I got the news when the President of my school sent out a campus wide email asking us to send out our thoughts and prayers to Virginia Tech. I immediately pulled up MSN and read the breaking news article. My immediate thought was what would drive someone to do this? My next thought was dear god these lives have been ripped apart because of someones anger. My eyes began to tear up.
Yesterday morning the Today Show had on two brothers of two victims. One had lost his sister and the other had a sister who was injured. You could see the sorrow and shock on both of their faces as they spoke about their love for their sibling and how they couldn't wrap their heads around what had happened less then 24 hours before. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that someone could kill 32 people and leave about that many injured.
This morning I learned about the heroes that came from that day. The professor who used his body as a barricade to save his students and lost his life in the process. The young men who used classroom tables to blockade the doors to prevent the monster from entering their classroom. The injured student who had already been shot and seen his classmates shot blocked the door so the killer couldn't come back and finish off those who were still alive.
In this massive tragedy remembering those that became heroes will allow that horrendous day to have more meaning then idolizing the one man who created it.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Finances
I do this every two weeks or so...right around pay day. I look at my budget and think "my god..why do I not have any money and it's PAY DAY!" I blame my student loans. Those damn things that I've been paying on since before I graduated. Yep I started making payments on them before I graduated so I could get a head start. It didn't seem to help. Its preventing me from continuing on for my education. Mainly because I don't want anymore debt. I know I need to get over this and just plunge more deeply into school debt. It's just so hard!
Moving on to other things. Work is getting better. I'm not pulling my ridiculous hours as much. Trying to realize that if it doesn't get done that day then it can wait till tomorrow.
Congrats to Jessica for getting a new job!! Very proud of her!
Another congrats to Bethany for getting into Pharmacy school. This is not an easy task folks and she did it!
I'm excited for this weekend. Mandy and I are finally celebrating our birthdays together! It should be super fun. I'm excited to get everyone together. Yea for my roommate for winning a fabulous party at Fox and Hound with free appetizer and stuff.
Hopefully this next week will fly by. Not just because my birthday but also because I scheduled every other Fridays off because I have extra vacation days and it will be nice having shorter weeks for awhile.
Happy Easter Everyone!!
Moving on to other things. Work is getting better. I'm not pulling my ridiculous hours as much. Trying to realize that if it doesn't get done that day then it can wait till tomorrow.
Congrats to Jessica for getting a new job!! Very proud of her!
Another congrats to Bethany for getting into Pharmacy school. This is not an easy task folks and she did it!
I'm excited for this weekend. Mandy and I are finally celebrating our birthdays together! It should be super fun. I'm excited to get everyone together. Yea for my roommate for winning a fabulous party at Fox and Hound with free appetizer and stuff.
Hopefully this next week will fly by. Not just because my birthday but also because I scheduled every other Fridays off because I have extra vacation days and it will be nice having shorter weeks for awhile.
Happy Easter Everyone!!
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Should be....
I should be cleaning my room/house. However, I've been consumed trying to get my camera software to allow me to transfer photos onto my computer. I still can not get this to work. Uninstalling the software and reloading it does not work. I still get this stupid message saying my security settings do not allow ActiveX. I don't know what ActiveX is. I googled it. I did this stuff that it told me to do and I still can not download my f-ing photos! This is seriously pissing me off....
Other news...I've started planning. My wedding that is. I tried on dresses. Went to warehouse of bridal dresses and had a hellious experience. Went to nice bridal boutique and I think I found "the dress". "The dress" turns out to be waaayy out of my price range. But I did find the actual designer of the dress and the other bridal stores that carry it. And no warehouse of bridal dresses does not carry it which makes it more appealing. I also picked my colors (maybe). So now that I had this information I decided to have the budget talk with 'rents.
My father said he would buy my plane ticket to Las Vegas. This is the second time he's said this. I don't know if he thinks its funny or really wishing that I would elope. My mother wouldn't actually say what amount just that I need to figure out what I want and they'll "see what they can do." So when my mom went to look up more wedding stuff online I asked my dad point blank what his money figure was. He said about $5,000. I said thank you.
From there I told my mom about the wonderful and beautiful dress. Her response was that I should be in white/white and not ivory, but that I can have/wear whatever I want, as she walked away saying it should really be white/white. Grrr. I told her the colors that I want. She said it was too close to black and that I should think about my photos. That's when she pulled out her wedding album to show me her green and pink colors. Then...she pulled out the gown. Her wedding dress. Lovely as it is, it still looks like it was worn in the 70's. She made me put it on. Yep. I put on my mom's dress. I was so scared she was going to ask me to wear it. Instead she said that she wants me to take my picture in it. Fine...as long as I can wear ivory and have dark colors.
I forsee this "planning" as me learning how to say "this is what I want deal with it." I'm sure there will be more to come....
Other news...I've started planning. My wedding that is. I tried on dresses. Went to warehouse of bridal dresses and had a hellious experience. Went to nice bridal boutique and I think I found "the dress". "The dress" turns out to be waaayy out of my price range. But I did find the actual designer of the dress and the other bridal stores that carry it. And no warehouse of bridal dresses does not carry it which makes it more appealing. I also picked my colors (maybe). So now that I had this information I decided to have the budget talk with 'rents.
My father said he would buy my plane ticket to Las Vegas. This is the second time he's said this. I don't know if he thinks its funny or really wishing that I would elope. My mother wouldn't actually say what amount just that I need to figure out what I want and they'll "see what they can do." So when my mom went to look up more wedding stuff online I asked my dad point blank what his money figure was. He said about $5,000. I said thank you.
From there I told my mom about the wonderful and beautiful dress. Her response was that I should be in white/white and not ivory, but that I can have/wear whatever I want, as she walked away saying it should really be white/white. Grrr. I told her the colors that I want. She said it was too close to black and that I should think about my photos. That's when she pulled out her wedding album to show me her green and pink colors. Then...she pulled out the gown. Her wedding dress. Lovely as it is, it still looks like it was worn in the 70's. She made me put it on. Yep. I put on my mom's dress. I was so scared she was going to ask me to wear it. Instead she said that she wants me to take my picture in it. Fine...as long as I can wear ivory and have dark colors.
I forsee this "planning" as me learning how to say "this is what I want deal with it." I'm sure there will be more to come....
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
So...
Ok...I know it's been awhile since the last blog...and well A LOT HAS HAPPENED. For one I went on my vacation. However, I did not get to go to St. Lucia. Plus I've been pulling crazy hours at work ever since I got back. So here's the update....
Well the night before (around 11;30 mind up) my wonderful boyfriend calls me and tells me can't find his passport. That one important document that lets us go outside of the United States, yeah its missing. We're up all night looking for this damn thing that he swears "is on his desk." Nope. So we go to the airport anyways at 5 in the morning and see if there is some way that we can still go. (I would like to insert that one of my good friends did pick us up at my house at 5 in the morning). So...when we finally get to the check-in counter, we were informed that no he could not get on. The poor woman tried everything, asked for his birth certificate. Nope couldn't find that. Social security card. Nope not that either. Voter's registration card. eh-eh. Oh and its Sunday so nothing is open. This is where I started thinking that I could actually go by myself and one of my friends would probably jump on the next flight to join me. Instead I just look at my wondefully forgettful boyfriend like he could magically make things change. We proceed to get out of the line and let those with the appropriate documents check-in. We call a different friend to pick us up from the airport. (Even though I did text friends letting them know I wasn't going.)
Cut to 9am because nothing could be accomplished before then. I call the hotel they can't do anything. I call the travel agency, the trip is non-refundable, non-transferable. I call my mom.
10:30ish boyfriend arrives back at my place and calls the airlines. They let us know that we need to cancel our flight by 9:15 the following morning to keep the value of our ticket. So I have lost all hope of going. I call my mom again.
Around 11ish I have my boyfriend call my boss and thank her for the wondeful trip and then apologize for the fact that we're not going. The moment he hangs up my boss's assistant calls me asking me what's wrong. I try to not cry but explain that he doesn't have his passport. (Did I mention that we knew about this trip since January?) She told me to go back to his place try to look for it and she's going to think of another plan.
11:30ish I get a phone call from my boss's assistant that there is a flight to Puerto Rico at 1pm. That we don't need a passport to go there and that they'll work out the hotel stuff while we're in flight. Different friend takes us to the airport.
11:50ish we arrive at the airport were the check in people are asking us if we found the passport. We tell them "NO! We changed our plans and we're going to Puerto Rico!" They got us on the next flight to Puerto Rico!
10:30ish we arrive in Puerto Rico. We just so happened to have a couple of friends spending their spring break there and met up with them. Tons of fun from then on.
So the following day in Puerto Rico we go and visit Old San Juan. We walked around all day. When we got back to our hotel all I wanted to do was lay down. My legs hurt and I wanted rest. Strangely my boyfriend wanted to go walk the beach and watch the sunset. I agrued, while laying down, that the sun would set tomorrow and that not walking on the beach and laying in our bed is a better idea because we walked all day! He wouldn't let up. So I gave in and we down to walk the beach. We walked a little, played in the water a little. The sun had set behind the buildings and I still wanted to lay down before dinner. So I was ready to go back up but my boyfriend wouldn't let me. He finally tells me he has something to give me. I assume its a shell he found on the beach. Instead he starts telling me how wonderful I am and how much he loves me and then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! Of course I said yes! So...now I'm engaged!
Well the night before (around 11;30 mind up) my wonderful boyfriend calls me and tells me can't find his passport. That one important document that lets us go outside of the United States, yeah its missing. We're up all night looking for this damn thing that he swears "is on his desk." Nope. So we go to the airport anyways at 5 in the morning and see if there is some way that we can still go. (I would like to insert that one of my good friends did pick us up at my house at 5 in the morning). So...when we finally get to the check-in counter, we were informed that no he could not get on. The poor woman tried everything, asked for his birth certificate. Nope couldn't find that. Social security card. Nope not that either. Voter's registration card. eh-eh. Oh and its Sunday so nothing is open. This is where I started thinking that I could actually go by myself and one of my friends would probably jump on the next flight to join me. Instead I just look at my wondefully forgettful boyfriend like he could magically make things change. We proceed to get out of the line and let those with the appropriate documents check-in. We call a different friend to pick us up from the airport. (Even though I did text friends letting them know I wasn't going.)
Cut to 9am because nothing could be accomplished before then. I call the hotel they can't do anything. I call the travel agency, the trip is non-refundable, non-transferable. I call my mom.
10:30ish boyfriend arrives back at my place and calls the airlines. They let us know that we need to cancel our flight by 9:15 the following morning to keep the value of our ticket. So I have lost all hope of going. I call my mom again.
Around 11ish I have my boyfriend call my boss and thank her for the wondeful trip and then apologize for the fact that we're not going. The moment he hangs up my boss's assistant calls me asking me what's wrong. I try to not cry but explain that he doesn't have his passport. (Did I mention that we knew about this trip since January?) She told me to go back to his place try to look for it and she's going to think of another plan.
11:30ish I get a phone call from my boss's assistant that there is a flight to Puerto Rico at 1pm. That we don't need a passport to go there and that they'll work out the hotel stuff while we're in flight. Different friend takes us to the airport.
11:50ish we arrive at the airport were the check in people are asking us if we found the passport. We tell them "NO! We changed our plans and we're going to Puerto Rico!" They got us on the next flight to Puerto Rico!
10:30ish we arrive in Puerto Rico. We just so happened to have a couple of friends spending their spring break there and met up with them. Tons of fun from then on.
So the following day in Puerto Rico we go and visit Old San Juan. We walked around all day. When we got back to our hotel all I wanted to do was lay down. My legs hurt and I wanted rest. Strangely my boyfriend wanted to go walk the beach and watch the sunset. I agrued, while laying down, that the sun would set tomorrow and that not walking on the beach and laying in our bed is a better idea because we walked all day! He wouldn't let up. So I gave in and we down to walk the beach. We walked a little, played in the water a little. The sun had set behind the buildings and I still wanted to lay down before dinner. So I was ready to go back up but my boyfriend wouldn't let me. He finally tells me he has something to give me. I assume its a shell he found on the beach. Instead he starts telling me how wonderful I am and how much he loves me and then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! Of course I said yes! So...now I'm engaged!
Monday, February 26, 2007
Lost friend
I was reading a friend's blog when it occurred to me that I haven't actually talked to this person in probably a month. Now most people would say that's not a big deal. Well I call this person my best friend. I've known this person for over a decade and a half. And I haven't hung out with her in can't remember how long. This technology stuff makes us feel like we're keeping tabs on people when we're not actually communicating with one another. It's pitiful and I'm actually ashamed of myself for not trying to keep in touch. Maybe I'll pick up one of the gizmo's that lets you talk to each other and see if she wants to meet up for dinner or something to catch up.
It's been awhile
So its been awhile since my last blog. Sorry. Work has been busy. Fun but super busy. I'm so excited the new campus is finally opening!! And every last one of you better come see me so we can get manicures and pedicures!! I'm so excited!
Well the rumor is true! My friend is pregnant! I'm surprised at how excited I am for her. I wasn't sure if I was ready to admit my friends are growing up but I'm so excited! I finally have a friend who will just tell you how it is. Point blank. So far she isn't a fan of it since she's nausea 24 hours out the day. She compared it to being hung over all the time. My hang overs are from hell and I always vomit so clearly this pregnant thing isn't for me. But I'm excited and can't wait to hear what size the baby is compared to food. I think that's the funniest thing. My baby is a size of a pea. And everyone always goes "ohhh a pea! How cute!" Makes me laugh. Cause then I just visualize this green pea with eyes.
So St. Lucia is this weekend. This freaking weekend. Ask me what I have done to prepare for this? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Why? I don't know I keep using the excuse that I've been busy but I've also been sitting on my ass not shopping for this trip. I think I've been putting it off so I can feverishly run around Tulsa demanding things for this vacation. Also I haven't received the $1,000 cash for this trip and I don't really want to ask my boss "Hey thanks for the trip and I know that you're busy putting together a new school but can I have my cash?" I think she would just fire me and take away the trip. (Actually I know she wouldn't but it's still weird to ask for that).
Ohh...one of my other friends got boobs. Got to say I'm slightly jealous. So far I've only seen them in that weird sports bra thing but they look good in them. I can't wait till it doesn't hurt her to touch them because I'm so feeling them. I can't believe she went through with it. She's the only friend that I'm aware of that went through with cosmetic surgery. I'm excited! She's wanted them for so long and finally had the opportunity to do it and went for it! I also saw things that Dr. 90210 doesn't show you, like how she can't raise her arms or sit up without cursing at everything. There are some things that I think TV needs to show you so you can go "people get addicted to that? So they can feel like ass?" Doesn't make sense, but at least she's got pretty boobs!
Well the rumor is true! My friend is pregnant! I'm surprised at how excited I am for her. I wasn't sure if I was ready to admit my friends are growing up but I'm so excited! I finally have a friend who will just tell you how it is. Point blank. So far she isn't a fan of it since she's nausea 24 hours out the day. She compared it to being hung over all the time. My hang overs are from hell and I always vomit so clearly this pregnant thing isn't for me. But I'm excited and can't wait to hear what size the baby is compared to food. I think that's the funniest thing. My baby is a size of a pea. And everyone always goes "ohhh a pea! How cute!" Makes me laugh. Cause then I just visualize this green pea with eyes.
So St. Lucia is this weekend. This freaking weekend. Ask me what I have done to prepare for this? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Why? I don't know I keep using the excuse that I've been busy but I've also been sitting on my ass not shopping for this trip. I think I've been putting it off so I can feverishly run around Tulsa demanding things for this vacation. Also I haven't received the $1,000 cash for this trip and I don't really want to ask my boss "Hey thanks for the trip and I know that you're busy putting together a new school but can I have my cash?" I think she would just fire me and take away the trip. (Actually I know she wouldn't but it's still weird to ask for that).
Ohh...one of my other friends got boobs. Got to say I'm slightly jealous. So far I've only seen them in that weird sports bra thing but they look good in them. I can't wait till it doesn't hurt her to touch them because I'm so feeling them. I can't believe she went through with it. She's the only friend that I'm aware of that went through with cosmetic surgery. I'm excited! She's wanted them for so long and finally had the opportunity to do it and went for it! I also saw things that Dr. 90210 doesn't show you, like how she can't raise her arms or sit up without cursing at everything. There are some things that I think TV needs to show you so you can go "people get addicted to that? So they can feel like ass?" Doesn't make sense, but at least she's got pretty boobs!
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The count down has begun!
T -17 days! Then I'm on my way to St. Lucia!! In the Caribbean! Jealous?? I can't wait! Yet, I haven't started shopping for a swim suit. Crazy but I just can't get motivated to try one of those things on when its snowing and the high is below 30. Just can't. Maybe there will be a nude beach.
So on the Today Show I saw this blip (didn't see the whole thing) about how employers are looking at your internet pages to determine if they want to hire you. Really?! I don't act the same way at home as I do at work or any place I need to be a mature adult. I'm professional when I'm suppose be and I'm a 25 year old carefree woman when I'm on my own time. Sooo...that is now why almost all my things (i.e. myspace, facebook) are set to private. Can't find me. Although I'm sure I'm just fooling myself more then anybody else.
Rumor is out that one of my friends is pregnant. As in going to begin caring for a real live person that they created. I can't really handle it. I'm having a hard enough time that my friends are in marriages let alone creating actual families. I think this is all because I'm slow to change. I've always been slow to change. (I was born 2 months late people!) So I'm hoping that its just a rumor and I can live in my bubble that my friends aren't actually getting married they just have big parties and are now living with a boy.
Happy Hallmark Day!! (I hate this holiday and feel its worthless and setting everyone up for disappointment)
So on the Today Show I saw this blip (didn't see the whole thing) about how employers are looking at your internet pages to determine if they want to hire you. Really?! I don't act the same way at home as I do at work or any place I need to be a mature adult. I'm professional when I'm suppose be and I'm a 25 year old carefree woman when I'm on my own time. Sooo...that is now why almost all my things (i.e. myspace, facebook) are set to private. Can't find me. Although I'm sure I'm just fooling myself more then anybody else.
Rumor is out that one of my friends is pregnant. As in going to begin caring for a real live person that they created. I can't really handle it. I'm having a hard enough time that my friends are in marriages let alone creating actual families. I think this is all because I'm slow to change. I've always been slow to change. (I was born 2 months late people!) So I'm hoping that its just a rumor and I can live in my bubble that my friends aren't actually getting married they just have big parties and are now living with a boy.
Happy Hallmark Day!! (I hate this holiday and feel its worthless and setting everyone up for disappointment)
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