freedom... (?)

So, my parents left on Thursday for England, and I can't remember when they're coming back... I'm too lazy to look at the trip itinerary they left for me. But, since they've been gone, I've been a lot more relaxed. Given, it has only been two days, and I'm sure I'll miss them eventually, but I'm not yet. They're in England for their 25th wedding anniversary, which is cool.

Anyways, I've got a week of classes left, and I'm kind of excited to be done and kind of not all at the same time. I'm not going to mind not getting up at 8 every morning to drag myself to class. But, I'm not going to lie. I'm going to miss my differential equations class... well, okay, I'm not going to miss the class itself. But, I feel as though when the class ends, the guy I sit next to isn't going to give a crap anymore. We had a pseudo-date Thursday night; that was cool.

I ended up going over to his place to just kind of chillax with him and 4 other people that they knew. He walked me out to my car, but due to circumstances beyond my control, we ended up going back to his place and just kind of sitting/talking there for like, 4 hours. I didn't even get a kiss out of the deal. *insert sad face here*

But, then on Friday, I went down to Ankeny to meet a friend and go golfing. We drove about 20 minutes out of town to golf a 9-hole, par 3 golf course... I golfed a 40! (For those of you who don't get golf, 13 strokes over par is pretty sweet, especially since I'm new-ish to the game.)

Afterwards, we went and got ice cream and did some other fun stuff. It's still raining now, but we were planning on doing some other stuff today, too. Who knows if all of that is going to happen?

I love fireworks, but I don't really want to have to sit out in the rain waiting for the city to decide whether they're actually going to shoot them off or not. I've already done that once in Boston; I don't need to do it here in Ames, too. Although, Boston's fireworks were worth sitting out in the rain for... I don't think Ames' are going to be nearly that good.

boston for the 4th next year