Student Life...Again

So I'm back in the full swing of work, school and dance. I don't want to be here, I want to go home and back to my real job. Don't get me wrong, working at the bar makes it VERY hard to go back to a 9-5. When you make enough money to go home for the month in 3 days, it's hard to say no, but it screws up my sleep habits, and makes it hard to talk to Cam.

Hanna gave the compound a little scare, but it turned out to be just like a thunder storm. It was kinda amusing for me from here, the phone calls I mean. Mammacita was worried and didn't know what to expect or to buy. Daddy-o is out on the boat so he can't really give anything but moral support, about the same as me right now....
I was so worried about them, the area is NOT suited for a hurricane of any magnitude to come ashore.

Gustav just gave me alot of rain, and now we've turned our sights to Ike. I'm half hearted about what I want him to do. I don't want this area to get hit by another bad storm, but at the same time I would like the Katrina effects to happen. a friend of mine was at Tulane when Katrina hit and he got to pick the school he went to until they were allowed back. That's what I would like to happen, then I can transfer to school in Va with no problems. And go back to my life.....But in the same instance, I don't want anyone to get hurt or lose thier home. I guess I just want the river to rise and flood school so bad that was can't come back....does that sound horrible?

Remeber Me?

So it's been a VERY long time since I've written. But there has been SO much going on. Two weekends ago the Compound went go karting and had a field day. After that was Daddy-O and my going away party....total bummer. We all got drunk, including me, and laughed at the olympics and discussed the finer points of watching some whsip of a woman run FOREVER and how she looks so tiny and unhealthy but none of us could run that long that fast unless something serious was chasing us. Bravo to all those runners out there, as I am by far not one.
My last week of work was stressful and sad. I was trying to get everything up and running before I left and BARELY accomplished it. I got the store up on wednesday, my last day was thursday....and everything else was going fine.
Last weekend Cam and I went to DC. We just went up for a night and saw a few monuments and went to some of the museums. We saw what we wanted, skipped a lot and had a great time just being together and being out in DC walking around enjoying one another.
I was going to leave Sunday night, but I looked at the weather after we all had a FEAST of chinese and had Fay going trough Atlanta, and what I thought would be flooding the Jacksonville (JAX). So I got up with Cam on Monday and left at 6am. It was hard and I cried all the way to South Carolina. It was SUPER hard not to turn around and go home everytime that I stopped for gas or something.
The trip was a catastrophe itself. My phone died before I was out of Va, my cat pottied in her carrier, and I forgot my GPS and sunglasses. Not to mention that I just really didn't want to come.
When I got here finally, at 11, I just rinsed Reese off, took a shower and crashed. Got up at 5am the next morning and went to class. That afternoon I walked back into my old job at the bar and I haven't stopped since.
I've worked everynight since wednesday and I've gone to all my classes and almost finished all my homework that isn't due for 2 weeks.
Monday we don't have school, wednesdday I don't have lab, so I'm going to go put in applications around town to hopefully get a job that will help with what I want to do in life. I might keep the bar job so I'll always be able to go home whenever I want.
I really miss Cam and Sienna. I have never been this homesick in my life, I hope it will pass and in the next few weeks I'll get in the hang of getting things done here that I need to. But Cam sometimes says things that make me worry, I hope it's just the homesickness that's making me stress about every little thing. And it doesn't help that I have trust issues that I'm having to get over the hard way right now...
It looks like this is going to go from a once or twice a day blog to a once or twice a week blog. So it you read regularly (is there anyone?) don't worry, I haven't forgotten. I need the outlet for all my off base thoughts, and to lay out stresses that are stupid and pointless.

Still More Catching Up

Yesterday was uneventful. We got home delivery up and running and so I spent most of my afternoon working on getting inventory into the online catalogue.

Today the website was down, so I spent all of my day today on the phone trying to fix that. Today was uneventful.

I came home took the puppy to Auntie Kay's so she could play, and we could catch up. The I fixed dinner, and watched the Secret Life of the American Teen. Great show, hits on TONS of hot topics. And then more Olympics. Michael Phelps is AMAZING. I'm a HUGE fan of Natalie Coghlin though. I would have loved for my splits to have been half that good when I was swimming. And Nastia Luiken is amazing too she had such a bad landing on her parallel uneven bars the other night, but I'm sure the whole team can come back. They all seemed to have a rough time except Shawn Johnson.

So I'm about to be off to bed, I've caught up from Thursday to today, so I think I'm done with my blog for now. I'll have to not slack off and update it on a regular basis.....

Yet More Catching Up

So Saturday found me at work, exhausted, and everyone else in bed. Nothing really eventful happened at work except my scary run in with determined clients.

Cliff Notes Version:
So we close at 12 on Saturday. A client called at 28 till and wanted to know if a friend could pick up his dogs. I told him not a problem just be there before 12 because we close AT 12. He wanted to know about picking up on Sunday, I told him not possible either by 12 today, or wait till Monday. He asked about his friend picking up at 12:15, told him no one will be there, we close at 12. 11:45 came and we closed out, and at 11:58 everyone except me and one other girl were gone. 12:00 came and I locked the door and went upstairs to do back up. I had to reboot the server so it took at 15 min to get everything done. I walked back down stairs, looked out a window and then out the front door and saw a car but no person. I looked back out the previously empty window and there was someone looking back at me. Scared me to death. I went into an exam room because I didn't know the guy that was looking in the back door's window and standing between me and my car.

I called my manager and she said just wait about 5 or 10 min and they should leave. So I wait, and ANOTHER car pulls up. It was the owner. They start messing with the number punch lock on the back door and make me really nervous, so I'm now in the office very nervous. They knock on all the doors and tap on all the windows, call 3 or 4 times, and are there about 20 min trying to get into the building after they were told that no one would be there. After about 4 calls to my manager, they leave and I walk out and get into my car. So freaked out I forget to clock out.

I get home, and then we go to the beach and have a cook out. I came home early and watched the Olympics.

Sunday we spent on the couch because it rained. We just watched the Olympics and chilled.

Still Catching Up...

After my espresso induced coma, I slept in most of the day then did my little bit of house work and started dinner. We had the mayor and K-roo over for dinner.

We had pot roast, veggies, salad, broccoli rice and biscuits. It was SOO good. THEN to top it all off the mayor brought over Strawberry topped Cheese Cake.

After dinner Cam ran off to Bill's house warming party and I dropped the puppy off at Auntie Kay's for a play date with Cozy. Then K-Roo and I headed off to the mall to catch a movie and get Das Boot for Cam. We went to see "Step Brothers" (shh don't tell Cam) it was SOO FUNNY!! We got home about midnight and I crashed. It was a fun, but chill day.

Catching Up....

So to update you on the puppy. The owner went home and gave it a laxative (VERY bad idea) and it passed a rag...or at least that's what she said at first. She took the puppy to another clinic and didn't mention anything about the whole situation. However, the other clinic got a phone call and filled in on the poor puppy's situation.....she declined EVERYTHING except vaccines. And told the other clinic that the puppy passed a bra (hope it had no under wire...).

We got a report from the other clinic, I was so riled up I just wanted to call Animal Control on her, and all the girls that I work with were like " You have to get to a point where you don't care anymore than the owner" I don't think that will ever happen with me.

So ANY way, after work on Thursday Dr. M and the girls took me out for my going away dinner and it was great!! We went to Bravo's and OMG the food was YUMMY!! I was STARVING so we ordered appetizers and ate them all before Dr. M even got there. So my manager had gotten me a card, but she doesn't work on Thursdays, so she had everyone sign the card at the table. I was wound up and goofy so I was passing the card around saying things like "SHHH don't let her know, it's a secret" then acting all surprised when I opened the card.

My manager got me the CUTEST little lunch bag. She filled it with candy and snacks, and on the card wrote "May you never have another Snack Attack" because I'm ALWAYS eating at work. So anyway Dr. M finally got there, and I handed him the card and told him to keep it a secret because we didn't want me to know about the card. He laughed and signed the card, handed it back, and I acted super surprised when I got the card back. Everyone was laughing at me, but I rarely get to show my true colors at work and be stupid goofy.

So we had dinner and then dessert (I had vanilla gelato in a champagne glass with a shot of espresso over it YUM-O) and we all parted ways. I got home around 9ish and told Cam hi and we talked shortly. But the neighbor were having a cook out so we chilled with them and I was talking 90miles an hour because of the espresso. So I told my long drawn out version of the Great Dane Puppy Story all details and phone conversation include in about 10 min. I chatted the mayor's ear off until about 12.

And went to bed, and Cam didn't even know I had crawled in bed because about the time I got straight, I crashed and passed out.

Summed up in 3 words...

So today can be broken down into three sections: Work, Dinner, Night.

Work: A little exciting. We dubbed today "Stupid Tuesday with Vengeance." Every Tuesday it seems we get stupid phone calls, silly appointments and it's just a stupid day over all. We usually get stupid questions all week, but it seems we get the most stupidity on Tuesday. It's usually things like "My [insert pet] might have gotten into poison, ate a one pound Hersey kiss, has been puking/had diarrhea [insert ANYTHING else an animal can eat and isn't supposed to] on Thursday,Friday, or anything before Monday. Should I bring him in?" It makes good fun when we all need something to laugh about, granted it's nothing major that was eaten.

Today, we had a few one puppy ate wire Saturday or Sunday, went to an emergency clinic and was supposed to be to us Monday, she comes in and doesn't want surgery. I'll update you on the puppy's status tomorrow, but when I clocked out, she was supposed to take him to another clinic for MORE diagnostics, MORE radiographs and surgery. Then someone came in knowing she didn't have money to pay for the visit, and still made the appointment, and we had to jump through hoops to get her seen, and the flea problem with her pets taken care of.

Add this to coworker drama, and four lines ringing off the hook....it was chaotically funny today. I clocked out at 6:40, we close at 6 and BOTH doctors were running late. That kinda sums up most of my day at work.

Dinner: VERY yummy. We went over to the mayor's house, and we all cooked. Cam and the mayor grilled steak, K-Roo and I did veggies and Lei came over to eat. Lei was telling us about her puppy's training, and we're taking bets on how long it will be before T-Willie breaks the clicker she has.

Night: this is it. I came home, my back killing me, Cam took a shower, I played with iGoogle home page, and then took a shower. Realized I hadn't updated my blog today, and now that I have, I'm off to bed. G'night to all.

Seamus and my foot...

So the most amusing thing that happened today was that one of the Doc's puppy peed on my foot! Kinda my fault, she had just let him out of the kennel and he jump up, and peed on my foot. It was gross.

Anyway other than that some girl demanded to be checked in and was VERY rude about it. I came home, got the puppy, helped the Mayor change the oil in his truck...I looked like an Oompa Loompa!!....then Cam made dinner and we're chillin now...

We did make plans to go to Busch Gardens as a Compound outing weekend after next and Cam and I are going to DC the last weekend I'm here.

I really don't want to go back to Florida, but I need to finish school, I'm almost willing on putting money that I'll be back at least twice a month...

Monday Monday, Again...

So yesterday, we went to the beach and took the puppy. Bill came, and the puppy puked, so I brought her home and Cam stayed and got a tan. So she wasn't doing so hot all weekend.

Anyway, we went over to Lei and T-Willie's and cooked out, then came home and crashed. The rest of the night was uneventful.

Work was kinda boring, I slept in and then went to work. After a mini bunny crisis, I came home, went to the pet store and went to the mayor's house to chill at the table.

Cam and I ordered pizza, and went to bed.

A Night Out

So today was just chill. Cam helped Bill move, and I stayed in my PJs and tried to figure out where I'm going to work when I go back to school.

Tonight, I took the puppy to Auntie Kay's and they flipped out playing. Laney and I went to see "Mamma Mia" it was great!! I LOVE Abba and I couldn't have loved the movie more!!! We came home and got the puppy and Auntie Kay said that they played non-stop all night!!

Cam is at a poker game tonight, I hope he does well and has a good time. I'm throwing in the towel and going to bed. The puppy is passed out and I think I'm going to join her. Tomorrow I'm going to hatch out a real budget and maybe I'll be able to stick to it rather than just be able to pay my bills, and get some gas and maybe go out one night.

A Day Out

Yesterday was my house cleaning day. I got very little done, and then GW came and we went out for lunch. We went to the Mongolian Grill. It was YUMMY!!! But she wouldn't let me get the check. I owe her like 3 lunches now....

So after lunch we went out and saw "The Mummy", well the new one. Brendan Frazier is so yummy! After that she brought me home. But it was a good afternoon out.

Cam and I went to dinner at the Lynnhaven Fish House. It was so good! We had good food, good conversation. I really feel like he gets that I'm worried about when I go to school. We came home and I got the puppy from Auntie Kay, adn we went to bed. Cam was even cuddley last night!

I was nice and sleeping, and then the guy downstairs got in ANOTHER fight with his girlfriend and he was yelling and screaming at her I guess on the phone. I couldn't sleep because of his yelling. The two of them just need to break up, so I can sleep.

But anyway Cam is helping Bill move so THANK GOD no more pain in the butt when we go over to Lei and T-Willie's we can boot Bill's butt to the curb!!

New Blog?

So I'm thinking about starting a new blog for school. One just about the trails and tribulations of my journy back to school and through grad school. Good idea or no?

Also, I'm drawing a blank on what the name should be. Everything I've thought of is taken.

Excitment

So today at work was interesting. Doc let me watch surgeries, and I learned about tail amputations on iguanas. But other than watching the surgeries, the day was really boring. I hid in the back, and went through clients seeing who's still active, and who's not. I'm to client account number 1150 I think, and at that number, I called my manager, and came home at 3.

I chilled, took a short nap, and then thought about where I'm going to live. I think I'm going to live with my dad. We'll see how that works out. It's just the best thing to do, I can work and save money and have my pets, and not worry about rent.

Cam got home about 4, and took a nap. It's one of the few times I've seen him in uniform and I forget how good he looks in uniform.....Anyway, after his nap, we went for coffee and had really good conversations. I think he knows how important he is to me, and how important it is for us to talk more. But everything's all good.

So we came home, talking all the way home, and then I took the puppy to Auntie Kay's and she and I talked while the puppies played for about an hour. I came home, Cam made dinner, and now we're watching the X Games.

Danny Way took such a HUGE slam on the ramp it was insane!! and then he came back! And Burnquist has had some INSANELY huge tricks and runs. I'm so stoked that Cam likes stuff like this. I just wish Bucky Lasek wasn't out....

Catching Up

So since my last post, not much has happened.

Work was kinda slow and boring the past two days.

Home, Cam and I haven't really spent much time together the past two days. Yesterday Daddy-O got back from his 6 week deployment on the ship, so we were chilling with him. Then I went and talked with Auntie Kay and took the puppy to play. We did fast food for dinner and went to bed. Very uneventful.

Today, work was VERY slow. One doctor all day...I just got home, and I'm thinking about going to the gym, probabally won't though, I used to be so good about going, and now I'm horrible.

Hmm....hopefully tomorrow will be more to write about.

Monday, Monday

So today was interesting...
Not in the sense that a lot happened, mostly it was damage control for me, but interesting in the way things unfolded.

I work at a vet, and I go in late on Mondays, so I slept in (till 9) and then I lolly gagged until I had to be there at 1. I always get to work a little early especially on pay day so I can go deposit my check.

I get in to find out we have three emergencies that have come in the last hour and a full appointment schedule for the afternoon. Needless to say work was fast paced and hectic. We didn't end up closing until 6:15, when we're supposed to close at 6, and I didn't leave until 6:30ish.

I come home and everyone on the compound has heard the tale from last night, so I had to give details, and funnily enough, Jamier backed me up, and so did everyone else. Then I took the puppy to Auntie Kay and Sienna and Cozy played, then we went over to the Mayor's to run in the back yard.

I saw that Lei was over, so K-Roo, Laney and I went to raid Lei's fridge for food from last night. I asked Cam if he wanted anything and of course he did. We took the puppies and when they got home Cozy passed out in front of the door, and Sienna could barely hold her little eyes open. She reminds me of a toddler that doesn't want to take a nap and fights sleep so hard.

I came home, and Cam had cooked dinner, took a shower, and shortly after Laney helped me get the puppy in, Cam gave me a kiss and hit the sack. Poor baby has to get up at the crack of dawn.

So it was minimal damage control and more letting everyone know what went down last night.

Dinner and an Arguement

Last night we went over to T-Willie's and Lei's for dinner. Bill and his girl were cooking, so I made some cheese cakes and we headed over. D-bone was playing Monopoly with R, he wanted to go check his email and myspace so I took over, then D-bone coped out and I finished the game with R.

Dinner was very good. We had chicken parm, balls that Lei made, Pasta salad that Mommacita made, another pasta that I think Bill's girl made and bread. It was all really good. I busted out the cheese cake, Lei broke out the espresso and all hell broke loose.

Bill has a tendency to be a jack a* when people are over that he's trying to impress. And he was in rare form last night. His girl and a friend were over and he was diggin his hooks into me. He was talking s* and I had had enough so he mouthed off to me and I told him to shut the f* up. He didn't, and kept mouthing off.... we were trying to play Battle of the Sexes. Last time we played Bill was at work and we all had a blast! But Bill and his mouth were there this time, and so we got into it. He disrespected me, and told me I didn't matter because I'm leaving, I told him he didn't matter he's moving out....it went back and forth. Then Cam tried to defuse the situation, and just pissed me off more so I went home. I got my stuff and left. Lei walked me out, and we walked down to my house, and back I knew she was trying to talk me down, and get me back to play the game.

I asked her to let Cam know that he could call the house and I'd come get it because it looked like it was going to rain. And also to grab my phone if he would. He walked home, I guess around 10.

I told Mommacita and the kids I was sorry for my language, and she totally backed me up. Bill pushed and pushed and I had had enough, so I pushed back and he didn't like it.

Ah well he's moving out soon, and we can vote to boot him off the compound, no one can really stand him anyway. Maybe my last month can be spent enjoying my friends.

Poker

Cam went to play poker last night. Out of fourteen guys, he won!! Just about every time there's a good fight on, one of our friends has a poker night, orders the fight and we call go and have a good evening out.

So last night was the Margarito v. Cotto fight. Cam had his money on Margarito, and his friend had money on Cotto. I don't play poker, so I watched the under card fights, and there were some good fights. Holland and a Angie were betting on under cards blindly. It was kinda funny, they wouldn't know anything about the fighters, and still put money on it. Anyway, I ended up taking Angie home, she had to work at 4am and we had her car, so I came and got mine. It was a nice break from one of the other players that just gets under my skin sometimes.

So anyway, I get back to realize that the guys have stopped playing cards to watch the fight and I only got to see the last 5 rounds. Cam realized that I might not watch boxing all the time, but I do remember the fighters. Cam won the winner of the fight, and his friend won the round that is ended in.

Cam had a really good night last night. He put down about $30 for the poker game, $2 for the Bad Beat Jackpot, $5 to pick rounds and won $10 from the fight, and $230 from the game.

We got home around 3, and I passed out as soon as I hit the bed, mainly because I had been up since about 7am because of work. All in all, it was a good day.

Dinner

Cam and I went to dinner last night. We were a little unsure where we were going to go though. Then Cam thought the Mayor and his lady friend would like to go with us, but they were going for Asian food, and Cam wanted seafood. So we went to Alexander's on the Bay. It was nice, the food was ok, but the fact that Cam and I were out together, just the two of us actually spending time together was VERY nice.

After dinner, we came home, I got the puppy from Auntie Kay, and laid down. I put on my pjs, and Cam went to chill at the table for a while.

So after everything was said and done, I decided that I like to get dressed up and go out, and Cam and I are going to have to do it more.

Puppy Grunts

Our puppy has started talking to us.....She's decided that rather than just being a cute fuzzy pillow, she wants to talk. It's SUPER cute...Cam picked her up and told me that she's grunting more, and as if to respond....she grunted.

Its the little things in life that we have to pause and smile at.

Day to Day

Yesterday was kinda boring....
With the exception of a stupid phone call at work...all I really did was set up a slide show for the lobby, and start one for the website. Dr. M asked me to keep up the site while I'm in school, so the more I have uploaded before I leave, the easeier it's going to be.

I was supposed to go to the gym last night with Lanaa, but I didn't get off work until late. Cam made dinner, and asked me out tonight. It was really cute.

Since I've moved in, we haven't had too many "dates" it's just been the day to day life together. I love him, but we need to spend more time together, just us......

I think now that I'm about to leave to go to school and I'll be about 14 hours away, we're going to start doing more together so we can rekindle our relationship.....here's hoping!

Storm

The old adage "a storm is brewing" literally came to fruition today.

My frustration, nothing to do and the weather all culminated in a really bad storm today. I almost slapped a new co-worker because of the way she reacted to a simple suggestion. I spent all day (9 hours) working on a slide show I'm showing my boss tomorrow. AND it stormed for the whole afternoon, and isn't supposed to stop until 6am. The storm blew the majority of the limbs out of a tree and on to my neighbor's house, my boyfriend had to walk her dog because she couldn't even open her door to get out.

It looks like a night of pjs and easy dinner time.

A Place to Live

So, I'm going back to school in a matter of weeks now....and I still don't know where I'm going to live. It seems that everytime I try to weigh my options I find a new pro and con to each of them.

I can live with my dad, 10 miles away from school. Three adults, my step brother and 2 dogs. I would always need to have keys on me when one of my step brothers comes over, because we lock ALL of the doors. I would have my little brother's old room because he now has mine, and be sharing a bathroom with a 15 year old who doesn't act his age AT ALL. But, I would be able to have my puppy and my cat with me.

OR

I could live with my grandparents. Who live 4 miles away from school. I would have my own room, my own bathroom, wouldn't have to carry a ton of keys and be closer to everything. But, I would not be able to have my pets with me.

If I don't have my boyfriend to cuddle with in bed, I at least want my puppy. But, I don't think I will be able to live with my dad again, High school was hard enough.

I've talked with a friend who's more like a sister about getting somewhere together. She's going to school and wants out of a bad situation. My godson and sister would be moving in with me, which is super exciting. The only catch is if we can agree on somewhere that has space for all of us, plus my pets, and can afford it.

Oh, and I still have to figure out where I'm going to work. I don't think I'll be able to go back to the club that I used to work at. Seems that they have enought people.