Well it has been a while since I last blogged here on the site. To be honest I haven't even visited the blogs as much as I used to. Since I came home from college I have to use my parents dial-up modem to connect and it's so painfully slow that it's ridiculous. I have been, however, doing the photo masher each week (I made it on there week before last!). Did anyone notice that it wasn't updated this week? Alot has happened in the month that I've been absent.

Instead of going out and finding a 'real' summer job I told my uncle and aunt that I would baby-sit their kids for the summer. I thought that it would be difficult to find a job when I had to quit in three months to go back to school. The boys are 8 and 5 and they normally are very sweet and do anything I ask, but this week, I swear, it's like watching two Sith Lords! The younger one, Jakob, has strep throat and is taking an anti-biotic medicine that is loaded with sugar and it makes him hyper. They are into Star Wars so that makes them a little bit easier to control. I tell them that if they are good until 3 or so then we will play Lego Star Wars. They are actually not bad at it. The 5 year old loves Yoda so he likes to do the Ep II Count Dooku battle. The 8 year old loves all of the characters so he's pretty much content with any level. The first week that I baby-sat them, they wanted me to call them Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda. Sure they can be Sith-like and rowdy, but they're my cousins and I love them so I continue to watch them (and the $125/week isn't bad either).

In other news, I called off my engagement and broke up with my boyfriend, David, last week. He didn't do anything to cause it, I just realized that I didn't love him anymore. I've only known him a year and a half, and he asked me to marry him only 6 months into the relationship. At the time, my heart told me to say yes but my parents told me we should slow things down a bit. I said yes and we planned to be married in May of 2006. That soon changed. The fall of '05 was his first semester at college (my third) and he got a little cocky and thought he didn't need to go to class anymore. He flunked out and had to go to a community college instead. I was really disappointed but he was doing things to make up for the lost semester. He got a job at the fast-food place, Sonic, and was working 6 days a week. I didn't get to see him much over the last semester because he lived in another city and he was working so much. Most people say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well, not in my case. I found myself dreading when he would come over to see me at my dorm. His day off was a Monday and that was my busiest day of school and homework. I thought that I dreaded it because I was stressed, but when the summer came and I had a lot of free time I still dreaded him coming over. That's when I realized that I didn't love him anymore and I knew I had to end it. He cried when I told him and then I cried. I would still like to be friends but he said it would be too hard for him. Break ups are never fun but it was better than the both of us being unhappy. He's a really great guy and someone else will make him much happier than I was.

Hopefully I won't be gone quite so long as last time (although I'm sure nobody missed me) but I hope everyone has a great summer!