This might be a long entry....
Well its been a long time since I've updated, and SO much has happened, so I thought I'd catch you all up on my life.
Let's get some dates out of the way first. There is a (tentative) party scheduled at my Aunt's house (940 Columbia Rd. i think) for my birthday. It's probably going to be the Sunday before it, so Sept 10th. it's about a week away I guess. It'll be a family party too, but I'm guessing my aunt is supplying the alcohol (and they like to drink too lol) and there will be a pool, and probably a Bengal's game on TV, and food and fun stuff like that. So if you would like to come, clear your calendar :) My guess is it will be early afternoonish, or evening. I'll post more details when I have them.. I wasn't even aware of this party until the other day lol. Also, I guess Wednesday night the 13th people are planning to go out uptown since i will turn 21 at midnight:) Cmon guys, there's really only one more 21st birthday to get thru right?
School has been...not what I expected this semester. I'm freaking out about Cognitive Neuroscience, but i figured out that I can't drop it because then I will only have 11 hours, and even if I get one more from Trish (I'm helping Megan F with her experiement) then I will have to take 19 credits next semester which would probably kill me. I have to take 17 as it is, and that will be hard enough. So I guess we're going to stay in it and try our best. This is the first class I've ever had though where i've been completely confused at everything the class and the prof are talking about. I'm so confused and it sucks :(
Our capstone is so awesome though. We have Simson, I love that man. For the whole semester, in a CAPSTONE, all we have is a group presentation, and a paper on the same subject as the presentation! How awesome is that? And he is great, we get out early all the time, and when we don't, we love being there because he is so interesting. I hope I can take psychopharm with him next semester because he is amazing.
Work has been pretty stressful. Better now that I don't have to work as much, but it's still 5 days a week, just half days. Thank God this is the last weekend I have at McDs though. Now I will be off every Saturday and Sunday night :) So I guess once everything settles down, my schedule won't be too bad this semester.
My car has been a piece of shit lately. Its been doing its deiseling thing more and more, so my Grandpa bought a repair manual for it to try to figure out what is wrong, and I guess we are going to make an appointment for it next week. It got new tires too because one of mine totally popped lol. It was so embarrassing when I took it in because it was "shimmying" and the guy shows me a completely ruined tire. I felt like such a stupid woman. My grandparents paid for those tho, so that helped a lot. And hopefully they will pay for the other thing. I'd like to just get a new car, but noone seemes to be able to afford a monthly payment, including me, so i guess we're just going to get it repaired again as long as it isnt thousands of dollars.
And here is the sad news. I know a couple of you know this already, and if I didn't tell you, don't be upset or anything because I just wasn't ready to talk about it with lots of people yet. I've just been thinking about it a lot this past week and figured it would be sort of therapeutic to get it off my chest. Last weekend, we found out that my little sister Lucy has leukemia. My Dad called me Saturday night while I was at work all upset and told me about it and everything so Jon and I went up to visit them on Sunday. Apparently he took her to the hospital Friday night because she was pale, and bruising easily, and had a loss of appetite for a few days. They did some blood tests and told him that she has leukemia. If you have to have it when you're a kid though, the kind she has is the best kind to have. It has like a 80-90% cure rate. And she's getting to the age where she is stronger and her body should be able to fight it better too. Plus, when she gets through all of this, she is young enough that she probably won't remember much of it at all. Other than maybe growing back her hair :( She started chemo this week, and they said she's got about 2 years or maybe a little more worth of treatment. She'll lose all her hair, and be sick for the first couple days after each treatment, but it's a small price to pay I guess. Anyways like I said we went to see her last Sunday while she was still in the hospital and she was doing really well. Apparently much better than when Dad took her in. I held her for a long time, and fed her and played with her. She looked like a normal kid, aside from being a little groggy and being hooked up to IVs. I don't know if any of you have seen someone that young in the hospital though, no matter how healthy they look, it tears your heart out. Pretty much the whole family was there.. It was nice to get to see everyone, but it sucks this had to happen to bring us together. A lot of people from their church came and brought goodie baskets and stuff for the kids to play with. It was good to see they have such a web of support. We all got to play with Wade and Maddie and Blaire too, and talked to them about all the changes the family is going to have to make. I think they are doing okay, so thats good. I haven't heard anything else since Sunday, so I'll let you know how she's doing as soon as i find out. Yeah so keep Lucy in your thoughts and prayers for me, please :o\
Well sorry to end on such a sad note, but I've got bills to pay, laundry to finish, reading to do, and work to get ready for so I gtg.
<3,
me
Let's get some dates out of the way first. There is a (tentative) party scheduled at my Aunt's house (940 Columbia Rd. i think) for my birthday. It's probably going to be the Sunday before it, so Sept 10th. it's about a week away I guess. It'll be a family party too, but I'm guessing my aunt is supplying the alcohol (and they like to drink too lol) and there will be a pool, and probably a Bengal's game on TV, and food and fun stuff like that. So if you would like to come, clear your calendar :) My guess is it will be early afternoonish, or evening. I'll post more details when I have them.. I wasn't even aware of this party until the other day lol. Also, I guess Wednesday night the 13th people are planning to go out uptown since i will turn 21 at midnight:) Cmon guys, there's really only one more 21st birthday to get thru right?
School has been...not what I expected this semester. I'm freaking out about Cognitive Neuroscience, but i figured out that I can't drop it because then I will only have 11 hours, and even if I get one more from Trish (I'm helping Megan F with her experiement) then I will have to take 19 credits next semester which would probably kill me. I have to take 17 as it is, and that will be hard enough. So I guess we're going to stay in it and try our best. This is the first class I've ever had though where i've been completely confused at everything the class and the prof are talking about. I'm so confused and it sucks :(
Our capstone is so awesome though. We have Simson, I love that man. For the whole semester, in a CAPSTONE, all we have is a group presentation, and a paper on the same subject as the presentation! How awesome is that? And he is great, we get out early all the time, and when we don't, we love being there because he is so interesting. I hope I can take psychopharm with him next semester because he is amazing.
Work has been pretty stressful. Better now that I don't have to work as much, but it's still 5 days a week, just half days. Thank God this is the last weekend I have at McDs though. Now I will be off every Saturday and Sunday night :) So I guess once everything settles down, my schedule won't be too bad this semester.
My car has been a piece of shit lately. Its been doing its deiseling thing more and more, so my Grandpa bought a repair manual for it to try to figure out what is wrong, and I guess we are going to make an appointment for it next week. It got new tires too because one of mine totally popped lol. It was so embarrassing when I took it in because it was "shimmying" and the guy shows me a completely ruined tire. I felt like such a stupid woman. My grandparents paid for those tho, so that helped a lot. And hopefully they will pay for the other thing. I'd like to just get a new car, but noone seemes to be able to afford a monthly payment, including me, so i guess we're just going to get it repaired again as long as it isnt thousands of dollars.
And here is the sad news. I know a couple of you know this already, and if I didn't tell you, don't be upset or anything because I just wasn't ready to talk about it with lots of people yet. I've just been thinking about it a lot this past week and figured it would be sort of therapeutic to get it off my chest. Last weekend, we found out that my little sister Lucy has leukemia. My Dad called me Saturday night while I was at work all upset and told me about it and everything so Jon and I went up to visit them on Sunday. Apparently he took her to the hospital Friday night because she was pale, and bruising easily, and had a loss of appetite for a few days. They did some blood tests and told him that she has leukemia. If you have to have it when you're a kid though, the kind she has is the best kind to have. It has like a 80-90% cure rate. And she's getting to the age where she is stronger and her body should be able to fight it better too. Plus, when she gets through all of this, she is young enough that she probably won't remember much of it at all. Other than maybe growing back her hair :( She started chemo this week, and they said she's got about 2 years or maybe a little more worth of treatment. She'll lose all her hair, and be sick for the first couple days after each treatment, but it's a small price to pay I guess. Anyways like I said we went to see her last Sunday while she was still in the hospital and she was doing really well. Apparently much better than when Dad took her in. I held her for a long time, and fed her and played with her. She looked like a normal kid, aside from being a little groggy and being hooked up to IVs. I don't know if any of you have seen someone that young in the hospital though, no matter how healthy they look, it tears your heart out. Pretty much the whole family was there.. It was nice to get to see everyone, but it sucks this had to happen to bring us together. A lot of people from their church came and brought goodie baskets and stuff for the kids to play with. It was good to see they have such a web of support. We all got to play with Wade and Maddie and Blaire too, and talked to them about all the changes the family is going to have to make. I think they are doing okay, so thats good. I haven't heard anything else since Sunday, so I'll let you know how she's doing as soon as i find out. Yeah so keep Lucy in your thoughts and prayers for me, please :o\
Well sorry to end on such a sad note, but I've got bills to pay, laundry to finish, reading to do, and work to get ready for so I gtg.
<3,
me