Remember my Fight Like a Girl post from back in March? Well, my grandma fought hard but Monday her time came. Both of my parents left work to be with the other siblings at my grandma's home while I continued working and then went to my fitness for life class.
Tuesday everyone went on with their days as normal - my mom and dad went to work, I stayed home and did nothing productive, and my brother was either at work or out with friends.
Wednesday my mom rode with me to work so she could work a half day and I would pick her up after I completed my workout for fitness for life. Visitation was from 6 to 8 with a prayer type thing afterwards for the family. It was a long night of people I didn't really know other than by name talking to me. After things at the funeral home were finished most of the siblings and some of their families headed to Wausau Mine Co. for some food. Thankfully, I wasn't too hungry (until we got there and my brain told my stomach it was time to eat) thanks to a small twist cone I had prior to arriving at the funeral home.
Soft-serve ice-cream was not a random treat. My grandma always told the grandchildren that we could stop for ice-cream so she wouldn't get osteoporosis. It is the most vivid memory I have of my grandma - we had walked from her house to the library to borrow books and on our way back we stopped for ice-cream. Of course if you know my dad (which I'm sure most of you don't haha!) it didn't take much for me to get him to make the stop for the ice-cream - it's very rare that he doesn't have some for dessert.
Thursday was going to be a long day so as soon as I got home I hit the hay.
Thursday morning there was more viewing time before the church service. There were still a lot of people who showed up to pay their respects to my grandma and offer their sympathies to her children (or whoever they knew in the family) but there were less people there who were interested in talking to me - which was really fine by me. The final viewing was followed by an hour long church service and then a lunch of scalloped potatoes and ham, fruit salad, chips, and desserts.
It was a chilly windy day so everyone was bundled up when we went to the cemetery for the burial. Once our group was gathered around the tent it really wasn't too bad.
Afterwards I was dropped off at my car which I had left at the church so I could go to class to take my fourth and final test. Had I done better on the previous test I wouldn't have had to take the fourth one but it's ok, it all worked out in the end. I ended the class with a B - solid and good enough for me.
If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen me tweeting about the cherry on top of those two days being that I was sick. Yup, I was lucky enough to be blessed with a cold and those two days (Wednesday & Thursday) were the worst, even with medication.
But this last week is in the past now - my cold seems to be pretty much cleared up and my grandma is in a better place so it is time to move on and tackle a new class and push forward with my other three classes.
No questions for you today. Hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend and is well rested and ready to tackle Monday tomorrow!
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Fight Like A Girl
Good afternoon! I hope you are all doing well.
If you follow me on Twitter you know that I went snowmobiling with my daddy-o for the last time this season. It turned out to be quite the interesting ride when my dad's snowmobile broke. While it could still run and move finishing the ride with it would have been a bad idea. We left his sled in the yard of someone who lives right on the trail. Don't worry we know the family, but even if we didn't when someone lets the snowmobile trail go right through their yard it is a pretty safe bet that they won't get too excited about a strange snowmobile sitting in their yard. Daddy-o and I finished our ride by riding double on my brother's snowmobile, which I had been driving. It was like revisiting the old days because my dad and I used to ride together all the time before I could drive/we had enough snowmobiles for everyone to drive. Being 20 made things quite a bit different, as in I barely fit on the seat behind my dad. But we did it, we went to a bar for lunch as planned and then rode together the whole way home. After getting home we hooked the trailer to our truck and picked up our sled.
By this time the people who owned the house were home and their son came out to visit. Come to find out his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer the week before. It was rather eerie because my family had just found out the day before (Thursday) that my grandma (dad's mom) was diagnosed with breast cancer as well. More specifically, my grandma has two different types of breast cancer, one in each breast. This brings to the title of my blog. Fight Like A Girl is a song by Bomshel that was released in early 2009 that I love. One part of the song really touches me now that my grandma has been diagnosed with cancer. "Ten years of climbin' that ladder Oh, but money and power don't matter When the doctor said "the cancer spread" She holds on tight to her husband and babies And says "this is just another test God gave me. And I know just how to handle this" I'll hold my head high I'll never let this define The light in my eyes Love myself, give it Hell I’ll take on this world Yes, I'll stand and be strong No, I'll never give up I will conquer with love And I'll fight like Like a girl!" If I remember correctly this coming Monday my grandma will find out how they will be treating her cancer. Because of the two different types it makes treating it a bit difficult and this week has been about running more tests. It is definitely a scary thing to know that someone in my family has cancer.
Here is the song, enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96r2046qjE
Bomshel has many good songs. In particular I also like "19 and Crazy", "Just Fine", "Arizona", and "Just This Way". I of course think you should check them out! www.bomshel.com
Onto a lighter note now...
My parents and I went out for dinner at Phil's Round 2 with two other couples and our neighbor. One couple left shortly after dinner because they had brought their young daughter with them and she was ready to go home. The rest of us stayed at the bar having a good time. My parents and I were home by 12:40am while the other couple didn't get home until 2am, and they had a 35 minute drive! There was talk about doing it again at a different location. I had fun even if I was the youngest in the group so I will definitely be going again.
Unfortunately I woke up at 9am on Saturday feeling crummy. My nose was stuffed up and my head hurt. I don't know if it is possible for your ears to be "stuffed up" but that's what it felt like. Instead of doing homework, which wouldn't you know it desperately needed to be done, I ended up barely moving from the couch that day and the next. I ended up feeling pretty crummy until last night (Wednesday). I hate colds, they make doing not so fun things like homework very difficult to do. I somehow managed to get things done on time even if it was at the very last-minute.
Tuesday I took a final exam for my marketing class. I am now holding my breath waiting for the grade. Send positive vibes my way!
On an awesome note I met with my adviser at school this morning and right before leaving I found out that as long as there are no major glitches I will be graduating in three semesters!! YAYAY! :-D I am excited...but at the same time it makes me a little nervous. My mom does not want me working at my current place of employment as a long-term career so graduating means I would soon be starting a job search. And another thing to be nervous excited about would be the apartment search. Being done with college and having a full-time job would mean it is time for me to spread my wings and fly out of the nest. While that will be exciting, definitely exciting, it makes me nervous. To be honest I didn't think I would be moving out into an apartment alone. Prior to the breakup I went through in October I thought whenever I moved out it would be with the guy. But enough about the past, I just have to look to the future and deal with things as they come.
It is now time to put my brain to work. While I am technically on spring break (since Wednesday at 12am) I have assignments that will be due after break and two upcoming exams that I need to prepare for so I want to get a jump on working on that stuff instead of putting it off to the last-minute. While I did really well on my first exam in my organizational behavior class I wouldn't mind doing better. And I didn't do as well as I would have liked on my first exam in history of rock and roll so I definitely want to and need to do better.
Now that I am recovered from my cold I will get back to blogging on a regular basis, no worries! ;)
Questions for you...
Do you have a song that always seems to bring your emotions out, possibly making you cry, whenever you listen to it?
"Fight Like A Girl" is definitely that song for me. Depending on the mood I'm already in it is possible that tears will come to my eyes. But on the other hand it also makes me feel tough, especially the line "kick a$$ and take names".
How do you study if you're currently in college, or if you've graduated how did you study?
I have honestly never been one to study. I have tried but it usually is just reading over notes and trying to memorize as much as I can. I could use your help people!
Until next time...
If you follow me on Twitter you know that I went snowmobiling with my daddy-o for the last time this season. It turned out to be quite the interesting ride when my dad's snowmobile broke. While it could still run and move finishing the ride with it would have been a bad idea. We left his sled in the yard of someone who lives right on the trail. Don't worry we know the family, but even if we didn't when someone lets the snowmobile trail go right through their yard it is a pretty safe bet that they won't get too excited about a strange snowmobile sitting in their yard. Daddy-o and I finished our ride by riding double on my brother's snowmobile, which I had been driving. It was like revisiting the old days because my dad and I used to ride together all the time before I could drive/we had enough snowmobiles for everyone to drive. Being 20 made things quite a bit different, as in I barely fit on the seat behind my dad. But we did it, we went to a bar for lunch as planned and then rode together the whole way home. After getting home we hooked the trailer to our truck and picked up our sled.
By this time the people who owned the house were home and their son came out to visit. Come to find out his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer the week before. It was rather eerie because my family had just found out the day before (Thursday) that my grandma (dad's mom) was diagnosed with breast cancer as well. More specifically, my grandma has two different types of breast cancer, one in each breast. This brings to the title of my blog. Fight Like A Girl is a song by Bomshel that was released in early 2009 that I love. One part of the song really touches me now that my grandma has been diagnosed with cancer. "Ten years of climbin' that ladder Oh, but money and power don't matter When the doctor said "the cancer spread" She holds on tight to her husband and babies And says "this is just another test God gave me. And I know just how to handle this" I'll hold my head high I'll never let this define The light in my eyes Love myself, give it Hell I’ll take on this world Yes, I'll stand and be strong No, I'll never give up I will conquer with love And I'll fight like Like a girl!" If I remember correctly this coming Monday my grandma will find out how they will be treating her cancer. Because of the two different types it makes treating it a bit difficult and this week has been about running more tests. It is definitely a scary thing to know that someone in my family has cancer.
Here is the song, enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96r2046qjE
Bomshel has many good songs. In particular I also like "19 and Crazy", "Just Fine", "Arizona", and "Just This Way". I of course think you should check them out! www.bomshel.com
Onto a lighter note now...
My parents and I went out for dinner at Phil's Round 2 with two other couples and our neighbor. One couple left shortly after dinner because they had brought their young daughter with them and she was ready to go home. The rest of us stayed at the bar having a good time. My parents and I were home by 12:40am while the other couple didn't get home until 2am, and they had a 35 minute drive! There was talk about doing it again at a different location. I had fun even if I was the youngest in the group so I will definitely be going again.
Unfortunately I woke up at 9am on Saturday feeling crummy. My nose was stuffed up and my head hurt. I don't know if it is possible for your ears to be "stuffed up" but that's what it felt like. Instead of doing homework, which wouldn't you know it desperately needed to be done, I ended up barely moving from the couch that day and the next. I ended up feeling pretty crummy until last night (Wednesday). I hate colds, they make doing not so fun things like homework very difficult to do. I somehow managed to get things done on time even if it was at the very last-minute.
Tuesday I took a final exam for my marketing class. I am now holding my breath waiting for the grade. Send positive vibes my way!
On an awesome note I met with my adviser at school this morning and right before leaving I found out that as long as there are no major glitches I will be graduating in three semesters!! YAYAY! :-D I am excited...but at the same time it makes me a little nervous. My mom does not want me working at my current place of employment as a long-term career so graduating means I would soon be starting a job search. And another thing to be nervous excited about would be the apartment search. Being done with college and having a full-time job would mean it is time for me to spread my wings and fly out of the nest. While that will be exciting, definitely exciting, it makes me nervous. To be honest I didn't think I would be moving out into an apartment alone. Prior to the breakup I went through in October I thought whenever I moved out it would be with the guy. But enough about the past, I just have to look to the future and deal with things as they come.
It is now time to put my brain to work. While I am technically on spring break (since Wednesday at 12am) I have assignments that will be due after break and two upcoming exams that I need to prepare for so I want to get a jump on working on that stuff instead of putting it off to the last-minute. While I did really well on my first exam in my organizational behavior class I wouldn't mind doing better. And I didn't do as well as I would have liked on my first exam in history of rock and roll so I definitely want to and need to do better.
Now that I am recovered from my cold I will get back to blogging on a regular basis, no worries! ;)
Questions for you...
Do you have a song that always seems to bring your emotions out, possibly making you cry, whenever you listen to it?
"Fight Like A Girl" is definitely that song for me. Depending on the mood I'm already in it is possible that tears will come to my eyes. But on the other hand it also makes me feel tough, especially the line "kick a$$ and take names".
How do you study if you're currently in college, or if you've graduated how did you study?
I have honestly never been one to study. I have tried but it usually is just reading over notes and trying to memorize as much as I can. I could use your help people!
Until next time...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Our Love Is Just This Way
*Title is from the song Just This Way by Bomshel* (I couldn't think of a title, it has nothing to do with this post hehe)
Happy Tuesday peeps! Hope you are all have a terrific day so far!
My day started off pretty early (6:30am) because getting my pro/con speech done yesterday after work did not go as planned. Let's just say that a little 5 minute speech took me forever to prepare. Just another reason to not procrastinate! It didn't help that after being hard at work for roughly four hours I was just not in the mood to continue working so I got distracted by the TV. I haven't watched the Bachelor all season but I decided I wanted to watch the Women Tell All episode just so I didn't have to keep working on that speech. At 7:30 I went to my aunt and uncle's for dinner. My aunt made shrimp scampi (never had it home-made before) and it was AMAZING! Definitely will be trying that out on my own soon. I ended up hanging out with them after dinner until after 9 because I was watching TV with them, yet again another reason to not have to be working on my speech. When I finally did go home I decided I just wasn't in the mood, I'll finish it in the morning...even though it was due yesterday. I didn't think it would take that long to finish but I was wrong.
Like I said, I got up at 6:30am and I got right to work. I didn't post my speech until 10am, the very last person and only the second person to post on the 8th (the other person posted at 12:19am so I guess that doesn't really count). We'll see how my grade turns out by posting it a "day" late.
My speech was on the pros and cons of comprehensive sex education programs. I decided on this topic because sex education was (still is?) an issue in Wisconsin. I knew I would be able to find enough information about it to support both sides. Now if only I had started the research earlier. And as I write this I remembered I didn't include a bibliography in my outline. I am going to add that to it right now!
Ok now that I've got that take care of (yes I really went and did that before starting this new paragraph ;) ) Good thing I posted a blog and was writing about my speech or I wouldn't have figured it out for quite a while.
When I was finally done with my speech this morning I had to rush to get ready for school. It was my last day of marketing because our professor is going to be out-of-town on Thursday and next week Tuesday is our final. It is only an 8 week class so that's why it's almost done already. Other than it's a very fast paced class I didn't mind it. I have another 8 week class starting after spring break, hopefully that one goes just as smoothly as this one did. I took a fourth exam today so I'm crossing my fingers that I didn't bomb it like I did on my last one. Well I just checked, a 61/100 but our professor is adding 10 points to our grade so that means I got a 71/100. Not as bad as my last exam score but not great either :( Oh well, it's in the past now and all I can do is move forward and study hard for the final so I do well on it.
And you're probably sick of reading about my school work by now so I'll wrap this up. I'm going to start the process of evaluating other students' speeches so I don't do that last-minute as well ;) Maybe freshen up my nails as well, they're chipped and look pretty bad right now, toes included.
Here are some pictures for your view pleasure :)
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[caption id="attachment_72" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Love my Chevy Racing travel mug :)"]
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[caption id="attachment_73" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="But surprise there's no coffee in it, just OJ! (I don't like coffee :( )"]
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Questions...
Do you enjoy coffee?
I don't unfortunately. I love the idea of coffee though!
Are you a procrastinator? Do you feel like you do your best work at the last-minute?
I am definitely a procrastinator (obvs) and I don't think I do my best work at the last-minute. I always pull through with a decent, if not good grade, but I'm sure I could do better if I wasn't rushed at the last-minute to get the assignment done.
Until next time.... =)</span
Happy Tuesday peeps! Hope you are all have a terrific day so far!
My day started off pretty early (6:30am) because getting my pro/con speech done yesterday after work did not go as planned. Let's just say that a little 5 minute speech took me forever to prepare. Just another reason to not procrastinate! It didn't help that after being hard at work for roughly four hours I was just not in the mood to continue working so I got distracted by the TV. I haven't watched the Bachelor all season but I decided I wanted to watch the Women Tell All episode just so I didn't have to keep working on that speech. At 7:30 I went to my aunt and uncle's for dinner. My aunt made shrimp scampi (never had it home-made before) and it was AMAZING! Definitely will be trying that out on my own soon. I ended up hanging out with them after dinner until after 9 because I was watching TV with them, yet again another reason to not have to be working on my speech. When I finally did go home I decided I just wasn't in the mood, I'll finish it in the morning...even though it was due yesterday. I didn't think it would take that long to finish but I was wrong.
Like I said, I got up at 6:30am and I got right to work. I didn't post my speech until 10am, the very last person and only the second person to post on the 8th (the other person posted at 12:19am so I guess that doesn't really count). We'll see how my grade turns out by posting it a "day" late.
My speech was on the pros and cons of comprehensive sex education programs. I decided on this topic because sex education was (still is?) an issue in Wisconsin. I knew I would be able to find enough information about it to support both sides. Now if only I had started the research earlier. And as I write this I remembered I didn't include a bibliography in my outline. I am going to add that to it right now!
Ok now that I've got that take care of (yes I really went and did that before starting this new paragraph ;) ) Good thing I posted a blog and was writing about my speech or I wouldn't have figured it out for quite a while.
When I was finally done with my speech this morning I had to rush to get ready for school. It was my last day of marketing because our professor is going to be out-of-town on Thursday and next week Tuesday is our final. It is only an 8 week class so that's why it's almost done already. Other than it's a very fast paced class I didn't mind it. I have another 8 week class starting after spring break, hopefully that one goes just as smoothly as this one did. I took a fourth exam today so I'm crossing my fingers that I didn't bomb it like I did on my last one. Well I just checked, a 61/100 but our professor is adding 10 points to our grade so that means I got a 71/100. Not as bad as my last exam score but not great either :( Oh well, it's in the past now and all I can do is move forward and study hard for the final so I do well on it.
And you're probably sick of reading about my school work by now so I'll wrap this up. I'm going to start the process of evaluating other students' speeches so I don't do that last-minute as well ;) Maybe freshen up my nails as well, they're chipped and look pretty bad right now, toes included.
Here are some pictures for your view pleasure :)
[caption id="attachment_71" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Absolutely LOVE this lotion!"]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_72" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Love my Chevy Racing travel mug :)"]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_73" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="But surprise there's no coffee in it, just OJ! (I don't like coffee :( )"]
[/caption]Questions...
Do you enjoy coffee?
I don't unfortunately. I love the idea of coffee though!
Are you a procrastinator? Do you feel like you do your best work at the last-minute?
I am definitely a procrastinator (obvs) and I don't think I do my best work at the last-minute. I always pull through with a decent, if not good grade, but I'm sure I could do better if I wasn't rushed at the last-minute to get the assignment done.
Until next time.... =)</span
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