Rants and Ramblings

School is going well for me! Just did my finals and recieved my final grades. I'm still at all As! I hope to stay that way.

Speaking of school, my comments were basically attacked by a fellow classmate. He felt that I had some sort of underlying hatred of religion. I do not know how he came to this assumption, but I believe he's paranoid. I clarified what I had said, several times, but he is still stuck on this religion tangent. I contacted my instructor about it. It's becoming embarrassing and annoying.

I moved Karlee's room around last Sunday. She now can reach the door knob from her crib. I had not realized that when I moved it. Her door doesn't shut anyway do to the age of the house and its settling, but she likes to rattle the doorknob to get attention. She is so cute! I followed her closely when I let her climb the stairs yesterday, and wow! She's a really fast climber! But she has some trouble coming back down. Thank goodness for baby gates!

My birthday is coming up on Sunday! I feel so old. Hahaha! No, really, I cannot believe that I'll be 27. Life is already flying by.

What else is new? My laptop. I love it. I use it all the time. Why I had never gotten this sooner, I have no idea. But I will be sticking to them from now on, I believe. I had one back when I was about 20 years old. It was ancient. Huge. Heavy. Slow. They have really changed since then.

Well, I'm just rambling really. Since I hadn't written in awhile, I decided that I should. No news is usually good news for me!

Nostalgia

My past has been stored in two little plastic totes in my attic for awhile. I used to have lots more than that, but I made the mistake of marrying a troll once upon a time, and the evil troll threw my memories away, unbeknownst to me. Thankfully, that troll is now most likely living under a bridge and I'm sitting here writing this!

So anyway, those few things that I did manage to keep mean a lot to me. Most of them are notes that I kept from friends in the Junior and Senior High school. I've been looking over them. Such drama! A lot of it made me laugh. My best friend Melissa used to draw me pictures. So did my boyfriend of the time. Some of it was puzzling. For example, a friend used to write under the pen name of D.J. Morris, and my code name was Sam. I don't remember why. I feel so old now!

I have cards that I've saved, letters that my mom wrote to me (and still tear me up), old high school newspapers, a few pictures, poems and stories that I've written, and drawings that my little cousins have made for me. I even, for some odd reason, have old homework in there!

It makes me a little sad - I remember all of the people that I was close to at a time that I don't see or speak to anymore. In my clouded teenage head, I guess I couldn't see how important they were to me. I noticed that my senior year I ditched many of my good friends to spend time with my boyfriend of the moment - as if I had no time for anyone else. I wish I could go back and change that.