Wow! its been a whole month since i last updated!! well...its the end of 2005...so much stuff has happened this year! it has been a challenging, overwhelming, a reality check, exciting and a stinkin blast! i have grown so much this year!! i'm going to try to give a quick recap of this year...for anyone who cares! if u don't than just don't read it! :)

I ended my freshman year of college with great new friends and lots of memories! i had learned a lot about myself and being on my own. My friend Julie got married!! that was just weird!! but it was a beautiful wedding and i was very excited for her! :) being back for the summer was great! it was probably one of the best summers of my life!! Timbrel and I were such "rebels" (at least we liked to think we were! haha ) Timbrel, Danny, Adrian and I went to the beach. we had a great hotel right near the beach! haha "Go fish!" and dominos! good times! remember when we had a candlelight dinner?? and adrian made the candlesticks and we 'tried' to make mac and cheese?? aww walkin on the boardwalk and adrian nick naming me "Officer McDaniel" haha oh man! wow...all the "rebel" things we did that weekend! right Timbrel!? Then there were all those late nights at Shanes house! all we did was watch movies!! but it was a stinking blast! remember the time that you boys tried to set off fire works and you started a fire??!! HAHA that was sooo funny!! Then there was Six Flags!! we got to ride there in the Mustang!!!! :) which was stinkin amazing!! some really good times there....like the wave pool! and me and timbrel complaining to shane and danny every second cuz we were sooo tired! and how could we all forget...Shane and his favorite ride...the ship!!! man..that ride was scary! ;) and then the great game we all played on the way home :)

Having my first real off roading experience with Shane and his jeep! haha that was pretty amazing! and all the random trips we took...like walking along the road at night trying to find big rocks to climb on! good idea shane! :) And of course the anual trip to the beach with my family! i look forward to that every year! we all love the beach and i love being tan so it works out! and we get to camp! and oh those great times around the camp fire..."i hope your weiner falls off!" hahaha good times! i love my family! :) And the last big adventure of the summer was the suprise trip to Delaware to eat at an Indian restaurant that we didn't end up eating at! but thats the fun things about road trips!! it was a great time! and a stinkin amazing summer! :)

Then i got to head back to good ole Canton Ohio!! i stinkin love Malone!! i got to room with the greatest roomie ever!! i love you Carley Anne!! so many good times we've had so far!! always reading each others mind and quoting lines from Liar Liar and Twister!! haha it was a blast makin t-shirts to support our boys at the football games!! even though...we didn't always win! and always talking to each other forever in our beds before we actually go to sleep! i could go on and on about you roomie!! like....how you are stinkin ENGAGED!! that is really exciting and i'm even more excited to help you plan your wedding!! i have made so many new friends this year! like Cindy and Madeline...i love you girls! and gotten closer to others...like Sam and Lauren and Thane and all my football players :) i love you guys! and how could i stinkin forget the Cold/Altered Concert!!!! man...that was funny!! a concert i will never forget! aside from all the fun things this semester...it has been very challenging as well. the nursing classes were killer..but i learned TONS of stuff! and i got to do my first clinical experience and dress like a nurse and get lots of experience! some things i could have done without...like giving a bed bath...but it was still good! :)

wow...this year has been great. i have learned a lot about myself and life in general. i've learned that you can't live in the past. you always have to move forward...even if it hurts. we will always have those memories that we made with family and friends. and even though we don't want it to or even plan for it to happen...our lives change. people make mistakes. i know and admit that i have made mistakes this year. but who hasn't? its part of life. part of being human. we live and learn and move on. i've realized that things aren't always gonna turn out the way we hope and plan they will...but God knows what he's doing. i have grown a lot stronger through experiences i went through this year and i'm thankful for it. and although i may have lost some amazing friends this year i have gained some pretty amazing ones too. i cherish every memory that i made with those friends and i will never forget the great times we had or the impact you have made in my life. i still love you and i always will. and i wish things could be different but i can't change the past. all i can do is be thankful for the amazing year that i have and realize how blessed i am! my family is amazing and Danny and Carley Anne....i don't know what i would do without you guys!! you have given me so much strength...i love you guys! :) Carley Anne...my amazing roomie...to tears, laughs, late night conversations, quoting, our pop addiction, changes in life and to many good times to come...forever! Danny...to all the late night conversations, tears, laughs, watching movies, songs...Wonderwall :) , all of my drama, hard times and all the amazing times to come!!

*i hope you all have had an amazing year and i hope this coming year will be even better!! i love you all so very much! God bless :)

*Timbrel...i will always love you no matter what. we have had amazing times together as best friends and i will never forget them. i'm sorry for things that have happened and i hope someday things will be different. just know that i love you and miss you. God Bless.

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Well its been awhile since i posted!! Lots of crazy stuff has happened. my friend Sam was at cheerleading practice and someone fell on her and she got hurt pretty bad. it was the day before Thanksgiving break so it was really hard for all of us. she was in the hospital for awhile but i think she is doing better now but i'm not sure when she's gonna be back in school....so if you think about her, just keep her in your prayers. Me, Carley, Heather, Madeline and her sister went to the COLD/ALTERED CONCERT!!!!  it was sooo much fun! (Sam and Lauren...WE MISSED YOU!) it was in Cleavland...the ghetto of Cleavland! haha we were sooo out of place! everyone kept looking at us like "what the heck are u doing here?" we wore black t-shirts so we wouldn't stand out as much...but somehow they still knew!!  we were sooo pumped to watch Altered cuz Brad the leader singer goes to Malone and josh is sam's boyfriend and mike is just an amazing guitarist!! so we were jumpin up and down and screamin and lookin like idiot! but we had fun and we supported the band! Cold finally came on.....they were a lot different in concert then i thought they'd be. it was just really different...but we made it fun! i think everyone was suprised when we actually knew their songs! haha  but we had a good time!!

Anyway! Thanksgiving break was a good time....it was really nice to be home with my family. it just wasn't a long enough break though....i am so ready for Christmas break when i don't have to worry about anything!! nothing really exciting happened over break...ate lots of amazing food at my aunts house (got a very exciting phone call from my roomie!! ), watched Saw 2 with Danny and almost cried!!! it was good...but really graphic! watched more movies, procrastinated on study for my micro test...which i will regret on wed , decorated our Christmas tree with my family!! tried to hang out with some people but life is just busy i guess, saw Johnny and his awesome girlfriend!!! OHH!!!! AND I GOT TO SEE COURTNEY WHO I HAVEN'T SEEN IN 3 YEARS!!!  it was sooooooo much fun!! okay so i guess there were lots of good things over break! but i'm ready to just relax.

SO....about that phone call from my roomie on Thanksgiving day......SHE'S ENGAGED!!!!!!!!  i am soooooo excited for her and jeffery!! he is the sweetest guy in the world! she was totally suprised!! i knew it was comin....i had inside information haha! i hated that i had to wait till last night to see the ring! ITS BEAUTIFUL!!  last night we had a ring down! haha usually us Fox 2 girls protest them...but we decided to make an exception! (for those of you who don't know what a 'ring down' is...the dorm that the girl is engaged on runs thru all the dorms screaming "ring down!" at midnight and everyone meets in our lounge and we pass a candle around with the ring attached singing "goin to the chapel" and then the girl who is engaged blows it out.....cheezy i know....haha its a girl thing!) anyway!!! so carley anne was sooo excited to tell her story to everyone and then afterward we threw her in the shower with her clothes on for her "bridal shower" ha ha ha...yeah more cheezy stuff! she loved it!! i'm so glad i'm her roomie!!!!!  so i'm sure she's never going to want to do anything except stare at her ring all the time! they are having like a two year engagment and i get to help plan the wedding!! i can't wait!!

well....thats pretty much it! its going to be an EXTREAMLY busy 3 weeks.....not looking forward to it at all!!  but its what i gotta do....so everyone else who has tons of work to do (like having to do 500 drawings....you know who you are!)....don't procrastinate and hang in there!!!! Christmas break is almost here!!!!!!!!

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K...this is gonna be real short! life's been crazy with school work. study study study. that's all i do. with the occasional movie watching with my girls! :) i love you guys! i can not WAIT unitl Thanksgiving break!! i miss my family and i'm ready for some amazing home cooked food!!! also....i can't believe that i'm doing this...but i'm sacrificing AIM for a whole week!!! cuz its a huge distraction and i really need to do good on my theory test the monday before break! but...i'll be on right before i go to bed each night and to check my e-mail! so i hope this works! well...this is probably my shortest post ever!!! Goodnight!!

P.s. GOING TO THE COLD/ALTERED CONCERT ON NOVEMBER 22 AND I'M FREAKIN EXCITED!!! ITS GONNA ROCK OUR FACES OFF GIRLS!!!  what a GREAT way to start Thanksgiving break!!!!

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Sooo........today was pretty exciting!! Even though i had to get up at 5:45 this morning and only got 5 hours of sleep...i'm doing great! Today was my first day at the nursing home! i got all dressed up in my nursing uniform....the pants are a little too big and the shirt sort of drowns me..but it works! and we even got name tags that say, "Ashley McDaniel Nursing Student Malone College" it's sweet!  So we were all a little nervous...we stuck out like a sore thumb! we were all in white..walking around looking all confused/nervous/excited...it was funny! so we took a tour of the nursing home and this one old lady in a wheelchair was so excited to see us...she thought it was so great that we were there. we all looked at each other and were like "we want her for our patient!" cuz we were all afraid of getting someone that was mean haha. and then we went back to our little room and my professor told us who are patients were and we went and got their charts. we got to read all about our patients and what their condition was and all kinds of information! it was harding charting the information on to our paper though cuz we had to put it in all these different places....yeah for Betty Neuman Nursing Tool!!

but anyway!!! then we actually got to go meet our patients!! except.....mine was sleeping and i wasn't allowed to wake her.  ash's patient is in the same room as mine and she was sleeping too. and Kelsey's patient was MIA so we tried to go find her...but no luck there! so we came back and ashlee's was still sleeping and mine was in the bathroom! so we went to the physical therapy unit....that was interesting! some old people are bitter!! thats why i can't wait to work with little babies!! but anyway!! finally right before we had to leave....i got to introduce myself to my patient. she is a very cute lady! her name is Mary but she goes by Mae. and she is so friendly! so i am excited to work with her...even though next week we are doing vital signs.....and bathing...so that should be interesting! but hey...i picked this major!  it's a great learning experience!

so...that was my first day as an official nursing student!   now...if i can just make it through all the hard classes....

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Wow...it felt so good to be home!! i didn't realize how much i missed my family!!  Thursday was the long drive home but it was so worth it when i pulled into my driveway! Danny suprised me by walking to my house....he's so crazy! and it was great getting home cooked meals all weekend!! even though my family thinks that i'm wasting away to nothing here at Malone college...i told them if i am..its b/c all they serve us here is tofu and vegetarian food! haha I got to watch Smallville and Everwood with the fam and Danny and then we went to COLDSTONE!!  good times. Friday i went to the mall with Danny to try to buy him winter clothes so he won't freeze all winter in Philly....but of course he couldn't find anything to buy!! haha girls are sooo much easier to shop for!  Then it was my sisters b-day party. gotta love those huge family get togethers! haha it's always a good time. oh yeah...i got to show off all the cool things i've been learning in nursing! i tried on my uniform and tried out my stethescope on everyone...yeah i know...i'm a dork!!  it was fun. Then saturday i got to go out to eat with Tom who i haven't seen in a million years cuz he's been workin hard as a Marine! it was a lot of fun and it was sooo good to see him again! Then i just chilled for the rest of the day and TRIED to study for my micro test...i just hate studying soooo much!! i'd rather study art history!! haha  shane...i'm really sorry that we didn't get to hang out...i REALLY wanted to see you and hang out with you!!! i miss you!! and i really want to see your tattoo! Definitely for Thanksgiving we will get together!

well that was pretty much my weekend...combined with lots of laughs and watching movies...my two favorite things in the world!! and even though i almost fell asleep like 50 times on the way home...i made it back safely!! and now....the loooooong week of yucky school begins...somebody save me!!