My mom has breast cancer.  Again.  They caught it early, so she should be ok.  She is getting a mastectomy this time.  It's so much scarier this time, I guess I was too young last time to really understand how scary it is. 

So, I want to get a kitten when I move to Colorado in january... but woody is highly allergic to cats... so he will be miserable when he visits me.  what should i do?  get the kitten anyway ( Read more... )

Hey!  I'm currently at the Holiday Inn... in Colorado Springs!!!!  It is so beautiful here!  and this is where I will be living!!  Mwahaha!!  There are huge, snow-tipped mountains right out my window (or window to be, once I pick my apartment).  I'm going to have a 45 minute commute to Pueblo, but living in Colorado Springs will be way better than ( Read more... )

So Ramses came back!  When I was home for the 4th of July, my parents were on the back porch when my mom saw Ramses and called me to come outside.  I called for him and he mewed and then came out of a bush!  What a silly cat!  Why didn't he just come to the back porch and wait to be let in!  Stupido!  Anyway, he was very affectionate.  I don't ( Read more... )

So this past Tuesday Woody locked his apartment keys in his room, then left for work.  On his way to work some gasket exploded or something and he had to get his car towed.  His car couldn't be fixed until Thursday, so I had to pick him up from work.  We get back to the apartment and try to figure out how to get his door open.  We examined how my ( Read more... )

Ramses is missing.  :(  He got out of the house and no one in my family has seen him since Thursday.  Usually, he is terrified of the outdoors and will stay inside.  I hope he turns up. 

Did you ever have one of those days when you tried to communicate with someone and you couldn't?  You have triflying conversations with someone about absolutely nothing important, but you miscommunicate.  And then you feel like crap about stupid, insignificant shit.  At least this happens very infrequently.

So, I'm doing "research" over the summer for Dr. Wang. I'm working with a graduate student, HongBin, who is a pretty cool guy. Dr. Wang says he wants me to learn as much as I can so I don't exactly have a project, I'm just helping HongBin. I asked Dr. Wang what hours I should work and he replied that I was being paid by the month... which I ( Read more... )

I feel stretched ... already. I only have two classes this summer, but... I'm also doing research, I want to take Tae Kwon Do lessons, I want to get in shape, I want to go home and chill with my family, I want to ride my bike, I want to spend time with my friends, and I want to spend time with Woody. Tonight, Woody told me that he wants to spend ( Read more... )

So I started taking Tae Kwon Do lessons this week... and it is totally awesome! I wish I had started years ago! I broke a board with my foot today!