who? What? Where? When? WHY????

There's been so much goin on in my life lately, sometimes i forget what im doing and where im going in my life. when i started at JWU my 1st i knew i wanted to accomplish my associates degree in culinary arts, i really stopped thinking about my bachelors degree until today when i saw my counselor and he told me it was time to think about what i was going to do. I decided to go with two more years of culinary,which means more labs, more classes, more work, more everything. Im really excited though because i get to graduate in may and get my associates degree, it just means alot to me. Now that i figured school out, i can work on my personal life. My #1 goal outside of school was getting out of my shoebox apt. For all of you that have been to my apartment or have seen pictures or even have followed along through my months of being upset or heard about me getting woken up at 7am because of kids screaming, you knew this change was coming and well it finally got here. I was able to look at another apartment with 3 other girls, and it sooo close to school, i couldn't ask for anything better. It's stepped away from my job, i say it's awesome and works out so well for me. Im also just a few blocks away from dan's house :-). No more shoebox. and in this new apt. i have a closet. thats all i really need to say. :-)

with that said and done, i'm on my way to moving my stuff in really soon. when i get settled in, i can actually have people over to just hang out because we have a living room which is huge. im really excited. It's a step in the right direction, well not for my landlord who just lost me and the people upstairs... but is that my problem. NO!!! lol. all and all things are just the same everyweek. i work 25 hours at the convience store.. and 40 at cafe commons! there long weeks, but i just starting to realize and understand they will pay off. it's good to know im going in the right direction and not the wrong one.

as for little man, he is currently living on dan's ironing board because there's something wrong with my heat ( for the past week) and it's hot as hell in my apt. he is really content at dans because nobody bothers him or annoys him. He sleeps all day and plays all night. I know he is excited for my new apartment, because he didn't like it in the shoebox either. I do see my little friend is concerned about the fact one of my new roomates has a cat, but he won't have to meet the him/her. i will make sure of that. little man has been everywhere, he travels to jersey, to rhode island, to dan's, to kelly's. He's a cutie... everyone loves him. But kelly loves him the mostesttt :-)

Hanukkah @ the Reich's

so this year, Haukkah was at dan's house. Im always skeptical of going to things for other religions that i don't understand. I seem to have gotten sucked into aunt gidgets life because i was at her son's bar mitzvah and i was at Hanukkah last year... but i hide my confusion so well. I was thoroughly confused at the bar mitzvah, and very confused last year at hanukkah.. but this year seemed to be a little easier, with less prayers and more food lol. Im not a fan of latka's but wendy made a really good chicken salad so i was able to enjoy good food while everyone else ate salmon. We also had a extra person added to our group, Jill's best friend alex. Oh god did lexi have a field day with him, she barked and growled at him for hours. I just remember the first day meeting that sweet little ruby baby, she growled at me for a few hours too. all day alex would walk in and out of the house, and ruby was growl and bark at him. the puppies did get a liking to him by the end of the night, lukie was being buddy buddy him as well. Idk how i feel about that. Luke and i, were best friends, well after dan and him, but still. i don't share my fuzzy friend. :-) after all the latka's were done, everyone was able to sit down and watch a movie. we all watched dark knight, what a great movie. until everyone started showing up, we had to put the sound level up really high, but all and all it was a great day and night.Aunt sue was able to show up, because the night before joey her pup was sick so she couldnt make it to the farm. I miss going to the reich's and i miss the pups when were at school. you kinda get attached to well all of them after a while :-) i look forward to my visits there.. i was a little upset that i won't get to see mommy reich before heading back to school.... but you know what that means, her and aunt sue will have to make another ri trip again. you never know.

Christmas on the Farm

Here we have Huey who belongs to Heidi and Dan's Uncle John.. this horse always seems to win over everyones hearts. I never really hung out with huey before.. but seems to be a very big deal. With that in mind, i figure y not go check it out, he reminded me of "Mr Ed" that old tv show. So in order to get some laughs outta people, which i tend to do. Wendy ( dan's mom) decided to go over to huey, so i stood behind her and pretended to talk to her like Huey was talking to her. "hey wendy.. i see ya got sum carrots" wanna share sum of them with me? i think if anything i made myself laugh the hardest. im such a clown sometimes, but now i see what the big deal is, he's cute. Although i wasn't able to bring huey in, i brought one of his friends into the stable, RED. we talked the whole way there. it was a good time. I really enjoy going to the farm, dan has a wonderful yet crazy family. whats not to enjoy!!! Aunt gidget talks about how they used to have like 5 minute showers? whats that nonsense, i spend about 1/2 hour-45 minutes in the shower. It's like a suna for me!!! Uncle John always puts me to work with whatever's going on, i was able to cut up the roast and a huge ass steak! wawaweewow! Sitting down to dinner with the whole family, it makes me wish i had a big family like that. I used to, but i lost them when i was so young, so while everyone went to there aunt and uncles. i wasn't doing that. It's just alot of spirt and happiness when getting together with all of them, i always tell dan to be really appreciative of ur silly aunts and crazy uncles. i love them all. Overall it was very special christmas with alot of amazing people and funny stories to tell. We had creeper dan taking pictures of everyone and zooming in on people, what a peeping tom.. but i do love him

here we have me and dan in front of the xmas tree at my house

Looking forward to next christmas