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[sunshine_queen]

DSL is finally working again! Yay!

So, yesterday my mom randomly says "I have a present for you," but she wouldn't tell me what for the longest time. And it drove me crazy all through dinner, especially when I found out that my sister and father both knew of the present. And it drove me crazy as I watched the Gilmore Girls, but then they finally gave it to me.

My mom and sister have been working on a scrapbook for me since I went to Virginia with Monica. It had me and my family since I was a baby, my friends, graduation, gala, birthdays and chrismases and all sorts of wonderful things and it made me bawl. It's perfect, and I love it, and I'm so glad that I have people who love me enough to do it. And more importantly, I'm glad they didn't give to me as they left, which they originally intended to do, because I might've died crying.

I have finally heard from my third roommate, Brittany. I messaged her on facebook. She said she'd been really busy with finals and stuff, and she seems nice enough. AND I talked to Heather yesterday for the first time since graduation. I always forget how much I like Heather and how good we get along. We're going to get together next week after Jorge leaves for school.

At this time next week, I will either be in Gainesville or going up to Gainesville. It's just so weird to think. Talisa and her family invited me and my sister to go with them to Bimini this weekend, and I had to say no. Because... it's my last weekend at home. I'm not going to be living at home anymore. I won't see my mother everyday. (Which is going to be the hardest part.)

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[xenaamber.livejournal.com]

The scrapbook sounds so lovely. You'll have to let me see it when I come down.

It's actually easier once you're gone from home and your family, I found. I mean, it sucks, but at least it actually sucks rather than there being this dread of it sucking in the future. It's best when the fear of the unknown is gone. I'm leaving for UVA on Wednesday, so we'll be more or less doing the same things at the same time. (But you will still be living at home -- the dorm won't feel like home at all. I mean that in a good way, because then you'll always have home to go back to.)

I was invited to Vermont this weekend and I couldn't go, either. :-(

I'm thinking of you a lot. Call me any time if you need to talk.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Remind me to bring it home when I come to see you. Also, you'll get in before I do, if the bus schedule we've been looking at is right. I get in around ten, and you get in around five, so you'll have to hang out with my family. Hee.

I'm pretty sure I'm making it into much more of an ordeal than it needs to be, because that is my way. I am very, very nervous.

Sounds like you had fun last weekend, though!

*hugs* Thanks, Jess.

[xenaamber.livejournal.com]

I thought I probably would get in first, because it's such a long drive from UF. I'm amazed you can go that far and still be in the same state. But I will hang out with your family very gladly. :D

No, it's good to be nervous. I was absolutely terrified. I was better once I left home, and I was totally heartbroken when my family left, but after a day or two, once orientation ended and classes started, I was much better. Routine helps.

*hugs*

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

My mom and sister have been working on a scrapbook for me since I went to Virginia with Monica. It had me and my family since I was a baby, my friends, graduation, gala, birthdays and chrismases and all sorts of wonderful things and it made me bawl.

Gosh, that's so sweet of them! :)

*hugs*

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

It was so nice of them- they heard me talking about another girl who had a sister of hers make her one, and I was so impressed by it and I gushed about it, so it made an impression. And then they made me my own! It was great.

*hugs*

[cryssa.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that's amazing. I have always wanted someone to do something like that for me.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude, same here. It's pretty cool.

[snapplesons.livejournal.com]

Awww! That is so sweet. And I don't know if it's because I'm staring at this really weird and extremely magnified computer screen or what, but I'm starting to cry! Gosh. That is so nice of them.

I know this is hard. And I know not seeing your family is going to suck. It will, and I can basically promise you that. But, since I've already done the whole going away to school thing, I can honestly tell you that it won't suck as much as you thnk as long as you make the most of your UF experience. I mean. I don't know. I feel really bad, hearing how ... anxious you are to go back. Because believe me, I was the exact same way. And I just really want you to know that it isn't as bad as you might be thinking it is. But. Well. It is bad. But not horrible. It's what you make of it.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

I feel a lot better knowing that I'll have so many friends there (you included) and that I've known a lot of people to go away to school, and I even had a lot of friends do Summer B... but still. I am going to start crying just thinking about how much I'll miss my family. And I know I'll be okay, but I'm still really nervous.

[snapplesons.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was so sad to leave my mom. And I was worried about her, too. I wasn't sure Josh would step up and help her out around the house and help with Sara.

Haha, my mom has this thing, where I'm not allowed to say that I live in Gainesville. As far as she's concerned, I live with her. I'm just viisting Gainesville; it's like summer camp. I'm only gone for summer camp. That's why she insisted on me having a room at her new house, because she wants me to feel like I live there.

She's having a worse time with this than I am.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

At first everyone kept joking about what they were going to do with my room, but then I started crying when they'd talk about it, so they finally stopped and my mom and dad promised me they'd keep my room for as long as I wanted it.

But we are going to live in Gainesville!

[snapplesons.livejournal.com]

Haha, ya know, they did the same thing with my room, but well, then we moved. So. Yeah.