Sicky

Finals week is finally here and I'm SO excited! NOT!! Every semester during finals week I have been sick and it never fails.... I'm sick again. I'm starting to think I'm allergic to finals. Do you think my professors will take that as a legit excuse? Probably not.

This morning I got up and went to walmart and bought... an onion, lemons, lysol, gatorade, cold medicine, vitamin c drops, and peppermint tea all to try and cure myself before Thursday. If I am not better before Thursday I will have to postpone my surgery and I don't want that. Right now I'm sitting in my room with a onion and a cinnamon candle lite. It's a weird combo to smell together but I'm trying anything and everything!!

I'm excited to be home in just a few days!!

A New Place to Live.....

Anna, Taylor, and I found the cutest apartments that we are going to live in next year as juniors. I am so excited to live with just the three of us it's going to be a TON of fun! We all get along well now and hang out all the time so we figured it would be a good living idea for next year too.

Our apartment has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a nice kitchen with a dishwasher and garbage disposal, a very nice sized living room, and a dinning room. Not only is our apartment nice but it is a great location too. We will actually be living closer to campus than we are now... and we aren't very far now. Also included in this package is free access to a weight/work out room, free tanning, free movie rental, free access to a computer and printer, $.25 16oz. Styrofoam cups to fill with fountain pop. (Pepsi or Coke Products) that is very important.. I need my Diet Coke :), a basketball court, a sand volley ball court, and a pool! We are also aloud to have pets but none of us want that responsibility while we are in school maybe I'll get a fish!

We are all really excited for next year already!

Long Time No Blog...

I know it's been awhile since I've blogged but I feel the need to update everyone on what's going on in my life right now because there sure is a lot.

To start off my computer crashed a few weeks ago losing all the documents and pictures because this ding dong didn't back her files up. :( Then after that my phone pretty much crashed as well and had to buy a new battery which put me out forty dollars (or mom and dad they just don't know it yet) guess now ya do! Thanks Love you! :) I have every intention to pay them back because I am trying to be self sufficient! This is why I got my-self a new job at school. I don't remember if I have blogged about it before or not but I now work at the football stadium for the head athletic trainer as his assistant. I love my job and I love going to work. I have met so many new people and what girl wouldn't want to be in my position! hehe Neal (my boss) is really good to me though he helps me out with whatever I need and I do the same for him. He took me to my doctors appointment last Friday so I wouldn't have to go alone just to hear that I will be having a 3rd surgery on my shoulder. Yes, the same one I've already had two on. I kind of new it would come to this so I wasn't really too bummed, don't get me wrong I am bummed but I just want my shoulder to be fixed! This time they are going to cut me all the way open and really get in there which I am okay with as long as it works better. I am going to a really great doctor recommended by Neal who works at Methodist Sports Medicine and everyone in there wears a Colts jersey! Who couldn't love a place like that. Speaking of the Colts how about that amazing 4th quarter on Sunday! :) The living situation is still going pretty well. I just bought a new picture a few weeks back that I love but it's still sitting on my floor because I tried to hang it and didn't find the stud first.... Oops! I have a nice new hole in the wall!

This week is so incredibly busy for me I can't wait for it to be over! Let me just give you a overview and see if anyone misses college studying... I have yet to go to sleep, stayed up all night writing a microbiology lab report (yes it's my own fault I'm a procrastinator) but I feel like its the best thing I've ever written so if I don't get an A on it I just might explode! I have an anatomy exam tomorrow. I have a microbiology exam on Friday along with an Edpsych exam. I have a group project due a week from today and our group has only met twice. Talk about stress! To be honest though I'm not all that stressed I just wish there were more hours in a day or I wasn't such a baby and could stay awake longer than 11:00 guess I proved that last night but I'm paying for it today.

On a lighter note yesterday I received a care package in the mail from my grandma and it just brightened my day right up and all my roommates because it had lots of goodies in it like homemade hard candy which my roommates were more excited than I was I think haha and I was really excited! And the best cookies that I used to help make but had to grow up and go to school :( But I still get to enjoy them :) Speaking of growing up 15 more days and I will no longer be a teenage! WaHoo! The big 20... it's kind of weird I still feel like it was my first day of highschool!

Here are some fun pictures for ya...

I got asked last minute to go to a fraternity formal... same one I went to last year but with a different guy. This is Marcus in the picture (we are just friends for any curious people out there) But I had a blast with him we dance pretty much the whole time. It was at a country club and it was really nice. I just loved getting all dressed up.

Afterwards we went back to the frat and just hung out with a few people nothing big and I played with this snake... reminds me of when I was little and Matt, Ryan, and I and the neighbor boys would collect as many snakes as we could and put them in a pool. I of course named them all. Not your typical little girl...

One weekend Taylor, Chelsie, and I had ourselves a mini girls night and just stayed in being extremely goofy. Those are the funnest night I think. We all three slept on the futon and I called the middle thinking I would stay warm all night. BAD idea! Worst night of sleep I ever had in my life but it was fun.

Chelsie and I woke up that morning and made chocolate chip pancakes thinking we would be good friends and bring Taylor breakfast in bed. Bad idea number two! Talk about being grouchy in the morning! She didn't appreciate it and they were even in the shape of Mickey Mouse! Psh see if we ever do anything nice for her again! Okay she really did love it but it took her awhile and a bit of yelling and this sad face to make her actually want to get up and eat these delicious pancakes.

Well that's about all that has been going on with me... it's a load but I wouldn't know what to do if it wasn't. Hope everyone has a great week!

Sporcling!

If you want something fun to do that is challenging you should sporcle! It's fun I promise... you can sporcle by your self, you can sporcle with one or two people, or you can sporcle in a group! Check it out!

Study Break!

I'm sitting here studying thinking I need to update my blog. When I study every thing in the world seems a lot more important than studying! I even cleaned my room before I started to study because I felt like I couldn't learn in a messy room... honestly I think I just have a bad case of procrastination its a bad epidemic here at Ball State! Everyone has and it and its spreading rapidly!

Well, I've been studying since 3:00PM today and I've taken a few small breaks to get away from microbiology and get my mind off of it. Blogging will be my third break! I took a 20min nap at 6:00 then an hour break at 9:00 to watch Desperate Housewives (couldn't miss it) and now 12:51AM blogging.

My test is tomorrow morning at 10:00AM so I have been studying all day because I want to get a good grade on the test and class so I can one day become a nurse! But they make it so stinkin hard! You'd think since there is a shortage of nurses they wouldn't be so cruel when it comes to the stuff you are never gonna use again!!? But whatever...

Well on to other news.. My parents came down this weekend for parents weekend and it was fun I'm glad they came. I went and introduced them to Neal Hazen my boss and mentor guy kinda he's the Head Athletic trainer I've talked about him in previous posts. Then we went and toured the nursing building and it was really interesting. I got to see what I will be working with once I get into the program. They have these dummies that are pretty much real people. This one dummy can sweat, throw up, you can drawl blood from him, and they even talk back which is really cool. Then we went to Greek's pizza because my parents have never had it and its the best pizza place in my book. Then we went to the football game to watch Ball State lose yet again! GO CARDS! we go from undefeated to defeated! It was a pretty sucessful day.

That evening after my parents left I had a date. I was surprised to get asked out on a date because I thought all guys here were shallow and cheap. Maybe there is hope after all! I got a new outfit to so I was excited to wear it! I also got my hair chopped off you can kind of see in the picture!

I also have a job working for Neal. I mainly do insurance work for all the athletes and get to be in the football stadium all day... can't complain about that right! I'm pretty much Neals right hand woman TRYING to keep in organized. He's one of the most unorganized people I have ever met but it keeps me busy that's for sure.

Neal is also doing my therapy for me. I went to the doctor for my shoulder and we are going to try six weeks of therapy to strengthen it and see if that works. Pray that it does!! Basically I get paid to do therapy! :)

As for my cheerleading job... I quit! It was the first thing in my life that I ever really quit and I felt really bad about it but I had to. The job was so stressful and I felt like it was affecting my school work. There was alot of conflict with the athletic director and I guess I didn't realize or was never told there was alot of extra stuff that went along with it and I don't have time to plan fundraisers and events and all that. I loved my girls and they were all sad I was leaving which made it hard but right now only being 19 years old I'm not ready to be a head coach of something and try to get through nursing stuff at the same time. I decided to put my future first and everyone was very understanding.

This weekend is my fall break and I will be coming home on Wednesday! I'm really excited to get away and do nothing! I need a nice relaxing weekend!

Well wish me luck on my test :/ I've got to get back to studying!

Hair

I took my grandparents 50th anniversary pictures and I told them I would edited them and send them to them... My grandpa being the goof that he is said could you edit some hair in there and I said just wait for my blog

Here ya go Grandpa :)

Before

After

The good. The Bad, and The Ugly

The good.

I feel like I crossed a new milestone in my life...

I cooked my first steak and it was good!!!

Just think two short years ago I didn't even like the taste of a steak and now I can't get enough of it. I was very proud of my-self just thought I'd share that bit of excitement in my life

The BAD

So last night was a but of an exciting night....

9:00PM -Taylor, Anna, and I went out to Scotty's for 1/2 priced appetizers with Taylor's boyfriend and his roommates who are also our friends.

10:20PM - Taylor and Anna drop me off at the testing labs so I can take my anatomy exam they come home driving past the house first and Taylor looks at our house and says "Oh, Kate's home that's weird I thought she was at that birthday party..." She said this because her bedroom light was on and its at the front end of the house the first bedroom to the front door.

10:22PM Anna and Taylor forget their house key so they are pounding on the door saying Kate let us in or Charissa come to the door. (Charissa was downstairs sleeping) Charissa comes up and lets them in and goes back down to go to bed. Anna walks over to Kate's room saying Kate what are you doing home and she stops at the door... the light is off

10:30PM Taylor's boyfriend comes over to check the house no one is here

10:45PM I come home and they tell me the story and I'm really scared! We keep talking about it trying to figure it out and there is no solution other than someone was in our house and left when they heard Anna and Taylor pounding on the back door saying let me in.

11:00PM I make my friend Sean come over and stay the night because I'm too scared to sleep.

The scariest part of the whole thing is that our neighbors two doors down is a retired school teacher and he came over and said "Hey I just want to warn you girls I was up and out about 6:00AM this morning saw a tall black man about 6 foot tall wearing a black jacket with white fur on the hood walking around your house like he was scoping things out." Anna talked to the neighbor who said that, but I'm thinking why didn't he call the police? So we were worried about that and now we think someone was in our house... won't be sleeping too well the next couple of nights :/

The UGLY

Muncie, Indiana! Love Ball State... Muncie not so much!