Note: This journal was so long I divided into categories.... I dunno why XD

I am so excited right now, I'm shaking... actually I think that is just from the hot chocolate I just had. 0.0.... who knows! Well anyways I must tell you all about my first week back at CCAD and Cbus.

APARTMENT:
Well first of all as I think I have already said I really like my new apartment, it's called Grant Oaks. It IS smaller, BUT it is very cute and cozy. And strangely it is considerably cool even though it is on the 2nd floor and there is no air conditioning. I think that is due to all the cross breeze I get, because my building is on the very end and it has SIX windows!

Unfortunately after getting here I realized I had forgotten to bring a lot of things. For starters my dreamcatcher, my bulletin board, my bike, my electric pencil sharpener and my Rukia plushie. Yea... other than the objects I left behind I'm all settled in.

Other positives about my new apartment, it is a little bit closer to the school, only by a block, but trust me, it makes a difference. About 50% of Grant Oaks occupants are CCAD students, that includes Sami Nummi, Kaitlan Hyland, Pei (who was one of my first roommates freshman year) Katie B., Simone and the list goes on and on! What's also great about this is I know most of my neighbors and it makes it a safer and more trusting environment; there is always people out and about at all hours of the night, my people, CCAD people. For example, I went to the school tonight and how it use to be is, I would have someone to walk with me back until we got to Grant Oaks. Then all my friends would be home, but I still would have to walk another block, alone, at night, in the heart of downtown.... But today we all walked back together and I didn't have to make any lone trips, mom you can breath a sigh of relief, okay. I'm not going to get jumped then raped, then strangled and left for dead in a dumpster.

Three more positives to the new place, my car is locked up in garage with a gate and guards (no breaking windows and radio thefts, yay!), there is visitor parking (no more 10 dollars in quarters, yay!) and the library is practically right outside my door. (....YAY!!) Snowflake, my kitty is settling in very nice as well. Oh and for those who don't know I accidently killed Mario (I felt horrible I had a bad dream about it and everything) my goldfish who was Omar's descendent. So.... at fair Deanna and I won new feeder fish. My new one is tiny and very orange. (just like Omar was *tear*)Mom and I decided it's a her and her name is Gidget.

Oh wow, I'm writing so much about the apartment and I have not even started on everything else that has happened this week, this might be long -.-. Sorry I just like to talk and write, last thing on the apartment, I swear! Amy, a girl who works in the mailroom with me and who is a senior lives right across from me! Okay I'm done on the apartment now!

FAIR:
So mom and I got to cbus and the apartment late Saturday evening... ya see we were suppose to leave a lot earlier, but the night before... well, I had people over my house and of course Hank went lame at the fair right then. Swear to gawd every year at fair something bad happens to Hank, sickness or lameness. Anyways, my mom was still at the fairgrounds along with MY CAR, because people blocked me in and so I had taken my mom's car home to make it there in time for the people coming over. So Saturday mom and I got the car loaded and then went to go see Hank at the fair. He was still pretty lame when I saw him, but he had a long week. Word is that he is doing better already now that he is home and had a break. Not going to lie I had already been sad Friday and hearing about Hank when I was suppose to leave and then other things that happened brought me to tears when everyone was over. But I ran away so nobody would see me.

Mom and I also got one last funnel cake well at the fair and said all our goodbyes to everyone, well me really. Honestly it was really depressing for me, Friday was the worst day, before I knew it I was going to be coming back....I got very sad about leaving Hank. But in truth it had been a good week for me, that fair. I hung out and helped Deanna all week, I helped Susan on Tuesday, I got to show myself on Wednesday! Martha, my friend and instructor for years and years came by to watch me too! Susan and I did generation gap and we got a 2nd and a 6th, and we had a lot of stiff competition. Oh also momo and her family, Mikey, Danny and Jay also came to watch me... oh and Deanna was my slave on the day I showed! Later in my classes I got a 5th and a 1st! What excited me about the 1st was Kenna was in that class, very good rider and my advisor. I admire her and Martha so much, my two riding heros!

VERSATILITY AT FAIR:
Then thursday night I ended up being Deanna's groom for versatility with Kenna and it was so fun. We dressed up as construction workers with hard hats and ya see it rained a ton that day. The arena was a mud pit, the middle was like a puddle! And well... between the last change in versatility, Kenna and I had just about nothing to do so I just brought a chair and sat down. But we still had to wait the ten minutes and I think it was boring for the crowd so.... the announcer lady yelled first grooms to the middle wins! So of course Kenna and I ran to the middle of the areana just short of the mud put. THEN the lady goes, NOW JUMP IN IT! Now ya see I wasn't planning on jumping in that mud, but uh.. Kenna had different plans for me. She thought that would be fabulous, so what did I do? I ran from her! Before I knew it we were the circus side show! At one point I picked up Deanna's bucket of water and threatened to throw the water onto Kenna. Then she tried to snatch it out of my hand but I fought her for it and kicked it over so she couldn't thow the water on me either. Then! THEN! She took the bucket, walked over to the huge puddle of mud and scooped up the bucket full of it to throw at me! FUCK! I ran! The crowd and announcer of course were encouraging her to get me! What the HELL did I do to you people?! Kenna's pretty strong, but I was like,
"You may be stronger than me, but you can't CATCH me!" At one point the announcer mentioned safty and Kenna just pointed to her hard hat and was like,
"Yea! Safty! See kids, HELMET, SAFE!" Damn shes good! Finally after what seemed like an eternity of running from Kenna in front of all these people under the lights, the 10 minutes were up and they began contesting. In the end of Versatility Deanna and Rambo got fourth over all! Hank and Jenna got 8th which was good because Hank got second in his horsemanship class! (that's western, Hank doesn't so western) He would have probably placed high in Equitation, but Jenna got a DQ because she did the pattern totally wrong. The best award of all though was mine and Kenna's, LOUDEST GROOMS! Yay! We got plastic flutes as our prize! Then Brook, a 14 year old girl in the club came up behind Kenna and silly stringed her... Guess what happened to her? IN THE MUD! HA! At least it wasn't me! XD Sorry Brook, but you weigh like 90 lbs, your a goner!

LAST OF FAIR:
Lastly to top off Fair, Friday the day I was so very sad about leaving Hank and dawdled all day about leaving, guess who showed up? A very amazing person, someone who I owe a lifetime of gratitude too, without whom I would not only have Hank in my life, but own him as well. Amanda, Hank's previous owner. The girl who gave me her horse free of charge, made a dream of mine come true, one that I wished on a shooting star no doubt. It was so good to see her and she looked really good. Amanda was like a sister to me when I first started leasing Hank because we would argue like we were related at the shows . I saw her and her grandmother and that truly made the fair great for me, even though it wasn't my fair to be had. My final day at the fair I gave Hank lots of lovings, bought Susan a little plushie of a gray horse that kinda resembled Hank and had one last funnel cake with mom... then it was off to Cbus!

Long, long long! I'm sorry so much has happened, just a lot to say. Anyone still with me? Well if ya are, it's very appreciated. I just love to write, I could make a book with all my journal entries. HA like anybody would read that book.

SUNDAY BACK IN CBUS:
Well come Sunday night in Columbus, mom and I got me some groceries and then we went out to eat together one last time. Then mom had to go, it was funny she didn't want to leave, but I assured her I was okay. I was ready to be on my own again. After she left I went to visit Jess in her new living quarters, she moved into the brand spankin new dorms on campus. There pretty damn nice and her room was cool, lots of anime/video game posters, plushies and trinkets. Ya know Jess is awesome, I dunno why I don't hang out with her more! After a while I went back to my new 'home' and went to sleep.

MONDAY FIRST DAY:
First day Monday was pretty nice. To start the day I had work at 7:45 in the morning... Man I forgot how much I missed the mailroom and Wanda. I am truly blessed because I got the best job on campus, a mom away from my mom and great friends there. See we had this lunch in thing as a reunion, which was great because I only had three bucks anyways XD could not afford food. We had watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumbers, broccoli, carrots, veggie dip, strawberries, peach cobbler, ice cream and subway sandwiches. It was so good and the nicest thing was they surprised me! In the mailroom we celebrated everyones Birthday and since mine was over the summer I didn't think about it. But all of the sudden they made me wear this hat and started singing to me and Katie B. showed up behind me with cupcakes someone made. It was such an awe moment Yea I'm a very lucky person, there is pics of it on facebook!

After the mailroom I was off to my first class of the semester at 12:30, illustrative Drawing. Well, for this class I didn't know it, but we were going to the freaking zoo! Actually will be going there every week for some time. I have wanted to go to the Columbus zoo for a long time now and it was pretty awesome! (Reese I was so jealous XD) It's a six hour class and since it was the first day we were just kind of suppose to get to know the place, but in the future it will be draw, draw, draw and don't stop. Oh! And it was a good thing I had those three dollars on me, because I needed at least two to get in... Man that could have been bad.

After my six hour class I had one more to go right after. Marketing, sounds like a bore right? At least to most of us artist... well you couldn't be more wrong! Not when Artie Issac as your professor. First of all the class has about thousand people in it and is usually in the auditorium, but it was being used. This guy was great and I had already heard that actually, so animated and he wears a bow tie. Think I'm in love.... nah! Just kidding, but its a fantastic class and I found out Katie and Simone are in it too! Could not see them the first day though, to many people in that little room. After marketing my first day was finally over at 8 p.m. talk about longggg, but good, def good.

TUESDAY:
That night I visited Sami and Kaitlan. Just went home after that and stayed up to late balancing my checkbook. Finally went to bed very very late. Tuesday I thought I was suppose to be at the mailroom at 9:30, that's what the schedule Wanda emailed me said. woke up at 8:00 and got in the shower,but my phone went off. I thought it was just my alarm so I hit the end button without looking, but like 10 minutes later it went off again. Confused by this I looked at my phone and I saw I had a voicemail... hmm... it was Wanda.
"Kaitie King where are you, you were suppose to be here a half an hour ago." So I Call her back confused,
"But Wanda my schedule says 9:30."
"Hun, I never have people in at 9:30."
"But, ... but, uh... i'll be there soon." I showed up and turns out it wasn't my fault. My schedule was different from Wanda's, turns out she changed it again and forgot to tell me. I knew I wasn't crazy! Work until 3:30 and then went to my Illustration Styles and Concepts class. This is the only class I'm not to sure about, I've heard things about the instructor, she's a little asian lady, seems nice... Megan Stropki is in there with me, so that's cool. After that I was done, cool right? Went home and attempted to do some homework, reading for my screenwriting class. My teacher emailed us... well only thing is... I was sleepy. I passed out at like 7:00 p.m. well tryin to read it. What I feel bad about is, it was Pei's Birthday and I slept right through Katie B. call about coming over and having cake. Aww but it was okay, didn't really wake up until the next day.

WEDNESDAY:
Wednesday I had my 8:00 a.m. class, which was figure drawing. My teacher seemed really laid back and I like that a lot. A nice guy and we started drawing a model that day. How nice, getting started right away. Little rusty, but I think I did alright, I'm going to post my sketches from it hopefully this weekend and other things too. Drawings, artwork, and pics of the apartment. I meant to post a bunch this summer but never did! I'm sorry! After that class it was right to Sociology... that may also sound boring to some, but again very wrong. First of all I thrive on these kind of sciences and second is that my teacher is awesome again. Very nice and funny lady, also very laid back and a good teacher. After that class I got a three hour break before my next class. So I went home, ate and finished reading the script of the movie On The Waterfront, a classic mob movie. Sounded pretty good actually (only reason I fell asleep the day before well reading it was because I was exhausted still from fair, moving and staying up late), then I was off to screenwriting. This class also has an awesome teacher, she seems fun and again laid back. Screenwriting is just what I need, so I can get really into our movie . After that I was done for the day, went home played Sims 3, did homework. haha.

THURSDAY
Thursday was a very easy day for me. All I had was one class... actually I have a lot of days like that... Humorous Illustration at 8:00 a.m. This teacher I already knew and he is a very cool guy. Actually he had horses and he told us from now on we show up at 8:30 because he lives so far away that he can't get in before 8 all the time... SWEET! Oh and a lot of people are in my class including Megan again. He gave us our assignment and ended the class very early, just for that day so we could get started. I actually went home because the class was suppose to end at 10:50 and then I had work at 11:00, but I still had TWO hours. Looked at Bleach pics (obsessed) found some good ones. Including one of Gin Ichimaru that was pretty hot (look in favs there are other characters too) I remembered Maggie always loved Gin, so I decided to send her the pic link via myspace. Truthfully I was kind of afraid to do it, but I was being silly. The pic made me think of her and it was just something I wanted to do after all she sent me a Happy Birthday text on my Birthday. Went to work, it was fun with Ruth again, I always enjoy Ruth. Came back home at 12:30. Had the whole day in front of me. So I drew stuff and colored. Later I got a message back from Maggie and a friend request and I gotta say I was pretty happy about that.

As if that wasn't enough later that night I can't remember how, but I started thinking about when I lived in California. Thought about the friends I had there, it was so long ago... third grade and it was only for nine months... but those kids welcomed me with open arms at school. One in-particular named Sam. She came up to me my first day and asked,
"Do you want to be my friend?" After everyone left the room for recess. I just nodded my head shyly. From that point on Sam became my best friend in California. She showed me the ropes of my new giant elementary school (schools in CA are WAY bigger, more people) and we hung out as much as possible. She introduced me to handball and she was really good to me. It was pretty sad when one day we ran into her and her mom at Hollywood and I told her I was leaving to go back to Ohio. All I remember her saying was,
"Well I wish you didn't have to go..." I dunno... the memory of Sam and some others, Kia, Tianna, Kelly, Alesica got me wondering... could I perhaps find them on facebook? (switching to present tense) Mannnnn that was so long ago... and I can't even remember any of their last names. I have always been bad with names and I think I was nine years old back then! But why not, it's worth a shot. So i'll look up Rancho Penasquito's (where I lived in Cali) high school... turns out they have like SIX of them! Well I'll just go on facebook and put in Sam's first name and the network, San Diego California. Found two Sam that looked like her. What I did next was start entering the high school names too. When I put in the second high school, one of the girls that I thought could be her came up. Clicked on it, an issue was that she didn't have that on her page, her high school and year she graduated. But... I could look at her friends... chances are if a bunch of her friends graduated in 07 like me then so did she and it was her and maybe I could find other people I remembered. Well turns out I found a kid named Evan... he looked like the same Evan I remembered and he graduated in 07! Went back to the girl's page and also noticed her college graduation was 2011. It's her. It's gotta be, bright blond hair, blue eyes, name is Sam, and the last name looks right. So I'll send her a request. If it is her and if she recognizes me then she will accept it.

This morning it made my day when I saw she not only accepted, but wrote me a message. YAY! Am I creepy for working so hard to find her? Well whatever, I don't care. Sometimes ya always wonder about people and it's just good to know and to let them know. Good friends stay friends even if they have not spoken in over 10 years due to circumstances they could not help

FRIDAY:
And FINALLY! Nearing the conclusion of my longest journal EVER! Had one class today Sociology again and it was very nice. After I had work with Wanda and Katie B. until 5:00. I missed that a lot, Katie and I had some deep discussions about things that happened to us over the summer. Again just like old times as it poured down rain and thunder. Then we walked home together, lucky us! We got out just after the rain ended. Then tonight at 8:30 I headed back to the school to watch the movie Up in the auditorium! I never got to see it so I was very excited and there was also pancakes there... I didn't eat any though. I sat with Jess and wow! That was a great movie and so touching. After that I said goodbye to Jess and walked home with Katie B, Simone, Kaitlan (K-10) and other Grant Oaks/CCAD people as it poured down rain on us! At the end of our walk Katie, Kaitlan and I held hands and jumped in a puddle.... were such dorks, we might as well be three years old. Then we went into Katie's apartment and had homemade banana bread with hot coco. Very good. Pei joined us and I wished her happy belated birthday. Then we just talked all night until about 1:00. Kaitlan and I finally went back to our apartments because Katie and Pei were both tiered. And ya know, I had such a great first week back I had to sit down and write about it.

Thank you for reading, I promise I won't ever write any journal as long as this one ever again. I love to write and it's nice to be happy; to have all these good and amusing things to say. Love you all and I hope your well!

Oh watch this Bleach opening, it my favorite I think, love this song the best!
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for those who know Bleach which opening is your fav?

And thank you Columbus it's like you were calling me hear and now your patting me on the shoulder saying
"Welcome back Kaitie, I promise this year will be better."