Ok, so its been months

Well, Ill try to make this fast and short and get everything in here. Since clinicals things have been busy. I like it ok, I like the job more than the facility, Ill try to elaborate more on how I feel about it when they start back up in January. As for school and grades, I got two As and two Bs, I am happy with that. I also got 7 check-offs this first semester, so I am feeling good about that. Things were crazy with school and work, esp around finals. It seemed like classes were never going to end, but here we are and 1/4 of the way through!
Mom finished her chemo. She has to go get an IVIG treatment once a month through the spring but then she will be done with that. Its an immune system booster and will help build her back up. Hopefully, she will go into remission and stay there for a long time. Unfortunately we will not know and the doctor cannot say what he thinks will happen for sure, that is upsetting and some real finality would be nice, but we will take what we can get in this arena. You hear all the time about people going into remission and whatnot, but with moms particular cancer there are no guarantees.
I had a birthday and I am now 26, there really isnt much exciting to say about that. It was a good birthday and Chase got me some good stuff. JoJo took me shopping and I got some good new clothes, including a new winter coat, its really nice and I love it.
Its good we got that coat because its been freeezzing around here! In November the temperature dropped off and only returned to the 50s once or twice. Since December started its been snowing off and on all month! Now we are lucky to get out of the 30s. I dont think its been in the 40s in at least 3 weeks. We are in for a long winter around here. But on the bright side its looking like we will have a white Christmas for the first time in a long time. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and its supposed to start snowing tomorrow through Christmas Day.
Right now the issue is that I have too much going on at Christmas and I am having a difficult time finding time to spend with Chase's family. I want to see his immediate family, but work is messing it all up. They want us to work Christmas Eve and so we cannot do much after that. Then all day Christmas Day Im booked because of my family being divided, and we are going to work Christmas Night because work sucks. I guess as long as Chase and I get to exchange our presents Ill be ok. I just hope when I get older we can figure something out to make this work. Or I wish the restaurant would go away so we could do it Christmas Eve and it not be a big deal. Blah, itll get worked out. We managed to make Thanksgiving work, but its not quite as busy.
Clyde is still being a butt-face but not as much of one as of late. We also got him a dog house and an outside pen, but its been so cold he only got to use it for a couple of weeks. I have no idea what we are going to do in January and February when Im back at school and clinicals all day and Dad's at work. I guess we will cross that bridge when we get to it. Im going to do a better job of keeping up from now through the rest of the year and beginning of next year.

Clinicals Started

Nothing much has been going on, my dogs a buttface and doesnt listen well enough. But we are working on it. Work has been slow and stupid, so no news there. I was also off school for a week and it was nice but of course got me out of my routine. Then I had my scope and it came back that I have gastritis, which I figured, but I have to do a stupid OTC trial before they will give me any actually medicine. That makes me really mad because I did that before the scope and if it had worked I wouldnt have had to go have the scope, but insurance companies as crap and so I am stuck for another couple weeks in pain.
I did start clinicals this week, so far I have only gone on Tuesday and it was fun. Definitely really weird though. My clinical instructor, CI, is sick so I think she wasnt quite herself the first day. She didnt really know what as a first year I was supposed to and wasnt supposed to do. I got to do a lot of things and get a lot of great experience. I think that I will be able to do a chest xray and KUB and even hands and get a checkoff on them by the end of next week. Then I can start on some of the harder things we have learned. The only things I am not a 100% on is the techniques but I know the positions really well. I am getting to see some of the spine positions and other things like that before we even do it in class which is good. Although when we have down time I dont really know what I am supposed to do and it makes me feel bad/useless. I am hoping that tomorrow is even better than Tuesday. Wish me luck!

School, mostly

I guess I havent posted in a long time. It definitely wasnt purposeful. School has been keeping me very busy. In the last two weeks I have had 6 tests! We had a take home patient care test due the same day we had a physics test and film screen test. Then that Wednesday we had a film screen lab test. This week we had our positioning and procedures lecture test and then today the lab test. CRAZY! I got a 96% on my patient care and film screen, then an 82% on my physics, but the physics and film screen lecture tests get averaged, so thats an 89%. Then on my positioning and procedures lecture I got a 95%, no word on the test we took today but I know I made one small mistake but it wasnt worth a lot of points so I pulled either a high B or a low A. Either way with the lecture test and the quiz grades I have an A in pos. and proc. and a B in physics film screen, patient care an A. As long as I get B's in all my classes I will be happy, I dont want to have any C's on my record for this program. I have just set my goals that way and thats how I feel about it. So, as you may be able to guess from this post school and studying has been very consuming, and honestly its only going to get worse. We start our clinicals on the 12th of October, which is very close!! Once we are in clinicals we have class Monday 8-3 or 4 and Wednesday 1-3 or 4 then Ill be in the hospital Tuesday and Thursday from 730-2! Talk about busy and no free time! I dont know if I will even be able to work the three days I work now then! I guess Ill find out real quick.
On the note of work, the weather has finally changed to fall and its super nice but work is still EXTREMELY slow. I am making like no money at all and its almost not worth it. If it wasnt for the fact that I dont want to be so dependant on JoJo I would just quit. I mean I am working Saturdays from 1030 am to 9 or 10 pm and only making like $80-$100. Thats totally not cool and unacceptable. I really wish we would pick up some because the money I have has been depleting faster than I expected. But at this point there is nothing that I can do about anything. Just keep on pushing on. Plus a couple people at work or someone in particular (I havent figured out who) is trying to get things started. Some people were talking last week about how I was talking crap about Maci, Davids gf (Chase's brothers gf), they took two sentences and twisted them all crazy into something they werent and Maci was really hurt and I had to explain that things hadnt happened the way they were making it seem it was super stupid. Then the next day someone told Alexis, the bartender who I have know since I worked at Bravo, that I was bitching about her, and I wasnt literally I walked up to the bar and didnt see her and went, "wheres Alexis?" and someone turned this into me saying "where is Alexis? Shes never here this isnt the first time I came up here tonight and she was gone." WTF. People are petty. I find this so irritating but its not worth it for me to ask who it is because I dont feel like stooping to their level and starting a bigger issue. But this makes me want to work there even less obviously.
Things with Chase have been great. Nothing too exciting or unexciting to update about us. Clyde is doing just fine, he's adjusted to me and dad really well. The worst thing is fighting with him to stay out of the trash he really like used kleenex, qtips and paper, whatever, slowly Ill break him of it, at least he doesnt like gross things, I mean a kleenex is a little gross but there are MUCH worse things. That's all for now I suppose.

Verdict is...

Well, its not a 100% but the verdict is no surgery, just a stomach scope. Doctor says the HIDA Scan shows that my gallbladder is operating at 95% which apparently above average. He says that since I do have polyps one day my gallbladder may go down the drain but that wont be today or really anytime in the near future so thats excellent news. Although, now we are back to square one, what is really wrong with my stomach? So, on October 6th I will have a stomach scope, yes its as bad as it sounds but they will put me to sleep. It only takes 15-30 minutes, they use a camera to check out my stomach and the beginning of my small intestine and take a couple of biopsies while they are in there. He said the worst part will be the drink I have to have to numb my throat, apparently it tastes horrible. Although I believe the worst part will be the IV. When I went to get the HIDA Scan the entire thing was a disaster. The radiology department and the hospital had my appointment at 830 but the nuclear medicine department that actually administers the test had me at 930. So, after waiting until 9 I asked and got taken back, but then the girl couldnt get an IV in my right arm, she stuck me once and it was EXTREMELY painful, and she realized I had a valve right there. So, out that one came then she tried a second vein twice and that one wouldnt return the blood, so she had to stop and wait for someone else to come start my IV. Like 20 minutes later some guy came and got it going in my other arm but I had to keep my arm completely straight the entire time and it still stung like hell. The stupid scan took an hour and a half from there. All in all we were at the hospital from like 750 until 1230 blah. Hopefully, this stomach scope will give me a final diagnosis on whats really wrong with my stomach and then I can get on the right track with medicine or treatments or whatever is needed. I wish that I could have the scope sooner but its the closest date that they have available. Oh well, just one day at a time and Ill get it under control soon enough. Although, it does suck that one of my veins is still bruised from the inability to get an IV started in my crappy veins.

Dog and Surgery Updates

Good news and other news. The good news is I got a dog. He is a beagle and I named him Clyde. He is super cute and very good so far. He like to chew a little but he hasnt destroyed anything yet. I am just keeping a close eye on him to keep him from getting into any trouble. How I got him is sort of interesting. My friend Chris' mom has a friend who randomly acquired him and couldnt keep him. She said he just waltzed in the front door of the Y the other day looking not so hot and they were going to send him to the pound, so she took him home. She has two other dogs and no space, time or money for another so I told her I would take him to keep him from going to the pound. He is house broken so that is good. The only thing is keeping an eye on the trying to chew things.
As for other news, its not bad and its not good I suppose. The surgeon said he wanted me to have the HIDA Scan before he said for 100% that I was going to need/have the surgery. So, in the morning I am going for that and by Friday I will know what the deal is. We did go ahead and schedule the surgery, because he stays very busy and we needed to secure the closest date possible as soon as possible. So, if I have surgery if will be Oct. 4, unless a closer date comes available through cancellation and then Ill jump on that. The HIDA Scan is where I drink some medical liquid fat and they see what it does to my gallbladder and how it reacts. If I have an under active gallbladder then surgery is on. If it functions at even 80% then I have to start having multiple other tests done to figure out what sort of digestive issue I actually have. Which I really dont want to do. I am not very excited about the idea of surgery but I am less excited about tons of testing. Ill keep updating as I know more.

Short

No dog for me. The lady who found him decided to keep him, now thats shes had him a week she has bonded with him. So, that sucks, but I suppose it wasnt meant to be and things will work out when they should.
Also, I have nothing to do for the next like week. No, school and they only thing on my prospect list is going to the doctor, possibly like 10 times to get this possible surgery situation underway. Oh, well I do have like one lectures worth of index cards to do, but that wont take two hours. On Wednesday people in my class are having a study group but I dont know if I will be able to go because I may have to go to some doctors appointment. I hate that I wont know what the heck is going on until Tuesday.
Chase may go to Alabama for the stupid football game next weekend, that is if I dont have the surgery next Friday or Saturday. Even if I dont have the surgery until after that I dont want him to go. My weekend will super blow and be really boring. Plus Ill miss him bunches and bunches. But I know he wants to go and get out of work if he can. I guess we will just see what happens.

Dog Possibilites

I may be getting a new dog. My aunt works with a lady who found a dog wandering around McNeely lake last weekend. He is a young Australian Shepherd and he is deaf. She put an ad in the paper but hasnt gotten any response. The lady cant keep him because she already has dog and he is not especially fond of this new dog being around. I told her if no one calls to get him then I will take him. She said if she doesnt hear anything by Sunday then he is mine. He is deaf so thats an issue, but she said he is very nice and calm and quiet. We arent 100% on if he is house trained but she says he is cage trained, so I am hoping that means he is house trained as well. I suppose I am going to have to call PetSmart or somewhere and see if they have special training for deaf dogs. Oh, the lady also says he walks on a leash just fine he just doesnt like to be near the road. I am very excited about being able to help this dog. My one question I cant figure out is what do you name a deaf dog?

Surgery impending

I have been having stomach problems again. They came back slowly and I just assumed it was my acid reflux that bothered me so bad as a kid coming back. I tried my old over the counter methods and as they began to fail miserably I decided to make a doctors appointment. Well, my doctor is out on emergency family leave and her covering doctor couldnt see me this week. So, I just made an appointment for next Tuesday. The pain was just too intense and lasting and Chase convinced me I shouldnt wait until next week. He said he would go with me to the immediate care and I agreed to go. When I got there I explained to this doctor my old problems as a kid and my problems now and he immediately said, sounds like gallbladder disease. He then went into a long explanation about why he thought this, and was unfortunately very convincing. They then scheduled me for an ultrasound the next day, which was this morning. I went and the lady was like, "Yes I can see the gallstones, see them?" And I could a lot of them. That meant it was a positive test and my gallbladder has failed me and has to be removed. The good thing about this is normally with someone my age the ultrasound is negative and you have to have a nuclear medicine scan. But I dont have to have that since its blatantly obvious I have gallstones. At this point I dont know anything further. I am hoping we can get this surgery on the go and I can have it next week since I dont have school all week. If I did have to have it during my school time they wouldnt count it against me or take my days I am allowed to miss away because of it, but I really dont want to miss the lectures and get behind in that way. Especially at the beginning of school like this. Well, I am going to go to the store and buy some fresh fruit to eat, since anything with fat in it may potentially make me feel like complete shit. More updates as I know what the heck is going on.

I guess I should post....

Not very much exciting has happened to me, since my last post. School has been going well, we havent got to do very much yet. Our processor isnt up and running so we havent been able to do any experiments in lab. That has meant we have had shorter labs than normal. Although today in lab we were able to do the first practice positioning and procedures. We did a KUB, upright abdomen and decubitus abdomen. Basically, the three most common of abdomen x-ray procedures. It wasnt that bad and I think it will go well. Monday we have our first quiz in physics and film acquisition. Hopefully, it will go well the only thing that I am worried about in that way is the conversions. There should only be 3 because its only a 10 question quiz, but I guess we will see how it all works out. Keep your fingers crossed I do well. Other than that the only thing has been work. This past weekend was actually a good weekend at work. It was how it was all last year. We were busy and I made over $100 a night. Thank goodness things are going to turn around and hopefully it will continue through October. I think the mild weather that has finally come is helping. Its quite odd here for this time of year. This week has been the fair and typically thats the hottest week of August, but instead the heat and humidity have subsided and its really very pleasant. I dont know what to think of it though. I am afraid that it will mean an early, quite long, and extremely cold winter. But with this crazy weather there is no telling, maybe this nice weather is just a fluke and will pass and go back to hot. All I care about is it being nice fall weather for my birthday.

Last Week and the First Day of School

Last week was busy. I went Monday to moms to dye her hair. Then that evening I went to Chase's game. The Tuesday Chase and I drove up to Cincinnati for the Cardinals v Reds series. It was awesome. The hotel, not so much. It had a great location and the lobby was super nice. But the we got in the room, it was small, had two double beds, an old tv with a terrible dark picture, and the bathroom had an entire other list of things wrong with it. But whatever, it was only $82 off hotwire, although I am not sure Id ever use that site again. Anywho, we headed to the night game on Tuesday and we could walk there, so that was nice and that part of downtown Cinci is nice. The game was lots of fun, we got there like 30 minutes early and had good seats. About 15 minutes into the game the sun went down the other side of the ballpark and the temperature greatly improved. Even though it was a hot night it was bearable with the sun not beating down. We saw the awesome fight that was started by Brandon Phillips and Yaddy Molina. For those of you who dont watch sports, it was a bench clearer and super long and awesome. Both managers got ejected for the entire game. Then we saw this girl and guy behind us both go head over heels for a foul ball, which was sweet. We also saw a grand slam, had a couple of skyline chili-cheese dogs, and the Cardinals won. Then we went back to the hotel and had a drink and went to the room. We then realized since we werent so hot that we were hungry and got a Papa Johns pepperoni pizza and ate the entire thing. The next morning we got our stuff together and checked out of the hotel. Then we went and bought two tickets off one of the many scalpers. This game was at 1215 on Wednesday and it was super hot. We had tickets in about the same spot which was great. We sat through the first 3 innings then had to get out of the sun for awhile. Once we sat back down with our ice chills, a couple innings later the clouds came rolling in then in the 7th it rained. We had to take a rain break for about 40 minutes then it cleared up and we finished the game. Cardinals won again, we swept the Reds! Then it was time to get on the road home. We got to the 75 71 split in N. KY and 71 S was closed, so we decided to drive past it and get off and drive around the 8 car wreck that was in the way, which is a good thing because even with a 40 minute delay on the detour the road was still not opened when we got to 71 again outside of Warsaw. But it was smooth sailing home for us!
The rest of the week involved work, work and more work, for no money what so ever. I am not going to comment on that any longer since you have heard that before.
Today I went to school for the first day. It sucked to have to get up that early at 640, to leave by 710, to get to school before 8. Gotta love east end to downtown traffic. We had all three of our classes today but the lectures were a little shorter than normal, so we got out at 2, but they said not to expect that to happen again or often. Normally, Mondays we will be there until 4 or 430 at least. I just hope we can get out before 5 when downtown goes to all hell and the drive home takes forever. I really like the teachers and think that it is going well. I am getting to know a few other people in our class slowly and everyone I have met seems nice and fun so far. It seems like there is going to be a lot of information to absorb and mostly it seems like it will be hard to discern what material is for which class because they all sort of cover the same basic information. I am sure it will be more clear as we get a little more into things.
Tomorrow I am going to see JoJo, Chase is going to Illinois with his dad for two days to check out this hunting property he is going to hunt on once or twice in the fall. So, tomorrow night I am going to be lonely and bored it seems, I guess I will look over my school stuff.

The Past Week

Not very much exciting has been happening. Work is still super shitty. So, I am just not going to comment on that. Because there is no good news just more me complaining about the entire situation.
On the other hand I went to my second orientation for my program and that went well. I have to go down on Monday to give Don some paperwork to put in my file. I am going to pick up my parking permit while I am there. I will only have school two days a week until October, then I will have school two days and clinicals two days. I got Jewish East as my clinical site, so I will be off Dutchmans for that. Which isnt as bad as going downtown. But I have to be there at 730 meaning working at 730, so I will have to do a test run and see how long it takes to get down there and be there by 705. I am going to work some while in school, more until October then much less. I have decided though that I am not working on Sundays anymore period. I need that day to rest, regroup and get ready for the week as well as be ready for any tests etc. If they wont work with me on this I will tell them just to take me off the schedule completely. Because I am not going to wear myself out for them anymore. Its not that big of a request but we will see how it works out. I did have a temporary freak out with my financial aid. I got $1500 a semester this year and tuition is only $1250, so it will be covered. But the day I got my letter saying the aid was awarded it was no longer visible on my peoplesoft account. So, I spent two days calling down there, sitting on hold for 30 minutes at a time, left 3 messages, sent an email, and finally on the second day at 352pm someone picked me up off hold (it was the second time i had been on hold for 30 minutes that day) and she said that it was odd that the aid wasnt visible on my peoplesoft but that the grant was there on the school information so not to worry, my tuition will be paid. Then I found out that FAFSA doesnt award the money until Sept 2. Which seems really stupid to me, they should pay it when school starts and the money is due not three weeks later. Whatever as long as it get paid I guess.
Next week Chase and I are going to Cincinnati for a St. Louis Cardinals game vs the Reds. I am excited because we are getting to go do something just us again before school starts for me. Plus, I have never been to a professional baseball game. Also, we will be out of town so that will be fun. We never get to do things so I am very excited. Ill make sure to write next week after we get back and tell you all about it. Until then its time to finish laundry and ironing so I can go to stupid ass work tonight.

Work = Not Cool

The heading to this poat may make people think, well duh, work is not cool or fun. The sad thing is it used to be a little of both, at least most of the time. But lately it been the opposite. I am always going in as the 4 or the 1030 which is an opener for either shift and then I get cut before I ever have a chance to make any money. So, I go in and do all the leg-work and then everyone else saunters in and takes tables, make lots of money and leave. It is really starting to piss me off. Like today for example, I got in at 1030 and Saturdays are always super slow. So, I had all of two tables over the course of 4 hours and made all of $10, but tonight I am going to go back and get cut early because I am a dbl, even though I made no money and we did everything to be prepared for the night shift. Its really a lot of bullshit. I wish Chase would find a new job, because then they would piss me off and I would quit. Sure, Id have to find a different part time job to supplement the income but itd be better than putting up with this shit all the time.

The Simple Things

Its really sad, that as we get older we get really excited about simple stupid things. For example, I am super pumped about my car insurance going down. As of recently, I have been paying $800 every 6 months for liability. Since, my wreck has finally been settled and everything now removed, I can get a new quote. Now I am able to pay $560 something for full coverage every 6 months! Can you imagine that much of a change? I am so excited. Oh, and thats with only a $500 deductible, thats crazy good. The only thing is I have to get the chip in my windsheild fixed before they will put comprehensive and collision on my car. So, that is todays mission. I am headed out to Poplar Level to GlassDoctor in a bit to have my chip patched, but I am not going back to get the insurance put on until after the first, because I have a shit-ton of bills coming out and they will want another down payment when I add the comp and collision.
Also today, the cable company came and fixed our internet, phone and cable. Our internet and phone are going out randomly 3 to 4 times a day for maybe 5 minutes maybe 20 minutes. Its really annoying. The guy ran us a new line from the pole to the house and is putting a monitor on our service for a few days to see if it keeps going out why it is still going out. But I am hoping that the new line will fix the situation and nothing else will happen and we dont continue to have this issue.
Tomorrow I am going to see JoJo. We are going to order my books online for school, I checked and Ill save approx $125 by ordering them through Amazon rather than buying them from the bookstore. Also, I need new work shoes, pants, and if I can manage it I am going to get her to get me some mederma and my Imitrex prescription. Normally, I would try to get the meds myself, but work has been slow and money is not been perfect, plus I need like $200 more before my bills are due Friday. So, everyone keep your fingers crossed that I make some seriously good money tonight.

Good News

Well, so far so good on blogging closer together. I got my background check report back last night, and it had my drug test result attached. I didnt know they were going to send my drug test results in with my background check. But they did and I passed! There was nothing in my system at all. Which it says that 50 nanograms of cannabinoids will cause you to fail. That is like 0.00000005 grams. So, an extremely small amount. I am just so excited that things went well and I have nothing to worry about. I am in my program free and clear, and on the way to my future. Things are going so well in my life now. I feel like everything is finally falling into place. I really couldnt be happier in my own life. Obviously, I wish things were better for my parents, but as for my life I am very happy right now.

Ok, Ok, so its been a long time

Again, I am going to try to get caught up on this and then actually stay caught up. I have been thinking of updating lately, but I know how long it has been so it seemed a daunting task. Today though I am prepared and I have nothing else to do so I might as well get on it.
School ended well, I got all A's and I got into my program! That's right I was one of twenty-one people they picked to be in the radiography program for 2010-2012. By May of 2012 I will be a certified Rad Tech! Well, all that is pending on the drug test I just took yesterday. I have quit smoking weeks ago and been drinking a lot of water, but I was still petrified that I would not pass it. Chase just keeps telling me I have done all I could and that it will be fine. I pray that it is because otherwise I am totally screwed in regards to school, and I will have to tell my JoJo (and the rest of my family) that I cant be in the program because I couldnt pass a drug test due to THC. That is super pathetic, I know I can stay quit for the entire length of the program its only 21 months starting next month, and that is completely worth it for a career and the rest of my life. I just hope I quit soon enough. If all goes well I am going to my second orientation on Aug 3rd and will find out the rest of the details of the program and my schedule. So, everyone keep your fingers crossed that I will pass my drug test!
Chase and I went on vacation and it was absolutely wonderful. First, we went to Naples, FL and getting there was an adventure. Delta put us on our plane and took us off twice before we left, and if I hadnt used priceline to book our flights we wouldnt have been scheduled a later flight in Atlanta and would have gotten stuck there, we got to Tampa 4 hours late. Which sucked because we didnt get to spend much time there with his family that is in the area. Although the people I did meet were very nice and it was a good visit even if it was cut short because we had to drive to Naples which is about 2 and a half hours south of Tampa. When we got to the hotel it was super nice. We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort. The reason we were staying at the Ritz was because Jim and Morgan were getting married at the beach resort. That night and the next day we just spent time together and had a great time. The next evening we had the meet and greet with the wedding party, their families, and friends. It was great to get to see Gabe and Kevin, as well as Jim, Morgan, and their families. We all had a good time and the hors douievers were great, plus free drinks! After the meet and greet we went to the sushi bar and had some really good sushi and more drinks. The next day was Sunday and it was the wedding. It was absolutely beautiful and perfect, Morgan cried the entire time. Rob came down from Sarasota that day so we hung out with him before the wedding. After the wedding we had drinks, took pictures, and then had a nice meal at a long table followed by more drinks, music, and cake.
The next morning we headed to Melbourne, where Chase's uncle has a beach house. Melbourne is just a little south of Cocoa Beach, so we had to drive across Florida and to the north, it took like 3 almost 4 hours. When we got there, it was really nice, the Atlantic coast is very different from the Gulf coast. On the Gulf the water is very calm and warm and on the Atlantic there are a lot of waves and it is cooler. We had a few days there by ourselves before his uncle, aunt, cousin, and there friends and family came. Rob came and spent a day with us before his family came. At first just his aunt, her friend, and his cousin came. We had lots of fun with them. Although, we went to this little bar with his cousin and the end of that night was not very fun. Chase thinks I got drugged, cause I got extremely sick and the next day was very bad, like not hangover bad, it was completely different, I felt like I was having a panic attack and I couldnt eat but wasnt really throwing up, plus I was super weak almost unable to get up half the day. But by the evening it passed. Chase took care of me the entire time, he was so wonderful. It was here that he also told me he loved me. So, obviously now we are completely official. After the day in bed, the rest of everyone started to show up and we had some good food, followed by a great day at the beach together the next day. But then it was time to go home. Which really was not ideal.
Ever since we have been home things have been perfect. Chase and I are always together. He is completely different than before the trip. I could not be happier. I think this is for good, he and I and it makes me so happy and content. We always spend time together when we arent at work whenever we can.
On a much less happy note, while I was in Florida, my mom got sick and had to be in the hospital for a few days, she was still there when I came back actually. This particular sickness sent her cancer into a fit. Her oncologist told her she was now in stage 2 of her cancer and that she needed chemo. They wanted her to do 6 months of chemo. During this time she cant spend a lot of time in the public, really any time, and cannot be around babies. She only has to receive the chemo 2 days of each month, but it makes her very weak for a while after receiving the medicine. We have now done the first two months worth of treatments. These two times I have taken her one day and JoJo the next. Because next month I will be in school and wont be able to help, so JoJo will have to take her the entire time and thats hard on her. She will be 70 next month and although she is in good health its very stressful and she doesnt drive as well as she believes she does. On a good note the first treatment mom received went extremely well, and while we were there receiving the second treatment her doctor said she was doing so well that if it continued like this he may not have her do the entire 6 months. That would be wonderful, because the last months treatment would be around Christmas time so mom wouldnt be able to do any shopping and would feel sick the week directly before Christmas. But things are looking up and I am praying that they continue that way.
Work is driving me crazy, I am so sick of working with lazy people and pulling more than my fair share of the weight. If it wasnt for the fact that I get the shifts I want and some preferential treatment due to being part of the family basically, and that I dont want to have to learn a new restaurants way of doing things I wouldnt be there any longer. Lately, its also been slow due to the extreme heat we are experiencing this summer. It got hot in June and has never cooled down. It has felt like August all month, at this point I am just waiting for September and hoping that fall kicks in early with a little relief.
Dad still doesnt have a job, but Velinda gave us a good lead on one. I am hoping that it will work out well, if he doesnt get a full time job by the winter when the mowing stops, he wont have enough money to keep the house. Chase said we could live together if I have no where to go, but I dont know what my dad will do. Unless his girl friend suddenly changes and wants him to come live with her.
I lost my Buddy Dog. I came home from work one night and he was laying paralyzed on the floor. Chase rushed here to help me take him to the emergency vet. They said he had encephalitis and that it would take weeks to help him and then he may only get back to 60% of himself. I could not up him through all that. So many treatments, living alone in a little cage, I could only visit him an hour a day really. We had to let him go, it was extremely hard and sad. I still miss him so much most of the time. I just hope he knew how much we loved him and that I did all I could for him. Right now, I am not going to get a new dog. I want to wait and see how school goes and how much free time I really have. JoJo is going to help me with money, but I will still have to work some as well as the fact I will need to spend more time studying than I have in the past.
Chase finally met all my friends except Chad and Tiff, Chris and Laura had a big party for their birthday and we actually got to go. I think he liked Kurt and Ashley best, which is good since they are the most important, being my brother and sister-in-law and all.
I think I have covered everything from the end of the school year through today now. I am going to try to update once a week or every couple of days. But I have failed at that goal in the past, hopefully this time I will do better. I wont be going anywhere so that should help.

Not much

I havent blogged in a few days but nothing exciting has happened. Just been busy with school and work. Trying to make enought money for the vacation and trying to get through the last two weeks of school.
I did buy two dresses for the vacation they are both sundresses more or less. They are cotton and go to my knees. One is solid yellow and bright and has thicker straps. The other is blue with white flowers that are outlined in black, it has a halter design top. I really like them. I had to buy dresses because I got the dress I wanted to take out of the closet and it had a mystery stain on it. So, I took it to the dry cleaners and the couldnt get it out, so I tried to get it out using the "old wives tale" way and it came like 60% out, so I am going to try again but in case I need two dresses for the wedding and this way if I get the stain out I can have 3 dresses for the summer and the trip! The mystery stain is really annoying though, it looks like cooking oil or grease does but it had an orange-red tint to it and it was NOT on the dress when I put it in the closet so, wft...
So, is not bad, classes are boring and short in a lot of classes. I did half of the volunteering thing. We went to the Volunteers of America and got split into the two guys and two girls the guys went to the cafeteria to help get ready for lunch and myself and Tanya went to straighten things up and clean out some things. First, we cleaned out the basement and organized the donated toys that were left from Christmas. Then we organized the extra towels, blankets, and pillow cases in the office/storage room. They gave us a tour but there wasnt much to it. The rooms, the cafeteria, the living area, and the toy room, plus a little library with a couple of computers. The people who stay there are either recovering women in one area or the families in crisis in another, they also can stay there during the day and have a private room, one per family, rather than having to stay in a group room and leave between 9am and 5 pm. It was interesting and eye opening, but more than anything Tanya and I talked. She is from Pakistan (looks Indian) and we just talked about life and culture differences, she has only been here 4 years so we just asked a lot of questions. That was fun. We have to go back this Wednesday too for 2 hours I cant wait to get it out of the way.
Other than that all I have done is work. I didnt get to go to Thunder or anything else. I am working again all this weekend. But gotta make that money, right?

Finger update

I went to my doctor today because I just dont feel comfortable with how it was looking and feeling for that matter. Well, she told me that I need to go to Kuntz and Kleinarnt, which are the world famous hand surgeons here in town. Yep, hand surgeon, she thinks that the stitches need to come out and the silver nitrate needs to be rubbed off and then it needs to be re-stitched. So, I am super excited about this. Luckily, mom can go with me tomorrow afternoon so I dont have to drive home from the doctor after they fol with my finger but I will have to drive back to my house from moms. Plus I have to miss my humanities class because the only appt they could get me soon enough is at 3 pm tomorrow. Speaking of I need to write my teacher an email and let her know why I wont be there tomorrow. Oh and if I couldnt make things worse I slammed my middle finger into the front door yesterday trying not to catch my ring finger in the door. Therefore basically two or my fingers dont work properly on my left hand. Blah.

Argh!

So, as I have previously stated I am going on vacation and obviously I have bills so I am a little stressed. I dont want to have debt after the vacation but that means I have to pay it off before we leave. I also have to have money to pay all my bills that come due 2 days after we get back from vacation, and have money to spend while on vacation. So, to say the least I am worried about money and I need to work as much as I possibly can. Well, this morning of course I would find a way to compromise that, I sliced my finger WIDE open. It was super deep and like across the entire palm half of my ring finger. So, had to leave work, go to the immediate care center and get 4 stitches. Then it wouldnt stop bleeding so they had to use the silver nitrate to cauterize it, so there is this huge black burnt piece of my finger and 4 stitches and the numbness is just now wearing off and it hurts worse than when I cut it. This figures. Now I am bummed. Going to go back to work tonight, I hope that I can work efficiently tonight, I need the money!

Long time, no post

Ok, so for a few months I have been very bad at this, and I am going to try to get back to at least once a week again now. Its been so long I dont even know where to start. I suppose I will start with school.
School has been really trying the last couple of weeks. I just had a ton of assignments and tests. Now that its the end of the semester, I am pretty much done with everything. I only have one report, one group project, and two finals left, but they are not cumulative so they shouldnt be to terrible because we only have 3 weeks left before finals week. My communications class is really irritating though. We have to do this group service learning thing, which is really mandatory volunteering with people in our class. The worst thing about it is that we have to do a group presentation as well as a written paper on it and its only 4 hours, but to me mandatory volunteering makes it not volunteering. Humanities is easy and boring, I only need to do a chapter report and its only on a section of the chapter. Also, I went to my conference to turn in my application for getting into the radiography program. They called and I have my interview the day before Oaks Day, but we still wont know if we get in until June. I really hope Billows has time to meet with me before that day and prep me for the interview. I already applied for my FAFSA money so I hope its not for nothing.
Work has been work, i am just working as much as I can with school so that I have money because right now bills are tight!
In other, good, news things with Chase are great. We are going to Jim's wedding in Naples, FL in May! I am so excited. After that we are going to his uncles beach house in Melbourne for a week. So, we are leaving on May 21st and flying to Tampa where we are going to eat lunch at a place Chase wants to go. He grew up in Tampa like from a baby to 13, so he has family there and wants to go somewhere specific. Then we are driving to Naples which will take about 2 and a half hours. We are going to stay there until the 24th. The Sunday the 23rd is Jim and Morgan's wedding before that on Saturday night there are hors d'oeuvres and drinks. We are going to stay at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, which is a few miles from the beach resort but there is a shuttle that goes back and forth every 30 minutes. Bob and JoJo said the resort is REALLY nice like completely top of the line. So, I am really excited about getting to go and stay there with just Chase it'll be like my first real adult kinda thing, if it makes any sense at all. On the 24th we are driving to Melbourne to stay until the 30th. Sometime in that time frame David and Maci are coming down. Btu we dont know yet if they are going to fly and we are going to pick them up in Ft. Meyers or Naples, or if they are going to drive and then we are going to take the rental car Chase and I have back to Orlando early and then use their car. But at any rate, this should be fun. One of the best parts is really that Chase and I are going to get like 9 days off work in a row! That hasnt happened for either of us since the restaurant opened. The negative part of this is that the last time I went to FL I got sun poisoning really bad. And since this event I have not been successfully tan at all. So, I am trying to get tan, really hard. But so far I have burnt myself twice and have sun poisoning on my arms. The first time I went to the tanning bed I burnt myself from my knees to half way up my boobs, yes just the bottom half was burnt and this was only on the front of my body. Then I have just been out in the sun as much as possible but not with the normal sun block I have worn for years and so my arms got sun poisoning and they itch like no other, plus they look awesome. But I figure better to suffer now and get a tan and get past it then to have this happen while I am on vacation and ruin that plus waste all the money I am spending on this vacation.
In other news, JoJo and Bob are thinking of buying a villa in Jamaica. It was built by Winston Churchill for his granddaughter Lady Sarah. Ill pause so you can re-read that sentence........it has a pool and 5 huge bedrooms and 3 baths and a view of Montego Bay. They can rent it out for $5000 a week, for every week they dont want to be there. They will get a membership to a resort there so that whomever stays there whether JoJo and Bob or me or the people renting it, can go down and use the resorts facilities and beach property, how sweet is that? So, next year I may be writing about how I am getting ready to go to Jamaica and stay at the villa!
I think that is the gist of the important parts of what has transpired in the last couple of weeks, maybe months.

I suck

So, wow I just realized I havent updated since before Christmas, therefore there is no possible way for me to remember all that happen. I can tell you most of what I did from the last post until January 11th, I worked, a lot. Since January 11th I have been in school and working and had even less free time.
Christmas nothing exciting happened except Chase got me a Pandora bracelet. It's really pretty and super nice and it was expensive and he picked it out all by himself. Literally, he had to pick out each bead, there are only 3 but still. On New Years I worked but we (Chase and I) actually managed to get out of work early and we went to Jeremy and Megan for a little party. It was fun and I was really excited that I got to spend New Years with Chase.
Other than that there was no news from the "holidays", they were just busy and uneventful. Now I am in school and its really sucky. I have 3 entry level classes I never took so they are full of young kids and people just getting back into school. So, that sucks, and we dont really do anything I spend one whole day sitting and listening occasionally writing. Then I have physics on Tues and Thurs night and thats a lot of listening and writing. But other than that school is boring. I am thinking of transferring to Spencerian in March, and I will be dropping my classes at JCC. Its not set in stone I am looking into an option. I will give more info when I have some more info.
I am working my old in school schedule, plus I have worked the last 2 Saturday nights, so I am taking more classes and working more than last semester. But if I make this school change it will drastically effect my ability to work and I guess I am preparing for what that will mean. Because even if I have to go to school more my bills wont go away and I will have to pay them somehow.
I want to do my taxes, but I am still waiting on a statement from Bob's back about this money JoJo invested in my name. It sucks because I have everything together and ready to go except this paper. And I also dont know if I can do them online this year because I have all these new papers, tuition and investments. Blah, I just want my refund so I can pay off two bills and have some more in savings, maybe if I am lucky buy a mattress. We will see, when and if I ever get to do them.
Well, this was very random and unfortunately not THAT informative. But what can I say, work, school, work, school. Thats my life.
Oh, JoJo is having surgery tomorrow, that bladder sling thing a much simpler version of what my mom had. I am not too worried, hope thats a good sign.