halloween party

So tonight was the SON/SPH halloween party.

It turned out to be a TON of fun. There was some good food, good beer, and good people who came!

I actually won an award! woo hoo!!! I'm so excited because I never win anything. But I won the costume contest!! (to be fair, at the time of the judging there were only 3 of us with costumes there, but it was still cool).

yay! haha I am happy because I had a good night, had some fun, and won an award.

Oh, and I promise pictures are to come! I got some great ones!!

happy halloween everyone!!!

bad days

I did great on a test today, yet I feel like a miserable failure.

I hate how school (and everything else) can do this to me!

I feel like a failure now. I got an email from an instructor informing me I was in danger of failing the semester (as in I'm barely passing at the moment) and that I need to come in for a meeting to discuss how I can do better.

While I know I'm not doing super great, I don't think it warrants all this fuss. I don't know if they just emailed me because of my miserable performance on the D&S or if they are doing that to everyone who is borderline. Either way I feel like a miserable failure.

On top of this, I was already feeling unstable today. I can't think of any other word to describe how I am feeling....unstable is all I can come up with.

I feel like I am breaking apart.

Ren fest

I went to the Renaissance Festival today for the first time ever and had a blast!

I am so exhausted right now, but I wanted to take a few minutes to write about my day while it was all still fresh in my mind.

I went with Matt and Carrie. Matt drove us up to Carrie's apartment in Conroe, and then we all rode over to the Ren Fest together. This is the first time I'd ever been in my life, so I was super excited about going.

We walked around checking out all the shoppes (making me wish I had more $$$ to spend). Carrie and I got some wine and then we say one of the performances. It was soo funny. It was Ester and Eureka, the Washing Women, "cousins" and Ester was showing us her moves to get a man. They were too funny. Well, to be fair, Carrie and I had had a few drinks by this time, so we both had a nice wine buzz going. But it was still hilarious.

After the show, we got some lunch (can you say turkey legs?) and walked around some more. We saw a [lame] jousting show (really, they were kind of really bad actors), meet King Henry VIII, drank some mead, and hung out with pirates.

We walked around some more, had fun with more drinks, went to a pub. Carrie and I made wax hands and we got the kettle corn guys to try and sell Matt for us. No one bought him :o( [poor matt].

After we left the Ren Fest, we grabbed some mexican at a place in Conroe, then Matt and I drove back to the med center.

So now I am exhausted and not looking forward to a day of studying tomorrow, but am so glad I went out today. I haven't had good, clean fun like that in a long time.

I need to relax and let all my problems go more often.

home

Went back to the north side last night to visit my family and get some much needed laundry done.

I wish I could have stayed longer. I enjoy having company around, I enjoy the home cooked meals, I enjoy having more than 5 tv channels if I decide to watch tv, and I enjoy having someone help me do my laundry :oP. But I can't hide away from school and everything forever. Unfortunately, I have too much stuff to do this weekend to spend the whole time kickin' it with my family.

So now I'm back in the med center, trying to clean some, trying to study, and putting off going grocery shopping for another day.

I wish I could just put a movie on and take a nap.

I should really get off the internet. It seems like the internet has only added to my "issues" lately. I could definitely stand to get online less.

Last day

Tomorrow is my last clinical day for the semester (stupid Ike). I will be so glad to be done for good.

My plans for the rest of the weekend include doing lots of laundry, studying a lot, and hanging out with Carrie on Sunday. She is dragging me somewhere but won't tell me where. Oh well, it should be fun.

Actually, it's next weekend that I am looking forward to the most. I love the Heart Walk. It is always so much fun.

And this change in the weather, to cooler temperatures, is making me very happy. I love the fall.

so I figured it out

so I figured out why/how I got sick this past weekend.

I was looking through my fridge, trying to decide what to make for dinner when I found the Alfredo sauce I had made dinner with last Thursday. I almost pulled it out and used it again tonight, but when I looked down, I saw the expiration date.

April 28, 2007.

Yeah, it is a year and a half old! No wonder I was so nauseated on Friday and spent my whole weekend throwing up.

My mom just gave me that jar of sauce about 3 weeks ago.

Guess she was trying to poison me :p. (j/k)

feeling better

Feeling much better today, but still kind of icky.

Haven't had the energy to go get my hair done. Grr. I guess it will have to wait.

Going to go eat some rice (the only thing of the BRAT diet I have at home). The first thing I'll have eaten since lunch on Friday.