Joy, Time, and Possibly Randomness

I feel as if I have no time to post anything these days!  If I have time to write a blog post, I feel I should be working on my ten-page essay for English instead or do a chapter of Psychology homework or start studying for the next Biology test, even if I just took the last one...  The few times I pulled out the computer to blog, I blanked out...  It's not that I have nothing I'm doing or to talk about, I just keep thinking, "Oh, as soon as I get some pictures, I'll put that post up," or "I can't write about that yet because it'll be so much better after it actually happens." Meaning: I have a trip coming up next week that I'm super excited about, but I want to blog about it with all the juicy details. Also meaning: I have a craft-ie-y-ish post just waiting on pictures of the actual crafts (which I think are SUPER cute). I'm also toying with a post about my nieces cause I can never get enough of them (proud and obsessed Auntie right here) and I think a blog post full of their pictures would make me smile for a week! Oh, AND, I have a clean room... And a re-organized room... And a clean room... And my laundry's done... And a clean room! I know you all don't believe me about my clean room (I like saying that) and I did promise my mom to post the "after" pictures (apparently the "before" were that bad...) so that's on the list as well. I'm finding my biggest problem is time. Time and I are always just missing each other, kind of like Sleep and I are doing... No time, no sleep, but homework and I are becoming... very acquainted.  So now what? How 'bout this:

I love life! I'm not sure how many people are aware of that fact, but I do!  Even when my schedule consists of only work, school, and homework (as many BUSY weeks do!) I still find myself laughing constantly and taking joy in little things.  I have so much to look forward to, I feel it would be easy to rush through today hoping to get to tomorrow faster.  I'm so glad I don't tho.  Joys from today: Laughing with my co-worker over thoroughly silly and random subjects, making and enjoying a new recipe (Lemon Olive Oil Banana Bread with a Lemon/Brown Sugar glaze= SOOOOOO GOOD!!!!!), a delicious vegetable lasagna for dinner, a totally unexpected picture and text from dear friend that had me trying not to laugh (dang, Nolly!)...  What am I looking forward to? ALOT!

Besides the upcoming trip (seriously excited!!!!!!!), I feel I have a jam-packed, well, year! I have a Valentine's Day "date", kinda, sorta, ok, not really...  A co-worker and I made plans to go see "The Vow" the Tuesday after it came out, not knowing that would be V-Day.  Neither of us have or anticipate other plans, so we decided to keep our "date", we're even adding lunch to the movie.  Honestly, it's just a "Girl's Day Out" to us, so it'll be alot of fun.  For Spring Break, my older sister and brother-in-law and NIECES are coming up to stay for the week.  I'm quite excited, ecstatic, happy, delirious with joy over having family come to visit me for a week!  In June, I get to go see "Wicked" again with The Ginger (our Christmas/birthday gifts to each other).  In July, I'm going to San Francisco with Ramen Girl to go see "Les Miserable" (my first time seeing it, happiness!).  I get my nieces for two weeks this summer (both this time).  I apply for PTA programs in March and get responses in May.  If I get accepted, I start the program in August.  The most exciting thing to look forward to?  Drum roll please: In September, I become an Aunty for the third time!  :-D I think being an Aunty is the perfect job for me, I love being the crazy, eccentric Aunty and I adore my nieces (and possibly nephew?) sooooooo much!!!!

My goodness!  See why it's important to remember to enjoy today with so many wonderful things to look forward to?  And now I think I see why I have a hard time FINDING time!

My First Week Of... School

• The first week of school has come and gone and I'll never get back those 14 hours again it wasn't so bad. 
• I think my classes this semester will be the most homework-laden ever! challenging yet.
• My teachers seem determined to drive me to an early death to be passionate about what they're teaching, which always makes class not quite so boring a bit more fun.

• I was able to get my books quickly but they cost me an arm and a leg plus my firstborn so I can start on my homework now but I still have to get the rest out of my car.
• My classes are getting more ridiculously impossible advanced now, like the continuation of anatomy and physiology also known as death by memorization and sign language 2 which I know is going to be the only class I really prepare for my favorite class.

• I have so much dang homework already enough assignments due Monday that I thought a two-sided checklist might remind me why I want to finish as quickly as possible be helpful each week.
• The only thing carrying me through most exciting thing about this semester is I get to finally apply for PTA (Physical Therapist Assistant) programs and I killed myself finished my PreReq's and GenEd faster than the applicants who still have a life most other applicants!

~The end of my life for another semester End!

The Outdated Update About... Pretty Much Nothing!

My Goodness!!! Time most definitely does fly! It's been well over a year since I last bored anyone to death on here, how tragic. What have you been up too? What have I been up to? Currently, I'm sitting on a train that is jostling back and forth so much that I'm having to delete or backspace just about every other word. But the jostling is for a good cause; each shudder of the train car and thought of death at squealing wheels feeling as if they are about to lift off the track is bringing me closer to my mom. I'll be very happy to be able to hug her again, and then cry with her when we pick up my brother at the airport tomorrow night. I'm actually quite bored on this particular trip. The train is running behind schedule and is probably going faster than normal in attempt to make up some time, but I feel as if it's taking twice as long as normal! That's what happens when you're used to driving everywhere- when I just sit, I've no idea what to do with myself!

I've gone back to boredom, I mean school... Again... For like the millionth time... I've actually had friends and family members comment that they believe I will be in school for the rest of my life and that I actually enjoy it... What a horrible thing to say! I'd cry so bad if I let myself consciously believe that, so I keep that truth buried very deeply. I'm heading into my third semester back with 274 more to go, or so it feels.

I'm still with the same job, the same client/patient, the same, the same, the same. Yep, I'm almost about to break the record for how long I've worked for any one company. Usually I move on between a year and a year and a half... I'm almost exactly at a year and a half now, this will be a bit odd to have to put at least three different years on my resume: 2010, 2011, 2012... Scary!

I might have touched on my family in past posts, but since my youngest niece was born (I only have two) I'm officially obsessed with them! My roommate is thoroughly disgusted with this doting aunt! I go into toy stores to see what would make the biggest mess in my sister's home, I mean see what Lizzie and Kenna would enjoy right now... I look at all the little girl clothes and wonder how much threatening it would take to get my sister to send me a picture of them in the cute clothes I buy them... I spend my spare time thinking of where to take them next summer when I get to kidnap them (with permission of course!) for two weeks... I look at pictures I have of them and as soon as I'm done I call or Facebook my sister to whine until she promises me new pictures... I meet someone new and within minutes they know who Lizzie and Kenna are and have seen at least three pictures... I buy a lot of useless things intending to make it into something awesome for them so they'll think I'm the best auntie ever! Yeah, like I said, I'm just a little obsessed. But you would be too if they were your cute, adorable, big-blue-eyed and blonde haired little nieces with smiles that melt your heart and voices that hurt your ear until Lizzie says "Hug, Coley?" or "I love you, Coley" and then you turn into syrup! Yep, you would be too...

Umm, what else... I'm quite excited to go see my eye doctor on Thursday! Is that a little weird? My eyes see double often, like the two eyes that I have do not want to cooperate and let my brain combine the two pictures or is it my brain punishing me for having to use it in school that's keeping the images my eyes send it separate...? Good question! Anyway, this trip is going to go by very fast, I'm only in my hometown for a little over 48 hours this time... Tomorrow morning my mom and I are going to breakfast with a couple that come into her restaurant a lot. The husband is Deaf and the wife signs and ASL (American Sign Language) was my absolutely favorite class this past semester and I just kept going on and on and on about how much I liked it and signing to anyone and everyone who wouldn't get mad at me. You like how many "ands" I managed to get in there? So yes, breakfast in the morning, tears in the evening, and better sight the next morning (I hope)!

Everything is still as boring as ever here in my life, but for some reason, there's a lot of laughter and fun... I think I might have to look up the definition of boring because I could have sworn that work, school, homework, and sleep would count towards that style of a mundane life... Guess just not if I'm in the picture! :-D