[Ayreonaut]

I'm hoping my shitty period stays at one month. May has been pretty brutal, but it seems like things are getting back to normal quite fast. I'd say things are even better than they were last year. Sure, my girlfriend left me, but we still talk most days and she is definitely one of my best friends, so if I compare now to before I met her, now is better. She still plans on visiting me here, and I will probably visit her next year sometime.

Insurance should cover most of what was taken from my house, so the only thing lost there is time spent replacing everything (especially if my CDs are gone, rockyi would know what that's like).

I'm pretty much out of money now, which is new for me, but I think I have a solid plan to make a fair bit next summer. I'll just have to be very thrifty over the next year, which I've never had a problem doing (other than travel, I don't really spend much).

So yeah, it seems like this rough patch won't really be all that rough after all. I probably don't have to worry about tornadoes (even though AB is technically a part of 'Tornado Alley'), and while my relationship with Raquel has changed, it is still there, and still a great one.