Fund Food For Animals

I got an e-mail today about a site that will provide food for animals in shelters, etc. if they meet their daily quota for number of visitors per day. So, if you like animals, you should really consider visiting this site: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_thankyou_back . All you have to do is click on the button, and it's totally free. And you can do this every day and it will help an animal get a meal! :)

Camping and Sunshine

Well, I was supposed to camp with Mary and some of her friends this weekend down at the Springer's pond. Friday night wasn't too bad, but by the time we finally tried to go to sleep, I couldn't, and Jake and I ended up going back to the house and I slept on the couch. And, I ended up sleeping on the couch Saturday night, as well. I think that I was tired and easily irritated, so small things pissed me off. But one of Mary's friends said something that kinda made me angry, so I went inside my tent, rolled up my sleeping bag, grabbed my pillow and walked back to the house. It was kinda creepy walking down the lane but I got thru it.

Saturday, Mary and I laid out and we got a little sun (she got more than me, on top of the burn that she got the day before). My right arm got more sun than the left, so when we laid out/sat outside yesterday, I tried to make sure that the left side got some sun exposure, too. But, I ended up getting really burnt...my right upper arm and should hurt really bad. I kept putting aloe on and it helped a little, but sleeping was not fun at all. And let me tell you what, the sleeves on my shirt are killing me right now! Mary's burn was about 3X worse than mine, so if I'm this miserable, I can't imagine how bad she's feeling. I hope she doesn't get sun poisoning. I think it's probably a good thing that I'll be out of the sun for the next couple of days...and I hope that Mary does the same.

Yummy

So, I went to Bath & Body Works yesterday with Jake's mom and sister. I spent almost $30, but I got lots of stuff. I bought a couple bottles of bubble bath, a couple body washes, and a bottle of lotion. I also got a free bottle of Dark Raspberry Vanilla body spray (because I had a coupon from the last time I went there). I also grabbed a small bottle of one of their new scents: Fresh Pineapple. It smells amazing! It's not too strong, and it actually smells at least a little bit like real pineapple. They gave me another coupon for a sale they're having in a few weeks, when they'll be "releasing" the Fresh Pineapple line (they only had sample sizes yesterday) and a few other new scents. I'm so going to be there sometime during the sale, because they have a new berry scent coming out that I want to smell. They also had some good smelling peach stuff (it wasn't as good as some of the other stuff, but it smelled closer to actually peaches than anything else I've smelled).

After about 45 minutes at Bath & Body, we returned to Jake's house and watched "The Sword in the Stone" and "The Prince & Me" and we crocheted. I finished a dark blue section and got a few light blue rows done. I felt like I got something done yesterday, and I feel confident that it -won't- take me forever to get Jake's blanket done...at least, not if I keep working on it at this rate every week. :)

Thursday's tests

Well, I got a 97 on my Math test from Thursday. The prof had marked it as a 100, but I found that he had taken 3 points off for one of my questions because I didn't answer it fully, so I pointed that out to him. I know that I could have just shut up and had the 100, but I would have felt bad because I didn't really earn those 3 extra points. I mean, if it made the difference between 2 letter grades, I probably wouldn't have said anything, but a 97's still an A.

I won't find out how I did on the Anthro test until tonight. I wish the teacher would post the grade on Carmen, but I understand that he's in college himself, and doesn't have the time usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays to post grades up...but it would still be nice. I also have to remember to read that article for the critique that's due on Thursday...but I can usually get those done at work before the class, as long as I read the article ahead of time. And I think I'm going to work on my Math homework today so that I don't have to worry about it tomorrow, and I can go to Bath & Body Works pretty much straight after I'm done at the elementary school. Yay!

P.S.

I hate it when people lie to me. In my opinion, that's one of the worst things that a person can do. I mean, I'm usually an understanding person, so I just can't understand anyone feeling the need to lie to me about something. And the "so-called" friend of mine that -still- owes me a bunch of money appears to be avoiding me because she doesn't have said money yet to give back to me. I understand that she has her own expenses to take care of before giving me the money back, but I've been trying to schedule a time to hang out with her (not even to talk to her about me getting my money back) and she keeps calling me and saying that she can't make it that day or whatever. It's really annoying! I just don't get it... I mean, she's been lying to everyone for so long, I honestly don't think she knows what the truth is anymore...and that's pretty sad. I just really hate it when people lie...especially when they lie to me!!

Yay sun!

Yesterday was AMAZING! I sat outside for about an hour and enjoyed the sun while spending time with Jake, his mom, Mary and her friend. Then Margie (Jake's mom) made us an awesome salad for dinner...it had all kinds of good stuff in it. Jake had already left for work at this point, so Mary, her friend and I went and got movies. We watched Pursuit of Happiness, and that was a pretty good movie. Before watching it, I didn't realize that it was based on a true story. We had to stop the movie about half way thru so that we could catch the end of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The house looked amazing...but they always do.

After the movie, Mary ran her friend home, and I stayed around waiting for Jake to get home. He got there about 5-ish minutes after Mary left, and he brought some pizza bread home with him, so we stuck that in the microwave and ate that. Afterwards, he demolished about half of the muffins that I brought over (I brought 20 over, and he ate at least 5, so half may be a little exagerated, but it seemed like it was about 10 by the time he was done). He probably wouldn't have been as hungry as he was if he'd been able to eat dinner before he left.

So, I think I may have gotten a little sun yesterday. Not nearly enough to make me tan, but maybe I'll have another chance to get out in the sun this weekend...definately not during the week, because I'm stuck inside all day for most of it. But if the weather's good, I might go to the lake on Saturday. :)

The weather

It was really nice out yesterday, and the Weather Channel says that it's only supposed to get better for today and tomorrow. I'm so excited! But then on Monday, it's going to turn ugly again. I washed my car yesterday (that cost me almost 10 bucks) and I vaccuumed it out (which I had to do quickly because I only had 75 cents in quarters left, and that was enough for exactly 1 round or whatever). Then I went up to Lima with some friends, and I got my ring fixed (YAY!). And then we came back into Wapak and got those new Waffle Bowls from DQ. They were okay, but the waffle part tasted kinda funny, to me at least. I would have prefered to go to Max's instead, but oh well. We sat outside on the one little bench that they have, and by that time (around 7:30ish) it was starting to get a little cooler...and the wind was giving me goosebumps. But, we had fun, and were laughing our asses off, which is always a great thing!

I only hope I can find some fun stuff to do today. Maybe I'll go for a walk once it gets a little warmer out there? That could be fun. But first, it's breakfast time! :)

1st test

Today I'm having my first test in Anthropology. If the test was all multiple choice and true/false, I wouldn't be worried. But we're having some short answer and short essay questions also, so that makes me a little scared. I was trying to study earlier, and I was writing stuff down but it just didn't seem like any of it was sinking in. I have been to every class, so I know everything that was discussed, and it's there in my brain somewhere, and hopefully I'll be able to fish it out and do decently on the test. Since it's like 25% of my grade, I hope I do well on it...unfortunately it's the first test, so I'm not sure what this person's tests are like yet, and what he's expecting us to do, but hopefully this will give me a good idea of what to expect for the next ones, and I can better prepare for those. I'm just going to read thru my notes a couple hundred times and hope that I can retain some of the information. ;p

This Friday, the campus is putting on a free showing of "A Night at the Museum" and I'd like to go see it, but I think Jake's blowing me off to go hang out with his friends and do the D&D thing, which is fine. I invited Mary also (Jake's sister) but she didn't really say anything about it when I saw her yesterday, so I'm not sure if she wants to go or not. So, I may miss out on it, which is fine...I can always just rent it when it comes out on Tuesday...or just buy it. :)

But, back to the "ditching." Jake's been working the night shift at Community Market every Thurs-Sat. night, and it makes making plans for the weekend somewhat difficult because he doesn't wake up before 2 PM, and he has to be back into work at 10 PM. So, if we want to do something, we've gotta start pretty much as soon as he gets up...but then we have to wait until he gets ready and all that (and he takes longer sometimes to get ready that I do!). But, it just feels like we're not spending a lot of time together anymore. Well, I guess that's not true...but if I want to spend time with him, I have to go over to his house, because, if left up to him, I wouldn't see him until about 7 or 8 PM...and that doesn't leave a very big window of opportunity for making plans.

So, up until last week, it seemed like I was spending most of my time over there (well, the time that I wasn't on campus). And it felt like I was the only one that wanted to spend time together. I know it's not like that, but it just didn't feel like he was trying very hard to come see me or whatever. And it's not that I don't like his family, because that's not true...I love his family...but I also like to be at my house, and be able to do things there so that my family doesn't feel like I'm ditching them all of the time. And with what's been going on with my Dad, "family time" has become a little more important than it had been. I know I'm probably just being a dumb girl and that there probably isn't really an issue...but I guess I just can't help but feel like this. I really need to talk to him about it...but when am I going to find the time?

I tried...

I was only in my morning class for about 20-30 minutes this morning, because it was a review session for the test on Thursday, and he said we could leave if we didn't have any questions...so I left. Anyways. I went down to the Commons to start working on my review for my other test on Thursday (Anthro), and I realized that I'd left my copy of the review guide at home...so I had to wait until I got to work to print another one off. So, hopefully I'll get working on that soon, but right now, it's time for a little break.

The weekend

Well, I think this weekend was semi-productive, for me at least. I almost got the baby blanket that I'm working on right now done...I've probably only got about 10 or fewer rows left, and then I can start on the next one (after I figure out who it'll be for, of course).

I also got to sleep in both Saturday and Sunday (yes, that means I didn't go to church again). I got like 10+ hours of sleep both nights, which I'm sure I really needed, or else I wouldn't have been able to sleep that long. I also got my "homework" done for today on Sunday. I really should have cracked my Anthro book and started studying for the exam on Thursday, but I didn't. So maybe I'll start that tonight? I'll have about an hour before I have to go to the school board meeting, so I should have a little time to work on the "vocab" words and get the definitions for them.

As far as scheduling for Fall Quarter goes, I've got 1 class picked out that I -know- I need to take, and I may try to take Biology so that I can get that out of the way. Maybe I'll be able to get all my classes on Tues/Thurs for that quarter? That would be amazing! Then I might actually get a day off during the week when I don't have work or class. That would be awesome! Tho, the hours really suck if you get all of your classes on just 2 days...but whatever.

Hair

I got my hair cut today (finally). I got about 2 inches taken off and it feels really healthy now. But, the lady that cut my hair said that she found some gray hairs...I'm not even 20 yet and I've got gray hair. I'm sure it was only a few strands, but whatever. She asked me if I was stressed, and I told her I was a college student, so I'm sure she understood after that. I don't mind the gray hairs...and it's not like I can see them because they're on the side. But it was pretty much the last thing I was expecting to hear today. I guess it really shouldn't be that surprising, considering everything traumatic that's happened in the last 3-4 years (losing an aunt, both grandparents on Mom's side, and Dad getting sick).

Anyways. I got a perm back in February, and it was nice for a while, but I'm ready to have my straight-ish hair back again. It's really easy to throw some mousse in it in the morning and go, but I kinda miss my straight hair...and it takes forever to straighten it! It's probably going to take about a year for the perm to grow out, tho...so I may have to straighten it eventually, when there isn't enough perm in it to make it really curly, but there's too much for it to be straight. Oh well. Maybe by then, all of the old color will be gone and that'll be good.

Wow..

I got an e-mail today for when my scheduling window opens up for Fall Quarter. It's really early this year. I wasn't expecting it for another week or 2, at least. But hey, at least I won't have to look it up, because I actually got the e-mail this time! Yay! I have no idea what I'm going to be taking yet, except that I've gotta take my JComm class (speech class, basically) so that I can apply to the College of Ed. And I think Christa might take the class with me, so at least I'll know -someone- in there...not that it's too big of a concern on a campus this size, but it's still nice to have a friend in class with you.

Oh yeah. My Dad came home Tuesday (I think) and he is going to Columbus on Friday to figure out when the docs are going to be operating on him. So I get to hang around the house and make sure my brothers don't kill each other. I was thinking about getting my hair cut that day, but I go to Great Clips in town, so at least I'll be close, if they need me. Speaking of hair cuts...I don't know if I'm only getting a trim, or if I might get it styled...I don't know yet. Probably just a trim, cuz I don't wanna get a cut that'll look crappy with the perm that's already in there. I also need to remember to grab a treat to bring into the munchkins on Friday, because I promised them one if they could behave for the last 20 minutes of school...and they did.

Update

My Dad's still in the hospital. The doctors think they've figured out what's wrong with him and they're going to do surgery ASAP (basically as soon as a spot opens up at the Columbus hospital and the surgeon is available). I don't know if I can go into what's wrong right now, and I certainly don't want to talk about it on a blog. So, if you really want to know, give me a call or something, and I'll update you as much as I'm allowed.

In other news...there really isn't much going on. I had to pretty much take over my Mom's duties at the family Easter...that was fun. And my Dad's still in the hospital, and I have to take care of my brothers...make them food and make sure they go to bed and all that. And I also have to try and keep up with the chores and stuff. Before this weekend, I had been wondering what it would be like to have my "own place" (if I could handle it or not), and after this week, I don't know if I can just yet. I realize that I wouldn't have all of the responsibilities that I currently have, but it would still be a lot more than I'm used to, so I'm beginning to think that I can't do it on my own...at least not yet. Other than the Dad situation, everything's going okay. School isn't kicking my ass or anything (yet) and I'm keeping up on my homework (but not my reading). Hopefully I'll be able to get caught up on that, but I don't know.

Happy Easter...

So, my Dad went into the hospital late Friday night...and he's still there, and will be there until further notice. He was having problems with his blood pressure...it was really high, and he was at stroke-risk level, so Mom took him to the emergency room. And today was going to be the earliest that he would be released, and then they found out that there's something wrong with his gallbladder, so that needs to be removed. So, I don't know how long he's going to be in there. Happy freaking Easter to us, huh? The doctors aren't going to be able to do anything about his gallbladder until they get his blood pressure under control, and I don't know if he's yet been able to keep down any of the meds yet (tho I think he might be doing okay with that today). There might also be something else, but I can't talk about it right now, and I'm not really for sure on what's going on with that.

But, I hope everyone else has a good Easter!

Great

My mom called me today while I was at work and left me a voicemail. She told me that someone from the car shop called her and gave her the total for the replacement of the radiator and the diagnostic for the AC. Well, I thought it was only going to be about $350 at most (around $375 after adding the diagnostic on), but the grand total came out to be about $415. And they found that the AC compressor is what's broken, and that's going to be around $800-$1000 to replace. So, basically the most expensive part on the AC system is the one that decided to crap out...and now I have to play a bloody fortune if I want to fix it..and I do. So, I'm hoping that maybe things will be on my side and it'll only be $800-ish (and not $1000). Either way, it looks like I'm not going to be spending money on myself, buying things I don't "need" for a pretty long while. That's pretty much going to wipe out what I've got in the bank right now, so I'm going to need to start saving up so that I'm not broke after all of this is said and done. Yay...I might have to get 2 jobs over the summer.

In other news. I've only got about 3 more days before I can have soda again! I'm so craving some Big Red right now! And I was at Marathon last night and saw that they have 2 liters of Big Red for 99 cents, so I can get one of those and it might last me the day. :)

My car...

Tomorrow, I'm going to have to fork over somewhere between $300-$350 to get my radiator replaced. About half of that amount is what they're going to charge me for labor to put the damn thing in. One of my friend's dad was going to replace it for me, and I would have only had to buy the part(s), but he's going to be on vacation this week/weekend, and so he won't be able to do it. And it definately needs to be done soon. So I asked Mom to call Swaney's and ask them how much they would charge to replace it...and it came out to be about double what I was expecting to have to pay for only just the radiator. But, like I said, it needs to be done, and at least I can trust (hopefully) that it will be done right.

I also want to get the AC fixed in my car. Maybe while I've got it there, I can ask them to run a diagnostic on the AC system to see what's wrong so that they can give me an estimate for that, too? That's probably going to be pretty costly. I sometimes wonder if it would be any easier just to get another car. But my mom advised me not to do that because when you buy a used car, "you're just inheriting other people's problems." So, I just get to put money into this one and hope that it lasts long enough for me to get my money's worth from it.

Speaking of my car...I wanted to take a trip down to Florida for a week or so this summer, but my car definately won't make it that far in one trip (a total of about 2000 miles). So, I thought about renting a car to drive down there...but I think that they want people to be 21+ before they let them rent cars...so there goes that idea. Sure, I could wait until late August when Jake turns 21 and have him rent the car, and just give him the money, but I don't know that I'd wanna wait until that close to classes starting up again. So, it looks like I'll be waiting until next summer, after my birthday. But hey, it gives me a chance to save up some money for the trip...so there's a plus, I guess.