Friday, June 5, 2009

Junkie Arms and School Reunions

So this week, being a rather short week - having Queen's Birthday, a public holiday on Monday (although her REAL birthday is actually in April), time has kind of flown by - my fellow blogger and Twitter using @rustycharm would also agree! :D

Surprisingly despite the 'length' the week has been jammed packed nonetheless, although it was by far the less dramatic and emotionally draining. However - it was blood draining! That is right! I gave blood this week, the needle went in a little lower than it should have, so the blood didn't flow right, but that isn't the part I wanted to mention, the funniest bit WAS... That first, I drank a little tiny shot glass of dessert wine at my sister's birthday dinner - and realised even after eating lots of food, why you shouldn't drink after giving blood. Secondly, I fell asleep that night on my donating arm (I donate with my left arm and sleep on my left side) resulting in an unusually shaped bruise, that formed around the actual needle point where the plaster had been, almost forming circle and than later on spread down and above my elbow joint - basically making me look like a junkie... It quite a site! You can check it out on... http://dailybooth.com/Courtz08/429742 my fingers measure out the lighter bruised areas which you can't see...

And yes, it is the first birthday month of the year in my nuclear family (my family is slightly complicated, hence nuclear), with sister no.2 starting the ball rolling for the year, this year we went out to dinner at an amazing Italian restaurant called "O'Sarracino", it was quiet, though it was mid week, but the service was better that way! The waitress was the type you would expect, a very good salesperson, offered suggestions and even managed to convince us on what we should order both in the Antipasto starters and even the wine choice! I was definitely impressed by her services! I hope my dad gave her a tip... She definitely deserved it!

Okay, so back to the second part of my title... School Reunions...

Earlier this week, I was invited to a school reunion barbeque at someone's house - I probably haven't seen most of my school year in over 5 years, so I thought maybe I should attend (I think I definitely am, it is tomorrow)... So after reading the Facebook invite, I did notice it started earlier than the average barbeque and as the blurb stated and I quote:
"We've decided to start it early for all the mothers in the group.. *hehe* (and theres a few of u) so now u have no excuse but to bring the kids along..." That is right, in 5 years, it seems that my school year decided to go on a making spree and have kids left, right and centre - some are even married... I am going to be 22 on Monday and I am thinking "What The...?" Is that just me?? Or was my school year particularly bad and everybody is having babies? I feel so old, yet young at the same time (I can't even picture having kids right now, maybe in 5 years time??) and all these girls from school are having them... Am I missing out on something??

Yeah, so my school was pretty small back when I finished and probably about 60 odd girls in my school year when I left - and less than 20 (max 15 I am sure in the end) ended up at uni... And probably about half of them have babies... Wow, I never thought that would happen... Maybe this would be different if they were all married (heck even that is hard to believe, but alot of these girls are having babies out of wedlock - not to be narrowminded or over traditional, but I do believe in a good upbringing when both parents are present, representing a good relationship) in fact there are even a handful of girls in the year below me who have gotten married too!

Yes, so you can see I have been struggling withe my thoughts this week...

What do you think? Am I trailing behind? Or just going about life the 'right' way? Well what is 'right' nowadays, but you know the general part I am trying to question...

Okay, so as mentioned my birthday is next week... And so are my exams (I've been unfortunate in that birthday is around study break/exam week this time around), I get about a week to study for my first exam... So I will attempt to blog on Sunday night... Hope I have something good to talk about...

I was considering blogging about "Society and Obesity in the 21st Century"

What do you think? Will I get any responses? Who knows, I am going to tweet this, follow me! :D

www.twitter.com/CourtneySit

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