[mood| Jubilant ]

I'm ecstatic to announce that today's the day! I'm headed back to school in only an hour and I'm so happy to be leaving my miserable house!! No more putting up with my brothers and their on-going drug addiction and other various unending problems...no more listening to them throw curse words around like a second language...no more watching my father sit around on the computer all day ignoring anything and everything that goes on in this house, even when it gets scary and potentially dangerous...no more listening to his loud snores on the couch at 3 in the afternoon...no more putting up with the fact that he won't listen to anything I say and listening to him throw insults at me about my own life...no more long, boring, depressing days with nothing fun to do or anyone to hang out with...I'm FREE!! I was not really here for too long this summer, but any time feels like a long time...and these past 3 weeks was a long time. I'm just so thrilled to be leaving. Now I'm going to avoid coming back as much as I possibly can, and when I have to, I know I won't be alone. I will miss my mom and feel bad that she's still stuck in all of this (because she's the only one who does try to fix things), but thankfully she can escape and come down to see me on most weekends, and she's not very far. So knowing that makes this all the easier and I can't say I regret anything...I know I'm not really leaving anything behind. This house was never much of a home anyway. Sad, but true. I consider my true home to be at school and tonight, I'm finally going home. :-)

Anyway, I'm going to have a really busy next week or so, running around on duty for the ASC and band...but I will update again once things wind down! I'm so excited...I'm moving into my room tonight and will be setting things up for the next few days, my Soul will be joining me in only 3 days now and in typical Soul fashion we have so many fun things planned to do together(!!!), I'll be seeing all of my college friends and professors again (yes, I'll admit that I've missed Alice!), band starts up next Wednesday, my classes start next Thursday...and everything is just falling into place! It's a truly wonderful feeling. Oh, I know I'm going to be SO swamped...but I wouldn't have it any other way!

Life as I know and love it, HERE I COME! :-)