Ishmael

In 24 hours, I’ll be in North Carolina. Snack is currently (kinda) out of town and has no cell service and will be there until Monday. It’s already horrible and it’s only been like a few hours since I meet with her for lunch. I’m going to die. I mean, I know I’m going to have fun with my grandparents in NC. But I don’t like the fact that Snack and I are like totally separated from each other.

But anyway, if you hadn’t gathered, my brothers and I are leaving for NC tomorrow. It’s not going to be that huge for me to be making a trip like that by myself, but it’ll be interesting with my brothers. And I haven’t flown in forever, so it’s going to be kinda different.

Snack and her family are coming up tomorrow to see us off at the airport and then they’re going to play mini-golf and go to church and go dancing and then they’re going back to wherever they’re vacationing. *sigh*, I wish I could go with them. Or at least have some contact with her. But it’s a time for her and her family to get away from everything. It’ll be good for her. I just wish she saw it that way.

The flight from Nashville to Raleigh isn’t too long. I think it’s like an hour and a half or something. We’ll probably spend more time in security checks and waiting lines and on the runway than we’ll spend in the air.

I don’t know what we’ll be doing once we’re picked up at the airport tomorrow, but I’m sure we’ll be spending some time with the grandparents. I might be able to find some time to blog about the flight. I really don;t know though.

But I need to finish packing and do some shopping. Wish me a safe flight.

So I’ve been thinking about it recently, and I’ve decided that I’m going to get myself back into shape and hopefully start working towards some international meets. But my first goal is to just qualify for the southeastern district championships this season. Which means that I need to drop drop some times by January. I’m hoping to build to possibly go to London in 2012. Maybe end up in the lane next to Phelps. But I’m not that good yet. But it’s 4 years from now. It would be totally awesome if I could qualify for the junior nationals… that might be a stretch though…

But I’m going to take this one step at a time. As much as I’d love to do this, there are some things I’m not going to give up for swimming.

we leave for North Carolina this week and we’re all scrambling around getting our stuff together. It’s going to be interesting because I haven’t been on a plane in forever! To tell you the truth, I’m kinda nervous about it because we’ll be flying by ourselves. But we’ll be unaccompanied minors, so we’ll get to board first which will be cool.

Gosh, it’s hard to type in the dark! We’re in the car on the way home from church. I had so much fun. But that’s another blog post, lol.

But anyway, I’m kinda looking forward to the trip. But kinda not. I mean, I really really want to go. It’s going to be a lot of fun and I’m going to see my grandparents. But… I’m going to be out of state for a week. And not like two hours out of state either. It’s going to be different

But we just got home and it’s time for bed. More later

In my last post, I was talking about how life had been going. But I didn’t nearly have time to go over everything that’s happened in the last few months.

I think I left off with swimming, so that’s where I’ll start…

I’ve bee working out as much as I can at home, stuff like pushups, situps, stretching, breathing work, running, and the like. But I really really want to get back into the water.

So far, everything I’ve written about has been great. But now for the “eh… ok…” stuff…

We’re in the process of looking for a new place to live. It’s a long story, but basically, our landlord needs the house we’re renting. So we’re moving out. The only problem with that is that we only have till the end of next month to find something. And so far, we’re not having such good luck finding anything. Worst case seneraio is that we go to live with my grandparents in north carolina. And that would be ok. But… I’d be so far away from what I have here. We’re going to to be going to visit them for 8 days next week. And that’s going to be… different. I think 8 days will be long enough. We’ll see…

But I’m out of time again… and that’s how life has been going fo me lately, lol. Co-op is tomorrow. Now it’s time for homework.

Whoa, it’s been a while. Let’s see if I remember how to do this…

I guess I need to start with an explanation as to why it’s been so long. I’ve never been a steady blogger, but i had made up my mind to write at least regularly. Heh, then our internet situation went from bad to worse. Now we can hardly get on at all at home. And the closest library or hotspot is like 20 minutes away.

so anyway, that’s my excuse. Now for an update…

Things are going… ok…

I’m totally swampped with school. Somehow I ended up totally upside down and so I’m taking physics, chemistry, biologey, spanish 1 and 2, algebra 2, geometry, and world history. All in one year… O_o

But school is kinda more fun this year. We started going to a co-op and so I’m taking physics with other people instead of being at home dropping books on the floor and timing them by myself. I’m also on the newpaper and taking an english country dance class. Seriously, I have decided that I love dancing. I know, right? lol

I seriously didn’t know how much fun dancing was until a friend invited me to her tutorial’s swing dance. I had a lot of fun, and have since been dancing quite a few times. Even my brothers are having fun with it. Benjamin is actually taking dance with me. I think the parents are starting to get into it a little too. I can’t blame them, it’s fun and it’s decent exercise.

wow, I have a LOT to say, lol

Oh! I’m considering starting swimming again. And no, it’s not because of the Olympics. I’ve been thinking about it for the past year. I’m really missing it. One thing is for sure though – there are a few things that I’m not going to give up for swimming. But yeah, I just need to find a pool and get my butt back in shape.

But I think my mom is ready to leave.

I’ll blog more when I can