Three cheers for livejournal!
I'd like to start off by saying that I am insanely excited about being back on the 'old LJ. Great thinking, em, or whatever came up with this one. I agree with the 'being bad about the phone' thing. I'm terrible. I hate talking on the phone.
Life update:
I've been living in SLO for 8 months now. It's crazy to think that it's almost been a year here, and well over a year since I've left Wisconsin. SOmetimes I really miss the way that mid westerners are. Aka awesome. SLO is a really interesting place. It's great that my brother is here, but the town itself is really weird. The population is like 44k and I think there might be 3 black people. So, not really diverse. It's also filled with these people who are sometimes referred to as 'poly princesses and poly princes'. I imagine you can figure out what that's like, if not, imagine coasties but hotter and snobbier.
I was working at a hair salon for a while as an apprentice, but the other apprentice who worked there a few months longer finally got stable childcare and she went fulltime which meant I went the opposite of full time. They switched me to just a receptionist and, although it hurt a bit to get demoted, turns out it was exactly what I needed to get a fire lit under my bottom. In the month since then I've applied to the community college here (i have orientation with a bunch of 18 y/o's on thursday) and also applied to Cal Poly. Unfortunately this is the worst possible time for going to college because the entire CSU system is broke and cutting everything possible, especially transfers. Awesome, guys, thanks for that one. So, basically i'm not really getting my hopes up too high about it, but I'd really like to get back into school. I want to teach h.s. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it's a good path to be on.
I also got a job at a coffee shop. It's the best thing ever. I haven't been this happy about going to work in a really really really long time. It's just relaxed, and people aren't fucking assholes, and there's not a lot of stress that goes along with it. So I'm excited about it. Oh, by the way, I was born to steam milk. Haha
I'm living in the same 19 person hippie house. It's fun, and also really hard. More on that another time.
I've been in poor people therapy for a couple weeks now and I'm also excited about that. I've managed to stop being so depressed and also started sleeping through some nights entirely! That may not sound like a feat, but it's been almost a year since I've been sleeping well, so I'm happy about it.
In other news, Thanksgiving was this weekend. It was pretty fun and weird. First time I've had a big family gathering. There were like 30 of us in los angeles (i hate los angeles). It's interesting that family thinks that since theyre family they can be judgemental of you even though they haven't seen you in 6 years. Oh, family. I also got in a fight(ish) with my mom about her coming to visit. I think she's got pressure on her from the b/f to stick it out in canada, whereas I insist that she comes to california to visit every month/month and a half to see all of us kids. It makes the most sense, and california is much warmer than canada. She kept making excuses that didn't make any sense so I just cried about it. Oh well, we'll see where that one goes.
Community college is going to be funny. Hopefully I can find boys to date. They'll probably all be 18-20 so that'll be my perfect stomping grounds.
This is long. I missed you guys!!
(also, to kristina's post about reading old lj entries, I read a lot of mine a while back and realized all of them were about boys. I'm glad i'm at a point in my life that life is more than just boy problems. hahaha)
Life update:
I've been living in SLO for 8 months now. It's crazy to think that it's almost been a year here, and well over a year since I've left Wisconsin. SOmetimes I really miss the way that mid westerners are. Aka awesome. SLO is a really interesting place. It's great that my brother is here, but the town itself is really weird. The population is like 44k and I think there might be 3 black people. So, not really diverse. It's also filled with these people who are sometimes referred to as 'poly princesses and poly princes'. I imagine you can figure out what that's like, if not, imagine coasties but hotter and snobbier.
I was working at a hair salon for a while as an apprentice, but the other apprentice who worked there a few months longer finally got stable childcare and she went fulltime which meant I went the opposite of full time. They switched me to just a receptionist and, although it hurt a bit to get demoted, turns out it was exactly what I needed to get a fire lit under my bottom. In the month since then I've applied to the community college here (i have orientation with a bunch of 18 y/o's on thursday) and also applied to Cal Poly. Unfortunately this is the worst possible time for going to college because the entire CSU system is broke and cutting everything possible, especially transfers. Awesome, guys, thanks for that one. So, basically i'm not really getting my hopes up too high about it, but I'd really like to get back into school. I want to teach h.s. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it's a good path to be on.
I also got a job at a coffee shop. It's the best thing ever. I haven't been this happy about going to work in a really really really long time. It's just relaxed, and people aren't fucking assholes, and there's not a lot of stress that goes along with it. So I'm excited about it. Oh, by the way, I was born to steam milk. Haha
I'm living in the same 19 person hippie house. It's fun, and also really hard. More on that another time.
I've been in poor people therapy for a couple weeks now and I'm also excited about that. I've managed to stop being so depressed and also started sleeping through some nights entirely! That may not sound like a feat, but it's been almost a year since I've been sleeping well, so I'm happy about it.
In other news, Thanksgiving was this weekend. It was pretty fun and weird. First time I've had a big family gathering. There were like 30 of us in los angeles (i hate los angeles). It's interesting that family thinks that since theyre family they can be judgemental of you even though they haven't seen you in 6 years. Oh, family. I also got in a fight(ish) with my mom about her coming to visit. I think she's got pressure on her from the b/f to stick it out in canada, whereas I insist that she comes to california to visit every month/month and a half to see all of us kids. It makes the most sense, and california is much warmer than canada. She kept making excuses that didn't make any sense so I just cried about it. Oh well, we'll see where that one goes.
Community college is going to be funny. Hopefully I can find boys to date. They'll probably all be 18-20 so that'll be my perfect stomping grounds.
This is long. I missed you guys!!
(also, to kristina's post about reading old lj entries, I read a lot of mine a while back and realized all of them were about boys. I'm glad i'm at a point in my life that life is more than just boy problems. hahaha)