Love Story

The other day I went home and for some reason I just wanted to cry! So I popped in the Notebook...I have watched that movie a million bajillion times and I cry EVERY TIME! I am such a softie. I don't think I got through 15 minutes of the movie without bursting into tears. It just truly is a sweet, heartfelt love story! I cannot help but to just cry and feel like I want to have a love like that for the rest of my life!! So freaking sweet. I also cried during Dear John..another one of Nicholas Sparks tear jerkers..and it worked on me too! I cried, and cried, and cried during that movie too. They are just such sweet and make you want to be in the love story. It amazing how writers and directors portray the films and stories so well they make you feel happy and sad and all sorts of emotions! But I love a gooood love story!!

FALL FALL FALL FALL

Fall isn't my favorite season..but fall does bring many fun activities!! When I was in high school, I used to be a manager for the football team. Being a football manager kinda got me into enjoying the football seasons. Football season is so much fun because everyone gets together and spends time watching the games with each other. I don't love football, but I do love the atmosphere football brings! Other than football, I love fall weather. All of the leaves turn bright colors, and well in Alabama we have a few cool, breezy days. My favorite part though is all of the holidays around the fall season. I love love love holidays! I enjoy dressing up for Halloween, taking my nephew to pick out his favorite pumpkin, and spending time with my friends goofing around. I also loveeeeeeee Thanksgiving!! My family breeds great cooks so every single bit of food we eat is absolutely delicious and I just love being around my family and friends for the holiday! Fall is a pretty good season...but I like winter the best!

Sing and Dance

My favorite song of the moment has to be "Dancing Nancies" by The Dave Matthews Band. Everyday before work or class I pop in my DMB CD and I listen to Dancing Nancies. The lyrics and the beat put me into a fantastic, happy mood! Not only is the song catchy, and Dave Matthews is songbird, but the lyrics in the song are so meaningful. The song begins asking "Could I have been..." and he list many things that he possibly could have been. Then he talks about a twenty-three year old who is already sick of the life he is living, and doesn't like where he is in life, but goes on to say "Look up at the sky" and gives you a picture of someone with their mouth open wide staring at the beauty of the world. In other lyrics it says "What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying" which is so true in that everyone just wants to get to the next day and they don't enjoy the day they have. My favorite lyric though is "Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, But I'll work it out then I Look up at the sky". It just gives me chills, because honestly there's no need to worry about small things because there is always a solution. This songs meaning is just to enjoy life and love what you have. It reminds me to take life day by day and try to not rush through all of my trials and tribulations, as well as the simple things I take for granted. If you wish life away, it will be gone before you know it so appreciate each day you are given, never give up, and live life to the fullest.

It was magic

My weakness has always been infomercials. I honestly will sit and watch a paid programming for hours, and I debate buying whatever it is they're selling every single time. Informercials are so high energy I just cannot help but to be drawn in and connivence myself that there is no possible way I can go on with life without their product! I usually just waste my time, and never pick up the phone to call. But one infomercial got me, and I actually bought what they were selling. I turned on the television and saw this catchy infomercial with an odd group of people sitting around a breakfast bar. One was from a different country, one was the "Ole Uncle", and one was the drunk chain smoking grandmother. They all had just woken up from a long night, and the hostesses were making them breakfast with their amazing product. They were using the Magic Bullet. This product literally does everything!! You can make smoothies, homemade salsa, milk shakes, anything really. I sat and watched them make all sorts of snacks and meals for a good hour. Its like a miniature blender that is 5 times easier to use and 5 times less the mess. So I had to have it! I picked up the phone and called and got them to deliver me my own Magic Bullet. Shipping and handling was outrageous, but I got a "free" gift so I wasn't too concerned. I still use my magic bullet to this day for all sorts of things!!

Labor

I have had three jobs since I was 15. My first real job was at Carriage Hills Animal Hospital, which was a rough, rough job. I worked in the resort part of the hospital where people would bored their dogs while they went on vacation or just day care. I don't know if you've ever seen Carriage Hills but that place is huge!!! There were five "luxury" resorts in the front, about twenty "luxury" resorts on the side, and over fifty other kennels. Oh, and a cat room! The dogs had to be walked three times a day, and their kennels cleaned twice a day. Not to mention I had to bathe dogs that were ready to go home. The hours were insane. I would wake up and be there before 7 and not leave until after 8. Beyond just the 7-8 hours, I had to work every single holiday...so when everyone was enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, I was cleaning up dog poop. Ugh!
After the animal hospital I worked at a tanning bed for about a year, which was a joke!! Somewhere during my Senior year I picked up a second job at Zoe' Kitchen and quit the tanning bed shortly after. I still work at Zoe's now, and love it for the most part. I am a shift leader which means while the manager isn't there, I am the manager on duty. I love the interaction I get with people, and it is just a fun environment. I have a lot of responsibilities at Zoe's. I have to snap people into shape, order produce, count money, and take care of the store as if it were my own. The only part I hate is just all the prep work that has to be done for the next morning...I will make a gallon and a half of lime juice and have to make more the next day!!

I see qualities in both the vet and Zoe's that I want to have in my future job. They have both definitely taught me how to be a hard worker and juggle a lot of responsibility. The only thing I look for more in the future is flexibility with my career. I want to have a ton of kids, so I want to be able to stay home with my kids as much as possible!!!

When I Was Younger

When I was younger I always wanted to be a teacher. My friend and I would set up our stuffed animals and babydolls on her bed, and bring out her dinner trays for our desk and play school! We would go as far as to make sweet tea or coke and drink out of straws. For some reason we thought teachers always drank one of the two. She had one of those chairs that could fold out into a couch that we would use as a barrier around our desk so the "students" would not come behind it. We would also line up our fake students and take them outside for "play time", then we would take our well needed teacher break...such a hard day. They would also get nap time somewhere in there. Each "student" had a name, and if they were acting up they would get in trouble..how weird I know! We even had an over head that we would take turns on either doing math or english..or whatever. We would play school literally every day, no doubt about it. I don't exactly want to be a teacher now, but I want to do something along those lines. I have too much practice in the field to stray too far!

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