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  <title>I'm falling on the wind</title>
  <subtitle>Vero</subtitle>
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  <updated>2009-09-08T18:37:30Z</updated>
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    <title>anxiety and random shit</title>
    <published>2009-09-08T18:37:30Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-08T18:37:30Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;I've been feeling quite crappy lately with no reason for it. recently my anxiety has dramaticly sky rocketed all i want to do is sleep.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I know i have to get up and go to school then work so i do. &lt;br /&gt;I &amp;nbsp;have to stay up to do my homework today.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;i gotta suck it up and get things straight &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;i know i will it's just i have to do it now nut there is not enough hours in the day&lt;br /&gt;i need to take myself on a date or have &amp;nbsp;a girls night out i don't know&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;i know! ill cut my hair yay i've been wanting to do that. I also want to buy rollers&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;to style my hair cuz i never do that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;omg! i think im growing up lol&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i feel better now&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;oy 13:36! i have to get ready for work!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:checkmate:73958</id>
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    <title>ciggy?</title>
    <published>2009-07-25T06:58:36Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-25T06:58:36Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have a cigarette?&lt;br /&gt;Do you have a light?&lt;br /&gt;The first puff is the best&lt;br /&gt;inhaling is taking a deep breath of relaxation&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;and every single one after that just makes it better&lt;br /&gt;i can chain smoke a pack sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;The party scene makes it easier &lt;br /&gt;a drink in one hand a cigarette in the other &lt;br /&gt;If you have a bad day at work or just a stressful day&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;you get out of wherever and you light-up and it helps&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;you think about the next steps or you just say fuck it&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;either way the problem will be solved.&lt;br /&gt;and your stress is gone&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;a goodnight cigarette to sleep well&lt;br /&gt;it'll tuck you right in leaving you in the most peaceful sleep&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;night night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:checkmate:73561</id>
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    <title>sick stupid change of weather make up your mind!</title>
    <published>2009-03-25T17:24:23Z</published>
    <updated>2009-03-25T17:24:23Z</updated>
    <content type="html">it was never like this __before &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it started happening when i was 17 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all of a sudden my eyes got all watery &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then i started having the sniffles feeling congested &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now it happens when the weather changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every single time i get sick and i get allergies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thats not fun. It's 12:04 too late to call in &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll not really i mean it is but i could still do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to i've been calling all the time lately. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just took some meds hope they work fast i don't like being sick.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:checkmate:73248</id>
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    <title>checkmate @ 2009-02-16T22:35:00</title>
    <published>2009-02-17T05:30:58Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-17T05:30:58Z</updated>
    <content type="html">misery loves company&lt;br /&gt;theres things more important&lt;br /&gt;i cant even begin to&amp;nbsp;understand why&lt;br /&gt;and i dont want to all i want to do and be is&amp;nbsp;happy&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;and be with him my&amp;nbsp;rick&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;my rick&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:checkmate:73050</id>
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    <title>Mr.Jones and me</title>
    <published>2009-01-26T19:21:13Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-26T19:21:13Z</updated>
    <content type="html">I hope this year is busy for me. I want to do so much so many books i want to finish reading and writing about.&lt;br /&gt;I didn't know the extent of my inability to express myself until the other day i just couldn't capture my emotion with words or my actions even. With that i want to learn to improve my communication with people to just be able to translate my self into words.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;with the coming of the warm season i would like to go beer tasting maybe wine but i think i would like to do beer first. I read an article on the history of beer and before it was bottled and it really made me want to try the different beer out there.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;I also cant wait to go to myopic to read and stay there till they close i recently found out they dont close til 1 or 3 in the morning! they also have coffee and a cat!&amp;nbsp; i just cant wait till it starts getting warmer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breweries 2009!</content>
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    <title>What makes us who we are?</title>
    <published>2009-01-08T07:33:57Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-08T07:33:57Z</updated>
    <content type="html">What makes me veronica&lt;br /&gt;Is it my personality &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per-son-al-i-ty:[pur-suh-nal-i-tee] noun, plural ties&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual.&lt;br /&gt;the quality of being a person; existence as a self-conscious human being; personal identity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;perhaps it's my characteristics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Char-ac-ter-is-tics:[kar-ek-te-ris-tik] noun. A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defining critical moments</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:checkmate:72500</id>
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    <title>Lonely</title>
    <published>2009-01-06T18:06:32Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-06T18:06:32Z</updated>
    <lj:music>andrew byrd - opposite day</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Being alone does not neccessarily mean the lack of people around me or the lack of love from a relationship. it just means no real connection with other people no real talking no real interaction. It's all a facade to get to that personal&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;plan&amp;quot; whatever that may be it could be to get weekends off from a job though you shouldn't but you want it so you'r going to try and fit your agenda and manipulate things to make it work that way . It could also be working with a group and instead of thinking about whats good for the group &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; you&amp;nbsp; you think only of whats good for you that get everyone chasing their tails not knowing that we're going in the same direction wasting time not communicationg with each other because if we do it alone it will look better on out resume on our agenda. We're fighting for the same thing but we don't want to help each other we're fighting for our voice to be heard and yet instead of uniting it we turn away from each other and pretend we're alone. &lt;br /&gt;We're not alone in any fight we're just blind by our greed just trying to get those 15 minutes of fame so our name could be on everyones mouth then what? then nothing. I just want a real connection a conversation that i can be satisfied with... to quench my thirst for humanity..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:checkmate:72247</id>
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    <title>The new year is here 2009</title>
    <published>2009-01-03T05:31:18Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-03T05:31:18Z</updated>
    <content type="html">I defined 2008 as the fuck it year of my life. The year i learned to say fuck it. I learned money is just money&amp;nbsp; and that for me it does not matter as much as i thought it did. This coming year is gonna be a more focused year for me focused on my self my future my life. i realize that&amp;nbsp; 2008 was also a focus year for me but one year&amp;nbsp;was just not enough for me to be in order. This reminds me of&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Waking Life&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;when two women are talking about getting older and how&amp;nbsp;they enjoy it better than their twenty's because when&amp;nbsp;they were in their twenty's they felt lost with&amp;nbsp;no real direction, they said that they kept expecting to reach a plateau in their life but that never happend.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I know i'm always gonna keep progressing but i want is a certainty i&amp;nbsp;want&amp;nbsp;the &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <title>What makes us who we are?</title>
    <published>2008-12-19T19:33:47Z</published>
    <updated>2008-12-19T19:33:47Z</updated>
    <content type="html">What makes me veronica&lt;br /&gt;Is it my personality &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="me"&gt;per-son-al-i-ty&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;span class="pronset"&gt;&lt;span class="show_ipapr" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="prondelim"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="pron"&gt;ˌpɜr&lt;img class="luna-Img" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" alt="" border="0"&gt;səˈnæl&lt;img class="luna-Img" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" alt="" border="0"&gt;ɪ&lt;img class="luna-Img" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" alt="" border="0"&gt;ti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="prondelim"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="pron_toggle" style="display: inline;"&gt; &lt;a class="pronlink" alt="Toggle for Spelled Pronunciation" title="Click to show spelled pronunciation"&gt;Show Spelled Pronunciation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html"&gt;&lt;img class="luna-Img" src="http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="show_spellpr" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;span class="prondelim"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="pron"&gt;pur-s&lt;span class="ital-inline"&gt;uh&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="boldface"&gt;nal&lt;/span&gt;-i-tee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="prondelim"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;the sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;td class="dnindex"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt; &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;the quality of being a person; existence as a self-conscious human being; personal identity&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:checkmate:71812</id>
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    <title>Another day another dollar</title>
    <published>2008-12-14T00:10:59Z</published>
    <updated>2008-12-14T00:10:59Z</updated>
    <content type="html">So here i am at work today it's good i mean that other lady isn't here breathing down my neck giving me a hard time. Im good i had a good conversation with norma even though&amp;nbsp; she was drunk we spoke as always freely and truthfully. Then she feel asleep as i was talking to her about how my day went. I just turned off the lights and went to bed. I woke up to norma jumping on my bed with the dogs attacking her. haha. she said are you gonna wake up now? i said what time is it? it was 11. i had the craziest dream about rolling giant trash cans and storms that were created by a witch they took my dogs and turned them into monsters then they got like in power rangers super big it was crazy norma said so what drugs ddid you take before you went to sleep. haha i didn't but i had such good sleep but a crazy as dream i wonder what it means maybe theres chaos in my life and i don't know what it means or how to react to it? hrm maybe but all i know for sure is that when the witch in my dream turned my dog into a monster i was going after her bitch better not mess with my babies. there were also deformed trolls and castles. I don't know what was going on. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i want to buy and read all these books but i don't know what translation i should pick&lt;br /&gt;i'll post them later&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ V</content>
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    <title>why ....i don't understand</title>
    <published>2008-12-13T05:16:09Z</published>
    <updated>2008-12-13T05:16:09Z</updated>
    <content type="html">I came to work thinking that it was going to go good like the previous days why would it be any different it's alot of work but i'm calm, collected and i can do this and i do very well or so i thought. Now my head is filled with dought &lt;br /&gt;i second guess myself. When i walked in i logged in shes usually on the same computer she only chooses that one but when i was about to sit she pulls the chair from behind and says im not done from here and with her other arm she touches me she pushes me away. I said oh ok i didn't know your alwayse on that other one. but she said nothing she was just so mean. Then i sat down and i hadn't even logged in not even five seconds had passed and she says have you been putting in all the orders she said everyday doctors go up to her and tell her that an order was never put in. i said oh well there was another girl working with me too and she said but this has been going on all week and i said well i'll just look harder. she asked if i know all the procedures that i put in i said no but if i dont know hoe to put it in i ask the nurse. she said ohh ok. i had an order i didn't know how to put in right away it was the first one and i had to ask her i asked her and she's like very brutal saying im going to show you but it's up to you to put it in you don't have to it's up to the nurse to do that. I just did it. then i did another order and the place that recives the orders that i put in called right away as i filed it and said was it you&amp;nbsp;that put in&amp;nbsp;this order for this patient i said yea he said well it was put incorrectly and ask the nurse if theres no reason. So i re did it and&amp;nbsp;this time i put it in right... nope they called again like five seconds apart saying that the doctor wanted something else he probably just wrote it wrong&amp;nbsp;so i gave the phone to the nurse and he said he&amp;nbsp;would just fix it. All day i got orders that i didn't know and it just made me feel worse about not knowing what i was doing or missing orders.&amp;nbsp;I was here when they told mary that an order was not&amp;nbsp;put in but&amp;nbsp;it wasn't me it wasnt my writing. If the nurses&amp;nbsp;keep their charts then they are responsible of putting the orders&amp;nbsp;in not me. I wanted to strangle this other nurse saying it was my responsibility to call transport and that she had told me&amp;nbsp;three hours ahead of time which was is a complete lie! she&amp;nbsp;never told me and i told he it wasn't my responsibility she also wanted me to file an incomplete order&amp;nbsp;and i asked her what is it asking for she said i&amp;nbsp;dont know i said well then how do i file it.&amp;nbsp;she said just do it so i went to the charge nurse&amp;nbsp;and told her she wants me&amp;nbsp;to file it transport is here to pick up the&amp;nbsp;patient and theres no reason or&amp;nbsp;anything&amp;nbsp;and then&amp;nbsp;the charge nurse said just give it to transport&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;the floor that's receiving the patient will have to do it. i was relieved. The night people are so much more nicer&amp;nbsp;makes me want to change hours but i cant do&amp;nbsp;that i cna't give in. Fuckers jerks and then the&amp;nbsp;doctor who&amp;nbsp;is always angry was happy! he was almost jumping with joy he was talking to me like&amp;nbsp;i was an actual human he&amp;nbsp;didn't sound snotty or anything that blew my mind the day that i want to blow my brains out he acts human he wasn't nice but he wasn't mean. Then he wrote a fucking order that looked like chicken scratch! mother fuck! i wanted to just die every fucking second i was asking the charge nurse&amp;nbsp;how do you put this in&amp;nbsp;how do you&amp;nbsp;put this is&amp;nbsp;in she was feed up and so was i how the fuck do they expect&amp;nbsp;me to read chicken&amp;nbsp;scratch abreviations and try to decipher them it's&amp;nbsp;beyond me.&amp;nbsp; What a fucking shitty day. I thought i was&amp;nbsp;doing good and whats even more fucked up is that theres still people telling&amp;nbsp;me im doing good. Even though im not this really nice lady was asking me something&amp;nbsp;then the other mean&amp;nbsp;lady said right right you&amp;nbsp;had a patient thats orders werent put in she softly said yeathen she asked me for a favor and&amp;nbsp;patted my back like&amp;nbsp;it's ok that made me feel better. I don't think she likes me at all and fuck it im not here to&amp;nbsp;impress her.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahhhh that's better i just spoke to a really nice man that i used to see in the mornings but now i dont see him i just talk to him when he gets here at 11 for a few minutes he said i sounded upset but don't let the assholes get to&amp;nbsp;you because your nice. i said yea&amp;nbsp;i know i shouldn't but these&amp;nbsp;douchbags&amp;nbsp; he started laughing and then i realized what i had said and he says it's ok i haven't heard that in a long time he's&amp;nbsp;like but most of them are most of middle management trying to be something&amp;nbsp;make a name for themselves. well ill see you at home im about to go byee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;love ya&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;~ V&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <title>work and play</title>
    <published>2008-12-12T16:24:52Z</published>
    <updated>2008-12-12T16:24:52Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Lauryn Hill - Superstar</lj:music>
    <content type="html">I've been working nights i guess partial nights i work for 3 to 11:30 sometimes i stay later to help out a bit.&lt;br /&gt;I do enjoy what i do it's not amazing you know i don't want to do this forever it's just busy work or work for the now.&lt;br /&gt;These are the types of jobs that you try not to get stuck in because while they might provide good income and be &lt;br /&gt;comfortable for the time being you it's not a career it's not something one would stay doing for a lifetime. &lt;br /&gt;well, not me anyway Manny's still around he's not drinking which is good being that he's a hardcore alcoholic but&lt;br /&gt;i think he's scared that this might be his final goodbye if he's not careful. I keep expecting him to fuck up to just start drinking again &lt;br /&gt;i hope he proves me wrong. I know he's trying hard but when you have an addiction and you have nothing to do in the day no &lt;br /&gt;responsibilities or just things you can put your mind on well it becomes hard trying not to think of it. He asked my mom for colored pencils&lt;br /&gt;and paper she gave him katie's crayons. I think it's good he's trying to stay occupied he even asked for benji i said no but maybe in the future&lt;br /&gt;anyway he's not my dog haha no just kidding i love that fur ball. I'm very interested in knowing Many and who he was and who he can be.&lt;br /&gt;You see a person there and you hope for the best but sometimes it's just not enough. I told him i wanted to interview him he said ok. &lt;br /&gt;I want to buy him a violin for his birth day he used to be in the orchestra for bel air high school in el paso. Today i'm going to contact his son angel&lt;br /&gt;they really want to get to know him more and his side of the family i was thinking email that would be cool. I spoke to a guy that was in the shop in tx and&lt;br /&gt;asked for angel and i said it's his cousin from &lt;i&gt;Chicago&lt;/i&gt; and when i said &lt;i&gt;Chicago&lt;/i&gt; i heard my thick Chicago accent. I'm excited i might get to talk to a cousin.&lt;br /&gt;I've been reading quite a bit recently i like it. Though i may be the only 21yr old who would rather stay home and a read a good book while petting her dogs, instead of &lt;br /&gt;going to a club. Clubs just are not my scene now to walk the dogs and make a deposit i've been slowly drinking coffee but for the most part i dont drink coffee like i used to like water.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~V</content>
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    <title>no more empty promises</title>
    <published>2008-12-02T17:55:46Z</published>
    <updated>2008-12-02T18:20:29Z</updated>
    <lj:music>volcano-damien rice</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Warning: not doing drugs or drinking may lead to brain activity creating social problems with drinking buddies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why am i alone you ask because don't want a boyfriend you respond to our own question. &lt;br /&gt;When people would ask i didn't really care bout the answer not until recently that i was asked five times in one day so it pissed me off and i actually thought abut it and i know ow why i don't have  boyfriend  it's no because i don't want one but because i haven't found someone who makes m happy i don't settle i wont &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which leads to this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Veronica :&lt;br /&gt;I love you. I know i don't say it enough but you are an intelligent and  beautiful woman. For these reasons and more i promise you not to settle for anyone less than worthy. &lt;br /&gt;You deserve to be charmed to be dined to have real conversations and not have to settle for anything. Being alone doesn't scare me what scares me is people live their lives thinking they could have done better or that they settled being unhappy that's not a life. I love you &lt;br /&gt;~ v&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>all in all it's well</title>
    <published>2008-11-30T00:20:24Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-30T00:20:24Z</updated>
    <lj:music>andrew byrd-a nervous motion tick motion of the head to the left</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Work has been interesting i must say. I like it it's not as stressful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;but still the time goes by quite quickly.&lt;br /&gt;i've gotten used to it now and i quite like it.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Thanksgiving&lt;br /&gt;i very much enjoyed it &lt;br /&gt;probably the best in a very long time&lt;br /&gt;people were being nice or i &lt;em&gt;should say &lt;/em&gt;tolerant&lt;br /&gt;of each other people were tipsy i didn't really care for&lt;br /&gt;the wine not because it wasn't good but becasue &lt;br /&gt;i just dont want to ingest any alcohol for the time being&lt;br /&gt;Katy slept over on wednesday we had so much fun then &lt;br /&gt;the next two days we were all together&lt;br /&gt;going to pick up my uncle from the hospital&lt;br /&gt;then to chuck e cheese i had so much fun there and i got tickets&lt;br /&gt;i miss her so much and if i could i would spend everyday with her but &lt;br /&gt;i'll settle for just one more day of the week &lt;br /&gt;im going to start to spend more time with her&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;real relations with people and me&lt;br /&gt;i have grown completely and &lt;br /&gt;im very happy with myself at this point&lt;br /&gt;i know what i want and what im no longer going to take &lt;br /&gt;for me thats a very big step&lt;br /&gt;to know what stage i am in dating&lt;br /&gt;it makes me feel stronger&lt;br /&gt;and sure about me &lt;br /&gt;it's really been a long time &lt;br /&gt;and im glad im here &lt;br /&gt;so glad &lt;br /&gt;i can share my thoughts so freely &lt;br /&gt;someday as much as deepanalysis&lt;br /&gt;but for now im content where i am &lt;br /&gt;i read a txt Saul left for me a few days ago&lt;br /&gt;i had txt him and he replied &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Que paso chaparra&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;that made me smile&lt;br /&gt;he's a real decent guy &lt;br /&gt;and i hope i still get to talk to him every once&lt;br /&gt;in a while even thought were miles apart&lt;br /&gt;is till like connecting with him&lt;br /&gt;him and his cool spanish&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno por ahora eso es todo pero mas &lt;br /&gt;alrato te voy a hacer una promesa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mucho amor&lt;br /&gt;V&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>Do you.....</title>
    <published>2008-11-01T01:05:04Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-01T01:05:04Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;There was a time when i could&lt;br /&gt;but now all i could do is hope&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>Shall we move on....</title>
    <published>2008-10-20T20:42:00Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-20T20:42:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">It's Monday i didn't work today and all i feel like doing is nothing. I don't think wednesday is happening the lack of financial stability is wearing me out. Bad financial choices are the cause though i enjoy them i &amp;nbsp;am going to try to limit the spending.I really enjoyed talking to my psychiatrist just being in her office again and talking to the other girl there was refreshing and it made me realize how much i have changed and progressed since the first time i was there. I would not have spoken to anyone i didn't and the dialogue was so different since the first session with her. it makes me feel good that i am slowly becoming more and more comfortable with myself. I recently started talking to one of my high school teachers through email. She is getting her PhD in education that is intense. I thanked her for caring she's always been awesome. I hope i can continue this talking to her. I've been getting distracted from things that i want to do my life goals. Instead i've been focusing purely on the here and now. I've been reading a variety of books and articles. I read The New Yorker and there is a really good article followed by another that really affected me. The first was about Obama and McCain &amp;nbsp;the differences between the two it really left me satisfied reading it. Then i turned the page an article about white middle class america and what they think of the two candidates. The majority of the people didn't even want to vote saying that they were both bad choices. One person said McCain is going to be the same as the last 8 years and Obama is the end. I had to stop reading the article because it hurt me that people think this. They just don't want to vote because they don't trust Obama it scares me. I liked the article because it brought up a point that the candidates don't bring up. Race it is in fact still an issue for a large number of people and just because it is not addressed does not mean it's not there. Hopefully the future of this nation is not determined by the color of the future president's skin that would only &amp;nbsp;mean that we are still in &amp;nbsp;the stone age. It's embarrassing this is still an issue in america. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <title>Friday finally</title>
    <published>2008-10-17T18:23:45Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-17T18:23:45Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p style="text-align: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well today is my last day and it started good and hopefully it continues that way&lt;br /&gt;it was upseting to find that they dont consider me apart of the front anymore&lt;br /&gt;i atleast expect thewm to wait till i leave. I think it was my boss. The pediatric charge person&lt;br /&gt;gave us lollypops&amp;nbsp; for something we had done a good job at and she said it's only five right? we said yes&lt;br /&gt;we didn't think and then they were named and i didn't have one. i know not a big deal but this was something i was a part of and i wasn't recognized that's been happening alot lately and i must say it&amp;nbsp;is taking a toll.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Won Wednesday!</title>
    <published>2008-10-15T16:11:07Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-15T16:11:07Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;Wednesday's finally here &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;can't wait for friar tucks tonight&lt;br /&gt;i have a lot to do&lt;br /&gt;doctors and i think the concert was cancelled &lt;br /&gt;but i cant get a hold of norma&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;man oh man&lt;br /&gt;i guess ill just do what i have t do cuz i dont even know &lt;br /&gt;where it is that i had to go get the tickets&lt;br /&gt;im calling martin maybe he knows&lt;br /&gt;no luck fuck&lt;br /&gt;ok well i still have to walk the dogs &lt;br /&gt;so farewell friends&lt;br /&gt;maybe i'll be on different meds i'll get back to you&lt;br /&gt;i didn't even write about my teacher&lt;br /&gt;whom i love she's so sincere i love her&lt;br /&gt;ok ok gotta go bye&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>This looong week</title>
    <published>2008-10-03T18:03:38Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-03T18:03:38Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center"&gt;It's taken forever for this week to pass&lt;br /&gt;maybe because of wednesday&lt;br /&gt;we didn't get together =(&lt;br /&gt;unfotunately i was responsible &lt;br /&gt;and desided it would be best not&lt;br /&gt;to go out if i had to get up at 7 in the mornin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am transfeRring over to a unit&lt;br /&gt;im going to be incharge of doing alot more&lt;br /&gt;im exicited and scared&lt;br /&gt;like to everything there are&amp;nbsp;pros and cons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think i need new medication&lt;br /&gt;i feel something going on in me but i can't control it&lt;br /&gt;I feel like sometimes &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>Pink nails and a cup of coffee</title>
    <published>2008-08-24T18:27:12Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-24T18:27:12Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p align="center"&gt;More often times then not i sit here contemplating the previous days events.&lt;br /&gt;I sit here&amp;nbsp;in my favorite diner&amp;nbsp;where regulars, like&amp;nbsp;me ,have our&amp;nbsp;designated area and&amp;nbsp;everything is blatant.&lt;br /&gt;I'm the regular that doesn't fit in the picture. Everyone is accustomed to me coming in with a slight scent of&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;cigarrets and perfume with my hair curly disheveled and make up obviously not done for that morning my nails pink with a hint of glitter, the only part of me thats&amp;nbsp;perfect.&amp;nbsp;Staring at the my coffee cup as if it were gonna guide me to make the right decisions,&amp;nbsp;running my&amp;nbsp;fingers around the rim&amp;nbsp;of the cup. I love coffee, black coffee, bitter in it's richness the enticing smell.&amp;nbsp;Every cup that i drink is&amp;nbsp;better than the&amp;nbsp;last. SIP HOLD SWISH GULP.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Black pumps leather&amp;nbsp;straps,&amp;nbsp;i'm used to walking&amp;nbsp;on my tiptoes. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Norma!</title>
    <published>2008-08-08T18:24:08Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-08T18:24:08Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Talk to me woman talk to me!</content>
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    <title>checkmate @ 2008-07-04T19:02:00</title>
    <published>2008-07-05T00:11:48Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-05T00:11:48Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;i spoke&amp;nbsp;with my dad&lt;br /&gt;he had surgery two weeks ago&lt;br /&gt;he's doing good&lt;br /&gt;i wanted to see him but not with my sisters&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;i wanted it to be just him and me&lt;br /&gt;talking hanging out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Nothing and Everything</title>
    <published>2008-06-28T01:14:22Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-28T01:14:22Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p align="center"&gt;everything seems so dismal&lt;br /&gt;i seem to be out of breath&lt;br /&gt;tired but at the same time energized&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;and ready to do things&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>checkmate @ 2008-06-22T09:49:00</title>
    <published>2008-06-22T15:04:16Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-22T15:04:16Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This is&amp;nbsp;Martin in his apartment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img alt="" src="http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/Shadowcheckmate/Image312-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really liked this picture &lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Inside and out</title>
    <published>2008-06-21T01:20:13Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-21T01:20:13Z</updated>
    <lj:music>inside and out - Feist</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p align="center"&gt;In the recent days that have passed so much has changed.&lt;br /&gt;I feel changed and not that physiucal change but the&lt;br /&gt;i am a different person change.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;the type of change that takes time and insight to yourself&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;i feel like im taking steps forward finally and becoming a better person&lt;br /&gt;actually a more focused person in to myself and with more direction.&lt;br /&gt;Im very content and happy in my life right now.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;When i woke up i knew it was going to be a good day.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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