Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

14 August 2011

Family Members are more than friends.

Most of my posts are about happy things.  Or me complaining about school.  This post is going to take a more solemn note.

On Friday, August 12th, my eldest maternal cousin, Patrick John Schlueter was killed in a motorcycle accident.  He was 25 years old.  


This photo accidentally happened two years in a row when the six of us were very little.   So now every time we are together they make us take a "couch picture."  This is the most recent one, from last summer during the week of the Schlueter Family Reunion.  Patrick is on the end on the right of the photo.  

I'm just remembering the good times and wishing that we had more time together. He will be honestly missed and loved for ever.


In loving memory of Patrick John Schlueter.  
12/27/1985 - 07/12/2011







11 July 2010

Waiting for life.

It's been a while since I've updated this dealio.  So here we go.

The family came and went.  That was a crazy week and a half.  You know that saying "It's great to see the cousins go, but it's better to see the family leave?"  Well, I'm not sure that it's entirely true, but I think there's a point to that.  For ten days we had a variety of people in and out of our house.  Which was fun.  Of course we ate horribly for the whole week, which was not so fun.  But, I did get to see my youngest cousin (he's 8) who I haven't seen in a few years, and it's neat to see him now, because he's like a real little person.  And he's as sharp as a knife, which made him very whitty and entertaining.

Beyond actually seeing them, we did get to do some fun things.  We had the actual reunion, which was crazy.  It also taught me how important my dental hygiene is, as many of my family are missing teeth.  We also went shopping, to see that new Twilight movie and bowling.  It was a lot of craziness.  Oh and we had Ted Drewes' pretty much every night.  That's not healthy.

After the family left I've just kind of been relaxing around St. Louis.  I'm working, but I kind of have been giving away shifts left and right, because I hate my job right now.  Actually, I think I've mentionned this before...but it's most of the people, not the job.  I enjoy most of the patients and most of the work.  The idiots who don't know what they're doing and complain about little things like lunch time or why they have to work in a certain location are the ones that I hate.  There will be people that I miss.  And I'm going to visit them.  The others, not so much.

I'm very much ready for school right now.  I've been hitting up my Netter's Anatomy and Physiology Flashcards hard recently, and I'm getting more and more excited about starting school.  I was with one of my friends last night who is going to school with me in the fall and we both had the same conclusion:  that school needs to start soon.  I like being home and doing nothing/slaving away at my workplace, but I'm ready to start up again, and I guess it'll be a little bit like being an adult.  We were talking about how busy we are going to be and how we aren't going to get any sleep.  However, I've decided that I'm ready.  I often do well on little sleep.  So medical school, Bring It.

That's pretty much it right now.   I'm just biding my time.  I've got a little bit of shopping to do here and there, but other than that, I'm just waiting.  Waiting for school, waiting to move out and waiting for life to begin.

26 December 2009

Joyful Times

Christmas was pretty good this year. I am so lucky to have the family that I have, and I really was glad to get my gifts. I've decided to write some of them down here so that I can remember everything and look back if needed.

From Santa: Mario Kart Wii!!!

From Mom and Dad: Hot Rollers! And they're pink!
Slippers!
Some nice clothes!
Pink SPARKLY Converse!

From Benellen: Guitar Strap/Picks/Tuner!
Scentbug!

Yay!! I'm so grateful for these things that I got. This Scentbug thing is an airfreshner, and I am excited to see how it works/try it out. I'm sure that it'll make me a super duper cool person.

And then, after opening presents and a delicious breakfast of waffles and bacon, we go to the movies. My mother, Ellen and I went to see It's Complicated. It was really cute. And then we go to TGIFriday's for some yummy dinner and it was lots of fun. Of course, we also spent lots of time playing Mario Kart Wii and other Wii games and with our new "toys."

I hope that everyone had a truly joyful Christmas spent with family and friends. Here's to a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!