One Month

So, I'm probably going to be talking about Audrey an awful lot for the foreseeable future.  She is my everything and what makes me want to wake up in the morning and what keeps a smile on my face during the day.  I love her and I hope she loves me as much in return. It's been a magical month where I've gotten to know an absolutely amazing person.  I don't know what I'd do without her in my life or how I managed to get by without her. I never ever want to lose her!

Audrey

So I'm finally in a relationship! I'm so very excited and happy. Everything seems to be going better and smoother and I have a better outlook on the world, and it's all due to Audrey.  She is amazing.  I'm so giddy almost all the time and more so as soon as I see her. What a wonderful time I'm having!

New phone finally!

I finally have a new phone. No more 20 minute battery life and broken touch screen. Now I have the king of phones, the iPhone, and am loving this litle handheld piece of cutting edge technology!

Finals

The most un-enjoyable week of each college semester is now the next week of my life.  Yes, it is finals week.  I am stressing out over the amount of review I need to get done so I can feel completely comfortable about all my finals.  Luckily, two of my classes aren't really having a final exam, and two more of them I already feel fairly comfortable about.  Unfortunately, that still leaves two classes that are giving me a migraine.  Especially my Trig class.  Oh well, it will all be over soon enough.

Vision

So, I've recently had to start wearing my glasses around.  I personally think that they make me look like a dork, but I think I'm finally getting used to them.  Less people talk to me this way, but that's okay too, I prefer to be on my own.  Most days at least.  I really want contacts, but don't have money to get them and I need a new pair of glasses cause these are the ones I got in high school and I must have grown since then or something cause they are almost too small.  It's nice to be able to see again, but I really hope that I don't have to keep wearing them much longer.  My vision is one of those bitter-sweet things I guess.

The Opposite Sex

I have officially decided that I will never understand the opposite sex.  They say one thing when they mean something drastically opposite.  So when you do what they say they want, you always lose.  On the other hand, the few times you have the guts to do the opposite of what they say, those are the few times that they actually meant it and you lose again.  It's just a lose lose situation.  Girls are confusing.  They always will be.

Computer Problems

So, everything has been great with my new laptop all summer, that is right up until school will be starting back next week and I'll actually be needing it.  I've started getting the "blue screen of death" which is basically a blue screen that comes up to tell you that windows has crashed and will restart.  These occurrences have been getting more and more frequent until they are only about 30 minutes apart.  That doesn't even leave me enough time to use my laptop in one of my classes.  It's all very frustrating and on top of that, the customer supports only suggestion was to run a factory reset on the computer.  What kind of a fix is that?  So now I'm frantically trying to back up all my files so I can do so and see if it gets fixed.  I really don't need a problem like this right now!!!

Adjusting to St. George

As nice as it is to be out on my own and have a place at least somewhat to myself.  The adjustment to the weather here has been the biggest change.  Compared to Apple Valley, St. George runs about 10 to 15 degrees warmer everyday.  That adjustment has been hard.  The now 100+ degree days are very warm, especially when a bike is my only transportation.  The A/C has been on the fritz these last few days as well.  It has to run constantly to keep the temperature inside below 80 degrees, but it has been freezing over lately and has to be turned off for hours at a time during the day to let it unfreeze.  This allows the temperature to spike up to as high as 90 degrees inside which is better than the outside temp, but still very very hot.  A typical day runs about 85 inside and it makes it hard to sleep, especially since it doesn't cool off at night.  This is something that will take a lot of getting used to.

Life Blowing Up In My Face

Well, as I've said before, don't work with family.  It's not a good experience.  Especially when you were warned before hand that this particular individual has not followed through on their word in the past.  You should listen to advice like that and it will keep you out of situations like mine.
Having said that, let me explain what is causing life to blow up in my face.  My uncle who has promised me so many things for coming down to tend his kids for him, doesn't know how to keep his word.  It all started by promising me the master bedroom since they weren't going to be home to use it.  I should have acted on that sign of untrustworthiness, seeing as how I never ended up in that room.  I got crammed in the smallest room in the house and told to stop complaining.  Now that they are moving, he started promising me certain things that would allow me to continue living down here and go on with life.  All of these promises are being broken as well.  First with being able to rent out his house.  That is out the window since he decided to try and sell it instead.  Next, he promised me a vehicle to use for the summer.  Now he is taking that with him, even though he won't ever use it.  He also promised to pay me back for money that I lent him.  This is also not happening, so all in all, I have no place to live, no transportation, i'm out almost 700 dollars that will never get repaid, and he's telling me to stop complaining yet again!  I hope that in the future I have better luck with family and being able to trust them, because this nine month experiment ruined my trust for anyone.

The View From Apple Valley

The drive up to Apple Valley from Hurricane is actually a pretty nice view.  I have never really stopped to notice it until now, so here are some pictures of the beautiful drive.  It does help that there is color back in everything and not just muddy or snowy now.