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4/25/05 I'm sitting here watching reality tv, why you ask, i do not know!! but the bachelor is on and they're in canada and i do not talk like that!! i do not talk that slow, okay for people out here i do. but come on my accent is not that bad. lets see, today my day started off great. Kiara, my lioness, was extremely lovable and playful, which is not her true personality, makes me think she might be sick. Then Cain, chattering lory, decided to fall in love with me today. He was on my arm, close to my body and stuck his little beak inside my mouth and started making out with me. Its so damn cute! Then I cramed a bunch of animals scientific names and such into my little head in only two hours and acutally did well on the test. I should really stop procrastinating. I made it to the gym again tonite and after working out I went to Pilates and feel asleep again!

4/19/05 Sorry, its been so damn long since I've even thought about updating this site. But my younger, hipper friends got me hooked on this thing called myspace.com. If you're not part of it yet you should be! I've been going on there and updating some pics and journal type entries. I'm just going to copy and paste whats all gone on since I've last posted anything on this site.

Friday, April 15, 2005 Sweet home Minnesota! Finally, I know for sure when I get to go home. June 5th here I come. Infact that day can't come fast enough for me. Its goign to be just enough time to see all the people that I really want to see. Woopee!! Minnesota here I come! So here's what a dork I am. I got home from school at 5pm, immediately thereafter Bubba and I left for the dog park..it is now 8pm and I'm sitting here with Bubba and Lemur. I did however get a couple calls from John wanting to hang out, but I'm a horrible friend and said no after saying that I'd like to do something last nite. Is it so wrong when you'd rather be at home alone, watching some good TV and grubbin then hanging out with a boy? YES IT IS!! Oh, and you know what else I've realized lately..I'm selfish. I'm not ready to settle down or have kids. I'm still in school, I'm still doing what I want, putting myself first. Hell, I might even go to grad school after this one...that'd be 9 years of school and nothing impressive to show for it. Well, I best get my stinky self in the shower before I get into a depressed mood or feel that I have to call John back.

Sunday, March 27, 2005 My Easter... Current mood: nerdy Well, I had a wonderful day of All Day Area at the zoo today. That's what I did with my Easter. Then, I went over to watch my buddy John work on his jeep and almost burn his face. Then went over to Lisa and Mike's for supper with Kimberly and Heidi. Now I'm on the phone with Janelle. That was my Easter!

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 DAMNIT!! Current mood: hungry I was all pumped up to do BootCamp tonite at the gym, I even rushed through my weights in order to get everything done by 6:30! And guess what...its on Tuesdays at 5:30. Not only did I get the day wrong, I don't even have the right time. I'm all pumped up, and nothin! Oh well, but I am going to pull a Jess tonite and go out to kareoke without showering after working out. Sorry kids, but my friends, especially Megan and my teammates, are totally used to me going out to the bar in sweats all nasty and stinky. Well, I'm off to go and eat some din din with Kimberly and Heidi.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 i wanna go home! Current mood: sad Everyone else gets to go home, why not me?! I'm so sad. I'm really missing my friends and family back home. I'm missing my ruggers, my ladies. I just got an alumni packet about games and other info thats going on. And of course I can't go. I really didn't realize how much of my life in college was that team and the people on that team. I'm gonna get depressed real soon....

Friday, March 18, 2005 Holy Jesus Current mood: hungry I definatly had a good time last nite ladies, but something was off. I know I drank a lot but Bri said that I ended up pouring a beer on some poor guys head, what a bitch I am!! Seriously, who does that? Wow, I need to stop drinking like that. I am afterall getting older quickly. Its approximately 5:30 and I'm still hungover...why?! Wednesday, March 16, 2005 I'm often reminded that I'm a dork. Current mood: tired So, who doesn't think that its cool to text your friends at 12am when you're about to hop into bed?! Yeah, thats what I thought, no one. You know that you all love me for my dumb, witty late nite humor. I'm telling you all now, please be prepared for my wit tomorrow nite and watch out for Mooms mouth. Thank you and good nite.

3/10/05 Holy Jesus, so much is happening and going on. For starters I'd like to let the 3 people that read this from back home...I got sunburn today!! Haha, and I heard that you got some more snow. Turnovers are going well, almost too smooth. I've only got a few more steps with most of my animals and I'll be completely turned over and feeding, cleaning, training, ect all by myself!! How cool is that? Finally get to do what I came here for. The first AIM meeting, the meeting I had to come to last year, is tomorrow. I get to give tours (and get a free lunch for that) and then Heidi, Lisa and I are doing the 'what not to wear' for our fashion show. Could they pick any other kids to be the class clowns? Its very fitting. I have finalized my moving plans for next year. I'll be living with two younger girls who I simply adore...Ashley and Emily. Both from this area and super fun. I say that now, but who knows what might happen, they could end up kicking me out. Oh, and now my 'super cool' roommate has some sort of stress fracture or something wrong with her foot and she can't do anything. She's totally milking it. We have two girls who have actually borken their feet in the last 2 weeks, with legitimate breaks and excuses, who are doing more than their fair share with their animals and cleaning the zoo. I think she's a hypocondrac...or yeah, if I could spell. You know what I mean. Well, its approaching 10 and I need to be up at 5:30 so I'm gonna bounce.

3/3/05 quick update. i got zulu!! no, not the rugby zulu where men run around naked, although...nevermind. i got the zulu at school, our mandrill. i'm so super excited about that!! lets see spring spec starts this week, for 3 weeks. i'm already stressing over that. my mom comes the 30th of march..woohoo! lets see, what else? oh, rocky was in his first photo shoot a while back and its finally published in GLAMOUR!! check out pages 208 and 211 for our handsome man. other than that i'm still not sure when i'm going to be able to go home for the summer, but i'm dying to go home and just chill away from school and the LA people out here. well, i should head off to bed. goodnite.

2/21/05 so, horrible news was given to me this past Friday..my parents had to put Tanner down. It was a very, very sad day for me. Its going to be really weird going home and not having him be there. I'm sure I'll cry again at that time..until then all I can do is thank God for blessing me with such a wonderful companion. He'll be greatly missed. After spending all day Friday by myself I decided that I couldn't sit couped up in my room any longer. I watched Hoosiers and the Sara Brey, Heidi and I all went down to the Hollywood City Walk, of course we had tons of fun, and yes, if you're wondering I did drink too much...but I really didn't get myself into TOO much trouble. I just twisted my ankle, received new bruises and cuts, oh and a lai, dont' remember who I got that from. The rest of my weekend went well..Saturday I spent recovering. Sunday I had to emcee a 45 minute show, I did GREAT! Well, at least I'd like to think so. Sunday Heidi and I went over to Lisa and Mike's and played some drunken CandyLand, CatchPhrase and some other board game. Its always fun to have those kind of hang out and be dorks nights. The kind that Megan and I used to have all the time:). Today, I had no school, but needed to go into the zoo and observe Goblin for awhile, she was a very cranky girl! Oh, and our Mandrill Baboon, Zulu, had two seizures on Sunday. He's been having a lot of neurological issues lately...they're finally taking him in to get an MRI. In order to do this he must be put down, and as always, and even more for exotics is a very dangerous and stressful situation. Well, I think I'm getting carpel tunnel (or however you spell it), so I'm going to say good nite.

2/17/05 lots has gone on since i've last written in here...i know, i know. so, i got an extra animal assignment at school. his name is tyson and he's a military macaw, i'm excited becuase hes a real lover, but the bird hes housed with is a total terror, we'll see how it goes!! new feeders (from my class) were assigned to rocky today, i wasn't one, but thats okay because i'm still a care taker. also i learned that our female camel will be going away for a while, not sure if its perminant or not, but it should be a real challenge with her baby, the camel i'm on. good lord, please pray for me, that i dont get trampled by the guy. other new stuff...i'm really, really disliking my living situation, but i'm in a lease and theres nothing i can do about it. so, i'll just continue to ignore my roommates and live in either my room, the gym or at school 24/7. our annual spring spectacular is coming way too quickly, i'm getting nervous as to whats going to get done. i made it to starbucks and read approximately 6 chapters in my wonderfully addicting book that megan bought me. well, i'm off to update some new pics.

2/5/05 So this past week we got our animal assignments for the first semester. I'm on Kiara, lioness and Sahara, baby Dromedary Camel for the next semester and then I have Goblin, Hamadryas Baboon and Cain, chattering lory until I graduate. I'm super excited about it all!! Although eveyone I tell is like "cool", which isn't the response I'm looking for. I've been sick for the past 5 days and its not really getting any better. I have two shows this afternoon yet to do and then I have all day area tomorrow. Super excited! 2/1/05 This past weekend, Saturday to be exact, Heidi took me to visit her friend (Erin) and her friend's family down in Pasadena. We went to the horse races at Santa Anita raceway and then back to Erin's parents' house for dinner. While at the race track we got to do some behind the scenes stuff and meet the horse that play Seabiscuit. Erin's dad, Chris McCarron, is basically the Michael Jordan of horse racing and now the VP of the race track. Needless to say the day was full of tons of fun and posh things. Then Saturday nite we went to Santa Monica to visit some of Heidi's other high school friends to hang out for awhile. Sunday I had no shows so I got the day off to hang out with my bad self and study. I have to emcee a show this Thursday for 150 2nd graders, not sure how pumped I am for that. I was supposed to hang out with Rocky today, but I ended up getting sick. Hopefully this sickness wont last too long.

1/23/05 So, I didn't end up going anywhere with John this weekend, he was kinda upset about it, but I would just have been cranky had we gone anywhere. So Saturday I spent all day being bummed again, had area and shows at school, then I went and got a 1.5 hour massage...well worth the money, and spent the nite in watching TLC. This morning I woke up with a different attitude. I cleaned the bathroom, swept, took Brody for a walk, vaccumed the nasty hair that Susan's animals leave behind on the stairs up, got myself showered and then headed west on highway 118. I wasn't sure where it'd take me, but I knew I needed to get away, alone. So, I ended up in Ventura on the back roads and found a very nice park to hang out at. I read my book for awhile, then decided to watch the kids/families play in the park. On my right were three young boys, all about 3 feet high, playing soccer with their father and grandfather. On my left was a family of three, mom, dad and their son. The little boy decided that he wanted to play the three little pigs, his parents entertained him very well. I was sitting there laughing to myself about how cute the kids were and then, out of the blue, tears started to well up inside of me. I couldn't control it, I sat there crying. Still smiling while watching the families continue to play. As soon as the tears came they left and it was time for me to move on. I'm not sure what I was crying about, my guess is just the overwhelming stress I've been feeling, but it helped lots. I forget how good it feels to cry about nothing. After leaving that park I continued to drive aimlessly around Ventura, getting lost none-the-less. I ended up seeing another sign for a different park, not so much a park, but a mountain top where you could see the whole town of Ventura on the coast. A beautiful sight. I toyed with the idea of buying a new bed, yes, I hit up some matress stores and tested the beds even got some quotes! Ate lunch, did some quick shopping and now I'm home. Boy, did I pick a good day not to be home. Shawn's family helped him move into our place today and boy did they move tons of crap in! Sure am glad I wasn't around today....for more than one reason!!

1/20/05 Nothing too new going on. Just a lot of studying and falling asleep in class. Hoping to get away this weekend since I have the latter part of Saturday and Sunday off! I'll keep you posted if I end up anywhere fun.

1/16/05 I got to feed Rocky!! This past week while I was in with the little guy, Brenda (a staff member) let me feed Rocky! How exciting is that?! Lets see, now that school is back in session I've been keeping very, very busy. This semester is pretty much going to suck, but I think I've already mentioned that. I emceed my first show by myself yesterday, it went quite a bit better than I expected. I only forgot to say a few things about certain animals, other than that there wasn't too much dead time. The John and I headed to Malibu in his jeep, which reminded me a lot of riding my motorcycle. Yes, its been in the mid 70's this weekend (sorry Megan that you got crappy weather while you were here!). We ate lunch then went and watched the surfers for awhile. I had all day area again today, it wasn't too bad. The last hour was exceptionally long though. The tonite Bri and I went over to Heidi and Lindsey's place to play Sex in the City. Needless to say I don't know a damn thing about that show so I got to play the host and ask all the questions. Now I'm sitting here, barely able to keep my eyes open (mind you its only 10:30). Its a sad world. But I've got tomorrow off, woohoo! Thank God for holidays!

1/11/05 Megan left Sunday, yes I had to drive to LAX in the crappy weather. It took me 1 1/2 hours to get down there, too long. Megan and I kept ourselves very, very busy while she was here. We went to the zoo, the movies, the Ronald Reagan Library, and John took us down to Hollywood to the Saddle Ranch for a night of drinking. School started yesterday, fun! I know I was complaining about having nothing to do, but man do I hate this 6:30 in the morning thing. Because of all of the rain we've been having night watch at school, and last nite I was lucky enough to volunteer for the 2-6am shift. Luckily it didn't rain after 3:30 so we were able to leave at 4:30. But the good news is that I get to take care of our lovible Rocky for awhile today.

1/3/05 And the rain continues...it managed to pour, not just rain, the whole morning while we were on AM area. It sucks, but its better than the hot nasty summer. Spending the night tonite trying to get myself organized before school next week and getting laundry done. How boring huh? P.S. If you'd like to send some gifts you can either send me some Target gift certificates or some photography by John Drysdale. Thanks!

1/2/05 Wow, its so cool to know that I'm already 5 months into this program, only another 17 to go until have really have to have my life figured out. Well, New Years Eve was a night full of, well, home made fun. John orginally wanted me to head to the dunes for New Years with him, but I just wasn't feeling it. So luckily Heidi's friends from Boston were here visiting, so we headed on down to Pasadena for the night. Pretty much a total bust, but Heidi and I managed to make our own fun. And that fun left me laying in bed all day Saturday, but don't worry we went out Saturday night again. This time Lisa managed to have a dance off with a 40 year old man, lets just say she won by doing the running man! That has basically been my life since we haven't had school...I lay around, nap, consider going to the gym, go to the zoo and pick up poop. Oh, and did I mention that everything is flooding out here? Its really crappy, not only now are we competing with nasty poop we've got these huge lakes and mud fields to deal with. Megan comes this Wednesday night and I'm very excited to see her. Its been a long time coming! Now I just need to clean up my room again so Megan has a place to stay.

12/29/04 So, its been about a month since my last entry and a lot has gone on. Dude ran his maze alright, but good enough to get me an A. My family arrived here in Cali last Wednesday and left this past Sunday. Good God, I love them all to death, but next time they come they need to stay at a hotel. We did a lot of touristy stuff together and eating out of course. My uncle, aunt and cousin from San Diego came up Xmas day, which I'd probably only met them once or twice in my life. But now that I understand that they're just as normal, infact crazy cool like my parents, I'll have to keep in touch with them more. Megan comes in one week, exciting! It'll be nice to finally have a friend from back home come out. Its just not the same to talk to her every week on the phone as it'll be having her here. Lets see, classes have been over for about 2 weeks and I'm getting more and more bored everyday. But no worries, I'll find things to keep myself busy. I really wish that I could think of more things to write about, but I'm out of things to say. So, I'll update my pictures and leave it at that.

12/02/03 Not only does my family come in three weeks to visit me, Megan comes in 5!! Oh, and my rat, Dude, ran his course/maze again today. All on his own! I might just be able to pass this damn class. I now remember what it was that I wanted to write about last time, GeeWhiz, our llama. He had a history of stones and once again was found with more stones, one the size of a baseball. Gee was not going to be able to pass the stone and surgery at his age was too risky, so it was decided that we'd have to put him down. That was last Wednesday, a very, very sad day for our staff and second years. We now have a very sick squirrel monkey, Lacey. Shes about 120 in human years (or so that was Dr. Stringfield says, our zoo vet). She was found cold and barely moving early one morning this week, shes now indoors and doing much better.

Other news...Thanksgiving was tons-o-fun. Bri and I went to Heidi, Aleia, Lindsey and Josh's place. Needless to say it was a short night due to the drinking that went down the night before. Heidi is a trooper!

This week has been pretty low-key for the most part. Our second years are leaving in two weeks for another field trip to San Diego, and this time I'm in Carns while they're gone. So, I really, really wanted the lioness, and I got her! How exciting is that? I get to take care of Kiara for a week while the second years are gone, no more birds!!!!

Oh, and my rat's maze attacked Heidi today. It knows her evil plot to destory me, and decided to fall ontop of her and gash the back of her knee...waahaahaa.