School Stuff
Today I saw my counselor so that I could get my schedule mapped out for the next year and a half and so that I can decide where I want to transfer when I am done at HACC. She told me not to wait two years but to try and transfer sooner, perhaps at the end of the fall semester. The longer I wait the greater my risk to have classes that will not transfer.
Next semester I am taking:
M - Art through the Ages - 6:45-9:40
MW - Modern Culture and the Arts - 2:00-3:15
MWF - College Algebra - 10-10:50
MWF - Effective Speaking - 11-11:50
MWF - General Psych - 12-12:50
My Monday's will be difficult but Fridays will rock!!!!
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Jason. I wish I could be there to celebrate with you!
David's Home
Yesterday I went to KCI to pick up David, Jaime and Jason. When I got to the airport I was a little nervous to check the screen (past experience and all). Their plane was running about a half hour late which gave me time to find the gate and read my book.
They apparently put ALL of the children that were traveling from the West coast on one plane. There had to be seven children that piled out of the plane. Or at least seven before David. After him, who cares!?
He is beautiful. He was not in the best mood but once he had a bottle he did pretty good. He crawled around on the airport floor and climbed up on the chairs. He was a gem on the ride home. I bought him a stuffed horse and had it in his car seat so we kissed the horse on the ride home. All that kissing tuckered him out and he fell asleep shortly after Lawrence.
This morning I woke up to David being placed on my sleeping body. That is a wonderful way to wake up
To those who loved me when and still do
Tonight I went out with a group of friends who loved me then and still do. For those that think I will change.... these people loved me then and still do!!
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday David!!!!!!!!!I will see you TOMORROW!!
Let's try this again!
It is a beautiful day in PA. I had hoped to be saying that about Topeka this morning but that is okay, I refuse to let this bring me down. I am to fly out of PA at 9:12am through Detroit.
Detroit is getting a rain and snow mix.
I think I missed the memo from God that I am not supposed to go home. This morning in the lobby I made a baby cry. I never make babies cry. I need a nap. I did not sleep at all last night. I was afraid that I would oversleep and miss my plane and be stuck here AGAIN.
I think I will go outside and board my shuttle, the airport shuttle, not the shuttle to my home planet.
Hopefully I will see you soon Kansans
Trapped
Okay so my day started out well. I went to baby shower for my Victoria's Secret boss (guess she didn't keep the secret well). I then went to school and took my math test. I hit the road at a quarter till 12 on my way to the Harrisburg Airport. I got to the airport fine and found the Smart Parking fine. Once I got into the airport though, things just went down hill.
I checked the screen on my right just for kicks. Not thinking that my flight information would be on the screen but the screen is like a train wreck, you just have to look.
Flight 1825 from Harrisburg to Minn
CANCELLEDI'm sorry, come again, cancelled? How can it be cancelled? I am supposed to be on the plane, it cannot be cancelled it is how I am getting home. Apparently Minn is being pounded with snow. So much snow that we cannot fly in or out of the airport.
I tryed to convince the ticket agent to take the plane that was going to Minn and just make it go straight to KCI. He said he agreed with my thought process but the plane that we were supposed to take did not make it to the Harrisburg Airport.
Your an airport for crying out loud, don't you have an extra plane somewhere? He assured me that if there was a way to get me out of PA tonight he would do it. Now I am at the Best Western. Guess he couldn't get me out of PA tonight.
Orginally he wanted me to go out through Minn tomorrow but I explained that I had lost all faith in Minn and would rather go Detroit. The hotel has cable and the Weather Channel is now saying that Detroit will get snow. Perfect.
So, tonight before you go to bed please pray that God will not let is snow in Detroit until Sunday or at least Saturday night. Although I have tried and he is not really a bargaining kinda guy.
Stuff
This is a stuff entry...
On Friday my Comp Teacher handed back my Sig Event essay and on the front he scribbled a note that said I have "above average writing skills" woohoo for me!
I am getting and A in both Math and Spanish.
This weekend was one of my long weekends. I got to the mall at 1:00 on Friday afternoon and left at 5:15 on Sunday night. That was not an exaggeration. If the mall was open this weekend I was working.
We got new furniture (by we I mean Marla and Kenny). All the new furniture does is promote laziness. Within a weeks time we got the new DVR's and the furniture and I worked a lot. Now all I want to do is spend the next four days in the TV room on the couch.
Do you know why I only want to spend four days and not five?! Cause in five days I....
FLY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I am sure that I am the only person that is excited about going to Kansas for Spring Break. I will see you when I get there!
Dual recorders mean twice the lazy time!
We got our new DVR's from the cable company. Now, when someone is recording a show that we don't want to watch, instead of getting off our bottoms and finding something else to occupy our time, we can instead swap the recorder and watch something else. Plus we can pause and rewind both. I can successfully watch two different show at the same time without recording one. I will never leave the tv! This could be bad.
The loved and the lonely
I am lonely. No matter how much quality time I spend with my cat he does not do the trick. I am still lonely.
Recently I was talking to a married man about his wife. He was talking about their bumpy courtship and how people said that they would not make it. This is of course the setting for a lovely romance.
After nearly twenty years he said, "I don't know if she would say she has no regrets but I know I sure don't." She of course has no regrets, with five beautiful children who has the time. What I loved most was how he summed up his love and commitment.
"I start a fire, I cook breakfast every morning and I take her out to dinner once a week. The other stuff is great but it fades after awhile."
I am lonely. I want to have a man that cooks me breakfast and does not get upset when I growl at him in the morning. I know that I am only 25 and that I need to focus on school and blah blah blah. But for today, for this spot in time, this little period in my life I want to embrace my loneliness.
I hope that when I am approaching twenty years that I will remember my loneliness and look at my man and perhaps I will smile instead of grumble over breakfast.
So whether you are the loved or the lonely today will be the day to embrace that and if you are loved remember the lonely and if you are lonely look forward to the loved.
David
Before my trip to Ohio I purchased a bag of Sunflower Seeds for the trip. David's Sunflower seeds to be exact. As I was gather my junk together for the trip home I noticed that the back of the back says
"DAVID - EAT. SPIT. BE HAPPY."
Of course my nephew will never find this amusing due to the extensive
brain damage he has appearently sustained.
11 more days!!
Bone Bank
I am posting from Ohio. I drove my new Jeep to Ohio on Thursday so that I could be here for my aunt Karen's back surgery. She had a crushed disk removed and the empty area packed with bone from the Bone Bank. The girls and I have been trying to determine what and how there is such thing as a bone bank. Blood Bank I understand but there is no easy way to remove bone from the body and most of the bones in the body are key players in the body's ability to function.
Anyways she is doing okay and will hopefully come home at the beginning of the week. She seems exhausted and in pain. They told her that it may take a year before she starts to feel relief from the pain of the nerve that was being pinched by all of the crushed bone. I wish that I could stay longer with the girls. They are the most caring and self sufficient bunch I have ever seen.
While I am here I am finding it difficult to keep myself from comparing and contrasting the lifestyles that my aunts have. Neither is better or worse than the other but they are so different from each other. I suppose that there are utimately as many similarities as differences but the differences are what I see.
I remember both of my aunts playing a large role in my childhood but each in a different way. Aunt Karen was more of a constant and a second mother when I was little. She taught me to tie my shoes and whistle. I wanted to be a trash women with her when I (we) grew up. Aunt Marla was who I went to in the summers once I was older. Her role was a motherly role but with a different feel that Karen's. I cannot describe the differences but I can feel them and I can remember them.
They are both people that I considered when I was thinking of moving but the deciding factors were Pennsylvania vs Ohio and one daughter vs five daughters. I can't help but wonder how things would differ is I was here. Ohio seems more like Kansas but Dayton is much bigger than Lebanon.
I know that it is not realistic but it would be nice to have my family all in one place. Of course when you are close to everyone then no one is excited to see you.
Well, I am tired so I will retire for the evening. Tomorrow we are going to go to Bob Evans before church.
This is my new four wheel drive Jeep
Isn't it pretty
This does not do justice to all the snow
