Wow oh wow its been forever. What can i say...without you my life has continued and not only that its improved. Sorry journal you haven't been much needed.

Well I am in a very wonderful spot in my life. I am totally head over heels inlove with my boyfriend who in the 2 years i have known him has yet to show signs of a major flaw. He is kind, loving, smart, creative, determined, and loves me in return. He is just amazing and thats really all that i can say about him.

In other news Nikki graduates from College on Saturday! Whoot! I am excited for her to finally be done. This summer we are going to move in together and try to get her house sold. Then come September 19th I am moving to Virginia to live with Cory. That is like the icing on the cake. Or better yet the whip topping on the jello!

My little brother graduates college on Saturday too. Yep so we all will be done with that whole education stuff. Though i am contemplating going back to school for a bit. :: shrugs:: its a thought.

Well its off with me now to the gym and then to work. Wish me luck? Nah you don't have to.

Well summer was another blur. Working and just taking charge of alot of things. About a month ago i decided it was time to plan my trip back to Finland. Its a months vacation but its very very very well deserved and i am looking forward to it!

My birthday went really well. I got some very thoughtful gifts and just felt it passed quietly like it should.

I have been helping alot around my parents house getting things done and ready for remodeling. My new bathroom looks amazing. Its such nice colors and i am pleased with how it all came out. I am going to be creating the art work for all the new bathrooms so thats another exciting thing that i will look forward to.

Tonight i see Nikki. We are going to go to Sauna and watch a movie. Relaxing no? Ahhhhh sauna...sweaty sweetness.

Jack Jack has been in good health and thats a relief. I love my kitty's and its stressful when ones health isn't doing well. He is just a baby too. Just turned 3 years old.

Well today is the day to get my room clean. So i better get to it. See you all later.

Well summer is almost over. Time seems to fly so fast these days. But man what a summer its been. I can't believe all the little kids i know are getting ready for Back to School shopping. Another grade higher, more things they are learning...its just amazing.

Well yesterday was one of those really great days. Work went wonderfully, and then after work Nikki and i went game shopping. DDR!!!! How i love thee. I got Super Nova and Nikki bought extreme 2. We danced up a storm.

My sister was also in town with Jason. It was really good to see her I hadn't seen her in a bit.

I have been busy, happy and productive. I just am at a good spot even if i am not rolling in the dough or anything i feel unstressed about alot in life.

In work related matters there is a chance that i might be getting a promotion and working in the marketing department. I would love that. Creating flyers and making schedules for when things will be going out is something that i would seriously be more then happy to take on. And nice thing is i would still be working for Becky so anything i did for her would be in addition to my salary from the company. So that would be amazing.

Besides all that just getting out more. Living and loving life.

Well these past few weeks have been amazingly productive. Besides finally breaking my Secondlife addiction I have also made some def money working. ANNNNNNNDDDDDD i saw my Russian teacher and i am going to sign-up for the 2nd course for July to continue my Russian education. I <3 Russian! So that is exciting. And her and her Husband sold me all the music CD's and tapes i bought at their store of a MAJOR discount. like 20 dollars off the final price! Now i happily have LOTS of new music to listen to. And best part is i have some CD's so that means easy transfer to my MP3 player. Mwahahahaha.

Megan my bosses daughter loves Russian to now and can say some things. She is so cute. This past weekend i watched her for her parents as they celebrated their 10 year aniversary. In the morning we would dance in the living room to Russian techno. It was funny to watch to say the least.

As it is now I need to get to work. Becky is leaving for a week in Orlando so i have alot of things to do to both get her ready and to keep things in order in her abscence.

Alive, well, and dreaming big. Thats sorta the summary of it all.

So working for a amazing woman doing everything from advertising to shopping for her. Its a great job and i love it. This was something i threw together. I think it turned out okay. better with time i know!



Been busy. Still busy! Always working.

Hope everyone had a good graduation who finished school.

-Christina

Sometimes we don't act. We choose to remain quiet and wait. In these times we see chances pass us by. "Was that my ride?". The buses keep on comming without numbers. Waiting for a ride that you don't even know what it looks like. Maybe waiting for the last bus of the day to pull away knowing atleast what your fate is as you wait for the next morning...the next day of waiting.

Yes i am infact still alive. I know! Don't freak out or anything.

This past week was rough. On Monday the 19th of March my grandmother went into a diabetic coma and passed away this past Sunday the 25th of March. I am relieved her suffering has ended. She doesn't want to be burried so we are renting a boat and leaving from the Keys to get as near to Cuba as we can and then dispurse the ashes and hope some can reach Cuban ground. If not she will still be resting between the United States and Cuba. Cuba where she grew up and had a family, the the USA where she came when everything was changed when castro came into power. She was a strong woman and amazing person to know. Plus her sense of humor and her whit were just breathtaking. I am going to miss my abuelita but am happy that she is now out of her mortal husck back to the imortal essence of her spirit.

These past few months have been a complete BLUR! Since August have been stuck on the crack the world knows as "second life". That game needs a warnning label. Good things of course have come from it. Nikki and i started a clothing line, and I for 2 months did realestate there before it became an bot war and made $3,600. Yeah...how cool is that????? I mean seriously it was mind blowing. Though i will admit i had the misfortune of becoming a complete hermit. My social phobias were REALLY bad when i tried to slowly regain my sanity and take a few steps away to breath some real air. Not that the fresh pixel air of a online game is that bad.

Jack and Griffin you may ask. Fat and happy as ever. Love those goobers WAY to much! Jack has become an ackward cat. He hates Alex Lee and Nikki. Actually he hates boys with long hair and that baby talk him. Griffin is sweet still though.

I have begun doing volunteer work with Junior Achievers. Teaching kids about money and their place in the community. Tomorrow Ruchelle and i are working with the 3rd graders. Should be exciting and fun. I have my own class 1st graders to also work with. ahhhhhhh kids are a blessing...but don't bless me until i am in my 30's...PLEASE!

Went camping 2 weeks ago for spring break. Nikki and i took Gidget and Reily to Huntington Beach right outside of Beaufort. Nice area will return...been noted.

Well thats really mostly whats been happening. Still working towards my goal of moving back to Europe. I miss it still everyday. I miss my friends, the culture, the atmosphere...i miss it all. Not that i don't love you all....but you understand.

Well I might remember to post before next year...never know.

I have missed watching this show!! Edina and Patsy are probably the two most amazing people. More people need to be like them.

Two finals on Friday and then freedom. I am really just ready for this. Decided i will try to find two jobs and save money. Money, pay off mom, save up and then out of the country. Well such is the plan.

ah so much for my baby update.

So its all almost over. Alllll almost done. Right now i am up for about an hour working on my paper for nurition on Selenium while researching for my sculpture i am going to make a model for in my Sculpture 1 class. Theme....sports life. Yes wayyyy to exciting.

I graduate on the 16th. Me....a graduated person from the whole mess that we know of as college. I am just looking forward to it and running to it as fast as i can.

This weekend i was happy to get to see Marjie and J's joint effort in art where dance meets sculpture. It was great fun for the whole family! Saturday...well bunbun died. After the burial i went out with Nikki to try to get research done. Turns out after 6pm USC only lets their own students into the library. AND they had the floors with the books closed off. WTF??? So we ended up going out to drink. Sunday was library action and I got to do some cooking. Always fun for me. I love cooking.

Now here i am not working on my paper.

let me correct that....

For all those who knew Alice they would know she was the most gentle and kind rabbit. She was found today to be in a eternal slumber. I am not sure what happened. She was happy and hopping yesterday and today she was no longer with me. I can only hope that she is in a better place and that she had a peaceful end. Dear sweet Alice there will never be another rabbit like you. RIP my darling.



June 2004 - December 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIKKI!!!!!!!! CHU CHU CHU!!!! *(^_^)* :: Does a dance much like a drunken monkey in a mexican dress:: My little girl is getting older!! Nikki you'll be a woman soon! :P

Life is going pretty swell. The fact that i even used the word swell is evident to exactly what i meant in the first place. Russian classes ended last night. I need to e-mail someone to get them to continue the classes for november to december. I really love learning. But if all else fails and they can't continue because there aren't enough people i am thinking for Christmas i might ask for the Rosseta Stone learning Russian program. Its like a really in depth learning program for your computer that has been praised by so many people. It costs like 300 dollars.....but thats beside the point!!

I am going to get to start painting soon again!!!! MY GOD I MISS PAINTING. I have so much going on up in the brain that i want to set free but its stuck because i have no spot to get my work done that doesn't have my cats or the other 7 furballs getting into everything. I never thought i would say it but we have toooooooo many cats. 9 cats is getting on a scarey level. They out number us and if they turn...we are doomed.

Tonight its up to the thrill to watch a play and then back to Columbia for a night of Sake. YUMMMMM but no going to the bar!!!! Dear lord when i am drunk just keep me indoors please i get silly stupid.

I was just thinking back to last year around this time i was preparing for my Halloween part in Finland. Ahhhh how i miss it! This year i don't even know what i am wearing or doing for Halloween. So unlike me really. This is my favorite Holiday and i really am not that siked. le sighe!!

Okay Nikki has me addicted to a new anime on youtube.com its called Ouran High School Host Club. I decided its like Fruits Basket meets Hana Kimi. Its really good and makes me laugh and roll around on the floor.

Besides that and me kicking butt in Astronomy and Nutrition and trying my hardest in sculpture not alot is happening. Cut back on SL. Yes the addiction has been noted, accepted and now its the process of severing it and feeding it to the fish in the Hudson.

-C

I might be crazy but atleast I got dreams.

Well Russian classes started on Tuesday. I was so incredibly thrilled once i got in there. It was nice to meet other people who want to learn something that i want to learn. They are there becase it fascinates them and because they want to be able to communicate to their friends they met in countries where Russian is spoken. I am just happy to be there. Tonight is class 2!!! My name in the class is Ina. How cute is that!! Its like what a baby might call my cause it can't say Christina. But Irina said Christina is a name in Russia but this would be the cute nickname for it. LOL i really like it.

I have been PMSing this week and wanted to quite my job. But i come in today and i freaking loved working. What the hell is wrong with me???????? Well whatever the case i think my i hate work spell is done with for atleast another 3 or 4 weeks. :)

The Au Pair thing still has be very excited. A offer came in from Germany that may be to good to refuse. We shall see! I take it all one e-mail at a time these days.

Besides me being brilliant in my classes...well about as brilliant as i can be for being half brain dead...life is moving forward and I am making the money to pay off my credit card and start saving for my new life. Yeah its worth it...

My life is crazy. It really is. And however much i like to pretend that perhaps i am normal...i can't life...i am really strange. I have plans and plans for what to do. And like a hyper active Frog in a lily pad pond that has had a sudden infestation of fresh lilly pads i am jumping from one thing to the next. Happily jumping and searching for the happy pad that makes me feel just right and has a good wind of flies passing by ::GLOMP::.

So this weekend after I turned 23...not by choice mind you...more be the laws of nature, i decided...well i decided to look into becoming an Au Pair. So i have gotten 30 hits and a few phone calls and lots of e-mails from all over the world. And that is exciting. Two most promising ones at the moment are Switzerland and Belgium. Money is good and kids look adorable.

I another great news cast for all you people...i made a 92 on my first Astronmy test. Oh yeah i am a smart girl. Considering i was the only A i think thats something to cheer about. But Astronmy really is exciting. Its so...amazing. I recomend this class to anyone and everyone. But have a strong stomach for quick paced babble. And i am in 102 so its not about the planets. Rather its about the stars. And the stars are really stellar (okay i had to do that one...sorry).

In more amazing and wonderful news i am going to start my Russian lessons next Tuesday. If i didn't have enough on my plate i signed up for tuesdays and thursdays for one month to do a basic Russian language class at Midlands Continuing Education campus on Farrow Rd. I am really super happy about this and it was my birthday present from my parents.

Besides that i am slowly stopping my SL obsession. I still play just not as often and i can pry myself away to sleep and i actually want to go out. All good signs of healthy mentality i beleive.

Sunday Matt and Jenkins had their going away party. They left yesterday to move to Ireland. I really wish them the best of luck in their endeavors (how professional sounding).

This Friday and Saturday i will be a photographer for a wedding. Oh the excitement is overwhelming!!!! HEATHER IS GETTING MARRIED! Yes i know...but i am so happy for her!

Well thats if from this side of the table. Hope everyone else is doing well. Since i never talk to anyone...:: sniff ::

-CLZ

Life at the moment is rather hectic. School only 2 days a week but i feel the stress of it 7 days. Work is rather annoying and i wish somone would just give me money so i could sleep in.

Projects are going, homework is going. Life is rather going. And i just keep thinking that i need to work harder and harder so i can pay of my debt and escape. And thats what it feels like. Escaping.

First day of school...why were you not kind to me?

SOOOO yeah school started with a bang...well or perhaps better yet with a tow truck ride back to Columbia. So i will explain it all...NOW!

I got to school on time and got into Seans class. Stood there for an hour listening to our first assignment that we are starting on Monday and realizing my phone was dying from lack of power and i had to get it charged in my break before talking to my brother to get him his things. Soooo we get out and i run and do some errands then go to my car and my phone charger in my car is dead. So off to wal-mart i run and get a new one. YEAH! It worked my phone has power! Back to school with me waiting for my brother to get out of his class. And i wait and wait and 20 minutes before he should be done i am going to drive to the courtyard to wait on him and...my car will not start. I turn the key and nothing. I think...well thats strange. So i turn my key again and...nothing. So on the phone i am with Triple A and they send someone out to service my battery. But seems its not the battery its the alternator. So now he jumped it and i made it to the courtyard with my brother in tote and now its waiting for a tow truck. Thank the stars for Gold membership because its unlimited towing for free :) Yeah...makes me smile. Well i missed my nutirtion class and ended up hanging out with a really cool tow truck guy named Stacey. I think he was one of he nicest people i have meet in RL in a long time...RL is the Second Life (SL) term for Real Life. Ohhhhh damn that game!!!

I went to my Astronmy class just to find out it actually started on Monday....go figure. But the class does seem like it will be mighty difficult and i like the teacher. Has a PHD in Astromy so you know he is nuts right???

Yesterday -$480.00 i now have my car back and it is running fine. Turns out it was alot of things but not the alternator that was messing up. And free of charge i now have new windsheild wippers. Sweet people at Meineke. I worked all day yesterday and today slept and slept and now am at work watching people set up for the babyshower that will be this afternoon in the training room. OHHH Nikki darling you miss out on the yummy today.

Tonight its SL and maybe some swimming. I am far to addicted to that game...and i like it. MORPG's are really great for those of you who haven't tried them...don't. If you like having a life please never go near them. I use to have a life. I use to run and play outside with all the other children...but now my soul is sucked away and here i am with a new identidy running around like a cat, and owner of my own Art Gallery in a virtual world...ohh it doesn't sound bad at all does it?

Work this weekend and perhaps next week shall be better. Not sure..just hoping.

I am out with the quickness.

Okay so there was alot fo drama with the whole going back to school thing for a few weeks in my summer. As it turns out i will be living in Columbia and commuting. BUT i only have classes Monday and Wednesday. Sooooo not so bad. And i get to keep my job i am working at right now. So again...not so bad. I will be taking Sculpture and Human Nutirion at Winthrop then driving home grabing a sandwhich and going to Stellar Astronomy at Midlands Tech. Soooo i should be out of my classes by 10pm. Yeah...kinda sucks but its better then the other alternatives. SOOOOO if you need to find me then my cell will be the best option...or SecondLife seems that seems to be where i spend the most time.

So this week I have devoted to working-out, going to bed at a decent hour, and searching for the Grad Schools i plan to apply to. So far I have University of Alaska at Fairbanks, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Twin Cities). Each school has its own things that is attracting me. Alaska has the climate and a very indepth study of Native American art and the traditional practicing. Colorado has the Rockies and a beautiful campus with culture and diversity, Minnesota...well it has cold weather and also cultural diversity. And i have some relatives in Minnesota. But i think i will narrow keep searching all this week and next. Find the 3 or 4 i will apply to and get that stuff in gear. I have to apply before January to start next fall. And i need letters and such for the schools. Plus once i apply if i get accepted i will have to visit the campus's. Now that part i look forward to. :)

In other news, Yesterday i got to hang out with Leaslie. She is starting her teaching career in just a week or so. I know she will do a wonderful job. She sent out an e-mail to other teachers trying to help me find Bun Bun a new home. I guess its for the best. So if anyone would like to take a very well behaved and loving rabbit from me...I will be giving cage and all with her.

I loved my job so far this week. A trim man working at my boss's house tried to ask me out on a date. That was funny because he has 2 sons, 13 and 14. So its a no. But it was still nice! And then at her house she has had the most adorable painters comming in. The head painter Luis Sanchez has the most beautiful eyes. SOOOOOOOOOOO yummy. He will be back to paint more on Monday. I look forward to it!

Well thats a random update. Yup Yup! Ohh and Friday i will be in Rock Hill for an hour or two. I have to get somethings from Professor Simpson and so does Heather so we are carpooling up. Whoot. I miss Heather. She and i sometime this week are going to go to Mello Mushroom for some sub she has told me about. YUMMMMMMM.

Okay well that is it for the very short update. Until next time.

"When you realize you are a dream character in someone elses dream, that is self-awareness"