I'm not going to be on for a while...again. But it should only be a week or two. I have a bunch of things I have to do and a lot of things are going on. First, my parents are completely redoing the entire living room. This means furniture, the way the furniture is arranged, we are getting hardwood floors instead of carpet, we are painting one wall a dark color, and painting every other wall a different color. Of course, I'm the one thats going to be doing most of the painting. The reason for this? "Kelsey! You're the artist of the family, right? Then you will paint the living room before going back to college. Thanks, I love you!" Oh mom, you forget that I'm an engineering major... -.-'

So what does all that entail? It means lots of furniture moving, lots of throwing things away, lots of organizing, and lots of work. I'm also working two jobs and my only day off is Sundays, which means I'll have do this during the afternoons when everyone is home unless I get a day off this week at my IT job. Which might happen because we don't have much to do this friday (unless something goes wrong like last friday.) I also forgot I need to patch and sand the walls. Ugh.

Second, I need to start packing. After this summer is over, I am not planning on returning to home for the next summer. If I don't get an internship like I'm planning, I'm still going to stay in Ames and find at least one full time job for the summer and stay on for my last year and a half at college. This means that I have to go through EVERYTHING that I own, decide what to pack up and take with me to college now, and what I'm going to pack up and leave in the basement or in my closet till I can get it into an apartment. I also have to decide what I'm going to let my family keep and what I'm just going to throw away. I've already been through most of my closet, but I still have to go through my dresser (which I only used the top drawer all the time I owned it), my bookcase, my desk, and the area of the basement that belongs to me and my brother.

Third, my sister, brother, and I need to have a serious discussion about who is going to take what from the basement and how we are going to help our parents out while we are all going to college. My sister is going to try to get her masters degree in a year (or so she says), I'll be in my last year and a half for my bachelors, and my brother is going to be starting his freshman year in an out of state college. I only paid for less than a quarter of my college, my sister paid for roughly half of hers, and Shawn is hoping to get a legacy scholarship which should pay for 3/4 of his tuition (which still leaves about 20,000 still to pay, college is expensive). The issue is that its still a lot of money. I have a feeling my mother is going to be paying for all of hers because she has a full time job now that has a yearly salary and I'll try and pay for most of mine through loans. This way Shawn can have the support of our parents and we won't have to worry about them not having enough money for themselves.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go artist it up for a little bit and help my parents bring in the paint. Hopefully see you all sometime this week if I can help it.