I now know what its like to be busy all the time. Its kinda fun really, especially from my point of view. Maybe I'll take some pictures of the things I'm doing and put them up here. You'll get the idea soon enough.

My mom and I foster dogs. Its a volunteer thing for a no-kill animal shelter. They take in animals, get them neutered and get their shots, then adopt them out. Whenever a puppy mill is raided around here, they get a lot of them for whatever reason. They don't have big facilities, but they take in 2000+ dogs in some of these raids. We'll, mom and I decided to volunteer for them cause its way more fun than work I think. Fostering a dog basically means that you get them ready to be adopted, so make them people friendly or just raise them until they are neutered. The first group we had was 6 pups and the mom and her mom. They were all adopted about a week after they were able to be. The next was a litter of 4 I think. But then we took in another 6 that didn't need a mommy, but couldn't be fixed just yet. They weren't even the same breed, but they were fun and got along. This group we have now was 10. Look at the was. They managed to multiply. We now have a mommy puppy, then two litters of 10. We have 21 foster dogs. Thats not all of them still though. On our own we have 3 dogs anyway. Its really fun though. Its chaotic here, and stinky, but still fun. We're having trouble naming them since there are so many that look very close to one another, but its coming along slowly.

Besides that, since I'm a junior in high school, I've got to start looking into colleges and such. Its not fun, especially since I've got everything else going on, like trying to get my GPA up. I've pulled it up to a 2.8 now, but hopefully it'll keep going so I may break 3.0 at some point. Apparently colleges liked my PSAT scores which actually wasn't that great. I got a B, but I don't remember the exact score. Some summer leadership programs caught wind of me and so far I've gotten two invitations so far, but they're freakin expensive so only one for me thanks. Has anyone else gotten these like I have? There are better suited kids in my school with over 3.0 as their GPA and aren't anti-social. Weird. I'm not sure why they picked me out and not some of the other so called '1%' of my school's elite. By the way, I'm 199 in a class of 306, so I'm not the smartest in my grade either. But because of the massive expenses of this thing, I have to do a fund raiser, which is pretty much just a bake sale, but so far I think we have a little less than 100 bucks going. I hope we can get the full price, because anything extra will go to the animal shelter that we foster for.

Lets see... Oh yea, we have to keep up with the house too. Its pretty hard with 24 dogs running around, but as long as the floors aren't horribly muddy and the bathrooms are clean I'm happy. My bed room looks like an explosion, but its not a huge deal really. Maybe the stress is actually from the fact that mom and I have both been sick and she can't get out for real estate stuff right now. That means no money coming in for her. At least her boyfriend is working a lot. I think he paid the mortgage last month. -.-;

There is some chaos leaving though. We are just finishing up with the repairs to the damage that our last roommate left behind. Essentially we find friends or friends of friends that are having a hard time and can't live on their own for whatever reason and come to stay in one of our bedrooms. This last one was the 5th one, and she was really damn crazy. From the start she was trying to essentially get a free ride for a while since she doesn't want to take care of herself and just get high all the time. My mom sympathized and we took her in. She started working. Then she and her grand father got into a car accident and she broke her ankle. Ok, well not too bad except that she played it for all its worth and tried to get pity left and right. My mom and I have been through waaay too much to fall for that, so no go on the pity. We got her signed up for classes at the community college and started her back at work, but only after getting her into counseling for her drug addiction. (Asshat broke into our house a few times so he could shoot up with heroin or screw with our roommate's boyfriend at some point in all of this.) Well, as soon as she got her job she dropped out of school and counseling, so she was gone before I got home from school apparently. Keep in mind that this is the abbreviated version of this story. -.-

Lets see.. what else.. I can't think of anything else that has really screwed with me so far this year besides all of that stuff above this. Maybe the mock AP exam or something. I probably failed because halfway through my second essay I pulled the skin off my lip and it threw me off again. The essay ended randomly because I totally lost my train of thought and all that cause of the bleeding. -.- I really need to stop that..

I think that's all I've got right now. Quite a bit to digest, but maybe this will give you a view of what I go through as the norm. Of course I still have my secrets, but there's a reason why I wouldn't tell my secrets.