Blog Revival!!

So I forgot all about this blog, until I was reading Sara's blog about South Korea and I wanted to leave a comment, so I did. I guess the secret is out. I write in this thing. If she looks at that comment she will be the first person I know to read it. How um exciting?

Anyways, half the reason I write in this is so I can relieve stress, the other half is so I can look back at my thoughts. I read through my last post and noticed the part about being scared about my brother's safety. I posted that, and a about a week later he got in a motorcycle accident. Luckily he's alive, he snapped his femur in half and has a titanium rod through it and uses a walker, but he's alive, he's very very lucky. It's just weird to see him like this. I think about it everyday, and how lucky we are to still have him here. Hopefully he takes something away from this experience.

In other news I think I may tackle setting my parent's computer up with Ubuntu. I'm on their computer right now and it sucks. My dad is super paranoid about viruses and spyware and I talked to him about Linux. Tomorrow I think that I'm going to set their computer up so they can dual boot. Hopefully it goes well. I've set up dual booting a couple times (once with Harley's help and once in my 8th grade glory) and I am actually kind of nervous about it. I don't know why, the install disk is super easy and does all the work for you. I just don't know, I feel rusty with my nerd skills since I don't use them much and my parent's don't have a backup XP disc. So I guess they could have just Linux :). I don't think they would care, all they use it for is surfing the web.

Speaking of old posts, I was looking back at how I excited I was about having three days off in a row. Excitingly enough I got a new work schedule. I work four ten hour days and have Thursday, Friday, Saturday off now. It sucks that I work Sunday but really I dthink it's worth it.Thursday is sweet because I can do all my errands and Friday and Saturday are nice because Matt gets those days off every other week.

Today I realized I am nowhere close to being ready for parenthood. It's not something that I've really been thinking about or planning on but I just realized how, in case anything should go wrong, I would be completely screwed. My friend Jory has the worldest coolest baby and I was playing with him today. But I didn't know how to feed him or do anything besides make him giggle. If I had a baby I would be completely lost. It freaks me out so much I don't know that I will ever pursue having children.

Good news! I started a diet about 4 weeks ago and have lost 13 pounds. It doesn't sound like a lot but my clothes are fitting better (except for my old pants that fall to the floor). I've been watching my carbs and doing cardio everyday. I usually walk for 1/2 hour at work on my lunch and then get home and either go running for 1.5-2 miles, ride my bike for forty minutes, or do my airdyne for 1/2 hour. I'm really excited, I've always had body issues and it feels good to take some control over that. I've really made a lot of progress with it anyways, I'm much more accepting of myself.

So I went to Manhattan, Il last weekend with my boyfriend because most of his extended family lives there. It's a town of about 8,000 and it's about an hour away from Chicago. And it really surprised me that they got their first 24 hour gas station in the last six months. I guess maybe I've been spoiled living in college towns but it kind of blew my mind that nothing was open 24 hours, not even a gas station. I mean where I live we have 24 hour grocery stores, Wal-Marts, and restraunts. And if it isn't open 24 hours it's open pretty late. His cousin was amazed that we can order pizza until 2 or 3 in the morning. And that we can get beer delivered to our house, but that surprises most people.

Anyways my blog has served it's purpose and I'm tired now so I think I'm going to bed.