Sayonara Thumbnail!

Some of you might remember December of 2003 (first semester sophomore year), when my toenail was injured. It was huge and real bloody...an all-around disgusting sight. Over Thanksgiving break, I dropped a piece of firewood on my toe as I was walking barefoot on our brick porch. That was the most painful experience of my life thus far: when I think of it, I cringe. The only good thing that came out of that incident was leaving my toenail in Jon Roth's campus mailbox, and even that probably wasn't worth the pain.

You're probably saying to yourself, "who cares?" Well, it happened again! While lifeguarding at the lake, I was helping kids get out of their canoe and all of the sudden another canoe smacked into them, smashing my thumb between the canoe and the dock. The hilarious part was that I forgot all about it, and a couple days later when my thumbnail was throbbing and swollen, I had no clue why. Silly Libby. But after living with my swollen, fluid-filled thumbnail for about a week, the whole incident came back to me. Obviously, this injury came no where close to matching the pain of that horrible day in December, 2003. But now I'm losing my thumbnail, so it couldn't've been too wimpy. Aight, I'm out for the night. Catch y'all lata.

~Libyo

Song of the day: "Where Zero Meets Fifteen" - Five Iron Frenzy

I went to a bar with my mom!

My 4th of July weekend was spent in Port Clinton, Ohio, with my mom (b/c my dad and brothers were fishing in Canada). Port Clinton is a little town near the Lake Erie islands, Sandusky, and the infamous Cedar Point. We visited Middle Bass Island, swam, sampled the better part of 30 popcorn flavors at the amazing Great Lakes Popcorn Co. and even sipped margaritas together one evening. It was a relaxing weekend, and the idea of coming home to work on Tuesday was a major bummer.

Monday night we were too tired to go see fireworks, but as I sat at the computer replying to an email I couldn't help but go outside: there were four loud firework displays near our house. The trees were blocking our view, so my mom and I went up to the high school (higher elevation) to check out the fireworks. It was amazing. We stood at the top of the football stadium and marvelled at the 20 different firework displays that surrounded us. We thought that Geauga Lake's were the best, but Solon and Twinsburg were also very good.

Last night was like the cherry on top of a good weekend. Jen Allison was in town for a long weekend (studying at Johns Hopkins for the summer), so Amy, Andrea, and I met at her house in Grove City and the four of us went out to dinner. We sat in Rachels (the restaurant) for three hours, talking, planning, and reminiscing. I always love spending time with the girls. :)

Brian, Joe, and I had a great time cruising around Bainbridge this evening. I love each of my brothers so much! I'm stoked for Sunday, when the three of us will spend the day playing golf together.

~Libbz

Song of the day: "Holy Is the Lord" - Andrew Peterson (City On a Hill)