221.

I finally met someone worth my time but now I'm moving. Let's hope for the best. I've been going out a lot more and spending a lot more time with my friends. It makes me regret being a recluse for the majority of this year.

220.

219

"Let's go everywhere even though we're scared. 'Cause it's life and it's happening, it's really really happening. Right now."

218.

"The one you love and the one who loves you
are never ever the same person."

Grace Florez ; Vero Beach, FL.

So many things are changing- for the best and for the worst. So many things have happened, good and bad. My childhood house has sold. My mom has always been a very spiritual person and often tries to find signs to justify her decisions. Before the buyers came to sign the contract, my mom sat down at the piano and played my dad's favorite song. Being a hot, summer day, wind is unusual, yet a huge gust of wind blew through the windows and open doors when my mom played the song. When she stopped, the wind stopped. My mom took this as a sign that we can leave this house behind and move forward with our lives. I don't think that the house is another reminder to my mom that my dad isn't here anymore and the house holds some very painful memories. The buyers asked me if I was going to miss my house. To be truthful, once I move to Chicago, I won't have a home in Cincinnati. A different family will be living there, creating memories of their own. Monday morning I have an appointment with Chicago Apartment Finders. I'll hopefully be signing a lease for August 1st and gradually start moving my things up. I got a 5 on my AP Studio Art exam and Columbia is accepting the credit as Fundamentals of 2D Design. Knowing this, I'm much more assured of myself and my hard work.

I've been spending time with old friends. I love sitting in a room talking about the old times, laughing the entire time.

I know I've lost you again. You tell me that things will work themselves out, but I'm not so sure this time. I'll be five hours away from you and unable to drive to see you whenever we need each other. To be frank, there is no room for the both of us in your life, and I know which one you'll keep. But I hope you know that I will always love you and care for you, regardless of what is keeping us apart.

217.

La Dispute : The Last Lost Continent

The optimistic outlook that I've had all summer is rapidly turning to a pessimistic one. All I can do is hope that everything will work itself out in the end and that I learn how to make myself happy.

Put your hand into my hand and lay your head into my chest. You are all that I have left here. We are all that we have left. We are the lovers. We are the last of our kind.. Link your arms and keep your chin up and I swear that we'll be fine. We are the lovers, We are the last of our kind. Though we're not sure who we are, we keep our heads up. Though we're not sure where we're from, we keep our hearts up. Though we're not sure when we'll leave, though we're not sure where we'll go, we keep our hopes up.

We are but lovers, we are the last of our kind and if we let our hearts move outward, we will never die.

216.

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's : Vampires in Blue Dresses

Distance is supposed to make the heart grow fonder, right? If you're pushing me away, I promise it will be the very last time.

Try telling me off. Try slamming the door and telling me I'm not worth your time or the breath I'm breathing.

215.

You came back and you brought floods, wearing a necklace made of hearts that you'd dragged through the mud. I guess I wasn't quite sure what to do. But then I saw mine, almost reached out to grab it. Said "Darling, you're the only one on Earth I want to have it." But now I'm not so sure that that was true, after the hell you put it through."But there was no sharp pain this time, just the ghost of your presence compressing my chest like a vine. An unshakeable absence, like most of my insides crawled out through my mouth and went west. But that's fine. We cast our hearts in plaster. We imagined our bodies were fashioned from stone but they chipped at the brick and the mortar. We found out that we're only laters of skin hiding bone.

214.

I definitely thought that a homeless man was going to die tonight. Either from Lee's car or Allyson's fist. Over the Rhine never ceases to amaze me. Neither do homeless men.

213.

It's been awhile.