when life gives you lemons...

today was not one of my better days.
i think i have myself to blame though. in true amy fashion, i expected too much. i expected that my friends would be interested in a TNMN to celebrate my birthday. i expected that since i had mentioned it to them, it would happen.
it didn't.
i was left frustrated and upset.
and now i'm kind of over making any attempt to celebrate my birthday with my friends. we'll see.
i did this same thing for my 21st birthday, and it turned out to be ok in the end, even if it wasn't what i had expected.
for my 22nd birthday, i didn't expect much and my birthday was fabulous.
you would think i would learn from this, right?


anyway.

we flew back from vegas yesterday morning on the first flight out, and it was time to get right back to business. i had to go to school and james had to go to work. we were so tired! actually, i set my alarm wrong, and we almost missed our ride to the airport. luckily, my sister and jamie were leaving with us in the morning, so they called us 10 minutes before we were supposed be out at the limo to find out where we were. um. asleep. but we made it just fine. :]

the trip was a lot of fun. my sister, jamie, james and i went to see O on saturday night. it was my second time seeing it, and i noticed so many more details. still totally amazed by what they are able to pull off. everyone else loved the show too. it was their first time, and they all agreed it would be fun to see it again.james was hoping to get tickets to the big ufc fight that took place on saturday night, and my dad's casino host told him it wouldn't be a problem. i guess his host had overlooked the fact that it was "an epic fight" so he didn't secure tickets for james and jamie in time. sorry boys.

we also went to the superbowl party, which was fabulous. the amount and variety of food available is just ridiculous. not good for anyone's diet, that's for sure. i finally figured out that maybe they went with the palm tree theme because the game was in florida? i think i would just go with a general football theme, but i guess that's not good enough. ha.

everyone was happy to get to hang out with victoria. my sister doesn't get to see her very often, so she was really happy to have time with her this trip. unfortunately, she's be a bit sick lately. she's still a pretty happy baby, even when she's sick, but it's so sad to hear her little cough. i think she got pretty worn out from all of the attention and stimulation of being around so many people. so cute.she is trying to walk, but still being rather cautious. she will take a couple steps to get from one piece of furniture to another and she loves going for walks if you let her hold onto your fingers, but her preferred method of transportation is still crawling... she can really scoot around!

it was a fun trip. too short though. i'm trying to decide if i can swing a trip down for victoria's first birthday in a month. we'll see how busy things are with school. grr.

yesterday turned into one of those days that feels like more than one day. at dinner, i asked james if it felt like we had flown back from vegas that morning, and he said no. i totally agreed.

in micro, we were drawing various types of organisms as we saw them under the microscope. i have a love/hate relationship with microscopes. i love it when they cooperate with me because it's so cool to see things so differently when you magnify them 1000x. especially with oil immersion. but i hate them because they never seem to focus for me as easily as they do for other people. i think it's because i wear glasses or something. i was so glad to be done with the lab, but i basically have a whole semester of microscopy ahead of me in this lab. i need to find a way to befriend microscope #14, my microscope.

as far as teaching, i'm getting a little frustrated. i need to be more patient i guess. i just feel like these students should be able to read directions and follow a protocol! the other thing that makes me so angry, is when they argue for a point on their quiz. one point! are you kidding me? not only were you wrong, but you are shameless enough to ask me for a point for your wrong answer after we've been over the correct answers? ugh. i will definitely need to find some extra patience somewhere. and soon.

otherwise, i've gone through the past few weeks thinking that my birthday was on thursday, and it wasn't until yesterday that i realized it's on wednesday. i even said something to james about it being on thursday, and he took my word for it. so when we were in vegas, he said something about my birthday being on thursday, and my mom and sister gave him a hard time about not knowing when my birthday was... poor guy. ha.

i know i still need to post photos from new york. i don't know why i've been so lazy about it. i think it's just because i got sick on the trip, so it didn't turn out how i would have liked. and i definitely don't have as many cool photos to share as i would like. i'll get them posted soon. i have another post in the works with some scrappy stuff too.

okie. i'm off to read.
goodnight!