Tuesday, July 27, 2004

See what I did in the introduction? Much easier.
Sorry for not posting in so long, but you know why I didn't? I'm in Kansas. We finally moved.

And damn, am I glad to not have it hanging in the back of my mind -- sort of. Right now we're just renting a small house for a month or so until we can find a permanent one, so we still can't do much of anything cool to or in the house because we'll be out of it soon, anyway. More specifically, this means I can't hook us up with hi-speed internet, something I've been aching to do ever since I saw how cheap it can be (when we're already paying $30 a month for AOL, there's just no reason not to get Verizon for the same price or maybe a little more).

We left on Tuesday, two days later than planned, and got to Searcy, Arkansas, that night. After that, it was another day of driving and small-talking on our walkie-talkies (with two moving trucks and a suburban going through some heavy traffic, we wouldn't have gotten ten miles without them). We boarded up in a hotel that night in Joplin, Missouri. The next day we had only three hours left to drive, but they seemed to linger and somehow last longer than any of the other drives. Oh well, we got there.

I think the first time I actually realized that we were, in fact, leaving Ruston for good was when we had just entered Kansas and all of its glorious flatness (you could see for miles. I just loved it ^_^). I was looking across the unfamiliar landscape and thought that this, instead of the constant trees I was so used to, was what I was going to see when travelling to neighboring towns or something along those lines. I was just kind of struck by the pangs of reality, and I can't really decide whether I was more incredibly happy or inevitably sad. Still, we're better off here than we would be in Louisiana.

Our new house is pretty nifty. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms; it suits me just fine. Especially my room. I don't know why, there's absolutely nothing interesting about it, but I really, really like my room. It's probably some strange subliminal thing about how all my stuff fits in there and how it all looks in relation to each other: blue bed, tan and dark blue papasan chair, brown dresser, everything just seems to come together right in my head. Maybe the feng shui fairy sprinkled some fried rice in my eyes, allowing me to see the excellent chi flow I'm apparently producing. *shrug*

School doesn't start here until August 26, and I'm afraid that I haven't heard anything good about the high school my sister and I are going to attend. Absolutely everyone we've talked to about it says it's really clique-ish. I'll tell you, that's just something that I really, really hate. I wish some people would simply grow up and realize that we're not twelve years old anymore. I had been thinking that I could get away from that mentality this summer now that I'm about to be a freshman and out of junior high. I guess I'll have to get in there myself and teach them a good lesson in Southern manners. ~_^

As I had said before, we're now in Ottawa, Kansas, and I'm starting to become fairly paranoid, considering that function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0 window.open(theURL,winName,features); }
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