what protects our hearts .,

[dawson leighton kipling]

heh, i haven't used an instant messager in years. it's sort of weird...

so hopefully someone else is boring their summer away and is willing to talk to me? that would make my day.

sorry, closed for macy marlin, kids

[macy rose marlin]

Ha. What can I say. I'm a bit of an IM junkie. I'm on here all the time. Probably too much for my own good. But hey, something's gotta give, right? lol. Anyway, I'm Macy Marlin, at your service. *bows*

[dawson leighton kipling]

haha, maybe your friends should have an intervention for you then.

well then, great to meet you miss marlin. :) i'm dawson. kipling, haha.

[macy rose marlin]

Baha. Most of my friends are too busy falling in love to even think a bout inventions. xD Anyway, nice to meet you Dawson. I really like that name, for some reason. Haha. Unique. ;-]

[dawson leighton kipling]

aww, haha. well i'm not busy falling in love so perhaps i will remind them.

haha, thanks, i get that a lot. though it's got the whole dawson's creek deal. i still haven't actually seen that show. >.<

soo, mississippi girl. are you from mississippi?

[macy rose marlin]

Haha, me either. I'm more of an IM junkie than a TV addict.

Originally, yes. I'm in Salt Lake going to school, but I'm going back to Mississippi as soon as I finish. My family runs a horse training business there, which is what I do. Train horses, I mean. Haha.

[dawson leighton kipling]

same here. well, as far as not liking tv that much. i'm a music sort of guy.

oh wow, that's cool. i've only ridden a few times, and that was for touristy stuff. i'm always so sore i don't want to do it again anytime soon. lame, i know.

so why on earth utah? i'm here 'cause of family, but you know, otherwise i'd probably be somewhere way different. or just plain not in the US.

[macy rose marlin]

Are you foreign? lol. Annd. Why Salt Lake. Baha. There's kind of an interesting story behind that one. It all came down to a bet and a game of darts with my brother. Haha.

[dawson leighton kipling]

you make me sound like an alien! lol. but yes, i'm zimbabwean.

so i take it you lost the game of darts?

[macy rose marlin]

No, no! I didn't mean to make you sound like an alien at all...I mean..you might be....Are you legal?! haha, kidding, kidding! And Zimbabwe?!?! That's wicked cool!!

Annd yeah. Unfortunately. I suck at darts. I kill things on a pretty regular basis with them. I don't know why I agreed. Basically whoever won the round of darts got to throw a dart at the map and that would be where I went to school. And. He actually meant to find me some place closer to home. Because my brother and I are like, BESTEST best friends. But. Obviously he's not very good at darts either. xD Because I ended up in Utah...Which is a LONG LONG way from Mississippi, I gotta say. Although NOT as far as Zimbabwe, so I got nothin' on you. =P

[dawson leighton kipling]

haha, i was kidding. i kid alot. ;)

but yeah, i'm legal. i was born here actually, so i have dual citizenship.

um, i guess it's cool. my parents are missionaries soo you know. they just chose the country with the zebras.

haha, well, that's quite the story. my sister brooklyn and i are like that. or were before she moved to new york. brooklyn, new york, actually, hahaha. my whole family is scattered anymore, so i get what you're saying. my older brother just moved to europe so we're tri-continental now.

[macy rose marlin]

Haha. I totally would have been a missionary if I weren't such a home body. I was gonna go on a mission trip to Romania a couple summers ago, but things fell through. My grandpa got really sick and I didn't really want to leave in the middle of all that, so yeah. Does that mean you're a Christian, then? I mean, not to be pushy or anything. Haha.

And yeah. That's cool. My brother and I hated each other when we were little, but then my mom miss-carried another little girl, and for some reason we got really tight after that. It's always just been the two of us, kind of "us against the world." Haha.

And Brooklyn, Dawson...What's your brother's name? I gotta say, so far I really like y our parents choice in names. And are you oldest, middle, or youngest? haha.

[dawson leighton kipling]

my life was a mission trip, haha. and yep, i'm a jesus freak. :)

aww, that's sad. i have no idea why brookie and i are so close, we just are. i think my stabbing really brought us together more than anything so perhaps tragedy unifies. haha, i don't know.

i'm in the middle, third out of six. my parents sort of went back and forth between biblical and place names i guess you'd call them. brooklynn and aaron are older than me and they're twins, then there's me, then madison, then daya, and then andrew. daya is adopted though, so her name is shosa and my parents didn't want to change that. i haven't figured out the pattern on the rest though. theoretically i should be abraham or abednego or something to match my brothers, haha.

so, what's your brother's name? since i like macy, haha.

[macy rose marlin]

That's awesome. =D I always loved when missionaries would come visit our church. It was like, the coolest thing.

And haha, that's funny. There really isn't much rhyme or reason, is there? I like the names though. My brother is Garret. Pretty generic names, I guess, but I like them. Granted, he's my brother, so I can't really think of him as anything but Garret, you know?

So are you here just to go to school or what? Are you planning to stay in the States or head back to Zimbabwe?

[dawson leighton kipling]

yeah, i'm here for school but i'm sticking around after that if i can. i figure by the time i'm done with school i'll be adjusted to everything and all that so there's no point in going back to zimbabwe except to visit family. unless i just can't get used to the way things are done here and then i don't have much choice other than to go home. but we'll see.

are you going back to mississippi, then, after college?