Today was a decent day, and it's only 11:30am.

I'm sitting in the music lab at school since my speech class was canceled! Woo Hoo! I got a chance to talk to Mark, one of the coolest teachers I've ever had. It was nice talking to him. I took a test in my Middle Ages history class. I think I did pretty good. The teacher loves me, I've taken 4 classes with her before this one, so I'm not too worried.

This is week 4 of my 12 week quarter and so far I have straight A's. I'm determined to get out of Foothill with at least one 4.0 quarter, and this being my last quarter, I've run out of time, this is the one.

Matt went up to the house this last weekend and set up his desk and bookcase and all that. I'm seriously jealous. I have not been to the house since we first toured it. Now $800 into the place, I've yet to be in it. I work weekends though, which is why it is hard for me to get up there. My two days off are Monday and Tuesday, which would be fine, other than the fact that I'm in school. So looks like I probably won't get up there until July, since this quarter runs all the way till the end of June. Oh well, there's not too much that I'd want to move up there at this point anyways, it's just the excitement of having a house, and having my OWN room. For the last 16 years I've shared a room with my brother, it could be worse, but I'm really definitely ready for my own space.

More exciting still than my own room, a big bed! My bed is a twin mattress that my mom got when she moved out of her house, 28 years ago. A new mattress is a must, but I've got to decide that I'm tired of my feet hanging over the edge of my twin mattress, so I'm upgrading to a Queen. It's twice as wide, and 5 inches longer, and we all know how big a difference another 5 inches can make. =)

This week I'm closing Monday-Thursday, and then working 10:00 - 6:30 on Friday. After that I'm heading up to Davis for the weekend. We usually do some sort of BBQ/ Celebration/ Alcohol Abuse for Cinco de Mayo. Well the 5th is on a Monday this year, so this weekend we are celebrating Tres de Mayo. Basically it's just an excuse to have a lot of BBQ and drink A LOT of beer. Haven't been drunk in a while, so this should be fun. Anyways, time to get my shit packed up and head over to my next class. Cheers everyone.

 
So, here it is, nearly two weeks since I've last blogged. Where does the time go? Things have been really busy, but it's ok, I've come to the conclusion that I thrive on chaos, and that I need something constantly going on. I've not had a free moment in so long, I can hardly remember.

Today wraps up the second week in my new quarter, and so far it hasn't been half bad. I'm taking two history classes, a speech class and cultural anthropology. Along with school, I've been working a lot. Since we got approved for the house, we had to put down a security deposit, and pay a partial on the months rent, and then rent for may is due on the first. So I've not had as much money as I used to. Which is good in a way, cause at least now I'm not wasting my money on stuff I don't really need. I told my boss if there were any extra hours available to let me know, cause I need the extra money, so I've been busting out 38 hour work weeks the past three weeks or so. It's been busy, but it'll be nice to have some extra cash. Plus the more hours I work, the closer I reach my 800 hour mark, which means another raise, woo hoo!

A special message to Lani - I got your message, it's still on my phone. Thank you so much! I listen to it like every 4 days or so, it's awesome.

Speaking of DMB, cannot wait for Gorge. I've decided that I'm driving up there. I'll come home from Vegas on August 3, then drive up to Eureka (my house) on eiher the 4th or the 5th, then head up to Washington. Costco has a big ass 10 person multi-room tent, I think I'm gonna pick it up next month. Not that my tent last year didn't kick ass (The ETZ: Errogenous Tent Zone) but it would be nice to have something a bit more stable, that provides some protection. Not sure what everyone's plans are, but Heather I'm down to go in on that camp site with you, and think we should make it party central. This time, we won't have to worry about hiding beer. Oh the humanity of that incident.

I've got a class in 15 minutes, and then I'm meeting up with Bev for some burritos from Taqueria La Bamba, the best burritos in Mountain View. Mmmmmm. Hope everyone is doing well.

 
We got the house!!!

 
This weekend we all fell in love.

Friday's journey was nice and relaxing. At 4:00pm we had an appointment to see a house. It was 4 bedrooms, 1bath, an kind of janky. We weren't too excited, but we thought, worst case scenario, we could swing it. Then at 5:15 we an appointment to see another house. This was a 5 bedroom, 2 bath. It rocked! We all loved it and even got our friend Nik to consider moving in.

We sent in our rental applicatios today and found out that nobody else has put in for it! The lady at the rental company said they will keep it open for another 3-5 days. If nobody else applies for the house, it's ours. The only part that kind of sucks is that we'd have to start paying for it mid April. They'd pro-rate that month, and then it's $1400 a month after that. If that ends up happening, I'm moving up there in July. It just doesn't make sense for me to pay for a house I'm not living in. As soon as I'm done with Foothill, looks like I'll be up North. I'm really really really excited. This house is big, has a good sized kitchen, washer and dryer. It also has a full yard with a deck (perfect fo BBQs.) It is about 10 miles from school, and it's a two block walk from the forrest. NICE! I'll have to go up and take some extensive puictures if we get the place.