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summer is almost over...it went by so fast.  it seems like a dream. i think to myself, did i really go those places? was that really me?  i graduated on june 6th, and it didn't feel real, it still doesn't feel real...maybe it will when i'm at college. i'm going to virginia tech, majoring in english...i don't really know what i want to do, its more or less to just get a degree in something, lol. i met my roomate and two of my suitmates, and they all seem like really cool people.

anyway, back to summer... as soon as i graduated me and kaityn went to the beach for a week. it was relaxing, we chilled a lot, maybe too much. and then a day later i left on my two week tour of italy and greece. i wrote a journal for everyday that i was there so i won't go into great detail on here, just know i had the time of my life.

  then i had a day to recouperate from that and i left for hawaii.  hawaii is beautiful, i want to move there after college for a year or two...maybe even settle down there later in life, it is just too beautiful.i kept a journal of that too.

again, i had a day to recouperate and then i left for the mission trip.  i had a bad attitude going into it, i really didn't want to do it at all, and i was angry for mom making me. but looking back on it i'm glad. i met so many amazing people, especially this one guy names Paul. he's like my older brother, and i've told him so much stuff, but he's told me a lot too. we're already planning for next year.  i didn't keep a journal of what we did, probably because i was so exhausted, but basically we built a house...laid foundation, put up framework, roofing, siding, trim, we did it all. so incredible. it was amazing. we come home and now we know like everyone at church, its amazing.

the week after i got home i watched Paul's kids for the week, they're really sweet girls, and i had a lot of fun with them.

the next week was vbs which was a disaster.  i had to call a friend from the mission trip to help me.  after every day we would go out and smoke, those kids...make you want to hurt someone.  but i got over it.

this week i've just been chilling.  i got my hair body waved, and its awesome.  i tanned, so i'm tan, i went shopping with some friends.  oh, i saw rascal flatts a week ago and coldplay last sunday, oh my gosh sooooo good.

next week we're going to the beach, and i'm so excited to just lay out on the beach and boogy board to my heart's content :) and then school.

marching band tryouts...classes...moving in...it feels like a dream, i'm excited, i don't know what lays ahead of me, but i can't wait to find out :)

it's raining...a lot... first off, we had an indian summer last year that was absolutely amazing, but i mean, we've more then paid the price for that one.  it didn't even get above 50 until late april.  and then we had maybe 7 days out of three weeks of 80's, and now its raining. its coming in droves, like crazy.

i don't really like all this rain, i would rather have it be sunny and beautiful so everyone can be tan.  but its relaxing, rain rids you of responsibilities. and it makes me sleep like a baby, which sure is nice.

i put in my two weeks today for work, and i'm not working this next weekend.  so i really only have two more days, i'm so happy, i'm just kinda done with the place.

today was mothers day, went to moos and poppy's...celebrated poppy's birthday, uncle markys birthday, megs birthday, and mothers day.  we bought mom flowers, candle cover, and boxing gloves, she was happy, i had fun.

i've been eating every imaginable piece of junkfood lately. its my way of coping.  i'm not one of those emotional girls that feels like they have to tell their problems to the world.  i told mom, megs, and a friend.  but i know, whatever, i'm too young anyway, its actually a really good thing...i just wat it to be summer... all for now

kj

one month

i graduate in exactly one month...soooo excited.  me weekdays have been filled with school and lacrosse, and my weekends consumed with working.  it makes time go by very fast.  but surely it cannot ocme fast enough.

last night was senior night for lax, all the girls made posters and then took pictures for us, mine said "smarty pants" and everyone was reading books....i'm not that smart... then we got balloons, candy, a cute little graduation dog with a 2008 cup, someone decorated a lax ball for each of us.  and then we all got bra's....it was great.  at the end of the game they took out water guns and shot all the seniors, it was great.  oh, they also made us t-shirts, i couldn't have asked for a better senior night...oh and we got lots of flowers :)

i'm sick today.  don't feel like doing any school work, i wish teachers would just give up, we're done, really now. i'm trying to squeeze in all these service hours so i can get my honor cords. its a pain but hey i've gotta do it. 

thursday is my ap english exam, not looking forward to it at all, and its meg's 16th birthday. i haven't bought her anything yet, but i'm so short on money as it is... she and her best friend i guess are planning this huge party which sounds incredible...but i don't know...lol, we'll see.

thats about it.  fritz is moving to his new home hopefully memorial day weekend.  these people are so nice and they're gonna take great care of my baby.

until next time! kj

april showers :)

hello xanga! wow its april...last time i wrote in here it was october, middle of marching band, and the school year has just begun.  Now it's almost may, and almost the end of school.  I graduate from battlefield high school in haymarket virginia on June 6th at 8:00pm at Nissan Pavilion. i can't believe i just said that.  these past four years have flown by.  i've grown up a lot in four years.  they've been amazing, i've had great friends and good memories. 

its hard to believe that i'm going to college next year.  i will be attending Virginia Tech in the fall, majoring in biological sciences and minoring in psycology.  I really want to be a dolphin trainor for seaworld or maybe at a hotel someplace warm and tropical.  there has to be a beach, thats a must.  VT doesn't really have a major that would really be good fo rme, so i might transfer.  it depends on how much i like it.  i will transfer to hawaii or california.  they have really good programs for what i want to do (obviously) and they are downright gorgeous and amazing.  but i'd be really far away from home.  so i don't know what i'm gonna do, i'll just wait and see, i'm not gonna rush my life away, i'm just gonna enjoy every moment and live it up ;)

so my life as a senior.  i did get to ride with mr brodt on his motorcycle, and it was awesome! i'm gonna get my motorcycle's liscence as soon as i turn 19 then i'm gonna buy one.  gas prices are so crazy( almost $4), so it would save a lot of money by just having a motorcycle.

i did BAWL at VBODA.  a lot...i was so bad...i thought i wouldn't be able to get through the show because i was crying so much, but i did, and it was like a dream, i don't even remember it.  my last season of marching band was amazing.  we got a 1 at VBODA and a one at normal festival, so we area Virginia Honor Band. for four straight years, yay! i'm doing band at VT, it won't be the same, but i can't just not do it, ya know? its part of me...i'm always gonna be a band geek...

megs made 1st chair symphonic band next year for french horn, and she has a solo for marching band...that means i'm gonna have to come home a lot to see her play. i'm excite dthough, it gives me a reason to come back...

lets see, we went to the sugar bowl in new orleans in december/january with the band.  it was so much fun.  i loved it. the sights were beautiful and we even got 70 degree weather some days.  our chaperone was psycho but thats okay.  we still had fun at dances, dinners, and sightseeing...we even got to go in a bar! haha, i'm such a dork...

what else? swim season was good, nothing to report. lax season is good. i'm just managing this year, because the goalie that they have is amazing, even though she's only a freshman. but i'm still having fun.  lately i've been skipping practices so i can go and tan.  not fake and bake....i just bake in the natural sun... :)  i have been getting tanner...i was so white before.

daily life...i've been working out a lot...mainly running, swimming, and kickboxing.  i've also been working...paying for gas and saving up for this summer, but i'll talk more about that later.  Fritz is good, we're going to give him away when i go to college.  i'm actually visiting his new home tomorrow.  i am sad, but its for the best, so i'm not devestated...i just want him to have a good home.

so, a couple of my friends and i weren't as close as we used to be.  i finally realized that there ar epeople who don't make fun of you and still be your friend...lol. i just felt like i was the butt of every joke and everything i did was stupid.  i'm friends with a new set of people, and thats a good thing.  its more of...thsi sounds stupid...but a more adult friendship. we're just more mature.

ok, so there is a boy, of course.  he's older then me though, kinda by a lot.  but he's awesome, but he would never try anything, because he just wouldn't.  so its good i'm going away because...well it just is... but its great talking to him i love it :)

cap and gowns were given away a couple of days ago. girls wear white and mine is very big...maybe i can shrink it...haha. but year, its excited, and scary...i'm ready though.  i didn't think i would be, but i am. to start a new chapter in my life...

ok so i drank.  yep me kelly johnson drank.  not just bear either...let ssee i had a rum and coke, took tequila shots, took smernof (type of vodka) shots, drank wine coolers, drank beer, and had a skrewdriver. i actually had multiple of everything.  i was drunk.  but you know, i hated it.  i can't believe people go out and do that every weekend.  i just don't understand.  it was funny being drunk, i guess i called people, i don't really remember that well. but i laugh a lot.  i think its one thing if you just have a few drinks to tak ethe edge off...but getting that drunk is wrong.  and people are giving me a lot of crap about it.  better now then when i'm at college.  but i decided its not for me.  so i found out who my true friends were after that...

my summer plans.... ok

June 6th = graduation and then after grad

then that weekend June 7-8 i'm hopping around to all my friend's graduation parties.

June9th-14th Beach week its gonna rock its at my beach house and we're just gonna live it up!

June15-28 Italy/Greece-Kilgore takes a trip every year with a bunch of seniors and juniors. i paid for half of it and i'm saving spending money.  but 2 weeks! its crazy!

June 30-July 10 Hawaii my bf kaitlyn is taking me to hawaii.....where i'm gonna climb a palm tree, snorkel, and look at volcanoes and just chill...so excited!!!!

July16-23 Missons trip-megs went last year and this year we're all going, i think its in Kentucky, but that sounds fun too

August 2-8 Beach with the family....last vacation before college

August 17/18/19 move in day for VT-since i'm in the band i get to move in early

August 21-VT band camp starts

August 25 classes start and summer ends

I have three weeks not doing anything thsi summer...i will be going to kings dominion, chilling by the pool, eating ice cream, and just enjoying life...going to the PWC fair at least once....maybe subing for my sister a couple days at the pool to give her some time off. if she wants any.

but summer is going to be amazing...and its only like  a month away. so excited. so thats my life right now.  tanning, (real stuff) LAX games, and counting down the days of highschool... we're having a school carnival in may....we had a battle of the bands...it actually feels like a real highschool now... the musical was little shop of horror's...wasn't very good, i didn't like it as much as cinderella last year.

i gave blood the other day, stupid lady couldn't find the vein in my arm sow now blood leaked under my skin and i have a bruise...how perfect... but thats ok...it looks beast :)

ok, so i'm really going to try and write a lot because i like it better  when i just talk about day to day stuff and now huge clumps of months like this so i will be back very very soon!

kj

ps not going to prom...can't waste that much money, plus i don't have a date, plus it wasn't fun last year... its ok though, i'm probably going to a concert and mom is taking me out to eat, so i'll still have fun :)