Food Poisoning + Drinking a Bottle of Vodka = Horrendousness. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do this.

Quick Facts 2011

Its the end of the year, and as I insinuated with the Beauty and the Beast post, I have changed a bit in the past year. In fact, I have grown quite a bit, and I am happy for that.

1. I got to play softball again with no restrictions besides wearing an ankle brace. 
2. I lost in the polls to Angela Wiley, yet somehow managed to get my spot back in CSG
3. I got an on campus job
4. Ian and I broke up, and got back together
5. I gained a little brother by the name of Corey Weese
6. I lost a roommate, and then got a single
7. I gained a few bestfriends
8. I lost some friends from home. 
9. I managed to not get pregnant(hey I am from akron where there is something in the water apparently so safe sexual practices work for this)
10. I became an obsessive hockey fan. 
11. With that, I found two favorite players.(29, and 58)
12. I attended my first Pens Game, and my first Chatham Hockey Game
13. I did practically all of Alex's rehab during the fall ball season
14. Somehow I managed to pass calc with a b
15. I started two organizations on campus
16. I got my list figured out for grad school
17. My booski and I managed to not run into anything(big achievement there)
18. I turned 21!
19. I began to learn that I am prettier(and in better shape) than I think I am.
20. I learned that through my injury, that I did not let my teammates down, letting them down would mean not working my ass off to come back. 
21. I finally got to wear heels for the first time in two years

Though that list is only 21 items long, there is so much more that I got to do and experience just in this past year, and I know the list will only grow in 2012. I am one semester away from being a senior, and you know what? I cannot wait for it. Not because I cannot wait to graduate, but because I cannot wait for all the new experiences that lie ahead, especially with my friends at hand, and my life in pittsburgh just beginning. Oh thats right, I never formally announced that once I graduate, I am going to become a permanent resident of the 'burgh.

Yours Truly
La

Dear Santa

Dear Santa

I know I went psycho in the early part of the year, and I know I haven’t exactly been good, but if you could give me a break seeing as I am in college, and technically because of that and experimentation allowed to be naughty, I would be grateful, and loving, and a perfect angel next year.
What is my list you ask, well…

• An escape from Physics
• Death to Statistics
• Fleury and Letang Jerseys(one in the black, one in the white)
• Fleury and Letang in general
• a Penguins stanley cup final win
• Ian to get a job, and succeed in school(I know, asking a lot there, but seriously, let my boy succeed)
• My family to go a day without fighting and hating each other(I know, another hard one to do between my extended family)
• A healthy Hockey Team
• Julianne to no longer get hit in the face in basketball
• A Softball team making it to playoffs, and coming at least in 4th place in the PAC
• my team to not get frustrated and spread it around at practice/games.
• Cory, Holly, Ian, mom, dad, and friends to stay safe and healthy.

I know its a lot to ask for, but if even just one of those things happens(like a fleury in my stocking for example), I will be a very happy female.
Thank You
La

There Must Be More Than This Provencial Life

Or at least, thats what I said to myself every day I was in Akron. Yep, I can relate the first 18 years of life to beauty and the beast. Bookworm? Check. Jerk ass douchebag trying to get with me? Check. Beastly man who has my heart, Check. Crazy father who spends too much time fixing things and being stressed, check. Sure, I have my mother, but this isn't disney.

Everything is always the same, and honestly, whenever I am at home, everything is the same. Ellet kicks everyones asses at softball, my neighborhood never changes, the stores never change, routines never change, friends never change, and honestly, I feel as though Akron is locked in time. Nothing ever changes, Mayor Don is never going to leave, East will never have a chance at softball, Akron U will spend money on the failing sports and not on Soccer(which our soccer team is a-feaking-mazing. World Championship, you would never know we had one). People constantly getting pregnant(seriously, too many girls who graduated with me already have one child, some have another on the way), and the system for getting in for internships is still the same. aka, If you do not go to akron U, you do not get any.

Even my friends there have not changed too much. All still have pretty much the same problems, and honestly, there has to be more than that. There has to be.

And there is, once you get out of Akron, everything changes. I have heard that from the others who were in my graduating class and got out. You change, you grow, you adapt, and you learn that though your home has a hold on you because of your family, that if they really want you to suceed, that they get you out of there. That's why I want to live here once I graduate. Its why I want to leave Ohio, and only visit it once in a while. I do not want to be where everything stays the same. I want to be where the waters always changing, ever flowing(yep I just got you with Pocahontas). Home is where the heart is so they say, but home is where you are happy, and honestly, I am not happy in Akron, I am happy in Pittsburgh. Though my family and some of my closest friends are in Akron, its not my home, not anymore.

You have to change, you have to adapt, and you have to grow. You have to take the risk and go somewhere that you may not like, just to get out and experience something new. I am ever grateful that I took the plunge to go to an all girls school in Pittsburgh, I doubt I could be any happier than I am when I am here. I would still be grateful even if I hadn't taken the plunge. I am grateful for my family for nudging me out here, and helping me be happier, healthier, and better than I would have been if I had stayed in Akron.

Thankful for each and every one of you
La(in pittsburgh), Lo(at home)

Sassy not Skanky

Going out tonight, looking sassy rather than skanky. No holy heels tonight, as I do plan on getting close to trashed. Having the hockey game on right now is amazing, even though flower isnt in the goal, its Johnson’s 300th game and I think he deserves it. Its nights like these that I wish my camera hadn’t broke in my backpack. It was in a case, and yet it still got a really bad pressure crack on the screen, so even though it will take pics, I have no clue if they will come out. Here’s to celebrating my 21st with jules(my lab partner in crime, and partner for life), and alex(yeah, the leftie who will probably die to stress from a right handed object). I love my life until next week.