Be Thankful!

We all think we have it so rough because things are never as perfect as they could be but we need to be thankful for the things that we have! This weekend I was at my new job and there was a girl named Meghan training me and it was her last day because she was fixing to move and she was happily married with two sons. Meghan was only in her twenties and going through some financial struggles and she was like man taking a cold shower this morning was no fun with the weather being this cool. I said "a cold shower?" in shock and she explained how her and her husband had to pay like 2 thousand dollars to have the hot water piece replaced and then it was going to be a couple hundred dollars to turn it on and it already had been awhile that they had to wait to get the money to replace it and now she saw no point in turning it on now since they were fixing to move. She told me in order to give her boys a bath she just boiled a big pan of water and luckily it doesn't take much water to clean them because they are young. I just thought gosh all the things that I think in my life are so rough I need to remember to be thankful because someone always has it a little rougher than me. The reason this appealed to me is because last week our shower head broke and we had it replaced only like two days later, but I had to take a bath for two days and i don't really prefer a bath but i was blessed with hot water and it wasn't so bad after hearing her story. It just really made me think, and not only about that i have days where I get up and I feel like I cant find a thing to wear because Ive already wore this shirt and that shirt but yet I have a closet full of clothes and I have to remember to just be glad that I have clothes because not everyone in the world does! We need to be thankful for each and every blessing in life even the things that seem so small to us because someone else might think its a really big gift!

Fall is Here!

Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year. Perfect weather not to hot and not really cold but just a good breeze and the sun shining. I love to watch how the leaves change color and fall to the ground. Fall just seems to be so peaceful and it's nice to just be able to sit outside and enjoy the outdoors without having to sweat to death or freeze you butt off. Some things that i like to do in the fall is going for a walk, riding my bike around our neighborhood, doing my homework outside and believe it or not i actually enjoy raking the leaves because it feels so good outside and its a good way to get a little exercise in for the day. The one thing that i don't like about fall is that it can sometime affect my allergies very bad at the beginning of the season when every thing is changing but other than that i love it and it just doesn't last long enough! It's like we have months of sizzling hot summer and freezing cold winter but the perfect weather, fall just doesn't stay long enough!

LiFE WiTHOUT POTATOES

Life without potatoes would be absolutely crazy no french fries, no chip, no baked potatoes, and no mashed potatoes. That's not counting all the things we used potatoes for and all the things we cook with potatoes. Although without potatoes it would probably be allot more healthier because potatoes are just starch and to much starchy foods can add on pounds quickly, but i love potatoes and not to mention my mom makes the best mashed potatoes in the world they're like perfect with no little clumps in them or anything they're like perfectly smooth and really buttery and salty and just perfect! I love mashed potato's it probably like my favorite vegetable in the world. I'm not a very big potato chip person the only kind of chips i like are like Doritos or Cheetos but i don't like to eat the chip i just like the cheese on the outside. So, basically life without chips might be a little more healthier for us but it would still be very different and we would be missing out on allot of great foods!

Baby Ella!

My Aunt Miranda is having a Baby Girl! She is due the day before thanksgiving and I'm so excited for her. Her baby shower is this Saturday and I'm in charge of the games I got a word scramble, A big bottle full of mints that someone will guess the amount, and five candy bars that I'm going to melt in different diapers and they will have to guess by smell what candy bar is in which diaper. Me and Miranda are very close shes only four years older than me and we have been close sense we were young, before I had my driver license Miranda drove me everywhere to practice, to school, to work out with me, and to tan. When we were really young me and her dad which is my papa would always go to McDonald's just to get to play in the playhouse. Me and her have had so much fun throughout the years and I'm so excited for her and her fiance's new little girl to arrive!

The Closest Woman in My Life Next to My Mother

My granny is a huge part of my life i visit her at least three times a week, if not more! She does tons of things for me and is always offering me help in any way she can. She is like the closest woman to me in my life next to my mother. She not only does tons of things for me but we have lots of fun together. She and I often go out lunch on Sundays after church to our favorite place in the world, Panera Bread. We always get the same thing a sandwich with the amazingly delicious broccoli soup. We both love to work out when we get the time. She has the new ab circle that is so fun, your only supposed to get on it like 5 min. a day and its great! I like to mow the yard for granny shes 60 yrs old and stays busy constantly and so i also try to do as much for her as i can as well. If it wasn't for my granny sometimes i wonder what i would do without her i tell her everything that goes on in my life and any problem that comes my way and of course she always has something inspiring to say. My granny is the best!!!

NEW JOB!!!

YAY! I can finally say that i don't work in a food service anymore i am so excited because i have worked with a food service for almost three yrs. I spent about a yr and a half at Texas Roadhouse and about a yr and a half at Morrison s a food service for the hospital. I just recently got a new job at the Carmel Home working as a nursing assistant and I'm pumped! I'm only going to be working every other Friday night and every Saturday and Sunday mornings making better pay and a lot more days off because now i will always be off Mon-Thur. and i will be able to take time out to do things for myself and hang out with the family more and most of all ill have a lot more time to focus on school work! I'm so excited i don't look down on food services at all i believe if you have a job and you work that's great but it just wasn't the thing for me and it had just gotten very old! So I'm really excited to see how it goes I'm off the next three days and i start work on Sat. wish me luck!!!

SUMMER :)

Its my favorite season although my favorite holiday is Christmas. Anyways i wish it was still summer i hate staying up late to get organized and do my homework it defiantly stinks! but i know hard work will pay off in the end so i just try to look at the positive side whenever i don't get as much sleep as id like i know that the next day i will have no stress of not having my room and things organized and i know that my homework is done. The things that i miss most about summer are time to myself and time to hang out with my friends and most of all sleeping in, i love it! Its nice to just wake up and know that you don't go to work till four and you have all day to lay out and just relax and hangout with friends and family and have tons of fun. I left out one thing the SUN. Sunny days make my day i hate the rain its depressing and it makes me nervous when theres a storm but whenever the sun shines i absolutely love it. Its like everything's off to a great start when the sun is shining. They always say when your having fun it goes by fast and that's exactly how summer happens extremely fast! Another thing that i love about summer is county softball Ive played for Sorgho for almost my entire life and its great lots of fun and not to competitive just all about having a good time. If only summer were like half a year long! Gosh I miss it.

Growing up can be tough!!!

This past yr mom and dad have been there for anything i need but they like me to do as much as i can on my own and i respect them for it because it has taught be a lot, although it has been a chore. This summer i paid to take a CNA class which was 375 dollars and it wasn't all that bad except i gave up my Monday and Wednesday mornings to be at class from 8 to 330 and i did a greatest job and past my state test. Paying my own money for it gave me no choice, i gave up my money i made sure i did my very best at all times! When its your money being spent things are allot different and i seem to be more successful when its mine. I had to pay for my own gas and any extra things that i wanted i also payed 75 dollars to get my passenger window fixed because boy was it hot without it working and no air conditioner now I'm more cautious when people play with the window controls and whenever it came time for mom to take me school shopping I thought more about buying the American eagle jeans instead of the abercrombie because they're just the same your only paying for the logo and it makes no sense i found out after buying things for my self for a little while. I also started doing my own laundry at times because sometimes mom doesn't have the chance to wash the clothes just because you want to wear a certain shirt one night and i had to hang them to dry and put them away now i see why mom says put your dirty clothes in the hamper don't let them sit on your floor till the end of the week because she gets a million loads at once, that has to be stressful. The point being doing things myself and paying for allot of my own things has taught me allot and made me mature a ton!

SENIOR YEAR!

SO FAR EVERYTHING IS GOING GREAT AND I LOVE ALL MY TEACHERS ! AND I HAVEN'T HAD TO MUCH HOMEWORK EVEN THOUGH I'M TAKING TWO COLLEGE CLASSES THIS SEMESTER IT HASN'T BEEN SO BAD AND I GOT A NEW JOB! I CANT BELIEVE ITS MY LAST YR OF HIGH SCHOOL I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS THE FIRST DAY OF MIDDLE SCHOOL AND I NEVER THOUGHT ID BE OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE AND I NEVER THOUGHT ID MAKE IT TO HIGH SCHOOL IT JUST SEEMED SO FAR AWAY BECAUSE IT WAS RIGHT WHERE I WANTED TO BE AND NOW ITS ALMOST OVER ITS AMAZING HOW FAST IT FLEW BY! I MISS BEING YOUNG SOMETIMES I HAVE TO FEAR OF NOT HAVING MY PARENTS THERE FOR ME EVERY TIME SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND LIVING ON MY OWN BUT THEN AGAIN I'M EXCITED AND I CANT WAIT TO DO IT AND GO TO COLLEGE AND HAVE A GREAT CAREER ONE DAY! ONLY 9 MORE MONTHS TO GO AND HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE OVER :( BUT I CANT WAIT HAHA!!!!! :) MIXED EMOTIONS YOU COULD SAY.