It has been a while!

Hello!

It has been a good amount of time since I updated this blog, I seem to be more active on LiveJournal now.

It has been busy this month. I have started classes, which are very nice. I do love having homework again, in a weird way!

Also, I have celebrated 3 birthdays. My mom's was on January 1st, my step-dad's was on January 20th, and Brad's was on January 23rd! So much cake this month! Thankfully I wont have to eat anymore until my birthday (February 20th).

Brad and I also celebrated our one year anniversary on January 8th! It was a nice, simple, laid back day, which I couldn't ask for anything better.

So today I am just laying in bed with my cat, taking it easy and avoiding house cleaning, homework, and washing my hair.

How has everyone's new year been so far?

30 Day challenge! [Day Twelve ]

I feel so behind in my 30 Day Challenge, so I decided that I would just start doing one a day again, rather than doing four today to try and catch up. Now that finals and the holidays are over for me, I will be able to keep myself on track!

Day Twelve: Bullet your whole day.

Today was Christmas! So this should be fun!

• Wrapped most of the gifts at 2-4 am.
• Woke up around 7:30 am to my nieces pounding on my door
• Opened gifts with the family
• I got:
• Four sweaters
• Two pairs of jeans
• A coffee mug (random fact: I drink out of coffee cups 80% of the time)
• A Dove body wash/shower set
• Two pairs of pajama bottoms
• Two books
• A super soft blanket
• A new bag/purse (that I had picked out for myself)
• And money from just about anyone and everyone in my family
• My parents were both sick so they went back to bed (we have a nasty 24 hour flu like virus going around in our house, I had it yesterday (Christmas Eve))
• I made a salad to take to my uncle's house
• My sister, my nieces, and I went over to my Uncle's house to visit with his family and my grandpa.
• Ate dinner over there and played Wii
• I was dropped off at home so my sister could take the girls to visit their father
• Bradford then came over and we opened gifts
• I got from him:
• Three's Company season two on DVD
• A really cute shirt
• Bird picture clips 
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ultimate edition. (Now I have three copies of that movie, LOVE it!)
• a replica of Hermione's wand! (how dorky!)
• We watched Three's Company, ate some eggs and toast, and fell asleep
• He went home and here I am!

Now I am lounging in bed in my new, super soft pj bottoms, with my fluffy blankets. I'm so comfortable!

How was everyone's holidays?

Things Always Get Better.

Hello everyone!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I honestly didn't have much motivation with everything that was going on. 

For anyone who may have missed my last post, my grandmother passed away the day after Thanksgiving. My great aunt Betty, who was my grandma's sister, passed away on Thanksgiving day. Yesterday (December 3rd) was my grandmother's service. And I will be honest, I was probably the loudest crier. I am such an emotional person.

I miss my grandmother greatly.

1955

 

2006

I feel that after her service, I can move on a little bit now. I feel better and have more motivation now, but sometimes I just lay in bed and want to cry again. But I know she is in a better place, and she is happy, and I know she wants me to be happy too.


These are the last couple weeks of my class, and I have to tell you, this new teacher (we had to switch professors in the middle of the semester) is crazy! Not only is she giving us way more homework than was originally scheduled, but she is giving us two weeks LESS to get it all done in, plus making our 7-8 page report now 9-10 pages. Normally I wouldn't care, but honestly I don't really have the time to write this paper right now. Oh life.

But I can't wait until Christmas!

Bradford and I actually have quite the holiday packed next two months:
December 25 - Christmas
January 1- New Years
January 8 - Our One Year!
January 23 - Brad's 20th Birthday
February 14 - Valentine's Day
February 20 - My 21st Birthday


Crazy! But I'll admit that I am excited!

The Ones We Love Never Truly Leave Us.

Today I got the terrible news that my grandmother had passed away.

My grandparents in 1955

For anyone who does not know, my grandmother has been battling with Alzheimer's for the better part of a year and a half, along with all of the other health issues that comes along with it.

Yesterday, Thanksgiving day, my great aunt Betty had passed away. My grandfather, who has taken care of my grandmother along with the help of hospice, had a feeling they would pass away on the same day, since they were sisters. He was a day off, but still very close.

My grandparents and I at Disneyworld in 1995

My grandmother was the best of the best. She was a nurse for over 30 years, and always knew how to make you feel better. She would always bake cookies, pizza pie, and pumpkin rolls for the holidays. Plus she always made the best mashed potatoes and gravy.

She would hem my pants when I was 12, because my 5'2 statue would always end up ripping the back of my pants.

She was the chatterbox of the family. I could remember my mother being on the phone with her for hours at a time, and my grandmother would always talk her head off at family gatherings. She was always laughing and always smiling, something I miss the most.

She had a major part in raising me, as my parents got a divorce when I was young, and she was always there to color with when no one else was. Plus she was always happy to rat my mom out about things she did as a kid that got her into trouble.

My grandparents and I at my high school graduation in May 2008

The last day that I saw her was yesterday, for Thanksgiving. She wasn't herself at all, and she hadn't been for over a year. But I told her I loved her, and I told her goodbye when I left.

In a sense, my family and I are a little revealed. We, of course, never wanted her to leave us, but the life she was living was not living at all, and it was the life she always hated. She couldn't move on her own, she couldn't speak, she couldn't eat or drink. She never wanted to live the life she had seen in patients she worked with so many times.

But I know she is in a better place now, wherever that may be. I have a feeling she is sitting with the rest of her family, gardening or hemming more pants for me when the time comes to see her again.