OK... I am OK!!! No bad traces of tuberculosis were found on me!!!!!!!! I still have to be careful, but there is no danger of spreading it around or getting sick myself. I could not be happier!!! I have just arrived back in Dallas from my mini-trip to San Antonio (Texas), Newport Beach and Orange Country (California). I had lots of fun!!!!!!! The only bad thing  was that I dropped my camera and it broke. I need to buy a new one now. I went to do some shopping at the Famous Rodeo Drive. I bought two hand bags and a pair of shoes. This little shopping spree got my parents very MAD because I spent an unmentionable amount of dollars :-P Well...I could never be happier... I LOVE LIFE (once again)!!!!!! :-P

I have taken a vacation from the internet in the past week . Many things happened to me and some of them are not very exciting.  Well everything began with my appointment in the hospital I will (hopefully) volunteer at. I went to get my physical, a drug test, and a tuberculosis test  (this was on Friday). On Sunday I decided to organize a mini high school reunion with my best friends since Sunday was exactly a year we graduated . We got together at a great restaurant named Chipotles. We had fun together!!! We were in the restaurant for about four hours just talking and talking and talking ......  well, I went back to the hospital to get my tuberculosis test checked and start orientation. Here is where I start freaking out  !!!!! It turns out that I have been infected with the weird tuberculosis bacteria. My TB test was positive!!!! I had done research the day before and I learned that TB was not a nice thing. When I saw the results I started thinking if I was going to die and how long would it be???? I told my parents and they thought I was kidding!!!! I told them that I was serious so they sent me to the family doctor the next day. Again the results were positive and my doctor sent me to get some chest x-rays to see if the freaking bacteria is active and to see my lungs. I went to the hospital to get the x-rays today and it was not fun at all. I went to a private hospital where everyone treats you like if you were royalty. I love the nurses and everything, but I hate the other patients. I had to change clothes for a while. I had to get into one of those white robes hospital patents get in and I had to wear a face mask .  Every patients was looking at me like if I was a weird and extremely sick bug!!! I felt so bad and sicker than I have ever felt. Now I have to wait for the results and if the results are positive................. I will be in a 9 month antibiotic treatment.  I also had no phone or internet service for four days, what the hell!!!!!! The good thing is that I have my phone and internet back!!!!!! Well, lets see if I will die, lol!!

I got the following email from one of my long lost e-pals! I just think it is sweet so I am posting it in both Spanish (original) and English (translated my Moi)

Today while I was watching a great episode of ER I got an idea. I decided to check my vitals (blood sugar and blood pressure). My mom has everything we need for checking blood sugar and pressure since she is developing diabetes and my dad has some blood pressure problems. I took the blood sugar test and my blood sugar level was 211 mm/Hg !!!! My blood pressure was at a normal rate (Thank God). I knew my sugar level was very high, but I blamed it on the bowl of Chocolate Rice Krispies I ate and the two cups of lemonade I drank. I didn't really worry because I knew I consumed A LOT of sugar. Later on I got online and I decided to research the normal blood sugar levels. I got many results and I have no idea which one is true. The thing that is bugging me is that I might (or already) have diabetes. I used to work out a whole lot (a long time ago) until I entered college and my life went into getting a high GPA. I have not done exercise since the beginning of the fall semester and my life has been based on sweets and caffeine. I am really afraid of telling my parents because they will kill me since they have always warned me. All I can do now is start working out again and eating healthier things. I have not had any symptoms, but I still don't want to ignore the whole thing.

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Ok I finally get to post a short list of the shows that are on TV and that I consider pointless or just plain stupid. Remember : this is my humble opinion and the shows are in no particular order, lol.

1. Katie and Peter
   
2. The Real World
   
3. Flavor of Love Charm School
   
4. Heroes
5. Lost
6. Grey's Anatomy
7. Dan
8. Dancing with the Stars (both English and Spanish versions)
9. Ugly Betty
10. My Boys
11. ______________________ (you fill in the blank)

I will update this list as soon as my brain cells come back because they have been killed by these shows. I truly wish these shows the WORST of success in TV.

P.S. Stay tunned for my HUGE list of GREAT shows!!!

I was planning on writing a post on stupid shows on tv, but I chaged my mind as soon as I started watching ER in the morning.

Everyone in the US is very concerned with the war in Iraq. I do believe that the war in Iraq is a waste of time and money, but I still honor and respect our soldiers. Well, while watching ER I realized that there are worst wars going on in this world and they are wars that not many know or care about. The war that has come to my full attention and concern is the war in the Congo, Africa. Thousand of people are dying due to sickness, starvation, and warfare. At first (while watching ER) I thought that it was just a set up for the story and that if it was real it happened a long time ago since I am watching back to back episodes. Later on I got online and I started doing research on it. I found out that the war is still going on and that thousands of innocent lives have been taken. I just think that it is very unfair for our country to take no action in these types of wars. Why can't we help? Is it because there is no oil involved or is it because we are too busy eating happy meals? I feel extremely sorry for all these poor people who can not do anything to stop the violence. Many women and girls are raped and many men are killed. How do I wish I had power and lots of money to help these people. There is nothing a single person can do to change the world. Here is a bit of an article I found online:

NYONGERA, Congo, May 9 (Reuters) - "I buried my child in the forest," said Jeannette Nyirarukundo, who fled her village in eastern Congo when it was attacked by the government army meant to protect it.

Six-year-old Moise starved to death before the family reached the safety of a camp at Nyongera, 70 km (44 miles) from North Kivu's provincial capital Goma.

Some 113,000 civilians have fled fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu since February, and the province now has 600,000 displaced people, according to the U.N. humanitarian coordination agency OCHA.

"We slept in the forest for two weeks, and then they came after us there too. It wasn't safe anymore, and we came here," said Nyirarukundo, 28, who was accompanied by her husband and three surviving children.

Eastern Congo is no stranger to violence, but ironically the latest surge in killing started with a deal designed to bring peace to this corner of the vast country nearly four years after a nationwide accord officially ended a 1998-2003 war.

Laurent Nkunda, a dissident Congolese army general, led his two brigades into the bush in 2004, vowing to protect his fellow ethnic Tutsis. He is under an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes after his men occupied Bukavu, South Kivu.

After last year's historic polls saw President Joseph Kabila become Congo's first democratically elected leader in more than four decades, the army and Rwandan mediators began negotiations to bring Nkunda and his soldiers into existing army brigades stationed in North Kivu. That process began in January.

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If you live around the Dallas area you might have heard of the new term "Cheese". "Cheese" is a new term for a drug that is very popular among teenagers. I have heard of two kids in the Dallas area that have died due to an overdose of this drug. Well... yesterday my brother bought his 8th grade year book and there was an entire page dedicated to one of the stupid kids who died from the overdose. Yes... I just called him STUPID!!! I do not believe that those kids should be honored at all. They made the stupid decision to do drugs and abuse them. I am 19 years old and I have stayed away from drugs for the same amount of time. I just think that abusing drugs and dying is committing suicide and you should not be honored by anyone. I feel sorry for those poor parents who lost their kids, but in part it was their fault. My parents have always been behind my butt making sure I do not use drugs and the same goes to my brother. I have an extreme understanding of the consequences of drug abuse. I have also been behind my brother's butt making sure he does not uses drugs. I understand that using drugs is a choice and that no crap like peer pressure will influence. I used to hang out with a bunch of pot heads and I have been clean all my life. Today, I almost crashed because I was driving my brother to school and right in front of the school I saw a 14 year old doing drugs!!!! I could not believe my eyes. I felt very sorry for that kid and his future. I am just wondering what future will the upcoming generations have? My generation is already screwed up enough and these stupid kids are screwing themselves up every minute. If you have kids or know kids make them understand that drugs are NOT "cool" and help them stay away from the hell they can create. Stay away from  drugs and help build a great future.