1600 km in two days...!

So the last four weeks have gone by way too quickly.  I can't believe it's been four weeks since I was at school, packing up my dorm room, and moving out of Burke House.  I can't believe I've been home for almost four weeks.  And I really can't believe that I'm leaving again in three days.

Sunday morning, my dad and I are leaving to drive to Nova Scotia, where I will be working for the summer.  We're estimating that the drive will take two days.  We're hoping to get ot the other side of Quebec City on Sunday and then drive the rest of the way Monday.  I'm planning on arriving at the camp Monday evening, although we don't need to be there until Tuesday morning at 11.  So we have a bit of leeway, in case there's really bad traffic or something.  But I really hope not.  The less time I have to spend in the car with my father, the better.  It's not that I don't like my dad, it's just...we have nothing in common.  And we don't really get along.  Growing up, I never really saw my dad much.  He worked in downtown Toronto, so he always left before I even woke up in the morning, and when he got home at night, he would just watch the news or whatever was on TV.  And on the weekends, he would always sleep in and nap all afternoon and watch TV.  Growing up, I never spent any real time with him.  And he and my mom split up when I was eleven, and he moved out.  Part of me kind of wishes him and I had a better relationship, but part of me recognizes that I have an amazing relationship with my mom, and a lot of people don't have good relationships with either of their parents, so I'm pretty lucky.

Anyway, when my dad and I only spend a few hours together, and there's other people around, we're fine.  But spending two whole days in a car, just the two of us, well...I feel like one of us is going to end up killing the other.  This seems like the only solution to driving 1600 km together in two days.  Sweet.  My mom says I should just put on my iPod and sleep (or pretend to sleep) but I feel like that isn't going to work very well.  I don't know.  I am not at all looking forward to it, but it'll be over fast enough.  As long as we're both alive at the end, then I don't think either of us has the right to complain!

Books read this year:  24
Days left until camp: 5

love <3

Runawayyyy!

Today was a pretty good day.  I got to spend part of the afternoon with one of my best friends from high school, Jacquie.  We haven't seen much of each other in the last two years, just because I've been so far away for such a long time.  So I actually haven't seen her since last August, I think.  Considering we saw each other every single day in high school, this is a big deal.  But it was fun.  We just went to the mall and walked around, window shopped, that sort of thing.  There was a surprising number of people at the mall, considering it was the middle of the afternoon on a Wednesday in May.  I mean, don't people work anymore?!  Seriously!  I figured that there would be hardly anyone there, just because of the time of day.  Oh, but I was wrong.  It was weird.

While we were at the mall, I picked up the book Runaway by Meg Cabot.  It is the third book in the Airhead series.  It just came out yesterday and I am so excited to read this book!  I loved Airhead  and Being Nikki and I know this book is going to be amazing.  But I'm not going to read it until I leave for camp, just because I have no idea what I'm going to read this summer!  All my good books are still in Newfoundland, and when I'm home, I get most of my books from the library, but I obviously can't do that while I'm away.  So I'm searching my room to find books that I own that I can take with me this summer.  Kind of ruins my plans to not reread any books I had already read for the rest of this year, but whatever.  I really have no other choice.

Books read this year: 23*
Days left until camp: 13

love <3

*I read Looking for Alaska by John Green, and the first two books in the Jessica Darling series by Megan McCafferty.  I am currently reading the third book, Charming Thirds.

Mother's Day

I say this without one smidge of embarrassment: My mom is my best friend.  Her and I have been there for each other through everything.  After I was born, she quit her job and made her own business so she could work from home and always be there for me, and she has really lived up to this.  She was there for me for every single thing that has happened in my life.  She has always been amazingly supposrtive of everything I've done.  When I wanted to move halfway across the country for university, she never once tried to sway me towards a school closer to home; she wanted me to be happy, even if that meant only getting to see me three times a year.  I know that she would do anything for me, and I would do the same for her, without a doubt.  So today, and every day, Kerry Colleen Delaney, I love you! :)

Books read this year: 22
Days left until camp: 16

love <3

BEDM? ...yea right

I am the worst Blog Every Day in April blogger ever.  I genuinely tried to make it to the computer yesterday to blog something-anything!-for the last day of April.  But apparently, I was very busy yesterday.  I didn't even do that much, but I did not make it on the computer at all.  I'm very sorry.  I wish I could tell you that I've been doing really cool stuff this last week, and that's why I haven't been blogging every day, like I promised I would.  I really wish I could.  But, alas, I cannot.  This week has consisted of the kinds of things you do after being away for nearly four months: unpacking, pretending to unpack, dentist appointments, shopping, chiropractic appointments, babysitting the cutest kids in the entire world, sleeping a lot, hanging out with the cutest dog in the world.  I've barely even seen some of my friends!  And I have been home for almost six days!  There is something seriously wrong with this picture.  But I also leave again in three weeks for camp, and I won't be back until the end of August, so I have very little time do get lots of things done.

There is literally nothing else to talk about.  My dad decided to show us his extremelty jerk-y side again this week, but what else is new?!  Also, boys are idiots.  I feel like this needs to be emphasized rather strongly.  Anyone else agree?

Books read this year: 20
Days left until camp: 24

love <3