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New Things, Stress, and Craziness

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

A lot has been happening lately. I knew it was all coming, but it always seemed so far away. Now half of it has passed and here I am stuck in the middle of this crazy messed up thing and I’m so stressed out and I’m tired and I just want to curl up in a ball and forget hte world… at least for the next couple weeks.

Last week (August 12) we moved from Taber to Medicine Hat. I’m still working in Lethbridge though. So right now I’m driving just over an hour and a half to get to work. Good thing is that’s almost over. I have two shifts left. Since we have a huge reset in the beading area of the store to do next week, a bunch of us (mostly the replenishment crew, and a few others) are doing some over night shifts. Since I had planned for my last day to be Tuesday, August 25th, I’m doing Sunday night and Monday night. Then I’m finished. So if you are following me on Twitter or are a friend on Facebook, you likely noticed that yesterday was my last day shift. My last day dealing with customers!! lol… until I get to Ontario. I’m getting transferred to a store in Oshawa for when I’m at school. That way I will have a little bit of income while I’m there. And I didn’t have to actually quit my job.

Also, some of you may have been aware that my friend Amanda was pregnant. We hadn’t really hung out much lately. I’ve been busy with work and the move and stuff and she’s been busy getting ready for the baby and hanging out with other people. I don’t want to sound bitter about this but, maybe I am a tiny bit. When I got home from PRBI, Amanda and I hung out practically everyday, more often after she told me she was pregnant (she was scared to tell me because of how someone else reacted, but that’s another story). Then when Cara came back from school we sort of stopped hanging out as much. I’m not entirely sure what happened and I’m sure its partly my fault. I thought we had gotten really close but then it just faded away. I mean I could have put in more of an effort but I felt like half the time we hung out, she just didn’t really want to be there. Like there was something wrong with me. I’m know there are things wrong with me, but it didn’t feel like she felt that way before that. I found myself just getting rather annoyed after a while and didn’t put in much effor anymore. And for that, I apologize. (I doubt that Amanda will read this, mostly because I know she won’t have much time now.)

Anyways, back to what I was originally going to say about Amanda… I was talking to her on the phone (the conversation started through text message) on Monday the 17th evening, when I got off work, around just after 5:30. She was 2cm dialated at the time so we knew the baby was coming soon. Her due date was September 1st, by the way, but obviously he was going to be early. I found out the Tuesday morning, around 11:30am, when I was going for lunch, via text message that Hunter William was born on Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:08pm in Taber. We talked some more via text message throughout the day while I was on breaks and when I got off work. He had to be taken to the hospital in Lethbridge later on. All she told me was that there was something wrong with his breathing and his heart. I asked her again how he was doing earlier today and she said he was still in the hospital and they’re still waiting for test results. So at this point I don’t really know much. I don’t even know how much Amanda knows. I haven’t seen the baby yet either since they’re still in the hospital. She’s been staying with him in Lethbridge. I really hope she gets to take him home soon. I also hope I get to see him before I leave for school.

Its now officially less than a week until I leave for school. We’re driving out and my parents are flying back, so I get the car while I’m at school. We’re leaving after my parents get home from work on Wednesday, August 26th. My move in date for residence, I  believe we chose for the 2nd. I don’t remember for sure, but I think that’s what it is. School starts on the 8th.

On another random note… in addition to all the stuff that’s happening lately, I’ve had a lot of stuff on my mind lately. More specifically people. I don’t know why. This started a while ago but it got weirder a few days ago. I was unpacking some stuff in my new room and I found my old journals/diaries. I don’t write in them very often. I think the last time was about 2 years ago. I was looking at an old entry. It was one of those stupid email forward quizes (now mostly used on Facebook) that, for some reason, I had written in my journal. It was a personality quiz thing. One of the questions asked you to write a person’s name next to some different colours. Then you get the results at the end. For one of these colours I picked a certain person and the result for it made me think about that person again. Like I said, I had been thinking about this person quite a bit before I read this, but this made me think about them more. I realized that I miss them a lot. It didn’t help that people have been asking me a lot about this person lately too. Its weird. Its closing in on a year since I’ve talked to this person. The last time was around October, 2008. I get random wall posts or status or photo comments from them, but other than that we’ve had no communication since October-ish. (I don’t remember the exact day). I kept texting the person but they stopped replying.

Who am I kidding, its kind of obvious its a guy I’m talking about so I’ll stop saying they and them. For some of you this may be more obvious as to who it is but if you don’t know, that’s fine. Lets keep it that way.

Anyways, we haven’t talked in a long time and I kind of want to talk to him again but I don’t know what to say. I think things were a little awkward last time. I’m pretty sure that’s the problem, but I don’t know how to get past that. We live too far away from each other to go out for coffee or whatever just randomly. And now I’m going even farther away for school. I think the fact that we were closer to each other for a little while last year kind of freaked him out a little bit. Then I didn’t really tell him I wasn’t coming back after Christmas, until after, because he randomly sent me a message or text or something (I forget what form it was in) and some how it came up that I wasn’t back up north, that I had stayed home. I don’t think we’ve talked since that. So, I guess if you include that conversation (which wasn’t long btw) we have talked since October, but that was in like January or something.

I’m not exctly sure why I’ve been thinking so much about this guy lately though. I don’t really know if I still have feelings for him because I haven’t seen him since October and rarely ever talk to him, but for some reason I keep thinking about him. I went for quite a while without thinking about him though. Its just been the last month or two. And, as I mentioned, people keep asking about me and him. At my cousin’s wedding on the 8th, most of my mom’s family was there and  one of my uncle’s likes to bug me about boys whenever we see each other. He asked if I had a boyfriend and somewhere in the word “no” he decided that I had 2. So the rest of the day I was being bugged about having two boyfriends. Then other people, who knew a little bit about me and this guy, were asking about him and stuff. I got stuck in a whole conversation about him and how we hadn’t talked in a long time and stuff.

That got me thinking though. I miss the conversations we used to have online after I moved to Taber. And even the ones we had when we were still in high school together. He was so much fun to talk to. Before the complication of having feelings for each other as more than friends. Before that, we were really good friends. My favourite conversation was one we had until about 3:30 in the morning. We were talking about arm hairs and toe hairs. Sounds stupid, I know, but I swear to you it is, to this day, the most hilarious conversation I have ever had with anyone. One of the few online conversations I’ve had where I have actually laughed out loud. I had to try and be quiet to because it was after 3am and my parents were in bed. It was really hard lol. I miss those days.

(Oh, I forgot, we have actually had a few short converstations (that died rather quickly) online since then, mostly talking about school and other random stuff. But nothing really important.)

I’ve been debating for the last couple days whether or not I should send him an email to see how he’s doing. I don’t really know what to say to him. I’m not always the best with words. Ok, I’m usually not. It would be nice to have a conversation like we used to, but its been so long that I don’t know if we can. I don’t know, I guess we’ll see if I can work up the courage to do it. I don’t think he reads this (I don’t think many people do), but if he is reading this, I hope maybe he’ll email me first. I think it would be nice to know how how feels.

I don’t know.

I should really stop rambling now though. This has gotten quite long and I hadn’t intended for it to be long.

My stomach is growling. I’m going to go make something to eat. I guess that’s all for now. I know I don’t post very often anymore but I’ll try to post when I get to school to let you all know how things are going.

Doors… Re-opening…? Ugh…

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

I feel like my head is going to explode. Literally and emotionally..I now have a headache from this. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. This is some what of a follow-up to my last post: Doors. I just found out that I got an offer of admissions to one of the colleges in Ontario that I applied at. It’s my second choice of the two and my first choice is now wait listed, but I haven’t heard anything from them yet. Plus, on top of that some more stuff has come up that might change more stuff. I mean this isn’t anything that’s happening for sure right now but I can see it definitely being a possibility. I’m so confused right now. I think that’s part of why I haven’t found a job yet, because I have so much on my mind that I’m not thinking about jobs a whole lot. I mean I’ve been applying to a few but it just doesn’t seem like it’s on the top of my priority list right now, even though it should be.

Anyways, I have to run out and pick something up, and get some gas before the price goes up anymore.

Doors

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Over the last couple weeks some more doors have been opened. Some have been closed but not locked. Of the doors that are remaining open right now, I think I know which one I will go through. At first it seemed like a bit of a leap for me. This door has been there all along but it seemed to be hidden at the end of the hallway where I couldn’t really see it. But now that I’ve found it, its intriguing and definitely has my attention.

By the end of the summer you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. Probably before then.

Good-byes and Hello Agains

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Ok, I was going to keep this quiet for a little while because it’s not 100% set in stone or anything. But I changed my mind. So I’m going to tell you.

I’ve applied to Durham College’s Web Design & Development program and Niagara College’s New Media Web Design program. I had Niagara as my first choice (those of you who have applied to colleges on OntarioCollege.ca understand lol) and Durham as my second choice, but I’ve switched it. I decided to put Durham as my first choice because it’s more focused on the development part of web design, where as Niagara’s program is more closely related to Multimedia, and a bit less on the web design/development part of it. (more…)

Welcome to Soft Spoken!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Ok, so I decided to create a new domain for my blog, because I had wanted to get my old domain, lostinasong.net, back but Netfirms has renewed it for itself for another year so I couldn’t get it back when it was supposed to expire (I’m not with Netfirms anymore, since September 2007 I’ve been with Bluehost).

But, this is my new domain. I will be adding all my old posts, after this one so it will probably confuse the database a little bit but not enough to completely screw it up.

I’m also running an entirely new version of WordPress now, it’s WAY different (if you’ve ever seen the control panel of older versions). I’m currently running version 2.5. Previously, I had been running 2.3.3. I’ve also used versions as early as 1.5 but they never really did change the Admin panel as much as this did for 2.5. I really like the colour scheme, but I’m not entirely sure that I like the layout of the posting page. But I’m sure I will get used to it. I liked how the sidebar used to be in it, but they moved most of that stuff below the post box. I used to be able to make a whole post without having to scroll down the page. But I guess that’s the sacrifice you have to make for change. Lol. Whatever. Its not a huge deal.

Anyways, enjoy!

-Keira

*Note: All entries posted before this one were originally posted on my old blog at blog.keirahenricks.com.

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New Chapter

Monday, September 10th, 2007

This is yet another fresh start for me. I’ve had two other WordPress Blogs (first was at lostinasong.net in 2006 and then fading-flowers.com in mostly in 2007). I’m starting over again because it was a pain in the but to try to import my old WordPress Posts and also because I’m working on a new personal/portfolio website for school and I wanted to move my blog to my new domain and to make it a bit more personal. I’m also starting a new chapter of my life as well. I’m starting college. I am taking Multimedia at Lethbridge College in Lethbridge, Alberta. I decided to take Multimedia mostly because I want to get into Web Design. I had originally wanted to take Web Design at Humber College in Toronto, but they wanted me to take their Multimedia program first anyway, and since I was living in Taber when I finished high school (although I did not graduate in Taber) I decided, with the help of my uncle, to take Multimedia at Lethbridge College. I am still hoping to take the web design program at Humber after I am finished at Lethbridge. Web design and programming has been my passion since the time I was first introduced to basic HTML in a grade 8 computer programming class at Sexsmith Secondary School in Sexsmith, Alberta. Although I only learned basic HTML in high school, that gave me enough knowledge to research online and start teaching myself. Having that basic understanding of HTML has really helped me learn quickly how designing and maintaining a website works. I taught myself CSS and in the last two years started learning PHP. I know a little bit of Javascript but haven’t really gotten into it as much yet as I have with CSS and PHP. Now that I am back in school and learning all of the stuff I already love, I will gain a better knowledge of all of this. I’m very excited to be back in school, mostly just for the fact that I am taking classes that I know I will enjoy. Not like in High School where we were forced to take specific classes, and because I went to a small high school I did not have the optional classes that would have helped me along the way to the career I want. But now that high school is in the past, I have, as I’ve already said, started a new chapter of my life.

Anyways, if you would like to know more about me, please take a look at the ‘about me’ pages, which I will have up and running shortly.

That is all for this today.