Last post...thank God!!

Keeping up with these blogs has been hard for me.
Either I forget to post or I make a post and cannot find other blogs to comment on.
I almost forgot to make a post today, but I saw where Hannah commented on my post from last week and I was like "oh snap gotta make a post!"

Anyways I am really looking forward to this summer... I hope I can have a job... maybe 2 jobs
I love working because I think about all the money I will have to spend on pay-day...
This is the first time I have actually worked for my money and could spend it however I want...
At first I did want to go to summer school... but I didn't save any money to go and I would enjoy myself more this summer by just working and saving my money... I plan on buying a car too...
I refuse to be relying on other people to take me places forever and by fall I plan on driving other people places like they did for me...

I think this is going to be the first time I actually have an A in a class... Sociology has been very easy for me to grasp and I pass all the quizzes with an A, most of the time, and I did great on the midterm so now if I do well on the final I'm guaranteed to get an A in the class... yay me!

It's almost time for my writing conference and I'm really excited because after my in-class workshop I was still stuck and could not figure out what exactly to add to my paper... I thought going to the writing center was helping me, but it actually made things more confusing for me... I cant find enough sources and I'm not sure where my paper is even going!  oh well... hopefully this conference helps me...

Once again I cannot wait for this summer! I want more tattoos, clothes, and a car and I plan to get them all!!!

I know school isn't over yet, but have a great summer you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well today was not a very good day...
Around 3am this morning I started feeling extremely sick. My body was aching, head was throbbing, and my throat was sore as ever! I thought that it could be a result of me eating a piece of candy I dropped on the floor in my room a couple hours before my symptoms started... I managed to go to sleep and when I woke up for class I could barely move! I was feeling worse than before I went to sleep, but I still made it to class... I was too ill to take notes in class and I just started feeling worse and worse as class went on... as soon as class let out I called to the student health clinic and told the nurse my symptoms. She told me to come in right away which was really messed up because I had another class to go to that actually takes attendance and I could not miss anymore points. I decided to put my health first and skip my class since I wouldn't be able to focus if I went anyways. The doctor told me I have a virus and gave me Tylenol and throat lozenges to take. She gave me 2 pills to take that moment while I wait for the strep test to come back and I fell asleep. When she came back with the results and woke me up I felt sooooo much better, but I still didn't make it to work because I was still in pain and probably contagious. I went to sleep and when I woke up I felt just as bad as I did before! The tylenol wore off, so I took more and  it didn't work as well as it did the first time :(   Now I'm feeling just as bad and I'm not getting any better... I hope I can make it to my classes and work tomorrow...

Oh and I am so blessed because I made it my mission to make it to my sociology class Monday that I keep missing and even though I was really late I made it and it just so happened that we had a quiz that day! and I did pretty good even though I missed all the lectures for it! yay me!

So, I've been thinking about dropping my math 125 course because I'm failing, but if I do that then I will have less than 12 hours and I think that means I lose my scholarship... however if I keep the math class I will have a fat D to kill my GPA. I do not know what to do! Anyways I missed my sociology class again! ugh I need to stop going to bed so late so I can wake up in time to go... I hope we didn't have a quiz. My FYS class was cancelled today, not like I ever remember to go... After English I am done with classes, I cannot make it to my others that day... 

Well I havent had a roommate all semester long, but now I do. Everyone was so shocked that someone was moving in with only a few weeks left... I wasnt forced to get a roommate, I actually invited her to stay because she was having issues with her roommate in another residence hall. Moving all her crap was horrible! I hurt myself too many times trying to help her move her stuff and now that all her stuff is in my room, my room has shrunk to 1/3 of its size  :(  I cant say I regret letting her move in because she's my friend and she needed help, but I did not expect to be so uncomfortable in my own room... It's alright though because it's only a few more weeks before I am back home.

Wow I'm really hungry right now... gotta get ready for class bye! 

Well...

For some reason I keep forgetting to go to my FYS 129 class each week and I'm determined to go today, but today was the worst day to go back because all the other days were fun and they made chocolate stuff in class and today we have to do a presentation about the chocolate website we were assigned! Ugh I am not at all prepared for this presentation, and just as I was about to make up a quick presentation I realized that it was Wednesday and I needed to make this blog post! :(  This is too much to do in less than an hour!!! On the other hand I've been missing my sociology class for the past 3 or 4 classes and I decided to go today especially since we had a test and I know I Aced it!!! That's why I love it so much; all I have to do is read the material he puts online and I pass the test every time. Oh and I was going to go to sociology Monday but I lost my phone and spent the whole morning trying to find it because I thought I left it in the library... It turns out I left it in the bathroom though and the girl who lives right across the hall from me found it so I wasted my time trying to file a police report and stuff lol. Also, that same day my friend had my keys to my room, but I had forgotten to get my work clothes and I had to borrow my boyfriend's black pants and work shirt and I had to wait for my coworker to finish her shift so she could loan me her shoes... of course I worked in my flip flops until I was able to get her shoes, I can't afford to miss money like that! It did feel really gross wearing someone else's shoes though...

On another note, why is it called spring recess and not Easter break? Are they trying not to offend people that are not Christians or something? If they are worried about offending non-Christians shouldn't they be worried about the Christians they are offending too? Anyways I don't really make a big deal about it, but I know a lot of people that are and I'm wondering if it's true that they say that so they will not offend other religions... I guess I'll save my religion talk for another post...

Spring Break!!! :)

This was the best spring break I've ever had mainly because I actually went out of town with friends instead of lounging around the house...

I went to Panama City Beach with 3 other friends, but first went to Nashville, back to Knoxville, then to Atlanta, and finally to PCB.
It seemed like we would never get there! The trip getting there was pretty exciting too though.  In Nashville, I spent two nights at Vandy in my friend's dorm and he was really mean. It was like it did not want us there at all, but before we got there it was like he was excited that I was coming... he made us sleep downstairs on couches the 1st night and a RA woke us up and told us that we weren't even allowed to sleep on those couches. The 2nd night he let us have a bed since he has no roommate, but my other friend that lives in Nashville decided to spend the night so I had to sleep on the floor  :(  my body was hurting soooooooo bad the next morning!
When we came back to Knoxville to pick up our other friend we ended up having car trouble which caused us to get to Atlanta around midnight and we didn't get to enjoy it like we planned because it was too late to really do anything...

Random Thought: this was a stinky trip! in Alabama we passed a yeast factory that smelled like a poop factory! and PCB was pretty stinky in some places.

In PCB:

• we ate out every night which broke our wallets
• me and another friend got kicked out of a club for a reason that Im not gonna say
• I got stung by a jellyfish
• I went parasailing
• we slept on the beach a few nights
• I had a rough ride on a banana boat because of the huge waves
• I almost drowned... not really but it felt like the waves were gonna take me away
• We got harassed by foreign ppl at the club
• we got harassed by a huge blk dude at the hotel trying to go to the pool with us
• tattoos are tooooooooooo expensive down there!!
• this list is getting too long so i'm gonna stop here....

Anyways, this was a great trip and I'm glad I proved my aunt wrong by making it back in one piece!... she sounded pretty sad to hear that nothing really bad happened to me and we made it back on time

The Frustrated Procrastinator!!! ... me

It's 4 o'clock in the morning,

I wish I was snoring.
Too bad I'm up late writing,
And I can't stop wining.
I hate writing papers,
I wish my meeting wasn't later.



















I've only written one sentence in three hours,

I wish I had super writing powers.

I hate when I keep finding other things to do besides write this paper... like:

watch youtube videos, sleep, eat, text, dance, download music, play sims on facebook, chat on facebook, breathe, live, shop online, think, clean my room, doodle... the list goes on forever!

THANK GOD FOR SPRING BREAK! HE KNOWS I NEED IT!!! 

me right now...

At the moment I want to shoot myself and and I am wishing that I could tell the person that came up with the whole writing essays thing to prove you can do it "go kill yourself " and other some things I would be kicked out of school for if I publish it...

whew! now that I got that off my chest... I hope everyone has a wonderful spring break/ rest of this week! :)

I am so glad my paper is due the day after I return from panama!!! best gift in the world!!! **in a sarcastic chipmunk voice**

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I wish I didn't mean some of the things I'm thinking right now...
I feel like I'm going insane...
Do I get like this every time I write a paper?... no!
I get frustrated, but not like this...
I can't believe I'm actually ranting on here about how much life sucks right now instead of finishing my paper! pi-ti-ful...



Anyways it's okay... all I have to do is keep thinking about spring break and other good things like:
chocolate, smiles, laughter, fun, life, pink, happiness, sunshine, blue skies, stars, not having to write essays for English about myself

Best Spring Break Ever?

Okay so I have big plans for spring break this year!... at least big for me... I think I mentioned it already in an earlier post... oh well here it is again
No sitting at home with nothing to do.
No watching tv and sleeping all day.
No freezing every time I go outside when it's supposed to be SPRING break.

This Spring Break I am going to Panama City Beach!!!

Yayyyyy me!!!!

Shopping. Swimming. Sun. Partying. Fun.!!!!

Anyways here's the issue...

My mother does not want me to go because we will be driving for a long time and "who knows what might happen to us"...

My response: Whatever! This is going to be a great adventure!
I need to experience life and that's hard to do sitting at home alone being bored! I know she's thinking what if I die or something, but people die at home all the time or even just driving to the grocery store!!
I would much rather die doing something I enjoy than sitting at home watching tv...
Plus if you have faith in God you should not be too afraid to live...

My aunt does not want me to go either...
She's been emailing programs for spring break pretending to be my mother and asking if it's too late for me to go... she emailed this one Christian program asking if they would accept my application late...ummmm no.
I don't think I would enjoy myself anyway... Oh and get this, She emailed a lady that's like my second mother asking if she would pretend to need help in her classroom and pay me to work over spring break with money my aunt sends to her... in the email my aunt says "Please don't mention this conversation"...my aunt accidentally sent me the email too!!! haha wow really?!

My response:
Yea okay... I'm still going...!
I need advice should I pretend to be ignorant of the scam or tell the lady the jig is up?

I Love Google!...even though it's really creepy and smarter than me!!!

I love Google sooooo much!
I like the way I can link many accounts, like this blog account to my main google account.
It's pretty much the only search engine I use... I hate Bing so much!

This is how I view other search engines...
Yahoo: childish; for babies; only useful for finding titles of songs using lyrics you know
Bing: weird; thinks it's smarter than Google- it's not; too mature; complicated simpleness
DuckDuckGo: what is that?!
WolframAlpha: only useful for math and most times it's not even good at that
Other search engines that I do not know about: who cares?! they just aren't advertised enough I guess...

I love using google chrome because it remembers all my passwords so I don't have to!
Did anyone else find that last statement creepy??!

Google is too smart and I'm addicted to it!

• I love that Google Chrome remembers my passwords for me, but at the same time that allows me to forget them and that's not good because I may not be on my computer and need to log in somewhere else...
•  Auto-fill on Google Chrome has gotten too smart too! It not only remembers my name, address, phone number... it remembers my credit card number!!! you know why? because I allowed it to.
• I hate the fact that I am allowing Google to think and remember so many things for me! It's spoiling me and making me lazy and dependent on it! 

So I have a question for you...
If you have a blogger account like mine, have you ever noticed how your account is able to tell you how many people have viewed your blog?

Well, today is the first day I really paid any attention to it. I think it is so creepy that this blog account can not only tell me how many times my page has been viewed, but where it was viewed, by what operating system it's viewed, and by which browser.
Oddly, my page has been viewed by people in Russia and Germany and it has been viewed a total of  115 times since I made it... For my page to have been viewed that many times I think it's weird that I only have like 3 comments- I must be boring lol! yes I am exaggerating...

The point of all of this is Google= too smart and creepy!!! Be careful what information you feed this knowledge hungry beast!!

It's Complicated...?

Well there's good news and there's bad news... Which would you like to hear 1st? I usually go for the bad news 1st and then the good news, so then the bad news won't be as bad... anyways that's enough of this useless introduction to today's blog...

Good News:
I found my half brother that my father had told me about all his life until he died.
How did I find him after all this time? Facebook!!! It's a lifesaver!
Ever since I messaged him on facebook and he gave me his number, we've been texting everyday .
I have never seen him before, well I have but I was like 1, anyways he said that if I come to Memphis for spring break instead of going to Panama I can see him and we can hang out!!!
I really want to go to Panama though...
Panama has beaches and warm weather.
Memphis has my long lost brother.
I think I might have to wait until the semester is over to visit him.  :)

Bad News:
He does not think that my father is his real father.
He says my father just took him in until he was adopted by his grandmother and "it's complicated..."

Quick Summary:
I found my brother on Facebook and I am really excited to meet him!

Well, on to another subject I guess...

I have started a diet!
My aunt has promised me cash money if I can lose 20 pounds by Easter.
My diet consists of:

1. No drinks; water and juice only
2. No eating after 9 pm
3. No candy
4. hopefully Zumba every Sunday
5. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator most of the time  :)
6. At least one fruit/ vegetable a day I hate healthy food  :(

Hopefully this is enough to help me lose the pounds... I actually had stopped drinking drinks like 3 weeks ago, but I think I should include it on here anyways because it really does make u lose a little weight- trust me I've stopped before and as soon as I had a relapse I gained all the weight I lost back...

AMAZiNg!

Did the title catch your attention? I hope so... I apologize; this post will not be what the title implies, but here it is anyway.

My Microsoft Word no longer works on my computer.
My English paper is due Friday and it's saved on my computer.
This is not good.

I like to shop.
I got a job so I could shop.
My job is stressful sometimes, especially when it's a game day.
Today is a game day.

I like Valentines Day a lot.
My Valentine waited til the last minute to go get my gift.
There was not much left for him to choose from.
I bought his gift a week in advance.
My gift from him was candy that I love.
I have plenty candy.
I wanted a giant stuffed animal, not candy.
I will run out of candy someday.
The gift will come in handy eventually.
I am hard to please and spoiled.

I get tired of being disappointed by the food at PCB.
Today I ate at Morrill.
The food was disappointing.
I ate ice cream.

My blog post looks like a poem.
My blog posts is in stanzas.
It does not rhyme.
Poetry does not have to rhyme.
This is not a poem.

I apologize if I bore you.
I have no choice.
This is what I feel like saying.
This is for a grade.
This is what's on my mind.
This blog is due in 5 minutes.
This is the end.

Living in a dorm

Living on campus has been an overall good experience; however, there have been some issues too. I like living in the dorms because I get to live close to people I know, and I can visit when I want. The first thing I hate about living in the dorms is how dirty the showers are. Most of the girls on my floor have long hair, and it always ends up in the showers on the floors and walls. They never pick up their hair! That's why my favorite shower flooded once.  :(  Also, the girls are icky because they use the restroom, and just walk out without washing their hands! Another horrible thing about living in the dorms is that we have to pay to do laundry. Every time I do laundry for me and my boyfriend I spend $15 or more, which is way too much because I wash pretty often. The worst thing of all is my neighbor. One of the girls that lives next to me always has a horrible odor. She stinks so bad that she funks up the entire hallway sometimes. I do not understand why her friends refuse to tell her that she smells bad. I would tell her, but I'm not really friends with her and I'm not sure how to tell her nicely. It would be different if I was her friend; it would be much easier to tell her without hurting her feelings too bad. I asked my mother and godmother how to tell her and they both said just pull her to the side and tell her, but that's not easy for me. I believe she smells so bad because she is extremely overweight, so she does not take showers as often nor as well. I often see her in the same clothes for 3 days or more; it's just terrible. I hope someone tells her soon because I don't know how much longer I can bare the stench before I have to hurt her feelings. I do understand that she is so obese that she can barely walk, let alone stand in the shower, but she's got to do something. Anyways I do like living in the dorms regardless of all the bad things, especially since my roommate never showed up and I have a double room all to myself.

What would I do without the joy of laughter?

Am I the only one that can spend hours watching YouTube videos and looking at funny pics? I truly love to laugh! I have two YouTube channels that I truly love; they're Dormtainment and Spoken Reasons. Dormtainment is the most hilarious group on YouTube to me! They do so many funny skits, and there's one member of the group that I particularly fancy. His name is Mike, and he has his own character named Leaning Leon. Leaning Leon has a Jamaican accent... I think Mike is Jamaican in real life too. I just stopped in the middle of typing that last sentence and watched three YouTube videos! :)  I am addicted to watching these videos!!! One of the videos I just watched was called "Sugarbaby." When I first read the title I thought it would be a comedy about a old man and his sugarbaby or something like that. It was actually about this guy that asked his girlfriend to meet him at a coffee shop so he could break up with her. The girl shows up talking about how in love with him she is, but he still breaks up with her and she goes crazy. By the way, the reason he's breaking up with her is because she's crazy; she had a dream that he cheated or something, so she woke up and got a knife and was about to stab him. Anyways she just keeps saying he can't break up with her and mentions that they have a child together. They don't have any children and he tells her that, but she pulls out a bag of sugar with a face drawn on it saying that's their child.... it's hilarious, you should really see it... at least it's hilarious to me...

My random thoughts...

• I can't believe it's so hard for me to write one blog post a week when I update my status on Facebook like 100 times a day!
• I have no idea what I want to major in or what I want to do with my life, career wise, and I hate when I tell people that and they say "well what do you like to do?" What do you mean what do I like to do?? I like to do a bunch of stuff that would have me impoverished for the rest of my life if I try to make a career out of it! Then when I tell them I like to go shopping and other non-career things they say, "Well what are you good at?" Like I said in my last blog me = talent-challenged...
• Ugh, I'm starting not to like my job because everyday I come home with more scratches and bruises and I have no idea where they come from... it just happens! all I do is make food and I think I would know if I cut myself with a knife...
• I like ellipsis dot, dot, dot all day...
• I love watching youtube videos, but I'll save that topic for another day...
• I like to consider myself a good listener; however, when I'm in class and forced by a teacher to get to know someone, I usually zone out... and then the best part is I nod like I'm listening and then the person says something that requires a response from me and I'm still nodding and acting like I'm listening, so then it gets awkward because they realize I wasn't listening... oops
• When I first heard our blog posts had to be at least 250 words, I thought about how in middle school my English teacher would make us write a 250 word essay as a punishment for acting up in class or not doing homework.
• Oh, no it's almost time for class to start!!...

Well, let me tell you about myself.
My name is Mauricia Lyn and I'm from Memphis, TN.
My favorite color is pink and I love pizza and chocolate.
My mother lives in Memphis and my father died on Thanksgiving 6 years ago.
I hate Thanksgiving.
This Christmas holiday season is my favorite time of the year for these reasons:

1. pretty decorations
2. gifts
3. food
4. the start of a new year
5. my birthday is 9 days after Christmas

I came to the University of Tennessee Knoxville because I wanted to get away from home and I had a scholarship.
Many people think I came just because my boyfriend was going, but that's not the case.
Me and my boyfriend will have been together a whole year this Sunday! It may not seem like a long time, but no one expected it to last this long.
... I am very tall and people make me feel worthless when they ask me if I play basketball and I say no and they continue to talk about how I should play. I've actually had people tell me that I am a waste of height :(
I actually don't think I have any talent whatsoever..
I don't have many friends and I don't get along with many girls.
I think I'm a nice person and a good friend to have, but I guess people just don't like me...
I'm reall not sure what else to say, so I guess I'll end here until next time :)