And so another chapter comes to a close.

Well I've completely moved out of my apartment at Apple Creek and back into my parents. I hate moving but it was a good time to go through my stuff and throw out all the crap i've been collecting for the last 5 or more years. I can't believe i kept so much stuff. Just junk from when i lived in Florida and California to 50 billion tshirts that i never wore. I feel like I'm back down to something more manageable and just making a clean slate so i can start it all up again in Chicago.

Well I'm now in the last days of my life here in Norman, Oklahoma and it feels great. In just a few weeks I'll be packing my truck and on the road to my new home. Its all so exciting. Every time i talk to Matt we talk about it. He'll tell me a funny story of a night out and I know exactly where he's talking about and his friends whom i now know from my last visit. Just feels like I should already be there now. I have this last month to get everything in order. To the parking situation for my truck, to getting a bus/train pass, to looking for work, to just living in Chicago. I know it won't hit me till i go to bed that first night and wake up looking out the window at the skyline. To know really that i have arrived. Then i can really have something to talk about on this blog like the girls do.

Well in two weeks my friends are throwing me a going away party. I hope everyone can make it cause it might be the last time i see everyone. There may be one more time out but i'll be so close that i need to stay home and not spend money. But anyway it will be a great party. Lots of food, karaoke, Wii, Alcohol. The only bad part is that its the Saturday before mothers day so I'll be staying over at my friends house because that's the last thing i need to do to my mother by coming in smashed (I tend to fall a lot when i'm drunk) and like making a ton of noise and them seeing me in that state. I'll just come home while they are at church and then do something special for her. I love my parents and my family. They have been so supportive.

Well yeah can't think of anything else to talk about. Once again not much has happened but in a month that will change.

The day after!

IWTD.
CIGHY?
BIHMJAEHAJWTBHRN!
IFLIGTTU.

Its my birthday

April is turning into a month of mourning.

April is really turning into a month of mourning. Waco, Columbine, OKC Bombing, and now VT. So much has happened especially during this week, of tragedies and sadness and lives changing forever. Sometimes i wonder what this world is coming to. There have been many tragedies that you see almost everyday in the news but the one that affects me the most (besides the obvious 9/11) is the Oklahoma City Bombing. It was by far the only time in my life that i really felt scared and unsure of the world around me. It was the year i was graduating from High School. Spring in the air. In a little over a month i was going to start college. And then at 9:02 it all changed. I had skipped school with a friend that day and we were on our way to the city that my friend had a job interview with KJ103. I remember getting up to about Moore and we were trying to find something on the radio to listen to but there was nothing but yelling, news reports, etc. We didn't know what was going on at that time and didn't really understand it. But once we realized and saw the smoke from downtown we knew something had happened. By the time we got to 50 Penn Place and my friend couldn't get in the building because the FBI had it on lock down (they had offices there) and the endless radio reports we knew then what had happened. Well to make this short that was the day i felt like the real world started. From that day on it changed everything. Every year we remember the 168 who lost their lives that day. We remember how our lives changed and/or the friends we lost. And we can only look forward with hope that things will get better but with so much taking place during these few days it will always be a reminder that we live in a uncertain world. So i think today and maybe for the next week i ask everyone to reach out to a friend you haven't seen in awhile, or your parents or family members, or especially those who have been affected by all this and let them know you are there for them.

The loves