~.: Now that it's December, I feel the need to sort of reflect on the year. This year was the best and worst year of my life, which makes it really hard to fully appreciate the things that contribute to it being the worst and best. On the one hand, I ended a relationship that had been bad from the start. January started with drama in that ( Read more... )

~.: My first loan payment has gone through for Sallie Mae (the one that's actually in my name), and I am $300 closer to being debt-free ^o^.

~.: Also, David just called me. On the phone. Really. I'm going to marry him. <3333

~.: I have a nephew, you guys! :D

~.: Brittanie went into labor about an hour ago. My nephew is on his way! :D

~.: Marcy and I carved pumpkins last night and set them outside our door. They're very cute. ^-^ And this morning, we filled a pumpkin basket/bucket with candy and set it on a chair outside our door, with a sign offering that people can help themselves, so long as they don't steal our plastic pumpkin. Masayo's taking pictures of the girls in ( Read more... )

~.: I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go. D: My life: so hard. Oh well. I feel cute today, and much better considering my cold is basically gone. Last night was brutal, for both me and Marcy, since my coughing is basically that bad. I eventually went to go sleep in the lounge at about six this morning because I felt so bad for keeping Marcy ( Read more... )

~.: This weekend was surprisingly awesome. After my quibble with Aileen last weekend, I was hoping yesterday wouldn't be awkward, though we had basically sorted everything out. I just didn't want her to drive me to the eye doctor if she was still upset or feeling that I was only using her for her car. But the eye doctor experience went fine ( ( Read more... )

~.: Marcy is made of win and awesome because she gave me her old keyboard to replace the crappy $10 one I bought at Wal-Mart, because she gave me and ethernet cord to hook up to the Internet with since I dropped my computer the other night and it conveniently landed on my wireless card, thus jamming it into the computer and breaking that little ( Read more... )

~.: I feel really good right now. Maybe because I found someone to go to the Skillet concert with me in April. Maybe because I got a $300 paycheck. Maybe because I just bought myself a new cell phone and chose a new cell phone plan all by myself. Maybe because I'm looking at apartments again and I'm looking forward to moving out. Maybe because ( Read more... )

~.: Today was the last day that I'll see Marcy and Pam before heading back to the States. They fly out tomorrow evening, pretty much around the same time that the Farewell Party will be ending. I'm excited about going home. I really, really can't wait. But at the same time I think I'm going to miss my host family. I won't miss the ( Read more... )