Wow. I haven't updated my website in the longest time. I don't even know if I remember how this thing works!
Anyway since my last entry I started back to school, met my dad for the first time, and my youngest cat got hit by a car.
So far this year (It's only October) I've *only* missed about 5 days of school...which for me, is actually pretty good. Last year I went to school for the first 2 weeks in September, and didn't go back until the middle of February.
I met my dad on September 28th. He was visiting his brother who lives in New York, and he came by here in New Jersey to see me. He brought his wife, and the three of us went to dinner the first night. He slept over in a hotel, and the next afternoon we went out to lunch. He gave me 50 dollars and drove back to Iowa. It was strange meeting him. I was actually suprised about how I handled it. When I got into his car to drive to dinner I felt so normal. I wan't nervous, and kind of felt like I had been hanging out with him for years. I did have to scream at him for him to hear me though...he's hard of hearing. lol His wife had to be a translator a few times when he couldn't hear what I was saying from the back seat. He took me to the town where he and my mom used to live 16 years ago, and showed me the house they lived in. Then we walked around the block, got back in the car, went off to dinner, drove around for about an hour, and than he took me home. My mom didn't seem too happy that I was gone. She didn't make me feel like I could talk about hanging out with him. She was mostly upset that he didn't even come inside to say "hello." But I told her all about it anyway.
The night my dad left for Iowa, my cat Tyson got hit by a car. I was a crying mess, shaking, and acting like an idiot trying to find a number for an animal hospital. It was about 7pm on a Saturday so our vet was closed. He had a broken jaw among other things. The bill came to 500 dollars, so the 50 my dad gave me came in handy. My family can't believe my mother spent so much money on a cat, but he's the baby of the family and we didn't want to let him die. He's currenly making a full recovery. :)
I'm working on getting a job with my brother. I promised my mom I'd pay her back for Tyson's medical expenses. The main reason I'm not working yet is because of transportation. My mom is in the process of changing jobs, so we're waitng to see what her new schedule is going to be, so I can work around her hours. I'd walk, except the place I'll hopfully be working at is about 10 miles away from my house...
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