Tuesday, November 23, 2010

STRESSFUL MORNING/AFTERNOON!!

lots happened to me this morning:

1) I woke up at 5:00 to do a process recording for my field supervisor

2) Then at 6:00 I had to registrar for classes for the last time and what was supposed to take 5 minutes took 30!!!!!!!!!!! I have wifi and the internet connection failed two times, then I was logged off twice, then it took forever to have the course I wanted to registrar took forever to enroll so then I had to open up another browser. I was stressed. As I was enrolling for my courses it said it could not complete because I did not enroll for the field practicum first. I was sooooo angry!!!! I did not realize field had to be enrolled first before the courses and so I had to cancel the course and start over. I hate online registration!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then I printed off the schedule when I finally was able to have all of my classes scheduled as it came out of the printer it was difficult to read. I canceled the current printing job and then I copied and pasted my schedule to a word document and made 4 copies one to my field adviser, one for my boss, one for myself, and one for my parents. I labeled on each of the schedules when I would be working and when I would be avaliable for my internship.

3) Then it was time to get ready for the day. After I showered, dressed, did my hair, ate, then it was time to brush my teeth, I had a massive coughing episode. I had a very difficult time catching my breath. I coughed so hard I started feeling dizzy and nauseous. Then I managed to get toothpaste in my hair. I checked to make sure a glob of it was not visible in my hair and this required me to look at two mirrors to make sure I was all set. I dabbed some water on my hair too just to make sure it wasn't visible.

4) Then my bus was late picking me up this morning and thankfully, my supervisor understood and was OK with me being a few minutes late to work.

5) At my placement I had to listen to a lot of residents tell me their life stressors and the difficulties they are currently experiencing. One resident yelled at me today and lucky enough I was able to redirect him and calm him down. He later sat down with me and told me why he hated the holidays and how he is never able to see his family. I feel bad for my residents they always have a lot to say because very few staff members sit down and talk with the them.

6) I was unable to have one of my residents watch a film which relates to his life. I was bummed. I had stayed up late the night before to watch it and I took some notes on it about how it relates to his life and how it can help him with his stressor/goal. Hopefully, by next Tuesday there will be a DVD player available so he can watch it. I think he will benefit seeing a person in a movie going through a similar experience he is currently going through.

7) After my internship my bus was late picking me up. I was worried I had missed it and maybe it came earlier. I strongly considered walking since it is only 2 miles; however, it was getting dark and I didn't want to walk back with minimal lighting outside.

Overall, I had a stressful morning and afternoon and I am just soooo thankful the day is over. I am so thankful my choking experience did not progress and have to receive help because my roommate had left for the day and nobody would have been there to help me out so luckily I was able to take care of it myself. I'm also grateful my sister did not revise my paper today because I was not in any mood to make track changes today on my paper that's due next week. I wanted to get it done early before Thanksgiving break and I have completed it I just want someone else to read it over. Tonight I also won a bet with my sister about how long our parents have been married and I get to have Bantam Pizza tomorrow. A medium pizza for myself with meatballs!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am looking forward to a nice relaxing, wonderful, turkey feast during the break. I cannot wait. I leave tomorrow to see my family and I could not be anymore excited than I am right now!!!!! :)

Friday, September 24, 2010

I FIGURED THIS OUT ALL BY MYSELF!!!!

I noticed this past week that I am running low on my prescription and I was wondering if the CVS in West Hartford is open on Sundays and so I looked on their website and I found out it wasn't. Then as I continued to read and check out the site I noticed you can refill prescriptions online. I was thinking how cool is that? Not only did I find out that CVS is closed on Sundays I decided to sign up for online prescription refills and it was so quick and easy I couldn't believe it. I even received a confirmation email stating the day/time of my pickup. When I want to transfer my prescription(s) from CVS instead of calling it in and talking to someone I can do this online as well. I am so excited and I figured it out all by myself. I find it funny that all I wanted to do was see the schedule for the pharmacy and I ended up having an account to refill my prescriptions too as the old saying goes I killed two birds with one stone. I'm so proud I did this on my own. Normally, when I do something new like this I have to call someone and see if it's a good idea, to see if it's even worthwhile to do but I just decided this is what I wanted to do and I went for it. I should make more independent choices more often. The more I do it the more confident I will become.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

CAPE COD TRIP

The list of things my mom, my sister and I did on our wonderful vacation together:

1) The Beach THE BEST ONE IN P-TOWN IS RACE POINT BEACH we saw seals jumping out of the water. Totally awesome!!!! We same in 60 degree water and it was soooo worth it. Marconi Beach was awesome too and I called it Macaroni Beach and Jen told me Marconi and macaroni are spelled differently hahaha and here I thought it was pronounced the same.

2) Chilling by the pool side drinking wine. Awesome times. The pool was kinda chilly but we all swam at least once.

3) GOING OUT TO EAT FOR LUNCH AND DINNER!!!!!!! those were great times especially when we ate at Sal's Restaurant we had the GREATEST waiter of all time he was quick, didn't intrude on our conversations, polite, he all around took awesome care of us. One restaurant was great I can't remember the name of it we all ate lobster rolls and for my side dish I had Nooke. It was delicious.

4) ENDOWENDOES versus INNUENDOS and TUBAWARE VERSES TUPPERWARE GOOD TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5) DADDY DUCK FACE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!! I was drunk and I was sitting on the bar stool drinking a very TALL glass of cranberry and vodka and I was dancing while sitting in my chair making my dad's facial expression and dancing like a fool. Good times.

6) Walking along in the sand and looking at crabs that was cool. Some of them are huge I didn't realize how big crabs can get.

8) Sitting out on the deck of our hotel room eating cheese, crackers, prunes (HAHAHA), fruit (the mango was to die for), and watching the waves crash against the bay of our hotel at Seaside Shore.

7) The day we left the elevator was broken so my sister and I had to walk down 4 flights of stairs to get to the car. On our last trip to get our belongings and making sure we had everything we needed the elevator worked again.

This was the most fun trip we have had in a while. It was nice it was all the Woods ladies who went to the Cape. I would do it all over again if I could. Maybe next year we can rent a cottage for a week and bring our dad with us and he will do the DADDY DUCK FACE EXPRESSION AND DANCE at the bar too!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

SUNDAY WITH KYLE

Kyle and I on Sunday:

1) Left over pizza for breakfast (good times)

2) Watched more Real World episodes

3) Went to Whole Foods and I needed help finding a few items and Kyle found them and he bagged my groceries and carried one of the bags back to my apartment.

4) Hung out at the apartment

5) Went back to campus to the pond and saw a turtle. We sat on a bench and chilled for a while with our water bottles.

6) Went back to my place and ate dinner and finished the entire real world series in Washington, D.C.

7) Fought about the fan level (high, medium or low) who was going to sleep on the floor and kyle kept talking to me while i was trying to sleep. I was annoyed at the end of the night. I can't wait to sleep in my own bed. Overall, this was the day that I realized I can't wait to have my room all to myself again.

I will miss kyle; however, it will be good to get to my old routine.

SATURDAY WITH KYLIE SMILIE

Saturday was a fun day we did:

1) Lunch at Chipolte's

2) Checked out the Library

3) Went back to the apartment and chilled

4) Went to dinner at Harry's Pizza

5) Saw Twilight Eclipse which we had just made right on time and the theater was jam packed.

6) Watched most of the real world episodes from Washington D.C. (drama rama)

Again nothing too exciting. not too many embarrassing stories today.

FRIDAY WITH KYLE

On Friday I spent the entire day with Kyle.

1) Max's Burger with Eric and Dave

2) Back to the apartment

3) Blue Back Square

4) CVS to find an air-mattress (couldn't find one so we found a dreamie original thinking that it was like a cot absolutely not the case kyle wasted 20 bucks. it was the cheapest piece of plastic sheet you will ever encounter. it looked like a space suit.

5) Walked to campus (twice=4 miles walk)

6) Cheesecake Factory KYLE'S FIRST DRINK RED RASPBERRY MARTINI

7) Dear John


Nothing really embarrassing happened other than some weird noises we heard by the pond on campus but it turned out the noises were frogs and of course the dreamie disaster. i ended up paying back kyle for the dreamie. it was a waste.

Friday, July 2, 2010

kyle and Amanda's weekend

Today I am seeing Kyle Brangian for the entire weekend!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soooo excited. We are going to have embarrassing moments, having fun, laughing and it will be posted as each day passes. He is coming at 1:00 PM today. He has been such an awesome friend to me and I wouldn't have it any other way. He is just as excited to see me as I am to see him. We will get to watch fireworks together too!!!!!!!! :) I am definitely looking forward to seeing him this weekend.

I'll keep ya'll posted each day that he and I have together because there are going to be some serious Kylie Smilie and Amanda moments going on today!!!!! GUARANTEED.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

alone time

some people might think it's strange that i do a lot of things alone. i take long walks alone, sometimes i'll go to the movies, i will sometimes eat out, and shop alone. i love having me time and feeling more and more independent each day. i used to not think i could ever do things on my own and i have proven myself wrong once again. granted i do get lonely from time to time and i would like the company of others; however, it's difficult because i have moved to a new city and i don't know people in this area. luckily i have a lot of family members who live close and who are able to visit me whenever i feel that i want to be around others. but there is a lot of time where i feel that being independent has its strong suit. i don't have to feel pressured by anyone to hurry up, i feel more comfortable making mistakes knowing that there isn't anyone who is going to criticize me for it and i feel more comfortable with myself in general. i'm learning more and more from my mistakes. i feel good about my life and where i'm headed. life is a journey and i'm enjoying each step that i take.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

so last weekend i went back to my small hometown and i have a dog and we were playing around and my nose piece on my glasses fell off. so on saturday i had to go to the eye doctor and see if they could either fix it or replace the nose piece. so the eye doctor sees me and he tells me that he will need to replace them and he said it would cost $1,000. those of you who know me know that i'm the most gullible in the WORLD and so i was wigging out when he left me sitting in the chair for at least 10 minutes. all i kept thinking about was who's going to pay $1,o00 for a nose piece. i don't have that kind of money on me. i do but i mean i also have summer classes to pay for and all of the expenses were swirling around in my head after he told me this. when he came back he said they're all fixed and i tried them on and my glasses were all set. well the first thing that comes out of my mouth after i said thank you was how much do i owe you? he said $1,000 and then he saw my face and said no you owe me nothing. i was so relieved. i was so excited i didn't have to pay anything to have my glasses fixed. i always have problems with my glasses either i get hair spray on the lenses and i think it's like some kind of manufacturing problem with my glasses and then my lenses pop out sometimes because i have thick lenses. my eyes are really bad and now it's a nose piece issue. i have the worst luck with glasses and i'm not allowed to get contacts because the doctor is afraid of infection. so i just laugh at myself when things like this happen to me. life's too short to take things too seriously.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

WHEN THE GRADED TEST COMES BACK

I was nervous last Wednesday when I got my Research Methods I test back. First my professor tells me that she can't find my exam and that it may be upstairs and she'll check after class. Then I see everyone else has their test back and then my professor posts A B C on the black board so everyone knows how many received As, Bs and Cs. Then she writes the word other. I'm thinking may be that's my test isn't with the other tests because maybe I'm other. I'm thinking in my head as all of this is going on that I either failed the test or she gave me an other on my test because she couldn't read my essay responses. So now I'm sweating bullets knowing in my head that I can't wait 2 hours after the class to get my exam. Then she goes through another pile of papers and she said, "Amanda I found your test" and I'm like do I even want to see this grade? Is it worthwhile to know what I got? I'm going to have to retake it I just know it. So she hands it back to me and I'm reluctant to see it. I ask my friend who's sitting next to me what she got and she told me a 76 and I'm all oh my God what I wouldn't give to get a passing mark on such a hard test. Now I know I can retake the test if I failed but I don't want to have to do that. So I turn over my test and I see I got a 76!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes. I was shocked that I not only passed the test but that she could read my essay responses. I was soooo relieved. I told the woman sitting next to me in class that I was soooo happy and she was happy for me too. All I wanted to do was pass and not have to take it again because in a few weeks we have to take the final. I couldn't believe how stressed out I was at 8:30 in the morning and as tired as I was from the night before pulling an all nighter to finish an essay for another class. I couldn't believe I had enough energy to be nervous about my exam. I'm just grateful I passed. I just hate that gut wrenching feeling the day a teacher or professor hands you back your tests or essays it's soooo nerve racking espeically when they give you a lecture about how the class could have done better on it. Man I was so proud of myself. It was a hard test. I give anyone credit who got higher than a C and those who received the other grade 1) I feel horrible for them; however, they can always retake it and 2) thank god it isn't me because I don't have time to retake that test again let alone the patience to do so. It was a good day and maybe one day I'll get my PhD.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

MY FRIEND KYLE

Kyle and I have been friends for 4 years. Last year was our senior year at Mitchell College and I did a capstone presentation which is like a senior thesis. After my presentation it was time for a lunch break and Kyle was so proud of me he told all the lunch ladies, "AMANDA WOODS DID A CAPSTONE PRESENTATION AND SHE DID A GREAT JOB!!! I was waiting in line to get my ID card swiped and the cafeteria worker named Diane (only Kyle would remember her name) congratulated me and I was like why must the cafeteria workers know how I did on my capstone? They probably don't even know what a capstone is. I was so embarrassed by this and I laughed so hard so I ended up calling Kyle a new nickname "Lunch Lady Boy." He was always talking to the cafeteria workers about the menu, he was always telling them how the food was so good and that he enjoyed being at this college. It was really weird and yet really hilarious. Kyle and I will talk about this sometimes and he tells me he doesn't even know why he talked to them and he looks back on it and he's so embarrassed that he would talk to the cafeteria workers as often as he did. He is a crackup and he's my best friend.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

THE WIPE OUT OF 2010

WIPE OUT!!!!!!!!

In January I was walking to the bus stop after my internship was done for the day. I was worried because the bus was going to come in two minutes and I had to cross the street yet and walk a little ways before I would have made it to the bus stop. Plus I'm wearing three inch heels which makes it difficult to walk and it is starting to snow. I was panicked because as I was crossing the street the bus was coming. I was walking fast I as I crossed the street; however, when I walked up the street to make it to the bus stop sign I was running a little bit because the bus was turning on the street so as I was walking/jog that way I could make it to the bus stop sign and as I was doing that something caught my shoe (it was a stick I didn't know that until I took a quick glance behind me) and I went SMACK DOWN on my knee cap. I was so worried about not making the bus on time and the bus still stopped for me and and even though I wasn't standing by the sign I was able to get picked up. I ignored the pain I got up really quickly and took out my pass and was happy to be on the bus.

Then as I sat down I felt an intense pain shooting in my knee and I was wearing black pants so I looked down and my knee cap had a white stain and I'm thinking oh no I must be bleeding. So when I finally get back to my apartment I am bleeding all over my knee and I'm like I'm going to have a massive scar after this fall. Sure enough my scar is permanent and the size of it has not gone down since January.

So next time I have to be more careful and not run to catch the bus. Either that or get to the bus stop sign sooner.

Monday, March 1, 2010

EMBARRASSING MOO MOMENT!!!!!!

So on one cold August day (when I was 16) I went to my grandmother's house to visit my relatives aunt, second cousins and so on. Well since one of my relatives had a 2 year old son my grandmother decided that we should all go to the Action Wildlife Foundation. I thought it was too cold to go and it was really dreary outside. Everyone wanted to go so I decided I would string along.

On our way out the door my grandmother tells me (since I'm wearing shorts I didn't expect it to be that cold outside for August) that I should bring a pair of her sweatpants. I'm talking the kind of sweatpants that have the elastic on the bottom and to top it all off they are dark purple and I'm wearing a blue shirt. TOTALLY DOESN'T MATCH!!!!! Anyway, we get to the Action Wildlife Park and it is really cold outside. I'm way to embarrassed to wear my grandmother's sweatpants. Of course she tells me that I need to wear them because she's afraid I'll catch a cold if I don't. (Typical grandmother).

So as we enter the park I see one of my high school classmates (the MOST popular girl in school and I'm wearing my grandmother's dark purple elastic pants what am I thinking???) So as I see her and go behind the bushes and pull of the sweatpants as fast as I possibly can because I am mortified at this point to be wearing such pants in front of someone I know from school.

It gets worse.....my family is really loud and really funny. Well the 2 year old cousin of mine sees the goats and my ENTIRE family is baaaaing at the sheep and my high school classmate is watching everyone do this. I am absolutely mortified that she has to be the person working there and of all things she was dating my high school crush and I was so embarrassed that she would tell him that I was there with my family!!!!

Then it gets worse....aside from the funny sweatpants, the animal sounds my family was making at the animals to entertain my cousin, my family decides they want to go on the safari and they decide to get into the 2 cars that we came in and drive the safari. Well it was really muddy outside and not even half way down the safari my aunt gets her car stuck. Now I just want to call someone to pick me up and get me out of there. So my other relative gets out of the other car and says that she can get my aunt's car out and that it will be fine. She was able to get the car out of the mud my aunt is not used to driving in mud or in snowy conditions. So I'm about ready to keel over in laughter as well as in tears. I couldn't believe my day.

My high school classmate saw all of this. She was laughing and who could blame her? I have the most embarrassing family but I love them to pieces. It's never a dull moment in the Woods/Sosnowski family.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

FUNNY TV COMMERICALS

So I'm not one to watch commercials let alone think any of them are funny. However, this past month I have seen two commercials that have caught my attention.

NO TOILET PAPER PIECES LEFT BEHIND:
The first one is the new Charmin Ultra commercial where the mother bear and baby bear are looking at the stars with the telescope and the baby bear sees another red bear's behind with toilet tissue paper pieces on it. Who thought this was a way of marketing toilet paper???? I mean seriously who really needs to know who has toilet paper pieces left behind much less having to see that on television. When I first saw it I was cracking up hysterically. I thought to myself oh man this cannot be a commercial this is soooo wrong and then thought who has this problem??? who has toilet paper pieces stuck to their behind???? That is sooooo not the right way to market toilet paper. I never saw a commercial where I had laughed sooooo hard.

CAT FOOD COMMERCIAL:

Commercial 2) I saw this cat food commercial a few weeks ago and I missed the first part of it but I heard the announcer's voice talking about fish and shrimp and they showed the shrimp and I was like that looks really good "yummy" and then come to find out it's a cat food commercial. Since when are cats eating better food than we are???

These are the only two commercials in the past month that I found hilarious and I thought I'd share my thoughts about it for those of you who read my blog.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

ANOTHER SNOW DAY!!!!!

I was surprised when I checked online this morning and saw that 8:30 classes were canceled. It didn't snow much today and then I called the School of Social Work campus and they said that all morning classes are canceled yet again. I did go to my work-study job in the finance department; however, I didn't go until 12:00 because the campus was closed due to the weather.

I was fortunate enough to miss another Wednesday of my morning class because we were supposed to have our midterm exam today. Good thing i have another week to study for it.


Unfortunately, I didn't have any embarrassing or funny moments today other than accidentally taking out $80 of the ATM machine and then having to make a cash deposit after I had already made a check deposit. I have blond moments a lot of the time. More to come.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!

I heard that there is going to be another snow storm in CT on Tuesday. Last Tuesday there was a snow storm and I called the school at 6:30 to see if the morning classes had been canceled. The automated voice said there's still school. I looked online at wfsb.com and the campus was not closed. I checked a couple of more times and the last time I tried was a 7. Then I said OK we definitely have morning classes even though it is still snowing and the roads seem pretty bad. I only live a mile from campus so I walked to school on un-shoveled sidewalks, and it was slippery. I was also carrying 30 pound on my shoulders and carrying an alpha-smart. I had to pack my lunch, waterbottle, 2 inch thick binder for class and my folder for work-study after my classes. I was lugging this on my hike to school and when I get to campus I see two professors walking over to me and they said, "Oh I feel so bad that you don't know." I said "Know what?" "All morning classes have been canceled." I say, "When was this posted?" "7:21 this morning". I say, "Well I have two back to back classes one at 8:30 and one at 10:45 why didn't anyone post this sooner?" I was so upset so I had to hike another mile with no break. I didn't even get to sit down and catch my breath when I entered the school. I had to leave as soon as I found out that school was closed because it was snowing much harder at that point which meant more difficult conditions to be walking in the snow!!! My work-study boss was so outraged that it was posted so late that he emailed the dean and he was upset that I had walked all this way and he told me not to come into work today because the snow was going to get worse. I hope if we do have a snow day on Tuesday that it will be posted much earlier in the morning so I don't have to make another hike like that again.