What an awful week!!!

If I was writing a story about my life, I would say that this has been the worst week of my life, but I guess in some ways, something good came out of it. One thing, mother nature really gave us the shits. Winds blow so hard here you could blow this whole town off the map. Doesnt usually happen very often, but at least it blew some of the leaves off the ground in the complex. And just when things couldnt get any worse, snow starts falling. We thought it was just gonna be a little bit, but it turned out to be blizzard conditions. YIKES!!! I hate those. At least they closed school. Diego liked it, he spent much of the day throwing snowballs at Spencer. I would have joined in except that I had a paper to do for sociology class. Took longer than I expected.
But blizzards are no fun, trust me. Last year, I nearly froze to death while I was waiting for a bus. It wasnt so bad when I first left home, but it got worse as I was on my way home. I only had on a light jacket and a pair of earmuffs. I waited for nearly a half hour for that bus to get there, but at least it was warm inside. Then I had to walk 6 blocks from the stop to the apartment complex. I took it upon myself to sit in a hot bathtub to get the chills out. That works too.
How we survive such horrendous catastrophies? Us Daks are very tough and somewhat rugged. I think we share the same charactoristics as them Montana folks do. I get asked this all the time, usually by people who live in other parts of the world.
Here are some pics that I picked up of the storm that came our way. I only got the best ones that I liked the most. I didnt take these pictures. I borrowed them off the ND site on FB. But they're great snow pics.

This is about how much we actually got here in Bismark, but it got worse later on just enough to close school.

I hate to be the driver of this truck.

Or even this first floor apartment building.

That was how deep it was. Glad that dog was safe.

sleeping problems

I have been battling sleeping problems for the past several weeks. Sometimes I dont go to bed until 4:30 in the morning. Then about 3 hours later, I have to get up, eat, and head to school. I buy a coffee in the cafeteria to get me through, but that lasts for only a little while. By the time I get to art class, I am so tired I cant concentrate. I come home and the only thing I wanna do is drop to bed until Diego comes home from school, or when Spencer comes home from work on his work days. One night it got so bad that my mom had to take me to the emergency room. I hadnt slept for 3 nites in a row. Believe me, I'm not trying to go for the world's record here. And what do I get outta this, sleeping pills that make me drowsy the next day. All this not being able to sleep is just driving me to the state of insanity. Sometimes I feel like I just wanna crash through the wall, literally. I cant take it anymore. Mind you, I have one coffee that I buy at school, thats the only thing with caffene I have all day, oh yeah, and a couple of sodas. But sodas dont make you stay awake. I try hot chocolate milk, but it only works sometimes.
I think Derrick and I have split up, so I wont be hearing from him much anymore except to maybe in responses to my wall posts and a poke every now and then. He wants somebody that will share EVERYTHING with him including pictures of themselves, and my mom will not allow me to post photos on FB. I'm too secretive for him and he's upset about it. So for the best of us, its probably the far better thing to do. For the past few months, he has been sending me mails everyday as much as 5 or 6 of them. I enjoyed that. But everytime he brought up the subject of my sending him a picture, I dont respond to the request or I quickly change the subject. And I think it got to the point where he's given up, and now he wants to find someone else who will trust him better. I'll miss his mails and I am sad over the whole thing, but I cant help it if my mom gives me rules of using the computer.
The only reason I got FB in the first place is to display my artwork to the public. Other than that, my mom would never let us use these social networking sites. She's very concerned about our safety, but I think she's too overprotective. I guess she would have to be because I'm the only girl in the family. My stepfather's the same way too. He once chased a boy down the block just because he had his arms around me. I liked it when he had his arms around me and we were about to kiss, but my stepfather went crazy and chased him out of the apartment complex and down the road about a few blocks. We were both mad at each other and I threatened to run away from home. That was when I was in high school. I'm an adult now and my mom still lays the law in this house. Nobody can grow up here.