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So, things are still going well. Kelly drove her car yesterday. . . HAHAHAHA. It was every permit/parent stereotype. Yelling, name calling and lots of bitching on both sides. truly hilarious. :D
I've been reading my werecat books and WOW, i forgot how good they were. I LOVE these books!! thank you Rachel Vincent!!!
Been listening to the Relapse and Recovery cds. Recovery is def my favorite. Don't get me wrong, I love Relapse. I just relate to Recovery more. So yeah, super glad I finally have them. Thank you Eric :)
Umm, one super horrible thing that's happening is my best friend, Mykayla, is moving on Sunday to her mom's in Saginaw. 2 hours from here, and hour and a half from Ann Arbor :(. It makes it soo much more real, with her leaving already. I'm truly going to miss everything. We've been through sooo much together, including all of high school and all the dumb drama to follow since. It's going to be soo weird, not spending my weekends at her dad's house, cleaning in her room, being dorks downstairs in the basement, walking for hours around her grandpa's fields, spending night sitting out at the garage, drinking nos and sharing all of our secrets. It's been an amazing ride girlfriend and I am truly going to miss you!
Well. . . I guess that's all for now. Tootles!!!

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HI!!!! lol. So things in general are going pretty awesome. It's weird, but definitely a nice change from "normal". So yeah. Lately I've been trying to work on getting the house ready to move with my ma. We've started really getting into the attic, which is well, about as fun as it sounds :P Plus, I've semi-started to get back into my writing, which I've really missed. I've realized that a lot of the stories that I started back freshman and sophomore year don't really reflect who I want to be as a writer, but I'm hoping to seriously revisit them later and rework them. But there is one story, the one that I wrote for Contemporary Lit, that I really want to finish. It's hard because I really do like it the way it is, but I also want it to be more developed and longer. I just hope that in expanding it, I don't lose the voice and writing quality.
Um. . . Ma and I went to Harbor Days last night. The fireworks were absolutely stellar! Way blew Fife's 4th out of the water. I got video of most of them for my dad, who hasn't missed them in, like, 16 or 17 years. It really sucks not having him around :( He's missing out on soo much. . . He will be here the 28th!!! I'm so excited. I haven't seen him since the 14th of June, so nearly two months. But I suppose I need to get used to it . . . On the bright side, my ma and I have become really close in the past several months. There are still times when she irritates me, and vice versa, but we can laugh together and just hang out. Like, I can go hang out in her room and I dont hear "vacate" constantly. It's been really nice.
Kelly moves home today. . . . *sigh. It's gonna be a challenge, as anyone in this family who's lived with her knows. But we'll deal. And it is nice having her home cuz there are certain things I can only talk to her about. Sister thing. And she just bought a car. It's mega-nice. And pretty. Better than my ma's car. lol. So all she needs to do is get her license and we are set for the year. I'm sure she'll pry come up more often than I do, but I know that if I want/need to come up, I'll have a ride. So that's good. And I am well aware that it's HER car, jsyk.
So yeah, that's pretty much what's been going on with me. :)

Today was a good day

Today I met with the people who are sending me on my Outward Bound trip. The meeting went very well. I got to hear exactly how everything came about and why I was chosen. I also got to get to know Mr. and Mrs. Umlor, who are really nice and thankfully very laid back. We're getting things going and it's starting to feel real.
That's something I notice whenever I have something big like this planned. I can never see myself actually doing it, almost like something is going to stop it from happening. I noticed it first when I was 10 and 11 and we were getting ready for our Florida trip. I couldn't even imagine myself being there. It happened again before my sister and I went to Georgia to spend the summer with Shaye and again before my family went to Ohio. Now it's this trip, which barely even compares to how I feel about college. It's so weird because I have a great imagination and sometimes it almost feels like the things I imagine are real. Not in a psychotic way, just that I almost live the stories I tell. But I can't imagine it as actually being me, like I can't imagine good things happening to me.... Though it's different with my spring break trip, though this is the one that has been in the most jeapardy of not happening.
Anyways. So school is drawing to a close. That's exciting.... but it means SO many things. School means the end of the stability ive grown accustomed to and the house ive grown up in, the beginning of college, the separation from all of my family, and my first big move. It's all kinda coming together all at once and i somehow still have to get my schoolwork done.... I dont even know how im still functioning.
Ive kinda been more optimistic lately and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that my family's financial situation is, for the moment, stable. I went on my first shopping spree yesterday. it was fun, but kinda stressful. We had to find shoes..... I dont like shoes and they dont like me. Also, we are on a search for bathingsuits.... not going so well. Nuff said. We are supposed to finish our shopping saturday, so we'll see.
ONLY FOUR SCHOOL DAYS LEFT TILL CAROLINAS!!!!!!