Um…so I’m still here.

Since my last post on the 11th. I’ve been enjoying myself and trying to just live day to day. Things have gotten better and better. I started playing with TJ, which has been amazing. After Amy got back from Florida, she said I could still crash at the house. I’ve been going back and forth between there and Mom’s house, which is cool, because I get to hang out with Keith and Amy all the time, and play with Camille and Lorelei. It’s also great because just when I’m sick of the drama at home, I leave, and when I come back, I’ve missed it a little. I bought a laptop so I can work on my stuff when I’m not at home (would have helped when I was doing my book). Me and Keith have been playing songs together and are starting to put together a cover band with J and Drew (I’ve been singing and playing guitar). We celebrated Mom’s birthday. Emilie and Joe had a dinner party. I have a new “favorite” movie - She’s The Man with Amanda Bynes who is the funniest girl EVER. I’ve never laughed so hard at a movie, (I watched it four to five times in one week, two of those in the same day) and now me and Steph have a whole slew of new movie quotes to trade off. I did finally go to that girl Jen’s house, but I doubt I’ll ever see her again. Lets just say there was a huge cloud of smoke and then I sat completely motionless for about two hours surrounded by strangers and wore out my welcome. It’s just as well - it didn’t feel like we had chemistry anyway. I did forget Fight Club there which sucks though. I saw a concert with the Kronos Quartet that I was excited about, but ultimately disappointed by. Kronos was good, but the piece was supposed to be about space, but to me, it felt too close to home. It was more about people, on earth, than whatever is out there. I could have done it better. Saturday was the last football game of the Marching Band season (we still have the pass and review concert on Friday). Later that night was Emilie’s birthday party, and it was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.

OK, so two more exciting pieces of news.

1. I started shopping my book around because I figured it wouldn’t be something Mom wouldn’t want to do and …it’s getting published! It’s going to be so cool to walk into Borders and see my name staring back at me in big letters. I won’t say how much I got paid, but it was enough to take care of my old debt, and all the debt added to it by not teaching for two months…AND THEN SOME! They are also interested in publishing the rest of the epic and offered an advance to get me started. “What good will that do?” you say. “How will I be able to write another book, let alone a whole series?” Well, that leads us to exciting piece of news number two.

Drumroll, please… BUM BADA-BAAA BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BAAAAAAA

2. I’M NOT DYING! The headaches stopped almost instantly, soon after I finished my book. Then, one morning I woke up and it was like Rose said, I just knew it was gone. It did take a while to sink in again though. I had been only doing the things that I enjoyed for so long, that I had gotten used to being happy. Those headaches were the best thing to ever happen to me. Because of them, for the first time, I’m living.