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I don't really know what prompted me to create this. Maybe it was the sunlight shooting through my blinds as I was ready to doze off into a nap. Or maybe I just needed somewhere to vent for my mother interrupted that bliss and had yelled for me to help her in the kitchen. Who knows?

And it really doesn't matter.

What I do know, however -

I have been recently terribly frustrated with my parents for they are what you call, "helicopter parents." They control every aspect of my life and I feel that I have no sense of freedom whatsoever. I will be 19 this summer. That's certainly past the legal independent age - and yet, I have somewhat of a curfew when I'm at home. However, mother and father dearest do not label it as a "curfew," they simply put it as a guideline since there is not technically a punishment if I were to be under an hour late. It really doesn't matter because I haven't really found much to do in Austin since I moved here because I'm so terribly unfamiliar with the place, but still. They even log into my UT account and Blackboard to check my grades and such. I know I have the legal right to have my privacy but what am I going to do? They don't give a care what I say and I'm not going to take legal action - I mean, are you joking?

But I do have to be grateful. For they allow me to spend loads of money on totally superfluous clothes, make-up, and eating-out food that I really shouldn't be spending considering our family's financial status quo. We have two houses back in SC that still need to be sold and we have a large apartment in Austin that we are currently living in temporarily. And of course, the ever-daunting college tuition and college housing fees.

But then again, I think - it was my dad's choice to move here since he had received that job offer. He wanted that higher status of working at The University of Texas at Austin (gasp!) rather than dull University of South Carolina. And the thing is, I could have gone to USC's Honors College with the Dean's Scholarship (not Southern California, mind you; I'm not that smart) and saved my family money with college tuition and by eliminating the additional moving costs (and now 2 ownerships of residences we cannot get rid of because of SC's unfortunately crappy economy).

But, Father was thinking about how much easier it would be to pay college tuition long-term for my brother and I without an out-of-state bill (oh, shall I ever be so full of gratitude. Yes, there was a tad of sarcasm included). However, though I absolutely adore UT now, I wouldn't have known it in the first place had I not come here; so in the end, it really wouldn't have mattered.

So, I kept shuffling back and forth wondering if I should resent my parents or be thankful for them. I still don't know. But I decided I needed to vent. And what's a better place to do that than a blog? YAYYYY!!! Maybe now I can reflect...or so attempt.