jumble of updates

hello hello!! i know i suck at blogging. moving on...

this week is officially my last week of summer! i am done working for the summer (except i have to go back and work on labor day weekend) and i am spending my remaining almost-a-week packing and preparing for college. this is going to be quite an adventure. i need to make sure i don't forget anything. it's strange though, because i never really think about all the little stuff that i use every day that i will now need to bring with me.

august has been a busy month, as you may have gathered. my dad's side of the family had a big reunion camping weekend as they do every year. we went up for the day and ate stew and hung out with all our relatives that are practically strangers. it was a good time though.

i've been working busily, 8 hours a day. the park hosted the annual parks department picnic last thursday. there was lots of food and a raffle :) my mom won a lovely shirt for me that says "county parks department vegetation growth manipulation team (we mow!)" on the back :D

i would just like to say i am very jealous of everyone who went to vidcon. i would love to go next year, or maybe the year after. i would love it even more if vidcon were held in chicago. that way i could drive down, rather than buy a plane ticket (although with my van's gas consumption, the cost is probably equal).

i have preordered john green's 'the fault in our stars'. i am hoping and praying that i receive a hanklerfished book :) that would be wonderful! with my chances at .5 percent, i have a better chance of getting a hanklerfish than winning the lottery...

maybe it's just me but it seems like everyone i know at my college is moving in early. it would be weird to move in early, but it feels like everyone is already there without me. i'm sure i'll get my fill of college life in the next four years, i'm just impatient for it to start already. i have my schedule all set up and have received most of my books in the mail. i'm a nerd, so i already started flipping through them...

life continues to move at the speed of light, it feels like sometimes. i'll be turning 19 in a couple weeks already. that is the oldest i have ever been! ;) i'll try to be a better blogger though :)