ahhh school has arrived! im only going to school mon-thurs 4:20-8:10pm but i feel like im not going to be digging the schedule....im not used to having class on monday...i like my schedule last quarter cuz it was tues-thurs...hehe but my days were sooooo long! its just that ill be using up more gas...but oh well only for two more quarters!! i just hope studying for the boards isnt too hectic cuz by next yr this time should be doing some hardcore planning for the wedding...been totally lagging and taking it easy since the engagement....still need to go and visit the places that ive been looking up on the internet....hopefully in november if len comes here we can do some wedding venue sight seeing heheh....

i feel like my weeks are going to be so hectic with working with the day care, going to school and trying to work out....ill try my best to keep at it, but i hope i dont get too tired!! i should be energetic tho after sitting in a 4 hour class for 4 days each week...we'll see!! im pretty excited about the classes....its just the program is going through some transitions so i hope it goes smoothly for us students! but its cool how the class sizes are really small and teachers are part time faculty who also work in the environmental health field so we can make so good connections....

went to a family gathering last weekend and i found out theres 6 of us out of my dads side first cousins that are engaged! thats crazy! ehheeh and im prob going to be the last one to have a wedding too since we're waiting 2 yrs! i know alot of my cousins are opting for the small intimate weddings with just their immediate families there......that totally sounds appealing to me since theres soooo much to plan for a big wedding and its sooooo expensive!! i just wish i was more decisive about stuff and i wish i was one of those brides that knows exactly what she wants! eheheh every time i go to a wedding or see wedding stuff on tv, i take mental notes of stuff id like to do for my wedding.....but now that im engaged...its like my mind has come to a blank and i dont know what i want at all! i think its mainly the cost factor...wouldnt it be nice to plan a wedding and not have to worry about the cost so much? or wouldnt it be nice to plan a wedding and already have THE house to settle in after the wedding, so we wouldnt have to worry about saving for the house and the wedding??....i seriously wish i was a couple yrs older so we would have married earlier and bought a house when prices were still reasonable!! its soooooo ridiculous now!! who would have thought the house i will own in the next few yrs would cost close to half a million!? or probably by then close to a million! soooo stressed! well if all works well with passing the boards and securing a job in the environmental health field...id be making more than the loose change i was making at my old job....or as the aunties and uncles (friends of the family) would say "if you just stuck with pharmacy school, you'd be a pharmacist by now and you'd be set!".....then i'd reply "i hate the pharmacy!!!!" ive never dreaded going to work so much...and i only worked there 10-15 hours a week....at least i realized early that i didnt want to do it....well my real aunts and uncles seem supportive of what im doing, its the family friend aunties and uncles that i rarely see that always say the pharmacy stuff.....and then there was that void after graduating college of what to do with the degrees...so after working at the lab, and much pondering of what to do with myself.....i think i found my calling in the environment...most of the time when i tell aunties and uncles (family friends) what im doing, theyre like "whats that?" and i think they stop listening after hearing that i dont like pharmacy anymore...that explains why they always bring up pharmacy again in the rare occasion that i see them...but its really nice to hear the encouragement from my peers, saying that ive made a good choice and its a hot field right now!......thanks everyone!!! and it was really good to hear my teacher say yesterday that in couple of yrs theres going to be a 25% shortage of health inspectors, so thats really good for us job-seekers!! and theres so few of us as there is in my program at csula....so that means lots of jobs for us! hehheh well ill be praying that that will be the case for us and crossing my fingers!