Cherney’s Life Story

It is finally Saturday and I need to get motivated.  Yeah, today is the day I plan on getting a lot of work done.  Wish me luck.

This last week was WAY crazy.  I need some time to relax and enjoy life.   Have you ever had one of those weeks before?

I sent of gift off to a young friend of mine the other day.  She was having a birthday and I thought it would be nice to send them something to celebrate.  Doing something nice for someone other than myself, does feel good.

Tonight is the Marti Grass ball.  I am totally excited.  It is should be a lot of fun, and some good laughs.  Last time I checked there were 46 people signed up.  I have a feeling that there will be more than that when I get there tonight.

The coffee shop was a lot of fun last night.  People are starting to figure out that it is my Friday hangout.  The last couple of weeks someone has called me and asked if I would be there.  I laughed, and said. . yep!

The official paper work has come through.  I am set for France this summer.  Can you believe it?  The search for a plane ticket is now on.  I would like to find something fairly cheap, but I don’t want to stop all over the earth to pull it off.  Finding a non stop to Europe would be nice.  Wish me luck.

Two more weeks of class until spring break.  My goodness, it will be nice to be done with these classes.  Hold strong, Walnuts. .  you can do it.

I did two interviews this week with professors in regards to my research paper.  Each person gave a very different perspective into modern Hollywood film.  The next time I watch a movie, I will probably notice some stuff that I hadn’t in the past.

If you were looking for juicy blog, today is not the day.  I’m sorry.  I will try to write tomorrow to give you the scoop about today.  Yeah, there is a story to share about this evening.  I will not write it until tomorrow.  . eager minds, come back for more!

I haven’t forgotten about my blog. . but I haven’t the time time write.  I’m sorry.  Stuff is a little out of hand right now.  School is driving me nuts.  Work SUCKS. ..  and my personal life is just about as crazy as it can get.  I need some time away. . thank goodness spring break is coming up.  Friday night is SO going to be ME time.  Me and my homework. .  and of course my blog. : )

There is a lot of homework on my  plate final projects and all. . .  plus the daily grind of other school work.

I am exciting about Saturday, there is going to be this massive (masquerade) party.  The girl I was seeing from portland is coming down to attend with me. It will be fun to catch up and talk with her.  I haven’t seen her since early February.

Life in general is crazy.  France has more of my money. .  and the UO isn’t helping me much.  I kind of just get to fly by the seat of my pants.  It is just a few months away, 4 to be exact.  I am very excited about this opportunity.  As I send more money, I become even more excited.

I should probably do some work.  I haven’t forgotten about you, my blog readers. . I just don’t have time to write.

There is one other thing I can write. I stood strong behind my values this week.  And let me tell you, it was hard. . and I don’t necessarily feel very good about it.   I mean, I do. . but I don’t.  Sometimes in life you are confronted with a choice.  You can make two decisions, one is tough and the other my be tougher.  When you follow your values it shouldn’t be a hard choice, that wasn’t the case this time.  It sort of became harder because I don’t want to follow them.   Some one said to me last night that I am setting my goals and standards way to high; but I should what is important to me.  Basically, this all comes around the topic the end of the year.  I don’t want to do things that could put my in a disadvantage when that time comes.  They said that I am setting my bar very high for just one in moment and time.  I might not find whatever I am looking for, and would have missed out on many wonderful things.  They are right, of course. . but there is the conflict.

Do you allow yourself to do thing that go against a belief, or do follow the moment and deal with the consequences.

Oh, I ran for the first time yesterday. .  it was scary, at first.   But as I got into the flow things felt pretty good.  I look forward to running again. . probably tomorrow.

I will try to write a good blog tonight, but I wanted to say that today I got the green light to run!  Yep. .  I am allowed to run again.  He had some odd schedule for me to follow, that really isn’t the important part. . the fact that I am back to running again is all that I care about.

More play by play analysis later tonight.

Sunday is slowly moving along.  Yeah. . slowly.  I must have gotten up before I should have this morning.

The gym was SO exciting today.  I decided that I would push myself to the limit on the machines, so my body has been hurting all afternoon.  I think that this is a good thing, right?

As I was out doing my errand this afternoon I ran into a whole bunch of people I haven’t seen in a long time.  Some of them I no longer had their telephone number, others I work with . . but never see.

I was going to go into the office for  a bit today, but then I remembered that I could VPN in which prevents me from having to physically go into the building.  It’s nice to have this options as it saves me some time. Granted, I haven’t done it yet. . but it is on my list of things to do still.  Coming up next is group work!  Well, actually it is studing for the upcoming final.

Speaking of the gym, I didn’t go to the usual place today because it was closed.  So . . . I went elsewhere in the city.  Anywho, there was this really pretty women there working out.  I am SO not going to do that cliche thing and ask her out. . besides, I am not very smooth on the meeting new people I like in that way.  I would probably forget how to count to 10 if they asked in a conversation.  Yeah, my fatal flaw. .

What do you think, should I go to my favorite coffee shop tonight??  Make it three days in a row?

Not many takers for the free stuff. .  my sis wants to take a look at my movies.  I might have a really easy time getting rid of it: books, movies, cd’s.

I wish I could say that more happened today, but nothing did.  I kind of relaxed, in my own weird way.

I think the last time I wrote was on Thursday, right?  Whatever the case, I am back to write again.

There is so much happening right now, I don’t even know where to begin.  I’ll start with today, and work myself backwards.

I had coffee with a friend I haven’t seen in a long time.  It was SO much fun to catch up with him.  Has this business that he is working on from his house, and he is making a killing.  Granted, he is working his ass off. . but still, it is very impressive.  I need to come up with an idea as good as his.  The only problem, his brilliant. . I am not.

Earlier today I was out doing group work in front of a grocery store.  We were having people fill out a survey about sustainability.  We ended up with 57 surveys filled out.  Not bad for a couple of hours.  So many people had something to say about the topic, it was pretty cool.

Before that, I was in the office. .  yeah, back at work on Saturday.  I need to probably go back tomorrow to check up on everything.  The project wasn’t done before I left. .  Oh, it was some stuff that needed to be done on the server.

Last night I had some family come in from ND. . they are hanging out at my parents house.  I had dinner with them and hung out for a while.

Going back any further than that would probably hurt my brain.  I have been so busy it is driving me nuts.  I like being busy, but there is a point where it is too much.  I have reached that point.

Finally, I realized the other day that I need to get rid of a lot of stuff in my storage unit.  I rarely use it, and I don’t need to have it.  Looking at how much money I spent to acquire all of it, kind of makes me sick.  At least I have learned my lesson and hopefully will not fall into the same trap again.  I guess you could say that this was one of my first moments where I realized that I can make better purchasing decisions in the future.  That is good for my wallet, and the environment.

I’m off to do some more things around town. Got to love it.  Have a good night everyone.

Today was the day. .  the day I finished physical therapy.  I can’t believe it is done.  After 5 months of regular visits, they are done.  It was actually hard to not cry today.  Yeah, I was close to tears.  I don’t know why, I just was.  As I wrote before, they were like my family.  They supported me through some difficult times, and got me back to where I needed to be.  They started as my therapists, but in the end. .they all became my friends.   I felt so welcomed when I walked through the door, more so than many places in this world.  I don’t now what I am going to do with the extra free time each week.  It is going to take a little getting used to.  So, that was the sad part of my day.  It was  a good day, really.

I wrote/gave my first PT a very nice ‘thank you’ card. .  and my newest PT one as well.  Those thank you cards were probably more from the heart than many others.  There have been a few thank you cards I have written in my life, that brought deep emotions to the surface as I wrote. .  these were a couple more of them

You might ask, why?  What on earth did they do that meant so much to me?  I don’t think you understand how low it feels to not be able to do all the things you used to be able to do in your life.  When you are as active as I am, slowing down is hard.  I still can’t do it all..  some time in the next couple months I will, but at the moment I can’t.  It was SO hard waking up each morning with pain in the knee.  Not being able to sleep at night, having difficulty walking, needing help from others.  These were all some of the daily things I had going on in my life.  It was very tough, and it was a learning experience.  These people at the PT office, helped me get back what was taken away from me.  For that, I will never forget them.

They were patient with me.  They were slow to explain things, and did so in a way that was easy to understand.  They coached me in a way that I needed.  I don’t usually like coaches, I personally think they suck.  These people were ‘good’ coaches.  They did there job well, and motivated me to work hard each week.  They pushed me when I needed pushing, and supported me when I needed it as well.  I have a huge respect for them.

I just remembered today that a couple of my family members will be coming to Eugene this weekend.  I am kind of excited about this, as I haven’t seen them in a year or so.  Unfortunately, I am going to be pretty busy so I will not be able to spend as much time as I would like with them.  So it goes.

Aside from that little nugget of news, there isn’t much new to report.  As I mentioned earlier, my upcoming weekend looks like it could be kind of eventful.  Several things planned, and more things are tentative.

Yep. . that about covers it for today.  I really don’t want to do more homework, it freaking sucks.  On the postive note, I have one more paper to write for one of my classes.  Yeah, one!  After 17 papers, I will be done with that classes paper load.  All this really means is that I will be able to focus more attention to paper writing in other classes.  I do like the idea of being done though.  So, sometime this week  I will write the final paper.  Exciting. .  but not really.  For this class in particular, I still have a big group project that needs to be done.

The weather in Eugene was just amazing today, t-shirt and jeans weather.  It rocked socks.

Well, I guess I will get ready for the gym.  Even that activity could be coming to an end soon.  I will probably continue until the weather gets better, but the day is coming soon where I will no longer need to go.

Oh, my beeping neighbor above me needs to loose 300 pounds or take of the phucking heels.  Yeah, so annoying.  Never fails, every night around 10:30 they get home.  I need to crank the music at 5:30am in the morning. .  phuck’em.  They are upstairs right now, and as you can tell. . pissing me off. 

I’m out of here. . later.