Amazing Monopoly Game, Missing Loans and Slight Worries

My family has a new years tradition of playing Monopoly and I won almost every year from the time I was seven to the time I was thirteen.  Then I hit a losing streak.  Of course as I am a very competitive person (I inherited it from my mum) I refused to let myself lose during the last year that I was at home.  Unfortunately, I lost on new years eve and then I lost again when I challenged both of my parents to a rematch.  Not wanting to lose completely, I challenged my mum to a game and something strange happened.  First of all I landed on a majority of the properties, and my mum landed on them right after I bought them.  So it ended up that I had most of the properties and my mum had most of the money.  Well, she had most of the money that wasn't in the free parking.  Oh, just for your information in my family we put the luxury tax and income money along with the chance and community chest charges in the middle and if you land on free parking you get all of the money in the center.  Anyway, I landed on free parking a couple of times and built on the two properties that I could build on (my mum only had one property she could build on) and so I started to wait it out and I was hoping that my mum would eventually pay me all of her money and the game would be over.  However, we passed go too many times and ran out of money.  We then counted our money, properties, and houses and compared our totals.  Both my parents were happy to know that I won by a good $6,000.

That was really fun, but it still couldn't totally take my mind off the fact that I STILL DON'T HAVE MY STUDENT LOAN!!!!!!!!!  I'm starting to worry a bit that it wont come in time.  I have decided that if my loan doesn't come in time then I will go back to high school for another year, if that is possible.  Of course if I can;t go back to high school then I will try to get a job.  Of course as I live in a tiny little town I would probably end up moving up with my great grandparents, or my dad's uncle and aunt.  So although I don't really want to have to go to pan B or plan C, at least I know that I have those options.

Now I have to play the waiting game and pray that my loan gets here some time this week, preferably tomorrow.  Well, I really have no idea who it is that is reading this (besides my parents), but thanks for reading my complaints!!!!  

Realization and Decisions

I have officially started to pack up all my things.  There were so many things that I had to sort through, not only were there things that I wanted to take with me but couldn't, there were also things that brought back a lot of memories.  For example I looked through a box of cards (some of which dated back to 1997, not sure why my younger self kept them) and saw so many cards that were given to me when I was sick in grade 7.  There were so many people who gave me get well cards, some of which I still have never met and it made me remember how sad I was when I was sick and how much I wished that I could have been in school instead of stuck at home.


I think that I have stopped crying now, but I'm still a little sad that I have to leave my home and move across country.  Then again I'm REALLY excited that I'm going to be in a new place and with brand new people.  I'm also excited that I'll be able to start my life away from my parents.  Anyway, this isn't much of an update but that's all that I can write at the moment.  Write later!!!  Well, probably, it really depends on how fast I can pack, visit friends and get organized to leave!!!

Sunday Friends, Storms and A New Summer Project

For the last three Sundays there have been some unexpected, but beautiful, visitors outside my apartment.  Of course as you can see these visitors were in fact deer.  At first there were only three bucks and they showed up very early in the morning.  Of course as I am an early riser I was able to see the deer and wake up my parents so they could watch the deer too.  The next Sunday the deer showed up again, but this time later in the morning.  Today some deer showed up again!  Originally they appeared late in the morning and I thought that they were just going to eat a bit and then go away.  So you can imagine my delight when I saw them a few minutes ago (about 7:50pm)!  Of course I love to take pictures of animals, so I went a little crazy....   

I also decided that before I move and leave it all behind, I should use my lego to make something.  After thinking for a few minutes and asking my very unoriginal parents, I decided that I would build a castle.  Specifically I'm going to try to build a castle that is in a story that I'm working on (not that I plan on ever finishing it!)  Here is what I'm starting out with.   I really hope that I can finish it before I move cross country....

Murphy's Law and Lots of Smoke

So far in my attempt to get to Memorial University of Newfoundland I have had many problems.  First thing that happened was the housing application problems.  That is, my application got sent three times for no reason.  After that was done we were not sure that my application for the university itself made it there on time.  Of course the student loan forms had a misprint and were sent off two weeks late and then we were not sure if the application for the application was received in the first place.  Now something even worse had happened.

I got a copy of my official transcript today but there were some problems.  The main problem is that roughly half my grade 12 courses were not on it!!  If the courses that were missed had been things like Geography or History I would not be so concerned.  However the courses that are missing are ones like math and chemistry both of which I need to get into university.  Also since the university will receive my transcript within a week they may look at it and then say "Well, it seems as if you didn't finish all the courses required to get into this university, you have to be rejected".  Not that I am overly worried as I can always go back to high school for an extra year, get some more courses, and hope that I get into MUN the next year.

Thankfully, I got some help from some people in my school and hopefully everything will be worked out by next week.  Now there is an even bigger problem.  I'm all for a small campfire every so often, but an almost almost province wide fire is not my idea of fun.  What really annoys me is that I go to sleep and have my window open so that I can cool down at night, but now I can't do that without waking up barely able to breath.  This is terrible because I'm trying to do a physics course and the constant heat and smoke is making me tired so it's becoming harder and harder to get my work done.  At least I am getting through the course faster now that the frist few units are done. 

Now all I can do is work as fast as I can so I can have at least a bit of a summer, and hopefully not die from the smoke or heat.  This is going to fun...