Countdowns

I went out today with my mom and Lisa to for a girls night because my dad and brother had a baseball game. My mom figured they get to go do their guy thing so why can’t we go out and do something. I mean it wasn’t a whole lot or super exciting, but it was definitely a lot of fun just getting out of the house. Having Lisa around can make any situation pretty fun.

Two weeks from today I will finally get to see Shane. I am so excited but I will be like ten times more excited this time next week. I still can’t believe that I’m going to see him. I was like in shock in the beginning and now it’s becoming more and more real and just really hard to believe. I kind of want this waiting time to drag on now because the sooner that time gets here, the sooner it will be over.

I have to say, I will never in my life by another HP laptop. Since I pulled it out of the box, it hasn’t worked whatsoever. I’ve had the thing for about two weeks or so and have not been able to use it once yet. We sent it to them to repair it but they didn’t do a thing to it because when I got it back it had the same problem. Come to find out, they only reinstalled Windows on it, and that was definitely not the issue. So we have to send it back to them all over again. I really just want my money back and get another Dell or get a MacBook Pro.

Quite a bit has happened in the past few months and I’ve missed my blog. I’ve been in the online world doing tons of other things, I just haven’t touched my blog. I thought maybe it was about time to start blogging again and I’m starting with a fresh new layout.

I can’t really pick the most exciting thing that has happened/is happening because they all are just as exciting. I guess I’ll go in order and that would be starting with the fact that I became and aunt to a beautiful baby girl named Delaney. It was and has been the most amazing experience and it makes me even more excited for when I finally get married and start my own family.

My sister was actually late and planned on getting induced. A few night before her inducing date though, she ended up having to get induced because of the doctors was worried about her enzyme count or something. She called us from the hospital and was like “They’re inducing me tonight!” Of course we were all excited because we had been waiting for her to finally have the baby and were anxious after a few false alarms. She was in labor for only a few hours and the birth was only about 10 minutes. I have to say, that it is really an amazing experience and so exciting.

Even now with her being here and having been for almost two months now, it’s like waking up and being as excited as you would be on Christmas morning. It’s so nice having my sister and her living with us because I get to watch Delaney grow up. And it so different with her than it is when my cousin or someone has a baby.

A few days ago on the website Woot.com they had refurbished HP laptops for only $600! The laptop in a lot of ways is better than the one I currently have so of course I had to get it. I ordered it on Thursday and it is suppose to arrive tomorrow! There isn’t anything wrong with this laptop, but it would be nice to kind of start fresh in a way on something a little bit nicer. If I do end up keeping it, once i get all my stuff off of this one, I’m going to give it to my brother which he is pretty excited about.

It’s been a year now since I have graduated high school and it feels insanely crazy because it seemed to take for ever for graduation day to come. It’s also been a year since I’ve seen my boyfriend, Shane, because possible plans fell through on us twice. However, I get to see him in July finally! I am so excited that I can’t stand it. It’s so hard dealing with not seeing someone all the time or at least once in awhile. I was even okay with having to wait a couple months in between visits but a year is just too long for me!

There is an OI Conference in July a few days before he come which he originally was going to go to and I also thought I was going to go also. It’s so expensive though that I can’t afford it and he can barely afford to go either so he decided to not go and come here instead. I was really hoping to go since I went to the one they had the summer of 2008 and I loved it. I’m not going to dwell on it though, at least I get to see him.

What is something that you’ve gotten or that has happened that you’ve been most excited about?

It’s been so long since I’ve blogged and there’s no real reason why I haven’t. I just haven’t been into it lately or my whole heart hasn’t ever been into it. I’m always on the computer, and always online. I’m constently checking Twitter and reading everyones tweets, but I never really update mine.

I want to know how everyone does it. Keeps their blog, twitter, and many of the other things they use, up to date. I usually don’t because I just don’t know what to blog or tweet about. I’m not a person that when something happens I think “Oh! I have to write that down.” I just never have been. If it’s something worth remembering, I remember it and don’t feel the need to write it out.

I know there are a couple of blogs out there that have list of topics you could blog about if your stuck. To me though, my blog is like a journal, only writing about this I want to get out. I’ve never been a person to keep a diary because I want to know what other people think and what they have to say about it. Especially if it’s something I need advice on and I’m not sure who to talk to.

I’ve been thinking for awhile about what to do with my site because it’s just been sitting here. I am never going to be able to close it or get rid of it. I know a lot of people get tired of their domain and get a new one, but I love mine. I’ve had it for so long that I can’t get rid of it. Sometimes when I’m bored I’ll just get on and change things on it.

I’m hoping to update a lot more now and keep focus because I miss talking to and hearing from all the great people I have become friends with online. Keep me motivated. Please?

I think this whole ‘going two weeks with out blogging‘ thing is good for me. It seems like when I wait, I have something of some what interested at least to blog about. Most of the time, if I blogged every other day, it seemed that either a few hours later or the next day, I would actually have something interesting to blog about so I would save it for when I was going to blog again.

The last time I actually talked to Shane was over a week ago and it’s driving me absolutely insane. When I didn’t hear from him one day, I didn’t think too much of it the way I use to and stress myself worrying that something was wrong. I assumed he went out with his family or something along those lines like the other previous times. When I didn’t hear from him the next day and the days that followed, I was worried. It was so strange and I was driving myself crazy with worry and I seriously was thinking the worst.

I had no way of getting a hold of him because when I’ve tried to call his cellphone, it says that he set it so he won’t receive calls. It’s kind of strange, I know. But ever since he got the phone he was receiving calls and text messages from random people. He has a phone where you pay like for a certain amount of minutes and it’s not unlimited either. Every text he receives is like 50 cents or something like that, so it eats up the minutes quickly. I think that is why he set it like that, because he never really goes out but just in case he needed it, he had it. Our only way of communicating has been over MSN and Skype.

I was talking to Erica the second and third day and trying to see if I could figure out where he is. I said something about getting into his email, but I didn’t know the password. I was, however, able to get to the point where I could change it. I wasn’t sure about doing because I didn’t want to make him mad and think that I did it because I didn’t trust him. I finally reached a point where I didn’t care if he got mad at me because there is no way he could be madder than I was. I just needed to see if there was something that could tell me where he might be. Unfortunately, there was nothing but a bunch of junk mail.

I ended up sending his brother a message on MySpace because I figured if something did happen, he would know and he could tell me. I was checking MySpace constantly to see if he read it. Finally though, after like the fifth or sixth day of worry, I receive a message from Shane on MySpace before his brother ever received my message.

Turns out that his internet has been out and he was away at his other brothers college visiting with his family for family weekend or whatever. You can’t imagine the relief I felt when I read that. I was, and still am, mad at him because it took him so long to let me know, and it would have been nice to let me know sooner. It’s not like he couldn’t because his mom and his step dad have a cellphone that he could have used for a minute, because that is all it would have taken to tell me that.

He told me that he didn’t know how long he wasn’t going to have it for so he was going to see about going down to the library and use their computers. He has yet to do so it seems because he hasn’t gotten back on MySpace and read either of the two messages I’ve sent him since then. I just can’t wait to talk to him and have been checking MySpace again, constantly, waiting for him to get on and read them.

So it’s been over two weeks since my last post and that is because I’ve really had nothing of interest to blog about. Well, there was one thing just at the time got lazy and then I don’t really know. I’ve been on the computer though, watching YouTube videos and everything. I’ve just been neglecting the site a bit.

I decided I wanted to get into the fall spirit with a new layout but I also wanted to have something up for Halloween so I just decided to make a Halloween layout and then once Halloween gets closer, I’ll work on one for just fall or Thanksgiving to have ready to put up when Halloween is over. I worked on the layout throughout the day yesterday and took my time coding it because I really didn’t like the coding the first few times I did it. I loved the scrapbook feel of my last one and I really didn’t want to take that down for that reason, so I decided to do another one. I wanted to put pictures of my baby cousin’s on it from a previous Halloween, but I couldn’t find any decent pictures.

A few days after my last blog, I went for my driving evaluation to see if I would be able to handle driving. We went on Tuesday (September 1st) and it was just a lot of things testing how my brain worked and responded to things, my hand-eye coordination, my reflexes and other thing to do with driving. The only reason was because even though someone just as a physical disability, it can sometimes affect the way the brain works. They said I did really well and there was no worry with that part and that I can easily handle doing a lot of things at once (like you need to do when you drive)

The next day we went for the driving portion and it was basically to see how well I could handle driving the car. It was all hand controls for me because that is what would be easiest. I honestly felt like I was playing a video game. I used a suicide nob for the steering and this like lever thing that you pull back to brake and push for gas. They said that I also did really well in that too and I could definitely handle it. Now I just have to go for my learner and it’s about a 6 month wait till I’ll get a schedule of when to go there and also when I can start drivers ed. Unfortunately though, for me, it will take about two years till I finally get my license, but I’m still really happy that I know I’ll have it eventually.