cool things and not so cool things

[animuspoeta]

well, good news first, my transformation is coming along pretty nice. I have talked to pretty much all of my close friends. Bryan online, ronnie and dave online and on the phone, jay, craig, jill, etc in person. I've talked to Brad's mother, but not Brad himself. Bryan is doing okay, ronnie has something he wants to tell me, but can only tell me in person, so no clue what that can be, and dave is doing well. I talked to Fernando online as well, I hope he sees how sorry I am to have hurt him, and that I really want us to stay being friends. There is really no harm in it now that he has been totally honest about how I made him very uneasy. It wasn't on purpose. Anyway, school is okay I think. My dad isn't doing as well as I could hope. Things are still really hard for him. The heart attack didn't even scare him into doing anything different, but now thanks to all of us getting on his case, he is trying to quit smoking, and eat a little better, but he still drinks excessively, but not as bad as when we were in fort lauderdale. Dominic is doing well, I love the little guy so much. Duke and Frankie are doing okay also, but they have a new playmate. Yeah, sheena brought home a one year old german shepherd named lucy. Sheena is doing okay as well, she is enrolling back in school, and so is jamie.
The bad news is that ma and dad really want me to go to school in the tampa area to be close to home. I mean they have brought this up twice, and I want to be there, but I don't want to leave a good school either, but i really want another new start. In fort lauderdale I had a great new start and I screwed it up, big time, it has brought me nothing but pain at my own fault. But that is life, and you have to keep on truckin' and still trust people, something I wish Fernando and Ronnie could both learn.