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I had to go get gas for my car today. $3.45 a gallon. Vomit.

On a side note, it is also that time of year to begin the countdown.  Six weeks and and 2 days until the end of school. Woot!
Also, I’m also going to close the comments on my site. I’m tired of spam.

I totally geeked out last night. We had been watching No Country for Old Men, but stopped it about halfway through.  Don’t get me wrong, it was a great movie.  But I had already read the book, and it was JUST like the book.  I mean exactly.  So the movie was a little boring.

But that’s not the point.  The point is we stopped an Oscar winning movie so we could play Guitar Hero.  It was backwards evolution  Over Easter weekend, I had made fun of Chris and Matt (especially Chris) for how retarded he looked playing this game.  So I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about playing myself. But I have to say, damn that game is fun!  We stayed up until nearly 2 am playing.  I was actually pretty good at it.  Rob, not so much (he’d like to blame it on the drinking, but we all know he just sucked).  I’ve been wanting a PS3 for a while know so that I could play Call of Duty 4, but know I think I kind of want guitar hero!  Oh geeky.

On a side note, we have just 9 weeks of school!  Woot!  It seems like I’ve got so much going on for the rest of the year.  My sister and I are doing a fundraiser in Weather at the end of May that I need to get ready for, and we’re doing the Weatherford trade days a few times over the summer.  My granddad is donating all the stuff for us to sell at the trade days, but it’s two storage sheds worth of stuff, and we’ve got to go through all of it before we can sell it!  It’s going to be a long process.   I have had so much fun trying to get fundraising activities going for the 3-Day.  I just hope that they pan out!

Happy birthday to Christopher Walken!

The Team Diddy Online Store is now open!

My sister and I decided to open an online store to help with some of the fund raising for the 3-Day. We came up with a mascot (Diddy, the blue footed boobie), Jon helped us create some awesome designs, we put everything together and now we have some pretty cool shirts. I’m really proud of them, and they are pretty funny. So check out the store and buy some stuff!!

My spring break is almost over! Man, that is depressing. I could seriously use about another 2 weeks. Especially now that I have so much that I need to do. It’s been a good break, though. I spent the first few days really doing nothing. I came out to my dad’s house Thursday. It’s been a pretty busy week since I’ve been here.

One sad note is that my great-grandmother passed away. She lived to be 98 years old, which is actually pretty amazing! I’m not going to be able to go to any of the services, though.

My big news is that I am doing the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk! I am totally excited about this! I’m doing it with my sister and my two cousins on my mom’s side. It is 60 miles spread over 3 days, so I definately need to start training. Luckily, it’s in November, so I’ve got lots of time to train. The kicker is the fundraising. Each member of my team has to raise $2,200. For those of you bad at math, that’s $8,800 for the whole team! I know that’s alot, but I think we can do it. And that, good and loyal readers, is where you can help! I’m going to put a link off to the side that takes you to our team page. You can click on any individual member of the team and donate to their personal page. You can donate right there online! It’s also tax deductible, so you can print a receipt for your records. If you know someone who you think would like to donate, pass this information along. If we don’t collect our individual totals, we don’t get to walk, so please contribute! If you have any questions about it, just let me know. And I’ll keep everyone posted on fundraising, training, etc.
And lastly, I still have school work that I have to do. Booo!!!! At least I’ve got one more day.

Man, I’ve been bad about posting. I need to stop that. Not that there’s really been much to post about. Tomorrow we take the TAKS test. I can’t say that I’m looking forward to it, but it is the writing test so I am taking it pretty personally. That’s my gig after all. For the past two or so weeks Steph and I have been trading off the block, which basically mean that halfway through our 90 minute class we trade classes. That way I can give her kiddos a quick boot camp on writing. She says that it really has been helping her kids, so that made it worth it. I feel pretty good about my kids. Hopefully they’d do alright tomorrow.

Sherry came out this past Saturday. We had planned on meeting in Arlington for lunch, but I thought it might be nice if she just came out and spent the night. I guess she did too. We went out to the Dallas World Aquarium, which was alot of fun, but tiring! It was really nice having her out here, and hopefully she can make it out here more often. I do feel bad, though because on Sunday I woke up not feeling very well, and I think it made me pretty grumpy. So I hope she didn’t think that I was being grumpy at her.

And another recent development is I’ve decided to get a pet. Not a ferret this time (although I do miss the ferrets). This time I’m either going to go for a dog or a cat. Now, if I decide to go for a dog, I’m going to have to wait until this summer since they are so high maintenance. If I go for a cat, I could get one now, but I couldn’t take it for walks or the such. So I’m still trying to decide. So any suggestions would be nice!

I hate being sick. I’ve got vertigo again. I freaking HATE vertigo!!!! I’ve had it for about 2 weeks now, hoping that it would go away on its own. Well, yesterday, it got so bad that I couldn’t barely function (trouble walking, talking, focusing, all the good stuff a teacher needs to be able to do). Steph and I went to Tom Thumb during 4th period to get a gift card for a friend, and I actually miscalculated where the door was because everything was so wobbly. Almost damn near walked into the wall. Finally I went to our school nurse (Karen, who is totally awesome), and she checked me out. Told me that I definitely had some fluid in my ears, and that it was finally time to break down and go to the doctor. Since I was feeling so crappy I decided to have Aubrey watch my last block and went to see the doctor. Although, I probably should have just stayed at school. I left early because I was hoping to get to see the doctor asap. Well, I did CareNow, checked in online, but still didn’t get to see anyone until nearly 5:30. But it is probably a good thing that I left early since I was doing so badly at school.

And that is what is so crappy about vertigo. It isn’t dizziness. Alot people think it is just that you get dizzy (and mistakenly, dizzy b/c of heights, or something like that.) Vertigo is an specific type of ear infection, and so with it you get alot of sinus pressure and build up. It sucks because there is no congestion whatsoever. That’s why the first time I had it, I had no idea what the hell was happening to me. At least this time around there has been no echoing in my ears like there was the first time, but my ears do hurt kind of bad. What REALLY sucks is that I get motion sickness pretty bad even when I’m not sick. Being dizzy all the time now just means that I ALSO have motion sickness too! So lets add some mild nausea on top of that. All in all, though, it isn’t as bad as last year. At least this year I can actually read (which I had trouble with last year). Walking and driving were kind of rough, though. But I am not medicated up, which is always good. This may seem like a strange thing to be happy about, but the medication makes me REALLY tired. I’ve been so stressed out and always on the go go go with moving and what not that I’m really looking forward to my next dosage of meds here in about 40 minutes. Gonna (finally!) get some good sleep!

Speaking of apartment, I’m 99% finished! Woot! I still lack hanging some stuff on the walls, some other little odds and ends here, but I’m almost done. I think I over did it trying to get stuff put away or in the right place. I’m like that though. Once I have a goal I’m trying to accomplish, I’m like a dog with my teeth sunk in the mailman’s butt: I’m not letting go until my job is done. Sometimes…not so good. I even remember Sherry telling me while we were moving to just stop and rest for a second. I just couldn’t though. Just wanted keep trucking till everything was done. I tried to force myself to keep a slow pace while I unpacked stuff, but I had a goal and I wanted to get it done! So I think part of why my medical problems got worse is I never allowed my self time to recuperate. Okay, nature. Lesson learned.

On a completely different side note, now that I am on my own, and totally responsible for me, I’m going to really try to change my diet to something much more healthy. More fruits and veggies. Less bad stuff. One thing that I’ve tired is some Lean Cuisine meals. I was kind of leery of them at first, but I have to say, not too shabby!! I tried one last night, and that (only about 270 calories) and an apple did it for my meal, with a frozen fruit bar about an hour later. Super tasty! And filling to boot!

Okay, my brain is starting to shut down. I think I’m gonna go pop some pills and hit the sack!

Well, I’ve been officially moved in since Saturday, at least that is when I spent my first night here. It’s been a huge adjustment. I did go over to Rob and April’s last night to see them and to watch “Lost”, but I only spent a couple of hours over there. Other than that, I just been over here unpacking. I’m almost finished. The furniture is all in the right place, I have about 3 boxes left, and tons of knick-knacks and decorations to put up. Guess I know what I’m Saturday. I also have a little bit of stuff left to do out the house (like clean the bathroom, etc). But that’s pretty much it! I like my apartment. It’s not as nice as my last one, but that was a hell of a deal. I think once everything is squared away here it’ll feel like home.

Well, a little over 2 years later, and I’m moving out of the house. I have really mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I’m ready to move out and have my own space again. I’m also ready to have my stuff back again. Plus, Colin is getting older, and the older he gets the smaller this house feels for 4 people and 2 animals. Rob and April just need their house back. On the other hand, I love Rob and April, and I am REALLY going to miss living with them. They have been GREAT roommates. They have been like a second family to me and really been there during some of the worst times of my life. And I love Colin like nothing else. I’m really going to miss seeing him everyday. I gotta say that I’ve been pretty lucky in the roommate department. Apart from my very first roommate in college (man was she a crappy roommate), all the others have been totally awesome. I guess I should be counting my lucky stars.

As far as school goes we are in the middle of finals (that’s right, it’s technically still first semester!). I’m glad that is an easy week, but DANG I’ve been bored out of my mind. I have nothing to grade, since I took care of all of that last week. I’ve got nothing really to do to prepare for next week, since I’ve already done that as well. At least tomorrow is the last day. Bleah.

I really need to start posting more to the site. I feel like I’ve been rather slack in that department. It’s just been business as usual, though. We started back at school today (boo). A least this is review and then finals weeks, so it’s super easy. It’s just going to be a long semester, I guess.

The break was really, really good. I spent a week out at my dad’s and got to hang out with everyone, which was awesome. Got some cool gifts. At some good barbeque. Just an all around good time. I’ve also decided that it is time to go ahead and find a place of my own. I’ve got my car paid off, and I’ve got some money saved up, and I guess it’s just time. I’m gonna really miss living here, but I think it is for the best.

And on a side note, Steph and Matt are getting married in two weeks. How crazy is that?!