meet me on the dance floor

uh so i've been delinquent. but oh well, i've been busy having a life. or whatever you wanna call it.
highlights of the past month..

• april is totally moved in
• i no longer have a bedroom... harumph.
• the olympics started.
• my aunt had a baby boy. and i totally just blanked on the name. oops
  
• 3 days with heidi + two more with allison :)
• visited my grandparents, aunt & said baby cousin.
• went school supplies (i.e. pens, paper, post-its, etc.)
• went other school shopping (i.e. towels, iron, laundry hamper, etc.)
• my puppy got his nails clipped.
• OH SOULFEST!!! yeah that was fun. with allison & jesse.
• worked over 100+ hours.

so nothing too exciting.
i leave for school in 16 days, aka sept. 5. ahhhhh!
except im really excited. =]

now here's a list of ALLLL the stuff i gotta do in the next two weeks.

• work 28.5 more hours at UPS.
• work 37 more hours with old people.. yehaw
• 5 doctors appts including a TB test, two shots, dentist appt, and oral surgery to get my wisdom teeth out. what a joy....
• shopping shopping shopping. still need toothpaste, a printer, and a desk lamp. among other things.
  
• one more trip to my grandparents. 150 miles away.
• aprils friend that happens to be a boy, comes all next week.. i think i'm having dinner with him and april.? i dunno. whatever.
• north conway trip with april & my madre. possibly chelsea and kaylynn?
• three birthday parties. one BBQ, one surprise, and one that im not sure i'm going to.
• hanging out with my family.
• i think thats it..
• phew.

and there we have it.
happy allison? =p

prime, prime, prime, its where i got mine.

monday night april and i saw kung fu panda at the drive-in. there were too many bugs, so we didnt stay for the incredible hulk. we had defective bugspray. we found that out after we had put almost a whole bottle on ourselves and the bugs were STILL landing on us... by the way kung fu panda is incredibly cute and i definitely recommend it. =]
tuesday we perused the mall, talking to a bunch of salespeople despite my great disliking of them.
yesterday i worked 7.30-5 at one of my favorite clients house. she's 87 next week and quite a lady. she has four kids and 14 grandchildren. she gave a handmade afgan to each one of them for their high school graduation and then later a quilt for their college graduation. when i am over there, most of the time is spend reading the newspaper. very very exciting. =p
today i cleaned most of my room and so now a lot of its contents are spread throughout my living room, dining room && hallway. i got a bunch of boxes so i can put stuff together in an organized, stackable fashion. but i forgot the tape gun, so i'll grab it when im at work tomorrow...
tomorrow im making a chicken & cheese rice dish thing. i forgot the formal name, so it sounds wierd. i shall get it later.
im so excited for this weekend, because aprils coming over and we are officially gunna start the moving in process! as well as go job hunting && getting new phones. hopefully i'll convince her to go see a movie or two. or three. there are a ton of movies that i wanna see that have come out recently/come out tomorrow! kajshfkjasf! wahoo!

im be off, goodnight<3

The past couple weeks I have been so very very busy.
I started working at UPS again, so I'm there 3 or 4 times a week.
What a blast that is.....
I'm still working about 30 hrs/week at my other job, so it keeps me really busy.
My aunts having a baby, so I've been knitting up a bunch of stuff for her.
I finished a really cute blue baby coat for her, and surprisingly it actually looks like one!
I knitted a single green bootie, but got really bored with the pattern and never made another one.
Right now I'm working on a blanket. So far its bright orange, but I think I'm going to add some other colors to it as well. Its pretty cute as of yet. =]

Last Wednesday I headed to RI with my parents for orientation at JWU.
I can't even begin to explain how amazing it was.
I am so excited for school to start in September.
A lot of people told me that orientation is really boring and weird because you dont know anyone etc etc.
But I actually had a lot of fun.
I met a girl who is going to be living down the hall from me, and we ended up being roomies for the night. She's from CT and is also going to be majoring in Culinary.
It was nice having someone to hang out with for the two day, and it'll be excellent to already know someone when school starts that I already know and can hang out with and stuff.
As far as the actual orientation, it was busy busy, and there were about 200 students that came. They kept us busy going from one meeting to another. We got our student IDs (mine actually looks pretty darn good for an ID).
Thursday night was activity night and they had a whole bunch of stuff planned for us that we could do. dance party in the gym, ultimate frisbee, basketball, volleyball, and then a movie for all the athletically challenged aka ME. They showed college road trip with Raven Simone, a movie that I do NOT recommend to anyone. It was incredibly weird and Raven kept shrieking throughout the movie.

Now I'm back at home and really excited for fall to come, so I can go back to RI.
Today I gotta work for awhile.
Tomorrow April and I are going to go to the Drive-In, which should be awesomeee.
In a couple days Allison will be back from camp, and her, Heidi & I are gunna have humongous partayys! wahoo.

whoever invented lasagna should be shot.

oh the joy of summer

on thursday i made chicken for dinner, and i took the bones as well as some veggies and made a delicious stock. tomorrow i plan on making cream of broccoli & cream of chicken soup. the recipes i plan on using are brand new to me, so we shall see if they turn out alright. i wasn't able to find the recipe for the cream of mushroom soup i made at paths, harumph.

today i started knitting.
what am i knitting? im not really sure.
but it looks dreadfully hilarious.
after knitting for a good 10 hours, my fingers/hands are killing me.
so i put it up for the night.

now im gunna go talk with anthony. =]
then i plan on sleeping for a really long time.
waking up just in time to head to work at eleven.

I heard every album,
listened to the radio.
waiting for something to come along.
that was as good as our song.

i gradjamicated!

with a taste of a poison paradise, i'm addicted to you.

my puppy has pancreatitus. =[
[which means he barfed all day long.]
but he went to the vet.
they have him a shot of something.
and now he's a tad better. =]
he's not allowed to eat anything until tomorrow though.
poor dog.

my spirits burning so strong in my chest, i have to wee-wee. - bubble boy

yesterday was my last day of high school.
it seems so surreal to think about.

there are things im definetely not going to miss.
such as getting up early, and dragging myself to deering.
i dont have to sit in classes where the teachers only half care about you.
i dont have to ask someone to sign something every time i need a drink or use the bathroom.
i will never get my money stuck in the crappy vending machines again.
and i'll never have to ask the mean lunch lady to give me my money back.
[she wasnt very nice to me.]
i dont have to worry about the fact that i totally didnt do my homework last night.
cauuuuuse christy aint got no homework anymore. =D

there are also a lot of things, that make high school 'ohsosweet' that i'm going to miss very much.
likkkkeeee....
i dont get a chance to see the awesome people in my classes.
especially psychology. that class was filled with amazing people.
i dont get to see the lunch ladies, when i go on my daily trips to the caf for hot chocolate & banana bread.
[yes im gunna miss the lunch ladies.]
i dont get to go to guidance 3 or 4 times during block 2 to get my pencil sharpened.
i no longer see brandon or chris on my journey through the special ed hall.
i wont get scared by david tauwala in the halls anymore.
[he had a tendancy to come up beside me without me noticing, while i was walking and then when i finally realized he was there, it'd scare me half to death.]

im also gunna miss paths.
a whole heck of a lot more than deering.
during the past two years, i have spent a great deal of time there.
im gunna miss so many of the teachers there.
lets see...
chef, my teacher.
mr. d, the fast foods instructor. [he's so cool!]
mrs. hutchins! <3
ms. mizzuri
mr. williams
and even mrs. reeve. =p
the others are memorable, just not as amazing haha.

i wish that everyone would have a chance to be able to go to a program at a vocational school. up until a few weeks ago i didn't really realize how amazing they are. my experience at paths was pretty awesome. i met so many people there, especially since i was in the class that provided food for the entire school. it gave me an opportunity to meet people from all the programs, and i have friends in many of the programs. all these people plus the ones in mine made it so that i actually look forward to going there. last semester when i had mono & mumps, i never managed to make it to work or deering, but i always tried to go to paths. i just love it there.


high school was tough.
i definetely had a rough time.
but as i look back on it,
if i had to do it over,
i dont think i would change a thing.
everything that happened, happened for a reason.
and all that stuff has shaped me into the person i am today.
and that person is happy.
its absolutely amazing to say.
i'm happy.
see it and believe it.
my parents and my sister are amazing.
my dog is...well he's not amazing, but thats okay.
i <3 him anyways.
i have an incredible boyfriend.
i have a great group of friends.
i love my job.
my faith isnt doing too shabby either.
this summer, all i want to do is share the love i have for life.
i want to infect the world with happiness and smiles.

just so everyone knows.
the font size and everything in the last post bugs the crap outa me. i've tried and tried to fix it, but i cant. stupid blogger.
kbye.

i kissed a girl, just to try it. i hope my boyfriend dont mind it.

so todayyy was interesting.
i had school.
sandy and i went to friendlys.
the food sucked.
i went to paths.
adam & i invented the snot-be-gone.
amazing. let me tell you.
went to work.
fun stuff.
powerhouse.
ping pong, ice cream, hawaii etc.
back home...
i finnnnnallllly finished all my homework for high school.
for the rest of my freakin life.
WAHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now i have one class tomorrow.
and then two finals on friday.
and im home free after that.
whoopdeedo.

just so everyone knows,
my amazing anthony
got promoted to an airman. =]
good job babee<3.>

now im gunna go sleep.
hurrahs.

akm. -- it sucks. i know.
but your doing alright.
hang in there
and let God stay in control,
and things'll work out okay in the end. =]
eventually.
LOVEEEEEE YOU.
hahahakbye.

wowerz

in the past two days i've driven over 500 miles.

yesterday i hung out with april and she spend the night.
it was super fun cause i havent seen her in a long time.
then this morning her and i drove anthony to logan airport.
what an interesting ride.
when we were by exit 42, anthony got freaked out because we had missed the exit, which was 59.
so we turned around and drove 30 mins backwards.
then we read it again, and it was actually exit 40 that we needed.
*rolls eyes*
we dropped him off. =[
then april and i went perusing through MA and NH.
getting annoyed and lost in the process.
we got awesome shorts at rite aid.
mine were purple and orange, hers white and blue.
then we finally got back in ME around 5ish.

other news:
im not going on the missions trip.
its too stressful.
im almost done with schoool [yipeeee!]
uhm yeah.

now im at home.
im not doing anything that
involves moving off my bed
until i leave for work tomorrow at noon.

he said, baby is something wrong.

saturday - boston with anthony
sunday - working
monday - crazy stressful day .. then made creme brullee
tuesday - field trip =] to the eastland.



im so in love with life.
you have no idea.

if you aint here, i just cant breathe.

this week:
i went to school on senior skip day.
what can i say. im a cool kid.
i worked a million hours on monday.
well 8.5 between inhome & eastland.
tuesday was just tuesday. boring.

wednesdayy = anthony!!!
my boii is back in town. =]

todayy i went to the mall with anthony and his two sisters, angela and concetta.
we had a ton of fun.
looked around in hallmark, bath & body works.
anthony parked his butt on a bench when us girls went into victoria secret.
it was pretty entertaining in there.
rubber thongs, temperpedic bras.
it was pretty sweet.
after awhile i left angie and concetta in VS, rescued anthony and went into eddie bauer with him.

for lunch we met up with linda, anthony's mom at ginger pad, a chinese place connected to the mall.
i had fried rice with chicken.
it was okay as far as fried rice goes.
the rice was kinda crunchy.....

as far as the rest of the day goes...
here's a summary.
juno
hannaford
[anthony doubts my sausage carrying skills. >=(. ye of no faith. ]
spaghetti
basketball
dunkin doughnuts
stargazing
skittles
yeah =]

now im at home so i can sleep.
tomorrow im back in the real world.
school.

eat less beef.

so schools almost over. =]
this summers gunna be crrraazzzzy.
and i cant wait. <3

Happy Mothers Day, Mommy!

dreams can't take the place of loving you

when you look me in the eyes - jonas brothers

my back has been hurting for the past three days.
and im sick of it.
i cant move.

tick tock tick tock tick tock

But if I die tonight
at least I can say
I did what I wanted to do
Tell me how 'bout you?

you reign in me for eternity

& me.

my movies.

so this week i've watched a gajillion movies.

• the cutting edge (1992)
  
• the cutting edge (2006)
• juno
  
• ernest scared silly
  
• home fries
  
• riding in cars with boys
• some movie i don't remember the name
  
• p.s. i love you.
• 40 yr old virgin
• baby mama
  
• bewitched
• enchanted
• 28 days later
• the kite runner
• becoming jane

the end.

vacccation

here's what i've done over vacation..

• sunday night i did 120 lbs of laundry with chelsea
• went to yg for a bbq at the linscotts.
  
• then had a sleepover w/her & fell asleep. surprise, surprise. (the movie WAS wicked boring though.)
• worked my butt off at the eastland. 5:30am-noon mon-wed.
• tuesday the van brakes decided to begin to faulter. giving me an absolute heart attack. which left us with no car. so mom got a rental car and had to drive me everywhere. including picking up one of my clients from her day care and bringing her back to her house 45 mins away from the daycare. (what a joy)
• wednesday i spent the night at sandys. ton of food. one almost good movie, and one okay movie. she fell asleep on me at 10pm. oh well.
• thursdayyy i got my car! picked it up with chelsea. we went to target and got a fuzzy steering wheel cover that has hearts on it. =]
  
• then i went over to diana's get my senior pictures done. FINALLY. about half of them turned out okay, the rest of them arent fit to be shown to anyone.
  
• friday i was almost to walmart, and the brake light in my car decided to turn on. that freaked me out. so chelsea and i had to wait in the walmart parking lot for about an hour waiting for AAA to come tow my car away..*sob* however we did get a "meal deal" from a lady that was selling burgers and dogs outside of walmart. i spilt my soda all over me. *scowls*.
• turns out the guys at the garage that originally got my car ready for the road did a sucky job, so i had to get it fixed all over again. i was NOT happy.
• today i went to the movies with adam, his cousin, and kaylynn. we ate at friendly's and i had an amazing honey chicken bacon ranch super melt sandwich thinger. then we went and saw baby mama, which turned out really good. =]

my vacation is officially over in 26 hrs and 14 mins. =[

wheat thins

so lately my sister is obsessed with wheat thins.
in the past 1-2 weeks,
these are the kinds she has gotten:

• low sodium
• BIG
• reduced fat
• ranch
• parmesan basil [nasty btw]
• ranch
• and finally today she got regular
  

im so sick of wheat thins.
but i <3 them just the same.

=]

so today.
theres alot.

started out.
woke up at the crack of dawn.
4:49 to be exact
breakfast shift starts at 5:30.
disgusting xamillion.
anyways.
i got to eastland on time.
which was amazing.
------
it was pretty sweet today.
i did a few trays of food for banquets tomorrow.
then i helped tucker get breakfast out.
im getting pretty darn tootin amazing.
i've perfected omlets & eggs beni.
and i made some incredible strawberry & blueberry pancakes.
for myself of course. =p
------
then i came home.
took my mom & KL to her docs appt.
i dropped off my timesheets & got subway.
which the dog decided was his.
he proceeded to eat it, and get ranch
all over the front seat.
freakin tard.
on the way back from gorham.
the brakes started acting funny.
then the brake lights came on.
so i freaked out.
i was able to pick mom & kaylynn up.
and get back home safely.
thank god.
we called a gazillion places.
so our cars in the garage.
we have a rental.
lovely.
--------
we went to city hall//DMV to register my car.
i got pretty plates.tomorrow my car should be ready
to pick up in woolwich.
right now its getting fixed and whatnot.
then i'll officially have my own car!
wahoo!

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tomorrow i get to sleep in till 7.12ish.
amazing.

the adventures of a student driver

stop and stare - onerepublic

im not sure anymore

time for april break!

now im mad.
this post was beautiful.
and it said alot.
and then blogger deleted it on me.
KAjhfkjahsfkajhsfkjaf.


highlights:

• i heart eastland.
  
• tomorrow my dad and i are hanging out
• today was my last day at UPS
• i might be getting a car!
• may 12 i get done with school
• also on may 12 anthony comes home!
• i cant wait.
• cause i miss him.
• im mad at blogger
• the end.
  

bleeding love - leona lewis

today i started at the eastland!
it was so fun.
i worked behind the line with tucker, serving lunch.
it isnt very busy during lunch there, but i still i learned how to make 5 or 6 different entrees.
i tried duck, which surprisingly, didnt taste that bad.
and the funny thing is that it really did *taste like chicken*.

so ill be going there three days a week for 2.5 hours.
and so far it's been really good.
and it should stay that way. =]

just a touch, a smile as you turn the other cheek

today i took all my laundry to the laundry mat.
i ended up doing 100 lbs of it.
it was rather ridiculous the amount.
but i had a blast doing it.
it's really fun doing laundry at a laundry mat.

at work the phone kept ringing nonstop and it was really annoying.
i never ended up vacuuming and debbie's opening tomorrow.
oops. =p

thats pretty much it for todays excitement.

im walking on sunshine

happy 18th lovely. <3

=]

today i went to the eastland for an interview, which went really well.
on monday im going to be starting my internship there, and i'll be there four days a week for a couple of hours. it's going to be really fun, and im excited to be able to get out of paths to actually learn things. =]
it does mean that im only at paths once a week for the grade a cafe.
and im really excited to go tomorrow because i havent seen adam all week.
cause he's been on internship as well.
what a week, what a week.

my mom has been bugging me for the past hour or so to get all the nail polish out of my room, except i dont really think there is any in there AND it'd be impossible to find any.
my room is beyond disgusting.
it looks like it had the flu for about a year.


this afternoon my mom and i went through the car wash. HAPPY HOUR! so i got it for half pricee which was pretty sweet. =D
i had the dog with me and he was really intrigued and mystified by it.
usually he freaks out and starts barking at the various things attacking our car, but he didnt this time.


last night chelsea and i made the most amazing meal ever.
beef tips with ridiculously good homemade gravy sauce stuff.
potatoes au gratin with a cheese bechamel sauce.
ammazzzing food.

im tired.
so im going to bed really early tonight.
wahoo.

i hate it when people talk behind other peoples backs.
i also hate it when people cheat to get better grades.
i hate how teachers ignore you when you need help.
i hate how messed up the school system is.
i hate the amount of calories a strawberry coolatta has.
i hate how people say they're a christian, but don't even make an effort to act like one.
i hate how raw meat feels.
i cant stand brain freezes.
i hate how accepted evolution is.
i hate how ignorant some parents are to the needs of their children.
i hate geometry.
i hate how openly people will criticize and ridicule others.
i hate how hard it is to spell criticize.
i hate the pressure that comes with school.
i hate how being sick can mess up your life.
i hate how messed up the government.
i hate how unwilling people can be to listen ideas, beliefs and opinions that are different than their own.

i just don't understand.

i wanna live for love

so today i went to the nurse at deering to get something to wipe my ears with because they are really infected and she told me that it would be good to put some antibiotic sauve stuff on it... i didnt really want it, but since she insisted on it, i let her.

so later when i was at paths, my left ear got really really swollen, and i went to the nurse there. she said that it definetley wasnt a good idea to put anything thicker than water on it. she said if its not better by tomorrow, then i'll need to get some antibiotics. just what i need.

tomorrows the end of the quarter, which means everything needs to be in so there arent any zeros. not only that but notebooks are due in psych. which means i have a ton of homework to do tonight. hurrah.

open up if theres still timee.

whisper in the dark - skillet



today was good.
=]
i got so much done.
and im happy for it.
<3anthonyjamespalanzaa.

right now i am stuffed. i have never eaten so much in one sitting in my life.
and that's saying alot.. because allison and i definetely pack it in during sleepovers.
while i was at one of my clients today, her daughter came over and invited me to dinner with the two of them. we went to the good table in cape elizabeth/scarborough, which is a pretty sweet restaurant. we started off with deep fried mushrooms with a spicy cheese sauce, then we had soup, the only one that was the slightest bit appealing was clam chowder, they had other ones like ham and cauliflower, bean and bacon, etc... then with our main meals, came salads, so we had those as well. for my meal i had psari plaki, which is baked haddock with tomatoes and herbs on top. honestly, it was really gross, because it was lying in a puddle of water type liquid. not really my forte. then after we had finished all then, i thought we were done, but heavens no.
"who's ready for dessert?!"
*groans*
so then i also had peanut butter cheesecake.
after that we were finally done. =]
i'm probably not gunna eat until tomorrow im so full.


last night adam and i hung out. which was awesome, we had a really fun time.
we ate at pizza hut, and i owned him in the dot game. =]
after we ate we walked across the parking lot to the tiny, by tiny i mean 3 stores, mall where the theater is located.
we almost saw superhero movie, but he said that because it had started 15 minutes ago, they wouldnt be selling tickets for it. obviously they would still be selling tickets for it, unless they were all sold out, which i doubt is the case, but i was too lazy to argue with him. so we ended up seeing 10,000 bc, which was really really boring. i really wish we had seen something else. ohs wells. it was fun anyways. :)

things are going to change.
im not really sure what.
or how.
but they're changing.

cereal partay!

face down - red jumpsuit apparatus.


so today in psych everyone brought in a box of cereal and got to share it with everybody. it was amazing. i havent had cereal in forever.. i think the last time was at allisons bday party. and even then she didnt let me have her captain crunch. =( so i got to have captain crunch and grapenuts. both of which i havent had in a gajillion years. it was amazing.

tomorrow is going to be such a long day.
im working 7:30-5 at UPS.
then im heading out with adam to pizza hut
and we're gunna watch either 10,000 b.c. or
other movie, like superhero kid? i think its called..?
in any case it'll be fun.

my nose hurts, like i've been blowing my nose too much,
except i havent been doing that at all.
so im not sure why its hurting,
but im not impressed in the slightest.

blame on me - akon

tonight my culinary class put on a parent dinner at paths. it turned out really well. we had 18 parents show up, which was a lot more than chef anticipated. he didn't think anyone would want to come. but we definitely proved him wrong. =] we served swiss steak with a beef sauce or chicken with a marsala demi-glace (pronounced demi-gloss.. fyi) both with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and green beans. then for dessert we had peanut butter mousse pie or cheesecake. i had peanut butter mousse pie... i've been waiting all week to have some, and it was SO good. yum yum yum. for dinner i had the chicken with the beef sauce over it. i do not recommend mixing chicken and beef. it makes for a disgusting combination. trust me. the highlight of the night was when i finally was able to snap caesar with my towel. and i definitely got him good. =]



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so i just spent the last 85 minutes talking with allison on the phonee.
before hand we had talked for awhile... and now we're talking again.
we have such grand lives. =D

tomorrow im so excited for psych.
it's byob day.
everyone's supposed to bring
in a bowl and a box of cereal,
so that way we can have a
cereal party!
its going to be absolutely amazing.
and i cant wait.
it's the only reason i'm even
going to school tomorrow.
if we werent going to have the part,
i would have opted to stay home and sleep
until it was time for conferences.


allison - just so you know i have no pants on.


so i have a realllly busy schedule tomorrow.
i have school tomorrow till 8:20
then im going to paths to talk to talk to chef about my menu until 10:30
then im picking mom, kaylynn, and chelsea up at church from moms group.
then we have parent teacher conferences till 12:30
then we rush home so i can bring them home and pick up kaylynn
and then i bring her to the orthodontist.
after that i drop her off at home
and go to work until closing.

seems like just yesterday. we were the same.

todayy in psych we talked about whether or not when veterans from the iraq war come back, they should get disability benefits for the rest of their life. it got pretty heated between kelsey, jaclyn, jason and me. i really enjoy debating, but when people are so closed to other people opinions, like a couple were, its really hard to be able to talk about something. those two were very steadfast in believing that because you make the decision to go into the military, that you should not expect any money in return if you get hurt. they were saying that it was your choice to join the military, and fight in the war, and that you understand that by signing onto the military that theres a chance that you could get hurt and/or die.
i didnt get all bent of shape about that. the thing that really bugged me was that one of the girls said that when your back from iraq or wherever it is that you've gone to, if you come back with post traumatic stress disorder, you should suck it up, get over it, and move on with your life. i think that is so incredibly naive. if there's a chemical imbalance going on in your brain, you cant just get over it. depression and ptsd are both diseases, ones that mean something funky is going on in your head, something that you cannot control. so to just get over it is impossible. you cant just chemicals appear or disappear from the inner workings of your brain.
some people have really hard lives, maybe they grew up with only one or even no parental units in their life, guiding them through things, or they had a really hard time in school, either with a learning problem, or the circumstances were not great for learning. any of those things can attribute to a horrible childhood/teenage hood, and can make it so its hard to graduate from high school and go onto other things like college or even a job. someone might want to pursue a higher education in something like plane mechanics or medicine, and both of those things are hard to pursue either because of money or ability to find some place that will teach them what they want to know. so when they see the commercials and the advertisements on tv, magazines, school, and everywhere else known to man saying that the military is a great opportunity for the young person. the military will provide them with training and experience that will help them jump start their life. they also say that if needed, they will pay for your college after you give them a certain amount of time. sounds like a wonderful thing right? yeah it does. it sounds really good for a guy who just gets out a high school and still isn't sure what he wants to do with his life.
the men and women that serve overseas and here in america, are fighting for our country, and our freedom. they are the ones that allow us to keep living in our spoiled existence.
so who are we to tell them, "oh you're depressed because you saw a cat living in the chest cavity of a dead guy? you have ptsd and you jump every time you hear a car door slam, or you duck for cover every time a plane goes over head. oh well sorry.. we're too selfish to give you money to help treat you for your disease you got while fighting for america. i really need to be able to be able to get social security when im 85 and i need to be able to have three cars. just suck it up.. because really its all in your head."
its not their fault that they are depressed and have all these other issues. why is that we pay benefits for people who have lost a leg or an arm. we'll pay, as long as its on the outside, and we can see it. if its in your head, then forget it. that is what's happening, and i don't think that we should allow it to happen. and i do think we should put forth an act to pay benefits, or something of that sort to help these poor veterans live their life.

*phew*

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in culinary adam and i worked on eye of the round hunks of meat. it was incredibly disgusting. we each had a 20 lb piece to defatten and cut up. it was so gross, but i got over it and we had a lot of fun cutting it apart. i gave adam the piece that had alot of fat, and took the other one. the only problem was when i opened, there was a ton of blood in the package that spilt all over the board and counter. that was gross gross gross. yuck.
then i cooked up a couple of the steaks with a brown sauce for him and myself. it was really good if i do say so myself. =]

now im off to the grand ol' UPS store.
wahoo.


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its getting warmer =]

so today we had the cafe open at paths, because thursday and friday we only have half days. (wahoo!). adam, tom and myself manned the front, which was fun. i really enjoy working with them both. except for the fact that adam hates the front ahah. oh well. he lived through it.

chef and i talked about my internship that i'm going to be doing at the eastland hotel in downtown portland, and him and i are hopefully going to be visiting tomorrow. we'll be taking a tour and talking with the manager as well as the head chef. im hoping that the visit goes well, and that they are nice people... often people who work in restraunts/hotels are absolutely crazy, and not pleasant to be around. so hopefully this'll be a good experience because i want to be able to work there this summer and get a good 3/4 months of working there before i head to j&w.

yesterday morning when i got up, i saw that my hermit crab had come out of his shell, so later on i went to the kennel shop and got a new shell for him as well as this really cute dish for his water..(it basically takes up his entire cage thing, but whatever.) the only problem is that he hasnt moved since yesterday morning... i hope he's not dead, but you never can really tell with crabs, because they tend not to move alot. harumph.

after i got out of work tonight, i brought my bottles back to shaws. there was a heck of alot of bottlesssss. i got $8.65 from them. =]


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73.

mmm

we have hot dogs. =]

our redeemer lives.

happy easter. =]

last night april and i hung out for the first time in ages, and it was really fun.
so on the way to the mall, we stopped at cumbies to get slushies. she got strawberry banana, which tasted disgusting. i got a mix of blue raspberry, green apple and coke. pretty darn good.
so we were on our way again, stopped at a red light, and i noticed the interior light was on, and i mentioned it to april. somehow it was the funniest thing since sliced bread to her, and she proceeded to spit her bright red slushie all over her vest, shirt, pants and my car seat. we'll just say it didnt look like slushie.

we went to the mall so i could try to find something to wear today. I didnt succeed but thats okay. I found these sweet capri's (if only it would get warmer out..), as well as a shirt for $3. i also managed to lose her in aeropostale. which is saying alot because that store is flippin tiny.

this morning i got to church at 6:15 and had breakfast with chelsea, kaylynn, and mrs davidson. they had a huge amount of food. there were pancakes, biscuits with gravy, fruit, sausage, and more. it was kinda funny because everyone there besides us was at least 50 years. very weird.
chelsea and i decorated my room... we basically are amazing at drawing.

today i had to work 12-2:30. i got paid time and a half, so it made it a little less annoying.

right now kaylynns hair looks like it just got electrocuted.

so today i gave blood.
it was incredibly gross,
because i could feel the
bloood gushing through
my veins and out into
the bag. which felt weird
and disgusting.

back in class, kj a second year
from last year came to visit
and see us all.
he basically looks the same.


this weekend adam and i are
gunna go see vantage point with
shannon && virginia possibly,
and it should be really fun.
that movie looks really good.