Esvienne

Just a reminder

Posted by: svnbelle on: December 11, 2008

i’ve been getting some kind messages from people who have been following this blog for a while. As a lot of you know, I have gotten my own domain name and I’ve been continuing there! If anybody is interested in following me, the URL is Esvienne.com. Hope to see you there :)

Follow me elsewhere!

Posted by: svnbelle on: August 11, 2008

So I think I’m officially ceasing to continue on with this blog because…. *dramatic music* I made my own website  :) so now, you can find me on my own URL-

Esvienne.com

I know I mentioned it before, but that was before I got my gallery and everything setup..

soooo, if you’ve been reading this (Which I’ve noticed many people have) then please continue to stalk at the URL I just provided you!! I already have some new things up. Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you, that is all.

Random Update

Posted by: svnbelle on: August 1, 2008

Since not everyone knows that I switched to my own website now (www.esvienne.com) and am continuing my blog there until I put up photography and whatnot, I’ll post what I’m posting there on this wordpress as well. But whoever is reading please continute at esvienne.com

I know, I know. I haven’t had anything worthwhile really to write about (in the context of world events and whatnot). I’ve been giving more personal updates, which totally strays off from the idea of this blog. A little change doesn’t hurt though. I do have a couple of things I wanted to talk about (in regards to mccain, the environment etc) but I just haven’t really had much time to sit and write it all out.

I’m a slacker bahaha.

For one thing- I would like to tell everybody that if you’re in college, CHECK this damn website. ratemyprofessor.com

I never thought it was important, but I found out this summer the hard way. Now, I’m normally an A student, with the occasional B. This summer I would have had straight A’s except for this jerk professor I had in the first half. I.. am an awesome essay writer. I had this western civilization class I had to take (which I took with my last degree, except it didn’t transfer from NY) so I had to take it again. I tried SO hard, and I ended up getting a C in that class. Now, this guy had us write 4 major essays in 4 weeks (all 4-5 pages) and had us write discussion questions with references to the books we used. We also could not use our actual class textbook in our essays. I came home with like 6 books from the library every week.

AKA I tried my butt off. (Laughed my ass pants off if you will Jenna LOL)

So after I was practically in tears over this class, I checked ratemyprofessor.com. Just as I presumed. There were a ton of aggravated students on there, like me, who are normally A students and found themselves doing badly in this class. The teacher doesn’t even give you good criticism. I even emailed him asking him what I can fix on my essays and he NEVER gave an answer. So the moral of this story- check that website before you take a class. I never worried about it because I didn’t think the professor mattered, but I found out the hard way. He ruined my summer GPA.

But other than that- I graduated. Now  can finish at UCF finally. Since I have a business degree already, this marketing bachelors should double up my chances of finding an AWESOME job when I’m out.

I’m also in the process of finding a really good eventing/cross country school down here. For those of you who don’t know what eventing is, it’s like the x-games of equestrian. It’s not stadium jumping, it’s not dressage. It’s combined training bad ass competition. You’re not in the safety of an arena, you’re out on a full blown course through forests, rolling hills etc. You’re still jumping 5 foot jumps, you’re just out in nature doing more ‘natural’ and harder jumps. You’re flying practically vertically downhill into bodies of water, jumping UP hill. You need a horse in tip-top physical shape, and you need to be in it too. For those who are curious what it is, here’s a little video showing how hard it actually is. It’s not a cake walk, regardless of how easy the olympic riders make it look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKs_wImT0uM

So yes, this is what I want to start training for. Evidently Florida is the perfect place to do it because it’s warm all year round. I want to compete so bad but I just have to completely immerse myself in the sport. Not that I don’t already, I’m always riding and have been for years upon years, but eventing is something you have to consciously work hard at, it’s a lifestyle. I want it.

my very own little cozy space on the web!!

Posted by: svnbelle on: July 31, 2008

sooo as some of you know, I have my own domain name and website. I’ve had it for like a month now but I’ve just been too busy with school to really put time into getting it up. Well finally, after a few grueling house, the boy helped me get it up and running… I might know alot of things but evidently I know nothing about databases… yet =D

now instead of going to svnbelle.wordpress.com, you can go to my very own website (esvienne.com for those of you still on my wordpress page) and check it from there. Right now it’s JUST a blog, but once I design my main page layouts I’ll have some photography and random other things up on there. I’ll be working on that in the background and won’t be putting it up until it’s done. Until then- enjoy what I have so far ) I’ll be writing as usual. Keep checking back for when it’s finally done ) Now that I’ve graduated (again) I’ll have a few weeks of doing absolutely nothing until I go into UCF for my final year. WOOHOO. This blog will be left up, BUT it will be discontinued. I’ll now be writing on esvienne.com

so once again- (shameless plug)

ESVIENNE.COM

click to enter.

Why so serious?

Posted by: svnbelle on: July 21, 2008

So first off, I would like to say- GO SEE DARK KNIGHT. IMMEDIATELY. Preferably in an i-max movie theater if you have one near by. This was the most amazing movie I think I’ve seen in a long time. It was sold out in i-max for three days/nights in a row. We finally stole tickets to the 1:30 am showing on sunday night/monday morning. I had to plug my ears and cover my eyes the whole weekend because everybody and their mother was talking about it. Definitely worth the $15.00 in i-max. Go see. Now.

Both Christian Bale and Heath Ledger put out astonishing performances. I’m a little bias towards Joker however.

For those who haven’t heard (or live under an extremely large rock that covers most of the world) Heath Ledger died in January of a prescription drug overdose. This was his last movie, along with some other one that was in production. I’m not really sure what it was called and I’m really too lazy to look it up.

Don’t get me wrong, Jack Nicholson delivered a pretty good Joker, but Heath just took it to a completely new and sinister level. Now, I know acting takes talent… and alot of it to get on the big screen. But there are some actors who take on a role, and when the movie premieres, you don’t even realize who the actor is anymore. You can’t see a speck or a trace of the “actor” in the character. You look into the character’s eyes and see somebody different. Heath Ledger delivered this kind of performance. He has never played a role like this before, and when I first heard that he was taking it, I was a little skeptical. He was a great actor, but I wasn’t sure he had the personality to throw himself into Joker without being able to see past it.

Boy was I wrong.

He stole the whole entire show. Who is batman anyway!? When you watch Joker you get mesmerized. The maniacal haunting laugh, the lick lipping, the voice… the utter creepiness. Seriously. I haven’t been this enamored of a character in a long time. It was just pure perfection. Christian Bale gave an awesome performance too, but it wasn’t something I immediately talked about after the movie. All I did was gush about heath ledger’s role. Batman was a safe role, there wasn’t much to consume you.

Acting is all about putting yourself into the role, so much that there’s no seperation between the two. He delivered his performance absolutely beautifully, and even though he’s no longer alive, this was the perfect final performance to remember him by.

As for the movie in its entirety- IT ROCKED! Seriously. I could watch it again and again. There really isn’t anything I would change about it. I was pretty much in a constant state of awe throughout it all. I’m really skeptical usually too, but I’ve been waiting for this damn movie since the day I heard it was coming out. Kudos, dark knight, you made my year.

We’re watching surfing on tv. I’ve been dying to try a water sport (since I live by the water now and probably won’t ever again if we move). AHHHHHHH. I need outdoorsy stuff to keep me sane. I’m going crazy in this apartment!

A little photojournalism of my current adventures

Posted by: svnbelle on: July 19, 2008

My dad is in the hospital- to start out- so excuse me for not writing lately. I haven’t particularly been in the mood because I’m worried about him. If everyone could wish the best for him then that would be awesome.

I did want to write a little something though. I went out trail riding with Julie, her husband and some of her friends the other day. I did this with a sprained ankle mind you, because I’m dumb and don’t understand what the word “rest” means. Lol. The trail ride was fun… god the florida heat is so humid. Sickly humid. I ate and drank lots of water before I went but I was literally dying by the time we were done. Not to mention Fancy worked herself up into a sweat about an hour in. She was being a tad bit bratty though.

It was alot of fun because I haven’t went trail riding in forever, and it’s hard to find people who trail ride without riding western, because I don’t like western all that much. There were a few awfully cute turtles along the way, alone with some weird looking bugs that had 5 inch long wings and thoraxes. Extremely scary. Aside from that, and the heat trying to kill me, it was extremely pleasant.

For the 4th of July we had some friends from Miami stay with us. It was really fun. We spent the weekend relaxing, hanging out and celebrating. We went down to city walk and wandered to the Hard Rock Cafe to see the fireworks. They were beaaaautiful.. yet short, because we failed to get there on time. We went on a mission/adventure for fireworks, and we even had our own (Which chris proceeded to abruptly light and toss out the car window at any given time) that we were dying to play with. After toiling through the busy and jam packed drive-in parking garage (not that there’s any other way to get into a parking garage except driving) we just got the the little river thing in time to see about 5 minutes of fireworks. The journey and the dinner beforehand were fun, so I guess that’s all that matters.

Then we met some people who were visiting from Ireland. They were fun to drink and hang out with until the girl decided to book it and be a weirdo, leaving her boyfriend behind. Therefore he took off after her, and we never got a chance to get their numbers for the glorious beach/surfing trip we attempted to plan the next morning. Oh well. After we got home, we proceeded to jump the gate to the pool, where I sprained my ankle. Funny though, I didn’t feel the effects until a week later… and it took that long to swell. It’s better now though.

And on another note, my cute little subjects, the ducks, were shot again. This time I managed to get the babies as grown ups. If you saw my last set of pictures, there were some little itty bitty cute and fluffy ducklings following their mom. Now they’re grown up and ADORABLE! All the pictures are in my flickr, and I was kind of too lazy to edit any of them except three… but here’s a taste of them.

Click the one below, it’s really big and pretty but I have a feeling wordpress is gonna chop off the side of it. If you click it (or any of the pictures for that matter) they’ll open in a new window.

ANNNND in this one below, it looked like one duck is attempting to kill the other via beak, but they’re really just pruning eachother.

aaand I’ll throw in one more. LOOK! CUTENESS PADDLING IN THE WATER!

Enjoy :) and wish the best for my dad please.

I’m still alive!

Posted by: svnbelle on: July 16, 2008

So I’ve totally bailed out on the whole writing thing for the past week or two. Not really for any reason- I still intend on procuring up a wonderful entry, it’s just that between having my wisdom teeth out, the boyfriend, our friends from miami, riding and working out, and not to mention all my summer class work, my brain has kind of been on hiatus from any kind of free thinking.

I’m also working on forming my own website so I can integrate my blog and photography and other fantastic items on there, but I don’t like what I originally did (and wordpress is amazingly annoying to get on there, so I may have to make a new one rather than integrate all this onto there) so I have to redesign everything. I bought my domain name and have a host, so… if I build it, it will come :)

I just wanted to let everyone who reads this know that I haven’t abandoned it. My dad is awesome and ordered me new scientist magazine (which shockingly comes every week and has years and years of online archive goodness to scroll through) which is another reason I haven’t written. I’m searching for something to jump out to write about, but my mind is just really cloudy right now.

I *might* have good news soon. I’ll let you in on it if I get it :)

new iPhone … again

Posted by: svnbelle on: July 11, 2008

boy did we have quite the fiasco today. hours of waiting in line, and we both ended up coming out with white 16gb ones, instead of black 8gb ones. It may sound not hectic… but believe me.. it WAS. We left the house at 5 am and I have not slept a wink… so I certainly don’t feel like getting into it, but I shall in an upcoming post.

Oh yeah, Apple apparently didn’t prepare for the flood of actvations through I-tunes so now almost nobody can activate and use their new phones till the error is fixed. WOOHOO. 300 dollars later…

Ickyness.

Posted by: svnbelle on: July 1, 2008

I’ve finally (almost) recovered from my wisdom teeth fiasco. I’ve stopped taking the highly coveted oxycodone, and resorted to asprin. I hate the feeling after you’ve been sitting around for a few days. You know, where you feel like a pile of mush; physically and mentally drained.

It always takes a toll on me when I get stuck in the apartment or unable to leave due to being sedated and drooling on myself. I can’t forget the fat cheeks! Those kept me in as well. I’m an overactive and hyper, yet sluggish person. I can’t really explain it. My body is against me half the time; it could be the anemia or the low blood pressure. Yup, that could do it.

So what does one do when you need to be rejuvinated?! Everything that normally makes me feel happy just… isn’t helping me for some reason. This is a severe funk. Really. We had to raid the apartment last night from 2-4 AM because ants have found their way into the apartment. Those pesky things are selfish bastards. We all know I’m an animal lover, but I do NOT like bugs. I’ll tolerate them, but not when they become a cohabitant with us- that’s where I draw the line. They’re so small that they could throw a party in my shoe, why do they have to come into the apartment when they have the whole outside?! We’re college kids- our food isn’t that alluring.

So anyways, I FINALLY shut my eyes at 6 am, when the sun was breaking, and woke up again at 8 am. The exterminator conveniently showed up at 10 am after we pretty much already solved the problem. I had a pretty bad start to the day, and it just snowballed thereafter. My body is sore, and since I haven’t been able to ride or go to the gym this past few days, I’m totally losing all will power to do so. I have, however, consumed massive amounts of ice cream. Yum.

I do have good news though, I’ve finally morphed back into tiny chin Selena. No more fat cheeks! I still ache a little but it’s tolerable. I must admit, it’s nice to have my face back. I was starting to get a deep dark fear that I may be quagmire forever. That wouldn’t be fun. Not at all.

I don’t really have anything else all too interesting to talk about. It’s just late, I’m blah, and inconveniently not sleepy yet. BYE!

Things were taken out of my face =O

Posted by: svnbelle on: June 28, 2008

So… I had my wisdom teeth taken out yesterday. The words “fun” and “extravaganza” definitely do NOT apply here. The beginning itself was a whole fiasco.. it all started like this.

Whenever I go to the doctor, they can never find my veins if they need to give me a shot of some sort. It’s happened multiple times- I have no idea why the thought didn’t strike me that an IV would be equally as hard to place, but it didn’t. I get into the office and there’s two doctors, a younger one and an older one. The younger one ties the elastic around my left arm and starts mumbling about “rolly veins”. Apparently my veins know what’s coming and recoil and escape whenever it’s trying to be punctured. I did not know this. So he proceeds to try to “find” the vein and sticks with with the IV thing. Then he’s like “oh.. whoops… I can’t get it in the vein, let’s try the other one”. So, he proceeds to elastic my other arm… and tries the same thing. It doesn’t work. Same thing happens. So I finally started talking about making sure I don’t die during this surgery. He said “Your boyfriend would be very affected if you died!” and I said ” Well I’d imagine I’d be the most affected out of anyone! I’d be dead!”

The older doctor comes in and tries to put the IV into my left wrist this time. Nope. No can do. Apparently my body rejects every kind of needle. It was trying NOT to go in, as hard as I was cringing. So by this point I was like “Okay, if I cry..seriously DON’T judge”. The doctor finally get the needle in my right arm, puts the oxygen on, and talks until I pass out.

So from this point on I don’t remember anything. Shane told me some pretty hilarious stuff actually. He said I kept poking him and whispering very loudly to “tell him about the shots.” Lol. Okay- quick rewind. So before the surgery I had to take out my tongue ring. I kept telling them not to forget to give it back to me, or to give it to shane. So- fast foward- apparently me getting my tongue ring back at the end became this whole situation. I kept insisting on getting it back, and finally they gave in.

According to shane, I somehow managed to get to the bathroom on my own (with him in tow) and screw my tongue ring back in… highly sedated. Apparently I know how to take care of myself even when I’m drugged on tons of morphine (or whatever goodness was flowing intravenously through my body).

We get back to the apartment and I managed to fly up the stairs myself and plop down on the couch. Shane, being the awesome boyfriend he was, went to CVS to get me ice packs (there’s that pirate speak again.. yarrr matey where’s my booty?!) and my codeine… as well as chicken soup. I hopped online at SOME point in time and attempted to IM Jenna (looking back now, that clearly didn’t work out as well as I thought. There was a whole bunch of gibberish there). I then proceeded to pass out for a good two hours.

I wake up, and I look like a chipmunk who was smuggling acorns. Perhaps golf balls, or small children. I’m totally for serious here. I could probably get stuck trying to walk through a door way, my cheeks are so big. I’ve now gotten a glimpse of what I would look like if I was 100 pounds heavier. I’m a total square head. My head… looks like  a cylinder block. I also have this weird crick in my neck, I think I slept funny.

Did I mention that codeine is my sworn enemy? Oh yes. While some people take it for the sheer pleasure and enjoyment of being completely retarded, I do not. Whenever that pill enters my body I immediately gag. It knows what’s coming. My body apparently rebels anything and everything, and I have no idea about it until it happens. They gave me “oxycodone” instead of “hydrocodone”. Apparently the Oxy is 1.5 X stronger (and about twice the strength of morphine).. and doesn’t make you as sick. But I still felt nauseous. For a good while I couldn’t even get off the couch. It did feel pretty good though once I got over the whole “Trying to puke this medicine out” phase. The website was talking about how it was highly addicting. I, for one, am glad that I don’t fall into the category that would get addicted to it. It makes me feel so gross (albeit, it does get rid of the pain). I HATE sedatives/narcotics. I don’t like not being aware of what’s going on around me. I don’t like being out of mind. That’s why I don’t really enjoy drinking that much. I like being 100% totally with myself. I prefer caffeine.

I’ve been living on a diet of chicken soup, ice cream, and mashed potatoes. I like the ice cream bit… you can never have too much. I’m begining to think that shane is psychic… seriously. There’s been multiple instances before where I’ll be hanging out with somebody, or in the shower, and thinking how much I want a redbull or a coffee. The next thing I know he’s walking in the door with one. Truly awesome. I want some of what he’s got. LOL. Like yesterday, I was just popping chicken soup into the microwave, when he walked in the door early from school, sporting a lovely big panera bag filled with soup goodness. He rocks at life.

I don’t like being crippled inside like this. I go…crazy. I’m totally not kidding. I’m not the type of person who can sit in an apartment all day- let alone two. Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow. We’re staking out the bedroom window right now because earlier today I heard some stupid hooker who moved in next door screaming and swearing at somebody (I won’t repeat what she said. Hi dad!). She was making a scene and being really annoying. Later on today we then heard a guy screaming “blah blah blah SLUT” up the stairs. I’m assuming it was whoever she was yelling at earlier. So the cops came to their apartment, and now they are totally hiding in the bushes by her car to make sure he doesn’t come back.

Real life drama. Yum.

Anyway, I’m going to go unwillingly take more codiene and try not to die.

This blog obviously is not witty at all, and probably really boring.. keep in mind- I haven’t left the apartment since yesterday and taken alot of pain medicine. My brain is all jumbly and not working and stuff.

Judge if you will =D

good night.

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