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I did my laundry, cleaned up my animals cage, fed my animals, got paid for my full time job, went grocery shopping, gardened....

And still I find time for anime/manga. Anyone watch/read Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin? I'm obsessed, I watched it all on Netflix this weekend and now I'm on chapter 22 of the manga. It's so ironic that I spend all weekend doing "adult" things and I still find time for manga and frozen pizza.

I feel like my life is coming together, though, 3 years of college and the uncertainty and stress, I feel so much more at peace, so happy and sure now that I have a promising full time job and no school to worry about. I just can't get over how big of a difference it is, between school life and work life. I love it, I love going to work every day, doing my thing, having the late shift gives me so much time to just sit and veg, read a book, learn about my company. A company, by the way, that is so supportive of its workers and has so many options to branch out and up. The actual work is pretty OK, it's a call center job, which tends to be ridiculously suckish, but my management is awesome and so are my coworkers. A lot of the people that call in can be really volatile, and others can be awesome.

I'm working on losing weight, I've been eating a minimum breakfast of fruit and meat, and having a salad for lunch, and limited portions of supper that my parents cook. I've set up a workout regimen, Mondays and Thursdays I'll go to the Y in the morning and work on my leg strength, Tuesdays I'll do a 1 minute upper body workout I found on youtube as well as bike 30 minutes. Wednesdays I'll do a 30 minute Jillian Michaels ab workout and bike 15 minutes; and Fridays I'll do abs and upper body. All in the morning so it's out of the way, I don't leave for work until 10:15 so I have plenty of time to get that done and ready for work. I hope I can make myself proud and stick with this, I currently weigh about 195lbs, I'd rather be something like 135. I've set rewards for myself as I reach weight goals, my first one is an Attack on Titan sweatshirt when I lose 10lbs, then at 20 I'll get a new computer mouse, 40 and I'll build myself a PC (I love my laptop but I don't really need it since I'm out of school), 50 is a fish tank (more on that below) and 60 I will begin the search for a lease horse. Since I got fat my friend won't let me ride her horses, I totally understand, and since my normal horse tore a tendon 2 years ago (She's cleared for light riding now, a great recovery from what it looked like initially) I haven't actually ridden, which I think attributed to the weight gain in the first place. I've gained 30 pounds in 3 years, as my dr told me, I normally don't watch my weight that much.

I figure if I work my bad leg more and see a physical therapist I should be on track to be able to ride my friend's other horses. She now has 4, where she had 3 since I knew her (10 years, man), the newest one is a gaited morgan that's built like a brick shit house and is one of the sweetest, most calm horses I know. She's been taken to ride out west in Montana and the mountain ranges around there, she's damn near perfect except for the fact that she's still learning to cross tie. We gave them all baths over Memorial weekend and when I was washing her face she kept licking me. Meanwhile the 32 year old mare kept throwing a fit in the wash stall and pooped as often as she could, little shit. Her second newest horse who she got 3ish years ago (maybe 2... I don't remember) that has proven to be a huge bitch, and my friend hasn't wanted to work with her at all due to confidence, is finally being ridden by a mutual friend and trail riding buddy who recently lost her old arab to colic. They're taking lessons together and I'm just so happy that horse is finally being worked and that riding buddy is getting her horse therapy. I can't wait to have a horse of my own, at least a lease, and the ability to work with it as much as I can. I'm already watching the sales at Fleet Farm and TSC for brushes and random horse things. So close I can taste it!

My boyfriend has moved to Green Bay, which isn't far from my work, he's living with his friend in a lower duplex. The house itself is old, and it's settled so the floors are really uneven. The walls are gross and poorly painted, but it's big and if I can scrub it senseless and repaint, it might have a chance. BF wants me to move in there in a month or two, I'm pretty skeptical of living with his friend, but he's rarely home and has plans to move out eventually anyway. With how much I make now I can afford better, but it's in an OK location, if anyone's familiar with Green Bay it's off of Mason st, but on the west side and south of the road, next to Ashland. If I go to the north side, it's always cops zipping back and forth, but I haven't seen one in BF's neighborhood since he moved there a month ago. It's fun to drive there from work, I can always see Lambeau Field on the way. I'm kind of having second thoughts about it, I saw a carpenter ant in there last time I was over, and the place is really hard to cool with only one window AC unit. But here's a really nice big room in the entryway that the guinea pigs can live in, bf's friend's chinchilla is chilling in that room too, he has his own corner with a big ferret nation cage. The pigs will fit in the opposite corner, and I'm really *really* hoping I can find a place for my fishtank so I can have it set up, I want to build a nice, cheap, stand for it and get a betta, some platy, some cory cats, and some ghost shrimp to stock it. I miss having an aquarium, and if I'm moving in there bf will have to take up a lot of the pig duty, because I've been doing it alone for too long since we moved apart. They're really not that hard, and the cage is huge and he's taller and able to reach to the back to sweep up the poops better. I found a sweet aquarium store on Broadway in Green Bay, lots and lots of tanks and fish and plants, I'll probably buy my betta from them, they had a gorgeous red and white dragon scale halfmoon when I went, and some black dumbos too.

I can't believe how complete my life feels, or at least I know I'm getting there and have the means to. I'm waiting for some sort of catastrophe to come and take it away, I can't believe giving up school and getting a job would open so many doors, all the doors I wanted to open. Sure, I have $16k in debt, but I'm making twice that a year now. I'm making more than my mom. I have a boyfriend that loves me, a new perspective place to live, a fulltime job, all the animals I could want (sans fish and pony).... I just don't know what's next.

Now I'm getting sentimental, I started this game when I was a 13 year old idiot 8th grader, I think Ammit would have liked to beat me at some points (she still might ;) ), I was working retail or at the baseball fields, I was struggling in school, I was in the middle of teenage drama, I lived the first real part of my life on this game. A lot of you have seen me grow up, though I doubt most of you noticed or cared, it's just a funny thing to me. My life has changed but the game remains the same, it's always there. This game is like home to me. I remember back in middle school, during what we called "mini course week" when we did random hobby stuff with a group of people, I was in the horse group and I showed everyone this game. I remember in high school, checking on my Shoco account. I remember dragging my laptop out during a break at college and breeding a few ponies. It's just a weird, weird thing, to have a game like this stick around in my life so long. Thanks for making it Ammit.