diary of a mad girl

i have a question for all you tablet/e-readers...which do you think is better, the nook tablet or the kindle fire? i received the nook tablet for christmas but ended up returning it (unopened) because i couldn't decide between the nook or the fire. if any of you own either one, or know a lot about these things, i would appreciate any advice.

i am partial to the fire because i know amazon has a much larger offering than b&n and the ebooks seem to be cheaper. i am interested in loading my own movies (at least some) onto the device and will mostly use it to watch videos (netflix, most likely). the thing i like about the nook is the extensive memory vs. the fire (and the added 32GB SD card slot- i figure this will aid in my being able to load more of my own movies onto the device).

i don't plan on storing any music on the device, nor many ebooks (at the most, 5). mostly interested in web browsing and watching video. so, give me ADVICE!!

well, here it is, weeks after my last post proclaiming that my new year's resolution would be to continue writing in my livejournal. what a joke. i guess this is in part due to my recent switch-of-attention to facebook. i don't know. could be pure laziness, too.

not much new has happened. waiting for another holiday to rear its ugly head and pass by. spending it with jason and his family (well, his mom, brother, brother's fiance, and fiance's little boy), as well my family at some point.

right now i am facing the unlikely (in my head) prospect of going into treatment for my ed- a residential treatment center called laurel hill inn. i attended their day program a few years back and got kicked out for not liking the brand of yogurt they purchased for breakfast. long story i won't get into here.

anyway...

looking forward to seeing my pal, laura (ventana on lj) sometime, too, during her visit back home. well, that's it from my end. jason is starting to chat with me now, so i'll end this here. more updates soon...i promise!!

hi everyone,

i'm alive still. been involving myself with facebook lately and have pretty much ignored livejournal for too long. i miss it here. i miss reading my friends' posts. my new plan is to check livejournal and leave updates at least once every couple of days. again, i am also on facebook (kristina lombardi) and would love some more friends!

as for things, they're still going (i guess). took a semester off from school to focus on my health (waiting to see if i get into yet another program). moved to the next town over. still with jason. yadda yadda yadda.

hope all of you are healthy and happy. looking forward to getting back into the lj swing of things and reconnecting with all of you.

love,
kristina

since my lj lovah nudged me (hi shannon!!), i guess i'll write a little update. not much happening except for school, school, and more school, but i'll try to oblige.

i'm on page 33 of my thesis- should be done in about five more pages. then i have to calculate the results of the questionnaires. 35 15-page questionnaires. eep!

i got to see my good friend, laura ventana twice this past week (hadn't seen her in about 2-3 years). it was great! she is so stylish these days- so much fun to shop with! she got to meet jason which was cool. we talked about jason and i going to visit her and luke sometime soon, which would be super fun. not sure if that would convince jason to move to california with me, but oh well.

had a tough afternoon. emotionally. stress related to school and whatnot. haven't heard from my parents since easter (don't know what that's about). hope everything is okay.

ugh...busy week ahead. i was supposed to have a consultation for that new visian icl vision correction surgery, but, at $3,500 an eye, i figured what's the point. i will, however, be researching that prk thing, as they said i would be eligible for that. we'll see. i HAVE to get rid of these damn contacts, that's for sure.

tuesday i have a therapy appointment, wednesday evening i have class. thursday afternoon i have a doctor's appointment, friday i have a nutritionist appointment (my second one- not so optimistic, but we'll see), and saturday i have a new class, "addictions," which runs from 9-6. i will be DEAD after that class. i took a class with this professor before, but the class was from 1-6. i barely made it through that class. arghh...

okay, time to do some work. ;)

since i was nudged (and because i have no excuse other than school, really, for my lack of entries), i thought i'd drop a line. oh, i'm also on page 2 of writing my 60-page masters thesis and i'm in stuck-mode at the moment.

nothing very new happening in my life. just started classes yesterday. i am taking professional seminar II and an addictions course which, thankfully, doesn't start until april. i had originally signed up for this class that meets tonight (and every thursday from 6-8:30), but decided i just didn't want to trek out into the snow every thursday night. good reason, huh? this winter is just hell- it's been a while since we've had a winter like this.

anyway...i am excited that i will be seeing the cure again in may with jason! that will surely be fun. good seats, too, that i nabbed at a fair price from some guy on craigslist. we had tried to get tickets to the magnetic fields show (feb 13 or 14) but were unsuccessful as i'm sure many people were (there must have been a few dozen posts asking for tickets and offering $$$ for them).

still unemployed. i guess it's okay since i am in school part-time, but i've really been feeling kind of inadequate as a human being lately because of it. the thing is, i am over-qualified for most of the positions i apply for and so i end up in no-man's land. as such, i've been killing myself over this thesis project.

wish i could go to classes at the cambridge campus; i'm not a huge fan of lawrence, and i heard the courses in cambridge are so much better (and that they have more choices). i am also kind of sick of living in this apartment, or apartment-dwelling in general. i am swimming in debt as it is with all my school loans, so i am literally living day by day on social security and school loans. i am hoping my living arrangements will change soon (who knows...it'll be a year for jason and i in july; yeah, he's got morals).

wow...surprised i was able to get this much written. i really wish i could get back into the lj swing of things- i miss reading my friends' posts; i used to be so on top of that (read every single morning, first thing). i will try my hardest to get back into the groove, as time permits.

love to you all,
kristina

i am making it a point to post in my journal at least three times a week (the goal is everyday); it's one of my new year's resolutions.

because i promised myself i would get some reading done for school tonight, this entry won't be long, but i wanted to mention my difficulties lately with the eating disorder and depression. i am about to go insane. i have had my eating disorder now for 15+ years and for the past 10 or so years, have eaten the same things for breakfast, lunch, dinner....it's numbing me to death. i am not on the right medications. i have been giving some thought to maybe taking a short medical leave after the summer's semester (school) and going to cedc (cambridge eating disorder center). i have been for numerous consultations but never entered any of their programs. my eating disorder is not acute in terms of not being medically stable, but it is taking a toll on my mental health and wellbeing, as well as affecting my social life, something i didn't have before because of the ed.

has anyone here been to cedc (i should be posting this to ed_recovery), and if so, how was it?

okay, time to read and do productive-like things.

hello everyone. yes, i am still alive. i am just the biggest lj slacker ever. i was just looking through my friends' pages and wondering what's been going on in your lives (do i have to read months and months of past lj entries to find out?). marriages, births, etc...i wanna know. if anything of interest has happened to you in the last 6 months, let me know- i care, damnit.



i am still with jason, and loving him more and more each day (don't mean to sound sappy). just finished my third graduate course in my m.ed. in mental health counseling program. enough about me- how are YOU?

How did you spend summers when you were a kid?



is this a new feature of livejournal? anyway, on to the answer:



either running under the sprinklers in the front yard or in my cousin's neighbor's pool when they weren't home(!). or, hailing down the ice cream truck and getting a "rocket"- all the time, i had a rocket (vanilla ice cream with a chocolate sauce swirl; it was in this push-up container with red and blue on it. those were good days...




i know she no longer visits livejournal, but i want to wish my good friend from college, laura (ventana) a happy 30th birthday! i love you!

"happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear thenetimp, happy birthday to you!"