Alright, alright I know! I am horrible and no good for not posting since July.  To be completely honest I don't have an excuse other than just not visiting the xanga website.  So I ask myself in all honesty why do I still have it?  I have yet to come up with an answer.  Until I completely say adios to the online posting life which I have a feeling I will do soon, I suppose I might as well make this post to let anyone who might actually visit my dull boring site, which by the way I did not realize was so plain until seeing it today..anywho on with what I was saying.. I am not going to be an Ohioan for very much longer.  I have eight months left and then I will be either a Hoosier or a Wolverine.  Don't fret, in my heart I will always be an Ohioan and will always root for Ohio State during the football games. That will never change.  I can change my name, my location, who I am living with, my school but that is one thing that will always remain the same. If you are wondering what I am rambling about, Brandon and I are getting married on August 25th 2007.  The colors are lavendar (of course) and gold.  My mom found a whole bunch of ribbon for $1 so she got all they had in lavendar and gold to make the bows. I can't wait to pick out the brides' maids dresses and my dress.  Although I gotta get mean with David's Bridal because I called them today to ask them when their sale was going to be and she acted like she had no idea and like they just pop up.  I know for a fact they have one every January.  Weddings are expensive enough without having to pay an arm and a leg for a dress that you are going to wear for a half hour one day of your life. 

Well anyway, if I don't make another posting before Christmas (very likely) then have a wonderful Christmas everyone! I hope you all get everything that you want this year!!!  Until next time good morning, good afternoon, and good evening.  Much love to you all.  

Geezums, it has been over a month since I've updated on here! Cheese and rice, is that nuts or what?!

Well I don't think I can recall everything, but I can give it to ya in a nutshell of what I have been up to. Class, nurse aide training which I am now done with because it was two weeks long, studying like mad, visiting with the g-parents, picking on my terds (my cousins), and reading the letters that have been coming from my brother. Yup that's pretty much it. My grandma is now at a point where she's not getting better and she's not getting any worse whereas before she was going downhill fast so I guess that's good that her condition is more steady. My brother is really homesick which is weird because he never once got homesick in his 5 yrs of college. I think a lot of it is because of what's going on here and he knows he's not here and it bothers him because he worries a lot about grandma. The whole family has been writing him a lot which has seemed to help. His group finally didn't get their liberties taken away so he was able to call home this past weekend and he called three times because he would get kicked off because someone else wanted to use the phone. Everybody we talk to who had a loved one in the military said that the honesick thing is normal and that you'll get a depressing letter in the mail and then next you'll get an upbeat letter so that's good to hear that it's just a phase they all go through.

Today is my day to get some things done that I want to get done like get my room cleaned up and get some errands done.

Well all until next time good morning, good afternoon, and good night!! Much love!!

Holy bajeepers! It's been over a month since I've last posted on xanga. That's nuts!!! Well, I don't think I can remember any important stuff that happened in May. Hmmm..think Jodi think! I see the light...ok my brother graduated and is now home, but we leave next Wed to take the turkey to Kent because that's where he leaves from since that's the area that he signed up at. If you're wondering why I am calling him a turkey, here's why..he doesn't want any going away party. Which doesn't sound so bad, but realize this he doesn't even want family to get together to see him one last time and he's not going to go see all the family before he leaves. Oh and if you are wondering where he is going, he's going in the Army.  So we're getting calls now from the family wanting to know when the going away party for him is or if we are atleast having a get together. Well that's that.

My grandma went into diabetic shock for 6 hrs and now she doesn't remember anything but faces of people. Friday night when I saw her was the hardest thing I have ever done because it was killing me to just sit there and watch her as she was looking around the room because she had no recollection of any of the stories we talked about. Ones of her and my grandpa dating, her side of the family, our family, recent events like my brother's graduation..she didn't remember going and that was a couple weeks ago. Whenever I went to my grandma's I always got the latest buzz on what was going on whether it was people in our area or people in our family. Then you would mention the names that she used to know so well and there was a blank look on her face. She is a completely different person right now and it's scary to think that this could be permanent. The family had a meeting so we could talk about our schedules and when we could take care of her, which some of my aunts who are nurses said that she is a prime candidate for Alzheimer's disease so they are wondering whether or not she has dimensia and then is slipping into the other. I really hope that this is all just due to her brain being deprived of oxygen for that long. She goes to the doctor tomorrow so he might be able to give a diagnosis of what is going on with her. I realize that she is not a spring chicken anymore and that things are going to happen, but I'm not ready for this. This is the only set of grandparents I have left. Please if you are reading this, pray for my grandma..it's very serious and I'm not the only one having a hard time with it. My grandpa is too. He won't leave her side. Partially because he feels responsible for what happened to her since he was farming, but also because he's not ready to lose his partner and he keeps asking my aunt "but she's going to be okay right? she's going to come out of this soon and everything will be back to normal again right?". I see the scare in his eyes and I hear it in his voice when I talk to him on the phone and I hate that he has to go through this and I hate that my grandma has to go through this. You can tell that she gets frustrated that she doesn't know what's going on because she starts to fiddle with her hands alot. It's just really hard on the whole family right now.  

Well that's the latest as far as what I have mostly been up to. This evening was my last final so I am officially done for a week and a half!! Woo-hoo.  I'm so excited to be done with this quarter. I'm looking forward to summer quarter since I'll only be taking one class. It'll be a lighter load, but still alot of studying. I'm also going to be getting my nurses aide training in July. My classes for that start on the 11th.

Well I think that's enough for tonight. Take care everyone! Until next time good morning, good afternoon, and good night! Much love to you all!!!!  If that seems like a lot of faces that was only because I had to show all the faces of giving a kiss. The first face is what you look like when you are thinking about giving a kiss, the second is getting ready to make your move face, the third is what you look like when you are mid-kiss, the 4th is what you look like when you are bringing your lips back to your body, and the last face is the face that we all get when we are thinking about how pleasant it was. Never knew there were so many faces involved in a kiss did ya?! haha  Later all! This ramblin' chick is outta here.

What's up home fry? I am very much so procrastinating.  I should be doing my stats homework right now, but instead here I am updating xanga. Before I came to this website, I was on myspace playing around on there. Before that I was making myself dinner which was quite tasty. I made myself a fried bologna sandwhich (two slices) with cheese melted to perfection between both slices of meat, mayonaise on my bread, and there you have one mighty tasty sandwhich.  I also ate a whole can of mandarin oranges..boy were they scrumdidly-umptious!!!! See this was all to just procrastinate some more! I'm a bad gal. haha

Yesterday we had a surprise 50th birthday party for my aunt and she was surprised. She thought it was just her and my uncle and the grandparents over for lunch. Her birthday had been over for two days so she didn't even think a thing about it. My uncle was just laughing away because he played along. My aunt even brought her famous strawberry rhubarb crunch to her own party.. She got this one gag gift that had a dynomite stick, a roll of toilet paper, prune juice, and a candle for "old people in the bathroom kit".

Well, I guess I should stop procrastinating and go do my homework before my professors huff and puff and blow my head in!  Yea, I'm not real thrilled to go do this homework, but then who is?! Later gators!!  Much love to you all from the bottom of my .

I've noticed that I haven't updated xanga in a while so I apologize for that and slap my hand too as my punishment. You can't see me do it, but trust me, I am  haha

At the moment I am slowly enjoying a frosty from Kewpee and anyone who has ever been to Lima or is from a nearby place then you know what I'm talking about. "Hamburg Pickle On Top! Makes Your  Go Flippity Flop!" Yea buddy, some good eats that place is. My best friend and I were talking about this last night. It might even be this way for everyone, I'm not sure. Anyway, we were saying that Lima doesn't have all that much to offer and we all said gorwing up that it was a boring place to be and didn't really care for it too much. Then being away from it, we missed it because there's things about it that you just miss such as Kewpee that you don't find anywhere else. We couldn't quite put our finger on what else it was but it makes us love it here and she said she thinks it's the diversity here. But if you ask me, I think it's just the fact that this is the only place I have ever lived so to me..it's home. When coming back there's those childhood memories that all come back that you can't help but to smile at. Brandon hates Lima..he says it's the "crap hole of the world" and Diana said that her boyfriend doesn't like Lima either. It must just be one of those things that people are more used to where they grew up in. I wonder what it's like for those that lived in different areas. Maybe they feel that each of those areas are home or that one in particular is their home. Maybe it differs for each individual. Just something I was pondering.

Ok moving on, classes have been going pretty good so far. They've been keeping me busy. Don't let my nice class schedule fool you. I spend most of my time trying to keep up with studying. I'm trying to get on the Dean's List..we'll see how that works out. This week I have two tests and two next week. So my nose will be continuing to be in the books.

My brother comes home this weekend for Easter. Also Diana a.k.a. my sister (as my parents call her) is coming to visit me on Sat. woo-hoo!!!  Now that I am home we are working it in to our schedules to see each other once a month since she lives an hour away. Which doesn't sound like much, but that's more than I was seeing her. We also have been talking on the phone about once a week.

Have you ever had someone come to you with a situation that made you feel so helpless? I hate that feeling. Especially when you have to hear that person crying and you can hear the hurt in their voice, but yet it's a situation that you can't do anything about because they completely landed a whammy on you and you are so taken back and have no idea what to do because you had never been presented with a situation like this before.  Yup, I'm kinda in a tough situation right now and those are exactly my feelings.

The only other thing that is new with me is that I am trying to find a class that fits my schedule for the nurses aide training out at Apollo. The ones that they offer coming up next month conflict with my classes so I can't do those. The hours are pretty much the same for the summer so I have to try to figure out which would be easier to schedule classes around. Either everyday (M-F) from 9:30-3:30 or M,T,W from 3:30-10 at night..that makes for a long week though. So that would kinda suck and that takes up my choices for labs becuase they are usually in the afternoon. I tell ya, what would someone who was working do. Where would they go to get theirs..they have to go to Apollo. I know it's only for two weeks, but geez loweez!!  The easier thing mught be the M-F one so that I'm not so worn out and still have time to study. Yea, I think that will probably be my best bet. Ok I'm done doing my thinking on the computer. haha

Alright well, I think that's a pretty good summary for now of what I have been up to.  So until next time good morning, good afternoon, and good night!! Take care everyone and have a good, productive, and safe week! Much love and many hugs and kisses  (hehe you get the full effect of a kiss..step by step on what it would look like  yes I am a dork!!)