The dying art of hand written cards

Happy friday guts, i hope you had a great week.
Wow! I am on a roll this week of personal information.

**I would like to start by saying if you don't write thank you cards this is isn't aimed at you, don't be offended**

I was born in a home where my mom will get her calendar at the beginning of the year and start by putting in every birthday, anniversary, and death (with anniversary date). We are not talking about just 10 dates here the whole calendar is full of names dates, ages, etc. Every time there is a reason to send a card whether it is a get well soon, thank you, birthday, sympathy, it is being sent.
This stems from her 90 year old mother who does the same. Her mother, my grandmother, knows (without looking) the birthdays of her 50 grandchildren and great grandchildren, 14 children and there spouses. Pretty impressive, right? And you guessed it, she also sends a card to all of these people too.

So, my mom insisted we do the same. There are times where she will call, at least me, to remind me to send this or that card. I try to do the same, but I am not very good, especially when it comes to birthday cards. It is so easy to write happy birthday on facebook these days and call it quits.  Thank you cards, however have a special meaning to me.

The one thing i have learned over the years (especially when you make things) is that there is nothing better than receiving a thank you card. It just makes the effort, the thought and time that went into thatvitem worth it. My mom, who also crochets, has discussed this with me. She makes a blanket for every new baby born into the family and than some of my sisters friends as well. That is a lot of blankets. The numbers above are just for her side of the family FYI. So to her (even though she is retired) all she wants is a thank you card and that makes it all worth it.

After my lack of christmas cards this year and then later followed by no thank you cards, I did some research and found this  article talking about the dying art of writing. The article talks about the dying art and why hand written thank you card just mean more. The article also has a section about the do's and don'ts of writing.

Do you write handwritten thank you's? 

New Refreshing Look..

I have been working hard over here.. and re-doing my blog. 

Have you seen all the changes..

there are 5 in total:

1. the banner

2. the 3 social network buttons over there --->

3. new about me

4. the buttons (^) up there

5. the signature down below

Took some time to get everything where i wanted. 

What do you think?

This week..

This week while skating on ($2) tuesday, I had a really bad fall. 

I feel on my behind because a small child fell in front of me. 

Long story, I though I was in the clear until her skate caught up in my brakes. I did not want to fall on top of her so I fell on my behind.

IT HURT!

Not like oh I am going to walk this off and it will be ok, like I couldn't sit or bend over hurt.

I went to the dr. (that has to tell you in itself it was bad)

I don't like going to the dr, I know ironic for a nurse but .. its true.

I actually missed work yesterday because of it and stayed in my pjs for most the day.

Well, with this bruised tailbone I have not been working out and its a bummer. 

I miss working out and its only been 2 days.

Oh well, I will get back to it. 

Falling is not to be done as an adult.

What do you think?

A new years of goals

As I recover from the hangover from last night.. I wanted to tell you about our month of december and why having a birthday in January sucks. (Yes I am presuming I will have a hangover tomorrow but i am pretty sure its going to happen.

The month of december has flown by. We had an ugly sweater party, than went an hour and half down south to visit my grandma, than it was graduation and chuck dogs 70th birthday party in chicago (all in the same day) and than it was entertaining my family and starting a full time job and than christmas eve in chicago and christmas day here and now new years in chicago.

I AM TIRED.. of traveling.


Than... my wonderful birthday is a week from today. I have no motivation for celebrating. I just want to relax. I have also been studying for my state boards. 


My goal for january is to relax and spend more time with my husband.
My goal for 2012 is to:
      - run at least one 1/2 marathon
      - run one full marathon
      - do a mini tri
      - & enjoy all of the places we will be traveling for weddings =)

(source)

What are your goals for 2012?

so what if.. [I am sad.. and you have been warned]

SO what if you lost your best friend.. out of no where today? Well this was a reality to my sister today. Her best friend, her roommate from college died. She was 24 years old. We are not sure of all of the details but do know it was a seizure. In any circumstance this news has put me at a stand still all day. What would you do? If my sister died today I would be speechless. Although I don't say it enough my sister is my best friend and I love her dearly. If anything were to happen to her I would die. Yes we may fight or not get along and have separate tastes. I LOVE KRISTIE! you are my sister and my best friend. I know you will get over this and even though she is gone, doesn't mean she wont be forgotten. <3.

Thanksgiving break!

Hello there.. a whole week off, well kind of. I have projects papers, journals, etc. to catch up on, but this does mean no driving 40 mins each way just to get to school. woo hoo! I am also working extra hours too and working on some knick knack projects. Hopefully finishing up my office I have some things in mind.

lover muffin has a whole new meaning..

I am sitting here watching my new show (glee), drinking a glass of wine and baking. yay! some of my favorite things. you use to be my rock my need because you were there. well guess what .. your not anymore. that stupid slut that doesn't give you shit and you pick her over me. Well theres a new lover muffin in town. and its not you!.. I am so sick of your shit and its over. P is my man and my everything, he my lover muffin and always will be.

Day 2: New Goal

http://www.champaignparkdistrict.com/sports/minitri/index.html

So i have decided that after gaining weight from Nursing School that I need to set a goal for myself during my semi-non-stressful summer and that it is to do my first triathlon on August 7th. Its mini and its in the neighboring city which includes a 400m swim, 6 mi bike, and 2 mi run. i am just doing this to finish so we will see how it goes. So far I am 2 for 2. I ran my 2 mile course in 21 mins and today I swam 30 laps, but it was very difficult. So here we go on this adventure..

stressball

If there is one thing i know for sure it is that no matter what when your parents come to visit you, you can't wait until they are here and when they are here you can't wait for them to leave. Haha. Its logical I guess. All i know is that my dad has been here since last saturday the 8th (11 days total) and i am ready for him to leave. Not in a bad way but in a way I want to get back to my normal life. It has been really hard dealing with them this week and for this I am unsure. Well until next time.

why ?

why does coke always taste better in a bottle?
Bottled coke is just amazing. This weekend I met my cousin at a small band venue in town and we stole bottled coke from the "green room" and it was just so amazing and refreshing.
Why is that when someone says you look good it makes to glow?
So today I went into Starbucks and ran into some old customers who are awsome and they told me I looked good and it just made me glow so hardcore I loved it and led me into having a good day in hell. haha.
Why is it that chocolate feeds the soul?
There is just something about it.. chocolate just relaxes you and just takes you away to that place.

Well, After tomorrow I will have one more final left and a test. WOO HOO and the first semester will be OVER! yay! Its been tough but I can not tell you how much I have learned from and grew inot a more confident person. =)

for my bestie

So, I just realized you leave me all these cute comments on my blog and they all just brightened my day. thank you for that. Love and miss your face.

<3s.

oh, hangovers.. how I hate you.

I wouldn't say I have a hangover but yeah I think I have my first. I want to paint some aspect of my house because I am openly working on two areas at once: the basement and the guest room. i think the guest room is a little more important cause well its completely empty right now and all the junk is in my room, which I absolutely hate. I need to paint it floor to sealing with primer or white paint and than paint the color because the previous owners got crazy with the blue paint that I absolutely hate mostly because my room growing up is the same color except I masked it with crazy colorful stars and than half of it with left over white paint and than finally the teal it is today. oh well I think I am going to get this show on the road because I have limited time before work.

earlier image

a not so productive [SPRING BREAK]

[This is edited.. big time] Lets start out with this picture I found on friends blog, which I find very true and interesting. It makes me think that I never thought I would be living in the midwest. I grew up in California my whole life and thought i was never going to leave, which now i look at it was unrealistic. We moved to the best city in the world, chicago (my opinion.. i love it there) and it didn't work out for us, but i still love it. Than we moved to literally bfe in champaign-urbana, which I hated for a really long time (you can look at earlier posts, especially related to work). Now its not so bad, things are starting to look up and that's a really good feeling. i am nursing school, it's still very weird to say and believe. We have a wonderful house, which I also didn't like at first but now I love. It is amazing at accommodating people when we host parties. We are slowly working on it, painting it, and making it our own. We have not lived here a full year so we don't know what is growing in the back yard but I am so excited to see what it is. We also haven't unpacked everything as well so we are working on that too. But so far so good. I am also looking ahead and where I would want to work when i am done with school. I have an opportunity to sign a 3 year contract with my current employer, but I don't know there are pros and cons to it so we will have to see. Thats the up date so far.
School is the hardest, best thing ever and the craziest, hardest, worst thing ever. I know that if when I make it through this with peter peter pumpkin eater he is right for me because let me tell you, he has already seen me on my best days when I am beaming from ear and ear and on my worst days when I am so disappointed in myself. So thats what its like and bring it on, I am ready. I can't believe how much we have learned already it is so cool.

so .. week 1

Week one of nursing school is over and its been a tough one. I have kinda discussed with those who matter my worries that i have been hiding inside. I had a really close client of mine pass away when I was in California. I knew it was going to happen but I didn't realize so soon. It kinda hurt me to know that i could no longer go to her for advice or talk about things I don't not normally talk about, but you know it happens to the best of us. She worried about me and i worried about her, but I much need this vacation and I know this would have hurt a whole lot more if I was here while it happened. Well, one thing that had been bothering me was that if peter were to leave me where would that leave me. I thought about it for a long time and it bothered me for a long time. Simply, because i am in no position right now to take care of myself or be financially dependent. I don't have the money for it. So, I confronted him about it (while i was drunk .. of course) than we talked about it over lunch. Really deep down its that I don't have my support system here to encourage me to keep going. They are 2000 miles away, my only friends may be moving away in a year and are engaged and i don't have time to help them. I feel lost and I really don't like this city. Whoa! thats a lot off my chest. Peter emplied he would never do that and that he loves me and thinks I am beautiful ( he told me this morning during you know) and it made me feel 100% better. We will see. I don't need to be stressing about this right now. Its only going to make me sick and I can't do that right now.

Lots of work and book pile almost 3 feet high is a little intimidating, but I will get through it. I promise you that. <3.

Decisions.. the year of decisions

This year has been nothing but filled out with decision and let me tell you right now, not all of them were easy, right, or good ones but they were decisions that i made. The year did not start off well. I was very very sick Peter was living in Florida I had to faced my first decision which i lost friendships over and emotionally lost it although physically i was ok. Than in April,  it was quitting my job to move to bfe so that Peter could be closer to his fathers business and start working there. Which did not go according to plan. The actual opposite when my back up plan became my only plan. Yes this was ok but not for long, people were not what they said they were and very mean. I didn't like this town nor the people, but i dealt. All at once it seems that things started to fall in place. During the summer I took CNA classes and it all took off from there. I got a job, left starbucks, we got our house, and I got into nursing school. There have been many times where I wanted to give up, go home, and start all over, but guess what I am still here trying to make it and get through it. I am hoping that next year will be amazing and I am hoping for more. We will see. <3.

one more week to go.

Why is it the week you are suppose to go vacation is the most hectic week of work, housework, organization, packing, etc etc? it does not make sense to me. After i go into work today at 9pm til 9am I will have a whopping 22 hours for the week.. ITS ONLY TUESDAY! haha. Because I have been working over nighters I have not been getting much sleep on top of everything else. Well hopefully after today the guest bedroom will be done and that will be one less thing to worry about. I am also hoping to send out my few straggler christmas cards and than on to the next project.. birthday invitations and packing. Sounds like a fun filled week.. NOT! oh well such is life. until next time.

days like today!

are awsome! I am so glad that I am happy, I am healthy, I have a great boyfriend that takes care of me, a house to protect me and keep me warm, I have friends in all the right places and I have a job I enjoy so much. Today was such a good day and this is why i want to be a nurse because clients like mine appreciate it so much. <3.

this is my release..

I hate confrontation. I keep my emotions tied up inside until they burst onto someone I don't mean them to. This is why I am sharing this before that happens.. This is guided to people that I no longer have to deal with on a daily basis that just piss me off beyond extent.

 I am bad at telling you to your face, but let me tell you that you are a b***h and that i do not appreciate it at all. I am glad that i cut those strings and no longer have to put up with you or your bullshit. The way that you treat people is just because you are not doing anything with your life doesn't mean that you have to treat people with such intolerable behavior that are doing well in life. I have finally have 24 years of tears, pain, unbreakable decisions, hate, anger, blood, and hope i have gotten somewhere that i can say that i am proud of. You don't know me and you don't know where I come from and you never will so .. bite me.  I don't need you. I don't want you. I am cleaning house and don't want you to come near me. Thanks have a good day. 

so i am in the middle of my second day off..

two days in a row off.. what to do. I have done so much stuff around the house and such it is awsome to just do what you want at the pace you want to do it. I am very excited for that. I am kinda sad that i wont have a thanksgiving dinner, but life will go on. The first time i feel confident that i can cook something, but oh well we will see what we do for christmas dinner. oh well, until next time. <3.