It's like I can't breath, it's like I can't see anything. Nothing but you, I'm addicted to you...

Addiction:

The to-do list/planning/schedule addiction has been turning around lately. The new cross it off book goes everywhere with me and contains the most important information and things to keep track of. The i calendar is usually open to remind me what day it is (because the day is highlighted) and the dry erase calendar is hanging, colorful, and includes days that I am working extra hours and important things like birthdays, family visits, and family trips. The google calendar only lasted the day I made it. I pretty much just forgot about it. The paper to-do list only exists when I have a few things like cleaning or errands to run in one particular day, and the exercise and meal logs are one in the same and just include what I ate throughout the day and what kind of workout I did. I am keeping on track without being suffocated by organizers and I can finally breathe again!

Music:

I have been Listening to Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill album a lot lately. I actually really really love it! One of my favorites not released is: 

Forgiven

You know how us Catholic girls can be

We make up for so much time a little too late

I never forgot it, confusing as it was

No fun with no guilt feelings

The sinners, the saviors, the loverless priests

I'll see you next Sunday

We all had our reasons to be there

We all had a thing or two to learn

We all needed something to cling to

So we did

I sang Alleluia in the choir

I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man

My brothers they never went blind for what they did

But I may as well have

In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son

I had one more stupid question

We all had our reasons to be there

We all had a thing or two to learn

We all needed something to cling to

So we did

What I learned I rejected but I believe again

I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition

If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven

We all had our reasons to be there

We all had a thing or two to learn

We all needed something to cling to

So we did

We all had delusions in our head

We all had our minds made up for us

We had to believe in something

So we did 

Pig:

Pig bit my ear again last night and jumped from my arms to what could have been his death when I was putting him back in his cage. He did a couple of flips, hit the cage and the wooden table, and didn't make a sound so I suppose he's alright. I freaked out and cried and though about what I would do if he died and then read myself to sleep so I would stop thinking about it. He's acting like a badass today as usual so I'm alright again!

I party like a rockstar... Baby I'm a superstar!

I am really missing last summer right now. I am missing home, booze, hookah, bonfires, and just being somewhat of a hick Michigan girl. I just recently bought like 12 songs on itunes, all top 40 rap/hip hop tunes that are way overplayed on the radio right now. I love every one of them! I don't listen to the radio here and my friends don't like this music so it's not old to me!!

Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon...

Yesterday

10 am: on my way to the ASL Lab to do my homework for Friday I am walking across Roosevelt because the white walk man said I could. I then hear the CTA traffic lady yelling watch for cars. I look over and see a car coming at me because the stupid lady is waving him through his left turn. EXCUSE ME!!! It is my turn to walk and she waits until I a dead in his path to wave him on?? I almost lost my life this morning to an old Chinese man in a mid 90s Corolla... Nice.

11am: I walk into the ASL Lab and since there is a no talking rule in the department the girl starts signing to me and fingerspelling at lightning fast speeds and I just give her a nice confused look and point to my lab packet. She gives me the DVD to do my work and asks for my ID which once again I do not understand due to the crazy speeds of her fingerspelling so she whispers to me, "Do you need a tutor?" NO I DO NOT NEED A FLIPPING TUTOR! I have had this class twice now so I'm sorry I am not quite up to your speed. I go to the computer, pop in the DVD, and start my work. There is one person on the screen fingerspelling three words and then comes another person to do another three words. They are words like: lie, die, pie, know, snow, now.  I am doing good for the first few people and then I get to a few people that I have to keep rewinding to catch what they are spelling. The next section is two people spelling double letter words (aardvark, abbot) and while the man is fingerspelling at a nice moderate speed the woman is going WAY beyond lightning fast and is kind of blurring the letters together. I understood her first two words but the next 20 or so I completely gave up on. At least I did half of that page right??

1230pm: Lunch at Panera. They no longer carry fufuberry jones soda. My world just completely ended in a matter of seconds...

1:30pm: The shot to the head... I walk over to meet my ride to Hyde Park and nobody answers the door or the phone. Ok ok not a big deal I will just take a cab to Lisa will give me the $15 for it. I get a cab and the guy asks where I'm going and I say 57th and Woodlawn please. He says ok and I close the door and we're off. He gets on Lakeshore Drive and we are going alright, only 5miles over the speed limit and cars are passing us left and right. I'm getting a little annoyed but whatever it's cool. He exits at 57th street and even though the speed limit drops to like 35 he continues at 50. Does this make any sense?? He is going so fast that he drives right by the turn to 56th (57th is one way for one block so you have to go to 56th to get past it) and doesn't even see 57th. Instead of turning down 59th he is still going so fast that he passes right by it. I was like um sir and he's just like oh sorry sorry and continues passing streets left and right. We finally get to the end of the road where it meets 65th. Almost 10 blocks south of my destination. Nice... So he turns up Stony Island to head back North and rather than turning on 59th to get up to 57th he goes back past 57th to 53rd and then turns. We finally get to my destination and my cab fare is like $23. I tell him, "I can't pay you all that. You went to wrong way multiple times." He mumbled something and I assume he's mumbling at traffic because we are at a red light. A minute later (meter still running wtf?!) he says in a tone meaning he's having to repeat himself (I guess the mumbling was to me), "Give me what you got then!" I say, "I got 15 bucks for ya, thats what It usually costs." I hop on out of the cab and he speeds away. Sucks to be him. If he didn't know how to get me to where I was going he shouldn't have let me in his cab.

2pm: All is good now. I pick up the kids, we hang out at the school and have a snack for awhile, and then we head over and go ice skating. After ice skating a couple weeks ago both kids have improved. I guess they just needed to get used to it again. david went from holding on to a large cone for dear life to speeding around with Ellie and getting right back up after falling. It was nice that he did so much better because that meant I didn't have to watch him so much and I was free to skate around. I did quite nicely on my new skates that I got for Christmas. I even tried going backwards which happened for a few seconds. I've been roller skating my whole life and I can't even go backwards so even the few feet on the ice made my day much better! We skated until it was time for me to leave at 6. Nice easy day with the kids. 

7pm: I took Pig to the vet to get his nail trimmed and to have a bath. First, since he is a new patient he had to be examined (add $50 to my bill...) then the doctor tells me that they don't usually bathe guinea pigs because using shampoo on them, even special guinea pig shampoo, can dry out their skin and make them susceptible to some sort of mites. So bummer no bath for pig. He recommends chinchilla dust from petsmart and a flea comb to comb out the dandruff and hair that he is shedding. They clip his nails and we are good to go. my bill totaled $70. $20 to get his nails trimmed?!! NUTS!!!! I was pretty bummed that he couldn't get a bath because had I know that I would have searched for other places to do his nails so I wouldn't have to pay for an exam.

8pm: Pig and I return home and follow a crowd of people through the doors to the elevator at my apartment building. I get upstairs and to my door and set pig on the floor and dig in my bag looking for my keys. Funny, they aren't there. NICE! The one time I am not absolutely anal about checking for my keys before leaving... I don't have them. The other nice things about this is that my phone was dead so it is in the apartment charging. I was expecting a call from a classmate about getting together at 830 and a call from a lady about babysitting on the weekends. Pig and I set up shop in the hallway and after quite some time I notice that I am so hungry that my stomach is aching and I am feeling sharp pains. I went downstairs and asked the door lady how much it costs to get my apartment unlocked... $50!!! So then I ask for the time, it's 9 already! I say screw that I've already been waiting for over an hour, I can wait a bit longer and hope Megan or Danielle get home soon. 5 minutes later Megan walks through the door and I am saved. I got in, ate, finished up some homework, and went to bed...

Today

1020am: Theory class is over and Dave is handing back our quizzes from Tuesday. This quiz from last week... I failed it due to really dumb mistakes. I also failed last weeks homework because he is so damn nitpicky and my theory 2 teacher gave up the points for just trying haha... I get my quiz back... 100%!!!! Yesss... It is the beginning of a good day... KARMA

***Will update more later if more good things happen!

It's like you're a ghost that's haunting me. Leave me alone.

There are 7 to-do lists/calendars/planners around my apartment keeping me on track right now. Being organized has made my life less hectic and far more manageable but it has gotten to the point where I am obsessed with lists and planning things. 

Take a look:

1. iCalendar

2. Google calendar

3. whiteboard calendar

4. iCal to-do list

5. paper to-do list

6. exercise schedule and log

7. meal schedule and log

TOO MUCH TOO MUCH!!!

I doing homework and running errands today trying to cross things off my lists when I decided Target would be my next stop so I could buy a 2008 insert for my day planer. Lucky for me they didn't have anything so I nipped my planning obsession before it went any further. I did however come across a really cute spiral notebook thing " buttoned up CrossItOff.List". It's made by this company "buttoned up" that makes all of these organizational notebooks and filing binders. I got home, threw away my paper to-do list and started using my new book. So far, I like it! I would complete something and cross it off in the book and then delete it from my iCal list.  feel quite organized.

My whiteboard calendar is done for February and only has things like birthdays, holidays, special work days, and special events/visits written on it. My iCal is pretty much the same but it's nice to have right on my computer together with my to-do list. The meal and exercise logs stay as they are because I need them to keep me on track. I also need them to keep encouraging me to stick with what I'm doing right now because it's working and feels killer! As far as the google calendar, I made it today and I'm not thinking I'll actually be using it so I guess that's all cool as well. 

This morning I woke up to my alarm (yeah I set my alarm on a Sunday so I would wake up at a decent time and get things done), and immediately started to get things crossed off the lists. Tonight I am finishing up my homework, watching a little tv, and going to bed without feeling suffocated by all of my previous planning.

I'd like to know if you'd be open to starting over from scratch...

Starting Over:

I liked the idea of a blog that only a few people would know about. Somewhere I can say things that I may not want certain people to hear.  Maybe I'll even throw in some song lyrics or pictures of Pig (the guinea pig).  I might even bitch a little about school and life and people. Luck you!! 

Mostly, I want to get away from the old things and start from scratch...

A Little More Formal:

While the person who inspired me to make a new blog is trying to make hers more random while keeping it's wit I want to make mine a little more formal. I might just plan out a few entries before posting them. I will definitely be titling each entry with song lyrics and hopefully adding things like more lyrics, quotes, or any other random things I may be really digging at the time!

A Little More Me:

All I can really say is that I am taking this thing to a new level here. While trying to minimize the random, senseless rants I tend to post I want to really just put everything out there. I want to be able to post about what a great day I had and not be thinking about how lame it may seem. You might actually be just truly meeting me...