A little catch up :)

It's been a very busy time for me lately and I haven't really written anything on this blog in quite a while.  With that thought in mind, I thought that I would make a little journal post to catch everyone up on everything that I have been doing and everything that has occurred since I've last written on here.  As you all know, I have finally come to my last semester at Ocean County College.  Finally I raised enough courage to sign up to Georgian Court University, and I am waiting for my acceptance letter.  Hopefully that will arrive sometime soon.  If it does, I may actually follow up and register for classes.  Hopefully there won't be so many issues that will get in my way of following through with the other half of my education.  They were really helpful at the admissions office.   I wanted to get my time-sheets from the radio station so that I can list them as my clubs.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it all works out for the best, because I am really nervous about all of it.   I was thinking about life decisions over the past month.  Mostly because of rite of passage and its many forms.  I realize now, and I really tossed and turned over my life for a while, that I'm comfortable with my husband, my pets and I as a little family.  I love that I am pursuing a bright new future and that I'm broadening my horizons every day.  I couldn't imagine climbing up a mountain and achieving so much, only to stop at its precipice and turn around.  I would die inside and nothing could ever spell reward in lieu of losing your best chances.

My cat Stubby has Diabetes Mellitus.  I found this out a couple weeks ago.  My husband and I have to give him insulin twice a day and keep him on a special diet.  We noticed that he was losing a great deal of weight even though he was eating and drinking a lot.  My husband thought it was a change of diet, but I just knew it was something more.  When he became listless, we took him straight to the vet.  I thought it was either cancer or his kidneys.  I never, in a million years, would have pegged Diabetes as the cause.  So far, they have upped the dosage once.  Hopefully, this new dosage will do the trick.  He seems to be more lively and putting on a bit more weight.  I'm hoping that it will stay on that course.  Stubby goes back to the vet in a couple weeks to be tested for his blood sugar levels.  I really wish that I could test those with one of those glucose meters that you can get from the drug store.  This way I would know sooner, plus I would save money.  Stubby even has his own prescription plan from Walgreens now.  It does reduce the costs of the insulin and other products needed for the injections.  

I had to do some DJ work for my station's Anything But Clothes Dance Party.  This thing has been sitting in the works for what seemed like ages.  Finally, on the 11th, it finally proceeded.  You would think that with all of the preplanning that it would have gone off famously.  It was the absolute opposite.  Aside from the fact that we gave the homeless people who attended a good time, we had barely anyone who attended the event.  We barely raised any money at all.  I felt really embarrassed honestly, because the people who ran the organization deserved more than what they received that evening.  For what it was worth, at least I was able to get some new pajamas and slippers out of the deal.  The food, even though some of it was provided by Fridays and the Olive Garden, was quite terrible.  I was never really reimbursed for anything that I purchased for the event either, which pisses me off so unbelievably.  Here is the bottom line:  What was considered to be preplanning, was never preplanning at all.  It was all done on the fly.  It was a shame that it all turned out that way.  I don't really blame anyone really, because it was just poor planning.  I blame some of the difficulty on Student Life and some on misguidance in general.

I have been on an Amy Tan kick lately.  I have never read her novels before until recently.  I don't really know why honestly.  I guess I just never thought about it.  I started with the Bonesetter's Daughter and now I am reading the Joy Luck Club.  The next one I want to read is Saving Fish From Drowning.  I get on kicks when it comes to writers.  I thrive on novelists like Maeve Binchy, Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.  Stuff that's not too hokey or too cotton candy for my liking.  I tried reading that type of stuff over the last four years and was very disappointed.  I'm gearing up to buy a copy of Jane Eyre to read again and a copy of Madame Bovary.  I have a study group for a project that is being done for my Communications Law class.  We have to research and discuss a libel case for a presentation during class time.  So my group went to the library with me.  For some of them, and these were second year students, it was the first time that had even entered the school library.  I was stunned honestly.  I couldn't even believe that someone couldn't even utilize the library.  I was told, "What is the use of the library, when you have the internet?"  To which I replied, "How could you not find the time to read or use books for research at all?"

I had a very nice Spring Break.  I spent most of the time with my husband and enjoyed having some leisure in my life.  On the weekend, I went out on Saturday dancing with my sister at Club Ego and then on Sunday, we went to Philadelphia for the day.  We had lunch at Joy Tsin Lau and enjoyed facials at Angel Natural Beauty, then we went to South Street to do some shopping.  I bought my husband's birthday gifts while I was there.  It was nice, because I was able to do that without him being around to snoop.  The facial was especially relaxing.  My skin felt awesome afterward, although I could've done with less steam.  They were trying to push some of their products to sell on me, but I wormed out of buying any of that crap.  I can buy all of that where I live.  No reason for me to spend all of that overhead in another state.  I'm back at school now, and I'm glad to be back in the swing of things.  I've got my new glasses that I'd ordered and I can see much better now.  I'm also writing this from the brand new Mac computer in the library lab.  I'm loving it!