August 24, 2010 | Author: Joy
From August 6 to August 21, my aunt, uncle, cousin, their two maltese, and I went on a 5000 mile driving trip around the United States. We saw many things. The iternerary of our trip is below.
8/6—Left home and drove to Rapid City, SD
8/7—Drove to Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse
8/8—Drove to Jackson, WY
8/9—Drove to Yellowstone and Grand Teton; Saw Old Faithful; ate pizza from Mountain High Pizza Pie
8/10—Drove to Las Vegas
8/11—Took monorail to Stratosphere and ate at Circo at Bellagio
8/12—Drove to Hoover Dam and took a tour of Hoover Dam; ate at Sea Harbour at Ceasars
8/13—Drove to Sedona, AZ and ate at Cucina Rustica
8/14—Drove to Grand Canyon
8/15—Drove to Taos, NM
8/16—Hung out at the Hotel
8/17—Drove to Rio Grande Gorge and then shopping at Don Fernando de Taos Plaza; ate at Orlandos—they had something called posole that looks like gnocchi—it is corn instead of potato—so very yummy
8/18—Drove to Wichita, KS
8/19—Drove to Columbia, MO; ate at Churchill’s
8/20—Went to a farm that had exotic animals (tapir, zebra, one hump camel, two hump camel, kangaroo, lemur, etc.)
8/21—Drove back home
You can see pictures I’ve taken @ August 2010 Trip Pictures
June 14, 2010 | Author: Joy
I finally graduated college last Tuesday, June 8, 2010 after 10 years. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from North Central College. I also got a A.S. in Computer Information Systems. I’m glad I finally graduated even though it took me a long time.
Not sure about work plans. I would like to create websites. Maybe either for personal use or for business use. Just don’t know yet.
April 27, 2010 | Author: Joy
Today, April 27 was the one year anniversary of the day my golden retriever dog died. He died last year this date of lymphoma, cancer of the lymph nodes.
Today I had school. As I was walking to class I saw a goose outside the building where my class is. I was about 2 inches from the goose and the goose just stood there looking at me. I think this goose was my dog. Mikey always loved to go for walks to the lake near our house and just sit there and watch the geese in the water or on the grass. Mikey always barked and wanted to chase any animal he saw but with the geese he just sat there and watched them. I think he came back in the form of a goose and went to see me. This is the first time I saw I goose at my school. At first I thought it was just a coincidence that there was a goose at my school on the one year anniversary of my dog’s death but then I really believed it was my dog. I said hi to the goose. I don’t care if anyone heard me and thought I was crazy talking to the goose.
Don’t know if anyone believes that when animals or people die they come back in another form. In either a person or an animal. I believe this. I believe that when my grandmother died she came back as a white butterfly. I don’t see too many white butterflies by my house but I do see many other color butterflies. When I do see a white one I know it is my grandmother. As for my dog, he came back in the form of a goose.
April 26, 2010 | Author: Joy
Last Monday, April 26 I went to school and ordered my ring. I ordered the espri ring in lustrium (a silver metal). It has three stones on top which I got in my birthstone, Aquamarine. It has inscription on either side of the ring which I had engraved as BS Comp Sci on one side and NCC 2010 on the other side. NCC is for the school, North Central College. Inside is inscripted with 3 letter initials of name so I put EJC inside it. The ring will have an antique metal finishing. The ring is supposed to arrive on June 7. The ring doesn’t really look like a class ring. It looks more like a wedding ring but was one of the five that was on sale at $100 off, if ordered in school rather than online or by phone, and was the best looking of the five.
February 24, 2010 | Author: Joy
I’ve installed the fan fic script from eFiction.org and it is up and working. The fan fic will feature only *N Sync or NKOTB or any one of the guys from either music group. I’m currently in the process of adding two fan fics I had of Justin Timberlake and Lance Bass from when I was running an *N Sync fan site. Someone had sent me those two fan fics to display on my site.
Everyone who has written either an *N Sync or NKOTB fan fic is free to add them here as well.
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