Nasty Weather & Hockey!

I was planning on going to Wilcox tomorrow to take some stuff there and to just hang out. But we're supposed to get freezing rain all day tomorrow so it looks like I'll be stuck in Kearney. That's okay - I'm going to force myself to start and finish at least two of my final papers! I know I can do it!

My Canucks played last night - against the Blue Jackets. I checked the score this morning. They won - two to zero. That was exciting. Then I checked the NHL standings. The Canucks are ranked 2nd in the western conference! And 5th in the League! We're doing great this year and I'm hoping we actually have a chance at the Cup this year!

To All: A wonderful Hockey season!

Two Weeks Notice.

It's a movie and the title of this blog. Teehee...

Yesterday at work I put in my two weeks notice and I almost cried. I don't want to quit working there. I love working there! I promised Joyce I would come back and visit though.

Soon after I finish this blog I have to start working on my final film paper. I'm doing it on Christian Bale - it'll be easy to stick to the project hehe. Yeah, he's a pretty good looking guy. I'm going to be watching The Machinist this morning. I'm going to be writing about his performance in that movie compared to his performances in The Prestige, Rescue Dawn, Batman, American Psycho, and possibly Reign of Fire.

I should probably get to that. Have a great Thursday!

Oh Boy.

I don't know how I feel today...yet. I have so much stuff on my mind, which right now is a good thing. I'm trying to get everything figured out for this end of this semester. All my final papers and exams and packing moving. I know what I'm doing for my final paper for film class and I'm very excited about it but it's going to take a lot of time and work and I'm a little nervous that I'm not going to make myself do it.

I work tonight and Friday night. And I'm going to Wilcox on Saturday to take stuff there because I don't need it here anymore.

Next Thursday I'm taking Sarena to one of her baby-appointments. Dan has to work that morning so she asked if I could go with her to hold her hand. I was thrilled to be asked and gratefully accepted. I'm glad I get to be there for her.

It seems like after Thanksgiving break everything rushes at you until you fall over. There's only three weeks from tomorrow until the last day of finals week. I can't believe it's going so fast! I don't know if I'll be able to keep up!

I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday and a great rest of the week!

Baby Blankets.

The blanket I'm crocheting for Dan and Sarena's baby is coming along very nicely. It's soft and cute and everything you look for in a baby blanket.

They think the due date is July 1st. So we still have awhile, but it'll come fast.

I had a weird dream last night. Something about dorm rooms, chumming with professors, and a ghost or something. I have no idea.

Tomorrow I'm putting in my notice for my last day at work. I'm going to be sad to say I have to quit. But I'm going to be more sad on my actual last day. I really do like working there, it's such a great environment and the people are nice. I'll definitely be coming down just to visit work every now and again.

After this week of classes there is only one more "real" week of classes, then Dead week, the finals week starts on the 17th. I can't believe it's almost here! November has gone so fast.

Back.

I'm going back to Kearney today. Back to the good ol' dorm room. Yeah, something like that.

Shane came down last night. It was good to see him again. After this weekend I won't be seeing him untik the weekend before Christmas when we have our little Christmas together. When I get there we're going to go buy decorations for the little tree and then open presents. I think we're going to have a nice sipper together too. I'm looking forward to it.

I had such a good week and weekend being home with my family over Thanksgiving break. This really is close to the last time I will be staying here in Wilcox. I'll be moving in a little over a month. It's a little weird to think about. But a good the-show-must-go-on feeling. If you can understand that. Ha.

To all: a good week and happy Christmas-present shopping!

So Proud.

I'm a little late getting this posted. It is an article from the Kearney Hub by Carol Meyers. I am very proud to say that my mom is the greatest.

Please read My Mom: The Star.

Yup, that's my mama!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! How was the turkey?

Tomorrow Is Thanksgiving!

I'm watching That 70s Show. Just hanging out until Shane calls me when he gets off of work.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I'm very excited! I get to help with the food. That's pretty fun!

I started the baby blanket for Dan and Sarena's baby today. It's going to be so cute when it's finished! Of course, I have until this summer to get it done. Best to start early, though, right?

Well, I'm going to sit and watching some television.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

'Twas The Monday Before...

...and it was hectic!

I should not be sitting here posting a blog this morning. I should be packing and getting everything ready to make a mad dash to my car after work and hightail it down to Wilcox. But here I sit, lazy as usual.

Because we don't have our film class tomorrow (my only class on Tuesdays) I decided that I'm going to go home tonight. Also, tonight is Taylor's play that I've mentioned before. I agreed to work this afternoon until 6pm and I have to be in the high school in Wilcox by 7pm. I know I can make it there, but I don't like being rushed. Who really does?

I am so thankful this week is Thanksgiving! I'm ready to see everybody at the same time and be able to actually have time to sit down and talk to them!

Shane made me cookies this weekend. Peanut butter. Mmm...they're my breakfast today with my coffee! Nothing better than a couple cookies with your morning coffee. That is, if you like cookies and coffee. If you don't...well, you're just odd, aren't you? I'm kidding! Don't hate me. :)

I better go though, I really need to pack. I'll try to keep up with my blog over Thanksgiving break, but I'm not promising anything! Besides, you should be with your families and friends and not sitting and staring at a computer screen!

To all: A splendid Thanksgiving! Yum Turkey!

Well,That Was Fast.

Yesterday I started crocheting a scarf for a friend for Christmas. Apparently, I have very speedy hands because I finished it yesterday. And it's really pretty and I didn't mess up at all!

I've been very tired lately. And last night the hall was noisy again, worst night ever. I couldn't fall asleep until 2 again but the noise continued. Terrible.

I'm going to Wilcox after work and Shane is coming down here when he gets off of work as well. He's leaving Monday morning. That's pretty cool. :) Okay, so it's a lot awesome!

I better get ready for work or whatever. Have a great Saturday!

Sleepy Weekends.

Well, folks, it's finally Friday. I'm sleepy. Again I had trouble sleeping last night. The hall was really loud until midnight - ridiculous.

I have to wake up early tomorrow to go to work. And after work I'm talking my fish to Wilcox for Thanksgiving. Shane is coming down this weekend! I'm awfully excited about that. :)

I hope I get Sunday off this weekend. Then I can spend all day with Shane!

Better get going. I have more coffee to drink before class.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Bowling Butts.

Mandy and I went bowling last night. We only took a few pictures because my camera was being a pain...this is what we got:


Adorable right?

By the way, I granny rolled four full games. Hehe...that's how I roll. Oh yeah.

Have a wonderful Thursday! (Oh my gosh! It's Thursday already!?)

Another Long Night.

I couldn't fall asleep until after two a.m. last night. It was terrible! I only let myself sleep in for half an hour - that didn't really do much for me. It's a long day today, as well. I have to work. But you would have already known that having read my previous blog.

Going bowling tonight. Looking forward to it. But we're not leaving until after my bedtime. I'm going to be so tired tomorrow! I'll need mucho amounts of coffee. :)

Speaking of coffee. I got an early Christmas present yesterday. Shane sent me fresh ground coffee from The Espresso Shop in North Platte. It's Irish Creme flavored and it's delicious!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Thanksgiving Is Coming.

Next Thursday is Thanksgiving and I'm getting very excited! However, this week is going as slow as it possibly can just to make me angry.

I'm watching House. It's a good show. This is the first episode I've been able to watch this season. I'm a little behind - I don't know most of the characters anymore!

Soooo, I need to write a couple new poems. I need ideas. If anyone has any ideas for me to write a poem or two about please let me know 'cause I'm pretty desperate. Really, I am.

I guess I don't have much more to say tonight. Maybe tomorrow will be more interesting. I have to work 3-9, it should go pretty fast. Wednesdays usually are okay. Friday will go fast and so will Saturday. I wonder if I'll get Sunday off. I'm going back to Wilcox on Monday. And I get to bake my famous pumpkin cake with home-made cream cheese frosting. Sound good? Want some? Then you'll have to give me a good idea for a poem. There's a price for everything.

I hope everyone has a good night! Sleep better than I did last night!

Back Again.

We all went to Harrison this weekend. It was a lot of fun! I got to play with horses! I should have been a farm-girl.

We got back around 8ish last night. I was pooped, but it was worth it with all the fun we had this weekend.

Next week is Thanksgiving. And I'm thankful for that. I need to get away from Kearney. And I'm looking forward to spending mucho time with my family. If I don't have to work this Sunday I think I'm going to go home on Saturday after I get off of work. 'Cause then I'll be able to be home all day Sunday, most of Monday (I'll have to come back up to Kearney for class), I'll get to see Taylor's play Monday night, I'll only have to drive back up to Kearney Wednesday and Friday to work, and then again on Sunday to come back to school and I'll probably have to work then anyway.

I think this will work out.

Last night I had a good but strange dream. I can't get it out of my head. I'll probably be thinking about it all day.

I wish you all a great Monday, a fast week, and a wonderful Thanksgiving (early.)

Small-Town Terrorists: A Prose Poem

Small-Town Terrorists

It was summer in the town I was once from. Laughing friends on their stomachs enjoyed a black television screen with their legs bent, waving in the air to the rhythm of what they hoped their babies would one day be named. I never got around to plugging in that TV. A sun ray still hanging in the sky on some invisible fishing line creates half-hearted shadows on the floor and makes the warm west wind set the maple branches to making love with the oak on the walls surrounding the one room in the house I never felt safe to be. A rumble. From three blocks away it sounds like it’s three inches close enough to kill the ticks on the stray dog that limps down the street. Hamsters in hand; black in right, brown in left; stepping quickly to the half-open front door to close it against the sound of Death scrapping a broken bottle on a tin roof – ready to jump. Our house on the part tar, part gravel road in the West part of town was the only two-bath box spared to the liquid homicide. The covered-in-sweat driver brings a bent cigarette to his sullen lips as his conscience dances in the passenger seat. Dust clouds behind the roaring rusty metal. The black hamster bites my finger. I rejoin my friends in front of the black television. I never got around to plugging it in.

Note: I took my dream and changed it around and ended up changing completely what it was about, but I still was able to use a lot of the same lines that I liked. Tell me what you think, please.

Note 2: I hate poetry. :)

A Dream.

It was just a dream I had last night.

It was summer-time in my hometown and I was wrangling my hamsters back into their cages. A couple old high school buddies were over enjoying a black television screen lying on the floor with their bent legs up in the air. What was so funny about a television that wasn't plugged in? There was a danger in my blood. I felt something bad approaching as the wind blew in through the half open front door. The sun, however still high enough to light the town, was sinking and creating half-hearted shadows on my face as I peered out the window next to the half-opened front door. Barreling down the part tar, part gravel road next to our innocent, terrified home was a tank of only imaginary sorts. It was like a semi that had been flattened in the back and the cab was sea-foam green. An awful sound of Death grinding a dull knife on a broken sidewalk filled the ears of the neighborhood. Not neighborhood anymore. Our house was the only two-bath box spared. My hamsters in my grasp; the black one in the left and the brown one in the right, I raced to the back door to watch the semi-gone-sour make a crescent moon around the front and loop into the recently-uprooted field to the East. I watched the covered-in-sweat driver lift a bent cigarette to his sullen lips as his conscience danced around him in the passenger seat. He kept driving. My parents, not home yet with my new baby sister, had left a note. Watch for trouble and a solitary M to sign the simple message. At least that's what I think it said. My sister had been born sixteen years ago. It has taken a long time to bring her home. The black hamster in my left bit my finger. I stood watching the dust clouding behind the trailer that carried no weapons, no bombs, no danger. I placed the hamsters back in their cages and rejoined my friends in front of the black television.




I was just going to retell my dream to you, but it starting making its way into a sort of prose poem. I think I'm going to rewrite it later to make it more of a prose poem and take it to poetry class with me.

And More Heroes.

I've been catching myself up with the season two episodes. I'm on episode six right now and I will watch seven as well before I go to bed tonight. Then I will be completely caught up and will be able to actually watch next week's episode on television! I'm really excited!

This week is dragging.

I wish it was December 20th. This semester will officially be over and I will be preparing to move. Now, that's exciting.

Coffee and Bananas.

I woke up this morning to work on a paper. I am on my third cup of coffee and my hunger pains have been calmed by a bruising banana. Its brothers and sisters are sitting next to my coffee maker. It's a small world...after all.

Happy Monday Friends.

Something Wonderful.

I had a very bad day yesterday. I was alone and sad and being ignored by people who should never want to ignore me. But I got a call last night to make my night, and several other days surrounding this phone call, wonderful and happy and needed.

My friend Sarena called and said she had gone to the doctor yesterday. They called her and told her she was ten days pregnant! I'm so happy for her! And I'm excited because I get to be Auntie Kaylee. Her and her husband, Dan, are very very excited. She said that when she told him yesterday he was down on his knees crying in happiness.

This is definitely the kind of news I needed to hear last night. To forget everything else. Even if I am not the one having the baby I still feel the need to be with her while she is going through all of the doctor's appointments and worry and happiness and everything else that goes along with having a baby. I feel needed and that is a wonderful feeling...especially when it ends with having a baby to hold. This is so exciting and it hasn't even completely hit me yet!

I don't care about not being invited places anymore; I don't care about being ignored by those people that should never ignore me; and I certainly don't care if they plan things behind my back. That is all gone now. The only think I can think about now is helping Sarena and being the best friend for her that I have always wanted for myself.

Please pray for Sarena and Dan and their baby. I'll definitely be keeping you posted on how things go. How could I not? A baby?!

Have a great day.

Heroes.

When the show, Heroes, was first advertised on NBC I wasn't at all turned on to it. I mean, it seemed like it had a good story, but lately most shows have been starting off good and then going into some weird other place that makes no sense. Writers seem to be losing their touch. That's why I was so skeptical about this show. I didn't watch the first season. I watched one episode with Shane last semester and didn't really pay attention. Last weekend when Shane was down he got me to watch the very first episode - his brother has the Season One DVD collection. I was hooked. This morning I just finished the first season of episodes. And I'm even more hooked that I was before. It is a great show. And that's all I have to say about that.

Yesterday was Halloween. I had to work, but I still dressed up. I was the only one to dress up! No one seems to have fun with Halloween anymore. It's kind of sad, really.

Anyway, I should find something else to do. Have a good day everybody!