Happy Independence Day! Hope you guys had a fun holiday.

Mine was not overly amazing and the whole day was pretty much one half-decided plan after another and overall that made it weak, but nothing really beats you and 30 of your closest friends plus about 60 people you don't know whatsoever gathering at the neighborhood boat ramp and docks to collectively launch as many fireworks as about 5 groups of rednecks can get their hands on, with people loaded into the back of trucks, sitting on top of cars, sitting on golf carts, in the dirt, on the dock, or standing, with the sea breeze blowing at us, country music drifting softly from a couple of the trucks' stereos, watching the amateur fireworks as well as the city fireworks right across the river. That itself is pretty awesome. Just plain ol' redneck folks we most certainly are in this town. (And dang, that was a long sentence!)

But yeah, hope y'all had a good holiday. *raises what's left of her third Pepsi* "To life, liberty, and kicking the butts of the British!" ;P (No offense intended for any Brits, of course.)

Any further life update I shall postpone. I need to get to sleep. *yawn*

I hate life sometimes. It sucks. You have 5 million things to do and can never seem to get ANY of them done in the measly 24 hours alotted. And so I present to-do list to help myself get everything done.



To-Do List: (all of these should be theoretically done this week)

Study for Information Literacy Assessment (ILAS) modules 5 & 6 (this stupid information exam I have to take before I can get my associate's degree... I only have like 3 weeks left to take it!)
Schedule appointment to take ILAS THIS WEEK (Thurs 10AM)
Español: estudiar vocabulario capitulos 9-10, country project: Costa Rica
Apply for scholarships!
Check up on/edit financial aid: (bumbling idiots at the) State of Florida, University of Florida
Work out a college budget for Dad
Begin planning future university schedules (have to submit a plan to simultaneously finish both bachelor's degrees to the college advising offices in my first semester)
Writing: United (NaNo '08) chapters 24-25, untitled summer love story
Editing: United (NaNo '08) chapters 15-23
LJ Catch Up (25 17 comments)
Take clothes to consignment shop, find place to donate old glasses
Schedule appt with hair dresser (Fri 1PM)

I wish I could find more time to write. Because at the moment, I'm very slowly working on (a hopefully short) something original that is very different from anything I've done myself before and that I have no idea where it's going, but I like the beginning intro part:


"It’s a law almost as old as time, unwritten but universally understood, that a girl must find love one summer, usually the summer before she turns eighteen, and break her heart before she can be considered a woman.

Some people consider a girl a woman once she hits puberty, others after she’s lost her virginity, but a girl does not truly become a woman until she’s lived through that first love and heartbreak and felt the depth of the love and the despair that come along with it. It’s not until she’s seen the depths of feelings that she can truly begin to appreciate them.

For me, it happened about the same as it happens for most women, in the summer of my seventeenth year, that last wild summer caught between being a child and officially entering adulthood at eighteen. The last real summer I was able to escape the realities that deadlock you in once you become an adult."

I don't know why, I just really like that. It sounds nice. And I have a ton of music that centers around summer love kind of stuff, so I've just been hearing a ton of that and been inspired.

I also wish I had time to catch up on my comments... I got a couple down tonight. Hopefully I will have time and opportunity tomorrow. Because you guys are awesome and I must respond to your comments. *nod nod* *collective tackleglomp*

I'm at orientation, btw. These people are freaking insane. We've been here since 8AM (I had to get up at 5 just to get here in time for that, btw -_-) and it's now 10PM and I'm not quite done yet. Ugh.

But I think I just got done sketching out a rough course schedule (does the class "Bugs and People" sound interesting to anyone?) and I think I can go to bed...

The CMT Music awards! Yay!

OMG.

The Star Trek at the beginning had me in stitches. Star Trek. *loves!* Even though I detest T-Pain, that had me laughing too.

Ah, good old Bill Engvall. That stimulus joke was gold.

And Dierksie kicking off the show! Yayz.

The list of appearances tonight… Arf? Bill O’Reilly? I mean, I love that man, but what he bes doing there? Huh? And can they just stop inviting Kid Rock to these things already? Can I just burn his invitation or something? And Luke Wilson? Huh? And Shawn Johnson? I luff her too, but arf?

And Def Leppard is performing? Arf?

And Joey and Rory with the Cheater Cheater song! *luv*

And Darius Rucker started off sounding good… But got rough really fast. O.o

Murgh. I hate that Sugarland song. (“All I Wanna Do.”) Why is it winning awards? -_-

Yay, Lady Antebellum! I really love them. They are so awesome. It helps that Charles Kelley is hawwwwt. ;)

OH MY FREAKING GOD. KID ROCK WON THAT STUPID AWARD. When they announced he was nominated, I turned to my brother, eyes narrowed, and said, “I swear, if Kid Rock wins that stupid award, I’m going to SHOOT somebody.” So now I get to shoot somebody. And ugh, that man is a freaking idiot. “I think this award must have been based on creativity, because seriously, how creative is a strip pole on a pontoon boat?” is what he said. Okay, a strip pole on a pontoon boat is stupid and gross and so NOT creative. You know what’s even less creative? Ripping off “Sweet Home Alabama” and rhyming “funny things” with “funny things.” -_- My hatred for Kid Rock goes SO so so so so so so so so deep.

Okay. I’m mostly tired of Taylor Swift. And I’m tired of seeing her in crappy live performances.

Keith Urban’s banjo player fails at life because he’s playing with one pick instead of three. Fail, fail, fail! Keith wins, though. ;)

Yay for Alan Jackson + George Strait, Dierks Bentley, and Brad Paisley winning the performance thing! I don’t really like that song that much as far as Alan Jackson songs go, but with all of them together? Win!

Sugarland doing Love Shack? What the crap??? O.O The B-52s are at the CMT Music Awards! The list of people there just keeps getting weirder!


WHAT THE CRAP! Keith Urban just came out on stage with Jason Aldean singing one of my new fave songs! WIN!!!!!!! LOVE! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE! :D (And Keith’s shirt says BO-CEE-FUS lol!)

lolz! Melissa Peterman just smooched Dierks! Hehehe! That’s my dream too, Melissa. :D

And wow, Taylor Swift and Def Leppard are actually good together. O.o Wow. Me gusta.

... and where was Kenny Chesney?!?!?!?!?! I just realized he was totally not there at all! What the crap?! O.o

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I am so tired and sleepy.

Yesterday was graduation for town Y, my hometown and where all of my public school friends go to school. Then last night was my cousin Josh's graduation party, and then today was his graduation -- graduation for town F, where he and some of my less close friends go to school. Then we went out to eat after his graduation.

It's official. I'm graduation-ed out.

And so are my feet -- I have the hugest blisters from my dress shoes. I can barely walk. Youchies.


And now I'm just chilling and watching the X-Files: Fight the Future VHS (yes, VHS!) I got at GoodWill when I was in Tampa. Man, I forgot how much I love Mulder and Scully.

Oh, yes. And trying to be productive and write (because sadly, my NaNo novel is incomplete and I'm going to miss the free proof copy from createspace :() and get stuff done too, but I dunno how successful I'm being with that. *yawn*

OH, yes. Need to mention this before I forget. Meant to do this earlier.

I'm heading out of town tomorrow...

Actually, parents-free road trip. Me, my sister Lexi, and our darling friend Elysa. Dear little 17 year old me is the designated driver. (It's funny, actually, because Elysa is older than me; she's 18. But I'm driving. ;P) It's my first thing of any sort like this -- I'm excited.

Of course, we're just going down to Tampa (about 4 hours/250 miles away) and we're going to stay with my 30-year-old cousin Misty and her husband and their 2 kids. So it's not as "unsupervised" of a trip as it sounds like at first. ;)

But still, I'm looking forward to it! Very much so.

Supposed to go down tomorrow and come back up on Monday (Memorial Day).

Gonna be fun, even though the weather is supposed to be more of this godawful rain the whole time I'm down there. Oh, well.

Still fun. :)

Got my hair cut today, folks.

Pictures via Facebook album.

So far, I've heard that it makes me look old (my sister and brother took to calling me MOM in the store today), kind of boyish (I get called a guy all the time when my hair is short), that I look like Kate Gosselin (that's what Mom says), and that it's "funky" and "sassy".

But I like it short... If you've known me for a while, you've probably seen it this short before. If not... Well, prepare yourself - it's very short. ;)