I'm on Jersey Shore? Yeeeeaaahhh

School is just so darn frustrating! Well at least parts of it is. As I said in my last blog, I really do love my Micro class. It is a lot of fun, and it really interests me. I am still not signed up for my CNA class and Medical Terminology. They were supposed to have the books in last Thursday and they still are not in. What is their deal!!? I can't do the class without the book, and I can't sign up because they are pay as you go courses, so I could have paid for it a couple weeks ago, and still not have my book now, with a wasted 2 weeks of a paid class. I gave them my number TWICE, and am still waiting for them to call me and say the books are in. I just called yesterday, so if they don't call me tomorrow, I am calling again. Yes, I will be that annoying girl that calls all the time. I don't care because I have to have them finished and have my clinicals finished by June 1, in order to have a chance to get into the LPN program in the fall. 

Well, that's enough of that. I have been looking through the classifieds online to find myself a puppy. Ryan and I plan on getting a puppy!! How exciting right? We really want a St. Bernard but we are going to hold off on that until we have our own place. So then we were looking at Border Collies, but we already have Bella (Chris's dog) and she is a Blue Heeler, plus Boss (a pug), so we figured we need to get a small dog, and April agreed. So I think we are going for a Yorkie!!! Everyone knows how much I love Yorkies! Makes me miss Izzy and Kada just talking about it. Love them to death. 

We have already started throwing out names, but we haven't decided. We have time to think about it. We probably won't actually get him until around middle or end of March. And yes, it will be a boy, we hope! I love Izzy to death (she's my little princess at home), but Ryan will take more kindly to the idea of a Yorkie if it is a boy. So far the names we have come up with are.... Ryan's choice - Gaborik. My choice - Ollie. I love them both! Those are just our first ideas, but like I said we have time to think of more and weigh our options. I am just so excited! I have a feeling we will name it something movie related, because that is just how we are! Maybe a Cujo or Leo. We will see!

Time to lay down and hang with Snooki. I just love her book so much. It is not the best writing, but it is very entertaining! I had a dream last night that she and I were best friends and went out to the club, and Pauly and Vinny were there. I was basically on Jersey Shore.... wowwwww...... maybe I should stop reading before bed! LOL

Goodnight everyone! Love you all!

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It's that time again!

School is here again! I started out taking Pre Calculus and Microbiology. I had to go through some paper work and a few phone calls before I could start my Medical Terminology and CNA course. Yes, I have already been certified as a CNA  a few years ago, but I never worked with it, so it expired. Also, now that I am in a different state I have to recertify anyways, so it doesn't bother me too much to have to take the class again. 
Pre Calculus was awful!! The class was distance learning, which if you don't know what that is, it is when the teacher is at a different school and you watch him over a tv, and use microphones to communicate with them. I really don't mind classes like that, but it is math, and that is hard enough for me when there is a teacher in front of me teaching it. On top of that, he was foreign and I could barely understand him. He taught so fast, and I was lost on the second day!! I am the only one in that class so I was sitting there alone in this room just crying because I was so confused. I went out to the ladies at the student service desk and they said that a lot of students end up dropping this particular teacher's class because they find it difficult as well. So I ended up dropping the class with plans to sign back up maybe in the summer or next year with the best math teacher they have. I had her for my Math 1010 class and she was pretty awesome.
As for Microbiology, I LOVE it! My teacher is great and the class is a lot of fun. Of course there is a lot of information, and he has to move fast to get through it all, but he makes me excited for the class and makes me excited to learn. Don't you just love teachers like that?!
My book for Med Term should be in today (they were out), and all of the things that they needed should have been in today or yesterday, so HOPEFULLY I can go get signed up today and get started! Life is about to get busy, but I am fortunate enough to have a great boss at work that works great with my school schedule, so I shouldn't get too overwhelmed. 
Class tonight 5:30-8 then Jersey Shore!! Ahhh I'm addicted, drama drama! haha
Have a great night everyone!!

Must.Stay.Awake.

It is so difficult for me to keep my eyes open right now. I feel like I am torturing myself, but it really is for the best. I need to stay up late tonight because I HAVE to get to sleep early tomorrow night. Thursday I have to work from 6:30am to 3 then I have class from 5:30-8:30. So I have a LONG day on Thursday, then I have to wake up and be to work by 6:30 again on Friday. I am extremely happy about going to work and having hours, it feels like it has been a while, I just have had a problem with sleeping lately so I have been up late every night. So hopefully this will help me these next couple days. Like I said I have been staying up late recently, like bad late, but tonight it's just so difficult for me.
I found out today from the counselor at the college that there is a slim chance of me getting into the LPN program in the fall. They only accept 24 students for the program and in my class tonight there was about 20 of us going for the LPN in the fall. And that is only one class! I can only imagine how many others there are out there. They go by a point system and some of the points include being on the list last year, being a resident, having certain licenses, etc. Well I basically qualify for about 2 of the options..... and one is having good grades on the prerequisites, and for 2 of them I have had Cs. Sooooo I almost had a panic attack, because that means I have a very slim chance of making it, but I am still going to work my butt off and apply come March and see what happens! If it doesn't work out, I will work and take some other classes till the next fall. Hopefully all goes well and I get in! Fingers crossed :)
That is about all for now. I have class tomorrow morning then have all day to do whatever. I'll probably work on my math problems or read my micro chapters. We will see what happens.
Talk to ya later!

School and Sales

School starts tomorrow! Yikes, where did Christmas break go!? Time went by really fast, but time always goes by fast even though we don't realize it. We will have been in Utah for 2 years come April. So crazy!
But yes, I go back to school in the morning. Last semester all of my classes were online, and I thought I would be okay with that, but it sucked. You don't know how much you appreciate being in classroom listening to a teacher until you take online classes. So I am kind of excited to be going back, plus I changed my major so.... fun fun! I have math tomorrow morning, and I had to go and buy a calculator today for the class. $114! And I will probably only need it for this class, until I take a math for meds class or something like that, but I won't need such a complicated one. Ohhhh well, if I need it, I need it right?

My school bag is all packed and ready! This is the bag I bought a while back that I blogged about! :)


Walgreens has been having AMAZING sales lately. I don't know if this is just a normal thing for Walgreens because I don't ever shop there, but I went in there a few days ago and found some awesome deals. We love candles, so not surprisingly, I went straight to their candle section. They weren't really "on sale" but they were about the same price that you would pay at Walmart or Kmart and they had some cool smelling ones. Bath and Body Works has a candle that is supposed to smell like a fire burning in a fireplace. Ryan and I used to always build a fire in his parent's fireplace whenever we still lived in Effingham, so I really wanted to try this candle. Walgreens just happened to have basically the same candle! So of course I got it! And I got a "Refreshing" candle as well because I couldn't decide on just one haha. 

They also had a lot of hair care items on sale, but I didn't take pictures of them. I got some conditioner and deep conditioning treatments for April and I to share, and hairspray, just some random things. Today I went back to see if they had like mousse and gel on sale because I needed a new one, and figured I would look there before I go to Walmart and spend full price. And I found these. Keep in mind I spent about $2 each on these. Pretty darn great!

So if you are extremely a sucker for sales, like me, head to Walgreens and check everything out! Plus there was a lot of makeup on sale, and all of the Christmas items were marked down 75%. 

So there ya go! Oh I took that picture the night I burnt my hair :( Probably an hour before I did it. Woww I'm stupid, never gonna forget that night. haha
Goodnight guys!

Earring Holder + Candle = Sad Face

AHHHH! One of the scariest things happened to me last night. Now, I guess someone could say I am being dramatic, but if you had been in the room when it happened, you would understand, and you have to know my sensitive situation LOL I am very obsessed with my hair. I love styling it and I love it long. Since I am awful with makeup and all I go to my hair for my girly outlet.
Okay, so I will set the scene for you. It was around 11 last night, and I was getting ready to lay down and read my book. So I was going to put on my pjs and take my jewelry off, just get comfy. I go over to where my earring holder WAS and was having a little difficulty putting them on there. The backs were kinda slanted so it was taking me a little longer to figure it out. I was leaning over focusing intently on this. Let's have a picture to give you a better picture. 

This is the earring holder that has now been moved over onto the desk.

It was originally right behind that jewelry box behind this candle.... and yes this is the evil candle (makes me sad because I really like this candle and Ryan's amazing aunt got it for me). It had evil motives, guess you can't judge a book by it's cover haha


Oh and see those big red hearts on the earring holder? The ones I wrote about in my last blog, those were the earrings I was putting away. 


Anyway, I was leaning over trying to get the earrings on it, completely oblivious to the fact that my hair was sitting in the flame. WHOOOOSH, yes I heard this sound. Up in flames. I turned around to Ryan who was sitting on the bed, and it looked like my arm was on fire. I thought my shirt was going to catch on fire! So I was waving my arms and trying to pat the fire, basically freaking out!!! Ryan jumped up and was like OMG! 


We got the flame out pretty quick, so I went to the bathroom, and my hair was charred. BLACK. :( And hair was falling out in chunks. I conditioned it, and conditioned it again this morning. When I was in the shower this morning I still smelled the burnt hair. So I was thinking about going somewhere to have someone cut all the burnt ends out, but Ryan and his family said they couldn't even tell today after I styled it and everything. So I guess I'm going to just leave it. Keep slathering the conditioner on until I am actually due for another hair cut. 
I was smart enough to put my hair up tonight haha. I plan on doing that every night. I usually do because I wash my face and take off makeup and all that jazz, but I am going to do it wayyyy earlier  from now on.

Hair pinned up! LOL Ryan playin his game in the background.

Some more random stuff

My last post was about some items that I had recently bought, this one is just going to be completely about random things. First off I was given some beautiful earrings from April. They were her mother's and I absolutely love them! I have worn them all, and I already am attached to one of them. I know I am going to be wearing these A LOT this year. They are beautiful!

See what I mean!? I am in love. I love all the others as well. Thank you April!
On the subject of earrings, with that Forever 21 purchase I made with my gift card I ordered two pairs of earrings. One is a pair of dangling gold ones, they are pretty. And the second pair I wore today. I didn't think they were going to be as big as they are when I ordered them, but I still like them a lot. 

Only $1.50, they had other colors as well, but I liked the red. 


Now on a different subject... books! I really enjoy reading, and I am in the "reading phase" right now. I think all readers go through this. For a while you just are reading all the time and then you go through a phase where you just don't want to for a while. I think I have talked about this before, but I am in the reading phase right now. The book, or I should say books, I am reading right now is Kissed By an Angel. The book that April got has all 3 of the books in one. I am on the second right now, and it's a great book so far. 

Yesterday at Walmart, I made the most amazing purchase. I wanted to find a new book for after I finish this one, and it was "New Book & DVD Tuesday". That is what Ryan and I call Tuesdays haha. All new movies and books come out on Tuesdays. So fun fact for those of you that didn't know that lol. Anyway! Back to my awesome purchase. I had a book picked out but I kept looking, and it instantly got replaced when I saw this book on the shelf. 

YES! You are seeing correctly. Snooki wrote a book! And it's an actual book, not a biography or anything. A fiction book with a storyline. Of course it's about girls in Seaside and about them wanting to find guidos and juiceheads, but I am SO excited to read this next! It's at Walmart, so if you are interested go pick up your own! It was like $17 because it's hardback. :D I'm pumped!
So I believe this is all my randomness for now. I am still awaiting my school check so I can go get my books and pay for another class, then pay off a bill. Hopefully it will be here tomorrow!!! I will be waiting!
Have a great night guys, and a great Thursday tomorrow! 

Recent Purchases

I feel that I have made some awesome purchases lately, and I really want to show them on here. This is going to be an extremely girly post, so if there is any guys that are thinking about reading this.... warning it may be super boring to you! ANYWHO!

So, Ronnie and April got me a gift card to Forever 21, basically my favorite store in the world. I of course got some clothing, but I also got a few things that weren't clothing. Including a little compact mirror for my purse, a lipstick, and a couple pairs of earrings, oh and of course my new black shoes. But my favorite purchase of all, was this amazing wallet. I have been needing a new one because the coin part of my other one had a hole in it and it was starting to just wear it. This wallet was only 8 bucks and I LOVED it. 

I posted on my Facebook about some makeup I wanted to buy, which I never posted pictures or anything, but I had posted a link so if you were interested you could have saw them there. But the brand is Elf, Eyes Lips Face. This is a super cheap makeup brand, but its awesome quality. Usually you can only find it at Target, which we do not have here, or you can order it online. I ordered my makeup palettes online. I am an avid shopper at Dollar Tree. You can find some amazing things there, especially in makeup. WELL, I saw one of my youtube girls that I watch made a video and said there was Elf at the Dollar Tree. So, no joke, I paused the video and went to Dollar Tree. And they had it!! They had the lipgloss I have been thinking about ordering online for a while now. And usually online they are $3 a piece but at the store they were only a dollar. So of course I got all of them and a couple others. 

I also have been buying scarves at Dollar Tree. They are good material and only a dollar. Today I took a picture of my outfit because I loved it. I was wearing one of the scarves I had bought and I had curled my hair with my new flatiron. I won a $150 flat iron in a contest that a girl on youtube was having. And it's pretty awesome. So I thought I looked nice today haha so I took a picture!

I have some more fun things that I have bought or recieved, but they will be in the next blog!! Time to read my book and go to sleep!

Christmas

Christmas oh Christmas..... you were long awaited, and barely even made your presence known... jerk. haha Just kidding, but really Christmas came and went so unbelievably fast this year. It was a very nice holiday here in Utah. Christmas Eve night, April said we had to wait until midnight to open gifts, well that didn't exactly go as planned. We were like little 8 year olds sitting on the floor downstairs around the tree waiting.... at about 8 or 8:30. We still had a long time to wait! We did some persuading and got
April to say we could open at 11. Of course that wasn't going to happen, we were ready right then. So finally I believe the time officially got changed to 10:30. And we impatiently waited until then lol.
We all got some great gifts, and gave great gifts. I received a laptop table for when I am sitting on the bed... which is where I ALWAYS am. So that was an amazing gift. It has some great attachments and features on it. I also got a Ninja Turtles snuggie! I have always been a firm believer against snuggies, but I have been converted! I love that thing. Plus it's turtles so it makes it even better. Along with those I received a couple movies and a lot of small girly things such as nail polish, bath supplies, and a $30 giftcard to Forever 21, which I have already used and received haha. 
Ryan received everything he asked for, lots of movies, a hockey jersey, and hockey gear, plus a lot of little things here and there. We loved everything we got and are extremely thankful! 
My parents sent us some money which came in extremely handy. We used it for things we needed such as gas or essentials then we chose to each pick out something. I got a new camera because I really needed one. I had dropped my old one and the battery flap had broken so it was constantly turning off and because of that it just slowly started being crappy in other areas. I also made an order from Victoria's Secret for April and I. Some lotions and sprays. My Elf order was also included, LOTS of makeup! I honestly do not remember what Ryan ordered, and he is not helping me remember, he is laying next to me still sleeping. Yes, it's 1 in the afternoon. ANYWAY.
We got April and Ronnie a couple things and I sent my parents a photo album with lots of pictures from San Diego and just random pictures of me and Jordan and the pups. 
So all in all Christmas was a success. Wish I could of spent it with my family, but everything's gotta be so darn expensive. So hopefully I see them soon, because I miss them something awful. 

                                  Kevin checkin out the gifts, bein nosy.