finding my street corner again

I need to start blogging again. I promise I will. Me and Calvin had moved to Lewiston and our place didn't have internet, then I got a job working for the Lewiston Tribune (awesome job, just didn't pay anything worth living off of) and was too busy to care about a blog.

Then me and Calvin broke up a few weeks ago, one month before our wedding was to take place. Enough on that.

So now I'm back at my parents' home in Spokane, where Quest provides high speed Internet and my new job at Northern Quest Casino/Hotel hasn't started up yet. and i'm putting off going through my stuff to store, donate or organize.

Right now, my parents are packing for an overnight trip to Nelson, BC, Canada, where they will drop my brother off at his new place. He is going to school at Selkirk College, in the ski resort management program. And let me just say this. WHY is it so bleeding hard to get a cell phone that works in both the USA and Canada without paying $1.49 a minute roaming fees and 75 cents a text? Apparently my brother has signed up with a prepaid verizon phone, and they assured him there are no crazy roaming fees. BUT I did lots of research last night and I'm convinced he will probably have some surprises on his first bill. Oh well, it's HIS PROBLEM! Live and learn, that's what I say. Just like he is set on getting a full sized bed for his room (in an apt he's sharing with 3 other guys), but believe you me, getting a full sized bed in a college apartment is easier said than done. I would have LOVED to have a larger bed in college (thank you, 3 years of twin beds on bed risers, for my fear of rolling off the bed in my sleep) but there's just a lot of logistics. a) a twin bed is cheaper, b) twin beds in a college town are generally easier to find, c) sheets for twin beds are cheap and come decorated with cartoon characters, and d) have you ever tried to lift your own queen-sized mattress? Even with two people, it ain't easy. I hope he makes good friends with his roommates and that they are big, strong guys.

So it's now 2pm, Nelson is about a 3 hour drive from Spokane, and HAVE THEY LEFT YET?? Nope! They are still puttering around throwing stuff in boxes (well, my dad is running errands for reasons only known to him) and my brother is still cleaning his room (as predicted by me and disputed three days ago by him, simply packing to go to college does not mean all of the trash in your room magically disappears), and I'm sitting here on my computer. Bored out of my mind but waiting for people to leave so I can have some peace and quiet!

Anyway. I'm sure I'll be posting a lot here because I have something like 6 friends in the world. 5 of them live nowhere near Spokane (Alaska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Michigan, see I wasn't kidding) and one WON'T CHECK HIS FACEBOOK AND HE LOST HIS PHONE AND NO ONE ELSE WILL RESPOND TO MY TEXTS BECAUSE I PROBABLY BORED THEM TO DEATH BUT HE IS STILL NEW TO MY WORLD SO I KNOW I DIDN'T KILL HIM YET. Yes I'm talking to you Skyler.

Welcome to my street corner.