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First of all, thanks for all of your suggestions regarding acne cures!  I read all of them and am definitely going to try a few out.

Did I mention I bought a bike and have been using it to get to and from campus?  I bought a relatively cheap mountain bike from Walmart a couple weeks ago and absolutely love it.  It was a little rough getting used to biking almost 2.5 miles to and from campus, but it’s also really invigorating.  It’s nice because my commute doubles as my exercise for the day!  I come home really sweaty and gross, but I don’t care - I’m not really trying to impress anyone, lol.

The wedding was beautiful.  It was a very casual, laid back wedding and we all really enjoyed the four days we spent together.  I almost went parasailing, but chickened out at the last minute; damn my anxiety!  Maybe I’ll try it another time :).  We also tried out a few bars in HH - interesting stories that I wish I could share, but some things are just better left unsaid.  Just think - what normally happens on a night with lots of drinking and college students?

Hunter will not stop GROWING.  He’s over 30 lbs now and Tom and I both think he grew during the four days we were gone for the wedding.  Apparently he was quite the socialite at our friends’ houses.  He’s kind of a handful right now - moreso than before - because if we say no, he barks and runs around so we’ll chase him.  I wish I knew The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Milan, on a personal level.  He’d be on my cell phone speed dial!

Time to do some reading and prepare for my morning class.  I’ve still got to make my lunch, too.  I’ll leave you with a sweet picture of Romeo and Hunter (I really caught them like this, it was not posed).

I thought I was going to die of boredom these past couple weeks before fall semester started; I’m dead serious.  Besides laundry, housework, LSAT studying and taking care of Hunter, there wasn’t much else to do.  Of course I could go out to eat or for drinks with my friends, but I’m trying so hard not to be frivolous with my money right now because let’s face it, there isn’t much of it to spend!

Today is the third day of my first week of classes.  I’m taking Crime, Gender & Race, Private Securities, Criminal Law, and Business Finance.  Only three of those classes meet in person; Business Finance is online (except for the tests).  I don’t have class any earlier than 10:40am and no later than 2pm, which I love.  I’m exhausted though, because guess what?  I bought a bike!  I bike 2.4 miles to campus, and then 2.4 miles back.  My butt and legs are sore today and I didn’t know I could sweat as much as I did on the ride back yesterday, but it felt so good and I really loved doing it.

As much as I love being busy and everything, there are just some days that I wish I was five and could simply stay home and play with my dollhouses.  Life was a lot simpler back then.  I think I was more concerned about NOT wanting to take a nap than anything else, because I always thought I would miss something if I was napping.  I had an endless amount of energy and didn’t worry about anything because I knew “the adults” would take care of everything.

Then again, I love being an adult and being in charge of myself.  It’s so neat to think that I went from this little girl to a woman who supports herself entirely.  Hopefully I’ll still enjoy being an adult when my school load threatens to break my back!

I’ve decided to definitely drop ASL 3 from my fall schedule.  I am aiming to take it in the spring (as I really won’t have much to take for my major or minor and will need to be full time), but I’m sad I won’t be taking it in the fall.  Hopefully I won’t lose any of my ASL skills and vocabulary that I worked so hard on this summer.

Speaking of ASL, during Tropical Storm Fay, the governor had a few press conferences.  I had forgotten that an interpretor is always present during these press conferences.  Needless to say, I was excited and watched each press conference!  I didn’t care what they were saying, but it was really good practice to mute the TV and just watch the interpretor signing.  Unfortunately, though, my TV has this weird thing where when it’s muted, the closed captioning automatically shows up, so I was a little distracted.

Many blue screens, two reinstallations of Windows XP Professional, another blue screen and driver updates later, I have my computer working again.  It has been one HELL of a weekend for me and my Dell Inspiron 600m.  I spent about 4 hours total chatting with a Dell representative.  The first reinstallation wasn’t a completely clean reinstall, so we had to start over.  Then this morning, I received the exact blue error screen that I was receiving in the very beginning, when this entire problem began.  After all that, it seems that the only thing that needed to be done was update the drivers (which I could’ve done on my own).  After researching this problem, I was convinced it had something to do with the wireless card on my laptop; sure enough, it was.  Too bad it took four Dell people to finally pinpoint the problem (despite me asking about the wireless card drivers in the very beginning).  Anyway, I’m just glad everything is back to normal.  It’s nice to have a fresh clean slate of a computer to work with, too! I have everything working and looking the way that I want.

So, is this tropical storm going to affect my first week of my senior year in college?  I hope not.  I’ve had enough of a break.  I’m ready to go back to school and focus on something.  Four hours of work a day isn’t enough to keep me busy.  I’ve decided to drop my ASL 3 class; as badly as I want to take the class, I feel like 16 credits (one of which is Business Finance - one of the hardest classes to take at UF) is too much.  I need all the other classes for my major or minor, so ASL 3 is really the only one that I can drop.  I can always take it in the spring, though (when all my other ASL friends are taking it).  Tom and I are keeping an eye on this storm and if need be, we’ll go home to help our parents prepare.  If not, we’ll just make sure we have gas in the cars and cash and we’ll be set here in our apartment.

I made the BEST spaghetti sauce over the weekend.  I used a jar of spaghetti sauce that I bought from the store and added to it - ground beef, chopped onion, minced garlic, baby portabello mushrooms, spinach, italian seasoning and pepper.  It turned out really nicely and we had enough for leftovers.  I ended up having an old friend over for dinner last night and that’s what we had (along with a salad and homemade garlic bread).  It was a yummy dinner!

Hunter is growing so much.  I really love having him despite how difficult he can be to control sometimes.  We took a long walk earlier and he did so great; didn’t pull on the leash and wear himself out, didn’t freak out at cars, and best of all, didn’t stop completely when he got afraid of random noises.  Now that Tom is working in the office full time again (he was out doing field work the last couple weeks), we’re getting serious about looking into puppy classes.  Tom will do that (since I have school and work to worry about) and I am hoping it will really help him bond with Hunter.  Hunter listens to me a little better than he listens to Tom, and I think it’s because Tom is at work and I spend more time at home with him.  Speaking of Hunter, I really need to post some new pictures of him!

My list of things to get done today is waiting for me, so I better end this right here.  I hope you all have a wonderful week! :)

Watching Michael Phelps and all the swimming during the 2008 Olympics have made me miss high school swimming so much.  I never thought I’d miss it as much as I do.  I miss the extreme exercise, the meets, the friends I made, the coaches, and how hard I pushed myself.  Each time Michael Phelps received a medal, I felt like I was getting trophies.  I was no where near as good as an Olympian on the swim team, but I know how it feels to be good enough at something to win.  Swim team was one of the most amazing things to be a part of, and I’m so sad that that part of my life is over!