It took 4 years but I finally did it...

I got a big surprise this morning when I was looking at my transcripts and my internship grade was an A because I thought that I'd got a B+ in the class. So with my A on my management project, I finally got a 4.0GPA for the semester. It's awesome!

Happy Birthday to me!

I'm 22 now and it really doesn't feel any different than when I was 21. Of course my party isn't until Sunday, so maybe I'll feel different then. But, when I came home from work last night mom was waiting up for me, which doesn't happen very often and there were a bunch of presents on the table and she let me open one, so naturally I went for the one in the Star Wars bag and it was Star Wars scrub top that she made me with the new Star Wars fabric that just came out. Yay! I know what I'm wearing to work tonight

Concert tickets are ordered.

Gotta love the ease of ticketmaster.com

9 times outta 10 there is no contact

That's what the doc told me this morning. And I was one of the 9. So what did I earn for my trouble? A scratched cornea. Joy

One of those days...

Ya ever have one of those days when you just feel that you would have been better off to stay in bed all day? Today has just become so one of those days. First I hurt my ankle at my grandma's house earlier playing with my cousins. One of them was balancing on a low to the ground railroad tie fence and he was losing his balance so I went to grab him and the tie fell and landed on my ankle. Ouch. Then I just went to take my contact out and it doesn't want to come out. I just can't get it out. No idea why. Except that I fell asleep earlier on grandma's couch, but I've fallen asleep with it in before and been able to get it out. Now it looks like I'll be going to the optometrist tomorrow morning.

Sail away with me

There's a reason that I've titled my blog this. I live in a shipping community. You learn from a young age that when you have to be somewhere at a certain time, and you have to cross the river, to leave 20 extra minutes in case you need to wait for a lake freighter. The sound of a freighter sounding it's horn early in the morning for the bridge to go up is a peaceful and relaxing sound. It's a way of life here. And so is sailing. I used to sail with my aunt all the time. We would race every Wednesday night in the races on the bay. A lot of times just me and her, it's brought us closer together, and I've learned how to sail and I love it. There's nothing like the feeling of the wind whipping past your face, just you and nature, the mast at a 45 degree angle to the water and you can reach out and touch it. It's just amazing.

Since I've gone to college though, I haven't been able to sail as much. My first summer vacation from college, I could have gone on a week long sailing trip but I had to go back to school to learn how to become an RA. The next summer I stayed at school and that kinda killed racing on Wednesday nights. I only went out that year for the 4th of July and for the tower race Labor Day weekend. Last summer, I didn't get to go out at all because she was busy with building a porch and other things at her new house. But a new season started yesterday. Yesterday we put the boat in the water. I rode in it as it went from being cradled in the air by the lift until it was lowered into the water. As we motored down the river (unfortunately, the sails aren't up yet) next to one of the big lake freighters, I felt at peace. It's an amazing feeling, and I can't wait to go out again. She gave me an open invitation to go out, and I plan on making the most of it this summer.

The things I do at work...

If it's wet and comes out of your body, I analyze it somehow. Tonight was no exception. Tonight was post-vasectomy night it seemed. We had 4 of them come in. Well with each cup there's a collection sheet that asks when you got neutered, how many days of abstinence you've had, what time you collected the specimen, if there were any transport problems, and how you collected it. Well most people just write down masturbation, because, well, that's how it happens. One guy though, crossed the TMI line tonight. On the collection line it read "masturbation, by wife." Did we really need to know that?

Revenge of the Sith

Or should I call it Revenge of the Geeks? That's what it felt like waiting in line anyways. There were your typical fanboys in their Jedi costumes and the requisite Darth Vader, but there was also Elvis with a lightsaber, Frodo Baggins with a lightsaber, and a red shirted ensign there (I'm kinda surprised that that last guy didn't get beat up or anything). Just waiting in line was an adventure. But I guess the best way to describe the movie is this: I laughed. I cried. I almost wet myself. I'm not going to say anything more right now though cuz I don't wanna spoil it for those who didn't go at midnight

Can't believe I forgot to blog about this...

I've got 12:01am tickets to see SW!!!!!! I'm going striaght to the theater after work on Wednesday. Life is good.

And so it begins...

As of 3pm Friday, I was no longer a student. I'm now a Medical Technologist. I don't have to have someone standing over my shoulder watching me work all the time anymore and I don't need them to check everything that I do. I'm the responsible one now. Scary. I start working at 3pm today. Guess that I'd better write that check and register for my certification exam now.

Had a BBQ to celebrate my graduation yesterday. Oh god I ate too much. It must've been all the snacking that I did while we were cooking. But it was oh so good. Got a few gifts and a bunch of money that I didn't expect. Nice day.

Back with a vengeance

My insomnia returned last night with a vengance. w00t for going to work today on 4 whole hours of sleep

Got it!

Got the day off for the concert. Now to get someone to take a road trip to GR with me

Must get time off...

Must go to GR on June 1st...
Must get concert tickets...
Must go to The Intersection...
Must see VACO...
Must throw granny underwear at stage...

It is complete

I graduated yesterday. It still hasn't sunk in yet, but I went through the ceremony and felt awesome afterwards. It'll probably feel more complete after I finish intern life this week. Which means no more 5am mornings! I've got pictures if you wanna see them, just follow the webshots link in my links.

In other news, he finally called me last night. We talked some, but I don't remember that much of it since he woke me up, but at least it's not over yet. :)

Random songs that were stuck in my head at some point today

1. Live like you were dyin' ~ Heard it on the way to work
2. Incomplete ~ Heard it on the way to work and before I left the house
3. Candyshop ~ Thanks a lot Jami
4. The song that doesn't end ~ Big thanks to you evil Maryanne
5. Friends in low places ~ No freaking clue how this one got stuck

Who am I kidding?

I don't feel numb anymore, I feel depressed and rejected. Hell, I couldn't even keep a relationship going for 2 weeks. Sure, it was only 2 weeks, seems like an insignificant amount of time in the grand scheme of things, but for that 2 weeks I was so happy. Now there's only silence. Silence and a 10 minute phone call filled with awkward silences when he told me that he thought that his ex was back and that he was trying to work figure things out. It's not fair. It's just not fair...

Strange

It's strange. I think I'm about to be dumped and I don't really care. I feel almost indifferent. He hasn't returned my calls or made any effort to talk to me and yeah it hurts, but not that bad. I guess I'm just kinda numb to that feeling right now. Maybe that's it. We'll see how this ends up

What seduction style are you?

Your Seduction Style: The Dandy

You're a non-traditionalist, not limited by gender roles or expectations. Your sexuality is more fluid than that - and you defy labels or categories. It's hard to pin you down, and that's what's fascinating about you. You have the psychology of both a male and a female, and you can relate to anyone.

What Is Your Seduction Style?

Quiz Time! And other such randomness

This Love by Maroon 5

"I was so high I did not recognize The fire burning in her eyes The chaos that controlled my mind" You were so great in 2004 that you make everyone a little bit sick!

What 2004 Hit Song Are You?

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

25% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Yankee

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

You Know You're From Michigan When...

You define summer as three months of bad sledding. You think Alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder. You can identify an Ohio accent. Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack and a bucket of smelt. Owning a Japanese car is a hanging offense in your hometown. You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre. The Big Mac is something that you drive across. You believe that "down south" means Toledo. You bake with soda and drink pop. You drive 75 on the highway and you pass on the right. Your Little League baseball game was snowed out. You learned how to drive a boat before you learned how to ride a bike. You know how to pronounce "Mackinac". The word "thumb" has a geographical rather than an anatomical significance. You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week. You expect Vernor's when you order ginger ale. You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but that it isn't far from Hell. Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the opening of deer season and Devil's Night. Your snowmobile, lawn mower and fishing boat all have big block Chevy engines. At least one person in your family disowns you for the week of the Michigan/Michigan State football game. You know what a millage is. Traveling coast to coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon. Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh. You show people where you grew up by pointing to a spot on your left hand. You know what a "Yooper" is. Your car rusts out before you need the brakes done Half the people you know say they are from Detroit... yet you don't personally know anyone who actually lives in Detroit "Up North" means north of Clare. You know what a pastie is. You occasionally cheer "Go Lions- and take the Tigers with you." Snow tires come standard on all your cars. At least 25% of your relatives work for the auto industry. You don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is. Octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and baseball. You know more about chill factors and lake effect than you'd EVER like to know! Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car. Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout. When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left." You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms. You never watch the Weather Channel - you can just assume they're wrong. The snowmen you make in your front yard actually freeze. Solid. The snow freezes so hard that you can actually walk across it and not break it or leave any marks. All your shoes are called "tennis shoes", even though no one here plays tennis anyway. Your major school field trip includes camping and cross-country skiing. Half your friends have a perfect sledding hill right in their own backyard. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Michigan.

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You Know You're Addicted to Star Wars When...

You can recite *all* the dialogue from the trilogy. You watch the entire trilogy at least once a month. You wonder why the SW theme never makes it into those "clasical collections." Any time you pick up a walkie-talkie or two-way radio, the first thing you say is "TK-421, why aren't you at your post?" Whenever you went anywhere outside with your friends, you always walked single file, to hide your numbers. You've written several letters to the President recommending that he dissolve the council, put power in the hands of the regional governors, and let fear keep the local systems in line. In college, after several hours of poker, you got thrown our of the game for suggesting, "How about some sabacc?" When trying unsuccessfully to snare that last Cheerio floating in your cereal bowl, you remarked, "the Force is strong with this one." On Halloween, you would never dress as: Luke, Han Solo, Leia, Vader, Chewie, Threepio, Artoo However, you would dress as: Wedge, Porkins, Crix Madine, that spider droid from Jabba's palace that fat dancer from Jabba's palace, Sy Snootles, the Cantina bartender. The monster in the trash compactor, Boba Fett, An Imperial probe droid You've been pulled over by a policeman, and when asked to see your driver's license you replied, "You don't need to see my identification." And when he asks about your two friends in the back "They're for sale, if you want them." You have physically threatened anyone who referred to "Hans Solo" or "Dark Vader", confused Star Wars with Star Trek, or spellied Wookiee with only one "e." You have held up an onion ring and said, "Look sir...droids!" You've referred to Wedge Antilles or Boba Fett as "The Man." You've bought a white Isuzu Trooper, strictly because of the name. While sitting on the couch with your girlfriend, she comments about being cold. So, naturally, you slice open the side of the cushion and stuff her in. You insist on spelling Pizza Hut "Pizza Hutt." You dropped your religion and now live the way Yoda taught you. You recorded all the new Star Wars comercials. You frequently experience insomnia and, to counter this, begin counting nerfs. You answer the phone "Die wanna wanga?" Whenever you buy a new appliance, you make sure to get one that speaks Bacchi. You call your aunt and uncle Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen. Whenever you catch sight of cars behind yours, you say "Fighters, coming in, point three five." Someone else in your car says "What about that tower?" You respond, "You worry about those fighters, I'll worry about the tower", and moments later your car slams into the water tower the passenger was referring to. When a cop catches you speeding, you floor it, saying "I've outrun Imperial starships, and not the local bulk cruisers..." When someone apologizes to you, you choke him and tell him that you accept his apology. You ride your motorbike through the forest at top speed, and survive after throwing yourself off just before it hits a tree. You've 'wielded' a flashlight and made humming sounds. You wave your hand purposefully and 'use the force' to open and close automatic doors or elevator doors. You go over to a friends, go to his refrigerator, and crawl in throwing food and stuff over your shoulder and grunting. You walk into an optometrist's office and shout: You will PAY for your lack of vision! You have a Yoda figurine replacing the brand symbol on the hood of your car. When accelerating your car to enter the freeway, you tell your passengers to strap in and prepare for light speed. Your significant other dumps you because everytime she/he says, "I love you" you always respond, "I know." You quote Yoda to defend your political beliefs. You have so many SW Trilogy GIF's, JPG's, MIDI's, AVI's, WAV's, MPG's, icons and text files that you're rapidly running out of disk space and have to buy a bigger hard drive just to hold them all. You have so many SW posters that you can't see your ceiling or floor, either. You have so many SW toys that you can't see your SW posters anyway. When leaving a restaurant, you can't resist signing Boba Fett or Darth Vader in the guestbook. You went through a state of depression when Chewie died. You look at "big hairy carpets" with more respect than before. You speak Rodian. You punch out trekkies who say "Death star my ass, I'd like to see those losers take out DS9." With a blue-tinted plastic tube, a flashlight, two hours of a Saturday night, and 4 rolls of blue electrical tape, you finally complete your own working "Light-saber" You listen for Obi-Wan while attempting to parallel park 1Your father asks you how fast your car is, and you reply, "Fast enough for you, old man!" You could have sworn you saw bantha tracks during your trip to the grand canyon. Every time somebody sneezes, you say, "May the force be with you." The cinnamon buns in your hair start to grow mold. You call your friend who is a midget Wicket. You refer to money as credits without trying to. You respond to any mention of the legality of something with "I will make it legal." You start reliving the speeder bike chase on your motorbike. Someone tells you your car is old and beat-up, you reply "She'll do .5 past light speed..." You refer to getting off the freeway as coming out of hyperspace. You are POSITIVE you are force-sensitive and only lack the proper training. Someone says they will try to do something you automatically respond "Do or do not. There is no try." By intense study you have actually figured out the location of every gun implacement on a star destroyer. Your house robe is brown and extra large. You type in the terms for a search engine as if entering coordinates, then shout "Punch it, Chewie!" as you click on search. You argue about whether Star Wars is space fantasy or space opera. You're out looking for a Wookie for your school's wrestling team. You nickname your car the Millennium Falcon. The last time a cute guy tried to hug you, your hands were dirty. When your mom asks you to clean your room, you say "Leave that to me." Your friends share recipes for cooking Ewok. You have a long braid in you hair like Obi-Wan in E1. You call your boss/teacher "Master" You went to the nearest recruiting center and asked to be assigned to the 121st TIE squadren When asked if you want to be buried or creamated you say "I'll just vanish like the rest of the Jedi" You have a bad feeling about everything. While partying with friends, you do your Darth Vader impression. You try to get your car up to .5 beyond lightspeed, in a parking lot. You call your girlfriend, "your Highness." You keep calling your boyfriend, "Luke," "Han," or "Lando" by mistake. You believe John Williams is the best composer ever (which, of course, he is!), and George Lucas is a god (which, too, is pretty much true!) While listening to the soundtrack without knowing the name of the song you are listening to, you know exactly what's happening while it's playing. In foreign language class, you tell the teacher, "Hey! If I'm fluent in over six million forms of communication, then how come I'm getting such a bad grade in this class?" When your friends confide in you and tell you their deepest, darkest secrets, you say, "You are far too trusting." When your dad says, "I am your father," you begin to scream uncontrollably and shout, "NOOOO! It's not true!" at the top of your lungs. You have ever thought the world would be a better place if it were like the Rebel Alliance/New Republic. You now want to become an astronaut to see if there really is a Lando system. Obiwan Kenobi and Yoda come to you in your dreams and give you advice about tough situations you're dealing with. Yoda's little sayings have had a profound impact on your life, and you abide by them religiously. You've created lyrics to the songs in Star Wars. Instead of saving for college, you save up for Star Wars stuff you plan to buy. Anyone who doesn't like Star Wars you proclaim is an Imperial. When you are ticked off at somebody, you send bounty hunters all over the place to find them and then you encase him in carbonite for a new wall decoration. When your alarm clock goes off in the morning, your reply is, "Unexpected this is... and unfortunate!" When riding your bike, you look behind you and accelerate wildly by pressing down on the petal with your right toe. You've kept the "good" action figures stored separately from the "bad" ones. As a child, whenever you had broken something, your response was always, "It must've had a self-destruct mechanism. I didn't hit it that hard." You've refused to enter a cave/cavern/tunnel without a handgun and a large stick. When you waited for a friend to catch up with you, you told him to hurry up or he'd be a permanent resident. You've ever found yourself in a chat room, training Jedi. You've ever told your younger brother at the dinner table, "Use the fork, Luke." You've ever roped off your Star Wars Action Figure collection, claiming it to be an independent nation. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to Star Wars.

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You Know You're Addicted to Caffeine When...

You haven't slept since the Clinton Administration. Your next-door neighbors often call to complain about the sound of your chattering teeth. Instead of Tic Tacs, you suck on Vivarin. You plan to name your twins "Cappuccino" and "Espresso." On the way to work you get pulled over for speeding and you don't even have your car. You kill a guy for trying to switch your regular coffee to decaffeinated Folgers. You wake up in the middle of the night screaming "Pepsi! For the love of God, I need Pepsi!" When a Maxwell House commercial comes on, you actually lick the TV screen. You drink so much coffee it starts shooting out your ears. You're shaking like Michael Jackson on his wedding night. You think sleep is for the weak. You've just had your 20th cup of coffee within 20 minutes on a Friday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, just so "the milk doesn't go bad over the weekend" You believe that the coffee bean is a vegetable. You know from experience caffeine tablets don't dissolve in cola. You wake up to Mountain Dew, before switching to JOLT. You can name five flavors of JOLT. You have a mini-fridge under your desk... and a catheter. You drink decaf by accident and slip into a coma. Mountain Dew is the stuff great decisions are made of. You regard the fact that your hands are shaking as a good sign. You have tattooed across the knuckles of your hands "JOLT" and "COLA" Your birthday is a national holiday in Colombia. You go to sleep just to wake up and smell the coffee. Your coffee pot is next to your bed and your alarm clock is in the kitchen. You've ever an airplane's call button just to get a coffee refill. You've knelt and prayed before a Starbuck's logo. Your web page has the Mountain Dew color scheme. You have distilled Jolt Cola to make it more potent. The dishes in your house are all coffee cups. You see nothing wrong with using water joe (caffeinated water) to make the coffee you use to take your no-doze. You believe that sleep is simply a poor substitute for sleep It's 6:09 AM and you're on your 2nd 20oz. cup of coffee. You have to drink some form of caffeinated beverage just to sleep. You'd rather be beaten over the head with a sledgehammer than give up that first cup of coffee in the morning. You've given up sex, TV, or all forms of meat for Lent before, but can't make it 40 days without caffeine. You suck on a used coffee filter (full of coffee grounds) whenever the can runs out of coffee. You dip espresso beans. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to caffeine.

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