Archive for ‘Family’

January 15th, 2009

So let me elaborate…

Another Postcard – Barenaked Ladies

You can’t imagine so many monkeys in the daily mail
All of them coming anonymously so they leave no trail
I never thought I’d have an admirer from overseas
But someone is sending me stationary filled with chimpanzees.

Another postcard with chimpanzees
And every one is addressed to me.
Every one is, every one is, every one is addressed to me.

Have you been to a party where you didn’t fit in with the demographic of the group?  Perhaps everyone just felt too young or you didn’t know the people who invited you too well.  Within thirty minutes you’ll probably find yourself in a corner primarily talking to one or two people.  (or the usual- checking your phone incessantly for a message or call that you want need to come)  Everyone’s been in a similar situation, and you’d stay to see if things get better or perhaps you’ll stay for a friend.  Who knows.  Anyways, what if you were surrounded by 19 other people who fit alongside you like perfect puzzle pieces?

With my DEM family at the Hidden Valley Ski Resort

With my DEM family at the Hidden Valley Ski Resort

I had such a blast snowboarding with everyone this past weekend!  We played thumper with approximately16 people which is just ridiculous especially when it  usually averages six people per round.   We played charades and danced…danced together without music and with bollywood beats.

David had told me he looked at me while we were playing charades hoping I would glance back, but I was too engorged with the various acts.  If I did, it would have a confirming nod and smile that everything was perfect.

During the trip I tried out snowboarding, which made my pale thighs purple and black, but luckily we’re in the chill months of winter so no one should see the terrible abuse the hidden valley slopes had on my body.   Stupidly, but also bravely I went down a blue diamond slope.  It was the last slope of the night, I had gone down the first two “hard” portions of the slope pretty well (meaning, without falling on my bum), but as I approached the third sloped, I wimped out a little bit since I couldn’t see over the slope.  BUT, I attempted it anyways.  I went down head first, thereby hitting my head and biting my lip.  The injuries weren’t terrible, I didn’t even notice until I started a conversation with someone and all they could do was stare at my forehead.  Anyways, I won’t be too dramatic, but I HAD A BATTLE WOUND.

When I went into work on Monday, one of the doctors asked me what happened, and of course I told him of the domestic abuse from Derek.  (That wouldn’t have played too well, due to certain circumstances at work)  I told him about my fall on the slope, and he began to tell me the story of Lavar.  Lavar, a football player, decided to stupidly drive his motorcycle without a license or any previous lesson on 495.  Of course he crashed his bike and completely shattered all the bones in his legs, thereby ending his career as a football player.  For anyone in sports, their body is their means of making money.  They condition themselves to be the best, and obviously due to a stupid mistake, Lavar ended his career.  So from this story, I’m guessing the doctor was trying to tell me to be more careful.  *hops into a race car–>horse–>and parachutes into the Atlantic ocean*

So I’m a big fan of interior design, and probably would have gone into the field if it weren’t for the comradery within medicine and my love for all things related to health.

Check out these homes…I think I’ll most definitely need some sort of beach house away from civilization in the future.  For lack of better terms, nature is cool. Bright blue skies with air so clean, you’d think there’s an air purifier in your little pocket of the world.

Floating House - Lake Huron

Floating House - Lake Huron

Then there’s the city, with the bright lights where everything just feels so alive.  You can just feel the energy radiating from all corners.

City Apartment

City Apartment

Here’s something else I found.  I love it when modern art gets incorporated into everyday items.

Bucket of Paint Lamp

Bucket of Paint Lamp

SO…

I’ve been looking at various blogs of PA students.  What have I gotten myself into?  These will be the most intensive two years of my life.  It’s exciting, but nerve-wrecking at the same time.  I want to be the best PA I can be, I want to know my information.  So no more cramming until the very end, it’s time to really learn everything.

It’s time for many things, including the wonderful BREAKFAST BONANZA next week.  :)

P.S.  I know I jump from one topic to another rather rapidly, but I have some advice for users of my site.  Download this add-on: http://www.foxytunes.com/  It’s an easier way to listen to music on here.  I absolutely love this player and have been using it for awhile now.

December 7th, 2008

From Leilo and Keiko

Isn’t simply amazing?  My littles crossover-ed on Friday night and presented me with this gorgeous paddle.  I’ll continue taking more pictures to fully bring out the colors within this ARTPIECE (because that is what it is).

So I wanted to explain why their names were chosen, since if I do it another week, I’ll completely forget since my brain will be engorged with information about cDNA libraries.

-

—-

—–

——

——-

——–

———

———-

———–

————

————-

————–

—————

—————-

Keiko (Rianne)

  • Blessed/Joyful/Respectful Child
  • Japanese
  • DEM is THE place to explore new things and meet people who will be within EVERY class of yours.  Over the next few years, I’m positive you’ll look back upon your 4 years and realize how great this organization has been for you.  With that, I know you love to explore new things, and being a part of DEM is a great opportunity for you.
  • Movie connection:  The orca from FREE WILLY was actually named Keiko.  A group of people wanted to release him back into the wild.  With this release, he had to learn so many new things and get assimilated into a new environment.  Although you haven’t been in captivity (not at all), you share the connection of wanting to experience new things and becoming a part of something more related to your future field.

Leilo (Teresa)

  • Generous one
  • Hawaiian
  • Derived from Lilo
  • You are the paragon of everything generous, and it would be hard to express that in any form, even a name.  It was very difficult coming up with a name for you since, nothing amounted to who you are…you’re parents were lucky since they didn’t know you after you were delivered.  (seriously)  =P
  • Move connection: Within the Disney feature, Lilo and Stitch the main message which was originally unintended, was the idea of “family.”  A direct quote from the movie is “Ohana means family.  Family means no one is left behind – or forgotten.”  As the movie continues, Lilo protects Stitch from being captured, and more family members are added to Lilo’s family.  This idea of family is something that I correlate directly to you, since I know you have contacted many members of DEM.  They love you and your generous personality just as I do.  In the future, I’m sure you’ll do an amazing job making this organization a “home” for others as well.

Welcome to the family both of you.  <3

P.S. Notice how this entry is in the Family category :)

December 2nd, 2008

Turk

I’ve been trying out this new program called Q10, which is surprisingly one of the simplest word processors available.  It’s perfect for people like myself, who continuously get distracted by facebook, aim, or youtube.  So what is it?  Basically, you’re just writing on a completely black screen.  You can even turn up the volume to hear the sound of typewriter.  Ancient right?  If I were that obnoxious kid in class, I would definitely open up this program and begin typing with sound.  I’ve been thinking about that idea all day…

Thanksgiving weekend (+2 days) was great this year!  I’m pretty sure this will sound strange, but THE TURKEY WAS MAD JUICY.  Everything tasted amazing…from the mashed potatoes, garlic bread, stuffing to the apple crisp…mmm Overall, it was one of the best thanksgivings I’ve had, which gives me all those good-lala-deedah feelings.

Over break, Derek and I watched 4-5 episodes of 30 Rock.  I CAN’T BELIEVE I’VE BEEN MISSING OUT THIS WHOLE TIME!  I highly recommend watching these episodes.  Tina Fey is the writer of this series, as well as one of the main characters.  Check out the shows on hulu.com.
Okay, since I stay up too late, I ought to be getting to bed.  Goodnight America :)

October 28th, 2008

Reflection without the reflect

I really need to find myself because everything has become far too uncertain.  I guess it’s up to me to decide where I fit.

July 13th, 2008

Here’s the truth…

My brother and I are two very different people.   He took pride in seeing me cry from the constant teasing and hitting during our childhood.  Earlier this morning, he took pictures of me and labeled them outloud as “true hatred,” “hate”…he might as well have called me the devil.  He decided to brag about his Associates and how it was all paid for by the military.  He loved how I was going to leave for Seattle soon and yelled out “YES.”  He never took a chance to get to know me…instead that bump above my eyebrow back in higschool was when he threw a flashlight at me.  I told everyone I was just clumsy.   I don’t think I can call him family.

December 25th, 2007

Glory

On a day where everything is supposed to be perfect, my head is somewhere else and my thoughts are tangled in each other…i’m thinking about what i don’t have, what i do have, but mostly what i don’t. But I know what I should do, so I’m going to try my hardest.

Merry Christmas to everyone :]

EDIT

Christmas dinner was amazing!

November 24th, 2007

ParRents

Sometimes I get really frustrated with my parents for buying too many things since we’ve accumulated too much furniture, beds, and toys over the years. I just don’t understand why they think it looks good. I mean the item itself may look amazing, but if you don’t have a place to put it, there’s no need for it. Let me list some of things we have…

~ 3 dining tables
~ 1 huge piece of furniture that is supposed to wrap around a matching dining table (no idea what they would call it here in the U.S…but we call it a Sojourno. (sounds Native American) I think my parents bought it in Italy.
~ A Japanese styled chair from Japan of course….made for phones
~ 3 huge cabinets for plates, lladros, etc
~ Way too many clothes that need to be donated
~ Way too many purses (mom)
~ Dressers
~ Random stuff for babies…like cribs, bassinets, changing tables, etc

We currently own 3 homes, and my parents have done everything possible to make the 2 other houses look amazing.

I just don’t understand why we have so many things that haven’t been thrown away. The huge piece of furniture that I was speaking about earlier covers a wall-to-wall mirror. We have a bar and kitchen in the basement which aren’t being used since our basement has become a place for storage. I get embarrassed about the way things look because my parents just don’t realize that we need to do something…. It just leads to an argument every time I bring it up.

I mean what if we sold the 2 other houses…can you imagine how many more things we would have? One of the houses we own…is completely furnished. oh geez

I’m just tired of asking…and tired of seeing nothing happen.

November 11th, 2007

Smile in the Morning

*yawn*

How I love getting up at the ungodly hour of 6 am…

These past couple of nights have been amazing, with the exception of last night, but we’ll get to that later. Thursday night- I’m going to call Movie Lager night was crazy fun. Thursdays are always my longest days, what with classes and lab work, so the relaxing second half of my day is one that I always look foward to. We watched a movie in my late class (and for some reason I can’t remember the name of it) …afterwards I bumped into Ben and Dawit at the commons shop. They invited me to do Lager bombs in their room. lol So I don’t know if you can imagine this or not but I was extremely energized after we did four of them. I was moving around everywhere and even at 4 a.m… my eyes were wide open. It was like I was one of those energizer bunnies hopped up on some crazy drug and doing flips in the air. Remind me next time if I’m tired what I need to do. lol I didn’t fall asleep until 5 or 5:30 or so…drinking that night avec energy drinks was both the worst decision and best decision of my life. (hmm maybe i shouldn’t put for my life, but it was a good night)

Friday night- Blinding night. The name comes from the nostalgia-causing song called, “Blinded” by Third Eye Blind. It also comes from my blinding night? haha ok that doesn’t work out too well, but it was awesome since it was Laura’s birthday party. So to begin the festivities was the Third Eye Blind concert. It was my second time seeing them, and of course they were amazing. I loved the guy who was working the lights, he was getting so excited. You could see him bouncing up and down at the climaxes of every song. Best part was he must have been as old as my dad. The difference is the guy working the lights has better taste in music. haha what if my dad and I both like Third Eye Blind…what a crazy world that would be. After the concert, I met up with Abhisek, and we headed over to Laura’s shindig. I was pretty boosted from the beginning of the party since I saw all my old-favorites. The oldies, but the goodies. =) I turned into a little drunkard by the end of the night, but who did’t? lol

(So it’s strange…I had a journal while I was in Alaska and we weren’t allowed to write as chronologically as I did above. But I want to, but what they ingrained into me is causing me to keep thinking about Alaska. And Alaska makes me think about the future…not sure why though)

After the party, we headed back to my place…and that’s where I found Lindsey, Krissy, and Laura… the unfortunate, but drunk trio. I was still drunk so I ended up dancing around the room for awhile.

Saturday morning – Eggspectations Day. It was my suitemate’s birthday so we enjoyed a morning brunch with her. Her is Margaret. We lived in the same hall last year in Elkton and we also rushed for the sorority. It was a pretty amazing breakfast…loved the food there. Later that day, I had an appointment to view a house. It’s located a mile away from campus…it’s really close to the View…and I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am about this place. It has 8 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2 spiral staircases, a huge balcony, a HOT TUB, huge rooms, a huge basement with a bar…yes it’s amazing. Did I mention HOT TUB?!? Anyways, rent is about $600 a month (not including utilities…but it shouldn’t be that much because we’re splitting it up with 8 or 9 people) So there’s one room left, and I’ve been trying to fill the spot, but I’m having such a difficult time. Lindsey wants to be near Krissy, Katie, and Laura..it makes sense, but doesn’t all at the same time. Lindsey comes home some nights crying because of the two girls…she gets so upset because most times those girls can’t control themselves. One situation included one of the girls making out with a guy that Lindsey liked…or at worst had sex…and there’s other things like arguments over stupid stuff like pills…etc. I don’t want to go into it too much. But anyways, Lindsey wants to live near them…which would be near the Knox aparments. I don’t want to live there…or near them for that matter. I don’t really hang out with them anymore… They only enjoy getting drunk and high…they wouldn’t be the first people I turn to if I wanted to go play football, go eat out, or even get into the water at a pool. heh I mean I don’t really care that they do get drunk/high/smunished… I mean it’s fun, and you’ve got to live sometimes …but geez…not everyday. I still like Lindsey though…and when I did ask her about the house…she said no. I don’t think it was price since the rent is really not that bad…and the rooms in this house are huge so if she wanted to split one it would just be $300. She wants to be around the girls that make her sad every night…it’s kind of sad that she wouldn’t want to try something new. I know it can be scary, but I have assured her that the other people in the house are amazing. So anyways, summmary: need to fill empty room. and tell Lindsey again…that I just can’t live in the knox apartments…
Ok well, since that part of the topic is depressing, let me get back to the house. We’re going to get a dog! =)

Saturday night and Sunday morning – Money dayz. Work work work…not much to say there. chipotle with diana. work work

It’s been a great past couple of days, especially since I’m done with all of my 2nd exams….next week starts my 3rd set…=) Anyways, good morning to those who woke up bright and early to read this entry.