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Name: Kaeli
Country: United States
Gender: Female
Interests: Watching movies with my friends & keeping in touch with buddies in FL, NY, HI, SC, NJ & CA. writing short stories/poetry...reading...going 2 the beach...playing SIMS & doing RPs & my amazing boyfriend Josh! <3 :D
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3/9/2004
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| Been a LONG time, huh?
I thought it might be a nice time for an update, so here it is:
Josh and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary this week. He is SO sweet - He drove all the way up to my house (about an hour from school...) and came to the door with a bouquet of roses, only to find out that I wasn't home! It was the one day all week April & I had gone down to St. Pete! So my phone rings, and he's like "hey, guess where I am?" and I hear my mom laughing in the background cuz she was the only one home to find him at the front door...oopsie! I felt SO bad! But after laughing about our luck for a few mins, we came up with an idea to have dinner together - with Brent, Jill & April, too since we were all in St. Pete that day lol So we met at BJ's in Parkside for a crazy dinner & had lots of fun as usual & then I drove Brent home afterwards, which was an adventure in itself lol. I got a a beautiful bouquet of red roses that I cannot tear myself away from (I LOVE roses!!) & he gave me Evil Dead 1 & 2 - the 2nd one is the "book of the dead" edition so when you press a part on the front of it, it screams! haha SO much fun to bug april & mom with btw lol & I gave him the Evil Dead: Fistfull of Boomstick PS2 game! hehe & there's still 1 more present that just got here in the mail that i still need to give him this weekend - i can't wait to see his face when he opens it lmao. As my Dad told me, "you guys are...quirky." lol *takes a bow*
I think I'm finally done messing with my USFSP fall 08 schedule. finally. Here's what I ended up with:
Monday: Nothing (will be working somewhere on or near campus since i'll be living there for my last year!!)
Tuesday: 9:30am-10:45am = News Editing
Wednesday: Nothing (again, trying to find a job on/near campus that will help fill this gap...)
Thursday: 9:30am-10:45am = News Editing
AND 6pm - 8:50pm = Southern Politics (another fun one I need for my Journalism degree....)
Friday: 11am - 1:50pm = Communication Ethics
**I will also be taking 2 online classes - exit courses, yay!!
1st is Fantastic Archaeology = pretty much like "let's study cool stuff as seen in Indiana Jones movies!! yay!!
2nd is The Bible as Literature = I've been waiting to fit this class in for the last 3 years...too many comments...
I'm going to be living on campus with Lauren next fall/ spring!! :) April is going up to UF (GATOR GIRL!) so I'm gonna try dorming for my last year in college. I figure it's a chance to make up for all the stuff I missed by living at home so far...in short, I CAN"T WAIT! I'll have nobody telling me when to be home or what I should be doing, etc. (no offense to mom, dad, or april) but i think it's time! *does jumping jacks*
On a different note, everybody please keep Stawsk in your prayers. I'm not supposed to say why, but just do it. Thanks.
Mom is waiting ever so impatiently for her $ from the accident to get here but as usual, the lawyers are imbiciles who are messing things up for the umpteenth time. We may be able to go on a 5-Day cruise in either July or August depending on when the moolah arrives. We haven't been on a vacation in YEARS (the last trip, technically, was up to NY to visit my Grandma for a week when she was put into the new nursing home...so that's not really a vacation...) Before that was our trip to Disneyland, CA when i was about 11! IT's time! lol the 5-day cruise goes from Tampa to Grand Cayman & over to Cozumel! I wanna see Mayan Ruins!! that sounds SO cool! Idk why but recently, I'm getting into really cool lookin old stuff like that (IE i was mesmorized when we watched ANthony Bordain go to Macchu Picchu the other day on his show on the travel channel...) I've always been dabbling in anthropology & was thinking about majoring in that but then again jobs are VERY limited in that field....i don't see myself leaving my family behind one day to go out on a dig in the middle of nowhere...maybe as a hobby, but not a career choice lol. still...cool.
Anyway, as I start rambling again...sorry. there's a bubba gump shrimp opening soon in madeira beach!! i'm SO happy! we went to all of them in Hawaii at 1 pt or another. fun times. great, now i'm starving again...damnit. lol | | |
| | Spring Break is over...now what?! | Hey! It’s been a LONG time since I wrote anything on here...too long. I just found out class was cancelled so I will now take a few mins (to procrastinate - cuz i have LOADS of other stuff to wk on...) to blab about the last few wks... To make a LONG story short, the $ I was relying on for the study abroad trip to Ireland won’t be here till summertime, so I miss all the deadlines & won’t be going. To make up for it, I will FINALLY be dorming at the St. Pete campus next year! *does cartwheels* This shall be a new, fascinating experience (I hope) and I am very excited to get some space to play with rather than be trapped up at our little house on the prarie under mom’s thumb all the time. I can’t wait! So, that’s that. On the other hand, when I move out, so does April. I am already having some anxiety about her leaving, and if this is how I’m feeling, I can’t even begin to imagine how mom must be feeling. April’s been my room-mate for 18 years! I don’t want her to gooooooooooo!! Then again i can visit her or she can visit me, but still is gonna be WAY different next year w/o her around. I wish we could have gone away 2gether or to the same school at least. that would have been fun! i’ll get over it 1 of these days, but it will take a LONG time for me to adjust. I am FREAKING out over this feature obituary assignment we have to do for advanced reporting. We picked a name from the newspaper of someone who died in the Midtown area (where our class / "news bureau" thing is based) & now I gotta call the funeral director & get ahold of the family members of my person to try to convince them to talk to me about their loved one who died over a month ago. Then, as if that wasn’t nerve wracking enough, I have to meet the family & take a picture of a picture of the person . all by this thursday! omg! I’m worried mostly b/c I don’t deal well with death/dying & when I can’t deal with something, stupid jokes come pouring out. Like when my Grandma died 2 summers ago, April got pissed cuz I was joking about stuff - it’s just how I deal wtih something I can’t handle. later on of course it hits me. but the initial reaction is "make a joke, feel better, make ppl laugh. make us all feel better" eeeeeek. On a much happier note, Spring Break was GREAT! for the first time I can remember I actually did something during our week off. I went camping at Hontoon Island State Park (by Deland, FL) w/ Emily, CJ, Andrea, Izzy, & Mr. Hopper. It was really great to be out in the woods (*breaks into "evil dead the musical"* "were 5 college students on our way to an old abandoned cabin in the woods! ooh yeah!" ...sry. We got stuck in gridlock Orlando rush hour on the way over & literally almost missed the boat (since the island is only accessible by boat..being an island and all..) The awesome ranger lady held the boat for 1/2 hr & we got all our stuff unloaded b4 dark. We didn’t have time to stop for groceries on the way over b/c of the massive traffic, so we feasted on veggie soup & bananas the first night & ended up watching Love Actually on CJ’s laptop! Yay for camping lol The next day we got up early & drove to DeLeon Springs for breakfast in this awesome old fashioned mill restaurant where u make your own pancakes at ur table! Delish! We walked around the Springs- very pretty but it was a chilly day- & went on a tour of CJ’s old neighborhood (NICE house btw) & played in the playground back on the Island. We popped popcorn over the campfire & ate as many marshmellows we could handle - i stopped counting after awhile.. :P and went for a walk back to the dock late at night to see the stars. That was creeping me out cuz i remembered FL has bears, so I was NOT looking up at the woods or anythign that wasn’t directly in front of me on the path lol. I faced my irrational fear of alligators the last day of our trip when we went canoeing in the St. John’s River. That was amazing & it was soooooooo beautiful out there & most of the stuff we saw - the uprooted trees, all the birds, turtles, and eventually alligators, u couldn’t see the same way from land. I paddled with Emily & Izzy while CJ & Andrea went in the other canoe. As long as I was kept busy, I wouldn’t worry about stuff. Like alligators. I also left my glasses in my bag onshore so I wouldn’t be able to see what I didn’t want to see. I learned that the perfect combination of denial and rationalization is my friend. As long as my glasses were off, I couldn’t see alligators, which meant they weren’t there. As long as they stayed far from me, I was fine. Which is probably the only reason I didn’t panic when I spotted one WAY across on the other side of the river from us toward the middle of our 1 hour trip. On the way back, we were paddling & talking & that’s when CJ & Andrea said we should paddle towards them. I didn’t have to ask why. I just did. Fast. When we got back in the car on the way home, I asked Emily how close we were to the second alligator. She said about 4 feet! I didn’t even see it cuz it was hiding under a patch of plants but if I had, I probably would have flipped us over by accident. Phew! So Dad thinks I’m crazy for canoeing in FL. That was great & I’m glad I went. It’s weird how I was dreading what turned out to be 1 of the best parts of the trip, and when it finally came down to it, I figured, I can either sit here for 2 hrs & hear about how fun it was, or I can do it myself. the same feeling came over me when I went on Montu for the first time. kinda like "eh, screw it, i’m going." On a totally different subject - April is going to States w/ Company & they have a new rule that I reeeeeeeally don’t like. Last year, you’d see Stawsk, get a visitor’s pass & go watch all the performances. This year, only parents can. NO college students allowed. WTF?! The one year April is doing a DUET at STATES and I can’t watch?! *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* I should dress up - in dramatic theatre disguise/costume mind you - as her "grandmother" & go in a wheelchair or something. fuck them for locking out half their audience from last yr. honestly, its her last year in it, too. whatta load of shit. So, now I’m STILL working on all the homework I probably should have done over spring break. I never learn, do I? Hey, at least it’s teaching me to write well on deadline, a skill I will need when/if I’m an awesome journalist someday. OH. How I almost forgot this blows my mind, but Valentine’s Day was fun, too! Josh came over & I made him watch "Flight of the Living Dead!" (aka. ZOMBIES on a plane!) the most ridiculous movie of all time. After we finished laughing, we went out for pizza & ended up seeing Jumper (starring monotone-man, anakin skywalker) It was funny too cuz April & Matt saw the same movie at the same theater abotu an hour earlier than we did! teehee. Josh gave me "Rambo" - to complete my collection of movies that drive April nuts - & 1 of the DVDs from Fruits Basket that I wanted to see & this awesome Sweeney Todd shirt from hot topic. He also did a picture of us where we are Joker & Harley that was really cool, but I loved his artwork picture of us the best. (So talented!) He said it was supposed to be my Christmas present picture, but took too long - it’s really cool (what beautiful mixed children we are, right Josh? haha) I got him this really cool "red vs. blue" sweatshirt from hot topic & a "prince charming" photo frame w/ a pic of us in it. :) Well, enough procrastinating. For now anyway. Only a few weeks left & then summer! ...and then summer classes for me cuz I put them off until my last year. go me. I’m trying for summer A (may 12 - june 20) so i can get them over with. short & sweet. then 2 months of relaxation. ahh. can’t wait. I love how spring break JUST ended but i’m already counting down for summer :) |
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| Just felt like it today... | hey guys. long time no talk. longer time no see. hope ur all doing ok. *hugs* So, summer's over & school's back again. woot. I'm not entirely sad summer's over...it's been a very, domestic, summer. Didn't go anywhere else, but it wasn't all that dull either. Saw a LOT of movies (Pirates 3 - at midnight- Shrek 3, Spidey 3, Hairspray! & Harry Potter 5 - also at midnight.) I think there was another movie in there somewhere but i don't remember it now..oopsie. Went to Sorcha's for the final Harry Potter book festivities. That was AWESOME! I dressed up as Moaning Myrtle (complete with a real, live toilet seat around my neck) & April went as Professor Trelawney (we basically threw together every piece of jewelry we had between us on her & wrapped her in old pareos/sarongs from Hawaii.) Everybody who went was in costume as well, and we met up with Sarah P. who just happened to be there w/ her family. I won a HP poster in "Harry Potter Bingo" & eventually beat out a little Hermione who said "Windgardium Leviosa!" in the costume contest when some of the crowd started chanting "toilet seat! toilet seat!" I won the 3rd place spot in line & a gift card that disappeared shortly after when I bought the 2 bks. Then we all went back to Sorcha's & read till we fell asleep. Chloe beat us all - 7am! - I don't know how she does it. Dad was able to come down for a week or so. We went to Busch Gardens 2x, saw Harry Potter 5 at midnight w/ a BIG group of friends, and finished up his trip w/ a Yankees v. Devil Rays game @ Tropicana which was AMAZING. Close game too. We won 6-4 & all the Devil Rays fans got pissed haha My favorite part is that 1 section that would add "STINKS!" to whatever us Yankees fans chanted. "DEREK JETER!!! *clap clap clap clap clap* ..."STINKS!" lmao! SO funny. gotta love sore losers lol I went to the dentist QUITE a bit this summer. It's become my 2nd home. Turns out I've gotten more than a few cavities over the years. (we hadn't gone since we left Hawaii thanks to LOTS of other medical stuff...kinda got pushed back cuz nothing hurt me. which was good. phew.) but finally it could not be ignored. I had a grand total of 16 cavities! only 3 were really nasty & the others were all small. so far. so I've got 12 down, 4 more to go. Then they're gonna pull 2 teeth. but by Christmas this yr, i'll FINALLY be ready for braces! (now that we have half a chance of afording them..) i found clear ones w/ a tiny gold band so it will be MUCH more subtle than i originally thought. i'm SO close to a straight smile. FINALLY. but if anybody has advice on eating w/ braces & any foods to avoid, etc...PLEASE let me know! thanks! I've been feeling kinda shitty lately. Just overall. I think my mom's depression is wearing off on me! slightly. but i've been VERY moody lately for no reason. It's weird. then there's the random dizzy spells i keep having. sporadically. but still. like i'll randomly feel like the room is 100 degrees & turn up all the fans in teh house & the AC & then break out in a cold sweat, get REALLY lightheaded & nearly faint..and then i'm fine! its so bizarre. mom was so worried about me she took me to the Dr. & i got a bloodtest to see if there's something wrong w/ my thyroid - mom had similar symptoms - along w/ the feet-are-constantly-ice-cold-no-matter-what thing. i'd have on 2 pairs of socks & april'd go "OMG ur feet are ICE!" through them...so yeah. might as well check me out. & she doesn't want me driving till we get the results back. which only adds to my angst. Another strange thing: at the doctor's office, they checked my blood sugar & it was 69! (normal is 80-120) but they said it was ok cuz i had eaten 2 hrs before then...but still "lower than we'd like to see it. just eat something if you feel like that again.." & this happens a week after my Dad is told he has Type 2 Diabetes! - pretty weird shit is going on in our family this month. he's stunned a little but he'll be ok. & as for me, i just gotta eat if i feel crappy, i can do that! lol I hate constantly being put in the middle. it's my biggest pet peeve. and a recurring one thanks to mom. My dad said some really mean things to her. in an argument they had almost 2 YEARS AGO! GET THE FUCK OVER IT ALREADY! & so she hasn't talked to him since (except for 1 phone call when his mom died.) as a result, april & i were forced to become "the messengers" between them. & there's pretty damn talkative for 2 people who "aren't speaking to each other" aren't they? the worst part is dad is pretty much a kid our age trapped in an older body. he's like "yeah, we yelled, we screamed, it passed, right? so what's the big deal." but mom will NEVER EVER let ANYTHING Go. EVER. i think she gets a kick out of it sometimes. I am SO glad I didn't get that gene. i can't even do the silent treatment for more than 5-10 mins. it's WAY too much effort, and it just prolongs the time you're staying mad at someone - which i HATE! i don't understand how anyone could willingly pull that shit. it makes no sense. it makes things worse. and its irritating as hell. anyway, i'm in a crappy mood this morning. EARLY this morning. the first morning of school. mom drove april & i to school in a huff cuz we pissed her off last night (something really tiny blown WAY outta proportion, as usual.) so we got a 1.5 hr drive - by the time i got to school cuz she insists on taking Belcher. GRR. - of silent treatment, which was pretty nice to be perfectly honest lol. & as soon as i get to school, she parks & starts in for 20 mins "cuz the library isn't open yet..." so i hear the same thign i've heard time & time again . again! & deal w/ it but now i'm in a lousy mood & hopefully seeing Lauren & Josh later on today will change that. it usually does. *hugs u guys* SO, i will have a good day today. eventually. & i hope everybody else does too. |
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| what else is new?hi. WOW it's been a LONG time. LOTS of crap to update you on...and stuff to get off my chest as usual. Been rocketed through lots of emotions in the past few wks since i last wrote on here... *eric cartman impression* "I AM SO PISSED OFF YOU GUYS!!" I swear, someone up there must be laughing their ass off right about now. To start off with, its been a few years since I've been to the dentist (thanks to countless health related problems, money problems, and crazy schedules & other stuff we had no control over) & so I finally went last week - there is a HUGE cavity in 1 of my back teeth- it doesn't hurt, thank God, but it's there & i know thats NOT a good thing to have in my mouth...so i got an x-ray & to make a LONG story short, I'm going to have to get a root canal done on it. (poor mom keeps blaming herself for never taking us...its not her fault we had LOADS of medical bills, her car accident, my nausea problem back in high school, hospital visits, etc...) so anyway ya i gotta get a root canal done - NEVER had one, or anything like it, done before so i'm a bit nervous. - the good thing is i get to have "sedation dentistry" - basically i take a pill the night before & by the time i get to the appt. i'm totally out of it to the point where i'm happy & 'don't care' about what;'s going on in my mouth at the time - the Dr. said it makes "even the most terrified patients happy & most of them crack jokes during the procedure..." so i guess it won't be that bad...but still. eeeek. i'm not the biggest fan of the dentist but at least this "happy pill" makes the 3 hr procedure seem like 15 mins...so not all bad i guess The worst part of the whole thing is this: the soonest they can get me in for the root canal is the morning of me & josh's 4 yr anniversary...june 11th. so now i'm even more aggravated about that then scared about the damn thing lol i figure either i'll be in a lotta pain (even if it is at 8am) or maybe we can go out for applesauce or something...grrrrrrr stupid teeth!! its funny cuz i kinda saw this coming...i mean, what other date could be the only time they can fit me in?! lol Con4T luck at it's best... I am ECSTATIC. they are opening a special harry potter section of islands of adventure set to open in late 2009!! omg omg omg i can't wait!! they're even building a Hogwarts castle & shops from Hogsmeade & the Forbidden Forest & a whole bunch of shops from the books. Its cool too cuz by 2009 i'll be out of college *breaks out into a cold sweat* & out in the real world by then. maybe it can be a reunion type thign that we all meet up in harry potter land :P I am SAD. by then ending of Pirates 3. WHY was i gypped of my disney-esque "happily ever after" ending?! *don't wanna spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet..* but come on...what was that about?! lol i mean april & i came up with a few alternate endings...bleh. besides that i LOVED the movie, just was like eh about the ending of it all. & there better be more cuz they left enough open for a few sequels to come lol I am EXCITED. Dad might be coming either the 1st or 2nd wk of July! he wanted to plan his vacation around the new harry potter movie. either that or for 4th of july, still figuring it out. & April, Mom & I might be going to see "The Producers" on Sat, 6/16 :D if we can remember to call for tickets soon that is..*wacks head* I am CONFUSED. STILL trying to figure out what classes i'm doing in the fall. its making me NUTS! So far i have these as definitely taking: beginning reporting & research methods in mass communications. I'm really re-thinking taking intro to visual communications this semster b/c the class is M/W 330-445 & i work at 5. so i'm gonna have to piss off the scheduling dept again..and i think i should hold off & do that next semester when it will give them (and me) less to fight over - since i just made a BUNCH of changes last semster & fought REALLY hard to keep my wk schedule 5pm-11pm...so i might take somethign else instead...and my tues/thurs are all messy cuz i can't decide if i wanna take Narration & description or form & technique of fiction - if i took both, i wouldn't be able to eat lunch on tues/thus till 2pm & i'd have been there since 9! so NO way am i gonna do that! so its 1 or hte other & of course 1 overlaps w/ Classics of American Journalism - another 1 i wanted to take...so i gotta really sit down & think it out b4 i do something really dumb & mess up my whole semester by accident. grr. I am RELEIVED. we just had a HUGE brush fire here last week that was next door to our condo complex! i was working at the time & i could hear helicopters coming & going nearby for 2 hrs & on my break i went outside w/ mom & april to investigate. it was really scary cuz apparently 2 moron kids started it & flames were shooting up 30-40 ft in the air & they brough 42 fire trucks to put it out! & ppl were asking if we had to evacuate or not & it was not a very nice thing to be going through at the time. especially cuz work wanted me to stay on the phones "unless u really do have to evacuate!" how nice, huh? i mean, what if we DID? i wouldn't have any time to grab my stuff? wtf is that about?! but in the end it was all ok. phew. close one though. very stressful. Anyway. enough of that. at least i got some stuff off my chest & outta my system. i hope everybody is having a better week than i have so far...*hugs* to everybody. a big *smooooooooooooch* to Josh & *big cuddles* to hold u over till i see u next  | | |
| and now I feel guilty...mom just called. she's in a good mood & excited that i'm off tonight so we can relax and watch tv 2gether for once since i'm always working at night. now i feel bad about that big angry blog from this morning. maybe i just needed to get it out of my system. but now i feel like i should have brought some cheese to go with my whine. | | |
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