Finally!

     I have good news! Technically, I had it yesterday, but thanks to the on-going problems with the DSL and the provider, I had no services until today. But! The newness has not worn off, and I am still excited. :D

     I get to go back to school!

     Hrmm, now I realize some people might not find that all that exciting, but for me it's an amazing thing. I started on the path to get a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, focusing on Interior Design in October, and successfully made it through exactly one term before what felt like all hell broke loose around me. There were some medical hang-ups of my own that kept me from class, but I continued to keep putting in effort anyway only to have another disaster of sorts strike. Like surrendering the house we spent about twenty years of my life in and having to move because we just haven't been able to recover since my dad lost his job. We've all struggled to make ends meet, and I moved back home to help with the burden as much as I could, and we just... finally had to call it quits. So, on top of my issues, I was helping clean and pack up my childhood home, while my mom dragged heels a bit because she doesn't like change and my dad's health started to suffer.

     In the midst of all of that, one of the two cars we needed for everyone to get back and forth to work and class, died. On one of the days I was able to get to class without issue, no less. So, again, I found myself out of class until we got the matter resolved. All of that proved to be too much for my dad though, and he spent some time in the hospital after nearly having a heart attack. The doctor actually called it a "controlled" heart attack and said there wasn't any damage, but that if things hadn't been controlled, he would have been a lot worse off. x.X So, dad was put off on medical.

     The moving has been a slow process. We're still working here and there on getting everything into the current house. It's been a bit of a task for a number of reasons, but we are finally settled in enough that I could focus on getting back into classes again, and as of Monday I am registered half-time, like I was before, and get to go back when the term starts in July. I cannot wait. The only thing I have left to do is write a tuition waver request letter, and go in sometime next week to finalize things on my financial aid.