Kyle and I went to the CCHA Hockey finals with some friends this past Saturday. It was great--we had general admission tickets, but there were so many empty seats that we moved down to row #7 right by the ice. Sweet. We collectively decided to cheer for Miami-Ohio since Matt went there and, well, we would never cheer for Michigan State. While the game was great and the company was a blast, I was frustrated by the arena music situation. Whenever play stopped for a second they'd start playing some pretty good songs, then cut it off after only a few moments when play resumed.
The end result was lots of song tid bits stuck in my head for the rest of the night. One tid bit in particular: "Cold as Ice" by Foreigner. Love it. The song reminds me of my Atlanta days of listening to 96 rock or Z93 classic rock. That and my dad playing his Foreigner tapes when I was younger. So tonight I downloaded Foreigner's "Urgent" and "Cold as Ice", then proceeded to download Journey's "Don't Stop Believin", "Separate Ways", and "Any Way You Want It". Definitely reminds me of my youth......and Caddyshack.
Remember that road trip I was planning in my mind, well I think I've started piecing together a great soundtrack and some future karyoke selections ;-)
Monday, March 20, 2006
Sunday, March 19, 2006
I'm a happy girl :)
I'm a happy girl because:
- My boyfriend is a ton of fun: CCHA hockey finals, dinner, Greektown, friends, funny rap songs.
- The weather has been beautiful!
- My drive to work out has been rekindled.....mainly due to previous bullet.
- I've stopped worrying about the whole PhD thing and decided to just let things lie where they fall. (no definitive word after the open house on Friday).
- I'm almost a graduated student, which means SUMMER IS ALMOST HERE!!
- Spring/summer is almost here: mountain biking, swimming, going to the lake, road trips, NO STUDYING.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
tossin' and turnin'
I've been in bed for about an hour now (well, technically now I'm sitting at my computer). 10:30's early, right? I know! I was tired and have an early morning so I figured I'd go to sleep. I started to do a little reading, but couldn't concentrate. Then I tried to sleep and my mind was racing. Then I busted out my handy "relax and go to sleep" CD, but not even "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" can help me tonight.
Why, you ask? Tomorrow is a big day. The admissions committee has given my PhD application a seal of approval and sent it out to the faculty to find a match. If a faculty member doesn't pick me up, I don't get into the program. Tomorrow is my best (and last) chance to sell myself to the profs.........
No pressure, truly.
Then there's my thesis. Still not finished, still running out of time, but still making progress.
Sleep, please find me soon so I can find some rest and have a productive day tomorrow. Love ya!
Atleast I have green beer waiting for me tomorrow night. Or it may be sangria, I really don't care at this point. I haven't had an alcoholic beverage in weeks! And that's no lie.
Saturday will be fun time with Kyle. Friends, hockey, more beverages, and some QT.
.........c'mon sleep!!!
Why, you ask? Tomorrow is a big day. The admissions committee has given my PhD application a seal of approval and sent it out to the faculty to find a match. If a faculty member doesn't pick me up, I don't get into the program. Tomorrow is my best (and last) chance to sell myself to the profs.........
No pressure, truly.
Then there's my thesis. Still not finished, still running out of time, but still making progress.
Sleep, please find me soon so I can find some rest and have a productive day tomorrow. Love ya!
Atleast I have green beer waiting for me tomorrow night. Or it may be sangria, I really don't care at this point. I haven't had an alcoholic beverage in weeks! And that's no lie.
Saturday will be fun time with Kyle. Friends, hockey, more beverages, and some QT.
.........c'mon sleep!!!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Just what I needed
I think it is amusing when you become bogged down by the insignificant things in a given situation. Things that may obscure the bigger picture. Or worse yet, may blind you to the truth. Whenever I would drown in the details of a situation my mom always told me to "stop fretting". I would become too wrapped up in the little insignificant aspects, things that didn't really matter, and fail to realize that I had nothing to fret about. This weekend I was reminded of how important it is to just be. Let go...stop fretting...and be.
Oh, and I also learned that dogs and swans have an odd proclivity toward chasing Kyle.....
It was a wonderful weekend :-)
Oh, and I also learned that dogs and swans have an odd proclivity toward chasing Kyle.....
It was a wonderful weekend :-)
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
a lil' bit of everything
Whew. There's a lot going on in my multi-faceted world right now. Wait. Do "student" and "student-worker" qualify as "multi-faceted"? I guess there are other layers present, like sister, aunt, daughter, granddaughter, friend, girlfriend, thesis-writer, PhD applicant, nursing school prospective student, chocolate lover, and broke-ass girl. Broke-ass as in I have no money. Ever.
The past few weeks it seems as if all of these layers have decided to vie for my attention and it's starting to stress me out a little. There are the things that I want to be doing, like spending time with my boyfriend, hanging with friends, playing with the nephew, etc. and then there are the things that are stressing me out, like having no money, writing my thesis, trying to decide what the hell I should do after I graduate (nursing school or PhD??--believe me, I'm actually stressed about the choice). Then the little things that are just THERE.......finding and reserving a place for my graduation party, preparing for graduation, paying bills, and trying to feed my chocolate addiction while broke.
But, today was a good day. I made decent progress on my thesis, I reserved a perfect room for the graduation party--and just so you friends out there know, it's a family thing that my dad's girlfriend is putting together, otherwise you'd all be invited.....the fam wants some quality time--, I'm heading to a nursing school informational meeting tomorrow, Kyle called me from the balcony of a friend's penthouse condo in Miami (how much do I wish I was there??), and I think I'm finally getting over this freakin' cold! Good times. But the best part of my day, besides hearing from Kyle (I know, I'm mushy): Google.earth finally put out a mac edition!! Oh, google.earth, how much do I love thee? I'm a travel nut. So much so that when I was little and couldn't yet reach the gas pedal, I actually poured over road maps and atlases......just to see what was out there. I love road trips. I love new places. So you can imagine how happy I was when I downloaded google.earth and went to the grand canyon, San Francisco, Miami, and Hawaii--all from the comfort of my desk chair. I know, it isn't the same as actually going to those places, but it still gives me the same happy feeling as looking at atlases, only better. I have found a new time-waster :)
The past few weeks it seems as if all of these layers have decided to vie for my attention and it's starting to stress me out a little. There are the things that I want to be doing, like spending time with my boyfriend, hanging with friends, playing with the nephew, etc. and then there are the things that are stressing me out, like having no money, writing my thesis, trying to decide what the hell I should do after I graduate (nursing school or PhD??--believe me, I'm actually stressed about the choice). Then the little things that are just THERE.......finding and reserving a place for my graduation party, preparing for graduation, paying bills, and trying to feed my chocolate addiction while broke.
But, today was a good day. I made decent progress on my thesis, I reserved a perfect room for the graduation party--and just so you friends out there know, it's a family thing that my dad's girlfriend is putting together, otherwise you'd all be invited.....the fam wants some quality time--, I'm heading to a nursing school informational meeting tomorrow, Kyle called me from the balcony of a friend's penthouse condo in Miami (how much do I wish I was there??), and I think I'm finally getting over this freakin' cold! Good times. But the best part of my day, besides hearing from Kyle (I know, I'm mushy): Google.earth finally put out a mac edition!! Oh, google.earth, how much do I love thee? I'm a travel nut. So much so that when I was little and couldn't yet reach the gas pedal, I actually poured over road maps and atlases......just to see what was out there. I love road trips. I love new places. So you can imagine how happy I was when I downloaded google.earth and went to the grand canyon, San Francisco, Miami, and Hawaii--all from the comfort of my desk chair. I know, it isn't the same as actually going to those places, but it still gives me the same happy feeling as looking at atlases, only better. I have found a new time-waster :)
Monday, March 06, 2006
Friends are back!!
Yay! After a week of friends being gone on vacation blogs are up and running again and I have been tagged......twice. Thanks to Sol and Kara I bring you the following interesting (ha) facts about me:
Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. "coffee girl" at The Coffee Beanery. Free slushies!!
2. veterinary technician/assistant. Not once, but three different times: high school, college, and last year--I needed the money. :)
3. "barn girl" at Berry College. I took care of ~70 horses--that's a lot of shoveling.
4. research biologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Yep--I was a lab rat and got to play with some pretty scary stuff......and prairie dogs are smelly.
Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Moulin Rouge
2. North by Northwest
3. Harry Potter (any of them)
4. The Notebook (yeah, I'm a total girl)
Four places I have lived:
1. Jacksonville, NC
2. Kenosha, WI
3. Chatham, NJ
4. Atlanta, GA
Five tv shows I love to watch:
1. 24
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Lost
4. City Confidential
5. stuff on Discovery Health Channel
Five places I have been on vacation:
1. San Francisco, CA
2. Key West, FL
3. the Grand Canyon, AZ
4. The Outer Banks, NC
5. Seattle, WA
Four websites I visit daily:
1. CNN.com
2. various blogs
3. weatherchannel.com
4. google
Four of my favorite foods:
1. CHOCOLATE
2. sushi
3. thai
4. ice cream
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Miami (with Kyle on his spring break)
2. Washington DC
3. Florence, Italy
4. Charlotte, NC visiting Katie
Four friends I am tagging that I think will respond:
1. Steph
2. Jess
3. Goat
4. random people....?
I met up with Steph tonight for a nice dinner and some catch-up time. I needed the break after working on my thesis. Today was the start of school again after spring break. And Kyle left for his spring break trip to Miami. Am I jealous? No......well, sorta. I'm jealous that he is enjoying the sun, while it snowed here today. But I'm happy that he gets a great vacation and a chance to turn off the brain for a week. I gave him my ipod full of fun music to listen to while at the beach and we picked out some non-medical books for beach reading at Boarders during a rare opportunity to simply hang out on a Saturday morning. It was great :)
Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. "coffee girl" at The Coffee Beanery. Free slushies!!
2. veterinary technician/assistant. Not once, but three different times: high school, college, and last year--I needed the money. :)
3. "barn girl" at Berry College. I took care of ~70 horses--that's a lot of shoveling.
4. research biologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Yep--I was a lab rat and got to play with some pretty scary stuff......and prairie dogs are smelly.
Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Moulin Rouge
2. North by Northwest
3. Harry Potter (any of them)
4. The Notebook (yeah, I'm a total girl)
Four places I have lived:
1. Jacksonville, NC
2. Kenosha, WI
3. Chatham, NJ
4. Atlanta, GA
Five tv shows I love to watch:
1. 24
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Lost
4. City Confidential
5. stuff on Discovery Health Channel
Five places I have been on vacation:
1. San Francisco, CA
2. Key West, FL
3. the Grand Canyon, AZ
4. The Outer Banks, NC
5. Seattle, WA
Four websites I visit daily:
1. CNN.com
2. various blogs
3. weatherchannel.com
4. google
Four of my favorite foods:
1. CHOCOLATE
2. sushi
3. thai
4. ice cream
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Miami (with Kyle on his spring break)
2. Washington DC
3. Florence, Italy
4. Charlotte, NC visiting Katie
Four friends I am tagging that I think will respond:
1. Steph
2. Jess
3. Goat
4. random people....?
I met up with Steph tonight for a nice dinner and some catch-up time. I needed the break after working on my thesis. Today was the start of school again after spring break. And Kyle left for his spring break trip to Miami. Am I jealous? No......well, sorta. I'm jealous that he is enjoying the sun, while it snowed here today. But I'm happy that he gets a great vacation and a chance to turn off the brain for a week. I gave him my ipod full of fun music to listen to while at the beach and we picked out some non-medical books for beach reading at Boarders during a rare opportunity to simply hang out on a Saturday morning. It was great :)
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