I found out today that my grandma, my last living grandparent, was just diagnosed with Leukemia. When I found out, I ended up finishing 2 pints of ice cream; it was bad, and now I don't feel very good. I feel like I've been gypped. I hardly got to see my family in West Virginia at all, and now they're all dying off. I'm going to try to fly out to see her ASAP.

My school is really aggravating me right now. The classes have been too easy, and I don't feel challenged. My mom pointed out that maybe I'd like it better if I was taking more than one class, and I think she's right. I would like it better if I was learning about more than one thing. My Photo Tech class was a joke. I didn't learn anything. All we did was take pictures, but he didn't teach us anything about photography. My next class is Illustrator, and I would be excited about it, but I think I'd like it better if I was learning it on my own. They gave us the book, so technically I could go do everything in the book. I heard from a friend who took the class, that all it is is tracing. Well there's Live Trace for that!! We don't need to do tracing for 5 weeks. ARRRGH!!!!!!! I'm thinking about transferring to UAT. Nate said there's good teachers there, and they supposedly have a good web design program. Goody. Later.

I have finally moved. It took me a whole week to get everything moved, and I still need to put things away, but I'm really glad that I decided to move. The girls at my new apartment are really nice, and I actually see them. It's not like I'm just existing here and coexisting with them. It's a nice feeling. So far the only bad thing is that my roommate sleeps very lightly, and wakes up to anything, and I've been coming home late. I feel like such an ass when I come in at 1AM to go to bed. I guess I should have seen if they were night people first. Oh well... Overall it's good. So yea, thats just my little update.

On Saturday I went to the Tempe Groves apartments to meet Amber, Alyssa and Shawna, my new roommates! :) I'll be sharing a room with Shawna, and Amber and Alyssa have their own rooms. Before I went over there, I got a call from Alyssa saying "Come over hungry!!" I was so excited that they were going to feed me dinner! We had these awesome Bombay Tacos that Amber made. Very good. Their friend Bri who lives on the first floor right beneath them was over, and the four of us were hanging out (Shawna was at work). They were very fun to hang out with. Then, they called their other neighbor, Tommy, and had him come over. He's in his 30s and is from the South Side of Chicago. He is also cool. So, after tacos, and lots of fun discussion, Amber decided that we were going to go out dancing. So, she took a very, very long shower, and while she was in the shower, Shawna came home. She's a bit weird, but she's nice enough. I don't think I'll mind sharing a room with her... So then we went dancing and we met Bri's friend Sheila who went with. It was a total blast, and I'm really looking forward to living with cool people.

Moving on to yesterday. I was at Wills, and I desperately needed black ink for the printer, and he had none. So I went out to Staples and got ink. I guess that this week at staples they have a sale going on and you get a pack of 20 CD-R's free with your ink purchase. This made Will very happy, because he needed CD-R's. He decided he's going to need to send me out more often. :) He also asked me to stop and get him cigarettes. I thought it was hilarious. He asked how old you have to be to buy cigarettes in this country, and I said 18, he was like, and you're 18 right?! Yes, I am so I bought my first ever pack of cigarettes. And they weren't even for me...

Later...!

The prosecutor decided that if I come back in a month and prove I have registered my car, they'll drop the criminal charges and just charge a "small fine." Not too bad! :)

Well, I go to court tomorrow bright and early at 8:30am! I just hope that it goes over pretty well. I have all the documentation that I need, and I'm not too</> stressed or worried about it (just a little). I'm going to be fine. Wish me luck!

Hey so this is cool. My boss lent me his car today!! I got to work, and he was like, "Today, I want you to take my car and drive home." No choice in the matter or anything. It made me happy, and surprised. :) His car is really dirty though, so I'm going to take it through the car wash tomorrow, and take the garbage out of the front seat. Ok, later....

Today I got pulled over for having expired plates. I knew my plates were expired from 09-05, but I didn't think expired plates were going big deal since I wasn't in Illinois anymore. Turns out in Arizona, expired plates/registration is a criminal offense. On top of that, the police database shows my plates expired in 10-04 even though I bought the 09-05 sticker and have it on my car. WTF??!!! So, since I have an 05 sticker on my plates, it's considered to be "falsified" since the police don't have records of it. So now, I have 2 criminal violations in one day. I have to go to court next Friday. I hope your day was better than mine.

Well, the train trip from Chicago to Flagstaff was very long (30 hours) and kind of boring. But, there were some very scenic views and I got a lot of nice pictures from the train. I enjoyed Nate's company. The rythym of the train made me feel sleepy. I slept a lot. Nate said I was crabby when he was trying to wake me up, but it was probably because he was trying to wake me up... :) Then we had a 2 hour bus ride from Flagstaff to Phoenix. Well, the bus was 2 hours late, and the bus was extremely cramped, worse than an airplane! The driver nearly gave me heart failure the way he was speeding down the 6% gradients in the mountains. We got back to my apartment at 4AM and crashed. I slept till noon the next day! It felt very nice.

Then we went to Nate's apartment, and I cleaned his room and did 4 loads of his laundry. He was very happy. I didn't get home until 1AM today, and I decided to change my sheets, so I didn't get to bed until 2. I slept till 10:45, but it felt like 9:30. I am still tired. :(

I had a huge fight with my mom yesterday, and I'm leaving today to go back to Phoenix. I feel like there isn't any time to make up, and I've been crying all morning. I just want to visit with my mommy. We fight all the time, and I'm always awful to her. I don't try, but it just happens that way. She was saying that I don't love her, but I do. I'm always awful, then feel even more awful afterward because I know I shouldn't have acted like I did. I'm just a screw up.

Yesterday Nate, his mom and I went to Woodfield to spend his gift card. It was horrible at first because there was still tension between Nate and I. Then, we went into Crate and Barrel, and the tension just broke! It was so cool! :) Then looking around the store was a lot of fun. Looking at all the kitchen stuff, the furniture... ahhh... :) So much nicer. Like, I'd been trying to be in a good mood with him, but he wasn't trying back, so it was a failed one sided attempt at making things happy again (I did get fed up and stop trying for a little bit), then he said he decided he didn't want to spend 30 hours on a train being cranky with me. It's nice to be i the same room with him now! :)

It's so aggravating to be aggravated all the time. It wastes energy, and it makes me feel sad. It's a lot of work to be aggravated all the time too. Right now it's mostly aggravation with my boyfriend because little things keep popping up at really inconvenient times, and we've been kind of fighting. It will blow over in about a week, but I've got a 30 hour train trip on Thursday, and it will be much more pleasant if we're getting along during that 30 hours rather than fighting. It's just little things, or I'll say something at the wrong time and he gets pissed, or vice versa. Anyway, now I'm taking it out on everyone which is making them mad at me which is aggravating me for being aggravated with them for no reason. Ok I'm just rambling right now. I used the word "aggravate" and it's various forms 6 (7 including the last one in quotes) times in this entry. Wow, loser.

Happy New Year everybody! This year has had such an unspectacular start for me, I'm not sure what other joys I have to look forward to yet. Lets see... My new year started at 12:01 when I was mad at Nate because he was being an ass to his parents. Then, this morning started out good, daddy made pancakes, but then Adrienne wouldn't get out of bed for pancakes and really pissed my mom off. Now Nate is here switching my family's printers, and he's acting grumpy and not really talking to me. Yippee. So happy new year, I hope yours started better than mine.

So. I've been trying to get my password that I forgot for my other Live Journal account (random_rose), but the thing won't send me my password. It's like it forgot. Very aggravating. Anyway, I've started a new account. So talk later.
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