Holidays

Okay, so we all celebrate the Holidays whether or not it's Christmas or Hanukah, whatever it is, we all have our celebrations.

Now what we do for the Holidays is get together as a family (if at all possible, we all gather in the Valley) When this happens you just get to spend a few days with family, kids, parents, old friends etc. I have always loved doing this, it is really the only "real" time that I get to spend with my family because I don't live near them, I have family in Lubbock, Oklahoma, and In the Rio Grande Valley each of which are about an equal distance away from Austin.

My only problem with this Christmas is that I received some rather bothersome news, that is that my nephew who is 19 years of age has been using "Speed pills" I just found this out yesterday and it has been bothering me. I really don't know what to do. My feelings are all over the place right now, I feel like being mad, crying, yelling, throwing stuff, slapping my nephew and just saying "what the Fuck is your problem".

Most people don't think that this is such a big deal, but my family has lost family member to drugs before and it kills me to have to see this, have to see the pain and suffering that my family goes through when it does happen, to see a loved die to something so STUPID!!

At this point I don't know what to do, my sister called me yesterday to inform me of this and I could not believe what she was saying. My heart just dropped! You see I'm 22 years old only 3 years older then he and we grew up together and what upsets me the most is that I'm in Austin and I can't help him, I can't do a damn thing to see why or what drove him to this and help him get out of this habit that could cost him his life. I try to come up with ways to help see him through this and at the end I just really want to slap him. But you know just a few months back my niece who is 19 years old as well took off with her boyfriend, an abusive one, and we followed a similar track, how do we help her get out of this, what can we do to make her come back, where can realize that there is more to life than a boyfriend that takes advantage and abuses her. Well with her we did what we could, but she sort of just fell out of it alone, she learned to deal with it on her own and left when she thought it was best. But what I see different here is that with her, we knew she would realize it, we just prayed it was sooner than later, and yet with my nephew this isn't just leave it and let him find his way out, this is an addiction that he needs to be helped out of.

I'm sitting here at working crying and trying to stay composed and it's just to difficult, I just want to cry and throw things, just let it all out and I can't, I just can't let it go

SO I ASK YOU, WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY NEPHEW?

Purplefuel

Chronicles of Narnia

So what I found amazing about this was that I was not as interested in watching it from the get go. To be honest I had no idea what was the Chronicles of Narnia.

But a friend really wanted to see it so I said, "sure let's go watch it" So we did, laddie da di da, we went to the Alamo draft house on South Lamar and it was sold out. But amazingly enough a student from UT was there and had an extra ticket, the office only had one left so I bought the one the office had left and the UT student gave us the other. THANK YOU!!! So anyways I was just amazed with it, I have never seen a movie that has gotten me to tear up in the first 3 minutes but that wasn't all, I mean the graphics, the story, the enchantment was all just so great. I really can not go into the movie too much so that I don't "mess it up" for anyone but from what I saw on screen to what I had seen in the preview, well those previews just don't give it justice. Two thumbs up from ME.

PurpleFuel

4 YEARS

I have been living in Austin for 4 years now and I never realized something that just seems so cool during the Holidays.

Okay so during the Holidays there is a small section of town that does this display of lights around the neighborhood and I never knew about it. I'M GOING TO GO THIS YEAR!!

Well here's the story a friend of mine who has been having some guy troubles felt as if she needed to go for a drive, so I said let's go! (help her get things off her mind) So we went for a drive and she takes me down the "Drag" by UT Campus and shows me this neighborhood that just put up some great lights over the Holidays. They were not on "full force" last night, but I'm going to try to make it down there next week, see what it's like. I think my parents will be driving by Austin on the 23 so if they do I'll take them up there to see the lights. Anyways if you live in the area or will be in the area it's Guadalupe & 37th Street.

The photo really does not do it justice, actually the photo has nothing to do with that neighborhood, but it was all I could find. But anyways it just looks like it would be a good thing to see, I love decorations (I'm a dork, So) anyways it's pretty neat that all the neighbors just do this every year they actually string lights across the street. Just like what you would see in downtown Austin.

So I just thought I would tell you all, I was so excited to see what they did have on last night I can just imagine later in the week. Seriously I told my friend I was going to blog about it and I did.

That, and I'm just a little hyper right now, I am in a serious mood to just go out and PARTY!!! Yeah I miss the good times. Anyways it's after my bed time 7AM, gotta go.

PurpleFuel

No, Seriously I don't have a bed time, it's my weekend. Really I'm not joking!

Just chat

Work went by today as if nothing. But oddly enough I'm still here at 4:19AM waiting to go home. The phone is not ringing, the officers are busy writing reports, I'm listening to the radio and yet I'm getting the same songs every hour.

So what should I talk about... hmmm, I had a baked potato for dinner and a salad for breakfast. This is not normal for me. But I will tell you I feel like having a PIZZA right now all too myself.
A large.

Okay so I don't have much of a topic right now but I'll attempt to get something better later today.

PurpleFuel

Clumsy

I can admit to the fact that I am a very clumsy individual. Most people do not believe this about me but I run into walls and not just any walls but walls that I have been around for years. Just a couple of days ago I was walking around at my apt., and although I was sick, that cuts me a little slack, I managed to run into my bathroom door, then slam my wrist against my bedroom doorknob then stumble on the carpet on my way out of the bedroom all in less then 2 minutes.

I tend to get this from my father, he is a very clumsy individual as well and I just took after him. In one of my classes at the Texas Culinary Academy I had already gone through a whole section on knife handling and proper kitchen etiquette (excluding the vulgar language) and when I get to my second set of courses it never failed that I managed to cut, hurt, burn or injure myself in one way or another everyday of class. My instructor nick-named me "prone" for accident prone. I told him that I normally was not that prone to getting injured in the kitchen or with a knife. Normally my accidental proneness happened else where, but in this specific class it was everyday that I needed to make way to the first-aid kit.

So anyways I'm thinking about this because I'm sitting here at work and managed to knock my wrist against my desk and further bruise the bruise I got a few days ago thanks to my bedroom doorknob. I tend to blame things on the object that gets in my way. It's never my fault just that object that does not realize I'm coming through. So I have actually had those times when you get injured because the bed got in your way and you stub your toe then get so mad and kick it back just to further irritate that first spurt of pain. Yeah that's me.

I figured that for this entry instead of complaining I would just let you know exactly how clumsy I really am. It's highly hilarious. Anyways I'm at work for another 9 hours tonight so I am going to find something else to talk about later. If I don't well I've got 10 hours tomorrow night.


PurpleFuel

Just my LUCK!!

Okay so yeah I am going to complain AGAIN!, It is just my luck that things happen to me the way that they do. So two weeks ago I have a staph infection that caused so much pain I devoted a blog entry to the pain. Then I'm in and out of the Dr.'s office for a while start to get better and think "Thank God things only get better and not worse" well I flew to Olton, Tx for Thanksgiving weekend to spend time with the family and the nephews & nieces that I hardly get to see. So my mom is worried that I'm going to get the kids sick since I was not 100% better from the staph infection. Well I'm on antibiotics till about the last three days that I was there Mon-Wed. of this week and it turns out that my baby nephew and his sister my niece both get sick and I being the wonderful aunt that I am had been sharing my drinks with them the entire week that I was there and so they both woke up sick on Tuesday with some sort of cold/flu one had an ear infection. Well when I get up on Wednesday morning I end up with a sore throat that only got worse by the course of the day.

Like I said it is just my luck that I get better from an infection just to end up with a cold a week later. And more ironic that my mother was worried about me getting the kids sick, yet it turned out that the kids got me sick. Yup the weird turns that life takes on you are strange but all you can do is get better, get over it and move on.

Oddly enough as I lay at home drunk from the Nyquil, that I was taking, I couldn't help but notice that I have called in sick to work more these last 3 weeks than I have in my entire 2 yrs. & 2 months of working there.

PuprleFuel