Oh, dear. It looks as though mobile posting might ruin my page...I'll see what I can do about this.

? pologize for immensely but as soon as they fix this issue, my pictures will be littering my page!

Enjoy!

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Well, I just registered my phone so that I can do some mobile blogging! Let's test it out, shall we? =)

Changes

Hey, Everyone!
I know it's been a while since I've posted anything but that's only because I lost my internet connection at my house so right now, mobile is the way to go it would seem.
I figured I'd briefly tune you in to some of the changes in my life. First thing, I got a chihuahua puppy! His name is Baine and he is a absolutely amazing brindle colored purebred. I bought him for a mere $75.00 from my uncle. I also got a job as a housekeeper and, four months after getting hired, I quit (my supervisor had a problem with backstabbing). Me and Justin are still going strong and we are continuing to spend our senior year of highschool together at GMTCC. Also, I believe we may be moving to Ohio soon (I'm not completely sure about that last one, though)!
Well, I must go but I will make sure to keep you all posted.

Until next time,
Cheyenne

Flood Damage

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while but we have had some recent problems in the Benway household. Let me fill you in...

Yesterday we had quite the rainstorm in Hardwick and my house got flooded. Well, to be specific my basement was flooded. With sewage. You seem I live two houses down from Hazen Union and thanks to their recent renovations to their parking lot all of the rain runoff from up the hill comes straight through my neighbors backyard and righ into ours. We had quite the river going into our basement yesterday and let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. After the rain finally ended it took my mother an hour just to get ahold of a police officer to come and help us out. That was after two calls to the town, one call to the police station, on call to the fire department and four calls to 911. The officer then informed us that it was sand in our basement and it would go away on its own soon (first of all, we don't have sand in Vermont and even if we did, sand doesn't magically disappear on its own).

After a very long debate with a guy named Tommy who works for the town, we finally got almost all of the sewage pumped out of the basement. Of course the pump broke but that's beside the point.
My time is up but I'll fill you in soon enough!

Until next time,

Cheyenne

Bug Bite Madness

I am absolutely covered in bug bites.

I apologize for the randomness of this post but it must be discussed. For some reason all of my bug bites except for one random one are all on my right leg and on the back of my neck. I have got seven of them on my leg and three on my neck. This is insane! Justin thinks I might be allergic to bugs because some of these things are massive. Personally I think that its just the work of those pesky horse flies but who knows.

One of them looks like a black and blue but the worst one is on the back of my neck just under my ear. Even hydrocortisone cream isn't helping the itch. Hydrocortisone cream always helps the itch!

I suppose suffering is my last option. *Sigh*

Size Really Doesn't Matter

Let me begin by telling you this: I love fishing.

On that note, I got to go fishing for Brook Trout today for the first time in my life with Justin (a.k.a. The Boyfriend). Just past his house in Craftsbury is a beautiful place called "The Falls". With a small amount of hiking we got to an amazing pool of water within the falls and Justin hooked a worm on my line for me. Of course he got me ready before he got himself ready so as I was waiting for him I walked a little ways into the falls and sat on a rock. With me as bored as I was I decided to entertain myself by drowning my worm so it wouldn't wiggle so much. I apparently didn't hear Justin when he told me that fishing for Brook Trout is fast paced because withing 30 seconds of dipping my line into the water I had a bite and pulled it up on land.

Which takes me to my title. The Brookie I caught was only about three inches long. However small this fish was I was very proud of myself for catching it with such ease and precision (I'm obviously happy about it) and therefore it could have been an inch long and I'd still be happy.

I can't wait to go again.

Nature

I realized something today. I have a very strict love/hate relationship with nature. I realized this as I was walking around with students from my class earlier today. With my Nikon D50 in hand I began to hike up several very steep hills. I got to smell the assorted flowers and grasses, got to see many various types of birds and even a snake. I got to see the absolute beauty of the outdoors as I usually begin to do.

Then, reality set in. I stepped in a huge puddle of mud in my white flats, I got countless bug bites, I'm almost positive half of my lung is dead from having to walk up so many steep hills and I'm pretty sure I lost ten pounds in sweat.

All in all, I discovered that even though nature can really piss me off it has an undeniable and unbeatable beauty that will never be overrated or surpassed.

(The image above is one that I took while on my unexpected hike earlier today when I came across a beautifully lit path)

Introductions are in Order

Well since this is the first post of my personal blog I thought I'd start out by telling everyone a little bit about myself. My name is Cheyenne and I am 17 years old. I am an aspiring photographer and although my family loves to call me a hippie I definitely have my dark side. I currently attend a Multimedia and Design program at Green Mountain Technology and Career Center in Hyde Park and next year I plan on attending a Computer Networking program here at GMTCC. I have a very large and always fun family and an absolutely marvelous boyfriend named Justin. As of today we have been dating for about one year and five months and I couldn't be happier. I also absolutely detest lung cancer. In the past year and a half I have lost one uncle on each side of my family to lung cancer.

Well I suppose that before I begin to ramble I should warn you...some of my blogs will be dark and probably occasionally disturbing, some of them will be very sappy and love-sick. Some of them will be me venting when I get angry and other times they will simply be me rambling on about random thoughts.

You have been warned, read at your own risk.

I hope you enjoy my blog and I also hope I haven't scared you off yet.

=)