Rewind and Freeze

I think we should just give up on being grown ups and move to Narnia. Or perhaps find a time machine and go back to freshmen year and relive the best four years ever.

But since those options are pretty unrealistic, I suppose I'll go back to work on Monday with a smile for my kiddos. And spend as much time with Michael next week as possible. He leaves next Sunday for the Police Academy.

(two days later)

He leaves...if he can get over this flu. I'm kind of getting worried about him. He's had a pretty high fever, and hasn't held any food down for three days. Today, he can't even keep his medicine in. And of course, he doesn't want to be taken care of...but he can't get out of bed. Boys.

What To Do With Life

I realized today that I will take my final midterm tomorrow. This is quite possibly the last midterm I will ever take in my life, unless by some crazy turn of events I decide to go to grad school. The fact that graduation is looming over my head really hit home once I realized midterms were almost over.

Don't get me wrong, I am more than thrilled to graduate. Being done with school is a major accomplishment as well as a relief. It's just that I don't know what I am going to do post graduation. In the short term I plan to continue to work at TRU while I look for a "big girl" job, but I don't know what my long terms plans are. I am starting to freak out that I don't even know what kind of job I want to have. I have been told that I should act my age and take whatever job that sounds interesting to me. Apparently I have my whole life to figure things out and I should just do what I want to do at this point in my life. While I agree with that, it's hard to accept that I spent all this time in school just to get a job that has nothing to do with my degree. I don't want to feel like I have wasted time and money by going to college. At the same time neither do I want to take a job I hate just because it requires a degree.

Although I would love to write full time one day, that is a dream that is far off if not impossible. So for now I will need a job that pays the bills, but still gives me time to write on the side. Hopefully that can be a reality. Many people let their dreams fall by the wayside because of real life and I dread the idea of that happening to me.

If anyone out there on the internet knows what job I should apply for, please help. I am getting desperately scared that I won't know what to do in the near future.

Cough, Sneeze, Sniffle

I definitely miss living with Ashley. She was the best roommate ever! Especially when I was sick....which I am. All the time. Or that's what it feels like anyways. Matthew (Michael's brother) is home with strep, Michael is home with the flu, and I have something between an upper respiratory infection and the flu. Needless to say, we had a pretty lazy weekend. He bought me flowers (DAISIES) :) in my favorite colors, and three new beads for my pandora bracelet. And we went to dinner :) it was a very happy Valentines Day!

My Bad/ No Fun without Chrissy

Let's just get down to it, I suck. Yep, I promised a post every Tuesday and I fail on the third week. But I am only posting one day late... that's forgivable, right? I hope so.

Now down to business.

My life without Chrissy in it has been extremely awful recently. She always made sure life was fun and I have been missing that recently. Now, I will admit that this only partially has to do with a lack of Chrissy, the other part is that I just don't have any time for "fun." I am either working, in school, or both every single day of the week. With homework, taking care of the pets, and keeping the house together there is just no free time.

I would give almost anything to just have a day to hang out with people, especially Chrissy. On some level I just wish we still lived together. At least when we were living together we saw each other every day. Even if we were incredibly busy we had time to rant or rave about how our days went. Now we don't even text every day... that just blows.

Such is life, I guess.

Where Did These Animals Come From?

I was looking around my house the other day and realized I have a lot of pets. When did this happen? How did I end up with 4 animals in my house?

So here is a photo timeline of all my pets.

Clancy was the first to arrive in 2007 (maybe 2008)

She was an only pet for a number of years. Then there was Rosey.

This was the first day we saw her. She took to Alex right away.

Being the first pet that didn't live in a cage, Rosey was more than spoiled...

As she got bigger, Rosey became lonely all by herself. (She doesn't play with Clancy.)

Then one day Rosey found a friend.

But since Rosey tried to eat her friend Mr. Turtle, he didn't stay around for long. Once we knew he was alive and well Alex and I sent him back into the wild. (far away from Rosey's backyard)

After Mr. Turtle left Rosey missed having a friend and tried to replace him with other items.

The yarn just wasn't the same though.

Then one day another animal found us.

At first we tried to send Nigel away, but he just kept coming back to us... Alex says its because I gave him tuna whenever I saw him, but I'm not so sure.

With Nigel being a cat and Rosey being a dog, they didn't become friends right off the bat. So we decided to give in and get another dog for Rosey to play with.

Rosey was thrilled the day we brought Eddie home! Eddie was a little more skeptical though. I mean Rosey has a tail, what was he supposed to think of her?

Fear not, Eddie quickly warmed up to his big sister.

Rosey taught Eddie everything she knew about life.

She even taught him how to ride in the car.

Eddie's smart though. Some things he learned all on his own.

Now everyone is one big happy family.

That is as long as Clancy stays in her cage, and Eddie stays away from the cat...