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I just got interviewed by the Muskegon Chronicle about student loans. :) I had a lot to say... I've got $28,000 in loans, and my estimated repayment is $120,000. Three years of college under my belt, and the best job I can find is $8 an hour as a cleaning lady.. Graduated in the top of my class out of high school, got accepted to Michigan States most competitive program without even writing an essay. And here I am.
I really hope some of what I had to say can help people in high school or just starting out in college to have an idea of the bigger picture. I want children, I can't afford it. I want to move out of state: Can't afford that either. Hell, my food comes from food pantries because I don't have money to go to the grocery store. And if I had just gotten out of high school, done the two week training program as a nurse aid, and done that until now when school is paid for by a Pell grant, I'd be on much better ground. Rather then spending all that time, money, effort on school that's gotten me no where but a general associates. You know what you can do with an Associates of Applied Art and Science? The same thing you can do with a high school diploma, damn near nothing.
Oh well, I'm slowly and finally figuring stuff out now. I am going for the Nurse Aid training, and am going to use that to go to school again and not have to worry about gas money to get there. I'm still not sure exactly what I want to do, but I'm older and wiser; and I've realized that your career is about the money you make, not doing what you're passionate about (unless you're one of the lucky few who can make good money doing what you like). I sound so jaded, but it's the truth. I've set myself back a long ways from where I want to be due to the choices I've made all on my own. I could be starting a family now if I had been wiser to start with.. But all in good time, and no matter what I won't have kids until I have the money to do it right. I want to be able to vacation with my children, to buy all the cute baby stuff.. To send them to summer camp in their teens if they want to go. And there's only one way to do that, and that's to wait. So waiting I am, and hopefully I've learned a few things a long the way and I can do it right this time.
Ah well. I've got to get going, hope this didn't depress anyone too much.. :-P
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My horse, My Golden Girl, passed away on the third of this month. It was unexpected and difficult, but I am slowly healing. It was for the best, she was in a lot of pain and there was nothing that could be done anymore to alleviate it.
I had her for 12 years. I know I will see her again, and she will always be in my memories.
Maynard, my iguana, passed away on the seventh of this month. (trust me, it was a rough week.) He was my first reptile, and inspired me to do the work I now do with rescue and rehabilitation of reptiles and exotics. I owned him three and a half years. He finally succumbed to a long bought with what we believe was cancer, we did our best for him and he went peacefully.
I only hope that he has a rain forest all to himself, with plenty of bananas (his favorite food) and some nice female iguanas. I can't wait to see him again, healthy now.
I am considering a career change.. I've been working towards a bachelors in zoology to become an animal caretaker at a zoo.. But after considering the very low salary and my overall life goals, I've decided to leave that goal behind for now. I think in the meantime I'm going to become a respiratory therapist, it's a two year program but I've already done all the pre-reqs so it will be shorter for me. And the salary starts out at almost 13,000 more a year then zookeeper wage. I want to have children, we want to move out of state, and eventually we plan on travel to Africa, Thailand, and South America, to name a few. If I want to be able to do those things comfortably, I need to consider the money to get there. I refuse to raise my child/children in the circumstances I see many of my friends in. And thus, we have to be able to provide more for them.
Current events: I'm watching my parents house while they're away on vacation, hence the update. My female bearded dragon laid eggs, but non were viable.. But now I know she's old enough, and they can lay multiple clutches in a season. So I've got an incubator ready, and hopefully I can get some babies to hatch. I'm tired, and although there's much more, I'll end here.
Blessed be and hope all is well for any who read this.
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Well I don't remember the last time I updated this, so..
Ben and I married on Jan. 16th. It was wonderful, just what I wanted, and everything's going very well.
We're looking at moving to Williamsburg, Virginia in about a year. I'm hoping to get a job there at Busch Gardens while I work on my Bachlors in zoology, and Ben can get a good resteraunt job there. Plus, it's warm!! :)
The main reason I'm updating is this:::
If anyone reading my journal still knows or sees Mike Calkins, please let me know how he's doing. I've been dreaming about him a lot lately, and I'd just like to know he's doing okay.
So that's about it for now. My current email is iamx88@aol.com if anyone wants to chat.
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Tonight's my last night working here, so I probobly won't update for a while. Yay! Last night of 13 hour days that I've been working all this and last week.
Ben and I really need a roomate.. If anyone that reads this knows someone who needs a place to stay near Spring Lake whom has a job, car, isn't psycho, and won't do drugs in my home.. Have 'em call me. 231-206-3561
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Quick story.. Ben called me to tell me about this.
Dobi is 14 weeks old. He's a baby. As such, he enjoys chasing his tail, and occasionally laying on his back biting at his foot and his tail.. Well, he was doing this earlier and his foot and his tail kept getting away from him...
So he bit his own nuts.
And held on, while he was yipping, for about 3 seconds.
Oof. Don't think he'll do that again.
He's okay, no swelling or anything. And they just dropped last week, so he probobley didn't really realize they were there before today.
But I really question why he held on. ??
Poor puppy.
Thanks to you guys for replying!
Rachel, I'm really surprised at all that! I didn't see it coming at all. But I'm glad things are back on track for you now. Is Ev still in Cali then? I assume you're back here, considering you mentioned your parents.
Later everyone..
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Well, I had two replies to the last entry.. And since I'm not going to go back and read the last six months of anyone else's entries, could you guys post a reply giving me a short 'run down' of what's going on in your lives?
Updating this isn't going to be a regular thing, it's just something I'm doing while I'm pulling these 13 hour work days that I did most of last week and am doing all of this week. I have internet here, so I'm doing this.
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Well, I do reptile rescue now.
Ben and I are getting married in the spring.
I have a ton of critters, including my puppy whom I'm in love with.
Looking for full time work.
Wondering if anyone will even read this.
I live in Spring Lake now.
And I'm at work, and need to get off the computer.
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I just had a dramaticlly spooky thing happen.
Our dog Cooper is being boarded at a rescue in North Muskegon. My dog Jazzmyn was there as well, but escaped in November and I've not been able to find her yet.
Earlier today Shirly, who is boarding Coop, called to say he had gotten loose. By the time I got there they had caught him, but Heather was with me and had mentioned that dog ster ranch, a huge boarding/grooming/training facility was nearby. So she and I went up there to ask if they recognized Jazzmyn, if anyone had brought her in for anything. (I'm positive at this point that someone found her and decided to keep her) They didn't recognize her, so Heather and I went back to spend time with Coop and afterwards I brought her back to her place.
I went in for a while and was sitting around talking with her when her almost-three year old son, Ezra, climbed on her lap, looked right at her, and said, "Where's Jazzmyn?" Now, for background, Ezra met Jazz once, about 4 or 5 months ago. (the house we lived in at the time was tan, for reference later on in this) He fell in love with her, calling her 'my Jazzmyn' when he didn't even refer to his own dogs at home that way. So they had a link.
When he said that, we all fell silent. None of us had said a word about the fact that we had gone to ask about Jazz; only that we had gone looking for Cooper. So that, out of the blue, was spooky enough. Heather looked at Ezra and said, "I don't know, where is Jazzmyn?" And Ezra proceded to tell her that he had dreamed about her and knew where she was. She was in the backyard of a blue house, and she wanted in because she was supposed to be inside. He said there was snow all over. He then said that she was trying to get her socks, and her socks were perscription.
Jazzmyn has severe food allergies, which cause sores on her feet. At the time that Ezra had met her, she was doing well and had no sores because she was on the right food. But before we got her on that food, we had tried the most common solution to fix the problem; which is a vet perscribed ointment put on the sores and covering the feet with socks held up with a rubber band. We weren't able to do it though, because as soon as she went outside she'd pull the socks off with her teeth. But Ezra had no way of knowing that, and not even Heather had known that...
So Ezra knows where Jazzmyn is now. I'm going to go around in the morning to vets offices and show them pictures of her, ask if they remember her coming in to be treated for foot sores. And if I get nothing from that, Heather and I are going to get Ezra in the car Sunday or Monday and drive around the area Jazz was lost from, and see if Ezra can tell us where she is.
It's spooky, it's overwhelming. But it gives me some new hope, for sure..
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I need a different job. Badly. I know this is a bit of a joke in this state with our current economy, but anyone know of any openings? |
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Here's a poem I wrote for english for our writing portfolio. We didn't have to follow a style, so I just wrote.
Please read it not for my style and correctness, but for the meaning, if you care to read it at all. The meaning is all I put in to it, and all I wrote it for, nothing more.
My Little Girl
Snow white girl, soft and gentle-
Snow white girl, alone in the cold.
My snow white girl is now so alone,
I pray to my snow white girl, be bold, be bold.
She may be lost, and she may be afraid.
She may be having the time of her life.
Snow white girl, I'd gladly take your place,
I'd be alone and cold, if I could know, you were safe.
When I first saw you, you knew nothing of me,
I gazed at your picture and knew you were mine.
When I came and I took you, you knew nothing of me,
But of all those I'd seen, to me only you held a shine.
I fear, little girl, that I made the wrong choice.
I fear that without me, you would still be okay.
Where you may be now, I've no way to know,
'Ere you be better now, even happy, or alone in the snow.
If only I could speak this language to you,
So that you may know something of me.
Of how I care, fear, of how I regret,
That I took you from safety and brought you to me. |
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