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Jul. 25th, 2006 @ 04:38 pm (no subject)
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Current Music: Audioslave - Original Fire
I haven't updated in a long time. I feel like I've been in some kind of time warp the past couple weeks though, so that could have something to do with it. I think the last time I updated was after the function in SC and my bday. Since then I have finished summer school, wahoo! I'm almost done with my peer leadership position, tomorrow's my last day :( I just want to finally get paid. I should have somewhere around $450 coming my way, and I need it b/c I just went to the atm and saw my balance, ouch. The 15th I had my bday party with my family. My dad got me a new camera, it's a Kodak EasyShare Z650. I totally love it and don't care that it's bulky b/c it takes awesome pics. My sister got me a new Coach purse! It's slightly bigger than my other one so that helps. Got a Coach keychain too, I didn't ask for this but it's nice. My bday cake was totally embarrassing. It's me naked in the bathtub around the age of 2 with my hair spiked up. I was so mortified my sister would actually put that on a cake and that my dad conspired with her and gave her the picture. Bryan loved every minute of seeing the cake and then seeing me turn bright red. The 19th I went with Bryan, his sisters and their husbands to see Bill Engvall at the Kane County Fair. He was funny, so I guess it was worth the $25. At some point in time the Kim's and I went to Homewood Days where Kimmay proceeded to drink a lot of Mike's. She's such a crazy drunk, crazy isn't really the word. Well I can't think of the right word at this moment. But I got to see drunk Kimmay again this past Friday nite while out with a couple chem friends. I'm sure there's other things I've done in the mean time, but that's just a quick update.
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Jul. 11th, 2006 @ 10:14 am (no subject)
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: 2gether - That's When I'll Be Gone (Taco Version)
What do you know, I'm 22 now. I'll have to get used to that. I know I have a ton of stuff to write about but I don't want to bore everyone. I talked Kimmay's ear off yesterday. I'm sure she wished I would just stop talking, but thanks for listening Kimmay. I've had a really good week. For the 4th I went to Park Forest to some middle school and just had so much fun with business people. We grilled tons of food. Somehow Bryan was in charge of cooking everything. Oh and I had deer for the first time, it wasn't bad, it was just meat. Played some frisbee with Bryan, and yes I was way better than him at it. The guys played football and then played basketball. The girls played volleyball. My arms hurt and were bruised, but I had fun. 'Played' some soccer later in the day. I say 'played' just for myself. It's kinda hard to run around in Converse and a strapless bra. But I definitely made some good plays. Played air hockey with Bryan, he totally beat me in that. And finally, watched the fireworks while laying on the hood of the Dakota. Thursday I had to go in early and take my math test. It was ok, I mean I don't know how well I did, but I don't think it was anything really tricky. However, it was hard studying for that test. I could not stay focused for anything. After that I drove straight to Bryan's so we could go and meet everyone in Park Forest. Talked to Kim on the way down there, it was nice to talk to her b/c I haven't in a while. But anyways, met everyone and waited for the bus to come. We were supposed to leave at 8:30 but didn't end up leaving until 9:30 b/c we had to wait for the Iowa people. So after that we were on our merry way to SC. Got there eventually, it took way longer than it should have. Now I know not to sit next to a tv and near a speaker esp when you're trying to fall asleep. Went to the Bi-Lo Center for the Friday nite part of the weekend, got back to the hotel where a bunch of us proceeded to order 7 pizzas from Papa John's. And there was like 14 of us in one of the boys rooms, and it was a tiny room, so that made for an interesting time. Went to bed around 2:30 and I woke up at 6:20 to get ready for Saturday's events. People sung Happy Birthday to me while on the bus, it was nice and embarrassing at the same time. After the morning session and we got back to the hotel we walked over to Wendy's for lunch. On the way people were looking at one of those International truck, ya know, like the one Ashton Kutcher drives. Those things are ridiculous and not in a good way. Took a much needed nap after lunch and called my sister and my dad. Went back for the evening session and there were some good stories that night. That nite we did not order anything for 'dinner', just went straight to bed. So then it was Sunday and had I known that that part of the weekend was optional I would not have gone. Not b/c it of the whole optional thing but it turned into a Sunday 'service'. Ok, seriously, it was so freakin weird, I felt like I was at some TV evangelical things. It was seriously fucked up and I was amazed how many people were into it, but I was in the South. But I felt bad about leaving in the middle, so I just stayed there in pain. However, we did leave early so we could get back on the road. I fell asleep on the bus for a little bit. Played Yahtzee for the first time in my life, and I beat 4 guys! I know I was excited. We only made 1 stop the entire trip (it only took 11 1/2 hrs this time), so after that stop we had our bus owl. Everyone on the bus had to go up in the front and talk about what they learned over the weekend, or at least talk about one thing. So Bryan and I ended up being like the 3rd or 4th people/couples to talk. I was so unprepared. I knew what I wanted to say but I was still totally caught off guard. So I related something I learned to matter and antimatter and how the universe was formed, could I be anymore of a dork. But I made my little comments and Bryan chatted away. Got back to Park Forest around 1:30 AM and then drove back to Bryan's where I just changed into my pjs and went to bed. I left when he left for work. I thought traffic would have been worse on the way back to my house but it wasn't bad at all. Napped after I got home, Kimmay came over later in the day and she gave me my gift. I tried to get my dad to give me my gift yesterday, but nooo, I have to wait until Saturday. I feel like I'm being punished by my family b/c I wasn't there on my birthday, get over it people. You'll forget I wasn't there 5 years from now. But anyways, I had a really good time with Bryan this weekend, so that was good. And we talked about how I need to tone down my extreme dislike for someone, which I know I do, but I seriously have used all my fake like already on this person. And it's not like they've done anything to chance either, but I'm going to be the bigger person in this situation. Well I need to go get ready for another day at school, and I know this was long enough.
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Jun. 5th, 2006 @ 09:27 am (no subject)
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Where to begin? Doesn't that make it sound like I have a lot to say? I'm sure I don't, I just have no idea what I said when I last updated and when I last updated. Well summer school started last week. We have quizzes everyday which is sucky. Sometimes we get to work with people so that's good. Now that I think about it, I have a bunch of homework to do today. Hmm, I actually feeling motivated to go to the gym right now. Anyways, where was I? Oh, so I've actually been trying to clean my room. I was really motivated to do that Wednesday and Thursday. I would have kept going on Thurs, but I had to go to class. And nothing else has happened with it b/c I've been so busy this weekend. I dropped my dad off at the airport on Friday morning. Kimmay and I went to the Container Store so I could get some stuff to get organized. Met Theresa at the mall for a little bit before she went on her job interview. Hung out with Kimmay some more, went to Theresa's and ate dinner over there too. Went to Phil's (a bar in Brookfield) for a drink and then went out to Orland to meet Krista just to talk. Saturday I tried to go to the cleaners to get my skirt and my dad's shirt but of course the Pet Parade had just finished and the gd Lagrange PD has to have everything blocked off. So I would have only been able to park forever away. So I just ended up farther from my house driving around and without my dry cleaning. Went to Bryan's and watched the Rush game, we won!! I can't believe with a losing record we ended up at the Arena Bowl. Of course I won't be able to watch it b/c at that time I'll be coming home from Kentucky. So after the game Bryan and I went to this party for someone we know through the business (Krista). Hung out there for a bit. Later we went and saw Over the Hedge. Yesterday we did some other stuff, no not that. But I just don't want to bore everyone with non important detail. Yesterday I wanted to watch the Degrassi episodes that I missed , but of course I was too tired to stay up. I'm such a lame-o sometimes. Oh well. I get to pick up my dad today from the airport and I'm going to school for a bit for something with that ASCEND project I'm helping out with. Well off to the gym...
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May. 28th, 2006 @ 07:42 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: good
Current Music: Drain STH - Enter My Mind
Hooray for long weekends. Although it doesn't really matter to me b/c everyday is pretty much the weekend. Too bad I have to go back to school Tuesday. I still have to go buy a notebook. I have my book already, so that's good. Last week I went and met up with Kim. I got 2 books from Borders. Then we walked around Orland and window shopped. We tried on a bunch of watches at Fossil. I found one that I liked, so I may be going back at some point in time. We were harassed by this woman selling Dead Sea stuff, so we went and scrubbed our hands and put on some lotion. I hate being bothered with stuff like that. Oh well, she didn't pressure us to buy anything so that was good. Went and got dinner at Friday's. There was this totally HOT guy there. I knew I shouldn't look, but of course I did, and I know Kim was ready to pounce. When we were there Bryan called telling me that we were going to see the X Men movie and that I already had a ticket. Luckily I was already out that way with Kim. Kim and I chilled at her house for a bit before I had to leave for the movie. Kim was trying to find hotels in the city for the weekend getaway. I don't think we had any luck, but we tried to at least start looking. Oh and 'we' meaning Kim :) There was so many people in our group that I'm pretty such we took up an entire row at the theater. The movie was pretty good, or I thought so, but then again I haven't seen the other 2, but as a movie it was enjoyable. Friday I went out with Kimmay and we went to Jamba went to Oakbrook. I bought a dress at the Gap. It was on sale and so I was like I'll just try it on and see how bad I look in it. It actually turned out to be a really cute dress so I got it. I also did some cleaning at the house on Friday too. The desk back here is so much better, I mean I can actually see the desk. Yesterday I went to my sister's for a bbq. When my dad, Bryan and I got there she put Bryan and I to work right away icing the cake and cookies. Bryan and I brought Sophia to the park. I didn't really climb around with Sophia b/c I had a skirt on, but that didn't really stop me from going down the slide a couple times. Sophia was so sweaty and sometimes when she was going down the slide she would stick if her dress was under her properly. We didn't eat until forever, but I shouldn't expect anything else from my sister. I had to hurry us along b/c Bryan was having people over around 7 and I want to make sure that we got there in time. So Lenny, Becky, Joel and Rob came over to watch UFC 60. Matt Hughes totally won and I knew he would. I'm sad that I'm going to be missing UFC 61 b/c one of the fights is going to be Shamrock vs Ortiz. That is going to be a GOOD fight. So I stayed by Bryan's and he dropped me off this afternoon. Oh and the Rush won! Too bad none of their games are at home. What else? Tomorrow I'm going by Bryan's sister's house for his mom's bday. And like I've mentioned before, Tuesday I start with summer school. I still can't get over the fact that I'm a super senior and taking summer school for the first time. Well this turned out to be longer than expected again, oh well...
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May. 18th, 2006 @ 01:19 pm (no subject)
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What's been going on in the life of Natasha? I don't remember the last time I updated so I'll just pick a random spot and start. Saturday my sister, Gus and Sophia came over and we all went to the cemeteries. Went out to lunch at Palmer's in LaGrange. Went to a business meeting after wards and I was totally under dressed, I just claimed it was casual Friday. Went to Bryan's after wards. Sunday we went out to IHOP for breakfast. Later we went to his sister Julie's house for Mother's Day. Monday, I don't remember what I did. Tuesday I went to the gym and took a kickboxing class. It was fun and I may start going to that on a regular basis. Went to school and met with Dr Wink about this new program at school and talking about being a peer leader. So I guess next week I start training for this. Amazing, my first job! And while at school I went to the bookstore and bought my linear algebra book. I got a used book and it still cost over ninety dollars (with tax). I saw it on Amazon brand new for $124. I was surprised it was cheaper at school, even new. Went to a business meeting later. Yesterday I went to the Pearl Jam concert with Alex. It was ok, I like the one I went to a few years ago better. I feel like I did more, but I probably didn't. I need to go back to school either today or tomorrow, probably tomorrow and get my summer parking, blah. I guess that's about it then.
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May. 12th, 2006 @ 04:03 pm (no subject)
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I don't really have anything to report but thought I'd post anyways. Oh, so my sweater finally dried :) And I totally looked hot in that skirt too. Wed went out by Anu's with Kim and Kimmay for her bday. Got to check out the new house, it's really nice. Can't wait for our long weekend with lots of Indian food and lots of movie watchin. Yesterday I made cheesecake. It actually turned out pretty well. I found the recipe on Food Network and it was for Margarita Cheesecake and it looked easy as compared to some of the other cheesecake recipes. It has tequila and Grand Marnier in it too. I didn't want to open up my dad's bottle of Grand Marnier so I went to the liquor store and bought two little bottles even though it turned out I only needed one. So yeah, I was totally domestic yesterday. Today I started to work on this Nemo cross stitch... I feel like an old lady for saying that. Haven't really done much else today. It's so junky outside and I'm not motivated to do anything. I'm going to try and convince my dad for us to order pizza today. I want pizza so bad. Then I will be watching the new Degrassi episode. Tomorrow I'm supposed to be making the Mother's Day cemetery rounds, but I haven't talked to my sister yet so I don't know what's going on with that. I wish the weather would get better too b/c I want to go buy flowers and plant them in front of the house and get my veggies and stuff to put in the back yard. Well I guess that's about it.
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Apr. 27th, 2006 @ 05:16 pm (no subject)
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I'm done with inorganic chemistry lab!! My waste was totally not treatable. The lightest I could get it was light brown/dark orange. My TA told us just to put some in a vial, for what I don't know. The only thing I probably got out of all of this is cancer. I mean I know everyone will probably get it any ways, but I'm just speeding things up by being a chemist. No more Dr Young!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited. I only have to go to school tomorrow for p chem. I would ditch, but it's the last day and he may talk about the final some more. I need to do my p chem hw still, poo. Well I did do some of it yesterday. I'm debating whether or not I should go to the gym. Ok, I know I should but I'm just so not motivated anymore. School has sucked the life out of me. And I have so much to catch up on in instrumental. We were going over stuff today and I was thinking to myself, wow, I have so much reading and studying to do still. At least that final isn't until next Friday. Oh and I stole 2 10 mL beakers. They are so cute. I have one in my car with some 'silly putty' in it that we made in inorganic a while ago. I met with Kim for the last time today, well at least for lunch at UIC. Everyone will be done with school but me :( Once again, damn you BS in chemistry. Well that's about it. I'm just happy lab is over.
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Apr. 23rd, 2006 @ 08:13 pm (no subject)
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It's the last week of classes, hooray. Although I can't say that it's my last last week of classes. I have plenty of stuff to do. I have to write 2-3 pages about NMR, yuck. I have my geog final on Wed and some p chem hw due Friday. And I can't forget about Dr. Young's crazy waste removal project aka let's see if I can give everyone here cancer. But nothing is working with my mysterious waste so my teacher told me to do a couple more things otherwise we may have to give up. Well nothing seemed to work. Although I did add 'charcoal' (it totally wasn't, but I didn't argue with my TA) and I don't know if anything happened with it b/c I left it in my drawer to settle or something over the weekend. I'm so sick of that class, I can't wait for it to be over. I don't know how my grade is going to be in that class b/c my TA loves to take off points for stupid things. On to other things. So I hung out with Kimmay on Friday. We went to Famous Dave's and our waiter was kinda weird. He stared at my ID forever and I'm not exaggerating. And then he would come to check on us all the time. Went to Oakbrook after that. I thought I would be a nice girlfriend and buy a nice shirt for Bryan, but he apparently did not like it. Ok, it wasn't that he didn't like it he just had a problem b/c it was a striped shirt and wasn't 'business' enough for him. So I can either exchange it a see if they have any solid colors or just get something for myself instead. And it wasn't a cheap shirt, I went to the Gap. At least he thanked me for the effort. But I still totally felt shot down. And I don't know what my problem is lately but I've been in a weepy cycle lately. But yeah, I just thought I was doing something nice, oh well. Saturday I went to school, yes I had class. I'm just happy that my teacher didn't call on me and that he did most of the talking. After wards Alex, Harsha, Christine, my teacher and I went at got lunch. Nothing special just got subs from Fontano's. Sat around at some benches by the library ate and talked. Later I went and saw Bryan, obviously and had the shirt experience. Went to Steak and Shake for dinner, I haven't been there in a long time. I was just happy to get a chocolate malt. They don't have peach anymore and I was kinda sad about that. Today I went to lunch with Megan, Christy and Mary. It was very amazing that Mary actually showed up. I didn't think she would b/c she sent me a text last nite sometime after 11 saying that she didn't want to go. It was kinda awkward at first, I mean between Mary and Christy the rest of us didn't have any problems. So we had a nice lunch but I kinda had to cut it short b/c I went to the Rush game. They finally won!! I went with Kimmay and my dad. Derrick came and sat by us later after he was done with the tailgating thing. And Bryan came over briefly to say hi and he was pointing out to his dad and brother in law where I was sitting. I was trying to show my dad where they were but was unsuccessful with that. Everytime I would say oh there Bryan is, standing up, he would sit down the moment my dad would look over. Oh and I finally bought a Rush shirt so now I too can be cool when going to games. Even though there's only one home game left. Hmm, should I start working on my NMR lab report now?? Eh, maybe I'll just get the book out and skim it. I think that's pretty much about it for now.
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Apr. 18th, 2006 @ 07:09 pm (no subject)
Current Location: my house as if I would be anywhere else
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Current Music: The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City
I'm am so mentally exhausted. When will school end?! This whole inorganic waste treatment thing has turned into this whole awful chemistry disaster. It's kinda interesting but I just hate how my teacher is all crazy about it. So yeah, I guess we have two weeks to finish this. I'm probably going to get cancer from all the fumes I'm inhaling in that class. Oh, and the biochem kids are soo stupid. I mean there was this girl that was surprised that indigo dyed her hands blue, HELLO! I feel bad dissing the biochem people, but the group this year seems to be especially retarded. Looking down at my shirt, I must have leaned into something chemically b/c it looks kinda stained. And it turns out that I do have to do a NMR lab report, I thought I was done with those. And I have class on Saturday morning for instrumental. School on Sat., that should be illegal. Class was awkward today (in instrumental) because Monica decided to go mental on Harsha yesterday and tell him to never call her again, basically b/c he was hanging out with Alex. I wonder how it will go in p chem tomorrow. Yesterday while at Walgreens to print out some pics I realized that our lab books were do today. I don't really have anything written in there, so I email my TA to ask if I could turn it in tomorrow or Thurs, he said that it was ok. So I need to work on that, but I just have no motivation to do anything, I mean it's still light out. And my fat ass needs to go to the gym. I'm sure it would do me good mentally besides the physical aspect, obviously. Whatelse... Passover at Kim's was fun. Although Kim, Kim, Becky and I were at the 'kid' table. Anu was the ambassador and sat at the big table to represent us, or something like that. Friday I went to Bryan's. Nothing exciting, went out to eat, watched the Cubs game. Sat hung out with Kimmay for a while and we played frisbee, hooray! I've really been wanting to play frisbee. Then kinda studied for my p chem test. Sunday I went to Bryan's sister's for Easter/Brayden's bday (his nephew). Were there for a couple hours then we went to my sister's for Easter dinner. It was a big crowd this year. Let's see who was there, my sister, Gus, Cathy, Ben, my dad, Bryan, Sophia, grandma, and myself of course. My sister of course had enough ham for about 20 people. And they made leg of lamb as well, I only had a little bite of it b/c I didn't know if I would like it. Traffic was kinda bad on the way home for me. I didn't come home and study like I was going to, I figured it was late and I'll just wake up early and study. And that is what I did. I guess that's it for now. Oh and people really need to learn how to drive. Time to do some hw.
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Apr. 7th, 2006 @ 10:00 pm (no subject)
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Jamie, you intrigued me, so of course I had to look.

Birthday Facts

The Rules:
1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday

My birthday July 8th

Three interesting facts:
1. 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.
2. 1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress.
3. 1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.

Two births:
1. 1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
2. 1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor

One death:
1. 1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)

On to other things. Today I hung out with Alex, Harsha, Christine and Monica for a little bit after p chem. We went and got chinese food, I was a good girl and didn't eat meat. Played Cranium after dinner, Christine and I totally beat Alex and Harsha. Joe and this other guy, apparently his name is George, came over later and they all started drinking. Well Christine and I didn't. Watched Degrassi today at my house, b/c I can now, woohoo for my dad getting digital cable. Oh and I won't even talk about all the god damn ignorant people that shop at Walmart aka Hell. I just went there b/c Target doesn't have my deodorant, and of course they did. So I came home to tell my dad that I'm never going back and that if I need something I'm going to show him what it looks like and have him get it for me. I just cannot deal with those people. I should point out where the condoms are to some of those people. UGH!!! Anyways, I'm excited about getting my hair dyed and trimmed tomorrow. I don't want to know how much this is going to cost, but as long as I look beautiful why not? Just kidding, I'm not that full of myself lol. And right now I'm making brownies, I hope they turn out ok. I know it's a shock, I'm being domestic right now. And I'm even doing laundry. Oh I registered for the last time on Tues -sniff- I'm taking Chem 343 (p chem lab), Chem 444 (p chem 3), Chem 452 (biochem 1), and Hist 101(Western civ after 1648). I'm interested to see how biochem is going to go considering I haven't had bio since freshman yr hs. Oh and I'm taking Math 310(linear algebra) over the summer, it's a nite class too(5-7:30 TR), so that's no fun. I think that's about it for now. I have a ton of stuff to do for next week blah.
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Apr. 4th, 2006 @ 12:17 am Chem has ruined my life
Why am I still up and working on this lab report?! I need to get up at 5:30 and it is currently 12:18 in the AM.
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Apr. 2nd, 2006 @ 11:29 am I want that hour back
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Current Music: Rob Zombie - Foxy, Foxy
Damn you daylight savings time. Now I'm going to be all messed up when it's lighter later. I'm going to think, hey it's still light, there's plenty of time to do my homework still. Oh well, there's 4 more weeks of school then one week of finals and then break time. Although for me it won't be too long b/c I'm taking summer school my senior year. I finally went to talk with Dr. Morrison to make sure that it was ok for me to take math 310 and chem 452 for my 300 and above extra math/nat. science requirements. Damn you B.S. in chem, you've ruined my life yet again. Speaking of things that ruin my life, it would totally be chem 415, my inorganic lab. So we have these inorganic waste bottles that people are supposed to come and pick them up and dispose of them so that they are safe to pour down the sink. Well since we don't know what's in them and UIC is cheap and somehow my teacher thought this would be some great learning experience, we have to figure out ways to basically neutralize everything and make it safe to pour down the drain. Ugh, we have no training to do this. So apparently I have to figure out a way to destroy NH3. Oh and we were each assigned our own bottle to 'dispose of'. Enough about that. What else is going on? I'm almost done with instrumental lab, Tuesday should be my last day. Although none of our data is right, we aren't getting and peaks so we won't be able to answer our questions and do calculations. So we'll see how that all works out. I want the nice weather to come back. It was so beautiful on Thursday. I wanted to play frisbee so bad. After instrumental lecture a few of us sat out by the mini quad and chatted before going to inorganic lab. Anna and I girl talked and the guys were trying to figure out what we were saying, it was quite humorous. Oh, I finally went to make an appt to get my hair dealt with. I'm going the 8th at 10 AM. I had to talk to the color lady to see what she could do about getting the pink out. At first she didn't really know, but I just told her, I want it out and it to be dyed brown again and then possibly some highlights. So she said she'll probably just bleach it out and then put a dark drown over it, although I'm curious on how dark b/c I actually wanted to lighten up my hair just a little bit, nothing drastic b/c I know I was never meant to be blonde, ok I may act like it sometimes. No offense to any blondes out there, but you know what I'm saying. So after all this hair coloring, my hair will be cut, well trimmed. I just want it evened out. Oh and when I was there everyone's like oh but the pink looks good. I have no problem with it, it's just that I've been doing this for 3 months and I guess I want to be normal again. On Friday I went to SES aka ses pool, lol, anyways I went after p chem with a few other people to check out lasers. Saw YAG and HeNe lasers. They are working on a ultra fast laser that pulses every fs. So that's pretty cool. And they are testing it out on cow eyes, and yes there was one there. I should probably mention that the laser is for laser eye surgery. (S is for Stimulation) What else. I'm sure there's a ton more bit I'm going to shower, then do some grocery shopping...need food... and do a ton of inorganic lab stuff.
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Mar. 26th, 2006 @ 07:32 pm (no subject)
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Current Music: CKY - Rio Bravo
Well spring break has come and gone. I want it to come back. I don't know what happened. Well let's see, what did I do. Saturday went up to Milwaukee for the wedding. Ugh, I will never drive there again. They have such bad signage and construction is all over the place. Had a really good time at the wedding. Took advantage of cocktail hour and had a blast dancing the nite away. We even got Kimmay out there to dance. Came back on Monday, don't know if I did anything else. Oh and we went to Mars Cheese Castle. Tues, went to Bryan's, attempted to see V for Vendetta, but the times were really late, there was no 8 o clock showing which I thought was odd. Wednesday, I have no idea what I did. Kimmay and I went to Rolling Stones I think. Thursday I went to my sister's but didn't have to watch Sophia, I came over later in the afternoon and we ran some errands. Friday I went to my sister's again in the morning, but didn't have to watch Sophia yet again. I was there to 'watch the house' and keep Harley company while people were supposed to come to cut down some trees. Well since it snowed they didn't come, and I guess it was kind of a waste to go there but I napped and watched some tv, so it wasn't too bad. I stayed home Friday nite and did some laundry and such. I wish I had more time to do stuff around the house. I need to clean my room so bad and the rest of the house for that matter. I don't think it'll ever happen though. My dad and I tried to make tuna noodle casserole and we just kinda winged it. It turned out ok but it was missing something. I guess I should have listened to my mom when she told me how to make it. But my dad and I were talking about how we need to clean off the table and I will finally be able to change the tablecloth to the proper season. And then there's all the stuff in the front room that needs to be brought upstairs, and about a million other things. Oh, on Saturday I got my ring back, now it's finally the right size. Oh and I got a pair of slip on Converse, it's right up my alley since I never untie my shoes. I'm so tired of school. I still have to pick another class to take next semester, something easy preferably. I'll be taking p chem 3, p chem lab and biochem. I need one more class to be full time. And I'm still going to take linear algebra over the summer, blah. Oh yeah, I started reading this book, 'I Love You More Than You Know', it's pretty good and I've even been laughing out loud from it. I know I won't get to finish that book until this semester's over. Oh, and I think I might get a job over the summer, gasp. I know it's very shocking and I don't really want to accept that fact but I do need money and I won't have to go to my sister's to watch Sophia all the time. I'm sure there's a million other random things I want to say but I should get back to my HPLC lab report.
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Mar. 15th, 2006 @ 07:54 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Willy Deville - Assassin of Love
Hmm, I'm wondering if I should get these songs on iTunes, but I dunno they sound way too country which I am so not in to, but Mark Knopfler is in them too. I think I'm going have to pass though. I'm happy, this week has been pretty easy thus far. Well I had my p chem test on Monday and got it back already. My teacher is a super grader. I got average, I was just happy to get that and at least it wasn't below ave. The lowest score was a 14 and apparently this person got a 14 on the last test and doesn't hand in hw. My teacher's like if this student wants to drop the class I will sign any papers. But I haven't really had much hw this week. I briefly went to lab in the morning yesterday to print out data. You can follow my day at school if you look at my pics on Facebook. And yesterday in inorganic lab this guy Eddie and I were the only ones doing the work I swear. Everyone was just sitting around like it was social hour. I mean I guess we were the ones that knew how to use the machine, but everyone else was just sitting there not doing a damn thing, they could have at least helped with a couple things. And Alex's 'job' was to right the weights down on the board which of course he couldn't do b/c he was too busy chatting. Someone, just pay attention for a min, geez! Today I went to the gym and ran 2 miles in slightly under 20 min. I was so proud of myself considering I've never been a good/avid runner (not really sure what the right word is but basically I'm not made for running). I'm doing laundry now, excitement, I know. Oh, I'm going with Alex to the Pearl Jam concert May 17th...I think. It's at the UC, and he got floor tix. He's super excited, I don't really care personally, I've already seen them like 6 years ago. But PJ is his fave band, and he got two tix and needed someone to come with and I guess that's where I come in. What else? I'm excited about the wedding this weekend. Get to hang out with the girls, get all dressed up and get to drink. Oh and I'm driving too, this should be interesting. I've never driven out of the state. I feel like such a lame-o for that but this shouldn't be surprising considering I didn't drive on expressways until like April of last year (my mom wouldn't let me b/c she didn't like them so therefore I couldn't drive on them and since I was driving her car I had to play by her rules). And I've never driven with more than two other people in my car. I feel like such a dork. I have to write down everything that I need to bring b/c I always end up forgetting something. So on to other things, sometime I have to go get my haircut, well trimmed. I haven't had a hair cut since last year when I did the Locks for Love thing. And I am going to get my pink hair returned to brown. I'm not sure if I want to dye it my natural color or do something lighter or get some highlights or something. Part of me wants to experiment with it, but it'll suck to keep up with, but it could be a fun summer look that I could keep for a little bit. And once I'm tired of it I'll just have it dyed to my natural color and be done with it. If anyone has any suggestions just let me know. Oh, tomorrow I have to go over to Comcast to get a new remote b/c the one here totally pooped out. I hate going up to the cable box to change the channel. And since I'm the only one here that can go during normal business hours I have to get the remote, ugh. At least I don't have lab in the morning, nor do I have instrumental lecture b/c my teacher's going to PittCon. But I have to go to inorganic lab, but that's not til 2. I don't know what time I'm going to have to leave b/c of the snow that's coming. This entry has turned to be very long, sorry about that. Well I guess I'll just stop here.
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Mar. 11th, 2006 @ 12:58 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide
Ah, what a nice day, kinda windy but nice. My illness or whatever I has is going away. I don't know if it was a cold or allergies, so to cover all the bases I got Benadryl Cold and Allergy. It actually worked, but makes me tired so I've been trying not to take a lot. I thought this week was going to be easier at school, it was slightly better than last week but not by much. I don't think I have too much to do next week after Monday, I have a p chem test on quantum mechanics...eek I don't know anything about it! So I will be studying like maniac tomorrow. I would say I could study today, but it's Saturday and it's against my religion to do hw on Sat, or that's what I tell myself. And I just can't bring myself to do anything terribly productive on Saturdays. Although, I did go to the gym this morning. One of these days I'm going to be hot... yeah right. Actually I like working out just because I can relieve stress from the school and such. I also went to the jeweler in town today to get my ring resized. I brought it a ring that fits well, for her to measure that one and that would be that. Because last time I thought a 7 1/2 would be good for some reason after trying on the sizer rings she had. Yeah, I need a 6 1/2, I was way off. And yesterday at the Rush game I thought it was going to fall off when I was clapping. Everyone was at that game, Bryan, his dad and brother in law, Kimmay and I (obviously), Kimmay's dad and Derrick's parents and Derrick and his fugly gf, or whatever she is. The Rush lost :( They started off really good, then it went downhill. At least we didn't lose too bad. Nothing else to really report from this week. Alex aka my husband has totally lost his mind. I mean really and truly. The stress from chemistry has really caused him to snap. Plus my crazy 415 teacher made us come up with this procedure for this complex, basically it was busy work and I don't think that we are going to do anything else with that lab, at least I hope not. Yesterday in p chem this guy George said to a couple of us, oh Young sent out an email this morning saying that our SAP lab is due Tuesday, about 3 of us that heard him freaked out and then he says I was just joking but I hope he doesn't do that. He hasn't yet, so that' good. That lab is way too much work for 2 hours. I'm only taking 12 hours and it feels like I'm taking at least 18. Well I guess that's about it for now
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Mar. 4th, 2006 @ 01:48 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Whatever is on XRT
Just thought I'd make a quick update before I go to my sister's for a family dinner. Well, I made it through my hell week. I did all my lab reports, even though my presentation one totally sucked, but I don't think anyone did well. I kinda did my p chem homework, I lived through my geog midterm, as if was going to be hard. And I made it through my instrumental midterm. That test was crazy, it purposely wrote it longer than we had time for. Why, I don't know. But I guess it wasn't too bad. There were questions that I just had no idea and there were others that I totally knew b/c we went over them a million times in lecture. And there was no time to think during the test, you just had to know what you were doing and write. And for some reason he wanted complete sentences which took up even more time. Oh well, we'll see what happens with that. After wards Alex, Monica, Harsha, Christine aka J^2(long story) went out to Bar Louie and got wings and pitchers of beer, I didn't really drink b/c I knew I had to drive home still. However I did get a peach cosmo and it was good. Then we went to the liquor store and then to Alex's apartment to continue drinking. J^2 left before this, I don't think she would have been down with drinking and she was underage anyways. But we had a good time as documented by the pictures on Alex's facebook. You can see the ones I'm in by looking at the part where it says more pics of Natasha or something like that. But I didn't drink that much b/c like I said I knew I needed to drive home still. It was a good time though. Yesterday I didn't go to school at all b/c geog discussion was canceled and then I would have only had to go to p chem, but it's a total waste of time, so I figured, eh I'll just skip. So Kimmay and I went shopping all over the place. We were trying to find these shoes for Kimmay, but everywhere we went to didn't have them in her size, which I find totally crazy. I mean we went to like 7 stores looking for them. I also got shoes and some black pants to replace the ones that I gave to Jamie. I also got some other stuff, I spent way too much money yesterday, oh well, I know it's not going to happen again for a long time. Well I guess that's about it.
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Mar. 1st, 2006 @ 08:42 am (no subject)
Current Mood: drained
I can't believe it's been a year....
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Feb. 26th, 2006 @ 05:04 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: stressed
Current Music: Audioslave - Gasoline
I am so not looking forward to this week. I have technically 3 lab reports due on Tuesday. I already finished one of them, so that's good. I'm working on the one for instrumental and I have no idea how to get the calibration curve b/c there are a million points and then I have to relate it to a percentage of what was in the unknown. Alex, where are you?! So until I figure out how to do that I should work on something else. The third 'lab report' is just going over all the analysis from this stupid ass cobalt lab and we have to meet with the teacher and the TA to talk about it with them. We had the choice of going Tues or Thurs but Thurs wouldn't have been any better anyways. P chem homework got pushed back to Wed, so I should probably start working on that now. I have my geog midterm on Wed and my instrumental midterm on Thurs. At least I can go home right after the midterm for instrumental b/c I don't think we have inorganic lab b/c of those meetings. At least I don't have to go to geog discussion on Friday, I'll only have to go to p chem for an hour. It kinda sucks that I have to go to school for one class. I wish I could ditch all week, damn you midterm week! And I just think about what was going on exactly one year ago and think about all the stuff I would have to catch up on, as if I didn't have enough to catch up on then. I wish I could just take a personal day off on Wed. -sigh- I can't believe it's almost been a year. It's amazing all the stuff that can happen in just a year. I went to my sister's yesterday to watch Sophia while the electrician was over and after my sister came home she's like did you go see Mili? I had no idea that they 'had her back'. She's in a box right over Harley's cage and there's a picture of her in the urn. My sister made sure to get one of those with a slot for a picture. Poor baby. At least she doesn't have to suffer anymore or stay in the kitchen. Oh and my dad has a cold, he better not get me sick, I have no time to be sick. And what is it with guys being such babies when they are sick? If they only knew the stuff that women put up with. Well time to go back to work.
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Feb. 21st, 2006 @ 10:47 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: sad
Well my sister had to make the hard decision, but they are going to put Mili down tomorrow. I don't really want to get in the details, but basically they've said that she's never going to fully recover and she probably won't even get much better than where she is right now. I'll miss you Mili. You always wanted to be petted and would use your nose to dig out my hand so that I would pet you some more. Well, now you'll be able to hang out with mom.



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Feb. 19th, 2006 @ 03:46 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Nickelback - Fight for All the Wrong Reasons
Ah, quantum mechanics. My p chem teacher told us that the three things in life that we need to learn in order to be successful, and they are learning as much math as possible, learning quantum mechanics and learning a computer programming language. I don't know how much I agree with that, but at the same time being a science major, I can totally agree. But anyways, right now I am procrastination from doing my p chem homework. Oh, and I got my p chem test from Monday on Friday, well I would have gotten it on Wednesday but I ditched so I could come home and finish my lab report. So yeah, I got somewhere above average which means I got a B, wahoo! I never thought that would be possible. I don't know how well I'm going to do on the next test, but that's not for another couple weeks. I totally have a ton of midterms coming up too. I have my geog one on the 8th, I think, my instrumental one is the 2nd. And I am so far behind on the reading. I only have chapters 1,2, most of 4 and a little bit of 3 done. So I have to finish 3,4 and start 5, eek! And like I mentioned already the p chem one isn't until the 13th. But basically I have one every week starting next week. And I still have to do all my lab reports. This semester is going to kill me. Kimmay and I went shopping for dresses for the wedding and we totally found ones. Mine was on clearance, even better! And yes, I got Kimmay in a dress and she bought one. So there will be a million pictures taken, but that's not for another month. Now I get to look for shoes. Shopping is fun except for the whole spending money part. I need to put more money into my checking account from savings. I hate doing that though b/c I have to go to two different banks. I guess that's about it. I should go start p chem, boo-urns.
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