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The other day I walked in from class to a box sitting on the couch. I had no idea what it was as I wasn’t expecting anything. I glanced at the return address and saw that it was from my mom and then wonder what the heck she had sent. I got the box cutter, cut open the box and looked inside; she had sent my new credit card…I guess mine is getting ready to expire, my tweezers that I left there when I went home for Christmas and two sets of sheets – one for my brother and one for me. I was like, umm ok, this is weird because she’d normally tell me that she was sending something and I didn’t have a clue as to why she sent sheets! Apparently, she told my brother about it but he never told me…oh well. I like getting mail either way, it makes me happy.

It has been a little over a week since I sprained my right wrist and I’m still having some issues using that hand. I don’t need to wear a brace anymore and it doesn’t hurt in an overall general sense, but to pick things up like a glass of water or to get the jug of milk out of the fridge is difficult. I can’t put a lot of weigh or pressure on it so it makes it difficult to do somethings still especially at work. I have to have someone help me with getting the kids up on the changing table for diaper changes as the weight of them on my wrist hurts. Other than that, I have nothing to complain about as far as I know it has healed correctly. There are still some areas that if I push on them that are sore and I am assuming the tissue/bone underneath is still bruised. I can’t wait until I can use it fully because getting help to do things is very annoying and very uncomfortable.

In other news, I am about a month and a half away from graduating with my degree in Psychology. I seriously cannot wait. I want a full time job, something that pays decent money that will allow me to go out on the weekends if I want too without worrying about going broke. I miss doing that…being able to go to the movies or shopping once in awhile, which I haven’t done in forever. I also hate having to depend partially  on my mom for money for certain bills like the car insurance and what not. It’ll also be nice to pay off my credit cards too…I have two that need to be paid down. I have many jobs that I am going to apply for when the time comes so I hope it won’t take long to find something.

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Apple preinstalls a program called Bootcamp on their MacBook Pro’s and with the help of this program you are able to install a copy of Windows XP on your laptop along with the Mac OS. Well, last night I decided I wanted to install Windows XP so that I could play Ragnarok Online (a game I haven’t played in years!). I opened up Bootcamp, created a partition like it told me too, and inserted the Windows XP as instructed and went on my way. The setup for Windows started and I preceded to go through the installation just like I would have on a regular Windows based desktop. Well…it won’t install and after awhile, I gave up only to realize that somehow, somewhere, my Mac OS had been deleted…erased, along with all my files. I don’t know what the hell happened but I lost everything I had which wasn’t much. Luckily, I have all my pictures on my camera memory card so the only thing I really lost was my class notes. I got the Mac OS reinstalled last night and have spent the afternoon reinstalling programs…it sucks.

On another note, I need to get some kind of personal budget software to help me get back on track with my finances. They have been up and down and all around the last couple of months and I just can’t seem to get back to where I was in terms of how much money stays in the bank. Not only that, but when I was trying to install Windows last night I realized I couldn’t find the serial number for my copy of XP so I booted up my desktop to get it off the text file saved on the desktop. Yeah…my desktop now won’t load up Windows. It goes to the black screen that gives you the option to boot in safe mode, last working configuration or normal and it just stalls and doesn’t do anything. I’ll most likely reformat it as I haven’t used it in ages (at least since I got my laptop) but now I know for sure I need a new desktop. I hope I can get one soon!

So here I am trying to do my best at typing with a sprained wrist. Yup, you heard right a sprained wrist but not just any sprained wrist – it is my right one which is the hand I use for everything inlcuding writing! I was heading out for the day on Wednesday morning when I tried walking across a small part of the sidewalk to get to the snow. Our sidewalk in front of the apartment has been a sheet of ice since the last snow/ice storm we had and I knew it was only a matter of time before I fell. So I figured I’d just  walk through the snow to avoid any kind of accident; yeah…that didn’t happen. I’m not sure what happened exactly as it all happened so fast but I fell forward and I assume I put my hands out to catch my fall. I just remember lying there and screaming ow ow ow and saying fuck really loud. A guy across the way saw me and yelled are you ok? at which point I told him yes; I’m not the one to ask for help…I had to sit there for a few moments as it had knocked the wind out of me and a wave of nausea came over.

Eventually, I managed to pull my body into the snow so that I could stand up without falling again but couldn’t put any pressure on my right hand. I carried myself and my things to my car, called my mom and told her I thought I sprained my wrist and started to cry in pain. It was the worse thing I had ever felt in a long time! I managed to drive myself to the campus health center where I was able to see a doctor in urgent care, get xrays done, and get a hard splint/cast. Nothing showed up as being broken or torn or fractured, but I have to go back next week to have them look at it again and do more xrays if it is still bothering me. At this point, I am not to worried about it. I still have some pain/discomfort when it is moved a certain way but I went and replaced the hard bracer for a softer shorter one so I could actually use my hand more. The swelling as gone down as well so now it is just a matter of getting the muscle to not be so tight. For now I’m more worried about how hungry I’ve been and how I’m going to need lots of effective weight loss pills in order to lose what I’ve gained since this happened. I’m sure it’s a combination of being slightly cripple and having had my period start the same day that’s got me eating like a pig. Ugh.

I think I’ve decided on a domain name, which I won’t annouce yet just in case someone decides to steal it, but I have to wait until I get paid to order it. I also think I am going to get separate hosting for it since Surpass was holding a special for the month of February; I’ll have to see if it’s still available, otherwise I’ll have to see how much it’ll cost to add the second domain onto the package I have. I can’t wait to have a new domain where everything is personal blogging and photos and a place that is free of adipex side effects reviews. It shall be fun.

I have been wanting to lose weight. It is one of those things that I constantly talk about doing but never do. I’ve looked at various weight loss products thinking and hoping that maybe they will make a magic pill; I know it’ll never happen, we all know this but we can hope right? And then recently I heard about a product that Jillian Michaels from the Biggest Loser promotes as it has her name on it and how people were saying that an ingredient in the product caused X amount of health problems. I believe it, I mean no diet pill has ever been deemed safe. Hell even the Alli pill that is FDA approved is now being said to cause liver damage over time. I guess we can all hope that one day a magic pill will be created to help us all lose weight more easily and effectively but it won’t come without costs.