So...today (technically yesterday) is Mikey's and my FIVE MONTH ANNIVERSARYYYY!  Woooooo!  Sorry, I just had to have my own little celebration there, heh.  It excites me.  Five months.  Sheeze. 

I saw the MCR video for Welcome to the Black Parade!  It was really really good.  Now I'm not being biased or anything (since they're my favorite band, lol) but My Chemical Romance always makes the best music videos.  Seriously, they're always amazing.  And I still want to hear Cancer at some point, even though it'll most likely make me cry the first time.

I got my contacts today.  I haven't been able to see for a fucking week, so let me tell you...it's a relief.  I can see clearly now, Lorraine is gone...  (Haha, Katie knows what I'm talking about with that.)

I start school officially on the 11th.  It'll take me 3 nine week periods to graduate, which is longer than I thought, but is better in a way because I'll start at West Georgia for a fresh year.  Whoop whoop!

Kay, that's about it fo' now, I believe.

ICONS: photography.

XOXO.

My.  Kitty.  Is.  So.  Fucking.  Adorable.  She's laying on top of my computer monitor with her little paw draped down over the edge and she's jussst about to drift off to sleep.  Oh, yawn!  SO cute.  Ah, I could just DIE.

You know what?  I'm the happiest I've been in a long time.  Dad kept insinuating (without meaning to, I'm sure) that this wouldn't work, but it has...flawlessly.  Okay, maybe there have been a few snags, like first month's rent and how to get me around, but those have worked themselves out!  First month's rent: Ms. Jordan (my second grade teacher) and I reunited and she ended up giving me $100 for graduation, which is just what I needed to pay Dad back for what he loaned me.  Getting me around: the only problem was really getting me home from work, and that works itself out because I start school next Tuesday, and I'll just get rides from CJ, who also works at Food Depot, because he also goes to the same school as I do!  I love things like that, when the just work themselves out on their own. 

I love it when the weather is so angry, like it is now.  MmmHM.

Bagheera got annoyed with the computer monitor because she almost fell forward off of it, so now she's watching me type...with her head sloooowly tilting forward.  Damn cat is tired.  I wuv her!

None of you probably care at all, but I actually called my grandmother like I've been meaning to since I moved out here.  She and I talked for like 25 minutes, and throughout the conversation, she said several times how much she was looking forward to meeting Mikey (she's coming to visit my family in October) and all.  It just made me really happy is all, how I've met most of Mikey's family, and how Mikey's slowly meeting my family too. 

I'm slightly nervous about starting school again.  Just putting that out there.  I mean, normally I come home from work (9-5), take a nap, and then do whatever.  Now starting sometime after Tuesday, I'll have to go to school straight after work.  Ughghghghghgh, I'll leave home at 8:30 and get back at like 11.  For nine weeks, anyway.  I can't wait until I start UWG.

I wish they'd play MCR's new song [[Welcome to the Black Parade]] more often on the radio.  I'd enjoy that.  Ooooh, they have a new song out called Cancer that they played on the $2 Bill concert, but I didn't see it because I don't have MTV2 out here and my computer that I use doesn't have speakers that work...I read the lyrics and I know I'm going to cry when I hear it for the first time.  Yeeeah.

Eh, that's all for now.  ICONSSS...random silly ones.

[[This one deserves its' own line...and CENTERED.]]

XOXO. 

Currently Listening Pablo Honey By Radiohead -- Creep see related

Whoa...the new Xanga entry-writing screen is cool.  I like how the non-Premium users eventually get what the Premium users pay for.  Yay for making Xanga better!

Well, I haven't written in a loooong time, and A LOT has happened.

Living arrangements.
I live in Carrollton now, and I'm LOVING it.  It's about an hour and a half away from Marietta, which gives me my independence, but also means that I can go home when I need to.  I'm across the hall from Kevin and Chris [[for those of you who don't know, they're a couple of Mikey's best friends]], which is awesome.  I think it's funny that they just walk in my room whenever, which is why we hang "the beads" on my door if they're...not allowed in.  Heh.  There are parties here practically every night, which makes it interesting...having drunk people in and out of your apartment at night, haha.  I've got two roommates, Sara and Candice, both of whom are awesome.  Sara is the partier, and she and I go around to the parties together when we're the only girls and Mikey's at home.  Candice I don't see very much...she works and goes to school during the week, and then visits her boyfriend in Atlanta on the weekend.  I like 'em both.  I just like this general arrangement.  It's amazinggg.

School.
So, most of you know that I haven't finished high school yet.  Mom's death really threw me a curveball, and I ended up not coming to school the end of my 11th grade year and most of my senior year.  My plan is to go to Open Campus Night High School starting September 26th.  I only need to go to one semester [[mini-mester, 9 weeks]] to graduate, which means that I'll be going to the University of West Georgia in the spring, which is pretty exciting.  I'll only be going to UWG for my core classes, though.  After that I'll be transferring to Georgia State because they're Psychology program is awesome...but that's pretty far into the future, so I'm not too worried about that right now.  Classes at Open Campus start at 3:50 and go until like 10:30, which means that I'll be going straight from work most days...egh.

Work.
I work at Food Depot, which is pretty cool in most ways.  Kalyn got me the job (coughbecausemikeypaidherfiftybuckscough)...haha.  Yeah, I'm a cashier.  It's not as hard as I thought it would be.  The hardest stuff is probably remembering codes for produce, and even THAT is getting rediculously easy.  I've probably been working there for about...3 and a half weeks?  Yeah.  Full time.  I love the people I work with: Seth, Brooke, Gabbi, Shannon, CJ, AJ, Zach, Dale, Kalyn, Kalyn, Kayla, and so on and so forth.  AND the money is definitely good, even though most of it goes toward rent, and yes..MY KITTY.

Bagheera.
Mikey and I own a black long-haired kitten named Bagheera...like The Jungle Book?  The panther?  Yeahhh, THAT'S the connection.  She's our baby.  I'll post pictures later.  She's both a complete spazz and the most adorable thing in the WORLD.  She's about 3 months old and she has green eyes.  Seth gave her to me.  She'll attack anything that moves, and then after she calms down, she'll curl up on your chest or lap and go to sleep.  If you try to carry her somewhere, she'll climb onto your shoulder and just sit there like a parrot.  She scatters kitty litter ALL OVER my bathroom, and if you close her in the bathroom, she'll cry until you let her out and play with her.  She's made me wash my sheets more than ever, but I love her to pieces.  She's sleeping on my lap right now.  Siiigh.

The love of my life.
Mikey...saved the best for last.  He and I celebrated our 4 month anniversary on August 29th, sooo I guess we're in about 4 and a half now.  I'll proabably sound like every other lovesick teenager for a couple of seconds, but bear with me.  I don't know what I'd do without him; he takes care of me and makes sure I have everything I need, and is always telling me that I'm beautiful and that he loves me and that I'm the best in the world...ahhh.  There's just so much about him that I can't tell you absolutely everything because that would take forever.  Hm, let's just say this: he's my dream come true.  My knight in shining armor.  <333.

That's basically the big huge update on my life right now.  Just thought you'd like to know, since it's been a while and all.

OH, AND MCR'S NEW ALBUM [[THE BLACK PARADE]] IS BEING RELEASED OCTOBER 24TH. WATCH FOR IT.

Currently Listening Always By Saliva (Single) see related

New poem...it's untitled.

She took a deep drag of her cigarette,

Watching the blue-grey smoke curl into nonexistence.

After flicking it onto the ground,

Flecks of her ash fluttered down and settled onto the black asphalt

Like the first delicate snow.

She gazed into the city scene down in front of her,

The brilliant lights of the buildings and street lamps

Steadily reflecting the growing uncertainty in herself.

Her long chestnut hair danced with the sudden frigid breeze,

Cascading from her shoulders down her small, hunched back.

As she hugged her knees to her chest,

She felt the diamond encrusted sky come undone.

Crimson blood trickled unnoticed down her hand

And unceremoniously dripped off her fingernail.

Despite her deliberate detachment from God's unsympathetic eye,

She whispered "I love you"

Into the ever spinning atmosphere,

And folded up within herself,

Never to return to her oblivious innocence.

Just to clear the water...NO I do not cut.  The blood is just a metaphorical aspect.  I guess the general idea of this poem is about feeling alone.

Comments, criticism...please?

Got this from Julie's Xanga...this cracked me UP.  Ahhh it's great.