This week

Hello all....

am going to try to keep up with y'all and update here so I don't feel inept.

Life is going okay. I've spent the last few mornings helping Sam with her paper route. Remember the good old days of the paper route? Good heavens. Remind me never to do that. Anyways, it's okay, and it brings back memories. Sure can mess with an already screwed up sleep schedule though!

The scooter is still pretty fun. I will reach 1,000 miles in the next couple days. I need to wash it. It is getting quite dirty, but I don't really know how to wash it. Like what can get wet and so forth. I don't know what I'm going to do when it rains.

I went to a Proposition 8 rally today at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. There were about 750 people there, all getting fired up about Prop 8. It was an interesting experience. It was interesting to see so many people of different faiths uniting for a cause though. I just hope that as people support this cause they don't alienate or offend people. I guess I still have problems with it sometimes and it's hard to understand why things are the way that they are, but just have to go on faith that this is the right thing today because that is what the Prophet has told us.

I registered to vote today. I registered with the Libertarian Party. I've read a lot about it, and I seem to like most of the things that they believe. Some of their social policies (such as abortion and gay marriage) I don't agree with, but I guess there are things about any party that someone wouldn't agree with. There are many things that do sound like what I believe, such as welfare, national debt, taxes, free market, and their position on war.

My hair is getting longer. Enough to hang in my eyes and be annoying, but also long enough to put part up with the help of a few bobby pins. It is also completely my natural hair color now, which is probably the first time in like seven years. Yep, back to a dirty blonde/brown indiscriminate color. Whatever. :)

I love my roommates a lot. Kalo is freaking amazing. Kaelynn is cute. And I love Alicia and she is such a wonderful friend. I really am so blessed to have such amazing people in my life in Chico. And such an amazing family of all of you guys...

I am super excited about Thanksgiving. I saw Nancy this weekend and we were talking about it. Yeah, I'm just really excited. When are we going? Can I ride with you, Mom? Do you want me to come down to Fairfield and meet you?

School is busy and I'm just plugging away. I'm really enjoying my art class. I'll have to take more advantage of the opportunity we have to just have open studio time. That is when you can go into the classroom when class is not going on in there and you can use all the art supplies like paint and paper. I really love art. I think I forgot about that. I am also enjoying my Physical Education a lot, which is surprising because I was kind of dreading it for the past four years.

We have a few more softball games this season. Softball is pretty fun. We haven't won a game yet. I know that winning is not that important, but it sure would be nice not to lose all the freaking time. :(

I just wanted to say that I'm really thankful for the fact that we have cell phones and that we are able to just talk to each other whenever we want. I appreciate that so much. Thank you mom. And thank you for everything that you do for us. You are amazing and I don't think we tell you that often enough.

Well, I think I'm going to study a little for my math test before I go to sleep tonight. I have a midterm tomorrow. Wish me luck!!!

Love you all... Good night.

christine