Nursing School
I graduated in December and the waiting game started on when the Board of Registered Nurses lets me test to become a licensed nurse.... I'm still waiting.
Semester down
It's been a crazy busy several months and now a few weeks off of school and then back at it...
I decided in early December that I would try and see if I could get into in any of the classes I wanted to get into. I proceeded to cyber stalk the registration pages for all four classes I needed. It took me until the week before classes started to get into the fourth class but I did it!
I quit my office job in the last week of December to start school in the second week of January.
I was scared of course but I didn't want to spend another five years working for a boss I hated, and I might add she didn't like me much either.
I have been nothing but excited to go back to school and make only enough to pay my bills with the part time job I found. It's been so good!
Life has just been SO good.
Birthdays and cute tops
So yesterday was my bday! The day I appeared out of the womb to cause havoc on this earth.... Yea I didn't even believe the havoc part hehe
I worked a split shift so yay for 10hr work day. I got off at 10pm and proceeded to get home and basically just fall asleep without changing bc of how tired I was.
Today, I decided I would treat myself to a birthday pint at a local brewery. I went by myself which to some might be weird and sad and a little bit pathetic but to me... Who am I kidding it was all of those things but it was nice... I am saying this, it being nice, after I had the pint in me.
Honestly it was nice and I did the tasting if beers where they give you 6 little baby cups of their beers on tap.
3 of the 6 I could barely get the sip down my throat - don't think dirty thoughts - too dark and hoppy -again remove dirty from mind.
The other three were great tasting and I was also surprised by the fact that one of the dark ones I actually enjoyed maybe I just liked it bc I drank it differently. Is their a way to drink beer that I wasn't aware of and thus my hate of dark beers. Hmmm should find that out....
Anyway it was nice. I also did this after I bought myself my own cake bc I can't trust mom to buy me cake I will like hehe. Oreo cookie ice cream cake for the win!!!!!! I'm excited!!!! Oh and we can't forget the eating of posole that's going to happen later this evening!!!!!
Whoa lots of exclamation marks and you know what it has been an exclamation kind of day.
See you on the flip side.
I edited this because the title of the entry includes 'cute tops' just thought you should know I am wearing a super cute one!!!
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This week has been interesting....
Hey guys!
So lets talk about what has been going on in my life for the past couple of weeks.
Well on Monday my body decided it was time to start getting sick. Woke up with a sore throat and I spent most of the day in bed drinking lots of liquid, eating chicken soup and trying to eat fruits and veggies. (FUDGE! I just realized I forgot the fresh cut broccoli my coworker left for me at work… I'm going to have to go and get those tomorrow.)
Tuesday, I was actually worse but went to work anyway because I had gotten sick early January and didn't want work to think I was just bullshitting. Yep, I was indeed coughing up a storm. It was pretty gross but I was there damn it and wanted them to realize I was pushing through it. After I went home it got pretty bad. I almost hacked up a lung because I was coughing so badly. I was having trouble breathing it was just ick. I had a really hard time sleeping that night too so I didn't go to work the next day.
Wednesday, I called in sick and then called my doctor to make an appointment but when I talked to the male nurse over the phone he said I probably had the bad cold going around and he had some cough medication called over to Rite-Aid so I could pick it up. This cough medication has codeine in it to help me sleep. It was later that afternoon that I started realizing I couldn't really hear. You know when your listening to a conversation through a closed door or a wall that's exactly how every conversation I was having sounded like.
Thursday, I thought I felt better so I went back to work. I couldn't really hear so I had to tell everyone at work to talk at least 2 levels higher than normal when speaking to me. It was pretty funny being a yard away from someone and having to tell them to repeat themselves because I wasn't getting any of it. I will also say that this one coworker I can barely hear when I'm not sick so yes I couldn't hear her most of the time but sometimes I milked it… hehe. At home Thursday was much of the same hacking up lungs, not breathing very well, congestion, stuffed up nose. REALLY TIRED. I felt like the not hearing was an issue so I called doctor to make an appointment and ended up with three. The first of which would be Friday afternoon so YAY!
Friday, yep went back to work. It was a hard day I actually went to the donut shop to buy donuts because I wanted donuts DAMN IT! So I get to work with donuts and my shiny disposition - still coughing of course. Get things done and what not. Now onto the hilarious part of my yesterday….
My appointment was at 2:30pm. I get there don't get called back until 2:45 and don't get scene by the doctor until 3:05… I had to be back to work 20 minutes away at 3:30 and also had to go to the pharmacy and get my meds. So back to the actual doctor seeing me part.
She starts asking me questions about what I've to. I start letting her know that it feels like the top portion of my head is in a bubble because I can't really hear. I'm congested but can't really hear that either. I haven't really been short of breath when she asks if I have. She listens to my lungs first. Four individual deep breaths in and out while she switches the location of the stethoscope. She proceeds to tell me how horrible they sound as in they are not getting enough air and thus prescribes me another inhaler thing on top of the other one I already had from the last time I got really sick and was told to just take while I was sick. So now I'm on two inhalers.
Next, she checks my left ear and says 'Wow, yea that’s bad. You've got an ear infection' which I didn't really guess I just thought I was on the verge of one because when I usually get them it's really bad right away, the pain I mean. She then moves onto my right one 'Oh my gosh this is worse than your left one no wonder you can't hear very well.' I then think well thank you for clearing that up… Hehe
So, after her checking me out she asks if I've been working and I tell her yes because I started feeling better after the cough medication. You remember the codeine in the cough medication that's why I was feeling better all those times not because I was actually getting better. FAIL!
She proceeds to say 'I keep getting people in today complaining about how they are REALLY sick and in my head I just keep saying yeah whatever your not sick go away [She doesn’t say this out loud to her patients she's just thinking it] but your really sick. What are you doing going to work. Stay home and rest. You've actually made me feel better about me being here - made me feel useful because I'm a doctor and I can help you because you are sick and most of the people that I've seen today really weren't.'
I let her know I'm going back to work to work an event. Tell her they are selling chili and beer she then almost invites herself along but also says okay fine but don't go out afterward to bars just go home and rest. 'Of course doc. I say.'
We sit down and she proceeds to tell me what meds she's giving me and for what. I'm going to make her my primary physician because she was great.
So down to the pharmacy I go to wait to get them. By this time I have called work telling them that I'm going to be another thirty minutes because I've got to get the meds to make me better.
I start up a conversation with this lady sitting down about how long the damn line is. So I get in line and when I'm at the front realize my name isn't on the damn board yet so BOO. I get out of line go and sit back down and once I see my name get back in line. Get my meds and let me tell you I had to make a med chart so I wouldn't overdose by taking them all at the same time…
Okay so list of meds, reasons for taking them and how many times a day:
Sudafed: For the congestion and makes me peppy or is suppose but today, Saturday, I felt like shit. I'm suppose to take this 4 times a day. [I will also add that they wanted my first born child to hand these over the pharmacy counter because apparently really smart people make meth and other VERY crazy drug drugs] THEY ARE SO SMALL.
QVAR: One of the two inhalers so that my lungs open up almost like steroids but not. Twice a day.
Albuterol: Second inhaler because this doc thinks I have late onset asthma. Is that even possible. She think I've just never been diagnosed correctly and thus my lungs might be fukced up because of it… OH CRAP! Every four hours so four times a day.
Cough Meds: All I know is it has codeine and suppresses the cough and honestly that's all I cared about. It tastes DISGUSTING I have to drink tons of water with it. Which is really funny because I throughout my entire life I was told that you needed to not drink water so it would coat your throat but HONESTLY on the bottle label it says 'DRINK WITH LOTS OF WATER.' WEIRD BUT AWESOME!!! Every four hours so about four times a day.
Antibiotics: For my ear infections which is for ten days so 3 times a day. THEY ARE THE SIZE OF HORSE TRANQUILIZERS. Effing pieces of HUGENESS!!!
So now back to the rest of my yesterday. I went back to work with a bag full of goodies or meds as other people like to call them. I work the event. Don't really help serve food because I'm sick and people frown upon that.
I drink some beer and eat some chili. The beer part I know I shouldn't have done but COME ON! I will also add that at my job they have an artist-in-residence program where a person stays in a little studio apartment in the building. This time it is a boy and lets call him John, not his real name, and he is seriously your all-American good looking man. My coworker, the man who is in charge of that program, described him as Captain America the comic book version, no my coworker is not gay. So bright blue eyes, blond hair, tall, just YUM. He was serving the beer.
I let my coworker know that I knew the only reason he made John be the bartender was to get the cougars buy more beer and wine and of course leave him TONS of tips of which they did all three. That might have been a reason why drank beer to get him to serve me. I made very nice conversation and tried to not be so obvious with the fact that I drool whenever he's around.
During the event one of the old artist-in-residents, lets call him Bob, and I had a crazy awesome time. We were making fun of each other. Palling around. It was awesome. It only took a year for him to actually speak more than one sentence anytime we were in a group. It was a fun night.
We then proceeded to clean up and coworker had the idea of going to a pub afterward. It is now 8:30pm. I've been at work since 9pm. So off we go… Yea I know the doctor told me not to but COME ON!!! Hang out with coworker, other coworker [WHO I HATE WITH A FIERY PASSION. She invited herself and we couldn't un-invite her], John [He's just pretty to look at], Bob, and one of their bros [lets call him] Jim who owns a hot air balloon company [I KNOW!].
So we walk to the pub and order a round and I end up sitting in the middle of the half circle well kind of. Seating arrangements: coworker I despise, coworker I like, me, John [he's pretty], Jim, Bob. I was SO happy because I could just laugh a ridiculous amount at John because he was SH-WASTED. He was slurring making up words and at some point we had this weird but intense staring contest. I was just happy to be there really. Knew most of it had to do with him being wasted but it's okay.
I had a really great time. I also tasted a fried pickle with ranch dressing and it was GROSS. I know pickles are gross, don't argue I just don't like them, but frying them and dipping them make them more disgusting. I can't even explain.
So yea. Fun times. I really just want to jump John.
Today, Saturday: WAS HORRIBLE. I woke up late because my phone didn't charge last night. As I pick up my home phone next to uncharged phone I realize it doesn’t work because it too is uncharged…. STUPID PHONES! Get ready and end up getting to work an hour late. It was a bad day.
During the end of the day about an hour before I went home I had a complete melt down. As in tears and blubbering because I just felt SO horrible. I will add that it is also that time of the month so as my friend said to me 'Your body hates you right now.' I wholeheartedly agree.
I did make a funny during lunch before the tears. I put an antibiotic pill on a spoon and then I put two Sudafed's on the spoon and it looked like red eyes with a HUGE nose…. That is the G version of what I actually thought it looked like… Your welcome. :D Then I swallowed them down with some water.
I've been in bed since work making sure I'm taking all of the meds but still feel horrible. Cancelled a job I had tomorrow to stay home and just rest maybe it will help.
This venting helped. Getting it all out. Thanks LJ for listening. :D
Hopefully my next post is less filled with sickness and more filled with EPICNESS!
So lets talk about what has been going on in my life for the past couple of weeks.
Well on Monday my body decided it was time to start getting sick. Woke up with a sore throat and I spent most of the day in bed drinking lots of liquid, eating chicken soup and trying to eat fruits and veggies. (FUDGE! I just realized I forgot the fresh cut broccoli my coworker left for me at work… I'm going to have to go and get those tomorrow.)
Tuesday, I was actually worse but went to work anyway because I had gotten sick early January and didn't want work to think I was just bullshitting. Yep, I was indeed coughing up a storm. It was pretty gross but I was there damn it and wanted them to realize I was pushing through it. After I went home it got pretty bad. I almost hacked up a lung because I was coughing so badly. I was having trouble breathing it was just ick. I had a really hard time sleeping that night too so I didn't go to work the next day.
Wednesday, I called in sick and then called my doctor to make an appointment but when I talked to the male nurse over the phone he said I probably had the bad cold going around and he had some cough medication called over to Rite-Aid so I could pick it up. This cough medication has codeine in it to help me sleep. It was later that afternoon that I started realizing I couldn't really hear. You know when your listening to a conversation through a closed door or a wall that's exactly how every conversation I was having sounded like.
Thursday, I thought I felt better so I went back to work. I couldn't really hear so I had to tell everyone at work to talk at least 2 levels higher than normal when speaking to me. It was pretty funny being a yard away from someone and having to tell them to repeat themselves because I wasn't getting any of it. I will also say that this one coworker I can barely hear when I'm not sick so yes I couldn't hear her most of the time but sometimes I milked it… hehe. At home Thursday was much of the same hacking up lungs, not breathing very well, congestion, stuffed up nose. REALLY TIRED. I felt like the not hearing was an issue so I called doctor to make an appointment and ended up with three. The first of which would be Friday afternoon so YAY!
Friday, yep went back to work. It was a hard day I actually went to the donut shop to buy donuts because I wanted donuts DAMN IT! So I get to work with donuts and my shiny disposition - still coughing of course. Get things done and what not. Now onto the hilarious part of my yesterday….
My appointment was at 2:30pm. I get there don't get called back until 2:45 and don't get scene by the doctor until 3:05… I had to be back to work 20 minutes away at 3:30 and also had to go to the pharmacy and get my meds. So back to the actual doctor seeing me part.
She starts asking me questions about what I've to. I start letting her know that it feels like the top portion of my head is in a bubble because I can't really hear. I'm congested but can't really hear that either. I haven't really been short of breath when she asks if I have. She listens to my lungs first. Four individual deep breaths in and out while she switches the location of the stethoscope. She proceeds to tell me how horrible they sound as in they are not getting enough air and thus prescribes me another inhaler thing on top of the other one I already had from the last time I got really sick and was told to just take while I was sick. So now I'm on two inhalers.
Next, she checks my left ear and says 'Wow, yea that’s bad. You've got an ear infection' which I didn't really guess I just thought I was on the verge of one because when I usually get them it's really bad right away, the pain I mean. She then moves onto my right one 'Oh my gosh this is worse than your left one no wonder you can't hear very well.' I then think well thank you for clearing that up… Hehe
So, after her checking me out she asks if I've been working and I tell her yes because I started feeling better after the cough medication. You remember the codeine in the cough medication that's why I was feeling better all those times not because I was actually getting better. FAIL!
She proceeds to say 'I keep getting people in today complaining about how they are REALLY sick and in my head I just keep saying yeah whatever your not sick go away [She doesn’t say this out loud to her patients she's just thinking it] but your really sick. What are you doing going to work. Stay home and rest. You've actually made me feel better about me being here - made me feel useful because I'm a doctor and I can help you because you are sick and most of the people that I've seen today really weren't.'
I let her know I'm going back to work to work an event. Tell her they are selling chili and beer she then almost invites herself along but also says okay fine but don't go out afterward to bars just go home and rest. 'Of course doc. I say.'
We sit down and she proceeds to tell me what meds she's giving me and for what. I'm going to make her my primary physician because she was great.
So down to the pharmacy I go to wait to get them. By this time I have called work telling them that I'm going to be another thirty minutes because I've got to get the meds to make me better.
I start up a conversation with this lady sitting down about how long the damn line is. So I get in line and when I'm at the front realize my name isn't on the damn board yet so BOO. I get out of line go and sit back down and once I see my name get back in line. Get my meds and let me tell you I had to make a med chart so I wouldn't overdose by taking them all at the same time…
Okay so list of meds, reasons for taking them and how many times a day:
Sudafed: For the congestion and makes me peppy or is suppose but today, Saturday, I felt like shit. I'm suppose to take this 4 times a day. [I will also add that they wanted my first born child to hand these over the pharmacy counter because apparently really smart people make meth and other VERY crazy drug drugs] THEY ARE SO SMALL.
QVAR: One of the two inhalers so that my lungs open up almost like steroids but not. Twice a day.
Albuterol: Second inhaler because this doc thinks I have late onset asthma. Is that even possible. She think I've just never been diagnosed correctly and thus my lungs might be fukced up because of it… OH CRAP! Every four hours so four times a day.
Cough Meds: All I know is it has codeine and suppresses the cough and honestly that's all I cared about. It tastes DISGUSTING I have to drink tons of water with it. Which is really funny because I throughout my entire life I was told that you needed to not drink water so it would coat your throat but HONESTLY on the bottle label it says 'DRINK WITH LOTS OF WATER.' WEIRD BUT AWESOME!!! Every four hours so about four times a day.
Antibiotics: For my ear infections which is for ten days so 3 times a day. THEY ARE THE SIZE OF HORSE TRANQUILIZERS. Effing pieces of HUGENESS!!!
So now back to the rest of my yesterday. I went back to work with a bag full of goodies or meds as other people like to call them. I work the event. Don't really help serve food because I'm sick and people frown upon that.
I drink some beer and eat some chili. The beer part I know I shouldn't have done but COME ON! I will also add that at my job they have an artist-in-residence program where a person stays in a little studio apartment in the building. This time it is a boy and lets call him John, not his real name, and he is seriously your all-American good looking man. My coworker, the man who is in charge of that program, described him as Captain America the comic book version, no my coworker is not gay. So bright blue eyes, blond hair, tall, just YUM. He was serving the beer.
I let my coworker know that I knew the only reason he made John be the bartender was to get the cougars buy more beer and wine and of course leave him TONS of tips of which they did all three. That might have been a reason why drank beer to get him to serve me. I made very nice conversation and tried to not be so obvious with the fact that I drool whenever he's around.
During the event one of the old artist-in-residents, lets call him Bob, and I had a crazy awesome time. We were making fun of each other. Palling around. It was awesome. It only took a year for him to actually speak more than one sentence anytime we were in a group. It was a fun night.
We then proceeded to clean up and coworker had the idea of going to a pub afterward. It is now 8:30pm. I've been at work since 9pm. So off we go… Yea I know the doctor told me not to but COME ON!!! Hang out with coworker, other coworker [WHO I HATE WITH A FIERY PASSION. She invited herself and we couldn't un-invite her], John [He's just pretty to look at], Bob, and one of their bros [lets call him] Jim who owns a hot air balloon company [I KNOW!].
So we walk to the pub and order a round and I end up sitting in the middle of the half circle well kind of. Seating arrangements: coworker I despise, coworker I like, me, John [he's pretty], Jim, Bob. I was SO happy because I could just laugh a ridiculous amount at John because he was SH-WASTED. He was slurring making up words and at some point we had this weird but intense staring contest. I was just happy to be there really. Knew most of it had to do with him being wasted but it's okay.
I had a really great time. I also tasted a fried pickle with ranch dressing and it was GROSS. I know pickles are gross, don't argue I just don't like them, but frying them and dipping them make them more disgusting. I can't even explain.
So yea. Fun times. I really just want to jump John.
Today, Saturday: WAS HORRIBLE. I woke up late because my phone didn't charge last night. As I pick up my home phone next to uncharged phone I realize it doesn’t work because it too is uncharged…. STUPID PHONES! Get ready and end up getting to work an hour late. It was a bad day.
During the end of the day about an hour before I went home I had a complete melt down. As in tears and blubbering because I just felt SO horrible. I will add that it is also that time of the month so as my friend said to me 'Your body hates you right now.' I wholeheartedly agree.
I did make a funny during lunch before the tears. I put an antibiotic pill on a spoon and then I put two Sudafed's on the spoon and it looked like red eyes with a HUGE nose…. That is the G version of what I actually thought it looked like… Your welcome. :D Then I swallowed them down with some water.
I've been in bed since work making sure I'm taking all of the meds but still feel horrible. Cancelled a job I had tomorrow to stay home and just rest maybe it will help.
This venting helped. Getting it all out. Thanks LJ for listening. :D
Hopefully my next post is less filled with sickness and more filled with EPICNESS!
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A chip....
So about 10 years ago.
Actually I'm not even sure how long ago it was.
I was eating some ice cream in a coffee cup, an oversized one at that, and I said something or something happened where mom slapped me in the back of the head. It wasn't meant to be a painful slap but it caused my head to go forward into the lip of the cup. That should be the end of that story but nope my front right tooth hit the lip and caused a major chip in it…
SO SAD! Literally half of Toby, yes I've decided I needed to name the tooth, is gone well not half just a third but a third is A LOT of a tooth! It was VERY painful! VERY painful! So I went to my dentist and got it fixed!
I have been very happy with it. Of course I will add that they made it a little to big so the space between the two teeth was too tight and made it hard to floss. =
Anyhoo, now you ask yourself why bring up a story from SO long ago… Well, let me tell you now.
I have a tendency to chew on the neck of my pajama tops so if we ever have sleepovers you'll notice the holes and rips on the neckline of most all of them. Guess what I was doing last night… YES, you’ve guessed it I was chewing on the neck of my pajama t-shirt. All of a sudden I hear a crunch and a piece of my tooth falls to the palm of my hand… DAMN IT!!!
The good thing that I still have insurance or will have it for 3 more months so I'm glad it happened now! Guess it was time for a replacement but now I am walking around with a chip on tooth again until Monday because it really isn't an emergency and I have Monday off so I shall call my dentist at 8am and say 'HEY! My old fixed chip broke and need it to get fixed.' Hehe. They are going to have a ball with this…
SERIOUSLY, depending on the face I make I look like a very unfortunate person…
So yeah that’s my life.
OH and I also bought Rosetta Stone language pack and I have 18 months to pay for it with no interest! SO YEA I bought it… Don't ask how much it cost but it's okay because I don't have to pay it for 18 MONTHS! So awesome having this card! :D
A second OH I am an amazonholic…. DUDE I need help!!!!
Again that's my life…. hehe
Actually I'm not even sure how long ago it was.
I was eating some ice cream in a coffee cup, an oversized one at that, and I said something or something happened where mom slapped me in the back of the head. It wasn't meant to be a painful slap but it caused my head to go forward into the lip of the cup. That should be the end of that story but nope my front right tooth hit the lip and caused a major chip in it…
SO SAD! Literally half of Toby, yes I've decided I needed to name the tooth, is gone well not half just a third but a third is A LOT of a tooth! It was VERY painful! VERY painful! So I went to my dentist and got it fixed!
I have been very happy with it. Of course I will add that they made it a little to big so the space between the two teeth was too tight and made it hard to floss. =
Anyhoo, now you ask yourself why bring up a story from SO long ago… Well, let me tell you now.
I have a tendency to chew on the neck of my pajama tops so if we ever have sleepovers you'll notice the holes and rips on the neckline of most all of them. Guess what I was doing last night… YES, you’ve guessed it I was chewing on the neck of my pajama t-shirt. All of a sudden I hear a crunch and a piece of my tooth falls to the palm of my hand… DAMN IT!!!
The good thing that I still have insurance or will have it for 3 more months so I'm glad it happened now! Guess it was time for a replacement but now I am walking around with a chip on tooth again until Monday because it really isn't an emergency and I have Monday off so I shall call my dentist at 8am and say 'HEY! My old fixed chip broke and need it to get fixed.' Hehe. They are going to have a ball with this…
SERIOUSLY, depending on the face I make I look like a very unfortunate person…
So yeah that’s my life.
OH and I also bought Rosetta Stone language pack and I have 18 months to pay for it with no interest! SO YEA I bought it… Don't ask how much it cost but it's okay because I don't have to pay it for 18 MONTHS! So awesome having this card! :D
A second OH I am an amazonholic…. DUDE I need help!!!!
Again that's my life…. hehe
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Rain....
Its pouring outside. Cats and dogs are falling from the sky or well it seems that way. A few of days ago I was on the verge of washing my car and then it rained and I was happy.
Now it is raining, pouring as I said, and honestly all I want to do is walk outside and run around in it all. Maybe it will clean away the sins I've up and done. Maybe clean away the sins that have been passed to me.
Sometimes I wonder how much things that happen in your life shape you. What percentage of those moments makes you who you are. Do those moments ruin who you could be. I've never believed in things like that, not in public anyway, but now being where I am. Afraid of the things I am. Not being able to trust a certain type of person. I really do wonder.
Will it always be this way. Should I talk to someone about those sins. Not let them spoil who I want to be. Who I want to become.
Now it is raining, pouring as I said, and honestly all I want to do is walk outside and run around in it all. Maybe it will clean away the sins I've up and done. Maybe clean away the sins that have been passed to me.
Sometimes I wonder how much things that happen in your life shape you. What percentage of those moments makes you who you are. Do those moments ruin who you could be. I've never believed in things like that, not in public anyway, but now being where I am. Afraid of the things I am. Not being able to trust a certain type of person. I really do wonder.
Will it always be this way. Should I talk to someone about those sins. Not let them spoil who I want to be. Who I want to become.
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Life and death.... both unexpected.....
We had a memorial at work today for one of the most prolific volunteers of where I work. He essentially spearheaded our 4th of July Parade and another event. It just reminded me of my grandparents passing away. First, my grandma and then my grandpa…
Several years ago my grandma passed away first. We visited less than 5 times because we lived a little over 3,000km away from her and my grandpa, really from all of my blood relatives. When we moved to the United States I turned 5 and we didn't really have much money not enough to travel that kind of distance on a regular basis or even once a year. So when we did visit it was for important reasons or because we hadn't visited in a long time.
I remember her smile. The times she would give me money to buy candy at the store down the street. The tortillas she made by hand that we would eat with only salt right after she made them still warm from el comal. The way she would make eggs that looked like big huge fluffy pancakes with SO much oil that now a days it would be frowned upon but tasted SO good back then you couldn't not eat them. I don't too much but I do remember some things. Good and bad.
One memory that I do remember was the second to last time we visited my grandparents. The very last day we were there my mom had asked me to shower and get ready to leave later that afternoon. Let me tell you a that showering in Mexico, especially in the town where my mom was born, consisted of heating water in pots on the stove and dumping it over yourself while standing in a huge aluminum bin washing away the soap. To a girl of 12 it didn't sound like so much fun when I could instead take what little cash I had, and by cash I mean pesos, go into the towns version of town and play on the arcade machine which is what I did.
By the time I got home my mom was freaking out yelling at me on the street as I walked to the front door about how we were going to be late. VERY angry. Not nice angry. Painful angry I remember that vividly, the anger. My grandma saved me from mom at that point. Stepped between my mom and me. She rescued me. Helped me shower by washing my hair and wiping away the tears. Telling me how my mom wasn't angry with me that she loved me, they both did. Once I was cleaned up she hugged, helped me dress and continued to calm me. That was the last time I saw her standing. One of the last memories I have of her before she had a brain hemorrhage.
The very last time we did visit it was after she the brain hemorrhage. She was being taken care of by a cousin of my mom at her home. I remember when we walked into her house made of mud bricks. My grandma laying in bed not really knowing what was happening, not really understanding. My mom walked up to the bed and smiling at her, holding back tears, letting her know she was there. Grandma looked up, smiled back and looked like she recognized her. The tears mom had been holding back running down her cheeks now. Another moment I remember vividly. This instant is something I always go back to because it was mom and daughter coming back together after so many years apart.
My mom was the one daughter that had moved so far away, taken me with her, that we couldn't visit very often. Moved to a completely different country. The one daughter that sent money to her mom and dad every month for almost 20 years until her dad, my grandpa, passed away.
What I remember from grandpa is that he was SOOOO tall. I always joked that I got my height from him…yes 5'5" is HEIGHT!
I remember one moment specifically. We only had my grandpas '86 Toyota pickup 3 seat-er, probably really a 2 seat-er, and about 6 of us wanted to go on whatever errand he was going on. The 3 adults got the cab and the 3 offspring got the back of the truck. Again, this is the town my mom grew up in so when we visited it was okay, no cop stopped us. I don't even think I saw a cop in my 2 months being there….
Anyway, the offspring got into the back and held on for dear life because my grandpa was a crazy driver. He didn't really understand that there were people with no way of protecting themselves in the back of his truck bouncing up and down. Wind literally blowing through our hair. To this day its is because of those months spent there on the back of that truck that makes me a tad car claustrophobic. That is why I have to open the window and stick my hand, maybe even just a couple fingers, out a small crack between the glass and door. I just need to feel the wind. Even for just a second.
I remember his workshop room. He was an avid collector of junk. Well, I called it junk because he would literally go to the garbage hole and pick up radios and what nots. He was a tinkerer. He would open them and fix them. He was such a smart man. His workshop was half open electronic things on one side. Literally, a pile on one side of the room and a small table with his tools and a chair where he would sit and work away. Trying to figure out what was wrong and quickly fixing them. He would then sell them at a profit like I said a crazy smart man. Tall, always smiling, wearing cowboy hats and never letting anyone get one over on him.
I would walk around with him his legs always so much longer so I had to always walk twice as fast because he wasn't slowing down for anyone not even for me… He was epic.
I loved my grandparents. I never got to be as close as if we had lived closer to them but the moments I did have with them. Those moments I can remember will live with me forever. Good and bad and honestly there weren't many, if any, bad memories possibly because we didn't live that close.
I miss them.
Several years ago my grandma passed away first. We visited less than 5 times because we lived a little over 3,000km away from her and my grandpa, really from all of my blood relatives. When we moved to the United States I turned 5 and we didn't really have much money not enough to travel that kind of distance on a regular basis or even once a year. So when we did visit it was for important reasons or because we hadn't visited in a long time.
I remember her smile. The times she would give me money to buy candy at the store down the street. The tortillas she made by hand that we would eat with only salt right after she made them still warm from el comal. The way she would make eggs that looked like big huge fluffy pancakes with SO much oil that now a days it would be frowned upon but tasted SO good back then you couldn't not eat them. I don't too much but I do remember some things. Good and bad.
One memory that I do remember was the second to last time we visited my grandparents. The very last day we were there my mom had asked me to shower and get ready to leave later that afternoon. Let me tell you a that showering in Mexico, especially in the town where my mom was born, consisted of heating water in pots on the stove and dumping it over yourself while standing in a huge aluminum bin washing away the soap. To a girl of 12 it didn't sound like so much fun when I could instead take what little cash I had, and by cash I mean pesos, go into the towns version of town and play on the arcade machine which is what I did.
By the time I got home my mom was freaking out yelling at me on the street as I walked to the front door about how we were going to be late. VERY angry. Not nice angry. Painful angry I remember that vividly, the anger. My grandma saved me from mom at that point. Stepped between my mom and me. She rescued me. Helped me shower by washing my hair and wiping away the tears. Telling me how my mom wasn't angry with me that she loved me, they both did. Once I was cleaned up she hugged, helped me dress and continued to calm me. That was the last time I saw her standing. One of the last memories I have of her before she had a brain hemorrhage.
The very last time we did visit it was after she the brain hemorrhage. She was being taken care of by a cousin of my mom at her home. I remember when we walked into her house made of mud bricks. My grandma laying in bed not really knowing what was happening, not really understanding. My mom walked up to the bed and smiling at her, holding back tears, letting her know she was there. Grandma looked up, smiled back and looked like she recognized her. The tears mom had been holding back running down her cheeks now. Another moment I remember vividly. This instant is something I always go back to because it was mom and daughter coming back together after so many years apart.
My mom was the one daughter that had moved so far away, taken me with her, that we couldn't visit very often. Moved to a completely different country. The one daughter that sent money to her mom and dad every month for almost 20 years until her dad, my grandpa, passed away.
What I remember from grandpa is that he was SOOOO tall. I always joked that I got my height from him…yes 5'5" is HEIGHT!
I remember one moment specifically. We only had my grandpas '86 Toyota pickup 3 seat-er, probably really a 2 seat-er, and about 6 of us wanted to go on whatever errand he was going on. The 3 adults got the cab and the 3 offspring got the back of the truck. Again, this is the town my mom grew up in so when we visited it was okay, no cop stopped us. I don't even think I saw a cop in my 2 months being there….
Anyway, the offspring got into the back and held on for dear life because my grandpa was a crazy driver. He didn't really understand that there were people with no way of protecting themselves in the back of his truck bouncing up and down. Wind literally blowing through our hair. To this day its is because of those months spent there on the back of that truck that makes me a tad car claustrophobic. That is why I have to open the window and stick my hand, maybe even just a couple fingers, out a small crack between the glass and door. I just need to feel the wind. Even for just a second.
I remember his workshop room. He was an avid collector of junk. Well, I called it junk because he would literally go to the garbage hole and pick up radios and what nots. He was a tinkerer. He would open them and fix them. He was such a smart man. His workshop was half open electronic things on one side. Literally, a pile on one side of the room and a small table with his tools and a chair where he would sit and work away. Trying to figure out what was wrong and quickly fixing them. He would then sell them at a profit like I said a crazy smart man. Tall, always smiling, wearing cowboy hats and never letting anyone get one over on him.
I would walk around with him his legs always so much longer so I had to always walk twice as fast because he wasn't slowing down for anyone not even for me… He was epic.
I loved my grandparents. I never got to be as close as if we had lived closer to them but the moments I did have with them. Those moments I can remember will live with me forever. Good and bad and honestly there weren't many, if any, bad memories possibly because we didn't live that close.
I miss them.
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The reasons behind me being so behind on TV....
Hello world it has been a while!
I heard Little Mix won the X-factor UK wow…. Yeah don’t care.
Did you hear that Harry Judd from McFly, I no idea who he was before Strictly Come Dancing, won SCD! Not going to lie but honestly want him and Aliona to be together forever!!!!
I keep watching the final VT from the last episode of the show and saying ‘AWWwwww’ every time Aliona describes how Harry walked into the training room pigeon toed and how she thought ‘Ah godbless’ SO EFFING CUTE I can’t even describe it!
He’s SO hawt! McFly is taking over the world. Honestly still don’t know who they are but have fallen in love with them! Dougie, winner of I’m a Celebrity Get me out of Here which I didn’t watch, is FREAKING PRECIOUS!!!!! Tom, on the show the Cube at some point that I did watch on YouTube, is ADORABLE!!! Love HIM! He has a tumblr and calls himself ‘the one that use to be fat in McFly’ LAHV HIM!!! His tumblr is very insightful and DAYUM tumblr is taking OVER my life. :D Danny is adorable too! I haven’t seen him in any reality tv show but I am tempted to download the opera tv show he was in just to love him too…. Lolz
Again, I haven’t heard any of their music, which makes me laugh SO HARD!!! I should do that. I figure their music cannot make me love them because I have already fallen in love with them as people. :D
Okay so enough about McFly sans music…. :D
I have been watching tons of sports which is one of the reasons I can’t catch up with any of the TV episodes of all the damn shows I watch because I’m watching athletic sports.
List of sports and teams I watch:
Football
Chicago Bears, Jay Culter is HELLA hawt and plays good football. I still think that the hills chick is bad luck for him because when they broke up he wasn’t such a Debbie downer and was having a semi good year. Now they might be back together from what I hear and he had to get surgery on his thumb and is once again all down in the dumps. Break up with the girl and get it together CUTLER!
Tampa Bay Bucs, poor kids are just failing hard core the second half of the season. I can’t even watch anymore-just look at the box score on my phone.
San Francisco 49ers, still not really on the bandwagon but I live in NorCal so I hear about them non-stop. I am rooting for Alex Smith because poor guy just got so much slack for years. Like someone on the radio said maybe he’s a late bloomer.
Jacksonville Jaguars, Blaine Gabbert been following him since the draft. He’s still young and has shown signs of greatness but still needs time to develop. He’s one of the ones the lockout hurt because he got very little training camp and I think with it he would have been better prepared for the quickness of the game.
Oakland Raiders, not gonna lie but I have been a Raider fan for years. For a long time since they were bad well have been for a while. This year they started off really great but the second half since they lost Jason Campbell to the broken collarbone they lost momentum. Now they are just on a downward spiral trying to regain some kind of upward momentum for the offseason and next year but with Carson Palmer its up on the air because now they have two quarterbacks that will be duking it out. I want Jason Campbell back but where will that leave Palmer and the ridiculous amount of things the Raiders gave up for him.
Denver Broncos, NO do not look at me like that! I am not one of those people that got onto the Tim Tebow train in the middle of his winning game stretch. I have been on the train for almost 3 years. Since before the draft when he won the Heisman. So I’m a fan. Didn’t know what Broncos were doing last year with him but I’m glad he’s the QB now. I know he still needs a lot of work. His passing game isn’t that great but he will learn. He has to. :D I’m really kind of worried about the Kansas City Chiefs game this weekend because Kyle Orton was thrown out of Denver for Tebow so he is going to have an ax to grind. Stick it to the fans in Denver. So we shall see.
Kansas City, I just want the interim head coach to get the position for next year. He looked so happy two weeks ago against the Packers! You beat the Packers and end their winning streak you deserve a season as a head coach. PLEASE!
Last but in NO way least!
NY Giants, FREAKING LOVE THEM! I think they might be my team. The team I root above all others. Have been on their love boat since 2007 before the super bowl shocker! Loved Eli Manning about Peyton for a long time. They just are WIN. :D
NY Jets, just to hear what Rex Ryan has to say. Just makes me laugh.
So that was football. Next Basketball
Yes, the season is going to be CRAZY full and I feel bad for all of the players because the schedule is brutal. Like INSANE!
Indiana Pacers, they knocked off the Spurs last year and I thought WIN! They had Duke and North Carolina plying together! It was EPIC! Sad that Mike Dunleavy of Duke went to the Bucks of Milwaukee… BOO! I want him back! Still rooting for he Pacers but bring him back! I liked him on this team!
Boston Celtics, I will forever be a Celtic fan. Have been for about 10 years. Don’t ask me why or how but I am. They are my team like the NY Giants are my team. Yes I do watch other teams round the league but they are it. This year they might, and I stress the word might, make it into the playoffs. They are an older team, and like I mentioned before the schedule is brutal, with young people sprinkled in. I know the next couple of years they are going to be in the rebuilding stages. So I know what they are up against and know what that will look like.
Oh and the Warriors because I can. :D Oh and Stephen Curry YES PLEASE!
OH and LOVE ME SOME DUKE! Coach K is a BEAST! I know this year is a little off they might not make it far into March Madness because they have a few young guys that they don’t know what to do with because they are SO talented. Curry’s little brother is there and they have Doc Rivers, Celtics coach, young son as freshman who is AMAZEBALLS but still needs to learn to pass. That will come with time I know so like I said a young team learning the ropes.
Hockey Time!
SJ Sharks, they are really the only team I care about. Everyone else can suck it. :D
Women’s Skiing
YES! I watch it and honestly it’s the craziest shiz I’ve ever seen. It’s stupid crazy fast and just really fun. I like me some Lindsay Vonn who I loved before the Olympics made her a crazy superstar athlete. Yes, I watch the skiing channel on my TV.
I do watch some male skiing but not as much. :D
I think that’s all I have for now because not much is happening on the swimming front.
Holiday talk now.
Not much really happened. Got some days off, some presents and now I’m in the process deciding if I am going to keep the MacBook pro I got for xmas or not. The only reason it is up for discussion is that basically I am the one paying for it. As in instead of paying my mother for rent I will be paying of the bill for this. Sounds weird to me too thus the decision. I think I might prefer to pay her for rent and have her pay the bill because then it will seem more of a gift. Now it just feels like I’m spending a crazy amount of money on a computer I only want to be more able on Adobe products like Photosohop and such and Mac computers have a lot more play software.
Thus my decision is a hard one… I’ve been lying in bed, sometimes sitting, staring at the MacBook box on my lap…. Sad, probably, but I just need time to mull it over. Make the right decision for me at this time.
Work is work. Same old boring stuff as always. Boss and second in command are going on vaycay for a week starting on Friday so I’m thinking about taking some days off while they are away as well. We shall see what happens.
The family is good. All got what they wanted for Christmas. My sibling’s birthday is at the end of January so I saved a couple presents from Christmas for that. Less money to be spent that way because at the moment I am broke. Getting paid on Friday helps though. Something to be happy about at least.
So it looks like that is the end of it for today maybe for the year. I don’t know. We shall see if anything interesting pops up.
OH wait I have a White Elephant party to go to tonight so maybe I’ll relay accounts of that tomorrow. It could happen! lolz
See ya on the flip side!
I heard Little Mix won the X-factor UK wow…. Yeah don’t care.
Did you hear that Harry Judd from McFly, I no idea who he was before Strictly Come Dancing, won SCD! Not going to lie but honestly want him and Aliona to be together forever!!!!
I keep watching the final VT from the last episode of the show and saying ‘AWWwwww’ every time Aliona describes how Harry walked into the training room pigeon toed and how she thought ‘Ah godbless’ SO EFFING CUTE I can’t even describe it!
He’s SO hawt! McFly is taking over the world. Honestly still don’t know who they are but have fallen in love with them! Dougie, winner of I’m a Celebrity Get me out of Here which I didn’t watch, is FREAKING PRECIOUS!!!!! Tom, on the show the Cube at some point that I did watch on YouTube, is ADORABLE!!! Love HIM! He has a tumblr and calls himself ‘the one that use to be fat in McFly’ LAHV HIM!!! His tumblr is very insightful and DAYUM tumblr is taking OVER my life. :D Danny is adorable too! I haven’t seen him in any reality tv show but I am tempted to download the opera tv show he was in just to love him too…. Lolz
Again, I haven’t heard any of their music, which makes me laugh SO HARD!!! I should do that. I figure their music cannot make me love them because I have already fallen in love with them as people. :D
Okay so enough about McFly sans music…. :D
I have been watching tons of sports which is one of the reasons I can’t catch up with any of the TV episodes of all the damn shows I watch because I’m watching athletic sports.
List of sports and teams I watch:
Football
Chicago Bears, Jay Culter is HELLA hawt and plays good football. I still think that the hills chick is bad luck for him because when they broke up he wasn’t such a Debbie downer and was having a semi good year. Now they might be back together from what I hear and he had to get surgery on his thumb and is once again all down in the dumps. Break up with the girl and get it together CUTLER!
Tampa Bay Bucs, poor kids are just failing hard core the second half of the season. I can’t even watch anymore-just look at the box score on my phone.
San Francisco 49ers, still not really on the bandwagon but I live in NorCal so I hear about them non-stop. I am rooting for Alex Smith because poor guy just got so much slack for years. Like someone on the radio said maybe he’s a late bloomer.
Jacksonville Jaguars, Blaine Gabbert been following him since the draft. He’s still young and has shown signs of greatness but still needs time to develop. He’s one of the ones the lockout hurt because he got very little training camp and I think with it he would have been better prepared for the quickness of the game.
Oakland Raiders, not gonna lie but I have been a Raider fan for years. For a long time since they were bad well have been for a while. This year they started off really great but the second half since they lost Jason Campbell to the broken collarbone they lost momentum. Now they are just on a downward spiral trying to regain some kind of upward momentum for the offseason and next year but with Carson Palmer its up on the air because now they have two quarterbacks that will be duking it out. I want Jason Campbell back but where will that leave Palmer and the ridiculous amount of things the Raiders gave up for him.
Denver Broncos, NO do not look at me like that! I am not one of those people that got onto the Tim Tebow train in the middle of his winning game stretch. I have been on the train for almost 3 years. Since before the draft when he won the Heisman. So I’m a fan. Didn’t know what Broncos were doing last year with him but I’m glad he’s the QB now. I know he still needs a lot of work. His passing game isn’t that great but he will learn. He has to. :D I’m really kind of worried about the Kansas City Chiefs game this weekend because Kyle Orton was thrown out of Denver for Tebow so he is going to have an ax to grind. Stick it to the fans in Denver. So we shall see.
Kansas City, I just want the interim head coach to get the position for next year. He looked so happy two weeks ago against the Packers! You beat the Packers and end their winning streak you deserve a season as a head coach. PLEASE!
Last but in NO way least!
NY Giants, FREAKING LOVE THEM! I think they might be my team. The team I root above all others. Have been on their love boat since 2007 before the super bowl shocker! Loved Eli Manning about Peyton for a long time. They just are WIN. :D
NY Jets, just to hear what Rex Ryan has to say. Just makes me laugh.
So that was football. Next Basketball
Yes, the season is going to be CRAZY full and I feel bad for all of the players because the schedule is brutal. Like INSANE!
Indiana Pacers, they knocked off the Spurs last year and I thought WIN! They had Duke and North Carolina plying together! It was EPIC! Sad that Mike Dunleavy of Duke went to the Bucks of Milwaukee… BOO! I want him back! Still rooting for he Pacers but bring him back! I liked him on this team!
Boston Celtics, I will forever be a Celtic fan. Have been for about 10 years. Don’t ask me why or how but I am. They are my team like the NY Giants are my team. Yes I do watch other teams round the league but they are it. This year they might, and I stress the word might, make it into the playoffs. They are an older team, and like I mentioned before the schedule is brutal, with young people sprinkled in. I know the next couple of years they are going to be in the rebuilding stages. So I know what they are up against and know what that will look like.
Oh and the Warriors because I can. :D Oh and Stephen Curry YES PLEASE!
OH and LOVE ME SOME DUKE! Coach K is a BEAST! I know this year is a little off they might not make it far into March Madness because they have a few young guys that they don’t know what to do with because they are SO talented. Curry’s little brother is there and they have Doc Rivers, Celtics coach, young son as freshman who is AMAZEBALLS but still needs to learn to pass. That will come with time I know so like I said a young team learning the ropes.
Hockey Time!
SJ Sharks, they are really the only team I care about. Everyone else can suck it. :D
Women’s Skiing
YES! I watch it and honestly it’s the craziest shiz I’ve ever seen. It’s stupid crazy fast and just really fun. I like me some Lindsay Vonn who I loved before the Olympics made her a crazy superstar athlete. Yes, I watch the skiing channel on my TV.
I do watch some male skiing but not as much. :D
I think that’s all I have for now because not much is happening on the swimming front.
Holiday talk now.
Not much really happened. Got some days off, some presents and now I’m in the process deciding if I am going to keep the MacBook pro I got for xmas or not. The only reason it is up for discussion is that basically I am the one paying for it. As in instead of paying my mother for rent I will be paying of the bill for this. Sounds weird to me too thus the decision. I think I might prefer to pay her for rent and have her pay the bill because then it will seem more of a gift. Now it just feels like I’m spending a crazy amount of money on a computer I only want to be more able on Adobe products like Photosohop and such and Mac computers have a lot more play software.
Thus my decision is a hard one… I’ve been lying in bed, sometimes sitting, staring at the MacBook box on my lap…. Sad, probably, but I just need time to mull it over. Make the right decision for me at this time.
Work is work. Same old boring stuff as always. Boss and second in command are going on vaycay for a week starting on Friday so I’m thinking about taking some days off while they are away as well. We shall see what happens.
The family is good. All got what they wanted for Christmas. My sibling’s birthday is at the end of January so I saved a couple presents from Christmas for that. Less money to be spent that way because at the moment I am broke. Getting paid on Friday helps though. Something to be happy about at least.
So it looks like that is the end of it for today maybe for the year. I don’t know. We shall see if anything interesting pops up.
OH wait I have a White Elephant party to go to tonight so maybe I’ll relay accounts of that tomorrow. It could happen! lolz
See ya on the flip side!
Borring couple weeks....
Its been a week probably two away I was not really doing much but really doing nothing at all.
I shall start by saying that I went to see Romeo & Juliet small town style. Community theater as they say is just a different animal all together but I was pleasantly surprised. ‘The Renegade Players’ as they are called did a wonderful rendition. I mean the fight scenes were mostly good but DAYUM the acting was great. I especially LOVED Mercutio. As we all know he dies at the end of the first act but he made a HUGE impression on me. HE was really great!
The play though sparse in production and scenery was wonderfully meaty in acting. OH and he, Mercutio, was meaty as well and delicious. I mean he wasn’t even that good looking once I really looked but his acting made me go all girly inside. Kind of hilarious actually….
Let’s see what’s next…. Still watching tons of TV and have become completely obsessed with Snow/Charming from Once Upon a Time. They are FABU and fanfic is where its at. I know the show is going to take FOREVER to give me anything when it comes to them really getting anywhere other than angst and longing and just aching but SERIOSLY fanfic is HARD CORE!!! One of the things that makes this ship barabel at the moment is the incredible fanfic people are putting up and I’m just *squeezing* all over the place…that sounded weird and kind of icky but TRUST ment was not meant that way….. hehe
Will also add that my aunt is visiting and I picked her up on Monday in the city. I left my casa at 6:30 having gone to sleep at 2:30 my aunt later asked me when I told her that how I did it…. I replied with an ‘I have NO clue’ but it works. We then proceeded to run errands which I had to do really but she came with. I also would like to add that having to pay bills is a horrible thing. I went from having comfortable money amount in bank account to having almost none after 2 days…. Makes me sad and depressed that I have no monies….
Anyhooo that is really all that is going on. I have been cleaning out my file folders on my computer and arranging them better. It makes me feel very accomplished after a good nights work but then I also must realize that staying up until 4am doing so and needing to get up for work at 9am is probably not the best thing in the world….
I shall start by saying that I went to see Romeo & Juliet small town style. Community theater as they say is just a different animal all together but I was pleasantly surprised. ‘The Renegade Players’ as they are called did a wonderful rendition. I mean the fight scenes were mostly good but DAYUM the acting was great. I especially LOVED Mercutio. As we all know he dies at the end of the first act but he made a HUGE impression on me. HE was really great!
The play though sparse in production and scenery was wonderfully meaty in acting. OH and he, Mercutio, was meaty as well and delicious. I mean he wasn’t even that good looking once I really looked but his acting made me go all girly inside. Kind of hilarious actually….
Let’s see what’s next…. Still watching tons of TV and have become completely obsessed with Snow/Charming from Once Upon a Time. They are FABU and fanfic is where its at. I know the show is going to take FOREVER to give me anything when it comes to them really getting anywhere other than angst and longing and just aching but SERIOSLY fanfic is HARD CORE!!! One of the things that makes this ship barabel at the moment is the incredible fanfic people are putting up and I’m just *squeezing* all over the place…that sounded weird and kind of icky but TRUST ment was not meant that way….. hehe
Will also add that my aunt is visiting and I picked her up on Monday in the city. I left my casa at 6:30 having gone to sleep at 2:30 my aunt later asked me when I told her that how I did it…. I replied with an ‘I have NO clue’ but it works. We then proceeded to run errands which I had to do really but she came with. I also would like to add that having to pay bills is a horrible thing. I went from having comfortable money amount in bank account to having almost none after 2 days…. Makes me sad and depressed that I have no monies….
Anyhooo that is really all that is going on. I have been cleaning out my file folders on my computer and arranging them better. It makes me feel very accomplished after a good nights work but then I also must realize that staying up until 4am doing so and needing to get up for work at 9am is probably not the best thing in the world….
All hallows día
Hello my fellow friends,
Today, lets chat about the events past few days.
As you all know this Monday was All Hallows Eve or Halloween. Also, the day I scheduled my car for its 45k mileage checkup. My mom is still surprised that I’ve had this car for 4 years and am already at 45k while she’s had her car for 8yrs and is only at 60k. It is the funniest thing ever. I keep telling her I’m a young person and have a life….not usually but sometimes I do.
Sorry off track so car had a checkup. First, breakfast where I saw the Asian sushi man dressed as a California surfer with an interesting lumberjack beard and hair all one piece mind you which was kind of funny. I saw a knight from Spamalot, a vampire girl thing [which I’m sure she only dressed up to wear the SICK contacts], Supergirl costume being worn by a woman who should NOT be wearing things like that, biker chick, and an older woman wearing an ‘I don’t know what it is’ costume.
So we were at store and now we are at car checkup place and now that we are here I might add that I saw someone dressed up as MARY POPPINS!!! Like I told my friends she probably was Mary and I also might add that I wanted to hug her SO bad!!!!
Found out car was fine and dandy. She will live a LONG life if I have anything to say about it. :D
I didn’t really go out and do anything but I did manage to hand out candy with a new friend I made of our Artist in Residence. She’s a cool chick that girl. There were about 200 trick-or-treater’s CRAZY. We had to run like the wind when we ran out because they were still coming. Handing candy out in front of my work building, a historical building, not our best idea but it was fun and cute. Worked really well.
The next day an event of EPIC proportions occurred. Two coworkers and I were talking down the hallway when we hear a loud water spilling noise. For a second we thought it was a pitcher of H2O that someone had possibly dropped but alas that would have been a cake walk to the reality of the situation. We looked further down the hall and I kid you not as the double doors to the hall were open all you could see was a wall of water coming from the celling 30ft up. This was my view…
Honestly that’s what it looked like. It was pure EPIC. Funny but not at the same time. I being of level mind, sometimes I surprise even myself, ran to the janitors closet to find buckets to have the water drop into. I managed to find 3 35gallon trashcans instead, better in my opinion becaue they are a LOT bigger than 5gallon buckets.
Turns out that someone from the construction crew had something to do with it, accidentally of course never on purpose. The pressure in the sprinkler system was too high something had to give and this poor sprinkler head was the one to do so. The celling is cracked. Its not made from dry wall its plaster. Something more EPIC than that was that the same day later that night my work had planned a ‘Day of the Dead’ event and now we were worried about people being killed by plaster falling on their heads…. OH the perils of our building. A coworker said ‘this isn’t surprising.’ Meaning things like that just happen to us. I mean SERIOUSLY!
The Day of the Dead event did happen and it was interesting and fun. Free food brings people out. There was folkloriko dancers which was really great. A nice band. Tons of people came out. The ceiling didn’t cave in so in my opinion it turned out great!
That’s really it. I did manage to stay up WAY too late watching episodes of a Telenovela I LOVED in my younger years. Girasoles para Lucia. DAYUM the main guy character in that IS HAWT!!!!
I also think it quite hilarious that I remember my love for these things at random times and look them up and find that the main actors have creepy mustaches. Like the kind you do NOT want to see on people…. Just a weird thought…. hehe
Today, lets chat about the events past few days.
As you all know this Monday was All Hallows Eve or Halloween. Also, the day I scheduled my car for its 45k mileage checkup. My mom is still surprised that I’ve had this car for 4 years and am already at 45k while she’s had her car for 8yrs and is only at 60k. It is the funniest thing ever. I keep telling her I’m a young person and have a life….not usually but sometimes I do.
Sorry off track so car had a checkup. First, breakfast where I saw the Asian sushi man dressed as a California surfer with an interesting lumberjack beard and hair all one piece mind you which was kind of funny. I saw a knight from Spamalot, a vampire girl thing [which I’m sure she only dressed up to wear the SICK contacts], Supergirl costume being worn by a woman who should NOT be wearing things like that, biker chick, and an older woman wearing an ‘I don’t know what it is’ costume.
So we were at store and now we are at car checkup place and now that we are here I might add that I saw someone dressed up as MARY POPPINS!!! Like I told my friends she probably was Mary and I also might add that I wanted to hug her SO bad!!!!
Found out car was fine and dandy. She will live a LONG life if I have anything to say about it. :D
I didn’t really go out and do anything but I did manage to hand out candy with a new friend I made of our Artist in Residence. She’s a cool chick that girl. There were about 200 trick-or-treater’s CRAZY. We had to run like the wind when we ran out because they were still coming. Handing candy out in front of my work building, a historical building, not our best idea but it was fun and cute. Worked really well.
The next day an event of EPIC proportions occurred. Two coworkers and I were talking down the hallway when we hear a loud water spilling noise. For a second we thought it was a pitcher of H2O that someone had possibly dropped but alas that would have been a cake walk to the reality of the situation. We looked further down the hall and I kid you not as the double doors to the hall were open all you could see was a wall of water coming from the celling 30ft up. This was my view…
Honestly that’s what it looked like. It was pure EPIC. Funny but not at the same time. I being of level mind, sometimes I surprise even myself, ran to the janitors closet to find buckets to have the water drop into. I managed to find 3 35gallon trashcans instead, better in my opinion becaue they are a LOT bigger than 5gallon buckets.
Turns out that someone from the construction crew had something to do with it, accidentally of course never on purpose. The pressure in the sprinkler system was too high something had to give and this poor sprinkler head was the one to do so. The celling is cracked. Its not made from dry wall its plaster. Something more EPIC than that was that the same day later that night my work had planned a ‘Day of the Dead’ event and now we were worried about people being killed by plaster falling on their heads…. OH the perils of our building. A coworker said ‘this isn’t surprising.’ Meaning things like that just happen to us. I mean SERIOUSLY!
The Day of the Dead event did happen and it was interesting and fun. Free food brings people out. There was folkloriko dancers which was really great. A nice band. Tons of people came out. The ceiling didn’t cave in so in my opinion it turned out great!
That’s really it. I did manage to stay up WAY too late watching episodes of a Telenovela I LOVED in my younger years. Girasoles para Lucia. DAYUM the main guy character in that IS HAWT!!!!
I also think it quite hilarious that I remember my love for these things at random times and look them up and find that the main actors have creepy mustaches. Like the kind you do NOT want to see on people…. Just a weird thought…. hehe