I hate school. Is that a crime? Half way through sixth grade it all lost meaning to me. I enjoyed eigth grade because it was the last year I was with all my friends. Then we got split up between three different high schools. I went to Bound Brook High School which I really liked. I made a few new friends, but at the end of my freshmen year we moved to crummy North Brunswick. I finally graduated from this stupid school though so I'm happy! And college has been much nicer to me. I like the freedom of college. I also like that the teachers don't harass you about stuff and leave it up to you to earn your grades. I'm semi-enjoying school now which is good.
Cross country is fun and I was the captain my senior year by default because I'm the only senior girl on the team. I must have scared them all away! LOL! My best time ever was 21:23. I did that at my very last meet in high school which I also finished first place in. Of course even though I am a great runner, there are still many people who hate me. Not so much out of jealousy, but more that they all think they are better than me, which they aren't! There were two junior girls (who shall remain nameless, they know who they are) who thought they could be better captains than me, which they probably could. I've never been given the chance to be a leader so I don't know what to do with myself! I've actually been doing pretty well with my running. We went to the Blue Ribbon invitational and I got third place and our team scored third place too. We also got tenth place in the GMC's out of eighteen teams and I got 30th place out of about 130 girls in the varsity race. I don't think that's too bad! My time was 22:32 in that race. In state's I finished 38th place in our group and my time was 22:26. I got really good at the end of the season even though the hills were killers.
Okay, now for my jobs. I had a very interesting job for a while working for a mobile vaccination clinic for cats and dogs at a place called Luv My Pet. We basically went to different Petcos and New Jersey Pet stores in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and vaccinate peoples' pets. I was a cashier and a customer service representative (sometimes at the same time!) and I also tech sometimes. I also did office work during the week. I was really sad though because Jill, my boss and one of the greatest people in the world, and Danielle, one of my co-workers who is like a mom to me, left! They were just moving on with their lives. Part of the reason I liked this job so much was because the people who work there were awesome, but my two favorites left and we got more and more slackers. After four years, the people who work there really changed and I disagreed with almost everything the company was doing. I left my beloved first job in March 2004, but not without finding my boyfriend a year before that. I got two good things out of that job, knowledge about animals and my boyfriend.
I have a second job though. I'm an intern at Bristol-Myers Squibb in New Brunswick. They're paying me $10 per hour which is $2.50 cents more than I'm making at my other job. This job is ok. Here I just file stuff and do boring things that no one else has time for. Oh well! At least I have a job and I have the change to get good promotions in the future!
My third job is working at Petco in Milltown, NJ. I decided to apply to Petco because I was familiar with the stores from working at Luv My Pet and I liked working with animals. I have some great co-workers there who are actually my age. I'm used to working with people who are older than me. I plan on staying at this job for a while and bringing home lots of animals. lol!
I'm not really that interesting of a person. One of the main things in my life are my pets. My house has a dog (Dodger (m) the golden retriever mix), two cats (Chessie the faded calico and Cuddles the tabby (both f)), and a million fish. All my animals have intersting stories behind them and we've actually had a few others that aren't with us anymore. My parakeet Kiwi and my sister's parakeet Tweety were the two sweetest birds, but they died. Kiwi was my little acrobat and she always had the cutest look on her face. Tweety was friendly and loved to sing along with whatever I was listening to, though his favorite cd's were by PFR. Then we had Topaz, our cockatiel first pet. We also had a cockatiel named Binky who I stole from one of my ex-boyfriends. I miss my birdies. :( We also had a whole house of hamsters at one point, but I'm not a fan of the small animals.
Something else I'm into is my Beanie Babies. I have about a million of them. That's pretty sad, right! Here are some pictures of my favorites.
The main focus of my life right now is finishing school, which I'll hopefully do in May 2005. I'm trying to focus on that as much as I can cuz I want to get good grades and keep up my good GPA. I've been on the dean's list four semesters so far and I'd like that to continue. After school, I spend the most time at work. Working two jobs does take up a lot of time. I have to keep working though so I can make money and move out. I want my own apartment so bad right now. I just need a little place to call my own. And after school and work, I spend all my spare time with Scott. We usually sit around and do nothing, but after working so hard that's sometimes all I want to do. Someday we'll get married and have kids and live happily ever after, but for now we're stuck in the dating phase. sigh. That's ok though cuz I won't be ready to get married until school is out and he's all talking about joining the army and stuff. He really is the greatest guy I've ever met though. We have a lot of weird things in common (like mountain dew, animals, and working a lot), but we also have a lot of differences. We hardly ever fight though, and when we do we resolve it quickly. That's good cuz I hate fighting. I try to avoid all conflicts. We spend a lot of time sleeping though. After working as much as we do, that's all we feel like doing. I sleep much better when I'm with him and I think that's cuz he's my giant teddy bear. I'm a slight insomniac, but being with him relaxes me enough to knock me out. So, my life is surrounded with stress and I get depressed pretty often, but I still have one person in my life who can make me happy and momentarily take all my stress away. I don't know how I ever lived without him and I don't think I'd be able to survive if I ever lost him. And I know my family hates me for not ever being around, but I've spent my whole life making them happy and now I want to make myself happy. Why should I sit around the house bored out of my mind when I can hang out with my boyfriend? They get mad that I'm never home, but when I'm there they don't do anything and just start complaining that I'm never home. I'm not going to stay if the only thing they can ever do when I'm there is start fights.
Hey, have you checked out my Neopets page? Neopets are one of the coolest things on the internet and that is the website I spend the most time at. You should go get your own, but make sure you check out my page first!
I continued my running when I got to college. I ran cross country for two years at Middlesex County College as well as winter and spring track just during my freshman year. Again, I was the best runner on the team. It's hard being so good. My times weren't as good as in high school though and I started getting sick everytime I ran. My physical showed that my blood pressure was on the lower end of normal and distance running was probably dropping it low enough to make me sick. Anyways, I'm officially retired from running now which gives me more time for school and work.
