You guys should probably be used to the fact that I come onto livejournal about nce a year. That's just the way it is. I don't always have much to say unless I've built it up for a series of months.... or maybe I'm just far too busy (or far too lazy) to update more than one webpage at a time. Sorry people, myspace won. Yeah, I know everyone's all about facebook right now, but there is no way in hell I'm creating ANOTHER stupid thing for me to check. Two is plenty. Anyhow.... this year.... I'm almost completely done with junior college and I'm being accepted into Cal State Fullerton, I'm about to move to the Orange County area, I'm going on a trip to Romania and London (EEP!), and um, wasn' there some kind of elction or something that took place??

I'm not sure. I've since tried to block it out.

And no, needless to say, I most certainly did NOT "Barack the vote."

Anyhow, no matter what the outcome, I would still be so deathly sick of the whole situation by now. No matter who won, I still would be ill at the thought of discussing it at this point. I mean I was swollen with pride to have registered for the first time and to have used my right to vote, but I'm certainly glad it's over. Even if I severely dislike the elect.

In other news- or actually in partially related news, I'm kind of adjusting to the whole "adult" thing, since this seemed to be the year of big individual steps. I mean the voting thing, the 18 thing, the passport thing, the application to university thing, and not to mention the fact that I payed for this upcoming trip ALL BY MYSELF with no financial assistance. Go me. Granted, I'm pretty much wiped out now fiscally, but I managed to organize it pretty well. I saved up 3,200 dollars to pay for this trip, and I'm still saving up for spending money once I'm out there. I had to make a few sacrifices... I mean I couldn't go crazy making mad purchases of fun things these past few months. Which is good, because that isn't the way life works, let's face it. And things have been pretty good, since I managed to upgrade my disney pass and I still regularly visit the Magic Kingdom about once a week. Yeah, I'm addicted. We knew this. But I really wanted to get my tattoo the year I turned legal, but I've had to put it off. Sigh. It's alright though. I've been very responsible, and quite frankly, I'm not feeling the effects of this horrid "recession."

Then again, maybe that's because me and my family did not put down unaffordable and ridiculous loans on things that I didn't need....

anyhow. Short of getting too political, this "bad economy" has actually been working out pretty well for me. I've managed to pull off a hell of a lot this year financially. Plus gas is cheap.

Ugh. That reminds me of the next thing on my list of responsibilities... driving. For some reason it's been dead last on the list of priorities, but now I don't really have a choice. Since I'll be going to a new school and hopefully working at Disney, I'm gonna need to supply my own wheelage. Ah, to live.

To live will be a grand adventure.