childrenI'm getting a new car. It's "dark sapphire blue", has XM radio, power locks and lots of space and is adorable. *Sigh* I'm kinda in love. Those shifty car salesmen tried to get us to buy a car of the same make (Hyundai Accent) that was Charcoal Grey and didn't have all the features we wanted, so we left to go look somewhere else. By some MIRACLE, they just HAPPENED to find one (after much annoying questions by people who weren't even listening to us) that had all the features and was BLUE! Yay... stupid jerks. It didn't cost as much as the original car, which is why they didn't want to sell it to us, so that's a second YAY, too.
I deposited my first paycheck (EVER!) today. Hehe. I feel so accomplished, even if I am getting a dollar less on hour than I thought I would (grrrrrrr!) and even if my job (at a daycare, as a teacher for 3 year olds and, more and more often, 1 year olds) makes me want to pull my hair out sometimes.
I'm so ready to go back to Athens! We'll have our apartment, I'll be able to further explore my archealogical ambitions, I'll be around boys (my age! haha... *cough*Kayla*cough), and Sis and I will be bellydancing again. Plus, I'm psyched about Georgia football season and Ice Dawg hockey season.
And that leads me to the passing of our beloved mascot Uga VI ("Uga V's Whatchagot Loran?") this past weekend. He'll always be my Uga, a strangely significant reason for me coming to the University of Georgia, and the most victorious mascot in UGA history-- leaving Georgia ranked preseason #1. A damn, damn good dog.
To Uga VI... Rest In Peace.
My days this week consist of getting a tan while the dog swims in the pool, eating breakfast, feeding the dog, going back to sleep, spending hours reading on the porch while listening to music, feeding the dog again, walking along the beach, getting reactions from guys in cars on the way back (even though I dont get near as many as I do when Sis is with me!), and then reading on the porch again before going to sleep. Ah, the easy days of a beach bum. I'm liking this dog/house sitting thing this week, since Tybee is absolutely my favorite place in the entire world (so far, atleast. hehe), but I'm kinda lonely. Hmm... I need a boyfriend. ;o)
~I'm going to sit here on the porch some more.
PS- I found a "mermaid necklace" on the beach. It's actually an egg case (I know it sounds gross, but it's actually really pretty) for a knobbed whelk shell (which, coincidentally, is the state shell of both Georgia and New Jersey-- only Sis will get why NJ is relavent. Heh). I'll try to post a picture tomorrow after it's dried out... like anyone actually reads this blog and will be waiting for it? Heh. Oh well. It'll give me something to do. Unless some hott guy amazingly shows up to distract me, I wont have anything more important to do.
;o)
I should just entitle this blog "My Annual Update" and be done with it, since I only add an entry once a year, it seems.
Well, here goes my list of things that have happened this past year:
- I completed my freshman year at the University of Georgia.
- I changed my major and then added a major; am now a Classics/ Elementary Education double major.
- I spent a semester in Air Force ROTC, merely on a whim, which involved:
6am PT workouts
uniforms
flag duty
paintball
marching in formation
inspection
gaining a tendency to add "Huah" randomly into conversation
flying a plane (no really... and it was frikkin awesome!)
- I spent a semester in Redcoats (UGA's Marching Band), which involved:
lots of wasted time (since I was in pit)
a uniform that was like an all-access-pass in the football stadium
airtime on national television
trips to Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and Louisiana
performing in front of 92,000+ fans
using my improv skills to make up music for halftime when we were never given music for a song
learning how to live on zero sleep
-I become a part of PDTK (the UGA Drumline "fraternity"), which included lots of bonding experiences which are too numerous and innappropriate to write out. =oP
- I lived with my best friend and sis in a dorm [read: cell], which just proves how great of friends we are because we were able to deal with each other in such a small space.
- I started bellydancing classes with Sis and we both became pretty good and have decided to continue learning this ancient art next semester.
- I got a new horse named Luke, who is a 3yr old brown quarterhorse with a black mane and tail.
- My dad got a new job that lets him spend more time with us, we bought new land (25 acres), built a house on it, are almost moved out of our old house (we finish tomorrow), and are excited about living in such a calming and nature-y (I mean, we have our own forest! hehe) place that we can call our own.
- I still dont have a boyfriend. Damn it. *sighs* But not without trying to remedy it... I got some new experiences with rejection this year.
- I crashed my car over spring break; no one was hurt, but my car needs a new front end. Oops.
- I gained a new obsession (the Twilight series, by Stephanie Meyer) and became a new fan of a sport (Ice Dawg hockey!).
- I went to every UGA football game (except Vanderbuilt) for a year, including the 2008 Sugar Bowl, where I met some amazing people (Aloha to my Hawaiian drumline ppls!), got to party at Bourbon Street on New Years, and watched Georgia's defensive line pound Hawaii's quarterback into submission. Go Dawgs!
So there's an overview of my life for the past year... other experiences include having an awesome RA (a Croatian gangsta') who threw rave dance parties with German techno in his room for me and Kayla, dominating at the Auburn v Georgia BLACKOUT game, and roleplaying in a Roman Culture reaction game in which I (as Cicero) entirely rewrote history.
Hmmm... that's been my life. More news next year, yeah? Heh.
Okay, yes.
I am terribly lacking when it comes to updating this, but--*sigh*-- such is me. I haven't changed for the past 17 years, so it is unlikely that I will changes now. =o)
I graduated from high school a week ago. It's weird. It's wonderful. It's over. TA-DA!
I go to UGA on the 16th, which is (co-ink-i-dinkly) my 18th birthday, for Orientation/Registration.
On July 23-27, I will be at Burke County High School as a cymbal line instructor with Westman. w00t! I knew that "Director's Award" from the band banquet would come in good for something. So what, I didn't get any scholarships? I got a job, yo! =o)
As an official member of the Redcoat Marching Band (front ensemble, aka= pit), I start band camp on August 6th. We move into our dorms (Sissy and I... she's playing baritone) on the 10th... I think.
Classes start on the 16th... and then it's no from there.
Wow... college. I'm going to UGA. It's so strange. It's great. It's beginning.... w00t-ness x infinity!
I'm going to go read fanfiction now. Okay? Okay.
