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The state of me.
12 years ago
A lot has happened since the last time that I've posted a journal, and I feel like sharing.
Some stuff has stayed the same, though, however, mainly the whole 'me being stuck in school' thing. I'm making progress, mind you, but I keep being tossed around in the bureaucratic BS that makes me feel like I'm never getting out. At any given moment, I could be "ready to graduate by the end of the semester", to "You'll need to just take one or two classes in the summer", or "You'll have to come back in the fall to finish up." And it's starting to wear on me. Currently, I've been in college for 5 years now, and I'm kind of done with it. I'd like not to have to go 6 years for a 4 year degree, but whatever.
Changes!
I no longer have the internship doing computer graphics at a local manufacturing plant, that sucks, because the job was super easy, and I made FAR too much money for what I was doing. It was good experience, though, and I made some amazing references for when I start looking for a job in my field, however.
What I did get, is my old job back at Speedway. Speedway, for those of you that don't know, is a chain of gas station / convenience stores in the Midwest. The job is easy, the only thing making it difficult is when I get shitty customers, or when I work with people that are inept at the simplest of tasks. I'll probably make a rant journal about the job sometime soon, but if you follow me on twitter (you totally should) you've seen me go on and on about the job.
Luckily, My shift leader, store manager, and District manager are all pushing for me to be promoted to a shift leader because the store I work in needs one. The only downside about that is a requirement for a shift leader is the availability of coming into work at a moments notice in case someone calls in sick. Currently, I can't because of school. Also, I'd be getting a minimum of 35 hours a week, which is FAR too much with my current school load. Either way, I can't get the promotion until I'm done with this semester, so this summer will be a nice money-making experience.
And last but not least, I've found love~
It's found in the oddest places, too.
Through the internet, I've made a bunch of friends. It was inevitable that one of them would eventually get me into My Little Pony. After becoming addicted to it, I ventured onto an IRC network that is centered around the show. From there, I was thrown into a world I hadn't yet quite explored yet. I hadn't been on IRC before and was making friends left and right.
This is where
comes in.
See, I met him on one of the RP channels, and at first, I thought he was kind of an arrogant, abrasive kind of person. Then I realized that a lot of the people on the IRC network were just bland, boring people, and he stood out because of how charismatic he was.
Over the course of... a while (I honestly forgot how long it was <_<;; )) we talked, and talked.... and talked, and found that we had a lot in common. A LOT in common, and became fast friends.
More time passed and I started to develop feelings for him. Silly me, I know, falling for someone I had only talked to online for a few 5/6 months online, but I did. Long story short, he felt the same way about me, and we had one of those online relationships going on.
Now, I've done the whole online relationship thing before, and it's... alright I guess. But it's not what I want. I want a REAL relationship, with physical contact and the whole 9 yards, but the distance between us prevented that.
Skip ahead to August of last year, first full weekend. This was the weekend of GenCon. The biggest gaming convention in the world(?) and it's held in my back yard, Indianapolis. Needless to say, not going would be foolish of me, so of course I went like I do every year. was able to save up enough dough to get a plane ticket up here, and visit for the first time while going to the convention.
I was scared shitless.
I was meeting the guy for the first time I was head over heals for, and I didn't know how well it was going to go.
It went so much better than I had ever have planned. From the second he landed in Indianapolis, we were chatting the whole time, talking like we had known each other for years. The entire convention we were holding hands (when he stopped being so shy about PDA) and enjoyed everything. The only down side was we were staying at a friend's apartment down in Indy, along with 5 other people, so there wasn't much room for privacy.
After he went back home, I was in a strange mix of emotions. I was so very happy that we enjoyed each other in real life as much as we do online, and it gave me hope that the relationship was actually going to work, not just look good on paper. But I was also depressed as hell, because now he was away.
Luckily, he was able to visit for a week during Christmas break. For a whole week, I had him at my house, he hung around my friends, and it felt like, well, life. It wasn't anything overly special, but it was everything I could ever want. We went out to eat, shopped, talked, cuddled, slept in the same bed, and basically just lived life together with each other for a whole week and it was everything I could ever want and more. I won't go into specific details, but we were very close.
As all good things go, though, it had to come to an end and he went back home so he could go back to school and whatnot.
So that brings us to now. and I are closer than ever, and making plans on moving in together as fast as possible. Also, he just had a birthday, today in fact! And I got him some art from a couple of awesome, talented artists.
Our Icons came from
And my Birthday for Skyesby commission came from the amazing
Go check out both of of them, you really should. :3
Uhm... that's about all I can think of rambling on so early in the morning, if you read all of it, you get a cookie. c:
Some stuff has stayed the same, though, however, mainly the whole 'me being stuck in school' thing. I'm making progress, mind you, but I keep being tossed around in the bureaucratic BS that makes me feel like I'm never getting out. At any given moment, I could be "ready to graduate by the end of the semester", to "You'll need to just take one or two classes in the summer", or "You'll have to come back in the fall to finish up." And it's starting to wear on me. Currently, I've been in college for 5 years now, and I'm kind of done with it. I'd like not to have to go 6 years for a 4 year degree, but whatever.
Changes!
I no longer have the internship doing computer graphics at a local manufacturing plant, that sucks, because the job was super easy, and I made FAR too much money for what I was doing. It was good experience, though, and I made some amazing references for when I start looking for a job in my field, however.
What I did get, is my old job back at Speedway. Speedway, for those of you that don't know, is a chain of gas station / convenience stores in the Midwest. The job is easy, the only thing making it difficult is when I get shitty customers, or when I work with people that are inept at the simplest of tasks. I'll probably make a rant journal about the job sometime soon, but if you follow me on twitter (you totally should) you've seen me go on and on about the job.
Luckily, My shift leader, store manager, and District manager are all pushing for me to be promoted to a shift leader because the store I work in needs one. The only downside about that is a requirement for a shift leader is the availability of coming into work at a moments notice in case someone calls in sick. Currently, I can't because of school. Also, I'd be getting a minimum of 35 hours a week, which is FAR too much with my current school load. Either way, I can't get the promotion until I'm done with this semester, so this summer will be a nice money-making experience.
And last but not least, I've found love~
It's found in the oddest places, too.
Through the internet, I've made a bunch of friends. It was inevitable that one of them would eventually get me into My Little Pony. After becoming addicted to it, I ventured onto an IRC network that is centered around the show. From there, I was thrown into a world I hadn't yet quite explored yet. I hadn't been on IRC before and was making friends left and right.
This is where
comes in.See, I met him on one of the RP channels, and at first, I thought he was kind of an arrogant, abrasive kind of person. Then I realized that a lot of the people on the IRC network were just bland, boring people, and he stood out because of how charismatic he was.
Over the course of... a while (I honestly forgot how long it was <_<;; )) we talked, and talked.... and talked, and found that we had a lot in common. A LOT in common, and became fast friends.
More time passed and I started to develop feelings for him. Silly me, I know, falling for someone I had only talked to online for a few 5/6 months online, but I did. Long story short, he felt the same way about me, and we had one of those online relationships going on.
Now, I've done the whole online relationship thing before, and it's... alright I guess. But it's not what I want. I want a REAL relationship, with physical contact and the whole 9 yards, but the distance between us prevented that.
Skip ahead to August of last year, first full weekend. This was the weekend of GenCon. The biggest gaming convention in the world(?) and it's held in my back yard, Indianapolis. Needless to say, not going would be foolish of me, so of course I went like I do every year.
was able to save up enough dough to get a plane ticket up here, and visit for the first time while going to the convention.I was scared shitless.
I was meeting the guy for the first time I was head over heals for, and I didn't know how well it was going to go.
It went so much better than I had ever have planned. From the second he landed in Indianapolis, we were chatting the whole time, talking like we had known each other for years. The entire convention we were holding hands (when he stopped being so shy about PDA) and enjoyed everything. The only down side was we were staying at a friend's apartment down in Indy, along with 5 other people, so there wasn't much room for privacy.
After he went back home, I was in a strange mix of emotions. I was so very happy that we enjoyed each other in real life as much as we do online, and it gave me hope that the relationship was actually going to work, not just look good on paper. But I was also depressed as hell, because now he was away.
Luckily, he was able to visit for a week during Christmas break. For a whole week, I had him at my house, he hung around my friends, and it felt like, well, life. It wasn't anything overly special, but it was everything I could ever want. We went out to eat, shopped, talked, cuddled, slept in the same bed, and basically just lived life together with each other for a whole week and it was everything I could ever want and more. I won't go into specific details, but we were very close.
As all good things go, though, it had to come to an end and he went back home so he could go back to school and whatnot.
So that brings us to now.
and I are closer than ever, and making plans on moving in together as fast as possible. Also, he just had a birthday, today in fact! And I got him some art from a couple of awesome, talented artists.Our Icons came from
And my Birthday for Skyesby commission came from the amazing
Go check out both of of them, you really should. :3
Uhm... that's about all I can think of rambling on so early in the morning, if you read all of it, you get a cookie. c:
I still can't believe how lucky of an event that was, for both of us.