Silly Fears=New Addiction

So I used to be scared of using Amazon.com for some reason I never really focused on, but I decided to get over it and order a messenger bag over Amazon a couple of weeks ago, it came quite fast in the mail..woohoo a package! Stuff, like a present! Then I decided I also wanted a second smaller bag, so back online I went and ordered a second one. Then I got another package. Another present! Now I fear I have a slight addiction. If you order it, it will come! Presents in the mail! Delivered right to your door! Gasp! This could be worse then gambling for me, a guaranteed return for my money, plus the excitement of STUFF!!!!!!!! This could be an issue people.

Vacation.

The speech therapy lady has been on vacation this week. This makes me very happy. It is a small thing, but her lack of presence in our house has been noticed and appreciated by me:)

I love The Big Bang Theory! Sheldon cracks me up no matter how many times I watch it.

One More Time.

I have to return to work today. It has to be today because as of tomorrow my leave officially runs out so I HAVE to have punched in either tomorrow or before tomorrow. I can't work tomorrow as I have school so I had to return today. I asked Dan, the scheduling manager, to just give me 3/4 of my hours at first because I didn't want to jump in with both feet to begin with. So, here we go again. I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous about going back, I mean it is much easier to sit at home and do nothing. Does the idea of going back make me happy, no. No, it does not. The idea of making money again is a good one. I cant see starting a new job right now though, not with everything else. So, I return for three whole hours today, 12-3 after almost 3 months off. Lets see what I have forgotten and what they have changed in my absence.

Round Two.

So, I have finished Watership Down by Richard Adams I was worried throughout the book that some of the good bunnies would die. I was more worried about this one really cute bunny named Pipkin. He starts out as kinda the underbunny, he is smaller then some of the other bunnies and is jumpier-

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That means stop reading if you don't want to know what happens!

Yeah, I mean you!

Okay! I warned you!!!

Every bunny I was worried about made it through the story all right. I thought. It turns out that there is a sequel. According to one review it gets "gory" at one point. This might not turn out well for all of us.

So I am going to read Tales From Watership Down and hope that everyone makes it out of this one alive again. If not, well there is always therapy.

Don't like.

I don't like the lady that does my dad's speech therapy. She just bugs me. Her tone is patronizing. It drives me crazy! My dad has memory problems but he is not stupid! And today she actually shushed my mom. I mean I know that in this area she is the "expert" but you don't come into some one's home, and this kind of a situation and shush some one's whose home you are in, and who might have something vital to add about the patient you are working with! She pisses me off.

Midterm-Done.

Do you even have things that you know you HAVE to do, not things like go to work, or things that are everyday things, but things that come up maybe once or twice a year, or even once in a lifetime, and you think "if I can just get past this, things will be cool". Well that is how i think. That is how I felt about my Midterm this semester for my Anthropology of Linguistics class. I thought if I could just get past it, I would be fine. Well I took the test yesterday and it wasn't too bad, one whole short answer question I bombed on, I had no idea and just sorta wrote some nonsense down, but the test is done. Do I feel better? Well I don't have to worry about the test anymore, but now I have to finish a bunch of junk for my other class...

Bad TV! Bad Timing!

My tv is breaking. This makes me sad because I cannot afford to replace it right now. Stupid tv. i have had it since i was in high school, and I would like to get a new tv, but really i have not worked for 2 months! True i have my tax money coming, but that is going to the 90 million doctors i have seen in the last 2 months.
When the tv is on, sometimes it is fine, and then other times it makes this high pitched whine that if you listen to for too long you can still hear hours later! Not good. Plus, it might have been my imagination but I think I smelled smoke coming from it after it had whined for awhile.

Need to pick.

Okay which is better-
Brownies
pie
cake
cookies?

Nothing much to say.

I haven't written anything because not much has happened. I pretty much do the same thing every day, get up watch some TV on DVD, help my parents, read, maybe run an errand or two and then go to bed. That has been my life for the last week with some variations and a few exciting outings and a party. But nothing to really ponder over, nothing strange to extrapolate on. Nothing to tell you. So the last blog has been left stagnant. So if you have any ideas please feel free to submit them for consideration. However, i will not write a limerick or a Haiku. Or a screenplay.

10

10 number of times I usually check my email a day
9 times I will check it tomorrow- i am trying to cut back
8 doctor visits since the year has started
7 seasons of stargate sg1 I own
6 times i went out to eat last week
5 classes left before I graduate.
4 number of homework assignments i am avoiding
3 times the gas light in the car has come on in the past 2 weeks
2 weeks until the next episode of LOST.
1 midterm to study for next week

Before we start I would just like to say that about an hour after I opened that package of markers from target I found the old ones...yeah. Great. We all knew that would happen.

So I realized today that I don't really have a favorite animal, and what does someone who has grown up in this day and age do when they realize they don't know something about themselves...that's right they look to the Internet to tell them. i didn't find my answer but I found this quiz about finding your spirit animal which was kinda fun so i thought I would share it as it took up some time and I got a cool answer!

You are a Wolf! (your score: 27)
Characters: Marek, Alanka, Kerza, and Kara in the Aspect of Crow trilogy and "Storm Reaper"; Lance in "The Wild's Call"

Powers: Stealth, hunting ability, enhanced senses of smell and hearing, as well as strength and stamina

"Family comes first" could be a Wolf's motto. You form deep connections with close friends and family members, and they know you'd do anything to protect them. You're loyal, devoted, and passionate. Your worst fear is being alone, but be careful not to drown your loved ones in too much emotion.

Best matches: Swans, Otters, Crows
Watch out for: Spiders, Owls, Foxes
http://www.jerismithready.com/quiz/

But as to my favorite animals I would have to have a top ten list I guess- in not particular order...

1.Prairie Dogs -they make me laugh and when i go to the zoo i spend the most time looking at them

2.Penguins -who doesn't find them amusing!?

3.Pandas -they just rock, but people tend to think they are cute, and forget they are dangerous bears and climb over fences and end up getting attacked http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28554008/

4.Polar Bears -i wonder if I can come up with all P names!

5.Otters (guess not)

6.West Highland Terriers-and if we are talking dogs just large breed mutts also

7.Koalas-he is just so cute.

8.Tiger-beautiful when they are full grown-cute and playful when they are little.

9.Kangaroos-hippity hop-cant stop.

10. Wolves-not only are they beautiful, but their social structure is intricate and amazing. They are incredible animals.

What does your list look like?

Time to ignore what I shouldn't be ignoring and do what I have been ignoring

So I have a laundry basket in the bathroom that is kinda large considering that I do laundry once a week, and the basket only holds MY dirty laundry. However, the past couple weeks I have been ignoring the fact that I needed to do this laundry thing and have just been wearing clothes that I don't usually wear. Today in fact i have been reduced to wearing work pants as all of my other comfy pants and jeans are dirty. Don't get me started on what I was forced to wear for a shirt, i look like a high school student wannabe. I don't even have a clean sweatshirt. I knew it was time to do laundry. I can usually do laundry in 2 lazy loads. Today it is gonna take 5 loads at least. Crazy. So, I am semi-ignoring my homework and doing laundry and such around the house. Focus has not been my strong suit lately any who. I think homework is gonna get done last minute, we will see how that goes for midterm studying next week...

I also had to take my mom up to target while dad was at the apartment with the speech therapy lady and I proceeded to re-purchase some markers. For the life of me I can only find ONE of the markers i had purchased the first time! I don't know where they went! Made me really mad because i purchased these markers to take notes at school and I was sure i would find them somewhere, but have yet to come across them. So I was reduced to purchasing them again. Gah!

Random Randomness.

The day before yesterday i thought I was turning 29, then I realized i was actually turning 28. It was like getting a year of my life back.

My parents bought me a new Mp3 player for my birthday, I got it early so I could play and I think because they were a little tired of my begging:) But, when I loaded it last night it automatically loaded all of my pictures and I kinda freaked out and deleted them only to realize I kinda wanted some of them on there and now I have no idea how to get them back on...

I have been watching the first season of Bones, and now have strange fears about people killing me,burying me in the woods and coyotes eating me and scattering my remains...I am taking a break from Bones for awhile.

I hate the fact that my ears are too small for ear buds.

Sometimes I think about getting rid of/selling a majority of my stuff but I know I would just buy it all back so I just forget about it.

For the first time ever I bought presents online...I hope they come, and that they are what they looked like, and that they work..and that they are not so cool that I keep them...hmmm.

This week one of the guys in my class had to ask me something about politics and that made me sad because i am probably in the percentage of the population that knows the least about politics and such.

In one week my 2 best friends from childhood friended me on facebook. I find this strange because they do not know each other at all, and with one of them we were not friends when we last saw each other...weird.

Earlier this week I spent a good amount of time looking for a board game (in closets, ceder chests, under ceder chests)that I was convinced I had-until I couldn't find. Then i realized I didn't own it and had never owned it...bummer.

That's all for now. I might think of more later. I think I will go have pizza and brownie for breakfast.

Yippie Skippy!

"Minnesota Wild President and General Manager Doug Risebrough today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has re-signed goaltender Niklas Backstrom to a four-year, $24 million contract that will run through the 2012-2013 NHL season."



woo hoo!

http://wild.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=411917

Top 3.

Okay- so Maya posted about her top 5 on multiply, the top 5 famous men she finds the most attractive for one reason or another...
http://myapapaya.multiply.com/photos/album/13/Well_Hellooooooooooooooooooo_Nurse?replies_read=1
Then I started to think about it, I couldn't think of five famous men that I find so attractive that they rise above all the other men in movies, tv etc. However the first one and last one were no brainers.

Viggo Mortensen- The second one came in a moment of inspiration, Hugh Jackman.

The next two are just meh whatever, I find greatly attractive but...
Jason Momoa.

James Roday

And last but not least Niklas Backstrom YEA! Stupid Wild.

I hate waiting

Hate waiting. I suck at it. I hate waiting for doctors appointments, whether it is days, or minutes, I just want to get in and get it over with. Now, this makes sense you say, these are not fun occasions. Well explain this then, I love reading, savor books but I ALWAYS read the last page of every book because I cannot wait until the end of the book to find out how it ends. I am a fairly fast reader, and for the most part read easy books, so I am telling you that I cannot wait 1-2 days to find out how a story ends. Yeah. When I download music I sit there tapping on my computer literally counting ALOUD the seconds that it takes the song to download...because I am so impatient. Don't get me started on waiting for my favorite authors to release their books. Why do I bring this up? I have found a new addiction, I cant remember who is to blame, I know it is one of my Barne crew friends, maybe Maya, but I am now addicted to LOST and I want every day to be Wednesday!, and everyday is just one more day in the long wait to the next episode. I am not patient, I am not subtle in my waiting- there is some huffing when I realize it is Tuesday night and not Wednesday night. Very childish, but whatever this waiting business is for the birds, and fans of Heros.

Highlights and Hobbies.

Recently I have been toying with the idea of coming up with, and developing a hobby. Well I have always liked photography. I have always liked pictures too. I have been spending a lot of time looking at pictures over the last 2 months. Pictures of everything, and everyone i have ever known, and for me pictures evoke feelings, they take me back and are almost as strong as memories. They pull on cords of hidden memories, times that were lost in the mind, things we thought were forgotten but are brought forth by a simple image on a glossy piece of paper. So, pictures are important to me.

So I have complained about the last year a lot...there have been times were I wished I was somewhere else, but then I think back, I look back, on some of the fun times I have had over the last year, and here is my proof...

(in no particular order) Dawn's wedding (left to right, Ashley, me, Carrie, Andrea, Dawn, and Sammi)

The Duluth trip for PIE!

Sneak picture attack on the back of the van, (left to right, John, Maya, and Kris)

The day Maya and I basically hung out with (babysat) Steve's kids who are all smarter than me...

And Cuter...

And funnier:)

Going to Milwaukee to see Fish in Concert.

Sneak picture attack on the back of the van! Uh oh I may be in trouble for this one, right Steve...

All my Milwaukee trip peeps, half of who hate to have their picture taken, well pictures are really important to me like I said, they capture a time, a place, and a feeling for me to reflect back on when a memory fades a little, so I took your picture :P Deal.

Me and my brother at my cousin Jennie's wedding. ( I am on the right). :)

Dawn and I at a swarm game, I accidentally wore the opposing teams colors, color me embarrassed!

So if you see me more and more with a camera in my hand over the coming months it is not to make you uncomfortable, I will try to keep you out of pictures as much as possible if you hate it, but also know that I will be taking more pictures, and as people I care about I would like some pictures and tangible memories of you.