Hey, ho!  It's your buddy, Skate Harrington, from Altoona, Pennsylvania!  Thought I would continue with my story.

I would have written sooner, but the main brains of my computer decided to stroke out; therefore, we are without a computer at my house.  If I want to use the computer, I have to use the one at school or when we go to the local library; then we get an hour time limit, and that's a pain in the butt!  Oh, well ....  better than no computer time at all, but it sure wrecks my writing!!

No telling when we will be able to get a new copmuter. 

I am doing okay, other than that; at least I can find more time to skateboard and play with my brothers and sisters, as well as our new cat, "Smokey", a grey and white Munchkin kitten.  He is so cute; he has little legs and he has such a gigantic personality for his size!  He purrs constantly, and we just love him to pieces!

School is going okay, but I'm ready for it to end.  Soon it will be May, then June, and the start of summer vacation!  Can't wait!!  Spring has busted out all over: greenage and flowers everywhere you look ... and the start of allergy season!  Achoo!!  I am allergic to dandelions and to most trees/grasses; whenever I go anywhere, I have to make sure I'm armed with my Benedryl and plenty of Kleenex!!

I am still trying to decide what I want to be or want to do with my life when I graduate from school in five/six years:  I want to be a meteorologist/storm chaser, or I want to go into professional snow or skate boarding and make tons of money; I'd like to be able to help my family out financially; mom and dad don't deserve to struggle so much!!  With six kids to feed/clothe, the money sure doesn't last long enough!

Well, I am going to go:  have to go to my next class, which is English.  Hopefully Mr. Haney will get computers so we can practice our writing/sentence structure; it would also give me more time to spend on the computer while we wait to get a new one to replace our dead one at the house!  I will write in here soon; take care and God bless!

~your friend in Pennsylvania, Skate.  :(

*to be continued.*