Found

OMG! YES! Soooooooooo I totally found my Birthmom. It is for sure her. I gave in and friend requested her and then the next night I gave in and actually messaged her. Then I waited...

and waited.....

and waited....

and waited....

and waited....

AND THENNN!
Last night as I was walking out of class, I was waiting for Nelson to text me back and I saw I had a facebook message! So I was like omg omg omg omg OPEN! but nooooooooooo I had to lose my internet connection in the stupid parking garage. So I'm like omg get in car and get out of here so I can read it!!! As soon as I got out of the parking garage I hit the refresh button and of course it took forever to load but then I saw it! She messaged me back! So I started to read it but then the light turned GREEN! So I had to stop....

Eventually over the course of multiple red lights I was able to read the whole thing....and this is what she said!!



Patty Strickler Reisz November 11 at 5:57pm Report
Alana, It is so good to hear from you! Looking at your birthday, name, geographic location and the red hair, I think i am your Birthmom!

I am definitely open to communicating with you. I'd love to be able to answer your questions and also hear about your life so far! My home email is (you don't get to know this) and our home phone is (cant know this either =P).

Ironically, I just got back to Cincinnati after several days in Grand Rapids on business. However, I just picked this message up today.

I really look forward to hearing from you,
Patty



Isn't that like totally awesome?!?!? I think so. Although my Mom sounded like she was fine with it all but last night my Dad told me that she really wasn't and she feels like she has competition now. So now I feel like totally bad about that and I have to talk to her about it. There is no way she has to worry about anything. I mean...my Mom is the one that raised me and taught me everything I know and she will be my only mother that I will ever have. I just want to talk to Patty because I am hoping to find out more about myself in doing so. She is the one who passed on her genes to me and could help me figure out why I am the way I am. Plus I have always been curious about meeting her. It's like having another sister or Aunt or something. But no one could ever replace my Mom. She is the best! And I love her dearly!

I have no idea where to start with all my questions and what to even say back to her! I never thought this would be happening but it is! I'm excited! So we shall see.

Soooo yea my week has been pretty dull....except for Brad getting kinect!! That is freaking badass and he needs to get more games for it! My arms are still sore from it...and I have bruises on my hand from hitting his ceiling....lol. It was a grand time and I highly suggest that people try it out.

I want my TIGER!

Ummmmmm I totally hit my head extremely hard on my car this morning...it hurt...bad.

I also feel really guilty cause I skipped class this morning....and lied to my Mom about it. And now I feel bad. But I hate that class and I had to leave it early anyway for an appointment with a new psychiatrist and I didn't want to listen to the prof lecture for that whole time and not understand a word of it. *sigh* Shame on me. First and last time it will happen with this class! I promise!!

Totally hanging out with Matt Nelson today and watching "Scott Pilgrim VS. the world" and I am excited cause it was a good movie and I haven't seen that kid in a while. Kelsey broke up with him again...poor thing. Although he got to go see Dane Cook last night so now I don't feel that bad. I'm super jealous.

OHHHH! I have a fun fact of the day!!!! Well if there are guys reading this then I think you will be more disgusted by it then anything. But I thought it was very interesting and it was something I didn't know!
Soooooooo, I was at the zoo on Wednesday and I was working with Andy and we were checking on the Baboons and Andy was like "Yea she must be on her period, yesterday she snapped at me when I brought them in" I totally thought she just meant a figure of speech but then she went on to say, "Yea and then I saw some blood on in the cage so she must be on it" And I was like "wait...baboons get periods? Really?" And she was like " Oh yea, Chimps do too, there cycle is monthly like ours but the baboons is all messed up" Sooo yea like I had no idea that some primates got periods and also got moody when they were on them!! That is crazyy. You learn something new every day!
So wasn't that just an awesome fun fact! I bet you guys liked that one haha.

So yea everything has been going fairly well. I'm still a little down about some things and am starting to think I was right. Even though I keep waiting and hoping I was wrong...it doesn't seem to be looking that way. I miss people. Not gonna lie. It gets pretty lonely after a while

MY GOSH THE PHONE WON"T SHUT UP!
....ughhh...apparently the st.marys is closing down the day of my appointment so I had to re-schedule it....again.

Anyway so yeaaa.....

I signed up for classes next semester! Should be interesting... I'm taking animal biology, econ, ummmmmm....ohh writing anddddd ohh psych! I'm hoping to see if I can get my ap psych credit to transfer so then I don't have to take the basic psych and I can drop econ and take abnormal psych or child psych instead...I can't take those now cause you need the basic psych as a pre-rec first which is lameeeee. Should be an interesting schedule and I will have like no free time. I managed to keep fridays free as a day for appointments and to do whatever I need to do cause the rest on my week is going to be crazy. I had to sign up for 12 credits to make sure I could be on my parents health insurance but I'm probably going to drop one or two classes cause there is no way I could handle four classes.

It seems like a lot of people are coming to C.C. this semester...well I know of three but that seems like a lot to me. Mainly cause I don't actually know too many people who go there, let alone actually run into anyone. Then again, I just go to class and leave without hanging around. I hope next semester goes better than this one...I'm not doing as well as I want to be doing. Well I'm doing fine in math...just not history. I think it will...they're more of the classes that I actually enjoy so that will help.

Okay yea this is beginning to be a long blog...Soooooo I'm going to end it here!

Byeee

Lana-Lou