June 30, Summer, year 20

I haven't been able to properly focus since my last conversation with Skye. I want to talk with him some more, but after pulling that all-nighter because I couldn't stop dwelling on his words, I just don't know what to do…

I want to know more, but on the other hand I don't. It's so frustrating… And it's even more annoying because I can't pose hypothetical questions to anyone without then asking me if I've got someone I like.

So I've been sort of stewing for the past few days. Doesn't help that I've had a couple of dreams with him in them. Mom always said that too much television would be bad for me, but I don't think she expected it to give my dreams a plotline…

I need to think about something else… What else has been happening…?

Oh, Jack finally proposed to Eve! He says they're going to wait til winter to get married though, so that there's more time for the family to gather. It also gives me and Pony some time to figure out what exactly we can give them as wedding presents.

It's awesome. Eve's already asked Karen to be her bridesmaid, and Karen asked Muffy for help! So Muffy got recruited to be the second bridesmaid. Should be entertaining. I'm not volunteering for anything, a wedding like the one Eve is planning is way to fancy for this little dirt-grubber. Just being a guest will be good enough for little me, hehe.

Uhm… My pineapples are growing strong. I got my first harvest today, and they were every bit as delicious as the ones Mom and Dad used to grow! Pony was right, there's something immensely satisfying about looking over a well grown garden and knowing that it was my hard work that made it come out so wonderfully.

I've started to plant other things as well, like some corn and tomatoes. I know I'm a little late on them, but they grow a lot faster than the pineapples, so it shouldn't take as long to get a decent and delicious harvest from them.

Damien's been skulking about. That idiot doesn't know when to give up, honestly! It's made me start locking my door at night just in case, and when I leave the house too. I have this sneaking suspicion that he wouldn't hesitate to hurt my animals if he was given the chance…

So I'm not going to give it to him. If I'm extra careful, I can keep him from messing up my life any more than it already is.

Oh, I've been getting compliments on the tattoo. I guess it was worth it in the end, because I really do like it. Most days, I actually forget it's there, and since it's been getting progressively hotter, most days I'm actually wearing as little as I can get away with. Which recently has turned into some of Muffy's 'barely there' shorts, and a scrap of cloth she calls a 'tube top.' Anything else makes it so that I want to pass out in the middle of the day, even in the excavation site!

And the caves are at least twenty degrees cooler than the rest of the valley! This heat is getting ridiculous, to say the least. It's gotten to where I'm wishing for a storm, which doesn't happen too often. But storms always break the heat for a little while…

Foo…

Oh, sprites!

I have almost all of the lumber team, so I send them out on the fifteenth and thirtieth of each month to get me lumber and stone. Most of the station Sprites are back too, I'm just missing Pluto at this point.

I've got… uh… Let's see, last count was thirty, but with the rest of the station sprites, that's up to.. thirty eight? No, more because I've found some sprites from the watering team, so that's forty-four.

I think anyways. I'm not exactly keeping track of them all very well. I hope to get some of the fishing team soon, I just don't have the time to go fishing! It might have to wait for winter, like Dad used to do…

Oh crap, Dakota and Puppy are chasing my birds!