6+ YEARS && STILL GOING

Wow, Rochele and I have been friends for 6 or more years and that may not seem like a big deal to most people but it is for me. Considering our (Rochele's and mine) relationship is the longest functional relationship either of us have ever had lol yeah we consider our selves blessed to still be there for one another. We have been through so much in just this past year that we know now we can withstand anything, we have been in fights together, we have traveled together, went to jail together, we have laughed together and cried together. I'll never have a better friend than her, she is the most spirited and loving person i know, with a heart of gold. So we fight occasionally who doesn't? So her parents hate me... It happens (lol). Nothing and i mean nothing will tear us apart, we have grown up and realized our responsibilities on our own, we have made it to a turning point in our lives where we might actually be separated for the first time in 6 years, we are learning more and more everyday about this crazy life and we are doing everything in our power to make sure we spend the rest of our insane lives together. Rochele you are not just my best friend you are my one and only true friend and i love you.

Dan The Man RIP we love you man!

Daniel Overton Carmichael, 16, of Copperas Cove, passed away June 1, 2009, at his residence. Daniel will be in state for a time of visitation 9 a.m. Thursday, June 4, until 8 p.m. Friday, June 5, at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Copperas Cove. Cremation will follow and the family will have a memorial service at a later time in Friona, Texas. Daniel was born Sept. 21, 1992, to Daniel M. Carmichael and Shirley Overton-Carmichael. He was a sophomore at Copperas Cove High School. Daniel enjoyed bull riding, music, playing football with his nephews, playing the guitar, listening to music, sleeping under the stars, playing golf and, most of all, hanging out with his sisters and friends.He will always be remembered for his big hearted personality and his love for everyone. He always had a hug for those he was around. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Daniel Carmichael; an Aunt Daisy; and Maw Maw Sue. He is survived by his mother, Shirley Overton-Otto and her husband, Jerry, of Copperas Cove; his father, Danny Carmichael of Copperas Cove; four sisters, Hannah Holloway and her husband, Chris, of Fayetteville, Ark., Necole Ivy and her husband, T.J., of Amarillo, Erika Barnes and Fancy Wagner, both of Copperas Cove; a brother, Wayne Wagner of Copperas Cove; an aunt and uncle, Susie and Steve Knox of Fairfax, Va.; and five nephews, Tucker, Ty, Jaden, Spencer and Luke Daniel. Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home, Copperas Cove. September 21, 1992 - June 1, 2009 Sign the Guest Book at www.wacotrib.com

the law of moral causation

Some times we love it most of the time we hate it. Well folks this girl right here has learned to embrace it. At first i never believed this whole Karma deal, i thought yeah your trying to scare me, but i write this now in full belief that if you wrong someone its going to come back to haunt you with a greater power than what you did. I'm not going to lie I've had my fair share of dirty little secrets and i just noticed that i have been paid back for every time i did someone wrong. And now its her turn, i had turned to a blank page in my love life. Had a seemingly amazing boyfriend whom I'd had no intentions on wronging and we were practically inseparable. I also had a seemingly amazing friend who just so happen to be the one who introduced me and this guy. Well sometimes you just have these feelings when you know something is up? Well i had one and i acted on it and of course caught them. My "best friend" and my "love" messing around. At first i just paused and Thought if you'd wanted him this whole time why push me and him together? Why even bother introducing him as your "single" friend if you wanted him? It still bothers me, and him oh gosh i don't want to get into all of that. Well regardless of why they played me, they still did. And since then me and him have remained friends to an extent but me and her are threw(this was not the first time she'd done this but i didn't know her before when she'd done it) Anyways this girl thinks she's so in love and that he'll never leave her and the other night who was he crying back to? Me. Why, i couldn't tell you. The fact is its going to hurt her when he leaves her and runs back to me. Its karma, this girl should have known not to do me dirty, Finlay I'm getting some satisfactory outta this whole Karma thing its been playing from left field for a few years now. This is my knowledgeable warning to all: Karma is real, and it hurts, worse than you've ever felt before, and that only because you know you deserve it. so remember treat everyone as you wish to be treated and overlook nothing.

Come on life..Hit me with your best shot.

Ive been silently debating for a couple months weather i should jump right into college or if i should take some time off. I also know how people get when they take a break from school so i have a pretty good game plan of what i want to do if i dont end up going straight to college. I am Really intrested in Joining the Peace Corps. Ive done tons of reasearch on it and it seems like something i'd really enjoy doing. So monday morning, I will be on my wat to see a recrutier and see exactly what im getting myself into. I know its 27 months in a foregin country, this may be exactly what i need... I feel like i can grow from this and im definetly not ready for college. i have a while to think about it you have to be eighteen and im a few months shy of it.
Which brings me to my next thought, I have noticed a maturity rising in me and my friends lately.. finally we a re growing up and realizing what has to be done before we do what we want to do. Real world's kicking in,fast, so i hope we are all ready for what life has in store for us. I know i am. I see myself 10years from now hopefully working out of my kitchen designing beautiful wedding cakes(its my dream) possibly some little ones running around who knows?

so i say come on life & hit me with your best shot, im ready to take you on.

Best Friends

Best friends...

we all have them... even if your bestie is covered in fleas(dogs) everyone confides in one person for everything..

this is me and my bestie...\ i love her she knows everything about me as i do her heres a little about her

This is Rochele Diana Hurd, born March 10th 1992 in Simi Valley California . She's lived just about everywhere up North but now she is here in Texas with me :) We havent always been friends though... in fact when i first met her i did not like her at all. Enimes at first but Besties now i gotta say im glad i opened up to her and stopped being so childish. I met Rochele in seventh grade but thats when we were not friends around the end of 8th grade and into Freshman year is when we started talking. But now it takes the Jaws of Life to keep us apart! i love her , if i'd oonly known that in my worst enemy i'd find my best friend.

I wonder if because our Friendship was put on hold due to mostly my stubborness that it makes it so much stronger, i know if it wasn't for the drama in the beging, then i wouldnt have known what a strong willed person i was dealing with. i wouldnt give up my best friend for anyone.. thats how i know that she and i are a clear example of Fate! I love you Rochele.

"CHARACTER IS WHO YOU ARE WHEN NO ONES LOOKING"

THESE ARE WORDS THAT WERE SPOKEN TO HUNDREDS OF US JUNIORS AND SENIORS OF COPPERAS COVE HIGH SCHOOL ON THURSDAY WHILE AT THE MOCK MEMORIAL FOR OUR SHATTERD DREAMS VICTIMS. SHATTERD DREAMS IS A MOCK CAR ACCIDENT WITH DRUNK DRIVERS TO TRY AND TEACH US NOT TO DRINK AND DRIVE, THEY DO IT EVERY OTHER YEAR AT MY HIGH SCHOOL THIS YEAR IS THE FIRST YEAR IVE ACTUALLY WATCHED THE WHOLE THING. THE STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAR CRASH ARE ACTUALLY CONSIDERED DEAD AND THEY ARE PULLED OUT OF SCHOOL FOR A WEEK NOT ALOUD TO HAVE CONTACT WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS OTHER THAN EACH OTHER. WELL ON THE DAY OF THE MOCK MEMORIAL WE HAD A FEW GUEST SPEAKERS. IM NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE GUY'S NAME WAS BUT HE HAD LOST SOME BROTHERS IN AN ACCIDENT WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, WHEN THIS MAN SPOKE HE HAD A VOICE THAT JUST DREW YOU IN EVERY WORD HE SAID I FEEL I CAN RECITE. BUT THE WORDS HE SAID THAT STUCK THE MOST IS "CHARACTER IS WHO YOU ARE WHEN NO ONE'S AROUND" THIS MADE ME THINK. WHO AM I WHEN NO ONE IS AROUND AM I THE SAME PERSON? ARE WE ALL DIFFRENT WHEN LEFT IN THE PRIVACY OF OUR OWN ROOMS? DO WE ALL PUT A FRONT ON FOR OUR FRIENDS OR ARE WE ALL THE SAME AROUND THEM. IM GOING TO ADMITT I DONT THINK I AM THE SAME AROUND PEOPLE AS I AM WHEN IM ALONE AND MAYBE THATS BECAUSE THERE IS NO CONVERSATION IN THE AIR AND NO ONE WATCHING YOUR EVERY MOVE. I DONT KNOW. BUT I KNOW THAT I AM ME. I ACT HOW I WISH TO ACT AROUND PEOPLE AND WHEN ITS JUST ME. IM JUST ME. HOW ABOUT YUO ARE YOU DIFFERNT AROUND PEOPLE? SHOULD YOU BE? ARE THERE TIMES WHEN WE SHOULD ACT A CERTAIN WAY? IM UNSURE.

"WONT CRY FOR YOU" [WRITTIEN BY ME][PUBLISHED WORK]

Wont Cry For You
all this time I wasted thinking you really cared,all these people I hurt thinking you would be there,I lost allot for you but I thought I was gaining so much more,you manipulated me, broke me, and threw my love out the door,time and time again I came running back to you,and just like clock work my love for you grew,every word you said is now stuck in my head,words once spoken so blissfully now seem so dead,I knew I should have given you my trust,all you gave my was you undying lust,what seemed like a forever is now forgotten,I'm over your lies that grew like wild cotton,your mysterious presence does not indulge like it did before,I will not ever sulk over the disappearance of you anymore,my love and your lust would not hold us together,my honesty and your lies would not have survived in any weather,I guess its a good thing it was all a lie,ill never have to feel like I want die,I loved you so faithfully,you cheated so desperately,you built me up just to tear me down,but you will never see this girl frown

Rachel Ann Crain

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