I really don’t know if I can come up with one single word to describe how things have been for me recently. I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs, and I just feel lazy, depressed, and almost like I’m on auto-pilot of a plane that’s destined to crash. A couple days after we got back from that hellish road trip I plunged into a fit of laziness and general unhappiness. It started right after my sister left for Seattle. I’m now back at home with my parents, and I have been for a week now. These past couple of days have been miserable, mostly because I can’t bring myself to do anything of value. But I woke up yesterday morning and felt like I couldn’t go on with this. I cleaned my room which is great, because usually when I’m in a mood to get things done that’s the first thing I do. I’m hoping this means I’m out of the phase, but we’ll see. To be honest during my stage of lethargy I wasn’t exactly lazy in the physical sense. It has been really hot outside recently, so in my boredom I ended up taking a couple bike rides and walks. I figured it was good for me and at the very least it gave me something to do. Otherwise though, I really just sat around the house or went out for groceries or something mundane. I guess it doesn’t sound as terrible as it actually was, but I have a million things I want to do before University starts and I couldn’t bring myself to do any of them. For me, that’s just torture.

I can’t believe I haven’t blogged in the past couple of weeks. So much has happened and I even tried writing an entry but I never got past the first couple of sentences. I’ve been lazy, busy, distracted, and I have a ton of other excuses. I was also overwhelmed about writing one single post to cover all of the things that have happened recently. In my last post I mentioned that I was living with my sister in Seattle for a couple weeks. I just recently got home on Sunday, and today (Tuesday), I had to leave again! I’m currently in a small town in the southern part of Washington. My grandparents, who live in Ohio, flew out to visit us in Oregon so our entire family rented a giant van and set out on a five day road trip. To be honest, I’m a little unhappy about all of this. I was so relieved to get home from Seattle and I was only back home for one day! Right now I’m in a rental house resort, it’s probably the nicest “hotel” I’ve ever been in, I can’t imagine how much my parents are paying for it. We even have our own hot tub here, which I’ve already made use of, ha ha. Anyway I’ll talk more about the road trip later because I have a lot of stories to tell about my time in Seattle. As a stated in the last post, the very first weekend of my visit my sister took me to Pike Place Market. It’s a major tourist attraction, but also a great place to shop and buy food. To be honest I think it was the most enjoyable thing I did while in Seattle.

It’s been a while since I last blogged, a little over two weeks to be exact, but I’ve been kind of busy with various things as I will go on to explain. I mentioned in my last post I was going to my University orientation, it was on the 21st and 22nd of July. Right now I’m in Seattle living with my sister. I’ve been here for two days now and I’d say it’s much better than living at home. My sister is taking a summer term class so she has a small apartment with two roommates and they were nice enough to let me come visit for a couple weeks. Both Leah (my sister) and I will be returning to Portland on the 18th or 19th of August, and then I may choose to stay at home or come back to Seattle until school starts in late September. So far my stay here has been pretty nice even though it’s only been a couple days. Leah is kept pretty busy with her class and lab so I stay in the apartment during the afternoons and basically get to hang out and do whatever I want, which is what I normally do at home anyway. When she comes back from class it’s great because we get to spend time together! I really missed her, we hadn’t seen each other since my graduation in June. It’s not too bad being in the apartment alone either because I usually just get on the computer, read, or play video games. Also I’m going to try and start making some dinner while everyone is out to pull some weight besides paying for my own groceries and stuff. Yesterday my sister left me with a recipe and baking ingredients for snickerdoodle cookies and it was quite enjoyable because I like baking and they turned out to be quite delicious. Anyway, I think this is a good experience because soon I’ll be living on my own so I get to see a little bit of what it’s like. On the weekends when we have some real free time Leah promised to show me some of Seattle so I’ll probably hit some of the major tourist sites and go shopping and whatnot.