Washington

Well it seems that I’m probably going to be in Washington over Thanksgiving! My friend gave me some buddy passes for Jet Blue a while back and they’re expiring in January SO I figured I’d try to use them. I’m super excited and I hope it works out. The only reason I’m worried is because I’m flying stand by and it’s a busy time. I’m actually going to call tomorrow and see about possibly changing the day that I leave Utah so that there’s a better chance that it will work out. This is pretty cool because I’ll be there over Thanksgiving and Christmas! I’ll only be back here for a few weeks before I leave again! Thankfully my other tickets are set in stone since I bought them early enough.

I’m in class though so I’m going to end here! Wish me luck!

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I’m feeling much better today! The last two nights I’ve gotten plenty of sleep and actually been to bed in record time. It feels great! Yay for not getting swine flu. I’m thinking that I probably just picked up a cold at the ER when I went with Chris because this isn’t what he had, unless his throwing up was just at the wrong time because of  something he ate but then again he had other symptoms as well that I didn’t have.

I found the quote I’m going to use but unfortunately it’s not a Tori Amos quote. The other issue is that it’s 28 words and I can’t remember if she said no more than 20 or no more than 30. I’ve decided that if she said no more than 20 I’m just going to use the last two lines of it. It’s a Cat Power song, “The Greatest” and this is it:

Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind of waterfall could stall me
And then came the rush of the flood
Stars of night turned deep to dust

OR if 20 words or less I suppose I could use either the first two lines OR the last two. I didn’t think about that until now lol.

BTW I figured I’d update from the blog I wrote before my last one. Ross, my Aunt Linda’s boyfriend, did end up passing away. It’s been a pretty emotional time. His brother who was in charge of everything is a hardcore drunk. He can’t stand or do anything without shaking. He needs to be held up majority of the time. He apparently sobered up enough to not pee himself or be belligerent at the funeral. It’s really sad actually. He probably doesn’t have much time left either and he’s the last of the immediate family. Ross never had kids and I don’t know if his brother ever did.

Alexea turned 3 last month on the 17th! She’s getting so big! We threw a little birthday party for her at my sister Shelley’s. Shelley has a friend named Jody who has two little girls that are about 5-6 and then 3 so it’s cool that Morgan and Alexea have other little girls to play with. I made her a blanket just like I made Morgan and I gave her two shirts as well.

Anyway, just thought since it crossed my mind that I would update. I don’t really have anything better to do right now… except maybe read for school lol.

Goodness.

This poor blog. My blogging escapes me! Here I go again, just as with every other journal. Why can’t I keep up with these things? I’m thinking of maybe starting to use my phone as a journal. MAYBE I’d be capable of copying it from my phone in to here or something. lol Anyone wanna volunteer to hold their breath? Yeah, I wouldn’t either .

So I’m sick today. I’m feeling better than I was earlier but I was awake every hour or so ALL night long because my nose was getting so stuffy that I couldn’t breathe. Bleh! Pooh. I hope it isn’t stupid swine flu. I only say that because my bro in law that I live with is just getting over it. Ugh.

*regina spektor*

hea-ah-ah-ah-art!

So I’m trying to find a quote for my calligraphy class and I think it needs to be 20 words at most. I found a couple Tori ones that I like but I haven’t decided yet. The only one I really wanted is actually 1 word too many, but there’s an “I” in there so I’m thinking that maybe it would still be short enough! I guess I’ll probably keep looking if I can’t decide on one of these.

I can’t believe that classes are almost over. There’s about 5 weeks or so to go. In 6 1/2 weeks I’ll be in Washington! I can’t wait! And it looks like Dustyn, my step brother, is probably going to be gone to Virginia. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because it means I get to use his room and TV and have privacy and also have one on one time with my mom and it’s bad because even though he’s a pain in the arse, I love him. He’s my brother, even though we’re not way super close and I never get to see him.

I’m thinking that maybe I should start on some other homework since I can’t find a quote that I want to use but at the same time it’s driving me nuts that I can’t find a quote. I want to get calligraphy out of the way because it’s an art and if I feel worse tomorrow then I probably won’t have the energy to do it. Gosh. I wish I was a word genius and could just come up with my own wonderful quote and TA-DA! No worries, quote is here! Woo but no, that’s not me. Maybe another day.

All right. I’m going to let this be it for now.

Back to school

So classes have started and so far I’m enjoying it. It really is a lot of work and people aren’t kidding when they say that professors don’t wait until the second or third day to start giving you homework. They pretty much jump right in! It’s going to be a challenge but I know that I can do it. I love my psychology teacher so far. She’s cute and kinda reminds me of Tori just a little bit. I wish I knew how tall she was cuz she’s really short!

Off the school note, there’s been quite a bit going on.

1. My sister’s grandma died so we’ve been pretty emotional around here. I didn’t know her but I still empathize and can feel the sorrow.

2. My Aunt Linda’s sorta kinda boyfriend, Ross, who lives in Washington has been in the hospital because he had a vein burst in his lung and they didn’t think he was going to make it. Apparently at this point, last I heard, he’s stable but only time will tell.

3. Morgan turned 2 on August 22nd and I went to her birthday part at Amanda’s grandma’s. It was pretty cool. I’m still rather shy around her family because I don’t see them often. I gave her a sit ‘n spin that plays music and I made her a yellow fleece blanket with little monkey’s on it. It’s really cute.

4. I got my car paid off. I hated handing over the cash but at least it reduced my bills by nearly 400 dollars a month! Now I just need to figure out exactly what is wrong with my car and get it taken care of. UGH. I’m rapidly running out of money and it’s not making me happy.

5. I’m turning 25 in Almost 10 days (seeing as it’s 11:11 PM on September 1st at this very moment). Hopefully that will reduce my car insurance a little bit but we’ll see. Apparently it reduces it more for males than it does females and I don’t understand that. Sexist much?

6. I bought a TV and I love it I’ve needed a new one for a loooong time and it has been one of my main goals for a while. I also bought a printer (for school) and a computer chair.

7. I bought a new phone. It’s the new tmobile Mytouch 3g and I love it. It’s my first touch phone and it works pretty well. It’s a lot of fun! There’s a ton of applications that you can download free and I’m pretty much slightly addicted, though it used to be worse lol.

And I don’t really know what else to update on so I’ll leave it at this. I’m probably going to go start Season 4 of Weeds or maybe do some U.S. Government and Politics homework.

G’night!

Schedule Change

So Amanda and I discovered that we were actually in the wrong math class so we kinda both had a schedule change. Thankfully we still have the same schedule and are still in the same math class (just the next class up since we were in the one below our skill rating) but we had to add a fourth class to our schedule in order to have 12 credit hours and be full time students. So this is my new schedule:

Human Growth & Dev. Tues & Thurs 11:00 am– 12:20 pm

Calligraphy Tuesday and Thursday 1:00 pm to 3:20 pm

MATH Tuesday and Thursday 4:00pm – 5:20

U.S. Gov. & Politics Wednesday 7:00 pm to 9:50 pm

And Amanda has Reading on Tues. & Thurs. 11 am to 12:20 so we still have the same schedule, just different morning classes. I’m pretty excited although a little worried about having an 11 am class. Thankfully it’s just two days a week!!!

In other news, I took Falisha to her first appointment with a chiropractor last Wednesday. Amanda and I actually picked her up on Tuesday afternoon and took her to the school with us while we spoke with an academic advisor and Falisha helped with the girls. Gods, those kids are hell to take out in public. We were going to take Falisha home on Thursday night but Shelley asked us to take her one more night but it worked out because on Thursday we had to go back to the school and through all of this Amanda was packing and taking loads to the new place she’s living. It was really helpful to have Falisha around to help with the girls. On Friday night we went to Shelleys and we drank and I passed out with Krystal (my 11 year old niece) and woke up with a horrible hangover! UGH! I haven’t had one in so long. On Friday night, as well, Amanda’s girls dads mother took them over night. She hadn’t seen them in damn near a year either. Hopefully she’ll see them more cuz they need to see the other side of their family. We picked them up on Saturday and they seemed to have had a good time. Saturday was a crazy day… I had a hangover and felt like shit and we had to really get everything over to Carolines. We were so busy that Morgan (almost 2) actually ran out the house and down the street without us knowing it and THEN got away again and the neighbor brought her back. GOSH! That was pretty scary. My Aunt Linda and Patti came and got two beds and a tv and desk and some other furniture from Amandas house. We tried to sell it but it didn’t work out *sigh* so we just had them take what they wanted. I didn’t get home until Saturday night really late, but man was I glad to get home. I had been gone for five days and I really just wanted to be home.

Yesterday I took Falisha to her second appointment with the chiro and he took x-rays. Her next visit is on Friday and it’s when they do the reported findings. They made an exception and scheduled it for 5:45 PM (When the latest they do those is 3:30) so that Shelley could be there. So we’ll see how that goes but in the meantime, I’m going to try to stay home as much as possible. I might have to make one trip in to the city though cuz I need to try to turn in my direct deposit form to the school. But I’m really just enjoying being at home right now so that can wait lol.

New Place

So we’re finally, after three days of hell, in our new place. We still have a ton of upacking to do though since we just crammed everything in to the living room, dining room and kitchen. I can’t wait until we get everything put away and situated. My room is set up and I’ve already begun decorating. I just need to fish out the rest of my boxes and put everything away. It’s going to feel so good to finally get all unpacked. There’s so many things I need to get though and I just don’t know how i’m going to have the money for it!!  I will have money for a few things though after school starts so I guess i’ll just have to prioritize. Anyway, just wanted to update that we’re all moved (and quite sore) in.

P.S.

Amanda is registered at Salt Lake Community College and was lucky enough to have the same classes as me! I’m really excited to be going to school with her and excited that we’ll have each other to help.

School!!

So I’m finally all registered for my first semester of college and I couldn’t be more excited! I can’t wait for classes to begin! All of my financial aide information has been sent out and I’ve been approved for everything! I just need to get supplies and wait for classes to begin and then get any remaining supplies and books that I’ll need. I’ve waited WAY too long to do this and I’m finally realizing just how bad I’ve wanted it. My mom and my step dad bought me a laptop a few months ago so I’m pretty much set. It would make this so much harder if they hadn’t. I told them how bad I wanted to go to school and they got it for me and I’m finally starting. Just one more month!!!

This is my schedule:

Calligraphy Tuesday and Thursday 1:00 pm to 3:20 pm
MATH Tuesday and Thursday 5:30 pm to 8:20 pm
U.S. Gov. & Politics Wednesday 7:00 pm to 9:50 pm

We’re moving this coming up week… probably on the 29th and 30th. We’re still getting everything packed and it’s coming together a bit slower than anticipated but i’m sure we’ll get it done. My room and bathroom won’t take me long so that’s a good thing. I’m just worried about how I’m going to fit all (or most) of my furniture in my new room cuz it’s quite a bit smaller than the one I’m in now. I don’t like downgrading! At least the place is really nice though and is close by almost everything we’ll need. The only real commute will be school and friends up in the valley.

Anyway, I just wanted to get that up here! I have some things I need to go out and do, people to see, so I’ll end here.

Oh gosh

So yesterday I went and hung out with my friend Andrea and had lots of fun. We watched “Young Ones” which is an older British show with the guy from “Drop Dead Fred” and then we watched this movie… *texts Andrea for the name…. doesn’t get response so resorts to google* … called “Everything is Illuminated” which turned out to be really good. We made kandi (pony bead bracelets) and just hung out. Then we took a blanket outside and star gazed. We saw several shooting stars and I’m not sure what we were seeing but there was this bright light that every maybe 20 minutes would light up and quickly go back out. It looked like a star but it only lit up quickly and then went back out. We laid out there for a while and just talked. Then we came inside and ended up playing dolls lol. It was hilarious! We, of course, were super exaggerating everything and it was hilarious. I haven’t played dolls in years and it was strangely refreshing. It was a really good night.

I’m at Amanda’s at the moment and we have several things to do today. I have to take some papers to the college and then she has a couple appointments. I’m not sure what we’re going to do in the meantime but right now I’m going to go play with my God daughters .

Hecticity

So I’m trying to get in to school as a full time student and I’m currently trying to get financial aide as well as preparing to move in exactly two weeks. I have so much to do and so little time. School begins at the end of August but I need to be able to know where I stand financially as well as register for classes and get books and whatnot. It really does not help that I am a procrastinator! I know that everything will work out though, just things are going to be a little more stressful than necessary.

My best friend is having issues right now as well and I’m doing everything I can to help but it’s not good enough and I can’t help that There’s just nothing more that I can do. Her husband appears to be cheating on her with a girl he claims to be his cousin though she lives in Florida and we in Utah. She’s heard him say several things in Spanish over the phone and is breaking down. She doesn’t have a job, a car, a place to live or anything and she has two little girls. She can’t pay for a divorce but she won’t be eligible for assisted housing unless she gets one. She can’t get a divorce without a job to pay for it and she can’t get a job without a car and a babysitter. It’s a really shitty situation. I’d be totally down to help with the babysitting but that still doesn’t fix her car situation because I can’t let her take mine. On top of all of this she’s been having horrible migraines where she loses her sight, feeling in her body, hearing, etc. My sister referred her to a chiropractor this week and she’s been going in for the past two days and is doing a lot better though even though they’re giving her a half off discount she can’t really pay for it and her medicaid doesn’t cover it and her back and neck and hips are so bad that she really needs to be seen every day! I really feel for her and know how she feels. If there was more I could do to help her then I would.

Anyway, I’m going to go play some Sims 3 and then probably go to bed before too late. I’m trying to get my schedule changed because I’ve been staying up until an average or 3 AM every night and then sleeping the day away. We’ll see how it goes!

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