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Bobbi — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:35:04 +0000

Sometimes I wonder, what am I going to do with my life? It’s true that I want to go to law school and/or get my MBA after I finish my undergraduate degree, but there are certainly times where I doubt my dreams. Every once in awhile, I think about how great it would be to just get a head start in the working world and put some good use to my business minor. When I was planning on graduating with a business degree, I dreamt of selling insurance for a particular company and dealing with term life insurance for younger people because especially if you’re young, married and have little children, you need to have sometime in place for your family in case something unfortunate happens to you or your spouse.

In reality, I’d love to combine a law degree and MBA and do business law. In twenty years, hopefully I will have established a practice and be a very successful woman!

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South Carolina Recap

Bobbi — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:18:52 +0000

First of all, thanks for all of your suggestions regarding acne cures! I read all of them and am definitely going to try a few out.

Did I mention I bought a bike and have been using it to get to and from campus? I bought a relatively cheap mountain bike from Walmart a couple weeks ago and absolutely love it. It was a little rough getting used to biking almost 2.5 miles to and from campus, but it’s also really invigorating. It’s nice because my commute doubles as my exercise for the day! I come home really sweaty and gross, but I don’t care - I’m not really trying to impress anyone, lol.

The wedding was beautiful. It was a very casual, laid back wedding and we all really enjoyed the four days we spent together. I almost went parasailing, but chickened out at the last minute; damn my anxiety! Maybe I’ll try it another time :). We also tried out a few bars in HH - interesting stories that I wish I could share, but some things are just better left unsaid. Just think - what normally happens on a night with lots of drinking and college students?

Hunter will not stop GROWING. He’s over 30 lbs now and Tom and I both think he grew during the four days we were gone for the wedding. Apparently he was quite the socialite at our friends’ houses. He’s kind of a handful right now - moreso than before - because if we say no, he barks and runs around so we’ll chase him. I wish I knew The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Milan, on a personal level. He’d be on my cell phone speed dial!

Time to do some reading and prepare for my morning class. I’ve still got to make my lunch, too. I’ll leave you with a sweet picture of Romeo and Hunter (I really caught them like this, it was not posed).

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Out of Commission Notice

Bobbi — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:58:40 +0000

I am leaving in a couple hours. We’re heading to a wedding in South Carolina. I’ll be gone until Sunday evening and regular posts will resume on Monday.

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Acne Cures

Bobbi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:17:30 +0000

I need some ideas for acne cures.

Back in high school, I went through two rounds of Accutane and then was completely blemish-free for several years. Every now and then I get little pimples, but I don’t mind them. Lately, however, my face has broken out around my chin and mouth. It’s cystic acne, too; the kind I had to get on Accutane for.

I’m currently taking an antibiotic that my dermotologist gave me about a year ago for such occasions; however, I’d like to take something more natural. Do any of you use anything that works particularly well for you? If so, what is it? If you have any tips, share them, because I don’t want to have to do anything drastic because of acne!

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Back to School … FINALLY

Bobbi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:14:37 +0000

I thought I was going to die of boredom these past couple weeks before fall semester started; I’m dead serious. Besides laundry, housework, LSAT studying and taking care of Hunter, there wasn’t much else to do. Of course I could go out to eat or for drinks with my friends, but I’m trying so hard not to be frivolous with my money right now because let’s face it, there isn’t much of it to spend!

Today is the third day of my first week of classes. I’m taking Crime, Gender & Race, Private Securities, Criminal Law, and Business Finance. Only three of those classes meet in person; Business Finance is online (except for the tests). I don’t have class any earlier than 10:40am and no later than 2pm, which I love. I’m exhausted though, because guess what? I bought a bike! I bike 2.4 miles to campus, and then 2.4 miles back. My butt and legs are sore today and I didn’t know I could sweat as much as I did on the ride back yesterday, but it felt so good and I really loved doing it.

As much as I love being busy and everything, there are just some days that I wish I was five and could simply stay home and play with my dollhouses. Life was a lot simpler back then. I think I was more concerned about NOT wanting to take a nap than anything else, because I always thought I would miss something if I was napping. I had an endless amount of energy and didn’t worry about anything because I knew “the adults” would take care of everything.

Then again, I love being an adult and being in charge of myself. It’s so neat to think that I went from this little girl to a woman who supports herself entirely. Hopefully I’ll still enjoy being an adult when my school load threatens to break my back!

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South Carolina Trip

Bobbi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:07:10 +0000

This weekend, Tom and I are taking a trip to South Carolina for his cousin’s wedding. We leave tomorrow afternoon and will be there until somtime on Sunday. The deal is that we’ll take all back roads and stop and do whatever we want on our return home. I’m sure we’ll see lots of cattle and cattle supplies (hay bales, troughs, cow dips, etc.) and I can’t wait. I’ve always wanted to live where I could have my own horses and cows. This trip will be nice to escape reality, if only for a few days.

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Memories of Swimming…

Bobbi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:27:14 +0000

Struck by the amazing accomplishments of Michael Phelps, I decided to drag out some of my swimming stuff from high school. I came across some promotional pens that each swimmer would get at the beginning of the season. Each time we used it, it was supposed to remind us of our commitment to do our best both in the pool and in the classroom.

I have this intense urge to get back into swimming right now. I may take a look at the open swim hours on campus and fit that into my schedule during the day. It sure would be nice to feel the water on my skin like I used to!

Among some other things I found were some of my times (not as good as Michael Phelps by any means, but they were improving throughout the four years I swam competitively), pictures, and my “Swimmer of the Week” cap. I’ll never forget it - I got “Swimmer of the Week” the night of my very last swim meet during my senior year; literally the last swim meet I would ever swim in. It was a really gratifying experience and a wonderful close to my high school swimming career.

I also started thinking back to the swim lessons we used to have in our pool when I was just a little girl. A woman (who used to compete on the FSU swim team during her time at college) used to come to our pool once a week and work with my sister and I individually. We used to spend hours upon hours of time in the pool during the summer; it seems like we could never get enough of it.

I definitely need to find a way to get back into swimming. All these memories and the Olympics have me itching to swim now!

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Dropping ASL 3

Bobbi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:36:21 +0000

I’ve decided to definitely drop ASL 3 from my fall schedule. I am aiming to take it in the spring (as I really won’t have much to take for my major or minor and will need to be full time), but I’m sad I won’t be taking it in the fall. Hopefully I won’t lose any of my ASL skills and vocabulary that I worked so hard on this summer.

Speaking of ASL, during Tropical Storm Fay, the governor had a few press conferences. I had forgotten that an interpretor is always present during these press conferences. Needless to say, I was excited and watched each press conference! I didn’t care what they were saying, but it was really good practice to mute the TV and just watch the interpretor signing. Unfortunately, though, my TV has this weird thing where when it’s muted, the closed captioning automatically shows up, so I was a little distracted.

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Computer is… Back!

Bobbi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:29:44 +0000

Many blue screens, two reinstallations of Windows XP Professional, another blue screen and driver updates later, I have my computer working again. It has been one HELL of a weekend for me and my Dell Inspiron 600m. I spent about 4 hours total chatting with a Dell representative. The first reinstallation wasn’t a completely clean reinstall, so we had to start over. Then this morning, I received the exact blue error screen that I was receiving in the very beginning, when this entire problem began. After all that, it seems that the only thing that needed to be done was update the drivers (which I could’ve done on my own). After researching this problem, I was convinced it had something to do with the wireless card on my laptop; sure enough, it was. Too bad it took four Dell people to finally pinpoint the problem (despite me asking about the wireless card drivers in the very beginning). Anyway, I’m just glad everything is back to normal. It’s nice to have a fresh clean slate of a computer to work with, too! I have everything working and looking the way that I want.

So, is this tropical storm going to affect my first week of my senior year in college? I hope not. I’ve had enough of a break. I’m ready to go back to school and focus on something. Four hours of work a day isn’t enough to keep me busy. I’ve decided to drop my ASL 3 class; as badly as I want to take the class, I feel like 16 credits (one of which is Business Finance - one of the hardest classes to take at UF) is too much. I need all the other classes for my major or minor, so ASL 3 is really the only one that I can drop. I can always take it in the spring, though (when all my other ASL friends are taking it). Tom and I are keeping an eye on this storm and if need be, we’ll go home to help our parents prepare. If not, we’ll just make sure we have gas in the cars and cash and we’ll be set here in our apartment.

I made the BEST spaghetti sauce over the weekend. I used a jar of spaghetti sauce that I bought from the store and added to it - ground beef, chopped onion, minced garlic, baby portabello mushrooms, spinach, italian seasoning and pepper. It turned out really nicely and we had enough for leftovers. I ended up having an old friend over for dinner last night and that’s what we had (along with a salad and homemade garlic bread). It was a yummy dinner!

Hunter is growing so much. I really love having him despite how difficult he can be to control sometimes. We took a long walk earlier and he did so great; didn’t pull on the leash and wear himself out, didn’t freak out at cars, and best of all, didn’t stop completely when he got afraid of random noises. Now that Tom is working in the office full time again (he was out doing field work the last couple weeks), we’re getting serious about looking into puppy classes. Tom will do that (since I have school and work to worry about) and I am hoping it will really help him bond with Hunter. Hunter listens to me a little better than he listens to Tom, and I think it’s because Tom is at work and I spend more time at home with him. Speaking of Hunter, I really need to post some new pictures of him!

My list of things to get done today is waiting for me, so I better end this right here. I hope you all have a wonderful week! :)

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Tom’s New Activity

Bobbi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:21:20 +0000

For the past several weeks (when he’s not working in the field), Tom has spent Wednesday evenings playing golf with his work buddies. At first it threw me off - was I still responsible for dinner for BOTH of us? Just me? What about him helping out with Hunter in the evenings? Eventually, though, I just learned to go with the flow (it wasn’t really a big deal to begin with, but it stressed me out a LITTLE because I really enjoy cooking for both of us) and let him play golf with his new friends. Afterall, interacting with the people you work with is so important (at least I think so) because it tends to make the work day go by that much faster. Of course, all he talks about when he gets home is golf: golf balls, golf bags, golf gloves - you name it and he’s talking about it!

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