Perfect Timing

The whole being at home thing wa going great, that is, until monday. I was driving home from Noelle's monday afternoon, and something was just not right with my car. I stopped at the intersection of 43 and 351 in West Sand Lake and waited until nothing was coming, I put my foot on the gas, pushed nice and hard and...NOTHING. So here I am sitting in the middle of the road swearing up a storm at my now immobile car. I put my flashers on and tried calling Dad, who wasn't home (of course) when a random guy with an enormous belt buckle that said DAD on it stopped to help. I told him what was going on and he checked my tranmission fluid, which was fine and then he and another random guy pushed my car onto the shoulder. I called Sara and asked her to come get me. So I sat there in my broken car, on the shoulder of the wrong side of the road, on the day after Christmas, pissed at the world. Since WSL is crawling with cops, several stopped to make sure "everything was alright". HELLO! Of course everything is not alright! My freaking car won't move, I can't get ahold of my dad who has AAA, so I can't call a tow truck and my brother was being a complete ASS about coming with my sister. So I left it there and Sara brought me back to Dad's, where I had enough time to watch a movie, talk on the phone for who knows how long, and clean my room before Dad FINALLY got home. Of coure he had to be a complete jerk about everything so we had our usual screaming match, which I think I won, then we went and had the car towed. So now, four days later, my poor car is sitting at a garage where it STILL hasn't been looked at and I'm stranded. Lovely. Not that I don't like being at Mary's, but I like to be able to go out and do things at night...I guess we'll see what happens...

Hustle and Bustle

I've been home for about 5 days now and I've been going non-stop, it' exhausting! I already miss being a lazy college student with little to no responsibility lol. I came home on wednesday and spent the night with Mom, went to Dad' on thursday and unpacked/cleaned out my room. (You wouldn't beleive all the random stuff I've accumulated over the years haha) I slept pretty much all of friday and then cancelled plan with Josh so I could spend some time with Noelle, but shh don't tell him that. Saturday was Nikki's birthday party so a bunch of the girls and Matt (Noelle's bf) went to Macaroni Grill. The food was great and it was so good to see everyone again! After dinner we went to X-gates and saw Rent, which brings my total for seeing that movie to 3. We sang and moo-ed and were loud and rowdy, it was a blast. On Sunday Noelle had a Christmas party and jut about everyone but Alex came (he's still in NYC). Lots of drama that night, but we won't go there because I'm trying to keep this happy and short. After the party a bunch of us went to Denny's and stayed until about 2:30 am. I got home a little after 3 and had to get up at 6 so I could be at Mary's by 7 to watch the munchkins. We had a really good day yesterday, after I picked Cole up from school the three of us went to the winter carnival that the seniors put on at AP. They had a blast running through the school! They also liked all the junk food that Aunt Nikki let them have haha. Cole talked to Santa (an old art teacher who really looks the part) but Ry was too shy to say anything, she latched right on to my friend Amber's hand though lol. They crashed pretty much as soon as we were in the car but only Cole went back to sleep when we got home. I went to Color Me Mine with Krista last night to make our dads mugs for Christmas. I had no idea what to get Dad so when she suggested it I figured it was a good idea, $20 for a mug is a bit ridiculous, but we had a lot of fun decorating them. I just have to remember to pick it up on Saturday morning.
So those are my adventures at home so far. Nothing too interesting, but I figured I should update. (if there are any 's's missing I apologize, Mary's keyboard is annoying like that :-P)

It's Over...Officially

Today I had my last final, philosophy. It was terrible. I will be genuinely surprised if I get anything above a 60 lol, but I really don't care if I pass or fail the course because I don't need it. SO now that I'm completely done with classes and exams for this semester I'm absolutely thrilled. I still have to return two of my books but the line is monsterous so I'll hold off for a couple hours. I'm almost completely packed and ready to go home, all I have to do is pack up my computer and throw everything in the car when mom gets here this afternoon. I filled out the online application to Oneonta last night, I have my transcript requests all ready, I just have to drop one in the mail and then bring the other to Moot Hall here before I leave today. Oh and I have to get dad to give me the $40 application fee too. I also filled out an application to work in the bookstore next semester. I figure it's right on campus (and literally next door to my building), they understand about working around classes, and I love books..so it seemed like the right thing to do. At some point Ashlee and I need to talk to Ricky, the complex director, about rooming together next semester. He's a jerk though so I'm not looking forward to it. I think almost everyone in hte building is shuffleing around anyway so he better not be an ass about this. Oh well, we'll see. I really want to take a nap before Mom gets here but I don't see that happening, so we probably will stay in Syracuse tonight because I'll be too tired to drive for five hours, unless Mom wants to drive. As long as I get off of this campus, though, I really don't care. I can't wait to take a shower without flip-flops :-)

Be Creative!

I love this idea!

I got this from Mary who got it from Stacie. I think this is super fun idea. Here's the deal:If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, please post a comment with a completely made-up and fictional memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - but it has to be fake. Then copy the paragraph above on your own blog. C'mon, I'm dying to see what you come up with!

Finals Week

We got the grades back for the CJ exam and I got an 88. I guess I can live with a B+, I was hoping for at least a 90, but oh well, it's decent. Without the extra credit I figure my grade for that course should be around an 88.5-89, so I'm really hoping that since I did a couple extra credit assignments he'll bump me up to a 90. We'll see about that though. I handed in my English portfolio and I honestly have no idea what I'm going to get on that. I have to go see my professor on Wednesday to find out about that. Tomorrow I have my theatre exam at 8am followed by my sociology exam at 9:40. Should be a fun morning. I'm not really worried about theatre, but I do have to study some of the historica l stuff and whatnot. Sociology on the other hand...well, let's just say that I'll be doing A LOT of reading tonight to refresh my memory. It's not cumulative (thank God) but Chapter 1 is on it along with 12-14. My professor said that as long as I get a better score on this test than on any of the others I've gotten this semester I'll probably get an A. All he wants is to see improvement, he doesn't care how high people's grades are. Wednesday is the dreaded philosophy final. I haven't studied at all yet. I'm going to bomb this test and I know it lol. All I want on that one is at least a 75. I can live with a C and my other grades should help pull my GPA up. The good news is that after Wednesday I get to go home for a whole month!! Woohoo! THe down side-I have to get a job :-/ lol. But I need to make some money so I have something to live off of next semester. I'm planning on getting a book deferrment, which means I can pay for my books using my financial aid money before it comes in. I think $400 should cover it and I'll still get another $500 back. I also have to find time to pack everything that I'm bringing home and do a complete and thorough cleaning of my room. Should be and interesting few days...

Well, back to the books for me.

I Love MySpace!!!!

Today I had my first "Oh my gosh, I haven't talked to you in years! How are you?!?!" experiences thanks to MySpace (an online networking site). I rediscovered one of my best friends whom I lost touch with when Mom and Dad split and we moved. Yup, you guessed it, Gabrial DeFilips found me via the internet :-D She's 4 years younger than me, but Josh and Justin (Gab's older brother) used to be best friends, so the two of us started hanging out all the time. I pretty much lived with them, as did Sarah and jenna King. The four of us were always together and we did some pretty stupid stuff lol. But we had so much fun! Wow, just remembering some of it...we were terrible kids. Oh well. So we've exchanged screen names and we've caught up a bit and we're supposed to attempt to hang out over break, so that should be fun. It wouldbe awesome if we still talked to the twins so the four of us could hang out again, but neither of us has any idea where they are.

Well, back to studying for me. I have my first exam tomorrow and I've been putting off studying for it. It's only criminal justice, so it shouldn't be too hard to ace ;-) lol.

Oh So Tired...Again

I've been really off with my sleeping habits lately and it's really kicking my butt (Yes, mom I know I need to sleep) but there has been so much going on lately that everything feels like it's upside down. Saturday night Ashlee and I ordered dinner from La Nova, which is a pizza place kind of like LaBella. We watched The Notebook and I didn't cry, which is weird becasue I cry at every movie...but oh well. Then I hung out with Josh again, we watched part of The Exocism of Emily Rose, then I got bored with it so we put it Godsend, which was pretty creepy but we talked through the whole thing. Then we put in some other movie, I think it was cakked Wicker Park, and we talked through that too. We've decided that we're really bad at watching movies lol. I came back down to my room at 8am and fell asleep until 4:15 in the afternoon. Talk about wasting a whole day! So Sunday I went to dinner with Ashlee, Char, and Amanda and then Ash and I went to Tops. Wohoo, how exciting. I came back and worked on my English portfolio and almost had it done, but I gave up on it because I had been focusing on it for too long. Then Josh IMed me and asked me to come up and help him with some project he had to do so I went up to help, but somehow I ended up falling asleep on his bed while he finished it lol. I was a big help :-P. When I woke up it was 7:30 and I freaked out becasue I had class at 9. So I ran downstairs and showered and got ready for class and whatnot and despite the fact that my contacts were killing me I made it through the whole day! I was so relieved when we got out of English 45 minutes early and we were given a two day extension on our portfolios, so now I can revise everything one or two more times :-)

Well I'm going to take a nap now because I'm still ridiculously tired.

Oh and I talked to Ryan yesterday for the first time since Q told me about him leaving. We talked for a while, nothing important but it was nice to be able to at least talk to him one more time before he leaves. He told me about what he'll be doing, how everything works and all that. So we'll see what happens with that. I just hope he doesn't do anything stupid...but hey it's Ryan I can't ask too much of him can I? lol

A Not So Happy Post

Thursday night I found out that Ryan was going to ship out on Dec. 13 for the Air Force, origianlly he wasn't supposed t oleave until after the 1st of the year, so I wasn't that worried because I'd be able to say goodbye and hang out with him before he goes. So I was kinda mad about the change in plans but I was dealing with it. I ended up staying up all night talking to my FYM, Josh about random things ; movies, music, books, family, etc. it was a lot of fun until I looked at the clock and realized it was 7:15 am. I had class at 9 and I had forgotten to work on my presentation due later in the day. I almost fell asleep in theatre so I blew of philosophy and worked on my project. 20 minutes later it was ready to go (thank God it was a group project). The presentation went well, then I had to go to English and write an in class essay that will be submitted in our final portfolio, worth 20% of our grade. I forgot to do the reading that went with it. The essay was about bullshit, so I bullshitted my way through it. lol it was by far one of the worst things I've ever written.
I went back to my room, thinking I would be able to take a nap before dinner because I had now been up for about 27 hours. Nope, didn't happen. I cleaned my room and then sat down to read and pass out when my phone rings. Q called to tell me that Ryan is now shipping out on December 6th. I had to get off the phone before I lost it. No one was in my room, thank God, and I just lost it. I went through almost a whole box of tissues and I really needed Nobe to be here, but I couldn't ask her to becasue she had auditions and stuff. So we talked for a little while and I also talked to Q again online (there was no way I could use the phone). At this point, with my face bright red and puffy, Lisseth decides she need to come borrow one of my pans so they can cook something. I gave it to her and I guess she went back and told Kristin I was really upset so Kristin came in. Then Raisa came in. UGH. This was the one time I really really really liked Raisa; she got everyone out and said that she knows she likes to be alone when stuff like this happens. I wanted to hug her lol. I finally calmed down a little and went to take a shower, which lasted probably 45 minutes to an hour. I looked like complete Hell, after being awake for nearly 30 hours and then bawling my eyes out, let's just say I looked like a disheveled crackwhore. I've never seen my eyes so sunken in and dark. Rather than doing the smart thing and going to sleep I went out front becasue Josh was sitting (they have to sign people in and stuff at night) and he told me to come keep him company. So I went out there thinking I'd only stay a little while, but no I was there from about 7:30 until midnight. He ordered food and I realized that the only thing I had eaten in the last 24 hours was a couple bites of ramen and some juice. I had about 4 wings, the sause was pretty nasty so I didn't want to eat any more and I didn't have my pills on my so I didn't eat the cheesy bread. We had a good time though. It was Josh, Megan (another FYM), me, and some other girl I know but I can't remember her name. She rooms with my friend Devan though. Anyway...we played Disney Trivia (I won) and made fun of Josh and goofed around. It made me feel a lot better, but no less tired. Then Q called again and it got a little creepy because Josh and Q would say the same things at the same time in hte same way. I was like ok sorry Q I'm getting freaked out I gotta go! lol. There are definately too many Joshes in my life, that's for sure! I went to bed around 12:30this morning and woke up at about 2:30 this afternoon. I've never felt better! I'm still a little upset that I won't get to say goodbye to Ryan, but I'll deal. So that was my wonderful thrusday-friday with no sleep. Sounds fun, right?
Now I'm going to go relax and posssibly read the book I stole from Josh, and have some Ramen. I'd make tea but Josh took my good mug (but I have his fuzzy blanket so we're even).

No one but Noelle will really get this one...but last night I had a dream that Mrs. Showers was trying to kill me and a couple other people I was with. Aldi and I think it was supposed to be Vos, a made guest appearance as well. Gym teachers are so sketch! lol