Keturah's Visit Enters First Week

Last year, I, and my two younger sisters, moved in with my sister and my cousin who live four and a half hours away from Windsor, for three months.

Some of you may remember The Dragon Warrior and the Trunk Commandments. If you don't, don't worry about it. It was a lot of hoopla anyway.

Just over a week ago, on September 20th, I moved back in, just myself this time, and only for one month. It seemed fitting, cut the visitors down by two thirds, cut the time down by two thirds. ;)

Anyway, I just thought I'd give an update on my first week here, since I don't have anything else to write about. If anyone wants to know how things are going, you can read about it here!

The first thing I will say about it is that my pace of life dropped from like an 80 to a 10. At home I was doing school, ballet, working at McDonalds, managing and training an activism group, and church activities, all while living in a household of 9 people. (Plus my sister and brother in law and their three adorable children, so it was really more like a household of 14)
Here, I have one ballet class every other day, and school, (which takes me under an hour to do) and there are only three people in this house.
I have my own bedroom, which I've never had in my life, and pretty much the whole basement to myself, since Rachel and Carolyn's rooms are both upstairs.

Rachel commented that she thinks I must be bored to tears here, with it being so quiet and so little to do, but rest assured, I know how to entertain myself.

I've learned hip hop dances, read old classics, skyped with friends, texted siblings, cleaned, visited my cousins, and who knows what all. It's amazing how much time there is in a day when you haven't filled it with all kinds of stuff ahead of time!

I got transferred for work here, I'm starting on Monday, so that will definitely take some free time away. Yesterday I went out and bought bus tickets. I think I would be revelling in that proud fact more if I wasn't so scared of taking the bus...

But with every adventure of mine, there has to be some silly thing I latch onto, and I think this adventure will always be remembered by an enthusiastic singalong to "Seize The Day."

Yes my friends, I finally watched the Broadway version of "The Newsies." It left me inspired, bemoaning the fact that I can't quite dance like that, and with songs in my head from now til kingdom come.

But did I try to get them out of my head? Nope. Who doesn't want to have that soundtrack on replay 24/7? So of course I listened to the soundtrack until two days ago, when I went to my cousins house and watched the Disney movie "The Newsies." Then I listened to the soundtrack a little bit the next day, before going back to their house, having a really fun swim in the pool, and then watching "The Newsies," the Broadway version again.

Hehe.

Anyway, if I see you when I get home, don't be surprised if I have all of the lyrics memorized. So far I have already had several scenarios which just REQUIRED a Newsies comeback, for example: When we were in the pool, and my cousin was spraying my other cousin with a water gun, a soundtrack was inevitable, "Now those soakers are in for a soakin,' what a sad way to end a career!"

Thanks for reading!

Your friend,

Your BEST friend,

Your brother,

Crutchy