Even if it's not good, it's a comic relief

and it begins.....

2006-12-07T10:39:00.000-05:00

so you can pretty much consider me in a bad mood for the next 3 months because I really really really really dislike snow! yes it's fun to watch out the window like i'm doing now.....holy cow it's snowing pretty good. but i just hate when i have to drive, go outside, touch.....pretty much associate in the slightest bit with the snow....well unless i'm on a snowmobile or 4-wheeler driving through it. but still i'm just not a big fan of snow.

so finals are next week........**insert a sarcastic "YAY" for some kind of enthuiasm!** i'm not too stressed about them....i feel prepared for all of them so i think they'll go alright. i just can't believe that this semester is really over already. i guess that it flies by you when you're constantly on the go like i was with school , work, and volleyball, that's better than having the most miserable 16 weeks of the year.

i start my new job in 2 weeks. my very first job relating to what i've studied here for 4, yes i've been here for 4 , years. i guess i'll finally see what those 4 years here has taught me. when i worked at the hospital this summer i felt really well prepared so i'm not really that nervous because i'm going back to where i worked this summer, but now it's full-time and benefits and the whole sha-bang. this is it.....throw me into the real world! now i suppose that i'm going to have to act like an adult now and start paying bills and go to bed at 9:00 pm on saturday nights (just kidding!) but in all seriousness.....i am pretty excited about having my first "real" job and i know that it's a job that i'm really going to enjoy. i like all the people that i work with and i get to help people so i can't wait!

i don't think i have much to update on........i have pretty much most of my christmas shopping finished.....just a gift here or there that i have to get, but other than that i'm good to go! i'm excited about christmas.....pretty much just for the food and getting to see everyone home from school.

December 14th is my last day working here at edison, so i don't know when i'll get to update my blog for you dedicated blog readers of mine.....which i think is about 2, and that might be stretching it a bit, but i'll try to keep it somewhat update on things.

i hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday season!

its alive......its alive!!!

2006-12-01T15:32:00.000-05:00

after giving my blog some emergency CPR, I think I can bring it back to life. I know that it's been a long time since I've posted but things have finally settled down. But there still isn't much to write about.

Wednesday morning i wake up to hear some loud bangs outside my window, I look out and there are about 14 hunters in the field all shooting at the same deer as it run by them and I start laughing out loud because after about 20 shots.....the deer was still running and I was cheering for the deer to make it, but something tells me that it didn't because when I left my house one of the hunters were on the road looking at somethign closly and I think it was blood spots to see what way the deer went. But it was a rocky versus goliath fight for the deer and the 14 hunters...I thought it was pretty funny.
<------ since it's the start of the Christmas season I was looking for some funny Christmas cartoons and I came across this one and thought it was funny enough to share. My mom and I are going to go shopping on Sunday for Christmas. I hate doing this because I know what everyone gets and its never any fun nor do I ever have any suprises. But mom said that she's got a lot of things finished already this year so hopefully I won't have to know everything.

Only 2 or so weeks of classes left......*sigh*....that's a relief and take a deep breath everyone we'll get through it!

funny pumpkins

2006-10-26T10:03:00.000-05:00

So i got this e-mail from a friend with some funny pumpkins in it.....so i thought i would share a few with ya'll.

<------this one looks like me on some mornings!

<----this one is just funny because of the sign. Almost is like the angry mom is saying, " i put you into this world......and you better believe that i can take you out of it!!!"

<-------i don't think that this one listened to his mom and ate too much candy!

We won our game last night against Sinclair......so that was pretty exciting. Other than that its just the same old same old.
Hope everyone has a great weekend and if you go trick-or-treating make sure to save some candy for me ! :)

fancy swine

2006-10-18T14:40:00.000-05:00

<------ A pig in Pearls......nice, i don't think it gets any better than that.

Not too much to update about.....I just saw this picture and thought I should share it with everyone.

A big road trip for volleyball this weekend....we'll be in Cleveland on Friday and Saturday taking on the Cuyahoga Challengers and Lakeland Lakers. If we clench these two victories, then we'll pretty much clench the home court advantage for district playoffs......and if we could pack the gym with fans for that night it will be so flipping awesome!.......yes that's a hint to everyone that reads this....if we do play here for districts it would be nice for everyone and their brothers to be here!

Alright....i have to get ready for practice....but enjoy the swine in pearls =D

So it's been 11 days......

2006-10-16T15:13:00.000-05:00

yep 11 days since I've posted. It seems like a lot longer than that. Things have been busy as usual: school, volleyball, work, eat, sleep, homework....ya know all the basics. Volleyball has been going really well. If you haven't checked the athletic blog and read that we just got nationally ranked, 7th to be exact, in division 3. That means that we're the 7th best team in the entire nation in division 3 for volleyball at the junior college level! That's big stuff if you haven't figured that out yet! So that was our exciting news of last week, and we won both of our games this weekend.
something new- as if myspace wasn't addicting enough, I just got facebook so I could keep in touch with all of my friends that don't have myspace....Which surprisingly enough is quite a few.....It's just mostly all my friends that go to major 4 year universities......Which I guess is everyone outside of my friends here at Edison! I absolutely have no clue how to even work the whole facebook thing but it seemed that as soon as I signed up for it I had like 10 new friend requests from old high school friends.....That was pretty cool. So I'm sure that I'll spend a couple of hours trying to figure the whole facebook system out and then I'll be able to use it properly.
I really can't believe that it's October 16th already....It seriously feels like we just started school. That means that I really need to get started on all of the big projects and papers that I have to do for my classes.....bummer : /
well.....I really don't have much to talk about, but since it has been 11 days since I've posted, I just wanted to let the loyal readers of my blog, which is about 2.......not including myself to see if I have comments.......know that I'm still alive.

Does it get any better?

2006-10-05T10:47:00.000-06:00

man.....I don't know if today could get any better. I woke up this morning actually not too tired, that's always a plus. I get to school and remember that there's free lunch in the courtyard....By the way thanks so much campus crusade for Christ it was wonderful..... And then as I'm walking down the hall to class the nice vending machine filler guy is walking past me and gives me some free twinkies....Always a bonus on a day. Then tonight grey's anatomy and ER is on.....And one more thing....We won our volleyball game last night too. Thanks so much for the guys who came with their entire upper torso painted in blue and gold and cheered the whole game last night....You guys are awesome! We have a huge volleyball match with Clark state tomorrow night, so all of you people that don't want to sit outside for a football game should come watch the game tomorrow night because it will be one exciting game.
I have to get ready for class but I just couldn't believe my luck on the free twinkies.....Man what a day!

I look out my window to this........

2006-09-25T13:39:00.000-06:00

<------crappy crappy fog! I think that I wouldn't have been so bothered by fog this morning but I really really can't stand it when people are driving without their lights on in dense fog. I just don't understand it. Is there something about driving with your lights on that I just don't know about......like it uses more gas, or wears out your battery, or causes cancer or something. Is it really that hard to filp a switch, push a button or maybe you're special and you're lights come one automatically, but why the heck can't people be considerate and turn their stinking lights on when driving in the fog? And one more thing I didn't like about the fog this morning......I come up over a hill and 8 deer just think it's a good idea to be standing in the middle of the road at 7:55 in the morning. I could have had a life time supply of deer meet if I would have taken out all of them....not to mention a new car in the process. The boyfriend would have been happy but probably jealous because he'll spend all this time hunting this fall and he won't be able to get 8 deer like I would have. But I don't want a new car right now.....I love my car and it will be a sad sad day when she finally leaves me. She's been with me through my first accident, first being pulled over by a cop- total crap story that one is...but that's another day-, probably first trip to dayton to because my first car had the heart of a champion but a body of a 90 year old so she would have never made it. Plus if I would have to get a new car right now that would me that I would have no money or life for a long time because I would be working to pay it off. Ok....I'm stepping down from the soap box now.

This weekend wasn't good, but it wasn't bad.
We had a volleyball tournament in Cleveland this weekend and we won 2 games but lost 3 of them. We should have won more of them but it just didn't work out that way. There were some tough teams there and of course we had to play them right off the bat...but I think we're a tough team too, but it was definatly a learning experience and we now realize what we have to do in tough games to win them. So our record is now 12-4......not too bad but it could be better.
The rest of the weekend was relaxing and I needed that. But I feel tired today and have a lot of things that I need to get finished for this week. Somedays I wish I lived in Alaska so I would have 24 hours of daylight so I could get more things done and not be so tempted to sleep when it's dark outside.

We play at Sinclair on Wednesday....that's an important game for one because it's Sinclair and it's our rival. And two......we need to win conferene games so that we get a better seed going into the national tournament.....that would be really nice and we would get to play on our home court! And then on Saturday we finally have another home game.....those seem to be few and far between....against Miami/Middletown University. I just have a feeling that this is going to be a long week because today, once again, has been painfully long.....so is this blog too huh?!?

Well, I have to go to get ready for volleyball practice at the Piqua Field House because the gym is being set up for the College Fair that's going on Tomorrow. P.S. Everyone should go to the college fair if you're planning on transferring because there is a lot of helpful information there, not to mention a ton of local colleges of interest.
Have a painless rest of the week all!

Food Hazards

2006-09-20T14:54:00.000-06:00

<----- I found this picture today and all it said underneath in the caption was "food hazards" how fitting i thought. it kind of feeds off of the whole " don't eat baged spinach" ordeal that's going on in the world now. i don't have much to post today i just thought this picture was funny. have a great rest of the day everyone. Until Next time!

just another day

2006-09-19T14:25:00.000-06:00

ugh....i think this has been about the longest day ever!!! i feel like god is angry at me for some reason and making this day drag on and on and on and on and on....i think you get the point. i didn't really get up early or anything and i got here to school at 9 so it's pretty much like any other day but today just seems so long!

i've been trying to think up some good halloween costumes for this year.....it's going to be hard to beat last year's costume of a giant foam finger. i'm going to have to do some research on the internet and get some good ideas. i was looking for a few minutes today and i was looking at some duck tape costumes....man some of those things are pretty elaborate! i'm just wondering where they get all of the colored duck tape. i've seen the standard gray and camo duck tape but never any crazy colors like the ones i saw today. i guess that i have about a month to come up with something but i've gotta get something good put together though.

things in my life have been pretty good......nothing too crazy, but i pretty much always busy with volleyball, work, and school, and a minimal social life. this weekend we get to take a road trip to cleveland to play at Lakeland Community College in some tournament up there. it will make for a long bus ride but i'll be able to get a lot of homework accomplished that i probably wouldn't get done.

<------this is pretty much how i feel today.....not overly tired but just tired enough that i could probably fall asleep in a shoe...and lord knows that i don't like feet!....oh well....looks like it will be an early night.
i'll have to post again when something actually exciting in my life happens.

THANK YOU !

2006-09-07T09:59:00.000-06:00

I just wanted to send out a big thanks to everyone that attended our volleyball game last night. The fan support was great and we really appreciate all of the support. I will say though.......It was pretty darn exciting to win last nights game. So now we have to come off of that big win and play again tonight at Miami/Middletown University. We don't know too much about this team but we can always assume that it will be a tough game. There hasn't been an easy game for us yet but I always love the tough competition. I'm really excited about the way this season is going......I would have never thought it would be going as well as it is! Woo Hoo .....Go Chargers!

Anyways.....Classes are going well, and I like my schedule. I only have 2 classes on Mondays and Wednesdays and then one on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So I have plenty of time to get my homework finished for classes and go to practice and work and still have time to have some what of a social life. Well as much as a social life I have when I'm pretty much asleep by about 10:30 every night......So yah.....Make fun of me ....I know I know....Just put the big L on my forehead! But just to let you in on a secret.....I'm not a very nice person if I don't have my sleep. I know you're probably thinking.....Mindy, mean......No way.....But believe me......It's not pretty.

Well I have to get ready for my class this afternoon......I'm working on a pegboard assignment and its pretty much well kicking my butt. Anyone that has ever done a pegboard for any kind of office setting you have my sympathy! Its for my OSA 252 class and its just not going well. Hopefully when we go over it in class today it will be much easier to understand, but until then it's pretty much clear as mud for me.
I'm out
Later man

2006-08-30T14:28:00.000-06:00

"Back to school......Back to school........to prove to dad that i am not a fool......got my lunch pack up....my shoes tied tight.......hope i don't get in a fight......ooooohhhh back to school....back to school"..........hmmmmm it's wednesday and i'm definatly ready for friday when i actuall have a day off. i'm going to sleep in, make some pancaks and bacon probably and then i plan to watch some junk on t.v. to fill my mind with usless information and pretty much vegg all afternoon. hopefully mom doesn't read this and leave me a list of chores to do because that would be a big bummer.

The picture is from our home games on friday that we had here. It feels pretty good to start the season at 5-0 and to have some faculty watch us at our games. Also thanks to Stacy and Donald for showing some support for us too! Thanks to everyone that came to watch and cheer us on, it's definatly appreciated. Our first home game is on Wednesday September 6th at 6:00..........i believe that students get in free and for everyone else it's only $3.
It will be a good game because we'll be playing Columbus State Community College and they're a tough team.
<-----this is a new welcome center photo.....so lovely isn't it! stop by and say hi sometime when you're on campus!

my job at the hospital this summer was amazing and i learned so much while working there. it was a great experience and i can't wait to graduate and start working in the medical field.

i have to get ready for volleball practice now....hope everyone is having a good first week of school......well as good as going back to school can be i guess!

Goodbye Edison

2006-05-11T13:34:00.000-06:00

This is my last day of work here at Edison for the summer. It's sad because I won't be seeing everyone on a daily basis anymore, but I'll be stopping by on some Thrusdays when I have my days off. I start my new job at the hospital tomrrow.........I'm nervous about it because the first days are always stressful because you have to try to remember everything they throw at you at once and try to remeber everyone's names and such. I think I'll bring a notepad and pen so I can write everything down. I need to get to stuffing some envelopes.....man I'm glad I'm going to school to get a good job :) Hope everyone has a wonderful summer and I'll try to update this whenever I can so everyone can keep up with my semi-exciting life !!

ahhhhh stress

2006-05-09T12:03:00.000-06:00

<-------this is how i feel today. two finals down and only one more to go. i'm kind of stressed because of finals and such and then i start my new job on friday. I'll be working at Wilson Hospital in the Occupational Health department. I'm so excited about this job because it's actually in my field of study and I'll get to see if this career is really for me or not. This past weekend was pretty good. I figured out that I ruined the suprise for Kristina's birthday party on Friday.....no one told me that it was supposed to be a suprise so I told her about it. oops! my bad! The cookout at Amber's on Saturday was a lot of fun to. We even got to go out into her barn and pet the cows and horses. I think deep down I'm a farm/country girl as much as I try to hide it sometimes. Sunday I spent all day preparing for my final on Monday........... :( no fun at all! but since it was nice outside on Sunday I sat outside and caught some rays while I studied.....not too bad I suppose. Well I need to get to studying for my final tomorrow. Hope everyone's finals are going well this week and that they enjoy their last week of school here during spring semester.

<-----Doesn't this just make you hungry for
some liver ? he he

2006-05-05T12:23:00.000-06:00

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO EVERYONE !!! OLE' OLE'

Surprise from the sky

2006-05-04T11:53:00.000-06:00

That's exactly what I received yesterday when I was sitting out on our back porch grilling some chicken for dinner. I was sitting out on out patio furniture enjoying a cold drink when I felt something hit the top of my head. I sat there thinking to myself, " that better not be what I think it is!" So I gingerly raised my hand to the top of my head and felt the wet mess sitting up there. As the tears welled up in my eyes and I saw what was on my fingers all I could think about was that Red Bull commercial where the bird poops on that guys head in the park and he drinks his Red Bull and flies up to the bird and they show him starting to pull down his pants like he was going to crap on the bird in revenge. That's exactly what I wanted to do to that dang bird. Oh man, was I ever so mad at that moment yesterday. After I took care of the mess I got to thinking about the time when we got to go on our field trip to farm day in 4th grade when my friend Michelle and I were getting a horse ride and the saddle started to slip to the side and we tried to hold on for as long as we could but we eventually fell off.....and wouldn't you know it, we fell right into a pile of horse poo. So then we had to walk around for half of the day with horse poo on us until our moms could bring us some new clothes to school. Traumatic experience that's for sure.
On a lighter note.....ITS WONDERFUL OUTSIDE!!! HURRAY SPRING! :) I love this weather!
I'm not to sure about my weekend plans as of now. I do know that we're having a cook out for Krsitina's birthday on Friday night. HOPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTINA!! If I was a good
sister-in-law I would bake you this cake.....but I'm not that good ! :) Well I'm about to leave and play some corn hole with the buddies.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Like a piece of cake at a Jenny Craig drop out meeting - I'M GONE ! :)

Insert Redneck Joke Here !

2006-05-02T11:30:00.000-06:00

Last night I had the experience of going to Loy's Sale Barn in Indiana. Area farmers take their livestock there and then they auction them off for people to buy. So my brother Brian, a guy from his work, Trissle, and my boyfriend Ryan and I all went along last night in search of some "good pigs" The barn even has it's own auctioning ring and auctioneer, pretty much the whole sha-bang. I've never been to an animal auction before so I was excited and didn't know what to expect either. They brought out the pigs first, good for us because we would have had to sit through the selling of the sheep, goats, calfs, and whatever else was left. We ended up getting 28 pigs last night. The pictures at the top are what they look like. Here's my educational bit for the week: We got some Hampshire pigs- which are the black and pink pigs. The Durox pigs- which are the brown pigs. Then we got some Pink pigs- which I assume are just pig pigs.....I dunno. But I learned all of this fancy pig information from Ryan who was in FFA in high school. Yes, I must refrain from making fun of the whole FFA thing and those funny FFA jackets because he get's defensive about it! But the biggest redneck-ish thing of the night that I saw was a farmer trying to load 38 pigs into the back of his regular sized pick-up truck with a camper top on it. ** insert redneck jokes here** then after they have all of them loaded onto this pick-up truck the guy says to the other guy, " should probably let some air back there for 'em huh?" I sat there thinking......."um ya.....I think that's about the last of your worries since 10 of them are being crushed and probably won't survive the ride home!" It was defiantly a sight to see.
So after we loaded our 28 pigs onto a trailer......I believe that's the smarter thing to do than using just the back of your pick-up truck, we headed home to unload them. On the way home I learned: another fun fact of the day: if you put a pig in a pen that's different than all of the others in that pin....The other pigs will gang up and pick on that other pig. Who knew that pigs were that judgmental. I just thought pigs were dumb because they lay in their own crap all of the time. So it was Ryan and my job to separate the pigs into the pink ones and black and pink ones on the trailer. Talk about an experience. The pigs were about 50lbs each and when you try to pick them up they pretty much go psycho in your arms and it's like trying to pick up an old washing machine in the spin cycle. CRAZY! So we got them separated and into the appropriate pens and after all of the commotion and things were all said and done the pigs were settled in and I was tired, smelly, and ready to go home. So that was quite an experience and I think we'll be repeating the whole ordeal in about 2 weeks when we go back for more pigs. I can't wait until these things are about 235 lbs and we have to load them back onto the trailer. That will be a whole different story I'm sure. I think that I'll invest in one of those shocker things and that will put a little get-up in their step and they get onto the trailer easier. Hopefully.
So that has been the most exciting thing for me in a while so I thought that you all would like to hear about my experience at Loy's Sale Barn. If you ever get the chance you should go sometime.....It's defiantly an experience and you'll see a lot of different animals and people there too! And from what I could smell, I bet the French fries they sell are pretty good too.
Not too much is going on this week. My sister-in-law's birthday is Friday.......HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY KRISTINA! another year closer to being an old bag! I'll get you something good this year.ha ha probably not! And I promise no comments on how old you're getting yeah right....old bag! Naw....I'm totally kidding....HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY !
So I'm thinking that I should get back to work today, but it looks so nice outside that I really don't want to do much of anything.
Hope everyone gets a chance to enjoy the wonderful day outside....I know I will later!

New Addition to Edison Family !

2006-04-28T13:32:00.000-06:00

<------- I don't know if any of you have noticed the new addition to the Edison family......the 3 little baby geese running around by the pond following around their parents. I saw them the other day before easter and I thought ," hmmmmm wouldn't someone like those in their easter basket?" Which then aslo led me to think about peeps some how. I think I'm pretty much the only person I know that likes to leave their peeps open and out for about 3 weeks so they're hard as a rock and really stale and that's how I like to eat them. Everyone else I know thinks I'm totally gross when I do this but one of my teachers in high school used to purpously leave some peeps out in her closet for awhile and then she would give them to me! AH DELICIOUS! :) I also like to eat them if you put them in the microwave and blow them up a bit and then before they inflate in to peep roadkill shove the whole thing in my mouth and lick the extra marshmallow off of my fingers. There's no better way to eat peeps!

Plans for this weekend:
Friday: Bridal Shower.......yah.....don't really want to go because it's going to be a little bit awkward for reasons I don't want to get into......I love the girl to death that's getting married....It's just going to be the other people there......oh well....I'll be mature and go I suppose.

Saturday: I'm doing my neighbor's hair for prom in the afternoon and then it's PARTY TIME! We're throwing a bachlorette party for one of our girls at work. I think it should be a good time.

Sunday: I'm going to my aunt and uncle's house to help them get ready to move. Should be a fun day...........yep!

So that's my weekend in a nut shell. I don't know how exciting it will be but hopefully it will be worthwhile!

HOPE YA'LL HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

wheel-o-death

2006-04-14T13:26:00.000-06:00

<-------this look familiar to anyone? this is what we call the wheel-o-death in the welcome center because we're never really sure how long that ham-n-cheese sandwich has really been in that little machine and if it's really safe to eat or not. it's usually everyon'e last choice place to get something to eat here on campus on friday afternoon when the cafeteria closes and there's no other place to get food on campus. especially this friday because the campus is totally dead....not really sure why we're even open on good friday but oh well that's a whole nother subject too......anyways now that i've been side tracked and my self-diagnosed ADD has kicked, back to my story.......there is pretty much nothing left in any of the vending machines on campus and becki was hungry so she was brave and ventured to the "wheel-o-death" and got herself some "veggies that don't look too hateful" i guess you just have to be here at work on a really, really, really, really slow friday afternoon......did i mention that it's really slow today?

so yeah........ this weekend....not too much planned. family easter on saturday and then a possibility of another easter party on sunday afternoon for someone else's' family.......ohhhh write this in the record books ladies and gents........i, mindy pearson,had a date the other week! i know, i know you all are shocked....believe me i was too.....but i have been on a few dates.....amazing. anyways.....no personal life business on here.

yep....that's about it. school's almost over and i'm getting antsy to get outside and do something. i think i have a pretty good summer job lined up but i don't want to say anyhing about it until it's final. i'm pretty excited about it and i really hope that i get the job though.

hope everyone has a great easter and don't pick up the brown eggs :)

some easter funnies :)

2006-04-13T12:10:00.000-06:00

HERE ARE SOME EASTER FUNNY PICTURES TO GET YOU INTO THE EASTER SPIRIT !!

ENJOY AND HAVE A HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE !

one hour less of beauty sleep......not cool :(

2006-04-03T13:29:00.000-06:00

so I officially don't like the fact that I lost an hour of beauty sleep because the good lord knows that when I don't get it things get a little scary, but I do love the fact that it's lighter out longer and that means that summer is coming soon! YAY YAY YAY !! That makes me really happy.

I didn't do too much this weekend......It was pretty much the same old same old. But on Sunday my family got together and we grilled steaks out on the grill and had family dinner. My older brother and sister-in-law were babysitting for some of their friends kids so they brought them along and after dinner we were in the living room playing with them and my dad was trying to teach the one little girl different words that began with the letters A,B,C and 1,2,3. Well they started with A she said apple, B was boat, and C was cat, then my dad asked her what word starts with the letter 1? She gave him a look as if he was crazy and my dad's answer was "one-derful!" as I sat there laughing pretty hard I thought to myself, " you know what, I'm lucky to be half as intelligent as I am because if I really would have listened to everything my dad told me I don't think I would be very smart!" after that comment mom reassured to all of us that if we ever have grandkids that she'll never leave them home alone with him!

also went to the driving range yesterday....It was good to get out some frustration by hitting a few golf balls around until I started doing really badly as usual. I always start off good by driving them pretty far and good, then I get cocky about it and tell everyone to watch a master at work and by the time I do that I hit a ball to where I can take about three steps in from of me and catch it. You would think that I would learn my lesson because I do that everytime but of course not.......It makes for a fun trip to the driving range though.

volleyball open gym is tomorrow at 5:30.......I don't think anyone really knows how absolutely excited about this that I am! I haven't played organized volleyball in 2 years and I used to live for volleyball. I am so incredibly stoked about open gyms starting and actually getting the volleyball team back for Edison next year! But I don't know how cool it's going to be to be the only player that was on the inaugural team .......And then come back to play on the come back team......hmmmm kind of makes me feel a little old! But I'm sure after this open gym I will not be able to move most of my body parts for the next week but it will be well worth it. So anyone that reads this and wants to play volleyball either at open gyms or try out for the team next year you are more than welcome to....The more the merrier!

Well .....I'm off to go home and cook dinner for the family! I know I know....I'm such a great kid :) (right mom ?!?)

walking vomit

2006-03-28T11:43:00.000-06:00

so yesterday when i put on my scrubs for classes yesterday....they were a pale shade of lavender and it was like an easter egg vomited on my scrubs because they are the color of a colored easter egg that you find in a yard, pretty much just a bright spring color. bright enough to when my mom walked in the door last night and saw me standing in the kitchen all she could say was......." woah......those are um....bright." yeah, so i took that as either lavender isn't my color or some people just aren't ready for spring yet. needless to say i think i'll be shopping for some new scrubs to wear to school as soon as i get my "big" tax refund check. - if you couldn't tell i was pretty sarcastic on the big part. it's not like a make a lot of money in a year because the government takes pretty much most of my checks so why can't they be nice and just give me a little bit more than like a hundred dollars back. i figured that i probably paid in about 5 times as much in taxes so where is the fairness in that. didn't the government's mother ever teach them about equal sharing ? (just kidding, i know that those tax dollars are put to good use for something im sure but i know that i could really put those dollars to a much better use for myself. but once again.......life comes to bite you in the rear!)

this past saturday i went out for my friend adam's 21st birthday. we took out a bus and then went to various bars ( i'm not promoting this behaveor or anything im just telling about my weekend excursions) it was a lot of fun because i haven't seen a lot of my high school friends since christmas so i had a good time. so happy belated birthday to adam and teresa who's was on friday but since she was in maui, lucky dog, for spring break so we didn't get to celebrate it with her...but i think this weekend we might......i don't know though if my body will be able to handle it........staying up late that is! i always feel so old when i don't get my sleep.

i want to see Ice Age, the Melt Down and the new Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector movies. i also want to see Failure to Launch just because of Matthew McConaughey is in it. wow....he's amazingly good looking. mmmmmmm....yeah.....definatly good looking . thank you god for giving us Matthew McConaughey. ok now that i've wasted 15 minutes just looking at that picture i need to get back to work.
ok i'm not gonna lie.....i'm going to go acrossed the hall to the x-box game zone and play a little dance dance revolution with krista , becki, and sean. yeah, it's considered work......well for me at least!

enjoy the eye candy that i've provided for you all and have a wonderful day!

one picture from myrtle

2006-03-23T13:39:00.000-06:00

so here is a picture from myrtle, the only one that i have so far but i'm confused as to why i look so angry......leave it to giving your camera to a random person to take a picture for you and not telling you when they're going to take a picture. later we found out he was from michigan......he probably had it out for us since ohio state beat michigan this year. oh well, hopefully the picture on my camera turns out better.

Made it back in one piece......i think

2006-03-21T13:39:00.000-06:00

my body may be here back in the "blizzard " like conditions but i think my mind is still on the beach at myrtle. that week of spring break went just way to fast. i think that if i would have stayed home and worked it would have went slower but of course when you're having fun time always flies and you never have enough time. another conclusion that i came to over spring break is that i will be one of those older people that go to arizona or florida in the winter because I HATE SNOW!!! i got out of my room this morning, looked out the window and saw no snow on the ground so i then went into my "happy dance" in my pj's and went to get ready for school. then the next time i walked out of my room, not 25 minutes later, it was a friggin blizzard outside.......talk about a total buzzkill on my happy dance. :( so sad. (did i mention that i hate snow!)

anyways some events from myrtle beach. it was pretty much just a relaxing week. we didn't over exert ourselves by any means......we just floated in our lazy river or sat in our hot-tub all day and then if the mood hit us we walked on the beach or down ocean blvd. but one night we went to club kryptonite and saw MJ from the real world ------>
(That little fella) let me tell you girls......i was about a foot away from that man....and he is as good looking in real life as he is on t.v. wowzas!! so that was my celebrity sighting for the week. we also saw robin and jamie from the real world and deiter from laguna beach also at that same club. one night we ate at a restaurant called Dicks' Last Resourt. if anyone has ever eaten there before you know how much fun it is. the waiters are really rude to you and everyone gets these rediculous paper hats with pretty perverted things written on them. its just a lot of fun and laughs there, not to mention good eating too. i'll post some pictures on here as soon as i get some online.

well my work time is over so im out. ill update more later!!

Go Bolts

2006-03-10T10:39:00.000-05:00

some girls and i are making the trip this afternoon to support the charger men in tournament action up at owens community college. they're playing columbus state at 2:30. we have our shirts made and ready to cheer them on to a victory <-----wow how corny was that, my bad!

i went to the versailles vs anna girls basketball game on wednesday night to cheer on my home team, and as i was watching the game i thought..........when the opposing team misses a foul shot we clap for them kind of like rewarding them for missing......but the minute the make a regular basket it's totally different and we are suddenly against them and shouting at them for playing the game. i never noticed this when i was playing but as i sat there and watched the game i just thought it was odd. i looked at it like we're telling the person that missed the foul shot......we're happy you failed....we'll reward you by clapping for you.....but when you do something for your team we pretty much hope that one of our players will step up next time and block the crap out of your shot. and then after the game we'll come up to you with a fake smile and tell you good game when deep down we're pretty happy we just beat you and you're gonna have a long quiet bus ride home. anyways....that was just interesting to me. i never really looked at it that way before.

i also went to watch the ft. loramie vs marion local game last night ( thursday)......wow what a game. both teams are powerhouses but ft. loramie just couldn't miss last night. they hit 5 of their first six 3 pointers.....that's a pretty amazing feat. and the fact that 6 different girls on the ft. loramie team had a 3 pointer is tough too. good luck to them and i hope that they represent this area well. <---that's for you jodi :)

well ........i don't have any plans really for this weekend.....pretty much just waiting until sunday so we can leave to go to myrtle beach!! :) wooo hooo it can't come fast enough.

hope everyone has a great weekend and a good spring break....i'll post about how myrtle was....not to rub it in or anything :)

not gonna lie....i'm flipp'n stoked!

2006-03-07T14:28:00.000-05:00

i'm pretty excited because we've just made plans to go to myrtle beach for spring break next week! 6 of us are going and i think it's going to be a great time. we waited until the last minute to make any plans because we were hoping that we would be going to arizona for spring break for nationals in basketball, seeing that dream was broken on saturday by 16 points, we decided that we needed to get away and do something fun. so me, thobes, mummey, fannon. feathers, and zimmy are going to get away for spring break to lay on the beach a little bit and just relax. i'm totally thankful that my teachers rock and that they're not giving any homework over spring break......although i know that mrs. gheret will be working on the urine chapter, so exciting i know, i feel for the lady. betty said that she'll be working on the next semester of things to do in class, once again.....not exciting. but i just wanted to tell you that YOU GUYS ROCK, maybe ill bring you guys back a sea shell or something! wow.....i am way excited about this........sunday can't come soon enough!

not much is going on for me right now.....and i apologize that my blogs have become boring.

it was sad that i came to school monday without my bag for basketball practice. it was the first time in about 5 1/2 months that i didn't have basketball to go to. i never would have thought that i would have been excited about that because i never really enjoyed basketball in high school as much as i did here. everyone on the team is amazing and i will defiantly miss all the sophomores next year.......**tear......now im sad.

anyone who reads this and is interested in playing volleyball here at edison keep your eye open for when we'll be having open gyms. i'm really excited that they're bringing the volleyball team back and that i'll have the opportunity to play for one more year. i know it will be my 4th year here.......i think i'm on the 10 year education plan here.......heck....maybe ill never leave like some other infamous student here. no need to mention names !

watched the movie " walk the line" this weekend.......not gonna lie......it was a really good movie. i didn't know what to expect when they first put it in on the bus to watch..but i really did enjoy it. i would definatly recommend it to anyone that wants to see a good movie.

well i do believe it is time for me to be finished with work.....wooo hooo! i've got a date with jodi and wal-mart now.....she needs to find a swim suit and i need some film developed.

some words of wisdom: man who runs in front of car gets tired
man who runs behind car gets exhausted

we going to the 'ship !!!

2006-03-03T22:21:00.000-05:00

i just thought that i would post that the EDISON LADY CHARGERS WERE VICTORIOUS TONIGHT !!! whooooo hoooo. we beat grand rapids community college by 7-8 points tonight.......wow it was a great and intense game the whole entire time. people definatly got their moneys worth i tell you. although i almost had a heartattack on the bench! wow.......so now we're in the championship game tomrrow afternoon at 2, YAY! and if we win....although i dont like saying if but i dont want to get to confident, we get to go to arizona !!!!! wowzas! anyways....we play kalamazoo valley community college....and i do believe that we do have a decent chance of beating them.

well we're about to have a dance party in the hotel room!

peace!

Regional Basketball Tournmament

2006-03-03T11:50:00.000-05:00

as i sit here in our hotel room waiting until we get to play tonight at 5:30......i am so thankful that i made the decision to be on the basketball team here at edison. these girls are amazing......i have so much fun with them and i will truly miss every sophomore next year when they're not here and have moved on. before i get all sentimental i'm going to change the subject. we won our game yesterday against glen oaks community college....only by 4 points....we played not so well.....pretty uncharacteristic for us but i think that the 4 and a 1/2 hour bus ride might have had a little to do with it and nerves probaly played a small part too. we're just hoping today that when we take on grand rapids tonight we show them what ohio basketball is all about and that we came to play.
one thing that i've noticed about our hotel room is that i think that our heater/air conditioner has terrets because every 5 minutes for about 5 seconds it just turns on and blows out air.....even though we have it on off and don't want anymore air in the room! anyways....everything can't always be perfect.
hopefully we'll be here until saturday and be going to arizona for spring break!!!! whooo hooo.

i'm going to take a nap before we go out to see the town a little bit. i'll keep you all updated on how the game goes today.

GO CHARGERS!!!

peace out

Curious George

2006-02-28T14:22:00.000-05:00

I thought this was kind of funny :)

talk about a rush

2006-02-28T13:42:00.000-05:00

so yesterday when it was ike 20 degrees outside....i walked out of my house in my scrub pants and it was like i wasn't wearing any pants at all. talk about a rush......if you want to add some excitement to your life walk outside on a cold day in scrub pants.......whoooooo it was cold! that's how i started off my day yesterday.
it's been a good past few days for me....i have no complaints. we won our game on saturday at Lakeland.....it was such a crazy game but we ended up winning it . chalk one up for the good guys! we're now 18-7....not too shabby. this weekend we make the long journey to Kalamazoo Michigan for the regional tournament and if we win all 3 games there book our plane trips to arizona baby! i think that would be the coolest thing in the world if we made it to arizona.

my brother came over last night with his latest addition to our basement wall, yet another deer head to be mounted over the couch. this his second deer head mounting in our basement and this one is different because its from southern ohio and its darker and bla bla bla so instead of one deer head staring at you when you walk into our basement....it's now 2. awesome

i feel as if im slacking on my blogging because i haven't blogged in a while and i was told by someone who reads my blogs that they've turned boring and he doesn't read them as much anymore. :( im sorry nate.....you know how i strive everyday to please you, i will try harder to make my blogs more interesteting for you to read!

it's been a while since i've done a movie quote but here's one:

Character 1 (Female) : I would make love to you right now if you could promise me that you'll never die."
Character 2 (Male:) walks towards her....takes her hands ....stares into her eyes and says " I Promise.....I Will.....Never Die."

25 points for the winner of this one. it's a really funny movie and i saw it for the first time this past weekend!

well i have to get to practice and then the team dinner afterwards!! YAY!

This is a picture of a Granada . ------------>
apparantly my parents had a car of this sort before i was born and when my brother was over last night we got to telling funny stories and he was talking about the granada.....i laughed just at the name of the car but since i didn't know what it looked like i of course had to google it and see for myself. the crazy thing is, i think the one that my parents had was green too.....im just hoping that it wasn't this color of green :( yucky!

of course they'll get mad....you're stealing their honey!

2006-02-24T13:14:00.000-05:00

so nate in it tried to tell me today that little ol honey-bees are gentle and don't sting you when you try to take the honey from the hive and i told him that he must be smoking something because there is no way that if i was a bee and i did all of that work making that honey and you're just going to reach in there and take it from me......no sir! i would be chasing you with my little stinger on my hiney and be making you pay for putting your hand in my hive! another thing that nate said was that honey-bees hibernate.....hmmm....interesting. i guess they put the queen in the middle and then keep her warm and themselves warm. ahhhh the life of a queen bee! so there it is....the new fact that i learned for the day.....honey-bees hibernate!

i've been watching the olympics at work today and the sport of the day is curling. talk about a confusing sport. it's pretty much glorified shuffleboard on ice. but the best part of the whole watching of curling is the guy that "throws the rock" - a huge gray rock/disc sorta thing and then he screams out " SWWWEEEEEEEPPPPPPP" and it pretty much sounds like they're screaming bloody murder.....makes me giggle everytime. i tell ya though....those canadians really get into the whole screaming sweep thing. not gonna lie....it's some pretty funny stuff. like becki murray said......" if you didn't know what someone was watching and heard that screaming....it would sound like they're calling pigs.......sssssuuuuuuueeeeewwwwweeeee." <-----yep that pretty much explains it all!

not really sure what im doing this weekend. we have a game on saturday at Lakeland.....up by cleveland......bummer of a bus ride of about 4 hours! :( oh well get some quality movie watching in i suppose.

well i'm going to get back to work since we're so busy on fridays.....umm yeah right!

its been a long time

2006-02-22T13:56:00.000-05:00

some good looking edison basketball players if i do say so myself!!

<-------so i tried riding the mechanical bull today at gradfest......well i lasted about 3.7 seconds and flew off......so im thinking that maybe....just maybe ill leave the bull riding up to these hunky fellas and ill just wear the wranglers and cowboy boots and a cute little cowboy hat! or maybe ill just save that for when i go to the triangle! he he

so i've had 2 people come up to me today and tell me that i haven't updated my blog in a while and that they want me to update it. kind of makes me feel special that people are reading my blog and living vicariously through it. wow....i just used a big word...but i dont think i spelled it right! hmmm...where to begin.
Friday night i spent at home with my parents and my brother and sister-in-law ( this is where im supposed to say that she's the best in the whole wide world- or she said she'll beat me up in the e mail she just sent me. Kristina i love you! ) eating pizza and watching the olympics. it was actually pretty fun because i told them all about my blog and i guess my sister-in-law read it and she now thinks im crazier than ever, but they all got a good chuckle out of my bathroom story and proper bathroom rules. then after they left i did some homework and then went to sleep.
saturday we had a basketball game at columbus state and we won....so that makes us 17-7.....pretty stinking good! and i scored 2 points so add them bad boys to my season total and im up to 11 points. kind of sad when mummey has taken more charges on the season than i have points ........ :( oh well....im still having fun!
Sunday was my grandma's 92nd birthday party at the nursing home. nothing like kickin it with the old foggies at the home. all i can say is that i hope i live that long and still have my mind. if not......take care of me and do it fast ...thats all i can ask.
Monday we didnt have practice.....kinda sweet....but i still came in a shot around for a little bit just to try to improve my game.....ummm yea i think its going to take a lot more than just shooting around for a little bit.
after posting all of this i now realize how unexciting my life is and those people that wanted me to update my blog are going to be pretty disappointed.....my apologies!
i've discovered that im kind of obsessed with myspace....yeah its not good! but oh well it could be worse i guess!

like a fat kid in dodge ball......IM OUT!

2006-02-10T13:49:00.000-05:00

today i got to dress up like the hamburgler for the T.G.I.F. and walk around and talk to the high school students it was a lot of fun but i took some pictures with chris and derek and the funny thing to me is that when i was taking those pictures even thought you can't see my face i still smiled like i normally would for a picture. silly i know, but i thought it was funny.

to too much going on for me this weekend besides the home game that we have tomorrow against owens.....hopefully we won't get homered by the refs this game so we can pull off a victory. hopefully!

i have to get back to work.......lata!

Dodgeball

2006-02-09T14:19:00.000-05:00

I have to say that dodgeball on Tuesday night was a blast. There was only 8 of us there but it was fun to throw balls at people and not get into trouble. talk about a stress relief! I do encourage everyone to come out next week to play.....check the student activities page on blackboard and see what day we're playing next week.

Tomorrow we have a big T.G.I.F. here and there's going to be about 150 high school students here and i have to give them tours and talk about my experience that i've had here at edison. if i gave my whole story it would be about an hour long but i condense it and its about a whole 2 minutes max. I enjoy talking to the high school students though because i was in their shoes and i had no idea what i was going to do after high school until about april of my senior year.....once again procrastination bit me in the butt. but anyways.....enough boring stuff.

i'm pretty excited because i get to watch survivor tonight with lindsey lou and then just vegg. out for a while. woooo hooo for thursday nights!!

i have to get ready for practice........hope everyone has a good weekend!!

events of the weekend:

2006-02-07T13:55:00.000-05:00

<---- this is the present that i just got while working in student service from feathers. she told me that it's just not any ketchup.....it's FANCY ketchup-wow....i feel so special and loved to receive such a wonderful gift! thank you feathers for thinking of me while you are eating your double cheeseburger and i'm staring at my fancy ketchup packet!

i didn't do much on friday night - it was pretty slow on saturday i ventured out in the crappy snow and came here to Edison to watch the basketball game against Cuyahoga Community College. it was a tough game but exciting none the less. then i went to feathers' house and watched the movie Friday, some funny stuff right there. i have never seen that movie and the fact that her parents watched it with us was even better. anyone who has seen this movie would understand why its funny to watch it with someone's parents. then feathers, mummey, fannon and i all went to the houston boys basketball game to watch feather's brother brian and mummey's cousin brandon hughes play. it was a good game, and the first high school basketball game that i've been to in about 3 years. what a change from watching the guys team here at Edison with a shot clock and then back to high school where they have 4 quarters. Then after the game all 4 of us went to the guy's apartment to see what they were up to. sunday i pretty much was a waste of space and didn't do much of anything besides my homework and then slept for about 6 hours and then went to bed. i didn't even watch any of the superbowl or the commercials, but i'm not even that mad about it.....i don't feel like i missed out anything too much. the quote of the weekend: over heard at the guy's apartment this saturday. " the only thing that i ever got from him was a taco, a sparks, and bronchitis." wow, if that's not love i don't know what is!

for all you OHIO STATE fans out there.....A.J. Hawk is going to be at the piqua wal-mart at the photo department signing autographs. everyone gets 2 autographs and he'll sign anything that you bring for him to sign. i do believe i will be going to wal-mart tonight to get that young man's autograph. i'm pretty excited about it too.

oh and one more thing....everyone needs to be here tonight at 6:00 pm to play dodge ball in the pavillion. it's always so much fun because i played last spring when we played on friday afternoons and it was a blast. and plus red bull will be here to pass out red bull drinks and cool stuff. what more could you ask for?!?!? i think that i'm going to stay after basketball practice and play me some dodge ball! where esle can you throw balls at people and be rewarded for hitting them......i love it!

i just had to share this picture

2006-02-02T14:45:00.000-05:00

I just had to make the comment that i went to the site that ann had suggested to me about the bathroom ettiquite and this was their logo on the website......it was so funny that i just had to share it with everyone.

here are some rules that i think everyone should follow:

Rule the First: No Business in the Bathroom
That's right, you heard it here. Do not, under any circumstances, be you man or woman, conduct any business in the bathroom. At best, participants will be distracted. More likely, they will be so busy trying to ignore you and focus on the task at hand that it's an awkward waste of time. At worst, you are going to offend some client and blow that multi-million dollar deal. So leave the business to the boardroom and/or golf course.

Rule the Second: Wash Your Hands
You know what's worse than seeing some stranger in a public bathroom leave without washing their hands? Seeing somebody you work with do the same. Because now you get to spend the whole day wondering what they are touching with their filthy, disgusting, germ-ridden hands, and hoping it's not on your desk. I really don't know why we have to keep talking about this rule, but given the number of socially inept non-washers I see in my field research on a day-to-day basis people still aren't getting the message.

Rule the Third: Don't Lie in Wait
Okay, so you need to do a #2. In some cases, you might stand around a full bathroom waiting for a stall to open up, but at work you shouldn't. Nobody likes to feel pressured, so give your coworkers some space, go back to your desk, and try again later (or try another bathroom). Even if the person currently doing their business isn't aware of your presence, they are still going to feel awkward when they come out of the stall and realize you've been timing just how long they've been in there. So save them the embarrassment.

Rule the Fourth: Everyone is Equal in the Eyes of the Bathroom
So you're the boss. Maybe you're even the boss' boss. Doesn't matter a whit in the bathroom, you've still got to follow the rules. Don't start up any business, don't expect to cut to the head of any lines, and for goodness sakes yes you do have to wash your hands or flush. Being numero uno doesn't give you any special privileges whatsoever.

Special Tip: Dealing with those who Outrank you
Maybe your boss was clever, came here, read these rules and is acting like he should in the bathroom. Then again, maybe he's not. Maybe he keeps trying to strike up a conversation with you at the urinal, while all your instincts tell you to stare straight ahead and ignore them. We feel the need to warn you that following proper bathroom etiquette rules in the context of such an ignorant boss may jeopardize your job, or at least your standing. Yeah, it sucks but the boss might not care if you are ignoring him because you are in the middle of taking a pee, all he knows is you are ignoring him. So try to strike a healthy balance, don't tell him to "piss off!" (clever pun!), but don't linger and chat either.

just some fyi for everyone !! enjoy your day

2006-02-02T14:16:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy groundhog's day. even though we're supposed to have 6 more weeks of winter, but if it's weather like this and it's still considered winter i'll gladly take the 6 more weeks! i love this weather over tons of snow any day! i think that's a foreshadowing of me not living in this area because i really don't enjoy the weather here in the winter.

I might be going to Toldeo this weekend to visit my friend Lindsey Lou. she goes to UT and i haven't been able to visit her all year and i think im due for a visit to her. im pretty excited about going up there because it's always a good time. and ill get to see most of my friends that go up there and hopefully some from BG will come up to visit too!

well i have to get to practice.....fun fun....but all of us girls are going to applebees afterwards to take advantage of the half priced appetizers.......since we're all poor college students :)

hope everyone stays dry on this rainy thursday! i know i wont when i have to walk out to my car in parking lots 5 & 6. getting to school at 10:10 isn't good when you want to find a decent parking spot.

Where did they go?

2006-01-31T13:40:00.000-05:00

Sean Patrick Thomas......where have you been. I couldn't get enough of you in save the last dance....but it seems that you've been m.i.a. since........you're making me sad. but i'll just look at this picture and be ok! just kidding! but i do like that movie and he's definatly easy on the eyes.

And Johnathan Taylor Thomas.....you were my heart-throb of my pre-teenage years....have you fallen off the face of the earth? you've broken the hearts of all the little girls that fell in love with you when you were on Home Improvement and and the teeny-bopper movies that you did. so sad.

no on has gotten my movie quote from last post. maybe it's because no one really reads this outside of the people that i work with and the few people on campus that actually knows that edison has student blogs!

everything is going well as of latley.....i might send myself some flowers at work from a secret admirer just to stirr the pot a little bit, and that it would just be fun!

i do have a pondering question for the day: i know that men have urinal ettiquite and all where if all the other urinals are open you don't go to the one right next to the person that was there first. but what im pondering is , shouldn't there be something to that effect in women's restrooms too. i'm funny about using public restrooms anyways......i don't know why i just really don't like to use them unless i have the whole place to myself. well, the other day i was in the restroom here and i was in the stall allllllllllll the way to the end, there was 7 other open stalls in the entire restroom, so why does the next person that comes in go in the stall right next to mine? i just don't get it. now that you're all grossed out.....i think that's my cue to end this post!

have a good tuesday!

I've just done the coolest thing ever!!!!

2006-01-30T15:44:00.000-05:00

let's just say that i'm just now coming off of the adrenaline rush from it. i actually got to draw blood from a live person for the first time in my life in my medical lab procedures class! it was amazing.....i have never stuck someone with a needle let alone take blood from them. wow....i am still proud of myself because i got it on the first try too......ok so i wasn't quite in far enough but with a little push i was in and the blood was a flowing. sorry for those who are squeamish and don't like to hear the word blood or even think about blood....but i wonder how many more times can i say blood before you stop reading this post? naw- im just kidding! but i cant' wait to do it again for the rush of it. maybe this is how drug addicts feel.....they just can't wait until their next hit or something.....interesting!
anyways, this weekend was a good time. friday night i hung out with my friend lindsey and we went to goodwill in greenville, always fun to go to that store. then on saturday, we had a home game and beat columbus state, that's always good. then, saturday night i went to UD to my friend's house for a party...yes mom if you're reading this i was good, it was a mini versailles reunion so it was a lot of fun. sunday was a sunday as usual. i slept for most of the day and then decided to get up and actually take a shower to decontaminate myself a little and do some homework. i have no complaints about this weekend so for me thats classified as a good weekend.
i love the fact that people come up to me and tell me that they're reading my blog, but then it also make me worry that i might offend someone on here or write something to get myself into trouble. so maybe my blog should come with a warning or something........but then again it's a "read at your own risk" if you ask me. anyways.....i think thats about it for today because i have to get ready for practice.

on a side note....this was just kind of psychic ....as i was blogging i got an aol instant message from nate in IT asking me if i was blogging......crazy, i know but kind of cool.
second side note: gas went up 30 cents since this morning......what's up with that! im just thankful that i still have almost a full tank so i'll be good until it goes down....which i hope is soon!

i have a movie quote for today.....it's an easy one i know but i like the movie.
character one: "I'll sell you my pickle for a nickel."
character two: " how about 5 cents?"
character one: " okay."
this one is only worth 8 points since it's a little easier.
** if you didnt read the comments of the last post , once again sean ford got my quote and it was from kicking and screaming....and one day i will stump that man. maybe it will just take me sitting at home for an entire weekend watching the worst movies ever just to get quotes. but i will stump him, i will.

well it's off to run around trying to look like i know what i'm doing in basketball practice for a hour and a half!

may you make the most of what's left of this monday!

p.s. when i was spell checking my blog like i aways do so i look like im educated or something, the word blogging came up as miss-spelled.....now don't you think that since this is a blogging site and i'm blogging in a blog that the word blogging wouldn't come up as an unknown word? hmmm......interesting.

Dumb and Dumber

2006-01-27T09:07:00.000-05:00

Sean gets the movie quote once again! A classic movie.......my friend michelle and i would pretty much quote the whole movie when we played basketball in high school and had long bus trips. good times, good times.

Pondering thought of the day: why do we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway? if anyone can tell me why it would be greatly appreciated.

Movie quote for the day:
Character 1: "Who do i look like to you?"
Character 2:"You look like a man that's about to get me a juice box that's who"
10 points for this one.......see who gets is first.

this saturday we play columbus state c.c. here at 1 pm. i hope that we get a win here because i think we've lost our last 3 games. and im also pretty excited about saturday because im going to dayton to see a lot of my high school friends. i haven't seen them since our christmas party where we had to dress up all festive otherwise you couldn't get in the door and then we had a white elephant gift exchange. good good times.

well i need to get to work and hold down the fort here in the welcome center.....oh yea, by the way, happy chinese new year to everyone this weekend. it's the year of the dog.......or so i heard on the radio.

what a week

2006-01-26T14:09:00.000-05:00

just wanted to give a little humor to everyone to hopefully brighten their day- i just thought this guy was funny
this week started off not so good but is ending nicely. its been a sad week because one year ago this week my cousin lost his life, so i've been reflecting on my life and what i actually want to do with it. for the first time in 21 years i finally know what i want to do and where i want to be. now it's just the fact of keeping on track and reaching the goals that i've set for myself.
anyways.....since i haven't put one on for while i have a movie quote.....it's pretty easy but we'll see who gets it first, here goes:
character 1-male: "What's the odds that a girl like me and a guy like you will ever get together?"
character 2-female: "umm......not good."
character 1: "like one in ten odds?"
character 2: "no, more like one in a million."
character 1: "So, you're saying there's a chance!"
-see if you get it........10 points on the friends scale if you do!

"Tina you fat lard, get in here and eat some dinner!"

2006-01-24T14:44:00.000-05:00

good movie.....i just had to post a picture of my pseudo hero ! and i just wanted to see if i could post a picture again without the help of josh.

Ta Da i did it.

more later !

"where did you get that suit.....the toliet store ?"

2006-01-20T11:21:00.000-05:00

" you guys can't even back me up. even the guy that can't think came up with something!"
- Anchorman

Thanks to Josh Reck, who is my life saver when it comes to anything computer wise, i have learned how to post pictures !! YES YES YES. oh man, this just makes my day.

So about my medical office procedures class how i was hoping that it wasn't going to be hard.......well, it's going to be a lot of work.....i don't know so much about being hard but it's just like every other class i have this semseter.....a lot of work. But enough about how hard my life is and bla bla bla.

Tomorrow we travel to Owens Community College in Toledo to take on the Express......yah whatever that is. I believe that it's something that looks like a cheeta/leopard kind of looking thing. Anyway....i think it's probably better than a lighting bolt !

Anyways....knock on wood it's a pretty slow day here at work......i hope that i just didn't put a hex on us and this afternoon is going to be crazy......we'll see.

I hope that everyone had a good first week back to classes and that you find some time to relax this weekend in the midst of doing homework! i know that's how my weekend is going to be :)

SEAN FORD IS A FRAUD

2006-01-19T14:38:00.000-05:00

i cannot believe that sean ford cheated in my movie quote game :( it seriously just pains me. so sean, i am taking away your 100pts and i'll still make some signs but i am terribly disappointed that you went to someone else to get the movie quote when you claim yourself to be the movie quote extrodinare tisk tisk tisk ! anyways, another thing that i'm not real happy about today is that someone with a red monte carlo decided to park in between 2 parking spaces therefore potentially causing me to park in parking lots 5 & 6 again! but if you read the nifty reading material posted in the bathrooms now, walking for 30 minutes a day is a good way of exercising and reducing stress.......so i think that i'll get my 30 minutes of walking in because im parked almost in the piqua football field it seems like. but i just wanted to thank you mr red monte carlo driver that can't park correctly that you helped me get my exercise and reduce my stress!!
classes are going well, a lot of work, but they are going well. i have a least one person i know in each of my classes so it's always nice to see a familiar face and have someone to talk to.
i'm sad to see snow on the ground but then i'm happy that it's above 32 degrees today, therefore the snow should melt and there will be no more snow !! whoot whoot !! :)
well i have to go to my medical office procedures class ........i hope this class isn't too hard.

i've got my lunch packed up.....my shoes tied tight.....

2006-01-17T14:42:00.000-05:00

i hope i don't get in a fight............oooohhh back to school.....back to school :) it truly pains me to have to go back to classes. i did not want to get out of bed this morning therefore that led to me having to park in the parking lots 5&6 and then about half way down the lots. it's a good thing thta i didn't try really hard to look good for the first day of classes otherwise i would have been a little "heated" if my hair and stuff got all messed up. i have mixed feelins about starting classes again......im glad to see everyone again but i do not want to do all the homework again. boo :*( makes me sad. well i have to go....i'll update more later !!

hope everyone is staying dry in this lovely rainy weather!

seriously who came up with the half sweater ?

2006-01-13T14:24:00.000-05:00

when i was getting ready to go to work today i looked through my closet and tried to find something to wear. i came acrossed this new sweater i got to wear for new year's eve this year. it's one of those trendy little half sweaters, i know that it's going to be out of style next winter but i got it on the sale rack and it was only $5 so i couldn't pass it up. anyways, now that i've let me pseudo ADD kick in and i got side tracked i'll get back to my story. i thought that i would be ok wearing a half sweater to work because right now in our office it's about 74 degrees everyday and has been like that all christmas break. just to let you all know i'm still hot working in here and i still think it's crazy that it's this hot in the office. so when i walked outside for lunch today i didn't wear my coat because i was hot already and i thought that i would be fine, well here's my lesson i learned today, when you walk outside in a half sweater that is a hole-y kind of pattern will not keep you warm no matter what kind of climate you just came from. so if i catch a cold and don't post for a few days you all will know why.

i have to go to practice soon and i'm afraid because i totally pigged out at lunch today when josh, julie, melissa and i all went to cracker barrel. i had country fried steak with mac-n-cheese, applesauce, and cottage cheese. man......as i look at my stomach right now and how bloated it is.....i would have to say that i look semi-pregnant. not that i am or anything, but that's just how i look and feel. so that's a note to self # 245....do not stuff yourself silly an hour and a half before you have to practice !

anyways....hopefully this will be a good weekend since it's the last one before school starts back up....*tear, i don't want to start school !

movie quote of the day.....see if you get this one sean ford. i will warn you if you're offended easily don't continue reading this because the quote is PG-13.
Character 1: "my balls just turned into marbles,"
Character 2: "my balls just turned to bee-bee's "
sean if you do get this, i will be impressed and i will award you 100 points and unlimited sign making for a year!
to anyone else- if you get this then you know that this movie is a great movie !
" Ahhhh , it's a horse! " - just another hint

hope everyone has a great weekend i know i will try!

Tartans Who?

2006-01-12T11:18:00.000-05:00

Edison Lady Chargers beat Sinclair for the first time in 2 years! Whoot-Whoot!! Despite the refs not calling a SINGLE foul on Sinclair in 25 MINUTES!!! a whole stinking 25 minutes......that's just plain insaine if you know anything about basketball. Especially since our halfs are only 20 minutes long!. Oh well, we overcame and didn't let that bother us to pull out the victory!!

I just wanted to update ya'll on the game and our big victory, and to let you know that our next home game is Wednesday January 18th at 5:30 against Clark State. It will be a good game so a little fan support would be awesome. Not to mention they give away door prizes for just comming to the game! Now if that isn't a selling point to get you to come to the games I don't know what is!

Let's see who gets this movie quote: "Say hello to my little friend." - I think this one will be a 7 pointer added to the friend scale since it's a little harder. Apparently my last quote was too easy according to sean ford, so here is a challenge for you sean 7pts if you get it!

"i am perfect nothing, i'm imperfect something......

2006-01-11T10:26:00.000-05:00

i am introverted, a little crazy but less than perverted"- Northmont (formerly known as Auryn) i'm pretty excited that ward and justin from northmont are going to be in the cafeteria on the first day of school. i enjoy their music and they always put on a good show so i would HIGHLY recommend everyone check them out in the cafeteria on the 17th and then buy tickets to see the story-tellers show on January 28th.

it's been a while since i've posted, i have to give props to sean ford on getting my movie quote at the end of my other post. anchorman was the movie and the quote is from ron burgundy. what a great movie. if you haven't seen it i would totally recommend it, but you have to watch it with your friends and have to be in the mood for a good comedy movie.
another good movie that i just watched was million dollar baby. i know that movie has been out for a while but i just now saw it and i loved it. i like when movies don't play out like you think they're supposed to. i'm also glad that i watched that movie by myself, otherwise i would have felt silly over the tear that i shed at that movie. once again, if you haven't seen......go see it!

i can't believe that school is going to start back up in less than a week!!?!?!?! i have mixed feelings about it because i want to go to class to see everyone again but i'm not very excited about all the homework that i think that i'm going to have. i'm registered for 15 credits this semester and that is the most that i've ever been registered for and i'm kind of worried how things will go because on top of school i still have basketball and being a work study in student services. needless to say i think that i will not be having much of a life outside of this building. it's almost like high school all over again because i come here when it's still dark outside and then i leave when it's dark outside. aren't vampires like that? .........ooooohhhh scary ! :) kidding!

well, i only have an hour left of work.......that makes me pretty darn excited. almost like when the shirt you've had your eye on goes on sale and the last one left is your size! it's a-ma-zing!!!

hope this random post was entertaining for ya'll and that it finds you in good spirits !!

p.s. GO BOLTS!! BEAT SINCLAIR !!!! Tartans Who?!?! let's make it 11-4 ladies!!

I think way too much

2005-12-30T11:47:00.000-05:00

i've decided that i think about things WAY to much. i think about things in my mind over and over and over and over- i think you get the point- to the point where i make myself crazy. i wish that i wasn't like that, but i just can't help not to think about things to where i get them figured out because i hate having unresolved things on my mind. i think it's all about being in control of myself and my emotions. my thoughts and feelings are almost the only one real thing that i have that is totally mine and no one else's , therefore i feel that i need to be in control of them and when i'm not i just get in such a funk i hate it. i feel like i've not been myself in about a month and a half and i just can't stand it. i know what half of my problem is. if i wasn't so dang self conscious about everything and what people think about me, i don't think that i would have this problem. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger right? so why do i feel weak and not in control? things in my life aren't even that crazy right now so that's why i'm confused on why i feel this way. i just think that i need to sleep for a long time so i'm not so tired and i can deal with whatever comes my way.
now that i've depressed everyone reading this.....i hope you all have a safe and happy new years !! cheers to you !

drinking milk before practice.......baaaaadddd idea!

2005-12-29T12:43:00.000-05:00

8 am practices seem to be kicking my butt as of late. man, wouldn't you think it's our christmas break and we have days off but we still have to be here at 8am!?! that's harsh if you ask me. so anyways, i thought that i would try to eat something light before practice this morning so i had a glass of milk and a granola bar on the drive over. not smart. not 15 minutes after practice started my stomach started to feel funny and i was about to toss the granola bar and milk but thankfully i didn't. YUCK!
anyways, i've discovered that i love jack johnson's music. i just got his cd for christmas and it hasn't left my cd player yet. i would totally recommend it!
not too much is happening in the life as of now, and i like it that way. after last semester, although it wasn't terrible, i need a break.
i'm going to columbus for new year's eve with a bunch of my friends.......should be a good time :) if you can't tell i'm pretty excited about it!
well i better get back to work now

"you stay classy san diego!" - five points on the friend scale who ever gets that line!

You'll shoot your eye out!

2005-12-21T14:13:00.000-05:00

Well now that finals are over I have a little more free time. I have to say that I did better than I expected myself to do- not to toot my own horn or anything :) TOOT TOOT - ok it's out of my system. Anyways, I believe that this year for Christmas I've been in a ba humbug mood and I just can't get into the spirit of Christmas. I don't know what it is, but I don't even like to listen to Christmas music yet. I know that I only have 4 days until Christmas, but I just can't do it. I don't even have my Christmas shopping finished! I know that I'll probably wait until Friday to totally finish all of my Christmas shopping. Oh well. Basketball update: The Lady Chargers are now 9-3, not too bad if I do say so. All in all basketball is going well for me. It's defiantly teaching me to be a very patient person. There's some lesson to learn with everything that you do, i've figured that out in my semi-old age!
Well I hope you all have a Wonderful Christmas and an even better New Year.

.....finals

2005-12-07T12:10:00.000-05:00

I saw an albino squirrel today.........does that make me special?

too worried about my medical assisting final in 45 minutes to really care to write anything

I wish myself luck -- GO MINDY you can do it !

You might be a redneck.......

2005-12-06T15:16:00.000-05:00

If you walk into your garage to find a gutted deer hanging from the ceiling and you still go inside and eat dinner..........you might be a redneck! That was my experience when I came home from basketball practice on monday night. Needless to say I still went inside to eat my grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup, and then proceeded to help butcher that deer. You never know what's going to be going on at my house. Wow.........I can officially say that we are a half redneck family.

"...I just like to punch things"

2005-12-05T13:35:00.000-05:00

Quote of the weekend: " Sometimes when I consume certain beverages, I just like to punch things" and then this person out of no where punches the closet door behind them. When you're sober, this is one of the funniest things ever. So that was the tone of Saturday night. Friday night I had to work at the Piqua Country Club for the Home Builders Association, good party to work. They had a pretty good d.j. there and once were finished serving the tables and such we got to stand around and watch all the slightly intoxicated people dance. Talk about cheap entertainment!
Things haven't been too exciting other than just school, work, and basketball. I am sooooo ready for this week to be over though. Only one final on Wednesday, and I'm pretty sure that I can get a half way decent grade on it, but we'll have to see.

I got this e-mail from one of my co-workers, I think it's pretty funny and I'm going to share:

NEW RULES:

1. Stop giving me that pop-up ad for Classmates.com! There's a reason I haven't talked to these people for 25 years: because I didn't particularly like them when I was in school, and Im certain that I'll like them even less now. Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days: mowing my lawn.

2. Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: do you have 2 of them? Okay, we're done

3.The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the "butt"hole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half- soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one sweet-n'-low and one NutraSweet," ohh, you're a huge "butt"hole

4.When I asks how old your toddler is, I don't need to know in months. "27 months" He's 2 will do just fine. He's not cheese. And I don't really care in the first place, I only asked to be polite.

There are some more rules.....but these were I guess the PG-13 ones.

I'm off to find a nice quiet place to take nap, hopefully some place like that exists in this school, it's not like I can go to my dorm or anything :(

ta ta

Where to begin

2005-11-29T12:38:00.000-05:00

Man..... I don't even know where to begin. Let's see...Wednesday night softball dance.....Mini high school reunion, I was so glad to see a lot of my old classmates and then hang out and have a good time with them. Thanksgiving, I think this was the first time in about 5 or 6 years that I didn't have any place to go ......I enjoyed the break and I was glad that I got to visit my grandma in the nursing home since I haven't seen her in a while. Friday.....My only day to actually sleep in during my break from school.....What does my mom do.......She comes into my room at 9 AM and threw open my blinds and IM greeted by a blasting ray of sunlight and she informed me that it's my job today to put up the Christmas tree. Seriously, its one stinking day after thanksgiving and is it really necessary to get me up at 9 AM to put up the stinking Christmas tree!!!!! Let me tell you, after I ate my bowl of cheeri-os, which aren't too "cheery" at 9 in the morning, I got out our poor excuse of a Christmas tree and put that dang thing up in less than an hour! Friday night was better.....Got to hang out with my friends again, good times, I miss seeing everyone on a weekly basis like this summer. I cant wait until Christmas so ill get to see everyone for almost a whole month. Saturday and Sunday pretty much uneventful: went shopping and had basketball practice....That's about it. But on Sunday I had my friend Erins bridal shower. It was so crazy because she's only about 17-20 hours older than me and she's getting married in 3 weeks!!! IM so happy for her though because she's so happy and Brian is good for her. I also get to hand out programs at her wedding so I feel honored to be a part of their wedding. I love Christmas weddings.....They're so pretty.
This week is going to be crazy though.....Games on Wednesday and Thursday nights at 7 ...both home at least...and then we have to go to southern state on Saturday morning. Oh what fun a bus ride that will be.

I'm off to human bio class......now where is the obicularis oculi located again ? ;)

oh what a saturday

2005-11-20T13:32:00.000-05:00

Our game saturday was enough to give me an ulcer.....man! but the bolts prevailed and pulled off a victory to make us now 4-1.....nicley done ladies. And the charger men's team aslo pulled off an exciting victory....way to go fellas. Not to mention that the Buckeyes won.....wow......OH-IO. So my day started out wonderfully, then i went home to find that my parents went to Red Lobster...one of my favorite places to eat....and i had to eat a stinking bologna sandwich for supper.....man i got hosed. But then i went to feather's house....good times.....then the boy's apartment in piqua....what can i say....couldn't have been any better :) Unfortunatly since i'm a huge procrastinator i am trying to type a paper that is due tomrrow....but there are just too many distractions that are keeping me from it, like the browns game, talking to lindsey lou on aol, watching tv, taking a nap, and pretty much everything else other than typing this paper. So i'm going to try to be a good student and work on it for real now.

Until next time :)

New to the Community of Blogging

2005-11-18T17:45:00.000-05:00

Hi my name is Mindy and I'm an alcoho.........wait, this isn't my AA class......just kidding!! A little about myself, I'm from Versailles, the very little village, and this is my third year here at Edison. I play basketball here for the Lady Chargers, GO BOLTS ! I also work at student services, and please don't post on here and complain to me about , " where is my loan check, where's my money, why can't i have this bla bla bla." because I don't handle that stuff. (Just to get that off of my chest) Anyways, I'm new to this whole blogging stuff and I don't know how great and interesting this journal will be but I promise I will try to make it exciting and just remember that anytime you don't agree with anything I say you can stop reading this at anytime. Off to practice....I promise more exciting things to come!

oh... if anyone is bored on Saturday we have a home basketball game at 1:00 pm and the men play after us at 3:00 pm against Glen Oaks!! GO CHARGERS !