Courtney

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I have. But everytime I do I end up rambling and deleting the whole thing because I think no one will want to read it. So here I go, an update on my life and I will try and keep it fairly concise (never my specialty though. . .)

1) Amanda picked a school. Pace Law in White Plains NY. It ended up being a fairly easy decision. She didn't get into her very first choice and Pace offered her about a half scholarship and was her second choice, so there you go. It sounds like a neat place, it has a special child advocacy program which is what she wants to do. It's also only 4 miles away from my school so that should make things easy. Hopefully.

2)We're planning our big move for the middle of July. I actually mapped out a schedule for driving over there with a few stops to see things like Mt. Rushmore and such. However it looks like it's going to be waaaaaaaaay expensive. I mean moving costs alone are RIDICULOUS not to mention hotels and gas and blah blah blah. I'm hoping hoping hoping my parents will help me out. We've saved some money but this would seriously take about everything we have. And I don't like that. I go home to see my family (and to trade Frosty in for my new (well old but new) Jeep) next week and I'm hoping I can get an idea of how much help we're going to get. So I'm trying not to freak out until then.

3) It looks like we'll be living with my parents next summer. Kind of weird. . . but I'll probably like it after having the shit kicked out of me at med school. My mom works for a judge who said that Amanda can be one of her clerks next summer. She'll basically do what my mom does and help out with cases and such. So we'll actually have a rent free summer WITH a steady income. Crazy. It'll also be my first summer at home since the summer after sophomore year. And it may also be my first summer without a job since I was 15. I'll probably be so exhausted I'll sleep through the whole thing.

4) On that note, I think my parents think Amanda walks on water. And it makes me so happy. For example, my dad reserved a room at Il Fiasco and is throwing a dinner party for her graduation (which the whole family is coming to see of course). And my mom must talk her up enough at work that her boss thought she should have a job. The job thing also makes me happy because it means that my parents think we'll be together in a year. I like that. I love that they include her in everything without question.

5) Friday I think will actually be the last night I play my horn. Well. . . I mean in a concert setting. It's the last TCB concert of the season. I may mess around after this, but I know I'll be too busy for awhile to play and by the time I'm done, my face will be totally gone. Kind of sad. I may keep the program just because it's the last time I'll have a little star for being principal of something. I like those stars :)

6) I'm really bored. I need to get out. Who else is bored? Come hang out with me. Let's plan a big get together for Seattle area people or something. Sheesh, I'm SOOOOO BORED!!!!

Ugh it's too long. . . but I'll keep it. Love to everyone!!! If you read this then you're probably more special to me than you know!!!

Guess what guess what guess what everyone? AMANDA GOT IN!!!! Yay!! She got her very first law school acceptance on Thursday. It's a big f-ing deal too. First of all, the dean of admissions called her personally to tell her about it and. . . it gets better. The tuition for this place is 27 grand a year and they're giving her a 22 thousand dollar per year scholarship renewable each year as long as she's in the top 50 percent of the class. Isn't that fantastic?!?!?! She'll get a law degree for about what she paid for one semester of UPS. I'm so proud of her and so happy too. Although. . . truth be told this is neither of our first choice. On a purely selfish level, it's 2 hours away from where I'm going to be, so we wouldn't be living together. But more importantly, it's not quite as good of a school as some of the others, but it does have both of the programs she wants, so that's great. It'll probably be awhile until we hear about the others, this was like the safety place but it's nice to get such a resounding welcome isn't it? I'm hoping this means she has a good chance at some of the other schools. But I'm just so proud. When she called me to tell me I started crying because I was so excited and everyone at work thought I was crazy. Bawling at my desk for an accomplishment that's not even mine to cry about. Oh well I DON'T CARE!!!!!!!

Actually, Thursday ruled in general. I went to Amanda's concert and my little sisters showed up. They're here for state basketball with the pep band. It was awesome to see them. I really miss those guys. I feel like I can finally relate to them. Sometimes I get really jealous of girls who have sisters that they're like best friends with. I love my sisters to death, but we're so far apart age wise, it hasn't been easy to be super close like it is for sisters who are only a year or two apart. And I feel that now that we have a shot at it, I'm moving away. It's depressing. But I still love to see them, they're turning into really amazing people. I'm proud of them too, I hope they know that.

Anyway, now I'm getting all emotional. I'm going to go read and enjoy my weekend I think.

Everyone congratulate Amanda when/if you see her!!!!!!

I love Fridays. Even though I never do anything special at all I still love the feeling that I have two whole days all to myself. Well not really because I have rehearsal on Sundays, but close enough I guess.

It's weird to play my horn now. It's really different. I don't like it as much as I used to. There's two reasons for it, one, I'm not nearly as good as I used to be because my face is really out of shape. Two, it's really not as fun to play with high school kids (in the youth group I coach) and middle aged people (in Tacoma Concert Band). I think I'm still glad I'm playing, but it's definitley different. Actually I was going to quit TCB after the last (horrible) concert cycle. All Sousa, it was like my own personal nightmare. But then the other principal didn't come back so. . . now I sort of have to play because I think Mr. Musser would have a stroke if he didn't have a first horn for his precious 25th anniversary gala or whatever. I can't believe the other first just quit and didn't say anything. Oh well, I really should stick with it. It's something else to do besides work and that's probably a good thing.


Amanda finished applying to schools. Now we wait. I'm so excited for her, she seems really happy about her whole "child advocate" plan. I really want it to work for her. Now if we just had a place to live. We really need an apartment, but I'm hoping Amanda's schools will be a little more helpful in that area than mine is. They'd better be because. . .I want a place to live.


I think I'm going to enjoy my weekend now :)

I had a three day weekend this week, yay President's Day. Of course, though, I had to get sick last night. We were out at dinner and all of a sudden I just felt terrible. I basically went home and crashed. I felt better this morning, but I still don't feel right. I hate feeling like this. I'm not really sick enough to stay in bed and do nothing but I'm not really well enough to go about my daily routine either. Basically I get to go to work and be cranky :)

And speaking of work, it's pretty good. I'm super busy though. Most medical records people have 1 doctor, some have a doctor and a nurse practitioner and my co worker has two doctors but one is only there for two days a week. I have 2 full time doctors and 2 nurse practitioners. I don't really mind it at all. I like being busy, it can just be a little nerve wracking because it's so much responsibility and I'm constantly worried that I'm going to screw something up and have that many more people mad at me. What's really wearing me down though is all of the politics. I will never understand the need for people to constantly tear each other down. I mean, yeah we all did it at some point, but shouldn't you grow out of it? I don't know, all the medical records people hate my co worker because she's lazy, and she hates all of them because they're uptight. And my co worker is a little bit lazy and the rest of them are a little bit uptight, but why whine about it all day? It's so stupid. And unproductive. They're all perfectly nice people when they're not complaining, they're really cool, nice people. But when they get started. . . good lord.

Anywho, we had dinner with Amanda's sister Heather and her husband this weekend. Kind of a surprise. Well maybe not entirely. After Heather didn't show up for Amanda's recital and didn't even call to say she wouldn't be there or say why or wish her good luck or anything remotely courteous like that, I got a little bit mad. Well, not mad, disappointed maybe? Anyway, I wrote and begged her to try and get over Amanda being a lesbian and be her siser again for both of their sake's. I mean, granted I don't really like Heather that much, but she's Amanda's sister and therefore she should be part of Amanda's (and my) life. How can you just drop your only sister? I didn't think anything would come of it, but lo and behold, they showed up this weekend. Dinner went ok. I mean. . . we chatted and though we're very obviously two very different sets of people, we all got along for the course of the meal and found sufficiently superficial things to talk about. I hope it's a step in the right direction for all of us. It'd be nice to have an older sister figure.

I can't believe I'm moving in like. . . 5 months. That's so scary. So exciting, but so scary.

Weekends should be longer. 3 days at least. I always feel like I'm just getting to feel relaxed and then I have to go to work again. Not that work is all that bad. In fact, work is pretty good. My nurse likes me and so she's really nice to me and I think I've finally caught on to everything that goes on. My boss just give me more to do, which is nice. Now instead of doing just Dr. Priebe's records, I also do the two nurse practitioners. It'll be nice to have more to do, I hope I can keep up. I'd better be able to since I'm supposed to take over Penny's job in addition to all this when she leaves to have her baby soon. Gah.

It's very weird right now because I know in my head that I like my job. But every morning I dread going. It's so strange. I guess I'm just not a morning person. Or something. That will have to change of course since in no time I'll have to do rounds at like 5 in the morning. Fuck.

Liz moved in about two weeks ago. It's awesome. Truly awesome. We all love Liz and it's really changed the house dynamic a lot. I mean it was fine last semester, but Aleks wasn't around that much so it was mostly Ryther, Amanda and I and then Shannon when she could stand being around all the coupleness which I know from personal experience can be really annoying to deal with. Having Liz helps balance things out so we all hang out as a group all the time. So while last semester was fine, this semester is already really awesome. Side note, I feel weird talking about things in terms of semesters since there is no such thing for me.

I've noticed that I'm really a different person this year then I was before, in some ways anyway. I'm really neat for one thing (though I always thought that I would be neat if I had the time to be). I'm slightly anti social, though maybe that's because I have so much fun at the house I forget to leave it. That's not a good excuse though. I cook all the time, I can run two and a half miles, and I read a book a week. I'm middle aged basically. It's frightening. I don't now if it's temporary or if this is what I would be like if I'd had any time at all during college. Vexing.

Off to get ready for bed, I need all the rest I can get for Monday mornings. Because they suck. A lot.

I really do mean to either 1) update more often or 2) stop updating period. I hate that whenever I write I have a months worth of things to say and I can never decide what's important enough to post so I usually end up bagging it. But I will really write today :)

Christmas was excellent. I loved being home with my family. I love that they accept Amanda so much. It's odd for my siblings to wholly accept anyone that any one of us is dating. Not sure why. I don't think it's inherent meanness because they've never extremley disliked anyone either, except maybe one girl who thought she couldn't float because her bones were really dense and would sink if she got wet above her thighs. Mostly they're just indifferent, but they seem to really like Amanda. Or perhaps they just hide it really well. Either way, it's great. So, in a nutshell, Christmas was grand.

New Year's was nice too. I got to see some old faces, and man am I excited for all the weddings this summer. I'm jealous too. I want a wedding. But. . . even if it was legally feasible, we probably wouldn't be getting married for a while anyway. Damned school, oh well.

Speaking of marriage, I'm a little irked at my med school right now. Turns out they don't recognize partners as spouses even if you have a marriage certificate. So you're not allowed to live in the houses for couples. Because of the "Catholic tradition". Oh please. That is really lame. I really was not expecting that. I saw that they had an anti-discrimination policy which includes sexual orientation and extends to "all campus programs". I guess housing is not a program. God dammit. I knew that the school was Catholic but all the students said that that didn't mean anything and that nothing on campus is religious at all. It's probably a money thing. They can't let gay people sleep together and still get money from the Vatican. Or whatever. Gah.

It's not the end of the world I suppose, just. . . disappointing I guess. We'll figure it out. Amanda's schools will let us live there if we have some sort of legal documentation establishing our relationship. Like power of attorney or even if we can prove that we pay our bills together. We could live at our separate schools I suppose but. . . well, that would kind of suck. We'll be too busy to see each other and only one of us would have a car. So. . .it's looking like we'll just go off campus. It's not super convenient for either of us, but it's better than being apart or me having to take the train to go to lab. Oh well, we've gone through harder things than this.

And. . . I think that's sufficiently long, I'll leave it there. good night all!!

I'm sooooo excited! I love Christmas!! Amanda started the packing process today and our presents for people filled up my ENTIRE big suitcase. It's mostly because of Beth's. Beth's present is freaking huge. They'd better not crap it up on the airplane. Seriously.

Anyway, we FINALLY got our actual job assignments today. Funny how you can work for 3 weeks and not really know what you're supposed to be doing :) I got assigned the harder job. Not that it's all THAT hard. Basically I'm responsible for all of the records for one of the doctors which means that if I screw up there's no one to cover for me and I'll probably get yelled at. So. . . hopefully I won't screw up too badly. But it's really a lot better than having to scan things all day like the other girl. Blech. I haven't actually met my dr yet so I hope he's nice.

This may sound really stupid, but I'm really excited about my desk (at the office). It's just a desk, it's not fancy, but I've never had a desk that was just mine at an office. I've shared or had a "work space", but not a desk with a private extension and everything. I'm sure it'll wear off in about 3 days, but for now I'm already thinking about how to decorate it so it's not so cubicle-y.

I still don't like that I sit all day. Actually, I feel like I"ve been really terrible this month. Amanda and I joined a gym a few months ago and started running again. did really well too, got up to running two miles 4 times a week. And then the end of the semester came, and then I got the flu, and so I really have just been sitting around for like a month. I feel so gross and lazy it's just. . . ugh. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm no fitness freak or anything, but just sitting for a MONTH? blech. Even when I was a student I would WALK places.

Anyway, I have to start packing because I'M GOING HOME TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a very Christmas-y weekend. Amanda and I very nearly finished all of our Christmas shopping, hopefully we can actually finish it tonight. Today we had house Christmas with presents and cookie frosting. I got some really awesome stuff. Heather and Ryan bought me a beautiful jewelry box and Amanda got me a heart shaped white gold necklace with diamonds and rubies in it. It's beautiful, really really beautiful. I suppose it's about time I retired the horn necklace anyway. Maybe I'll give it to my sister or something. It's so sad because I know this is the last Christmas where we'll all be together. That really makes me sad. Amanda, Shannon, Heather and I are really close and I don't know what we're going to do without Heather and Shannon next year. It'll be very weird.

Anyway, the new job is going ok. I'm supposed to take over the whole job tomorrow. I'm really nervous. I think I get it, but I'm not really sure. But luckily, my dr is gone for the next 2 weeks (which is why I get to go home for a whole week, yay!). At least I think its my dr. No one has actually told me what my job is exactly. There are 2 open jobs, and they're both really different, they hired 2 people, trained us together, but haven't told us which one is doing which job. One, the "scanning" position, is really easy, very low pressure, but very boring. The other, being the open doc's medical records person, is more diverse and exciting, but MUCH more high pressure. So I can't really decide which one I want. Hmmm, we'll see.

I go home on WEDNESDAY, I'm soooooooo excited. I love Christmas at my house!


( Four Things meme )

Cedric Diggory
You love the clean-cut, all around good boy. He
always does the right thing and makes your time
together romantic and special. He's a dream
come true, and handsome to boot!


Who is your Harry Potter love match? (for girls)
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This is amusing because I really thought this guy was cute when I saw the movie. Is there a version of this for boys? I wonder which girl I'd end up with. Hm, interesting.

( Thanksgiving etc )

So basically, Thanksgiving= much better than expected, time surrounding it= much worse than expected.

BUT I got a new job on Friday. Hopefully this one is really permanent. It's so great, its FIVE MINUTES away from my house, right on 6th. It's a much nicer office than my old one and it's PAPERLESS medical records. No more filing for me, yay!!!!!!!!!!!! They said it's most likely a temp-to-hire position. I hope so. I'm not too worried about that though, it really seemed like they were looking for someone to stay for a loooooong time. So that's great. I'm very excited, I start tomorrow. I hope I like it, not that it matters because I'm sure I'll like it better than sitting around the house all day freaking out about getting rent money. Did I mention I get an office with a window that has a view of the mountain? yessssssss.

The bad part is that I'd already bought my Christmas tickets having cleared it with my OLD job thinking that I'd be working there until next year. Bastards. So now I have to see if I can be gone that long at this new job. I can change the tickets of course, but it'd be neat to not have to. We'll see. I have to find the right time to ask. If I ask too soon I'll look like a bonified slacker, already asking for time off when I just got hired, but if I ask too late I may not be able to change the tickets at all and that'll be a whole new mess. Fun. I'm really hoping it'll just be ok.

Anyway I should get to bed so I'm not cranky on my first day :) Wish me luck!!!!

Since I got tagged and since everyone in the world seems to be doing this, I suppose I should get on board. Here they are


*Being with Amanda, which sounds really stupid, but its true. If she's around, I'm infinitley happy, even if we're not doing anything exciting or important.

*That feeling you get when you put on your slippers and get under a quilt on a cold day and you just start to warm up.

*Starting a book and knowing within the first 10 pages that it's going to be awesome.

*This is kind of complicated, but I love hearing the jingling of our cats' collars bells when they come bounding down the stairs. I especially love this at night when Amanda and I get into bed for the night, they always come running and throw themselves on the bed because they know that they can snuggle at get lots of attention before they settle down for the night. It makes me feel like we're a family or something sentimental. So yeah, whenever I hear that sound, I feel all warm inside.

*Sunsets at our lake place, its so peaceful and it makes me think of how lucky I am to have a family like mine. Just thinking about sitting on the dock with my siblings makes me tear a little. I miss them.



Are those simple? I hope so. I feel like they're a little mundane, but they're the first things I thought of, maybe I'll think of "better" things later. Anyway, I will give a Thanksgiving update later I promise, hope everyone had a good holiday!

Wow, quite a bit has happened in the last few weeks, but I'll try to keep it brief. It probably won't work. Let's see. . .

I was out driving and I got hit by a teenager delivering pizzas, that was fun. My car is ok, a little dented. So now I have to work on fixing that. Stupid insurance company and paperwork. . . blech. At least I'm pretty damned sure that they can't possibly fault me for the accident. Because it wasn't my fault. But I won't get into it.

I sort of don't like my job. Actually no, I do like my job, I just don't like my co-medical records person. It's really stupid because I loooooove everyone else in the office, except her. It's really not so bad really, it goes in waves. We're just really different people is all so working together in such close (and isolated) confines can get a little tense sometimes. This week went really really well but last week I almost killed her. But I'm applying for a job with the same company at another location, its a potential big pay increase and I don't have to deal with her mood swings, double yay.

I'm playing in the Tacoma Concert Band which if you don't know is basically a community wind ensemble. It's ok. I get to play first, so that's kind of fun. I was pretty sure I'd get stuck at the end of the section, but nope, I split first with the principal and she decided to give me almost all of the first parts. Surprising but very neat. I'm also going to be playing in the next UPS orchestra concert because Ben has pneumonia. I think he's going to play all the solos, I'm just going to play everything else so he doesn't pass out. That'll be. . . very weird, but I really want to help him out if I can. Poor guy sat shadow to me for three years, it so unfair that he's sick now. I hear that the freshman have been circling him like vultures trying to steal his part from him, jerks. I'll feel much better if I can keep it out of THEIR hands, greedy little bastards.

I'm kind of panicking hard core about med school. This is mostly because I joined a bunch of med student communities and everyone is posting their horror stories about exams and residency. Did you know that residents work 80 hour weeks with only 4 days off a month? That's not like weekends plus four days, that's like 4 days total. I'm afraid. I should have been a damned lawyer.

Overall, life is pretty awesome. I love living with Amanda. I really do. We've become very domestic, although that could just be the effect of living with Heather and Ryan. I have enough time to read which i really really missed in college. And even though I miss being intellectually stimulated and I hate dealing with money (yes everyone, my parents finally cut me off completley, I know you're wondering), I think staying was a really good decision. I live in a beautiful house with my very best friends, I get to see and (gasp) relax with my beautiful girlfriend, and I get to just enjoy things for once.

Oh, and a very important FYI, I caught the bouquet at the wedding I was at last weekend, so this means that I'll be getting married soon. Which also means that gay marriage is going to be legal in the very near future. It's in the stars, you can't fight fate :)

I had a truly awesome weekend. The first really awesome weekend I've had in a long time. Friday Amanda and I went to dinner and a movie. So fun. We saw "In Her Shoes" which I honestly expected to suck a whole lot, but it didn't at all. I actually really really liked it. Like I may buy it when it comes out. Everyone should go see it. Saturday Amanda and I went to Seattle with heather and Ryan, did some shopping and went to the science center for free. Sunday was pretty lazy, which I always enjoy on my weekends. I just went to my paid gig in Auburn and hung out with Amanda. But it was topped off by a really great house-wide (and Ryan) round of "apples to apples" with a south park marathon in the background. But no one was really paying attention to it because that game is so damned funny.

Today I called in sick for work because dammit everyone else is on fall break and I've hardly ever missed work. So instead of working. . . get this, I chopped all of my hair off. Ok well not all of it, but its' really short. The absolute longest part if it is right at my chin, and then the rest of it is really layered to about my eyeline. Wow. It's shorter then I meant to cut it, but I think that's ok. I forgot the picture of what i wanted, so I tried to describe it to the girl and she seemed to get it and then she did something different but actually way better. My mom is going to hate it because I have that side bang thing that goes kind of over one eye. She hates that. I also find it ironic that I've spent the last year growing my bangs out only to have them cut back again. Oh well. But so far everyone else seems to like it, so that's good. I'm excited about it, I think it looks really cute and it'll be a lot easier to dry and stuff. If I get a picture I'll put it on here, otherwise you'll just have to come and find me. I spent the rest of the day watching babies for a couple of hours and then actually going back to the mall because I forgot to buy eyeshadow which is one of the few things that was actually really important for me to get this weekend because I haven't had any in like a month and its driving me insane. But I went back with just heather and it was nice to have just us time for once. We usually only hang out as a foursome or occasionally a threesome with one or the other feeling like a third wheel (which we are). So that was nice. And now I have to go back to work. Dammit.

Not that that's really all that bad. Actually it doesn't affect me much. My office has no windows. The doctors' offices do though, so when I go around looking for charts I get to see glimpses of the outside. Yipee. But it could be blizzarding outside and I would have absolutley no idea whatsoever. Until the drive home of course when I'd have to deal with stop and go traffice in my stick shift car. Blech.


But, on a happier note, my anniversary, well our anniversary, was really great. I came home from work and had to rush downstairs to get dressed because I work late on Mondays and when I got to our room it was all dark and Amanda had candles all over the place and she was sitting on the bed, all dressed up with 12 roses. She looked beautiful and I teared a little bit. I was so sad I had to turn the damned lights on to get dressed myself :( But, we went out to dinner at Stanley and Seaforts and it was AMAZING. We ordered way too much food but oh well. Seriously, this is my new favorite place, everything we had was soooooo good I was genuinley upset when I got too full to finish it all or order dessert. Meh. But it was all beautiful and really something I plan on remembering. Especially since we'll probably be too stressed out for our next few anniversaries to really do all that much. Hm, I love her. Yup I do.


I'm super excited because one of the doctors at the office I work for gave me free tickets to fright fest. I've never gone but it seems pretty cool. I'm sooo excited. I may go out and buy some tacky halloween decorations just to get in the spirit of things :) Yay for doctors and the free stuff they get from drug companies!!!

Today is my anniversary. Which means a year ago tonight I fell in love with my very best friend.


I think I'm still falling a little bit :)

I am the mother who told her lesbian daughter to invite her girlfriend over for dinner.

I am the father who punished his son for calling you a fag.

I am the preacher who told my congregation that love, not hate, is the definition of a true follower of God.

I am the girl who did not learn the meaning of "homosexual" until high school but never thought to question why two men might be kissing.

I am the woman who argues (quite loudly and vehemently) with the bigots who insist that you do not have the right to marry or raise children.

We are the high school class who agrees, unanimously, along with our teacher, that love should be all that matters.

If you agree, repost this. Do it. You don't have to be afraid. You can handle it. You're stronger than you think.

I am making a difference. Hate will not win.

I really don't like Sundays. I'm really not ready to start another week at work. Not that it's bad or anything, it's just. . . well, you know, it's like WORK. I don't mind the job at all really, I mean it does fill the time. It's just soooo repetitive. I feel like this wouldn't be the case if I was allowed to do anything besides filing. I mean there actually is more to medical records than filing, like record transfers and answering the phones, but apparently only my co worker is allowed to do it. She's nice I suppose, obviously kind of lonely though. Anyway, she takes her job very seriously and so she's very reluctant to let me do anything new. So. . . whatever. Like I said, it's not a bad job at all, just not very stimulating. And sometimes I look at my med school curriculum and feel like I could be doing something a lot more important than putting files on a shelf. It's compounded by the fact that I feel like so many of my friends are actually doing exciting things. They're teaching or in other countries or they're in grad school, and I'm. . . filing. Man. I don't regret the decision to stay here, I love living with Amanda and I'm glad we were able to work it out to be together for this year, and it's true I'd be really miserable working so hard over there without her, but you know, it'd be nice if I felt like I was doing something meaningful while I wait.

There is a silver lining though. Amanda is starting to apply to all of her grad schools, so very shortly I'll be living through the whole experience again indirectly. I hope she gets in. I'll feel awful if she follows me out to New York but then doesn't get into any programs over there. She's set her sights pretty high, she's decided to go to law school and get a master's in social work as well (which, funnily enough means that we'd have a whopping 6 degrees between us if I go through with getting a dual degree from NYMC). I hope that works out for her. Getting into law school around New York is not going to be easy, but it'll be so worth it if she makes it. It'll be a really rocky 4 years though, we'll both be so incredibly busy, but when it's over it'll be really great. So I hope it happens.

Anyway, I"m going to go to bed shortly because I'm very nearly through with being sick and I'd really just like to not be anymore. I'm tired of coughing.

So a lot of my concerns have been put to rest in the past week. Firstly, I finally found a job. An actual job that I like and can do and isn't too far away. It's for a community health clinic in Lakewood, I'm doing medical records. Which basically means I file, fax, and copy things. It was supposed to be a temporary job (just for last week)but on my second day someone came in and asked Stephany (my co worker and technically my superior I suppose) if I was the new temp girl and she said "well yeah but hopefully we can convince her to stay permenantly". "hell yeah I'll stay!!!!" I was so thrilled. So for now I"m still technically a temp, but hopefully soon (although Stephany said it probably won't be too soon), I'll get hired by the actual place. But I guess I have to go through the whole interview process. I don't really understand it and it makes me kind of nervous, I hope they're not going to screw me over somehow. I can't tell if they're actually going to interview other people or what. I hope not. But I guess I'll try and keep Stephany happy and she'll tell them to hire me. At least she'd better. Would they really hire someone over me if I've already been doing the job for a month or so? Jesus I hope not, that would be really lame. So, barring complete disaster, I should be employed for awhile. I hope I didn't just jinx it, I deliberatley didn't post for awhile because I was sure I was going to jinx it if I did. Hopefully I'm ok.

Anyway, the other big thing that I don't need to worry about anymore is a car. My grandpa, who is kind of a bad ass (as 86 year olds go) just bought a really freaking nice new lexus SUV thing. So, he's getting rid of his old jeep. He gave it to my mom who said that Amanda and I could have it. It's pretty nice, it's a red Grand Cherokee. It's kind of old (94) but it only has 60 thousand miles on it which is pretty dang good for a car that old. Amanda really really likes it. I do too. It'll be nice for the camping trips we like to take, etc. Though it would have been even better if we could have had the lexus. . . :)

So for the moment, everything is just great. I get to live in a great house with great people (Aleks is really really cool), drive Frosty (she's here for the year!!!!!!!!!), actually work full time for pretty good pay, and at the end of the year I can pick up my life and go to med school. Hopefully with some money to spare.

Everyone cross your fingers that none of this totally backfires :)

The house is done!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!! It looks really really really nice. Everyone should come over and see it, it's just incredible. Aleks came yesterday so all 5 girls are here. Or at least they should be, no one is here at the moment except Aleks and I. We also have 5 cars, or we will once we bring liz's car over here. Apparently it has to sit here all semester. And we have our 4 cats who so far are doing ok. I drove over from Spokane yesterday with Squeakers who wasn't too thrilled to be here, but I guess she's doing better now. Aleks' cat, Mona, is really really pretty. She's a beautiful shade of grey with really bright green eyes. Kind of makes Nemo and (especially) Stitch look kind of. . . well. . . scruffy. But that's alright, I love them anyway.

Job hunting is going. . . ok. i've been turned away from I don't know how many jobs because I'm "over qualified" (meaning, I think, that I've gone to college). Flattering but SUCKY since I can't very well apply for anything I am qualified for since I"m leaving in May (which I've also started to lie about). Damn. I'm thinking now I'll make up a resume that says nothing about being college educated. But I have a few more prospects and I'm registered at 2 temp agencies now so hopefully I'll get something before my parents disown me. It's not like I'm not trying.

I went and visited the Muses yesterday because I had to drop some stuff off for my brother. It was very weird to be there and not have my name on any door. I felt very old. Which I am. I think they'll have a fun year, I really hope they do.

Amanda's sister's wedding is in about 3 weeks. I don't want to go. Not at all. The close it gets the more family drama keeps getting stirred up (only about half of her extended family is ever speaking to each other at once). And we're not involved in any of it (well, except both of us not liking Heather that much, but when you live 500 miles apart and never talk, its really not that big of a problem) but everyone keeps calling to relate the latest he-said-she-said. I'm telling Amanda to stop answering her phone because WE DON'T CARE!!!!!!!!!!! I have so had it with people who cause conflict for recreation that I have a feeling I'm going to end up yelling at the next person who tries to tell me the 8 reasons I shouldn't like a certain member of the family. My patience for those kinds of people has worn very very thin in the last 4 years. As fun as malicious gossip is (and it is incredibly fun to tear down everyone around you isn't it?), I really think people need to learn a different way to feel good about themselves. I am so incredibly fed up with it. It's just pathetic.

Anyway, that was long. I think I'm going to do some more job stuff and enjoy my finished awesome house :)

Pemberley is the name of our house. At least that's what Heather decided. For those who don't know, Pemberley is the huge ass house that Mr. Darcy lives in in Pride and Prejudice. And if you've seen the movie you know that it's about the coolest house in the world. Except for our house of course. But right now this house kind of sucks. Amanda and I have been gone for almost three weeks so it's gotten very dusty. When we came back we basically just threw our stuff down and started painting. There is stuff everywhere. Furniture had to be moved so that the rooms could be painted, there's still being work done on the basement so there's dust everywhere from that, not to mention contractor's tools all over the place. It's bad. The house looks terrible. In my head I know that it'll be better soon. Two out of five rooms are completley painted, two just need the trim done, and one can't be painted until Amanda and I can move out of it and into our new bedroom (which by the way is the size of the entire second floor of the muses house). So basically everything is a mess. In theory we should be able to work it out in the next week or so. I hope so. I'm going insane. But of course, in my head I know that in about two weeks we'll have a really cute house with really awesome people living there none of which will spend the entire year silently hating me and saying horrible things behind my back while insisting that nothing is wrong to my face. Am I still bitter about that? Hmm. . .maybe. But really it works out for the best because it has made me incredibly excited for this house.

And. . .I'm still unemployed. I've had exactly two jobs both of which haven't worked out in the end. Dammit. I'm so frustrated. Frustrated and poor.

Maybe I'll just take a nap so my head doesn't explode