there is no one alive that is youer than you.

You know what's worse than taking a drug screening test thing?

Not being able to pee when you have to pee in the stupid little cup.

Yes, I'm going to talk about this. Right meow (haha, I said meow) because I had to spend 50 minutes in the stupid clinic drinking about 500000 tiny dixie cups of water and waiting around until I had to go pee. Lucky me, though, I had three hours to wait until I had to go! I wasted two of the sanitary cups and mailing vials because I tried to go when I didn't really have to. But I have to tell you, I felt damn accomplished when I was finally able to go. First ever drug screening test thing: done and done.

I had to take the drug screening test thing and go through a medical exam because of the job I'm trying to get. The lumber mill gets its possible new employees to take the drug screening test thing, go through a medical exam and then write an aptitude test, which I write tomorrow at 9AM, before they actually hire them. I'm thinking I'll have no problems whatsoever, I'm just really wanting to get this job so I have some money flowing through the bank account and so I can pay back the people I owe money to. It's a work-in-progress.

So I'm working on getting back in shape and losing weight for the fall when I'm going to run on the Cross Country team again. I can see that I'm losing weight, but it's such a slow process, it drives me nuts. It seems so easy for the boyfriend to be able to lose the weight he wants (mainly water weight, he says, whatever that means), but it's taking a while for me to drop the pounds. Running is becoming easier, though, so that makes me happy. The other day, I told my sister to beat the time I ran that morning on the 3km loop that we run. She's a bit more fit than I am at the moment (while I was drinking my life away down south, she was actually running and being healthy), so I was expecting her to beat it.

She kicked my ass. She ran it almost 50 seconds faster than me, nearly a minute! That may not seem too much longer, but when it comes to running, seconds mean a lot. Unfortunately, the weather has prevented me from going out and running that loop and trying to beat her new time, but I've been running at the gym so when it does clear up, consider her time beaten. Hopefully. (I'll be severely disappointed in myself if I can't beat it..)

And yeah.

I'm so excited for the fall. Very much so!

you see, I can be myself now, finally; in fact, there's nothing I can't be.

Yeah, life has been a nutty roller coaster so far this year.
It's awesome.

Not only have I been to Central America (visiting the countries Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador) and back, I've also decided to go back and have been accepted to Lethbridge College and take the Exercise Science program. I'm still working on getting residence paperwork completed, but it's looking pretty good! And since coming back, I started dating an amazing guy. He's possibly the sweetest guy I know and we're both really happy! Also in the works is a summer position at the lumber mill just outside town. It's probably the best paying job I'd be able to get here for just the summer, so I'm really hoping I'll be hired. We'll see!

I've been fairly busy, but fairly lazy at the same time. Coming back from Central America was sort of weird, I was able to jump back into life here pretty fast. I got a nasty head cold for about 3-4 days, but that's probably due to the climate change, which was big (going from the really warm and humid to dry and cold). The first real day back was wet, cold and windy; my dog and I got soaked and chilled on our walk when it pretty much started to blizzard on us. Not cool. My stomach has also been acting up from the difference in water and food, but it's getting better. I have medication for that and a pill for Malaria prevention, which I have to take for a minimum of a month after coming home.
It's been nice coming home, though. I was ready. The alcohol and drugs were insane down there and I was ready for a break. I also wanted something to do! A three month vacation without any sort of itinerary is a recipe for eventual boredom. I was going crazy the last two weeks there since we were all getting ready to come home and there wasn't much to do.

I can tell 'ya one thing, though: I sure as hell missed the Rocky Mountains. Haha, a lot. A few days after I got back, I jumped in my good ol' Beast ('86 Chevrolet Silverado - it's a tank and a piece of shit that I just so happen to adore) and went for a nice drive out west. Mountains and pine trees and Canada Geese; it was awesome.

Yeah.
I'm probably going to be posting more now that I'm home again. I was too lazy to post about things while I was down south.. there would have been so much shit!
'Just glad to be home.