Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, she's up!"

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Auld Lang Syne

I have never spent my New Year's away from home or family. You may call that boring. I call it lucky.

I was always told that you're supposed to start the year the way you want to end it. Particularly this year, I wanted to be home with my parents, because in all seriousness, how many more do I have of these moments?

May your 2012 be filled with awesome moments, love and peace. May your battles bring knowledge and strength, and may your successes create positive change all around you.

I'm on to you, 2012. I shall approach you cautiously.

Happy New Year! Be safe. Good health. Much love.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

I am broke. I am unemployed. But I am home.

Absence does make the heart grow fonder. And as much as I hate being away from all my family and friends, being away made me stronger. I know that I can live alone if I have to. I know that I can strive for things that some people only dream of. I know that I can survive.

I arrived at home two Thursdays ago with a care package waiting for me (thank you!) and seafood. =] I also arrived with a horrible allergic reaction to the antibiotics that were prescribed to me for my eczema. =P So many lessons learned this semester.

25% complete. 2 more weeks of vacation, then back to the daily grind.

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Phantom of the Opera

Dyshidrotic Eczema. Just diagnosed myself. Forget the fact that my hands look ugly... if it gets any worse, I won't be able to write. I'm so scared that it is going to get worse--and then what do I do? I never type my notes... it's distracting and I never learned how to work WordArt fast enough to draw diagrams if needed. Professors here don't like laptops on during class, either.  So, what do I do? Am I supposed to get a note from my doctor stating that my hands are too disfigured to write? Sheesh... just writing about the possibility of it makes me wanna cry.

The first thing the websites have said to do is relieve stress. I'm in school. It's practically an oxymoron. The second thing was the avoid extreme cold weather. Ahem. Being where I go to school, it's impossible. My hands are chilled to the bone even with gloves on (and not the cheap Target gloves, mind you, the nice Macy's high quality ones). Third thing... sleep. HA!

I hope that once I get home, I can really start a moisturizing regimen. I have 3 weeks to turn my skin around or it will get worse when the dead of winter (and negative degree weather) is upon me. I'm hoping to stop by the school clinic today--I hope they can tell me what I can do to relieve this pain (oh my GOSH... the pain of eczema... it really does hurt.)

Yeah... I've been having a really shitty week. Will keep the positivity, though... 'cause there's nowhere else to go but up.

Saturday, December 03, 2011

I'm So Excited

It's been so long since I've cried about a grade point average. I don't know how I'm supposed to do well when it feels like everyone in class is quant-heavy. I'm just a liberal arts major.

No matter where I go, I always feel like I'm way behind the curve. I feel like such a failure.


I really am scared. =*[