IT'S BEEN WAYY TOO LONG!!

wow i can't believe i havent posted anything since practically my birthday! that's crazy...and unacceptable! haha so im going to start blogging more often and keep everyone updated with my life!

well last week, i started back to college. the classes i have this semester are going great (so far!) the only assignment that i had due last week was a crossword puzzle in sociology.

i just realized that i havent posted my classes on here yet! WOW it has been a long time!

Sociology - MWF 10-10:50am

English - MWF 12-12:50pm

Chemistry - MW 2-3:15pm

Physiology - TTh 11-12:15pm + lab - Th 1-3:50pm

Safety - TTh 4-5:15pm

it's not too bad of a schedule. i like it :)

now if only it wasn't so cold outside!!!!

speaking of it being so could outside, i was walking to class friday morning (which is only about a 6-minute walk) and my orange juice froze in my mug!! that's how cold it was (approximately 6 degrees).

OH!! my sister, her bridesmaids, her mom, and my mom all went to David's Bridal yesterday to find the bridesmaids' dresses for her wedding and after a couple hours, she finally found what she wanted!!! we all had fun yesterday. one of katelyn's bridesmaids recently became pregnant and when it comes time for katelyn and curt to get married, she'll already be 6 months into her pregnancy, so to make sure that the dresses katelyn had in mind would fit over a pregnant belly, one of us had to put on the "pregnant pillow". yes, david's bridal has such a thing called a pregnant pillow, and it is absolutely hilarious! we finally found one that would work and it looks gorgeous on everyone! im not going to post pictures because i dont know if katelyn wants everyone to see them yet or not. if i get the OK, then i will post some :)

well, i guess that's all for now. here are some pictures that i photoshopped:

this is me and my boyfriend, matt, on new year's!

me showing off my new tobagon and scarf

me being silly in my room

my car wreck

yes, that is what my car looked like after some guy decided to lock up his brakes for some unknown reason. he told the cops that someone cut him off in ongoing traffic through a green light, but the witnesses say that he's lying. this is the story from my point of view:

I was coming home from Applebee's and was getting off the interstate when someone driving a van decided to stop instead of continue onto the road. well, i guess he thought i got too close for comfort behind him so he decided to follow me after i passed them. a car was slowing down to get into the turning lane in front of me so im guessing he saw this as an opportunity to get in front of me. this is where he locked his brakes up and i rear-ended him. 2 people in a van pulled up near the wreck to see if we were ok since the guy i hit decided that he would rather take photos of mine and his skid marks and my license plate(?) with his knock off razr phone than see if i was ok (im sure you can guess that he did this on purpose?). one of the witnesses called the cops while the other one came over to me to see if i was ok. i couldnt get my car door open so i just sat in my car until my parents got there. an ambulance came and asked me if i was alright. i told them that i was just a little shaken up. two police officers showed up 5 minutes later and took everyones statements. they told my family and i what the guy had told them (see the first thing i told you) and that they pretty much figured he was lying considering he had 15 feet of skid marks. another great thing about this guy was that he had about 5 kids and a wife in the car with him and the witness that talked to me until my parents got there said that when he went over there to check on all of them, none of them were in seatbelts and about 3 of the kids needed to be in carseats. i dont know what the police did about that but they told us to call our insurance company asap and have them deal with it. my mom took a bunch of pictures and one cop even told her to take video of how long the skid marks were. lets just say that after being 19 for not even a day, im not sure i want to find out how the rest of my time being 19 will turn out haha. here are some more pictures of the accident:

the back of my car. notice the skid marks (sorry these may be blurry...my hands were shaking because it was so cold!

his skid marks are on the right, mine are on the left

this is the guys gross van...there was dirt all over the road. the cops said it came from underneath is van! also, notice the stare im getting from the kid in the back of the van...yep i got those same stares from everyone who was in that car when the dad was planning to slam on his brakes...because obviously he knew about half a mile before it happened that someone was going to cut him off...hmm? i find that very odd, dont u?

hello :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!!!

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME TOMORROW :)

ready for the holidays!!!

i don't know about you guys, but i am definitely ready for this holiday season to get here. this friday is my last day before thanksgiving break. i dont go the whole week next week and i cannot wait to sleep in and be lazy! well, maybe not that lazy...i will have to write a paper for english class, clean my room, and most important of all....celebrate my 19th birthday! :)


nothing new has really happened since my last post. one thing that was exciting was that i got to pick up my PDA for school today (no, it was NOT free....we had to pay for it.) im not completely sure why we get them (nursing school students only!), but i think it will have things on there that will help us study and what not. i don't know but as soon as i know, ill let you guys know!!


hmmmm.......OH! we're definitely going to paint my room red for my birthday and christmas and my grandma (mom's mom) bought me a new memory foam mattress pad which i absolutely cant wait to put on my bed and be comfy!


a little update on the bridal shower im throwing for my sister:
`ive decided to have it May 30, 2009...i will still send out invitations way later but this is just a heads up.
`ive got games, prizes, and a few little extra things that will hopefully keep everyone entertained throughout the whole bridal shower...
`im so excited to throw this shower for my sis..she's been so great to me and i really want to show her how much i appreciate everything shes done for me. plus i want to see if she can top everything i do when its my turn to get married and she becomes MY maid of honor ;) just kidding...


well i think thats it...im going to try to find some pictures to post but terry deleted a lot of things in an attempt to "clean up" haha....


here's what i found:

Katelyn and me at my high school graduation...

...this is Jay Bruce, my future husband :) Terry and I had AMAZING seats at my very first MLB game...i dont think this was a zoomed in picture!...

...and this is a picture of Terry and I on the ferry crossing the river to go to the Reds game....BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15 days...........

UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

im so excited!! my last year as a teenager!! lol

and something to be even MORE excited about...

MY SISTER IS ENGAGED!!!!!
and she asked ME to be her MAID OF HONOR!!! im so excited!!!

im planning a bridal shower at my house for terry's side of the family and my mom's side of them family. im thinking we might have it sometime in May since katelyn and curt are getting married June 27th! i cannot wait!!!!!!

on another note, i scheduled for spring semester classes last week (i was allowed priority scheduling because im a nursing student....). here's my schedule:

CHM 204 (Chemistry) MW from 2-3:15

ENG 102 (English) MWF from 12-12:50

SOC 200 (Sociology) MWF from 10-10:50

BSC 228 (Physiology) TR from 11-12:15

BSC 228 Lab R from 1-3:50

SFT 235 (Safety) TR from 4-5:15

my safety class is an international elective. i have to take 6 hours of electives within 4 years of college....i think im going to take some courses over the summer to help me get through it. there are some insanely hard courses...ill need all the help can get.

baaaaaaad news

i know i havent posted anything lately...life's been pretty hectic. my friends were in a bad car accident monday morning around 1am. i was notified around 2:30am and then couldn't sleep...i copied an email i sent to my aunt cathy and im going to paste it here so u can read the extent of my friends' injuries:

I have been awake since 2:30am when I got the call about matt being in a car accident. little did I know that it was worse than I ever imagined. here's the lowdown on matt and his friends [yes, two of his friends, justin and greg (brothers) were in the accident also].

-matt has a bruise on his forehead in the shape of a steering wheel, a broken nose, swollen/busted lips, multiple fractures in his ankle, and he has difficulty with his right arm. mainly all of his pain is on his right side. his doctor has him on bedrest and he's not too happy about it.
-greg got the worst of it all simply bc he did not have on his seatbelt. greg went through the windshield (I'm not sure if his whole body went through or just his upper body). he still has glass in his head, scratches all over his face, stitches in his nose and lip, deep gashes near his jugular (any closer toit and he would have probably died), gashes on his arms, a broken collarbone, a dislocated elbow, 25 stitches on his forearm, 2 broken ribs, and a partially punctured lung. he gets morphine every 30-40 minutes lol.
-justin was in the backseat with a seatbelt on so he wasn't as bad as matt and greg. he has a seatbelt burn on his chest and stomach area, but a little later in the day, he started complaining of pain in his intestinal area so they had to do a ct scan on him.

this is a very difficult time for both the barriteau and the brooks families...matts parents don't know yet bc no one wants them to worry before his dads surgery...

sorry this is so long but I thought u might want to know what was going on.

love, alex

Matt is my ex-boyfriend. his dad is the one who has carcinoid cancer and he is having surgery on everything but his liver tomorrow (wednesday) and they dont want matt's parents to worry before the surgery so theyre waiting to tell them afterwards. they are in louisiana for the surgery...

prayer works wonders, and everyone needs it right now. if u dont mind, could u please keep these people in ur thoughts and prayers? thank you.

-alex

ps - my eye is healing really well...i was supposed to go to the doctor yesterday but didnt get around to it. just a check-in though, nothing major. i should be able to wear contacts now but i want to get it checked first.

bad, then good, news :)

bad news: my left eye had beed botherting me on tuesday and wednesday, so yesterday morning (wednesday), i decided to take my contacts out and wear my glasses to school. well, when i tried to take my left one out, i had a few problems (nothing out of the ordinary since i have long (fake) nails again). after i got my righ contact out with hardly any problems, i realized that i couldnt find my left contact. it fell out somewhere and is no where to be found. anywho, after blindly looking for it for about 15 minutes, i gave up, but i realized that i had a weird feeling in my left eye. it felt like there was a hair on my eyeball and i couldnt get it to go way. i decided to ignore it and put my glasses on and went to school. as i was walking to my class, i called my mom and told her about what had happened this morning with my contacts. she asked me if i wanted to come to the hospital and see if she could see anything in my eye, but i told her that i was ok and that i could always ask my friend rachel to check it if needed. well, after anatomy class i call my mom and tell her that im coming to let her check out my eye. i told her that when i looked in the bathroom mirror, i saw a scratch or something above my iris. she looked at it and said that i was right about the scratch. she called the eye doctor at walmart to see if i could come in and let the doctor take a look. so i go to the doctor and he tells me that i have a corneal ulcer and it could potentiall be serious.....meaning i would have to get a cornea transplan! (here's some information on it - http://www.stlukeseye.com/conditions/CornealUlcer.asp). just a little background on me and my contacts: i sleep in them and i dont take them out for about 2-3 months. i DO NOT recommend doing that. BACK TO THE STORY! so in order to treat my eye, the doctor dilated my eye (and its still not completely back to normal - almost 32 hours later) and prescribed me Vigamox (heavy-duty eyedrops) and gave me the following instructions:

-one drop every 15 minutes for 2 hours,

-one drop every hour for 2 hours,

-one drop every 2-3 hours

and since my eye was dilated, and i couldnt see without my glasses, i had to walk around walmart AND campus looking like this:

no i was not happy looking like this...more like embarassed. i got many stares and i kept my head down a lot when walking...luckily i was past the one-drop-every-15-minutes phase and only had to put on drop in in my math class.

i went back to the doctor today (thursday) to have a little checkup to make sure my eye was healing ok and the doctor said everything seemed to be healing ok and that i had a pretty serious ulcer...more serious than most. now, if that doesnt scare me, idk what will. but i was told that my ulcer should heal just fine but would leave a scar on my cornea. good think about the position of the ulcer is that i cant see it so my vision shouldnt be impaired. i go back monday to see when i will be able to wear contacts again (which im not sure if i really want to haha).

ok, ok, enough bad news. time for the good news!!!

today started out ok. i had a psychology exam this morning. let me tell u a little bit about the lady who (tries to) teach our class...i believe she is a grad student but looks as though she should be ready to retire and every day that she comes into the classroom (which is only tuesdays and thursdays), she complains about having so much homework and not getting enough sleep and blah blah blah...and what makes it worse is that she doesnt really know how to teach (that is why i didnt call her my teacher or my professor earlier in the paragraph). so ANYWAYS, we had our exam today and she gave us a "study guide" (i wouldnt really call it that since everything on the test was NOT on the study guide) so im sure i didnt do so well on that exam.

BUT! i also had an anatomy lab midterm today (i LOVE anatomy, but i could do without the lab) and im almost positive i got every single answer right!!!! there were 25 questions + two bonus...i cant wait until next week to figure out what i got!! so theres my bad and good news :)

now for just some random news thats been going on the past couple of days:

-last weekend i went to hibachi with my friend mark and tried sushi for first time (technically the second but the first time was at a buffet so i dont really count that one) and i actually like it!

-i got a 90% on my second anatomy exam...the class average was a 68.5%

-we finally picked a book for our iTEAMS group. we chose Perspectives and i cant wait to read it! we read the first chapter and it seems like it's going to be a good read.

-ummm its been pretty warm the past couple of days and its supposed to feel like summer for a few days..

i guess thats all...this has been a very long, but much needed, post!

ttyl!!!