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...

Baking Lesson Learned, 126 miles in a day, & Love at the Olive Garden!!

What is going on my blogger friends??  I've been a busy beaver these last couple of days so I'll just recap the highlights for you.

Thursday the most exciting part of my day was making a Chocolate Peanut Butter Bunt Cake.  It tasted FANTASTIC but didn't look quite as good as it did when Holly made it (check out her cake here).  I had asked my mom the night before when I was planning to make the cake how I got the cake out of the bunt pan.  She said to take it out of the oven and turn it over on a plate or something right away so that's what I did.  My cake turned out rather flat, almost brownie like instead of high.  When my mom saw it she asked what I did.  I assumed it was because I was caught up in the TV show I was watching and forgot to take the bunt pan off of the cake.  But after talking with my grandma, who is an awesome baker, it turns out my cake my have fell flat because I turned it upside down too soon.  According to my grandma I should have let the cake sit upright for about 10 minutes for it to set up and then flip the pan over on a plate or something, leave it sit for about 5 minutes or however long for the cake to fall from the pan.  Like I said, the cake still tasted really really good so it wasn't a complete fail, just a presentation fail.  Oh well, lesson learned for the next time I attempt to make it :)

Thursday when I was walking out of school to my car my aunt texted me asking if I wanted to go snowmobiling the next day if she could still get off of work.  I told her I would and I would be inviting my dad who also didn't have to work.  So Friday my dad, aunt, and I went on a 126 mile round trip ride.  We left our house, which is only a 1 & 1/4 miles from my grandparents' where my aunt still lives, and rode to Tomahawk (about 45 minutes by car) for lunch at Freddy's Pub & Grill.  Freddy's is a mexican place with amazing food.  I had a shredded chicken chimi (yum yum yummy!).  After eating we hit the trails again heading home, stopping once to use the bathroom (after eating & drinking you always have to go more on the way home lol) and again to put gas in.  We had started our trip around 12:30pm and were home around 7pm.  Overall it was a great day for riding, trails were awesome and the weather was great.

Saturday I had planned on working on homework all day so I could enjoy going out for lunch and shopping on Sunday without that voice in the back of my head reminding me about a bunch of homework that needed to get done.  But plans changed, my mom was no longer needed at a church function that evening so my grandma, mom and I ended up going to town to do some grocery shopping at Sam's Club and eat lunch.  We had lunch at Olive Garden, which I had only eaten at one time before and didn't like.  I decided to stay away from spaghetti or lasagna as that was what I remembered having tried the first time many years ago and not liking.  My grandma makes both so I think I'm biased as to what would taste good to me.  I had the Grilled Shrimp Caprese and fell in love!  Here's what their menu says: "Grilled marinated shrimp served over angel hair pasta with melted mozzarella, fresh basil and tomatoes in a garlic-butter sauce."  I could have done without the tomatoes as I didn't eat them anyways but I know now for next time, and there will definitely be a next time :)

And now today has been homework day, nothing exciting.

How was your weekend?  Do anything for Valentine's Day or are you like me and think tomorrow is just another day?

I'm going to leave you with a video from the 2010 CMA Awards of Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson performing one of my favorite songs from Jason's most recent album My Kinda Party.  This was also the best performance of the night if you ask me.  The song is "Don't You Wanna Stay", enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqmjDrecgzA&feature=fvst