i'm feeling good.

it's been two weeks since i've returned from maui, and let me just say that it was a VERY long and overdue vacation.  i realized that i NEVER had a REAL vacation for MYSELF like that.  it's relieved me of so much stress.  i thought i only had current work and school coping issues to deal with...  no!  i realized i had a lot of harbored family stress from my youth still in me!  i guess i should have found this earlier, but i've dealt with it so long that i didn't realize how bad it was!  but all of that stuff added up was really taking it's toll on my body.  doesn't help that i even lost my appetite and rarely had lunch over the past YEAR.

i've come back with my head up, lots of smiles, confident stride, mind at ease, and control over my stress.  i thought this was going to disappear after a week or two, but it hasn't.  during that vacation, i also took time off school...  i just started a new class last week.  i figured the stress would definitely recur once i started class again, but so far it's all good...  i have to be sure to blog again when i'm done with the class (in a month).

...til then.

so...  i just realized last week that the stuff growing in my front yard is MINT...  first thing i thought: "i HAVE to make mojitos from scratch now!!!"    LOL.  Today is my second day attempting to make them...  I'm still perfecting it, and it still takes me a while (home version from scratch takes longer to make a more "perfect" taste).  But it's getting better. Hehe...  I also need to try it with stronger Rum.  Right now I'm working with Malibu.  But it's sweeter, so it helps with the sugar, and I just do a double shot...  Anyhow.  Haha.  Too much fun.

Who plays Smash Brothers!?  I suck, but give me your brawl number anyways. HAHA.  You could play Chris.

my most favorite karaoke memory (thus far at least) will TOTALLY be me rapping as Mike Shinoda while the rest of my good friends do back up as Chester Bennington to Linkin Park's In the End.  LOL!!!  that was freakin awesome...  deli gave me props too.

i like Linkin Park...  i had forgotten how much i liked them until i went to Projekt Rev. w00t!  now i listen to them nearly day in and day out.  i had chris burn me a cd of all their albums (but he excluded the jay-z one, lol)...

karaoke was perdy therapeutic. for being on "vacation" for a week, i seriously went crazy from work withdrawal.  that's really sad...  too bad i go back to work tomorrow.  i really do need a real vacation. *sigh*

 

...LINKIN PARK!  W00H00!