Monday, August 31, 2009

It can't be the last day of August! Nooooo!!! I feel old.

Anyway, today wasn't great. I saw one of my good friends at school but that was one of the only highlights. Photo was kind of awful, because I couldn't properly get a strip of film onto a reel to save my life, so I feel so stupid and stressed. My lunch was terrible (peanut butter sandwich on whole-wheat grain; this may not SOUND terrible, but when you've eaten sandwiches constantly for many years of your life, you'd get sick of them too. Though Jimmy John's, Potbelly's, etc are great). Math wasn't too bad. This is a sign of how bad the day was when math was one of the "best things". There were all sorts of awful little weird stuff, then Astronomy wasn't great, I'm already major stressed still. At least we had fun with Play-Doh (made planets) and walked outside for a little bit. Grrrrr. I am such an emotional wreck right now.

Ashley

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Well, I did not drive anywhere with accompaniment. In other words, I drove to church and back... and young adult group and back... BY MYSELF!!! I felt like an actual human being, it was cool. That didn't mean my driving was perfect, but whatever. Hopefully it won't be long before I drive to the nearby shopping center by myself. Mom says it won't be long before I drive to school by myself. Ewwwww. School. I'm sick of it already.

Anyway, church had a picnic of sorts, it was good and I got to see some people I hadn't seen in a while. I, for the most part, finished working on my room-YAY! It looks great. Tribe was really good.

Well, I better go to bed for the oh-so-evil Monday. Grrrrrrrrrrr....

Ashley

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Well.... I drove to work and back, no problems, still love my car. Work was weird, some times were slow, other times were hectic. My lunch was disgusting (a cheese sandwich, ew), but I finished quickly, so as a result, I was able to talk on the phone with a good friend of mine while I was on break. It was very nice to chat and catch up, if only for a little while. Then one of the staff members asked me to help take some pictures (long story), which was cool. When I got home... I didn't do much. Put a couple books away. And me and Dad did Astronomy homework. That's it.

Ashley

Friday, August 28, 2009

Well, today I enjoyed sleeping in. After I showered I drove to church and back, so that I can get used to the route by myself. It was okay, it was raining and much busier than I'm used to, but I made it! Driving to work tomorrow and to church on Sunday should be a piece of cake. Anyway, I studied for approximately 5 hours straight. Ewwwwww. But at least photo homework is basically done. I need to complete math and work a bit on Astronomy tomorrow. Again, eeeeewwwwwwww.

Tonight, me and my fam watched "Fiddler on the Roof". First time I watched it, it was very good! I've decided that I want to get married... but at the same time marriage and a wedding frightens me. But I need to get a boyfriend first, and that'll never happen... but I really want a boyfriend... yet I don't want to settle for just ANYONE. *sigh* I am such an oxymoron sometimes.

Well, working 9-5 tomorrow for the big bucks. And I am very tired....

Ashley

Thursday, August 27, 2009

I awoke to find the power out. Resulting in a very long morning of being disgusting and trying to find something edible for breakfast while trying very hard not to kill anybody. Thankfully, I got a 1 1/2-2 min shower in, which felt great and Mom took us to Panera. I got to see a couple people from church, which I was really happy about. We hung about Barnes and Noble later, and thankfully the power was back on when we came back. But, man, that morning was just awful!

The rest of the day I was lazy. Didn't do ANYTHING productive. I watched "Tale of Despereaux" with my family. Some parts were cute, other parts were cheesy and lame, overall it's more of a children's film than a family film.

Well, I have a ton of stuff to do. Hopefully I can do it all without anyone pestering me. I also feel like I'm ditching work, even though I know I'm not working tomorrow. The schedule changed and it always feels weird when I have a free shift, almost like a cancelled class....

Ashley

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Eeeeek!

Sorry, felt like doing that. Even though I don't have the energy.

So, I woke up with a hangdog expression and I'm going to sleep with a hangdog expression. Mondays and Wednesdays are going to be weird. I did end up going to the Math Center for Astronomy and got some help. Um, Astronomy wasn't great, it was mostly calculations and weird stuff. I'm actually not sure about this class. WAY more math than I originally thought. This may actually be the one that will pull me under, NOT my math class! Weird....

I saw a friend today! YAY! At school, I was happy.

I would say more, but I'm exhausted. Buenas noches.

Ashley

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Even though I don't have any classes on Tuesdays and Thursday yet, today was so overwhelming. I had to deal with some application stuff, which seems more complicated than it actually is. I don't know, it was weird. Then I wanted to complete my Astronomy homework, only to find out that I completely forgot how to do the math portion of it. So I looked over my notes, played with my calculator, no success. So I emailed my professor and haven't heard back from him. I'm freaking out. I hope the Math Center is open, cuz I may stop by there tomorrow if I have no answer from my professor. Arrrgggghhhhh. Also, I tried to look for camera supplies, with very minimal success. I didn't clean my room as much as I wanted, but at least I'm getting closer. Work was minimally busy, driving to and from was fine, even in the dark (well, it was light getting there, but dark coming back). So I really hope today and yesterday aren't indications of how this semester is going to be. If that is the case, then I'm doomed.

Ashley

Back to School 2009....

Well, today was... long and weird.

This morning I had photo. It should be a good class, my teacher seems nice, I'm just already stressing over the materials I need to buy. Quite expensive.

Campus had free food-YAY! Breakfast foods, mostly, kind of weird, but it was decent and free, so do you see me complaining? Nope. It was lonely, though, since I had no one to sit with. But that's a daily occurrence at school, so suck it up and deal with it. Afterwards, I studied (which was mostly reading and doing a Blackboard activity).

Then it was math. I guess not TOO terrible for an algebra class. My teacher seems nice, cheerful and helpful, at least.

After that, I noticed that my shoulder was hurting a lot. I'm pretty sure it was from my heavy backpack. On the way home, it got so bad I got pretty lightheaded. Yeah, not good. I had originally planned to do some more packing of my room, but instead, I spent my free time icing my shoulder and neck. That and Advil helped quite a bit. So I was in good shape to go to Panera with a friend. The food and time together was very good, by the way.

After that, I was immediately dropped off at Astronomy. It was interesting, we went through a small math review, though, so my brain is on math overload! My teacher seems good and funny, though. He lit a piece of paper on fire-can't remember his point in doing so, but it was cool.

Afterwards, my shoulder kept hurting on and off. Sometimes it'll feel great, other times it will feel kind of awful. It's just so weird.

Well, I'm exhausted and tomorrow I have a to-do list that is longer than my arm. *sigh* Welcome back to school. What a strange day.

Ashley

Newly Decorated Rooms are Nice, but Unpacking and Cleaning is a pain....

I went to church. It was good, and a different style this morning, instead of having a sermon, the whole service was basically the sermon-a ton of worship, Scripture, prayer and a few testimonies. It was pretty cool. Most of the afternoon, I spent my last free day unpacking my stuff and trying to figure out where to put it. With some stuff I was successful, with others I put in other places for now. I may need to make another trip to the Container Store or Target. Either way, the process of putting stuff away is a pain. I know when I'm done I'll be relieved and it'll look great but in the meantime... ew. Dinner was shepherd's pie, good, but made me want to go to England even more....

Then I watched the movie "Taken", with Liam Neeson. It was... interesting. Parts of it were good, but it had a lot of pointless violence. I wanted to finish unpacking everything today, but I don't think that's going to be possible. Tomorrow, for sure, I will finish. In between classes, of course.

Yikes, I can't believe school starts tomorrow. I am dreading it like crazy....

Ashley

Potter and Painting

I finished my painting this morning! Then I took my 11-year-old brother to see "Harry Potter" (2nd time for me, 1st for him). It was good, of course. I spent the rest of the day (mostly) cleaning, organizing, packing and unpacking. And I have more to do tomorrow. But you know what? My room looks GREAT right now! I like it a lot.

Ashley

Friday, August 21, 2009

Work was fine. I decided that I'm not a fan of working Fridays. Oh well. Later, my mom and I went to the Container Store and got a ton of stuff. Went to Ikea with not much luck. Still cool, though. Panera for dinner was good. I did not like the Summer Corn Chowder though-ew. Everything else was good.

Um, I have a really strong desire to travel right now. Like, you have no idea. I think it'd be cool to be a travel writer, but it's basically hopeless because I have no talent. And of course, the jobs that I'd be interested in don't give a lot of travel opportunities. Grrrr. Oh well, my life sucks.

Ashley

Thursday, August 20, 2009

We went out for breakfast today. It was delicious. Then when I got home, I was in a sour mood, probably because a lot of my friends are going away to college right now. That depresses me, partly because I miss them and partly because they're at a real college while I'm stuck at a stinky community college. Thank GOD this my last year at the College of Loser Crap.

Most of the afternoon, we painted my border blue. So now my room is light pink with a blue stripe. It looks nice! I just need to paint some of the trim green and it'll look like an actual room! I feel like I haven't had a chance to use my room this week, except to sleep.... I've had to use my MacBook in the living room. I will be SO HAPPY when I have my room back.

The rest of the day was mildly tedious. Can't believe I start school soon. Grrrr....

I am exhausted, and I don't know why, and I want to fly to Italy.

Ashley

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Ewwwwwwwww. Five days until school starts. Gross.

I decided to accept the fact that I will never stop being a girly-girl when it comes to colors, and my room is now pink. It's a pale pink, almost lavender-ish. It actually looks really nice and hopefully a little more mature. It's better than bright yellow, anyway. Tomorrow we'll paint my border (which used to have horses on it) blue. The color is called Costa Rica Blue (I know, great). And the pink is called Rose Glow, in case anyone was interested.

That was the majority of my day. I also watched "Once Upon a Mattress"-it's a pretty cheesy musical, but it's kind of fun and entertaining (Camelot is better, though).

Also, I had a mild cold (at least, I think that's what it is) for the past few days, but I think I'm getting better. At least, I'm not feeling worse.

That's my day. I'll probably do some travel research before going to bed. Man, I need to figure out how to travel more....

Ashley

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

My summer is leaving meeeeee.... It's going to be goneeeeee.... Okay, sorry for being overdramatic. I'm just depressed by how fast summer's going.

Anyway, I slept in a little. Most of the morning I taped up my room and tried to figure out a European train adventure that I want to go on sometime in my life. It's depressing how expensive it would be, especially since the jobs that I actually WANT pay an average salary at absolute best. I know money shouldn't matter, and I guess in some ways it doesn't, it would just be nice to have some extra money to travel a ton....

Most of the afternoon, me and one of my brothers covered my room with Kilz (similar to white paint). It looks very weird, but kind of cool right now. I don't know what it reminds me of. Tomorrow I'll decide what color to paint it.

This evening I worked. It was slow and busy at the same time. All throughout the day, I kept going back and forth between feeling great and not so great. But when I got home, I got to Facebook chat with a friend, which was very nice (hadn't talked to her in a while).

Anyway, real tired, should probably sleep soon.

Ashley

Monday, August 17, 2009

Summer is leaving me.... And beating me up a little. I cannot believe I will be at CLC in one week. Yuck. So gross.

Anyway, work was busy. They had a TON of goodies there because two co-workers had birthdays, it was fun. The highlight was a butterscotch pecan cake, very tasty. Of course, I was mostly lazy. I really need to pick up the pace if I'm ever going to get my room painted before school starts. This is also because I was supposed to meet a friend for dinner, but it didn't work out. :(

Well, I should go to bed soon-I'm pretty sure now that I've got a mild cold.

Ashley

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Summer is going by way to fast, and I feel like I need a summer break do-over to the extreme. Anyway, I got almost 11 hours of sleep last night, yet I don't think it helped much. I'm still feeling not-that-great. I'm probably going to get sick soon. Figures. Because I slept so late, I didn't feel like going to church-that would have involved majoring rushing around, plus, to be perfectly honest, I'm not in the mood to stomach the major PDA (Public Displays of Affection) that's been going on with certain nameless dating couples. Ugh. I should talk to them about it, but I don't know them THAT well, so it'd be awkward.

I moved a lot of stuff out of my room. Now maybe I can finish it and start taping around. This week is going to be painting week! So I need to get my rear in gear. Because of this AND my laziness/hatred of bugging people, I did not go to Tribe today. I am probably going to be paying emotionally and spiritually for this soon. Then again, at least I don't have to deal with nauseating dating couples (married couples, for the most part, are normal, but a lot of dating couples these days-ew).

I can't believe school starts up again in 8 days. This has me very depressed. I do NOT want to go back at all. Ugh.

Well, I work tomorrow, so I need to go to bed immediately after I finish these chores. Oh, I sincerely hope I don't get sick....

Ashley

Saturday, August 15

I woke up very tired, worked 9-5. It was an interesting shift. Driving there and back was fine. I finished "My Sister's Keeper". It had a sad, twist ending, but it was good. Um.... I was lazy for most of the day and increased my chances of becoming deaf by listening to loud music for a while.

I think I might go to bed now. Even though it's kind of early (for me) and I don't really want to go to bed, I'm feeling a little under the weather. So hopefully some much needed, extra-sleep will help a little. That, and the tea I had tonight.

Also, I think it would be really cool to be a travel writer. The chances of me becoming one are less than zero, but I still think it'd be cool.

Ashley

Friday, August 14

Worked today. It was a weird morning. Felt like I couldn't please anyone.

I read "My Sister's Keeper" for most of the afternoon. I got so caught up in it, that I was unfortunately late for meeting a friend for dinner. It was great, we hadn't seen each other all summer, so it was very nice to catch up.

I wish I could write more, but I'm tired and tomorrow I work from 8:45-5. Ewwwww. So I guess that explains why my blog posts have been so short lately-I'm way too tired to write a lot.

Ashley

International Left-Handers Day 2009

Happy International Left-Handers Day! I guess, help spread lefty awareness?

Anyway, to "celebrate" Lefty Day, I cleaned my room. Massively. Though in my opinion, it hardly makes a difference. I need to get cracking on this whole painting thing if I'm going to finish before school starts.

Tonight, my mom and I went to see the movie "Julie and Julia". It was very enjoyable-a light, fun movie, if I do say so myself. I later looked at a couple YouTube videos, and Meryl Streep's portrayal was spot-on-my mom enjoyed it very much. And it was so nice to see a film just the two of us. And while it was semi-awkward to be one of the youngest people there (so it seemed), it was fabulous to not have annoying middle-schoolers in the audience gabbing away and texting. Ugh, I'm sorry, but these days I have not been a big fan of middle-schoolers. Anyway, great evening.

Oh, and I totally forgot to mention this, but a couple days ago, I applied to Taylor. The reason it took so long was because their website was having some issues. But it's all good. Now I need to request transcripts, get recommendations, all that lovely stuff. Oh, and pray like crazy. I'm really praying that one of those colleges and Urbana 09 will work out. For those who may have forgotten, Urbana 09 is a missions conference. Hopefully I'll have more details sometime. Anyways, I've been praying for that. Actually, my prayer list seems to be very long-whether it's for friends' job searches, college stuff, or other stuff....

Wow, I haven't blogged this long in a while. I feel good. But, tomorrow I work. Grrr. I haven't really enjoyed working on Fridays, I don't know why.

Ashley

Wednesday, August 12

Well, today I went to the dermatologist. Yikes, I hate that place. I cleaned and packed a little, but again, I could have done better. This was probably because I felt so hot and sluggish. Oh well-better than being freezing cold, right?

Today I have a strong desire to go to England and Italy.

Ashley

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

So, I packed and cleaned my room some, but not as much as I should have. Oops. Went to Panera with some friends-it was kinda fun. Work went slow. Driving in general was okay. I'm too tired.

Ashley

Battling a Tornado

Work wasn't too terrible for a Monday. Driving to and from there was fine, but very busy. Most of the day, I cleaned, dusted a bit, packed, and organized my room, but it looks like a tornado came through the place. Hence, the finally creative title. But, I have a LONG way to go....

Ashley

Sunday, August 9, 2009

I apologize that my titles has not been creative lately, but I've been posting at times when creativity is beyond me.

Anyway, church was good-one of my good friends got baptized-yay! I had coffee (well, iced tea at Caribou, really) with another friend too, that was fun. This is the last time I'll see her before she heads off to college on Wednesday. I am going to miss her SO much. Tribe was good too. I watched Sue Thomas videos and.... I applied to Trinity. Hard to believe, but true. I'll send the rest of the application (transcripts, recommendations, etc.) later, but for now.... Weird. I'll be going to a real college next year. Yikes.

Also, my room is slowly starting to look like a disaster because I'm moving stuff around and packing things. So I guess this whole room painting deal is actually going to happen very soon....

Ashley

Saturday, August 8, 2009

So, this day was emotionally weird. These strange mood swings better stop once I turn 20. I slept in, which was nice. I scheduled a coffee date, which is good. I have no clue why I'm so pissed at people lately, I guess I just am. *sigh*

Ashley

FRIDAY, August 7, 2009

Okay, so I have NO idea why I thought yesterday was Wednesday. Must be tedium. It's so weird, during the school year/classes, I keep waiting and wishing for classes to be over so I can have free time but once I get free time, I have no clue what to do with myself, therefore I get so unbelievably bored. It's such a vicious cycle that I don't think I can break anytime soon.

Anyway, I worked today. Drove there and back by myself with no problems other than a little fall of rain. Watched more YouTube videos and later got some paint and fabric samples. I enjoyed looking at some of the different fabrics in a clothing store; maybe if an English degree doesn't work out, I'll open a craft store. Who knows.

Ashley

Wednesday, August 6, 2009

It felt VERY nice to sleep in. I watched a lot of "Sue Thomas F.B.Eye" on YouTube. My days have been so boring and I'm getting so frustrated these days. Also, I got my Environmental Biology grade. I got a B. There goes my 4.0 GPA. :-/ I've been thinking a lot about my future, and I'm so confused career wise. I want to travel so bad, but the jobs I really want do NOT offer that option, which stinks big time. :( I want to go to Costa Rica. I miss that place.

Well, work tomorrow. Not looking forward to it. Hopefully I'll get to drive there by myself, though.

Ashley

Wednesday, August 5

The days are disappearing fast, not good. Um.... I honestly didn't do anything today. Today was another lazy, boring day. Not great.

Ashley

Tuesday, August 4

So, I slept in for a first time in a long time. I was lazy most of the day, though I also planned out some room painting possibilities. Work tonight was very slow, yet it went by fast. Very weird and hard to explain.

Wow, I'm tired....

Ashley

Monday, August 3, 2009

Work was mildly chaotic, to say the least. Wasn't the best day. At least driving my car went well, as usual. Um.... My emotions have been on a roller coaster all day, grrrr. I want to travel, but I can't, not fair.

Ashley

Sun, August 2, 2009

So, I went to church this morning (sadly, I did not drive by myself). It was good. I had plans to go to a grad party and go to Tribe, but I decided to clean my room instead. That's one excuse. The other lame excuse is that this morning I got emotionally weird and afterwards I did not want to interact with any friends at all. I really hate my anti-social spells.

Well, work in the morning. I seem to do that a lot. Crap, my summer's going too fast.

Ashley

How Can It be August 2009?!

Where on earth did the summer go? It's August already! Oh dear.... I just looked at my "Summer Bucket List" and I only completed 1/4 of what's on there. *sigh*

Work was long and not good. Dad and I went to Noodles and Company. Then we watched "Schindler's List".

Sorry this is so short, I'm way too tired right now.

Ashley