Some knowledge that I've gained during this God-awful break:
1. I've been to the Houston area 3 times this summer. I've decided that I like it a lot and am currently trying to convince my parents to move to The Woodlands when Trezy graduates (they've always liked Houston better than Dallas anyway). I don't know why I like it so much, but I have a fair number of guesses, including: its proximity to Galveston, its unusually abundant foliage, and the fact that everything that I love (my boyfriend, my baby Kylie, and my college) are all within spitting distance of downtown (well, at least more so than here in Slake). After the Florida fiasco, I've decided that I refuse to move out of Texas, and since visiting Houston, I've nearly decided that I refuse to live in Dallas. I'm a traitor.

2. The Florida fiasco - I won't mention everything because I need to go to bed at some point, but I will say that I don't want to move out of state. Ever. People who have never lived in Texas don't understand people who (happily) reside here. They think we ride horses to school. They don't understand football the way that we understand it. They don't have fierce loyalty to in-state colleges. They also think that the mascot for Texas A&M is the Longhorn. That was really the straw the broke the camel's back.

3. I'm listening to The Postal Service so much that I'm about to start speaking techno. Why? Because I listened to The Postal Service last fall so now I associate it with school. If I listened to The Postal Service and scrapbooked at the same time, I wouldn't even have to go back...yeah right.