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My sister Suson and her 3 kids aren’t here yet and since she left at 6am this morning and I know about how long it takes to get from mississippi to oklahoma I am really starting to worry about her because of all the stress I just hope that it didn’t send her into early labor or anything else because we’ve been trying to call her all day and she has yet to answer. We don’t know if it’s just because all the cell lines are jamed down there because of the evacuation or if she doesn’t have a car charger and her phone died or what. Because one thing we do know is if the phone was ringing and she was driving one of the kids would answer it because even her six year old knows how to answer her cell phone. I don’t know how long it would have taken her to get through the contraflow this morning or anything but I do know one thing and that is that it shouldn’t have slowed her down this much. Maybe a couple of hours because of traffic and because of having to stop a lot to go to the bathroom with her being so far along and also having three kids in the car and her being the only person that can drive. But anyways, it’s just got me really worried about her. We’ve never been super close because she is six years older then me but she is my sister and they are my nieces and nephew. It would just make me feel so much better if she would call or if she would just show up already because then I would know she was out of harms way and if she went into labor that we don’t live that far from a hospital and that she would at least have us there even if my brother in law is stuck riding out the storm in a shelter because of his job. Anyways, that’s all for now.
So, It’s not effecting me persay but it is my sister who lives in Ocean Springs, MS. They have madatory evacuation’s set for tommorrow morning 7am. It gets even more interesting when you add in that she was stil living in a FEMA trailer from Katrina even though it happened 3 years ago almost to the day when Gustav is set to make landfall in the states. My sister is pretty sure she won’t have anything to go back to and want makes it worse is my brother in law is a lineman with the power company so his job depends on going were the power is out, so he isn’t evacuating with here. What I hope is that she makes it here to Oklahoma ok. I mean today she packed up everything she owns and she’s leaving at 6am tommorrow morning with her 3 kids. I just hope all the stress of this situation doesn’t send her into early labor because when she went to the doctor a couple of days ago they said that even though she’s 8 months along that the baby only weights something around 4 lbs and that when he’s born he won’t be able to hold his own body weight and will have to stay in the hospital for a while even if he is born on his due date of October 25th. She told my mom she’s not sure how long she’s gonna need to stay here because by brother in law is going to be on the job all over Lousiana and Mississippi after the storm is over for a 2 or 3 months, maybe longer depending on the amount of damage that is done by the storm. Anyways, that’s all for now.
Ok, So I missed class yesterday because I’m really sick. Problem is I can’t keep missing because I have to keep a 90% attendance rate because of my financal aid. I’m going to class today. But my back is killing me because of all the books. I have 2 bags I carry around all day. I’m not one to grap but they get pretty heavy considering one is a good 3 inches thick. I’ve been super busy keeping up on homework that I haven’t really had time to continue on my job hunt. I mean my mom will let me stay at home as long as I want. I just want my independance away from my huge disfunctional drama filled family. I know they would all understand. I mean I’ll be 20 yrs. old in less then a month it’s my own right to want to be on my own. I guess in a way I feel bad about wanting to leave because of the health problems by dad has and my sister has and all the help my mom needs with them and my little brother because of his disability. But I have to leave some time sooner or later. They all have to have known it was bond to happen sooner or later. I just want it to be sooner. Anyways, I’m really starting to get to know the other people in class with me, and they all seem like really good people. I just keep being reminded that college is nothing like high school or job corps or even both of them put together. Anyways, that’s the update for now.
Weekends at my house tend to be very boring. I’ve spent that last couple of days watching the 24/7 feed of big brother 10. By time yesterday was over I knew more about it then what most people do that just watch the show on CBS 3 times a week. But it’s only because the show only has 1 live episode a week and it’s when the they evict someone on Thursdays…Plus the whole episode that day isn’t live just the eviction…So if you watch big brother after dark on showtime or the 24/7 feed you can find out who is up for eviction and who has won the power-of-veto a couple of days before you would on CBS..Anyways, last night when I started to write my paper for class is seems like ever person who has my phone number decided to call me. First Caity called and when I finally got her off the phone a good 20 or 30 minutes later, Jeremy decided to call and get his weekly update on how my life is going for me, then he said he was gonna let me go so he could talk to his girlfriend before they called curfew and then Christina calls and talks for 30 to 45 minutes about my brother calling her. And then just when I finally think I will get to finish my paper my old roommate Kayla calls and wants me to go hang out with her at the lake. I explained to her I had a paper due on Monday and that I also really wasn’t in the mood to hang out at the lake. One of the main reasons being that I got my wallet stolen yesterday, and I had a major melt down. It’s not that there was a lot of money in it or anything, it’s just now I have to get a new drivers liesense, ssn card, insurance card and voter registration card. Plus I have to explain to the school tommorrow that I can only show them a copy of my id to pick up my books because of it getting stolen and not being able to replace of said stuff until next week or later because it depends on how long it takes me to find my birth certificate or if I have to take a trip down to OKC to pick up another on. It’s more annoying then anything, because the truth is no one wants my credit anyways. I defalted on a credit card when I was 18 which makes me have uberly bad credit in most peoples eyes. Anyways, that’s the update for now.
So, I started school on Thursday. It’s pretty much what I excpected except for I have to go buy books on Monday and one of the books we use all year cost around $90 and another one costs $87. It’s times like these that I’m very thankful that I have financal aid and don’t have to pay for books. I met some really nice people that are in class with me. I’m just glad college is nothing like job corps or high school. Which I guess would be one in the same because job corps is like high school, except for it’s 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. It’s stressful, and they used to have something to help that called stress leave but when I was there they decided that people we abusing it saying they needed to leave because of stress just to find a way out of job corps. Now they only have the usual Medical Leave and something called Admistrative Leave, which you don’t want to be on. It’s the one where you don’t choose to go on leave. If you get into really bad trouble and they send you home while they decide what to do with you, it’s basically the high school eqivelant of suspension, and they also have emergancy leave, which you only get if you have a family emergancy or someone in your imediate family dies. Plus they have AWOL, Absent without leave, it basically means what it says you left without getting permisson from anyone. You can only get 3 Awols in a row before they terminate you or you can get something like 15 in a year in 1 or 2 day incramintes. I know the rules don’t make a whole lot of sense, and even if you send as much time there as I did, you’ll still never understand why they have some of them, you just follow them anyways. Anyways, that’s the update for now.
Ok, so BeckieBaristia tagged her readers to make a mosaic so that she could get to know them better.
The questions:
1. What is your name?
2. What is your favourite food?
3. Which school did you attend?
4. What is your favourite colour?
5. Which celebrity do you consider to be your favourite?
6. Your favourite drink?
7. Your dream holiday?
8. What do you want to be when you grow up?
9. What’s your favourite dessert?
10. What do you value most in life?
11. One word to describe you?
12. Your blog’s name?
The answers
1. Sasha
2. BBQ Chicken Wings
3. Guthrie Job Corps
4. Pink
5. Drew Barrymore
6. Mountian Dew
7. Salt Lake City
8. Doctor
9. Strawberry Shortcake
10. Love
11. Unique
12. Sashas Weblog
The Rules:
Open the Mosaic Maker. Then choose 3 columns and 4 rows. Go to the Flickr search page and search your answers to the questions below. Choose a photo on the first page only, open it and copy the URL into the appropriate line of the Mosaic page. When done with all 12 lines, SAVE to your chosen directory (probably My Pictures) and upload it to your posting.
So, hope I did a good job. This is deffinatly a good way to get to know your readers and it was a good idea.
So, I start school in a couple of days and I’ve yet to find another job. On a brighter note, I got a suprising phone call a couple of days ago from Robin, one of my good friends from job corps. I hadn’t talked to her in a long time and I found out why. She left job corps a couple of months ago and until a couple days ago she had lost my phone number. But she said that she found it when she finally unpacked the rest of her stuff from when she left job corps. She only lives about 20 or 30 miles from me, which I knew but she said she’s tired of living with her mom but that she’s just like me and can’t really afford to move out. She asked me if I wanted to save money up and rent an apartment with her because it would be easier for both of us if we only had to spilt the bills. Plus she wants to go to the college her in Ponca but she can’t afford to drive back and forth everyday. I told that it sounded like a good idea, because ever since I had my miscarrige my mom treats me different. I’m not sure why she just does. It’s weird but everything has been changing more over the last couple of weeks then it did the entire year i was at job corps. Me and Caity were best friends when I left job corps back in March but every since I told her mom about what she had been planning she just kind of stopped acting like me and her are best friends. I knew when I told her mom that she was gonna be mad for a little bit but I thought she would get over it eventually. I guess she still might it just changed things I guess. Jeremy finally got a girlfriend and lost his major crush on Caity, not saying this change is bad, actually it’s a good thing because I’ve been working on getting him to lose it for months. Hardly ever even talk to Danielle and Cowboy, it’s probably because they’re so busy with work and everything. Me and Robin are better friends now then we were at job corps. I mean when she first got there we were really good friends, then she dated Chris and it changed everything, because it got me to thinking, what kind of a friend would date your ex-boyfriend and not even tell you. She promised me she would never date any of my ex’s and it just kinda hurt to have her break a promise to me. It actually hurt more then the fact that I wasn’t exactly over Chris at the time that she dated him. What’s wierd is now that both of us are soo over him. He’s the one inside joke me and her have that none of our other friends would ever understand. Me and her are the only two girl’s at job corps who understand because in order to understand it you would have to have dated Chris P. It’s wierd that the one thing that almost cost us our friendship is the one thing we laugh about the most now. Anyways, that’s the update for now.
Sorry about not updating..but with school fixing to start I have been really busy. I also have to find another job because Sykes didn’t want to work around the fact that in less then 2 weeks I go back to school, WHICH means I have to go part-time. I guess it made them made. To make a very long story short, they pointed me out even though I hadn’t missed any days. So, looking for another job has added more onto the normal busyness that I would have right before school started. Anyways, Caity has it stuck in her head that her mom is going to sign the papers so that she can join the army in 4 months which would be about 3 months before she turns 18, which me knowing how her mom is, she may say that she will now but in four months it is SO not going to happen, she is just saying what she thinks Caity wants to hear, in order for her to be quite about her making her go back to school in college. Anyways, my mom and me went clothes shopping yesterday and ended up spending roughly $300. Not saying we don’t shop a lot but I totally think we went way over board. She’s just uber excited because I’m one of the few people in my family to actually go to college. I guess it’s kind of suprising in a way, that is if you don’t know much about how the people in my family work. Anyways, this the update for now. I’ll try and update more often…
