more about my week

well, last sunday was great, as usual. Leslie was actually out of town visiting andy (her boyfriend) in college station. It was nice to have the place to ourselves. Michael and i had some Lover's Eggroll (god, i love that place) and watched Vanilla Sky. I really enjoyed that movie. It was a very unique love story, allowed you to think. there was one part in the movie where the psychologist was talking and he said, i am just a psychologist and Michael yelled at the movie and said "social worker". It was exactly what i was thinking. Dating a social worker is so great. :)

You know, i really love how nice people on college campuses can be. i had to venture out beyond the social work building on tuesday. i attended a domestic violence fair for one of my classes, so i had to find the university center. Well, when i got to campus, i was walking around and i asked a girl if she knew where the university center was. this is often how i handle things when i get to campus, i never really know where i am going, but i stop and ask someone. Anyway, this girl was way nice. She said she would just walk me to the university center. So, we chatted it up on the way over there. It seems her name is megan and she is a sophomore architecture major. it was very cool to talk with her and it reaffirmed my faith in others and their kindness. :)

also, this week, Michael and I spent much time watching the spoof of the Matrix from the MTV movie awards. It is on the 2nd dvd of the matrix. it has justin timberlake, stifler, and will farell in it. It is so damn funny. I cant stop thinking about and reciting it. If you havent seen it, you definitley need to. I am definitley going to see the elf with will farell, he makes me laugh. This weekend, i think andy is going to bring the best of will farell with him for us to watch on sunday. :) all i have to say is "ergo, vis a vi, concordingly" and "mmmhhhhh, shut your mouth" and "you are bizzare". hehehehe. It is so funny.

well, my visit at work was cancelled today, so i am now at home just catching up on stuff and about to start researching for some papers i have to write in the next few weeks. the halloween party at work was way fun. I was wrapped with toilet paper as a mummy and we did some pumkin carving. Our team carved a vomiting pumkin and we won the contest, it was so gross, yet very funny. today was also payday, which is always a good thing. Well, i am off to enjoy the rest of my day off.

wow, where do i begin?

Well, things have been way crazy in my life this week. i spent about 7 hours in a car on monday for work driving between plano and fort worth and arlington in traffic. it was not fun, to say the least. so, i called in sick on tuesday morning since i would have had to drive to fort worth again and i just couldnt do it. :) so, as of today, i have decided to quit my current job and not work till next semester. I have some savings to live on and i think my sanity is more important than living a luxurious life. :) well, i just told my supervisor that i am quitting, i gave my two weeks today. she was sad, but also very understanding. Anyway, i am actually looking forward to not working for a few months. I dont think i have not worked since i was 16 years old. This is going to be great. I can focus on school and my internship for the next 6 weeks, then head off to lebanon and then when i get back, i can look for another parttime job to finish off my degree with. it all seems like a good plan to me. :)

on a really great note, i talked to my parents yesterday about this whole job thing and suprisingly, they were totally supportive. It actually really helped to talk it all out with them and know that they have my back if i ever need any help. they said things like "you have made good decsions in the past and we trust you to make more good decisions" and "you deserve some down time, you have been working so hard for the past few years" and all kinds of supportive shit that parents are supposed to say to their kids. It was so wonderful, it almost made me cry. :) i guess it seems that people really can change.

anyway, i am off to a halloween party at work and then off to grand prairie to pick up my favorite two kids. Nick's halloween party is tonight and deb's is tomorrow. saturday will include much researching for papers for school and then sunday will be another blissful day with michael. :) have a great halloween everyone.

Life is good :)

I sat on the couch for a bit tonight, caught up with my roommate, had an amazing conversation with Michael!!! With all the crappy things that have happened this week, this evening has made it all better. Life is good. :)

I am a genius!! :)

Ok, maybe I am not a genius, but i sure feel pretty damn good right now. Let me fill you all in. so, it is 9 in the pm on Saturday. You would think I should be out partying it up, but instead I spent the day attempting to complete a mid term for my domestic violence class. Basically, this midterm included answering three questions in no more than 5 pages each with at least 5 references per question. so, it doesnt sound too bad. well, I did a bit of research on wednesday, but i had planned to do most of the research and write the paper today. Well, i wake up this morning and take care of a bunch of stuff and get started researching at about noon. to my surprise, the UTA website is down. i cannot do any research from home if the UTA website is down. Now, this makes me unhappy, so i decide to run an errand hoping that when i return, the webpage will be up and running again. well, it is not working when i get back and i recieve a phone call from mom who tells me that UTA had a big fire yesterday. So, i call the library and it seems that they are closed till monday morning due to a power outage because of the fire. so, i think i am screwed. i do not have much time on monday to write a paper because i have to work. so, i proceed to write out the answer to one of the questions because i had the journal articles to complete that one. then, michael calls and we have a super conversation which lasts quite a while. Now, it is almost 6 and i prepare some dinner for myself and watch the 6:00 Friends episode. Then, i head back to my room to figure out how to handle this paper. Well, what i ended up doing is writing the first answer with the information i had, then i wrote the second one using some online websites as references and a few journal articles from a previous paper i had done. Then, (this is the most ingenious part of this whole scheme) I used part of a paper we did for this same class earlier in the semester. The only difference in the questions was that the first paper was about a victim of domestic violence and her symptoms and the one i had to write today was about a victim of domestic violence and homicide and her symptoms. Anyway, i used most of the paper and all the articles and added a bit of information about PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) from another paper i wrote for another class last semester and abracadabra (sp?) it is all done. How smart am I? I guess 6.5 years of undergraduate and graduate work does teach you a few things, especially about how to cut corners when needed. Now, let me be honest, if the UTA website was not down, i am certain i would have completed this midterm in the proper fashion and i would not have been creative enough to figure this little scheme out, but since the website was not working and i hate waiting till the last minute, i had to figure something out, right? :) Anyway, enough rambling for me. i am off to relax, the night is still young. Peace out.

maybe i am not a bad therapist after all :)

So, today was a pretty good day. I worked with several clients today at my internship and we had some pretty damn good sessions. One of the young guys i work with on a regular basis had some really insightful things to say. We are working in his decision making skills and some anger management stuff. It was such a good session and it was the first one of the day, so it increased my self confidence in my skills as a therapist and the rest of the day just got better. one downer for the day was that one of the kids i am working with went to jail yesterday and got suspended from school again today, so i have not been able to work with him on a regular basis. But, overall i am beginning to feel much more comfortable in my skills as a therapist. I am not good yet, but i feel much more at ease with the whole process, which is a great feeling.

Also, during my internship today, i spent some time talking with miriam (you should all know this by now, but she is the woman i do my internship with) today and she has had a history with guys very similar to mine. She meets one, gets her hopes up because they seem really great and then they turn out to be selfish jerks (her words :) anyway, we talked a lot about how she is feeling about this last guy that treated her like crap. i told her that i really admire her for being able to keep coming back for more. A few months ago, i had become very very cynical about guys. things always seemed to go wrong, it was getting harder and harder to continue seeing people that turned out to be not so good. Anyway, i really do admire her for her persistence with the dating scene. I know that there are plenty of women in the world that treat good guys like crap, but i dont hear a lot about that in my circle of friends. It always seems to be that some guy is hurting some girl i care about. It definitley makes me a bit angry to see so many amazing women being screwed over by the guys in their life. I also see it a lot at my internship. sometimes i feel like we have failed the young women of our society. Anyway, i could ramble on about this forever, so i think i am going to hop off my little soap box now. :)

Anyway, when i got home today, i slept from about 5-7:30. it was some good sleep, i was pooped, to say the least. I missed Friends and that sucked, but leslie told me all about it, so it worked out fine. I watched some tv, which i dont get to do very often anymore and now i am getting ready for bed. What a nice evening. :)

I also cancelled my netlix subscirption today. i am just so busy that i am not able to keep up with the movies. It doesnt seem worth it right now. I guess i will have to support that big blue corporate man (blockbuster) for a while longer until i have more time in my life. oh well, what is one to do. Anyway, i am off to the land of dreams. good night.

I am tired, but what is new :)

So, i am way tired right now, but what is new come Wednesday night in my life. :) Tuesday and Wednesday are such long days for me. yesterday started at 5:30 in the morning with several hours of driving for work and then i hung out with michael after class so i didnt get home till about 1 in the am. I had to pick up a boy in greenville so he could visit his parents. It was a tough day at work, the boy had bite marks all over his back and we are not quite sure how they got there. Anyway, i told the caseworker and hopefully she will take care of it. Onto happier thoughts. One of my classes yesterday was pretty cool. We had to make a creative project about what domestic violence means to us and we all shared those with the class. It was really great to see everybody's projects. it really hit home for several people in the class. Some students actually started crying, it was very moving.

anyway, my internship today went well. I feel like i had some good sessions with my regular clients. The drug group i help facilitate also went very well. :) there were a lot of insightful things shared today.

So, recently i have been questioning some of the things that have become second nature in my life. I know some of you might not know what i am talking about exactly, but i want to share these thoughts anyway. It is my blog!! :) anyway, there are some things in my life that are not perfect and i have just learned how to deal with and assimilate into my life in a way that they wont affect my daily activities and thoughts. But lately i have found this renewed sense of hope thanks to a good friend. I guess i am trying to weigh the costs and benefits of how i want to proceed. I could try and face this stuff head on, but i am sure that it will be very tough, but in the long run, it might make my life a lot less stressful. But, i need to decide if it is worth the hardship i would face right now or if it is just easier to deal with things the way they are. Also, there is no guarantee that things will change, so i could drudge up the past and deal with that and nothing positive might come of it. I am not sure, but i try and be optimisitic if i can and i am thinking that it might be better to deal with it now and hope that it will make the future for me a bit easier. I am not sure what i am going to do, but getting it out on paper (or computer if you will) always helps. Any advice would be much welcomed.

Well, for all of you that always heard me ranting and raving about how much stress and drama a man adds to my life, i dont take all of those sentiments back, but i think i have reworked those thoughts. Having Michael in my life seems to make it easier somehow. I am still crazy busy and my mind is always still going and going, but it all seems just a bit easier now. It is really wierd, i know for those of you that know me well, you never thought you would hear me say such things. I am still super independent and self sufficient, dont worry about that. It all just seems easier now. Very different kind of feeling for me, but i like it. :) anyway, enough of that. I am off to eat some dinnner that my wonderful boyfriend has just finished cooking. peace out.

So sorry for the deliquent blogging

Where do I start? well, my internship went very well this week. i feel that i had a couple of break throughs with a few clients. It was a great feeling to see that i might be making a difference for some of these kids.

Went to the salon and got my hair done on thursday. It was so nice to have someone else fix my hair for me. It is nice to pamper oneself every now and then. Also, my stylist, who is a great friend of mine (i have known her since i was 16) is pregnant. Yeah for her!!!!

Friday night was a great time. nat threw mark a party for his birthday. It was wonderful to see everyone. I was able to chat it up and hang out with several people I havent seen in a long time. There was also a great wrestling match. :) A bunch of us chipped in and got mark a two hose hookah for his birthday. He totally loved it and it smoked really nice. It was a fabulous evening!!

Saturday started off very productive. I wrote a paper that is due this week. It really wasnt too bad. I also worked on a creative project i have due this week. My sis and Leslie both helped me out with it since my artistic abilites are somewhat lacking. :) then, i was trying to plan my saturday night activities and Michael called to let me know that he didnt have to work. It was such great news. So, he came up here and we hung out. On top of all that goodness, May-Ling was in town for her mother's birthday and Michael, May-Ling and I spent some time haning out at Obzeet just chatting it up. It is so hard to find good friends in this world and i really think i have been very fortunate in that avenue. :) After some wonderful conversation, the three of us headed back to my place and watched some Strong Bad. You need to check this guy out, he is so damn funny. all i have to say is "Trogdor, the Burninator".

Onto sunday. What a fabulous day as always. Today (sunday) is Michael and I's one month together. Everything had been so great with Michael that it seems like so much longer. We went to maggiano's for dinner and used the gift certificate I got from my old work. It was so nice. we had great food, great conversation and great company. Then, we jetted downtown to see Mamma Mia! It was so good. I really enjoyed it. It is a muscial based on songs by ABBA. It was very entertaing. This weekend was completely wonderful.

Well, i am off to get some zzzz's before the beginning of another week. have a good one.

feeling very introspective again

Sometimes the people in this world that i have been fortunate enough to love amaze me with their strength. I know so many people that are dealing with or have dealt with such hard times and yet they continue to live their lives in the best way they know how. A friend of mine is about to embark on a long journey and i only wish i had the words to let him know how much i care for him and how much i value his friendship. another friend of mine just broke up with his long distance girlfriend (the woman he loves) and i wish i knew how to let him know i think he did what was best for him and I am so proud of him for that. Another friend of mine is off in a foreign country facing all her fears and doing something great for others. Another friend is facing a whole new scare in her life. Sometimes, i wish i had the words to comfort others when they come to me. I have a few things floating around in my head also right now. Things i dont really want to discuss tonight, but no worries, I am sure it will all be great.

i ran across a poem today that i wanted to share.

The loss hurt them
The love that was given
The hope that was stolen
The hurt that many felt
The words that could not be spoken
The anger that raged inside
The faith that was questioned
The questions that went unanswered
The others that tried to help
The help, never enough
The pain that overwhelmed
The thoughts that were not enough
The words that were spoken
That didn't do enough
The loss hurt again
The pain was too much
The thoughts were too harsh
The beauty of the end
The end of all seemed so easy
The pain was too much to bear
Where the strength came from,
I am unsure
How did I make it through?
The pain overwhelmed, took over
Somehow, I made it past
The dreams and nightmares
Of what they went through
The pain they felt
The horror they experienced
The hate that overtook them and I
The strength to offer more words
The strength to overcome
Came from inside somewhere
Maybe the love of a sister
The love of friends
The fear of the unknown
The fear of hurting others
The guilt of such an act
The fear of ending a life
Before it can really begin

so, saturday night was quite fun. William and I just hung out and talked and watched a never ending cycle of Friends episodes. It was really great to spend some time catching up with Will. I hadnt seen him in quite a while.

sunday was as always wonderful. My brother was in town for the Texas vs. OU game and his birthday is in October, so we got some lunch at the Plano Tavern (where my sis works) and celebrated my brother's birthday. It was nice to spend some time with the family. Then, Michael and I had another great day. It all started with Michael, Leslie and I watching the Cowboys game. It was actually pretty good. I cant believe i am saying this, but i was actually happy when they won. Usually, i dont care at all about football, but Michael and Leslie were so excited (they both called people when the game was over to share the love). I guess the excitement was contagious. :) Later in the day, Michael and I cooked dinner together. yes, you are all reading that correctly, i, nada elias, cooked some dinner. Michael helped a lot, but i was definitley part of the cooking process. :) we saw Kill Bill, which was actually a very good movie. It was very violent, but that is expected with a Quinten Tarrantino flick. To put it bluntly, there were a lot of hot women kicking a lot of hard core ass. It was wonderful to watch. :)

Today was actually a very unprodutive day. I have a paper that i should be working on, but i was super tired today. I love being a woman, but once a month, it really sucks. :) Anyway, i worked for a bit, hung out with my mom and sis for a while, then crashed on the couch for several hours. Leslie and i hung out in the evening and chatted a bit. i also got to catch up with Chris. We hadnt talked in a while, it was nice to hear how he is doing and fill him in on all the happenings in my life. well, i am not tired yet (since i slept so much this afternoon), so I think i am going to catch up on some reading. :)

Go, go, go, go, go, go!!

That is what I feel my life is like sometimes. Always going. I cant complain though, i think i like it that way. :)

A girl in one of my classes last week had a shirt on that had a very interesting statement on it. It said "Join the army, travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them." Wow, what a statement. i am not saying i agree or disagree with the above statement, it is just food for thought.

So, Thursday night, I had Lover's Eggroll for dinner and those of you that know me well know that i practically keep that place in business. Anyway, they have this punch card system that if you buy 10 meals, you get the 11th free. how great is that? Well, my thursday night meal was my 10th meal, so the next one is on them. YEAH!!!

well, friday was long, but it really wasnt that bad. it started off pretty bad, i was in a mood, but after hanging out with the two kids i pick up on fridays, things got better. i always love chatting with those two. After that, i got stuck in some traffic as i headed to oklahoma (aka frisco) to babysit for Chris's aunt and uncle. Their two girls are completely wonderful. They are 5 and 9 years old and the evening was splendid. they gave me a makeover, we karaoked, we played teacher (a game where the 5 year old and i were students and the 9 year old was the teacher), we made home made pudding, we watched some movies and chatted it up. It was so nice to hang out with healthy, stable kids for a change. :) and there is nothing wrong with making $60 for just hanging with some wonderful kids. :)

Today has been productive, not school productive, but otherwise productive. I watched som TV this morning while working on a project for one of my classes. i actually watched some of Michael Moore's The Awful Truth. It is a pretty funny show. Michael Moore has such an amazing way of expressing his views to the world. The show is over the top, but i like it!!

So, this project for my domestic violence class is basically just a creative way to express what we think about domestic violence. Anyway, what i have decided to do involves drawing an open hand and a closed fist and since my drawing skills are way poor, i have enlisted the help of my sis, the artist in the family. Thanks, Nadia!!

So, the rest of my morning included some much needed phone calls, i have been slacking on keeping in touch with people. then, i cleaned the apartment. I am not talking just a light cleaning, this is like my mom's kind of cleaning. For any of you who know my mom, that is saying a lot. The apartment smells great and is spotless. :) I have a few errands to run, some more calls to make and some emails to return. Will and I are going to hang out tonight. i havent seen him in a while, i am pretty excited. Well, i am off to be more productive.

Somtimes, I wonder how the world works

I am feeling very introspective right now, so please bear with me in this post. :) For a long portion of my life, i felt like things never really worked out for me. then, once i went off to college at UT, things started to change. Bad things still happened, but it seemed that there was a purpose for those things. it seemed that having bad things happen allowed for new good things to happen. Kind of like, "when one door closes, another will open". Some things in life really make me think about the idea of fate. Some things really make me think about why things happen and is there someone out there making those things happen or is something we do completely on our own.

as most of you know, i am still searching for my beliefs on faith, spirituality, religion (whatever you want to call it). I am currently reading a book titled "Does God Believe in Atheists?" It is written my John Blanchard and is basically a defence of belief in God. as far as what i have read, it seems to be written in a non preachy, understandable way. I find myself shutting off very quickly when people try to preach to me about their spiritual belifs. This guy seems to have a different approach that i think i might like.

I guess i wonder, do things (good and bad things) in this world happen for a reason? or do they happen because we make them happen or do they happen because we work really hard for those things or do they happen becauase someone or something out there is allowing them to happen. I dont know. i am still looking for the answer to those questions. hopefully reading up on many different views will help my find some answers.

Anyway, i feel that i am just rambling now...so i will talk more about how my week has been. Well, monday night football at mark and nat's was wonderful. It was a great time and i was really glad everyone got to meet Michael and that he had a good time also. Tuesday, was a pretty long day, but i made it through. Much work, much class, and then a stop at the parent's house to pick up my car. Wednesday wasnt too bad. Internship went well. I felt like a good therapist for about 2 hours after seeing the client i was a bit worried about meeting with. I feel like we really made some progress. But, later that day i met with another client and it didnt go so well. oh well, i guess it is a learning process and i am definitley still learning.

Today was wonderful. I didnt have to go to my internship because school was out today, so michael and i hung out most of the day. It was nice to be able to just spend some time with him knowing that neither one of us had to be anywhere any time soon. good times. :) now, i am just sitting here catching up on emails and blogging and am about to continue reading my book and then hit the sack in order to prepare for a long work day followed by an evening of babysitting. I will keep you all posted on what i find out in this book. well, good night.

Some people amaze me with their kindness

I am not sure if you all remember, but when i left my old job as the education coordinator at the Turning Point, I volunteered to do the 20 hour training session for the new committee that will be doing presentations for this year. The new education coordinator just didnt know all the info. yet, so i thought it would be best if she sat in on the training and then the new committee would be off on the right foot for this year. My thought process was basically, what is 20 more hours of volunteer time for a cause i think is of utmost importance. So, I lost a few hours of work at my current job because i was at the Turning Point doing the training. Anyway, last night when i checked my mail, i found a thank you card from the committee i trained and a $50 gift certificate to Magianno's (excellent italian food). it just amazes me how some people can be so kind and thoughtful. I did the training with no expectations, i just wanted to make sure they new all the info. before they started talking to the students. But, they were kind enough to send such a nice thank you note and gift. you all know me and my sappy self, I think if Michael wasnt around when i opened the card and gift, i probably would have started crying. :) It is nice to feel appreciated sometimes.

Smiles all around!!

So, the visit i supervise at work for this morning was super. The 2 year old boy was just all smiles and hysterical laughter. It totally made my whole day. His mom just kept playing with this hand puppet and he thought it was the funniest thing in the world.

Well, my work schedule has changed once again. I think that is the one thing about this job that frustrates me. The visits are so unstable that my schedule changes all the time. Anyway, i hope to get some more hours in the next few weeks. We'll see.

so, saturday, i finished my paper. YEAH!! i think i still need to read it over one more time tonight, but i think it is all good to go for the most part. I hung out with leslie in the evening and just watched movies and talked. it was a nice time.

Sunday...again, what can i say? Sundays have officially turned into the best day of the week. They used to be a day full of studying and running errands and stuff. Now, they are a day full of fun times with Michael. Ok, people, i think you need to be sitting down for what i am about to tell you. I think i might actually attend a cowboys football game this coming sunday. Yes, it is true. I know you cant believe what you are reading, but i have decided to "accept influence" and try something new. that was for you Michael. :)

well, michael and i are going over to mark and nat's tonight to watch some monday night football. I am not really interested in the football, but i am a big fan of shiner and hookah smoking and great company and i am excited for michael to meet mark and nat. i see good times ahead. well, i am off to get some lunch before my afternoon visits at work. have a great week.

Trying to come up with anything to do in order to procrastinate on the paper that needs to be written today

So, it is about noon on saturday and I am supposed to be writing a paper, but what have i done instead. I looked at the classes that are being offered for the spring semester at school, i wrote many emails, i talked with my roommate, i ate a bagel, i played with the cats, i talked on the phone. What have i not done, started my paper. Grrrrrrr.

Well, i finished reading this great book Kim gave me. It is called The Perks of Being a Wall Flower. It was a very beautiful book. It had great insight into the life and thoughts of a young high school boy who is very special in many ways. He is a boy who lived his life for others until the very end when he realized that he needed to "participate" in the world. It was great.

Great news. Yesterday at work, my supervisor gave me the newletter from the Turning Point (the place i used to work) and it was super nice. They said all these super nice things about me in it. things like "Staff and volunteers from the Junior League of Plano expressed appreciation to Nada Elias for her role in expanding the Teen Awareness Program." they also said "We definitley could not impact students without all of Nada's training and support." how wonderful is that? I feel so special. (insert sweet smile and blushed cheeks here)

So, last night I went to the Velvet Hookah. It was a good time. It was so nice to catch up with Scott, Denise, and Nick. I was home pretty early, chatted with Leslie for a bit and hit the sack.

also, i set up a babysitting gig for myself. I havent babysat in a quite a long time, but i figured since i am only working parttime now, any extra money would be very useful. so, I am babysitting for chris's aunt and uncle. They have two wonderful little girls. I am excited. It should be much fun. Anyway, i think i am going to force myself to start writing this damn paper. Wish me luck.

Wow!

Sometimes, i feel like my mind is overloaded. So many things going on at the same time. Sometimes you think you have it all figured out and then life throws you a loop. This week has been quite crazy, i am very glad it is friday. I think this week has just helped to reaassure me that i always need to keep working at life. To keep reevaluating the way i look at the world. It is always important to me to keep stretching my mind and learning new things about the world as long as i can keep an open, non judgemental and accepting view on those new ideas. Life would be so boring and dull in my opinion if we were not constantly changing and reevaluating those changes. wow, deep stuff. :)

anyway, my internship is going pretty well. the girl that i was really nervous about meeting with was absent, so i could not meet with her. I hope that when i finally do meet with her, i will be able to ask the right questions. I am also really happy with my supervisor at my internship. I feel like i have a lot of support in this very uncertain time. Her and Miriam (the other intern i work with) have really been so wonderful in helping me gain the self confidence i need in order to be a good therapist. Thanks, you two. :)

well, i didnt get very much sleep on wednesday night. I did have some fabulous conversations with michael that stemmed into very early in the morning. I was super tired yesterday, but it was definitley worth it. I learned a lot about him and he learned a lot about me. Always a good thing, in my opinion. Anyway, i hit the sack at about 8:30 last night and didnt really wake up till 8:00 this morning. It was a good night's sleep.

well, i have a transport today and will probably be done with work around 5:30 or so. i have to jet over to my parents house to pick up my car (i am driving my mom's lexus today, ooooh, living the life of luxury :) my super nice dad is fixing up my car for me today. the cv axles are busted and there is also a leak. He is so nice when it comes to car troubles. Thanks, dad. after that, i have no solid plans for the evening, which is kind of nice. Maybe i will actually spend some time with my roommate who i rarely see and we live together. anyway, i have much studying to do this weekend. my hope is that saturday will be super productive as far as school work goes. Well, i am off to transport my favorite two 13 year olds. Have a great weekend!!