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Since last time....

* Thanksgiving was great!
We went to my grandma's for lunch...let me just say it was yum-o! She always fixes way too much food but she always fixes everybody's favorites. :)

* My sister was able to come home from Wednesday thru Sunday. It was nice to have her come home for the holiday. I think that my mom especially enjoyed it because she had a shopping partner for Black Friday. They started shopping at 12 am and didn't get home until noon. Can you imagine shopping for 12 hours in that crazyness?? The only reason I didn't go out into that mess was because I had to work that night.

* So my hip is doing much better. I did end up getting the Cortisone shot which has helped greatly. And actually getting the shot wasn't as bad as I thought as it would be. Thank god for that!

* I have started back running...woo hoo! It feels so great to get back into running.

* Only four more weeks left of my current job and then I will be done working nights!

* Only 5 more weeks until I leave on my cruise to the Bahamas!! I am so ready to not have to worry about anything for a week.

* And pray that I do well on my physical fitness test (PFT) on the 16th of this month...this is just see where I am at physically before I leave for bootcamp. The only thing that I am really worried about are the push ups. So right now thats what I am really working on.

* Then in about 7 weeks I leave for bootcamp...wow how time has flown since I first enlisted back in March.

* And I think that the best thing that is coming up is that I graduate on the 19th!! Finally! Seems like these past 4 years have taken forever to get through. I will graduate with a BS in Health Care Management.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

until later,

I know...its been a while since I have posted anything. Please forgive me :)

Well, there still isn't a lot going on with me. Still working 6 days a week. But that's for only for the next 4 weeks until the semester is over. Then I will go back to just working my regular full time job.

My internship is going really well. I will have to say that I will miss it and the people when I have to leave. I just found out on Tuesday that they are going to end up giving me something to say thank you for all of the work that I have done. I was surprised when they told me that. That is such a nice thing to do! I can't wait to see what it is.

Also, at the moment I am planning to go on a cruise for one last big vacation before I leave for bootcamp. I am going with a girl from work, which should be a good time. We are going to be going to the Bahama's on Norwegian Cruise Line. Its a 4 night cruise and we stop at three ports. I am so ready to go and just relax and not have to worry about a thing. So if any of you have ever been on that cruise line, let me knw what you thought about it please.

Speaking of leaving...I hope that I will be ready for it. For the past few weeks I have had to stop running because I have bursitis in my hip. It has been killing me that I have not been able to go running. I have a couple of more weeks of physical therapy left, and hopefully this will take care of the problem. If not, I will have to get a steroid shot in my hip that will take care of the problem. So I am thinking positive thoughts about the therapy so that I won't have to get a needle stuck in my hip! So far the therapy is working. It is still a little sore, but not as bad as it was when I first started going.

Well, I better get back to work. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Until later,

BOO!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT ONE

ESPECIALLY WITH AN EXTRA HOUR TO ENJOY IT!

hopefully i can write a longer post sometime tomorrow

since it has been a while.

until next time.

One of my favorite times of the year

Fall has to be one of the best times of the year that I enjoy. I love it when the weather is just cool enough to be able to wear just a hoody and still be warm enough to enjoy being outside. So here are a few things I enjoy about this season:

gotta LOVE when fall colors start to show:

I also enjoy sitting around a bonfire on a crisp fall night

while making an enjoying some of these!Also, whats fall with out some football:

Go Dawgs!

(my school that I am currently attending right now)

Can't wait to see what the new stadium will look like!

Below is the current one:

Pumpkins! Gotta carve at least one :)

And, who doesn't love Thanksgiving!?!

You get to be around family, love the smell of the house when you are cooking the great meal for that day, and just be able to think about what you are thankful for a little bit more than you would on any other given day.

Hope you all have had a great weekend!

until next time,

Friends

Been thinking a while about how great it is to have friends. I myself really didn't have any best friends while I was in high school. Granted I was friends with most everybody in my class. But it wasn't until I started going to SIUC that I met my bestie.

I had just started in my program of Healthcare Management and was in one of my classes and just picked a seat in the back, like I normally do. So she sat down next to me and thank goodness she did, because we had to get into groups so that we could do group work. And that was the start of our great friendship. I have no idea what I would do with out this girl.

We have had some great times together and I am sure that we will have many more in the future! I have no idea what we are going to do when I leave for the Navy in Jan and she is planning on joining the Army as well. She is still thinking about it, but I am pretty sure that she is going to go ahead and do it. But I am sure that we will still be able together some how and have a great time! ;)

So here are some quotes that I have found about friends:

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."

"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."

"Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart."

As I promised...

Sorry that it has been a while since I have posted anything. So where do I begin....

First off thought I would tell you about the Dierks Bentley concert that I went with my best friend Joanna. We had a great time that night. It was at Harrah's in Metropolis, IL, which is about an hour a way from where I live. So her family knows someone that is pretty high up that works there and he got us free tickets to the concert. The tickets are just general admission which are pretty decent seats, so we where pretty happy with where we ended up. But a few minutes after we got there and got something to drink...the guy that she knows took us into the VIP seating which was the section of seats that where right up next to the stage!!! How awesome was that!!

So we decided that we would go up right next to the stage to get some good pics and then just find a place to stand for the rest of the concert. So we got our pics and then we just kind of stood there because he was going around shaking everyone's hand that where next to the stage. So he got to Joanna and then he got to me. So I had my hand up and he took it and I was thinking that it was going to be some nice hand shake and thats it...boy was i wrong! He ended up holing my hand and singing to me for at least a good 30-45 secs! It was AWESOME!

The rest of the concert was great. It lasted for a good hour and he sang all of his popular songs and I have to say that it was the best concert that I have ever gone to ever.

This is how close we where for basically the whole concert!

above: One of my favorite pics
~ so thats the end of my concert excitement until the next one ~

Also, I have started a new running workout. It is a combination of just normal running, interval workouts, and biking. So right now it is going pretty well. I am only on the second week of it. But I have had to take a few days of because I have some how pulled/strained my left thigh muscle. So I have been trying to let it heal up by not doing the full running program. There is something to do from Monday-Saturday and then you have Sunday as a "rest" day. But as for me, I have had maybe a couple of days off instead of just only one. I didn't think that was too bad. Hopefully this will help me get where I want to be with my running.

So my Summer vacation is now over :(

Starting tomorrow I will only be working weekends at the hospital..Thursday thru Saturday. Which is my regular full time job = 36 hrs/week. And then starting next week I will start working at my internship which is Monday-Wednesday which is 24 hrs/week. Thats right if you did the math, I will be working 60 hrs/week from now until Christmas break! With part of it being unpaid and the other part working nights. So needless to say...there goes the little of a social life that I have right now. Not much you can do on a Sunday afternoon after waking up from working a 12 hour shift from the night before! But I will have to say that I hope that this will make the semester go by fast, since I will be so busy working the whole time!

Some other random news:

I have finally gotten to my goal weight that I needed to be able to meet the requirements for the height/weight standards that the Navy has in place!! Now I am just working on losing a few more pounds just in case their scales weigh heavy.

Found some great deals at New York & Co. today! They are having a buy one, get one free sale on some of there pants. They are about the only place that I can find dress pants that are available in my size and they are talls! You should check it out :)

Got my eval done at work and received my 3.5 % raise which will start in Sept. So looking forward to that.

Well that is about it for now, I will let you all know how the internship goes and if anything else that happens. Hope you all have a great rest of the week and weekend!

Until later,

Hello every one!

I promise that tonight I will post an update. I have a couple of things that I need to post about and post a few pics as well.

until then,