It has been a long time

So, I just remembered that I had a blog. It has been over a year since my last post. The reason I had this blog in the first place was for my Written Communications class that I had second semester last year. We had to post on the blog every week on a different topic. I was looking at some of my older posts and saw that I did a post about peanut butter. It made me laugh inside while reading because I couldn't believe I blogged about peanut butter. But anyway, I came across my blog when I realized I have a email through gmail. I had to think to myself why did I make a gmail account? Then it hit me, oh yeah that is right I had to have it for my the blog I did for that one class. I proceeded to go to blogger.com and couldn't believe I could remember how to get it and never the less my password. Surprisingly, I did remember my password and also couldn't believe all the numbers and passwords that I have to memorize on a daily basis. I wanted to write on my blog again because I thought it could be something I could do this summer. I have been off work the last 4 days and will work tomorrow. So days when I don't work or don't have anything to do I thought I could blog. This some of the things that have happened to me recently:

Like I said I work tomorrow. For all of you that don't know I work as a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) at Lakeview Health Center in West Salem, WI. It is about a 20 minute drive from where I live in La Crosse, WI. I now live in a new place with Kelsey Bowe as my roommate. It will just be the two of us in this compared to our old place that had Kelsey, me, and two other roommates that were from Tomah. It will better that it will only be Kelsey and I because then we can focus on what we are going to school for and that is nursing. I still go to school at Western Technical College and will be starting my 3rd year there this fall.

There was a waiting list for the nursing program when I was accepted to attend Western Technical College. All the other technical colleges have a waiting list too, so it didn't matter where I went I would have to wait anyway. I chose Western because it was a way from home and they had residence halls to stay in for my first year. I wanted to get away from my parents, so I could explore the world through my own eyes. I have learned a lot about being on my own. I wouldn't say I am completely on my own because I still call my parents when I need advice about something. Exploring the world on my own so far has been challenging at some times, but also so exciting at the same time!

The wait is over. It has been 2 years and I just found out last Thursday that I will get to start the nursing program in the fall!!! :-) :-) :-) You don't know how happy I was to get a call to ask me if I wanted to start a semester earlier than what I was originally accepted to start. I will finally be able to do what I went to school for and that is to become the best nurse I can be! :-) I get to take 4 classes this fall. The classes are Nursing Skills, Nursing Fundamentals, Nursing Pharmacology, and a Clinical at a nursing home. I am so excited and nervous at the same time to start the program.

It has been about 3 to 4 months since my Uncle Chris found out that he was diagnosed with leukemia. It was toward the end of March when he thought he had the flu which turned into you Acute Myeloid Leukemia. It was definitely a shock to me and to my family. A great thing about it was the doctors said he could be able to fight it because it was younger than most people that get it. It has gone through 3 rounds of chemotherapy, with the last round being the strongest. Our family would take rounds on staying with my uncle in the hospital while he went through chemo and everything. I stayed with him quite a bit and was glad to be with him. The doctors said that in the 3rd round he could of developed sores in the mouth that would of affected his swallowing ability. He would had to been connected to a feeding tube. But luckily and we are so thankful that he never had those effects. Then it was on May 25th that he received the best news in the world, that he was leukemia free!!! That day was an emotional day when my uncle, grandma, and I came back from the cafeteria to hear from the nurse that GREAT news! Unfortunately though my uncle's body will not be able to make new healthy cells on his own, so he will need a transplant. The kind of transplant he needs is bone marrow or stem cells they call it. The doctors went to the national bank to see if anyone was match. They found out there wasn't a match. Then my mom and aunt got tested to see if one of them were a match. My mom wasn't, but it was great to find out that my aunt was match! My aunt the angel sent from above is going to give her stem cells to my uncle! So, right now he got discharged from the hospital and stays at the Transplant House that is close to the hospital. He goes just to the hospital for appointments now and waits for the insurance to go through for my aunt to give her stem cells to him. My uncle will probably be in Rochester for another 3 to 4 months then. I will go stay with him throughout that time at the Transplant House when I don't have to work or don't have anything else going on. He needs caregiver 24/7 there so his roommate, mom, grandma, and I are going to take turns staying with him. I pray for my uncle to have a speedy recovery and for everything to go great!!! He is my favorite uncle and love him very much!

I can't believe my baby brother graduated from high school on June 4th! I am so proud of him! He will be attending St. Cloud State University to play football and to go to school for accounting. He wants to get into the school of business there. My mom, dad, grandma, bud, aunt, and I were at the ceremony. I couldn't believe that I went through the same thing two years ago. Before I know it will be having our 5 year reunion! Time goes by fast when you get older. We then had the graduation party on June 6th in the fashion I had my party in, but just a little different because of him being a boy. I had so much fun getting ready for the graduation party and spending time with family and friends! There were some people I saw and talked to that I haven't seen in a long time.

I can't believe how long I have been typing. Just to let all of you know that I will be going back and forth to Chippewa and La Crosse. When I don't have work or do anything in La Crosse I will be back in Chippewa. I will be sure to write as often as I can about events that are happening to be over the summer and beyond. I will have to post some pictures of our new place in La Crosse after we get it decorated a little more. Hope you all have a great day and summer!!!

Elizabeth :-) :-) :-)

What I Have to Get Done

The end of the semester is just around the corner. They are many things that I have to accomplish before next week Saturday the 16th. Today, I have to get a paper done that is due tomorrow for Ethics class. I also have to meet with someone at the Wellness Center at 2:00 P.M. and go to a banquet with my boyfriend at 5:30 P.M. On Friday, I have Ethics class and then after that I have to go to Biolife to give plasma. My Friday is going to consist of packing some of my stuff up, studying for tests, and homework. I want to get my paper done for Written Communications on Friday for sure. The rest of the weekend will be spent studying for an Ethics final and studying for a Psychology test. I plan to go home on Saturday morning to spend time with my family, celebrate my brother’s birthday, and celebrate Mother’s Day. On Mother’s Day, I am going to have brunch with my family and then head back to La Crosse to continue studying for finals. Then on Monday, I have a party for the walking program I was involved in, studying, and cleaning the dorm with my roommate. On Tuesday, I have Ethics class and we are only reviewing for the final. Then I go to Written Communications class to take a final and if we get done with it then we won’t have to come to class on Thursday. I have Psychology class after that and all we are doing is taking our last test and we get to leave. When Wednesday comes around I have no classes or tests to take that day. So, I plan to go to Biolife and study. Then Thursday, if I get my Written Communications final done I won’t have any class or test to take then. I plan to study all day for my Ethics final. On Friday, I will go to Ethics class and take my final. After that I plan to relax and pack everything up. When Saturday comes around is when I move out of the dorms. I can’t wait to go home for a few weeks before moving back here to La Crosse for the summer.

Pizza Doctors

Pizza Doctors is a place that is walking distance from campus and pretty close to downtown. It is a great pizza buffet that has a wide variety of pizza selections. One of the greatest things about Pizza Doctors is that you get a free buffet on your birthday. Just to go normally for the buffet is about 9 to 10 dollars. So, it is a good deal to go to Pizza Doctors for your birthday, it doesn't matter what age you are. I went their for my 19th birthday. I had a fun time when I went! Actually I always have a fun time with I go there! The first time I went to Pizza Doctors was with my roommate and her mom last semester when I first started school. I am not from around here and they wanted to show me some great places to eat in La Crosse. Pizza Doctors has now become one of my favorite places to eat in La Crosse. I could say that I have gone there about 6 to 7 times already this year. Most of the time it has been for my friends' birthdays. I always love when my friends have their birthdays because it gives me a chance to eat all the pizza I want. They are a wide variety of pizzas that they make there. All the pizzas are kind of different when it comes to pizza. They have pizzas that are called macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, barbecue chicken, seafood, cardiac arrest, bloody mary, banana split, big mac, and etc. My favorites are probably mac and cheese and big mac. For dessert, I would have to say my favorite is smore and pizza with peanut butter and m & ms on it. Yes, every time I go to Pizza Doctors I am always satisfied with the food and the service. I just like how the place is modeled after a doctor performing surgery. They call the buffet with many types of pizza Exploratory Surgery. All in all I would recommend this place to all ages, but it is a great place for families.

What is going on in my life

I have realized that there are many decisions that I have been faced with and it is making me pretty stressful. Actually, everything around me is a big stress ball. I have had to decide if I am living in my apartment with my roommates starting June 1 when the rent starts or live at home for the summer until August 1. My parents and grandma want me to stay home for the summer, but I am thinking differently. I want to take a class this summer to keep me on track for the nursing program so I can start my nursing classes as soon as possible. My grandma thought different with my plans this summer. She thought I was going to work at the nursing home job I got back home and I would have time to spend some time at my grandma's cabin. She seemed pretty disappointed when I told her that might not be the case for the summer. And she believes that it is not totally my whole decision in this. She believes that my boyfriend has something to do with my decision-making, but that is not the case. I totally had this decision kind of decided even before meeting my boyfriend. In that note, I have been with my boyfriend for about almost 6 months and it has been the greatest 6 months of my life! I have never had anyone in my life that has made me the happiest woman in the world! I have never been so comfort with being with like that in someone in my life. I have never been so serious with someone in my life! My boyfriend is so caring, loving, and the biggest thing that I love is that I can be myself around him! Anyway, I feel like my parents and grandma don't know who I am anymore even though I am still trying to figure out who I am. I think if I get a job in La Crosse then my parents will be more understanding of me moving for the summer in our apartment. It would only make sense for me to take the class here at Western when I could walk to class and live in the apartment when we can. Don't worry my grandma won't have to worry about not seeing me. I will make sure to make the effort to go to her cabin. I really love my grandma and miss her and my parents. I just think they are having a hard time with me growing up and that is what it makes it so hard to be the oldest because I am the first to go. Well I will tell you how it all turns in the end.

17 Again

The movie 17 Again comes out in theaters tomorrow. My friend Kelsey and I plan to see it on tomorrow at Marcus Theater here in La Crosse. I have never been to this theater yet. The only theaters that I have been to this the theater by Valley View Mall and the Rivoli that is downtown. I have seen the previews already for this movie and it looks funny! And it has to be good if Zac Efron is in it! I love the movies that Zac Efron is in! There hasn't been a movie with Zac Efron that was not good. This movie is about a high school senior Mike O' Donnell who has everything and his life is going good. He is offered a scholarship to play sports in college but have to put in off because his high school girlfriend Scarlet is pregnant. 20 years later, Mike (Matthew Perry) finds out as an adult that his life is not what he expected. He is not with his wife anymore and living with his best friend Ned Freedman (Thomas Lennon), his career is at a stand still, and his relationship with this teenage children are not good. After passing up another promotion at work, he returns to his old high school and wished he could of had a different life or what he could of had. He begins talking to a janitor and talks to him about the times when it was so great to be 17. As Mike is driving home, he sees the janitor again, but he is now on a ledge about to jump into the Los Angles River. He jumps out of this car, he help him, but the janitor disappears. What he doesn't realize he is about to jump into the river and be 17 again. Young Mike then has the difficulty of returning to Ned's house to convince him that he is 17 again. At a loss of what to do, Ned pretends to be Mike 's father and register him for high school to finish the life he never had. High school is hard Mike realizes by staying cool, getting friends, and keeping up with grades. He ends up going to school with his own children. He realizes that his daughter is not as innocent as she really seems and his son is the brunt of the star athlete 's jokes. The biggest thing that he realizes though is he hasn't been a great husband of father. Mike tries to get his son to go out for the basketball team. He gets close his daughter's boyfriend to try to break them up. The most important thing is to get close to his wife Scarlet to find out what him fall in love with her. You don't realize what you have until you lose it. Going through out of all the experiences, he realizes that he did have a perfect life, he just never had the chance to appreciate it. Now, he has to figure out to be his old self again and win back his wife and kids. I can't wait to see this movie. I think I can guess what is going to happen at the end, but I won't tell you what I think. This is because I don't want to tell other people what I think how the movie is going to end. I like to keep those thoughts to myself. This is because I might possibly be wrong and just want to keep it to myself. Well, I will have to tell how the movie is. Have a great weekend!

The week of April 6th and the weekend to come

This week was full of a many things that happened. On Monday, it was nice to not have computer class and it was the last day of lecture for one of my classes. Actually today was the last, last day for the class. I had a lab for the class and we had the last lab practical and a final. I hope I ended up with a good grade for the class. I am now down to 4 classes to worry about right now. By the end of April, my computer class will get done and then will only have 3 classes to worry about until the end of the semester. I can't wait until the end of the semester because then summer comes. But this summer is going to be different than the rest. My rent for my apartment is going to start June 1st, so that means I will have to get a job in La Crosse. I also want to take a class this summer, but my parents and grandma don't agree will the plan I have for this summer. They still want me to work in my hometown and take the class I want to take at a technical college near my hometown. I just don't get it because June 1st I starting paying rent and why not live there and pay rent. That has just been on my mind a lot lately. On Tuesday, after I was done with classes, my boyfriend and I decided that we were going to go for an extremely long walk. We left the dorms at Western Technical College and ended up walking to the Onalaska Walmart. We didn't walk the whole time to get there. We made a stop at Fazoli's for about 15 to 20minutes and I got an Italian ice. It was quiet refreshing and made my thirst go away. Then we were off to end our journey at Walmart. Then when we got to Walmart we had to make the journey back to the dorms. It felt so good to get back there. We were just so sore the next day. You are probably wondering why we do such a thing? Well we are part of the walking program that is sponsored by the Western Activity Club and we have to walk so many steps for the week and we wanted to challenge ourselves to see if we could handle a very long walk. If you are curious from Walmart to the dorms is about 14 miles. It is going to be a while until we do a long walk like that again. Other than that nothing else didn't really happen beside going to Pizza Doctors today! It someone's birthday, so that is why my friends and I decided to go. I love it everytime that we go to Pizza Doctor's because of all the crazy toppings they put on the pizzas, but they are so yummy. For this weekend, I going home to spend some time with my family for Easter. I can't wait to see everyone again, even though I saw most of them last weekend, but it is always great to see each other!! Well have a great Easter everyone!!!

Facebook

All my friends have it and so does my Uncle whoabout 30 years old. It seems these days that almost everyone has facebook. Facebook is a way to ay connected with friends and even high school friends especially. My high school friends and I promised we would stay in touch and facebook allows us to do that. I practically am addicted to facebook because I check it almost daily. It is part of my daily routine while checking my email and doing homework. It has become a part of my life. I don't really know if it is a good or bad thing. Now, that I think of it, it is probably a bad thing because people don't really need facebook to survive on this earth. I really could go without a facebook, but I would be kind of lost with it. My life would be quiet different without it. I wouldn't have a way to talk with my friends that go to school far away. I woudn't be ble to talk to my family like my brother and Uncle. Facebook is just a fun way to stay connected with people and see what is going on in their lives. Also, Facebook has many applications that are so fun and interesting it makes me want to stay on facebook forever and ever. I now have become addicted to Mafia Wars, which is a game on facebook. Someone sent me a invition to join their Mafia, so I did. I know play it every time I am on facebook. I also enjoy looking at the many pictures that are on many of my friends' profiles. I like how you can upload pictures and then tag people in the pictures that are your friends, so they can have that picture too on their profile. This is so great because now people don't have to worry about making multiple copies of one picture to give out to their friends. The videos application is also enjoyable because I love to see what videos people put up or make and then post them. There are so many things that I like about facebook. I have heard through the grapevine that they might make people pay to use facebook. If that ends up happening, then sadly I am going to have to cancel my facebook profile. I would not be able to afford to use facebook if that would happen. It will also be a sad day if that ever happens and I hope it doesn't. Facebook, what would I do without it?