Janean!!

Poll #1421277 What Are You Drinking?
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What do you generally call your soft drink?

If you don't call a soft drink pop, soda, or coke; what do you call it?

What is your favorite soft drink?

If you're at all curious about what the rest of the country calls their soft drink, this map might interest you.
Even if you're not curious, it's still kind of interesting.

Being from Florida, it seems to vary throughout the state. I've never actually heard anyone call what I call soda "pop" before.

I think two of the strangest things I've heard was my manager (a native of Massachusetts) call a shopping cart a "carriage" and a couple from somewhere up North refer to their sprinkles as "jimmies."

Rob and I went to PetLand one day and they had a Green and Red macaw at the front of the store. The bird and Rob got along really well and it resulted in him playing with the bird for about fifteen minutes before we decided to leave. The bird ended up screaming at us as we left the store. It was kind of cute.

Ever since then, Rob has been talking about how much he wants a bird.

So today, I was thinking about prospective gift ideas for future occasions (I have an idea of what I want to do for his 30th in three years) and I was thinking about birds.

I don't want a macaw because of their life span. They get to be close to 100. It would possibly outlive our children! I got to reading about other bird species that people kept as pets and I came across the African Grey.

This video is the first video in awhile that I've found on my own that made me laugh out loud. I love that Tui actually more or less shushes her owner with her feet.

I know Rob will see this eventually and it'll kind of ruin the surprise but at least he won't know how soon it would be.

"Now, you are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night. When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan then we'll figure out who you're going to be."

-- Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

And if you feel so inclined and are a 311 fan...

I need spring break more than anything.

I'm stressed out to the nodes.

Yes, even after quitting my job.

Though I will admit that being unemployed has definitely lifted a major weight off my shoulders.

But still...school by itself is a major source of stress.

I've been really busy lately.

So busy that I haven't read anyone's journal since the last time I updated which was maybe...three weeks ago?

And this obviously isn't the first time and it's not something that I see ending anytime soon.

So this journal is being closed down until May.

After May, I'll either be a graduate living at my mom's house post graduation until I can find a job...

...or I'll be someone who couldn't pass her last semester of college, is burnt out, wants to start her life, and doesn't have money to go back to school living at her mom's house until she can find a job.

Either way, I'll have plenty of time on my hands then.

So if you want to, take me off your friends list. I'm actually surprised at how many people have kept me around despite my inconstancy.

Until then...

There's plenty to be said about this past year.
And there's just as much to be said for this year and the year is only three days old.

Last year was great but this year I think is going to be even better.

The Day After Tomorrow: I'm starting my last semester as an undergraduate. Even though I'm still working my education will definitely remain a top priority as will my friends. I have the rest of my life to work but some of the greatest people I have ever met will be moving away five months from now. Our lives will never be the way that they are now and we'll never have time to go out and party and hang out and fuck around and do whatever it is we do the way we can as college students.

Early March: Rob and I are gonna start doing some heavy duty wedding planning. It's really important to me that Rob and I get some idea of what we want so that (hopefully) we'll be able to book some stuff while I'm down in St. Pete for Spring Break.

May 1, 2009: I'll be a Florida State University alumni! Also it'll be the first time that my family will meet Rob's family.

Summer: Hopefully I'll have a real job and I will have saved enough money for Rob and I to move into our first real apartment together with as few financial difficulties as possible.

July 6, 2009: Rob and I's 2nd anniversary.

September 6, 2009: My 23rd birthday!

I'm so excited to have come this far in all of these different aspects of my life and I'm proud of the person that I'm becoming and the life that I'm creating.

And hopefully, I'll be keeping track of it all right here.

Here's to 2009!

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How important is it to you that the original poster reply to your comments that you make on their journal? (1= Extremely unimportant, 10 = extremely important)

You can leave a comment why, if you want.

Yeah, so I actually meant to post a couple days ago but never found the time. There's been a good bit going on that in those couple days I've decided not to post about it (but I probably will later on).

Yay! No more classes! Specifically, no more 8AM classes.

Boo! Finals week!

School has been coming up a lot less in my mind over the past few days and work is starting to (slowly) stress me out less and less. For whatever reason though, I've started thinking more about my wedding.

How fitting that I chose today to write about this. We got engaged three months ago today.

Neither Rob nor I have updated our wedding journal (omneity) in months. The reason has ultimately been that nothing is really going on. We decided that we're definitely having it in St. Pete. We'll be back in St. Pete in about two or three weeks and while we're down there, I want to give Rob a "beach tour" so that we can decide which beach we want to get married on.

In daydreaming and more frequent visits to davidsbridal.com, I have an idea of what I want my dress to look like and how I want my hair and there are some accessories that I want to get for myself too. I found a really gorgeous dress for super cheap. Realistically, I probably won't be buying a dress until next Christmas but it's okay to get an idea I guess...

Thank God for improvements.

I've really been slacking off in pretty much every area of my life right now.

I had a three page paper due at 8AM this morning. Three pages, double spaced, talk about a managerial problem and how to fix it, use sources. Not too difficult. I had planned on doing it yesterday while Rob was at work but then we got back from St. Pete late and Rob decided to stay home from work. The only productive thing that I ended up doing yesterday was going to the grocery store.

So the paper never got done. Whatever, I thought, I'll find my sources and then wake up really early and write it.

I woke up at 5:30 this morning. I sat down, got up, paced, sat back down, wrote a bit. At 7:50 I was still in my room trying to finish the damn thing. I was stressed as all get out and I don't think that my slacking has ever bitten me in the ass this badly.

But then, what do you know, I get into class half an hour late and the professor's not even phased. People came in even later than that. There was one girl who came in at the end of class. If I had known that then I probably would have came in later but turned in a much better piece of shit than what I handed in at 8:30 this morning. Oh well, at least it's done.

I have two tests on Tuesday. I'm studying for those today. I would be doing it now but I forgot the notebook that I write my class notes in.

My friend from bowling called me right as I got in because her dance class was canceled and she wanted to know what I was up to so that we could hang out. That was really nice. I think one of the nicest things that people can do for each other is call one another (or let them know by some other means) and let someone else know that they've been thinking about them. I'm not so good at it myself. I never call friends to hang out and I never let people know when I'm thinking about them. I really should put fourth more effort to change that.

Other than that, today should go pretty well. I have two more classes left and then I get to go home and clean my filthy shithole. :]

I never thought that I would ever know what it would feel like to hear the man of my dreams tell my mother that he would do more for me than he is willing to do for himself.



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Yeah, so for whatever reason I was not ready for it to get this cold outside. It was 42 degrees when I went to my test at 7:45AM.

I'm sure some of you are laughing, but this is no laughing matter for a girl who was born and raised in Central Florida.

For whatever reason, I've been feeling really good about my physical appearance lately. When I look in the mirror, I generally like what I see. This is funny to me because I'm probably at my heaviest right now. I haven't weighed this much since high school.

This is probably the most interesting election year I can ever remember. It seems like there isn't a single person who doesn't have an opinion on who they want to win and what whoever wins will do for this country.

I've decided that from tomorrow until next Tuesday I'm going to have as much fun as I possibly can. I'm going to start my week of good times by baking cookies. :]