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wow...it's been a really long time since i've updated. so this week is my spring break off from school and here's what has happened so far... on monday i woke up..my first day of spring break to find about 3 or 4 in. of water covering the basement floor. there were alot of storms sunday night so i thought that's why...but it wasn't. had nothing to do with the storms. our hot water heater broke. so that was a whole lot of fun, my dad was shoveling out water from the basement until some guys came to look at it. and i hating to shower, had put it off for a while now and was going to shower that morning., but of course we had no water. so my mom tells me that with all the stuff we have to do now, we won't be able to go down to my college i'm attending in the fall. we were going to go down there tuesday and spend the night. so knowing those plans were cancelled, i went ahead and called michelle. it was funny cause i asked her if i could come over to shower. yah, so she said she and the fam were out for the day and probably wouldn't be home until 9 at night and when i told her i wasn't going to go to that college anymore, she asked if i could watch the boys for her tuesday morning. so she said i could go ahead and come over then and spend the night. she gave me the code to open her garage and i headed over there...took a shower...watched some of her cable, what a treat since i don't have it...i read some and watched some of the everwood dvds i had..and they were home by 9. blake was already asleep and riley headed to bed. oh..so then michelle and her husband turned on the basketball game and watched that and i went ahead and finished reading my book...you know..cause basketball is soooo boring! i spent the night there and blake went ahead and woke me up in the morning...at least it wasn't until 8...i got to sleep some...heheh...so i played with blake and riley all day while michelle got stuff ready for her new house. they sold their house now so they have to get everything ready to move into the new house. and then later on riley was supposed to go to swimming practice but when we got there, it must have been cancelled cause the pool was locked and so we headed over to the park and played before it was their bedtime. on the way home blake threw a big fit about not wanting to go home and stuff...and he cried so hard he threw up on himself. it was pretty gross...so then michelle said i could stay another night which i did...and again the next morning i woke up at 8...i went with michelle to some of the stores she had to go to. we looked at alot of hardwood floor types...and then i went home. when i came home the house stunk. there are large fans blowing in the basement to air stuff out. there's a large storage unit in our driveway to put the stuff from our basement in there...nothing of importance really got ruined..cause hey, it's our junky basement..alot of the old gross dirty furniture my dad got from other ppl's garbage got ruined so hey, we actually can get rid of it now..so that's a good thing. we finally are cleaning out our basement. good-bye to my dad's junk! well, most of it. the good thing about it going this way is we get some money out of it through the insurance, even if we weren't even using the furniture...and my mom secretly loaded up her car and took stuff up to goodwill to donate. and since i love the tv downstairs so much i brought it up to my room and put it on my dresser along with the dvd/vcr player. it's really too big for my room since i share it with my sister but it's only temporary until i get my basement back...at least now i can lock the door when i'm watching something so my brother can't come in..the computer on the other hand, has been moved into the kitchen. my dad just got a new battery backup thing and now i can get on it. so i'm on right now while they all went to captain d's to eat dinner. i don't know how this is going to work having the computer in a place where ppl are around like all the time. oh well...they say this is only temporary too but how long does it take before our basement is completely dry? it's already thursday... so yesterday i actually took my brother up to target with me and i got full house season 3, that's what i've been watching. it came out tuesday and i absolutely love that show...i got the first two already, now i'm watching the third season. i can't wait to get them all!!! and that was the first time i probably went inside a store like that by myself since i got my license, well my brother was with me..but my mom wasn't. it's weird, i don't know why i don't like going to stores..i just don't. the christian bookstore is different though, i've been there plenty of times, the library as well. i went there today, i had some books on hold. i have to go to the other one tomorrow cause i have books on hold there too. i'd like to hang out with little amanda sometime, maybe sunday after church is she's got stuff to do tomorrow. i think i'm going to carson's 2nd b-day party on sat. with michelle. carson is devon's son...taylor's brother. devon told me i could come if i wanted too...and i'm already having to miss the easter egg hunt in the morning cause i have to work but this will be later in the day and i have nothing to do then. guess that's all i should say now and go get caught up on some other stuff on here before the rest of my family gets home... |
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so sat. i get home from work and yes, the hot water is finally working! so i take a shower and then val calls me asking if i want to babysit for her that night while she goes to a concert. so i said yes. it was lots of fun, i played the game trouble for 2 hours with riley and beau...they also played video games for awhile, watched some cartoons, colored, and read before going to bed. it was definitely a fun-filled night. after i got the kids to bed around 9 i tried watching a little tv...but one thing i noticed about cable, you can have a million channels yet still nothing on...well, that interests me..so i fell asleep on the couch and they got home around 11:30 or so. but before i left i talked a little, both with val and john..it had been awhile since i talked to val so that was nice. then i went home and went back to sleep. sunday was great. i love the kids at church. i saw jennifer in the hall and she told me amanda had been asking where i was all week..so i promised to come over soon. and when i saw amanda i gave her a big hug and the first thing she said to me was "wanna come over today?" but because i was going to carson's b-day party i told her i would soon, but not today. carson's b-day party was switched from sat. to sun. due to the weather so i ended up going right after church and i rode with michelle leaving my car at church. the party was great, there were tons of kids, but because the boy was only turning 2..there were alot of young kids there that i kinda knew just cause of watching them when i babysat for their small group, but alot of them are still over in the nursery hall..not the preschool hall...but i noticed while playing with em all...the younger ones aren't that bad, i've kinda grown to love em...i still like the 3's and 4's alot but the ones that are 2 or younger aren't that bad...first when i started helping out with the preschoolers i kinda had a fear about going in the 2 year old classroom cause the kids are just so young, i don't know..but i'm fine with em now. devon had a trampoline at her house so i was constantly lifting the kids on and off that thing the whole time..and jumping with them. they also had one of those blow up jumpy things that was alot of fun. towards the end devon let me take pix with her digital camera and it was kinda cool...i don't have a camera so....anyways i took some real funny pix. then when we were leaving it was almost time for my sunday night church thing to start so i just had michelle drop me off at my house so i could at least wash my feet before going..they were all black from the trampoline...and since my car was at church i was going to just have my mom drop me off but she wasn't home so i called morgan. she said she could take me. well, when she comes over she's with brit cause the two of them were off somewhere doing something...these kinds of situations i don't like being put in. it's just if i drove to church and saw them there i probably wouldn't have known they spent the day together but because i called morgan and asked for a ride, they came over together and then when we stopped off at morgan's house...there was brit's car...i would have just rather not have known...so either i'm just really sensitive about this stuff or jealous..but i try really hard not to let things like this bug me..but it's exactly things like this that just make me feel left out of the group..knowing they probably made plans to do something that morning in d-group..i don't even see any of them in the mornings on sundays..but that might change soon..depending on what i decide to do....which brings me to my next topic... that's the last sunday night program our church will have for awhile now. middle school has their service on sunday mornings so high school will be combining second service for a middle and high school program because there's not enough sponsors and stuff..and the youth minister moved to a different position and the worship guy is going back to school, i think he's leaving this summer..so with all these things going on, they think it's best to cut the sunday night service and combine us with the middle schoolers in the morning. so since i've been with the preschoolers both services in the morning i'm either going to go to the middle/high school program during second service and work with the kids first hour...or work with the kids either first or second hour and go to "big" church the other service...cause i can't just not go to service any....i justified working both services before by saying that i go to the high school thing at night...and now that that's not going to be around. i got to say good-bye to some of the kids...or at least one hour of em....which really saddens me. i wish i could just stay down there... so i really want to write about yesterday and today but because i'm lazy and i really wanted to write about my weekend but took this long to, i'll have to write later. it's getting late and i've got calculus hw i've been putting off....i just had to wait until my mom got in bed to type this...cause i can only type in here when i'm alone..yeah, i know it's weird, but hey, i'm not doing anything bad on here or anything..just want my privacy while i type my personal thoughts. later~ |
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so monday at 4:30 i left at my usual time to go to counseling...and as soon as i got on the expressway, there was traffic. so i got about 5 min. from my house and it was already 5..time for counseling. yeah, i knew i wasn't going to make it...and it seemed like it took forever before i even saw an exit..but i couldn't just get off on any exit cause i don't know how to get back on the expressway from there to get home, so i knew one was coming up soon...one that's about 10 min. from my house...the one i take to get to michelle's...except i didn't get there til 5:40..and that's right where the accident had been...so traffic was clearing up there..but i still got off and turned around to go home cause i knew from there it would probably take another 20 min. to get to counseling...so there was traffic on the way home..but not nearly as much..at least i could drive a little more without stopping every 2 sec! so i got home around 6....so i spent an hr. and a half in traffic and i didn't get anywhere. my back was all sweaty cause my air conditioner doesn't work. i had my window down but when you're barely moving...you don't really cool off. so i had my first bad experience with traffic. i hate driving! blah. so when i got home my mom had been all worried about me and she told me right away that she was getting me a cell phone..which she really was serious then and i know it'd be good so i can tell her where i am and she can call me esp. in situations like that..but i really don't know if it's gonna happen..or if it's just one of those things that she says..thinks seriously about it for a week or so..then forgets it..guess i'll see... so i ate dinner and then called jennifer to see what she was doing. it makes it easier and nice to call her when i say hi and she asks me right away if i wanna come over...i don't feel bad at all for calling for that reason. and so i went over there and played with amanda....hung out for the rest of the night. when her brother jacob was done getting a bath it was time for amanda's turn and she asked me if i would give her a bath, she didn't want mommy to do it, she wanted me..so i gave her a bath and helped get her ready for bed. i read her some stories and her mom sets this timer thing by the bed and usually lays with her for 10 min. but amanda wanted me to lay with her that night, so i did..but the girl would not calm down..she wouldn't stop getting up and thinking of excuses on why she can't go to bed yet. so when the time was up and i left her room she stayed in there for awhile and then came out...this happened over and over a few times but in between jennifer and i talked about stuff. it was real nice cause usually i play with amanda and then leave...but it was nice to talk to her. she talked about the summer and how she might ask me to babysit some...i'd love that. and then it was 9 and everwood came on and she asked me to stay with her and watch it so i did even though i stopped watching that show somewhere in the second season and i think it's in its forth season..i don't know, i just know that channel doesn't come in on my tv anymore and even if i didn't know what was going on...it was still nice being over there spending time with her...i got home a little after 10...and then i had to do hw. too bad fun times like that don't last forever. tuesday i went to aerobics..amy wasn't teaching that night, they think she wants out of it, but this other lady taught the class and she did good. i wasn't sore at all from it..so that was nice. but when i got home, my mom had went on a walk with the neighbor without me..so i got my sister to go on a bike ride for with me. i haven't had the energy lately, but i guess going to aerobics just gave me all this energy to do all this..so i biked for the first time this year, boy getting up those hills on my high gear was tough..i have to get back into flying up those hills...ah well, i have to work on that...and when we got home my sister went right out to the trampoline and started jumping so i went with her..all that exercise really wore me out. and then i had hw. which brings me to that night....pause. ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o and still i cry... last night was horrible and looking back, well i know why. a couple things i did wrong. 1. i was up way too late to begin with. 2. i didn't read my bible or pray or anything before turning my lights out. 3. when starting to dwell on the past...i let myself continue down that spiral til i almost hit bottom. so as i now can see, i pretty much set myself up for this...or just made it easier for satan to attack me with my negative thoughts. i was on the computer til 12:30 in the morning cause after i blogged i was catching up on some other things on here. when i got in bed, i figured i was too tired to try even to read the bible. i've been reading that biblezine i got almost every night, just a ch. out of there. and i try to focus, really i do...but so far, it's just me reading it. just trying to get in a habit of some sort. so, i knew i was too tired really to think much and i thought i'd just fall right asleep, i was wrong. i had a horrible night. my first thoughts were of the girls, morgan and brit..adrian too...i was wondering what sorta stuff they all do together..if they do anything as a d-group like when i was in there..with val..and from there, my thoughts just brought me down. the tears came. and i made myself miserable. my head hurt, my nose was all stuffed up, i was having a hard time just trying to calm down and breath..but it's hard when the feelings of loneliness just seem to come out of nowhere and just attack you. so after 45 min. of this crying junk i decided i had to stop this and get to bed. so i get up to go to the bathroom and i splash cold water on my face and blow my nose. i also got a drink of water and just stood there trying to collect myself before heading to my bedroom once again. then i tell myself to think of my great days i have with the adults. so what if there not those girls my age. i told myself over and over that i was just going to give them up right now. it just didn't seem like things would work out with them at least in this point in my life. but as hard as i try, i cannot be "fine" with that, i don't know why. i love spending time with michelle and her kids, jennifer and her kids..and talking to all the other adults i talk to on sunday mornings...wednesday nights..but i say i'm just going to forget them..move on...well easier said than done...and i really thought i was ok with that til last night. but it turns out it's just one of those things that i push my emotions aside on and act fine about. and maybe to some point i am ok with that, but just last night my negative thinking just skewed my thinking...and i was tired...really tired...i think all played a contributing factor in my lovely breakdown last night. well i woke up and my eyes were burning hot from lack of sleep and i went to school...and from there on, i was ok. ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o tonight was alot of fun at church, amanda saw me and kept talking and talking to me..it was sweet. the rest of the kids were so wild..but still it was fun. it's sad there's not many wed. nights left...2 or 3 i'm not quite sure. the other jen at church, the one who quit being the early childhood director, actually talked to me and my mom today and she was telling us how she misses us and being down there but she was told that she couldn't volunteer in the preschool hall..which i have no idea why...but i guess cause she quit and everything..i don't know really...but it just seemed like lately she had been ignoring me or something...she was just acting different to me it seemed...so i felt better that she came up and talked to me tonight. and i'm thinking i may give her a call sometime soon...i don't know. well...i feel better as of last night..and i need to get off to do hw but before i stop, i wanted to say i just noticed an email from morgan, it was a response from an email i sent awhile back, she was telling me how it made her smile and i gotta admit, it made me smile...and feel good..things aren't that bad...that's what i have to keep telling myself. and i'm doing good. imprint that on my brain! haha...well, she's not as bad as i might make her seem on here..it's well, just frustrating watching these girls get together and do stuff without me. michelle also responded to one of my forwarded emails. no one ever responds to these things and here i get..two in one day! wow. oh yeah, and i'm also babysitting for michelle this friday, yes, babysitting..not going over there to hang out, she's going to the good friday service at this other church, our church doesn't have one..so i'm gonna watch her boys..well i should get started on that hw now. hope you enjoyed this nice long entry..my fingers are tired! |
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i was supposed to babysit for michelle on friday but she called and said they started laying flooring in her new house today and she had to do that instead. so i called jennifer to see what they were doing..hehe..and she invited me over. so i played with amanda the rest of the evening. they also all went out to get some ice cream and i went along. it was really good. i had lots of fun. and then at night, we watched "chitty chitty bang bang" and jennifer thought amanda would easily fall asleep to it. nope. amanda stayed up for the whole thing and by that time she was way past tired into hyper mood. it was 10 at night when i left and amanda was still awake. saturday i was up bright and early for work...as of now there are only two more weeks of the semester til it's over with and then they are done for the school year until summer school starts which is for 6 weeks, 5 days a week, 6 hrs. a day...i've already decided i'm not going to tutor through summer school..that's way too much "school" for me and i just can't wait until i'm done. i'm hoping i can babysit this summer instead. haha..lazy me. i took a nap from like 2 in the afternoon to 5..my mom woke me up, said i'd been sleeping too long..which i don't know why she just doesn't let me sleep when i get the chance..it was a long week for me..and i had been staying up really late. then later on..my mom and dad just kept fighting and fighting...but earlier they had been outside "talking" and now they were back to insulting each other and whatever other junk they do...so it's gotten worse this week and my conclusion--the result of counseling..yup. they can't avoid their problems or each other anymore...so now they are forced to be together and "try" and work it out. so now...just alot of fighting because they can never agree. anyways i heard alot more of it then i wanted to saturday night cause i wanted to watch my full house episodes and i couldn't in my room cause my sister was sleeping..my brother was playing his video games..the basement...still nothing down there so i decided to watch it in the living room..where my parents were arguing. what fun that was. well they told me they were trying to have a "conversation" and i told them if they wanted privacy they should go in their room..because i can't go in my room...nor my basement...ahh..well they just sat there and continued in their argument. my mom actually stayed up til 1 in the morning...just being frustrated and stuff cause she's supposed to stay up late with my dad and talk because my dad stays up all night (so he says) on weekends when he doesn't have work. but my mom always goes to bed early. so in an attempt to get them to spend more "time" together, their counselor told my mom to stay up with him...well let's just say my mom's been a bit grumpy ALL DAY TODAY! i say she stayed up a little bit past her bedtime last night.not that i went to bed..but remember i had a nap..ah..but i just had one of those hard nights again. second day in a week...i blame it on my parents. yes. i do...i'm 18..i don't think my parents fighting should bother me. it's something i've lived with for years...it's something that will always be...in my mind...it's how my family is..but it's bugged me before, but never as much as it bugs my sister...i don't remember ever being like that...but maybe i was..maybe i just really didn't know but deep inside me it did..and i expressed it as a "rebelling teenager" with the kicking..screaming..holes in the walls...but i can't do that anymore. i can't even hurt myself without feeling so guilty and horrible and having to tell someone and disappoint ppl in my life..yet again. but last night that just really started to bother me and at first after reading the bible, i just sat up in bed and let the tears roll down my cheeks..the pain grew..i turned my musik on..i have this free cd i got when i bought one of my others and i put it in..never really listened to it before cause it's got ppl on there that ppl at church listen to, not the christian rap stuff, more of the contemporary/worship stuff, like the above subject line, chris tomlin, jeremy camp, newsboys, stacie orrico...and it also had grits and superchick on there, but most of it was different from my musik i usually listen to...yet listening to that just continued to break my heart and the tears just wouldn't stop. but at the same time, i wanted to cry...i just didn't want the feelings associated with it...the thoughts..you know, the bad ones. gosh, i wish i could just erase them from my memory forever...but they will forever be a part of me, somewhere...always...i know i will always have problems, always have pain...always have struggles..but why must i always have these thoughts? it took a lot of self-control just to keep my hands wrapped tightly around my legs and not move them as i rocked myself back and forth. i did what i did earlier in the week after a long time...i got up, went to the bathroom, rinsed my face off and got back in bed...and for some reason when i put my headphones back on, i felt peace...i guess all that crying just wears my body out..and i was able to sleep...only problem was it was past 1 in the morning and i had to get up early to be at church. now i'm wondering why i had such a bad week..or why i think it was such a bad week..is it cause i cried myself to sleep two of those days out of the week when it seems like forever since i've really really cried like that? and how come bad days always seem to overshadow the good...i also went over and played with amanda and hung out with jennifer two of those days too..so how come that doesn't stand out as much as the nights...i've been pretty busy lately with all sorts of things so when nights like that come along when i take time and think...well i guess i can't run from myself all time...or run from the night...the dark, quite, night...when i'm all alone, no kids...no parents..no one to tell me how everything's gonna be alright. and today was easter. i only worked in the preschool hall the first hour and i went to the combined middle/high school service second hour. that's how it'll be from now on, with no more sunday nights..but i don't know if i'll go to the youth or adult service. ok it's getting late and i wish i could write down more of my thoughts for the night but right now i'm also trying to get my hw done...yah, late on a sunday night like always..i'm researching stuff on "Beowulf" for my research paper in english. it's the last paper i'll have to write in there(i hope)...but again..i'm tired so i'm heading to bed..hopefully i'll be able to sleep tonight..i should i'm exhausted...like always... |
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so this week has been a really long week..but really good week..and i'll try and sum it all up real quick while i am alone to write..yes, i'm still in my living room -monday- hmmm...well all i can remember about this day is that i thought of calling jennifer and going over there..cept she wasn't home and i left a message. she called back and it was late so she said i could come over tomorrow after school. she had told me awhile ago i could borrow one of her shirts for an interview at school on wednesday. it's an exit interview and all seniors have to do this. and well...you have to dress up in business atire and i was lacking a business shirt. -tuesday- no aerobics..that ended last week. but i went over jennifer's and amanda was over with a friend at the park so it was much quieter over there...and i found a shirt quickly and then played with jacob, the younger one, for awhile while talking to jennifer. i probably stayed over there for almost two hours but then had to leave cause michelle called and asked if i could babysit. so i went over there but she had left a message on her door saying she had to go out but would be back around 7. so it was 5:30 and she left the number to open the garage so i went in and made myself a sandwich...watched a little tv, got on the internet for a little bit, and read some of my book...all before they came home. then michelle tried cleaning up her house because the ppl would were going to buy her house couldn't get a loan so it's up for sale again and she was having ppl come by and look at it soon. after the boys were in bed i took out my list of interview questions and michelle was pretending to interview me and i was coming up with all these stupid responses..but it was kinda good cause she was giving me all this advice about what to say. i got home around 10:30 i think. -wednesday- the interview. well, i think it was pretty good...i hated being dressed up the whole day...i even wore my hair down which was sooo annoying. there were six ppl that day that were getting interviewed and i was the fifth one..but i was so glad to get it over with. i just kept answering with things like how much i love kids, or the college i was going to, or why i wanna teach kids...and surprisingly i didn't turn red at all..that was a relief. i think part of it was the fact that even though my classmates could hear me, my back was turned toward them so i couldn't see them. then that night at church, since the teacher i was working with moved....the classroom was closed. so they combined the fours with the fives and i went and helped the threes. which even though i missed the kids i'm usually with i know a few of the threes....like amanda for instance is in that class...so it was good after all. -thursday- went over to michelle's around 5 to babysit again. she was hosting a jewelry party and invited a couple of her small group firends and some relatives. i was in the basement watching her two boys, riley and blake, amy's son andy, and two cousins of riley and blake named reese and tatum. and yes, tatum was a girl, the only girl there and she was so cute. so once all the kids left and we got riley and blake in bed, it was 10...so michelle was sitting there with a magazine full of jewelry asking me which one i liked and which ones she should get cause she gets free jewelry for hosting the party. i told her i don't wear jewelry. she told me she's make me. hmm...and then i helped her clean up her kitchen and put all the food away as we talked. i love talking to her..and then i had to leave eventually...i got home at 11:30. -friday- so jennifer called me and asked how my interview went and stuff cause she wasn't at church wed. night cause her son jacob, got strep...so i talked to her for a bit and i could here amanda talking to her in the background and was asking if i could come over but i couldn't because guess where i was going? michelle's! yup. but jennifer put amanda on the phone and she just starting talking and talking to me and it's amazing how some kids are so loud and talkative and others are not...and she's only 3. she kept talking about how i need to come over again..that's all she talks about when she sees me. it was so funny talking to her on the phone. after that i headed over to michelle's cause her friend invited her over to scapbook so i went over there..and i'd love to talk all about it, but i'm so tired, so the boys didn't have that long to stay up..so they watched a movie and riley went to bed around 8, but blake wouldn't....yah, it was a long night. i fought him for about 2 hrs. before i just let him run around screaming for his "mommy" i rocked him, i sung to him, i rocked him some more, i let him lay down on the couch in the living room....he wasn't this difficult the night before, i rocked him to sleep in 5 min. but i'm guessing that's cause he knew his mom was there, he even sat on the steps just looking out the window. i turned the lights off in the living room and told him it was time for me to go to sleep too..and when he finally settled down enough he was yawning..but still fighting to keep those eyes opened. and then at 11, he finally just walked up the stairs and crashed in his bed, i checked on him and he was asleep..then i feel asleep, he wore me out. so when michelle came home it was a few min. before 1 in the morning and when i woke up, there was blake, in the rocking chair asleep...he must have woken back up and come down there again...i got home at 1:30 and the electricity was out because the transformers across the street had caught fire. -saturday- well that's today, i was glad the electricity was back on when i woke up 5 hrs later to get up for work. ok, i got less sleep than that cause i couldn't fall asleep without my fan on, it drove me crazy. so after work it's pretty hot out so me, my sister, and brother get our swimming suits on, got outside and hook up the shower head to the hose and put in on the trampoline. it was cold but alot of fun, cause who wants to jump in the heat? well a little water to cool you off is nice. and then i stayed outside to dry and read in the sun...and got wet again...read some more..and i stayed out pretty much all day..oh yeah, and got a sunburn. it reminds me of when i was a kid and used to go outside all day every day in the summer...i love the outdoors. and i think i'm gonna get of and go to sleep cause i have a bad headache and a stuffy nose and i've been averaging about 5 hrs. or less of sleep a night this week..and i really need some rest...some sleep..and usually that happens on saturday but because of all the thunderstorms this week...i didn't want to waste the only sunny day in awhile inside sleeping. and i was trying to make this as short as possible..but what can i say...i had a long fun filled week..for the most part..outside of school. much better than last week. okay, it's 8:30..think i can be asleep by 10???
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