Glamour Shot

Like I said in an earlier post...I have gotten better aquainted with my cat since I've been home. Mostly, this involves him running around like crazy, and then plopping down next to me for a tiny nap. I heart him!

Anyway, just so you can enjoy his supreme cuteness, I've included a recent picture of the little (OK, not little - he is well over 12 pounds) bugger. Here is a "glamor shot"of him that M and I took one afternoon...


Yeah. He's a hottie. =) He had been rolling around in some of M's shirts that we were attempting to iron - and we wonder why there is always cat hair everywhere. Although my friend says I anthropomorphize him WAY too much, I DO think he knows when I am happy, excited, depressed or anxious... and he is always up for a snuggle. Yay cats!

ABC's - 'Cause It's All Over Facebook...

A
- Available: nope
- Age: 25
- Annoyance: racism
- Animal: Deacon!!!

B
- Beer: Red Oak
- Birthday: 12/03
- Best Friend: friendS is more like it...
- Body Part on opposite sex: back
- Best feeling in the world: falling asleep in bed
- Blind or Deaf: would I rather be??? Deaf
- Best weather: fall
- Been on stage?: Choir, chorus, drama - I was Mary!
- Believe in Magic: yesh
- Believe in Santa: yesh!

C
- Candy: Sour Patch Kids
- Color: blue
- Chocolate/Vanilla: chocolate
- Chinese/Mexican Food: Mexican
- Cake or pie: I LOVE PIE
- Continent to visit: Europe...again

D
- Day or Night: night
- Dancing in the rain: Depends on the partner

E
- Eyes: Greenish
- Everyone's got: A soul
- Ever failed a class?: sorta...I begged for a passing grade in Organic Chem II

F
- First thoughts waking up: I hate my alarm clock
- Food: ANY

G
- Greatest Fear: bugs
- Goals: nursing, motherhood, traveling, money...
- Gum: I heart gum
- Get along with your parents?: yesh

H
- Hair Color: brown
- Height: 5'2.5''
- Happy: sometimes
- Holiday: Thanksgiving
- How do you want to die: in my sleep...when I'm 109 and M is 112

I
- Ice Cream: Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk. Or Raspberry Sherbet.
- Instrument: I wish I could play the piano

J
- Jewelry: wedding rings, watch and earrings
- Job: waitress and perpetual student

K
- Kids: not yet
- Kickboxing or karate: karate
- Keep a journal?: sporadically

L
- Love: my husband
- Letter: The letter D?
- Laughed so hard you cried: only with Sarah

M
- Milk flavor: skim!
- Movies: anything but scary
- Motion sickness?: on spinning rides
- McD’s or BK: mcd's
-Music: anything but trance...hahaha j/k Nan

N
- Number: 9
- Noodles: Any and all

O
- One wish: Dad's health
- Octopus: has umm 8 legs? And is creepy?

P
- Pepsi/Coke: coke
- Perfect Pizza: Soooo many types and combos
- Piercings: 2 in each ear

Q
- Quail: is tasty?

R
- Reason to cry: there are so many
- Reality TV: hate hate HATE
- Regrets: not many
- Radio Station: anything that is actually playing MUSIC - i hate morning shows and commercials
- Ring size: huge - 6.5...or was it 5.5? IDK...tiny.

S
- Song: Circus
- Salad Dressing: balsamic vin
- Sushi: yummmmmmm
- Skinny dipped?: nope
- Strawberries/Blueberries: Both please...with cool whip

T
- Tattoos?: i wish
- Time for bed: way too late
- Thunderstorms: love them so much

U
- Unpredictable: try to be...but not really
- Vacation spot(s): beach, mountains, far far away...I'm not picky

W
- Weakness: sweets and the internet
- Wine: Drinking it right now
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: Ummm several do in different ways...Sarah, Megan, Bethany and Katie - you know!
- Worst feeling: disappointment over a ruined plan
- Wanted to be a model: yesh - it's that cindy crawford mole, dang it!
- Worst Weather?: hot and humid...UGH.

X
- X-Rays: mouth, right knee, chest, abdomen

Y
-Year it is now: 2009
-Yellow: sunshine

Z
- Zoo animal: lion!

Reading While Unemployed

Just a small note - I read four books in the first three weeks of January (when I had a job)... and I haven't finished one since I lost the job.

I'm working on a thick one...but haven't finished. It's just odd.

Ring in the New Year

Umm hi. Happy Thanksgiving! Oh, and Merry Christmas!! And BTW, HAPPY 2009!

Yeah I'm a bit behind. It seems that my last post came in OCTOBER - which is nutty, and inexcusable. But oh well. I had gotten a little over the whole blogging thing - school was a joke, my job was in a HUGE rut and I seemed to be endlessly waiting about nursing school. So I stopped writing! I kinda thought I had nothing to say.

However, 2009 has been very...exciting, to say the least. Three weeks ago, I went to my Microbiology Lab, knowing that my letter from Nursing School was sitting at home. I had to wait three hours before I could go home and open it -> and I got in!!! I was soooo excited that I finally reached that initial goal of just getting in. It is so hard to get in these days...and I could feel a downward spiral coming if I hadn't - work was blah and I was tired of these pre-req classes.

That weekend, I visited Philly (during that ARCTIC BLAST weekend) with my bestie to see another bestie. It was a crazy crazy weekend, and super cold. Umm, and that next Wednesday at work - I was laid off! Talk about craziness. I got a severance package, which rocked...but suddenly I was staring down endless days with nothing to do.

I cleaned the apartment hardcore, I reacquainted myself with the cat. I grocery shopped and cooked and went to the YMCA with all the soccer moms and retirees. I also felt really lame. Yeah I "had a plan" (nursing school in MAY)...but I didn't want to think about that plan because it's new concreteness was scary. And there was still going to be two months between the severance ending and school beginning.

That brought up another point. I had been thinking and talking about Nursing School for a little more than a year now...and always knew that I would probably have to re-enter the service industry in order to work part time while I was at school. But actually doing that...not having a real paycheck and only bringing home tips? Scary. Everything felt big and bad and grown up.

No me gusta.

Well, I'll give you an update on me trying to grow up and that whole service industry thing soon, but not now. I've written enough for today! And, my cat is acting insane. Again.

Toodleloo!
-Dani (yes, yes, yes...it's DANI, not Doris. That name was for the whole "blogging at work" thing that I was doing on the sly...)

=)