Sorry Guys...

So I know it has been what seems like forever since I have written something on here...but this past week and a half has been one interesting time.


For one, I never got last week's week in mail done. I'm sorry....I know. I am horrible at remembering things and when you tend to live life in the moment (which I do quite often) then some things just get pushed to the side.


Over last weekend, I was working at my camp that I work at sometimes. I was a 2 on 1 which means there were 2 campers that were my whole responsibility which I like a lot because I don't have to worry about a whole cabin and all. But I'm not used to being a 2 on 1 so I was always watching everyone anyway. 


Other than an incident with the camp llama (which really is a hilarious story that I have told SO many times...all is well now) it was an uneventful weekend. I love weekends at camp because, yes, it is hard work, but I have so much fun. And sometimes it's so nice to get away from the city (even though I'm pretty sure I'm SUCH a city girl now!)


Then Monday night I was officially recertified in CPR and my friend Luna had her gull bladder (aka named Charlie) taken out (aka KILLED) and I was so happy for her.


Tuesday I was SICK OUT OF MY MIND. I got out of my Cognitive midterm, and lost my whole stomach into the toilet (sorry for the visual) and spent the next 24-36ish hours living off of gatorade and pepto bismol. I slept a lot, sometimes in the bathroom to ensure a mess free experience, but I was sick.


I finally woke up this morning and was HUNGRY! Like my stomach was like "FEED ME!" So I did. And I can't wait to go home and eat some more. I did eat a little yesterday and it stayed down, but it was nothing near my normal eating habits. Quite interesting.


And I failed my Cognitive Psychology midterm...but I don't care...BWAHAHAHAHA!!!


Yeah...I'm in one of those crazy "moods" again!

Week in Mail: Week #2 1/31-2/5

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This week was a pretty lonely mail week here...mail wasn't delivered for a couple days because of the snow storm...

This is the State/city park card I got from a swap I did.

This is the card that I got from my friend NikoGoddess for the Me & a Friend Postcard swap.

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I sent out a lot more mail though.

My Harry Potter ATC for a swap I did

I did a "Pay it Forward 2011" on Facebook. This is the homemade things I sent my friend John. Include a magazine envelope, 2 postcards and an ATC.

The Pay It Forward I sent to Luna. 2 postcards and an ATC

The card I sent Katrina, just to brighten her day!

The Pay It Forward I sent to my friend Jamisa. A magazine envelope, 2 postcards and a mini-zine

Postcard I sent out to Erin for pay it forward.

Penpal letter I sent out to my friend Sara in New Jersey.

I also sent out 3 homemade postcards for a swap and a pen-pal letter to my friend Lynn in California.

what A CRAZY Night!

So...for all of you to know, I will have my mail post up later today. I have all the pics, I just didn't get it written out.


SO...last night was such a crazy night.


I have my first responder's class. In that class, we were working on patient assessments which includes checking someone ever from head to toe to try to figure out what could be wrong if you are in an emergency situation. So he told us to partner up for the class. So I was looking around and really hot guy (which is what I will call him for the purpose of this blog) was like, "you wanna be my partner?"


Well...I had to hide my excitement. So we practiced our patient assessments. All I'll say is that really hot guy has some really nice muscles.


Anyway...so we get back into class and we start talking about airways. We were talking about different ways to deliver oxygen to different patients if needed. You know, the tubes in the nose, etc. And he gets to the "rebreather" which if you are not in the medical field, it's the one that goes over the face and has the bag that the paramedic squeezes that helps you breathe.


He pops a new one of out a bag, hooks of the oxygen and asks if someone wants to try it out. We didn't think he was serious for one. But he kept looking around and I was like, why not? So up I walk to the front of the class and he explains that he is going to put this over my face and tell me when to take a breath and he is going to assist me in breathing.


It took 5 breaths...and I was extremely relaxed. The prof took the mask off my face and asked how I felt. All I could say in a dreamy voice was "pretty good." The class laughed. He said that after about 3 breaths, he felt me relax and said that if he kept going, I might have fallen asleep and woken up after the class was over.


Yes...I got high from oxygen last night. GOOOOOOOOD times...


So my night wasn't over yet. I look at my phone and Abijah had called me. Her and Tanisha were supposed to go see a concert last night and I expected them to be gone by the time that I got out of class. So I call her back and she asks, "Is Tanisha with you?" I said, "No." "Well I've been waiting for her down here for a half hour and she won't answer my phone calls or texts."


I felt that there was something wrong.


So I try calling her. No answer. So I call my RA Stephon and ask him to knock on the door. So he knocked several time. No answer.


So I start to freak out. What if something had happened? What if she was hurt? So here I was, high on oxygen, and my adrenaline starts rushing like crazy. I start booking it out of the White building and take the 15 minute run in like 5 minutes, rush into the building and get on the elevator...which of course a ton of other people got on and I had to stop on almost all the floors. I burst into the room and notice that it's really quiet. Her stuff is there, her coat on the couch, her purse on the floor. I walk into her room and take a quick look. Then i went and checked all the rooms in the apartment. No one was there. So I start yelling her name. After the 5th time of yelling I hear a small, "yeah..."


She was asleep. But I thought she was in trouble so I was ready to save her if I had to. She didn't realize how late it was, but got ready and left for the concert which was near by anyway.


For the rest of the night I relaxed and was EXHAUSTED by the time that 11 came around. It was probably because I came down from the oxygen, the adrenaline was done and I had run like a mad woman.


But everything was fine. And I slept like a baby last night.

Snowpocalypse 2011

So Michigan survived this storm that we had gotten so much news coverage over.


By last Thursday, I knew "it" was coming. By Monday, the whole state was freaking out about the largeness of the storm. By Monday night, we were calling the storm "Snowicane," "Snowpocalypse" and even "Snowmageddon." Food was flying off of store shelves as people thought they would be buried for weeks.

Here is yesterday at noonish...it was still snowing up a storm!

Overnight, the Flint are received almost 14 inches of snow. 

So I was OFF of school for the last 2 days.  We were basically buried. No mail was delivered and hardly any cars fared the roads. We didn't leave yesterday at all. It was quite wonderful. I spent most of yesterday in my pajamas!

And what did I spend most of my time doing...sleeping!

Sleep has been wonderful.

Here are so more pics from friends:

My aunt Rosalie took this pic on her farm today. 

This is my friend Terri's car, I wonder if she could get out?

This is my friend Alisha's car. eee gads!

My friend Emily and her dorm friends built this huge igloo yesterday at Eastern Michigan University. Great way to spend their time, thats for sure!

What A Day!

So yesterday was an interesting day for me.


I don't know if it was the mood I woke up in, but everything just was interesting to me. For one, I woke up just after 11. I had GREAT sleep and the sun was shining through my window and I smiled.


I went downstairs and signed my new lease for next year. So I know where I will be living for the next year and a half, that makes me happy. Even though I am moving into a friends house for the summer, I'll be glad to be there because of spending a lot of time at camp. I'll be moving off the 11th floor :( and into a room with a study on the 5th floor. Even though it is lower, It will be nice to have more room.


Then I went over and got some lunch. One of my friends had given me a coupon for Subway which gave me a $5 Chicken, Bacon, Ranch...aka my FAVORITE sub EVER! So I was happy. So I had my yummy sub and some cookies from the pizza place next to Subway (they make amazing cookies that are warm, and gooey and amazing!)


After that, I went BACK to my room because I forgot a folder and then ended up talking downstairs with Keisha that works at the front desk during the day. She really is a cool person. Then, looking at my iPod, I was almost late for band and went on a across campus dash to French Hall.


In band, we played this new piece that...well...was so confusing. So here I am, with the solo clarinet part and I'm freaking out because I have all these parts that aren't in anyone elses part...and I was like AHHHH!!! It was a tad overwhelming. Really, the piece is interesting and really cool sounding, but at the same time, it was really hard!


So getting out of band, I have to walk across the river to the white building. A long walk really. So I was listening to a new CD I downloaded after seeing Linkin Park in concert. I am in LOVE with the band Pendulum and on the CD, there is 2 songs that really meld into one called "The Island (Dawn)" and "The Island (Dusk)." So as I was walking in the cold, windy weather, I was choreographing a video in my head. If I could actually make it come true, it would be really cool.

This is the river I had to cross and the building in the far right behind the tree is the white building.

All day dreaming aside, I didn't realize I was actually in the White building until I began to warm up. Heading up to the computer lab, I ended up sitting behind someone who had the school computer and their own laptop on at the same time. On the school computer was homework, on his computer was WoW. Yup, he was playing World of Warcraft and ignoring homework...wonder who's gonna fail?


After hanging out with my friend Kevin, I was off to my First Responder's class. So everything was going fine until we got the autopsy video.


I have never been that squeamish, and you would think having a medical class where you'll be dealing with many injuries in the field, you need to NOT be squeamish. So here is this dead body, lying there on this old video (it was a VHS tape...that old) and nothing was "opened." A little blood could be seen through the slices in the chest. Everything was going well until the woman on the video said, "And lets look into the chest cavity." She suddenly opened the chest, opened it much like a book and there was the heart and lungs, just lying there. 


This is when the woman in front of me, who isn't a small person, passed right out backwards and pushed the table into me and me back into the table behind me. In essence, I was stuck momentarily. The professor rushed back in and well, she was fine, just not feeling good because of the video. The nice thing about having a paramedic as a professor, well he was able to check both of us out and find that we were all right. I have a small bruise on my abdomen today...ouch! Needless to say, she dropped the class last night.


So I'm walking home. And it's cold. But I was listening to some more Pendulum and it was all right. Some people think I'm crazy but I enjoy walking home at night, by myself. If God wills that I am to be killed, I don't care. I was supposed to die YEARS ago.


So I get home and the elevator was freaking out. I just wanted to go up to the 11th floor, but no, the door wouldn't close for like 10 minutes THEN went down to the basement (which it isn't supposed to go to). So we're sitting in the elevator in the basement...good times. 


It finally went up and I was home Scott free.


Sadly...last night a good family friend passed away. Tom Daley was a wonderful person and knew me when I was engaged very well. He was best friends with my fiancee. He was in a farming accident on Sunday and had some major brain damage. Last night, he saved many lives as his organs were still intact and were donated to families all over the country.


Now to prepare for "SNOWPOCALYPSE 2011..." I'm calling it "Snowurricane 2011." Either way we are expecting anywhere between 8 and 15 inches of snow tonight. My school is closed as of 4 tonight and all day tomorrow and has been since this morning...it hasn't even started to snow.


But I should get off...I'm supposed to be learning about the lymphatic system in my Health Psychology class right now =/

PROJECT HEAVEN!!!

So being the crazy person I am, I am working on a million projects at one time...most of them swap-bot related.


Projects done/working on over this weekend

• Harry Potter ATC for the Meet Me at Platform 9 3/4 Swap on swap-bot. This swap is complete (YAY!) and the ATC is ready to be mailed out on Monday. First ATC I've ever made and  I think it turned out great!
• Eleanor Rigby ATC for the Beatles Lyrics ATC #2 Swap on swap-bot. I have an idea in my head of what I want to do, lets see if that actually happens!
• I also did a "Pay it forward 2011" homemade gift post on Facebook at the beginning of the month. For the first 5 people to post, they would get something handmade from me. I'm working on different things right now.
• John Argue: He will be receiving an envelope with several handmade postcards, a handmade magazine envelope, and possibly an ATC or something. He is a friend from high school that now lives in Texas, I believe this is going to be a big surprise for him!
• Erin Graebert: I'm going to surprise her with a postcard at school...she just doesn't know it yet XD
• Jamisa: I'm going to stuff an envelope for her as well :)
• Luna: Well...she reads my blog...and so I don't want to give away any surprises!
• I sadly didn't get a 5th person who wanted to do it....so if any readers want something handmade...let me know your address and I will send something magical your way!
• I wrote a ton of entries for my Music and Lyrics Journal Swap on Swap-bot. I am at entry 24 of 30...but I plan on having more than 30 :). This is a swap I made about using music and how it triggers memories. It has been interesting working on the journal and going down memory lane.
• I also wrote up my life story for another one of my swaps I'm hosting: Your Story! I sat down the other night with some Pendulum pumping in my ears and typed like a mad woman! When I looked up after being done, 3 hours had gone by and I had written 11 pages, and 6000 words exactly. But I learned a lot about myself in the process. I can't wait to send it off for someone to read and take in. I have had such an interesting life!
• I also have 2 pen-pal letters to write to go out Monday. One for my friend Lynn in California and another for my friend Sara in New Jersey!

As you see....I have a lot of not quite done projects, but I'm working on it!

Amelia's Mailbox Week #1 1/24-1/31

Here's my first week in photographing my mail! 


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 Got this delightful postcard as a part of a swap I did on Swap-bot. It was Quotecard Postcard #44. This lovely card has 2 quotes actually and I thought both of them were rather awesome!

 Another quotecard postcard. This one says "Do not argue with an idiot. He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience." It made me laugh, but well all know it is SO true!

 This lovely card is from LR McArthur who lives in Georgia. She is someone who found me on sendsomething.net. She is doing a project of sending a postcard every Monday. This one was sent on MLK Day and has a picture of his tomb. The quote, "The quality, not the longevity of one's life is what is important." MLK Jr.

This was a lovely card from Sarah in Nova Scotia. She wrote all over this card and then on the front and back of 3 more note cards. It was an introductory letter as she found me on sendsomething. I believe it is the beginning of a mail friendship :)

 This postcard was from Fast Eyes, a sendsomething friend I have been exchanging mail with over the past couple months.

These three are from my penpal I got through swap-both, Sara. She lives in New Jersey! I thought everything about this litter was adorable and I loved the picture at the end. She told me about her music tastes and a little more about her husband. She calls herself the "Goth Barbie."

This last one I received today. It is from my friend Lynn who lives in Califronia. She works for the government and told me how her week has been. I love the old stamps she used to make postage. She sent me some old "lick it, stick it" stamps with my last letter. 


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This was a quick little card I sent out to Fast Eyes. I think they are cute :)

This postcard was sent off to Nancy as part of a swap I was doing on swap-bot. It is a really old postcard (about 40 years old) and was part of the local/state/national park PC swap I was in. 

This was a letter I sent off to my cousin Mary that I used to live with. I told her what has been going on with my life and such. The envelope is handmade, it is actually a magazine ad from Seventeen Magazine.

Not Pictured :(

(I guess I was too excited that I forgot to take a picture of them before putting them in the box...)

I sent a letter off as part of my "A Letter To Someone Else 2" Swap. It went off to someone in Illinois. I actually wrote to letters, one to an old love and one to a family member that shall not be mentioned.

I also sent an introductory pen-pal letter to a girl in Conneticut. I made another magazine envelope for that one.

A letter was sent to LR McArthur. 

Another letter was sent off to Sarah from Nova Scotia in another magazine envelope.