Cross some things off the list

So, I had my graduation party this weekend. It was very entertaining. Ben's family got me an electric fondue pot. I am excited, too bad I'm all chocolate and cheesed out from the mountains of left over Mexican food and candy. Mmmm...I did have a lot of good food this weekend. I also had some really creepy uncles who I didn't know were creepy like make comments about my friends. Yeah, that's totally gross.
Now I'm writing thank you notes. I've done about half (of course I've done the easy half...) and hope to get them all done this morning since I can't sleep in later than like 7:30. I guess it's good that I can't sleep in later since I'll soon have to get up early to go to work, but for now, I'd like to be able to sleep in. Eight hours of sleep is simply unsatisfactory.
Today I'm going shopping with Kayla. I plan to take about an eight of my graduation money and buy some fun things for my self and some new fish and fish accessories for my pathetic one fish tank. I am going to put a quarter of the money in my IRA and then another quarter in my checking account and then the other half in my savings account. Or maybe I'll open another savings account so I won't have my money commingle with my parent's and sister's money. While I do like my parents having access to my savings since I can just tell them to put my allowance in there or take money for my car insurance from there without me having to do anything, I think I'd like a smaller savings account to take care of on my own. But I guess this is really a moot point since I should be out of my house by the end of the summer (cross your fingers) and will probably need to take or spend all the money I have saved up. Housing is expensive in this area and I don't want to live in the ghettos of White Oak or Wheaton.
On Tuesday, Kayla, Ben, and his housemates (if they want to and are there) are going to go to Olive Garden for dinner. Maybe Karel will even join us. This will be a nice way to end Kayla's visit. It was really a nice way to transition from seeing her all the time at school to not seeing her practically at all for the next three years. I don't expect to see her that frequently since she'll be uber uber busy working and doing well in law school. But it's okay since I should be busy, too.
On a more disgusting note, my parents and friends of the family are looking out for my sex life this summer... One family said they wanted Ben and I to house sit for them after they heard that both of us will be living at home this summer. Ben's father mentioned that they won't be home all the time. And we got another offer from another family to watch their house. Too bad I won't do anything in someone else's house, it's just icky. It's not like we're going to have a lot of time, either. Ben's going to be working and looking for a job while I work bizarre hours as a swim coach and will be looking for a job, working on my portfolio, and hopefully looking for a place to live. It seems pointless to look for a place to live now since I don't know where either of us will be working. This area is huge and it would be an exercise in futility.
Also, I am jealous of Parker because she's getting a puppy. I really want a puppy. I think that's going to be the most exciting thing of moving out on my own, I can get whatever animal I want. Ben doesn't want a puppy, though. I said we could get it in the summer when I'll be around a lot to take care of it. He shot this idea down saying that he didn't want the puppy to love me more because I spent more time with the puppy. I think this is slightly selfish since we all know that animals love Ben more and I've got to have some advantage to make the puppy-person relationship a little more equal.
This is getting really long, so I'll just cut it off.