Happy February!

Ok, sorry I haven’t written in a LONG LONG time.

School started on January 22, and ever since then, I’ve been nonstop: School, work, school, work. The madness never ends! Plus, all of my courses are upper division, which means they’re all concentrated on specific topics within the Child Development major. I have a lot of papers and projects to do this semester, as well as two presentations. It’s super, duper crazy.

Work isn’t crazy, and it’s still fun. I’ve only been working three days a week: Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. And having to only work three days is really convenient for me because it allows me two days (Mondays and Wednesdays) to do homework. If I was to work all five days like last semester, I’d seriously not have enough time in a week!

So yea. What else. Oh. I don’t think I mentioned that on New Years Day, 2009, my boyfriend of almost five years dumped me. What a jerk, right? Whatever. haha Our relationship had been going downhill since OCTOBER of last year, and I guess I didn’t have the balls to end it officially, so he did it. I went through two weeks of no sleep and no eating. It sucked, and I lost hella weight. )= But then I realized that I had more better things to do with my life than sit around and be a crying little bitch. I moved on.

It’s been a month since he left. Fucker. haha I met someone new. We’re just doing this “dating” thing, so I’m still technically single. And this guy’s name is Paul, he’s Korean and he’s super super super cute. hahah He’s really nice, too. We went out yesterday on a group car drive to Santa Cruz and we ate lunch on the Wharf. Some of the guys, as well as Paul, posted pictures of the drive on their Honda S2KI forum, and you can view the pictures on the thread right here. And we’re the ones dressed in a white shirt/jeans (him) and a black tank top/jeans (me). The drive was actually a lot of fun. I’ve never ridden in a convertible before. It was like, really awesome. haha 

Anyway. So it’s Super Bowl Sunday. Who are you rooting for? I don’t really watch football, so I’m probably going to clean my room and do laundry. lol Maybe go shopping. I’m not sure….

I Have Some Artistic Kids

I couldn’t draw a t-rex to save my life. Haha!

A Little Ink

Without really thinking about it, I woke up yesterday morning and went for a drive down to Gilroy. And then I ended up at a tattoo parlor. And just spontaneously decided to get a tattoo. Because who really thinks hard about those right? Just kidding. Picked out an a Aries sign to slap on my wrist and voila, 45 minutes later had a tattoo. Didn’t hurt, and it wasn’t really that red. Just a bit puffy like it was an embossment. Haha.

Ack!

Haven’t blogged much. But there isn’t really anything to blog about lately! I’ve just been working and visiting family since I am still on winter break. So yaa!

Oh, one cool/exciting thing happened. Last Saturday, my parents bought me a “new” car! Actually it’s a used car, but “new” to me anyway! It’s a 2004 Ford Escape, in charcoal grey. My favorite car and my favorite car color. When I first started driving back in 2005, the Ford Escape was the car that I’ve always wanted, like my dream car. But over time, I really started looking into the little hatchback cars like VW Golf or Honda Fit, those kinds. They were cute to me. lol And originally, I wasn’t supposed to get a car until after I graduated in 2011. But since my brother crashed his car (an ’88 Honda Accord), I guess the plans have changed.

So last Saturday when I woke up, my dad called me out to the livingroom to check out the Ford Escape he found online, and located at a nearby dealership. I said, “Sure, we can check it out.” And we did just that. I didn’t think I’d get to drive off of the lot with the car that evening! So yes, I’m super excited and I really love the car. My old car, a ’98 Volvo S70, has been passed down to my brother. No doubt he’s going to “fix it up,” and put in a new sound system, tinted windows and suspension. haha

That’s pretty much all the exciting news. [= I start school on Thursday, January 22, and I’m excitedly counting down the days where I can finally be around my friends and be back on campus!

Spell Check, Please!

While leaving the local Walmart, we passed by the optometry place (its located inside Walmart), they had a table with stuff that was 50% off….. Cool! And you’ve just proven to me how stupid some of your employees are. [=

Back to Work!

I went back to work on Tuesday, after being on Christmas break for two weeks. I enjoyed my time off of work, but I really did miss being at the YMCA! I missed all the screaming, the dancing, and the “Miss Yanna, so-and-so did this to me!” [= Yes, I missed my kiddie drama!

I was greeted the same way I’m always greeted when I walk in through the door- A swarm of 16 or so kinders screaming, “Miss Yanna!” and heading my way. They all came so fast at me that I nearly topped over into a kinder dog pile. (This happens EVERY. DAY. when I walk in to work. I don’t know why; none of the other teachers get greetings like I do…) Anyway, since I missed all my kids so much, I gave them each a hug and sent them off playing. I said hi to my fellow teachers and you know, do what I usually do: Hang out and play games on the carpet with the kinders until the 1st through 5th graders came in from school! [=

The first day went well. It was actually the kids’ second day back from break. (If you remember on Monday, I went to go visit my boyfriend’s brother and sister-in-law.) They all seem settled back into the school groove. Which is great, it’s almost as if we never went on that Christmas break! Everything was like a smooth transition.

Besides work, I haven’t been up to much, actually. I don’t go back to school until the 22th, which is 2 weeks from now. Yes, I am going insane from not being in school! School and work together helps me balance my life out. Right now, with just work, I have the most screwed up sleeping schedule. lol. I go to bed around 4 or 5, sometimes 6 in the morning! And I usually don’t get up until about 12PM, because I need to get ready for work and be there by 1:30PM. But with school AND work together, I’m in bed much earlier, at about 12 midnight or 1AM. Plus, with this whole work-only-and-have-a-crappy-sleeping-schedule thing, I’m super unhealthy. Like, I’ve seriously started losing weight. And I only eat one meal a day, which is dinner. AHHH! I miss the days where I could eat and eat and eat and be satisfied! But now, because I’ve eaten so little, I think my stomach shrank and it can only fit so much food in there. Boo.

Sometimes it just sucks.

I leave you with a picture of my adorable little nephew playing with my T-Mobile G1. (This was taken with the Mac Photobooth.) I’m startin’ to trip out because this little fella is already going to be a YEAR OLD next month, February 26. What? It seems like yesterday I was filming his birth (watching a live birth and being like 2 feet away from the action is amazing, by the way. haha) and crying my little eyes out because my nephew is finally here. And now he’s about to be one? Damn, time flies. I kinda feel old. But I’m only like 20 years older than him. LOL

Yay! Upgrades to the Macbook!

I picked up my Macbook earlier today.

- They put in a 160 gig hard drive, versus a new 80 gig hard drive. When my dad ordered my laptop, he didn’t get the 160 gigs, he got 80 gigs put in.
- They replaced the entire keyboard. Before, the edges of my keyboard, like the plastic that goes around the keys and stuff, was cracking and there were literally like holes in my laptop.
- They upgraded my OS from Tiger to Leopard.

It’s kind of weird having Leopard, since I’ve been using Tiger since my dad ordered my laptop. But it’s a cool upgrade.

I’m updating from my boyfriend’s brother and sis-in-law’s house. I decided not to go into work today so I could come see them. I haven’t seen them since October! So yea, it’s been nice just chilling here. They’ve also let me stay for dinner because apparently there is a lot of traffic going back home and ehhh, I’m not really in the mood to sit in traffic, really.

Well, I guess that’s it for today.

Bugga

Laptop is busted. Again. For the second time in not even a year! Actually, my MacBook went kapoot on New Year’s Eve. I’ve been browsing the internet on my T-Mobile G1. It is awesome to have the internet at your fingertips. Literally. Lol. (Yes, I am updating via my phone via the WPtoGo application.) So ya. I brought the laptop into the Apple Store on Friday. I knew exactly what the problem was: hard drive failure. The exact same thing happened last April. And they put in a new hard drive the first time around. Well, here I am the second time around with another failed hard drive and I am pissed! Um, aren’t Macs reliable? That’s why my daddy paid the extra money to get me a Mac versus a regular PC or other type of laptop! I walked into the Apple Store and straight up said, “This is the second failure and I am not happy. This is unacceptable. One more failure and I will happily trash Apple, do you understand? Because your product is not making me happy!” I gave him a nice cold hard stare. I was not playing. The “Genius” dude kept his cool, which was nice. And instead of replacing my 80 gig hard drive with another 80 gig hard drive, he ordered to put in a 160 gig hard drive. Because giving me more space than I need will really make me a happy customer. Whatever. I didn’t argue. I just wanted to drop my laptop off and leave. I’m picking up the thing later on today, but I’m really not that excited about getting it back. I’m not missing it that much! Anyway. I’m going to pop in some movies. It is almost 4am and I am bored!

Things To Do!

What do you like to do if you’re bored and trying to pass time during the day?

Since I’ve been off from work and school since the 19th of this month, I’ve been doing a lot of sleeping. I don’t get much when school and work are in session, so it’s nice to catch up on a lot of it! (= And since half the day is spent sleeping, when I wake up, I usually just lounge around in bed, and watch some movies and play some games online. This also results in my being up late, referring to my last post. I didn’t actually go to bed until about 5AM this morning. I woke up around 1PM, though. So tonight I might just snag the chance to go to bed earlier than usual.

Anyway. What else do I like to do to kill time. If I’m really feeling up to it, I might start a new knitting project. But I haven’t done that yet… Though I think I just inspired myself to make some scarves for my cousins. I recently purchased the Knifty Knitter Long Looms to make the pillow cases and scarves for my grandparents’ Christmas presents and I love them more than the circular looms! I also have a lot of yarn leftover from my grandparents’ presents. Instead of the skeins just sitting here in my knitting bag, I think I’ll begin on those scarves as soon as I’m done with this post.

I also love love coloring books and word search books. You know, the fat little books with about 50ish word searches. LOL I actually didn’t have ANY of those whatsoever. No coloring books and no word search books. So I left the house to go to the local Dollar Tree and I came back home a happy camper!

This is my wonderful loot from the Dollar Tree! Of course I had to buy a Disney coloring book. (; I haven’t started coloring in the coloring books yet. But I have started on one of the word search books. They can keep me entertained for hours on end! Oh, and yes, you can see my name labels on my books, too. I don’t know why I put those there, seeing as how I’m the only one in the family who buys this kinda stuff. I guess I just put them there just for the sake of using my label maker. haha!

That’s the only exciting thing that’s happened today! For the rest of the evening, I’m going to throw on a DVD and begin knitting some scarves…

I’m Probably Going to Regret That

It’s 2:40am and I just ate 6 mini pizzas (mini as in the size of like, 2 inches in diameter) and drank a lot of KoolAide. Now usually I don’t get this hungry at this hour of the night. In fact, I never do! I don’t know why I was hungry. Of course, I’m not anymore, but wow. Midnight snacks and drinks are bad. Especially sugary drinks like KoolAide. I’m probably going to be up much later in the morning than I usually am…..