walked 3 miles around neighborhood this morning, while it was still cool. since i downloaded skype onto laptop, have been able to call dad and get to talk to him for a little bit each morning. is very nice. went to stella's for lunch w/ melody and her boys. sat w/ matt. he wanted to come over again before school atarts on wed., so i asked mom, and he came home w/ us. he insisted on showing me some new thing he had found on youtube. i don't know what else to call the stuff he finds other than brainless junk. it's short videos that make fun of the original. last time he was over, it was kingdom hearts. this time, dbz. eventually hs mom came and got him though. went and got subway for dinner. and have just spent the last hour taking testa and doing assigments for my art history class. can't wait till summer quarter is over. because matt was over, i didn't get much crocheting done. but my blanket is now 7 1/2 inches tall. i'm almost done w/ my second ball of yarn too.

on the way to stella's i learned something that shocked me. i spentmost of elementary in a small school in ND, where the classes were no larer than 15 students, and you were stuck w/ the same group of ids each year. i was hated by the group of kids i was with, and often came home in tears. had always thougt mom didn't care. but she told me today, that she had gone many times to talk w/ the principle, and my teachers. she also said that she had wanted to pull me out and homeschool me. but dad had told her he was going to get orders soon to go to a new base, so to just leave me put. i wish so badly she hadn't listened to him, and had taken me out. because of those horrible kids i was stuck w/, i am have a horrible time trusting people, and am even worse at making friends. mom said i had done better at the schools her, but she said she still wished she had just taken me out for good. oh well. it's to late now. but it is nice to know that she had noticed my pain, and had cared.