merely talk

So

What have I been up to these last few weeks?

Well I went to the big T-dot and discovered that not only do I have a large extended family, but I have a large, dynamic extended family filled with pretty, cool and awesome people.

The especially awesome ones were all my little cousins (little = over a decade my junior) most of whom I'd never met. I spent most of the wedding with my Uncle Joe's two eldest kids, being a very bad influence, telling them what to do with hangovers, and what to drink, and to stay in school as long as possible. It was fun.

A few days after the wedding I headed back to Van city after an awful stay at a Holiday Inn (now including screaming 12 year old boys running up and down the hallways free of charge!).
I finished packing up all my stuff and loaded it into my mom's car and then she and I set off for big sky country (sometimes also called Alberta). The trip was thankfully uneventful and we made it to Edmonton tired, but completely unscathed.

My mom stayed for a day and spent lots of money on me at IKEA ( I got the greatest rug ever!) and then she left for Calgary to meet my Dad for the long drive home.

Since then I've started working too many hours at a used book store, tried my hardest to make my room both comfy and pretty, and re-adjusted to life in E-town. The last one is coming a bit slower than I'd like, but I guess the important thing is I am starting to settle in.

And now the next challenge is school. I somehow managed to idealize school and classes while I was having my soul sucked out of me by my last job, and have now been reminded that no matter how noble the institution of higher learning is, it still manages to make even the most interesting topics boring.

So now I've discovered that neither working full time or attending school for the rest of my life are great plans for me. I suppose I'm going to have to fall back on my third plan: marrying a rich old guy, having him die soon after and inheriting his estate.

Please wich me luck with my future endeavor.