End to a good Saturday

So my Saturday in general has been pretty good in all. I really didn't do a whole lot really. I went and did a couple of errands and then went to my parent's house for a while. I went through my clothes and shoes and got rid of most of it, since we are going to be having a yard sale in a couple of weeks.

While I was there, I started to sneeze like nothing else. Whenever my mom starts to clean...or even myself for that matter....and it starts to stir up the dust I start sneezing like nothing else. It gets so bad that I have to stop and lay down for a while just so I can stop sneezing. So I say that I am allergic to cleaning lol So do this get me out of cleaning??? ;) I like to think that it does.

So I went home after I had my fill of sneezing my head off and then took a nap for maybe an hour. Which was nice :) Watched a few of my shows that I has taped and then went and got my dog to spend the night with me since I am at home alone forthe weekend. I feel a little bit better with her here with me, while my roomies are gone.

So I have been debating all day to go for a run or not. So I finally decided that I would since I didn't go yesterday. This was the first time that I took Tinker running with me.And tgo my surprise ahe actually did a pretty good job. I only had to pull her along a couple of times, since she was more interested in smelling something that caught her attention.

The only thing that I regret about my Saturday is that I wished that I would have timed my run, since it felt like this run was a little faster than normal. So I am going to continue to think that I had a decent run time :)

So until later.

Had a Wonderful Friday

So today was a pretty good Friday, if I do say so myself. Even though it might not be what everybody would want to do, I had a good time. I was babysitting my two favorite girls that I have ever watched. Since they are out of school, I had them from 0830 to 1730. We did some errands around Carbondale that I had to get done...so not so exciting time for them, but I got somethings done that I needed to.

So after lunch we spent a couple of hours swimming! It was just what I needed. I havent been swimming in a long time and it was really relaxing and a fun time.

So right now I am hoping that this slight sunburn will turn into a slight tan since I seem to always be pale. Apparently my mom, dad, and sister seems to have the gene to be able to tan easily and for some reason I did not get this gene.

That was basically my day...had dinner at my parent's house and now I am just sitting at home doing nothing. I should be be picking up my room since my clothes have seem to have taken over my floor space lol.

Now what to do tomorrow since mmy roommates are gone to Current River doing on some float trips and drinking all day/night. So what is a girl to do on a great Saturday??

just a little update: still haven't hearf anything about the loans and i finally decided that I am not going to do the Officer thing and just stay enlisted.

until later :)

wanting a normal life

is that even possible???

i hope that some day that it will be!

* i just want to be able to work normal hours: especailly since i am sitting here
at work and still have five more hours to go before my shift is over

* have enough income to where i don't have to worry about if i have enough to do some
extra things if i want to (not that i don't think that thiss issue will ever change or go
away lol)

* be able to not worry about my stupid loans that i had to take out for school.
(hopefully i will hear something about this by the end of this week. seems like
everytime we tried to get it sent off to where it needed to go, there was something
else that we forgot to fill out! keeping praying that they (the Navy) will just end up
feeling sorry for me and just pay the major loan off that i have.)

well thats all that i got for right now. i think that if i weren't as tired as i am now and not doing this post at 0230 i could come up with more things. i am sure that who ever is reading this is shouting with joy that i am done complaining for right now. hopefully my next post will be a lot better than the last two posts that i have done.

have a great day! :)

at work bored and with some free time

So right now I am at work...and as my title suggest I have some free time. Just a little update that I still haven't heard anything about the loan repayment yet. I talked to one of my recruiters today and he said that he couldn't get a hold of Chief that works in St. Louis that handles the loan repayment. So hopefully I will hear some good news today about that.

Anywho, my run yesterday was brutle!! It was so humid, I thought that I was going to die! I am hoping that my time will get better here shortly. Right now it seems that my mile is longer than normal ever since I started running on the road and not on the usual track at the rec center. Wondering if that is normal or not?

So I guess I better get back to work...even though I dont have much to do right now.

so until later,

Still Waiting......

Decided that before I went running this morning I would do a small post...since I really am not in the mood to go running right now...

Went to Chicago this past weekend and had a great time! I went up there with my aunt and as my roommates for a rooftop game to watch the cubs (boo!) and dodgers play. Needless to say, didn't watch the game that much. I was having too good of a time eating/drinking and talking with everybody that I knew. So it was worth the price that I had to pay....but not to excitied about if i gained weight from all the great food that they had available. I am thinking that all the walking that we did will equal everything out so that I didn't gain anything.

Still waiting on to hear about if my all of my loans are going to get paid off by the Navy. Hope to hear something about that today.

Also, I might have a place that might actually have a paid internship available! So I am going to head over there this morning to drop my letter and resume off. So keep your fingers crossed for me!

So now its time to go running....even if it already really humid...gotta love SO ILL weather!!

Need Answers for the questions of my life right now...can anybody help??

Right now, I am wishing that there is some way that all the questions about what I am going to be doing in the near future (especially the fall semester) would just some how appear. If that could actually happen, I think that I could actually enjoy my summer a little bit more than I am now without the stress of these couple of issues.


So here are my wonderful problems:


Internship:

So apparenty my wonderful school thinks that in order to graduate that I should have to do an internship. I can see thir point. But what I don't get is that we (the students) have to pay the school full tuition so that we can go work somewhere for free! So this fall, I have to pay 1-2 thousand dollars just to do this!! I don't see the concept in that...but oh well...can't do anything about that. But my major problem is, trying to find an assistantship ( for all that don't know...assistantship = paid internship). Trying to find one is like trying to find a needle in a haystack! Hardly...no...no one around this area offers any. So I went around Marion and Herrin giving out my resume and a letter saying what I was looking for. I also threw in, that it would be nice to get an assistantship, because if I dont...here's my options (FYI: I only told them about the first one that I am about to explain)

1. Work forty hours a week for the internship and then have to work at my current postion on the weekends, so i total of at least 76 hours a week of working!! not looking forward to that at all!

2. Or I could take out a loan that would cover my expensives for the semester and just work at my internship and then have no life since I won't be able to do anything extra that much.

So either way that I go...in the end I will have no social life for the semester...what is a girl to do in this situation?? lol

But I am hopeful that one of the places that I went to yesterday will feel sorry for me and let me do have an assistantship!

Life in the Navy:

So as you all know, I am enlisted in the Navy and will be leaving for Great Lakes, IL for bootcamp in Jan. I know what you all are thinking, because I am thinking the same thing...It's going to be freezing up there and why are you going then and not when it is warmer?? If i could change my date to at least to when it is slightly warmer, believe me I would!! But anywho, thats not my problem that I am trying to figure out.

My current situation is trying to figure out if I should try and go Officer or not? When people hear this they automatically say that I should, since it would be a lot better than just going in enlisted. Believe me I know this! But as of right now, the jobs that I qualify for are not really what I want to do. And the job that I got when I go enlisted is what I want to do.

Another aspect is that, if I stay enlisted, there is a good chance that I can get my loans paid off that I have from school. The Officer program doesn't offer this. So from a finacial stand point, it is better to stay enlisted. Especailly if they will pay off the biggest loan that I have! But on the other hand, wondering what to do if they should happen not to pay them off?? Stay enlisted or try the Officer route? (that is if I get accepted to the program)




So for all that are still reading this, THANK YOU, for letting me get some things off of my chest. Besides these two things, my life is going pretty well right now. I have a trip planned to Chicago this weekend and then a trip to Florida in July. I can't wait to get away from this area for a while, just for a little break and not have to think about any thing.

So have a great day!

Hurricane in SO ILL.....who knew that could happen??

Well everyone because of our crazy weather that we can get in So Ill...we experienced an !INLAND HURRICANE! on friday afternoon. it all started when we got a pretty good storm on friday around 0030 or so. we had hail up to 2 inches and needless to say, i got some dings in my hood of my car. so not too bad i thought.

so then on friday morning i got a call from my mom saying that i needed to go to her house and stay with my dog, tinker, because she is really afraid of storms and strong winds. so i did some running around that morning and then got to my parents house around 11 or a little after. thank goodness that i did go over there, because if i did stay at my house, my car would have gotten smashed by car limbs that fell arround my roommates car.

so about this inland hurricane...it was the worst storm that i have ever gone through! it was crazy! we had winds that got up to 106 mph! we were lucky that we had no damage to the house or vehicles, but some people were not as lucky. i will post pictures once the power gets back on. we have been without power since friday afternoon and we dont know when they will have it back on. there are about 45000 people in the surrounding area that are without power right now. but at least we have water and hot water as that!!

but we have been volunteering at the fire station since my dad is on the fire department...so we have been able to have good food and been able to stay busy during al of this. but during the night we have had a county wide curfew that goes from 2000-0600 to prevent extra traffic on the roads to get in the way of the crews and to prevent theft since there are a lot of businesses that are not opened because of the power outage.

so hopefully we will have power soon so that i can upload some pics just to show you what damages of an inland hurricane looks like.

until next time