Spring Break...Day 1

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So Im gonna try to blog every night during this week...maybe I can get into blogging regularly (or more regularly). Today was more of a travel/shopping day then anything really exciting. We drove to Talledega, Alabama yesterday and I got to see the Talledega Super Speedway, it was AWESOME (of course not as great as Indy :) ) and we have some friends there and we stayed with them. Well they had a dog and a cat and of course after about 12 hours I started having asthma issues, but it was okay. Anyway, we left this morning around 10AM and we got to Gulf Shores around 3PM (I think. The condo is GORGEOUS. It's decorated "beachy" bright colors, modern furnishings, a GREAT balcony, the master bedroom has a wall of windows that looks directly overt the pool and out to the ocean. My room has twin beds (that have pillow top mattresses and DOWN COMFORTERS!!) just very nice. We are on the first floor and seriously, i could throw a stone to the beach. My mom and I went on a walk on the beach around 4PM and the water was FREEEEZING, but it will be fine. There were a lot of shells and the beach was moved way up. A lot of Gulf Shores was messed up by Hurricane Katrina (but Im pretty sure you didn't hear about that on the news) and they are just now rebuilding. A lot of the old hotels/condos are gone and resteraunts and the state park.It's just so different! But it's still beautiful. Then after we went on our walk we tried out the pool and the jacuzzi, both fantastic, and went to Walmart to buy our groceries for the week. We came back and had pizza,and I had some Lynchburg Lemonade and it was really good! Now I just finished watching Knocked Up (and it was really funny and cute and I really liked it, not at all like the 40 year Old Virgin w/the gross humor.) Anyway, Im getting ready to go to bed and Im EXHAUSTED. We are getting up to go to church at 7am (church starts at 8:15, we decided to go to the early service because the second one doesn't start until 10:45 and we wouldn't be able to hit the beach til after 1:00) So anyway, I need to go to bed. So thats our first day..yay.

Finally..thank goodness

12 weeks of school plus finals (this quarter only): $1500
12 hour drive: $100 (gas only)
Condo: $1200
Currently typing this blog while looking at the ocean sitting in my shorts, tank top and flip-flops while it's 44 degrees at home: PRICELESS!!!


Yes, we are finally in Gulf Shores. It is GORGEOUS! Being in the south really solidifies knowing that I NEED to live here. Seriously..I've always wanted to, but now, with Evan, it's now part of our 2 year plan, to get down here..Loxley, Foley, Robertsdale, Gulf Breeze, Mobile, Bay Minnette. Anywhere, but by 2011 we WILL be here. And Evan agrees. Thinking of Mr. Evan, him being here is the only thing that would make this vacation any better. I really miss him and he's never been to the Gulf coast..we WILL be coming back, TOGETHER ASAP. Thats all for now..More later.

So ready...

Just a few words..



I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ready for vacation!!!!!!!!



More tomorrow

What does your day look like?

So I saw this on a website I read daily here...http://www.rudecactus.com/ and I figured I'd do one of my own (and please read his wife's site, which is linked to his cause she is hilarious and their kids are GORGEOUS). So here goes
What my day looks like
5:10AM: Alarm goes off
5:10-5:20 Wash face, get ready, put on clothes and make-up
5:20-5:30 Breakfast if theres time, get stuff, out the door by 5:30 (hopefully)
5:50: Arrive at work
6:00-6:10 Unlock the classrooms, make cleaning solution for the day, unlock the office, get the attendance book and breakfast book out and ready, get out toys for the kids
6:10-9:00 Children arrive, breakfast, unpack lunches, write receipts, keep track of the babies, control the big room, answer the phone
9:00-10:00 ABC/123 time, colors, art project, snack
10:00 Potty break/diaper change
10:00-11:00 Structured free play (otherwise known as "keeping the peace because everyone wants the same babydoll/elmo game/stroller take your pick)
11:00-11:30 Lunch
11:30-2:00 Naptime (otherwise known as THANK GOD)
2:00: I leave on Monday & Wednesday, this happens at 12:00 Tuesday & Thursday and I work from 6-6 on Friday
2:00-2:20 Driving home
2:30-5:00 Check email, ready favorite blogs, check the weather, nap and a shower
5:00-7:45 Lately, it's been going to school early and studying
7:50-10:00 Class <--happens from 7:50-10:00 M/W and 5:30-10:00 T/Th
10:00 Drive home
10:00-11:00 Get ready for bed, watch whatever Netflix came that day, doing online wedding stuff, check email, go to bed.

So Im pretty boring..lol..but such is my life..What does your day look like?

I feel buried...

Basically..I don't think my body can handle anymore stress so it's decided to get sick..yay. Or it could be the weather..Here's my to-do list for the next 4 days..
1. Go to the library, return overdue books (can I ever just get book and return them on time? I think my overdue fines single-handedly built the new library downtown). Get new books to take on vacation, cause 12 hours and no books? I think not.
2. Finish 2 study guides both of which were written by a teacher w/ZERO English skills..and let me vent here for a minute. We haven't used the book since, oh, week 5? So the MAJORITY of the stuff on the final will be things that we have not gone over in class so that means that we have NO idea where to find the answers in the book. I swear, Im just gonna wing it. Not to mention we won't have time to go over them because A) she's us a quiz over a chapter she told us "highlight everything" and B) we have competencies due that day and no one will want to discuss the study guide.
3. Finish PP competencies, and CPU & MOS projects. <---These 3 things worry me the MOST. I don't think there is enough time to finish all my competencies and if you don't you automatically fail the class. Now, as previously mentioned, she did not hand out our competencies early, we got them 3 weeks ago. 1 competency takes about 2 hours and we have had 6 classes since then and we have about 18 competencies and we iddn't get them all at one time, we got them 3-4 at a time. So we JUST got some LAST week!!! Im just not seeing them getting done and Im just really NOT retaking this class.
4. Get a pedicure. Now I know I don't HAVE to do this, but we are going to the beach adn I don't want my feet looking crazy.
5. Pack..oh joy..this also encompasses #6
6. Do laundry..when? WHEN?!
7. Work..as regularly scheduled, usually during finals week I take a half day every day but Friday..not so much this week since we ar already gettng so much grief for having the AUDACITY to take a vacation..

So it's gonna be fun times..not to mention the sick thing, sore throat runny & stuffy nose, chest congestion..GOOOOOOOD TIMES!!

Forgive the mispelling, Im exhausted and loosing it.

Oh and on top of that, my Proactiv is going to run out while we are on vacation..and it takes 2-3 weeks for delivery, WTF is that!? So watch my face loose it and I'll be just GORGEOUS in our vaca pictures..UGH..Shoot me now

A brief description of my job via some-e-cards

This one basically describes 2-3 of my co-workers on a given day...Today it was just one...This post is about one in particular and instead of ranting and raving..I thought a story would be better told w/the hilarious (and very true) ecards.

This 2nd one is also about said co-worker. In my almost 3 years at the preschool I have gone on ONE vacation that last 3 school days and that was my first year there. I am going to Gulf Shores next Friday for 6 school days, therefore, the schedule had to be rewritten..And people are bitching about having 45 hours in ONE week..Some people work 60 hours a week and this same person bitches about how she doesn't have money..MAN UP and act your age and be happy you have a job at all...Seeing as this is my first real vacation in 3 years, I really don't want it messed up...
This is how I feel when I hear that said coworker said "why do we have to extra work becasue "SOME" people are taking a vacation?" This same person has missed countless (and I mean TONS) of days of work and we all take on her kids w/ NO COMPLAINTS. So this is how I feel about tomorrow knowing Im gonna have to deal w/her fake ass..

And finally this one..This is how I feel 50% of the time. I feel like the job we have is pretty easy and it pays OKAY money. It's not like our lives are in danger daily, or we have to deal w/dirt or huge nasty messes, it's preschool. Stressful sometimes, but never hard...

The one wherein I consider arson..seriously

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That's pretty much how I feel about school. Let me break it down for ya...
I missed a week of school two weeks ago due to the gastroenteritis/bronchitis and no one can help that. What could have been helped is my professor emailing be back because she said she would if we missed class. Not to mention, my absences were excused, my doctor faxed a note to school and I wasn't just dickin around and not showing up..Anyway, she never emailed me back and I emailed her 5x and called that many too. NOTHING. So I find out last Monday that she handed out FOURTEEN competencies. 14, FOURTEEN!! One takes about 1-2 hours to complete, I shit you not. So I started the easiest one's first and by last Thursday had 4 complete. I still have 3 somewhat finished (with one or two steps to complete them) I finished one today and so I still have SIX to finish by next Tuesday..Here's the rub, we can't take them home and we can't work on them if the teacher isn't there. So basically we can work on them on Tuesday & Thursday. WHAT. THE. FUCK. How am I going to finish these? Not to mention I COMPLETELY forgot (literally until like that sentence before this one) that I have 7 projects to finish in my other class (I think I have the majority of those done however) but still, where is this time going to come from? Not mention I have finals in all 3 of my classes and this CPU class Im pretty much gonna have to wing it because we had templates for all the assignments and I just don't remember hardly anything. It'll be fun to retake an entire quarter. And TRUST that if I fail this class because there wasn't time to finish the competencies, I will file a grievance. That's retarded. Competencies are supposed to be given one a week for the whole quarter so SHIT like this doesn't happen. Basically I hate school and it's stressing me out and I cannot afford to get sick again (which sometimes happens when Im SUPER stressed). Ughh..just get me to next Friday. If I arson wasn't a crime.......

So preschool was fun today. Fun in a not fun kind of way. We took on 4 new children on Monday (well "we" is a relative term, it was more Mrs. T & the director) and a new staff member. Mrs. G went back to teaching only the Hispanic children (cause she speaks spanish and all the new kids are HP) and the new teacehr Mrs. S took on the other two year old class (including Gavo). So she's older (in her 60's?) and hasn't ever worked with kids like this (why hire someone with experience when you can just hire someone by winging it?) So Monday was MASS chaos and I felt like I was doing 2 jobs. My kids in my class are on a pretty strict schedule (as in go to class at this time, potty at this time, lesson at this time, lunch, nap etc) because they are young and they need the stability. So we were off because Mrs. S. had so many questions, which I understand, but when I tell you how we do things, and you choose not to do them and then one of your kids acts like a moron, don't come crying to me. I told you how to deal with that child. As we all know, Gavo likes to act a fool. And he has for the last 2 days STRAIGHT. INSANITY. Then, there was a child that was changed to a new classroom, which upset the child's current teacher, A LOT, and of course, they all assumed I knew what was going on prior to them knowing. HOW MANY TIMES do I have to tell them? I NEVER know what is going on prior to it going on. My input RARELY makes the boss change her mind, RARELY and even if it does, I don't know about before everyone else. GOSH!! They're like small children in the way I have to repeat everything. 2 of the teachers were really snarky today and not very nice and it just was fun, like I said, good times.

Okay..thats all for now, I need to actually try and get some sleep tonight since the last 2 nights have been a bust on that front.

Because I can't sleep....

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Wedding update..

For your browsing pleasure....
Pic 1: The outside of Loon Lake Lodge (where we are having the rehearsal dinner)
Pic 2: The Back Porch, the actual room where we will be meeting.

So thats what we did today. I asked Evan where he wanted to go for his b-day...Which was yesterday..btw...and he said Loon Lake, so we invited his mom and my parents (since they hadn't met yet) and we all went to LL. We decided the first time we went there that we'd have our rehearsal dinner there..Now..we're just hoping it's available the 3rd of October..It was a really fun day. We also took our "save the date" pictures which turned out really cute..Im really tired and feeling nauseaus because I actually tried to eat a meal. It feels so good to eat but afterwards I feel SOOOO sick. It's ridiculous.

Anyway..thats all for now..Im tired and am going to bed..more tomorrow Im sure.

At a loss for words...

I really must just give a brief synopsis because the whole story is too long.

1. My mom is my boss..not always a good decision
2. She CONSTANTLY asks me what is going on at preschool and what people are saying doing
3. She also CONSTANTLY doesn't like it when it's not good news
4. Basically, she wants be to snitch on people at work..I call it "being her bitch"
5. Every evening if things have gone bad a preschool that day or if she is fed up with it, she takes it out on me. I have no idea what goes on there in the afternoons because I leave between 12 & 2 every day, so when she goes on a tangent it has NOTHING to do with me
6. She went on said tangent Thursday night, well actually she wouldn't even talk to me and had my dad do it for her..don't ask..
7. SHe said "preschool is killing me" raising her bp, etc.
8. Today she rephrased and said "you are killing me."
9. Yep, as in I, her daughter, her go for, her bitch, her do whatever she asks whenever she asks, is killing her.
10. Im not too dead sure she could have said anything that would have hurt me more. Seriously, I feel like I've been punched in the stomach.


Every fiber in my being wants to lash out at her to make her hurt as bad as I do. But, Im the bigger person. She doesn't want to leave preschool because she is on a power trip and likes how it makes her feel important. FINE. But I offered to quit cause I wouldn't want to kill her or make her die. She said "what would you do for work?" Not, no I don't want that or no we need you or no the kids really like you. FINE. TRUST when I say, any and ALL conversations about preschool are OVER. I will no longer discuss anything that is preschool related with her. If she wants to know what is going on or what people think, she'll have to ask them herself. I told her this (oh and by the way, she dropped this little bomb while we were on the phone, nice, and didn't think it was a big deal.) Im am so done taking her shit. I have done it my whole life, tried to live up to her expectations of what a perfect daugther are and Im not goin to do it anymore. This is just a stepping stone job for me, not the last job I'll ever have. She said it should be "fun, we should enjoy this adventure together." She is now on an adventure of her own. I don't want to be any part of it. And when I told her that, she said "Oh your just going to shut down like you always do and run away." If thats what you want to think fine, oh and just FYI, I learned that trick from her. She runs ALL THE TIME. I just needed to vent because Evan is work and it's his birthday so he doesn't need to deal w/this shit and there's really no one else I want to talk to who would understand. Seriously, I don't know that she would even realize I was gone if I just disappeared or died. Now she'd have the funeral and do the big teary crazy thing, but that would all be for show, to see who is watching. It wouldn't be real. In fact, it'd probably make her life easier if I was gone. But don't worry or think offing myself cause I have too much other stuff going on that is good. I just don't think she'd even miss me. She's crazy to the highest degree and even if my kids are killing me someday, I'd never tell them that. I hope that I can learn from how I feel right now and try to NEVER make my kids feel this worthless, this hurt, this unwanted.

Just another manic Monday...

I used to looooove that song!!! Moving on!

EVAN PASSED THE IMPD TEST!!!! Hurray! He takes the physical exam on 03-30-08. Im sad cause I won't be here (well sad in that I won't be here to cheer him on but not sad enough to skip my vacation for it, sorry, Im a horrible fiancee.)

I FINALLY went to the doctor today (not as in I didn't try to go, finally as in they had ZERO appointments til today.) And he said I HAD viral gastroenteritis (DUH) and now I have gastritis and get this bronchitis. <-- WHAT?! So Im on antibiotics for 10 days and I shouldn't have gone to work today cause IM contagious, yay, and I can't go back to work til Wednesday so the antibiotics have 24 hours to work. Im feeling okay now, he gave me some cough syrup w/codein in it and I've had 2 of the AB pills and he gave me something for the gastritis which I start taking tomorrow and some phenegran for the nausea (which also has a narcotic property so I can't take it w/the cough syrup). Today I ate a bowl of mashed potatoes w/o feeling sick and then half a sub and felt awful afterwards, but kept everything down. So I know I can eat, it just makes me ill to do so which in turn makes me not want to eat. What a fun, neverending, vicious cycle.

Thats all for now. Apparently my ass professor gave a TON of homework last week and told the class she had tried to call me (NOT) and email me (again NOT) so yay for having so much work to catch up on it makes me sick.

Oh just random...

Ahh I just love this e-card and it's basically how Im feeling..Im still feeling quite sick, but I am, as promised, going to work tomorrow. I need the money and Im sick of being at home. Although, I know I will be EXHAUSTED tomorrow night. I am also going to school like 4 hours early to try and catch 1) my teacher & 2) up on my work. My teacher has been what is feeling like, avoiding me. I've emailed her 5x about the work I have missed and I am YET to hear from her. How am I supposed to catch up? Also, when we are in class she tells me she left her lesson book at home. What kind of shit is that?! So tomorrow, if she gives me the same song and dance, Im just gonna go to the MA advisor and ask her what Im missing cause she can find out. F*ck if it makes my teacher angry. I have 2 weeks until finals and I don't have time for her shit. Hopefully I can at least make it from 6-12 so I can be with my kids. I hope Im not contagious, but since the thermometer batter decided to die and it needs a flat battery thingy (is that LCD? Lithium? I don't know) I don't know how high my temperature is. Im relatively sure I still have a fever, but I just don't know to what degree. So I called the after-hours nurse at my doctors office and told her I still feel sick and she told me, of course, to go to the ER. Umm how about no? Not becuase I can't afford it or whatever...But I don't want to wait at Wishard w/all the crazies for 10 hours for them to tell me I have the stomach flu and send me home. What I want is to leave a message and have them get me seen tomorrow. Otherwise, f*ck em. I don't need to go to the ER for them to give me the same info. I could pay $25 at the doctor and not have to deal w/the bullshit that is Wishard Hospital. Anyway..I didn't get to see Evan today because of said illness, which makes me sad. I miss him and I had to cancel our first premarital counseling session on Thursday because of being sick and the pastor never got back to me about rescheduling so I don't know if his wife who has part-time dementia gave him the message or not. Guess I have some calls to make tomorrow. Oh, btw, we are booking Loon Lake for the rehearsal dinner. So we'll have to go pick out that menu soon and I have done absolutely nothing wedding wise this month so the WP should be happy with me. Well besides getting the invitations picked out (my mom wanted to MAKE them, so of course, WE ARE, oh sweet Mary). There's this whole to-do list Im supposed to be updating and it's just not working out. Ooops..Okay, thats all for now.I have to got to bed since I have to be up at the ass-crack of down tomorrow and I haven't done that in a few days.

PS: I started using Proactiv and Im already falling off the wagon. Im supposed to use it twice a day. Did that fine yesterday and this morning I used it, but tonight, I just feel sick and I don't feel like doing it. So Im gonna take it w/me to work tomorrow and wash my face & do my make-up before the kiddos get there. Hmm..maybe I can sleep in later since Im shaving off the 10mins of getting ready time it takes to do that at home. Yay. We'll see how it works out. I may do the face washing here at home and the make-up at work. Or just go to work in all my acne, broken capillaries from vommitting glory w/o make-up. We'll just see how it goes.

PPS: This post was pretty much one long blabber w/no purpose. My favorite!!

***STRESSED****

NO ONE IS LISTENING!!!!
NO ONE IS LISTENING!!!

IM SO SICK OF EVERYTHING!!!!
IM SO BEHIND ON SCHOOL!!!

IM STRESSED!!!!

AND DID I MENTION......NO ONE IS FUCKING LISTENING!!!

There just isn't an e-card..

To tell you how the last 3 days have been...
-The vomitting began at 9pm Tuesday evening and didn't end until 6am Wednesday morning. It was completely out of nowhere
-The fever began at the same time as the vomitting (at it's highest 104.9!!) I was hallucinatory (is that a word?) and continues as I type this.
-The fever=massive, all day headache and the vomitting=all day body aches
-Final diagnosis=a rotavirus that in adults is called "viral gastroenteritis" in other words I got it from one of the kids at preschool, it's a viral infection/inflammation of not only my stomach but the intestines, and until the fever breaks, Im contagious.
-I missed 3 nights of class..I am so behind Im afraid I'll have to retake these classes over again, adding ANOTHER quarter to my schooling which I SOOO much don't want to have to do, but Im not just to dead sure I can catch up in 3 weeks especially when my professor isn't emailing me back my assignments...NICE.
-Im EXHAUSTED. Like literally. I can't be up for more then 20 minutes before I feel like Im gonna be sick (and going up & down the stairs makes me naseauted as well, neat)
-More when Im well.

Wow me!

And Im DAMN PROUD (and quite surprised). Maybe that nursing career will work out.

Oh dammit

Well I meant to post this yesterday but since I came home and literally FELL into bed at 9PM here we are..


On another note, blogger is moving insanely slow this evening..hmmm..Anyone else experiencing this problem?

Anyway...I haven't been such a good updater (is that a word?) A refresher on this week. I believe the last time I posted was Tuesday? Well lets back track to Monday night..I was CRAVING some Taco Bell so I went after class..It basically made me sick from midnight to noon on Tuesday..I was queasy and had to stop the vomit from making an appearance. So I just chalked it up to having TB to late in the eveninga and that was that. I went to work and class as usual Tuesday and woke up Wednesday with a raging headache (which has pretty much the norm since the beginning of no birth control/wedding planning/school/etc) so I figured it was no big deal. But 2:00, I was queasy and still had a migraine. I came home and slept from 3-5 got up and proceeded to violently vomit in the shower.. IT WAS NASTY!! And for those of you that know me..I do NOT, if I can help it, vomit. I cannot stand puking from myself or anyone else..I literally will..well lets not get graphic, but I hate it. And it was out of my control..Vomitting in the shower is not good times. I figured the vomitting was from one of 2 things (or a combo of both)..The massive headache or my body informing me that it does not like fast food anymore (I had Wendy's for lunch). It wasn't until I puked at the library at school and had to pull over to vomit on my way home from class and spiked a 102 degree fever that I figured it wasn't the food. I vomited until noon on Thursday and until Friday morning could only have Gatorade and slow small sips of Diet Sierra Mist. It was a fun 36 hours. I felt a little better Friday and the queasiness is completely gone today. Good lord. If it's going around I get it. I could certainly do w/o the vomitting. It was not good news. The flu has been SOOOO rampant here..I've had it 3x and I GOT the flu shot! Nice.

Evan was offered a job at Sallie Mae. We have both been praying for something to come along and now he is thinking about NOT taking the job. For as long as I have known him, his has been displeased where he is currently working. So a job is basically dropped in his lap and he doesn't want to take it. Does that seem retarded to anyone else?! I don't really want to go into it to much because it's been the topic of conversation ALL FREAKING WEEK and no matter what i say, he is going to do what he wants. But I just don't feel like telling God NO, is the best course of action. And yeah, I believe this is an answer since we have BOTH been praying for him to get out of his current job. So we'll see what he decides, but seriously, if he doesn't take this job, I don't want to hear complaints about the one he is at. Yes, that may be heartless or mean, but if you have a chance to change a bad situation and you don't take it, you don't get to complain. It's that easy. When things suck at preschool, I do what's in my power to get them changed, if only for the fact that I get to complain when it doesn't work out. I don't just sit around and WISH things would get better. This is just crap and he knows it and Im done talking to him about it. Seriously, Im going to try to keep my cynical comments at a minimum...umm..we'll see how that goes.

Wedding wise..we are up to 353 guests..Yep..THREE FIVE THREE. Good grief and gravy and thats after we took off about 20 people. My mom cannot be stopped. She wants to invite everyone and hey, I'll let her. It's her party basically. And they're paying so if she wants to invite everyone she knows, more power to her. Now if we could just get them to pay for alcohol, we'd be set. Im gonna need it to deal w/some of the people on the invite list. We still need to select a DJ, a cake, invitations, and finalize our menu. Thats on my "March To-Do" list. Oh yeah and send out save the dates and our engagement picture to the paper. Fun times..

So instead of taking time tomorrow to do all this wedding stuff... Evan and I are taking a day trip to Nashville, IN. It's supposed to be almost spring like here tomorrow and we need to get out of town. Have a break. Then maybe we'll come back and do wedding stuff. We'll see..

E's b-day is in 2 weeks and I have NO clue what to get him and when I ask him he says he doesn't know. So when he gets something dumb, he can blame himself.

Okay..thats all for now..Im exhausted..