Yeah Yeah, it's been all of a month and ----- days since I wrote, I clearly suck at keeping up on things now don't I? Since I last wrote I've had a million things going on, from courses at school picking up to the new job, the trip to the states, and a ton of other little things. Life has gotten busy, and I can't even imagine what was going through my head when I said "I couldn't wait for school to start back," because I'm all ready for year 2 to be finished.
My trip to Cleveland and North Carolina was a huge "Pick Me Up" given the circumstances my family has been in these miserable five months. Mitch is so strong it makes me proud and motivates me to do everything I want to, because life is so precious. I got to Cleveland and spent two days there and then me, Mitch, and my mom packed up the van and traveled the 8 hour drive to good old Mebane, North Carolina. We were only there for a short weekend so I had to make every minute count, and see the people that I still keep in touch with and care about. My oldest, closest friend Alex just had her baby boy, Levi. He was so little and precious. I forgot how small Sienna once was, it's shocking to see how quickly children grow. We went out to our favorite mexican restaurant and ate lots of delicious food, and saw some old familiar faces, and Samara and Sienna met us there. It was great to see everyone:) Taylor and Megan and Alex and baby levi all came and had dinner, and I got to see my old friend Dalton afterwards. Seeing Dalton was very hard for me because the last time I saw him was a year ago and he was very different from what I had remembered because he's had a rough go with life, loss, and love since way back in grade 10 when I moved. Things change everyday, and so do people. Seeing him this time was completely different, he had gotten that positive attitude back in him. We chatted about old times and laughed about some things about his wonderful father, who passed away our grade 11 year. He's met a great girl and things are finally starting to look up for him, so that was another HUGE positive. Oh I'm sure I forgot to mention, this entire trip my brother made everything HILARIUS. His sense of humor and overall personality is exactly the same from before his accident. We were back to our old brother/sister team, taunting mom and dad, and making fun of just about everything in sight, even if it got us in trouble haha:) The way it made me feel was amazing.
I spent the rest of the weekend seeing everyone I cared about and doing things I wanted to while I was there, which included going to my old house and seeing how some things just haven't changed a bit, some things are just where you left them. It was a short and sweet trip. I learned a little clearer who my real friends are in North Carolina, and whose priorities are friends rather than material things, some people never change. I guess it just took me some growing up to realize that a lot of people there are exactly as they always were, I was just to naive to see it at thirteen.
I got back to Cleveland and spent the remaining few days with my family, and headed back to Nova Scotia after a short week. The job situation is still the same- at Cocoa Pesto, having some rough nights not remembering things the way I should. Sometimes I get way too nervous under pressure, but this job is so worth it to me, and I really need to keep it because it's my ticket this next year. It's getting better, slowly.
School is the same old same old, assignments coming in large groupings and then not at all for weeks. I've got almost everything done for the next two weeks in all my course on site and only a few things to do for my online classes. It's a lot less stressful than Jeremy's schoolwork for sure, but I am really ready for university. The whole post-high school mentality of community college is driving me crazy. I've applied to MSVU and am going for a tour on Friday. What else is new, oh how about the excercise thing!! I've been ROCKING IT, gym at least three times a week, walking/jogging/running (minus when I sprained my foot... still recovering) and I'm signed up for a 5k run on Saturday with my friend Shannon, Jeremy's mom, Lise, and maybe even Jer<3 I won a free fall family photoshoot with "Wadden and Schorre Photography" with mom's good friend Lise, and Jeremy and I got absolutely breathtaking photo's done, another big PLUS:) I just love my life.
Today was Jeremy's 21st birthday<3 Able to drink EVERYWHERE now:) I made him a big yummy breakfast, drove him to school, and then we did cake and dinner at his parents which was WONDERFUL. (we missed mia on skype though:( ) He got lots of money and some of the presents he wanted, some delicious cake, and good times with family. Today was also an amazing day... today Mitch got to try walking with braces using parallel bars at therapy. Seeing the video of him made me tear up instantly. He is so strong it's unbelievable, I'm getting teary typing this right now. In three days it'll be five months, five long but short months since the worst day of our lives, and already Mitch is going further than they thought. Today was just a wonderful day, a day that I'm going to end by cuddling up to a movie beside my man:)
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