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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
12:09 pm	Wow Just wow...I'm floored. And so very grateful. Current Mood: shocked (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
11:09 am	ANNOUNCENT! Attention all you Orlando peoples! TJ and I will be back in town starting March 5th!! We want to hang out with you! Prepare! that is all :-D (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
9:48 am	life smacks you upside the head when you least expect it So when I submitted my CASPA application for PA school, I not only sent it to Midwestern but I sent it to Rosalind Franklin University in North Chicago. I figured what the hell? I may as well send it to both the PA schools in this area. Well the other day and recieved a request for a secondary application from Rosalind Franklin and an invitation to visit the campus. I never really gave that school any thought, but I guess it's silly to put all my eggs in one basket, huh? So that's pretty exciting :-) I still haven't heard anythig from Midwestern but when I visited the open house they had last month they said they had not even set out their invitation for interviews yet. So fingers still crossed and I'm going to visit Rosalind Franklin on October 22nd. Hopefully one of them will want me! :-D Current Mood: hopeful (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
10:45 am	"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all... ...the difference" So it’s been a very long time since I did any sort of “real” updating on this. And I’m not sure why, but I feel like writing my feelings out here. (Like any of it really matters, I’m not even sure why I do this. Sometimes I feel that writing your thoughts out is silly…then other times I want to. Weird, I know.) Let’s see. It’s September 9th, 2007 at 1048 and where the hell am I in life? I graduated December 11th, 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a minor in Criminal Justice. That was quite possibly the most single awesome day of my life and I was so proud of myself. Although it was tainted by the fact that my parents were recently divorced and had to have a major fight in my house before they left that day, but even with that I was ecstatic. Am I using my degree right now you ask? Hell no. And that truly bothers me. I wish I could find a job between schools that I could use my degree for. Instead I have to get jobs that any high school drop-out/barely graduated nitwit could do in order to maintain my emersion in “the field”. Speaking of “the field”, I hope to God that I actually get into Midwestern this year. I want nothing more then to go to that school and finish what I want to do and start my actual ‘career’. I’m just so afraid that I’m going to fail and fall on my face it sometimes haunts my dreams. I am also afraid that the move we made up here is going to be for nothing when the school denies me entrance. Oh. That’s another thing that’s happened. TJ and I made the decision to move to Chicago a month ago. More specifically Lisle, IL. I love that he came with me and it’s exciting to go to a completely new place and try to make a living. But it’s also scary. We painfully miss all our friends. We have yet been able to make any new ones. We both work far distances from where we live right now and it’s just a little discouraging to feel all alone. I just hope that I do get accepted because a little part of me worries that he’ll resent me from dragging him up here for essentially nothing. I say a little part, because I know he really won’t, he’s just that kind of man, but I still worry a little. My parents are doing a little better. My father still needs to adjust his medication because the Parkinson’s keeps advancing but he’s still hanging in there. Still teaching and coaching like he loves to do, he just gets VERY tired by the end of the day. I hope that we can begin to make enough money that we can afford a place with an extra bedroom/bathroom so that when my father gets bad (and he will, you just have to accept that with this kind of disease) we can take him to live with me. I want to be the one to care for him. My mother, well she’s a piece of work. I know she still loves us but it’s hard to forget everything. And to top everything off she’s re-marrying this December. She wants me to come to the wedding but I don’t want to. At all. It’s weird, ridiculous and so fast. They’ve only been divorced for a year! How does she expect me to be happy for that? It just makes my head spin and stresses me out. But really, all in all, things have gone well. I’m glad that we’re up here I really enjoy it. The weather has been mostly beautiful, I love our new place and the where we live and all the people are really nice. I like my new job here (I work in registration at a hospital up here) and things are going really well. There are just a lot of balls up in the air now about our future and want to be able to catch them all and put then in the right places. I guess I’ll just have to juggle for now and see what I can catch! Hopefully my title quote can become a reality. :-) Current Mood: hopeful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 15th, 2007
5:23 pm	BBQ going away party TJ and I are moving to Chicago July 31st and want to see everyone before we go. So we thought we'd have a BBQ party at our house July 21st and hope people can make it. It'll start around 2 and go probably into the evening time or whenever. Even if you can just stop by for 5-10 minutes it would be wonderful to see everyone. The event will be BYOB, but there will be food and soda and such. If you'd like to bring something besides booze a food dish would be welcomed and appreciated! We hope to see everyone and will miss you guys all so much!!! <3 Call (321-297-9033) with any questions and for directions! :-D Current Mood: bouncy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 11th, 2006
1:40 am	Graduation! Today I am graduating. I'm so excited to finally be done and actually finishing. Sometimes I thought it would never happen. I am so thankful to everyone that helped me in these past years to get where I am. I will be graduating with a BS in Biology and a minor in Criminal Justice. I should have about a 3.2, which isn't great, but I guess concidering all the shit I've been through and have had to put up with it's not bad. Let's see. I've been in multiple car accidents (the 1st of which being pretty bad), I've been ill for so long and will be "ill" for the rest of life (I never want to stay in the hospital again, but I know that wish probably won't come true), My dad's illness had gotten pretty bad, my parents' divorce and their associated crap...it's been a tough run. I just hope that my parents can be somewhat civil and not ruin my graduation. :-/ All in all though I had a wonderful time here at school. I met some amazing people and the most amazing boyfriend! :-D I've loved and hated being on my own and dealing with all the "grown up" stuff. I'm sure I will love it more when I have "grown up" money to deal with it. It's been a great ride. I start a new job on wednesday. A job that pays a lot more then my previous one and gives great benefits! I feel like an acutal real adult! :-p I'm just glad to be starting a new part of life and looking foward to it. There were so many times that I thought I wouldn't be able to finish school and here I am. :-) I'M GRADUATING TODAY!!!!! :-D Current Mood: happy (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
1:43 pm	friends? I've lost touch with so many people and hospital and doctor crap hasn't helped any either. I don't really have anyone's numbers anymore...so if anyone reads this still and wants to maybe get lunch or hangout for a while, get a hold of me. Either here or call me 321-297-9033. I really do want see everyone again. My life is so consumed with school, work and health stuff that I could really some fun time and not thing about eveything else. ;-) My birthday is coming up...this saturday (9/2)! :-) and I would really like it if we could have a little get together. That, I think, would be nice saturday night. Let me know! :-D (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 14th, 2006
8:12 pm	update Ok. Well I feel I should maybe do an update because I keep running into people who I think have heard about everything and then I have to tell the whole story. I'll try and make this the short version. Yay for being sick again...or not. I was admitted into the hospital (by the way, being in the hospital sucks more ass then anything else in the world...and is highly obnoxious as well!) a couple of weeks ago for about a week. While I was there, my IV infiltrated and cause an infection and blood clots, yes that's right BLOOD CLOTS (wtf?) in my arm. Well I was re-admitted after being released and being told it was nothing, going to to work and having my arm turn bright red, swell up to about 3 times it's size and feel like it was going to fall off. Well I got better and I'm now on blood thinners for at least 3 months. What the dumbass doctor neglected to tell was that I should not be taking my birth control while on these blood thinners. So I called my Gyno just ask them if I should maybe back-to-back my packs while on these pills and they flipped the fuck out. Told me I had to come in right away, to stop my BC immediately and be very careful. Got to my gyno...found out I can never (yep...never) take regular birth control again and was put on the Depo shot so I wouldn't bleed to death (I know boys who read this...ew) and had a bunch of blood work done. After all that, I was told I probably have some sort of blood disorder (which would explain why I bleed/bruise so easily and why I got the blood clots b/c normal 21 year olds don't develop those all on their own) and I was refered to a hemotologist whose receptionist answers the phone "St. Augustine Cancer Center, how may I help you?". Awesome...I'm now seeing a certified cancer doctor. Grrrreat... Anyway...that's where I am right now...waiting on the specialist for an appointment and we'll see. I dropped my summer classes...again...I'm never gonna graduate. Hopefully I'll actually get diagnosed with something and they can fix it...we'll be crossing our fingers. Current Mood: drained (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 19th, 2006
6:16 pm	more hospital so after being out of the hospital for a grand total of 26 hours I had to be re-admitted. Why, you ask? Well, the IV site in my right arm was really hurting me while I was there but they told me it was okay, that it was just the meds they were pushing that was making it burn. They discharged me Friday morning with my arm swollen and said to just place warm compresses on it and it would go away in about 12 hours. Well, all day Friday went by and I worked Saturday morning and through that morning my arm got more swollen, more painful, and very red. I called the hospital and told them and they said I need to come back and have it checked out. Went back through the ER and was seen by a doc who said I had an extremly bad infection and had to be admitted again for at least a day to recieve several doses of IV antibiotics. Awesome. Okay, so they do that and say they need to take a doppler test of my arm (an ultrasound) to be sure I don't have any blood clots. Low and behold...I do. Even more awesome. So two more days in the hospital of tests and surgical consults and needles all yielded me being released today with blood clots in arm and having to be on blood thinners for several months getting tests done and not being able to lift anything over 1 pound with my right arm for fear the clots may break off and travel to my heart and lungs and kill me. My life is so rediculous it almost comical. Well...it has to be, because if I don't laugh I'll cry. P.S. my injections for the clots cost 1,100 dollars! how rediculous is that?! Current Mood: annoyed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 16th, 2006
12:35 pm	Hospital Well tha sucked. I just got released from about a 4 day stay in the hospital, and all they could tell me was that I was really freaking sick. Wonderful. Time to go back to my specialist again...and get some sleep...they don't leave you alone in there :-/ Current Mood: sick (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
9:48 am	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TJ!!!! :-D You will be so excited when you find out where we are going tonight! ;-) P.S. ....see I CAN keep secrets! :-p (Comment on this)
Friday, May 5th, 2006
11:23 pm	If you feel like a loser, raise your hand.... *raises hand*.... Well...today was supposed to be my graduation day. But instead I am not graduating while everyone else around me is. I feel like such a dumbass. I know it's only put off until December, but still...I was so determined to actually graduate in four years from college. I know I had a lot of crap happen...which by the way is still sucking. My parents are almost legally divorced. My mother is now living in North Carolina and since she got fired from her job (oh yeah...did I mention that?) I have no health insurance anymore. My dad tried to put me on his when he got some from the school for Elly and Meaghan but to due some shit I really didn't understand they denied me and I have now been without health insurance for over a month. Which is really awesome with my illness. So I have been trying to pay for my medication out of pocket and hoping I can find some health insurance somewhere. That isn't going so well...since i have had a break in insurance coverage and have a "pre-exsisting" condition no one will cover me. Awesome. But anyway...back to not graduating. It just bothers me so much...I feel like such an idoit and a faliure. All I want is to gradaute and start PA school and begin my life that I want. (Doing not so hot this semester probably has not helped my chances of getting into a PA school) I want to not be sick anymore...to not be poor anymore...to be a college graduate...to be a PA. Things seem so bleek and out or reach right now. Everyone around me is moving on to better things...and do to circumstances beyond my control (which frustrates me sooo much!) I'm stuck where I am, just watching everyone leave. I've become suck a homebody this past semester do to everything. I no longer have to energy or the will and I feel like I have lost my friends because of it. No one calls or talks to me anymore. And I find out about things going on through the grapevine rather then from my friends themselves. I know a lot of people are moving back home or moving away...but I don't think I will get to een say goodbye. I'm completly out of the loop and it hurts. I wish things would turn around... Current Mood: depressed (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 7th, 2006
12:11 pm	PUPPY! We got a puppy! He name is "Maximus" and is the most adorable puppy I've ever met. He looks to be a Mastiff mix. When I can figure out how to post pictures I will. I love him! :-D (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
10:15 am	so busy Things are a little crazy right now. I, of course, as always am very broke. I'm so broke right now though that I had to sell my car. :-/ I traded it in for a 2000 chevy impala...older car with more miles, but cheaper and I don't own a payment till january which was my main concern. It's alright...I'm going to have to get used it to but I think I like it. The semester is coming to a close so things are very stressful. Finals start on monday, so needless to say I've been studying like crazy. I've had two tests this week already (one this morning) and 5 more next week....3 of which are on monday. Hopefully I will do okay...this semester has been crazy hard. My application is "in the process of being reviewed" for Midwestern, so all I do now is sit and wait for that letter...and cross my fingers of course! I hope I get in...it's all I want. I hope I find out soon because if they like me I still have to go for an interview and I was hoping I could get one this month so I wouldn't have to miss school. We'll see I guess. We still have to find a place to live come may in Chicago. It's going to be so hard finding a place from thousands of miles away. We are going to need help...I'm just not sure where to turn. Oh well...I'm sure we'll find something! It's so exciting to be moving to a whole new place! :-) My schedule for the next week is insane Today: class 11:30-12:45, work 2-6 and then studying after that Friday: work 7-12 class at 1:30 then studying Saturday: work 7-12 (trying to get out this) Championship game at 12!!! <--I want to go, so that's why I'm trying to get out work Sunday: allll day study..probably some study groups in there as well Monday: Animal Physiology exam 10-12:50, Comparitive Vertebrate Anatomy exam 1-3:50, Drugs and Crime exam 6-8:50 Tuesday: probably working in the morning, Prosecution and Adjuication exam 6-8:50 Wednesday: probably work and studying Thursday: Animal Behavior exam 10-12:50, then I'm done!!! after exams are over it's back to working uber full-time...I have so many bills to pay I can't believe I have only a semester left in school. It's really scary. My schedule for spring is just as scary though... Mondays: work 7a-6p Tuesdays and Thursdays: class and labs from 9a-6:30p Wednesdays: labs form 8:30a-6:30p Fridays: work 7a-6p Saturdays: work 7a-12p then I crash for the rest of the weekend! :-p anyways...gotta go to class...then work...then study...study...study... Current Mood: stressed Current Music: TJ snoring (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 5th, 2005
8:34 am	sadest day ever November 2, 4:10pm...that's when Morgan died. I had to put him to sleep on wednesday. He had a tumor...most likely in his pancreas, that we were unable to remove. I couldn't put him through an operation that would most likely make him miserable. It makes me more upset to think of him unhappy, then it is to know that he's no longer here. I will no longer come home to him greeting me at the door with his squeaky beaver (or anything else he could pick up for that matter) in his mouth and "talking" to me. I am going to miss playing with him and hugging him. Having him know when I'm upset and coming over trying to cheer me up. He was the best dog I ever had. TJ said he's going to miss him too. He said that he had many dogs that were such pains-in-the-ass and Morgan was so good, even when he was dieing. I'm going to miss him so much. Rest in peace Morgan, you're no longer in pain. Current Mood: sad (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 24th, 2005
5:55 pm	procrastination So...what's been going on with me? Lots of stuff...things have been crazy lately. I'm cramming for the GRE tomorrow (or procrastinating). I'm taking it, for the second time, tomorrow at 8am. Then I have a CVA lab practical on the myology of the Cat, Dogfish, and Mudpuppy on Thursday. On Friday I have my CVA lecture test on Myology, Digestive, Respiratory and Circulatory systems. Next Tuesday is my Animal Behavior test and the following Monday is my Animal Physiology test. The next two weeks are going to be quite crazy with lots of studying...BUT...I go on my cruise two weeks from this Thursday! So as long as I make it through these tests without my head exploding I'll be drinking and basking in the sun in the Bahamas. :-) In other news...I am of course broke. I may have to sell my car thanks to Suntrust screwing me over...I am NEVER banking with them again. I have had nothing but trouble with those guys. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that. I NEED a car to get to work and to move with. I just can't afford the payments right now and I don't know what kind of deal I can get for selling it and getting another car. But anyway....I just need to make it to the end of this semester...two more months. If only I could find about $1,000 or find someone willing to lend me that much for a little bit, I'd be all set. I have no money to take with me on the cruise. :-( We booked this trip such a long time ago that I didn't think I'd be in this position. It sucks. :-/ I wish I had the ability to work more. I'm sooo close to graduating, it's just getting more and more difficult to finish school with all the expenses it generates. Sometimes I feel it all slipping away and I have no control over it. To make matters worse, I'm starting to get sick again. I don't have time to go see my doctor and really, what's the point? They can't really fix me, nor can they tell me what truly wrong. They just keep prescribing more medications that work temporarily and then seem to wear off. It's truly frustrating. I just want to finish school...why does that have to be so hard? Well...back to work... Current Mood: worried Current Music: friends on TV (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 11th, 2005
10:27 am	what's new? It's been a really long time since I did this...but of course, I don't want to study so it's the next best thing. :-) My birthday weekend was awesome! Thursday night my friends took me to Bennigann's and got me very drunk...I was hungover till 8:30pm the next day. Friday night we had a big party at my house. Beer pong, card games, and a pinata full of little plastic liquor bottles! :-) Saturday we went to the new club downtown...Club Paris. I was a little sketchy at first, but it was a lot of fun! On Sunday TJ, Ali, Tom and I went to Medieval Times. That was so much fun! I've never had more fun in my life. More beer, Wench!! On monday I went to dinner with my family at Olive Garden. It was a great weekend...but I wasn't carded at all. Actually it took until this past friday for me to get carded. I've been buying beer/liquor pretty much every day for a week and it took a pre-pubescent little boy at Publix to finally ask me for my ID. But anyway... This tuesday is mine and TJ's 3 year anniversary. We are going to go to Ruth Chris on Wednesday (since we both have class tuesday night :-( )I'm so excited for it. I've never been to a fancy restaurant! :-) Everything is great with him. In a little over 8 months we'll be moving to Chicago. Hopefully I'll get into my school...if not I'm not sure what I'll do...probably just work at a hospital for a year and try to apply again. It really makes me nervous because I don't really have a back-up plan. Well...I guess that's enough. Time to try and study. :-/ I still don't feel well...all I want to do is sleep...blah... Current Mood: sick (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
1:07 pm	21st birthday this is gonna be short and sweet cuz I gotta run to work. Tomorrow is my 21st birthday. YAY!!! tonight is Bennigans (11:30ish) and tomorrow is party and downtown probably saturday everyone who can read this is invited to all. :-) call my cell (321-297-9033) if you want more info...or just to wish me happy birthday! :-p I hope to see lots of you guys there!!! :-D Current Mood: excited (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 29th, 2005
11:42 pm	I'm drunk...but Matt wanted me to say hi...so...I <3 Matt!!! :-P oh yeah...I have to be up at like 6:30....and I'm redicoulsy drunk...obviously because I can't spell or type very well...so yeah...I'm done... Current Mood: drunk (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
10:30 pm	That it...I can't take it anymore...I give up. Tonight I throw myself in front of a speeding semi. Maybe then all this bullshit will stop. I'm not sure what else I can do. Current Mood: defeated (6 Comments |Comment on this)