i used to hate valentine's day...

but i'm not going to this year because i'm being positive. yay love.

anyways, if you feel yourself (not) loving the (not) wonderful holiday that is february 14th, watch this. it will make you love at least a little part of it. maybe?

MRSA can suck it.

yes, this is in my body. 

for those of you who don't know, i spent the better part of christmas break/january being really sickly. it was awesome. 

syke.

it started out as a stomach bug, and then a stomach bug that wouldn't go away, and then oh crap this isn't a stomach bug, and then what the heck is wrong with me. 

when we finally did find out the diagnosis, i was terrified: being in a medical professional program will teach you to fear MRSA quickly. so when my doctor told me i had it, i suddenly had images of myself laying in a negative pressure isolette, holding my mom's hand through some plastic thingy while she stood there in a hazmat suit. it was not a good feeling.

luckily, that is not what happened, and i have been feeling somewhat better. but let's look on the bright side of things, since i'm being more positive in 2009. i have lost weight, which is never a bad thing. i have become a relative connoisseur of mashed potatoes. i got to catch up on my couch/tv/dvr/rented movie time that i never get during school. and it didn't happen during school, which was a huge blessing. 

look at me, being all glass half full. who knew. 

anyways, keep me in your prayers. hopefully God will de-MRSA me soon.

2009.

so in an attempt to be completely unoriginal, i have decided to write about the new year. 

it's amazing that something as simple as the change of a date affects our psyche so drastically. it drives people to join gyms, buy nicorette, and clean out closets--real or metaphorical. it's like we have a clean slate, a chance to be something in this year that we weren't in the last. i don't know who came up with this whole resolution phenomenon, but they were a genius.

i'm usually not a big resolution maker, because, like most of the things i set out to do, i usually don't do them very well. however, perhaps by publicly declaring them (and by publicly, i mean to the 7 of my friends who read this) i will actually perform said intentions. so here they are: d-rap's resolutions of 2009.

1. be a better daughter/sister/friend and CALL people. i'm not a big phone person. so it doesn't hurt my feelings when people don't call me. apparently, however, not all people are like this. so, to show people in my life how much i care about them, i am going to talk on the phone more. verizon, rejoice.

2. worry less. enough said.

3. stress about school less. enough said.

4. be more positive. i've recently fallen into a routine of cynicism and sarcasm that, although witty and often amusing, is not good. let the self-deprecation cease.... now.

5. take more time for myself. i don't do this enough. and i should. so i'm going to.

there they are. let the accountability commence, people.