Da big weeeekeeennn

That's how you would say it here in Grenada!

Valentine's Day is coming up and I miss my lovely lady and normie so much! Without a job I have no money either to buy them anything, but I want them to know irregardless of how hyped and commercialized Valentine's Day is, I still want to spoil them!

The other day I'm missing out on is Chinese Lunar New Year! It seems I keep missing them; the other few years I was either in Washington or Santa Barbara. I want Chinese food and MONEY hahahaaaaa (just kidding on the money, but not really either). There isn't too many asians on this island either, unless you count Indians as Asian, which I guess they kind of are?!? As my roommate said.... being at this school is like joining the Indian Students Cultural Association automatically....

birthday

I like quiet birthdays! The day to me is not extremely special, it just marks another year that has gone by. However, if I were able to have a birthday wish, I'd wish for many things. 1st I'd want my mom to be cured of cancer. If not cured, at least in remission or something and she would be doing well and healthy. 2nd I'd want my lovely lady to do well in school, and get into a medical school she desires. 3rd I'd just want myself to do well in school also. 4th Everyone I know remains healthy. 5th I want Norman to be happy and spoiled like a lil brat... i love him.

Those are the things I want the most and would wish for.

Scary Ride

So this morning I went to IGA to pick up some more goodies to eat and realized that the bus doesn't have a working speedometer. The bus driver just uses the tachometer and shifts gears, but he probably doesn't have an exact idea at how fast he is flying! I thought... "hmmm, maybe it's just this bus", but when I took the bus back from IGA, it was the same thing! Freakin crazy Grenadians!

Books

Started cracking into my med books already and wow are they interesting and fun! I also met lots of people and yet still know none of them other than my roommate. It is too easy to forget faces and names because I am so used to meeting and forgetting; this occurs when working in the ER. You meet a patient and remember them for that good hour of interaction and then BYE BYE!!! You meet a new patient and the cycle begins again =D

I got a package today and was super-ly happy because of it! It filled a small void in the things I needed and also opened my eyes to the awesomeness of possibly living off campus in a really really really nice place!!!!

To the study-mobile!!!

first one

Oh my.... the first blog for the new year 2010!

Hopefully this year will be much better than that horrid 2009.... so many bad/sad happenings in that year.

I am heading off soon to school and just finalizing all the things to bring. I am sure going to miss my lovely lady and normie!!! I wish I could just shove them in my suitcase and take them on the journey with me! Recently we celebrated my mom's birthday/retirement and also had a surprise party for me; I was quite ecstatic for both and now have gained quite some weight- I wonder if the airline will charge me for my extra baggage... hahahaa

bring it on 2010

Bruised

Went paintballing last minute with Timmy today. Boy did I get tore up. I am not used to the rental markers although I should be since I used to OWN a Tippman 98 custom w/ a Dye boomstick barrel. Then I upgraded to a WGP Autococker with a drop forward and high pressure system. I ended up giving the gun to my buddy Roger since there were no paintball fields in San Jose at the time and the sport was getting expensive. Then guess what? 1.5 years later they open up Santa Clara Paintball next to the County Fairgrounds...

Wow bad judgement call on my part!

So instead of a double trigger w/ light trigger pull and a trigger stop, I have a single trigger rental that is so SLOWWWW.

What is it? Maybe I got pityriasis rosea from my friend Kim? Nawww! Maybe it's a hicky? yeah... like I'd get one on my leg? Just kidding... it's a wheal or more commonly known as a paintball welt on my leg.

I also got hit directly on the hand and it broke skin and gave me some small hematomas also; surprisingly blood looks cool mixed with yellow paint! It's like the paintball was locked onto my ring =D. Yeah I know... paintballs like shiny objects!

Christmas

Since losing my job to help my mom back in San Jose, I have been steadily losing money. This Christmas I did not get my lovely lady anything fancy or even remotely great as I would have like to. Instead I bought her a guava. Yes you heard correct: I am quite broke and ended up buying her a single fruit for Christmas. She was really appreciative and loved it even though it was nothing compared to the nice $400.00 sewing machine I bought her last year. As for my sister, I gave her my second Littmann Student Accessory Kit; for some reason Littmann sent me two and those little packages actually cost quite a bit, so I'm quite lucky and thankful to acquire a present for my sister. SGU still hasn't solved my financial aid issues yet. Goes to show that a single year can change a person's situation greatly.