Ack.

So I relapsed. >.< My internet crapped out for a few days but after that I've been caught up in Final Fantasy Land. I swear I'm only a hard core gamer once a year or so, if that. It will pass. FF 12 is awesome and amazing, but the one thing I don't like about it is the fact that you spend a LOT of time leveling up. Which works out in a way, because fighting monsters is 95% of your income comes from and leveling up = badass new weapons and armor.

Anyway, lots of things happened since I last posted, the biggest one being THE CIRCUS!! Daddy scored us some kick ass tickets to Ringling Brothers Circus and it was awesome. The ringleader was this super hot magician who made an elephant disappear. Now, I know magic isn't real, but how in the hell did he do that?! Seriously, he stuck an elephant in a cage and threw a curtain up for like, ten seconds and the elephant was gone. WHERE DO YOU PUT AN ELEPHANT IN TEN SECONDS?!

And another thought provoking question: Why are all the awesome acrobats asian? Seriously, there was an entire troupe of them flipping and jumping on moving platforms in the air. I think it might be the generations of ninja genes passed down from one asian to the next. They were awesome.

But the tigers were the best. I mean, I've seen tigers in a zoo before, but never this close. And I was watching them jump around in a cage when it hit me: I'm seeing a REAL LIVE TIGER. THIS IS NOT ON TV. THIS IS NOT A PICTURE. THIS IS A REAL TIGER. Which you might be saying "Uh, Duh. Of course they're real tigers, Ash. Airhead." But I'm so used to seeing tigers on tv that it took me a moment to realize that they were real.

That was Sunday. Monday I went over to Katie's house and made homemade banana nutella crepes. Oh man, they were probably the most delicious thing I have ever put into my mouth. I'm pretty new to the taste-bud orgasm that is Nutella so these crepes were extra bad ass.

Seriously, I can't get over Nutella. It tastes exactly like the inside of a Fererro Rocher, which wins the Biggest BAMF Confectionery EVER award. I'm constantly sneaking to the pantry and swiping a few finger-fulls of the stuff. OMG.

I love cooking with Katie because she knows what she's doing for one, and she completely takes over so I don't screw anything up. We were using a giant frying pan to cook the first three crepes, which didn't come out that well until Katie finally decided to use a smaller frying pan. Apparently she is incapable of eating an ugly crepe. They must all be pretty bitches. So we found this tiny little skillet with rounded edges and it worked like a charm. And no wonder: When Katie's mom came home she informed us that it was, in fact, a crepe pan.

So for the past week or so I've been tearing my room apart looking for my school transcript which I SWEAR I PUT IN MY DRAWER with all my other important documents. I SWEAR. I REMEMBER putting it there, but apparently I was taking hard core drugs because the transcript was not there. Cue complete and total freak out because it takes forever for Vista Ridge to send a transcript and by that time it might be too late to enroll. Finally yesterday I went downstairs and causally asked my dad if he'd seen it and I watched him undo a weeks worth of searching in three seconds by pulling out my transcript out of thin air like that super hot magician ringleader. I was afraid of asking him all week in case I really did lose it because I can't handle my freak outs and Daddy's freak outs. Mainly because Daddy's freak outs include lots of yelling and cussing and general annoyance.

So today Tyler and I went to State University and dropped off my application, my transcript and my SAT scores. Oh man, is a load of my chest. College is ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN. I'M SO EXCITED. Now I can stop feeling like such a worthless pathetic loser and my self esteem can pull itself back from the dumps. As soon as my income check comes in and I go CLOTHES SHOPPING!!!

So I can pretty much thank Tyler for my education right now.

THANK YOU TYLER WILLIS. YOU SAVED MY ASS.

Quote of the Day: I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

This is a quote that I'm sure to appreciate in the next year.