Almost art...

Yesterday my parents cleaned out the garage and my sister and I went through two HUGE boxes of litereally every piece of paper we drew on as a child. Maybe not quite but almost...they definitely saved every sentence w/ a picture that we did in first grade. It was actually really really fun though. There were so many really great pictures we both drew. Others were really frightening. There was one picture that Lauren drew of a girl with a really big smile and lots of teeth. It said at the top "From Lauren, your sister". It was so interesting to see the art that we both did as children especially from a HD point of view. My art was a lot more abstract. I had so many water colors that consisted of different colors all blended together. Some of them were really really pretty. I also drew a ton of houses. Lauren made me keep all those because she is going to put them together into a scrapbook and entitle it "Danielle's Houses". It was pretty funny just how many identical house pictures I drew. There was a picture of 4 or 5 blobs on a page and I wrote "My Family" at the top. That one was pretty funny. I had so much fun!

A House is a house for me...

So a whole lot has happened this week. On Wednesday night I went with Lauren G to Barnes and Noble and we spent a good long time in the kids section reading Boxcar Children and such. We were feeling very nostalgic. Then we went into the cafe and she got a coffee and I got a cupcake that was like chocolate heaven and we talked way too loudly (for obvious reasons...keep reading) about the gay-straight alliances at our schools. Then this guy walks up to us and says "I heard you talking...I am gay...can I sit down?" So obviously we were talking too loud but my lack of volume control ended up being a really good thing for a change. Lauren and I talked with him for an hour inside barnes and noble til it closed and then we all shivered outside for another hour and kept on talking. He is a junior at NP and he was really mature (obviously because most high schoolers wouldn't just walk up to two friends who were talking and ask to join the conversation) and just a really cool kid. It was really fun making friends in such a spontaneous fashion!

On Thursday morning I went to go look at this townhouse my mom saw with the real-estate agent. It was actually really nice and in a really quiet neighborhood unlike the loud neighborhood we are in now (as I listen to the little girls next door shrieking). In the afternoon I went to a "post-hiring" interview at Sunny Skies and met the Co-director and got my contract. I'll be working for 5 weeks and make about 325 a week. Plus in a few weeks they are offering CPR/first aid certification which will last from 9 am to 6 pm and I will get paid $25 plus dinner. Pretty sweet deal since I have been wanting to get certified for like 6 years now but haven't wanted to pay for it...even at the Rec Center at school its like 100 bucks to take the class and I don't have time for it at school anyway. Then that night the real-extate agent came over and my parents signed an offer for the town-house and I repacked all the suitcases in my room with the close that had spilled out onto the floor...

This morning at 9 am we had our carpets cleaned. Boy were they dirty. But now they are clean. I am being redundant. Anyway, I went through all of my drawers and cleaned them all out and also all the shelves in my closet. Tomorrow I am going to lug the suitcases back into my room and put away all those clothes as well as try on anything I don't know fits and the stuff Lauren removed former wardrobe. I also need to clean off my bathroom counter so that it has as few items on it as possible (and my desk too!). On Sunday the real-estate agent is showing the house to a family with two year old triplets and she thinks that this is the house they are looking for. So hopefully we will sell right away and not have to deal with keeping the house perfect for more than 1 day.

I guess that's about all...I will write more when it happens.

Grades

Grades are finally posted. I got an A in HD 341 (Learning & Guidance), an A in Nutrition, an A- in HD 204 (Family Systems) and a B+ in Soc 101. That means I raised my cumulative GPA to 3.21 which means that I rightfully qualify for my scholarship!!!! At the end of last year my cumulative GPA was 2.69 so I raised my GPA by .52 in just 2 semesters! Also, my semester GPA is 3.75 and I made the President's Honor Roll. Unfortunetly, Honor Roll is just that - an honor, but that is still really really good and I can put it on resumes and stuff. I am so happy and proud of myself. Of course I am still saying to myself, "Well I could have studied/worked harder...I spent SOOO much time procrastinating all semester and I barely studied for finals". But I still worked pretty hard and obviously it was hard enough because I couldn't have asked for a better outcome!!!