Back home again in Indiana

Hey y'all. Again, I've been keeping myself pretty busy. Last week I moved back home to Indiana. It is really nice to be home, but sometimes I think I am going to pull my hair out. For example, the night before I started working my parents told me I needed to go to bed. I felt like I was 5. I told them I wanted to watch Project Runway (Sheesh, that's freakin' important because it was the 2nd to last episode!) and I got a lot of slack for it. I think I'm going to have to sit them down and say, somehow I have made it okay since I left for college when I was 18. I think I can continue to make my own decisions. I guess they will always be parents and I will be the "baby" of the family. Pretty old baby at age 24. Anyway, I started working in Indianapolis, so it is nice to get out and make some money. The one thing I don't like is the very early mornings and the inch of ice on my windshield when I start my commute.

I need to organize my thoughts and set some boundaries while I'm in Crawfordsville.

1. I will limit myself to only a couple trips to Wal-Mart a month. It is the worst place in the world to be in Crawfordsville.

2. I will try not to frequent the townie bars. The last time I
went out a bunch of my girlfriends were visiting, so that is the only way to do it. (Quick fact: You can get a few beers for only a couple dollars here.) Come visit and then maybe we can go out on the town.

3. I will NOT wear PJ bottoms out in public like many of the people like to do around here.

4. Unlike many of the people in this area, I will continue to drive at least the speed limit (or faster).

5. Just because Steak 'n Shake is the newest (and finest) establishment here, you will not find me frequenting it like I have never seen a milkshake in my life.

6. I will go to Lafayette or Indianapolis to shop for books. Do
you guys realize there isn't a single place to buy books here?!
Seriously. I guess Wal-Mart has books, but like I said, I'm putting a monthly quota on that, remember. (I just finished reading Night and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and I strongly recommend both.)

7. I'm going to count on the friends I do have here to keep me
sane. Well, we keep one another sane.

8. Anyone want to hang in Indy? Give me a call and we'll plan a
little something something.

9. Don't expect blogs with any bells and whistles (ie photos, videos, etc) because I have dial-up here at home. Yeah, remember dial-up? My family still lives in the archaic times. Takes about 20 minutes to check my email. I'm having perezhilton.com withdrawals because it takes forever to load. My Dad honestly stalks the guy at the electric company to wire high speed internet. My neighbors have it, but the electric company says that they won't wire the cables over "the creek" for some bizzare reason. Ugh, the logic around here drives me batty. How are my neighbors sitting pretty with high speed and I'm sitting here hearing my computer dial-up? It's like the nsync song "Digital Digital Get Down" but not so digital and without the freaky lyrics. Unless my Dad gets slapped with a restraining order from the electric company guy, the rumor has it that we might get high speed within the year.

This weekend has been exciting and fun. Saturday morning I drove to Bloomington for the IU vs Iowa football game. What a blowout, right Steve? Wink wink. I'm kidding. I think I might be in trouble now. Anyway, it was great to see the Hoosiers feeling good and I was so proud of their win. To beat a nationally ranked team is something to be very excited about at IU. I'm really glad I got to experience being there and I was so happy to see the football team rush the bleachers and celebrate with all the fans. Never seen anything like that, but they deserved all the fans' praise for fighting hard for the win.

I rushed back from Bloomington to see Tiffany who just flew in from Denver for a few days. We sat around a campfire and I got to catch up with some friends. Megan was cracking me up all night and I don't think I have laughed that hard in a long time. Tiffany brought home her iBook and she has this photo program on her computer, which totally makes your face look demented. You can choose what sort of effect you want to put on your face and it is hilarious. If I decide that I'm not too embarrassed to share this with you, then I might post some of them. But I will have to go Tiffany's (or the public library - why not, right?) to use the fast internet. You honestly might not realize that it is me in the pictures. Well, I hope you don't because I look really effed up. I uploaded the most normal one of my eyeball to myspace. I spent the night at Tiff's last night and just got home. It was just like old days. Having a sleepover and spending 24 hours straight together.

Better get going before my parents tell me it is my bedtime.