Spring Semester

Well I know it's been a while since I've blogged about what is going on and I actually really miss it so I am going to try and get back into the swing of writing everyday. So I got through my first semester of Pharmacy School last fall and was so excited to be able to start this next semester. I have made some close friends and feel mentally, physically, and emotionally ready to take on this new semester.  We do have 2 more classes added to our school load and the course work is a lot more than last semester but I guess that is to be expected that it's just going to get tougher with each semester. I haven't been feeling too well the past 24 hrs and feel like I am coming down with a stomach bug that has been going around down here. The plan for today was to stay at the school and study all day but after class, I could not make it due to feeling so neauseous so I came home and trying to relax and feel better. I really cannot afford to get sick with the amount of work I have to get done by lab tomorrow so keep me in your prayers. Hope you all doing well, I'm going to be better about my updates and actually have a bunch of updates on my place and some new decorating to show! *Lots of Love*
 
 
Quote of the Day: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France

The $50 Lesson

Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied... "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed with pride! "Wow...what a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that!" I told her. "What do you mean?" she replied. So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out and give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house." She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?" I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party." Her parents aren't speaking to me anymore.

 (I love this story although these days it seems the Republican and Democratic Parties are about one and the same, what matters is the lesson behind it! 
- Ron Paul 2012!)

A change is going to come...

Change is inevitable. This is one thing I have learned from my life thus far. It seems just when you get adjusted to life a certain way or everything in life seems to be going just right or as planned, a change comes and throws it all off course. Sometimes we are resposible for these changes and in most instances, it is out of our control. I am going on my fifth week of pharmacy school and this has been a huge adjustment for me! I am sort of in the "could've should've would've" phase right now. I was so used to studying all night and working all day and then nights I didn't study, I was out with friends and just always busy when I lived in Birmingham. Moving to Auburn, I did not have one friend here, quit my job, lived by myself, and took only my classes. I thought this would be great to give me some down time since I had been non stop busy but I now feel that it has only created a crutch for me that I am having a hard time getting rid of. No doubt my classes were super hard and I took all science classes but that was all I did, go to class and study. If I had any down time, I watched tv or sat on the computer. When I lived in my 280 apt, I may have turned on the television not even a handful of times the entire year I lived there. So needless to say, I got a little lazy relaxed. I started having too much down time and not knowing anyone, I laid around all the time and got in a slump. So now pharmacy school is non stop; classes, meetings, conferences, projects, patient visit,s and then studying at night. I'm having to make a HUGE change not only in my lifestyle but in my attitude because I just want to come home and have down time since that is what I have been used to here. I know pharmacy is going to go great and I know it is going to be hard and I am totally prepared for that. I am just wanting to get this whole sun up to sun down, life consuming, busy bee thing down. And the crazy part about it is that a year ago I would have had no problem jumping right in. So, what I am trying to say is; all of life, things are not always going to go as planned and won't always happen when you're most ready for them. A change will always come. Every where we go we see things changing in our towns, city, country, the world, and in each individual life. All we can do is embrace change and anticipate our ability to evolve and keep going. I know it's been a while since I have blogged, due to many changes that have been going on in my life but I haven't given up on it yet! :) Hope you all have a blessed rest of the week!


Quote of the Night:  Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here's the truth: The more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change, is, everything. ~ Greys Anatomy

Listening to: Run to You - Whitney Houston

Dream a little...



At some point maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life 
the true dream is being able to dream at all. 
~Grey's Anatomy

Collide

Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she'd stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who'd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn't been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot. When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn't broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.

•Smile•

I had a wonderful weekend at Bonnaroo and as much as I would love to expound on all of my experiences, this week has been hell and well I just need to to smile. Sometimes you just need to sit back, remember what you are here for, that nothing is impossible, thank God for the life you've been given and just Smile.


















Quote of the Night: Pull yourself together and use what you have.  ~Betsy Cañas Garmon

Victim

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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