• People who drive too fast or too slow on snowy/icy roads
• People who don't know how to yield at a yield sign
• People who tailgate me and it's not my fuckin fault traffic is slow
• People who BRAKE for no fucking reason when they are merging onto the highway
• Semi drivers who drive too fast on a cloverleaf and their trailer is suddenly only on the ground with half its wheels and it looks like it's going to roll over on top me (or it does roll over, just not in my personal experience)
• The cuntish neighbor that blasts her shit all the fucking time
• When someone brakes WAY before the turn lane on the main road. There's a turn lane for a reason. Fucking DUH. (Same applies for an exit on the highway)
• People who tailgate on snowy/icy roads. Can't you tell you shouldn't be doing that?! Grow some brain cells
• People who obviously can't drive and talk on their phone at the same time. Or, talk to the passenger(s). There are people who can successfully do these things while driving...if you can't, you shouldn't.
• People who drive across two lanes of oncoming traffic to make a left turn when it's snowing (forcing one or both drivers to brake too heavily, causing a fishtail and/or accident)
• When a cashier is not accepting cash so they direct you to a different line when you get up there and you could have done that 10 minutes ago
• When someone turns onto the road right in front of me and I'm going 50mph
• When I'm hungry and I have no snacks at home
• When people don't know how to drive properly in stop and go traffic. Stop slamming on the brakes all the time and instead, keep a bit of space and gradually brake
• When there's two turn lanes onto the freeway and the douchebag cuts me off and takes up both lanes then speeds up slow and enters the freeway at 50mph in the 70mph zone where people may be going 70-80mph or more
• Vacuuming the stairs. My goddamn back hurts
• When clothes get stuck in spaces in the dryer things and they have to get pulled out and have extra time in the dryer
• When the washing machine stops working properly
• When a clothes hanger snaps because I have too many purses on it
• Not being able to find all my purses. Where the fuck are they?!
• When the binding in my school book breaks and pages fall out. It doesn't look right when you tape pages back in a book
• Buying the wrong color bronzer
• When a bracelet doesn't turn out as I'd envisioned
• Cleaning my room only to have it a disaster days later. There's just not enough space for everything here and I feel like I continually through shit away
• Dying my hair and finding out I missed spots
• Getting hair dye everywhere
• Even though I have an alarm on my phone every day to take my birth control, I frequently forget to take it (like today). Goddamnit

Yes. This list is long and not even complete. A lot of things piss me off. I have a short fuse and I'm quick to anger. When I get mad my mouth has frequent flier miles on foul language. I'm an Aries, it's only to be expected. While a lot of things make me mad, I'm generally not an angry person. It's just instances when I get mad, and rarely do I stay mad for very long

I have to go rinse out my hair, but I just have to say I think I'm dying. I've been cleaning non stop for like 2 hours and I'm shaking. Oh well. I'll make a protein shake and keep on keepin on lol.

I have to wake up super early in the morning and I can't frickin sleep!!!!! I drank sleepytime tea at about 8:40, and so I tried going to sleep at 9:40. I slept for about 20 minutes, and woke up, and I've been awake in bed ever since. I have to wake up at 6am, and I don't know how well I'll fare with my appointment with the hearing officer tomorrow morning at 8:30. Is that the same as being in a court room?!? I don't know. I got a parking violation that I'm contesting, because I bought my tabs 2 days before the ticket, they just weren't on my car yet.

Anyway, this really blows. I don't wanna be tired for that!! I think it will have to be a Caribou morning.

You can totally tell. Just saying.

Haha I just thought it was appropriate, being Valentine's Day and all

I'm worried. As most of you (or some of you) know, I was laid off in December. Of course, I'm getting unemployment. I don't know if I will be able to get extensions on it. At the same time I heard that we were getting laid off, I sent in an application to go to Metro State University. I was accepted in less than 24 hours, and I'm currently in my first semester there. Thankfully, my credits from when I went to school before transferred, so I don't need to complete as many credits as I would if I was starting fresh in college.

The Dislocated Worker Program of Minnesota may help people who were laid off pay for school. Normally, that's just for short training programs. However, the program could pay all or most of the cost of tuition and books. I just read, though, that for "long term" training assistance, the degree needs to be earned in 2 years. I don't even know if that would be possible.

I don't even know what degree I want. If I can get this approved, I will have to live on unemployment and student loans. If I can't get this approved, I will have to find a full time job in addition to going to school. The point of me not getting a job right now is because a full time job means I no longer qualify to be in the Dislocated Worker Program. And the only reason I want to be in it is for help paying for school. The application is intense. You have to lay out the finances for your entire household, apparently, so that means I would have to work with my dad on the bills he pays and everything. Even though he has never helped financially since I've been out of high school. I pay him rent and I even buy my own groceries. I pay all my own bills.

Anyway. I've just been really worried about this. Every week I request unemployment benefits I see my available funds dwindle, and I don't know what to do.

I haven't been sleeping well at all. Last night I went to bed at 1:40am, couldn't fall asleep until 3. I woke up 5-6 times, and woke up at 7. I was up for a couple hours and then I slept again until 11am. There are nights I wake up 10-15 times in the middle of the night. I hope this sleeplessness doesn't effect my school work. I am on my way to a 4.0 for this semester, and I don't want to ruin that. Ironically, the last chapter we went over in psych class was on sleeping and dreaming. Speaking of psych class, I have to read 2 chapters for class tomorrow night. Thank god this exam is a take home exam!

These are the first four pieces I've made. Would you buy any of them? I'm going to expand my bead collection so I can make more designs and with other colors. The one with the pendant is a necklace, the other three are bracelets.

So my boyfriend is coming to town next weekend. Earlier in the weekend, I texted my dad while he was at work and asked him if Nick could stay here. My dad texted back, "We will have to discuss." I asked him what there is to discuss. He didn't answer. So tonight, I asked him again if Nick can stay here. This is how the conversation went.

Dad: Will he be sleeping in the same bed?

Me: Yeah, I would assume so.

Dad: Are you going to sleep head to toe?

Me: What?! No.

Dad: *silence*

Me: So I'm waiting for an answer.

Dad: I'm waiting for the right answer!

Me: Umm, okay, I will pass it along to Nick that we have to sleep head to toe.

Dad: No hanky-panky.

Me: What??

Dad: No hanky-panky in the house.

Me: omg are you serious?

Dad: Put yourself in my shoes.

Me: Soooo, can he stay here?

Dad: The answer is yeah, if there's no hanky-panky.

Obviously, I found this conversation hilarious. Here I am, nearly 26 years old, and my dad says no "hanky-panky" while my boyfriend is in the house

Try, try again.

How many times have I rode the healthy train only to fall off? I am not even sure.

A long time ago, probably like a year or something, I tried P90X. I did it for about 2 weeks before I gave up. During the summer, I tried Herbalife. I gave that up because it was too expensive and I couldn't afford it anymore with all the mounting debt and interest I was paying on that debt.

Now, I bought some Herbalife again, and starting tomorrow (well, today...), I'm going to try Herbalife and P90X, together. Something has to happen here. It just has to. I'm going to buy a regular sized notebook, and keep track of my weight, everything I eat, and all the exercising I do, every day (and with P90X, that's going to be a lot....). I'm going to do this, and I will succeed this time.

I can, not I'll try.

The last time I went grocery shopping, I bought chicken, oranges, grapefruit, green and orange bell pepper, green onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, grapefruit juice, flavored water (with NO calories or sugar!!), cracked wheat bread, frozen veggies, and maybe a couple other things. But nothing unhealthy. I felt proud of myself. However, when I go grocery shopping, I rarely buy junk food anyway. I normally don't buy sweets or chips or cookies or any of that crap. Anyway, tomorrow starts a new day

I know I haven't been around Xanga lately...

But anyway, I wanted to talk about getting good grades. What's your personal goal? I've taken 2 exams and 1 quiz so far (in human origins, we take short quizzes instead of exams). For the 2 exams, I've gotten 46/50 and 32/35. For the quiz, I got 14/15. That may seem great to some people, but for me that doesn't seem good enough. Am I trying to push myself beyond my means? I know it's not realistic, but what I want is nothing less than perfect. I would have liked to ace those tests. It's possible, just not probable.

Nonetheless, those results are all A's. But to me, that's just not good enough. Am I being completely delusional? I would like to ace at least one. Our next psychology exam is a take-home exam, so maybe that's my chance to get 100%. Not saying that I won't study for it just because I can take it home and use my book, but I will definitely study my ass off for it.

Anyway, what kinds of grades and test scores are you satisfied with?