So PRETTY!!

Do you remember my best friend's engagement ring? The one that she wanted to throw away and I took instead because it's REAL white gold? The one that I've been wearing for years and years...and suddenly my coworker told me that there's bad mojo around it so he made me get rid of it. Well, I've been sad for a long long time because I really liked that ring and it's been with me for a while...so I've been looking for a replacement for a long time. But not knowing where to look and not wanting to buy just a cheapo replacement, my finger ended up just being very bare for a long time because I couldn't find anything to replace it. WELL...that all changed this weekend when I met up with my coworker for breakfast and she surprised me with a ring! I was SO EXCITED!! I REALLY like it!! It's real silver so I can wear it all the time, which is how I like jewelry. I don't like to always take things off when I'm showering or washing my hands or whatever. I like to just wear things forever, all the time. Let me see if I can find a picture of it...oh here!

 

IT's simple but not too simple, I love it! It's SO PRETTY!!!  I'm not sure if it's a real pearl in the middle or not, but I'm pretty sure it's real sterling silver. I don't know what the "sterling" part means. Maybe shinnier? I got so excited about it, I called my BF and was just raving about it. He made fun of me (as always) because he said it's like she proposed to me or something since I'm so excited. And then he thought about how excited I am about this plain ring and he was worried about what I would do if I got an engagement ring. I'd probably bounce off the walls lol.

 

I didn't do anything this weekend, I just sat around. And that's how I like it. hahah. I actually wanted to read a little but I think I've lost interest in reading. Or maybe the book I was on was just too boring. This has been a common trend. I am really sucked into the first book, the second book is ok, and by the third book, I'm really not interested in anymore. This is like the Hunger Games series, and now it's happening with the Wildwood series.

 

I just realized that if you come visit me, I'm not sure where you are going to sleep. LoL. I am sleeping on a futon right now, which I don't think is really big enough for two people. I have another couch, but it's not that comfortable. I'm not sure if you want to risk sleeping on the "bed bug" bed. It's been "treated" so it should be ok, but I don't know......but anyways, how's the trip planning coming?

 

You know I'm coming to visit you in Sept right? Did I tell you my BF is coming too?

 

 

Murder on my mind

Hello again!

I'm sorry it's been so long since I've  last blogged but knowing me, I've gone longer times without blogging. Haha.

So I've been having a really hard time falling asleep lately. I'll feel really tired around 8pm and try to power through all my drowsiness and do work until 9pm, then I'll try to sleep. Key word here is TRY. Even though I'm super fatigued and I have a headache from being so sleepy and tired, I can't fall asleep. I think it's because my A/C is on and it makes all these noises which make it sound like someone is walking towards me or trying to break into my apartment and get me or something. The A/C is aimed at the blinds so the blinds are constantly making noise. So all these noises make me open my eyes and check to make sure there isn't someone standing right above me with a knife ready to butcher me into a million pieces. Yes, scary right?!?!

So that's one theory of why I can't sleep. Another one is because I'm constantly stressed out over my students. I'm always studying, looking things up, trying to think of things for them to do to improve, prepping for my weekly presentations, etc etc etc. I'm just always doing something to prep for them. It's been rewarding...but also very stressful. Even when I'm trying to sleep I try to think of things to prepare for tomorrow or things I should know, etc etc.

On top of all that, I've been really obsessed with the OJ Simpson case lately. It's been 20 years since the murder and the trial...I realized this happened the same year my brother was born. So I was really young then and I didn't know all the details, but now there is all this CNN hype about it again and it's attracted my interest again. I've done all this research on it and read up on it and it's just CRAZY how the final verdict was NOT GUILTY. Like, REALY?!?!? Not guilty??? So in the beginning, I thought only Nicole was killed but then I come to find that this other waiter guy was killed too. And then I got really curious about the whole thing. And after digging through all the details, it's CRAZY how the evidence was messed up because DNA testing was so new at that time. There was so much tempering with the evidence and questionable findings due to the lack of understanding in forensic science at that time. I think if this case was tried today, he would have FOR SURE been GUILTY. Come on! He totally did it! So I was reading up on how the police re-created the events of the murder. And most likely OJ came with a knife, with the intentions of killing Nicole. So Nicole probably opened the door for him when he knocked. Then immediately he grabbed her by the hair/head and slammed her onto the floor and started to stab her in the face/head furiously with a 15in knife. The police believed this because Nicole's feet were clean so must have meant her feet never touched the ground. So if you aren't already super creeped out from me describing to you how OJ stabbed her repeatedly in the face with a 15in knife, his last insult to her was predicted to be one foot on her back, grabbing her hair and pulling her up, and slicing her neck almost clean. She was almost decapitated. *shivers

So in all this murder maddness, I guess this waiter got somehow got involved, maybe he was trying to help her? And he got viciously murdered too. Wrong place at the WRONG time. Ultimate example.

So I think it's a combo between being scared that someone's walking towards me and going to knife me, stressed out about students and the whole OJ Simpson murder replaying in my head, is causing me to loose sleep. I have the hardest time falling asleep and even when I do fall asleep, I wake up in the middle of the night. Ugh. I'm like a zombie recently trying to stay awake with coffee.

So what's new with you? Something more normal I hope. LoL.

Quick Updates

How do you feel about the whole prisoner trade off that the President did a few days ago? It's been all over the news. There's a lot of bad press around the soilder that we swapped in exchange for the 5 leaders. I'm really curious to know how everyone feels about this. I've been meaning to discuss it with others but I've been so busy lately, I don't have time to do any of this.

I really thought that having students would mean more time on my hands, but I'm busier than ever!! This is crazy!

It's my tech's birthday today. I got her some gifts, a card and some flowers. I arranged for other people in the clinic to get her balloons and a cake. Mainly because there is NO way I could get all of those things by myself.

I've been feeling super dehydrated lately. I used to only bring 1 water bottle to work, now I've increased it to two. Today I'm bringing in THREE. I don't know, maybe it's the weather here? But I'm indoors all day long. I don't know...maybe the extreme A/C is drying me out? But I'm usually in A/C places in winter or summer? I have no idea. If this trend continues then I might have to hire someone to carry a 5L bottle of water for me and have a water dispenser right next to me at work. I wonder if I can request for one as a medically necessary item...lol.

There's a sale on southwest right now! I'm looking into plane tickets. I would have done it way either but I haven't had time! If I get to it by today, I'll try to see if I can come visit you during a weekend. No promises, don't get your hopes up, I might not get to it in time! Haha.

Eventful morning

I sleep in now because I stay up late to work on things and at 6am this morning someone knocked, pounded and rung my doorbell. Wait a min...now to thinking of it, I didn't even know I had a doorbell...hmm...have to go home and check that out later...anyways, I was woke up....and when I got oriented, I was a little scared. I mean, who pounds at someone's door at 6am?? So I slowly tip toped to the eye hole to see who it was, some guy I didn't recognize. Looked like he was holding an ipad. Probably a delivery guy? I thought about not opening the door but then I thought, what if it's a package for me and I could have gotten it now but instead I "missed" it and have to go through some convoluted way to get it back? So I opened the door, against all better judgement, it was a delivery guy. He was looking for some lady I don't know. I told him she doesn't live here and he was very persistent. Asking over and over again, stating the package was only ordered 1 week ago, so she should be here. I re-stated that she does not live here and closed the door. Tried to fall back asleep, but couldn't. Ugh.

I was getting ready for work, things were fine and dandy. Got ready to leave, opened the door and something flew into my apartment. Ugh!! I had to drop everything and go hunting. I found it, it was a butterfly. Oh, how sad, I had to kill it. Sorry. At times like these, I think my relatives would tell me it's someone, like an ancestor, coming to pay me a visit. Well, sorry, I don't want to accidentally swallow you in my sleep, so I had to squish you. In the future, please don't come visit me in my apartment.

How are things with you?