Oh wow... I've so been neglecting on my deviantart (and my Youtube and my myspace). I haven't posted a journal update in over a YEAR! D: But not to fret friends, I am still alive and kicking. Now I have posted a few deviation semi-recently (in the last 6 months), but deviantart has not been my top priority as of late, (as you can tell by my lack of a subscription ) and for that I am sorry.

Since I have been so busy, you can imagine that I have a lot of stuff to tell you (of you do not have a lot of time, please come back and read this later, it is a bit of a long story).

First of all, I am now street legal! Yes I turned 18 this past year and will soon be celebrating my 19th birthday in december. I am (as you can probably tell from the title) a college student now, and am living away from home in my dorm room almost 500 miles from home. You'd think for someone like myself, who likes to be independent, that this would be great. However, its only to an extent. I like having the freedom to stay up till every odd hour in the AM, I like not having to take orders from anyone (well, except my RA & RD but they haven't bothered me much), and I like being away from my parents to an extent. However the main reason I am upset about being 'round .5k mi from home is I am away from my boyfriend and its driving me crazy!

My boyfriend is someone who payed for last years dA subcription, known as ~Goldfang, who I met at work. Back in my days at Rite Aid, which I am no longer working for even part time, I met him in August of '07 and we started dating after my first Christmas at rite aid back in the beginning of 2008. We've been going steady ever since. He is a gamer and artist like myself and I miss him terribly (if your reading this honey I <3 you).

Oh right, I didn't explain why I'm no longer working at rite aid... Yeah.

Okay so back in 2008 in the fall, I started getting colds a lot, which I thought was just allergies acting up, but it was not. After getting allergy tested (ow... needles ), I found out that I was not allergic to anything (or at least nothing common). The doctor believes that I have a condition that makes me more susceptible to common colds than the average person, an immuno deficiency, which made the doctor suggest that I get out of place that have lots of germs, namely my place of occupation. My boyfriend had quit not long before (just after reaching his 1 year mark), and my grandma made me leave. Now it wasn't my mom because I was living with my grandma at the time which i will get to momentarily. I was reluctant to leave, but grandma wouldn't drive me anymore, and although my co-workers would miss me and I would miss (most) of them, I had no choice. Now, as for my "condition" it is not life threatening to my knowledge, its just frakking annoying, and the fall into winter time of year is the worst, when i fell sick most of the time .

Now as for why my residence during that time was at my grandma's house is a bit confusing. Okay so in 2006, my family, meaning my mom, my step dad, myself and my cat, were all forced to vacate the home we had since i was 10, due to the place of residence needing to be taken up by the church (that we lived next to) for their new minister. So we needed to find a new place to stay, and in the town (and school district) I had lived in almost my whole life (i had lived in another town for about the first two years of my life) had no affordable apartments or houses to rent. However, there was a place to stay in a neighboring town that was out of our school district. As i didn't want to change school districts, I asked if there was some way I could still stay in the district. I worked out a deal, where I would live at grandma's part of the time and live with my parents part of the time, which worked out okay. Then in late 2008, when we couldn't afford the rent anymore, due to some old loans coming in and putting a stress on their relationship, so my parents moved in with a friend about 20 minutes away, and I moved in with my grandparents in order to stay in the district. Although they did a very good job providing for me, my life style choices (not so much worrying about cleanliness, staying up late) clashed with their ideas about what was best for me. We often argued, and it was stressful, especially since soon after my mom and step dad mover into their friend's Brian's house, they broke up. However, my boyfriend Gunnar was there for me and comforted me. After the school year ended i moved in with Mom and Brian, who were now together, for the summer.

The summer was pretty good, but it ended way too soon. I spent much of the time with my boyfriend, and he even came to Ohio with me and my grandparents. I had a big graduation party, and it was lots of fun. The school year came up way to fast, and I missed out on the Be-in (www.beinfestival.org) this year, which usually I am fairly involved in. Now I am enrolled in a pretty cool state school, where the people are nice, the food is pretty good, and most of my classes aren't too strenuous, though its hard to concentrate when you are sick. Although my roommate was fairly nice, we had different sleeping schedules, and although i tried to keep quiet when i stayed up late, i always ended up waking her and she got frustrated so I am without a roommate. She had come prepared with a fridge and a microwave and a TV so i didn't have to buy any of those things. Now that she's gone, i have no fridge or microwave, and thus no way to store cold drinks, which especially distressing since I'm, supposed to get lots of fluids . However, she didn't want me to hook up my gaming consoles to her TV, because she heard something like consoles wreck DTV's which i think is untrue, so i ended up needing to have my TV shipped here form home. This would have not been necessary if I had remember to call Amanda (my roommate) to ask if it was necessary to bring a TV and then call grandma to tell her to bring it, but i didn't so yeah, grandma had to ship it for me. Oh, and did I mention to get all my stuff to the school we took 2 cars to take my cello up?

I'm doing really well in most of my classes, and in one i need to pick up i have two grade coming into the equation pretty soon that should boost my grade. The other one i need to write a paper about D:. Besides those two I have As in three classes (I got an A- on my first English paper and the highest grade in my Computer Science course's midterm), and a B+ in my last class. I have a schedule planed for next semester, and if all works out i will not have to get up before 9:30 any day of the week and will be out of class by 3:30 everyday (and on Fridays I only have one class from 12 to 12:50.

Oh and about my Halloween? Yesterday (Friday), I went to a haunted forest, that gave me a good scare, and then carved a pumpkin while dressed as Zelda (you can see my pumpkin here: [link]). Although I had fun yesterday, I spent Halloween feeling blah and stayed in, but I wouldn't have had much fun anyway, because my friend Vic (Victoria for those wondering, not Victor) has been sick and went home for the weekend, so I wouldn't have gotten to have much fun anyway. Plus there is no Trick or Treating in this town, so that puts a downer on things. Oh well, I'll eat candy till i get to tired and fall asleep.

I hope you all had a fun Halloween, and I hope to talk to you in the near future.

BTW: I have joined more sites that I don't know whether I will update or not, but if I get more friends on them I will be more likely to do so:

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www.youtube/lightanddarklove
twitter.com/lightandarklove (with 1 d because they don't like names with 16 characters )
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OH! Right I had a tag to do! (from ~timnomonin the curmudgeon!)

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~timnomonin
[link] (what skill you have with a pen!)
[link] (I have now seen trigun and can firmly say I <3 it, a very fine piece of fanart kyle the tim!)
[link] (the piece that drew me to you in the first place)

Okay, g'night all!