OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is classified as a mental illness. Just like depression, it’s a chemical imbalance in your brain.
So, what are you trying to say? That my brain is… chemically imbalanced?! How does a brain become chemically imbalanced when nothing gets into the brain? At least, not physically.
I should probably post about this before I totally forget to!
I’m feeling a little bit better today. My cough has gotten worse but I don’t feel fever-ish or congested. But I do feel flemmy. I debated on taking a nap, but now it’s passed 6:30PM and I don’t think it’s a reasonable time to be napping, darn. I shoulda napped sooner!
Anyway, on to Valentines Day!
My mom got me tulips the day before Valentines Day. She always manages to get me flowers, which is sweet of her since my husband doesn’t seem to believe in giving flowers for special occasions, or at all actually. And it was cool cause this year I wanted tulips!
I woke up yesterday with a dry throat, now you know waking up with a dry throat is never, ever, a good sign.
But we made it to our Debt Consolidation appointment on time. We went with MMI, we read a lot of good things about them and people were directing us to them and lucky they have an office in the same city as our school, so yay for being able to talk to someone face-to-face (which is what I wanted). The lady who helped us, pulled up our credit reports for the both of us and asked us a few questions. All together, our debt is a little over $26,000. I thought it would be more than that, I thought my debt alone would be that much. But hearing that our joined debt that was that much was a relief! I had prepared myself for much worse! She kept mentioning that we should file for bankruptcy because we’re “young” and we “have a lot of time” but the thing with me and bankruptcy is that it stays on your record for ten years. And there have been horror stories about people who, even after ten years of filing were still declined for things like a home and a car because they’ve filed for bankruptcy before, period.
So if we were to go with the money management program, we’re looking at paying a little bit over $600/month for the next 51 months. I haven’t added the calculations up just yet, but I will in a bit. But either way, that’s way less than what we’re paying per month now and we can’t rack up any more APR than we already have. I don’t see a downside to this. And on top of that, my credit cards will be frozen (even though I don’t like this idea, I know in the end, it will be good for me) and I’ll be unable to use them. I say we should do it, Martin however wants to file for bankruptcy. Seriously, what is it with men and not looking at the bigger picture. If anything is pissing me off about him lately its his no-this-is-a-better-idea when it’s NOT because HE hasn’t researched any of it!
Anyway.
He also had the bright idea to nap in the car before our orientation/workshop for school. And what happened? We ended up being late and he somehow got lost even though we were only a block away from school. THINK. Goodness!
The workshop was helpful, I mean… it wasn’t rocket science but it was pretty informative and indeed helpful. I love how most of the staff are actually students at the school, that makes me feel more at ease. We filled out and submitted our first assignment via student website and we printed out our syllabus (which was like, 17 pages long) and our first chapter of reading (which was like 23 pages long). Free printing, hell yes!
I’m pretty excited about this, I’m excited to finally get my GE done! I’m debating between Marketing or Web Design now, but I think I’ll stick with Marketing. School starts on Monday and I’m nervous but excited! Nervous because I don’t know how this whole “working teams” thing will work, I’m not good with working in teams. I like working alone. But I guess this is a great way to network. Me and Martin are just hoping that we’ll end up on the same working team.
So last night while we were in workshop, my nose was running. Like, non-stop and I was sneezing. Not that allergies-sneezing but that crap I’m sick sneezing. But it didn’t fully hit me til we were driving home. Thank goodness. I was thinking of taking some NyQuil before bed last night but I didn’t think I was sick enough to take it. So I didn’t. My nose and my left eye were running, all night long. It was horrible! I actually went to sleep a little passed midnight, which is 3 hours earlier than usual! I would had loved to curl up and fall asleep reading a book, but my OCD wasn’t permitting last night! Hopefully tonight, though I don’t want to read 3 books at the same time. We’ll see though.
I woke up this morning feeling even worse. I was congested, sniffling, throat was still dry and icky, I’m feeling a bit warm and getting some chills. I took a nap about 2hrs ago, I can’t decide if it made me feel better or worse! Goodness, and now I’m coughing! Ugh, I’d love some loving husband hugs and kisses right now. Who needs medicine when you can have loving hugs and kisses?!
It just sucks when I’m sick, husband cant be here. I’d rather be in the comfort of my own room – alone. And because of my OCD, he can’t be in my room. At all, right now. I was actually planning on cleaning my room this weekend before I had gotten sick, so now, its being pushed back, again. We could just chill downstairs, but I’d rather not because my parents are always down there talking and making noise and when I’m sick, I just don’t want to deal with that. My dad has been going crazy with his OCD tendencies lately and it’s been driving me nuts.
This is why I wish we lived on our own. Somewhere quiet, comfortable and somewhere I can be sick and have him be around. Without being bothered, without the random noise! I hate that we’re 24 and we still live at home. We’re married, 24 and still live separately with our own parents. I hate this, I hate this so much.
I think I’ve mentioned before that I was trying to enroll into the University of Phoenix…
And I did! I officially enrolled last Tuesday the 16th and new student orientation was yesterday the 17th. And I thought that was it until school starts on Monday. Buuuut…. nope. There’s a workshop later tonight to prepare us for the first day of school. We also have a very important appointment in eight hours concerning Debt Consolidation (yes it is 3:02AM and yes I would love to go to bed now but my hair is wet). I’m nervous and excited and I’m hopeful. We really really need to figure out what we’re going to do, and hopefully this will help us in the way that we need help (you know, besides free money to pay bills cause we all know, that only happens in a perfect world).
So yes, this is why I havent updated about Valentines Day yet, which I want to and I finally got around to editing and uploading the pictures the other night but I havent had time to actually write out a post. But I will! As soon as I find enough time to.
I finally bought a domain for my beauty blog and I’m super excited about that. I put up a fresh new layout that still needs tweaking. I thought I figured out a code and I didnt, so I need to fix that soon. On my PC it looks awesome because the font is installed into my system but on everyone elses PC, not so much. So booo. So much for short cuts… I shoulda knew better. Booo for being lazy lol!
My eyes are fuzzy. I wonder how long before I decide to just sleep with my hair wet and deal with the headache in the morning. Which would suck, since I have to wake up early and I’m not a fan of waking up before 11AM.
CONVO OF THE WEEK:
Husband: *mumbling* you can do whatever you put your mind to.
Me: What?!?!
Husband: YOU. CAN. DO. WHATEVER. YOU. PUT. YOUR. MIND. TO!
Me: Oh… I thought you were talking shit again, but thanks.
Husband: …..you make my eyes burn.
So since I don’t seem to have enough time to update my blog as regularly as I hoped to, I was thinking that on weeks that I don’t, I could do week recaps. Or every-few-days recaps. Or something, I’m sure you get the point lol! Plus, it gets me back in the habit of taking pictures again 
. I decided to do an update before Valentines Day (except of course, today is Valentines Day but its 2:17AM, so it doesn’t count!) and do an entire entry for Valentines Day for itself. Right, like anyone cares Zel haha. Sorry, talking to myself, kinda 
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The week itself wasn’t stressful, just the things I was worrying about through out the week. We have two very important (hopefully) life changing appointments this week and I’m very very excited, but nervous too…
This is the second Ladybug I’ve seen this year! I was leaving Panera Bread and spotted this guy on the floor. I had to take a picture. Ladybugs out, you know what that means… Spring is near!! Finally . Saw another one with its wings out walking around a few steps later. Ooh, wanna know a secret? Ladybug larva’s (and finding Ladybug egg’s on leaves/flowers) were one of my most favorite things to do when I was a kid! But I don’t like Ladybugs crawling on me, actually, I don’t like touching bugs at all.
It was a sunny day for the first time in a lonnnng while so husband wanted to do what he loves doing. He wanted to walk. So we walked around the Panera Bread plaza and went into World Market. World Market is one of my favorite stores because when holidays come around, its the one store that goes all out. I’m sad the one in my town closed down last year 
. I was surprised to see they already set up for Easter! I must have squealed and dropped my husband’s hand to go run around in circles around the Easter section. Oh how does he deal with me haha! I love Easter, it has the most yummiest candies and the the most prettiest colors!
I cant believe I didnt update on anything new from last week! So I’m going to do it today, and with pictures. Because I havent posted a post with pictures in awhile (sorry about that! As you can tell, it’s been a bit crazy over here)!
So last Tuesday, we went into Sprint looking at phone’s. I had a question actually, I dont remember exactly why we were there… but anyway, we ended up switching providers! So yes, I finally got my Palm Pixi! I am in love with it. Seriously, I’m always on my phone now. I totally forgot I still have my T-Mobile Sidekick lol! So yes, Tuesday was a good day . Husband also switched with me, he got the HTC Hero. I’m jealous over how many more apps the Hero has, but I hate the way the phone looks. I’m not a fan of bulky PDA’s with huge screen and touchscreen keyboards. Oh, I also got Panera Bread for dinner. I destroyed that dinner quicker than I usually do lol!
I was introduced to iamrogue.com movie reviews website this morning. And at first I thought it would just be your average movie reviews website. But after spending some time browsing around the site, I realize I had just spend hours on it!
They cover everything from movies to TV shows, music and even sports! They have celebrity profiles (this caught my eye since Cam Gigandet was the first person on the list and I love Cam Gigandet), trailers, exclusive interviews (I was just watching the Dear John ones, which by the way was a great movie), and much much more.
There’s so much content on this site I didn’t know where to start, but so far, I’m liking what I’m seeing! You can even create your own account on the site. So check it out!
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I was going to include this in my recap of last week, but I figured… there’s kind of a lot of pictures so maybe I’ll just make it it’s own post .
So I saw Wicked for the 4th time on Wednesday. I was trying to get tickets for Sunday or Saturday since Sunday was Patty Duke (Madame Morrible) and Eddy (Boq)’s last day but the tickets I wanted for those two days were sold out so I just settled for Wednesday, besides, I’ve never seen Teal Wicks as Elphaba, so I figured, why not.
Once again, we were almost late. We tend to do that a lot! And our usual parking lot was full so we had to park across the street. We made it in time though, with literally one minute to spare. Thank goodness! The show was amazing as always, Eddy did really well as Boq and it made me sad that he’s leaving. I love how Patty screams all the way behind Nessarose when Elphaba introduces herself hehe.
Husband and I skipped eating cause we were running out of time so we were pretty hungry by intermission. Got both M&M’s and Famous Amos cookies (which btw are delicious, I forgot how delicious) oh and used the bathroom. Everyone commented on my little witch hat . Tweeted Nicolas and Neka literally right before the curtain went up (wasnt aware) and I was like “aw, they didnt see it” cause they were on stage LOL!
Teal. I loved her acting. I loved the way she mocked Glinda (who was played by Natalie that day and I LOVED Natalie as Glinda, she looked like she was not holding back at all! She was really fun to watch) and there was another part of hers that I loved, I forgot what but Vicki is still my favorite Elphie! Husband disagrees with me, he loved Teal as Elphie lol.
After the show, of course we headed down to Stage Door. In fact, we were the first ones there lol.
Nicolas came out first and he was signing peoples Playbills and he saw me and he was like “HEY ZEL!” and I was surprised he remembered me by name! Chatted for a bit and took a picture. He also commented on how much he liked my hat lol.
The wonderful and talented Patty Duke and I! She’s so tiny up close! I was like “I heard you’re leaving!!” and she nodded and I was like “whyyy?” and she responded “you gotta go home sometime!” aww we’ll miss you Patty!
Natalie and I! My new favorite Glinda, except sadly her last day was Sunday too . I actually thought she was Nessarose when I saw her. I feel dumb! Haha. But I’m glad to had met her either way .
Neka and I! She plays ensemble and the witch’s mother. She came out looking for Nicolas and she looked at me and I looked at her and I didnt know if it was her or not… so I ran up to her, poked her and said “are you Neka?” and she was like “are you…. zel?” haha it was weird but funny. So husband and I chatted with her for awhile, he snitched on Nicolas walking off with two other girls lol. She’s really friendly and really cool to talk to! And she really took the time to talk to us, it was really nice! She also mentioned that her and Nicolas were planning on coming out together to say hi to me, awww!
Then Nicolas comes back after Neka heads back inside and I’m talking to my husband and he comes up and pokes me and I dont see him and I’m like “ah! who’s poking me!” and Nick asked if Neka came out to say hi and the husband mentions he snitched on him walking off lol!
I love how this poster stretches all the way down to Stage Door!
After Wicked, we went to Bay Street and I got my Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows (goodness that’s a long name)!!! It’s really nice and spiffy and Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite movies and all but… I dont think $53 is worth it. That’s a lot of money! I havent played around with it yet and I’m kinda glad I returned all my other Urban Decay palettes last year so I dont really have these colors. But I’ll do a review once I play with it some more!
And that was my day .
I dont know what happened but things got really busy out of nowhere around here! Its crazy! I got a little sick on Wednesday, that hunger headache lasted longer than it should have and left me feeling feverish. Got to see Wicked for a fourth time too, Nicolas and Neka remembered me by name 
it was so exciting! I felt extremely special all day! I also got my Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland BOS so yay for that! Last time I’m buying an eye shadow palette for $53 though! Ugh, talk about a dent in my bank account!
We’re deciding on what to do with our bills situation, I think we’ve come to a conclusion but some details still need to be worked out. Also, we got new phones finally! We made the switch and it’s going to really bring down our phone bills, I’m excited! I got my Palm Pixi and he got an HTC Hero. I was surprised how fast he made up his mind, he usually needs a minute! Haha. So far, I’m IN LOVE with my Palm Pixi! I’ll be doing a review soon. I’m debating if I should to a blog or a vlog review. Going to change my last name next week, I kinda wanted to wait til we moved out together, but he suggested we do it before handling the bills situation. Poohie.
So yeah, this is just a really quick update, I’ll have a better one coming Sunday with pictures and everything, hopefully!
I’m so excited that it’s sunny today! After a week of fog, clouds and rain! Of course, I’m not going to get my hopes too high, for all we know we could be having another thunderstorm tomorrow morning. But I’m going to enjoy the sun while I can. The downside? Being stuck at home having to clean my room and update things. I wish I could be outside right now!
I know I’ve been lacking in the updating department, and updating with pictures but honestly, I havent been taking many pictures. Which makes me sad! I’ve been so busy with school starting, struggling to get the classes I wanted (which I didnt because they started this new rule where the teachers put priority on the students who previously took their classes, what kind of crap is that!), applying for jobs far from home and dealing with debt. Oh how I wish I could just sit on my floor and read a book and not feel like there’s something more productive I should be doing .
I got my ears flushed the other day, finally. Finally I can sleep on my right side without my ear plugging up, its amazing! The downside? Everything is like 5 times louder, I’m not even kidding. Running the water is extremely loud, which makes me wonder… how plugged up were my ears?! My husband was there when they flushed it (as always) but the right ear that was plugged up grossed him out when they pulled out this HUGE chunk of ear wax. The left ear didnt flush out, but she said it may come out later in the shower. She was wrong. I was in the Olive Garden parking lot about to get lunch and something tickled my ear so I scratched it and on my finger was a HUGE chunk of ear wax. Not a nice experience. So I dug out the rest, I wouldnt want to sit in Olive Garden and a glop of ear wax falls on my table. Does anyone else flush their ears? It’s a really nice feeling actually once you get passed the waves-crashing-sound.
So the month is over and my room hasnt been cleaned. Or touched. Husband says that my room’s just a lost cause and we should just clean it out when we move. Yeah, sure. Doesnt look like we’re moving any time soon. And I would like to get this room cleaned out before the summer time when all the bugs come out. I live near a hill and and there are plenty of yucky bugs that welcome themselves into our home over the summer. Not dealing with spending hours looking for a pesky spider cause I have too much crap laying around my floor!
That said, I think I’ll go grab my lunch and start getting to work!
