i def feel like i can say that i am proud of myself and all of the things i have been able to accomplish in my 18 short years of life.

  1. i have stayed alive!
  2. i worked a job that i hated in high school so i could start paying for my college education, on top of being in two productions, being drama club president, being a member of the ballroom team, and being in show choir.
  3. i helped my mom pay for hermione!
  4. i pay for all of hermione's malfunctions.
  5. i pay for hermione's food!
  6. i pay for MY food!
  7. i moved out right when i graduated high school with absolutely no idea of how to live on my own.
  8. i interned without pay during high school so that i could get a leg up in my already chosen career path.
  9. i worked two jobs during the summer.
  10. i learned how to cook chicken!
  11. i spent countless hours with scholarship applications so i would not have to take out loans to go to college.
  12. all of my housing and schooling is completely paid off.
  13. i am going to school full time, learning a language i have no background in, taking real math for the first time in three years, and have been working approximately 32 hours a week at a new job.
  14. i now get my own ibuprofen when i wake up in the middle of the night with a migraine because my mother isn't there to do it anymore.
  15. i can drive a manual transmission!
  16. if i absolutely needed to, i could change my own oil!
  17. i know how to change a diaper and cook pasta roni!
  18. i am really good at saving money and never spend more than i should/have.

i think i'm doing really great for being a mere 18 years old.
now is the time when i should be young and crazy and irresponsible, right?
but i'm not.

i'm just...doing what i know i should be doing.

which is great.

because i'm happy.(:

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Monday, September 17

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