What a WEEK!! Whew! Almost done with everything around the house =D I get to pull an all-nighter tonight. Inspection tomorrow! I'm anxious to hear the results!
So I have discovered EF College Break (http://www.efcollegebreak.com/). I want to go on a trip REALLY bad! I love to travel, even though I have not been as many places that I would like to go, but I plan on making as many trips as I can afford! (Zero, right now =P)
Next year I am supposed to go to Yosemite for a second trip, and Yellowstone for the first time. I'm working on getting back into shape so I can do some hiking this time around. Out of shape people + really steep hills = tiredness! I WILL be prepared this time around!! ^_^
Then in 2011 I think I will be taking a trip on the EF College Break schedule. It's called Egyptian Kingdom..you get to tour Cairo, see the Great Pyramids, ride a ship down the Nile and visit quite a few temples! It makes me giddy just thinking about it. I have at least one friend that already wants to go. If it ends up being just him and I, we may try to get a room together (the base amount to pay for the trip includes hotels...but you have to share a room with 3-4 other folks x.x). At first I thought it was a really great idea, and now I'm not so sure...if he hooks up with any chicks, he would have to go back to their place -.- (I love the man to death, but he sleeps around a lot O.o)
I dunno....but it would be fun. My friend and I get along very well, and we enjoy the same activities...so I doubt I would want to kill him during the trip. I guess we shall find out! I'm definitely ready for a vacation, though! And to be able to work just one job again ^_^
Friday, September 25, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
What a week!
Whew! Soon I will have free time! It makes me soooo happy! =D I had an assignment this past week to write a memoir for my English class....and I actually enjoyed the project! It took me a while to figure out what, exactly, it was that I wanted to write about, but after reading some of the sample essays we had assigned to us for class readings...I had figured it out! And, goodness! I definitely had to revise that thing over and over again. I'm still going back and looking at it and saying "that doesn't sound right"..and I still feel like it's not quite whole. I'm curious to see what my fellow classmates think about it. I'm also interested in what they have to say in their memoirs! Of course...that will have to be done tomorrow. I feel bad for not getting around to doing this blog til so late..but time seems to like slipping through my fingertips! (I think it enjoys doing that to everyone! ^_^')
The house 'project' is coming along. I'm almost through with everything that I had on my checklist for now. Painted rooms are quite nice! It's amazing what a coat of color can do to an area.
I started writing a little story a while back, and I got to go back today and read some of it. (It's been sitting in my binder that I was using for last semester...finally cleaned out for this semester of school). I used to write stories on a regular basis. My friend also wrote, so we would write and pass them back and forth to one another. I wish I could go back and read one of them! How young we must have sounded! XD I've never been good with inputting dialogue into a story. I know what I want the characters to say, but never know how to 'slide' it into the work. I think I would be better with a play, where I can just put Person 1: and be done with it!
I'm rambling now. I had a point that I was going to make when I got home, but it ran off. I think I need to carry a 'daybook'...it would at least be interesting to look back and read what I have thought about!
Oh! A random thought from earlier. I was outside of one of my jobs, smoking (yes, I know it is bad for me, they'll go away soon) and across the street is a hospital. I'm not particularly fond of hospitals..never have been...was made even worse for when my dad passed away..but I was thinking of hospitals in general. If I was very ill and had to stay at a hospital, I would like it to be more 'serene'. Hospitals are so...clinical (duh, I know). It would be nice to have a room that had a nice big window that looked onto a lush garden or something. Maybe a trickling fountain that you could hear in the hallway or in your room. Then I thought...the more expensive nursing homes are like that. My mom moved my grandma to a room that overlooked a garden and a little pond so when she didn't have the supervision to go outside, she could at least LOOK.
I'm stopping now. I could write forever on the the thought of death and life. Soo....have a good week! Til we meet again ^.~
The house 'project' is coming along. I'm almost through with everything that I had on my checklist for now. Painted rooms are quite nice! It's amazing what a coat of color can do to an area.
I started writing a little story a while back, and I got to go back today and read some of it. (It's been sitting in my binder that I was using for last semester...finally cleaned out for this semester of school). I used to write stories on a regular basis. My friend also wrote, so we would write and pass them back and forth to one another. I wish I could go back and read one of them! How young we must have sounded! XD I've never been good with inputting dialogue into a story. I know what I want the characters to say, but never know how to 'slide' it into the work. I think I would be better with a play, where I can just put Person 1: and be done with it!
I'm rambling now. I had a point that I was going to make when I got home, but it ran off. I think I need to carry a 'daybook'...it would at least be interesting to look back and read what I have thought about!
Oh! A random thought from earlier. I was outside of one of my jobs, smoking (yes, I know it is bad for me, they'll go away soon) and across the street is a hospital. I'm not particularly fond of hospitals..never have been...was made even worse for when my dad passed away..but I was thinking of hospitals in general. If I was very ill and had to stay at a hospital, I would like it to be more 'serene'. Hospitals are so...clinical (duh, I know). It would be nice to have a room that had a nice big window that looked onto a lush garden or something. Maybe a trickling fountain that you could hear in the hallway or in your room. Then I thought...the more expensive nursing homes are like that. My mom moved my grandma to a room that overlooked a garden and a little pond so when she didn't have the supervision to go outside, she could at least LOOK.
I'm stopping now. I could write forever on the the thought of death and life. Soo....have a good week! Til we meet again ^.~
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Time Runs...Faster Than Any Cheetah I've Seen...
...not saying that I have ever seen a cheetah run! I bet it would be beautiful. (I'm SUCH a cat person!! err...animal person, I guess).
SO! I need to vent my frustration...so WHY NOT in a blog for class! WOOO!! >_>
Procrastination is a very bad thing, we all agree? Well, a bad thing on big, important things. It's a good idea to get things done earlier on, then go back and check out your work to see if you need to fix anything. This concept works for writing...and...fixing up a house. O.o
I bought a house 2 years ago, at the loverly ripe age of 21. Probably not such a great idea. I rushed into the loan process because somebody had put a bid on the house that I LOVED. Mind you, I looked and looked and looked at houses everywhere. I looked in the city AND in the country, just so I could see what would fit me better in life now. I got the house, got a bad interest rate, blah blah. Oh, and I bought the house 'as is.'
I've gotten far on fixing up the house, outside things have been done along with a bit of painting inside. I get a bright idea that I would LOVE to refinance my house. Lower interest rate, less money a month, I think I would be a happy dandelion! Here I think, since my bank (Chase) usually takes FOREVER in processing things, I would have plenty of time to get things done (like more painting, and maybe some tiling!)
Gee! I was WRONG! So now I have a deadline that is very close, the tile guy (who is working on my kitchen counter top and bathroom-around the tub) keeps running into problems (the counter cracking in my kitchen when the sink gets taken out...), and I keep having to run errands to get these things fixed, so painting keeps getting pushed back. Oh! And I have 2 jobs and some classes!
This may seem like whining, and maybe it is...but I enjoy both of my jobs, classes are fun (yes...I said class and fun in the same sentence), and I am SO very happy that this refinancing thing is making me crunch to get things done around my house. It's already looking a LOT better. And, most of all, it feels even more like home! I'll be able to invite more folks over and not have to apologize for my hallway being halfway painted (not that anyone I know actually CARES....it's a woman thing in my family).
I'm surprisingly not that stressed. I think the paint fumes are getting to me.
Have a GRRRREEEAAT day! Meow!
SO! I need to vent my frustration...so WHY NOT in a blog for class! WOOO!! >_>
Procrastination is a very bad thing, we all agree? Well, a bad thing on big, important things. It's a good idea to get things done earlier on, then go back and check out your work to see if you need to fix anything. This concept works for writing...and...fixing up a house. O.o
I bought a house 2 years ago, at the loverly ripe age of 21. Probably not such a great idea. I rushed into the loan process because somebody had put a bid on the house that I LOVED. Mind you, I looked and looked and looked at houses everywhere. I looked in the city AND in the country, just so I could see what would fit me better in life now. I got the house, got a bad interest rate, blah blah. Oh, and I bought the house 'as is.'
I've gotten far on fixing up the house, outside things have been done along with a bit of painting inside. I get a bright idea that I would LOVE to refinance my house. Lower interest rate, less money a month, I think I would be a happy dandelion! Here I think, since my bank (Chase) usually takes FOREVER in processing things, I would have plenty of time to get things done (like more painting, and maybe some tiling!)
Gee! I was WRONG! So now I have a deadline that is very close, the tile guy (who is working on my kitchen counter top and bathroom-around the tub) keeps running into problems (the counter cracking in my kitchen when the sink gets taken out...), and I keep having to run errands to get these things fixed, so painting keeps getting pushed back. Oh! And I have 2 jobs and some classes!
This may seem like whining, and maybe it is...but I enjoy both of my jobs, classes are fun (yes...I said class and fun in the same sentence), and I am SO very happy that this refinancing thing is making me crunch to get things done around my house. It's already looking a LOT better. And, most of all, it feels even more like home! I'll be able to invite more folks over and not have to apologize for my hallway being halfway painted (not that anyone I know actually CARES....it's a woman thing in my family).
I'm surprisingly not that stressed. I think the paint fumes are getting to me.
Have a GRRRREEEAAT day! Meow!
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