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I am procrastinating. BIG TIME.

Dec 022007

Its late Sunday night and I haven’t started my big math project yet.

I am freaking out!!!!!

This is very unlike me. I tend to work on projects weeks in advance, but I have had so much to do, I haven’t had a chance to get started on this one yet.
Except I did.
I had all weekend to work on it.
Instead, I ran some errands before the snow storm hit, then lounged around all day Saturday, watching the snow. Also visited with some friends, cleaned a little, cooked, did this or that and did hardly any schoolwork.
Woke up early Sunday and spent the morning finishing my health project to be presented this Wed in class. (Yay, accomplished one big item on my list!) I was just about to start working on my math project when E and I decided to go next door to watch the rest of the Vikes game.
7 hours later, I finally just made it home.
D & D are so damn hospitable and fun, the time flies when we hang out with them. Darrell made homemade lasagna from scratch and invited us to stay for dinner. We could hardly say no, everything looked and smelled so good and they made a ton of food. It was awesome!! Jere and Shannon and the kids also came over for dinner, so of course I wanted to spend time socializing with our neighbors rather than working on my project. Who wouldn’t?!
After dinner we spent a few hours playing darts on D’s new dartboard. I love playing darts and rarely get the chance. I was having so much fun, it was hard to stop. Eventually the guilt about this upcoming project won out.
I need to get started on it but I am really dreading it, hence the procrastination :(
See, just by writing this blog post I am putting it off even further.
Ugggg!!
Lord, please help me get through the next few weeks until this semester is over and I can take a well-deserved break!!!

Feeling the need to change up my blog banner, hopefully I will get to it this week???!!!

12-hour work days

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Nov 202007

Pretty much suck when you wake up with laryngitis…….

But I am a trooper (or shall we say stupid?!) and went to work today anyway. Even stayed for evening conferences. I didn’t do much conferencing because of my lack of voice (and poor parent attendance) , but spent some quality time working on my section of the school website. Did you know that you can turn a Powerpoint presentation into a .mov (Quick time) file on a Mac? Pretty sweet. Makes it easy to upload the students’ projects. Here is the intrrduction we made, I hope you can view it (you should be able to as long as you have Quicktime player). I was having trouble uploading it to YouTube for some reason?! Each pair of students is making their own presentation/movie of the rainforest they studied.

Download Tropicalrainforests.mov

Too bad I have only the older eMacs at school to work with. The wait on my Macbook pro is dragging on forever! It was 16 days ago that I ordered that thing and it isn’t scheduled to ship/arrive until Nov. 30th. I guess that is what happens when you customize it with the latest hardware upgrades available! And I swear I am not rubbing my purchase in to those of you who have told me how envious you are…..I probably won’t even know how to use the thing and wonder why I charged the boat-load of money it took to buy it in the first place! I guess only time will tell….

I have conferences again all day tomorrow, then off to class to present my technology project…….which happens to be the school website ;)

Can’t wait to sleep in on Thursday! At this exact moment in time that is what I am so very thankful for :)

TGIF!!!!!!

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Nov 162007

I can’t recall how many Friday posts have started with this title, but some weeks just need to end already, kwim???
I am so irritated today!
So earlier this week I was bragging about Firefox, right? Still lovin’ Firefox, but can’t figure out for the life of me why everytime I try to print from Firefox, there must be a default set up somewhere telling it to print 4 x 6. So everything I print from Firefox only shows the top 4 x 6 of the page. WTF???!!! I seriously spent 2 hours trying to figure this out last night and this morning. Under page setup I am not given the option of paper size and it does this on any printer I try to print from. All docs and pages from Internet Explorer print just fine, so it is definitely a Firefox isssue. None of my tech-people have been able to help and I haven’t found anything useful on the internet either. Grrrrrrr!!!! I even re-installed Firefox this morning and that didn’t solve the %(*&%*^&$*$ problem either!! If anyone can point me in the right direction, you will be my new BFF.
I hate being frustrated. Nothing makes me more irritated, I swear!
My new Macbook Pro won’t be here for another 2 weeks either, so that is irritating me too!

I am so glad its Friday.
Its been a long week and I have a lot planned for this weekend.

In the happy news department, Brian and Michelle have some BABY NEWS. Go check Michelle’s blog to find out more :)

Is it a full moon or what???!!!

Great Outdoors & Weather, Random Thoughts & Updates, Rants 7 Responses »

Sep 272007

Raise your hand if you can feel that its been a full moon this week.

Anyone?

Do you notice that things really do tend to get a tad bit crazier when the moon is at its fullest?

We teachers can always tell by how kids behave in school! No joke.

My cycles are also always N’sync with the full moon.

Doesn’t help to be emotional when everyone else is kind of crazy too!

Took this picture of the moon early this am on my way to work

Happy season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy tonight….I hope I get enough work done tonight to justify watching it :)

9 days can make a HUGE difference

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Sep 242007

In my case it is 9 days that royally bit me in the patooty.

Let me explain.

There is a Federal Teacher Loan Forgiveness program out there, where if you teach at an inner city school for five years or more, the government will pay off $5,000 of your federal student loans. They will pay up to $17,500 for special education teachers or math and sciece teachers at the secondary level.

I applied for this loan forgiveness about a month ago and was so sure that they would forgive at least $10,000 of my loans since I had taught special ed for two years plus all the years I taught special ed summer school.

Well apparently one of the other criteria is that you could not have had a balance on loans prior to October 1st, 1998.

Guess what date I borrowed my first student loan?

September 22, 1998.

They denied me because I received my loan NINE EFFIN DAYS before their stupid %*&^&(%&(^% cut off date.

That majorly blows! I was hoping to have that money forgiven because I am taking another $934739483984 in loans this year to go to my prestigous university.

Talk about being ticked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do they have to have a cutoff day at all????? Any teacher who teaches in the inner city should have the whole kit and kaboodle paid for, IMO.

So that’s that.

ooooh BIG money. NOT!

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Sep 142007

Today I got my first official two-week paycheck as a 9th-year teacher. (For every year of service, teachers make more money….)

I was somewhat excited to see my paycheck and see if this would be the year I would finally be making decent money, or at least make a significant jump on the salary schedule.

Apparently this is NOT the year.

Comparing this year’s salary to last’s:

$30 more per two week payperiod.

WOW!! Big money, huh??

You find yourself looking at that $30 jump in pay and think, "I went through all THAT for THIS?"

Teachers face many challenges on a daily basis and are held accountable for student achievement (despite the needs of such diverse learners). We earn our salaries and then some, ya’ll! Especially those of us who work in the inner city

I am not bitter that everyone else in the private sector get such high percentage raises, its just that in my field I will probably never see more than a maximum of 3% raise from year to year. Closer to 1-2%. And no bonuses, ever.

Good thing I really love what I do!

School has been going great, by the way. I am finally working in the classrooms and I am very excited about what I will be doing this year. So far I love my new school and think I made a good choice by accepting their offer :)

Have a great weekend!

How ridiculous is THIS????

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Jun 292007

Some of you may know that I live in Hugo, MN, a farming community, just 12 miles NE or so from the capital city of St. Paul. It pretty much goes from urban to suburbs to rural in a very short distance. I live in a newer residential area in the very southwest corner of Hugo that has only just been developed in the last 6 years or so. The rest of the city is very large and spreads out for many miles to the north and east, mostly farms everywhere. One typically thinks of farms and cows first when they think of Hugo (if they’ve heard of it at all!). So anyway, I am watching the news tonight to see that a woman in Hugo was cited by the county sheriff because HER COW’s (or should I say steer’s) MOOING WAS ANNOYING THE NEIGHBORS. I am not even kidding!! How ridiculous is that??? I mean if you are going to live around here, especially next to a FARM, you better expect to hear mooing every so often, right? The judge is probably going to shake his/her head when this woman goes to court to fight the $1000 fine she is facing!!! Watch the news story on Kare11.com or read about it!

Not having a camera….

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Jun 072007

Not having a camera is like torture. I have to rely on others to take pics or bring their cameras now, it used to be the other way around.

Best Buy says it may be 3-4 weeks before mine is repaired.

Wahhhhhhhhhh!!!

Okay, whining over.

I wanted to be lazy….

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Jun 032007

It was dark and dreary out this morning, but I woke up early despite the good sleeping conditions. I lounged on the sofa for a few hours reading The Pact by Jodi Picoult, not wanting to do anything today other than make a quick trip to the grocery store.

But since when do you recall me sitting around doing nothing???!! I can’t recall either! As it happens, I didn’t get to be lazy all day afterall. Instead I cleaned and reorganized my garage. Yuck. It was in bad shape, people!! Boxes, furniture, car parts, and Miscellaneous crap everywhere. Not too mention 100 lbs of dirt and dust. It is only a standard 2-car garage, so it is amazing to be able to fit two vehicles in there to begin with!!

So 6 hours, and a very aching body later……

I have a very clean, organized garage! (Sorry, no pics). Hopefully I can keep it this way because I don’t want to go through all that again for a LONG time!

I was too tired to cook so went out for a very late dinner to Quack’s in F.Lake.

**PS Planning to post pics of Bianca’s baptism from Sat. as soon as Sheleigh sends them to me :)

Today just isn’t my day…

Friend Time, Rants 6 Responses »

Apr 262007

Got the official word this morning that due to budget cuts, my position is getting the "axe" at one of my schools. Knew this was coming, but it still pisses me off. 25% of our kids there are identified as G/T and now there will be no one there to service them. Pretty sad.

And there is MORE bad news related to work. Some of you know that I was formerly a special ed teacher working with kids with learning disabilities. Well, every summer I teach special education summer school in a nice, A/C’ed building. Well because of a "glitch" on the IEPs, students cannot attend special ed summer school unless it is specifically written into their plans that they need year-round services. This never was a problem in the past, but it is now. We usually have about 700 kids signed up for sped summer school at this point, but right now we only have 50. So I can no longer count on this summer job (my only income). I didn’t apply for regular summer school and I am afraid that all the positions are now filled. That blows.

I also have a pulled muscle in my back…must’ve happened at the gym on Tuesday night and it hurts like heck. Still no chiropractor, although I have called one a few days ago and they never returned my call. I am terrible about making appointments….I better follow through on this one.

The kids this afternoon were also being jerks :(

I DID however, have fun last night. I met up with Dana at El Patio Mexican Grill to play catch-up and have a nice Mexican dinner. I have totally been craving Mexican. Pretty cool restaurant, read my El Patio Review!

Tomorrow is Friday, I am hoping for a better day :)

PSA: Database with personal information

Public Service Announcements, Rants 10 Responses »

Apr 242007

I saw the following message on Scrapjazz this morning. And this is NOT A JOKE. I am a little freaked out at how much information about me is out there and all of you should be too! People can actually buy your background report for $50. Horrible!!!! Scary!!!!!

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Beginning this month a New Database will be available to the general public free of charge that displays your personal information
(names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates). (Soc. Sec. is available for a price.) The database is found at http://www.zabasearch.com/ type in your name and check…
I urge you to forward this information to family and friends. Check to see if your name and information is in their database. If so and you want it removed, send them an e-mail at info@zabasearch.com to request it be removed. I do not know how our names are appearing there, but I checked my own and a few other random ones and they are all in this database!
After opting out by email, check back after a few days to make certain your information has been removed. If it has not been removed then file a complaint with your State’s Attorney General.

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****Not only do they show addresses and phone numbers, but it also lists people that you are related to. Both of my brothers, my parents and one of my cousins were listed next to my name http://www.intelius.com/people-search.html

A Pain in the neck……

Rants, Scrapbook Pages 5 Responses »

Apr 222007

I’ve got one. A REAL pain in the neck. I’ve had this stupid crick in my neck since the day after Easter. That was two weeks ago!!? I’ve slept on it weird and had pain like this before, but never for this long. (Not since the initial car accident many years ago anyway). I’ve had many headaches again lately too. I totally need to see a chiropractor, but need to track one down in my network. One that is convenient for me to get to. Is there a huge difference in the type of chiropractic care you receive? I assume so, but not sure what would be best for me. Someone who can cure me of all my aches and pains would be great :)

It was beautiful here for most of the weekend. I scrapped with some of my friends on Saturday morning. Ironic to scrap this snowy layout while it was so nice out! This layout kind of looks like crap on here, looks much better IRL. Love this new Cricut font, the Mini Monogram. It was on sale at Michael’s last week for over 50% off, so I snatched it up.

I started another layout but haven’t finished it yet. This one I did sometime last week. I am getting pretty lazy, I didn’t even bother with journaling or a creative title.

I have so many more pages to do and haven’t been feeling too creative with the scrappies. I would be all about scraplifting these days, but I haven’t even seen too many layouts in the latest mags that inspire me or work with all the pictures I like to use. I know I am an unconventional scrapper….I am not all about "cutesy" titles, I just like to create cool pages to display all the photos I take from different outtings with my friends and family. I’m not trying to get published or anything, I’m doing it for myself. My scrap philosophy is that I have too many great photos to use just one on a page. I also scrap because I love all the products! Who doesn’t?

I really didn’t do anything else this weekend, other than sit around and read a lot, and hang out with my man. I was invited to a party at B & M’s, but was so tired and just wasn’t feeling that great. Sorry guys!

So back to reading…. I feel like going on a book-shopping spree. Any shopping spree, for that matter. I want new shoes, new clothes, a new camera….all sorts of stuff. I could spend a ton of money right now, but I am showing restraint! I am also thinking about buying a Blackberry phone. Anyone have one that can vouch for them??

I changed up the look on the Twin Cities Restaurant Blog this week and was able to solve my category problem. I also included drop-down menus and it is much easier to navigate now. I’ve tried only one new restaurant in the past two weeks, but hoping to try a couple of new places this week. I’d love suggestions for good Mexican restaurants that are out of my normal geographical area :)

Finally Friday!!

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Mar 302007

TGIF.TGIF.TGIF.TGIF

I don’t think I could take one more day this week!!!!! Spring Break starts later today and I am soooooo ready for it!! I will be looking for a new job soon…budget cuts are hitting our school district HARD again for the 8th year in a row. I am pretty sure my position will be cut at one school, not sure yet about the other. It sucks and I am sick of it. Why the heck did I go into teaching???!!!???!!! My advice to young teacher-wannabes: Go into a different field. I have at least 8 million reasons to say this. I could go on and on and on, but I am trying to stay somewhat positive here. I hate feeling this way because I really, truly, love my job.

I have a ton to blog about later, but I must head to work.

I will leave you with a pic of the new bedding :) Please excuse the lumpiness and the cats! LOL

Does this site make your computer go wonky???

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Mar 042007

I have had two people tell me recently that my blog makes their computer freeze up or something equally unpleasant when they try to visit. I removed the slideshows a few weeks ago and I thought that helped?? Please let me know if you are having problems. If you cannot leave a comment, please send me an e-mail.

I must get this problem fixed before no one wants to read this thing anymore!

**Thank you Lily for coming out of your "lurker" status. I am so glad I know who my visitor from Costa Rica is now :) I hope I make it down there so you can show me around!

I am illin’…..

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Feb 072007

I felt totally fine on Saturday, but lounged on the sofa all day anyway (this is a rarity unless I am reading a good book). By Sunday, I could feel the tightness developing in my chest. I drank about 2 gallons of hot tea that day, but didn’t have an appetite, couldn’t eat a thing. I woke up on Monday, sicker than a dog. I will spare ya’ll the details, but it is now two days later and my lungs are only now starting to work properly. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it were SARS or the freakin bird flu. We’ve been under quarantine since Saturday. Everything hurts.

Three days off of work really sucks. Not many subs want to come in when it is -35 below zero. Can’t say I blame them. I do not have the energy to feel guilty. I needed the countless hours of rest and lack of stress because…..

I have big plans this weekend to celebrate my 30th birthday!!!!!!!!!! Nothing’s going to get me down.

Sickly Sauer signing out…..

Laptop is FUBAR’ed

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Nov 222006

Ya’ll know what FUBAR’ed is, right??? Basically it means that my laptop is f’ed up beyond all recognition.

Even the Geek Squad said so. The Motherboard was damaged and Dell won’t allow anyone else to work on it.

So I either pay a minimun of $300 to send it to Dell or I go buy a new one. Leaning more toward buying new. I am a PC girl, but someone is trying to persuade me to go Mac. Not sure about that! Any Mac users here???? I have no idea how to use it, but I heard it is great for iMovie and photos, etc.

Anyway…..

My hard drive is okay, so once I get a new machine, I can transfer some of my stuff.

My e-mail address book is gone for now, it was tied to my computer. I can still access my mail through the web, but I am not able to respond to messages from home :( I have asked a friend to send me a gmail invite so once I set that up, I will ask all of you to send me e-mails so that I have your new contact info. What a PITA this all is!!!!

Good thing our home PC is running great since we reformatted the hard drive on Sunday night. I will still be able to read blogs and surf.

Alright, gotta go!!!

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Broken….

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Nov 212006

My laptop that is.

I had just gotten to work and put it down on my computer chair when the bag it was in tipped over and the laptop slid out and crashed on the hard floor.

Now it won’t power on and I can’t get it to do anything.

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Upset doesn’t even describe me right now. I am totally sick about it.

I spent the past 2 hours looking for solutions at Dell.com (what a joke) and tech support for my district, but nothing we have tried works.

I am bringing it to Geek Squad over lunch, hopefully they can give me better news without charging me an arm and a leg. Hopefully my hard drive wasn’t damaged, because none of my work documents were backed up. (Most of my pics are backed up on my external HD, Thank God)

I wanted a new computer, but this was not the way I wanted it to happen. I still owe $400 on this thing and I am planning to buy a car in the next few weeks. Timing is really bad.

It might be awhile before I can blog again………

Wish me luck.

PS. Did I mention that when the computer dropped, a full glass of apple cider spilled all over my desk??

What a terrible morning!

Letters to Myth Nightclub and Jared Leto

Concerts, Rants 7 Responses »

Oct 182006

~~Dear~~ Myth Nightclub,

I have a bone to pick with you. I have been a big fan of your club since it opened last year, but the way things went down for me last night at the 30 Seconds to Mars show have me seriously MAD. I need to get these things off my chest before I think about stepping foot in your club again!

First off, why is it that a brand-new state-of-the-art nightclub ( said to rival some of Vegas’s hottest clubs) with a capacity of 5000 has only 100 parking spots in the lot???? It really bugs me when I have to park at Maplewood Mall and walk half a mile (in high heels) just to get to you! And is it really necessary that 10 of those spaces be reserved for handicapped parking? I am all about rights and priviledges for those that really need them, but I seriously doubt there will ever be 10 handicapped people in your dance club at one time.

Now about last night:

I am especially pissed about the fact that after I waited outside in line for an hour to get into your club, I was told I could not bring my camera inside. NOWHERE on the ticket did it say that "no cameras are allowed"! **I have seen 30 Seconds a million times and never once have I been told I couldn’t bring my camera in. In fact, Jared Leto himself has often e-mailed me (and the Echelon) asking to send him cool pictures I have taken at their shows** Not once did any of your security tell guests waiting in line that cameras weren’t allowed!!! If they had, I would’ve taken care of it during the wait instead of having all my friends wonder where I had disappeared to.

If you are not going to allow certain items to be brought into the club, you better have a gosh-darned item/coat check available!!!!!!! How does a club your size not offer a coat check?? That makes absolutely no sense at all. I think it is total BS that your egotistical meat-head bouncer made me walk ALL the WAY back to my car (about a mile round-trip with high heels, two months after knee surgery) to leave my camera.

I followed your rules….I returned my camera to the car. So why is it that upon re-entering the club 45 minutes later, I overhear the same meat-head doorman telling the biotch in front of me in line that she could either take the batteries out of her camera, or return it to her car????? Say what?????? Only to tell me that the management has now cleared it that taking the batteries out of the camera is now an option??? I think you better come up with one policy and stick with it before one single guest arrives….changing your mind AFTER I spent an hour walking back to my car in the freezing-ass wind wearing high heels to bring my camera back is pretty messed up!!!! And if I do say so myself, your meat head bouncer needs a real attitude adjustment.

And finally….if taking the camera into your club was such a big deal in the first place, why did I see 800 million effers up in there with their camera phones, snapping away tons of pictures???? Why did I see tons of people with digi cams snapping pictures in front of so many bouncers, without any of the bouncers saying anything to them???? I am so mad about the injustice of this, I could spit!!!

You guys seriously SUCK and ruined my good attitude last night. I had been looking forward to seeing 30STM for months and by the time I go to see them, my feet hurt from walking 5 miles in those god-forsaken heels and I was in a real pissy mood. Thanks a lot, Myth. I’ll make sure to tell everyone I know how great you treat your customers!!!!

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Dear Jared Leto of 30STM,

Hey hon! Its been awhile…. about 6 months since we last saw each other at The Quest. It still amazes me at how popular you guys have become recently…..I had no doubt this would happen, but I preferred the intimate shows you used to play at The Ascot Room when there would only be about 50 people at your shows. I am happy for your recent success and think it is pretty darn cool that you guys won the MTV2 video award for The Kill. I hear you on the radio all the time now too! Last night was the first show of your MTV2 $2 Tour…I scored tickets long before they went on sale to the public (thanks for the e-mail giving me the opportunity). I was totally excited to see you guys play at Myth Nightclub…huge club, awesome sound, etc. Too bad those guys were effing me around last night so that I wasn’t able to bring my camera in. They made me really crabby with how they handled it. I know you enjoy it when I get some good pics and post them on my blog…. I actually have several Googlers stop by my site looking for pics of you guys!

The show was still pretty cool….the production was way more professional than any I’ve seen you guys put on before. You sounded great! But I have a question that I have been meaning to ask you since the very first time I saw you…..

Why do you guys always take the longest time in the world to take the stage??????? It never fails…the wait time is always exceptionally long. Knowing this, I half expected it last night. Many of your new fans weren’t so patient. Especially the teenagers! Did you know that 95% of your fans are under the age of 30? I seriously felt OLD. Waiting until 10:45pm to take the stage is tough on those kids.

Anyway, it was nice to see you again. Take care and hopefully we will see you again somewhere soon!

xoxox

PS. My friend Heather *LOVES* you. She thinks you’re beautiful :) I think you looked better back in the day, but thats rock n’ roll for ya!

Counting My Blessings…..

Cars, Rants 13 Responses »

Sep 082006

I wasn’t sure how to start this post, so I am just going to say this:

I feel lucky to be alive today.

This morning on my way to work I stopped at Kowalskis in WBL to get some Dayquil and some Orange juice. Yes…I have come down with yet another cold!

This was not a typical stop for me, but because I did, I took White Bear Ave….an alternate way to work.

Its a good thing I did.

I was 1/2 mile down the street from the grocery, going 25 mph around a curve when I heard a loud crunch in my front end and I suddenly lost control of the car. THANK GOD no other cars were near me. The car veered to the right and crashed into the curb. I was thinking, oh great…a flat tire, perhaps??? But I had a feeling it was much worse. As I get out to survey the damage, the woman who had lived in the house right in front of where this happened, came out and told me that she thought my tie-rod had broke…the same thing just happened to her. This is what it looked like:

This woman and her husband invited me into their home to use the phone/phone book to call a tow truck and a mechanic. As soon as the police and tow truck arrived, they both told me I was extremely lucky to be alive…had this happened on the highway, I would have caused a huge accident and probably would’ve died. I take the freeway everyday to my other school and also home, so it is very likely this could’ve happened when I was going 60 mph or more.

I think I took that alternate route for a reason. I think this happened in front of that specific house for a reason. I have mentioned my guardian angel before, and yes, I believe he/she was looking out for me again today.

And yes, I am counting my blessings today and feel fortunate to be alive. It makes the $1000 damage to replace the lower ball joint, CV shaft, and drive knuckle (not to mention the rental car) a little bit easier to swallow…….

No Fun!!!!!!!!!

Friend Time, Rants 10 Responses »

Mar 062006

I am home from work again today. I came down with the dreaded stomach flu yesterday!!!!!! I will spare you the gross details and just say yuck, blech, eeeeew. Please God, I have had enough!

I went out to the local bar on Saturday night with a bunch of my girlfriends….opted to be the sober driver since I didn’t feel much like drinking. And I definitely did not want a hangover. (The flu happens to be much worse however!) I had a lame-O time watching all my friends have a blast. I just didn’t feel like socializing much that night. I hate to say it, but the bar pretty much sucks if you’re not drinking. And this bar is one of my least favorite places….you can pretty much take a checklist of everyone you went to HS with and start marking it off the second you walk through the door. Glad my girls had a good time though!