a few thoughts...

in honor of fall and november being next week i wanted to put this picture up... it makes me laugh. lol.

ok so this morning i was thinking that i was determined to post again before another month went by... but i could'nt really think of anything to write about... anyway i was watching the Ellen show earlier this afternoon. i love watching it.. it's hilarious and so is she. the only thing that gets me is that we have totally different political views and today she said something that got on my nerves so bad. she said something about how Palin is trying to change the constitution by saying she wants to outlaw gay marriage. ok what in the world is she talking about??? they changed the constitution when they made gay marriage legal! we have to remember that the constitution is based on the Bible! and in the Bible marriage is between a man and woman. i don't know what constitution she is reading! gosh that makes me so mad! anyway... i just had to put that out there! oh and one more thing... what is the big deal about Elisabeth wearing a McCain tshirt on the view yesterday?? if Joy or Whoopi wore an Obama shirt they would make a big deal if Elisabeth said something!

anyway... i'm kind of excited about how christmas is working out. see.. i was worried that i wouldn't be able to be off the same days mom was... i thought christmas was on the weekend for some reason. but i looked on the calander and christmas eve is wednesday and christmas is thursday! so that works out perfect! i'm really looking forward to it. i'm going to get all of my shopping done before thanksgiving to beat most of the crowds. and wait to wrap in december.. cause that's just the fun of it!

today me and mom went to olive garden for lunch and it was nice to go just the two of us you know... then we ran by old navy real quick. i wanted to see if they had the velour suits. and sure enough they did! i grabbed like 3 different sizes to try on. i had no idea what i would wear since i'm in between sizes. anyway.... i got navy blue. they had that, black and light pink. light pink wouldn't be very flattering head to toe and so i thought the blue would be good so you can wear black or brown or whatever color with it. it's kinda funny cuz average inseam isn't too long for me (except for dress pants) and nina is taller than me and she has to get short inseam.. i guess i have longer legs and she has a longer torso. i told the cashier that i wanted to get them now because last year i waited until it was actually cold to go look for one and they were all out. ha ha. i also got another pair of just like gray pants and they are fleece on the inside.

oh and one more thing. i get paid this friday but the next check i will have over $1,000 in my savings! i'm excited. of course it will get pretty much wiped out when i pay tuition next semester but hey that's better than a loan! i've been putting half of each check in there and it's adding up pretty quick.

so i guess that's all for now.. hope you all have a great rest of the week.
-little e

just a little update

ok so it feels like i JUST posted that i couldn't believe it was september and here it is.. october! september flew.. i think partly because of the hurricane and evacuating. it broke up the month and i didn't have school/work.
Anyway... nothing new is really going on. school started back up this week... alot of the campus got messed up and they had a big list of class relocations. luckily only one of mine moved.. my reading class/lab. it was in A building and now it's moved to S building which is obviously clear across campus. so here was my dilimma... my first class is in S and my second is in C with only 10 mins in between. it takes my friend about 7 min to walk from S to the cafe and the cafe is only half way to C building. sooo obviously walking was out because it would take me like 15 mins. so i have to park in front of the S building and then when class is over go and park in the main parking lot. so i tried that yesterday and it went well but it was easier having all of my classes closer together you know.. but oh well i'll get used to it. so anyway it's kinda cool having a class in the S building because that is where all of the health/science classes are in.. all of the nursing classes are in there too. you can see in all of the classrooms cuz they are just windows and the door is glass.. kinda like the patients rooms on the tv show house. so when i'm walking to class i can see people like sticking tubes down those plastic peoples throats and they have hospital beds and stuff too.. just stuff like that. it's pretty cool to see. that will be me one day! the semester was just extended 3 days and that will be finals week. so it's not bad.. i missed 5 class days so i'm glad i don't have to make all of those up!
so i guess that is about it oh and don't forget voter registration in texas ends on monday i think.. so don't forget about that! i don't want to hear anyone complain if obama gets elected and they didn't vote! every vote counts.. wouldn't you kick yourself if mccain lost by one vote?
peace out.

something funny

ok so this was a couple of weeks ago but the first day of school mom had to work but she insisted that dad take a picture of me when i got home from school. thought it was funny cause it was my first day of college not my first day of first grade.. ha ha. but just thought i'd share a recent pic of me..

-little e

Hurricane Ike. (they come up with the dumbest names.)

here are some pics of our yard.. with my descriptions so you actually know what it is. LOL. luckily dad already got all of the debris picked up and its all in a pile in the front waiting for the trashman to pick it up. we went to kroger earlier and they still don't have alot of frozen stuff and meat but we were able to get a few things. i'm just glad i got to come home to electricity and that there wasn't any damage done to the house.

one of the branches that snapped off the big tree in our yard
all of the branches on the sidewalk in the front.
some of the trees that hung over from the neigbors yard fell into ours
this is the side where the shed and the little pond is.. this is where the fence fell and this is actually looking into the neighbors yard
well this is obvious lol
looking into the neighbors yard again and the house behind them
more of our yard

it was so weird and unexpected to evacuate though.. like on tuesday last week it was headed straight for corpus christi and we were just supposed to get some rain.. then all of the sudden wednesday it turned more north and every time i watched the news it was moving more and more north. i'm not glad a hurricane came but i am glad that we got to go away for a week and get a break and i had a really great time! hopefully we will get to come visit more often. now they are saying that my school won't reopen till wednesday so that means i won't go till thursday.. in a way it's nice but in a way i'm gonna have to make up those days sometime so it sucks. i actually enjoy going to school now so in a way i'm kinda bummed. anyway i hope and pray everything gets better for everyone else. peace out.

it's september already!

am i the only one who can't believe its already september? this year has flown! and it's been almost a month since i have posted.. time got away from me.

anyway.. nothing special is really going on. i'm staying busy with school and work... i'm a little overwhelmed with all of the homework but i'll get used to it. college is so much different from high school. i rarely had homework in high school.. and i dreaded going. now i have tons of homework everyday.. but really it's worth it because i feel like i'm actually learning something. of course there are things you like and don't like about every class.. but so far i like all of my teachers! i have been doing really good in math actually. right now it's like stuff i already know how to do but it's good to have that refresher because i haven't ever had a good math teacher really. and i've been doing good on the homework and actually made a 100 on my first math lab! (its on the computer but counts as a quiz grade. we do it online at home and then print out the results and turn it in.) i can already tell my reading class is going to be a challenge.. but i have to pass it so i can start nursing pre-reqs. and mental health was nothing like i expected! i thought it was going to be all book work and blah blah blah. it's nothing like any other class i've been in. he lectures.. but it's actually interesting.. he's really funny. and then we always have a group project.. and then he discusses whatever we did. like yesterday we had to get into groups of five and pretend we were on the board of a counseling center and come up with a treatment plan for a teenager deciding whether to have an abortion or not. of course everyone had their own views and people were argueing (pro-life or pro-choice). but the professor said that when helping someone like that you can't let your own views get in the way. you have to have the best interest of the patient and not even think about your own bias. the whole group thing is still a little weird for me but i'm sure i'll get used to it. and another plus of that class is that we haven't had homework yet! my learning strategies class is going really good. the teacher is wonderful.. you can tell she really wants every student to do well.

other than that i can't really think of anything else.. work is the same old same old you know. so i guess that is about it. i need to go do my homework. hope everyone has a great week. peace!

i have been having this obsession with fruit flavored drinks lately.. idk why. i guess it's just a phase but for right now i can't get enough!

tropical citrus vitamin water. (energy). its addicting because it has caffiene but keeps me awake at school! it makes me pee like crazy though. the flavor isn't as washed out as the revive vitamin water.

i discovered this one at the cafe at school. snapple mango madness. it's soo good! i get one everyday during my lunch break at school.
fuze slenderize tropical punch. it only says slenderize because it only has like 20 cals i think. (which is hard to find in a fruit drink). it has a good flavor though and comes in a plastic bottle now instead of that glass one. but they are still just as big.

the funniest pics

hahahah this makes me laugh. why aren't me and brittnee wearing shirts?
so kristina was a power ranger and brittnee a clown with a unibrow? haha.





first of all.. i cannot believe it is already august! where has the time gone? it's hard to believe that a year ago this time i was getting ready for my senior year. crazy! it's a scary thought but before you know it it will be the holiday season! i'm actually ready.. i don't care about the gifts as much as the month of december.. just the season you know. i love the decorations and music and wrapping presents and shopping for other people. but i still like to recieve gifts as well! lol. luckily i have like the last half of december off from college for "winter break" but with christmas comes mid-terms! ugh. lol. anyway.. i'm already looking foward to it because starting the wk of the 25th of this month i will only be working fri, sat, sun.





on another note.. work has been going pretty good. i don't dread going as much because i'm getting into the swing of things and i think my co-workers are realizing that i'm an ok person. lol. it always takes a while for people to warm up to you.. you know. so now i don't feel totally alone at work and i mean i probably wouldn't talk to them outside of work but it's nice to have someone to talk to you know. there is one lady that is in her 50's and i don't talk to her much and samantha the girl that is 18 left for college already. iris is 19, elayna is 23, julia is 24. and when you think about it they are not that much older than me and its weird to think that someone in their 20's is around my age group lol. and mary and tammy are in their 30's but i get along with them just as well. now the new supervisors they have been hiring.. that is a whole different story. LOL. it has been soooo busy though.. with back to school & all. next wknd is tax free wknd which i'm totally not looking foward to! oh well right? it's funny now that i work there i always see people i know that i haven't seen in years. it's cool though. it's such a small world you know.



i work today then i'm off tomorrow and friday! yay! lol. i love days off!


luckily all we got from that tropical storm yesterday was a bunch of rain.. i'm just glad it didn't get bigger and we had to evacuate lol. so i guess that's about it for now. peace!

SCORE!!!

ok so i have had a few good things happen to me in the past couple hours... i just had to post about them LOL.

they have been making this big deal at work the past couple weeks about this event called the soco olympics. and basically the managers are testing us on our customer service skills-- but there is prizes. the managers are our customers and they will have a grading report and you are supposed to do all the stuff like they say like the GREAT thing and other customer service crap and do you want to apply for a penneys card and blah blah blah.

anyway i purposefully did not put my name on the sign up sheet! i mean wouldn't you think if there is a sign up sheet it would be your choice if you had to do it? i would be a nervous wreck and probably get a really low score. i mean.. i've only been there not even 2 months. that would be scary. and i was like oh crap i've already called in once. so today while we were recovering the supervisor comes on the loud speaker and was like if you didn't sign up we did it for you cuz we want everyone to participate. i about crapped myself. then the girl i was closing with, alayna was like i don't have to do it cuz i'm not opening or closing. the times for the olympics are 9 am and 10:45 pm. so i looked at my schedule and sure enough i work 12:15-8:15! so i lucked out! i'm so happy! lol.


one more thing. i decided i didn't want to go to new student orientation because i worked till 11:15 tonight and i would have to be there at 8:30 am. so i was like heck no that's too early. so i was gonna do the online orientation tomorrow. well when i got home i was like i'll go ahead and do it now and get it over with. they said it would take 2 hrs online. well turns out its a series of recordings and like power point type things.. of course i was bored after the first 30 seconds. LOL. then i realized you can click the link for the quiz and they don't know you watched the videos. so i was like.. maybe i can pass the quiz without listening to all this junk. so i tried it and sure enough i made an 85! minimum score was 70. they were like common sense questions and there was only 20 of them. so i just saved myself all of that time tomorrow! tomorrow will be my last day off then i work fri, sat, sun, mon, tues.


well i'm gonna go to bed now its about 12:40 am and i gotta be up by ten to watch the view! haha. just thought i'd share a little of my joyful happenings. lol.