3 posts tagged “christmas”
Hawthorne Heights used to be one of my favorite bands, and Casey's death came as a shock to me. I really want to know his cause of death, but it hasn't been released yet. The band says that they can say for sure he was not doing anything illegal. We'll see though. He might have been on something without anyone being aware of it. I hope not, but you never know.
So when was the last time I updated this thing? It's been a WHILE. For all my invisible readers, I apologize. Life has been so hectic, insane and stressful over the past month. I have written so many essays that even the mere thought of writing for pleasure gave me shivers down my spine. And I love to write, so you know my professors had dumped a load of writing assignments on me.
Thankfully, tomorrow is my last "official" day of school. Friday is my first final (so I have Tuesday through Thursday off!), and my last final is next Tuesday. Yipee.
I'm officially broke. If it weren't for my mother, I'd be living on the streets.
Hamlet got neutered ten days ago. He is doing well and hasn't seemed to notice that he's been de-balled. Currently, he is laying at my feet chewing on a rawhide.
This ^ ^ is a picture of Hamlet and his sister at the rabies clinic on 11/17/07. His sister's name is Schnookums. Heheh. She is the one that is turned away from the camera. We were able to meet up with his sister's owners, it was neat to see her!
We got our Christmas tree yesterday. I haven't started to feel the Christmas spirit yet, but the tree is helping a bit. The first thing Hamlet did when he saw the tree? He sniffed around, checked it out, and then peed right next to it. And he hasn't had an accident in months! Grrr, he must think the tree means that he is outside or something.
Lately I've been in super cleaning mode, in order to sort of pay my mom back for the money she's been loaning me. Mopping, vaccumming and dusting... oh my!
Alright, I suppose that's all for now. I have to finish writing up an extra credit paper due tomorrow before I turn in for the night.
Question of the Day: Who do you think will win "America's Next Top Model"?
My answer: Chantal.
Yours...? Leave me a comment to let me know! Finale's on Wednesday!!
I haven't posted a serious blog in exactly two months. But let me tell you, if I had, you would be seriously bored.
So my last post was December 15, 2006. Daniel had a birthday (he turned 14) on the 17th of December, and Christmas was the 25th (well, duh). My mom, Daniel, Nisha and I went to my papa's house to celebrate Christmas with my aunts, cousins and some of Kay's (Kay is my papa's girlfriend) family.
For the New Year, we went to my moms friend Sherry's, brother's house. It was so boring and my mom got SO drunk. Around eleven o' clock I managed to talk my mom into leaving, and we went to my papa's house.
On January 5th, I started feeling sick. I week later I went to the doctor, and found out through a blood test that I had mono! I had it really, really bad. My throat was so swollen that I couldn't eat, and my head (yes, MY HEAD) was so swollen that it was squeezing my eardrums (or something) so I that it felt like I had a never ending earache. My ears hurt so bad that I had a really hard time sleeping. If you've ever had mono, you know that all you DO is sleep, so it was horrible. I would sleep for fifteen minutes and wake up because of my ears, and then I would turn my head and my neck would hurt. It would feel like I had just gotten major whiplash or something. The mono also affected my liver, so technically, I'm still in full blown mono right now. I feel pretty good on the outside, but if I press against my liver, it hurts slightly. And the horror of my liver being affected is that I can't eat greasy or SPICY foods!!!! I just about died when I heard that, because I adore spicy food. Of course, at that time I couldn't even eat anything so it didn't really matter, but still.
Because of the mono, I had to drop my winter class. So now I have a big, fat W on my transcripts. Since my bloodwork still isn't coming back normal, I have to take it easy. Unfortunately, I just started the spring semester, and let me tell you, my schedule is INSANELY CRAZY. I have four classes MWF and I made them so they are all seven minutes apart. I also made my schedule where I have to literally run from class to class, because they are all on opposite sides of the campus. And Stan State is pretty big.
Yesterday was my first day of classes, and I feel like crap today. If I don't take it easy, I could relapse and get much worse than I was. At least if I don't relapse, I'll be losing a lot of weight from all the running! Haha.
So pretty much since January 5th, I've been doing absolutely nothing. I went back to work last week, which was hectic. While I was gone, the schedules got screwed up and the paperwork was barely touched. I spent the whole first week fixing everything and catching up the paperwork.
So school! It's interesting. I'm taking LOGIC, CHEMISTRY, PUBLIC SPEAKING (ew), and ITALIAN. I am so, so, so excited about learning Italian. Yesterday, the professor walked right in the room and started rambling in Italian. At the end of the class, she talked in english, and told us that she will never again speak english because we won't learn italian that way. Which makes sense. It's a really awesome class, I can tell it's going to be lots of fun by the way she teaches it. She pretty much parades around the room talking nonsense, but I actually did learn a lot (for a first day) and left the class with a huge smile on my face. Come ti cheeami? Mi cheeamo Jessica. LOL. I don't know if i spelled that right.
Chemistry actually looks easy. The syllabus describes every chapter, and it seems like at least half of it I have already learned in the Chemistry class I took freshman year, and a quarter of it I learned in Enviromental Science last year. The class will probably go into more depth then what I have already learned, but it seems I have a good basis for succeeding.
Okay, no one is going to read all of this rambling about school, so I'm going to shut up now about that.
In other news: my mom bought me and her new queen sized beds with her taxes. I have had the same, twin sized bed since I was two, and it's kinda nasty now. My dad said he bought it for fifty dollars, so I guess it's not even a nice, old bed. I've slept on it for sixteen years, so I wouldn't know if it's a cheapy bed. It's all I've ever known!
NISHA: Things with him and I aren't going so well right now. A couple of weeks after I got sick I found out about a huge, CONTINUOUS lie that he told, so things have been pretty rocky. He really needs to move out, as I need my space to get over it, and so I can learn to trust him again (if I can).
DANIEL: Brothers, geez. So annoying, but you gotta love them. He is doing a lot better in school now, which is good. Danny did get suspended for cussing out a substitute teacher a few weeks ago (hah, he is our mothers child), but at least he isn't in danger of working at Burger King for the rest of his life anymore. Gosh Burger King, how I totally do not miss thee. I can't believe it's been almost a year since I QUIT. Gah.
CHRIS: is doing well. He got a good job in Sunnyvale or something (?) that pays around seventeen dollars an hour (I think? lol).
I guess I've rambled all I can right now... I can't think of anything more to say. Let's pray I don't over-do myself and get mono again. No more W's!!! Hehe.
The OC is starting in a few minutes, so I have to hurry downstairs to watch it. I can't believe how entirely stupid the show has gotten. Since there are only two more episodes left, I feel obliged to watch it though.
Later!
<3Jessy
I'm so excited and in disbelief that in a week it will be over. In First Year Composition, I know I got an 'A', no doubt about that. In Statistics I have a high 'C', so I am hoping the final will bring it to a 'B'! That would be awesome. In Psychology I have a 'B', and in Government I know I am going to get a 'C'. The Government grade is pretty sad, considering I took AP American Government last year. I know I could have gotten an 'A' if I had come to class everyday, and read the book, but the truth is, is that Government bores the hell out of me. It sucks that I took it two years in a row. I should have waited until the Fall Term 2007 to take it, so that there would be a bigger gap. One 'C' shouldn't kill me because it's only a general ed class, although it is depressing.
For the Winter Term I am going to take Introduction to Music. It's only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9-12. I am really looking forward to working a lot more, and making some moo-lah! And of course I'm looking forward to laying around and doing nothing (it's what I'm best at, haha). It sucks that the Winter Term ends February 3rd. After that I get a full schedule of fun and games for the Spring Term. I'm taking Chemistry, Italian, Public Speaking (ugh), and Logic. Logic should be interesting. I'm dying to know exactly what you learn and how you learn it.
Christmas is in twenty-one days! I'm already done shopping for Nishy, I might pick him up a few things here and there though before Christmas. I just need to wait to get paid this Friday. I should be getting about sixty dollars from Victoria's Secret and a 120 dollar check from the driving school. VS will cover my phone bill and twenty of the driving school money will cover gas for next week, so I'll have about a hundred to spend on gifts. I need to figure out exactly what I am going to get for everyone before I go shopping because I want to stretch every last dollar. I won't get paid at VS again until the 22nd, and my checks I get from the driving school every Friday won't be as big as this upcoming one for the rest of the month. If I can spend only one hundred and be done with shopping, life will be gooooood. I only have my mom, dad, Daniel and Chris to buy for. I want to get my Dad a few button up shirts for his birthday. I have absolutely no idea what to get him for Christmas. For Chris, I'm going to get him John Tucker Must Die and something else- I'm thinking maybe something for his new apartment. I need to go on eBay for Daniel and look up a few XBox games. I can't believe how expensive those are! It's ridiculous. I am not spending sixty dollars on one game. My mom will be fun to shop for; she gave me a huge list. I just need to narrow it down to a manageable few.
Nishy gets home from work in a half hour, and I want to get into this book I'm reading before he gets home. It's called Next by Michael Crichton. It sounds weird, but Crichton is a good author, so it should be good.
