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Mon, May. 31st, 2004, 09:26 pm
last weekend...
i really need to get better about posting. i'm back in baltimore now. uhaul REALLY sucks, so it took us two days to move me back last weekend. getting stranded in front of a trailer park in martinsburg, west virginia was definitely NOT on my list of things to do.. ( uhaul_adventure )this weekend, on the other hand was good. jason came up again, and we picked up his wedding band from being sized at kay's. we saw shrek 2 and troy. shrek 2 was so cute. troy, i thought was pretty good, but they changed a few things from the iliad (which i picked up on thanks to my myth class this semester) the thought of brad pitt as achilles was semi-amusing. although, he did better than i thought he wouldn...but i really would have pictured someone more like the rock playing him. you know, someone really larger than life. i start work tomorrow at my "real" job. i'm sort of excited, but on the other hand, i don't really want to go! i guess it is just setting in that this is what i'm going to be doing for the rest of my life, and even though i do like it, i'm not excited about the fact that i'll only get about 2 weeks of vacation per year, rather than a couple of months! although, i'm sure paycheck will help make up for that, and i really do like what i'm going to be doing. i'm so glad i get to go back to hyde, it really makes it easier. since i already know all of them really well, it takes away the stress of meeting new co-workers and trying to get along with them. well, i should probably get to sleep soon, since i'm going to have to get up about 3 hours earlier than usual tomorrow. :oP
yep, it's official. i'm a virigina tech alumna. this feels so crazy to say... it really still hasn't sunken in that my college career is over. i ended on a really high note though, thanks to my slacker classes i managed a 4.0 this semester, and was able to graduate magna cum laude. (.025 more points on my gpa, and i would have been summa!) the university graduation ceremony was on friday night. i participated in an honors march from hilcrest over to the stadium (in HEELS..not the brightest idea!) but as part of the march, they led us through the tunnel that the football players use on their way onto the field. i got to touch the piece of hokie stone that they all touch before games! honestly, i think that may have been my favorite part of the whole ceremony! haha, wow, that's kind of sad. i was really excited that i was able to find my family in the stands, all because of my grandma's bright turquoise outfit. :o) i was really surprised that i didn't cry at the ceremony, but i think it was because it still didn't quite feel real. saturday, jason's parents came in for the college of architecture ceremony, and we took about 74392075702754734 more pictures. :o) i got my diploma at the college ceremony, and still managed not to cry until i got out of the ceremony and was hugging people and saying goodbyes. that is definitely going to be the hardest part of all of this...and i'm not sure it will totally set in until i actually start packing up my room. this is so weird, making plans with friends to hang out "one last time" before heading home. i mean, for most of them, it's not like i won't EVER see them again...some of them will be at the wedding, and i know we'll keep in touch, but it won't be the same...not even close. this whole weekend has been a dichotomy. i'm torn because it was one of the greatest weekends i've had, with family and friends, but then again, it symbolizes the end of something that i loved. i think it's time to change the subject before i try to be any more philosophic. today jason and i FINALLY managed to go to mountain lake without it being extremely foggy, rainy or closed for the season. donnie left me his really nice camera, so i was able to take some great pictures. then i came home to a voicemail from stacey, asking me to climb through her living room windows so i could close and lock them for her! i made jason go over with me, so that he could explain to anyone passing by that she asked me to do this and i really wasn't breaking and entering! haha, i'm just glad that i didn't split my pants trying to climb through the window, because THAT would have been a sight! i can see the headlines now... "woman splits pants breaking into house" the air conditioning in my house finally works again. we called to have it repaired on monday, and the "air conditioning specialist" was at our house every single day until he got it fixed friday afternoon. luckily, he got it fixed right as my parents were getting into town, so at least THEY didn't start sweating the moment they walked in the door, like we had all week! it was so bad at one point that cristin and i joked about sleeping in a waterbed because of all of the sweat. it's so nice to be able to use my comforter again, instead of being so hot that i have to throw all of my covers off of the bed. on that note, it really has been a long weekend, so i think it's time for a little quality time with my bed.
well, it's may. now all that stands between me and the real world are 3 weeks, a couple classes, one project, 3 exams, 2 ceremonies and some packing. it's hard to believe that after 4 years, it all comes down to this...and soon it'll all be over. i'm torn. the closer it gets to graduation, the more i think i'm ready to move on... but the more i think about moving on, the more i realize just how much i am going to miss being here. well, it's not so much b-burg itself that i'm going to miss, it's the people in it. i'm really thankful for the friendships i've made, and will definitely be laughing at the stupid things we did for years to come. :oP that is, if i ever get my scrapbook up to date, so i might actually be able to REMEMBER most of it. aside from all of that, i had a great birthday. i got to spend the evening with some really good friends, which was all i really wanted. then last night, jason took me out for my (belated) birthday to olive garden and to see "man on fire." if you haven't seen it, go. it was really powerful...much more than what i was expecting. i might actually be able to keep the orchid he gave me alive, since it doesn't need a lot of sunlight. it might improve my plant track record to 1/3. :oP jason and i got our flower girl on board for the wedding last weekend. his cousin allison is 6, and apparently quite excited about her duties. :o) i found a flower girl dress that is a miniature version of my gown for her to wear...it is so adorable. i still have one or 2 bridesmaids to ask to be in the wedding, but i think i am going to wait to do those until after graduation.. with all of the wedding planning, my parents and i forgot that we have a graduation bar-b-que thing to plan too. whoops.
so once again, it's been a month since i posted... where to start? ( spring_break )( job/interview_news )( wedding_dress! )well, the exhaustion from driving back to bburg just hit me like a brick wall, so think i need to take myself to bed. have a good night, all.
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Craftyyea, so i probably should be doing something... oh, i don't know, like trying to find a job or something, but since i only have about half an hour before my next class, there really isn't a point. i think my child development exam this afternoon went really well. i just found out today that hoobastank is coming to tech as part of the mtv campus invasion tour! cristin and i are going to go. :o) i'm so glad that i found out about it BEFORE tickets went on sale. i am SO ready for spring break. i think a week at the beach will be just what i need. i think cristin and i are going to do the "olde time" photo again like we did the last time we went, so that'll be fun. maybe they'll give me the corset dress again and make me look like dolly parton. ;o) jason and i just set a date for our wedding. we're going to have it may 7, 2005. we went to a bridal show in the NRV mall this past weekend. i think the word "show" was a little too generous, considering that there were only three tables there. anyway, we got this free grab bag from elissa's that had all kinds of free stuff in it. :o) well, enough killing time, off to watercolors.
Thu, Feb. 26th, 2004, 09:04 pm
randomness
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Tue, Feb. 10th, 2004, 11:19 pm
laziness
i don't know what it is about the past couple of days, but i have had the hardest time dragging my carcass out of bed. i've almost been late to my morning classes...and it's ONLY tuesday. maybe it's just that my weekend was so great that i just really resented having to wake up. i didn't really do anything THAT exciting, it was just nice. jason and i went snow-tubing on saturday @ winterplace. i was pleasantly surprised that we were not solely in the company of 10 year olds in the snow-tubing line. :o) he really wants me to go skiing with him, but the last (and only) time i went skiing, i fell so much that my ass hurt for a WEEK! i mean, i know the only way to get better is to actually try...but i'm sort of dragging my heels, so to speak. i'll probably give in at some point, though, because i know how much he wants me to try it with him. anyway, after we got home and showered, we went and saw "miracle." i must admit, i wasn't a real big hockey fan, but i was absolutely enthralled. i think the guy in front of me said it best... "movie ticket: $6.50, popcorn: $3.00, watching a theater full of people on the edge of their seats to learn the outcome of a hockey game that took place 24 years ago...PRICELESS." i'm looking forward to stacey and stephanie's "anti-valentine's day" party again this year. though i'm not sure we'll be able to stay more than a couple of hours, since jason has to get up really early for a business trip on sunday. i think i will be going as britney spears, even though she's not my favorite celebrity...she's just the one that i could find the clothes to imitate most easily. now we just have to think up a celebrity for jason...
ok, so my roommate and i got a little carried away with the name generation things... well, i do like orlando bloom... ;o) hmm, not so sure about those short men... for a friend...ok....so who wants saruman? anal beads???? yikes! and when DO i find the time to go to class?
Tue, Jan. 27th, 2004, 10:52 pm
my sidekick
since jason was amused by my superhero, i decided to create one for him as well...he can be my helpful sidekick...
it was kinda hard to get back into the routine of going to class today, since we had that snow day yesterday... i kept having to remind myself exactly what day it was. but, i did have a productive day yesterday. i finally got to really meet and talk to "smeagol" last night...hung out with he and cristin for a little while last night. he seems to have a similar sense of humor, and cristin was happy to hear that he passed my inspection. :o) anyway, nothing else is really going on, so here is my random superhero information...
ok, so maybe i'll actually be better about posting this semester... now that i'm in my last semester at VT and NOT working on my thesis, maybe i'll actually have the time. i'm just glad that my thesis is finished...it's quite a relief knowing that all of that work paid off. i got a really good grade on it, and my professor said that in 20+ years of teaching, my thesis was the closest she's seen to perfect! winter break was nice, but a little too short. i had one job interview, which went really well, and i also met the girls from last summer for lunch. christmas was nice, i spent that at home this year. i got a dvd player, a bunch of dvd's, and a white gold and diamond bracelet. i spent new years with jason, which was really nice. right after new years, my parents came to richmond to meet jason's parents. they got along really well, which i expected, but it was still a relief. the past couple weeks that i've been back at tech have been great...i've been able to spend more time with my roommate, as well as stacey and stephanie, who i didn't get to see much last semester. last friday, i went to roanoke and elissa's with cristin, stacey, stephanie and casey...that was definitely the first time in a while that i had gone to the mall w/ a group of girls. after teasing cristin about her date and meeting smeagol, we went to the abc store and kroger, bought enough to look like raging alcoholics...then drank most of it. stacey, thanks for being a "mom". saturday i was a complete bum, cristin and i just watched movies all day. sunday was really boring, i spent the day reading chapters for my classes. today, though, was awesome because tech actualy cancelled classes for the second time in my 4 years here. it was so nice to be able to go back to bed. amazingly enough, i did manage to muster up enough motivation to work on a sketch for my watercolors class. my classes seem easy enough this semester. i've got watercolors, intro to film, personal health, human (child) development I, and mythology. it is really strange to not have any interior design classes this semester, but i'm not complaining! i think i'm really going to like water colors, intro to film and mythology. i'm only taking the other two because i heard they were really easy. well, i think that's enough of an update for now, i need to go hunt down some dinner.
Fri, Sep. 12th, 2003, 07:48 pm
hmmm....
yea...so what's up w/ the sheep? the other two, however... O:o) killing time again, waiting for jason to get here. i called a friend of mine a little while ago...we hadn't spoken in a while, and the first thing she asked me was "did you get engaged? i figured that's why you would be calling me!" lol. gotta love lora. her fiance is going to buy my ticket to the texas a&m football game next week. i REALLY wanted to go to that game, but there is a design expo in richmond.. wow, look at me giving up going to a football game to go network with some design professionals... maybe now that i'm a senior, i finally got some priorities straight. ;o) the big plus is getting to spend a long weekend at jason's. but, i have to miss my 2 thursday classes to go to the expo, but it's just my viz studio and dating, marriage and divorce. that class is actually really interesting. though it's kinda sad when on the first day of class the professor announced that it is not a "how-to" class for getting a date, and several people actually got up and left! yesterday we covered a history of sex in america. did you know that kelloggs cereal was invented in the victorian era to surpress sexual urges? apparently, kellogg thought that if you fed men first thing in the morning, then they wouldn't think about sex... they also invented an "anti-erection belt" with a cage and a bell. LOL. gotta love those crazy victorians. i really wish we were doing more in my studio. so far all that we've done pertaining to our THESIS is interview managers of the donaldson brown hotel that we're re-designing. well, i shouldn't really complain about not having much work right now, because come november, it'll turn around and bite me in the ass... :o)
yea, so i just spent like half an hour writing an update...then my computer glitched, so here i am...starting over. grr. anyway, i'm glad to be back in bburg. had a great summer, loved my job, caught up w/ some old friends i hadn't seen in a while.... but, being back is great. i really had missed hanging out w/ my roomie. the past couple days, i've been doing really boring things like unpacking all of my stuff, running errands to get my textbooks and parking pass for this semester, etc etc etc... but there have been some high points, like just hanging out w/ my roommate, catching up, shopping, trying to avoid getting my toes nibbled on by her ferret.. :o) still not completely finished my unpacking...but i'm really not that worried about it. jason is coming in tonight, should be here in about an hour. monday, he starts his new "real" job at an engineering firm! cristin and i met one of our new neighbors yesterday. she seemed nice enough, but her mom wasn't quite so friendly...we'll see where that goes. as long as they aren't like the bitches from last year, we shouldn't have any problems. well, now i need to search everyone else's lj's for quizzes to do to kill some time....although having to re-type my entry definitely helped out with that... ( killing )
Sun, Jun. 29th, 2003, 01:52 pm
i guess i only had time to post today because i wasn't curled up in a corner somewhere reading harry potter 5.... though, i do feel a little behind the rest of the class because it took me from sunday-thursday to finish it, unlike most of the people i've talked to who also read them... i think when harry potter 6 comes out, i'll just have to take off work. ;o)
i think i've been meaning to get online and update my journal for a month now, but somehow i just never get around to it when i'm online. i guess that's because i don't really feel like i have that much going on in my life that's exciting. but, i'll probably end up rambling alot in this entry anyway... i'm still really enjoying my job. i've gotten lots of free stuff from manufacturer reps, like extra samples for my home library, t-shirts, etc. that is a major plus of my job. and, i am getting this designer, completely ergonomic and adjustable desk chair (the x99 task chair from haworth) for $150 when it normally sells for $1500! yea, call me a design nerd, but it really is a great chair and a great deal! so great that jason wanted me to order one for him too. thursday night after work, i'm leaving to go to richmond, and from there, we're leaving on saturday to go to the nags head. i am really looking forward to this trip...not so much that i NEED a break from work, because i really do enjoy it..but it would be nice to not have to go for a week, you know.. i'm happy to report that my step-dad's best friend who had a brain aneurism (however you spell it...) and two strokes a few weeks ago has been steadily improving. he is off of dialysis and off of the respirator and out of the ICU, so we're all really happy about that. and, because they're so addicting... it's quiz time... ( Read more... )
wow. i really have been neglecting my journal. i guess since i've been home i really haven't felt much like going online...the connection is so slow and i all ever get is junk mail anyway. but when i do get online, i keep up w/ everyone else's livejournals since i'm not in bburg anymore :o( i really do feel alone when i'm at home, so i can really relate to stacey's last posting. only here, i'm not the one that got left behind, i'm the one that had to leave... but, on the upside, i've been doing weight watchers, and i've lost 9 pounds in 3 weeks! i'm so happy. i really can't tell much of a difference yet, but hopefully, things will continue to go well and it will be more noticeable to everyone (and to myself) soon! the whole weight watchers thing is really easy, but i'm really getting tired of eating salads for lunch...and it was so sad how excited i got about eating a piece of pizza for lunch today! i'm really enjoying my job, and i got my first paycheck last week. wooo, i had forgotten what it was like to have money! taxes are a bitch, but i won't make enough this summer to have to actually have to pay them, so atleast i'll get all of my money back except for the soc. security tax. mom said this was a way to force me to save some of my paycheck. lol. and now we come to the quiz portion of our show... ( Read more... )
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