Easter Candy...$200

The pressure is on with the end of the semester.  I have three papers to write in the next two weeks. Maybe it wouldn't seem quite so daunting if the topics were actually interesting. I'm not looking forward to summer school...although I don't know many people that would. The little voice inside my head keeps reminding me that at least they are online classes.

I went to an old friend's house on Sunday to catch up and watch the latest Harry Potter movie. He has been working for State Farm for 15 years and they are consolidating his department so if he wants to stay with the company he needs to move. His option are GA, TX, and AZ. I told him to pack his things and don't look back. Looks like another friend of 13 years is moving  :-(

Has everyone done their Easter shopping? I couldn't believe the amount of STUFF you can buy now as far as candy!! What happened it one kind and one maker of jelly beans? Three or four kinds of chocolate bunnies? There was so many selections I think Easter is the new Halloween. Instead of walking door to door asking strangers for candy, your parents buy you five pounds of it and you don't have to beg. Not that I'm complaining because I love holidays and spoiling....Easter basket anyone?

Exciting week ahead....I'll keep you posted  :-)

Today Is Another...

With much thought and soul searching, decisions were made today. The way I love and who I love is not something I'm willing to change. Break my heart a million times, but at least I loved and can show my daughter what it truly means. Maybe this is what makes me unique? I love unconditionally. My therapist has told me I'm too understanding. I laughed even though I know he's right. Yet, I love who I am. My parents have been married for 32 years and this was the advice my mother told me, "Your children must come second. Your relationship with your other half must come first because once you lose each other you have nothing." No wonder my parents are happily married and I've always been spoiled. If you don't love someone with your heart, mind, body, and soul then why be miserable? You happiness always has to come first. Children learn from their parents the "kind" of relationship they deem is normal...

I received my grade for the short paper I wrote last week. 75...Not great, but for having writer's block for two weeks I'll take it. I guess I can write a bunch of bullshit and still get a decent grade...a little scary. Signed up for my classes for the summer and fall. Great schedule and at the rate I'm progressing I'll be graduating December 2012.  Then the awful job hunt begins...New York is looking bleak.

Enjoy the warm weather!

What Is Never Said

I've been slacking off. Not on purpose...I promise!  As many of you know  I turned 31 on Monday and I've been celebrating for the last two weeks.  Shopping, hair appointment, nails....Oh yes and to top it off a stellar weekend out. Dinner saturday night was at Dick & Peg's Restaurant near Peck Lake. This is your quaint log building that has been decorated with everything and anything. Food is phenomenal but patience is of the utmost. Wait time to actually sit and eat dinner is roughly 80 minutes. That's an hour at the bar and after you are seated at your table twenty minutes to have salad and rolls. The salad bar had many options and very fresh. Rolls were served hot and you had a few different varieties. The menu is given to you at the bar on a wooden meat cleaver. Yes, a meat cleaver. When it was first handed to me all I could think was, "How many wives/girlfriends wish these were real?" Everything read straight forward. Your choices are either a slab of cow or seafood. No chicken. No pasta. Nothing fancy. Very unique place and can't wait to go back!

I completed my thesis statement. Last week, I had horrible writers block and could hardly type out a two page paper on whether or not an illiterate person is dangerous. I still got it in on time. Another "little" paper due next week and I have three weeks to write my 7 page research paper. Dreadful!!!!

I got some tough love from my best friend Erika last night. My track record in my love life has never been the best. I always put my heart and soul into my relationships and get burned in the end. I never wear my heart on my sleeve and I'm harder to read than an instruction manual. So what do I do? Protect myself and keep everyone at arms length? What makes guys think I want to be strung along? Stop dropping the floor out from underneath me! Man up...what are you scared of?

Well, I'm off for my first run. It's above 50 and sunny...so I'm hitting the pavement!