2.28.2008

trip/random thoughts

The rest of our trip was pretty great. Well... after I got done crying at Louis Benton because I was convinced the guy that poured our water was making fun of me. We went to bed early after that and woke up sunday to drive to east lansing. Andrew wanted to get part of the drive done but we were not quite ready to go home. So we picked a holiday inn and settled in for another night. We ordered pizza then went swimming (finally!) and we had the whole pool to ourselves. I had a great time and wore myself out in the short time we were there.

We made the 4:20 showing of be kind rewind at the IMAX. It was cool but I don't think it was any better than a regular movie theater. We went back to our hotel with a 6pack of michigan IPAs and ordered room service for dinner. It was not as good as the Hilton's and was a bit overpriced. We just hung out and watched tv and relaxed. It was a great time. the vacation i have been waiting for.

then it's back to reality. I got a call from Zoe and she wants me to watch the kids over the summer and she is willing to give me a raise. I really want to do it but i'm scared of ann getting mad that she has to schedule around something else. I guess it's enough notice- she doesn't want me to start until june.

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So i have come to the conclusion that i have no self-esteem. And I don't really know why. I don't feel like such a bad person most of the time. But I am excruciatingly sensitive. I get upset about everything. I don't like to be around people. Andrew's joking around really hurts my feelings and just a strange look from someone will make me burst into tears. It's not getting better.

Mom wants me to paint andy a picture for fixing my car but i haven't had any inspiration in years. I haven't done anything arty since my 2005 book. I don't feel creative.

I had a dream the other night that all my teeth were falling out. in chunks and some were crumbling and some were dangling there until i finally spit them out. It was like some weird game show. I was walking through my day at a really fast pace constantly feeling shards of teeth in my mouth that i had to spit out and explain to everyone i was seeing. I remember I looked in a mirror at one point and saw one hanging on for dear life and i was scared to pull it because i didn't want it to hurt. It finally fell out like the rest. The strangest part of all of this was that no one else could tell that i was losing my teeth until they saw me spit out pieces and even then all my teeth were still partially there and the part that was falling out was conveniently hidden.

I keep dreaming of dads house. it's exactly the same each time. the same colors, lightness, eerie feeling. different things happening each time. Am I homesick?

I should get to doing my homework. I think i'll have a cup of tea and get started.

2.23.2008

Ok so the last few days have been the best ever. and today tops it all. We are at the Hilton in Grand Rapids. We went to go the beerfest in grand rapids and we had to take a cab from our hotel to the event. Not a big deal except when we got there the guy at the gate was like... We're sold out of tickets- sorry. So he tells us to go up to will call and ask them because there might be a few extra. So we walk up to will call and ask and they say no of course. then some random girl tells us the guy in the blue hat has the tickets. And HE DOES. So we get our tickets and go in and get some beer right away. there are tons of breweries and we see matt and andrew sees some other guy from dunning that he knew and we get some good pictures.

It was a ton of fun until we go to get some food and warm up. We get separated and the food line (the ONLY food line) is like an hour long. so I try to find warmth and am unsuccessful then we use our last tokens and get a cab back to the hotel only to find that the hotel restaurant is under renovation. HAha. So we go back to the room. order crab stuffed mushrooms and cocktail shrimp and put in reservations to louis benton steakhouse. I'm so excited i could burst. I've had such a good weekend and we are about to go have some good food then go swimming in the hotel pool.

I really needed to get away from everything and this has been better than expected. Even the little disappointments didn't seem so bad. It is great to have MY andrew back. He's such a great person I just can't tell you. I'm so ready for some food. it's been a long cold day. :)

1.16.2008

this was a great night. i worked and it is getting to actually be fun. We made playdough ( it didn't go well) and sugar cookies that we decorated(that did go well) and then i came home and had some beer and andrew ordered jimmy johns and we have just been enjoying the night. then andrew says randomly, " i love you!" and i say "aw, I love you too" and it made me want to write it down to remember.


sheesh i feel so much better after a week and a half back on meds. i'm a dummy for not doing it sooner. my life has been pretty great for a while i just didn't realize it because i fixate on the bad shit.

tomorrow is an all class day which makes me happy then friday i spend all day with jesse. I am going to her school during the day then taking her and her sister home from pioneer and watching jesse while her mom and sam are at the dentist. it will be a really great day. I am so excited.

i need to finish my sandwich.

1.13.2008

whoa it's january 08

I made it through my first week of classes. Barely. I went monday to UHS to get back on prozac so I didnt sleep very well monday or tuesday night and wednesday I'm so exhausted that I decide to go home and take a nap before work. Bad idea of course. I wake up at 5 to 3 and i was supposed to be there at 2:30. I call ann and tell her i'll be there as soon as i can and as i hang up the phone i start crying my eyes out. I just cried the whole drive there. Then I try to tell her what happened and I start sobbing uncontrollably in front of her and jesse (the girl i work with) and can't stop until i force myself not to talk about or think about it anymore. I felt like a complete idiot and I'm sure it didn't help my cause any. I make it through the rest of the day and start getting a major headache as I'm helping jesse with her bath. It gets so bad on the way home that I think i might have to stop and close my eyes for a while but i make it home. I feel so terrible my whole head feels like it is going to explode. Luckily andrew reminds me of some vicadin in my purse and I take it and after an hour I feel a lot better. I slept good that night.

Thursday was just class and it was fun. friday i go into work in the babyroom at the daycare. Not a big deal normally i love to be in the baby room. no one told me there was a tour of prospective parents coming in. Ann the owner came in with them and started in on me the second she walked in the room. The first and most upsetting thing she did was tell me i was bouncing this girl too hard in the bouncer and that i was going to give her shaken baby syndrome (in front of these parents!) I was shocked I said sorry and stopped doing it but it made me look like an idiot. then she was like "you know you have to bleach these toys once a kid has had them in his mouth especially now when everyone is sick there used to be a bucket for dirty toys around here somewhere do you know where it is?" So i told her that i knew to take the toys and that we just put them in the same bucket with the dirty dishes - they go to the same place. She had to ask if i knew where the dirty dishes bucket was! it was ridiculous. Then she got mad because i put the wrong sheets on the bed because they were the only one's in the sheet bin. I didn't know that there were other ones. Come to find out after she leaves my room that someone else had put them in the blanket bin - who knew?! So i told the director that I didn't want to be scheduled anymore that i needed some time off. she said she understood and i was only working two half days there anyway. I'm kinda glad it will give me some extra time for homework and relaxing and maybe even doing some stuff for laurie that i've been meaning to do for almost a year now.

now i have to go do homework for this coming week so i can understand what's going on in my classes.

12.31.2007

byebye2007

The last time i had a year this eventful i wrote it all out into book form. it was my year-end therapy. I don't think i can describe the amount of torture this year has been into words and pictures. it's more feeling - fear and disappointment pushing against comfort and hope. it's a strange mix of feeling completely complacent and completely helpless.

Should i recap? why not. This is what new years is for isn't it? Here'goes...

started january with Iv antibiotics and plans for vietnam. Bittersweet nights being held close by andrew only to force myself onto a plane in early february hoping a change of scenery would brighten my mood and give my life a bit of purpose. I was scared of falling for him as hard as i did. I was scared that if i didn't leave he would. naive misguided thinking.

Vietnam was a disaster and a half. I think i'm doing ok for the first 2 days then i start to freak out. I can't eat or sleep or stop crying. all i can think about is how stupid i am for leaving my friends and family on some self righteous ego trip half way across the world. I'm scared of getting sick and more scared of going insane. So I demand to go home. After they force me to see a psychiatrist in order to buy my plane ticket i feel so relieved at the prospect of going home that i almost cried. not that i hadn't been crying the whole time anyway. I'm still upset about this whole fiasco. i'm a dumb-ass and i should know my limits by now. I should be medicated.

So i go home. My dad and uncle pick me up from the airport and i get home and smoke a fat joint and start gaining back some of the weight i lost on my short trip. I didn't get to see andrew right away. I was really excited to be home but i needed to see him. i needed to be in his arms. So then there was knights inn. Probably the absolute best 24 hours of my year. all we did was eat, smoke, have sex, and get lost in a strange town. I thought i was going to die from happiness.

I spend the next couple of weeks trying to find jobs either at home or in ann arbor. andrew convinces me to move up there with him and i do very willingly. I was grateful for the distraction and the help. especially the emotional support. I can't say it enough - but if it were not for andrew i probably wouldn't be here right now. He got me out of bed in time for work when i couldn't stop crying. He made me tea and poptarts while i sobbed in the bedroom. He pushed me out to my car on time day after day. He took me to lunch during long days at the daycare. he reassured me that i wasn't going crazy and that i was going to make it thought the day. Crying wont kill you. He helped me not quit my job. he helped me not ruin my life. he helped me recover from whatever it was that i was recovering from...

he helped me to learn to take care of myself. He also stood up for me. against anyone and everyone. Against the one person i thought would always be on my side. I don't know what happened exactly but during this mess i was calling my life i got some relief from andrew and amanda. amanda had helped me through 2005 which was almost as strange. I thought she would be there for me again but there was a lot of leftover hurt from the past that never got settled. It still hurts i'd rather not rehash all of the details but it's fair to say that it all ended in one stupid whore induced explosion. And andrew stuck by me. he didn't make excuses for me or overlook my mistakes. he knew how much i was struggling already and he knew that this was just one more thing to add to my list of tearful freak-outs called 2007.

More iv antibiotics as we are moving from alexas to the sublet on mckinley. I'm feeling tired and broken. i don't understand my life or what the fuck it is that i'm supposed to be doing. Then there is the dream. I walk into alexa's bathroom and look at myself in the mirror, brush my hair back, and say "i'm pregnant". I can't be positive but i think it was the day after conception. I think.... what a weird dream! i hope that never happens!

I spend the next week and half moving, taking meds, throwing up, and being tired and sore. Given all the weird shit i'm putting into my body i'm concerned about being sick. What clues me in is the fact that by boobs are an exploding c cup and very sore. I go to the store and pick up a pregnancy test that turns positive the second my pee hits the stick. This is when i cry so hard i want to vomit. I know i have to have an abortion but i can't shake the feeling that this might be the only time i ever get pregnant. I make a doctors appointment and make the decision and have the abortion june 14th via ru-486. It was private, natural, and not as bad as expected. I made the best decision possible but it is still in the back of my mind that i might not ever get to be excited about getting pregnant.

I spend the rest of my summber trying to build actual relationships- andrew, debbie, rula, shayna, lauren. I really try to get to know people. I try to figure out what my purpose is. Where i belong. No longer content to sit in my room I want company and conversation. I'm longing for someone that can understand me and where i'm coming from and I do find these people. I find kind and generous women that respect me for who i am not what they can get from me. I feel myself shaking some of the blues that had a hold on me but I still can't make it though the day.

moving in to our depot town apartment was a blessing. so was buying a volcano. I have been thoroughly enjoying the 'seconds' in our relationship. I tried getting on an antidepressant it seemed to be working but i lost track of my appointments and ran out of my script. I havent been back since. Debbie got me a job babysitting for a boy with diabetes which made me a decent amount of money and helped me to take care of myself (if only for one night a week).

on december first I got my IUD put in after months of waiting for an appointment that fits my schedule. it's a relief to know that i wont have to deal with another abortion. It makes me happy to know if i am ever able to have kids all i have to do is get it taken out.

The stress of a crazy landlord, school, work and fighting illness... still trying to be a normal. Find out I wont be graduating on time -again. It hurt for a few days until i realized that what the fuck does it matter? I got to reduce my class load and i got a new job so i'm not in a rush.

a lot of little shit drives me crazy now. I'm jealous and anxious. I'm worried that my dependence will turn into a burden for andrew and he'll finally look for a way out. I can't stand to be alone or with anyone but andrew but i'm trying to work on that. The year has ended on a much higher note than it started on.

For example on my way home for christmas debbie called and told me that everyone loves me. I had mentioned the night before when we all went out for a beer that it drove me crazy that andrew always had friends over and everyone seemed to just love him. I said "everyone loves andrew! Why doesn't anyone love me?!" So she called to reassure me that everyone does love me and that I shouldn't be so hard on myself. It was such a simple thing that made me feel so good. It was exactly what i needed at that moment.

"sometimes you get what you need"

So with a bit of luck 2008 will not be such a rollercoaster ride.


12.16.2007

EVERY FUCKING NIGHT. I'm going to plymouth tomorrow.

12.12.2007

i take all this damn medication and not one makes me feel GOOD. just worse, or semi worse. I'm tired of people that dont worry about anything or can make conversation or have a good time.

i'm tired of sitting in this room listening to andrew and his friends having a good time. i'm sick of it. i hate myself

12.01.2007

I dont even know what this feeling is. is it jealousy? it feels more like rage. I couldn't tell you why.

I feel invisible. worthless. frustrated. hopeless. everynight everyfuckingnight.

there isnt any point to even writing this. it doesnt help. i should just stop complaining, suck it up and move on.

11.29.2007

fuckin a

"You may appear moodier than usual now that the Moon is in Leo, but don't let occasional waves of negativity prevent you from seeing the potential in your life. On one hand, you might decide that your extra effort is not worth the meager return -- emotionally or fiscally. On the other hand, you might not be able to see what's on the other side of the wall that's temporarily preventing your forward motion. Patience and tenacity should pay off in a few days."
Thursday, November 29, 2007

i guess thats alright. it's a small piece of hope. i'm fucking tired, man.

11.25.2007

hope vs. despair

and here i sit cursing the world and still finding inspiration in the smallest parts of my life. the snow that's falling outside - it's coming down so fast. so intense. i just want to stop my brain and run around like a fool in the flurries.

i am inspired. that's the worst part about this feeling. I WANT to change the world and make a small place where everyone matters. i want to care about stereotypes and our obsession with work and self-destructive behaviors. I want to figure it all out. but no one else cares about these things. i wont get the chance to do the stuff in life i've always dreamed of.

i can see it so clearly - the way i want things to be. and it doesnt include this feeling. this fire that's been built out of nothing. there was nothin inside of me to burn so why do i feel this way? because it's all pointless. the hope and inspiration i feel is just something to get me through the have-to's and should-have's that rule my life.

is this all there is? it can't be all there is if i feel so conflicted. i feel like the life i wish to live and the life that is are separated by such a large distance that they will never be one.

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and then there are the times when everything seems so perfect. only when i'm laying next to andrew or holding a baby. and the world outside doesn't matter. the mountains of shit hanging over my head don't matter. the pain and the hopelessness don't matter. i'm finally free. the only time i feel whole is in the presence of someone that needs me.

so when i think about marriage and babies - the things i have been denied because of genetics- i think about the peace that i find when i'm helping others. and i wonder why it is that the few things that make me happy are the things i'm not allowed to have. it just doesn't make sense to me.

the only thing i can enjoy without shame or regret is loving andrew. having babies would be great but as everyone keeps pointing out it's better to not dwell on the things that didn't work out. i can only hope that my substitute mothering at the daycare will fulfill my need.
I can't deal. how many times have i said this in my lifetime?

even music doesn't really lift my spirits anymore. fuck fucking prozac and it's false promises of sanity.

fuck stupid fake ass bitches that would rather talk to andrew. yeah i know andrew is the nice one. i know he's the only rational part of my life. does that mean i'm worth absolutely nothing?

how do i not be a huge bitch to everyone when all i want to do is walk around with earplugs in. hey that isnt a bad idea i should get some. maybe it would help me get over this bullshit in my brain if i can stop adding to it.

maybe.

most likely it will continue this way until i eventually give in. i would like to....

ahhhhh lucero!!!
it could be worse. it has been worse. I have actually deserved the misery in my life on several occassions. i dont feel this is one of them. i was thinking about jobs and school and my future and i'm trying hard to not just give it all up. what am i working towards? why do i want to get a masters degree? so i can waste even more of my time planning for something that if it is possible isnt for long. i need a shrink.

she makes me want to strangle something. this is not a natural feeling for me. I dont normally feel like harming another individual.... but if someone mentions her name i feel nothing but rage. i just want her to die. anyway whatsoever.

it's time for more wine. i cant keep thinking or i'll scream....... HELP ME to get away from myself.

11.14.2007

so irresponsible

so i woke up at 4:40 pm. missed my fucking advising appointment. I'm not going to class even though I really should and I have a presentation tomorrow. I don't care I just can't leave the house. I don't feel that great and I don't want to drive.

Speaking of driving I rear ended someone last night on the way home and i smashed in my front end a little bit. It's annoying but they didn't stop or even yell at me so I don't know i guess i'm lucky.

Laurie emailed me about her business stuff that I haven't been doing. I've been thinking about doing it. But actually going in and dragging the stuff along hasn't happened yet. I'm procrastinating. so my goal for next week is to go to at least 3 places and try to sell her stuff. It can't be that bad.

My mom asked me to do a couple of things that I haven't done yet. I should do it now I'm on my computer. i'm just not sure what to say exactly.

I think i'm going to put in a movie after I write this email. then i'm going to make dinner and go to sleep again. I'm tired.

some lady is calling "here kitty kitty kitty kitty!" outside my window right now.... hmm I wonder if it's the crazy recycle lady from next door or some new crazy person in my life.

man, i can't wait until andrew gets home from work.


11.13.2007

i love andrew.

i went out with trek tonight and he told me that he has been married for 11years and just found out. it was fun i had kristi as my waitress again and i think trek was hitting on her. it was so funny.

I keep remembering stanley and all the fun times we had there. we had a few bad times and alexa wasn't that fun but i can see why he picks that as his favorite place we have lived together. We became very close in that house.

11.06.2007

please not again.....

PLEASE.

11.05.2007

.....

I want to write some of my feelings out but there aren't any words for them. I'm not really upset about anything in particular. just everything in general.

I feel crappy i'm bad at taking care of myself. I feel like i never really have any fun. I don't want to be bothered most of the time. I just want to sleep but I cant ever get restful sleep. it's frustrating.

I dont know what to do. i don't know what to say.