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I'm Going to DISNEY WORLD!!!!!

Heyy all!
I recently tol you guys that I was accepted into the Disney College Program and told you I'd let you know if I decided to go. Well I have decided to go! My arrival date is January 28 and I will be there for about 7 months! My departure date is August 15! 5 days before fall classes start here! Looks like no summer break for me, or family vacation. Too bad I really don't care! I'm going to be in Disney World!! I will have a two month Winter Break though-Most of December and most of January!. That's a plus!! Well, I am so stoked!! I'll be expecting you all to come and visit, but I'm sure won't be complaing! I guess I'll talk to you later!
<3Cheyenne

we are back!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY we are back on the internet. I had to switch to Bellsouth FastAccess; Earthlink could not get the problem resolved. The technician from Earthlink even told me "If I can't get this fixed you'll have to cancel your service"!!!

I got my setup package from Bellsouth today and as soon as I entered the new user name and password we were back in business.

For anyone who was using an Earthlink email address, it will be deactivated because I canceled the Earthlink service. If you want a Bellsouth email address, let me know and I'll get you one.

Also, our Bellsouth service includes wireless access at AT&T hotspots all over the place. I'll check into how it works and let you college kids know if you can use it too.

YAY!!!!!!!!! it was a very tough 10 days!!!!!

Guess What!!!!

Guess what, guess what, guess what, guess what!!!!
Cheyenne, thats me!, got accpeted to the Disney College Program!!!! Yippee!!
I am going to talk to Jan Flynn tomorrow and see what she says. I'm most likely going to take it but I want to see what her advice is first. I'll post tomorrow after I talk to her and let you know!
Love you,
Cheyenne

Kacie is, in fact, still alive

Hey family. Sorry I have been out of touch as of late. I have been pretty busy with midterms and papers and crap, topped off with a nice dash of all-out senioritis.

The good news is that I have that McGill Fellows thing coming up--apparently I have to give a speech on "Why I have Journalistic Courage." I'm still a little unsure as to how I got into this, conisdering the only thing I try to bring down is the white male patriarchy in Dr. Boyd's class....but whatever. The bad news is, it's a closed ceremony thing, which means parents can't come...so yeah. If I invited you guys, don't worry about it, because you can't come anymore!!! :(

In other news, I made my debute in the Red and Black............I was featured in a story about tattoos today. You can see the story here.


I'm allllll the way at the bottom. And my tattoos are nowhere near is cool as these others. But oh well, it's still pretty cool.

I'll be home for fall break on Wednesday. I was planning on coming over for friday....and maybe someone at that house could bring me back to athens....prefreabrly Saturday morning/afternoon?

Love you guys,
Kacie

Unorganized!

Hey family!
I know that most of you have heard of me complain that this campus is filled with Christians! And it's really annoying, as you all could have guessed. Well, other people were annoyed by it too so they decided to start a group for non-Christian, and I decided to go to the first meeting last night. It was pretty cool. I was pretty excited because I finally didn't feel alone in my views! I mean there we athiests, agnostics, pegans!, and others that just didn't know what to call themselves. They believed in nature and love and just being good people! There was one Christian, but he said himself that he thinks that there are very few "real Christians" left in the world. He talked about how real Christians don't judge others and are accepting of people who are different. It was pretty cool. I am afraid that I might not be able to stay with this group though. The Bridge Program, starting next Monday, is requiring us to do these stupid things every Monday at 7! I already told the lady that I would be late because I have class until 6:45, but the Meetings last until about 7:30! Any suggestions on what I could do? She already told me we "had to come to ALL of them," becuase I already asked! Maybe go to the meetings and just be really late to the Bridge things? I don't know...
Well I guess that's it. I just wanted to share my excitement.
Love you guys!
Cheyenne

What's been going on

Well, the weather is getting cooler now, and I know most of us are happy for that! We've had to run the furnace for the first time this season. But still no rain.

We got to see Cheyenne and Veronica for a little bit this weekend. Veronica got her hair cut and then we went to lunch at Cazadores on Saturday.

Mike is in NY for a two day class. He will be back late Tuesday night.

Kacie had a good time at the Foo Fighters concert. Maybe it had something to do with meeting Dave Grohl?? I hope she got an "A" on her review!

George had his last driver's ed class on Saturday. That's the last of six kids to put through the course --- whew. He still has the driving portion to go, however. How mad will you girls be when you find out that I bought him lunch at Wendy's and delivered it to him during lunch time at driver's training so he wouldn't be hungry??!!

Last week was "fall break" for Emma. Her dad came down for a visit, too. They had a great dinner at Twi's and then she brought him to visit George on Sunday. Also this week, they were out of hot water at Emma's apartment for a day or two, but it's back on now. That's inconvenient!

Veronica's football team is STILL undefeated! The AJC ranks them No 1 in the class AAAAA rankings. They haven't been at the top of the AJC Rankings since 1959; also North Cobb is the first Cobb County team to be ranked No. 1 in any classification since 1998. That sure makes going to the football games fun, doesn't it?

Twi has a big event around the corner... just a few days away from the BIG 21; now that's hard to believe! I think she said she's having dinner with friends for her birthday; I don't currently have anything planned for now. But that could change! Also, rumor has it she will be participating in NaNoWriMo in November; now that's a contest tailor made for Twila --- if there is anyone who could write 50,000 words in one month, its her!

Cheyenne will hear in a couple of weeks about the Disney internship. The nice thing is, if she doesn't get it, she can always try again next year. We think she has a pretty good chance.

Me, besides conserving trees (see my last post) I'm also working on conserving water! By some reports, there are only 3 months of water left. So, we're taking shorter showers, combining laundry loads, cutting back on dishwashing, etc. It's a bit concerning when you see those pictures of Lake Lanier:

Catalog Choice is a service that helps you to stop unwanted catalogs from being delivered to your home. With Christmas season coming, the catalogs will be bombarding our house, and I'm going to use this service to stop every single one of them. So help save some trees and spread the word! I know you kids in college probably don't get catalogs, but if you know someone who does and doesn't like it, let them know.

Disney College Program

Hey Family
How are you all doing? I'm doing just fine at the moment. As everybody probably knows, I really want to work for Disney and do the College Program. Well, I just might. I have an interview tomorrow for the Spring Advantage session (January-late July/Early August). I'm not expecting an offer this time around, however I am still very excited! If I do get it, even if it's not when I was planning on going, I'll be going! Just thought I should let you all know!
Love and miss you guys,
Cheyenne

I Never Thought I'd Say This...

Where did the time go? So hard to believe so much time has passed and the changes in all of us. I remember ConnieMom and me getting dinner together (with two bags of Milano’s waiting on the counter for dessert – “How many do we get!”) with George and Veronica running around the house building forts, Cheyenne watching “The Little Rascals” for the 50^th time and reciting the dialogue, Emma doing her homework projects 3 weekends before they were due and Kacie and Twila down in the lair laughing and making Anime drawings like it was just a year or so ago.

I don’t know how the heck we did it, but here we are in 2007 with 4 of you in college and two of you driving (or almost driving anyway!) I never thought I’d live to see the day, but I’m saying it:

I miss the old days when we had dinner for 8, kitchen duty teams, movie time, dessert, and bedtime. Whatever you think, let me say I feel lucky and privileged to have had the 6 of you as my kids, and I had it to do over again I would in a heartbeat.

Post your memories in the comment section….

Love, DaddyMike

Finally taking that poll down! Here are the results:

The word RANDOM is/is not a synonym for "arbitrary"	33.3%	3
Whether or not a LITTLE DOG like Choppy should get a WHOLE HOTDOG with his dinner	22.2%	2
After the picnic is NO TIME to tell your spouse that his/her butt looks big in those shorts	22.2%	2
NY PIZZA IS THE ONLY EDIBLE PIZZA	11.1%	1
"Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I have to kill that bug myself!"	11.1%	1
The athiest vs. agnostic argument	0%	0
total votes: 9

Another nomination

Hey Family

Um, I got nominated by my Critical Writing professor to become a McGill Fellowship member which I guess is a pretty big honor in the Grady School. The ceremony where I am inducted is on November 7th, and I'd really like it if one or some of the parents could be there since its a big deal. Not quite as big as my CURO thing where I did the reading, but still pretty cool. So um, yeah.
Thanks!!
Love from,
Kacie