Noelle’s Neighborhood

As of 10:30am Friday morning, I am completely done with my undergraduate degree!  It hasn't fully set in yet, but I'm still excited!  I can spend the entire weekend doing whatever I want... without having to worry about any school work :D.  So... what have I done with my first complete day of freedom?  I cleaned and did laundry, lol.  I cleaned out my car, washed the kitchen, bathroom, cleaned and dusted my bed room... Strange as it sounds, I've actually been looking forward to cleaning this weekend. I haven't had time to thoroughly clean anything in weeks.  Less than an hour after cleaning my bedroom, I accidentally flung BBQ sauce all over my desk and bedroom carpet :(.  For a minute there I felt like my ex-roommate who lost most of our deposit by destroying her bedroom carpet with beer, pop, juice, gum, and dirty shoes.  She's also tried to decorate the entire main floor of the apartment with ground beef. Erm, gross.  Anyway... Matt and I are going to Tiara's for a hot tub party later tonight to celebrate finishing classes :)

In other news... I ended up spending a few hours in the emergency room on Wednesday because of severe lower abdominal pain.  It pretty much came out of nowhere.  I couldn't stand up straight, I threw up, and had stabbing pains in other areas as well.  The nurses thought it was either my appendix, an ovarian cyst, or a kidney stone.  I had a CAT scan after a nurse killed my vein with an IV.  I wouldn't look while she was putting the IV, but apparently I was bleeding all over and I ended up turning green :-P.  The abdominal pain stopped as suddenly as it started.  The CAT scan came back normal, so the appendix was ruled out... they're thinking it might've been a cyst, but there wasn't any fluid.  I'm pretty sure they ended up thinking it was most likely a kidney stone that I passed before the CAT scan.  Either way, it was very unpleasant.  I have a massive, multicolored bruise on my arm from the IV, and the right side of my abs seems a bit sore every once in awhile, but things have pretty much calmed down.  I scheduled a follow up doctor appointment for Monday. Hopefully they'll be able to tell me that everything is normal.  Thanks to Noelle for taking care of me :)

The past few weeks have been quite eventful.  I have more to write regarding my job search, but this post is getting long so I'll wait.

oh senioritis... thank you for not delivering your most debilitating blow until the last week of classes.  I want to watch a movie, or go for a walk or a bike ride, or go out to dinner, be with boyfriend, walk around the mall, sit and stare at a wall... anything but write this History paper on the Industrial Revolution.  So dull.  ugh.

Pictures of Red Bull's office: http://www.designverb.com/2006/08/22/red-bull-hq-london-whoohoooo/.  *wants to work there*

I feel like dancing :) Contributing factors include: caffeine, gorgeous weather, and the fact that I'm almost finished with college!!!!

That was ten minutes ago... when I was outside.  Now I'm sitting in the library searching for motivation to write my second to last paper of my undergraduate career.  And I'm boredboredboredbored.  Who cares about the Industrial Revolution anyway? :-\.  Maybe I'd have more luck working on this outside :-P.

Only four more days of class and sixteen days until official graduation!!

I had a great birthday weekend :)  It started out going to the Happy Greek for Matt and my three month anniversary.  After dinner, we walked around the park for a bit during the end of what we found to be an Earth Day festival.  Next came a birthday celebration with a few friends at Dave and Busters.

My Dad came to visit on Saturday, and we went to Cap City with my aunt, uncle, second cousin, and Matt.  The food was delicious, and I had the biggest, most decedent piece of chocolate cake... ever.  I couldn't even eat 1/4 of a piece, and I'm the girl who eats entire pints (or so, haha) of ice cream in one sitting. mmmm, ice creaam :D

Here are some oh-so exciting pictures of from Dave and Busters :)

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Deal for 420 tickets! :D

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And... Matt's favorite picture... thinks it's hilarious XP

We won 800-some tickets, and ended up taking home... a bunch of cups, hahahaha.  It was too crowded to properly inspect all of the prizes.

I got about $120 for my birthday so far :)

And...

Blueberry decided to boycott her litter box yesterday.  She pottied twice outside of the litter box and hasn't gone at all since.  Luckily both times were easy to clean up and, surprisingly, it didn't smell...  After talking to Noelle and calling the vet, I discovered that she may have a UTI or some other type of infection.  I spent about $32 on a temporary litter box, litter, a kitty bed, and moist cat food yesterday so I could keep her in the bathroom while I'm asleep or not home so she can't use the carpeted floor as a litter box.  I took kitty to the vet this afternoon.  They're going to do a urine test, but Blueberry has to go to the bathroom first.  Apparently there wasn't anything in her bladder, so I was sent home with a "collection kit".  Hopefully she'll go by tomorrow evening, or something really serious could be wrong, she'll have to stay overnight at the vet and possibly get blood work.  :(

So... Vet bill, after $30 first time customer coupon, was $70.  $70 + 32 = $102... so far.  There went my birthday money :-P.  Oh well... at least I had some money.  If it weren't for birthday money and the $100 sent by my sister for graduation, I'd be at -$104 after this month's bills :-\.  Can't wait to graduate and find a career job!!! :-P

I'm thinking of taking a picture of myself every day for a year to see if/how I change throughout the year.  I can't decide if I want to do all head shots, or full body, or a combination.  If I did the same pose in all of them, I could set up some kind of animated image to string them together and see my self morph from April 27th 2008 me to April 27, 2009 me.  Sounds like a fun project. I also think it's a great time to start since it's my birthday. Inspired by this (and no, I don't expect my head to become square :-p...).  Yeah... I get bored a lot.

It's almost 9pm and I have a paper several papers to be writing.  I'm sitting here playing with my camera and thinking about how I should start making ice cubes instead, lol.

And playing with maps.live.com.  <3 the house I grew up in :)

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I've started walking around my apartment complex since the weather has been nice and I haven't had time for a trip to the park.  IThere's actually a pretty nice yard in the back.  While walking through the yard today, I noticed a footpath leading into the woods.  The path led to a beach!  It's small, consists of stones and shells, lines a river, and wouldn't be good for sunbathing, but it's still pretty.  lol, I'm excited!  I'm planning on exploring more of the woods behind the complex when I'm not in nice clothes, flip flops, and don't have papers to write :-P 

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I grew up surrounded by woods, and I really miss them.  My sister, friends, and I used to explore and get lost in them for hours as a kid.  There was a creek in the woods and as long as we could see it, we could go exploring for miles and still find our way to somewhere familiar.  The creek was in the middle of a large ravine, and we had a ton of fun tying super-long dog leashes around trees at the top and repelling down, climbing up the ravine's walls.  My aunt lives in the house I grew up in.  I want to pack some food and spend a day exploring again.  My sister discovered this awesome area with large, flat stones that made up a small lake and had miniature waterfalls.  It was an hour or so into the woods and I haven't been back there for years, but I want to find it again.  It was so beautiful :)

I keep coming upon addicting things that are distracting me from paper writing.  The latest is the multi-player speed typing game, Type Racer.  Each player has a little car that advances along a dotted line.  The faster the player types, the faster the car goes.  Players compete to see who can type a random movie quote the fastest.

Matt: i'm engulfed in the typing
Me: I know! I wanna be speed typing, not paper writing :(
Matt: Saturday!
Matt: maybe we'll skip dinner and just do speed typing :p

Such dorks, hehe :-D

Vox is also distracting.  Back to the paper!

Blueberry has been cuddling with my stuffed animals lately.  It's adorable :)

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I'm hoping to survive the next two weeks of my life, which look like this:

Tomorrow: University assembly/survey thing and meeting during work.  I might take some time off in between my meeting and the assembly to work on my psychology paper and interview material.
Saturday: Watching little cousin's black belt test in the morning; Dinner with Matt for 3 month anniversary, then Dave and Busters for birthday in the evening
Sunday: Dad visiting/hanging out with family for birthday afternoon/evening
Tuesday: Psychology Paper due, meeting after class
Wednesday: Job interview requiring of prep writing/forms
Thursday: Psychology test
Friday: History paper due
 
Saturday: Mom visiting for birthday
Sunday: Senior Science majors picnic
Monday: Driving home (2 hrs) after work
Tuesday: Job Interview; driving back to Columbus
Thursday: CIS paper due
Some unknown day that week: CIS final

At least these are my last two weeks of classes/exams before I graduate from college :D.  I'm stoked.

Go to: http://maps.live.com

Type in an address and hit "Search Maps"

Select "Bird's eye" from the menu on the map

Zoom in all the way.

I have to admit that this is pretty intriguing, but does anyone else find it slightly creepy and a bit of an invasion of privacy?