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I graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in May 2009 – Magna Cum Laude – and am now in the midst of starting the biggest adventure of my entire life: Finding a real job* (*a real job = an actual full time that is somehow related to my major in Mass Communications) My name is Kaeli. I love to write, edit, take pictures & travel. For more info about that, my professional profile is located at: http://kaeliconforti.synthasite.com My blogs are totallytravel & willwrite4food2 on wordpress.com My screen-name for Twitter is also willwrite4food2
Feel free to keep in touch. Keep an eye on my new blog: http://willwrite4food2.wordpress.com/
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I thought it might be a nice time for an update, so here it is:
Josh and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary this week. He is SO sweet - He drove all the way up to my house (about an hour from school...) and came to the door with a bouquet of roses, only to find out that I wasn't home! It was the one day all week April & I had gone down to St. Pete! So my phone rings, and he's like "hey, guess where I am?" and I hear my mom laughing in the background cuz she was the only one home to find him at the front door...oopsie! I felt SO bad! But after laughing about our luck for a few mins, we came up with an idea to have dinner together - with Brent, Jill & April, too since we were all in St. Pete that day lol So we met at BJ's in Parkside for a crazy dinner & had lots of fun as usual & then I drove Brent home afterwards, which was an adventure in itself lol. I got a a beautiful bouquet of red roses that I cannot tear myself away from (I LOVE roses!!) & he gave me Evil Dead 1 & 2 - the 2nd one is the "book of the dead" edition so when you press a part on the front of it, it screams! haha SO much fun to bug april & mom with btw lol & I gave him the Evil Dead: Fistfull of Boomstick PS2 game! hehe & there's still 1 more present that just got here in the mail that i still need to give him this weekend - i can't wait to see his face when he opens it lmao. As my Dad told me, "you guys are...quirky." lol *takes a bow*
I think I'm finally done messing with my USFSP fall 08 schedule. finally. Here's what I ended up with:
Monday: Nothing (will be working somewhere on or near campus since i'll be living there for my last year!!)
Tuesday: 9:30am-10:45am = News Editing
Wednesday: Nothing (again, trying to find a job on/near campus that will help fill this gap...)
Thursday: 9:30am-10:45am = News Editing
AND 6pm - 8:50pm = Southern Politics (another fun one I need for my Journalism degree....)
Friday: 11am - 1:50pm = Communication Ethics
**I will also be taking 2 online classes - exit courses, yay!!
1st is Fantastic Archaeology = pretty much like "let's study cool stuff as seen in Indiana Jones movies!! yay!!
2nd is The Bible as Literature = I've been waiting to fit this class in for the last 3 years...too many comments...
I'm going to be living on campus with Lauren next fall/ spring!! :) April is going up to UF (GATOR GIRL!) so I'm gonna try dorming for my last year in college. I figure it's a chance to make up for all the stuff I missed by living at home so far...in short, I CAN"T WAIT! I'll have nobody telling me when to be home or what I should be doing, etc. (no offense to mom, dad, or april) but i think it's time! *does jumping jacks*
On a different note, everybody please keep Stawsk in your prayers. I'm not supposed to say why, but just do it. Thanks.
Mom is waiting ever so impatiently for her $ from the accident to get here but as usual, the lawyers are imbiciles who are messing things up for the umpteenth time. We may be able to go on a 5-Day cruise in either July or August depending on when the moolah arrives. We haven't been on a vacation in YEARS (the last trip, technically, was up to NY to visit my Grandma for a week when she was put into the new nursing home...so that's not really a vacation...) Before that was our trip to Disneyland, CA when i was about 11! IT's time! lol the 5-day cruise goes from Tampa to Grand Cayman & over to Cozumel! I wanna see Mayan Ruins!! that sounds SO cool! Idk why but recently, I'm getting into really cool lookin old stuff like that (IE i was mesmorized when we watched ANthony Bordain go to Macchu Picchu the other day on his show on the travel channel...) I've always been dabbling in anthropology & was thinking about majoring in that but then again jobs are VERY limited in that field....i don't see myself leaving my family behind one day to go out on a dig in the middle of nowhere...maybe as a hobby, but not a career choice lol. still...cool.
Anyway, as I start rambling again...sorry. there's a bubba gump shrimp opening soon in madeira beach!! i'm SO happy! we went to all of them in Hawaii at 1 pt or another. fun times. great, now i'm starving again...damnit. lol
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| Spring Break is over...now what?! | Hey! It’s been a LONG time since I wrote anything on here...too long. I just found out class was cancelled so I will now take a few mins (to procrastinate - cuz i have LOADS of other stuff to wk on...) to blab about the last few wks... To make a LONG story short, the $ I was relying on for the study abroad trip to Ireland won’t be here till summertime, so I miss all the deadlines & won’t be going. To make up for it, I will FINALLY be dorming at the St. Pete campus next year! *does cartwheels* This shall be a new, fascinating experience (I hope) and I am very excited to get some space to play with rather than be trapped up at our little house on the prarie under mom’s thumb all the time. I can’t wait! So, that’s that. On the other hand, when I move out, so does April. I am already having some anxiety about her leaving, and if this is how I’m feeling, I can’t even begin to imagine how mom must be feeling. April’s been my room-mate for 18 years! I don’t want her to gooooooooooo!! Then again i can visit her or she can visit me, but still is gonna be WAY different next year w/o her around. I wish we could have gone away 2gether or to the same school at least. that would have been fun! i’ll get over it 1 of these days, but it will take a LONG time for me to adjust. I am FREAKING out over this feature obituary assignment we have to do for advanced reporting. We picked a name from the newspaper of someone who died in the Midtown area (where our class / "news bureau" thing is based) & now I gotta call the funeral director & get ahold of the family members of my person to try to convince them to talk to me about their loved one who died over a month ago. Then, as if that wasn’t nerve wracking enough, I have to meet the family & take a picture of a picture of the person . all by this thursday! omg! I’m worried mostly b/c I don’t deal well with death/dying & when I can’t deal with something, stupid jokes come pouring out. Like when my Grandma died 2 summers ago, April got pissed cuz I was joking about stuff - it’s just how I deal wtih something I can’t handle. later on of course it hits me. but the initial reaction is "make a joke, feel better, make ppl laugh. make us all feel better" eeeeeek. On a much happier note, Spring Break was GREAT! for the first time I can remember I actually did something during our week off. I went camping at Hontoon Island State Park (by Deland, FL) w/ Emily, CJ, Andrea, Izzy, & Mr. Hopper. It was really great to be out in the woods (*breaks into "evil dead the musical"* "were 5 college students on our way to an old abandoned cabin in the woods! ooh yeah!" ...sry. We got stuck in gridlock Orlando rush hour on the way over & literally almost missed the boat (since the island is only accessible by boat..being an island and all..) The awesome ranger lady held the boat for 1/2 hr & we got all our stuff unloaded b4 dark. We didn’t have time to stop for groceries on the way over b/c of the massive traffic, so we feasted on veggie soup & bananas the first night & ended up watching Love Actually on CJ’s laptop! Yay for camping lol The next day we got up early & drove to DeLeon Springs for breakfast in this awesome old fashioned mill restaurant where u make your own pancakes at ur table! Delish! We walked around the Springs- very pretty but it was a chilly day- & went on a tour of CJ’s old neighborhood (NICE house btw) & played in the playground back on the Island. We popped popcorn over the campfire & ate as many marshmellows we could handle - i stopped counting after awhile.. :P and went for a walk back to the dock late at night to see the stars. That was creeping me out cuz i remembered FL has bears, so I was NOT looking up at the woods or anythign that wasn’t directly in front of me on the path lol. I faced my irrational fear of alligators the last day of our trip when we went canoeing in the St. John’s River. That was amazing & it was soooooooo beautiful out there & most of the stuff we saw - the uprooted trees, all the birds, turtles, and eventually alligators, u couldn’t see the same way from land. I paddled with Emily & Izzy while CJ & Andrea went in the other canoe. As long as I was kept busy, I wouldn’t worry about stuff. Like alligators. I also left my glasses in my bag onshore so I wouldn’t be able to see what I didn’t want to see. I learned that the perfect combination of denial and rationalization is my friend. As long as my glasses were off, I couldn’t see alligators, which meant they weren’t there. As long as they stayed far from me, I was fine. Which is probably the only reason I didn’t panic when I spotted one WAY across on the other side of the river from us toward the middle of our 1 hour trip. On the way back, we were paddling & talking & that’s when CJ & Andrea said we should paddle towards them. I didn’t have to ask why. I just did. Fast. When we got back in the car on the way home, I asked Emily how close we were to the second alligator. She said about 4 feet! I didn’t even see it cuz it was hiding under a patch of plants but if I had, I probably would have flipped us over by accident. Phew! So Dad thinks I’m crazy for canoeing in FL. That was great & I’m glad I went. It’s weird how I was dreading what turned out to be 1 of the best parts of the trip, and when it finally came down to it, I figured, I can either sit here for 2 hrs & hear about how fun it was, or I can do it myself. the same feeling came over me when I went on Montu for the first time. kinda like "eh, screw it, i’m going." On a totally different subject - April is going to States w/ Company & they have a new rule that I reeeeeeeally don’t like. Last year, you’d see Stawsk, get a visitor’s pass & go watch all the performances. This year, only parents can. NO college students allowed. WTF?! The one year April is doing a DUET at STATES and I can’t watch?! *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* I should dress up - in dramatic theatre disguise/costume mind you - as her "grandmother" & go in a wheelchair or something. fuck them for locking out half their audience from last yr. honestly, its her last year in it, too. whatta load of shit. So, now I’m STILL working on all the homework I probably should have done over spring break. I never learn, do I? Hey, at least it’s teaching me to write well on deadline, a skill I will need when/if I’m an awesome journalist someday. OH. How I almost forgot this blows my mind, but Valentine’s Day was fun, too! Josh came over & I made him watch "Flight of the Living Dead!" (aka. ZOMBIES on a plane!) the most ridiculous movie of all time. After we finished laughing, we went out for pizza & ended up seeing Jumper (starring monotone-man, anakin skywalker) It was funny too cuz April & Matt saw the same movie at the same theater abotu an hour earlier than we did! teehee. Josh gave me "Rambo" - to complete my collection of movies that drive April nuts - & 1 of the DVDs from Fruits Basket that I wanted to see & this awesome Sweeney Todd shirt from hot topic. He also did a picture of us where we are Joker & Harley that was really cool, but I loved his artwork picture of us the best. (So talented!) He said it was supposed to be my Christmas present picture, but took too long - it’s really cool (what beautiful mixed children we are, right Josh? haha) I got him this really cool "red vs. blue" sweatshirt from hot topic & a "prince charming" photo frame w/ a pic of us in it. :) Well, enough procrastinating. For now anyway. Only a few weeks left & then summer! ...and then summer classes for me cuz I put them off until my last year. go me. I’m trying for summer A (may 12 - june 20) so i can get them over with. short & sweet. then 2 months of relaxation. ahh. can’t wait. I love how spring break JUST ended but i’m already counting down for summer :) |
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9.11.07 - 9.18am
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| THANKS EVERYBODY! | THANKS FOR THE BDAY WISHES! it was a FUN weekend! went to Orlando w/ mom & april, went to our favorite restaurant (tony romas) that we used to go to ALL the time in NY & HI...then went shopping at Downtown Disney & took CRAZY pics - that i will get up on here eventually...
hope u all had a nice weekend too! *hugs everybody* it was really nice last night when i got off a tough shift at work & popped on here & saw all your messages! :D thanks!!
ps. I love you too, Josh! :) and now, a peek into the madness that is my life: This year I am driving April to spchs everyday (but not fri cuz i'm off that day hehe) so we get up at 5:45, she gets to school by 7:20ish and I get to mine around 7:45-8. from then till my class at 9:30 is my one real chance to get any hw done. phew. cuz i have classes from 9:30 - 12:15. eat lunch. mon & wed i have 1 more from 2-3:20. i gotta go right from school to get april, then by teh time we get home it's just about 5 & as soon as i get through teh door...work till 11. dinner on breaks. crash at 11. get up at 5:45 & do over. tada. fri i am off & that is hw day. cuz i don't wanna be stuck doing that shit ALL weekend...so i cram as much as i can in on fri & cross my fingers. but yeah, i need time for fun, damnit. I am always off sat nights & thankfully it's slowing down a LOT b/c home shopping network will slump a little till about xmas time. phew. the first week of school was REALLY overwhelming & i was spazzing out on ppl (sry. no sleep!!) but it's getting better. luckily. My supervisor said she's moving to another dept. but before she does, she will be putting my name in for an internship at home shopping network - "product information writer" aka. copywriting - writing the creative little stuff that talks customers into buying whatever is on hsn.com All i need is a journalism degree. which i will have soon. too soon. but since i have NO idea what i really wanna do with it, this will at least be a step toward something solid to maybe start out in. plus from what i've read so far, the pay isn't bad either. but i think it'll be interesting to test the waters before i get stuck living in my box... Hope everybody's having a good week! How much longer till the weekend?? |
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| | hey guys. long time no talk. longer time no see. hope ur all doing ok. *hugs* So, summer's over & school's back again. woot. I'm not entirely sad summer's over...it's been a very, domestic, summer. Didn't go anywhere else, but it wasn't all that dull either. Saw a LOT of movies (Pirates 3 - at midnight- Shrek 3, Spidey 3, Hairspray! & Harry Potter 5 - also at midnight.) I think there was another movie in there somewhere but i don't remember it now..oopsie. Went to Sorcha's for the final Harry Potter book festivities. That was AWESOME! I dressed up as Moaning Myrtle (complete with a real, live toilet seat around my neck) & April went as Professor Trelawney (we basically threw together every piece of jewelry we had between us on her & wrapped her in old pareos/sarongs from Hawaii.) Everybody who went was in costume as well, and we met up with Sarah P. who just happened to be there w/ her family. I won a HP poster in "Harry Potter Bingo" & eventually beat out a little Hermione who said "Windgardium Leviosa!" in the costume contest when some of the crowd started chanting "toilet seat! toilet seat!" I won the 3rd place spot in line & a gift card that disappeared shortly after when I bought the 2 bks. Then we all went back to Sorcha's & read till we fell asleep. Chloe beat us all - 7am! - I don't know how she does it. Dad was able to come down for a week or so. We went to Busch Gardens 2x, saw Harry Potter 5 at midnight w/ a BIG group of friends, and finished up his trip w/ a Yankees v. Devil Rays game @ Tropicana which was AMAZING. Close game too. We won 6-4 & all the Devil Rays fans got pissed haha My favorite part is that 1 section that would add "STINKS!" to whatever us Yankees fans chanted. "DEREK JETER!!! *clap clap clap clap clap* ..."STINKS!" lmao! SO funny. gotta love sore losers lol I went to the dentist QUITE a bit this summer. It's become my 2nd home. Turns out I've gotten more than a few cavities over the years. (we hadn't gone since we left Hawaii thanks to LOTS of other medical stuff...kinda got pushed back cuz nothing hurt me. which was good. phew.) but finally it could not be ignored. I had a grand total of 16 cavities! only 3 were really nasty & the others were all small. so far. so I've got 12 down, 4 more to go. Then they're gonna pull 2 teeth. but by Christmas this yr, i'll FINALLY be ready for braces! (now that we have half a chance of afording them..) i found clear ones w/ a tiny gold band so it will be MUCH more subtle than i originally thought. i'm SO close to a straight smile. FINALLY. but if anybody has advice on eating w/ braces & any foods to avoid, etc...PLEASE let me know! thanks! I've been feeling kinda shitty lately. Just overall. I think my mom's depression is wearing off on me! slightly. but i've been VERY moody lately for no reason. It's weird. then there's the random dizzy spells i keep having. sporadically. but still. like i'll randomly feel like the room is 100 degrees & turn up all the fans in teh house & the AC & then break out in a cold sweat, get REALLY lightheaded & nearly faint..and then i'm fine! its so bizarre. mom was so worried about me she took me to the Dr. & i got a bloodtest to see if there's something wrong w/ my thyroid - mom had similar symptoms - along w/ the feet-are-constantly-ice-cold-no-matter-what thing. i'd have on 2 pairs of socks & april'd go "OMG ur feet are ICE!" through them...so yeah. might as well check me out. & she doesn't want me driving till we get the results back. which only adds to my angst. Another strange thing: at the doctor's office, they checked my blood sugar & it was 69! (normal is 80-120) but they said it was ok cuz i had eaten 2 hrs before then...but still "lower than we'd like to see it. just eat something if you feel like that again.." & this happens a week after my Dad is told he has Type 2 Diabetes! - pretty weird shit is going on in our family this month. he's stunned a little but he'll be ok. & as for me, i just gotta eat if i feel crappy, i can do that! lol I hate constantly being put in the middle. it's my biggest pet peeve. and a recurring one thanks to mom. My dad said some really mean things to her. in an argument they had almost 2 YEARS AGO! GET THE FUCK OVER IT ALREADY! & so she hasn't talked to him since (except for 1 phone call when his mom died.) as a result, april & i were forced to become "the messengers" between them. & there's pretty damn talkative for 2 people who "aren't speaking to each other" aren't they? the worst part is dad is pretty much a kid our age trapped in an older body. he's like "yeah, we yelled, we screamed, it passed, right? so what's the big deal." but mom will NEVER EVER let ANYTHING Go. EVER. i think she gets a kick out of it sometimes. I am SO glad I didn't get that gene. i can't even do the silent treatment for more than 5-10 mins. it's WAY too much effort, and it just prolongs the time you're staying mad at someone - which i HATE! i don't understand how anyone could willingly pull that shit. it makes no sense. it makes things worse. and its irritating as hell. anyway, i'm in a crappy mood this morning. EARLY this morning. the first morning of school. mom drove april & i to school in a huff cuz we pissed her off last night (something really tiny blown WAY outta proportion, as usual.) so we got a 1.5 hr drive - by the time i got to school cuz she insists on taking Belcher. GRR. - of silent treatment, which was pretty nice to be perfectly honest lol. & as soon as i get to school, she parks & starts in for 20 mins "cuz the library isn't open yet..." so i hear the same thign i've heard time & time again . again! & deal w/ it but now i'm in a lousy mood & hopefully seeing Lauren & Josh later on today will change that. it usually does. *hugs u guys* SO, i will have a good day today. eventually. & i hope everybody else does too. |
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After MONTHS of deliberation and LOTS of changes...I think I finally figured out my damn schedule for Fall 07. (at USF st. pete) Mon & Wed:
9:30-10:45 = Research Methods in Mass Communications (w/ Lauren!!) 11am-12:15 = Beginning Reporting (mandatory for Journalism major) 2pm - 3:15 = Contemporary Moral Issues (sounds like another class that will help me learn/ practice how to hold out a good argument - like critical thinking - and maybe help me be able to write persuasively in the long run) Tues & Thurs: 9:30-10:45 = Narration & Description (didn't Josh & Lauren take this last yr?) 11am-12:15 = Classics of American Journalism (its 1 of the classes we journalism students are "nudged" into plus its with Lauren & sounds interesting!) OFF ON FRIDAYS!!! *does celebratory Riley dance* ***I was signed up for Intro to Visual Communications, but after a LONG time of worrying about the timing (it was 3:30-4:45 and I work 5pm-11pm) I decided to drop it and take something else for the time being that would fit into my schedule easily. I figure the scheduling dept at work has been VERY tolerable of all the changes i fought hard for last yr & i want to wait till i absolutely have to before I make any more drastic changes & test their patience...plus it's another class that I can do later anyway & until we get another car, it won't leave april stranded at her school till 5pm either. *** PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT URS IS LIKE SO WE CAN MEET UP!! i hope everybody's having a nice summer & hope to see ya soon! :D
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hi. WOW it's been a LONG time. LOTS of crap to update you on...and stuff to get off my chest as usual. Been rocketed through lots of emotions in the past few wks since i last wrote on here... *eric cartman impression* "I AM SO PISSED OFF YOU GUYS!!" I swear, someone up there must be laughing their ass off right about now. To start off with, its been a few years since I've been to the dentist (thanks to countless health related problems, money problems, and crazy schedules & other stuff we had no control over) & so I finally went last week - there is a HUGE cavity in 1 of my back teeth- it doesn't hurt, thank God, but it's there & i know thats NOT a good thing to have in my mouth...so i got an x-ray & to make a LONG story short, I'm going to have to get a root canal done on it. (poor mom keeps blaming herself for never taking us...its not her fault we had LOADS of medical bills, her car accident, my nausea problem back in high school, hospital visits, etc...) so anyway ya i gotta get a root canal done - NEVER had one, or anything like it, done before so i'm a bit nervous. - the good thing is i get to have "sedation dentistry" - basically i take a pill the night before & by the time i get to the appt. i'm totally out of it to the point where i'm happy & 'don't care' about what;'s going on in my mouth at the time - the Dr. said it makes "even the most terrified patients happy & most of them crack jokes during the procedure..." so i guess it won't be that bad...but still. eeeek. i'm not the biggest fan of the dentist but at least this "happy pill" makes the 3 hr procedure seem like 15 mins...so not all bad i guess The worst part of the whole thing is this: the soonest they can get me in for the root canal is the morning of me & josh's 4 yr anniversary...june 11th. so now i'm even more aggravated about that then scared about the damn thing lol i figure either i'll be in a lotta pain (even if it is at 8am) or maybe we can go out for applesauce or something...grrrrrrr stupid teeth!! its funny cuz i kinda saw this coming...i mean, what other date could be the only time they can fit me in?! lol Con4T luck at it's best... I am ECSTATIC. they are opening a special harry potter section of islands of adventure set to open in late 2009!! omg omg omg i can't wait!! they're even building a Hogwarts castle & shops from Hogsmeade & the Forbidden Forest & a whole bunch of shops from the books. Its cool too cuz by 2009 i'll be out of college *breaks out into a cold sweat* & out in the real world by then. maybe it can be a reunion type thign that we all meet up in harry potter land :P I am SAD. by then ending of Pirates 3. WHY was i gypped of my disney-esque "happily ever after" ending?! *don't wanna spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet..* but come on...what was that about?! lol i mean april & i came up with a few alternate endings...bleh. besides that i LOVED the movie, just was like eh about the ending of it all. & there better be more cuz they left enough open for a few sequels to come lol I am EXCITED. Dad might be coming either the 1st or 2nd wk of July! he wanted to plan his vacation around the new harry potter movie. either that or for 4th of july, still figuring it out. & April, Mom & I might be going to see "The Producers" on Sat, 6/16 :D if we can remember to call for tickets soon that is..*wacks head* I am CONFUSED. STILL trying to figure out what classes i'm doing in the fall. its making me NUTS! So far i have these as definitely taking: beginning reporting & research methods in mass communications. I'm really re-thinking taking intro to visual communications this semster b/c the class is M/W 330-445 & i work at 5. so i'm gonna have to piss off the scheduling dept again..and i think i should hold off & do that next semester when it will give them (and me) less to fight over - since i just made a BUNCH of changes last semster & fought REALLY hard to keep my wk schedule 5pm-11pm...so i might take somethign else instead...and my tues/thurs are all messy cuz i can't decide if i wanna take Narration & description or form & technique of fiction - if i took both, i wouldn't be able to eat lunch on tues/thus till 2pm & i'd have been there since 9! so NO way am i gonna do that! so its 1 or hte other & of course 1 overlaps w/ Classics of American Journalism - another 1 i wanted to take...so i gotta really sit down & think it out b4 i do something really dumb & mess up my whole semester by accident. grr. I am RELEIVED. we just had a HUGE brush fire here last week that was next door to our condo complex! i was working at the time & i could hear helicopters coming & going nearby for 2 hrs & on my break i went outside w/ mom & april to investigate. it was really scary cuz apparently 2 moron kids started it & flames were shooting up 30-40 ft in the air & they brough 42 fire trucks to put it out! & ppl were asking if we had to evacuate or not & it was not a very nice thing to be going through at the time. especially cuz work wanted me to stay on the phones "unless u really do have to evacuate!" how nice, huh? i mean, what if we DID? i wouldn't have any time to grab my stuff? wtf is that about?! but in the end it was all ok. phew. close one though. very stressful. Anyway. enough of that. at least i got some stuff off my chest & outta my system. i hope everybody is having a better week than i have so far...*hugs* to everybody. a big *smooooooooooooch* to Josh & *big cuddles* to hold u over till i see u next 
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HOLY FUCKIN GOD I HATE MONDAYS. And Wednesdays. Because those are the days where I get trapped in MY car with my mother for a little over an hour and get reminded of every reason "life stinks" and "an idea of what I'm going through." EVERY single minute tedious little insignificant detail of anything that anyone has ever done to piss her off I get "reminded of" every mon & wed. Why? Because I am forced to. And this whole wonderful experience is prolonged further by the fact that she is VERY stubborn and refuses to take US 19 so we take the long and winding road, Belcher ALLLLLL the way down to Bryan Dairy. THEN over to US 19. so instead of only dealing with this shit for 45 mins, its anywhere from an hour to 1.5 hrs if there's traffic. and there always is on belcher. And at the end of every hour long tirade, she always says "Sorry you constantly have to hear about this, but I have no one else to talk to. No friends. No family. So I have to tell you." which is said only to guilt me into not complaining about it. I remember back in high school, April & I would attempt to get a word in during the morning car ride. We even tried alternating days of bitching about nothing, hoping that she'd get the hint that we hate hearing all this shit all the time. Did it work? No. Why would it? Clearly she's the only 1 in our family with problems... Meanwhile, in a whole separate problem of itself, I feel like I'm being robbed of "the best years of my life," being stuck at home due to circumstances I cannot even hope to help. I am the human buffer zone between April & mom. I am Switzerland. I have to remain neutral beyond all cost. If not, all is lost. I am the one perpetually stuck in the middle. This is corny as hell but I feel like the creme in an oreo, constantly being smushed into a tiny speck of what it used to be. Plus I am there to help. Being the older sister and all comes in handy for them i guess. Our family has become a twisted scenario & when you think about it, it makes sense, sadly. : Mom is the Dad. I am the mom. Dad has stolen my role of the college kid, off away from his family having the time of his life. It's not fair. He already did that. This is supposed to be MY time of MY life. This leaves April, who is the kid, since everybody else revolves around her and we're out of roles. I just wish I could have the good time that is LONG since due to me. What will it take for everything to be ok? Not even back to normal. It's too late for that now, but just okay. Which is why I want out. Next year April will graduate & I will be free to go. Free at last, one might say. But until then I get to put up with another full year of bullshit. I am SICK of all the stupid "rules" that I shouldn't even have to consider because of my age. Plus I've always been the good kid, and that STILL isn't good enough. When you think about all the stuff people our age are doing to themselves nowadays, wouldn't you think mom'd be thankful to have such sweet, naive, little angels under her roof? No. Apparently we still get gypped. Take the latest example: Every once a month I have to go to the call center at HSN (which is down Bryan Dairy Rd.- no biggie. a straight shot down 49th st or belcher or US19. pick one.) so this wed. night i have to be there from 5-9pm & I assumed I'd be able to drive myself, because, well, its a 30 min ride home. and i've done it like 1,000 times (and yes, a few at night when dad was here that she still doesn't know about...) So, that should be all fine & dandy, right? Wrong. Her excuse this time: "I don't have a car. I won't be able to get you if something happens. I don't want you stuck in the middle of nowhere & I can't help. I'll take you. Until I get my own car, no driving at night." Why should I, the ungrateful one, be angry that she just wants me to be safe? There's much more to it than that. Hey, Mom. Guess what? You can't always be there to rescue me, you know. It's called life. And I deserve to have one.
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| random late night bloggings of a self proclaimed idiot |
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2.23.07 - 1.28am
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sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet emoooooooooooooooootion....god i love that song. especially when ur going 60mph through loops on that aerosmith roller coaster @ MGM. (why can't all roller coasters have awesome music playing?!) anyway, it's been a while & surprisingly i'm in the mood to blog after such a long day. update on mom after her accident: she's doing better...good enough to have started work again anyway, but she's still sore & seeing all the doctors under the sun so they can build a case for the lawyers. then once that's done, we get to play the waiting game. again. school is going pretty well. busy this semester with hw! between all the assignments for micro-economics i should be working on right now instead of doing this, and writing stories for the journalism class, and fitting in spanish 2 & finite math in my schedule along with work & everybody's appointments, it's been more than a little nuts around here. but it's not all bad. just enough to keep us busy. Valentine's Day was (how did we dub it?) Interestingly Unique? *grabs Josh's hand & takes a bow* He gave me the cutest drawing of the 2 of us, a big "happy vday" balloon- that is currently revolving on its string behind me (cuz the fan is on) & making weird shadows on the wall lol, chocolates that i'm still munching on, and a BIG beautiful rose. I gave him some chocolates & "the groovy love turtle" - a completely hilarious looking singing doll i found in walgreens & couldn't resist! haha so we had a pretty good laugh over that *rolls eyes* (yes, april, for the millionth time, i know how immature we are lol) so then we decided to see "epic movie" - which by the way made "snakes on a plane" seem like "gone with the wind" - & we still had an hr to kill b4 the movie started. so we began the search for food. only to find that all the restaurants in the shopping ctr had waits of over an hr! so out of desperation & immense hunger we ended up at pizza hut! hehe it was great sneakin it into the movies under my jacket - and surprisingly easy too lol- & extra extra cheese never tasted so good. lol & it was funny cuz we were laughing r asses off about how we're living a jeff foxworthy redneck joke by being there on v-day lmao. *hugs* that was great lol (told u i was a cheap date! haha) in other news, april & i are spazzing cuz takeru kobayashi will be signing autographs & stuff at the devil rays fanfest this wkend! i dont give a flying fart about the devil rays (sry guys but yankees win..) but i was like OMG KOBAYASHI is awesome! the reigning hot dog eating champion of the world!! he ate 54.5 hotdogs at the 4th of july hot dog eating contest in 12 mins!! lmao it was hilarious cuz this was on ESPN & he won a giant mustard belt! lmao omg i wonder if he'd sign my ketchup bottle.. in other news i'm seeing Wicked next sat w/ Josh *is bouncing off walls* & then 4/1 april & i get to see the putnam county spelling bee show. Mom took us to see SPAMALOT a few wks ago & that was beyond awesome! i even bought a pair of official monty python coconuts to clip-clop all over the place with which has been more than amusing lol Well, its about 1:30am now & i've been staring at this computer screen since 5pm thanks to work...needless to say my eyes are a bit sore now. so i'm off...to go plotz on the couch w/ april. *hugs* & aloha 2 all & to all a goodnight!
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| R.I.P. Mom's white car...thank God she's ok though. |
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1.10.07 - 10.46pm
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R.I.P. Mom's white car...Thank God she's ok though. Sorry it took so long for me to write about this, but we've been going through hell with the lovely insurance company and mom's lawyer all week.. Last thurs, mom was going to pick up April from school & was in the middle of making a left turn from 66th st onto 9th ave when the light inevitably turned yellow. (she'd been sitting there for a LONG time w/ all the damn st. pete traffic..) anyway, some @$$hole in a truck (WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!) decided to try & beat the red light, so she's ending her turn & he plows into the back of her car (the white one..) The back got Smashed in and then she was pushed so hard she spun around before slamming into another car, which ended up smashing into another car. Poor mom was in shock and got out of the car, only to have the @$$hole run up and yell at HER about trying to beat the light. and thats not even the best part. He's insisting mom was "reading a paperback novel" while turning left. (WTF IS THIS JERKOFF ON ANYWAY?!) so of course he's blaming the whole thing on her, not to mention lying through his teeth...or i should say tooth. (there wasn't even a single book in her car..*wacks self in head*) Mom talked (bewildered) to the cop- another asshole- (he instantly took the other guy's side & was really rude to my mom the whole time- maybe they travel in packs...) & got ahold of april, then they both got in the ambulance & went to st. pete general, where april called me & i was freaking out like u wouldn't believe... To make a LONG story a bit shorter, mom is ok. Sore, yes. TOTALLY black & blue from impact and the airbags/seatbelt, yes. Not working, driving, or even leaving the house because of it, yes. But overall she's ok. April said the car looked pretty bad- i haven't seen it yet & am going to the shop w/ mom (if she's up to it) 2moro to get our stuff out of it b4 they empound it, since it was beyond totalled...mom said its a miracle she walked out of it alive and warned me that i'd be stunned 2moro when we see it. In the meantime we've gotten a lawyer- since "somebody"- i wonder who...- is also claiming injuries..."i hurt my big-fuckin-RED-neck.." & since this it TOTALLY his fault from the beginning (and 5 outta 6 of the witnesses said so too) we're ready to kick some ass. Still, throughout the horror of it all, there were some angels to help us through it. Fr. John Grinsell heard about the accident on the corner, helped to find April & then carried her books up to the ambulance for her...The nurse in the hospital were really nice and got april free dinner since they were "pump twins" lol. But the greatest helper of all was Josh, once again proving himself to be my knight in shining armor coming to our rescue. I was so upset on the phone & he instantly offered to drive me to the hospital, then he patiently waited a little over 4 hours before driving us all home after the ordeal. Josh, what can I say, you are an angel. more to come...just wanted to get this out there...*BIG hugs to Josh* <3
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| VERY IMPORTANT- READ THIS |
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1.6.07 - 11.55pm
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(This was featured in the latest issue in Seventeen Magazine) There is a 17 year old girl in Iran that will be hanged publically for killing a man who attempted to rape her and her younger cousin. She was sentenced to death for killing in self defense- an act that is illegal in Iran no matter what the circumstances simply because a man's life is considered more important than a woman's. Because of the international attention this case has received, she will be given a new trial on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007, and she needs our help. This website holds more information on the case and there is a petition to sign that will be presented to the new Iranian officials in charge of the case that might help convince them to spare her life. Just think: what would you have done if you were in her shoes? Why should she die for trying to save her own life and that of her little cousin when they were attacked? If you want to help make a difference, check out this link, sign the petition and pass it on to everyone you know.
http://www.helpnazanin.com/
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| my schedule for spring semester...so far...i think... |
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1.3.07 - 11.01pm
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this took until YESTERDAY to figure out but i think i'm done now...
Monday & Wednesday:
9:30-10:45 = Writing for Mass Media (MANDATORY for my Journalism major)
1pm-2:15 = Finite Math
Tuesday & Thursday:
12pm-1:50 = Spanish II (with Lauren! yay!!!)
2pm-3:15 = Micro-economics (its a pre-req. for journalism so i might as well get it over with plus its the only other 1 that would fit! bleh!)
Friday = OFF!! :D
omg it was so hard figuring out my schedule this time cuz i work at 5 & now we live in the boonies so i gotta leave an hr to get home & everything at usf seems to end at 4:50! AHH! that and all other 1s i wanted overlapped w/ ones i needed. GRR. but at least its only a semester, eh?
LEMME KNOW WHAT CLASSES U HAVE SO WE CAN HANG OUT :D
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| WANNA HELP JOE KOLB & HIS FAMILY? |
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12.22.06 - 9.55pm
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I GOT THIS LETTER IN THE MAIL TODAY & THOUGHT I'D PASS IT ON TO ALL OF YOU GUYS- MAYBE WE CAN ALL DO A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR THEM...
Dec 18th, 2006.
Dear friends of the Joe Kolb family,
By now you may have heard about the tragic accident of one of our own. On November 10th, Joe Kolb, a Junior at St. Petersburg Catholic High School suffered a broken neck from a fall at St. Pete Marina dock hitting his head on a submerged jetty. The accident has left him paralyzed from the chest down. The emotional stress that resulted has been overwhelming to the family and the school community.
As you can imagine the basic needs of this family are enormous. However, some of the most immediate needs are:
*temporary handicap accessible home or housing for Joe and his family
* financial assistance for the remodeling of the present home in Largo
* Special needs wheelchair, medical equipment, and therapy costs
* Special wheelchair transportation
* Not to mention all the medical bills...
Many of you have asked us, "How can we help?" The greatest need at this time is your financial support or an in-kind donation. If you are moved to offer hope to the Kolb family during this difficult time, you can help by sending your check made payable to:
Joseph Kolb Family & Medical Assistance Fund
and send it to the:
Bank of America
13625 Belcher Road South
Largo, FL 33773
As parents ourselves, we thank you for and ask you to continue praying for Gary, Eileen, Adam, Tim, and Joe and their extended family.
Sincerely,
Friends of the Kolb Family
PS. Please feel free to contact us with your thoughts, suggestions, and/or questions.
Dan and Lynn Porter
727-580-8126
727-397-5575
DanPorter@ij.net
Mike & Liz Bradley
727-430-3793
727-595-0300
Brads@tampabay.rr.com
Terry & Ginny McCarthy
727-526-5800
727--744-3982
555rinker@aol.com
(I've also heard that there's another person in their family who's had 3 brain surgeries so basically they need all the help they can get right now. LET'S CHIP IN AND DO WHATEVER WE CAN!)
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| my schedule so far...i think. |
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after MUCH consideration (on my part, USF's and HSN's..) here's what I've got so far for the spring semester-
Mon & Wed:
9:30am-10:45am = Writing for the Mass Media (step 2 out of like 12 for the Journalism program @ USF)
[big long break for lunch & hanging out & stuff]
1pm-1:50pm = college algebra
OR i might switch it to finite math which is 1pm-2:15pm
Tues & Thurs:
8am - 9:15am = Food: Personal & Global Perspective (sounds like a bullshit class but counts as the last science class i need! yay!)
[another big long break for fun stuff & chow time]
12pm - 1:50pm = Spanish II
Fri:
IF i go with college algebra i gotta come in from 1pm-1:50pm (bleh!) lol
thats all i got so far...might switch it up again though- its SO confusing cuz I work every night (basically)
except for Sat (as of dec 31st!! *counts down!* ) and my work hours are 5pm-11pm and of course all the classes i REALLY wanted
to take/ NEED to take later on grrr... all end at 4:50! and it does NOT take 10 mins to get home from school- more like AN HOUR
& 10 mins thanks to the damn rush hour & cuz we live out in the freakin boonies now.....so this makes for a fascinating semester...
PLEASE let me know what classes u got for spring! maybe we'll be doomed together, or at least see e/o around!
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"Do not try to shrink me gysie!"
Current mood:  stressed well, i've been horribly scarred on so many levels after seeing that crazy Borat movie today. why they felt the need to have him wrestling naked with the biggest fattest ugly naked hairy guy on the planet for about 10 mins was beyond me...although it was hilarious when they burst out of the hotel room screaming at e/o in Kazakh, running naked down the hallway into a crowded elevator, and eventually bursting into a "Bankers of America" convention...wow. Ya, its been a LONG LONG time since I've had time to write in here. Busy busy busy! since i last wrote, I've been sneaking into Homecoming with Josh (THANK YOU BRENT & ANNA!) & going to Halloween parties (THANKS JULIE!) and Jill's was awesome yesterday- although i'm extremely sore after spending the whole time on that huge trampoline! (which was awesome too hehe) We've been to a few movies- saw Nightmare B4 Xmas 3D last wk when lauren & i skipped spanish & went to baywalk w/ josh & sarah. (the only thing that would have made that perfect was if princess yahweh made another appearance lmao!) i finally saw the Prestige fri w/ josh and today was the infamous Borat movie. o.m.f.g. so its been busy but fun. except for the 1 day Lauren & I got chased by a shark in the harbor @ usf st pete when we were in the double kayak...we were paddling & trying to catch up to Josh, Miguel & his gf and i just happened to look to the right side and see this HUGE fin moving closer & closer to our kayak, and as it got closer it went down further and i just totally panicked and yelled "LAUREN!!! PADDLE!!! GOOO!!!" and needless to say (whether it was a shark or a dolphin - we didn't stick around long enough to find out!) we made it back to shore in 5 mins! lol phew! i don't have to tell u how, um, disappointed i'll be when its too cold to kayak! lol so anyway, now that I have rose tint my world stuck in my head again, I'm gonna finish burning all these pics from Halloween & Jill's Party last night & stick em on my photobucket - princesskaeli3 (u know the drill) there's enough blackmail in there 4 everybody! lol omg i have SO much hw to do. and of course at the same time work is gearing up for the holidays & i'm being scheduled LOTS of hours now that i have all these projects/papers/exams to be doing. and all this b4 dad gets here on nov 17th for thanksgiving wk!  and guess what?! my mom's car is fucking us all over again and we're down to the 1 car again now (most of the time) till we can afford to fix hers...again! son of a bitch car problem. its such a huge pain in the ass cuz now mom's got the 1 job in Tampa, the other job in st. pete, and april & i both have to get to school on top of all that she's got play practice/band/god knows what else afterschool and i gotta be home by 5 for work! u can't imagine how pissed off the whole thing makes me. again.  but i'm off tonight. gonna go try to enjoy it. before i start panicking again about how i'm supposed to get to school tuesday...cuz if i miss that class 1 more time i get dropped thanks to the asshole's attendance policy. (i swear this critical thinking guy is the pits! our whole entire class hates him cuz we probably all failed that last exam cuz he's such a dingbat & made it so confusing on shit we didnt even come close to covering!! *rips whatever hair is left on his head OUT* how do u like that baldy?!) - sadly that helped a lot lol  and if anyone calls my new cell (message me if u really want the #), the answering maching is a joke from Seinfeld - George Costanza's (Jason Alexander's)answering machine...only it came out kinda shitty when i tried to do it...o well. what else is new hope ur all having fun & *hugs to savvy* for putting up with us yesterday ;)
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| The Jr. Ring Day from Hell |
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well, as you can probably tell from the title, today was a fun day. started out ok. but just kept sucking even more by the minute. then it got slightly better, after we ditched mom.
isn't it great when someone fucks up your whold day? really. today was supposed to be nice! April got her Junior Ring and got out after the ceremony. we were supposed to go out to eat at Too Jays @ Baywalk. but nope. that would have been too nice.
Mom was in THE bitchiest mood I've EVER seen her in, EVER. it was horrible. no matter what, she just kept obsessing about the tiniest shit that didn't matter at all whatsoever. 1st we get to st pete catholic for the jr. ring ceremony and the parking is so bad we had to go over to Kash & Karry. all she does it bitch about it the whole morning. then we get to the auditorium. "its sunny out, why isn't it at st. judes? its not raining..."  then the ceremony was supposed to start at 10:15 & ended up starting at 11. so THAT was such a big horror that she HAD to complain about it to us for the rest of the day.."how disorganized...i can't believe the crap this school pulls...i mean, if we gotta be here on time, they damn well should be...blah blah BLAH!!"
keep reading..it gets better.
after the ceremony, fr. schlong (yiddish for penis) held all the kids in the room an extra 10 mins & yells at them for being noisy or some shit and mom is STEAMING outside the door.."first he makes us wait 45 mins! then we have to wait more while he yells!!" (she has a point there..but still AHH! yes, i'm QUITE familiar with the situation after you complained about it 900 times!!!) so finally poor april gets out (BEAUTIFUL ring btw. pink & has the drama happy & sad face masks on the sides) and barely gets in 5 secs with her friends before mom takes off for the car. i felt so bad for april.
then we're on the way to Too Jays and mom is ranting about something stupid as usual, and starts talking about how fr. schlong is so hypocritical. april starts telling a story about how her history teacher is like that too, but mom keeps interrupting her & ranting about it & then asking april to finish the story. to make an even longer story short, april & i said "eh, forget it...its ok." mom freaks out on us "forget it?! FORGET IT?! what do u think i am an idiot?! - i should mention that she did miss the whole pt of april's story cuz she didnt listen to a single goddamn word of it...so ya, IDIOT!
at this point, mom swerves & makes a really bad u-turn, and drives home (like 2 blocks from 2jays) and screams at us about random shit for the whole ride.
fun fun fun. at least when we got home she got in her own damn car & went out somewhere. April & I got back in my car, (cuz i still had to be back in st pete for a fuckin class at 2! so i had like 45 mins to drive like a maniac - which is FUN btw lol) and throughout all this mahem, poor april's sugar is low cuz she hasn't eaten lunch b/c of mom's assanine freak out session. so i got april some food to hold her over, went to 45 mins of class, then we drove over to get wraps & smoothies at tropical smoothie. which was the nicest part of the day cuz mom wasn't there to bitch at us about nothing. *aaaaah peace & quiet* 
then we drove home, i worked (only 5-8 tonight thank god.) & now i'm writing this. obviously.
I'll try to post pics (the few i got) from the Jr. Ring Ceremony on my photobucket soon...hopefully this week sometime. gotta get them on there b4 we move & take apart the computer. *cries* at least that's only for a day or 2. phew. lol.
SO. moral of the story: i hope 2moro kicks today's ass.
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9.17.06 - 10.30pm
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we spent the ENTIRE day cleaning out closets, going through boxes that haven't been opened since we moved to FL, and starting the process of diviing up all our crap for 4 massive piles: taking with us to the new place; giving away to charity; selling at our little garage sale on sunday; and GARBAGE! boy oh boy what fun this was. actually it wasnt all that bad. we stumbled upon some old notebooks, pictures, costumes, and lots of other toys that had us going "oh, remember this!! awww!!!" and a few things that made either me or april yell "OMG BURN THAT!" haha. we got a pretty good start...sorta. cleaned out most of the crap in mom's room, and got a pretty good start on me & april's closet from hell...well, at least there's a clear pathway to all the boxes we're saving for next wkend...SO looking 4ward to that...eeeek. it felt weird looking at stuff i had deemed precious enough to keep from our last move, and just taking 1 look at it this time & ditching it all. kinda like "why the hell did i hang onto this?!" every time i opened a new box lol & then it was cool finding some things i thought we had gotten rid of years ago. so it wasnt too bad. just knowing its the beginning of a VERY long box-hunting-season makes me wanna cry lol
but then again, i keep reminding myself that when its all over with - in 2 wks! - we'll be in a VERY nice 2 story townhouse up in countryside. (mom LOVES countyside....oy vey.) but its a really nice place & its comfy to know that we have someplace to go when we're royally booted out on our asses in 2wks. it'll be about 15 mins more each way everytime we drive to school, but the place was too nice to pass up & just in our price range (well, after a LOT of arguing went on anyway lol)
this weekend was fun. jackie's party was GREAT hehe. and i posted all hte crazy pics from it on my photobucket site (under princesskaeli3 if u wanna see) a few of them are on here under "pics" on the profile page. including an interesting 1 of Brent attacking me with a tootsie roll wrapper! (NOT THE TOOTSIE ROLL WRAPPER!!) lol and of course no party is complete without watching SPACEBALLS! hehehe so it was even more awesome hehe i LOVE her pool & those crazy water balloons that wouldn't break! ("WHAT are these made of?!" - pat) lol & in case some of u are looking for a certain pic from the very end of the night, i'm leaving it up to april, since she's in it, so ask her about it. lol but ya it was a great party...only 1 thing was missing....
BEER! nah, j/k. JOSH! *savvy's sad puppy face* that makes 2 of Jackie's parties that u missed (cuz last yr was corpse bride) poooooooopies! lol next yr i'm kidnapping you & u'll be able to go :) hehe j/k. (aww) lol anyway, i have a GREAT idea of what to get u for ur present hehe can't wait to see ur face! *big joker smile* muahaha! (no really its brilliant) lol u know i love ya  *hugs*
~aloha to everybody~ as soon as i get off wk, gotta do some geog. hw and enough reading to make my poor eyes fall out of my head. goodnight :)
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| Remember remember the 11th of September |
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9.11.06 - 7.51pm
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*title lovingly ripped off from V's tagline: "Remember remember the 5th of November." but it still works...*
Well, its the 5th anniversary of 9.11. and how do we remember it? by going to school, going to work, and not having the day off to be with your family when SO many of us were affected by it. Shouldn't the most heinous attack on American soil warrant a holiday of rememberance? I don't mean just give us the day off b/c i don't want to go to school or somethning. Because seriously, today my mom, who lost her cousin in Tower 1, had to go to work, April and I would have stayed home with her, but have to go to school (damn this attendence policy bullshit) and I'm sure many others would have stayed home to watch the reading of the names on CNN. Its a big deal, and I don't get why it's not respected like it should be.
And to make matters worse, I had to miss the memorial ceremony on tv in order to get to class (which can't be missed twice or u get booted out! don't get me started on THAT bullshit!!) so I figure at least SOMEBODY on the radio would cover the reading of the names. Silly Kaeli. I think 2 of the country music stations were pausing along with the moments of silence, and actually giving a damn. I tried all the "news stations" on AM, and there was 1, might have been am 1040, that covered Bloomburg's speech at the beginning of the ceremony, and played about 5 mins of the A names being read...before commenting OVER the names, and giving BUCS SCORES. i could not believe I was hearing. the radio people talking over the names, (which you could still hear going on in the background with bagpipes playing) and arguing over STUPID shit like how bush is a dumbass - which should be common knowledge by now- but it was REALLY pissing me off that they just blatantly talked over teh whole ceremony. not that i would have heard the name i was looking for anyway, for some reason whenever they get to "G" its a commercial break. (The name we're looking for is William Arthur Gardner, my mom's cousin.) I was FURIOUS. surely SOMEBODY must give a shit. CLEARLY i was mistaken.
sorry for the excessive ranting, but i'm just in a really shitty mood today. maybe we should blame the asshole guy from yesterday's home search. we found this REALLY nice condo (behind the fire station on ulmerton near belcher) and everything was set, i mean EVERYTHING. we even paid him the goddamn deposit. and what does he do? call mom's cell (which I had in the car this morning since i drove) and leaves this nasty message about "not going any further with the transaction" b/c he decided to be a schmuck. anyway. the place wasnt' all THAT nice, but still, it was NICE to know we had someplace to go in 3 wks when we're shoved out on Sept. 30th. GR. now we gotta spend more weekends freaking out over where to move, how much these places are, and if we can even think about doing it. 
*takes a DEEP breath before i start hyperventilating again* it'll be ok. its GOT to be ok. it'll be fine. just fine. find an 'on the bright side'....
On the bright side, dad is coming to visit for about a wk & a half in november! right around thanksgiving and wants to go to busch gardens again! hehehe :) (yes, that'll hold me over..) till i see the damn montu again...
*HUGS* to Josh for never ceasing to amaze me lol thank you for cheering me up and especially for helping me stay awake in geography lol btw shall we hold another class fri afternoon in "intro to comedic genius?" u know the place and the time frame...see ya wed bright & early *h & k*
~aloha~ to all and to all a goodnight....i hope 2moro doesn't suck as much
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Hi!! omg sry I haven't written in here for a LONG time...been VERY busy between school starting up again, having to read till my eyes nearly fall out, as well as working at home for HSN, and going through a WHOLE bunch of shit with the move. (in case you didn't know, our lovely apt. complex went condo, and we have to be out by sept. 30th or they will "be forced to get the lawyers involved." how fuckin sweet.
so ya we've been looking for apts/condos/townhouses all over pinellas county & we were SO close to getting this BEAUTIFUL townhouse in countryside, but it fell through this week. so back to square one. again.
eh, enough complaining lol today was MOST TRIUMPHANT! I got up bright & early at 11. Josh came over after his morning class & gave me some presents (the movie poster for "snakes on a plane!" and a nice big poster of capt. jack sparrow! hehe & also 1 of my favorite movies: "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure") so mom took april to the doctor (poor thing has an ear infection..but she's doing better now) & josh and i watched the movie & laughed our asses off hehe. keanu reeves' acting skills in that movie are "most heinous" - he's like our age & its his 1st big movie haha- and thanks to that movie, i've been talking like a california surfer dude all day lol its pretty bad..
So after a wonderful afternoon, mom & april came back and i had to wk from 5-9, so on my break i opened presents ( this cute little high heel jewelry box, & 2 of my favorite dvds: "naked gun" and "the birdcage") & pigged out on the massive strawberry cheesecake they got. Delicious hehe :)
2moro april & i are gonna see "Rent" at the tampa bay performing arts center, as part 2 of my bday present! SO excited! *does cartwheels* & i've already accepted the fact that these songs will never come out of my head after i see it, but thats ok. lol.
***ALEX GRIVAS UP IN NY- I got your message! thanks so much for calling on my bday all the time :) I was wking tonight, and which # should i call u back on- mom's house/dad's house/another # ? if not i'll catch u online...thanks agn!
*Big hugs to my prince* thank you so much for another memorable visit :) i love you so much and don't know what i'd ever do without you. & just so u know, you HAVE to come by and watch the other 2 dvds i got! hehe it'll be like a fri afternoon class: intro to comedic genius lol - (that should totally be a class!) "each week we'll feature a mel brooks movie, something by monty python, leslie nielson, or chevy chase..." hehe awesome.
*HUGS EVERYBODY* thanks so much for remembering me on my bday! i was very touched. hope to talk to ya agn soon!! ~aloha~ & i'll try to update this more often...
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