Stormy being a "devil cat"...haha...caught her yawning and she ALWAYS closes her eyes. I can NEVER get her to keep her little green eyes open when I take her picture.
Mike is learning to play my flute :). Oh the funny things I do to him :). One day at the vet, the vet tech was looking at him and called him a FEMALE! Shall I say that he was VERY insulted. He's the smallest out of the three--even smaller than Stormy! No wonder she called him a female :). HAHA.
Ike is in dad's shoe box. This is his "dreamy eyes" look he gets before he starts to massage us (somehow he doesn't massage grandpa (dad)--no clue why). oh and he drools BIG time by the way...he's been traumatized by not getting enough milk from his mommy I guess.
Finally, my pic of me in the Hanbok. Thanks to Korean Presbyterian Church this summer for allowing me to try it on and getting a picture in it.
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So I FINALLY managed to log on here and crash the blog. I looked back and have figured out that it's been almost a YEAR since I've been on here! Now what in the world is wrong with me??? Hmm..must be too busy with my Neopets, Facebook accounts and playing the apps on Facebook. *sighs* Well, I'll have to get back into the habit of getting on here and crashing the blog.
Enough said about that. I've been BUSY since I've last written. *sighs* Can life EVER be NOT busy??? I would just LOVE to have one week where it was STRESS free and massages, massages, massages! Oh wait, I still have a gift certificate to get one...*writes note to self to schedule the massage* Well, where should I start about my updates? I guess with work and college--bleh.
Well, I'm STILL at the HORRIBLE regional center. This youth are DRIVING me INSANE!!! It's a mirace that I don't come home every day and wind up on 7th floor at Mary Lanning (psychiatric ward). The little things they do to push my buttons and manipulation that takes place is ENOUGH to drive ANYONE crazy! Oh and talking about my job--it's HORRIBLE! If I start going on about it, you won't hear the end of it. So let's just say that management is horrible and that the rules and guidelines that are established are NEVER followed--especially by upper management (unit managers). It's horrible! I'm currently looking for another job and hoping that something will come along soon!
I had a job interview Thursday (17th) in Omaha at DHHS. I was interviewing for the 3-midnight position of a hotline intake person. I would answer the phones about possible cases of abuse and neglect. I would work Tuesday through Saturday. Do I think I got the job? NO. Do I KNOW I ddin't get the job? Yes. Gut instincts are ALWAYS right. Plus on top of that, I either don't get interviewed or if I do, I don't get the job. So why should I think that I will get this one? I know that I didn't. I wish I did though. I see that it was posted on DHHS JobMart Thursday for the same postion I interviewed for. So that clued me in that I didn't get it. Oh and the worse part of the interview was that I had to take a Watson-Glaser test seeing how my deductive reasoning skills are along with critical thinking and other crap. I took over 2 hours to complete it and everyone else around me was done before one and one-half hours. I HATE tests! But the writing portion I did VERY well on. Sorry, but I'm just good at writing :). I'll keep everyone posted--but it'll be two weeks before I know if I got the job for sure (which I didn't). It would be in Omaha at Project Harmony if I got it. Anyone know where that is in north Omaha????
School--well, I tried grad school and hated it. I hated UNK. I know I said I loved it at first, but I quickly learned to hate it. Once again, I did not fit in there and didn't feel like it was a good fit for me. I did not get accepted into the counseling program--which was the best for me. I went back to Doane College in Grand Island and am finishing my second bachelors degree. I WAS supposed to graduate this month, but I had an extension on senior seminar, so now I won't be finished until January. But it's all good. However, I had a fall out with my teacher this term and I was pissed. Sad thing is that she said that I'm getting a B in the class because one of my absences was unexcused for her, but yet she said that if we notified her prior to class that night, we would be excused. That is what she said the first night of class. Well, I e-mailed her and told her I wasn't going to be in class for the reasons I gave her and she said it was unexcused. Needless to say, she didn't get the best evaluation from me. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. She could have done better.
Senior seminar is progressing nicely. After being VERY shy about writing an autobiography about myself, I did do it. Jennifer said she wouldn't put it in my notebook. So hopefully she'll remember that. I'm just really shy about telling strangers stuff about me I guess. But my senior seminar topic is on Adult Korean Adoptees and their experiences growing up in the United States. I sent out a questionnaire and had some responses. Now I need to compile those so I can start working on them. I have to meet with my stats teacher tomorrow to help me figure out the statistics. What the goal of this project is to put together a resource for parents who are contemplating adoption, especially children from Korea and giving them an overview of some experiences of adult adoptees. I'm also doing my other research on what's out there already and how I can fix this problem. Fixing the problem is what we called it, however, it's not exactly right in my case. But it's progressing nicely and I will meet with my adviser one more time. Otherwise, I've only met with her 2 times. Usually I depend on LOTS of help to get this stuff done, but so far it's working nicely in my favor :).
I started sponsoring a child from Korea also through Holt. She's 14-years-old and lives at the Il San Center. I just wrote her a letter and am going to send her a picture of me in a hanbok. Oh yeah! That reminds me, I got to try on a Hanbok at the Holt Family Picnic this summer. I'll upload it on here. Anyway, I'll send out her letter tomorrow and I hope she will respond. I told her that I was adopted from Korea and that I would like to continue to learn about the culture. So we'll see! But other than that, I've only received one report on her. But I will get 3 a year. So it's all good :).
Well, I don't know what else there is to put up here. I think you all know about me searching for my birth mother and her being found, but she doesn't want anything to do with me. So yeah. If you don't know about it, let me know. I can tell you the story, but I think you all know. Sorry I don't remember. Been over a year since the search was completed.
Well, I better get running and compiling my questionnaire responses. So I will talk to you all later! I'll see if next time it's not almost a year before I crash the blog again. I might even upload some cat photos on here :). I LOVE my kitties!
