Life's an illusion; love is a dream

i took a new picture today.

( yay? )

I think I have an ulcer.  :( 

This week has been a really bad week.  I'm in debt some $1300, need a second job, and I spilled water on my macbook last night.

But I got admitted into SIU today, and even though I never thought getting into college would mean anything to me, it makes me really really happy.  Now I'm less of a dork for having so much SIU crap on my car, shirts, nail decals..

I knew I didn't need my Associate's Degree! 

I'm going to major in social work, and hopefully somehow figure out a way to double major in English as well.  I just feel like this is a step closer to helping the people I want to help, and maybe that's why it makes me so happy.  Also I didn't want to be a failure AGAIN.

Another positive thing about going to SIU is I can get counseling if/when I choose to do so.  But will I?  Hmm..

Here's a list of things I did today that were outside of my comfort zone, but I did them anyways.

• Called Apple about my computer.
• Called Staples about my computer
  
• Called Admissions about not receiving my application
• Went to school to talk to Craig about my computer
• Went to Dollar General
• Went to the post office to mail my books from Amazon
• Answered the phone when my antiques teacher called
• Went back to school to see if they had my textbook in the library, but they didn't, so I checked out 4 books instead
• Went to Huck's for a soda pop
  
• Went to Kroger for gas and soda
• Called Admissions back & found out I had been accepted :-D
• Did NOT use my credit card
• Fed my bunnies
  

QUITE a day, I should say.  And it's only 2:30. 
Time to watch videos for my telecourse and maybe clean.

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Allison: A bunch Agoraphobia: 0

I'm a Saluki!! ^-^

I went to Chicago on Sunday with my friend, Nicole, to go to Pride. This was my first pride parade, and it was so much fun! There were over 450,000 people there and so many rainbows. We parked in Chinatown and took the redline to Belmont, and the train was just packed with people going to Pride. There were over 230 floats, and we started to walk around after the 85th or so, and came back in the 120s. It was very long and very HOT! I had SPF 30 sunscreen on and still got burnt! There were so many people that at one point, I couldn't put my arms down by my sides. But it was fun, really. I wish I could have taken the whole GSA from Shippensburg with me, but that's a very long drive for them. ^-^ The only things I didn't like about the parade were the HRC stickers that were handed out (I put gum in mine and tore it up yesterday) because I don't support HRC because they don't support the trans community. Also, I wasn't very fond of seeing sooooo many Obama supporters and having the whole crowd shout "YES WE CAN!" (Lawls, yes.. I am a Hillary fan). BUT OTHER THAN THAT, A++. Will come again.

Afterwards we went to Andersonville to meet her cousin and uncle. Their apartment is pretty great. They have wood floors and a balcony. They have a "movie room" with a projector and surround sound. Um...I want it!! In Chinatown, I got Hello Kitty seatbelt covers and the gaudiest cellphone charms I could find.

( Pictures from Pride! )</div> 'Twas fun! We got lost on the way back and wound up having a tour of Illinois. We went through Bloomington, Decatur, and Springield to name a few. I saw Lake Springfield, haha. It took 6 hours and 40 minutes to get home when it shouldn't have taken a whole lot more than 5. But whatever. It was a lot of fun.

sometimes i wonder if this will ever end.  but how can it end if i refuse to do anything about it?

i moved.. you can look at the pictures on my facebook album. if we're not friends on facebook you should probably get on that..

everyone on livejournal (except most of the people on my friend's list)
myspace
the decemberists
the mountain goats
when people don't pay me back
people with long nails who don't paint them (ew!)
when i cut my straw too short to get the last of my coke zero


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