Hello, what are the odds that those of you with Wizard Rock pictures might want to post them (here or Facebook, not really caring where)?  I have about four on my phone, and they're not that great, and none of them are of me, which is a problem because my mom wants to see what I looked like.

In awesome news, my aunt had her baby Sunday, so I just got back from a jaunt into Brighton to see her.  Her name is Kira Michelle, and she's about the cutest thing in the world (naturally, right?).  Picture is below, that is her dad in the background.

I have developed a recent addiction to salsa.  Mild, for now.  I can handle medium, but mild is delicious.

I can't explain this.  I don't like anything in salsa.

Raw tomatoes are gross.  I don't like onions if I can look at a food and go "There's an onion right there."  Raw peppers are not appetizing.

But salsa?  Love it.  No idea why.  Synergy, perhaps.  "The Emergent Properties of Salsa."

So I don't know if this is good or bad.  But we might be moving.

My mom tried to refinance the house to lower the interest rate, but apparently the mortgage insurance she'd have to pay (because she doesn't have 20% equity in the house) would pretty much make up for anything she'd save by refinancing.  Why doesn't she have 20% equity in the house, after a 20%+ down payment and 6 years of house payments, you ask?  Because property values have collapsed.  And apparently it isn't really "you've paid 20% of the value of the house."  It's "You owe less than 80% of the value of the house."  Which we haven't, at least not anymore.

So my mom's thinking that, since she's out of a job for the time being, she might just let the bank foreclose on our house.  Well, you see, a lot of other people have done this too.  So maybe we'll go and buy one of their houses!  You know, something for like $100,000 less than what this one was when we got it (and the economy didn't suck), and is quite possibly a lot nicer.  She's actually looking at one close to our current house, and another one that's a little down the road from Lisa. 

But who knows.  Maybe she'll get called back to work next week, and all of this won't matter at all.  But if I end up posting about a change of home address in the future, you can't say I didn't warn you.

I have nothing to do really, so I'm just going to put some thoughts out there.

Psyched for RenFest on Saturday!  I finally get to meet this "Skyler" character.

Work is almost over.  Leah, I don't know if you were aware of this when you mentioned the job to me, but it involves being with Aaron and Duncan ten hours a day, five days a week.  I can handle one of them.  Two of them together for two or three months gets to be a little much at times.  But I'm done on Wednesday!

Speaking of Wednesday... I get to get my new phone!  I don't think I'm getting a new number, though, so you don't have to worry about that.   And yes, it's an iPhone.  I know there are some Mac-lovers out there... and I'm beginning to see that they have a point with Apple stuff.

Move-in is next Friday, and I am excited for this, too!  I'm a bit tired of being in Brighton and East Lansing and buying gas and driving everywhere.  I like when everything is within a couple square miles, and you don't need to go anywhere else.

Yesterday I made cheesecake at 10 at night, and it was delicious.

Finally, I am upset that they decided to push the Half-Blood Prince release date back 8 months.  Grrr.

My favorite C++ error:

"[General Error] Too many messages; abort. 
There must be something terribly wrong with your code.  Please fix it."

To those memorial attendees:
I talked to my grandma, and apparently it starts at 10.  I mean, the actual service stuff is at 11, from 10 till 11 is socializing and such, and I think at 11 starts the sitting there and stuff.  And although I expect I will be frequently whisked away by relatives I have never met and people I have never heard of, you won't be all alone because you'll still, like, know each other and stuff.

Please comment with something simple to let me know that you read this and I don't have to call you.  Though I think I'll facebook those of you who said you were coming anyway, simply because there are email notifications.

 So this is a little late, but I just found out.

My mom didn't want me to be all messed up for my exams, so everyone was instructed not to tell my brother and me.  And they did a really good job keeping the secret since Wednesday night.  But now that I moved most of my stuff out of my dorm, and I'm home for the weekend before my last final, my mom figured I should know.

So now I get to make all sorts of decisions, like whether I would like to speak at the memorial (May 3rd, anyone want to come?), and if it's okay if my aunt and uncle take some of the ashes to the Bahamas when they go.  And probably fifty bajillion other things.  Oh, and I have a scholarship essay to write.

And I'm going to the BHS play tonight, if anyone is in town and wants to come. 

EDIT:  I have just been informed that they couldn't book the church for the 3rd, and it will instead be the 10th or the 17th.

WARNING: 4000+ words

The universe is conspiring.  Maybe against me, maybe in my favor, but at least it's conspiring to keep me alive.

Update on the Florida trip can be found
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But since the universe is trying to keep me alive, a couple of okay things have happened today, too.  They are
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Whatever you say right now won't be the wrong thing.  I've been getting all sorts of stuff over the past few days, and whatever it is, it always seems to be exactly what I need at the moment.  So feel free to leave lengthy comments.  I'll get to them, eventually.

Edited to add: partially because I've been thinking about doing it for a couple months and partially because of a suggestion that I should do it soon, I made an appointment with a psychologist today, and on Wednesday morning we're going to talk.