Just twelve days to go.....

Well, once again, I have failed to keep up the blog regularly. Not too surprising, really, as whenever something is not done easily, I tend to procrastinate until I forget all about it.
But anywho, I've been home now for a month. For the most part things are back to normal, though I am already itching for the freedom of living on my own again. I'm so tempted to find some house to rent a room in, but I have so little money at this point (a grand total of $300 in the bank, $200 of which I cannot touch if I want my savings account to stay open) that I really could not afford to pay rent and utilities. My only feasible option for the near future is to completely raid the rest of the money from the funds my grandfather set up for me and use it to make a down payment on a house. Then, I could rent out the other rooms to people and use that money to make the monthly payments. But really, that isn't going to happen for at least another year.
Once again I am back into my crazy-busy schedule. To give you an idea, here's what my schedule for this week is looking like
Monday- 7:30am (8:00 at latest to miss traffic) drive to Solano for classes
9-10am Music Theory
11-12 Beginning Modern Dance
2:30pm drive back to Davis
5:30-11:30pm work at the hotel
Tuesday- 7:30 drive to SCC
9-10 Music Theory
11-12:30 Beginning Ballet
12:30-1:30 Beginning Jazz
1:30-2:30 Voice Class
2:30 drive back to Davis
5:30-11:30 work at the hotel
Wednesday- same as Monday
Thursday- same as Thursday, no work
Friday- same as Monday/Wednesday, but add:
1:00-3:00 Jazz & Pop Voice Class
no work
Saturday/Sunday- 12:00-6:00pm work at the hotel

This schedule, by the way, does not include the belly dance classes I'll be taking Thursday nights starting on the 9/4, nor the ballet classes I want to take at Applegate. Phew. So far my feet have been behaving fairly well, so I'm hoping that they'll stay good so I can start getting back into shape.

In other news, it is now just under two weeks until Dan is coming to the States! I can't begin to describe how excited I am. I mean, I know we've been apart for roughly the same amount of time before at Christmas and while I was traveling in Europe, but still, 5,800+ miles and 8 timezones is a heck of a lot bigger distance than previously experienced. I've managed to keep from being overly preoccupied by his/my absence for the most part, with only periodic times of complete loneliness, so I think I'm coping okay. Still, it's really, really difficult. There isn't a waking hour of my day when I don't think of him, when I'm not wondering what he would think of this or that, or just really wishing I could see the way his eyes light up when he smiles. I know I've been in relationships in the past where I was so certain of things, where I thought I knew it would last, but nothing thus far has compared to my relationship with Dan. We just seem so well suited to each other that it's as if we're an extension of the other person,without losing our own identity. We argue, quite often really because we both are stubborn and like to debate, but only rarely does it seem to hurt one or both of us, and we never go more that 5 minutes staying mad at each other.... it always ends in "I don't like being mad at you", "I don't like being mad at you either," "I'm sowwy," "I'm sowwy!". I know I'm kinda gushing, but I really haven't had much opportunity to do so. The only person I've really discussed this with is my mom, and that's kinda different, no?
Anywho, when Dan gets here, we have a trip to Disneyland planned, the big birthday party for Meg & I, a couple trips to S.F., and just general exploring around Davis and Sacramento. I can't wait to show him the dance studio, Village Homes, Slide Hill Park, all my old childhood haunts, and show him where I came from. Now will be the time to introduce him to all the places and people I've told him about over the past year.
But yeah, I think I've done enough babbling for now, and as it's almost 1am and I have to be up in 6 hours to get ready for school, I'd best be off to bed. Hopefully I'll update with more soon!