Friday, December 29, 2006
Happy New Year!
Ohio down... Florida and the Western Carribean to go... I so lucky!
Ohio was a GREAT time! It wasn't a white Christmas as we had hoped but we still had a fun time. Emma is the GREATEST! She is so cute walking around and is a very busy girl playing with many toys and charming all those who cross her path. James was taken with her and she with him. It was very peaceful and relaxing time. James liked Ohio and was amazed at the no crowds on our visit to Target the Saturday before Christmas. The shock came when we went to Target in West Covina on a Thursday during the day and it was crowded. We both had a little adjustment to do. All in all is was a great time and we are hoping to go back in March for Emma's 1st birthday party. I can't believe it coming on a year that this little sweetness arrived in the world. We saw my mom's house from the outside. She is going to move in the middle of January. She'll be coming out the end of January/beginning of February to get her stuff out of storage in Escondido. I'm excited to see her then!
James and I spoiled each other in our first Christmas together... I was doubly... well infinity spoiled with a beautiful white gold and diamond necklace. It has three diamonds and a swirl shaped setting. I can't really describe it to do it justice but all I can say is that both my sister and my friend Jessica said they wanted on. Enough said! It was accompanied with a beautiful poem. I am lucky girl to have a man who cherishes me and loves me so much. He is so good to me and would walk to the moon and back if I asked him too. I am still in shock that I received something so beautiful from a man who loves me. I think it is all still sinking in. You imagine and hope things like this happen one day and it does...and it just is simply amazing.
So, tonight we get on a plane to Florida. We are going to be with James' aunt and her family. Then all of us, including James' mom, are going on a cruise to the Western Carribean. Woohoo! Call it a family reunion via a cruise. We leave tonight and will arrive in Tampa early tomorrow morning and visit a few days (including ringing in 2007) in Plant City, FL at his aunt's house and then Wednesday, January 3rd we are on a ship! Yipee!! Our ports are Belize, Panama and Costa Rica! I am SUPER excited...especially as the time draws near. I've never been on a cruise so I am doubly excited to experience something new. Pictures and stories to come!
Happy New Year! Hope the start of 2007 is fabulous!
Ohio was a GREAT time! It wasn't a white Christmas as we had hoped but we still had a fun time. Emma is the GREATEST! She is so cute walking around and is a very busy girl playing with many toys and charming all those who cross her path. James was taken with her and she with him. It was very peaceful and relaxing time. James liked Ohio and was amazed at the no crowds on our visit to Target the Saturday before Christmas. The shock came when we went to Target in West Covina on a Thursday during the day and it was crowded. We both had a little adjustment to do. All in all is was a great time and we are hoping to go back in March for Emma's 1st birthday party. I can't believe it coming on a year that this little sweetness arrived in the world. We saw my mom's house from the outside. She is going to move in the middle of January. She'll be coming out the end of January/beginning of February to get her stuff out of storage in Escondido. I'm excited to see her then!
James and I spoiled each other in our first Christmas together... I was doubly... well infinity spoiled with a beautiful white gold and diamond necklace. It has three diamonds and a swirl shaped setting. I can't really describe it to do it justice but all I can say is that both my sister and my friend Jessica said they wanted on. Enough said! It was accompanied with a beautiful poem. I am lucky girl to have a man who cherishes me and loves me so much. He is so good to me and would walk to the moon and back if I asked him too. I am still in shock that I received something so beautiful from a man who loves me. I think it is all still sinking in. You imagine and hope things like this happen one day and it does...and it just is simply amazing.
So, tonight we get on a plane to Florida. We are going to be with James' aunt and her family. Then all of us, including James' mom, are going on a cruise to the Western Carribean. Woohoo! Call it a family reunion via a cruise. We leave tonight and will arrive in Tampa early tomorrow morning and visit a few days (including ringing in 2007) in Plant City, FL at his aunt's house and then Wednesday, January 3rd we are on a ship! Yipee!! Our ports are Belize, Panama and Costa Rica! I am SUPER excited...especially as the time draws near. I've never been on a cruise so I am doubly excited to experience something new. Pictures and stories to come!
Happy New Year! Hope the start of 2007 is fabulous!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
yep, she's walking...
my little 9 1/2 month old niece is walking... and i get to see her on friday! YIPEE!!
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
finals week
This week is finals week. It's been a little bit of the crazy and I've got a ways to go. Oh well! It's one thing at a time.
Other than that... life is good. James is good. We are both looking forward to spending time with family this holiday season. We're going to Ohio for Christmas and Florida for the New Year and then jumping on a cruise with his mom's side of the family. Yipee! We both need the vacation and I'll be ready to get back and jump into the madness of the winter quarter. I miss my family and look forward to seeing them in a little over two weeks.
I work. I go to school. I see my boyfriend. I play phone tag and chat online with friends and family. I sleep. I'd like to add: I workout. I eat well. I'm working on those right now.
That's me in a nutshell.
Other than that... life is good. James is good. We are both looking forward to spending time with family this holiday season. We're going to Ohio for Christmas and Florida for the New Year and then jumping on a cruise with his mom's side of the family. Yipee! We both need the vacation and I'll be ready to get back and jump into the madness of the winter quarter. I miss my family and look forward to seeing them in a little over two weeks.
I work. I go to school. I see my boyfriend. I play phone tag and chat online with friends and family. I sleep. I'd like to add: I workout. I eat well. I'm working on those right now.
That's me in a nutshell.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
brief update
my blog concious didn't even have to remind me of my need to post. i am posting on my own free will. my blog concious will be very happy to hear of such growth in the blog-o-sphere.
this is the end of week 8 of my 10 week quarter. i have to make a push to get to the end with many a final (three to be exact that loom out there larger than life) and a huge paper (freud and his influence on the american church!). every quarter it seems like something short of a miracle to get it done. this too will be the same experience. but it will take a miracle rather large in size and really no life for the next three weekends. what's three weekends really. such a short amount of time.
i registered for classes for next quarter. i paid alot of money and when thinking about the loans that covered 3/4 of my tuition i realize i will be paying that much more for the classes for next quarter. it's a good thing i am excited beyond belief. psychopathology. psychopharmacology. marital therapy. clinical foundations. i've already bought the books. i am a nerd. but that's me. i'm always in the future. current moments usually escape me. i am sure in my psychopathology class i'll understand that about myself. i am sure in my psychopharmacology class i might discover a medication that will help. i am sure in my marital therapy class i'll realize how that might not be good for a marriage relationship. in clinical foundations, i can't use it as a "fake" role play because i would really be looking for answers from a fellow student who knows no more than i do which is really not a lot. anyway, my very own copy of the DSM is on its way to me. i think i will have to have someone hold it for me until i need it so i don't diagnose myself to insanity.
i've been reading (skimming really) this book called "on being a therapist". it basically is trying to scare the shit out of you and deter you from being a therapist. it's a refreshing book in the sense that it lays it out on the line. but really i can't read it word for word at least not right now. it's not stuff i don't already know about being in the helping profession. i learned a lot of those lessons in the school of hard knocks. the question, why am i signing up for that again? who knows. i think my optimism, idealism and hopefulness really should go away so that i can come to terms with the 10% of therapy that might see someone change. oh maybe my optimism is turning to pessimism as we speak. i shared with the class that if i didn't think i was expressly disobeying the will of God that i may reconsider. granted i don't hold much water for God having a specific will for anyone but this therapy road i know i have to go down... even if in the end i really do burn out in five years... and still have the remaining 5 or 15 to pay off the student loans. i have decided to scratch the itch. no regrets.
this is no longer a brief update. i think it's turned into self-therapy.
my mom bought a house in ohio this past week. she'll move after the holidays. beautiful house, almost two acres of land and really i think it cost $2. i'm happy for her. she's really come a long way in the last year. she's my inspiration. well she always has been. she's a rock. a rock that has been smoothed out by the hardships of life. but still a beautiful rock. i miss my mom. i can't wait to be with her for the christmas holiday.
emma is eating cheerios on her own. truly amazing. i miss that little girl too. she's yapping it up, crawling up a storm, and pulling herself up on everything. she is a joy to mom, dad, grammy, grandpa and grams. she's a delight.
james is amazing. we grow closer every day and sometimes that is via supporting each other through the hard stuff of life. it's weird how it happens that way but it does. he put on a magic show at my 30th birthday party. i smiled from ear to ear and poeople really enjoyed him. he made a paper rose float and then upon lighting it up it turned into a real rose. that's 25 red roses to date and a bunch of other flowers that i can't count. (i think i am bragging... yep, i am) gasp, aahs, and wows were heard all around. it was very fun and i was glad to show him off. we are both therapist of sorts. he is the "let me bring you amazement, joy and a chance to connect with laughter you need and child in you" therapist by way of his magic and entertainment. i'm the "let me give you a safe space to confront your pain, loss, etc. but also let me piss you off by challenging you to a better way of being" therapist. i think i'd like to be the magician therapist. he makes more an hour than i will. he makes people laugh. people instantly think good of him. i don't know that i'd make a horrible magician but i would always want to refer people to the best (read james) at making others laugh and be entertained. i'd put myself out of business. i think i might have to stick to my plan.
i think i might stop now. i think i obviously need to do this a bit more.
this is the end of week 8 of my 10 week quarter. i have to make a push to get to the end with many a final (three to be exact that loom out there larger than life) and a huge paper (freud and his influence on the american church!). every quarter it seems like something short of a miracle to get it done. this too will be the same experience. but it will take a miracle rather large in size and really no life for the next three weekends. what's three weekends really. such a short amount of time.
i registered for classes for next quarter. i paid alot of money and when thinking about the loans that covered 3/4 of my tuition i realize i will be paying that much more for the classes for next quarter. it's a good thing i am excited beyond belief. psychopathology. psychopharmacology. marital therapy. clinical foundations. i've already bought the books. i am a nerd. but that's me. i'm always in the future. current moments usually escape me. i am sure in my psychopathology class i'll understand that about myself. i am sure in my psychopharmacology class i might discover a medication that will help. i am sure in my marital therapy class i'll realize how that might not be good for a marriage relationship. in clinical foundations, i can't use it as a "fake" role play because i would really be looking for answers from a fellow student who knows no more than i do which is really not a lot. anyway, my very own copy of the DSM is on its way to me. i think i will have to have someone hold it for me until i need it so i don't diagnose myself to insanity.
i've been reading (skimming really) this book called "on being a therapist". it basically is trying to scare the shit out of you and deter you from being a therapist. it's a refreshing book in the sense that it lays it out on the line. but really i can't read it word for word at least not right now. it's not stuff i don't already know about being in the helping profession. i learned a lot of those lessons in the school of hard knocks. the question, why am i signing up for that again? who knows. i think my optimism, idealism and hopefulness really should go away so that i can come to terms with the 10% of therapy that might see someone change. oh maybe my optimism is turning to pessimism as we speak. i shared with the class that if i didn't think i was expressly disobeying the will of God that i may reconsider. granted i don't hold much water for God having a specific will for anyone but this therapy road i know i have to go down... even if in the end i really do burn out in five years... and still have the remaining 5 or 15 to pay off the student loans. i have decided to scratch the itch. no regrets.
this is no longer a brief update. i think it's turned into self-therapy.
my mom bought a house in ohio this past week. she'll move after the holidays. beautiful house, almost two acres of land and really i think it cost $2. i'm happy for her. she's really come a long way in the last year. she's my inspiration. well she always has been. she's a rock. a rock that has been smoothed out by the hardships of life. but still a beautiful rock. i miss my mom. i can't wait to be with her for the christmas holiday.
emma is eating cheerios on her own. truly amazing. i miss that little girl too. she's yapping it up, crawling up a storm, and pulling herself up on everything. she is a joy to mom, dad, grammy, grandpa and grams. she's a delight.
james is amazing. we grow closer every day and sometimes that is via supporting each other through the hard stuff of life. it's weird how it happens that way but it does. he put on a magic show at my 30th birthday party. i smiled from ear to ear and poeople really enjoyed him. he made a paper rose float and then upon lighting it up it turned into a real rose. that's 25 red roses to date and a bunch of other flowers that i can't count. (i think i am bragging... yep, i am) gasp, aahs, and wows were heard all around. it was very fun and i was glad to show him off. we are both therapist of sorts. he is the "let me bring you amazement, joy and a chance to connect with laughter you need and child in you" therapist by way of his magic and entertainment. i'm the "let me give you a safe space to confront your pain, loss, etc. but also let me piss you off by challenging you to a better way of being" therapist. i think i'd like to be the magician therapist. he makes more an hour than i will. he makes people laugh. people instantly think good of him. i don't know that i'd make a horrible magician but i would always want to refer people to the best (read james) at making others laugh and be entertained. i'd put myself out of business. i think i might have to stick to my plan.
i think i might stop now. i think i obviously need to do this a bit more.
Monday, November 6, 2006
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