9 Days

Today Kelly and I are spending the day getting everything ready for him to leave. By everything, I mean everything in my life. He's working on making things easier for me and giving me the necessary things to live here with for one more year. We figured out, after hours of pointless tinkering and calls to both Comcast and Microsoft, that I needed a new wireless router to run Xbox Live. We went to Wal-Mart and I shelled out $75 to buy one that works on his system. Not only does it run without a problem, but it's much faster than the one I originally had. It also took hours and several returns to get a locking doorknob for my bedroom. I've always wanted to ensured privacy and my mom never allowed it, citing it as dangerous and unnecessary... and she still feels that way. Kelly talked me into following through on it last night, pointing out that I'm 18 and deserve the privacy and that I have his Xbox in my room and he doesn't want anything (specifically my brother) to happen to it while he's away. I really only plan on spending one more year (at most) out here in Colorado. By this time next summer, I want to be moving in to a place of my own... or at least out of my mom's house. It's already time for me to go. I'm being held back by my desire to go to FRCC for at least a semester. If I hate it, I'll move out to Illinois before spring semester begins; if all goes as I expect, I'll be moving (possibly out there) right after my 19th birthday. I want to be somewhere Kelly wants to be on leave and I want to be happy wherever that place is. Finding that place is my new goal.