My Final Blog

This is my final blog for this semester. I cannot believe how time has flow by, and that I have almost written 40 blogs just this month and it is only the 7th!! It truly is kind of bittersweet, because unlike high school, I may never see these people in class or my professors ever again? I have taken a lot from this semester. I am a writing nazi now, and I just cannot stop. I may have carpel tunnel from this semesters! Not really. But I really have enjoyed my first semester of college, and I have very good grades and I think I am becoming a better student, and I can only pray and work hard to keep that up. If the next few years fly by as fast as this semester did, then I am going to be 50 before I know it. I just think about the future, hoping I stick with my intended major, and if I do then I wonder what life will be like for me ten years down the road. I hope that college continues to make me a more well rounded person, and I hope to learn more and more about myself and who I am, and what I can be to the community. I think college is a good place for growing up, and if you allow it, college will make you a better person. And that's what I hope for. I have met some really cool people this semester, and I hope to keep in contact with those people, and in the future meet more people that will be life long friends. I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas, or Hanukka whatever you may celebrate, and if I never see you again a good life! :)

My Main Goal for this Season

Every time when Christmas season rolls around, I promise myself I will make time to volunteer at the Salvation Army. I have wanted to volunteer for a very long time. Not to put volunteer work on my resume, but just maybe be there to talk to someone who is lonely during the Christmas season. In high school, we had a similar opportunity to make a difference in our community with a day called Spiritual Emphasis Day. On spiritual emphasis day, we would go out into the community, either in Montgomery, or sometimes even as far as Enterprise and the whole school would just do small deeds for organizations or just normal people around the house. I enjoyed this day because you were surrounded by a whole group of people who's main goal was to help out another person, and enjoy themselves while doing it. Last year, my group went to..I cannot remember the name, but it was a home for children with severe handicaps, and we just sat around and had school with them, played games, and spent quality time with them. It opens your eyes to see a larger world and different aspects of people so you aren't so oblivious to the problems around you. We also helped around the school, hanging decorations for the holidays, and wrapping gifts. Spiritual emphasis day is probably the best idea ACA has ever had, and I pray everyone continues getting a good experience out of it. But I do pray as well that I will make time to go to the Salvation army and volunteer, either hanging out with everyone, or passing out Christmas dinner, hopefully putting a smile on one persons face.

My Christmas List

For some reason this year, and I think a lot of people can agree with me, I am just absolutely broke. My favorite part of Christmas is getting others gifts and seeing the joy on their faces when they open them! I am just really pushed for money this year, so I am trying to find work wherever I can. I have been picking up hours at work, babysitting as much as possible, and working over at my nanny's house for a few bucks. I got paid last week, and had just enough money for my car payment and to put a little gas in my car, so that did me no good. I did babysit, and I have a bit of money from working at my nan's that I have saved up, but it is not enough to cover the gifts I plan to give to everyone. Everyone keeps saying, oh don't get me anything, but I do want to get people things because that is the joy of Christmas. For my mom and Terry, we came up with the idea of getting them gift cards for a dinner and movie. They don't get to go out alone much, so this is a good opportunity to do something nice for them. For Chelsea, I will probably just go find a shirt for her to wear or something, maybe a scarf for St. Louis? For Mallory, well I pay for her tanning, so I will probably just get her something nice a small :) And I am not sure what I will get Meghan since she is in Alaska..and Nan, I can just get Nan a nick nack and she will be satisfied! And I think for Dillon, I will get him the raybans he has been wanting, but that is going to have to wait another pay check! I pray I can pull this Christmas off!

Dachshunds

Ever since I was a little girl, my family's choice of pet has been a dog. And ever since I can remember we have had Dachshunds. From what I can remember, we have had..Red, Lindsey, Allie, Willie, Cricket, Duke, Daisy, Sadie, and Oliver...so a total of nine dachshunds since I was born! Red was oldddd, and as you can tell by his name he was a red, or tan colored dachshund. He was the most phenomenal dog in the world. He ruled the house, but did not demand much attention. Unfortunately, he had back problems and had to be put asleep when he was a bit older. Allie and Willie were gifts my dad brought home to us for making good grades. They, by far, were the worst dogs ever. My dad is an electrician, and I think he bought them while he was away, but kept them in his car for a good week before coming home? So strange. But those dogs were impossible. They would run away every chance they got, and just had no home training. Eventually, they were given away to two sets of old couples. Cricket, oh Cricket. She was the best, but most strange dog in the world. If Cricket was a human, she would definitely be an outcast. We had other dogs the same time we had Cricket, and she was just so needy so we gave her away to an old lady, and now she's an only child that smokes and watches tv all day. We still hear from here from time to time. We still have Duke, Daisy, Sadie, and Oliver. We got Duke first, and he is definitely the man of the house. He is the most precious dog, and he likes to be in command. Duke usually whines to get what he wants. Then we got Daisy, a companion for Duke. I hate Daisy. She is just an annoying dog that wants to be right on your face. Her and Duke have had three litters of puppies together, and on the last litter we kept one and named her Sadie. Sadie is my dog and she is just sooo precious. She loves just about everyone, and we call her a little squirrel. Now Oliver...he is strange and annoying. He is my sisters dog, and he, like Cricket, is an outcast. He loves to chew things, and bark like a mad man! But I don't know what life would be like without them!

So fired up

I was late getting to class, so I was shocked when I walked into an empty room. I chatted with Mrs. Simms for a few minutes, and then left to head back home. I got home, started laundry, and sat down to get ready to finish my blogs. Dillon called me on his way to school to take his psychology final. All was fine, and I started to tell him my plans for today, and he just had to make a smart comment that really made me mad. I got quiet, and told him I did not appreciate what he said, and he just got so angry at me. He thought I was insane for getting upset with what he said, and immediately wanted to get off the phone. I just do not go with that, so I told him absolutely not I told him exactly how I felt. I do not want him to be messed up for his exam though, so I texted him and apologized and told him I loved him and hoped he does well, but he still is under my skin. I just needed to write this to vent because he really got me fueled inside to where I could not even think about what to write for a blog! My heart is beating fast and I feel like I want to cry but of course I won't, and I will just let it blow over, but man he made me very upset! I am going to take a few more deep breathes and hope that will calm me down to where I can start back up with the rest of these blogs! UGH

Last Blog for the Night!

My shoulder where it feels like a pinched nerve is still killing me. I think after a night at work, working for nanny all day around the house, and whipping out tons of blogs it is definitely getting bad. I am not sure though if I should go to the doctor and see if there is something wrong with it. *Side note: Inception comes out on Blu Ray soon! Such a good movie* Anyway, I have a friend who said she had a pinched nerve this past summer, and it got so bad that she went to Primed and they put her in a sling for a week or so. I do not know if I should go or what. And I definitely would feel stupid wearing a sling around class and work. I am just going to let it work out if it will, and do something about it if it gets super bad. My parents are watching a show were this guy got arrested and he swallowed heroin as well as being extremely intoxicated. How crazy. My mom is crazy about the heater and refuses to turn it on until there are icicles hanging from the ceiling, so I have been sitting her for about two hours and my hands are about to fall off from typing so much in the freezing cold. So I have to go now and finish my final draft of my final paper in this composition class which is absolutely exciting!! I need to get off here now and get started because eight o'clock comes wayyyy too early and I guess I will just finish up my blogs tomorrow in class :) I am so very close!! 

Things I wish I had Given More Time

When I look back on my life, and high school and middle school there are some things I wish I would have spent more time on. One being middle school and high school in general. I wish I would have taken my studies more seriously, and actually tried to learn. One thing I am regretting from my past school years are my study habits. Although I have been on the ball this semester, I am hoping my bad study habits do not catch up with me and I begin to slack. I need to make sure that I keep very good grades because I want to get into nursing school, and you have to have the best of the best grades in order to make it in to nursing school. Also in middle school I took German for one year. I wish I would had studied and learned more while in that class, and maybe I would have been more interesting in furthering my career in German, and then I would know a foreign language which would be fantastic. I still know a tiny bit of German, but I wish I would have the opportunity again to learn German. One other thing I did in middle school that I wish I would have taken more seriously was Guitar. I was in guitar for three years, and I was never really that good, but I honestly did not care much about it so I did not try. I learned also how to play the banjo. I wish I would have taken that more seriously, and maybe today I would be able to play the guitar and actually have a hobby or talent. Maybe that is one thing I can try to get back into one of the two things!