criminal justice, eh?

CSI has always been my favorite show of all time, even though it rarely represents anything that actually occurs in reality. 24 is now closing in on becoming my new favorite show, it's amazing and realistic. I've also enjoyed watching Law & Order: SVU. All of these shows made me think that it would "be cool" to be a crime scene investigator, or the world's greatest FBI or secret agent. I never thought that I would actually be going to school to become one. It was the actions of one girl that decided what my future career was going to be. I guess maybe I should thank her for making my life hell, and the reason for hating pretty much every girl to this day.

It was my senior spring break that I took with my parents to Washington DC. I feel like I came back a different person after witnessing all that our capital has to offer. I came back gracious and so thankful for every single soldier that surrounded me in the Arlington Cemetery, and those veterans who stood by the war memorials with tears pouring down their faces. I came back with an even stronger bond with my mom that I didn't know was possible. I came back with the greatest feeling of happiness for being able to gain new experiences that will always remain with me. I came back to my car that had been scraped with a brick on every panel of it, and then painted over.

It took me about 5 minutes after I saw my car to figure out who had done this. She was a junior at my school. It's not suprising. She was under probation for a DUI and still drinks about 3 days a week. A 90 pound, tan, blonde haired bitch. I'm sure you are probably thinking I did something absolutely awful, right? Okay, well this is March when this happened because it was Spring Break. The previous September (Yes, 5 or 6 months earlier) her EX boyfriend and I kissed..once. They broke up in August, and then they got back together in October. So, there was a 3 month span, and actually it was quite funny because the guy and I have grown up together since kindergarden and absoultely hate each other still to this day. Who knows why, we're human and things happen. That was it though, just a kiss, just once, and we went back to hating eachother. The girl, apparently never knew this happened while they were broken up, and just found out over spring break. The girl and I actually were okay with each other, and had hung out with friends together on multiple occasions. So, how does she handle this? Instead of talking to me about it, she decides (while she's drunk) to go to my house on two different occasions and take one of our landscape bricks and scrape the paint down to the metal on every single panel, and window of my car. It caused just under $4000 worth of damage.

I had to use quite a bit of my learned detective skills (HA!) to help my case because apparently it's not a serious case. My parents and I even went to her house and told her if she would just admit to it, we wouldn't take it to the police and we'd just have her pay for it. She wouldn't admit to it, so of course I took it to the police. She cracked. A couple months later she had her final court date. Her sentence was only 4 days in the YOC, reduced down from one month. Later I found that her sister is good friends with her judge.

This first experience made me want to help other people in my situation. I want to make these "unsignificant crimes" ones that need to be solved and taken care of in a fast manner. They may not be crimes that physically hurt someone, but emotionally the victims are going to be scarred for life. My life was made a living hell while at school. Considering that she is 90 pounds and a twig, obviously I could have 'taken' her, but I never once would have considered violence to solve any problems. I relied on the law and our officers, and thank goodness we were actually able to perservere through and get a conviction for her.

Things that no one cares to know

I'm not really sure what to write about this week. I have a lot of things on my mind at the moment and I'm going crazy. I'm just going to write whatever is on my mind.. all the random stuff that's happened the past week or so.

My boyfriend and I went to go see Friday the 13th- great movie by the way. I just want to know why he always comes back alive? I mean honestly.. I don't get it and when will the people learn to just chop his head off or something. Sorry, that's probably a little too much. It was a good movie though.. had me paranoid all night long and I'm not quite sure why. Horror movies do that to me and yet they are still my favorite movies to watch.

I am once again in love with Super Mario. I have a Nintendo DS that I bought (no idea why.. it sounded like fun) and the only game I have is super mario. I've just started playing it again. It made me want to play the original Super Mario for the Nintendo 64 ridiculously bad. So, I went to my sister's house to get it because we share it from when we were younger. Well, apparently they lost it or gave it to a friend or something and don't want me to know. Her fiance told me I should go buy it.. it hit me later hey I shouldn't have to buy it IT'S MINE!!! Oh well, we went to Dave's Video and Game Stop and neither of them had it. I just wanted to play it. Haha. So my solution... well I made myself an Ebay account and bought it. :D It cost me $18.99 (and yes this was the cheapest one I could find that actually works well). It should arrive tomorrow or Friday and I just can't wait!! Not sure why I want it so bad. I probably will only play for a couple weeks because I'll get bored with it, hopefully not.

11 month old labs apparently like lasers more than any cat I know. My dog just went crazy and followed the little red dot all over the house until we had to stop and make her get water. I told my mom about it, and gave her our cats laser to use. She thought it was fantastic, especially when Zoey wouldn't come in from outside... she took the laser and pointed it on the ground beside our dog and she followed the red dot clear into the house.

Looking for apartments are stressful!! Not to mention all the things you need to live in the apartment. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My room is a complete mess. I'm never home to actually clean it. It's full of laundry, tubs that need to be taken to the attic, items that I'm putting in our rummage, dishes, and anything you could really think of. I usually like a little mess in my room. It's easier to find things when they're all over the floor and I always forget where I put things when it's clean... but right now it's just too much for me to handle.

Like I said, half of what I say is random and won't make sense, but it's nice to get off my chest.

update :D

On our second day with LUCY, I found that she is just the sweetest cat in the world. She just needed a little bit of time to re-adjust. She rides in the car like a dog, actually lets you hold her, playful.. just flat out adorable!!

Lucifer.

My boyfriend and I just adopted a one year old cat from the Blackford County Animal Shelter on Monday together. She was brought in, adopted and returned a month later. We thought we'd try and make this cat part of our home. We named her Lucy.. short for Lucifer because this who she acted like for the entire day we adopted her. She hates my other cat, and only attacks my boyfriend, but somehow loves me. Hopefully she'll come around to everyone. I don't want to think about having to take her back, but it wouldn't be fair to my other cat and my boyfriend's scratched up arms and legs to have her stay with us. I just hope and hope she'll come around. She's beautiful, definately a cuddler when she gets to know you, a shiny black coat, orange/yellow eyes.. maybe it is true that they bring bad luck.