Making a Change:

Dropping Diff EQ sometime within the next week. Failsauce.

I'm a terrible person.

Oh, and a bitch too, can't forget that one.


Rock on.

So. After a very- and when I say very I mean VERY- eventful weekend, I decided that life is okay. I'm not going to say great considering I just dropped most of the money I made this summer on books and a new phone... and I'll hopefully be paying my rent from over the summer here soon... Maybe as soon as I get my deposit back from ex-landlord Kevin Hunt? Getting a bit antsy about it since he probably took out a good portion just because he's a jerk.

But I'm kind of excited about this next year! I don't have to retake anything this semester like I thought I would have to: WHICH IS AMAZING. I have three classes specifically for my major this semester which excites me more than you can imagine! Greatest thing of all: I'm on track to graduate in FOUR years. That's right, folks. FOUR. Not five, not six, but four. This is a miracle! No doubt.

Also: everyone is getting back to Pi Phi, which is exciting at least to me. My roommate came in yesterday and it seems like we'll be getting along quite well...hopefully. This also means APO will be starting up soon too (approximately a week from today!) which, again, is exciting.

This year I'm going to try my hardest to not let some things get to me. However, I am going to try to stand my ground when it comes to things I believe in and when I'm supposed to be the leader. Most of my issues last year stemmed from ... mostly being a doormat. We'll see what happens this year- hopefully nothing too dramatic?

Trying hard to plan things ahead of time for APO events. I know I'm going to be busy so hopefully this will work. I don't know. Hopefully I can get some activities in that people like because... as much as APO is founded on Service, you need Fellowship there too so people can get to know each other and bond. Ya'know?


In other news: Ben got us tickets to the Circus on the 30th of September which will hopefully be fun! 7th row or something awesome like that. SUPER EXCITED. He also got us Rob Thomas tickets, but most of you already know that... and you will probably hear it over and over again until after the concert. It's just really exciting and I'm sorry if it's annoying but...that's how I am.
Also got a new phone: the eV3. It's blue and SHINY. Got a 8% off discount for working at Pier one! It's not a lot...but it's still enough. It pays to work at certain places!


That's really...it. Cheers

It's a FRATERNITY, not a frat.

Get it right if you're going to yell at others about it

I almost forgot! I'm going to Oregon for my Spring Break! WOOT!

So I haven't shown you guys my new room yet. It's really taken a while, but it's all put together now. Well... at least as far as MY stuff goes. I don't know what's going to happen when Anya moves in on the 15th. Hopefully she'll like how I arranged things. If you guys haven't noticed, I like maximizing floorspace. Considering I do a lot of work on the floor I thought it was a good idea.

( my new living space )

But here you go! Isn't it precious?

In other news, I think I need to go to the eye doctor. For those of you that have lived with/around me you'll know that I have glasses with a very very very low prescription for my astigmatism in my left eye (right side is just glass). Things have been getting blurry lately and I think I may have to actually USE them on a regular basis. We'll see what happens.

Annnnnnnnddd.... That's it. YAY!

I'd really update more... if I wasn't running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.

Life has been stressful to say the least. Two classes over the summer may have been a mistake and my gpa will plummet because of it. Thermo I'm doing alright in, Mechanics of Materials...not so much. Hopefully I did better on this last exam, but I'm not holding my breath. I really NEED to study more for this class but finding time has been a hassle. Between work and school I'm pretty much working the equivalent of two full-time jobs (this includes the 4+ hours of homework per day for each class), but I don't want to not see my friends so I've been trying to see them too. And of course I've been going to Ben's every Friday to see him, and sometimes he goes to Golden to see me.

Last week, Wednesday to be exact, I started freaking out about just everything. I felt like I just failed my exam, I didn't understand the homework, everything going on with my family, not enough money for school next semester... it just made me snap and all I wanted to do was cry. Things are better now, but I'm still super-stressed out and I'm probably not going to do too much with anyone until I'm on my two week summer vacation.

Things at work are getting busier. At least at Pier One... If I had enough hours to work in the day I'm sure I could be hired on as a Sales Lead- but alas I only get about 22-25 hours per week which is 8-5 hours below the minimum for the position. There have been a lot of people quitting so we were down to about...five sales associates and three managers. We just hired a girl named Lydia and it sounds like we'll hire someone else too. Hopefully we can get at least eight! Seriously. Almost all of us are working almost thirty hours each a week to make up for the lack of people and you can tell it wearing everyone down.

Metro Brokers is slow, but that's to be expected at this time. No one wants to move while their children are going off to college. Hopefully it'll pick up around September a bit. The pre-holiday stuff, you know. Move before you put out the tree and house-lights.

My mom talked to me this morning and apparently my parents want to take us to Mexico for Mine and Erik's birthdays. I talk about how I would like some fruity drink or a rum and coke: she shakes her head. Hey, you take me to Mexico when I'm legally of age in my own country, I'll have a damn alcoholic beverage. It's not like I'm going to drink 'til I'm drunk. Not that they know about it, but at parties I don't even do that- it's really just not my thing. Too bad she doesn't understand that. One drink every so often does not an alcoholic make.

On a completely different note:Angel, our dog of seven years, has a fast-growing cancer. She has a couple of weeks or so... We've been spoiling her quite a bit. Also got a puppy. We're not trying to have it take her place- no other dog will be quite a sweet as Angel is- but it does dull the feeling of loss.

Living in the sorority has been pretty cool. Nice, fast internet that isn't named anything like cuntnugget, a dishwasher, cable, multiple nice places to study, and locking bathroom doors (and bedroom too, but I don't have my key...yet? yet I hope). It's been nice also having a washer and drier so I don't have to ship things to and from my parent's house.

Ugh, my body hurts.

Other than that, life is good.
Cheers

So I am sick and tired of this whole internet showdown. SICK of it. The people upstairs have been very unhelpful and refuse to let us help. In the middle of the week last week I had just had it with them and I texted them asking if they needed me to call comcast because this situation was just making me more than a little frustrated.

Each week I have about 20 hours of work at Pier One, 7 at Metro Brokers, and most of what is left is either sleepy-time or me going to school (though I admit, as of late I've been blowing off homework to play sims... bad Rachel). Personally, I can't work around the Library's schedule so that I can sit down and have some quality internet time. [for reference, the library is open 8am-9pm every day

After Michelle and I texting them over and over they FINALLY got this router up. Username: cuntnugget. Password: doucheface. Don't care that I'm giving this out over the internet. First off: CLASSY. Secondly: if you live in my area, take advantage of the crappy internet! Though, if you high performing computers, don't even think about trying to access the internet. My connection times out before anything even loads and I don't even have that great of computers.

Lately I've been taking to getting my assignments and required readings online, saving the pdf, and printing at home. Honestly I COULD live like this, but I'm paying them for internet. I should be able to have internet if I am PAYING for it. Thusly, as of the beginning of July I will be moving into Pi Beta Phi. They have internet there.

In other news, my best tv is totally ruined. Cindy, Ryan, Sean, and I were watching a movie and all of a sudden we heard popping. The screen started going fuzzy so we turned it off. A couple minutes later we turned it on and it continued popping and then died. RIP my lovely TV. Let this be a lesson to you all: NEVER EVER even THINK about plugging in ANYTHING without a surge protector. I thought it'd be okay until I found one later, but nope. Ben said he'll help me pay for a flat-screen or something. Anything that will play dvd's on a screen that's at least bigger than my head. I'm actually thinking about trying craigslist... you never know, I might get lucky and find a nice plasma screen for only a hundred dollars! If I can secure one of those I'm going to try and get my hands on a Xbox 360. Still want one, yes. Maybe Xbox will come out with something new and my brother will just give me his when he buys the new system. I can hope, right?

On a more positive note: I found this absolutely incredible bread at safeway! It's wheat with chopped nuts baked into it. It is just SO good. Makes for some of the best peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that I've ever had (besides the kinds with my dad's jam, obviously). Also, Twinings Lady Grey Tea is amazing! The other day I needed some cash so instead of going to the ATM (which charges about the price of a box of tea to withdraw money...or at least last time I did) I went to safeway to actually get some tea and they just take money out if you put in your debit number. ANYWAY. I tastes like a lighter version of Earl Grey (possibly why this is LADY Grey) but has this kind of cookie aftertaste. You know those...vanillaish keebler cookies where you have the two vanilla cookies with some sort of really sweet, creamy stuff in the middle? Kind of tastes like that. Made me crave those like no other!

Also went to the Farmer's Market. Bought my Dad some of this Salsa which, until July, is some of the spiciest salsa on this side of the country. That is his father's day present from me. The lady was really nice and actually gave me her sample bag of roasted peppers to go with it. She told me he won't have any hair by the end of it.

Also bought some a-sparrow's-guts and a basket of cherries. The cherries were awesome and are gone now, though I haven't had time to actually cook myself some of the asparagus (sp?! goodness I'm lost without spell-check).

 

Anyway, I better be off and actually get my thermo homework done so I won't have to do it on Tuesday (my only day off for another week).

Cheers

For the past couple weeks I've been living at my parents' house. It has been weird because it doesn't feel like home to me because what was my room has turned into mine and my dad's room (my dad snores so loud that he can't sleep with my mom...). It's been kinda hectic going from babysitting to working at Pier One back to Aurora just to do it again the next day.

Pier One has been giving me a lot of hours. This is both good and bad... Lots of people have left: Kim, Sherri, Bessie, and now Holly. Farah is going to India to visit her family there for a few months. No one knows if Jessica is going to come back. She got injured in February and still hasn't been back to work. Brittany is going to school at CSU in the fall, so she'll be gone as soon as summer is over. Needless to say, we need people. I've offered to work more hours until the end of summer so that Bonnie has time to find more people. There is a Racheal that starts work today. Hopefully she'll stay a while.

Tonight I'm going back to Golden, finally. Though, I came back on Friday and spent the night. It was weird because since Michelle and Jason have been living there by themselves, they've kind of made it just their place. The kitchen has been taken over by recycling and Jason's kitchen things. I made a little room in the fridge for my things, and I put bread on the shelf which I think I've unofficially had for my stuff the entire year.
Went to the Parade and Celebration for Golden's 150th birthday. It was pretty awesome! Good cake too... Lots of free stuff.

Later, we re-arranged the stuff in the house because I thought it was about time for a change. My television is now in the kitchen area where the table used to be. After arranging Cindy, Kirk, Blair, Sean, and I watched Taken. I've seen that movie so many times, but it is always just as good. Michelle and Jason were out...I think bowling? Until about eleven, maybe ten. Didn't really talk to them much. The way it goes I guess.

Found out the internet wasn't working. That was kind of... upsetting. Especially because I start summer school next week and one of my books is online... Really need that fixed.

Packed up lots of my kitchen stuff. I think glassware will be next. Leave plates til near the end of my stay there.

Parents want me to move out of that house and into the sorority house that first week in July. Dad's taking off that week and says he wants to take my larger things (desk and such) out of there. May or may not be a good idea. They say they'll pay for those extra few weeks, but they don't have money and I know it so... I don't know. We'll see.

Looking into buying Kirk's Xbox 360 off of him. Get Xbox live to play with Kacie (<3!) which would be AWESOMELY FUN but horridly time-consuming. We'll see how well-off I am by the time Fall Semester comes around. Working so many shifts at Pier One will really be a great help though. No joke.

Went to Riley's Birthday yesterday. It was fun, and I saw a ton of people I haven't seen in forever. I love the Cuevas Family. They kind of rock.

Well, taking advantage of internet while I still have it so I better get to my pre-class reading.

Cheers!

So, there hasn't been an update in a while. This kind of saddens me.

Right now I'm living out of a suitcase at my parent's house. I'm temporarily residing there so I can babysit a couple kids. It is good money for just waking them up, feeding them, and taking them to their respective camps.

Next week school starts up for me again. I honestly can't wait. Just working all the time really gets tiring. Though it has been nice getting twenty hours a week. Nice paychecks...

Anyway. Ben might be (actually it's almost certain: I just don't want to jinx it) getting a job at Dish Network. This is good. I have a toothbrush at his house now. IT'S A BIG DEAL. Actually it's not really a big deal.


Now. I visited Sam and Riley yesterday. I love visiting them! However, this morning I get a text from Sam. Eric (you know, cheated on me, left me [twice!], said he wanted to get back with me then dumped me a day later: that Eric) has asked her out. I realize a lot of what happened between him and I is my own damn fault and I should stop being so...crazy over it, but still.
I mean, I love Sam to death. If he makes her happy, so be it. I just hope that he has changed and that he endeavors to deserve her.

Plus, I really still want karma to kick his ass.

ANYway.
I guess I should say that I passed all my classes last semester. Passed being a relative term for Calculus III. I'm hoping Diff EQ is easier than that, but you never know. I'm hoping with a lot of work and determination I can pull my GPA to a 3.0 and pass everything well from here on out. Maybe ask for Saturday evenings off so that I can spend time with Ben at least once a week, then maybe friday evenings with my family... Pretty sure that my life will turn into a schedule again as soon as fall semester starts. Hate it, but that's the way it goes.

Pretty happy though about this next week. I get TWO days off. Super awesome, I think. Monday and Thursday. Need to get times switched with somebody on friday since I can't open seeing as I babysit Blake and Rory in the mornings...

Anyway. Life is good.

Cheers

For future refrence:
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/

Just a note to everyone who wants to haggle:
After this has been tried several times by people at my job I thought I should tell you that at Pier One, unless the piece of furniture/pillow/rug is the LAST ONE and is damaged you will NOT get a discount on it.
Unless you get a pier one card, of course.

It's just so annoying when people try to haggle and get friggen PISSED OFF because you won't.


Haggling is not in our policy, sorry. 

As many of you know, Don will be having open heart surgery on Wednesday, April 15^th at University Hospital.  He is in stage four of congestive heart failure, and has been in poor health.  A Left Ventricular Heart Assist System will be implanted (please see diagram attached).  The device assists the heart with pumping blood to the body, enabling the recipient to have more energy and have a better quality of life.   He is expected to be in ICU for two weeks after the surgery and will be in the hospital for one to three months.

 

He was admitted to the hospital this morning and is in Surgical ICU, room 227.  After a barrage of tests with more to come tomorrow, he is in good spirits and is ready to get on with the surgery.  Surgery is scheduled for Wednesday morning at 7:30am, and is expected to take a minimum of six hours to complete.

 

Yours prayers would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

Love,

Dottie & Brenda

1st Corinthians 7.

There.

Well, Lisa Fury (a girl I know from Dove Creek) posted THIS on facebook. Really glad it didn't happen. Most of my cousins who live in the area go to that school.

Shooting up people really doesn't solve your problems... Unless they are shooting at you in which case, yes, shooting at them would solve your problem.

P.S. Dove Creek High School is part of Dolores County Schools, not Farmington. Way to go, journalist.

/SIGH. WANT

Also WANT

Damn you, school, for making me so poor.

Forgot to add:
:D I have an interview for an internship with Oldcastle on the materials end.

YAY!

So, here's the thing. I COULD actually catch up next semester to the amount of credits I ought to have at this time. The ONLY problem is that it's 19 bloody credit hours AGAIN.
While, yes, that's a lot of credits, I would very much like to be where I ought to be and not have to continuously play catch-up.

Hopefully I won't have as much to do next year/sememster... maybe actually utilize the committee I will (maybe) have as (maybe) fellowship chair of APO (you never know, I could be challenged on the floor today).

I don't know. I think I could pull it off. Maybe? You know, I could try it and if it's too hard I can drop Soil Mechanics. It's just, I can take Mechanics of Materials WITH Soil Mechanics and I think I want to do that so that I can get those out of the way.
Then there's this petrography class I'm required to take (wasn't on the 2006-2007 checklist I printed and showed cindy...) but it's only 2 credit hours!

According to the flow chart I just found, I could plausably drop thermo as well. Good to know...


You know what? I'm going to do it. Will be restricting the work schedule though...

This is me royally pissed off.
due to ( Trevor Huffman's Email )

He is a horrible person to whom I've been nothing but nice too.
Fellowship is to me as APO is to Cindy. It's pretty much my baby. I love it to death.
I've tried to get rooms in the Student Center for events like movie days, but it never works out so I have them here. Plus, I will admit, I am lazy. OF COURSE I WANT TO HAVE STUFF HERE. However, most of the time I do it is ME scheduling it and michelle and cindy knowing is usually an afterthought.

He never has done anything efficiently. As far as I know he's never done the paperwork (which, let's face it, I haven't either but I have STARTED! ). Trevor never notified us of cancellations which IS his job, despite what he told us when Children's Hospital stuff was canceled.

He has never been nice. Most of his emails have been as rude as possible, this one included.


And asking us to not respond? That is what a coward does. No brave martyr has EVER said "please don't kill/maim me for my opinions".
So stop acting like a martyr, Trevor.


And his reputation? He never had a good one. Everyone I've mentioned his name to thinks he's a jerk.

In short: I am angry at what Trevor has said. I'm sorry for ever giving him the benefit of the doubt. He never deserved it.



On a side note: yaaaay diva cup

So. Update? Yes. I think so.
( Oh pictaurs )

So I somewhat did what my mom said and today I applied for two internships. One in Utah and one in Maryland.

GOOGLESEARCHDON'TFAILMENOW.

Not that I have anything else to do ANYWAY. Since they blocked EVERYTHING.

And the phones changed so they are all...weird. I don't know. People are all "I've been on the line twenty minutes" and I'm all "sorry! It doesn't even show me you called! D:!"

On the plus side though, I've spent time with Ben and his family (at least his brothers) AND I got to sleep in on Saturday. YAY! I'm pretty sure this isn't my brother's or sister's break so unfortunately I probably won't be able to spend much time with them except for tonight and maybe tomorrow night if I decide to stay there. Maybe I should stay another night- if anything, for my brother's sake. He did kinda just stick up for me the other day.
My siblings are becoming exponentially cooler as they get older/more mature. Thank goodness.

I'm pretty excited for habitat for humanity on wednesday! I've always wanted to do it, but I just haven't ever been able to. On that note: I need work gloves. Considering what I want to do with my life, it would probably be a good idea to have them anyways. And probably need to find sturdy shoes, because my tennis shoes are falling apart/ made out of cloth instead of leather.

Also: Initiation for Pi Phi in a few weeks! :D
Also, Also: APO is only a few steps from being a chapter! :DD
Also, Also, Also: Sean's parents okayed us using their cabin in Bailey! Retreat for APO after all! :DDD

Also, Also, Also, Also: I still need to get fellowship paperwork done x.x damn.

BUT! In minerology Rebecca, Kristin (sp?!) and I have decided to start a study group. Once a week (or more depending on material) from like 7-9pm in the lab classroom. Hopefully I can pull my grade up. UGH. I hate/love that class so much.

Oh. Need to study statics as well. I wish I didn't suck at it and that he would give us a review because that is what helped me do well on the previous exam. Jackass, saying we needed to study just the class problems and not a guide. WHAT IF THAT IS HOW I STUDY, EH? EVER THINK OF THAT YOU... ANGRY JERKFACE?! /fail.

just hope I don't fail. I really can't afford to fail.