Hello everybody! I miss you all terribly!

Okay, this may be a long post, it may not. I want to go over everything that has happened since I last posted.

First off, all though you don't care, it is like a thing for me. A thing to see how badly I can piss off my grandmother and great-grandmother. I got my ears pierced again. I have three sets and a cartilage piercing now. Of course, all I hear from family other than my mother is "If God wanted you to have all of those holes in your head, he would have put them there!". Well, you all know how I feel about God and I'll leave it at that.

My sister had Mono again. How does that happen? Oh, and on a side note, the Classic Rock Music Choice TV channel just played two Queen songs in a row.

My best friend who was due to have her first baby September 15th went into labor very early in the morning on August 30th. She gave birth to a baby boy, Breidyn Michael Lee. He was born two weeks early and was born with Pneumonia.He finished up five days of antibiotics yesterday. He can breath on his own. The last I heard, he was being taken off of the feeding tube and being bottle fed with breast milk. If he does well on his own, he may be released tomorrow to go home.

School is going well.

The apartment that we are wanting to get, a three bedroom, we may just get it! The current tenant officially put her 30 day notice in on August 31st. She has until September 30th to be out or retract her 30 day notice. Yes, she can do that. However, she said that, if she cannot find a place, she is moving in with her mother. The apartment will take a good two to four weeks to clean, but then it is ours! I am hoping to be moved in completely by October 31st!

Our internet and digital phone service sucks. We have Time Warner. Dozens of times a day, the internet and phone shut off and take any where from a few seconds to fifteen minutes to come back on. Another tenant in our building has the same issue as well as another tenant in another building. We all have Time Warner. Anyone using the only other provider in our area, Embarq, has no issues. Between our neighbor and us, we have had Time Warner out here 10 times since April. Each time they tell us that they can't do a damn thing, the property owner has to pay to replace the wiring in all the apartments and buildings. According to Time Warner, all of the updates that have made over the last few years are overwhelming the 10+ year old wiring here. The only issue with that is that the tenant in another building from us has wiring that is less than five years old and she has the same issue, she doesn't even have internet, just digital phone. Time Warner sucks. If Embarq wasn't so damn expensive, we would switch to them for phone and internet and only use Time Warner for cable (God bless DVR).

COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS STARTED!!!! The Buckeyes won their first game of the season today! The Navy did a wonderful job and it was a very close game in the end. Now, we just need to beat USC next week.

I will be getting a check for (insert a good amount of money here) in the middle of next month. My question is, do you guys think that I should use it to pay for driving school so as not to put it off another three months, or should I use it to furnace and decorate my bedroom I will be having all to myself and to also take my mother out to eat for graduating college?

I should definitely mention that, and I am so proud, my mother finishes her last two classes September 13th! Her finals are this coming weekend! She will be graduating with her Associates degree in Criminal Justice! She gets a two week break and then immediately starts her Bachelors degree in something business-related.

As some of you may know, my favorite band is Green Day. They released a new album, finally, after a nearly five year break since their last one. I, of course, got it soon after it was released. I absolutely love it and reccommend it to anyone who likes punk rock.

I had orientation today for TRECA. We showed up about a half hour early because we had to get there from pretty far away. The paper they sent us said that orientation started at 9:30.

At about a quarter after, I and the other enrolling students were escorted to the orientation room. Some woman came in a while later with class schedules. They put me in Geometry, Enviromental Science, English 3, U.S. Government, and P.E.

Once she was done, another woman came in and started the computer training. Each student gets a Mac to take home for while they are in school with TRECA. It goes back once we graduate. The thing is so freaking huge! It takes up like half of my desk!! They also gave each student a keyboard, mouse, scanner, and iPod Nano.

So I brought the stupid thing home, set it on my desk, pull my desk out from the wall a good five inches, and then start hooking up the cords for the power to the computer, the scanner cord, the keyboard and mouse. I then had to get my external CD drive out and plug it into the Mac. We only have wireless service, so I had to get a wireless adapter. I got this:

I started to run the software for the adapter. I don't know anything about Macs, so when it asked me to pick a file (10.3, 10.4, or 10.5), I had no clue what to choose. So I randomly picked. Well, that was the wrong one. Then, once I had the correct one, it needed administrator authorization. Gah! Basically, three calls to Newer Technology customer support and tech support and one call to the TRECA help desk, and I finally have internet!

I honestly don't understand what the hype about Mac is for. I have high-speed internet and this thing runs like it was made twenty years ago. It sucks, to put it bluntly.

I also made my school year schedule. I took the week of my mom's birthday off and my sister's next year. I have a few random weeks off and three weeks at Christmas time. My school year is 184 school days.

I will post pictures and things later. I am so tired right now. I am going to bed. XD

~Jennifer