AshkeVenus' JournalTuesday, August 25, 20097:19PM - quick fill inWell.... hm.... been a while hm? I now have the net and can go on it whenever and that's kewl! I live in a new place with my friend Jessie and her mom and their two zaney dogs Maxine and Baby... Erica and I broke up but are trying to be friends even though it's hard for numerous reasons... she's still the closest person i know (close as in knows me close) and i wouldn't trade her or anything involving her for anything... she helped me grow up.... I quit my stupid aggrivating job at Walmart after they set me up to fire me..... I am talking with my Mom and my Dad (wow that's kinda funny huh?) and i've gotten in touch with more of my family. My current cell # is 570-933-5390 so text at anytime (it's easier then calling to simply say Hi and hang up...) and i'm usually on aim now too. There really isn't much else to say so.... tootles!!! Current mood: Friday, May 2, 20084:03PM - Erica Marie Wertman: The rest of my life started 2 years ago...*shamelessly pasted from my myspace...deal with it* I know that she knows all my thoughts and intentions for her and us, but i also know that people like to hear what their significant other feels about them... and I feel like i've found the only person in the world who is meant to be with me for the rest of my life. i have found the person who doesn't make me feel like i'm always alone; i have found the person who can be gone for 6 hours and i can greet them at the door with a huge smile and hug and kiss and make it seem like it's been forever since they've been home; i have found the person who i want to raise a family with, who i want to grow old (and more insane) with, and whom i would love to lay next to in our home and die peacefully beside when all the paths of life have been traveled...save the last. In all of my experiences in this world, and all of my mistakes and bad choices, i have found the one choice that i never regretted making: giving a very nervous woman a simple "yes" that become the start of the rest of my life... I found the first letter she ever wrote me in my email today; it was for our one month anniversary... i can't get it to past onto here, but suffice it to say that as i reread what she had written to me, i cried my eyes out. It lead me to type this blog, in fact, and it made me realize just how lucky i am to have her in my life, to have her as the best part of my life. I am more then lucky, I am beyond blessed... i have her in my life and i have her for the rest of my life and i just don't know what to do with myself!!! ::laughs happily:: Erica Marie Wertman: The rest of my life started 2 years ago when i said "the answer to your question is yes" and watched you stumble down the halls of Butz backwards... there have been times of great joy and times of great pain and sorrow... there have been ups and downs and mistakes and forgivenesses... all in all, i'm very glad and proud that i said yes, because it led me to life i have, now, with you and I am so thankful and happy that you are my partner, my lover, my soul mate, my best friend... I love you and cherish you and appreciate you more then any words in any language could ever come close to describing... if by my living or dying i could make any and all things right for you, then so be it... if i could make you happy by loving you, then it is done. I have never loved anyone as i love you, and i tell you this in truth and with my heart open and resting in your hands: i love you. i love who you are, what you do, how you feel, what you think. i love when you laugh or when you cry, i love your spirit when you fight with me and i love your soul when you can put your head on my shoulder and cry; i love you when you can curl up next to me and fall asleep just holding me, and i love, most of all, that i can still see how much you love me when i look into your eyes. Thank you for being you and thank you for loving me as much and as long as you have. i hope that in the years and life to come, i can give back to you all that you have given to me... Happy 2 Year Anniversary Current mood: Current music: my typing Friday, December 7, 20077:51AM - News, news, and oh, yes...more newsSo, I'm now a commuter at CCC, I'll graduate in January (finally), my other half took a leave of abscence to recoup...life is interesting at the moment. I have been staying with her and her mom since the end of October, I have been watching her adorable niece and nephew, and i've been searching for a job/apartment. Well, we found an apartment, but i have yet to find the job type thing...which upsets me, but i can't work where i'm at since i'm going to be moving (can you imagine me asking for a job where i get to say i can only work for 1.5 months due to moving!?).... Current mood: Friday, July 6, 20072:03PM - humble thanks and such...So, I'm just sitting in my room now (which is now in steinbright because this school is totally cracked) and a couple of thoughts have been in my head lately...does anyone know why life likes to always throw punches at you when you have finally recovered from the last blow? Last week I got a call from my mom...she had to go to the hospital for emergency blood work because she had terrible vertigo and she was sick and dizzy. Needless to say, I was damn worried because my mom has Aplastic Anemia, a border-line Lukemic blood disorder. She was diagnosed with this disorder when she was pregnant with me, and went through her first bone-marrow biopsy alone at 7.5 months pregnant (my dad had been deployed). Over the years, her blood counts have been monitored with quarterly or six-month readings, but since I moved to college, and because she's moved around so much, she hasn't had counts done in a few years. She also has a hyperthyroid, which requires medication of which she does not have. The last week has been filled with my wondering if my mother would be ok, if I would need to fly home (if her counts drop low enough or something is really wrong, my brother and I were the only relatives that could match her in the event of her needing a bone-marrow transplant, now I'm the only one), if I'd end up having to see my mom in a hospital, and it made me extremely greatful for the things that are in my life. I even found a random picture of my dad online; a current random picture...it was weird seeing him...he gained weight...anyway... My point is that I am extremly lucky in the fact that my mom is still alive for me today; i'm lucky that I had a brother for as long as i did, who loved me and who protected me and who cared for me in the way only a brother can; for having a dad who sacrificed and loved me a great deal (even though he chose another woman over my mom and that woman's children over me) when he was still in my life; for having an amazing fiance who makes me realize everyday that I have an extradorinarily blessed life right now. We're getting a car together...we'll be getting an apartment together...we'll be spending our lives together, and I can't, for the life of me, understand why I have ended up so lucky.
Current mood: Current music: chrno crusade soundtrack Sunday, March 4, 200712:24AM - Hospital visits, feeling better, and getting something off my chest...So, I just got back from the hospital with Eric. He has the flu, feels like shit, and isn't really doing too well. He'll be resting though, thankfully, because it's spring break (and because I'm going to baby him ::smiles::). This whole day was bad, full of my crying and me worrying about him. And mostly because this morning, due to my inability to sleep while wired from a trip to the gym AND coffee...I wrote a letter. That dealt with my feelings about a particular person. Heather Timberman. And this is what I had to say: Current mood: Current music: My husband's breathing Saturday, March 3, 20073:41AM - Just something very dear to me...This song makes me cry everytime I hear it....I had to post the lyrics to get it out of my head =-p ~And So It Goes-Billy Joel~ Current mood: Current music: BIlly Joel's And So It Goes...for the 30th time... Monday, February 26, 200712:28PM - 10 MONTHS!!!* I shamelessly copied this from my Myspace because I can't retype it again...not at all::smiles::* So many times I've wondered how I've survived all the crap that has happened to me in last few months and I realized that it was all because of one person: Eric. His love and support (even when I'm being the devil *Special Note* To those who said we wouldn't make it this long, or tried their best to wiggle their way in, I give you the single finger salute and tell you all to grow the hell up. Every relationship is different, every one has its pitfalls and hardships. Just because some fail doesn't mean that others will. Just because you people are miserable doesn't give you the right to dictate who can be happy and who can't. In my opinion, you are the people that deserve to be pitied for your inability to be caring, understanding and mature human beings. You are the people who deserve what you got because you were incapable of keeping something together. Some things are just not meant to be, and some things ARE. This is one of those things that IS meant to be. So, in the future, kindly keep your relationships out of mine, and keep your opinions to yourself, unless you think that by some miracle, you can help better my relationship. However, I highly doubt the later option, so if it is at all possible, just keep silent on the subject. Current mood: Current music: random talking Friday, December 8, 20061:24PM - A very large SCREW YOU...*Shamelessly copied from my Myspace...deal with it....=P Current mood: Current music: the sound of a keyboard Friday, November 10, 20063:59PM - My AngelShameless pasting from my MySpace...deal with it!! So....I have come to the conclusion that although I have my share of differences with God or whomever it is that likes to throw boulders into my path, they have given my a very, Very, VERY special and beautiful Angel as the love of my life. I can't even begin to explain how amazing it is to know that I have someone who, for the rest of my life, will see fit to love me no matter what for the rest of our lives and longer. I have found someone who has suffered so much because of me and my inability to cope, to talk about what I'm feeling, to let anyone in completely....they have suffered and gotten into every single crevice of my being. Every crack in my soul and heart, every part of me that always felt like it was hiding in shadow....now there is a sense of wholeness and healing...of being put back together by the most gentle of hands and hearts. I have an Angel, a godsend, a saving grace that always seems to be there to catch me...to grab my hand at the last possible moment and pull me back to reality...to pull me back to myself and to them...they always save me. I don't know how to thank someone who can withstand all the hell I've put them through...I don't know how to even begin to put thoughts or words together to express what it's like to feel this unworldly feeling of being unconditionally loved by someone so amazing...I don't know how to pay you back for saving me over and over again....but I'll spend the rest of my life trying to do that. You've taken the broken pieces that have thus far made me up, and you have somehow put them back together into some semblence of a person...you've healed the cracks and filled the crevices...You have Saved me....and I can't thank you enough for that. And...just for anyone out there who thinks that they can't find happieness or love with just one person....that just one person can't change your life or make you feel like the most important person in the world...go to hell. You have no idea what love can do for you....unless of course you think it's merely fun and games, hearts and roses....it's hard, tough, painful and eye-opening. It can be the clearest truth you'll ever know. But for those who don't respect it enough or haven't the strength or will power to be true to love, you don't deserve it. I strongly believe that everyone deserves love and happieness...but if you are foolish enough to scounder it or toss it to the side because you can't handle it or because you are to afraid to be alone....you all deserve what you get. As harsh as that sounds, love is not something that you fuck around with....you cherish it and you keep it safe from all harm....why let something so precious and perfect become something so frail and tarnished that you have no clue what the hell it is??? It's not right and it's not fair....if that's what happens to love when you have it, you seriously don't deserve it because you don't know how to take care of it...... Current mood: Current music: people talking... Monday, October 23, 200611:39AM - "When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." I'm in Love and ENGAGED!!!*This is taken straight from my MySpace blog...I was too lazy to try and retype it ::smiles weakly::* A psychic was there...Eric got a reading done...got smacked on the arm! The whole back story is that Tina (the psychic) came to CCC to sell some things (I got a mask, Eric got a rainstick), and Eric asked about readings; general questions on what can or can't be asked, what can be told, etc. Tina said she could be as specific or as non-specific as you wanted; if you didn't want to know something she wouldn't tell you, but if it seemed really important or like it was a repetative idea, then she would say something. She told Eric that if he was being stupid about our relationship (worrying for no reason), she would smack him. Hence the smack on the arm! I laughed and threw my hair clip at Eric...punk! ~Anyway~ Life is Great. Got my mom's new cell phone number...apparently my godfather with whom we had our plan failed to pay his bill for the past 4 months...which is a problem since we are extra lines under him...so they shut off our phones. I'll get a new cell on Tuesday or Wednesday, so yay for me!! Although...my other half and I got a plan together ::whispers this and makes a shooshing motion:: Just kidding!! We really did get a plan...and it's a cute phone...our first joint...action?? ::raises an eyebrow:: Whatever! We have a plan together, end of story! A last note to all who didn't believe we were engaged, thought we wouldn't make it this far or felt that they could fit nicely in between us: go crawl back to the little hole you came from. ::smiles sweetly:: What our relationship is or isn't does not concern you in any way, so please refrain from feeling it necessary to make your opinions matter. I am in love . I am completely consumed by it and I am happier then I have ever thought possible. It is such a wonderful and miraculous thing to be in love, and to be loved by someone as amazing as Eric. I'm the luckiest person in the entire world, and I thank what ever powers are out there for bringing this utterly beautiful person into my life. My friend Vanessa was so excited she cried...she also said "There's hope!" before giving me another hug. She is right; everyone can find love and happieness, you just have to give it time and have a glimmer of hope inside of you. You can't look for love, because you won't find it. You have to let it come to you and you have to let it find you. For those of you out there searching or feeling helples, hang in there!! It'll happen when you least expect it, and it will be the most amazing thing in the world!! And again to those who feel it necessary to make their opinions and trivial thoughts seem important...knock it off . ::shakes head:: Get a grip on reality and realize that there are simply things that do not concern you nor need your input whatsoever. Keep whatever thoughts and comments are floating in your head to yourself because you'll only cause yourself trouble in the end .So I leave a quote or two from Shakespeare to sum up some of my thoughts right now...I Love You Eric!!! Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.(Sonnet 88) Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (Sonnet 116) Current mood: Current music: Sara Evans-Born To Fly=Saints and Angels Friday, October 13, 20061:13PM - General mussings while being illSo I'm mega sick. Yeppers, definately sick...as in chest pains, coughing, can't breath, yada yada yada...but Eric(a) is sick too. ::laughs...coughs:: Yeah, both of us are sick, fun times, no? ::smiles weakly:: We sound wonderful, we feel terrible, but we are, for some strange reason, still planning on going to the True Colors Dance Saturday night. ::ponders:: Hopefully we feel somewhat up for it...::laughs weakly:: ~Anyway~ Current mood: Current music: The Fray-Over My Head (Cable Car) Sunday, July 16, 20068:28PM - summer is almost overWell, I know i've been not so good with updating, but hey, sue me! ::laughs:: Life's been crazy and emotional for me lately...making big decisions about my sick puppy Shadow, telling my mom i'm leaving earlier then planned, and getting uber, UBER excited at being back in EricA's arms sooner then expected....life is just interesting to say the least ::chuckles:: But, I really can't complain though...life continues on and no matter the struggles or troubles, the one constant is that I have someone who loves me no matter what. I'm still amazed by that, but what can i say...never really thought i'd find one person in all the world who can know me and love me so well and so much. It's amazing!!! Truly amazing...and it's a blessing. They say that home is where the heart is...in that case, I can't wait to get home!!!! Love You EricA!!!! Current mood: Current music: Chrno Crusade Soundtrack Sunday, June 4, 20061:26AM - Lots to tellWell, I am no longer with the boy (asshole, prick, etc...he should die)::hisses and growls::. YAYS!!::jumps up and down in room:: I am happily engaged to a rather remarkable person named Erica, who without a doubt, knows me better then anyone else in the world. So many of the things that each of us likes we find in the other, and we still surprise each other everyday. I love her more and more every moment I get to talk with her (summering in Florida bites hardcore right now). School doesn't start again until the end of August (heeheehee, I turn 21 on the 5th!) so we are trying (in vain it seems) to get a visit together. Stupid airlines....gggrrrr. ~Anyway~ I am extremely happy now, and even though I'm 1,000+ miles away from her, she's always on my mind. She's awesome and wonderful and...just so many things that I can't even put into words. I Love her more then anything, more then anyone (she up there with mom, and you know how close my mom and I are), and more then myself. She doesn't know it (I don't think), but she's got all of me, everything I am or was or will be, for however long she wants me...which I am certain is forever because we're engaged...::BEAMS:: Just want to add a final thing before I wander off....I LOVE YOU ERICA MARIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::beams:: Current mood: Current music: Allison Krause: When You Say Nothing At All Thursday, March 2, 200612:19AM - Spring Break!!!Yay!!! So, my Spring Break is almost here!!! ::does happy dance:: I can't wait until I can be back home with my mom and my luv and my puppies!!!! But....I have too much shit to do and not enough time to do it.....gggrrrr!!! ~Anyway~ I just watched Project Runway, and can I say that Daniel V. owns a tiny portion of my soul!! He is so amusing it's not even funny, and he has such amazing talent....why was Tim being such a jerk to him, anyway?! *sigh* I also found some interesting people I haven't talked to in years (you know who you are). Not sure what's going to happen with that.....what will be will be ::shrugs:: Anywho, gots to go and try to attain that thing called 'restful' sleep...like that'll happen!!! I'm in college and I'm supposed to sleep.....so not something that happens on a regular basis!! Ja ne!!! ::scampers away:: Current mood: Current music: "Sound Effects And Overdramatics"-The Used: In Love And Deat Thursday, October 20, 20054:27PM - Why me?So I called my mom this morning to find out why she wasn't returning my phone calls....turns out that my boyfriend was in the hospital with head trauma cause he was jumped at work. He's on pain killers and doesn't really remember much that happened, but he'll be ok. I'm just upset that I can't be there to help him...not that I would do much good. *sighs* Current mood: Tuesday, October 18, 200510:55AM - WOOHOO!!Wow, i finally joined this site. Only took me a few years to get around to it. Oh well. At least i did it. Not planning on keeping tabs on it everyday , but will try to make an entry at least once or twice a week!! =P Current mood: |

So much has happened to me in my life that i often wondered when I would finally find good, solid ground underneath me. i never thought that I would find such rare and amazing friends like Kris, Miranda, Katie, Summer, even you Dani. I have some pretty awesome friends here at school [Amanda, my Hugger, Uruki,Precious,Yunari, Grace, Nadine, and my Lil, Karen, Allie, Ness (who's coming back)], but those of you who've known me for years and years *stop rolling your eyes Dani* have stuck with me for what seems like forever...time goes on, and it keeps on going, but we stay together...we loose touch, we reappear on the face of the earth, but we never forget. You guys are the ones who I could always look to when I needed someone; you've always been around for me. I just wanted to tell you all that I love you and thank you for being there for me, for whatever the reason. Just...thank you, all of you
And now, the only person I am thinking of is you, Erica. You are the love of my life, my soulmate, my other and (often times) my better half. You keep me sane and safe and strong when everything else is falling apart. We've had our ups and downs (who doesn't?!), but through it all, I have loved you, and I love you more and more each day. You have no idea how much you mean to me, how important you are to me...seeing you laugh, seeing you smile, seeing you....and days when i wish the world would just end righ then and there, you are what keeps me going. You make my life so much more then it was, and i don't think you realize it...to be totally evil, i'm stealing this from your LJ:
Truth be told: She will never know how much i love her, she has no idea what i would do for her, she does not know that she is my universe, she will never know i would kill for her, she has no idea i would die for her, she does not know she takes my breath away, she will never understand what she does to me, she has no idea she still makes me nervous, she does not know how much i miss her when she's gone. Truth be told: She doesn't know any of this...but i will spend the rest of my life making it perfectly clear, and letting her know that i will never love anyone else, and no one will ever love her like i do
Now that i'm crying, all i can finish with is that i love you erica, more then you know, and i'm so damn lucky and happy to have you. You're the reason things make sense, and you're the reason that i know that i can survive anything; i survived so much already, and it lead me to you...i can survive much more if it means that you'll be there with me, through it all. Thank you for loving me and being with me. Thank you for understanding me and knowing me. i don't know how to repay you or show you or tell you what it is exactly that you mean to me, or what it is exactly that you do to me...but gods above and below, i will find a way to let you know, for the rest of my life, i'll show you everyday. I love you...so much.
10 MONTHS!!! Heeheehee!! 10 months and I'm still as head-over-heels in love as I was when we first started. Well, more in love, if that makes any sense!
And in the middle of the night, when you wake up just to make sure that he is sleeping alright, that he has some of the blanket, that he isn't huggling your pillow (which happens now and again
), you know. Most especially you know when the greatest thought you have is about him... about the next time that you'll see him and you count down the minutes...about how happy you'll be when all you have to do is drop everything, forget the world and just be in his arms, ignoring all else but eachother. Those are the times when I realize how blessed I am, and I send up a silent prayer to whomever is listening thanking them for giving to me such an amazing and truly wonderful person to love.
or an all-out psycho
) are what sustained me when nothing else did. He is the reason that I have survived so much (and why others have also survived ::laughs evily::
), and he is the reason that I continue to thrive. Others have helped a little at times, but he is the one that I know, without a doubt, that I can always count on to make everything ok, or to my strength when I need it. Thank you so much for being yourself and for loving me. We may argue and growl at each other on occasion (
), and we may not always have the same view of things, but you love me anyway, and I Love You. I will always love you, and you will always have my heart. 
Do you have some sort of defect that you HAVE to find a way to irritate me?! Is it in some sort of contract that you signed when you popped out of your hole in the ground, or is it a special goal of yours to ultimately be an asshole?!?!
I can't even begin to fathom how all of you can be so damn obnoxious, selfish, self-absorbed and loathsome all at once!!! Get Over Yourselves!!! You aren't the only ones who exsist in this world!!! And you aren't the only ones who matter either! Grow up and realize that people have lives that don't revolve around you!! TTTHHHHHHBBBBBB!!!!!!!!<---me blowing an angry raseberry at all of you
I cried while it happened...I cried after it happened...heck, I cried when I said yes. I couldn't talk for what seemed like a minute...I was so shocked I just threw myself at Eric and nearly toppled us both over. We hugged, we kissed...we spent the entire weekend together....it was a great weekend!!
A psychic was there...Eric got a reading done...got smacked on the arm! The whole back story is that Tina (the psychic) came to CCC to sell some things (I got a mask, Eric got a rainstick), and Eric asked about readings; general questions on what can or can't be asked, what can be told, etc. Tina said she could be as specific or as non-specific as you wanted; if you didn't want to know something she wouldn't tell you, but if it seemed really important or like it was a repetative idea, then she would say something. She told Eric that if he was being stupid about our relationship (worrying for no reason), she would smack him. Hence the smack on the arm! I laughed and threw my hair clip at Eric...punk!
A last note to all who didn't believe we were engaged, thought we wouldn't make it this far or felt that they could fit nicely in between us: go crawl back to the little hole you came from. ::smiles sweetly:: What our relationship is or isn't does not concern you in any way, so please refrain from feeling it necessary to make your opinions matter. I am in love
. ::shakes head:: Get a grip on reality and realize that there are simply things that do not concern you nor need your input whatsoever. Keep whatever thoughts and comments are floating in your head to yourself because you'll only cause yourself trouble in the end