Happy Bday

Did I tell you, turning another year older isn't all that it's cracked up to be....Honestly, I don't understand what the hype is all about.

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Months are passing quickly

Yes, it's been awhile. Things didn't work out with the nursing school such which were my own fault. I passed the language section with 100% on the test..the math section I didn't do so good. I bit it on the mixed numbers. Didn't even look at that part of math, spent all my energy on going over geometry, biology, A&P, and physics. Guess what was on the test. Simple basic f-in math. And I bit it. Fraction and decimals and I wasn't prepared and freaked out.

So, on to the next place that might take me. HA

The past few months have been challenging. My brother has been diagnosed with advanced macular degeneration at 36. And before you tell me "he's just too young, it can't be"... he's seen three specialists and it is. He's lost 1/3 of his sight in one eye and is now faced with shots in the eyeball for the rest of his life.

I've been having stupid issues with my eyes as well. I have something called posterior vitreous detachment in my left eye which is driving me nuts. It's not painful, but the eye is light sensitive and I'm seeing halos and light tracking, not to mention the spots. The eye is achy and I'm getting head aches from this. Apparently it can either take weeks or months for it to complete and so I'm stuck living with it until it's done. The joys of being hyper-nearsighted.

Ok, ok...I did it.

I applied to a different school for Nursing....again.

I didn't get into my alma mater when I applied last year, but I honestly think I applied too late. My GPA was way above the requirement. It's very competitive now, but I also called a few times and asked a bunch of questions, which probably flagged my name. Also at that time I really wasn't ready to jump back in with both feet. I'd had enough of school...really. But now I'm ready to go back. I'm ready to finish what I started and complete a degree in a field where I really need to be.

I'm so unhappy with my current work situation I could scream. I'm going back to working at the hospital as a committed employee twice per month. As PRN I was always getting called off my shifts and consequently haven't really worked a full shift since Thanksgiving. The weekly shifts at the hospital were keeping me sane but around the Christmas holidays I went on vacation and haven't been back since. I miss it tremendously, and I'm currently half tempted to take part time hours to get back into it and leave the rat race behind.

I'm learning to patience right now. Things will work out, I'm sure of it, but I have to wait so see what happens.

So, what I've found is another accelerated BSN program that's less than two years part-time at night for people who already hold a BS degree. I'm hoping it pans out!

Stupid People

Is anyone else rubbed the wrong why when it comes to comparing politicians to Hollywood movie stars and vis-versa?

It really annoys me that the media is sensationalizing Obama and his family. It really pisses me off. The Obama's are a different caliber of people compared to Hollywood scum.

And honestly, who f-in cares why Matt Damon didn't go to the inauguration...and why the hell should we care if John Cusak is there, in the middle three rows back.

Honestly, why is this news worthy in today's economic and political crisis?

Oh but wait, one better is the BS with our stupid Illinois Governor. Can you believe the balls on that guy? He boycotts the start of his own impeachment trail because, as he puts it "it's unfair", but then he makes a total ass of himself going from TV show to TV show trying to plead to the American public to believe that he's such a great guy. And then to make matters worse...he drops Oprah's name in hopes to take some of the heat off himself.

GRRRRRRR, WHAT THE HELL makes this idiot (or any other out there) think that just because they are wealthy and powerful in their own media arena that then makes them qualified for Politics?

Instead of BLOGO being a man, admitting he did something wrong (which we all know he's guilty) and apologizing to the people of Illinois (which we are all waiting for), this moron makes a complete horse's ass out of himself, all by displaying himself to every single media outlet he can as a Representative for the State of Illinois AND then takes the lowest possible road he could take.

Yep, I'm proud of Illinois Politics...they make me so very happy....

For fuck sakes.

I've got a great place to put this guy....In JAIL in the next cell to our last Governor.

And again this is one of the many reasons why America is in the stupid place we're in.


And oh, by the way, you know that great guy who saved all those people by emergency landing his aircraft into the Hudson River? Yeah, you know that guy "Sully"...
Well, apparently Tom Cruise thinks he should be the guy to "portray" Mr. Sullenburger.

Uh, hey Tom...How dare you compare yourself to a hero. You don't qualify regardless to what your Scientology idiots tell you.

Honestly, I need an Advil because it all gives me a headache.

Work it Girl!

Ah yes, I got back on the bandwagon....and in the words of Tony Little "You Can Do It"

...I just want to punch that guy.

I'm going to take is slow, because every time I've jumped into working out I fizzled out quick....

(excluding the years when I was in my 20's and early 30's -- you couldn't stop me from working out at that time)

...anyway, in the past 6 years, since I went back to school, I jump into working out fast and furious and I burn out quick.

I wish I had the motivation to run on the treadmill everyday or get on the elliptical and just go all out like I use to, but now I leave the house at 7am and usually don't get home until 8 or 9pm. The last thing I want to do is change clothes and go to the gym.

So, everyday I'm going to get on my little stepper and do a little at a time, each day adding 5 more minutes....along with hand weights. And that is just going to have to be good enough for now, which will hopefully catapult me into not wanting to live without it...because at one time it was something I couldn't live without doing.

So, no more scraping me off the floor to get in a quick workout, no more telling myself walking fast too and from the train, and bus stop is enough and no more kidding myself that a healthy diet will do the trick.

I just want to feel better and not be so damn tired all the time.

Historic Day

History was made today! Although I didn't vote for Obama, I'm happy to see the change and I hope and pray this man can lead us into good things for this country.

It's so cold outside

...That the train lost power 3, count 'em, 3 times on the hour ride home tonight, which turned the ride into 1.5 hours.

...It turns even the nicest people into ignorant morons.

...Freezes the hairs in your nose.

...makes your eyes water even more, thus forming eye-cickles off the bottom eye lashes.

...makes standing in the elements waiting on the train or bus a living nightmare.

...and makes me wish I never went back to commuting downtown...