Idle chit chat

I have been up since before the sun decided to rise lurking my school student page. Spring registration is today and I want to make sure that I get the time slots I want and the teachers I want.....I bet everybody in my nursing program is up right now watching the clock; it's like a rat race. This is so sad. Lol And the crazy thing is, I don't think registration starts until 8 a.m! I'll prolly go back to bed after this.

Speaking of nursing school, last week I had a bit of a set back. In all my clinical classes we are required to take and pass a dosage calculation exam for that level..... I am not one to make up excuses but math is one of things I am not good in at all. My problem is not working the problem out, it's recalling the correct formula to use (and no they don't give us a formula sheet, we must remember all the formulas by memory)  So I take my exam, and I didn't pass. They give us one more time to retake it and if we do not make the passing grade, then we get dropped from the course. Well, I retook it last week and.....I missed it by one question. FML. I was so frustrated with myself when my teacher showed me the test! Tried to be strong and show as less emotion as possible but the more I stared at my test the more my eyes watered.......As far as I know, I have been dropped from my clinical class which means that I will have to repeat it in the spring; which puts me behind my class....which means that I may not be able to graduate on time. I'm okay with it now, it just sucks that I have to repeat it because of a math exam not because I didn't do the work... 

That's life for ya.

All I can do is focus on what I'm left to deal with which is my lecture class........ and keep my chin up.

I'm SO over the salon experience.

I have just decided that I will no longer visit a salon......

I had only been going now to get relaxers but after this last visit, if I EVER want to reach any of my goals I'm going to need to start doing my own relaxers as well. Why is it so hard for beauticians to understand that you don't need a damn trim every time you get a relaxer???? That hair strands naturally grows at uneven lengths and therefore is not going to be as even from the last time you cut it? ::sigh::  I mean the stylist had just given me a really good trim back in February, there was no need for the trim she gave me yesterday! I calmly asked her what she was doing cause my ends were in good shape and she replied "Oh I'm just getting the strays" I look down at the apron I had on and I saw ALOT of little pieces of hair that were maybe a 1/2 inch long..... I should've just told her to stop cause there went all the new growth I had over the course of my stretch!

I wanted to try and catch APL by the end of the summer..... that dream is dimly lit as of now. The reason why I hadn't thought of relaxing/trimming my hair myself (cause everything else I do already) is because I've always been a little worried about under processing the back. At this point though like I stated before if I want to reach ANY of my goals before the year is out, I need to take all matters into my own hands! As far as trimming goes.....I'll try and figure something out; but for now I must keep my ends in good shape to avoid them.

Well here are the relaxer pics

May relaxer

Feb. relaxer

Right side

Left side. STILL a work in progress

I'm going to start looking at relaxer application how-to's on Youtube.
 Have you ever had an experience like this? 

We kinda almost had a puppy....???

Every since I got out of school for the holiday break, I've been throwing hints that I wanted a dog..... I mean BIG hints. At first I would hear a solid "NO". Then it slowly changed to "maybe after we buy a house," or "we don't have enough room for one right now." Finally I wore the ole boy down and he said I could get one....I was ecstatic! I was all over craigslist looking for puppies [and tryna weed out scammers].....

I found the CUTEST 3mth old Chi/weenie mix that this girl was selling cause she claimed not to have enough time for him. I had her send me lots of pics and even a video of the pup and I asked tons of questions, she even told me that he had his rabies shot recently..... he was too.freekin.adorable. We arranged for me to come pick him up from her house this past Monday after my interview, and I just knew this would be the start of something great.....

NOT EXACTLY.

To make a super long story short, I ended up dropping over $200 on him for shots [that he was SUPPOSED to have when he was around 4-6wks!!] food, toys, doggie kennel, de-worm medication [ cause he had  tapeworms too] and other ish in like 2 days cause she didn't give me anything that she had for him and failed to mention that he had NO shot records! Plus he wasn't even house broken, which means I was stuck trying to house train this pup on short notice... needless to say, I was more than overwhelmed, quickly realized my mistake....and wanted to give him back.

Lewis was NOT happy with that decision... at all. He told me that it was I that "BEGGED AND BEGGED for this damn dog, now you don't want him?" Hey give me some credit! At least I recognized early on that I couldn't take care of him like I wanted to and was tryna nip the situation in the bud before is was too late, right?


::yea, like paying a $300 pet deposit too late::

I guess he wanted me to "learn a lesson" by trying to force me to keep the dog...... but I'm not 12. And you can't make me keep anything that I bought with MY money. And I have the right to change my mind! After all, it was MY decision? Lewis was tripping.

Lucky for me, the girl hadn't stop texting me about the puppy since he left her yard. And the day I was on the fence about giving him back, she sent me this 4 page text message saying how she didn't realize she would miss him so much, so if it didn't work out or anything else just let her know cause she would GLADLY take her puppy back; and pay what I spent on him already.

BINGO BANGO.
 I called homegirl up and told her that if she could at least give me what I paid for him, the price of his shots and the doggie kennel back.... then she could come pick him up. She agreed and came and got him Thursday afternoon. He was EXTRA happy to see her, and it was like I never existed in his eyes :(  I was a lil sad to see him go, although he was a handful I had gotten a teeny bit attached. A few tears slid down my face when they left.... hate goodbyes...... BUT I know I made the best decision for me in the long run.

 Lewis will prolly be upset at what I did for a while and even said not to ask him for another one.... For a VERY long time. Blah. It's all good though.

I decided to get him a "Pain killer." Chrissy from "Love and Hip hop" describes a pain killer as something you get yourself when you can't have what you want.... or in my case trying to smooth over a situation lol

I'm going to get him a gift certificate to a spa so he can get a massage and his feet rubbed on.... I know he'll appreciate that :)

Sorry if this was super long, I can get carried away at times :-/