Just VentingWednesday, July 18, 2007
hellowell i am in my first week of my new shift at work: 3rd. Yes, i went from 1st to 3rd. From being at work at 4am to not going in until 7pm. i get more hours in less days. plus benefits and all that. And it leaves me with the week off to do other crap. like nothing (which is what i did for most of today) or school (which starts in august). and i get paid more. there is a differential for working 3rd shift, and another for working weekends. i get both. ;) (its not a whole lot, but its still more!) So far, i like it. i only just started, but hey, i am optimistic. One thing thats nice is that you are on your own. there's no one to really bug you because they are being lazy, or in a bad mood. but that can be a downside too, if it's an unusually slow night, there's no one to talk to, and if there's a patient that is a difficult stick, that can suck too. but i can always bring a book or my computer and i will have homework to work on come august. and even tho there times when i just can't get a patient, it doesnt happen too often. So...i am happy.
I have my window open right now in my room and there is a bee buzzing against my screen. hopefully i can get the bugger out when i try to shut my window. we have those crank windows so a bug can get trapped in between the window and the screen and that buzzing will drive me nuts! that is why i dont normally open that window, but with my new desk...it has a shelf that comes higher than the window crank on my other window and i am too short to reach over it. ;)
I bought school supplies today. yae. i think after either this paycheck or the next one i will pay my tuition and buy my books. no waiting until the last minute like usual. (at least before i had financial aid and my tuition was automatically deferred and paid so i didnt have to worry about it) i dont want to have any problems with forgetting to pay on time and getting dropped from my classes (that has happened to me and my two sisters...what a pain trying to get back into your classes the day before!) anyway. books are going to be pricey this year. luckily my sister is finishing one of the classes i need and they are using the same book, so thats $140 i dont have to spend. I still have to get the lab manual, and even that's expensive, but i'm saving some money at least.
well, not really alot to talk about.
i started getting my legs waxed. it is so awesome. I dont know why i didnt do this before. well, ya i do, i thought it was a waste of money and vain and all that, but if i want smooth legs (which i do, i wear shorts most of the year, its hot as hell here in florida, and my leg hair is dark & there's a lot of it) i have to shave at least 2 times a week. and my legs hated me for it. i went thru razors so fast, and i use the expensive mach3... so i had received a gift card to this spa and decided to try it out, since i wasnt spending my money on it and now i am hooked. i've been 3 times in about 8 or 9 weeks. she said it takes about 3 sessions before everything starts growing at the same rate and then we can probably start spacing the sessions out even farther. some people only have to come once every 6-7 weeks. even tho some of the hair has grown back before each time, it was sparse and didnt look like i hadnt shaved. and there's no razor burn or nicks or dry skin...it's so cool. theres also no 5-o-clock shadow thing the next day either. it takes days for there to be any prickley at all and even then, its nothing compared to how it used to be. i love it and am officially recommending it to everyone. it doesnt hurt, (sure it stings for a second, but its nothing!) and it lasts! ok. i am done. just wanted to share that with everyone. (all 3 of you still out there reading this)
well, i am going to bed now. i am trying to figure out how i am going to get a nap in sometime tomorrow before i go into work. i picked up a shift tomorrow night and need to sleep a little before i go in...maybe logan will go to daycare tomorrow for a few hours (he normally only goes mon, wed, fri)...or maybe the sitter will want a few bucks. we'll see.
nitey nite.
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Kristie ::
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
all done!Well, i took my last exam on monday! it feels so good to be done with it all. My graduation is friday and I cant wait!! Then we have my sister's wedding on Saturday. It's a big week here.
Now i really have to get on the ball about getting things together if i want to go to grad school. I have a lot of questions about the program i want to go into, so i need to go speak with the person in charge of it all. I plan to make an appointment to do that sometime soon, plus i still need to take the GRE. that sounds fun. (**yuck**) oh well.
Today after i got out of work, i had a little while until i could pick logan up from daycare (they dont like us to come during nap time, because logan will wake up all the other kids. he doesnt nap, but he is at least quiet until we show up) So i sat down on the couch to kill some time and promptly fell asleep! I suddenly woke up at about 245 and raced off to get him. (naptime is over around 2, 2:15) what a bad mommy i am! His teacher didnt care at all, he was playing with the other kids. She told me that i must've needed my rest. I still felt bad, even tho i dont think my kid even noticed. oh well.
well, i am off to play outside with the boy now. He just finished watching his sesame street sing-a-long dvd. It's so cute, he sings along to all the songs now...his favorites are twinkle twinkle little star and baa-baa black sheep. Its so adorable.
have a good week! I will try to get pictures from this weekend up on here as soon as i can.
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Kristie ::
6:00 PM ::
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Monday, April 23, 2007
kids & sleepi am trying to study for my exam tomorrow in spanish. Logan keeps getting up. i swear the kid has opened his door at least every 10 minutes, if not sooner since 8. he was unbelievably cranky when i put him down and seemed very tired. And now he is all sorts of pleasant. I would just yell at him or whatever, but he keeps asking to go potty. which when we get there, he wont actually go. Since we are in the middle of potty training, i dont want to discourage him from asking to go, but i know he is manipulating me and just saying it so he can get up.
he did the same thing last night, and i eventually stopped letting him try and a few hours after he finally fell asleep, he peed so much he wet the whole bed and came running into my room at 3 am (i was up for work already so at least he didnt wake me) and didnt go back to sleep until after i left for work at 4am. I had to wake my parents to deal with him b/c he was getting into everything. All last week he went to bed great. no fuss, no getting up. (well, not much, once or twice a few nights, but not like this) Why does he have to be so one way or the other?
So basically that leaves my studying being interrupted every 10 minutes. And i could just quit and go to bed, but thats what i did last night and i still had to get up over and over. I have to be at work at 4 am tomorrow. and then i have a spanish exam i am pretty much unprepared for. and i am tired.
**sigh**
i am just frazzled. i cant wait til this school crap is all over. on a good note, i picked up my cap & gown today. that was cool. it makes it feel more official.
Of course, just because i am not in school doesnt mean i will be a whole lot less tired. i still have to get up early for work and if logan is staying up too late, then i will still be tired. we are gonna try waking him up early for a few days and see if that doesnt help. hopefully it will fix this problem. it's probably a phase or some crap and i just have to wait it out, but it sucks. there, i said it and i 'm glad. ;)
anyway, he has been quiet for a little bit now, maybe he is down for the night and i can get some rest. wouldnt that be nice? good nite.
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Kristie ::
9:15 PM ::
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
exam week is herethis week is exam week. and that is really awesome and it really sucks. It's awesome because it means i am actually finishing school. With a degree. But it sucks because, well, exams suck. all the studying...argh. and i am finding myself with very little motivation to get it done. you would think i would have been studying all week long to ensure i get the highest grades possible, but at this point i really just dont care anymore, i just want to pass with any grade and get the heck out. ;)
and the scariest exam? spanish. i have a hard time remembering all the vocab from way back in the first part of the semester. i am sure i will pass, but i am not looking forward to it.
anyway...i found out that at work i get a $.75 raise just for getting my degree. (since my job doesnt require one) pretty cool i think.
now i just have to figure out what i am going to do with my degree. i want to go to graduate school and get my masters and become a guidance counselor, but it would be nice to use my degree in the meantime. i have a few leads, so i will keep you posted. but really- what does someone do with a degree in Liberal Studies? my focus was on psychology & graphic arts and my minor is in mass communication. hmm. we'll see how it goes.
well, back to the books.
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Kristie ::
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Sunday, April 08, 2007
happy easter!hey there folks. Happy Easter everyone. Hope you had a good one. we had a pretty decent one here. there was some drama with the boyfriend's family about me coming to dinner. it basically boils down to the fact that they are not the kind of people I thought they were. no worries tho - we got thru the day and came to some interesting conclusions about the way we will deal with them in the future.
logan and devin had fun on their easter egg hunt and ate way too much chocolate and jellybeans today. i am currently sitting in front of a fire that i started with my mom out in my back yard. it's nice and relaxing too. and i can use my computer. ;)
well school is coming to a close soon. and i have so much work to do it's just not funny. i cannot, lemme repeat, cannot, wait for this to be done.
anyway, i am going now so, have a great rest of the week. ;)
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Kristie ::
9:17 PM ::
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
too busyi am so ready to be done with school. only 5 more weeks. and then i will be a college graduate. whoo-ee.
I still havent gotten the pictures from our vacation from my sister, but as soon as i do, i will put them up along with a post about our trip. Which, by the way, was alot of fun, even if it was too cold/windy to use the boat & jet ski.
All i do is study, go to school, go to work. the remainder of my time is spent being mom. Which is rewarding, but it's hard when there you are on your own. by the time i get home, my mom is done. i dont blame her, she's been watching my kid all day and she needs time for herself. but what sucks is that i dont get that time to myself. joe has to work late all the time and even if it's not too late, by the time he gets back to this side of town, logan has already gone to bed. so now i might get a sunday here and there to my self, but not every week. and then i have to try to cram everything i didnt get to thru-out the week into that one day. it sucks and i never get to everything.
i cannot wait to graduate.
i keep repeating that in my head. over and over. it's all that keeps me going sometimes. ;)
well, thats all the update i have time for today. another thing- once school is over, i will be able to blog again. yae.
good nite. wish me luck for my test tomorrow (in the class i dont really get, and that i am not as prepared as i would like. ugh)
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Kristie ::
9:16 PM ::
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Monday, February 12, 2007
why arent i in bed yet?it has somehow become 924 pm and i am awake. arg. And i still need to shower. Of course, logan didnt go right to sleep when i put him down at 8, and the last time he got up was 840 and i was just killing a few minutes until i knew he was asleep so i could jump in the shower and now so much more time has gone by than i meant! i was actually finally going a reading a few of your blogs. I miss them so much. I cant wait until i have time again to really get back into them. And this might sound sort of cheesy, but I also miss the little bit of traffic i used to get here. I never had a lot, but now i have like 3 or 4 people who stop by. that's pretty lame. of course i went with no readers for a long time when i first got started, so i suppose i shouldnt complain. If i actually had time and something to post about, things would be different.
oh well.
So, remember i had those quizes/tests last week? Well so far i have gotten the grades for 2 of them and i did really good!! i got a 90 on one quiz and a 93 on my test. i still have one grade to get and one more quiz this week...yae! last week sucked. i was sick, tired and stressed the hell out over all the school work i had looming over me. why is that all your classes schedule tests and assignments to be due the same week? I mean really, do they have staff meetings and say "hey, i have a huge test coming up in two weeks, who else wants to schedule the mother of all tests?" "oh me!! that'll really mess the kids up!!"...ya, i know..i am really lame. cant help it- i was born this way- take it up with my parents. It's their fault. And my kid will be lame too. so there. i said it and i'm glad.
Anywho...
i am off to get cleaned up and get to bed.
oh one last thing! i let my sister and her friend pierce my ear lobe. (the top part). Me. The person who was petrified of piercings (even of the ear). maybe it was the few beers and the glass of wine that convinced me to let them have a go at it, but ya know what? it really wasnt that bad. the piercings i have in the lower lobes that were done with a gun hurt worse. a straight, hollow needle really is the way to go. i will take a picture this week and show it off. ;)
ok, really this time: Good nite!
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9:26 PM ::
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Saturday, February 10, 2007
what a weekthis has been the longest week ever. I had 3 quizzes this week and still another one next week. So that's one for every class i have. yuckers. So between working all week i was supposed to find some time to study...which you can probably guess was nearly impossible. But i still think that I did pretty decent on everything.
I have to work tomorrow, which is good for getting the hours, but sucks because that means i lose my sunday again. and then next week i work both saturday and sunday. eww. but my paycheck will be nice. ;)
I am just so unbelievably tired these days. no matter how hard i try, i just cant get to bed any earlier. I am usually in bed by about 9pm the latest, altho i had some later nights because of studying, but even if i am in bed by 9, getting up at 3 only gives me about 6 hours of sleep. And i am one of those people who really needs 8 hours.
but this is my last semester so it isnt forever..and school is going pretty good and so is work, so life isnt too bad. Logan is doing good, we are potty training and it's going great! He pees in the potty every night at bathtime and some other times throughout the day. He is talking up a storm lately as well. for someone that didnt talk at all for so long, he is certainly making up for it now.
well, we are going to pick up some chinese food so ... have a good week!
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Kristie ::
5:32 PM ::
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
**sigh**How is everyone doing? (and by everyone i mean the 1 or 2 people left who read my blog?)
We are finally ok again here. Today was the 1st day Logan has been feeling good in a few days. The 1st day, he just seemed a bit down and out, but the 2nd day, he started running a fever and literally whimpered and laid down the whole day. He didnt want to get up to do anything. He was crying for most of the morning, but by the afternoon, he was just laying there. All pathetic and sad. It was heartbreaking. Its so hard to see your kid feeling so crappy and not be able to anything but hold him. which was all he wanted. he was held by everyone. it was like we were taking shifts.
The next day wasnt much better, but he would at least get up a little and want to play for a bit. Still had a mild fever. But then the next morning (friday) when i went to check on him before i left for work, i discovered he had puked all over himself and his bed. So i put a blanket down on the floor so i could change his sheets and stuff and he started puking again. The kid's a trooper tho, it doesnt seem to phase him when he throws up; he just does it and moves on with his life. So anyway, my mom heard the commotion and decided she couldnt handle a puking grandson and told me to call out of work (for the first time.) ;( Which was fine, they got the shift covered and things were ok. SO logan and i slept in and that was nice and even tho he wasnt at 100%, he was definitely getting better. no more puke. Today, he seemed fine. Wanted to play alot, like he was making up for lost time or something. ANd then his daddy came and got him and now its verrry quiet here.
School is going well, altho it is taking up so much of my time. I am so busy i cant stand it. I should be doing homework right now, but i just have to take some personal time at some point! I cant believe this could really be my last semester. I have an appointment with an adviser to fill out my "intent to graduate" form on Monday. they were supposed to be turned in by december, but at the time i wasnt sure i would get all the classes i needed, so i didnt turn one in, but so far it looks like they will take mine late. we will see this week. I am also going to ask a bunch of questions about grad school. Like how i want to go, but i really need some more general information on the whole process. like whats all this about the GRE and what kind of letters do i need and all this crap. and what's involved in graduate level course, blah blah blah. i never really seriously considered graduate school until the last few months, so i never bothered to find any of this out earlier. My GPA should be good enough, so i am not worried about that.
Work is still going great, but we are going to soon be experiencing some changes. Our immediate supervisor is no longer going to be our supervisor so that means someone else will be. Which could be good, but it could suck depending on who goes for the position. We will just have to wait and see. Being so new, it shouldnt make any difference to me because i am not as set in my ways should any major changes happen, but still...There are definitely some people in the lab i would rather not have as a boss and i can tell that after just a few months there.
Well, thats enough. I probably wont be back for a week or so...Be good!
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Kristie ::
8:30 PM ::
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
hola...hey there. i really miss being able to post more often. But with school & work, it is just so hard to find time to write...
Things are going good. We are all falling into our schedules. Logan is adjusting wonderfully to day care. he goes about 3 days a week for 3-4 hours. He eats his whole lunch there, tries the potty, and even takes a nap. He didnt at first, but I guess after seeing the other kids do it all, he decided to give it a shot. Plus he seems to really like the ladies working there.
School is going good so far, i am on top of all my work so far and my teachers are pretty likeable. It is always harder when the teacher is someone with a personality you dont care for. I always have at least one teacher who is kind of different. Last semester i had a laid back-psychologist type and this semester, my art of cinema teacher is a hippie-ish film guy from San Francisco who graduated from UCLA way back when. He's a trip!
My tattoo is healing pretty good, i really am happy i got it, and Saur- actually this particular tattoo didnt hurt much. I wont lie, tattoos do hurt. But it really depends on where you get it, and how big it is. they dont hurt so much you cant take it. Some people say their hips hurt the most, but the i have on my hips actually hurt the least. My foot hurt the most. The stars nearest my "girly" area hurt, but the rest of them didnt hurt too much. And the whole thing only took about 45 minutes. So, really, by the time i was getting uncomfortable, it was over. I love my tattoos (i have 4 now, not counting the one that is covered by another one). they are addictive too. Now, i dont do peircings tho. i was scared to get my ears pierced, (altho i have 3 holes in each ear) and thought that hurt alot, so i wont get anything else. gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it.
Anyway, i have to get dinner going for the kiddo and me, so nite nite!!
here are my other tattoos..sorry not the greatest quality pics.
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Kristie ::
6:25 PM ::
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
the first week is over......finally.
It was a long week. I have a very full schedule. I know i have mentioned this before, but a year ago when i used to bitch that i was "soo tired" and "soo busy", i had no idea what the true meanings of those phrases really were. But i am pretty sure i have a good understanding of them now. ;) I also get so to see logan so much less than i am used to. And i thought i saw too little of him last semester. This semester will be worse. And i already have a decent amount of homework to get started on. Crazy. All my teachers seem nice and overall pretty decent, and a little demanding as far as work goes. Which sucks only because i really have to stay on top of things, but is overall a good thing b/c that makes sure i really know it and stay on top of the subject matter.
Today i went to a tattoo convention. The "Marked For Life - Female Tattoo Artist Expo". I went with my sister Anna (Kathleen was a super sister and babysit all day for me), and two girls we work with. It was pretty cool. And kind of humorous- i had the choice of any tattoo artist, from all over, and i chose the one from my town. When i scheduled my appointment, i didnt realize she was from here, so it was kind of funny. At least if i need any touch ups, she is local, so thats good. I got some pretty starts on my hip. (the other hip has a small fairy on it. I suppose i should take some pictures of all my tattoos..i only have pics of the last 2) Anyway, in case anyone is interested, here is my new tat:
it actually goes a little bit lower,
but i ain't showing all that on the internet, sorry. ;)
but i ain't showing all that on the internet, sorry. ;)
and another view, just cuz.
Its a simple design. And its my first non-fairy tattoo. ;) Joe thinks it's sexy, so that's good. ;) You can tell me what you think too, if you like. hint hint
Well, anyway. I should go off and do some homework, but i really dont think i want to (or will). i will do that tomorrow while logan is at his dad's. I think tonight i will take over the tv and watch my shows i have recorded, or if my dad wont give up the tv, i will just go finish the book i am reading. (i am reading The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. Joe recommended that i read The Ringworld series by Niven and since i liked them, he gave me this book to try out. Its actually pretty good. if you are into some sci-fi fantasy style. Besides, i really dont think i will have much longer where i have time to read for fun!) So anywho- good nite!
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