Iowa has become the first mid-western state to allow same-sex marriage.Iowa is now the third state in country following Connecticut and Massachusetts to allow gay-marriage.

Michigan is also changing laws by passing the Medical Marihuana Act.  This will allow people with chronic pains and illnesses to receive marijuana as a prescribed treatment.

An interesting point from the act:

Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports and the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics show that approximately 99 out of every 100 marihuana arrests in the United States are made under state law, rather than under federal law. Consequently, changing state law will have the practical effect of protecting from arrest the vast majority of seriously ill people who have a medical need to use marihuana.

This new law will allow qualified patients to possess up to 2.5 ounces and to cultivate up to 12 plants.

My almost six-week-old daughter has a virus called RSV and a double ear infection!

That’s what happens when your baby is born perfect even though you did lots of things “wrong” pre-pregnancy.

On the school side of things, I have been getting behind just a little and am definitely not going to make dean’s list this semester, but I’m okay with that.  School has dropped way down on my list of priorities.  Ava, paying bills, keeping up my relationship with Bryan, school, relaxation time; those are pretty much the top 5 and in that order too. 

Don’t get me wrong I’m not going to be failing anything, or even getting any Ds but as of right this second, one week before spring break, I’m assuming that I will get 2 ‘A’s and 2 ‘B’s or 2 ‘A’s a ‘B’ and a ‘C’.

Over spring break, it’s not really a break though.  I need to write a report on the Virginia General Assembly, specifically the bill that proposes making it a law to release any/all mental records to your institution of higher education before enrollment.  I need to write a report comparing the reporting and writing styles of newspapers for two different eras in time.  I also need to go out and shadow a reporter for an entire day and write about that.  I need to finish my Diet Analysis project and I need to start putting my portfolio together.

I’m sure that’s not all I have to do that week, that’s just all I can remember right this moment.

Well wish Ava luck on her road to recovery, her granny is saving my butt and watching her for me while I do work and sleep.  And thanks to her granddaddy as well for diagnosing her and calling in her Rx.

rain rain rain.

That’s all it has really done in the past week or so and I love it.  Yesterday, Radford received what I assume to be officially a shit-ton of rain.  I don’t really know how much it was but Kristine and I went out and drove around at 4 a. m. and there were puddles I haven’t seen in a year or two and the windshield wipers weren’t really helping much.

I’m hoping the old saying when it rains it pours doesn’t only apply to negative instances; things have been going really well and I want that to skyrocket.

Bryan and I are trying to get better jobs which requires a little preparation.  In a few months, we’ll be good to go and then hopefully life will get a little easier.

Isn’t that a dreamy view?  That will never happen.  I guess we’ll see.

So, I slept through class at 10 a.m. this morning.  The alarm did not even go off at all.  But at least it wasn’t totally my fault.

Bryan and I are getting our shit together so to speak.  We are done doing some things we shouldn’t have been and it’s going to save us in the long run.  But for the next month or so it’s going to be a bitch fest and we are going to be broke, broke, broke.

I can’t wait to get this semester over because then I only have a summer and two semesters left.  Which in calendar time equals about one year and one month.  That’s good.  I’m pretty excited about that.

I hope this all works out. life i mean.

I promise I will give you loyal readers more of what you ultimately crave … soon?  I hope so.

-Kristine, Erika-hospital

-Withdrew from a class

-thinking of another job

-Hillary Clinton is now my new candidate (pretending I had money to have one)

I’m in class now so I have to go but what’s funny is there are only 3 of us here and even though Staniunas is pissed he’s just goofing around.

so peace.  I shall return.–soon!

Well with all this work(36 hrs/week) and all these classes(only 12 credits) I’m not getting lots of sleep.  Well not only that but the same things keep happening over and over again.  It’s pretty boring.

Get money. Get bills. Lose Money.

Class.Work.Sleep.

Walk dog. Do homework. Laundry.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Other than that I can say I’ve had the same general set of dreams my entire life. Hopefully I will find time one day to explain that craziness, but now let me tell you how my computers are always breaking and I’m getting more and more convinced that I am ADD.  If I turn in another thing late this semester I’m just going to give up right now while I’m still way behind.

Alright.  Hopefull more later but I must go get this computer fixed and find a better one to finish my assignment on—it was due almost 12 hours ago.-great.

Guest Book for

Mr. Don David Markham

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January 18, 2008 I am so sorry to hear this news about Don. We will miss him greatly.   Gail Slack Walker (Mount Jackson, VA)   January 18, 2008 I really rather loved the old dude. I loved his terrific sense of humor, and his many kindnesses. I shall miss him.   Cynthia Barry (DeLand, FL) Contact me   January 18, 2008 I had the BEST DAD in the worldMaria Lynn   Maria Markham (Edinburg, VA) Contact me   January 18, 2008 We were so sorry to hear of your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time of sorrow.Vanessa’s Parents   Frank and Marva Irwin (Woodstock, VA)

I wrote a few things in here but they weren’t reviewed and submitted by the time I posted this blog tonight. But that’s okay because you guys can click here and check it out yourself.

My granddaddy passed away a few days ago as you all know. Well it was rough on everyone and we all put on our game faces and made it through. The only problem is … I wasn’t allowed any time to grieve. I stayed with my grandmother(they were married for 53 years) because she has yet to live alone. So I stayed with her for two days.

During that time she went from complete shock and disbelief to a depression to bouncing back(kind of), meanwhile I have to be the one consoling her and keeping my game face on. I did the same with Donald when we told him what had happened.

He came home from school and my mother said ” do you know why she’s(me) here?”

And then about 3-4 seconds later the waterfall started and yet again I was there to help. Now the problem is I have cried over granddaddy and I know that all he wants is for us to get over it and take care of grandmother.

Well I left her alone with Donald tonight and not that I don’t trust his capabilities but what if something happens to her? I’m going to feel like shit. Well I already do just for leaving her. I really want to go back. I told my mom I would but she won’t let me screw up college for grandmother. I wouldn’t care though.

I’ve got my whole life to do what I want to do. and until then I can handle making someone else’s life a little easier even if it is just the mental thing of “there’s someone in the other room” That’s all she needs anyone is to know that someone is there.

“Ya know the weirdest thing about your grandfather not being here is the silence.”

“If Helen hadn’t told me what to do I would probably still be sitting here staring at the phone”

I can’t imagine what she had to go through and to think Donald went through it when he was only 6-years-old.

Why does this family attract all the crazies and gotta die young type? I don’t mean just us but look at all of our friends. aka “mouse”

It makes me think I’m the only freaking normal one but now I’m afraid I just must be the die young type. I’m still young, don’t want to die though and definitely not crazy. Not adopted. I don’t know how I managed to be in the crazy family. I’m glad I am though.

Well my writing has gotten completely off topic so the point of today is:I love you granddad and please help grandmother be happy and safe and when it’s her time let it be peaceful because if not it’ll just kill me.

First I just need to reiterate that psychics are real.  Communicating with the afterlife is completely possible. Yesterday my cousin Erika woke up and thought to herself before getting out of bed “today is the day”.  Yep yesterday was the day .  My grandfather passed away and he came down and held her in bed and said “today is the day to quit smoking”.  Erika did not know at the time that my grandfather had passed.  And anyone who knew my granddaddy would tell you that that’s something he would say.  It’s just all very strange.

Yesterday my granddad passed away and something very beloved to him and his predeceased daughter was moved from one room and table to a completely other room and table.  Yes I know that someone else could have picked it up and carried it over there but they didn’t.  My aunt Chris and my grandfather met each other to go to Heave and moving the statue of meercats was just their way of letting us know that they were together.

On a side note my grandfather also picked a great day for me to go.  I know that this is selfish but since I am home today and tomorrow and I was here yesterday that’s a lot of class to be missing.  Well it snowed so much today that classed were canceled.  Isn’t that a nice coincidence?

While I was checking the radford portal today to check my e-mail and see if classes were canceled I came across this silly article about radford from WDBJ-7 Roanoke news.  I feel really bad for that poor deer, especially the one.

I just got the phone call.  yep THE ONE.  he’s gone.  I miss him already.  My granddad and I always had a special bond.  He’s supposed to come back and haunt me like they do on sylvia brown.

I love you grandaddy!!

I hope grandmother will be okay and Donald!!

Bye.  I’m going home.

I have been at work forever and I feel like I should just move in.  Well that’s a little exaggerated but I was there a lot this week.  Work is going well for me other than one driver who’s a pill popper.  Yea I know pills and driving are not good together.   That’s all I’m going to say about that because if I go one much further with this I will be explaining to you the details of a driver strike and how much they all laughed when she passed out and ran into a guard rail.

Anywho. Life’s been good.  Granddad just had his 76th birthday on Saturday.  He said he was going to “hold on” until his birthday but I with he could stay forever.  I know people have to die sometime but damn I don’t want him to.  I’m prepared but geez!

Bryan’s sister and boss just found out that they are each pregnant, kind of weird it was both within the same week.  I’m jealous.

That’s about all for now thanks for reading.  oh yea classes start next week!!!