Kelly Marie

I finally got to Houston this past weekend to meet my beautiful niece. She is so amazing! She has the funniest little faces and so much personality. I can't believe that she is eventually going to grow into a real person one day. She is so small and vulnerable now, it seems impossible that any of us were actually like this. The good news is that she has alot of people looking out for her. Anyways, I really just fell in love.
I will post pictures on her web page ASAP.

HOLD

Being on hold sucks! I am really annoyed right now, however the good news is that we have neat technology like speakerphones. Yippy! This way I don't end up with a crick in my neck. Multitasking is fun!

oooh!!! Not on hold anymore, more later

Happy Merry!

Time is Running Out

I am so stressed! I can't believe all that I have going on at school right now. All I do is homework, research, and menial tasks for my TA position.

I am determined, however, to get on top of things. I've been letting myself fall behind in some of my studies and that actually makes me pretty grumpy. Why is it that we do so many things that make us feel bad about ourselves our what we are doing? Mostly its an attitude thing I guess, but sometimes it is really hard to have a good attitude.

Not much else to say now, I have to go to class.

Timing is Everything

Last night I spent a good hour chatting up with Lisa, my step-sister for those of you who don't know her. I really love talking with her because she is the most "real" person I know. No bullshit, just the facts, and a snazzy way of getting the point across. I really admire so much of what Lisa has done with her life, although it hasn't always been easy, she has done it all for herself and on her own. It was really great to shmooze about the parents, men, and life in general.

I've been at school for a few hours today. I've been working for about an hour with Dr. Mookrjee on our paper for the conference. He has been slowly but surely removing duties from my workload so as to prevent me from freaking out. Basically, I've gone from having 4 research project to 2 in about 2 days. YIPPY!!!

Happy Merry!

Destroying Self-Destructive Habits

So I don't know what the deal is, I have finally destroyed my ridiculous tendency to create problems for myself....at least for today. Why is it that we can manage to make life so much more complicated than it already is? How many times have you found yourself freaking about something that is totally insiginificant? I have to stop myself daily....

Anyways, last weekend I spent most of the weekend being a total spaz! Ed and I took a short trip from couple-dom, mostly do to my temporary dimensia, and the weekend was truly miserable...when I wasn't out with friends that is.

On Friday night I had a fantastic girl's night out with Beth and Amanda. We talked about Jack, off and on again, which was definitely a "new experience" for Amanda. We went down to Greenville and hung out near the Blue Goose at the Dubliner and Stan's Blue note. (By the by, Stan's Blue Note has awesome drink specials!)

So which are the self-destructive habits... out drinkning away my worries, or overexaggerating the supposed problems in my relationship. I don't know which is worse.

My new goal is to be totally productive, in school, life and love. I am hoping to open new doors into understanding what is really driving my life and stay focused and fufilled by those things. Only when life slows down do I even begin to think about anything that I might be missing out on. So, this is my new goal. I hope you will all join me in really trying to be fufilled. I also hope that this blog can be part of the method to the madness. I mean by sharing daily experiences we can really get better in touch with our selves and our goals.

Happy Merry!

Relief

My midterm is at last over, although sadly I did not get to go to Houston this past weekend. I've been sick all week and didn't want to get anyone sick.

Instead of going to Houston together, Mom and I spent a really nice afternoon together up in McKinney's Downtown square. We looked at antiques and ate lunch at "The Opera House". The food was really scrumptious I would recommend it to anyone.

Before I move on to Saturday, let me jump back to Thursday night. During the Post exam Euphoria I headed out to a club with some of my friends from the PhD. Monica, Seungwon, and Dirk joined me for a fun and frivolous evening at Time Square. I had never been there before (which is really weird because it is about 3 minutes from my house.) I truly realized my lameness when I discovered that both Dirk (a guy in the finance PhD from Germany) and Monica ( a fellow IS PhD from India) had both been to this club before. I mean really, I've lived here my entire life and I haven't made it there...Dirk has only been here since August and I think he knows of more cool places than me.

Sadly, the dimensia could not continue. Just before we left for the club, I found out one of my very dear friends, Shweta, was in the hospital here in Plano. On Friday, Monica and I were able to go visit her, and we discovered that here condition was much improved. We were really worried not only for our friend but because she is a few months pregnant with her first baby. She is still not fully recovered and I am thinking of her condition and hoping for improvement soon.

FYI Erica and I have discussed having a Halloween party...any interest?