first day of finals and whatever else comes to mind

welllllllllllll....today is the first day of finals and i didn't have any, but i did have presentation that i was to give at 10am. my 8 o'clock class didn't have a final so i set my alarm for 9am to wake up and get to school on time. well, the alarm goes off, and my brain says, "9? why is it going off at 9? i don't have to be at school till 11?" so i changed my alarm to 9:30 and went back to sleep. so i get up again, and get ready for school, eat some leftover pancakes from the night before, and all those normal morning routines. driving to school and the whole time i'm thinking "what am i missing? i have my presentation stuff and i don't need anything else?...." so my mind kept going back to that thought the entire drive to school, and i'm countering this thought by saying "i'm not late, class starts at 11. i'm fine." so i pull into ICC drive, glance at the clock one last time, and my heart (finally) drops. i moan outloud, "i AM late!!!!!" i don't know why it didn't hit me early in my drive but it did then for some odd reason. so i hurray the rest of the way into school and i'm going down the hallway almost to the classroom when i see some of my classmates comeing towards me. leaving. one of the guys yells out, "hey! your late" .......no, duh sherlock. by this time, i'm trying to figure out what i'm going to tell Eli (my teacher). well i never did figure it out. i pretty much just told her what happened...i walked in and i have never been more embarresment in my life. (may have been an exaggeration but you get my point) but it's an excellent thing that Eli is amazing and laid back and understanding cause i still got to give my presentation (which was a grand total of 3 mins) and i'm banking on losing some points but i can handle that. i've missed only one day of class and i've never been tardy, so maybe my good record will sustain me. so, what could have been a total break down to someone else turns into a "oh well, lets see what happens" for me.
i have 3 finals tomorrow... haven't studied much. alright. i have solid A's in all 3 of those classes, so if i don't do so hot, i won't fail. that's a good thing right?

whattttt elseeeee....i haven't written in awhile so your thinking that i should just have loads to say!!!! ......
OH!!! school's almost over. :) which means, Christmas!!!!!! (psh, how could i have forgotten that?) i haven't done any shopping. correction. much shopping for anyone, i have 2 items for 2 different people. i have a rule that states this: "Whittney Linn Stickling should (key word) not start Christmas shopping until finals are over....money in the bank helps as well" that's a good rule i think. and so far it's working. ....confession, i have no idea what to get anyone for Christmas...that's a problem. Leah (my sister) calls after her black friday extraveganza and says "i have you present!!! and it's the best one so far!" it usually is. and then she sends me a picture of it all wrapped up! it's HUGE!! i. can't. wait. :) i need to make a list of people to get gifts for..... oh and i should clean the house.
OH!! speaking of cleaning the house, what to hear a gross-disgusting-make-you -cringe-and then-you'll-never-want-to-clean-the-bathroom-sink-drain-again story???? of course you do. all of you clean freaks, don't read this. ----so i was brushing my teeth and washing my face last night before bed and i turned the water on so it would warm up. well 20 seconds later, the sink is full of water and about to overflow. so i'm like great, the sink is clogged. so i look under the sink for the thing that you stick down the drain, twist, then pull back up. so i stick it in the drain and it stops right after i put it in. so i'm thinking that the pip turns and it can't go anywhere else. so, i twist it. and it hooks onto something...(disclaimer: the next segment is grosser then gross. read only if you are able)...so up comes a wad of hair that is 2 ft long (NOT an exaggeration) it's slimpy, it's dark, it's matted, it has white clumps of something that i don't care to know of. it was like pulling a wig out of a paper towel tube. i have never seen anything more disturbing come out of a drain then last night's incindent. uhhhhhhggggggg.....after that was up and out of the way, the water drained mighty quite. it make the gurgling sound too. i bet it was glad to have that up out of it's thoat!! it's probably felt like it was choking on a RAT! that's what i was afraid i was going to see when i was pulling that thing up. a dead mouse strangled in the midst of that hair. then i would have screamed loud and long!

well. i'm sure you are all dying!! to go into the bathroom and clean your drains now! go go go! have fun! send me a picture!

dream again

i just remembered a dream that i had last night or the night before. i was in the coral reef. but the coral reef was about the water, and it was dying and it was a terrible thing! and i'm afraid that's all i remember. sorry for wasting your time. :) tori doesn't sleep well. she sleep walks which means she doesn't go down and under fully like everyone else. (i knew something was wrong with her! jk :) ) the doctor and mom agreed that it was from the night terrors she would have as a baby. she would be asleep and then just wake up screaming! sounds pretty terrifying to me!!
here mom, this applies to you: "Flying dreams fall under the category of dreams called Lucid dreams. Lucid dreams occur when you become aware that you are dreaming. Many dreamers describe the ability to fly as an exhilerating, joyful, and liberating experience." well duh! mom, isn't this ironic? you are afraid of heights but you fly while in your dreams. interesting.... "another way to interpret flying dreams is that these dreams symbolize your strong mind and will.
the dreams that your being chased in symbolize that in your "walking life" this is how you respond things, you turn and run from them. the things chasing you in your dreams would be a person/attacker, animal, or a monster of some sort. tori, this applies to you. tori is often chased by tigers in her dreams. :) i wonder if its the same one, or if it changes? tori, this website that i'm getting this info from says that instead of running from this tiger, you need to stop, turn around, and confront this tiger and ask it why they are chasing you. if and when you do that, i hope you are still alive in your dream....personally i'm not going to stop and ask a potenial attacker why he is chasing me. dream or no dream! that's just ridiculous!
ok, i think that's all i have on dreams today. sleep tight! :)

dream

so last night was a weird night. i had this dream that involved so many people i know. one from my job at the nursing home and one from my job at Leaves 'n Beans. we were making a sandwich at LNB's kitchen. and. that's all i remember. i wish i could remember dreams better cause some of them are really good and are worth telling! and then there are some where i want to hit the "pause" button and then hit "play" when i go to bed the next night. :) i dream in color. i just realized that. dreams are very neat things. that new movie "inception"? is that what's its called? looked interesting cause it involves dreams and hijacking them. it's a weird/creeping/cool looking film.
i slept in today and it felt great. i wish to sleep some more thanks very much.

pillow

so with nothing better to do besides writing up survey questions for my group speech i decide to write a new post on this blog.

today in my multi media class i was recording my voice narration for my project, and i had to say the word "pillow" multiple times. well, after you hear and say it 50 times it starts to sounds pretty foreign. and then the actual word looks wrong and not spelled right and it starts to drive you crazy! who even thought up the word pillow anyways? what a wierd word... anyways, well, that happened until i got over it.
and then! i had the giant headphones on over my ears and i went to delete an icon and the "buzzer" deal goes off telling you "no, you cant do that" and i literally jumped! uh! scared the living daylights out of me! and then i threw the icon away in the trash bin and the crumpled piece of paper sound blasted into my ears and i jumped again! oh goodness it was terrible....i was silently laughing to myself in the little room. :)

i guess that's all....

sniffles

sniffles. they are so very annoying and rude. rude on my side and know for sure they are rude and disturbing on the other side! but everyone has them at one point or another so deal with it. i don't like being sick. ok, well, let me rephrase that: i don't like being sick when i know that i will have to make something up. like in school. in high school i loved being sick! but, unfortunatly, i never was sick. ever. so now, i'm in college and i have a cold and a cough and runny nose and i'm tired and i want to go back to bed..... :) oh and a headache. me and few friends decided that complaining is not a good thing, but it can be a fun thing. lol it's not something we should make a habit out of but every now and then i think its ok to let it out.

so yesterday i fell down the basement stairs. that was not fun. and today i have a bruised tail-bone, but my elbow is feeling better! yesterday it was hurting real bad. one of the more painful trips (literally!) down the stairs.

dazzed......i think i'm going to leave next class early and see if i can go home and maybe get a quick nap in before work....and if that doesn't work, stop at a coffee shop and get some caffeine.

reality.

what we would do without reality. it keeps us on our toes. just today i had a plan of what i was going to do with my afternoon off since i didn't have to work. then i get a voicemail from THE boss saying that i'm on the schedule to work (when i wasn't when it was put out) and that if i could get here asap that would be great (of course it would be...). I guess God didn't want me at home for that long of time today. so until then i sit at work trying to think of way to "fix" something that won't be fixed easily or quickly. like everything else, things take time. good thing God gives the time we need to get what HE needs done, done! so, i'll wait. wait, for my shift to end, wait for the night to end and the next day to begin. waiting waiting waiting. it seems like we do an awful lot of waiting in our lifetime. seems wasteful but i don't know what else we would do in the mean time! imagine all the things we could do if we didn't have to sleep! we would get so much done! random tid-bit of useless information: "The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days 21 hours and 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. (...wait, WHAT??) The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration laspes." i'm sure that's not the only thing he/she lost... why, any person would compete in a rocking chair marathon is beyond me. how does that even work? trying to imagine it in my head and it looks ridiculous! now THAT is a waste of time. another piece of useless information: "A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year." ....sorry mom. so while i'm waiting for my life to take off, i think i'll sit back and put my feet up for the time being. there will be plenty of time in the future to lose sleep over an art project or test, a new baby or even (please God, no) a rocking chair marathon. no need to get worked up over nothing. no need to worry. to worry is to lack in faith. that's what i say, and i just made it up and i like it. I will trust in the Lord my God. there is not much else that is needed to be done in that area. that is His area of expertise so i'll leave it to The Professional.

family bonding...what a treat!

ooooo family! what we would do without them! having devon on a trip to Chicago with 4 girls means that he loves us SO much that he is willing to put up with us that long! haha he is such a good sport. ;) he hasn't read my blog yet but will flip! when he reads (or hears) that i wrote about him. haha
but we did some serious damage here in Chicago! walked all up and down michigan ave and when way up somewhere to find Buffalo Exchange only to be dissappointed by what we found. but that was the only negative part of the trip so i'd say we did pretty good. :)
thank you deiken for letting us borrow your condo for the weekend! i hope you find it in ...better! condition then when you left it!
i wonder how my daddy is doing these few days....strange that he didn't get to come with us, don't know if he would have enjoyed all the walking and shopping that we did anyways. lol
i have no idea how we are going to get all of our bags down to the car and FIT in the car to come home....this will be interesting. hahaha end result of successful trip. a full trunk. :)
oh boo.. i have to do an art project. they never stop coming!!!
oh and i decided that i would much rather design stationary/letters/invitations then logos...which is what we are doing in class. not my cup of tea.
BIG NEWS!!!!!: we had fantastic luck at the new Anthropologie store today!! WOW! it was great.....sighhhh

oh brother....

sooooo i get to school at 7:50 in time for my 8:00 class only to find out that it got canceled. gee, wish i would have none that at 6:30 then i could have slept in till my 11:00 class!! oh well. so i'm sitting in the library studying and going over my math stuff till about 9:15ish. finally decide to check my e-mail on my itouch. hmm. two new e-mails from my professors. one from wendy (math teacher) saying that class is canceled, well i knew that, and one from kim (speech teacher)........you have got to be kidding me...... message from kim roe: "i will not be on campus today..." ......oh. my. word. well, that's just...PEACHY! note to self: ALWAYS CHECK YOUR E-MAIL BEFORE YOU LEAVE FOR SCHOOL!!!!! i could have slept in and not had to go to school until noon!! oh brother....but hey! nothing i can do about it now! so, i left for home, got stuck in traffic, went to leaves and beans to apply for a job, the guy will be (hopefully) calling me sometime this week, (ekk!!!!) i changed my voicemail on my phone, i'm sorry to those who liked it. lol i was rather fond of it too. :) i got lots of messages saying "wow whittney, that is quite a voicemail you got there!" hahahahha i love it. and then i went to the grocery store and now i'm home wondering what to do until i have to go BACK to ICC and find a parking spot...oh joy.

what a fantastic day!!

Chi-town

wellllll i'm sitting here in class with nothing to do but browse the internet world consisting of facebook and blogspot. haha my computer geek friend next me to diligently working on his project while everyone else in the class is pretty much done. he's alright tho. i call him a nerd, he says i'm jealous. no, in fact. i'm not jealous. lol

my fall break starts at 5:30 tonight!! i'm so excited for this trip to Chicago!! it's exciting! get to spend some quality time with my aunt and cousin! it's going to be so much fun! can you tell i'm just a little thrilled?

oh oh oh ohohohohoh!!!! you'll never guess what i did that night??
......
i cleaned. my. room. LOOK OUT!! you can now see the once again black carpet. :) it wasn't that bad but having a black carpet, you can see everything! lol

ok. well. that's all. for now. :)

car ride

so we were camping this weekend with a bunch of other families and i was saying my goodbyes and heading home when i realized that i said goodbye to everyone except my own family. that got me thinking. i was actually shocked. and then i was sad. and then i was mad. mad that i actually forgot to say goodbye to my family! i don't know if anyone else is like that, but i sure am! i forget to give my mom a hug and kiss before i leave for school and i feel like i've forgot something! that's how it was this time. i pulled out and was like "what have i forgotten, i know i forgot something." then i realized i forgot the most important thing. it's not like i was never going to see them again, but you just don't know that. and it's scary and makes you drive extra carefully so you'll get home safely again and see them in a few hours. you can't know when your last hour of life will be. i don't want to miss an opportunity to give my parents and siblings a hug. you don't know which one will be your last. live every moment like it was your last. life is short. don't waste a moment of it

christmas list attn. erin funk

1. very berry paisley duffle bag from vera bradley
2. a Canon rebel camera -with lenses
3. travel bag from vera bradley that holds all your accessories
4. macbook pro (but we all know that won't happen for a few years haha)
5. that's all i got so far

kind of an expensive list this year!! :/ haha

these shoes were made for walking....

wellll it turned out to be a beautiful day for a ride on the 4-wheeler. so i took it out for a spin. and it just so happens that on the day when i DON'T take my cell phone is the day where the 4-wheeler dies on me. well it didn't really die, it was more like in a coma. sooo i make the lonnnnngggg walk back to the house. about a 7-10 min walk. in my ugg boots, tights, skirt, and sweatshirt. yea. it gave me time to think about what i was going to tell mom, leah, devon, and tori when i got back to the house. haha it ended up with "so i have good news and bad news. the bad news is, that i had to walk from waayyyy over there! to wayyy over here! the good news is that 4-wheeler is not quite dead." so me and devon start walking over there with a gas can just in case it was out (which it wasn't but we took some anyways) we could leave it there so we were bring it back by either riding it or by pushing. i prayed that we wouldn't have to push. that would have been awful! so we get there and devon tries. 3rd times a charm on the "things to try to start it again". turns out when i hit the bump(bump as in a deep indent from big tractor tires), i kinda flew forward and hit a switch. which happened to be the switch to the start button. go figure. and once we turned that on, the 4-wheeler came back from the dead. or coma. and we came back home to tell mom leah and tori of my stupidity and my not looking for the obvious.
alls well that ends well!!!!

whew!

what a WEEK!!!! wow it's been a crazy one.

monday. was a stressful day!!! had to work after school, and was FREAKING out about the speech that i had to give on tuesday! but luckily i got out of working late and went home to finish writing my speech and powerpoint and then practice it. which i put off until 5:30. got home at 2. big procrastinator right here. so that was fun! was groaning and felt like an idiot! while i was practicing this speech and talking to myself! tori enjoyed hearing it 6 times in a row.

tuesday. tuesday was bad....lol not really i was nervous beyond being nervous!!! i hate with a passion public speaking. it's awful don't ever do it. (my long lost cat came back home today!!!!!! i gave him some delicious cat food) (mom has a mini me in boy version in her group :D) anyways, public speaking is not my forte. after that i was fine! which is crazy cause i know everyone in my class and i knew my speech. you should have seen my legs, they were shaking so badly! i'm surprised no one saw them shaking! i looked at them a few times when i took a step to make sure they came down right so i didn't fall over! it was bad, lol i couldn't move hardly. but enough of that...

wednesday. oh wednesday. you kill me. for one thing, i always have to miss church! cause ihave my 3 hard classes on thursday and i always have some sort of project or test that day! this particular wednesday i had an extremely tedious project due and once again, i kinda procrastinated (need to work on that). so i got home from work which was 6:15. and got to work. didn't finish the project until 12:45am. i am exhausted right now. and i'm covered in buttery brown sugar. but that's a different story which i'll tell in the next paragraph.

thursday. today. the end of the week. kinda. end of turn-everything-in-thats-the-end-of-projects/speeches-for-this-week. i turned my project in and my teacher said that she really likes my shading!! she called it perfect!! :D how exciting! makes me feel good inside. so i get home and to celebrate i take tori on the 4-wheeler. that was fun! we almost killed it but then i realized that the gas tank switch was on off. so we were all good. haha then we drove in the bean field for a bit got as close to the interstate as we could then went and "raced" some cars along the side of the road (mom, if you're reading. i didn't really, just went really fast and there was car along the way next to me lol) then we decided to get some hedge apples! which means crossing the road. first we couldn't find them but we did. we also found farmer Brown. we hi-tailed it out of there! didn't know if we were trespassing or not. left asap just incase! then we headed back home. and they all lived happily ever after. the end.

just kidding! well i hope they live happily ever after! but it's not the end!

friday? tomorrow tomorrow i love ya tomorrow you're only a dayyyyy awayy!!!! friday means camping trippp!!!! which means weekend! which means have to work on yet ANOTHER art project! and study for a midterm AND get 3 sections of math done! well there goes my weekend! i'll make it fun. it will work out. it always does! somehow...

wow i'm tired. oh! i forgot to tell about the buttery brown sugar! it's on the front of my shirt. i was cooking this afternoon and we had put squash in the oven and i was taking all the squash out (they were filled in butter and brown sugar while in the oven) with a spoon and the spoon slipped and went right into the buttery mess and splashed it all up on me and my arm!!! haha there was no one to laugh at me so i laughed for me and them. :)

well i think that covers my week. time for bed. goodnight!

suede

so tonight we had a benefit dinner for our young group to help pay for a missions trip to mexico. during the clean up, me and leah ramseyer had a tick-tack-toe game on one of the suede couches by the wall. i won. 2-1. it was quite entertaining.

my uncle had to set up the pack-n-play in my room for miles, and he couldn't find a spot to put it! how embarrassing... hahaha oh well. i'll get around to cleaning it one of these days

my ear is sore. not sure why or how....

my christmas list is out. :) its a pricey one. BUT a much needed one!!! promise. girl scout honor!

it's a fuzzy socks and sweatpants kinda night tonight

Stickling weiner roast

what fun tonight was!!! almost all the Stickling clan were at our house tonight and we had a giant bonfire, delicious food, and an intense of volleyball!!
volleyball was epic!! one face shot to Julia and few head shots to others. get out to the court and first thing we have to do is weed it. :) thanks guys! now i don't have to do it! the sand was freezing! incase you were wondering. i was bare-footed. i'm going to be sick. lol hope not! can't afford to get sick. ever.
my aunt molly told me she was going to put up a pack-n-play in my bedroom for baby miles to sleep in. i told her that if she can find room to set it up then go for it. looks like she found room! haha
as tradition, most of the guys in the family get going in a game of one-on-one basketball where everyone is against everyone else. it's quite entertaining to watch!
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felt like typing the alphabet out.
i am quite exhausted and when my head hits the pillow i'm going to be out faster then a light bulb.

untitled

i've been told that i should start a blog by my cousin. he says that a book deal would follow after shortly. ...any publishers out there? a book=writing. i'm not a fan of writing. anything with using punctual grammer and junk does not appeal to me. my uncle has always been saying that he thinks i should be an author....i laughed to face at that one! my aunt said that a blog would be a good idea for me because everyone (i really doubt everyone) wants to know what is going on inside my head. well you aren't going to find out cause I don't even know!! it's a mystery...
today is the day where go i go have a party in my classroom! :) what fun this will be! the best part is that i have no clue what i'm going to do...

how exciting!!!

wow. my first blog. i now feel caught up with the world!
with so much going on in my brain i don't know what to write! how bout this:
we are having company over tomorrow night, my room is a disaster (shocker) my is vaccuming and i'm sitting in my big green chair making a blog. glad i got my priorities straight.

today, mom told me that i talked to the birds while i was cleaning their cage. explanation: we have one lame bird. but it's only lame(lame as in crippled) when i clean it's cage. i pull out the tray and it pretty much just falls to the ground and doesn't move. can't move. i have to pick it up and put it back down. so i'm standing there, going "move, bird! silly thing. move your tail feathers!" weirdo...

tomorrow for my mulit-media class i have to introduce a childrens book! the book i'm introducing is called "if you give a pig a party". we have to have props. my props are balloons and party hats!!! i'm so excited to walk into the AIG TECH building (where "manly men" are roaming the halls. bahahahaa!!!) with my bright colored balloons and balloon animals and see the look on their faces!! priceless. :)

i HAD the opportunity to go to bed tonight around 8...its 9:30.

Mom: "don't worry girls, i'll clean the stairs by myself" hehehe sorry mom. :)

well i think that's enough for one night. sleep sounds good. sleep always sounds good.

p.s. i have two full baskets of clean laundry sitting in my room right now. don't think i'll get to them until next week. if that.