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Name: Ami
Birthday: 10/14/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Scrapbooking, reading, drawing, A&E, sleeping, the ocean...lots of stuff!
Expertise: I don't think I have any expertise in anything yet.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
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Member Since:
9/2/2002
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| I can't believe it's been another long year since my last entry! This Valentine's Day was quite different - I don't know if it was the economic downturn, or if it was just me not paying attention. I just didn't care! To me, Valentine's Day is more of a day to remind single people that they're single. I think I heard of more people having an Anti-Valentine's Day party compared to private dinners. I would much rather have something private, where you can talk to each other and bond, rather than spending time driving around, trying to find parking, and then paying an exorbitant amount of money to eat food that you can either a) prepare at home or b) not finish because there's just so much of it. I think it became so commercialized that it just doesn't mean a thing anymore.
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| Yesterday was Valentine's Day, the "most romantic day of the year" or something like that. To me, it's just another day.
Don't get me wrong though, there's nothing wrong with flowers, candy, and romantic dinners out. I'm a total hopeless romantic. I cry at movies. I dream of being swept off to Europe on a whim. I fantasize about receiving a Tiffany's ring out of the blue. But I'd much rather have it spontaneously rather than it being on a specific day! Not to mention there are hundreds, perhaps even thousands of people also trying to do something special for their special someone.
It was kind of funny, because Kevin was watching the History Channel, and they had a special on the Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago in the early 20th century (I don't even know what year, lol). It was a funny (funny odd, not funny haha) reminder that not all the history associated with Valentine's Day is happy.
I'm much more looking forward to eating my NY strip, cooked by Kevin, at home tonight.
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| Xanga kindly reminded me that I haven't written a blog here in a few months. And with that I realized that lots of stuff has been going on. And then on to the fact that, I used to think I was busy. When I was younger (seven years ago when I was a freshman in college...good grief, has it been that long?!), I thought that I was so busy with classes, (potential) boyfriends, studying, hanging out with friends and the rest of my social life, and family. Now, I think back on it and realize how un-responsible I was for much of anything! Seven years later, I'm STILL going to classes (soemtimes I feel like I want to bang my head on a wall)...yet, now so much has changed. I have so many responsibilities that I thoroughly enjoy, but now I'm Busy...with a capital B, haha. I have a husband and a daughter, still trying to pursue a M.S., while teaching a lab, spending time with family, doing hobbies that I enjoy, and spending time with my friends (well, I hope to now more often, since Keira can be taken out of the house)...not to mention chores, bills, and all that "fun" stuff. It really does sneak up on you!
Despite tons of responsibility, I'm so happy with where I am right now. Granted, I didn't think I'd still be in school, but I'm hoping to ameliorate that soon. REALLY soon. The only thing I need now is a real job (lol...shouldn't that have been the first thing I needed?)!
And so that is my exciting update, Xanga.
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| Finally (well, about three weeks ago) we learned our little bun is, in fact, a little girl! Everybody had their bets hedged that it was a boy (since the baby was giving me such a rough time), but nope. Even more proof to me that she's going to be the biggest daddy's girl ever! Which makes me worry...I always give in to one pouty face. I can only imagine what two similar looking pouty faces are going to do to me.
In other news, I'm starting school again soon. I have mixed feelings about this, mainly because I'm unsure of my capabilities. I know I'm going to push myself, but nowadays I can only be pushed so far. My body just tires so much faster now that it's supporting two lives instead of one. I can only do the best that I can, and hope that I can get enough work done before I take a break from school.
My aunty actually had a good idea about me working from home, but I wonder if I actually have any skills that would be desirable for people to want to hire me to work at home. I guess I have a couple of months to ponder that.
Just some random thoughts.
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| So it's been awhile since I've written anything...anywhere, really. When I should be writing more often, I find myself writing less and less. Not only here, but to friends, family, even my thesis. The more I let things slip, the madder I get myself, and still I do nothing to remedy the situation.
So for the past few weeks (well, more like two months now) I have been doing nothing academically. My husband and I are expecting, and I just made it through the first trimester. It really is horrible, with morning sickness, food aversions, exhaustion, achiness...and all in the humidity of a Hawaiian summertime with no air conditioning. I'm only now starting to get over the symptoms, but they're still making me so tired and making me feel like I'm dragging, most of the time.
I need to start working on the actual benchwork of my thesis, and I just feel like I'm so tired of school. Yet I'm so close to finishing, it would be a waste of energy, time and money if I didn't finish now. I need two more credits to graduate, when I thought I had all that I needed to graduate. So I don't know what to do about that. Hopefully an answer, sign, omen, portent, or something will show me the way. Or I'll make up my mind. Or those credits.
I feel like there are so many transitions going on, with so many things that we need to consider, and then reconsider, and then come up with an answer to the situation. And when we think that something is going a certain way, it never really is. But even when things don't fall into place, to me it's saying that there are other things, perhaps better things to do with your life than what you had originally intended. And that's the whole fun of life, isn't it? The twists and turns?
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