Kim Gessner – Rest In Peace; we loved you… and miss you. 3/21/04

Wow, how do I express what I’m feeling?

I mourn for the years of coming friendship we will never have.
I mourn for the spritual bond that was just beginning.
I mourn for never being able to ask you to prom, or to see you there.
I mourn because you had such a wonderful life ahead of you.

I only wish that I could have told you how I feel, how incredible you were.
I only wish that I knew how deeply you felt for me.
I only wish I had opened my eyes sooner.
I only wish you knew the joy you bring me.

May your life be remembered for what it was: a joy to all who had the pleasure of knowing you.

This is so weird, so surreal. I know you are gone, dare I say it, but I can’t believe it.
I want to do something! I want to save you!
But I can’t!! There is nothing I can do… I am powerless to help you!!

You were so wonderful, Kim, and you were right in front of me the whole time.

My heart is overwhelmed with grief… I miss you so much already!
Barely 24 hours ago we talked… less than a week and you were over at my house.

You have touched so many, and my life will never be the same.
May this serve, at the least, as a wake-up call for others to live as you did.

May you rest in peace, Kim. Say “hi” to me from heaven, if you can.
I loved you, as did we all.

May you rest in peace.

Yes, I managed to head down to the beach again yesterday, Friday, for some more sand volleyball fun. James and I headed down around 11:15am and met up with a group of people I had met on Wednesday. We all played volleyball from 12:30 to around 3:30, then chilled out, went in the ocean, and made a mermaid.

Just be sure you’re not a crazymaker!

I’ve gotta tell ya, all those people who bash Galveston don’t know what they’re talking about! This morning my friend Nicole and I headed down to Stuart Beach to chill and play some crazy beach volleyball. We had a blast and met a group of people who were either attending or planning on attending the colleges that we were interested in, so it was pretty cool.

Afterwards, we drove down the seawall blastin’ our music and then went to the Strand. First stop: the old time root-beer float and laffy taffy shop! We both loaded up with laffy taffy and a huge root-beer float (well, Nikki grabbed a Dr. Pepper float) and then noticed that six of our friends from school were also there. After talking for awhile, we parted ways and got some food at Fuddrucker’s and watched another group of 8 Klein students cram into a telephone booth.

Browsing of shops followed as well as watching charactures being drawn of two girls. We wrapped up the day speeding home at 95 mph with tons of other college or high school students on I-45, windows down and music blaring, of course. I managed to snap two pictures before the batteries ran out… gotta remember to charge ‘em next time.

Today Lacey and I took a stroll down on Westheimer near Montrose, looking into shops and browsing through all sorts of stuff. My favorite stores were nice resale shops, such as the Buffalo Exchange and the Taxi Taxi shop. Lacey found a “cute” purse for $6, while I grabbed two Kenneth Cole shirts which are really sweet. Speaking of, if you ever can’t think of anything to buy me, and you just feel the need to, grab some stylish clothes from there, and you can’t go wrong.

Gotta love the dip in Cypresswood. I suggest you try it at 90 mph with all your friends in a truck (like mine)!

I must say, whenever you have a chance to meet a neighbor for the first time, even though he is moving out in two weeks, and he needs yard work done, offer to do it! I did just that today and it turns out that said neighbor is a senior director for Nokia, who also happens to have phone demo models in his garage that he doesn’t mind giving to neighborhood kids who help him with his yard work. Needless to say, he forced me to accept two wonderful models, the tiny 6220 and the feature-loaded, PDA pumpin’, camera phone totin’, speaker phone usin’ 3650. This makes Will a happy camper, to say the least. And thanks to SIM cards, I could be using any of my three phones whenever you call, so watch out!

Tonight I visited my friend Leslie who is recovering from surgery this past Thursday. We got to catch up on alot of things, watch a movie, and eat homemade mac and cheese. Afterwards, I headed out to CiCi’s with the girl’s soccer team and then to Neelou’s house to watch Heavyweights. ‘Twas hilarious! A great movie all around.

Next week: Spring Break, baby!