On a more positive note I did quite well in my sociology class this summer and passed with an A. School starts back up for fall semester on Monday. I was supposed to be taking history and English Lit but my English course got cancelled, which I was quite pissed about because as an English Lit major I need like 4 Lit classes and they waited until ten days before the semester starts to cancel it so the available class options were pretty slim. I signed up for a psychology course as my replacement though and once I finish that I'll be done with all my social/behavioral credits.
We had the family reunion at the end of July. It was a lot of fun. Bonnie came but the only other relative I get along with well couldn't make it. We had my step-father's annoying family down as well to come to the reunion. Which I don't understand and didn't like because they are not part of the 'Cronwell' family. It's a family reunion, and they are not part of that family, I don't know why my mother invited them. And dad pitched a fit because he didn't want Bonnie, who admittedly is a little weird, around his precious daughter and granddaughters. Because his family came down, especially because they brought an extra person without telling us before hand, we were short 2 beds. We were already going to be short one but I had volunteered mine to Bonnie so she could stay with us and slept in my closet. I don't like people to begin with and because of my autism I don't like change or unexpected things happening so it was just really stressful for me when everyone was in the house.
Bonnie and I went to the Zoo on Friday morning as she hadn't gone since she was a kid. They updated the aquarium in 2015 and I've been to the zoo since then but there was always a huge line to go though the aquarium so I hadn't been through yet. It's pretty cool. By the time we were mostly done at the zoo my mother was calling and nagging me about when we were getting back to the house as we told her we would go and help her set up. It was only like 1:30 and we said we'd be back around 2ish so I don't know what she was complaining about but whatever. We went out and set up and spent a few hours hanging out in the pool before going back home. Because we'd gone to the zoo, the cookies I was supposed to make got pushed to kinda the last minute and we ended up baking until like 11:30 that night. Got them done though and people enjoyed them.
The reunion was great. We had it at my mother's friends "John and Michelle's." We've had it there before, I believe this was the third time though it could be the fourth, I had my graduation party there. They live a bit out in the country and have a large pool, hot tub and pond with a paddle-boat. Since I don't really like that many people and crowds stress me out, I spent most of the day swimming and taking with my aunt, grandmother, mother, Michelle, and Bonnie. There were a few games, a pinata, the white elephant. My cousin 'Bob' got stuck with this horrid unicorn plaque thing that I found at The Store for $4. It was the ugliest thing I could find. I'll see if we took a picture. It was truly awful. He said he was going to use it as a boat anchor.
The first week of August was spent watching my aunts' house as they went on holiday to Florida. Eight whole days of hanging out with Titus and being away from my father. It was nice. (Plus I got paid $100 of which half went into my Christmas fund and the other half, because I'm terrible at managing money, was spent on buying a bunch of video games off of eBay.) The first four days were spent studying (and by studying I mean mostly playing Skyrim and reading books with only a minimal amount of time spent actually studying) for my final exam in sociology but after that it was quite relaxing. I love hanging out with Titus, almost as much as I loved Nicky. Only thing I don't really like about him is that he snores like a fucking hippo and as soon as you make even the slightest movement like you're getting up in the morning, even if you're still asleep, he gets super hyper and starts racing around the room and jumping on you. Can't say how many times I've been woken up by his feet jabbing into my kidneys. Other than that though he's great, a big baby.
That's pretty much all that I've been doing. I bought a new computer as my old one was purchased in 2011 and I really think it was about to fall apart. My hermit crabs are doing well. I've got a new one I named Merlin. I wanted to get three more and name them Porthos, Athos and, Aramis but I went to four different shops and they either had giant ones or none at all and the last place had one and it was the right size so Merlin became a part of the colony. I may still get three more and name them after the musketeers. I'll try to update withing the next couple of weeks.
