11 posts from May 2007

At Albertson's (West Coast) and Jewel's (Chicago), there is this extremely cool thing that I noticed a couple of weeks ago. Now, you can rent movie for only a buck through Redbox. All you do is slide your credit card, put in your zip (and your pin if it's a debit card), and select your movie. You can even go online and reserve a movie online and then go to the Redbox and pick it up.

Everyone should check it out! The URL is http://redbox.com.

(Okay, so it IS partially owned by McDonalds but when you're a student like my boyfriend and I and it is the end of the quarter, saving every little bit helps)

Here's a new photo I took on Saturday. Also, let me mention that I have not been posting as much lately because my wrist is in a splint, thus making it harder to type with the exception of when I take it off, which I do not want to do unless I have to.

Pike Place

After working on my schedule for fall over and over and over again, I am pretty sure I have figured things out. If things stay like this, I will be taking:

• Music 130- Group Piano Instruction I
• Italian 101
• Meteorology 101

I must say I am extremely happy to get back down to 12 credits. At SPSCC, this is barely possible, at best. After three 15-credit quarters, I need a fucking break! The 3 credit difference makes a bit of a difference, or at least that is what my experience at College of DuPage  guides me to.

This is when size is important. Both COD and BCC are HUGE community college. Rumor has it that their population is as big as 20,000-30,000. They are not just two of the biggest community colleges in the nation, but they are also two of the best.

Because of this major size difference (SPSCC only has 10,000, or at least that's what I heard), the variety and quantity of classes is much better. In addition, coming up with a schedule of 12 or 13 hours is not as much as a challenge.

The move is about a month, and things feel weird, quite hard to explain as well. Things should hopefully go well in general.

At Fort Lewis (between Olympia & Tacoma, Washington) today, a memorial service was held for 6 soldiers killed in Iraq. Their names were:

• Staff Sgt. Vincenzo Romeo, 23, Lodi, N.J.
• Cpl. Matthew Alexander, 21, of Gretna, Neb.
• Cpl. Michael Pursel, 19, Clinton, Utah
• Cpl. Anthony Bradshaw, 21, of San Antonio, Texas
• Sgt. Joel W. Lewis, 28, Sandia Park, N.M.
• Sgt. Jason R. Harkins, 25, of Clarkesville, Ga.

All of these men were under the age of 30. One of them didn't get to live to see his 20th birthday. It's quite sad, and quite unnecessary. This bloodshed and death that is an everyday occurrence in Iraq, with both Iraqis and Americans dying, but yet it does not have to happen

I am filled with remorse, and I wish their families well. NO MORE WAR!!!!

Family Members of the Fallen Soldiers

Thanks to the Seattle Times for the picture.

I am currently laying in bed with my head propped slightly upwards and I'm trying to stay still. Today at school, I went to get out of the car and instantly started to have pain in my lower back. It's gotten worse over the course of the day, and I might not be able to go to school tomorrow because of it. My boyfriend can even hear it crack as I fight to get up to go to the bathroom, in pain, of course.

Update soon.

I originally created this blog so I can stay in contact with some cool folks that live everywhere but here (Pacific NW), and also to keep in touch with those that live only a few short miles away, but yet because of various types of adult responsibility, we never get to see each other.

In the general sense, I wanted to share my wild, wacky stories that I've heard, seen, or been a part of within my 24 years of living on this planet.

Maybe this blog is instead a good representation of my life as it is today and how I'm fighting for sanity, for health, and for the overall passion of living an exciting life.

I am glad that I have this opportunity to share a bit of myself with anyone who reads the words I type. Communication is key for a life that is fulfilling, or at least that's what I think.

I apologize about my absence, but until only recently, I've been swamped with work for school. Fortunately, now I have time to rest, breath deeply, and relax, even if it might just be for a second!

Hmmm... what has been going on???

(1) I got an invitation from school to join their honors society (Phi Beta Kappa)

(2) Paris Hilton is going to jail... and who said that hell wouldn't freeze over?

(3) Moving back to Seattle in about a month, give or take

(4) I rode my bike yesterday 10 miles w/o bike shorts (which are padded in special places), but yet I feel fine somehow, other than my sunburn on my shoulders, upper back, and middle of my chest

(5) Went to Mt. Rainier with Shawn the other day. I have a few pictures of that and the Street Dogs show we went to that I've been meaning to upload onto my computer, so a few should make it up here

(6) Despite taking allergy medicine, I my allergies are still kicking my ass and it sucks big time

That's it for now folks!