[home sweet home]

I am at home (In Kansas City). It is so nice to get away from white trash ville known as Warrensburg.

So, as of late, David and I are currently unemployed. Our boss was basically going to fire us so we just put our 2 weeks in. David overheard her phone conversation talking about "replacing" all of her employee's (except for one...) so we just decided enough was enough and ended it ourselves.

I don't think I am going to find another job. I have enough money to last me throughout the rest of the semester so I think that I will be okay. I am taking 9 credit hours in the summer and 18 credit hours for the rest of my time in college. I have 58 credits to go (3 semesters) left. Fall of '10... I am done!

[change]

Hello, President Barack Hussein Obama.

What a historic day.
Not only is Ex-President Bush out of office FOREVER, but we have a democrat in office for at least the next 4 years. I hope he brings what he promised and I hope he can get this country turned around for the better. It will take longer than 4 years so hopefully, if he does a good job, he will get re-elected for another term.

I am just very happy that today has come. It really brings a tear to my eye that for one memorable day, we all turned our heads to the color of someones skin and to the middle name that had every hillbilly in the country convinced he was a terrorist, and elected someone for who he is as a person.. and not for "what" he is. This is America and I am proud to live in this country.

I got to leave class today to watch the Inauguration. I still have class at 2, but I am just happy that I get to see the beginning. We have it recording so I can watch it tonight when David gets off.

[surprise]

Was your big surprise for me to sit in the living room all by myself and eat the "surprise" pizza you ordered for us, alone?

It's really weird how when you said you'd have all the animals done when I got home so "we" can relax, did you mean you sitting in your animal room watching a movie while I sit out in the living room by myself? Is that what you meant by "we"..?

Especially when I said, let me help you do the animals, it's the one thing we really can do together.. and you said, no when you get home we can hang out and enjoy the day off. Did you really mean.. ignore me completely and blame it on me being "moody" when I was happier than I've been in days today..?

I will have to remember next time that we=alone.

[debate]

I am seriously debating taking out a loan to pay for my expenses. I know I always said that I could go to school and go to work and do a great job, but... I'm behind. Next semester, I want to take 18 credit hours, but I can't because I wouldn't ever have time to work to pay my bills. I wanted to take 15 hours this semester but I couldn't fit it in.. because of work. Basically, for 12 months to pay for rent, electricity, cable/internet and food, I would need roughly around $470 per month, or.. a little less than $$6,000 a year. It's not horrible.. but still.. it's debt.

I just hate the thought of getting out of college with debt, but I keep just thinking about my future. I want to get done with school on time, and with the way I'm moving, it looks like I'm a semester behind. I wouldn't be done with school until Fall of 2010 instead of Spring 2010. That's a full 18 credits I am behind. UGH!

The decision is just killing me. As of now, I can't get enough hours to pay my bills... so I need to find another job and fast. Everything is just piling up.. piling up.. and this semester is by far one of the hardest.

[*sigh*]

School starts tomorrow. 9:30AM-3:15PM... long day.

Wall-E is my new favorite movie. :)

[horrible day]

My day started out BAD. But, like my Grandma says, "If god brings you to it, he will bring you through it," and I honestly believe that.

Here goes

• - I wake up around 10AM and the cat jumped on top of my night stand, knocking over a glass of water onto my dog. I step in the puddle of water.
• - I put my clothes on to go to work and I can't find a pair of socks and I feel like I'm going to throw up.
• - I head to work and promptly become the clumsiest person on the planet. I knock things over, break a few bottles, drop bird cups and spill water all over Nancy's bills.
• - My boss is upset with us because we can't get the animals done, even though I really think we were quite on time today!, and tell us not to go to lunch until we can get stuff done faster.
• - I ask a girl I work with if she will work for me on Saturday so I can go home and she makes up a few excuses as to why she can't, and I understand. It's Saturday, working for someone on that day would blow...but I did work for her. I guess my karma will come in some other form. :)
• - I let a red factor canary out of the cage and had to chase it all over the store.
• - I let a baby finch out of the cage where I am chasing it all over the back room. As I go to swing the net, I knock over a bottle of bearded dragon pellets and it scatters the pellets everywhere. I finally can see the finch hanging from a light fixture so I swing, miss, hit the fixture and knock the plug out of the outlet hanging from the 10 foot ceiling. I have to get a ladder re-plug in the fixture and as I turn around I slam my head into the parallel fixture hanging behind my head. I do, however, catch the finch in mid air with the net. That's pretty impressive.
• - My boss gets back from lunch and tells us that we still can't go to lunch until we have the animals finished. Mind you, I did the birds, the entire back room and half of reptile. I was ready for some mega-lunch!
  
• - Around three, she lets me just leave for the day. This is after I have still ran into things, catching my hoodie on a bird cage and almost ripping it off the shelf.
  
• - I go out to my car to go home and low and behold, my car is dead! I left the lights on. :( I call David, he gets me and we jump start my car.
• - I get home, make dinner and then go to sit in the kitchen chair and BREAK IT! I literally fell onto the floor and David just watched in awe. The legs were already wobbly but, with them being on carpet, they did not slide as I sat... they just... popped out from under me and down I went. I felt fat and really didn't want to eat the rest of my dinner. David can easily repair it but still.. I just looked up at him and said.. "horrible day." I really wanted to cry at this point.

So far, after the chair incident, nothing bad has happened to me....yet.

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I did however, make no-bake cookies. This recipe is fool proof.. there is literally no way you can even mess this up. For those of you out there.. here it is! (I use skim milk and light butter... with all of the sugar, at least this kind of battles how unhealthy they are!!)

INGREDIENTS

1. 1/2 fat free skim milk
2. 1 3/4 cup sugar
3. 1/2 cup peanut butter (chunky or creamy, you're choice)
4. 1 tsp vanilla extract
5. 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
6. 1/2 cup light butter
7. 3 cups quick oats

DIRECTIONS

Combined MILK, SUGAR, BUTTER, and COCOA POWDER in a medium saucepan. Stir frequently. Boil for 1 1/2 minutes and then remove from heat. Stir in PEANUT BUTTER (until melted), then OATS and VANILLA EXTRACT until well blended. Use a tbsp to place mixture onto wax paper in cookie shape (you can make big or small cookies!!!) Then, put in the refrigerator to cool. Once the cookies are done you should easily be able to pick them off of the wax paper! ENJOY!

My boyfriend absolutely loves these cookies. Geez, my blog seems to always end up talking about food! Maybe that's why I ended up breaking the chair! :( I kid.. I kid. ^_^

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NOW, I will leave you with my new favorite song. It actually fits the mood on how I feel about my life.. today. :)



Don't think too hard, if you think it hurts that bad. Don't talk about it. Don't let it get you down. It's only one part, of the story. just let it go. Don't let this get you down now.

Sing... the last thing on your mind, the last word on your breath. I'll be the one to keep you, I'll keep you at your best. The last thing on your mind, 'cause I don't need your mess. I'll be the one to keep you, one disaster less.

Straighten up your tie, take the microphone; forget about it. Don't let it get you down. Now is not the time, and you're not alone. Shut UP about it. Now one can bring you down now.

I'll be okay, if you're okay.

Lights - The Last Thing On Your Mind

[beer can chicken]

David's Mom gave us a "beer can chicken" plate and so we promptly bought a young chicken and stuck it in the flavor wave!! David is also making twice baked potatoes!! :)

Thank you Dad and Debbie! :o)

The chicken just BARELY fits but it fits!!! It's nice because I don't have to turn chicken over because the fan in the flave just circulates the heat!


The preparation!! The chicken is already sitting on the little beer area lol We rubbed season salt and lemon pepper on it!



Here is my dorkus, making twice bakes :)

[new year]

New Years Eve was pretty fun. David got drunk for the first time, and I made Amaretto Sours all night long! As soon as new years hit, David was OUT COLD! :-D

I have been incredibly addicted to online UNO. I even have UNO friends! It is a bit strange, talking on a head set while other people are watching me in the room, but oh well... what is there to be shy about? :)

I also have been playing LEFT 4 DEAD. It is this zombie survival game. I accidentally shot David to death when he was just trying to help me. I felt really bad when I saw his body slide off of the lift. <:o)

Well, I don't have much to say because not much as been has been going on. School starts next Tuesday. How gross is that?

In other news. David never makes his clothes into the laundry basket when he goes to take a shower. Look how close he is to getting it in there. *bows head in shame*