So I finally did it, I left the country! Well not forever just for one month. I am now currently in Okinawa, Japan which is like a mixture of Hawaii and West Virginia. I know that sounds really weird, but it's true. The sea looks a lot like hawaii, it's so clear that you can see the bottom. But there are a lot of delaptated old buildings here that arent' taken care of which makes it look like parts of WV. Amanda and I left Dullas airport at 12:00 on June 11th and had a 14 hour flight to Narita airport (well it's called Tokyo but it's not actually in Tokyo) and then we hopped a plane to Okinawa. Our first flight was really good, there were tv screens in the back of every seat and I got to watch Ghost Rider, Music and Lyrics, Rocky Balboia (I think I misspelled that) and started watching a Japanese movie called Bubble (something) Fact or Fiction? which is about a Japanese girl who goes back in time  to 1990 to stop the Japanese economy from crashing. Her time machine was a washing machine. It was actually pretty funny. So right now I am suffering from jetlag pretty badly. But yesterday we got to go shopping and I am looking into buying a Mac laptop at the BX which doesn't have any tax so what price you see is what you pay. My old Dell laptop died horribly but I'm still hoping to get some of the programs off of it. (expessially my graphic design ones) apparently I just overworked it.

I finished up with my first full year at a the school system. I was kept so busy at the end of the year discarding old books, doing inventory (Which I found to be the bane of my exsistance) , and tracking down students who had lost books. This year we lost around 100 books which is not so bad considering my list was 300 a few days before school ended. Travis graduated this year. I had to set with the staff in hot black robes. I actually brought my iPod to listen to during the ceremony but got placed closest to the crowd so didn't have a chance. I also brought my camcorder, but the stupid batterdy died right before Travis walked across the stage. Is that dumb or what? I hate Murphey's Law.

I know I haven't posted in a long time. This is mainly because Xanga is blocked at the school which I work. Probably a good thing because I would never get anything done. My hair is now pink in the front. Some time I will upload the pictures, maybe today after church.

As far as work goes, most of my days are spent working on the web page. I will provide a link when posted and fully completed. The librarian constantly says how surprised she is that I enjoy working on it so much but I tell her that design was what I went to school for. My days aren't nearly as exciting as Amanda's who constantly comes home with stories of how her kids are acting and behaving, plus stories of out breaks of lice and other icky things that goes around the school. I'm glad to be in high school where we just worry about the flu.

Last weekend we went down to Pidgeon Forge to see the lights and go shopping. There were whole sculptures of Christmas Lights. On the medium we saw one that considered of four phones with parrots on them. We were all like 'huh? did they get that on on sale because no one wanted it?' about five feet latter, we saw a bird over five rings of lights and it finally dawned on me. "Four calling birds, then five golden rings" we all laughed over that. My brother and dad were pretty good sports considering we shopped all the time, which is rare for me.

Speaking of shopping, I can't wait until Black Friday. It is so nice now that I have money to actually spend but I found that I have already done a lot of my christmas shopping, so I might just buy things for me. Or something.

But beside work, my life has revolved around Nanowrimo, the insane attempt at writing a novel in a month.

Well my hair is now blue. This is actually the second time I have dyed it. It washes out in 15 washes. The first time it was this light teal blue which the people at the hair cuttery just adored and I got my picture taken. The second time I asked for purple and it turned out a dark blue. Next I'm going to look at examples of the colors and either try again for puprle or go hot pinkish. I'm not really sure yet. I'll probably be going tonight.

Well we had the reenactment this weekend. Everyone in the county seemed to come, I saw many of my students. Mom went overboard on the ladies tea and there were ribbons, bows, and roses everywhere. Very Victorian. We tried a lot of new recipies and everyone had a good time. The biggest hit was little cucumber sandwitches that everyone loved. Travis is no longer part of this family. During the weekend, he galvanized and was a yankee. He tried to argue that there was only 100 yankees and that they needed someone. Yeah. Right. Anyway, it's kind of funny when you think about it. I mean, the rebs lost and there's more of us then the Yankees. I believe it's because everyone loves an underdog.

The next couple of months are going to prove to be very busy. Next week, Mom, Manda and I are going to be starting a cake decorating class at Michaels. I think I'm the most excited out of the three. I love the cake decorating shows and compititions on the Food Network and I'm sure it'll be fun. Come November I'll be doing  NaNoWriMo or National November Writing Month. Basically you knock out a 150 page novel in a month, starting November 1st ending at midnight Nov 30th. It's really fun to do but completely insane. But a lot of people do it, so I'm not the only really insane one. Go to nanowrimo.org for more info. It's really fun in a crazy sort of way. I tried it last year and didn't get as far as I wanted, no doubt because I was trying to graduate and all.