Last weekend due to my sinus infection and neverending sick tirade....and Julia's lack of funds / mine as well in honest judgement, i went to cincinnati instead of put in bay. I had a really good time, spent money that i dont have at Easton mall, admired alot of things i wish i could afford and hope i can someday, including ugg boots which leah and i always said we would buy out first winter with a real job. Julia and i went to the beach waterpark and soaked up the last good rays of summer. Going down waterslides is not the same as it was as a little girl. I found myself getting airtime and landing back into my inner tube getting rub burn down my back and bottom. i was terrified i was going to flip, or fall out and down the slides...thrilling but i have to say the lazy river was the best part. after that we went to get ice cream at graters which is legendary. i believe oprah flies her ice cream in from cinci. its that good. they have this summer flavor that is strawberry with chocolate chunks but they didnt have it anymore...the the guy tried to mix strawberry with chocolate sauce which ended up being a disgusting chocolatey soup....i was disappointed. i dont understand the whole seasonal item thing...i mean really if its that good and youre going to make money off of it then offer it year round....i get that too much of a good thing can make you sick of it but just be more innovative and come up with a better summer item ...i mean strawberry with chocolate chuncks isnt that crazy of an idea that it needs to be a special item. I think like a pinacolada ice cream....that makes more sense as a summer flavor than strawberry chocolate!! anyays, after that we went to dinner at julias parents who make the best homemade pinapple pizza, they make everything homemade but with healthy items! they do everything healthy or low fat its really neat but its amazing how good it states. Julia and i discused the recent documentaries we had watched on tv about cults and polygamy. im really amazed by them. some things i learned: one girl who was alone in chicago after moving there met a guy and he invited her to his yoga class...i mean sounds harmless right? It was at a studio called Dahn Yoga so she signed up for the class! but it ended up being some kind of crazy cult where they sat around and yelled displaying there passion and trying to have vision....i mean people thing that they could never get caught up in a cult, but really its so easy to! i mean you think youre going to a yoga class and the next thing you know youre brainwashed, they pray on thepeople who feel they are alone because they promise friendships and family and that sounds pretty ideal. i mean the people in the yoga cult were young and good looking...i can see how she got trapped in it...but got out though adn was living at a cult survivor group in ohio somewhere before she headed back out into the would...it was similar to rehab. the polygamy one showed a woman with 7 children who was married to a man at 14 who was 32 years older than her..it was insane ...she was actually married the man who became the new prophet leader when warren jeffers was arrested. but she escaped but her oldest daughter went back after turning 18. Many people have wondered why when the LDS camp was raided none of the children or women cried and they explained this in the doc. The children and women do not show affection or emotion, they are taught as babies to have no emotion, the women do not hug or kiss there babies and many of them die because of lack of stimuli...a baby can be fed, changed, clothed, burped but if it is not loved and cuddled they die. The ones who survive never get affection or develop attachment to there mothers. if a mother does show affection both are tormented. its so disturbing! and most of the runaways are called lost boys because boys are thrown off the camp because of the ratio is uneven. if there are too many yoing boys the young girls will not wnat to marry the older men and therefore there arent enough women to go around so the boys are kicked out. its so sad. there are camps filled with teenage boys in utah and colorodo that were kicked out. so sad.anyways ive realized ive gotten way off track here! we went to the riverfest adn saw the fireworks on the ohio river, they were awesome I had such a great weekend and it was one last relaxing thing i could do before the craziness. i spent the first half of t his week with my dads family where my grandmother made me a goodbye dinner of sorts. she accidently used cream of tarter in her corn dish she makes whcih is normally really really good but this time was rather sour...it was asuch a huge mistake for her, one i had never seen hermake, she was embarressed and upset but its just corn but for her i could tell this was a big deal. anyways i heard more about my cousins new job and his amazing paycheck, and how smart he is thatn really answering any questions about my new job but thats okay i hate the spotlight....i said goodbye to my dad which was a bit emotional. i hate that imn growing up, iw ish icould wake up and be 3 again and be little and havef un and play with barbies and not worry about money, jobs, loans etc. you dont know hwo good you have it when you do. im home in cleveland now doing a million loads of laundry i have from going through my clothes, which im going to start packing up. i have so many things i need to do but the apt move in day is sept 22 and im so excited! mark is going to take carfe of the finances until my paychecks come in so its working out! just have to figure out how were going to get my stuff downt here...so now im studying for nclex, need to get my plates, need to get my fingerprints, get my tb test read and papers faxed to the hospital ,pack up my stuff and head out! on saturday my nana is cooking a dinner and a lot of my family will be there so it will be nice to see everyone before i leave! But i know ill be back soon, its not forever...just for now! im really excited about the changes and nervous too! i just hope i down start a crying fit like i usually do before leaving home. i know God is with me though! so now im off to switch my laundry and start the packing process!!!!