Preparing for the Holidays

In exactly one week is Christmas...Can you believe it? I'm excited. Confession: I actually have all of  my shopping done over a week before Christmas!!!!! This has not happened in forever. I just need to wrap them. I can't wait for my family to see their presents...and just in case they read this I am not saying what I am giving them. Plus I think I got some pretty good Secret Santa presents for the person I was shopping for. Who ever has me is doing a great job.

So the plan to lose over 35 lbs by July is going to be a challenge. 1) It is the holidays and I do not want to gain weight I have already lost. 2) I need to try to find time to workout. 3) I just got Coldstone and Biggby giftcards. I can use them before the new year, but I still have them in my possession. 

I can do this though. I found a diet I am going to try and if it doesn't work, I'll return to the one I used this summer to lose 15 lbs. 

We have decorated for the holidays...sort of. We didn't decorate like my house downstate, but we did do some decorating. The tree is up and decorated. As we don't know where our angel is...other than in the storage unit...we used one of my little angel decorations, tied it to the tree with fishing line, and put two little mice under it. It is adorable and fun. 

Finally, I got my grades for my first semester of grad school. I got a 3.75!!!!!! YAY!!!!! 3 As and 2 BAs!!!! 

The End for now...

Life Keeps Changing

So a lot has happened since my last post...and when I say a lot I mean A LOT!!!! Instead of giving all the details, as I've told these stories a lot, I will give you the brief short story of my life the past couple weeks.

C met my parents for the first time. He liked them and my brother and they liked him. I returned to school and a few days later C called and broke up with me. He said he couldn't connect or open up with the distance and our busy schedules. C also said that we are at different points in our lives and that he can't share in the experiences I am having. I understand the last half, but he didn't even talk to me about the way he felt so that we could find a way to work on it. That is probably the most irritating part of it.

This weekend I went to da UP to see my friends and brother. I had a blast and enjoyed every minute of it. Saw lots of friends, painted something at HotPlate, and ordered the bridesmaid dress I will be wearing in my friend's wedding.

As the school year winds down, I am getting tired of all of the work. I have one final done. I have another final I'm working on. I have a project to do. I have a final to take. And I'm done with clinic!!!! That is a lot going on I know, but I'm enjoying life. I'm enjoying school. I really don't mind being single again. I don't have to worry about finding time to spend with my boyfriend or how I look or anything like that. Plus I've been single so long, I'm no good at being in a relationship.


I also found out today that I have had over 100 pageviews. YAY!!! Just a poll to see how many people who are actually reading this, How many of you are happy with how your life is right now?

Stress and Happiness

So I've had a lot going on in my life since my last post. I know it has only been a few days, but it has been enough that I was sick for most of it. Luckily I have also been happy at other times even with the "sickness" or whatever it is.

So Tuesday morning I woke up with a bad headache. I didn't think anything of it as every once in a while I get headaches, but they go away quickly. Well this one didn't go away for days. It just kept getting worse and I was also experiencing some nausea at the same time. I managed to work through it Tuesday and most of Wednesday so that I didn't have to cancel therapy sessions or miss classes. Wednesday I tried some excedrine migraine, but the headache/migraine was so far gone that it did not help at all. The only way I was able to deal with it was by laying down in complete darkness and with limited noise. Problem was, I had a lot of homework to do and even sitting up would make me feel so sick and in so much pain that it was unbearable. So I ended up at the ER that night. Confession: I have always wanted to consider myself independent, but I was glad I had someone to be dependent on that night. If it hadn't been for B and D I don't think I would have made it through that night or the next day. B took me to the ER and stayed with me the whole time, she also drove me to the doctor the next morning and did my laundry. I feel bad that she did my laundry, but I really appreciate it. The doctor gave me meds for my nausea and headaches, so I slept most of Thursday and didn't go to the clinic as I don't think I would have been able to manage. The next day I was able to manage for a few hours before the pain came back, but couldn't take anything until I got to my parent's house because I didn't want to try to drive after taking my pain meds.

Saturday was the last major day of pain, but I was able to keep it away most of the day, by taking my pain meds early in the morning. My parents and I went up to Traverse City for the day. My dad went to the football game to cheer on my high school and watch them win the game that secured them a place at the state finals. My mom and I went shopping. We went to the little strip mall behind Gander Mountain and we then walked around the mall. I didn't buy anything at either of these places. I couldn't find what I was looking for so didn't buy anything. YAY ME!!!! lol.

After the game, we picked up my dad and then walked around downtown. We went to several stores. One I tried on the harry potter sorting hat and took pictures. The store had a lot of hats of all kinds. We went to Cherry Republic and did wine tasting. I wasn't liking any of the wine, so I switched to their pop tasting. I ended up buying a couple bottles of their pop. It was delicious. That is all I bought. We then went to dinner at Cracker Barrel because Olive Garden was packed. I was starting to get my headache back, but dinner and lots of laughs in the store portion made it go away and me feel better. I found a section in the store that was completely full of different sock monkey items. For some reason whenever I see a sock monkey I get super excited. Well this section had sock monkey slippers, robes, earmuffs, gloves, scarves, toys, candles, and much more. Being silly my mom and I took a picture together of us both in sock monkey earmuffs. It was fun and I was glad to be feeling better.

Well on the way home from Traverse City, I was texting C, my bf :). Confession: I really like being able to call C my bf. It is so easy to say and just fits. I had sent him both of the pictures of the sorting hat and the earmuffs. He laughed at me and wanted to know if I had bought the sorting hat. Lol. We were flirting back and forth and planning what time I would come over to his place the next day for our date. He told me he wanted to spend as much time with me as he could, and it made me so happy to know I felt the same way.

I got to his house at about 4. Darn gas stop made me get a late start. He showed me the main floor of his house, which has most of the work done on it. He had repainted, redone the counters in the kitchen, and he had redone all of the floors. It looked amazing. Well after that we went and walked on the boardwalk along the lake that is right in Holland and it was romantic. We held hands and walked and talked. I like holding his hand, they just fit right. When we got back to the car he opened the door for me and shut it after I got in. I've always wanted a guy to do that. We then went downtown and walked around and looked for a place to eat. They had already decorated for the holidays, which made me laugh because it was so warm out. Well most places were closed, but we found a good restaurant to eat at. While we were waiting for the waitress to come to get our orders, he held my hand on top of the table. He actually held my hand at a restaurant, this doesn't happen to me.

After dinner we went back to his place to watch a movie. It was nice, he let me pick even though he had suggested one. I picked a different one than he suggested and he didn't mind. We watched Despicable Me, it was good to laugh. We also cuddled and it was nice to feel safe and cared for by a guy. It has been a while. We talked after the movie and he is coming to meet my family later this week. He is kind of nervous, even though there is nothing to be afraid of. My dad and brother are big teddy bears, my mom can come across scary but she is just silly. I'm excited that I get to see him again so quickly. That is three times this month!!! It might seem silly to other people, but we hardly saw each other until this month.

I'm just happy right now. The stress of my headaches is gone for now. I'm home for Thanksgiving. As I probably won't post again until after Thanksgiving, I will list what I am thankful for now.

1. I am thankful for my amazing family I have. 
2. I am thankful for my amaXing sisters both from my chapter and my sister from another chapter. 
3. I am thankful for my new boyfriend who makes me feel special and who I am falling in love with.
4. I am thankful for B and D for letting me live at their place. 
5. I am thankful for my new friends at western.
6. I am thankful for the opportunity to be working on my masters degree with a great faculty of teachers. 

Pure Joy

Confession 1: I'm so excited, I'm in an amazing relationship!!!!
So C and I had a date last night that was great! It has been three weeks since we have seen each other, so I was super excited to see him. I had been worried all week that he wasn't going to be able to come, because his nephew had made him sick with a bad cold. But he still came!!! Just no real kissing because he didn't want to get me sick. He is such a sweet guy to think of that :) I appreciate how much he thinks about me, and I'm trying to think of fun things for us to do, and how to be romantic. I feel like I have no experience when it comes to relationships, so I'm doing the best that I can. It is hard, but I really care for him and have new feelings I have not had before.

So back to our date night. We started the night with a dinner dish I made. It was a sour cream chicken enchilada I found on Pinterest. It turned our to be delicious and it was a brand new dish that I had never made before. I'm glad it turned out. We then played on my Wii. I won four out of five of the Wii sports games, and only one of the games on Wii resort. He quickly got a hang of all of the games. Lol so my goal of beating him didn't work, but it was so much fun. We then watched "Man on a Ledge" We cuddled the whole time, it was so nice. He is nice and cuddly and I feel so comfortable being close to him. So much that I'm sure I could fall asleep next to him...but that is another topic not talked about yet. After the movie, we played a game of Jenga (I won) and then lots of games of UNO (we both won many of them). Lastly we watched "House Bunny." He picked it out if you are wondering the weird movie choice. After the movie ended, we cuddled and talked and then the big question came up...

He asked if I wanted to start dating (like bf/gf). I said yes, or mmmhmmm, without any hesitation. He asked as I was coming up with a way to ask him where things were going. I was so happy that we were on the same page. I was so excited when he asked and that I didn't have to ask. He makes me feel so happy.

After he asked me, we talked about how our families would feel or act. It was so nice to just talk. And I get to see him again next weekend, no long wait this time.

So one final note about how much of an amazing guy he is. He texted me saying that I looked very pretty on our date. That meant a lot to me as I was wearing jeans, a simple t-shirt, and my hair up in a ponytail with little to know make-up on. I didn't feel super pretty, but it made me so happy and special. I like feeling special to someone :) <3

MQT I miss you

So last night I was talking to a friend from undergrad who also moved away to continue their schooling. Today I was talking to a friend who is still at NMU but will be graduating in less than 2 months. What did these two conversations have in common? We talked about things we missed or are going to miss. I know that I am on a new adventure and it is exciting, but every once in a while I want to be back in MQT, so I thought I'd make a list of things I miss and then a list of things in my new place that I love.

What I miss:

1. I miss climbing Sugarloaf mountain at night and looking at the stars and the city lights. 
2. I miss being a 10 minute walk from the beach. 
3. I miss going to the beach to watch the giant waves roll in from the storms out on Lake Superior and playing in the waves as they crash over the walls and onto the road. 
4. I miss sitting on the beach at night watching the ore boats coming in and looking at the stars. 
5. I miss being so close to nature, that seeing a deer or fox on campus was not surprising. 
6. I miss being surrounded by my sorority sisters. 
7. I miss being able to call up a friend and them being at my door within minutes to be a shoulder to  cry on. 
8. I miss the family I created in Mqt. My sisters and friends. 
9. I miss going downtown to paint pottery and picking it up a week later to see an amazing creation. 
10. I miss country night with my crazy friends on Thursdays. 
11. I miss learning how to pole dance to help me loose weight. 
12. I miss having the opportunity to watch sled dog races happening downtown. 
13. I miss indoor football games. 
14. I miss dancing the night away at the Vera, Blue Lounge, or Greek formal. 
15. I miss getting hugs everyday from my friends and sisters. 
16. I miss being able to leave for class 10 minutes before it started, and still getting there 5 minutes early. 
17. I miss having a church that I loved. 
18. I miss being grandmother willow for my sisters. 
19. I miss teaching the new members of the sorority how amaxing it is. 
20. I miss a lot!

What I love now:

1. I love my walk-in closet. 
2. I love the chance to make new friends. 
3. I love having a mall behind my house. 
4. I love living in a house. 
5. I love my drive to school. 
6. I love that I'm falling in love. 
7. I love having Biggby coffee in the area. 
8. I love the atrium in my class building. 
9. I love my clients. 
10. I love clinic. 
11. I love learning. 
12. I love that I'm loosing weight (even if it is from stress). 
13. I love living with people who care about me. 
14. I love being closer to home. 
15. I love being able to buy my favorite wine whenever I want to. 
16. I love having my own area of a house. 
17. I love not sharing a tv. 
18. I love that I am being more artistic. 
19. I love having a porch for jack-o-lanterns. 
20. I love my life. 

So I guess with what I could come up with is pretty even. Either way I know that even though I really miss MQT, I wouldn't change my life. I'm living life, I'm loving life, I'm smiling, I'm laughing, I'm happy. 

Inspirational Moments

Over the past couple days I have been inspired to work on several different things. Usually when I'm this inspired I am super happy, tired, or very sad. Well I have no reason to be sad...life is great. I have not been tired when I've been inspired to work on each piece. So it has to be that I am super happy. I'm not just super happy, I'm rather giddy. I spend a lot of time smiling and just enjoying life. It might just be that I'm still on a mood high from Saturday, or I'm just super happy from being on a mood high lol.

So when talking to C the other day, he said I was super talented. To myself I don't think I'm that talented, I just like to try different things and I'm good at some of them. I wouldn't use the words SUPER TALENTED. So when we were talking I mentioned that I have tried writing books, usually for young adults. I said I couldn't write children's books or adult books. C went on to say anyone could write children's books and something else after that lol. Confession 1: I took this statement as a challenge, even though he didn't mean it to be. So taking this challenge, today I tried to write a short children's book. What I wrote wasn't too bad. The only reason I was inspired was because I was holding a purple pen and decided to write in cursive. It just flowed out of my pen as I wrote. I ended up with what I would describe as several pages to a book written before I ran out of paper. My story is about a little girl who wants to be a princess and one day she hits her head and then she is suddenly thrown into the world of the princess and the pea with a twist. I let B, one of the people I live with, read it and she said it was really good and would be good for a child of 8-10 years old. So I might keep working on it. Sadly, I cannot draw how I see my main character...so I might have to ask C.

Another project I have been working on for a while is figuring out what to carve on my pumpkin. I have to thank C for the inspiration. He had me draw my character Fuzzy the other night, and now I think Fuzzy shall be what is on my pumpkin. We shall see how it turns out, LOL.

The last big project I am working on, is one I started this summer. I couldn't sleep one night, so I grabbed a chunky black sharpie, and a piece of white poster board. From the depths of my mind flowed several trees and grass and darkness, with the left side of the paper completely blank. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to draw, so I just went to bed. I didn't try working on it again, until maybe 2 weeks ago at the earliest. I had considered a path or river for that empty side. With the help of my artistic little sis, I decided on a river. Slowly but surely my picture is coming together. The trees are getting details, leaves are showing up, a river and more trees now fill the left half. This will be the biggest project I've ever finished. My goal is to get it done in the next couple weeks, so I can find something new to work on. Maybe some knitting or writing a book, or who knows what. I guess I'll see.


So for all of those you may be reading this. A friend of mine brought up the question "How do you live globally?" I was unable to answer, but maybe some of those who are reading can answer how you yourself are living globally and maybe define living globally.

Falling in Like

I shall start this entry right off with a confession. Confession 1: I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!! SOOOOOOO HAPPPPY!!!

So you might be wondering why I am so happy...well last night I went on one of the most amazing dates I have ever been on. He is one of the most sweetest guys I have ever met, he makes me happy, and several friends have stated that we mesh well. So I shall tell you the story about this super cool guy. (Names have been changed)


Once upon a time C arrived at 6:30ish at my house. To his astonishment he hadn't got as lost as he thought he was going to.  When he got there, we looked online to pick out which haunted house we wanted to go to after dinner. We decided on going to the closest, which was also supposed to be the scariest in the area. It was supposed to be so scary because they have what they call a Chicken List. It tells how many people have chickened out, wet their pants, left a little extra in their pants, or have vomited.  

We went to dinner first at Olga's Kitchen in the mall in Portage. It was yummy. We then headed to the haunted house. It was called the Psych Ward and it was made up of two attractions (Psych Ward and Nightmares). We went into the Psych Ward first. While we waited in line we talked about scary things from the past, scary movies, and some other random things. We ended up going with a group of 4 young girls and while we were waiting to go in they asked if we were on a date and C said yes. He is the one that defined it as a date, which was cool because I wasn't sure if he considered it a date or us just hanging out. We then were the ones leading the group. Somehow we ended up at the end of the group by the middle of it. We weren't as scared in that one as they tended to scare the middle of the group more. He kept his arm around my waist, and I had my arm around his waist and often pulled him close when I'd scream. I think I stepped on his toe once in one time when I screamed and jumped up, but he said he didn't notice.

We then got in line for the second one (Nightmares). Again in line, we talked about random things and more scary movies. We ended up leading a group of 3 girls and 1 guy. Both C and I screamed several times in this one. The actors were much better at scaring the whole group. C got so scared once he pulled me very close and jumped high in the air. It made me laugh because I screamed at the same time. It was an unexpected scare. We would laugh every time we got scared and he always asked if i was ok if i let out an extremely loud scream. ( I didn't know I could scream so loudly)

We then headed back to my place afterwards. I ended up showing him my half of the house and we watched the Brothers Grimm movie in my living room. He sat right next to me so that our arms and hips and occasionally our legs were touching. After the movie we talked for hours about a bit of everything. He asked to see some of my sketches and for me to draw my little character I have. My characters name is Fuzzy and he is an alien who has a pet named Fuzbal. Just before 2:30 he said he should go (he had to drive 1.5 hours to get home) he gave me a hug and then as he pulled away from the hug he looked at me and then leaned in for a kiss. It was a nice, sweet, little, short kiss.It was so nice having a guy just lean in for kiss and not ask for one (because that tends to break the mood). Sadly then he had to leave. He gave me a hug good-bye and said he had fun and would love to hang out again. I told him he just needed to let me know.

This morning I texted him saying i had a great time and couldn't wait for the next time we hung out. He said he had fun the whole night.We talked a little bit and mentioned we both wanted to hang out again. I told him i always need a break from my schedule. THE END

It was one of the best nights and I can't wait to see him again. God put him in my life when I least expected it. I have to thank God for blessing me when I am so stressed with school.

Well I should be getting ready for bed as tomorrow is Monday...blech.

Haunted Houses and other scary things.

It's midterm time...scary. Luckily I only have one midterm this week. Speech sound disorders. My study guide is already over 6 pages and i'm not done with it yet. Like I said scary...and it's my first midterm in grad school. Confession 1: I really don't want to study and I feel i'm not learning anything in this class. 

Anyways, work is keeping me busy. I just graded outlines and I have midterms to grade this week/weekend....fun! not. Anywho, like I said work is keeping me busy. I'm slowly getting hours, and I am giving a tour this Friday. But before the tour, I will be at the Van Riper lectures all day Thursday and all morning Friday. I don't even have time for lunch between the lectures and the tour...ugh. Oh well, its work and money.

But I have an exciting weekend ahead of me. I asked my friend C, if he wanted to hang out this weekend. So we are having dinner and going to a haunted house. Confession 2: I am very scared for this haunted house, I haven't been to anything scary in a very very long time. And we might be  going to an extremely scary haunted house. I made a list of haunted houses in the general area. It took me forever to find ones that are scary but not super scary, but I did list the super scary ones. One of them has a "chicken list" of people who have chickened out in one form of another (not completing the attraction, peeing their pants, pooping their pants, vomiting). We might to go that one and I will be scared to death. Good thing I'm taking a guy with me. A haunted house is also a good reason to find a way to stay very close to said guy if I get really scared.

Well any ways its time to get back to studying or to bed.

Good night to whoever reads this other than myself.

Stress Breakdown

6th week of Grad School has started!!! AHHHHH!!!!

So I know I haven't posted in a while, but see the title and you will see that stress has occurred. Soooooo many things to do; work , school, clinic!!! School I have lots of projects and reading. Confession 1: I've given up on doing all the reading. Its just too hard to do all the reading when I can be working on my papers, quizzes, and lesson plans. Clinic I have 3 group sessions for ACE (aphasia clinic), I have my diagnostics team most Tuesdays, and one other client twice a week. Work I keep sending emails, forwarding emails, and grading things. So I guess the undergrads that I was grading for, some didn't exactly like my grading lol. Too bad for them.  For work I also get to give tours. The same day as the Van Riper lectures, I also get to give a tour....UGH!

So last Thursday night, I had my first breakdown of the semester. It started when I was talking about school and the stress with a classmate, and I just started crying. It was horrible. I sadly cried for over an hour, and the only thing that helped me get through it was my awesome friend L, who seems to always have breakdowns around the same time as me, no matter the distance.

So the good things in my life right now are: I get to get away and see my family for Halloween weekends at the campground, my diagnostics team was canceled for tomorrow, and I may have met someone. Well I did meet someone, but I don't know if it will turn into anything. We met on a online dating site (ChristianMingle) and we chatted for a while before we finally met 2 weeks ago. We met at ArtPrize in GR and I took my friend H, because you never know when you meet someone online. Since then we have texted everyday...except for today. Its weird not texting him, but I don't want to seem clingy, and I'm really hoping he isn't feeling the same way. But he seems to be everything I'm looking for. He says the right things, and he pays attention to what I say. It has been a while since I have had attention like this. I have missed it, but I think there could be something there, if we weren't so far apart. We live an hour apart, which means we haven't seen each other since our first meeting, and I really want to go on a "date" to see if we have a true connection. I just don't know if I should suggest it, or he should?

Well that is it for tonight. I have to continue ignoring some of my homework.

First Week Stress

Well I survived my first partial week of graduate school. Between the exhaustion and worries, I somehow survived. It was also very overwhelming, so much information, so many new thing, and so many new people.

Orientation
Tuesday was a long day of orientation. It was the first day that I saw everyone in my program (which includes a guy) and when I first learned the names of way too many faculty members. There are about 17 faculty members, this is over 5 times how many faculty we had at NMU. We were told how to live as a grad student and how to live globally and the such. We then went on a scavenger hunt around our main building and the building in which the clinic was located. I'm so glad my team had students who had attended western, or we would have been completely lost. We then had a very long session about what we needed to know and what was on our resource cd that we had received that summer. I personally think there was too much on the cd, and many of my classmates agree. Good thing it is my job to prepare the cd for the incoming students next year...I'll mention why at a later time. We then met with our advisors for lunch. It was fun, and I have a great advisor with a cool last name of Glista. We were then done and I was so glad to get out of there and I was so exhausted afterwards. TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!!

First Day of Class
Well I arrived extra early to the building to find parking (I'll always have parking) and to finish reading for my first class. Well our first class had to move rooms, but luckily that new room is where we will be the rest of the semester. That class will be interesting. The next two classes go together and are rather interesting as well. We played BAFA BAFA in the one class today. Sadly my Wednesday classes go until 5:40....which is exhausting. The best part of the day was the free Papa Johns pizza at lunch time!!!

Clinic
Well Thursday and Friday I spent an hour each at the clinic building being educated. It was one looooong hour. I think it was slightly pointless, but I did get my clinic schedule. One client, working in the Aphasia clinic, and my diagnostic team. I will be in the clinic from 10 am until 7pm every Tuesday and Thursday. Those will be very long days. But it will be worth it. I also get to do some of my GA hours in the clinic as my professor I'm the assisstant for, is the head of the Aphasia Clinic.

Ice Cream Social
After clinic orientation on Friday, we had an ice cream social with the professors and second years. It was actually a lot of fun. The second years gave us tips, we met out 'buddies' and we talked with the professors. My buddy is D, who went to NMU and graduated the year before me. It is interesting to have a northern student as my buddy, and I feel lucky as we had similar experiences in our undergrad.

Graduate Assistantship
I am working as an assistant to Professor G. I get to do some copies, some grading, some help, some research, some data inputting, and some cd making. Its going to keep me busy. 10 hours a week.


Sorry this post is so long. I've just been so busy and so stressed that I haven't wrote. I have more to write about this weekend, but I will save that for a later post.

Exploring Excitement

So Sunday night I officially moved into my new home, which is a basement. It is gorgeous! I have a room with a walk-in closet, a kitchenette, and a small living room. It is so nice. I'm still working on unpacking. Here is my first confession for this post: I am still not unpacked, and in no hurry to get done anytime soon. 

Well Monday afternoon, I helped my friend H move into her new dorm. Well that was exhausting and extremely hot work, so we came to Portage and went to Coldstone Creamery. After that we went to the amazing store called World Market and after that to the mall. Confession number two: The best thing about the mall is the escalators. I love riding the escalators. It was a blast and I got a new dress.

Tuesday we explored campus. We explored our building and then went to the health center for me to get my TB test started in order to work on campus. After exploring we went grocery shopping, to sonic and back to my place to relax and watch Burlesque. I then spent the evening after H went home unpacking and then just relaxing with a glass or two of wine.

Today after unpacking all morning, I went to meet H on-campus to do some work stuff and then go to our graduate assisstantship training. It was a long boring training about safety and other such stuff. I was bored, and I already don't like their safety alert system. Compared to NMU's system, it is sub par. I am now relaxing before I take on more unpacking, making cookie dough to bake cookies tomorrow, and potentially going to Panera for dinner.

Final confession: I am so excited for tomorrow, yet nervous as well. I am meeting classmates and having a dinner and bar hop. I'm excited to meet them, yet nervous to go out drinking with people I've never met. Luckily they have offered me a place to stay the night afterwards, so no driving back to Portage for me :)

Visiting the Land of My Undergrad

So all week I have been counting down to my trip to the great north to visit Marquette. I was going to help my brother move in for his freshman year and to see all of my friends who were in the area. It was all planned, see as many under 21 friends when I got there, see most of my legal friends at the bars that night, and see everyone else the next day. Well lets say this plan worked for only part of it.

My brother and I hit the road at 6am on Thursday. We made it to Marquette by noonish and got him unloaded by 1pm. Well several awesome friends/sisters, A and M, stopped by and I was so excited. Two of my IV friends, M and P, also helped my brother to carry his stuff in so I got to see some unexpected friends. Well my brother sent me away and I went and visited my friend A. After several hours of hanging out and chatting, A, my brother, and I went to Applebees for dinner as I was starving.

After dinner we went to Walmart to do some shopping before A dropped me off at my friend C's (different C than in later posts) house for the evening. Well we both started to feel a little sick after dinner and were thinking it was dinner and maybe was just food poisoning, except for the fact that my brother felt fine. Well I just blew if off and ignored it to the best of my ability, but it kept getting worse.

Well to make the disgusting story short I for some reason went out to the bar with my friends. Felt so nauseous that I even drank some ginger ale, I haven't had pop in months, and that didn't help. Went outside for fresh air, threw up in the ash bucket outside, went in feeling better, went home and was sick all night. Note to the reader: I have not thrown up in over 5 years. It was a miserable night.

The next morning I had my mom pick me up and take me to the hotel where I slept the day away nibbling at a little food and just trying to feel better. I never did feel better until today, Saturday, and that was after hours of sleeping in the car on the way home, drinking lots of water, and eating bits of food along the way.

But I am finally feeling mostly human and counting down until I officially am moved into my place in Portage. Only about 24 hours away until I am officially there.

Counting Down Drama

1 more day of work and life in Mt. Pleasant.

5 more days until I officially move into my new place in Portage.

8 more days until I train for my graduate assisstantship.

14 more days until school starts!!!

Only a handful of days left until my life changes yet again.  Kind of nerve-racking to think, I'm moving again. I'm starting at a new university. I don't know anyone in my program. I don't know my way around town very well yet. I'm not even close to being packed to leave in a few more days. I have to be packed by tomorrow night as I will be visiting my friends up in Marquette for one last time.

As the number of days gets smaller and smaller, my stress gets bigger and bigger. I don't have everything, I don't have everything done, not knowing what else needs to be done....UGH!

I just keep reminding my self....
1) I'm living with family friends
2) I have a good friend who may not be in my program but is in the area
3) The girls in my program seem nice and I get to hangout and meet them next week
4) Home is 3 hours closer than when I was at my undergraduate
5) I'm here for 2 years and I'll be done and moving again....ok maybe that is kind of scary

Got to be positive...but I'm still nervous and trying to keep the family drama from occuring during my last few days with all of them. I don't think I've mentioned my brother is heading away for his first year of college at my alma matter. He is way more ready than I was as a freshman. I fought with my parents and had plenty of break downs leading up to that, now I'm just stressing and venting to all of you anonymous people.

First Post Terrors

I've always wanted to be a writer. Always wanted to start a blog. Always been afraid to do either. Well its time to work through those fears. So lets start with who in the world I am.

I am Lexi. No its not short for anything. Not Alexandra, not Alexis, or Alexandria. I am just starting grad school at WMU. I have one brother, but tons of sisters. I should mention my sisters are my best friends and sorority sisters.

So here is a confession as my new blog is about confessions. I am afraid of getting lost on my new campus. This is a normal fear at a new school. But what you don't realize is the university I went to for my undergrad would fit about 3 times into my new campus. Freaks me out. Luckily I'm only in one building as of right now.

Another confession. I'm so nervous that I won't be able to keep up with my classmates. The way I study is different and not always as efficient as other study habits. But they work for me to pass my classes and to do well usually. I'm also nervous that I won't like my graduate assisstantship. But other than these few nerves....I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! 

Hopefully if anyone reads this blog they aren't bored to death...lol.