I’m not even going to dignify this with a video. Given how I’ve chosen to abstain from exposing myself to further religious meddle, never feeling that I fit in with any of them because I didn’t believe in their core fundamental concepts, I would actually go so far as to say that all of the songs sung at my boyfriend’s church made me feel equally guilty. As a matter of fact, that is one of many reasons why I have decided never to set foot in anyone’s church ever again. It wouldn’t be fair to continue to give people false hope that I might one day turn around and realize the supposed error of my ways, what with me being flagrantly non-spiritual. Furthermore, it wouldn’t be fair to me to feel as if I had to continue to put myself through it when my heart would never be in it.

When roads ice, everyone who doesn’t have some pressing matter to attend to spends the rest of the day holed up in their house because Driving On Ice Is Bad And No One Can Do It. The people who are brave enough to venture outside drive under the speed limit to make up for those more brave denizens… and the latter of those two are the ones who always make it onto the news for hydroplaning their vehicles, which only makes more people want to hole themselves up inside until the ice storm has passed. It’s a vicious cycle. The same can also be said for snow days, which we admittedly don’t get very much of here in central Texas. As a matter of fact, the last actual snow day that we had was in late February of this year — schools began closing down left and right as soon as the snow started sticking to the ground, even the colleges!

Today was relatively tame compared to those, though. And by tame, I mean a lot of the roads in this area were either flooded or in the process of flooding. Luckily for me, I didn’t see any wrecks on the way to school this morning or on the way back later on this afternoon… but getting across campus proved to be somewhat frustrating because it was really pouring, and I had somehow managed to forget my umbrella in the process. Luckily for me, Matt walked me from the student center to the academic building. But since we only start classes at the same time on Mondays and Wednesdays, I was left to fend for myself after History of Religions I got out. By “fend for myself”, I mean rush to the bookstore to see if they had any TI-84 calculators — they didn’t — and then rush back to the academic building to get picked up by my father.

By the time all of that was done, I was waterlogged up to my knees. Haha.

I’m actually going to teach myself this on the keyboard later! It’s always been one of my favorites. Even as the years have progressed, Final Fantasy VII is still one of my favorite games, and this is one of my favorite songs.

I’ve found that being able to scrutinize the various web hosts that are out there helps! On WebHostingChoice.com, I’m able to analyze the perks of some of the most popular web hosts side by side. For instance, I can immediately see what monthly price they charge as soon as I go to the site; I can also see whether or not the host space comes with its own free domain. I found out that most of them do, which surprises me! Now I know exactly who to buy space from…

However, in thinking about that I have come to realize that it wouldn’t hurt for me to make slightly more time for myself. Upon finding out that I was pregnant, it became one of my goals not to let all semblances of myself slip away even after the birth of my son. For the most part, I’ve held true to my promise to myself and have made time to indulge in hobbies like playing computer games and video games… but I’m starting to think that I would benefit from having a little bit more time to myself, where I can simply be me.

Over the course of these last few months, I’ve become the kind of person who will attempt to fill most of whatever spare time she has… doing things for and with her sons. As much as I know that’s not a bad thing, I also realize that I don’t need to spend every free moment of mine in such a manner. I’m still me.