My year.

Really

Trying to make it a good one. 
This new one that is.
I have no words to go through the good and bad of last year.
Lots and lots of good things, 
and lots and lots of bad things.

so...

Moving on.


It's my birthday, and I'm in Asheville.

These are good things.

There are bad things, but I'll leave them be... I'm doing things about them, no reason to complain, not until I can share in the form of a funny story about this one time I lost all forms of identification.



MY GOAL FOR THE DAY:
Decide what my life story will look like the next few years.
It won't look anything like it,
but you have to try for something.

I will finalize this by the end of the night.

Currently

-back to school
-major that also gets a teacher's license [job]
-major: German/Biology/Math... 
-School: UNCA/Lenior-Ryhne
-place of living/when to move: Knoxville/Asheville/Hickory Now/Fall


So


I'll be back

Gosie & Shot

Found this in my journal from August of this year.

This story was transcribed by me, written by little man E.

Maybe one day you and me can ride on my horses, Gosie and Shot.   They're at my barn; it's by the construction trucks.  We'll say "Faster! FASTER!"

   (I didn't tell Papa about my horses...or my cowboy outfits.)

  Sometimes my horses squeak, but not oftenly.  When they do it's a very loud squeak.

I have a mommy horse too, it's a mare.  AND I have a baby horse named Joshie.  

[I have a lot of horses; Gosie, Shot, Joshie, Dashie...a very small horse, he's a pony....I have a lot more ponies]

One day we'll go on a ride on the ponies... When they run fast it doesn't squeak.

Mable is a pony horse.

   I like to ride her at summer time.  My horses like to sleep standing up.

This is my last hors.  Botchie's a boy.  

Some of my horses are girls; mares are girls.

That wasn't the end.  He had a lot more to say, but that's all I could write down.
    Greenville has a few good people in it... like little man E.

D through F

Returning to the alphabet of things that make me happy:



D-
Driving
Despite wanting to be able to walk every where I need to go (so far...the grocery store, and the best pizza place...) I love driving.  The time alone to think, or the time with friends stuck in a small space...bonding: check.   (see background for a photo)

E-

  Eggplant (fried)

SO YUMMY.  One time I had it on pizza.

F-
   Flats & Taps

The previously mentioned pizza place.
A solid collection of interesting pizzas and draft beers or ciders....  One of these few places that I've found decent ones.  I'm so picky.

Also the BBQ chicken pizza? ah-mazing.

Recently a friend let me into the inner place where the ideas come from.  We shared books.

Recently I have been an aromantic. Not sure if that phase is going to be over any time soon...

I have some pretty serious squishes right now (...kiiiiind of like a friend-crush? a comic to help explain:

)

There has been some interesting debates among my friends....

really

sometimes they're interesting

and sometimes it's just the same conversation

over and over.

I've been knitting a lot, but I don't have any new pictures. 

I have 16 projects that are assigned for me, trying to get them knocked out while it's still cold.

Minus 3 of them.
So...

13.

Oh wait. I forgot a pair of socks.

and a scarf

and a hat....

all promised from a year ... or more...ago.  

so...

16 again.... 19 total.

   

So I have had things to say, just nothing to say yet.

I will get back to you on this...

I can't do without...

- Netflix
I've tried.  I have so far ended up spending lots of money on Redbox and various other "cheap" alternatives.

- ice cream
    to the point that I have never tried.


But these are things that are going to have to leave me this month.  Tis a sad sad day.  No more instant watch, and no more late night runs for ice cream, milkshakes...   Not that I wouldn't partake it if was offered to me, ice cream...not the ice cream run.

   Trying to see this as a challenge, instead of a punishment.  My inability to sustain the amount of spending I'm currently at means that I need to take significant cuts, -- as well as needing to seek out ways to add to the income.  --



Other updates:

-taken 3 loads of this, that, and the other things for yard sale, either to the house, or to a car that was going to the house.  This has included: some of my grandmother's yarn and needles, some of my own yarn, and a decent amount of clothes.-Did I tell you, I got some yarn-y things out of my house?   Not a tear was shed.  Not a tear.

-I've started a beautiful pair of socks....4 times.  The color-work is never in the colors I want it to be.   but I think I've finally settled on black and blue....  We'll see how it goes.   (Also, despite wanting to add to my income, I have failed repeatedly to complete what others have requested and are willing to pay for...)

-In other news, this is the first day that I didn't nap...in two weeks-ish.  Annnnd....I can't sleep.