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Okay, I know I just posted but I need to get this out. If you do not watch true blood then don't bother reading further. If you haven't watched episode 3 then you should probably stop also.

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I haven't posted in a few days. Why is that you ask? I shall tell you why. It is because posting drunk is not fun. I spent the last two nights fairly tipsy and I don't like to try to type drunk. It is far too much work.

We had a surprise house guest the last two days. My dad just went up to St. Louis for business and came back with one of his friends. When we go out to dinner with my aunt Lin (which is often) she has me split a bottle of wine with her. We do that and I'm fine but then because Terry was here we stayed out and partied a bit at my house or my aunt's each night which meant that my aunt and I were splitting a second bottle and last night we made it to a third not to mention that since we are Irish any time there is drinking, there is usually Jameson. I can hold my own most nights but I cannot out drink my father and my uncle. I was however the last girl standing. I take pride in that.

That said, here is a life update: It looks like I am still going to go to St. Louis in November, which cheers me up considerably. I am hoping that I can work it around when Twilight comes out in theaters and then go to a midnight show with my friends. That would be ideal. Otherwise, I am probably going on my own.

To help with the nerdfighter gathering I've posted on the forum looking for people and got a few responses so maybe I will have someone to go to that with as well. It would help a lot. I would hate to drive through Miami alone. It just isn't safe.

Oh, and I got a new fish. I named him Dumbledore because he is purple and frilly. I thought it was fitting. He now lives on my desk in a coffee cup shaped fishbowl.

Now I am going to go watch True Blood. (my new favorite thing)

I had a really bad night last night. Well I shouldn't say that. I was on a super high note and then I sunk into a depression like no other. Let me explain:

First of all you have to understand a few things about my life. I lived all my life up until three years ago in Missouri surrounded by friends and family. Then my parents moved to Florida for better jobs. This wouldn't matter except that in state tuition counts where your parents live, not where you do until you are 25. I moved because if I didn't move with them my mom would have stayed in Missouri while I finished school. I couldn't split them up so I moved. Now I live in South Florida and I hate it. Mostly I miss my best friend since 3rd grade, Sarah.

Secondly, I love books and specifically to this story books by John Green. I am a nerdfighter through and through. I followed brotherhood 2.0 from almost the beginning, i came in at the beginning of that February. If you don't know what any of that is you should check out http://nerdfighters.ning.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers .

Okay, now you have the background. John Green (and sometimes Hank) is going on tour to promote his new book Paper Towns and to just generally spread the nerdfighting awesome. There was a date on a weekend in St. Louis and I got excited. I could fly out there for a weekend. It wouldn't cost too much. So I talk to Sarah about going to the nerdfighter tour and she says she would go and it was going to be great. I tell my family about going home that weekend and everyone is cool with it. Then I start flipping through things on the Ning and low and behold the date changed. It was November 1st (a Saturday) now it is November 3rd in St. Louis (a Monday). No more John Green. I can't stay until Monday night. I have school and a job and that just doesn't work. Now not only am I giving up a trip to see Sarah, I am missing meeting one of my favorite authors and Hank's concert. I cried. I cried a lot. I try not to do that but there was no way around it. That was going to be this perfect weekend. Now it is not happening at all.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get to the signing in Miami. The problem comes with the fact that I don't know anyone here. I've posted in "my pants" (the forum there) trying to find nerdfighters around me but it doesn't look like there are any and I live kind of far from Miami. I am still going to go I just might have to take someone who doesn't care at all or a family member (which would be embarrassing). Then there is the whole St. Louis trip. I want to still go but now there isn't a legit reason to spend so much on tickets and I was offered a loan from my parents to go but I don't want to take anything from them for no good reason.

I'm sorry I'm such a downer at the moment. I will try to cheer up before I post tomorrow.

So I got my layout set up here. It was driving me nutty to have it just a random thing that they made. I threw this together as fast as humanly possible. I think it came out rather well. It isn't something I would normally have made but I wanted it to actually relate to the name that I chose and there aren't really good pictures of Ludo so I had to go with lyrics.

I fell off the diet train today. I was doing so well until I saw the fritos. I couldn't help it. Suddenly I needed chips and there would be no other options. It was fritos or die... so I ate a BUNCH. Boo. I will walk extra tonight to make up for it.

I have also managed to start an art project that I probably should have thought about a little harder before I began. I took a bunch of pictures this summer when I went home to St. Louis and I was going to make this awesome collage. I forgot how much I suck at things like that until I was about 45 minutes in. It is now sitting half done on my bed.... bad planning Lyndsay.

I should be asleep but I can't seem to get there. I have gone through all my Lyndsay needs to go to bed techniques but basically all I have accomplished is to make myself more frustrated which inevitably keeps me from sleep. Sigh... this is not good.

I spent a lot of today just thinking about things. I came to a conclusion. I need goals. I think that is why I can't get anything done. There is no reward for it. I work and work and get nowhere at all. I am still exactly where I started but tired. What good is that? That said, I have a plan. I will give myself a reward every week for doing everything I am supposed to. If I go to work and school and get everything done then I will go buy myself a present or take myself out. There is no reason all socializing should stop because everyone I know lives across the country. Just because there is no one to impress doesn't mean I shouldn't look nice right? So I will do everything in my power to get all my shit done this week. When that happens I will buy myself the black Micheal Korrs heals I have been eying at Sak's.

I have reached a dilemma.
Okay, on greatestjournal I could join any requestable community I wanted to... here not so much. It is annoying because yes this journal is new and no I don't have friends on it yet but that doesn't mean I don't want nice icons. I totally understand their rules but still. I miss my pretty icons.

Well, I figured I should make some kind of explanatory welcome entry even though odds are no one will read it.

I made this journal mostly so that I could have a place to vent a bit and really just to have a place to write my thoughts down.  I am not having a particularly great year or years rather, and journaling is supposed to help.  So there you go.

Now to the actual entry for today:
Today is just one of the many days when just the act of living in Florida is annoying.  The power has gone out four times.  Why you ask?  No reason!  The power just goes out here.  It is not storming or even drizzling.  It is not windy or overcast.  It is a beautiful sunny day.  Why then does the power go out?  Hell if I know.  It never goes out for very long, just long enough to shut off everything you were doing so you have to start all over.  It gets old really really quickly and there is nothing I can do about it.  Gah!  Okay, it just went out... mid-entry.  That was fun.
I am going to go join groups and things now but I will edit this if anything interesting happens.