved it as well, however, it was her 4th time to go to church camp. we are beginning to make a real home here. we are starting to build relationships with a few of the people from our church and our neighbors.

* life is beginning to make sence around here. there are still places in my heart that are hollow. but now they don't ache as much. learning to live with out your family and friends is a challenge, but God is faithful.

* my girls really love the church we are going to and are beginning to feel at home there. there is even a new colleen there and boy has bekah attached herself to her. Her name is Kavery. she is a doll. we are starting a building program. God is doing amazing things in our little church. i have a feeling it won't be little for long.

* i am anxious about next year. this was such a rough year. but alas, i will not think about that today. plus next year will be much better. there i am speaking it into existence. our pastor is always telling us to speak life into our live. choose life. choose the positive. so i am working on that. calling things as though they were. isn't that the very basis of faith. and without faith it is impossible to please God.

* anyway, enough preaching. sorry i was interupted by the urge to check on the cleanliness of the upstairs loft. THAT WAS A MISTAKE. SO THE GIRLS ARE CLEANING IT UP AS I SPEAK. why did i feel the need to go check up there. oh yea!!! i was going to kiss the girls good night. well good move as a mom, not good move for someone who wants their house to be picked up.

* how can i have two such wonderful girls, sweet, kind, smart, gorgeous, and live like such pigs. honestly if i could get them to pick up after themselves!!!! oh the joy!!!!!!

* well i am ready to be done typing, so ttfn.................................

FOUR MORE DAYS........

I CAN'T BELIEVE FOUR MORE DAYS AND SCHOOL IS OUT!!! NOW I KNOW MOST OF YOU GOT OUT THIS WEEK, BUT SOME OF US ARE NOT SO LUCKY. However, I am so ready for school to be out. I tell ya, God has twisted me, stretched me, bent me, turned me, more this year than He has in a long time. And I am totally exhausted!!! I have nothing left to give. I am empty and ready to sit and do absolutely nothing.

I think this has been the most challenging year that I have had in a long time. It has not only been challenging at school, but in every other area of my life. And I am tired. I hope this summer is as refreshing as I need it to be.

I plan to read, sit by the pool, sleep late, sit by the pool, read, watch movies, play with my girls and maybe get to go on vacation like we had planned. We have already had to move it once because of David's job. Hopefully, we won't have to move it again or skip it completely. That is all I will say about that.

Sorry it is not a happier post......

a hurtful situation.................

i am just hurt. i know i am not perfect in relationships, but today i was hurt. i know we have never been close, but i thought there was a possibility of a change. but i guess not. i am just hurt.

twenty years and a flight with the president and life in the burbs..................

* i know it has been a while since i have blogged. i now have a new hobby. i have a face book page. it is fun. i love to do all of the quizzes. i also love to send all the gifts.

* well let me get to the juicy stuff. well david and i celebrated our twenty year anniversary on wed. i can't believe it has been twenty years. david sent me 22 roses. 20 for the number of years that we have been married. 2 for our girls. we went to celebrate at rockfish. we love that place. i had a grilled shrimp salad and david had fish enchilladas. they sound gross, but they are so delicious. i could write pages and pages of wonderful things about the wonderful man that i married, but i simply just want to say i love you. i and proud and honored to be your wife. i am so proud of you. you are achieving your dreams. we are so blessed to have our girls. i am speachless!!! God you have been so wonderful to me.

* now let me get to the best part. DAVID GOT TO FLY THE PRESIDENT (GEORGE BUSH) AROUND ON THURSDAY. IS THAT COOL OR WHAT. HE WAS SO DELIGHTED. LAURA ALSO WENT. he got home late thursday, so i haven't really get to talk to him about it. talk about the favor of God. he said that President Bush walk all around the other side of the plane just to shake his hand. david was thrilled.

* our taks tests are this week. i am so ready to have them over. my last day of tutoring is tomorrow. i am so glad.

* hannah had a vb game saturday. she served five over handed serves in a row. and they could not even pick them up. they are playing so well together as a team. it was so fun watching them play. she takes her taks test (science) thursday. she is beginning to get a little nervous about middle school next year.

* bekah is growing tall and doing great in school. i get glances of my sister lisa when she was a child, when i look at bekah. it sometimes takes me aback.

* i am still walking and loving it.

just chuggin along...................

well i don't know much, i just thought i would write down somethings that are happening in our lives right now. hannah took her reading and her math taks test already. she passed the reading, however, not as good as she wanted to and was very upset with herself. the night before the math test she slipped off to bed at 7:30. which is very weird, but i think she wanted to get plenty of rest for the next day.

i hope she did well. well i guess that was stupid to say. of course i hope she did well. but i get nervous for her in every area of life. i guess that is part of being a mom. i rememeber when i taught her. it was easy teaching her, but do you know what was the hard part? the social aspect of teaching your daughter. wanting your daughter to be part of the "in " crowd, even when you know she won't be. but also glad that she isn't. you know what i mean. but watching the dynamics of that situation was at times difficult.

i am, however, very glad that i moved her to my school. that was one of the best descisions i ever made. i love having the girls at my school. it is wonderful.

bekah is just trecking along. she is doing well in school. she is going to start playing volleyball next fall. i am excited about that. i can't wait to see her play.

david is in augusta georgia watching the masters golf tournament. he will come home tomorrow and will get to have most of the weekend home. i am soooooooooooooo excited about that. the girls are too.

church is going well and relationships are just barely beginning to form. the ladies that i am working with on wednesday nights and i are very slowly beginning to visit with each other. that is nice. it is nice to visit with other women. one of the ladies that i feel escpecially feel drawn to a lady named christy. hehehe i am like a little school girl.

OH DID I TELL YOU THAT I AM ABOUT TO CELEBRATE MY 20TH ANNIVERSARY IN TWO WEEKS. IS THAT EXCITING OR WHAT? WHO KNEW? AND THEY SAID IT WOULDN'T LAST.

school has 8 weeks left. yea!!!!! i feel like i am beginning to float on air. i am so ready to have this first year behind me. this summer i am going to take the kids to church camp. right now we have 18 signed up. we are going to dry gulch oklahoma. yeee haw. how fun. we are also going to disney world. we are so excited. we have not been a big trip in 15 years. we are going to have so much fun. this will be the first time the girls have flown on a big airplane. they have flown with their dad, but never on a big plane . they are so excited as well. i thingk david and i are just as excited as the girls are.

well i guess that about covers it. happy easter. i certainly will miss the easter egg hunt at church on sunday.

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It's a God Thing...............................

as you all know we had a hard time finding a church. but finally, God so richly blessed us with finding an awesome church. we have been going to faith fellowship for sometime now. maybe about two months. one of the reasons that we started visiting, is because they have a wed. night service for adults. so many of the churches up here do not have a wed. night service for adult or kids, just teens.

well anyway, so we started going. they really did not have anything for the kids, but it was about the only day of the week that david could go so we went. there were about two other kids and my two girls and they would just put on a christian movie, while the adults had their bible study.

one night me and the other ladies decided we had to start something on wed. for the kids. so one of the moms that stays home, decided she wanted to run it, and i told her i would help, but did not want to run it. we start by serving the kids supper (usually pizza) and then we go into one of the classrooms and have praise and worship and then the lesson and an art activity. there were about three ladies that help out.

the first wed. night we had 14 kids. wow!!! how awesome is God. then the next wed. night we had 21 kids. tonight we had 23 kids!!!!!! and that was just the kids in our room. not including the babies and toddles. but here is the really awesome thing. when we first started going to church there, there might have been 30 people in the whole building, including the teens. tonight, toni ( our pastor's wife) counted and we had 97 people in the church!!!!!!! IS THAT AMAZING OR WHAT? AND IT ALL STARTED WITH THE CHILDREN. GOD YOU ARE SO GOOD. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING SO SIGNIFICANT. I AM SO INCREDIBLY BLESSED. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE DEDICATED WOMEN THAT I GET TO WORK WITH. IT IS RESTORING MY SOUL.

I FEEL SO BLESSED. GOD LET IT CONTINUE TO GROW AND HONOR YOU!!!!!!!!!

IT'S A GOD THING.....................

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET ANGEL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU........

i can't believe that my sweet baby girl is eleven. where did the time go? i only blinked once, i promise. it is funny, my dad used to say the older you get the faster time goes. i know that, but now it seems that i am at an age where i actually feel the time whizzing by me.

i can remember everything about this precious baby's wonderful journey into the world. i am thankful for all the memories. but most of all i am thankful to be her mother. what a blessing you are to me hannah. you are growing up into a beautiful, smart, sweet , kind, loving, adorable, strong in your faith young lady. and it delights me that i have the priveledge of knowing you.

i remember those ten dark years with out you. how sad i was. i missed you before you were even born. i knew you would be great. i knew you would be precious. that is why my heart ached for you so. i remember holding you, never wanting to put you down. i remember when you were little like it was yesterday.

i am so proud of you. the young woman that you are becoming. i remember after first finding out that i was pregnant with you. i had just come home from school in little elem. and the phone rang. the nurse on the other end of the phone asked is this kim poynor? i said yes. she then asked if i was sitting down. i said no i am too excited, and she said it is positive you are pregnant. she told me to continue the shots of progesterone, for the next 13 weeks. i was floating on air. david was standing right there, with the biggest grin on his face. but i think he already knew. i told the nurse thank you.

we spent the rest of the night calling people to let them know our wonderful news. there are no words to express how excited we were. the first person we called was lisa. everyone was so excited. then of course we went out to eat.

i also remember when you were born. i was going in for my once a month check up after school. i was 36 weeks. when i got there the doc. said my blood pressure was high. he checked it several times and then told me that they had better induce. i asked if i could call my mom. so they checked me in and induced me. it didn't hurt. but boy did i release alot of water.

the next morning, around 8:50 they came in to check me and there was blood on the sheets. and our heart rate was falling. so they did an emergency c-section. you were born at 9:09 on a wednesday morning. so many people came up to see you. jj, robi, meems and pawpaw, lisa, jan, steve, neenee and papa, terry and susan, with morgan and racheal,amy and wayned and sarah and the bubba's, and so many people from the church we were attending.

we all just sat around and visited and took turns holding you. so thankful for the blessing that God had bestowed on us.

i love you baby girl, forever and always. may God's richest blessing follow you all the days of your life. great things.... great things are in store for you.

what a wonderful trip...........

* i had such a wonderful trip home. we got home about 6:50 p.m. friday night. we were greeted at one of my favorite restaurants in san angelo. terry, dana, meems, lisa, ro-ro were there to give us wonderful hugs. it wa so good to see everyone. we just sat and ate and visisted for about two hours. then we went to lisa's house and sat up until 11. that was good for us. sometimes we can't quiet make it to that time. but we did.

* on saturday, we got up and ate breakfast. we had so much fun. then it was off tosassy fox. they carry brighton jewlry. lisa wanted to get the matching necklace for the bracelet and earrings i had gotten her for her birthday. we went there and then to eggemeyers and then to merle norman. we finally found what she was looking for at merle norman. they have a pretty good selection of brighton there.

*after that we decided to have lunch at lisa's favorite restuarant, mcallisters. then we were off to the mall. i had given the girls some money and lisa wanted to go to bealls. we left the mall about 5:30 and went home for about thirty minutes.

* we got to zuccinis, h's favorit restaurant, at about 6:15. there were alot of people there. she had a nice birthday. after supper, we all went to lisa's house to visit. everybody was there. it was so nice. we just sat and visited. till about 11:00. we had so much fun.

* the next day, we went to church. THAT WAS FANTASTIC. we just hugged on everybody, and they hugged on us. what a wonderful time was spents loving on old friends.

* after church, i got to spend a glorious two hours with rdub. oh how i miss our time together. but we had a very successful time shopping. we only had to go to one store. don't you just love that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we picked out so many outfits. wow!!!! did she look hot!!!!! you go rdub. but the best part was just being with my dear sweet friend like old times. i love u baby girl. what a blessing you are to me. can't wait til our next date.

* after a wonderful time shopping, lisa and ro-ro, fixed me and the girls and the fam. a PHENOMINAL STEAK DINNER. IT WAS OFF THE HOOK. RO-RO YOU ROCK. the steaks were so tender and juicy. it was better than at a steak house. we just enjoyed each others company until 9:30. everyone had to leave to get ready for work.

* today, i met lisa for lunch with the girls. lisa took a long lunch so we could eat together one more time. i then left the girls with pops and nene. they are going to watch the girls until sat. while i go see my other dear friend. i am so excited.

* what a blessed weekend i had. God you are so good!!!!!

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can you hear the sound of spring break?????

i can hear it all through the land. can you? i hear the sound of happy teachers everywhere. their smile is a little brighter, their step a little peppier, their laughter a little louder. the sky looks a little better, all smells, smell a little better.

i am so ready for spring break, for so many reasons. i am going home. i am going to see family that i haven't seen in a little over two months. yea!!!!!! we are going to have hannah's bday with family. I AM SO READY TO JUST SIT AND VISIT WITH MY FAMILY. no rushing, no hurrying, just visiting. I MISS MY FAMILY SOOOOO MUCH. I MISS JUST BEING ABLE TO CALL THEM UP AND GO AND DO SOMETHING. THAT IS PROBABLY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT BEING UP HERE. Gosh!!!! I miss my sisters. and i am going to see my very special friend that has moved toooooo far away from me. i am sure we will have a few pj days.

i am so excited. i can't wait to see my sisters. i can't wait to see my mom. i can't wait to see many other friends, that i haven't seen in a long time. i have not been on a plane in such a long time. i am a little nervous about finding my gate. i have never done that by myself.

this has been a difficult year. so i am ready for any break i can get. however, i am beginning to enjoy living up here. david let me pick out my 20th anniversary present early. i went into the stonebriar mall and went into the coach store. he let me buy a spring coach purse right from the store, not an outlet store. ITIS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!!!!! IT LOOKS JUST LIKE ME!!!!! IT HAS MY PERSONALITY ALL OVER IT. it is peachy, pink. It is so pretty. now i know that i should not be so happy and excited about a purse, but i am. it has the new kind of c's on it.

i just can't wait. the week can't go by fast enough. i won a free 45 minute break from my class at our school Christmas party. i saved it for a special day. so friday i am going to get to leave school at 2:15 to start heading home. yea!!!!! i am so ready, did i already say that a few times?

we are giving our first math practice taks test this thursday. i am not ready for the results. ihave worked so hard this year. but i don't think my scores are going to show that in april when we take the real thing.

well ttfn............................

HE JUST MAKES SO PROUD...........................

I AM JUST SO PROUD OF DAVID. HE IS NOW TYPE RATED IN A CITATION. THAT TICKET IS WORTH ABOUT $12,000. He did so great. He was so relieved when his testing was over. He was in school for about 6 days. On Saturday when he finished school for that day, he came home at 6 and just went to bed. He started studying about five days before he started school.

He took his check ride Wednesday. He was so excited and relieved when he finished the test. Of course we went to celebrate with a dinner at our new favorite restaurant, La Hacinda Ranch. The best fajitas in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We also had, of course, queso. We love queso. It is just the best.

David had that accomplished, exhausted look on his face at the end of the day. But we still went to church. We are beginning a series on Revelation. Our pastor wants us to read it with out all of the denominational ties that we normally bring to reading the scriptures. He just wants us to get out of it what the Holy Spirit wants us to learn. I think that is pretty cool. Normally, on Wednesday nights we read a scripture and then discuss it. I love that. We move the chairs around in the sanctuary and sit in a circle, and openly discuss what we have just read. There are so many mature Christians in the group. I sometimes feel a little daunted. So there are many times I do not say a word.

Tomorrow night we are having a sock hop at school. We are also having a catered meal from Olive Garden. I bought the girls poodle skirts. I will post pictures. They are going to look so adorable. It will be fun. I am helping out with the silent auction. I have to say one thing for our school, they do alot of really cool events.

I remember last year, when I was interviewing for jobs, they were getting ready for this event. Can you believe that we have been up here for 8 months. Where has the time gone?

well ttfn..........

COULD SOMEONE, PLEASE, COME TAKE ALLLLL THE CHOCOLATE OUT OF THE HOUSE??????!!!!!!!!!

that's all i have to say about that.....

i am going to put this in writing, because if i don't i know you won't believe it..........................

i have to put this in writing, so you will believe it. i am now jogging. yes, don't fall off your chair, i am jogging. it hurts like ************, but i am doing it. i have been, slogging, as one of my teacher friends calls it, for a month. since we got back from christmas vacation, i have lost 12 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am also a member of weight watchers on line. it is really working for me, since i never know when david is going to be home. you may ask what lead to this insanity. well, there are many reasons. one we are going to disney world this summer. it is so humid there, carry an extra 40 pounds around doesn't sound appealing to me. and i am tired of huritng when i get out of bed in the morning. no i don't need a new bed, just a new body. and i am just tired of being so tired all of the time.

i also have a lot of extra time on my hands during the weekend, so i have taken up this activity as a hobby. well, ok, so it is not your typical hobby, but the benefits are great. i feel so good when i am doing it. it's afterward that i hurt. i have my ipod, with my favorite music, and i just go. we don't have church on sunday nights, so i jog both sat. and sun.

at first i walked more than i jogged, but now it is almost even. i have a track about two miles around my neighborhood. the girls go with me on their bikes and scooters. i think i wore bekah out today.

sorry for the delay, i had to take care of some personal buiness!!! anyway, i was just wondering, have you ever been cold and just put on the most perfect pj's. well i just did. they are like little tiny messaging fingers all over your body. they just feel so good and comfy. and then you sit on the couch to type on your computer and you cover up with the most perfect blanket. now that's awesome.

well hannah and bekah are doing great. hannah has really adjusted to the larger school. her grades are now back up to where they really should be. i am so proud of her. bekah is doing great. she is making great grades.

hannah will be playing spring volleyball. she also signed up for her electives for middle school this week. wow!!!!!!!!! where had the time gone. she is going to do pre-ap LAR language arts. she is also going to play in the orchestra for her elective. she wants to play the violin.

in fifth grade many of the districts in the state of texas, have the students lean the recorder. well she loves it and willingly practices it everyday. on her own. so she decided she wants her elective to be orchestra. i told her once she starts something, she can not quit.

i don't want her to get into that habit. but she is excited and so am i. they both had a sleep over this weekend. i am so exited that the have made friends.

we are now going to a new church. i just couldn't settle in at the other place. so we are now going to faith fellowship in mckinney texas. david got to go with me last sunday, and he loved it. we had a church potluck dinner, and actually spread picnic blankets on the church floor and sat and ate. we had soooooooooo much fun. we were there until 2.

the first sunday we were there i had more real conversations, than the whole 4 months we were at the other place. david already had an invitation to go golfing with some of the men. we went on a wednesday night and they just did an open discussion bible study. there were about 20 adults there. it was so good. there was a man there that i could have listened to all night. he reminded me of andy d. so full of Godly wisdom.

i met a woman there, she said after our conversation, she felt like she has known me her whole life. that was nice. i am ready to start building relationships again. i feel like God had placed me in just the right place.

the praise and worship was amazing. after one sunday, i actually found myself at the alter. i could have stayed there all day. the girls love the children's church. bekah helped with puppets the first sunday we were there.

they have family night planned once a month. next friday we are going to watch fireproof and play games. i am excited. it sounds like fun.

well i have talked your ear off. and i am ready to stop typing. i miss you all and hope you are having a great weekend.

ttfn......................
kimmie

OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN..................

I HAVE SOME VERY EXCITING NEWS. DAVID IS GOING TO SCHOOL TO ON FEBRUARY 20TH TO GET CAPTAIN QUALIFIED. IS THAT AWESOME OR WHAT????????

I AM SO EXCITED FOR HIM. HE WILL GO TO SCHOOL HERE IS DALLAS FOR ONE WEEK AND THEN HE WILL BE TYPE RATED AS CAPTIAN OF THE THREE CITATIONS HIS COMPANY OWNS. THAT IS SO COOL. I AM SO PROUD OF HIM. DID I SAY THAT ALREADY?

ABOUT A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO THE OWNERS OF THE COMPANY ASKED THEIR CHIEF PILOT WHEN IS DAVID GOING TO START FLYING AS CAPTAIN? MY DAVID'S BOSS CALL THIS WEEK TO TELL HIM THAT HE WOULD BE GOING TO SCHOOL IN FEBRUARY.


anyway...... i just wanted to share my good news with my blogging peeps.

congrats sky king!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Is My Latest Project......................

this is in the girls loft. we went to stein mart to get the frames and then to kirklands to get the words. when i was in kirklands, i noticed they have another red one. i may end up getting that one and placing it on the opposite wall. who knows. i am sorry you can't see the words on the frames, they are wonderful. the red one sayes, other things may change us, but we start and end with family. the green one sayes, it is not the home i love, but the life that is lived here. the black one sayes, it does not count the number of breathes we take, but the moments that take away our breath. the framed black art sayes, family..... a journey to forever. as i am looking at the framed family, i am noticing it needs to come down and over a bit. it looks a little off kilter. what do you think? let me know.
this is my new stair case wall. i don't think the pictures do it justice!!!! i was very proud of the work i did, picking out the shapes fo the frames and the pictures to go in them. jw did sich an awesome job. i highly recommend her.



i have to say the more i am in this house, the more i love it. i am incredibly blessed.

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AND So Life Goes On.......................

we had a great Christmas with mine and david's family. one of my nieces got married and i was asked to speak. what an honor that was!!! i wish the best for them. ahhh to be young and in love. is a little different than being old and in love.

i got to visit with my best friend from high school. that was cool, even though it was under a sad circumstance. it was nice to sit in her childhood house where she grew up and we spent many an hour daydreaming about the men we would marry and the lives that we would have. i bet we visited for 4 hours. just catching up with each other. she looks just the same.

the time went by so fast on christmas break. we got back home on thursday, by the way, happy new year. i got a new garmen. it took me another way back home, and believe it or not, it was about 30 minutes faster. so that was nice.

i have to admit when i got home, it was so nice to be back in my house, my bed, and surrounded by my belonging. but i have to admit i sure delt with loneliness. you see david left christmas night and did not get back until 9 sunday night before we went back to school. i am so excited for his career, howeever, i do feel like i suffer the consequesnces. the loneliness gets tough at times.

the loneliness i am experiencing isn't a sad depressing loneliness, its the hollow left in the soul type. i am so thankful that i have my girls. i truly do not know what i would do with out them.

we are still in the process of looking for a church. that is not a fun process. this sunday we are going to a church that sister d recommended. however i know God will be faithful and we will find a church.

when we got home, i printed off some of the pictures that jw had taken and filled up my staircase wall with a collage of pictures. it looks so great. i bought frames 1/2 off at hobby lobby. i bought ovals, large and small; and rectangles and squares large and small. IT LOOKS SOOOOOO GOOD. i am rather proud of it myself. i will post a picture soon.

david is off this weekend. it is so nice to have him here. we went out with b&g last night and this other couple. boy was it good to be with other adults!!!!!!! we had so much fun.

well taks is getting closer. so that sure is my focus now. well i don't know much else. so ........

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