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Thankful to be alive? Sure, I guess You could say that. Yesterday was a really weird day. I was supposed to meet my friend at 11 to go to ZUMBA lessons. I don't know too much about it, except that it's a kind of dance. I was really looking forward to it. I've been trying to exercise a lot more often. And when I say 'exercise', I mean walking on the tread mil. I know it's not much, but it's a lot more than I'm used to. I go at least a mile each time I'm on it. Anyways, i thought this ZUMBA thing sounded totally exciting. I love dancing and thought that this would be a great way to exercise and have a lot of fun! Anyways, I never actually GOT to the lessons...
Back Story....
Friday Night....
... ... ...snowed and snowed and snowed. I was out all day too. I went and got my hair done at 3, and didn't get out till 6. I was going to the Christmas concert at 7 and needed to head straight there. It wasn't snowing at all when I got to the salon at 3, but when I left, it was snowing pretty good. Driving sucked ass. The college was pretty from where I was, so I knew that it was going to take some time to get there and that I would probably be late. I was hungry too, so I stopped at Subway for a bite. Anyways...I ended up getting to the concert 10 minutes late, which was fine. I didn't care, but now the snow was turning into like a blizzard or something! I wasn't looking forward to what it was going to look like when I left the college. Anyways..the concert was pretty good! The performing arts center wasn't very big, so it was kind of low key. Very different than when I was in Choir in High School. But that's okay. As I grow up, people and crowds are just NOT my thing. I'm beginning to really not like the general public and that means crowds. The concert was excellent. One Choir sang-instead of Christian Christmas songs-they sang popular Jewish Hanukkah songs. Even though I'm not Jewish, I found it to be really cool! The songs were excellent! I loved this one song, I believe the genre is called 'ladino'. It was like this Spanish, Jewish song...it was awesome. So anyways, after the concert, I had plans to meet up with my friend for a couple drinks. We planned on meeting at 9 and the concert got done at 8. The bar was RIGHT in town, so I had time before we were going to meet up. I ended up going to Target for a little bit and didn't buy a THING! Lol. That's really good for me! So anyways, we went to this bar in town and they had two-for-ones. I have a new favorite drink. I ordered Amaretto and coke. It was so good! They had a DJ, so we danced a bit too. I can't dance for the life of me, but I love it! I just make up my own moves and probably look like a total nut! lol Anyways, the drive home sucked a little. I drove between 35 and 45 miles an hour the entire time. Don't get me wrong, tho, the snow was VERY, VERY beautiful. I just wished the roads weren't so shitty. Anyways, today, the snow plows had plowed all the roads and laid down salt/sand...
Forward to yesterday morning....
So I was on my way to ZUMBA lessons with the friend I hung out with Friday night. The roads seemed okay, but I was still being careful. Or at least I THOUGHT I was. The roads around my house are also pretty curvy and windy. There aren't any really sharp turns, which is good, but still. So I was driving around the first curve, watching the vehicle that was coming TOWARDS me (i wanted to be sure that i didn't slide into him...so maybe i was being a little too cautious....)so anyways, as i was doing that, i ended up twirling around a couple times and slid into the ditch. i hit this huge bump/slash driveway thing that the tractors use to get into the fields, and my car just slid back about 100 feet or so. my front grill and fender came off and my passenger airbags flew open. The entire time it happened, I was completely calm. I didn't try and stop what was happening. It was gonna happen either way. i just kept a hold of my steering wheel. I didn't scream or yell or anything. When it happened, I was just shocked that I was actually twirling around and that I hit something so hard to make my front come off and my airbags come out. I was also thinking, as I went into the ditch and hit that bump, that the car was going to flip over. Thank Heavens that It didn't. People stopped and asked if I was okay, which was totally sweet. I was only about 2 or 3 miles away from my house. I called my dad right away. As I was waiting, I still had cars stop to see if I was okay. I think I was way more shocked than hurt. I just laughed and said I was fine. And I really was. One guy offered to help me pull out (thats what he said. lol) and that he had to go to his brothers to get the equipment...well by that time, my dad and brother got to where i was and we decided to see if I could just drive out, and to our surprise, it worked. Lol. so yeah, my car is still very drivable. the only think I don't have is my right blinker and my right fog light.
Since my plans with my friend got cancelled and my lil' wipeout occured, I just felt like I had to be productive somehow yesterday. I just NEEDED to do something. I decided that my laundry really needed to be done, so I did that. lol. and I also ended up calling my insurance company to file a claim. My dad had me worried that they weren't going to cover it since it was just ME and no other vehicles were involved, but I called them and they said that they'll take care of everything and that I just need to pay the deductible which is only 500 dollars. So that was like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders! I was so scared cuz I have like NO money, whatsoever...especially NOW with Christmas upon us. I told my dad that I'd probably have to wait until after the Holidays to get it fixed, but he told me that I can't wait to do this and that I just need to fix it ASAP...I just happened to receive an offer for a credit card in the mail and decided to apply right online...and within minutes i was approved!!! SO yeah!!! My day looked up even MORE! I'm so excited! I hope that I'm smart with this card and just use it for my deductible and then pay it off right away with the dog sitting money I'll be getting in January. So yeah, my day started off kinda crappy, but the end turned out to be great! I'm so excited to get my car fixed. I'll even get the little dent/hole fixed from my little fender bender that happened back in June. Lol...wow...I just have the best of luck with cars huh? So that was yesterday.......
So as I mentioned in the last paragraph, I'll be dog sitting next month. The WHOLE month! From January 2nd to February 2nd. They're paying me 400 dollars which will be pretty awesome and necessary. lol. My only concern is what the weather will be like cuz its going to be a further drive to school. Okay, so as you guys MAY know, I'm not the biggest dog fan...let me rephrase that...I'm not the biggest HUGE dog fan. Lol. The dogs that come anywhere past my knees and above are NOT okay with me. Lol. Any dog that can plow me over is on the list of dogs I can't stand. Lol. The dog I'm watching the one of the 3 dogs that I watch regularly. 2 of those 3 dogs are ginormous and the dog that I'm watching in Jan. is a little yorkie poo. SUPER cute! I can't wait.
School has been keeping me pretty busy, but I love it. Although I really don't know WHY I like it so much. Nothing super exciting has happened or anything. Lol. idk, I just think that I feel like I have more of a life going to school. I like that I'm doing something other than just work. I have 4 more days of classes which is completely unbelievable. I can not believe just how fast this semester has gone. I'm really looking forward to next semester too! I'm taking 5 classes, which sounds like a lot, but one of them is Choir, and that'll just be like an instant A for sure. lol. Anyways, I'm doing pretty well in the classes that I have now, which makes me believe I'll do good, if not better, NEXT semester. I'm also trying something different too. With the semester i have now, i have 2 days of classes a week: Mondays and Wednesdays, and i'm there ALL day. From 10am to 8pm. But next semester, I'll be there Monday-Thursday and I wont have a class past 1pm. so hopefully that works out with work too. They might not be too happy for whatever reason, but they can kiss my ass. Lol.
Speaking of work...I just had my 6th year anniversary with that place. Lol. it sucked though! No one bought me presents! lol. Other than that, work has been just okay. I'm starting to get a little more adamant with the customers because I'm sick and tired of always being walked on. I hate that just because I'm young and UN-intimidating that the customers think its okay to yell and be upset with me because of THEIR stupidity!
Okay well I'm not going to talk much more about work. Nothing major has happened lately. I've been wanting to write a lot lately! I think that my English writing class is doing that to me. Lol. And you all know how much I love writing! :D Just look at this post! Granted, its been a long while since I've posted an update about life, but still...I really am thinking about Michael and Jan again. I have a couple stories in mind, but I'm not sure when I'll get to them. I just would like to see at least ONE more ep of the office with Jan in it, but I know that wont happen soon. What I CAN write tho is something that only needs an ending and editing. I had wrote about a year or two ago a MJ fic that i just havent finished yet. I just hope people will be able to appreciate it even though MJ aren't nearly the same anymore. Its back when Jan was like JUST showing her little crazy side. Takes place after 'Women's Appreciation' so yeah, keep in tune for that fic. :D
Okay, now I'm going to bring it down a few moods. Lol...and talk about Last month...one of the most depressing months I've had since God only knows. My friend's baby of 2 and half weeks died. He was born premature and had to have surgery because his intestines grew on the outside of his stomach. Well, the surgery went great. The doctors said everything seamed to be healing as planned. and that he'd be home in no time. Well, I don't want to get too into this, since its a pretty touchy subject (even for ME) , so the long story short is that he died...I took it so hard. To this day, I'm still crying about it or tearing up about it. I just wished I could've met him. My godson. I wished I could've been there for my friend Kayla. She moved to WA state, so i couldn't be there for her. I can't imagine what she must be going through. I haven't talked to her for a few weeks. I plan on calling her tomorrow though to make sure she's doing okay. There were a few reasons, I think as to why I took this so hard. One was that this baby SAVED my friend. He saved her. And I will forever be grateful to him because of that. She got into some pretty horrible stuff within the last few years and was beginning to clean up before she got pregnant, but her getting pregnant made her STAY away from all those bad things, you know? She always seemed to bounce back and forth with being really good to doing drugs and drinking a lot. So anyways, another reason I think I took this so hard was because I felt connected to this baby. Even though I never met him, being his Godmom made me feel like a part of him. Is that weird? Another reason is because I could NOT imagine if my little nieces of nephew ever died. it would be very difficult to find a reason to go on with life. So yeah, I definitely put my life in her Kaylas shoes. i think about losing ANYone thats close to me and that I love...it just breaks my heart. And this is also happening all around a famous Holiday-Thanksgiving. How can I praise God and thank him for taking away a little life from the one person who needed him the most! ? So yeah, that was hard to do so. I HAVE, however overcome that thought. I couldnt kill myself by playing the 'what if' game. God has a purpose I know He does. Whether its a GOOD one or not, thats another story. And I can't believe how much I ;m STILL thinking about it. Kaylas boyfriend was hawaiian and so the baby had some hawaiian in him, obviously...his name was Kekoa. Kayla loved the Hawaiian verion of 'Somewhere over the rainbow' Sung by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. They played it at his funeral. Well today I watched 'Fred Clause' and at the very end, they played that song in the background. Isnt that weird? Out of ALL the songs they could've played, why that one? Okay, so enough about that....
One year ago exactly...Sky and I 'met'. lol. I can't believe its been a whole year. It all started with this awesome LJ site and I'll never forget that day. We've been through a few ups and downs but all of those downs have made our friendship stronger. So again, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Sky! Lol. Thanks for writing that awesome fic! You did a great job! :D
Oh and I just thought about something else, my brother who just got married in Spring, and his wife are expecting their first baby in July. I'm pretty excited about. I LOVE being an auntie. Just today I went over to my sisters and played with my neices for a little bit. The older one had to go to a birthday party so I didn't get to see her too long. And the younger one, who's only 1 year and a half, was due for a nap. Well what I love so much is holding her close to me and walking around a little bit with her until her eyes got heavy. I love the feeling of little ones fallling asleep in your arms. My brother-in-law, beforehand, was like 'you don't have to do it, i can.' but I WANTED to do it. I love the feeling just so much. She's just such a sweetheart. Her sister, the older one, was NEVER like that. She would fall asleep in your arms, but once you laid her down, she'd start bawling her eyes out. But with my niece Arica, you dont have to put her in crib when she's sound aleep. She doesn't cry or fuss. She knows when she's tired. Lol. She's just so adorable! Lol...
Alright, i think that's gonna do it for me tonight. I wrote most of that LAST night, but never finished. I really need to get going on some homework...night night everyone! :D
Back Story....
Friday Night....
... ... ...snowed and snowed and snowed. I was out all day too. I went and got my hair done at 3, and didn't get out till 6. I was going to the Christmas concert at 7 and needed to head straight there. It wasn't snowing at all when I got to the salon at 3, but when I left, it was snowing pretty good. Driving sucked ass. The college was pretty from where I was, so I knew that it was going to take some time to get there and that I would probably be late. I was hungry too, so I stopped at Subway for a bite. Anyways...I ended up getting to the concert 10 minutes late, which was fine. I didn't care, but now the snow was turning into like a blizzard or something! I wasn't looking forward to what it was going to look like when I left the college. Anyways..the concert was pretty good! The performing arts center wasn't very big, so it was kind of low key. Very different than when I was in Choir in High School. But that's okay. As I grow up, people and crowds are just NOT my thing. I'm beginning to really not like the general public and that means crowds. The concert was excellent. One Choir sang-instead of Christian Christmas songs-they sang popular Jewish Hanukkah songs. Even though I'm not Jewish, I found it to be really cool! The songs were excellent! I loved this one song, I believe the genre is called 'ladino'. It was like this Spanish, Jewish song...it was awesome. So anyways, after the concert, I had plans to meet up with my friend for a couple drinks. We planned on meeting at 9 and the concert got done at 8. The bar was RIGHT in town, so I had time before we were going to meet up. I ended up going to Target for a little bit and didn't buy a THING! Lol. That's really good for me! So anyways, we went to this bar in town and they had two-for-ones. I have a new favorite drink. I ordered Amaretto and coke. It was so good! They had a DJ, so we danced a bit too. I can't dance for the life of me, but I love it! I just make up my own moves and probably look like a total nut! lol Anyways, the drive home sucked a little. I drove between 35 and 45 miles an hour the entire time. Don't get me wrong, tho, the snow was VERY, VERY beautiful. I just wished the roads weren't so shitty. Anyways, today, the snow plows had plowed all the roads and laid down salt/sand...
Forward to yesterday morning....
So I was on my way to ZUMBA lessons with the friend I hung out with Friday night. The roads seemed okay, but I was still being careful. Or at least I THOUGHT I was. The roads around my house are also pretty curvy and windy. There aren't any really sharp turns, which is good, but still. So I was driving around the first curve, watching the vehicle that was coming TOWARDS me (i wanted to be sure that i didn't slide into him...so maybe i was being a little too cautious....)so anyways, as i was doing that, i ended up twirling around a couple times and slid into the ditch. i hit this huge bump/slash driveway thing that the tractors use to get into the fields, and my car just slid back about 100 feet or so. my front grill and fender came off and my passenger airbags flew open. The entire time it happened, I was completely calm. I didn't try and stop what was happening. It was gonna happen either way. i just kept a hold of my steering wheel. I didn't scream or yell or anything. When it happened, I was just shocked that I was actually twirling around and that I hit something so hard to make my front come off and my airbags come out. I was also thinking, as I went into the ditch and hit that bump, that the car was going to flip over. Thank Heavens that It didn't. People stopped and asked if I was okay, which was totally sweet. I was only about 2 or 3 miles away from my house. I called my dad right away. As I was waiting, I still had cars stop to see if I was okay. I think I was way more shocked than hurt. I just laughed and said I was fine. And I really was. One guy offered to help me pull out (thats what he said. lol) and that he had to go to his brothers to get the equipment...well by that time, my dad and brother got to where i was and we decided to see if I could just drive out, and to our surprise, it worked. Lol. so yeah, my car is still very drivable. the only think I don't have is my right blinker and my right fog light.
Since my plans with my friend got cancelled and my lil' wipeout occured, I just felt like I had to be productive somehow yesterday. I just NEEDED to do something. I decided that my laundry really needed to be done, so I did that. lol. and I also ended up calling my insurance company to file a claim. My dad had me worried that they weren't going to cover it since it was just ME and no other vehicles were involved, but I called them and they said that they'll take care of everything and that I just need to pay the deductible which is only 500 dollars. So that was like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders! I was so scared cuz I have like NO money, whatsoever...especially NOW with Christmas upon us. I told my dad that I'd probably have to wait until after the Holidays to get it fixed, but he told me that I can't wait to do this and that I just need to fix it ASAP...I just happened to receive an offer for a credit card in the mail and decided to apply right online...and within minutes i was approved!!! SO yeah!!! My day looked up even MORE! I'm so excited! I hope that I'm smart with this card and just use it for my deductible and then pay it off right away with the dog sitting money I'll be getting in January. So yeah, my day started off kinda crappy, but the end turned out to be great! I'm so excited to get my car fixed. I'll even get the little dent/hole fixed from my little fender bender that happened back in June. Lol...wow...I just have the best of luck with cars huh? So that was yesterday.......
So as I mentioned in the last paragraph, I'll be dog sitting next month. The WHOLE month! From January 2nd to February 2nd. They're paying me 400 dollars which will be pretty awesome and necessary. lol. My only concern is what the weather will be like cuz its going to be a further drive to school. Okay, so as you guys MAY know, I'm not the biggest dog fan...let me rephrase that...I'm not the biggest HUGE dog fan. Lol. The dogs that come anywhere past my knees and above are NOT okay with me. Lol. Any dog that can plow me over is on the list of dogs I can't stand. Lol. The dog I'm watching the one of the 3 dogs that I watch regularly. 2 of those 3 dogs are ginormous and the dog that I'm watching in Jan. is a little yorkie poo. SUPER cute! I can't wait.
School has been keeping me pretty busy, but I love it. Although I really don't know WHY I like it so much. Nothing super exciting has happened or anything. Lol. idk, I just think that I feel like I have more of a life going to school. I like that I'm doing something other than just work. I have 4 more days of classes which is completely unbelievable. I can not believe just how fast this semester has gone. I'm really looking forward to next semester too! I'm taking 5 classes, which sounds like a lot, but one of them is Choir, and that'll just be like an instant A for sure. lol. Anyways, I'm doing pretty well in the classes that I have now, which makes me believe I'll do good, if not better, NEXT semester. I'm also trying something different too. With the semester i have now, i have 2 days of classes a week: Mondays and Wednesdays, and i'm there ALL day. From 10am to 8pm. But next semester, I'll be there Monday-Thursday and I wont have a class past 1pm. so hopefully that works out with work too. They might not be too happy for whatever reason, but they can kiss my ass. Lol.
Speaking of work...I just had my 6th year anniversary with that place. Lol. it sucked though! No one bought me presents! lol. Other than that, work has been just okay. I'm starting to get a little more adamant with the customers because I'm sick and tired of always being walked on. I hate that just because I'm young and UN-intimidating that the customers think its okay to yell and be upset with me because of THEIR stupidity!
Okay well I'm not going to talk much more about work. Nothing major has happened lately. I've been wanting to write a lot lately! I think that my English writing class is doing that to me. Lol. And you all know how much I love writing! :D Just look at this post! Granted, its been a long while since I've posted an update about life, but still...I really am thinking about Michael and Jan again. I have a couple stories in mind, but I'm not sure when I'll get to them. I just would like to see at least ONE more ep of the office with Jan in it, but I know that wont happen soon. What I CAN write tho is something that only needs an ending and editing. I had wrote about a year or two ago a MJ fic that i just havent finished yet. I just hope people will be able to appreciate it even though MJ aren't nearly the same anymore. Its back when Jan was like JUST showing her little crazy side. Takes place after 'Women's Appreciation' so yeah, keep in tune for that fic. :D
Okay, now I'm going to bring it down a few moods. Lol...and talk about Last month...one of the most depressing months I've had since God only knows. My friend's baby of 2 and half weeks died. He was born premature and had to have surgery because his intestines grew on the outside of his stomach. Well, the surgery went great. The doctors said everything seamed to be healing as planned. and that he'd be home in no time. Well, I don't want to get too into this, since its a pretty touchy subject (even for ME) , so the long story short is that he died...I took it so hard. To this day, I'm still crying about it or tearing up about it. I just wished I could've met him. My godson. I wished I could've been there for my friend Kayla. She moved to WA state, so i couldn't be there for her. I can't imagine what she must be going through. I haven't talked to her for a few weeks. I plan on calling her tomorrow though to make sure she's doing okay. There were a few reasons, I think as to why I took this so hard. One was that this baby SAVED my friend. He saved her. And I will forever be grateful to him because of that. She got into some pretty horrible stuff within the last few years and was beginning to clean up before she got pregnant, but her getting pregnant made her STAY away from all those bad things, you know? She always seemed to bounce back and forth with being really good to doing drugs and drinking a lot. So anyways, another reason I think I took this so hard was because I felt connected to this baby. Even though I never met him, being his Godmom made me feel like a part of him. Is that weird? Another reason is because I could NOT imagine if my little nieces of nephew ever died. it would be very difficult to find a reason to go on with life. So yeah, I definitely put my life in her Kaylas shoes. i think about losing ANYone thats close to me and that I love...it just breaks my heart. And this is also happening all around a famous Holiday-Thanksgiving. How can I praise God and thank him for taking away a little life from the one person who needed him the most! ? So yeah, that was hard to do so. I HAVE, however overcome that thought. I couldnt kill myself by playing the 'what if' game. God has a purpose I know He does. Whether its a GOOD one or not, thats another story. And I can't believe how much I ;m STILL thinking about it. Kaylas boyfriend was hawaiian and so the baby had some hawaiian in him, obviously...his name was Kekoa. Kayla loved the Hawaiian verion of 'Somewhere over the rainbow' Sung by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. They played it at his funeral. Well today I watched 'Fred Clause' and at the very end, they played that song in the background. Isnt that weird? Out of ALL the songs they could've played, why that one? Okay, so enough about that....
One year ago exactly...Sky and I 'met'. lol. I can't believe its been a whole year. It all started with this awesome LJ site and I'll never forget that day. We've been through a few ups and downs but all of those downs have made our friendship stronger. So again, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Sky! Lol. Thanks for writing that awesome fic! You did a great job! :D
Oh and I just thought about something else, my brother who just got married in Spring, and his wife are expecting their first baby in July. I'm pretty excited about. I LOVE being an auntie. Just today I went over to my sisters and played with my neices for a little bit. The older one had to go to a birthday party so I didn't get to see her too long. And the younger one, who's only 1 year and a half, was due for a nap. Well what I love so much is holding her close to me and walking around a little bit with her until her eyes got heavy. I love the feeling of little ones fallling asleep in your arms. My brother-in-law, beforehand, was like 'you don't have to do it, i can.' but I WANTED to do it. I love the feeling just so much. She's just such a sweetheart. Her sister, the older one, was NEVER like that. She would fall asleep in your arms, but once you laid her down, she'd start bawling her eyes out. But with my niece Arica, you dont have to put her in crib when she's sound aleep. She doesn't cry or fuss. She knows when she's tired. Lol. She's just so adorable! Lol...
Alright, i think that's gonna do it for me tonight. I wrote most of that LAST night, but never finished. I really need to get going on some homework...night night everyone! :D