I’m a day late, but I still wanted to talk about how amazing Father’s day was for me yesterday. I am so lucky and so grateful for my father and everything he taught me. He is no where near perfect, but I wouldn’t trade him for any other dad because I couldn’t have made it this far in my life if it wasn’t for him.

To give you a bit of background (and I apologize if I’ve mentioned this before), my Dad was unemployed for a long time until a few years ago when he was finally able to get a job for various oil companies as a doc specialist. We were so grateful for this opportunity, but at the same time it was hard because he was always out of state, sometimes for years at a time.

Recently he was living in Pennsylvania, but a couple weeks ago his contract ended, so he came home. This was both great and unsettling at the same time, because he’s finally home after about 3 years of being away, but now he doesn’t have a job anymore and our income has massively dropped. For now anyway. It took me a while to realize this, but that meant Dad was able to be home for Father’s day. I was so excited! It had been so long and now we all got to be able to celebrate with him together as a family.

Now something I know I haven’t mentioned before is that I have a wonderful opportunity to dog-sit these adorable pair of dachshunds every now and then. What’s more is I get to stay in the house the dogs live in which is so fancy and beautiful and HUGE. I always enjoy this because it also allows me to have a completely quiet place where I can do homework and other responsibilities (yay for laptops!) This weekend I’m dog sitting (I’m doing so while writing this actually) and at first I was concerned. My plans of having Father’s day together as a family was thrown off because this place is 45 minutes away from where I live, and that’s a lot of gas for me to drive every day. I wasn’t sure what I would be able to do, but then my mom and I came up with an idea: we would celebrate Father’s day here at the fancy house. I had already been given permission because the owners want me to enjoy the house and I was free to invite my friends and family as long as nothing got broken/lost (duh). So, I made a large pot of my favorite potato soup recipe, my sister made made-from-scratch mini berry cobblers, and my mom picked up rolls and drinks. We had a family dinner out on the backyard patio, had long discussions, then played an altered game of billiards. All in all it was a fantastic night.

Having my dad home and being able to spend so much time with him made me realize how much I love him and am grateful for him. He may not win the best dad in the world award, but he will always be the best in my book because yes he made mistakes, but he learned from them and moved on. Because of that I will always look up to him. He has an incredible amount of strength that sometimes I don’t think he can see, but I can and I try to remind him as much as I can.

Happy Father’s day everyone. I hope that it was good, and if it wasn’t I hope that today was better for you. Thanks for reading!

Okay, so there are so many things happening right now I and too stressed to care about being stressed.

That made no sense.

So just an update on what life is up too: I’m moving to Virginia on Monday! I’m taking my SAT on Saturday! I’M LEAVING HOME FOREVER!!

*goes and cries in a corner* No but for reals, a lot of life changing things are happening. I’m really excited to go to Virginia, and what’s really cool is I’m going to go see DC and the many museums it has to offer for the first week my friend I will be there. I’m going to have a full time job for the first time, which is something I’ve never done before, and I’ll be living on the opposite side of the country from my family.

Not only that, but after I get back in September, I’ll be staying with my friends in an apartment near the college we’ll be going to, so basically I’ll be leaving home for good on Monday. My sister will take my room (which makes her REALLY happy) and if I ever have to come home for any reason, I’ll be staying in the camper trailer by our house, so technically I’ll still be away from home.

And the final thing that will be happening is I’m taking the SAT for the first time this Saturday. I have been studying for over a month to get reacquainted with math, almost to the point that when I think of numbers my brain shuts down completely. It’s wonderful! *cries* I’ve been having problems with math since I was in 2nd grade, where if I’m under a lot of pressure or stress my brain will shut down completely and no longer function. IT’S FANTASTIC!

But I know I’ll figure it out and everything will work out the way it should. I am confident with my testing skills, and I will learn and grow a lot over the next year. So I’ll most likely post stuff about what happens in Virginia and all that jazz, so be prepared!

Also, I’m thinking of making a new page to post some random stuff I’ve written recently. It’s stuff that will never be published, but I kind of want to share them here so that they won’t be forgotten in a dark corner of my computer. What do you guys think? Would you be interested in something like that? They are mainly about TV shows/games/movies that I imagine adventures for with my own characters mingling with the characters with the cast (Alright fine it’s basically fanfiction!) I write them when I really want to write but I’m stuck on all of the current books I’m working on, so it helps keep my mind loose and limber.

Anyway! I’m rambling! Let me know if you want to see this stuff, and I hope you all have a fantastic summer!

Wow, not only have I not posted anything in about a week and a half, but apparently my site’s setting got reset at some point as well and I didn’t notice until yesterday!

Well, now everything should be back to the way it was, but I could have missed something, so let me know if I did. That would be way cool of you.

In other news, my book is so close to being finished! I am SO freaking excited!! I’ve been working on this book for over 3 years now, most likely even longer. To have it so close to finally being fully written is an amazing feeling. I’ll let you guys know how things are progressing as I work on this. Right now I’m in the process of figuring out how I want to publish this thing, so if you fellow authors have any tips that would be cool.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Sorry it’s been a while since I last posted. It’s been kind of a rough week.

Also, since Christmas is around the corner, I will most likely be kind of scarce. But I wanted you to know that at the start of the new year I’ll be paying for a domain name so the url of this site will change in about a couple of weeks. It’s going to be great!

So I hope you all have a wonderful time this holiday season, and if you don’t hear from me for a while, I’m just having fun with my family and friends and will DEFINITELY return at the beginning of the year, if not earlier.

Have a wonderful day, and I’ll talk to you soon!