The last CD i bought????

The last time I can remember buying a CD was on my granny's birthday about a few months ago. It was a blank CD! I got it for her for her birthday because i knew that she was not really going to be all that into something like an ipod and she would much rather keep things simple and so I just put her about twenty country songs on a CD and she loved it! I just recently got an ipod this past Christmas and I usually use mine just about every day. I keep my ipod in my car hooked up to my CD player and it just plays all of my songs on my ipod. Its easy to keep up with I can just push next on the CD player remote and it will really give me the next song on my ipod. It's a lot easier than trying to look through CD's to find the music I'm wanting to listen to, especially when i am trying to drive, but i do realize some people think that CD's are much more simpler like my granny and that's okay to. Other than the blank one i bought her to put songs on myself i cannot remember the last time I bought a CD like an albumn. I'm sure it had to be about at least a year or longer since i have.

Things to do B4 I Die!

1. Fly in a Plane
2. Visit Another Country
3. Become an Occupational Therapist
4. Build my own Home
5. Marry
6. Have Kids
7. Doing something helpful to provide a home or save a life of a dog or child.
8. Understand the things that are interesting, but i have not yet learned everything about, such as the bible and politics.
9. Learn to sing! hahaha

Fridays!!!!

Today's Friday and it's been very busy! Every weekend I work either morning or nights at the Carmel Home because during the week I am unable to because of school. Today as soon as I get out of school I have to go straight to work I get of at 10:30pm and then I have work Saturday and Sunday at 6:00am in the morning, so today is going to has been very busy and its just going to get more tiring! I also have has basically three math classes today which wares me out!!! First I have college algebra then I have accounting 1 and the last period I have algebra 3. So I'm completely wore out on the days that I have so much math. Most people Fridays are their most favorite for me it's the opposite. I would rather it be Monday instead so that it can be a fresh start at the beginning of the week and no work till Friday! By time Fridays get here I'm exhausted it feels like so schools almost over and I'm going to work and study this weekend and, unlike everyone else I'm looking forward to Monday :)

Valentines Day!

I had a wonderful Valentines Day!!!! My boyfriend's parents cooked us dinner and then we went to the movies to see Valentines Day and it was really a cute movie. Even though it was more of a chick flick he said that he really enjoyed the movie. After the movie we went and visited my dad and my brother. On the morning of Valentines Day I gave my mom a book called Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and she really liked it a whole lot. My boyfriend and I really enjoyed our movie this year we both are trying to save money and he had movie gift cards so it really worked out perfect and I mad him a really cute card that had a cute quote written on it with candy in place for some words. It said today's Valentines Day so TAKE 5 and enjoy your day. Even though you can be a NERD I still think your a real HOT TAMALIE. Thanks for always being such a SWEETART and a JOLY RANCHER boy. With PAYDAY beeing so far away I know its CRUNCH time and not even 100 GRAND would amount to what you mean to me. Your KISSES send me to the MILKYWAY and this card has been a LIFE SAVER so if your laughing keep your SNICKERS to yourself. All the words that are in capital were the candy bars that I had glued to the poster board. He really liked it and it was a great day!

Reading!!!

I think that the reason that so many kids hate to read is because in elementary school we were forced to read for A.R points and we had to read certain books according to our reading level and sometimes it was hard to find books in your level that you like. So when kids get older they just think that they hate reading but really as I've gotten older and I'm in high school and I can read whatever I want I have learned to like it. I like to read things like fashion magazines, books with easy to read bible verses or stories, health books, and books that are inspiring such as the book I got my mom for Valentines Day "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff." I only like to ready book that have true stories or stories that could pertain to my own life and it could really happen. I really do like to read now that I get to make the decision of what I want to read. Reading really does help my vocabulary and make me smarter I do believe. Many teachers and adults have always tried to tell me this but I never believed them until i got a little older and a little more mature. Now I realize how important it is to read and how often I use reading.

Life Without Wal-Mart!

What on earth would it be like if we didn't have a WAL-MART in our town? I'm not sure that I would be so so WAL-MART is far from where I live and its always so chaotic. WAL-MART is where everyone goes to shop for almost anything at all. WAL-MART is the only store that I can think of that has everything you need a majority of the time. The only thing I hate about WAL-MART are the long lines and all the people and crowds that are inside, making it harder to get around and get your shopping done quickly. Many of people do love to shop there as you can tell because when you pull into the parking lot there is hardly never any parking spaces available. You can get tons of good sells at WAL-MART but you just have to ask yourself is it really worth the wait or all the mess you might have to go through to get the item on sell. It is also hard to find what you want because they have so many things and you have to search really hard or look down several asile until you finally find what you have been looking for. WAL-MART is a wonderful store and I think that many people would be upset to see WAL-MART gone but I personally don't think I would mind it so much because of all the long lines and unorganized products in WAL-MART.

Money!!

Money is what a lot of things are revolved around. Life should not be based on money and that's not what life is all about, although many people do base most of their life around money. I believe that everything is not about money but it does make life a little bit easier if you have a good job and you work hard for your money. It cost money to do nearly everything here in Owensboro . If kids want to do something on the weekend they usually would suggest going to the movies, getting something to eat, or going shopping at the mall. All of the activities that we have hear in Owensboro cost money even things that might make your time useful cost money such as working out at a gym or getting a book from the library to read. Almost everything you do or want cost money, so most people make it their many goal in their spare time to work or earn money somehow. Money is a big part of choosing my career one day. Teachers and adults can say that you should choose what you like to do best for the rest of your life but really in reality you must choose a career that makes good money and something that you are going to enjoy because its the only way your going to get by in the world today. How can you support your family with a job that some teenagers today have and love doing. Money is a big part of life even though it should not be what life is revolved around I sometime find that it is and there's not anything anyone can do about it! You must make money to support yourself and your family to get by in the world today and that's all there is to it.

New Vehicle :)

I just got a new vehicle all on my own! I'm very excited I herd about this blazer it was my boyfriends great uncles and they are mechanics so I knew it had been taken good care of and they had all the oil changes recorded in from the past and it looked as if it had never been rode in. It was actually his great aunts and she was an older lady so it wasn't driven a whole lot. It is a 2000 and had only 55,900 miles and sold to me for only 4,000 so I got a great deal! I first tried and tried to sell my car and finally my neighbor bought my car from me for 1,000 dollars because it was old with almost 200,000 miles so then I had one thousand and I had four thousand already saved so I had plenty money. I was never aware of all the trouble that came along with getting a vehicle though. I had to go to my insurance company and get my name off of my old car and get insurance on my new blazer and pay the difference then I had to have the guy that I bought the blazer from and the girl I sold my car to come down to the courthouse so that we could get them put into the right names and get new titles to the cars issued out to us. Then I had to pay for taxes on the Blazer! I never had any clue about all the trouble it was to buy a new vehicle but everything worked out perfect because I had the money for the blazer and the thousand I got from my car was used to buy insurance, and pay taxes on the vehicle and of course I had to have money for gas for the next two weeks until I got paid again! I'm really excited to have a new vehicle though it rides a lot smoother and I love it. I have also learned a lot from the experience of doing things on my own. This week my insurance went down almost 60.00 for turning in my transcript and something stating that I had taken Drivers Ed. I was so happy to see that! So actually my insurance really didn't go up a whole lot more than before because now I have full coverage and it's hard to believe but I get pretty good gas mileage to so I'm extremely excited!!!!!!

Career Choices!!!

With this being senior year I have had many big choices that will affect my future in the long run. One of the biggest is the choice of what I want to go to school to be. For the last two years I have had my mind set on Occupational Therapy. I plan to go to USI after finishing my basic classes here at OCC. Occupation Therapy was introduced to me two years ago whenever I was a catering associate at OMHS and then now at the Carmel Home I have also got to watch and learn a little more about the occupation then I had once known. Last year as a peer tutor I was able to watch an OT work with a student every other Wednesday for about thirty minutes and it was very interesting! I really hope that all my plans follow through I'm very excited and I really love the look on patients faces when they amazingly progress so much from week to week at the Carmel Home. One day I hope to be as good as the therapists that I have been watching at Progressive they do a wonderful job and treat their patients with a ton of love and care. This is a major decision that I have to make when I graduate this year from school I would hate to go to school and take prerequisites that once pertained to my major and then decide to switch because then I would have to start over. I have though about switching my major after Obama's new Health care reform that has been passed but I struggle to know what to do because I know that I only think about Obama's bill from listening to family and friends so I've chosen to stick with my plans for now and I cant wait because its what I believe I will really love doing one day.

High school is almost over!!

Its getting close to the end of senior year! I'm really ready to get out of high school and just be a little more independent and be able to have my own schedule. What I mean by that is when I go to college this summer and next year I'm really going to enjoy scheduling my classes when they are most convenient for me. One thing that I will really miss about high school is hanging out with all of my closest friends. Most of my friends are all going to different colleges and some even out of town and with everyone's busy lifestyle we probably will find it hard to come in contact with one another. My teachers have been a big help so I plan to come back and visit them in the future and I really have appreciated all that they have taught me. I am really ready to graduate though, high school can be a little stressful dealing with the same schedule everyday and the drama that occurs mostly freshman and sophomore year but still in college I'm thinking it will be much harder to continue to make good grades but as far as getting rid of all the drama and the set schedule its going to be great!!! Only two months left to go and even though I cant wait I'm going to miss high school a little I know and most of all its all hard to believe that I will be graduating and my little brother will be in high school next yr.!

Physical Education Class should be required!!

High school should make physical education class mandatory because with all the new technologies kids go home and sit around instead of getting any physical activity. This may even be one of the main reasons for obesity rates being so high. With all the new technologies today kids don't have to stand at the sink and wash dishes they just put them in the dishwasher, no running out to start your car on cold days they have automatic car starters, you don't have to get up and down to change the channel because of remotes, no push mowing the yard you ride, instead of kids playing kick ball outside they sit around playing video games or on the computer which is probably harming their eyes as well. High school really should start having P.E class because it would mean that more kids would get exercise and maybe more kids would feel better about themselves. I know that not everyone goes home and sits around, some play sports or stay busy at home but the majority do not. It would just be a good idea if High school would require students to have P.E class, it might really benifit us all!

How much School are we going To miss!!!!

This snow is getting out of hand and we are missing way to many days of school. It is my senior year so I guess im not as worried because after this year I wont have to go to high school anymore but I really wish we would stop missing school because I don't want to be going to school in June. I'm pretty sure that we are very close or already into June. As much as I am ready for summer I'm not ready to spend any of my summer time in school and it is going to stink being inside all day with it being so pretty outside in June. Plus I hate school in the warmer months because its absolutely freezing in school and I cant stand that it makes me feel like I'm sick or something. The bad part is a lot of time we miss school for like hardly nothing on the ground and everyone is out doing their own thing shopping, hanging out with friends, or just whatever it may be. The roads don't even seem bad and we miss school for nothing it seems like. One day last week I drove to Stanley and the roads were not even bad so I do not understand why we get out of school. My whole concern is going to school in the summer :( Well hopefully we'll be back to school tomorrow and this will be the end of snow days so that we wont have to go to school any long than we already do!!

I am So Ready For SUMMER!!!!

This past Saturday was softball sign-ups now the snow is coming down just two days after sign-ups, it just makes me so anxious for winter to be over and summer to be here! I really am getting tired of the snow. I just can not wait for sunshine, sandals, seashells at the beach, and of course soft ball! This week I also got a forty percent off coupon to American Eagle and I got a new summer dress and a new pair of shorts so I am very excited for summer to be here. I love to layout and go swimming, I haven't really been to the tanning bed in quite awhile because I'm trying not to go to the tanning bed as much since I know that it is bad for your skin but it would be a lot better if we had some sun and not so much snow so that i could at least have a little color. My most favorite thing about summer has to be playing softball I play for the county and I'm on Sorgho's team. I have been playing for the same team every since I can remember and usually it's the highlight of my summer because it keeps me busy, I make friends, and its a blast! So I'm looking forward to softball more than anything this summer.

shoes!!

Have you ever noticed all the different shoes that different types of people were everyday? Shoes can really tell a lot about someone. Shoes might show if a person likes wearing the style punk rock or if they like name brand or if they are not really very picky or maybe they like to dress up allot. Do you ever wonder why people pick the color of shoes they were, I have seen many people with all sorts of different colors of shoes like pink, lime green and even purple. Its crazy! maybe that is just the style they like or maybe they are very out going. I am very outgoing I think, but maybe not that outgoing I personally prefer the clogs that came in style when I was in the eighth grade. They are just brown and plain but they go with everything that is the reason I wear them. I used to love tennis shoes whenever I was really into sports but I don't really like them all that much anymore except for in the summer and I do play summer ball. I also don't really like to wear hills except on special occasions I'm not a big dress up girl. Even though I love prom and things like that and I do wear hills but you'll probably hardly ever catch me in hills on a school day. I like to be comfortable or else I just don't think as good at school. So shoes can tell you different things about different people and I think its very interesting to look and see all of the different shoes people wear.

What is silly to me!!!

Something that I think is silly is that my brother still sleeps with his blanket that he got from our grand parents when he was first born. He would probably kill me if he knew that I was telling this but I just find it very silly of him to still sleep with it. If he does not have his blanket at night he will search the house from top to bottom till he finds it so that he can go to sleep and he is 14 years old. Something else that I think is very silly is that i have never gotten in trouble for speeding but I got pulled over on my 18th birthday for going to slow! I was just trying to decide which way i was going! Many things are silly, I think a lot of things are silly...anything that happens out of the ordinary or that does not happen to most people or something that most people in general don't do. I think that it is silly as long as its not dangerous or wrong things that people do. I also think that the word "silly" is funny too. If things were never silly or funny to people then it would take away a lot of the laughter in the world and that would just be no fun at all! I love silly things.

Table time!!!

I think that its very important that a family sits down at the table together for supper on most nights of the week. If a family cannot make time to do this I believe that a family should sit down at the table about 3 times a week for game time. My family doesn't always make time to do this but my boyfriends family does and I think that it is very nice and it brings everyone a lot closer. On the weekend I often join them in a game of domino's which is so much fun because me and his mother always try to beat him and his dad. They also usually say grace together and eat supper together at the table and everyone gets to talk and say how their day went and what they have going on for the week. This is something that I wish that my family did more often and one day I most defiantly would like to make it a routine thing in my house with my kids and husband. I just think that it makes everyone closer and keeps good values such as prayers going on throughout the family and everyone gets to help clean up afterwards and thats the way that I think it should be its not all the moms job, moms have busy lives too!!! Table time is a must for a family! 

Health...what to eat and what not to eat???

Whats bad for us and whats not? At one time experts said that diet cokes were better for you than regular, splenda was much better for you than real sugar, 2% milk was better than whole milk, and fat free butter was better for you than real butter. Now you hear that all the healthy food is just making us crave more of the food that is bad for you and etc. but really I never actually hear a real solution to all this and the reasons behind it all. If I wanted to know I guess that I could look it up to see what experts have to say, but not everyone has access to do that and doctors always talk about how important it is to eat healthy and how the obesity rate is going up but do they really advertises the right foods to eat and the reason that some healthy foods are not as good as they once said.....not that often. I'm sure that many people today are unsure of whats good and whats bad. I personally like to use splenda in my food instead of sugar because it taste just as good and it has less calories but does it make me crave more foods that have real sugar in it? Who knows??? Doctors or experts in this field should do more research and more advertising of the right foods.   

IPODS!!!

I love my new Ipod that I got for Christmas because Its much easier to keep up with than a bunch of Cd's in my car. I also feel that its a lot less distracting when I don't have to take Cd's out and put new Cd's in while I'm trying to drive. Another reason that I really enjoy having an Ipod is because when I got to work out I can run much faster than when I don't have any music to listen to and I don't have anything to keep my mind off of running. When I listen to music it takes my mind off of how much I don't want to run or how tired I am so it really does help me. It is also very convenient for things like long trips because some people find music a distraction when driving on unfamiliar roads and when you like music that isn't everyone's style you can still listen to your music and keep it to yourself. Its amazing how far along technology has come today, I love having my Ipod.  

Sleep!!

I absolutly love my sleep I cant live without it! I like to get anywhere between 8 and 10 hours of sleep every night. If I dont get enough sleep its is usually becuase of school work or hanging out with family and friends which i should probably substitute for getting a head start on my homework sometimes. The problem is that whenever you get out of school it is just a big bummer to go home and immediatly work on more school work and then by that time its getting dark outside this time of year and you are getting tierd and you really dont even feel like hanging out with anyone its like your whole intire day has gone to school! If i dont get sleep then I cannot function the next day, and I am usually in a very bad mood as well if i dont get enough sleep. Most kids stay up very late on the weekends but im the type that I like to get my sleep even if im having fun i like to get home in time to get plenty of rest and if i dont then you can expect me to be sleeping in the next morning. I love sleep and im headed to bed now!!! :)

What Would a Dog advice about in life?

A dog would probably just say that as long as you do as your told then you'll always get treated and anytime someone special is trying to talk to you just listen and look at them and then they'll love you to death. Maybe not all dogs would say this but my dog would! We always give her treats whenever she obeys our commands like sit, lay, speak and etc. and she always just looks up at me when I talk to her and she listens to me and she never argues with anything I've got to say and I just love her to death! She is the greatest dog in the world and she loves kids and she loves to just run around in the backyard and have fun racing up and down the fence with the dog on the other side! She is only about 4 years old, her name is Chessy and we got her whenever our first dog that we had from when I was younger died. Chessy would really not say a whole lot more on life except if you want to be treated to as you are told and listen and don't argue with your loved ones that talk to you.

Senior Year is getting Harder real fast!!!

This year as a senior i really felt that I had learned to be more prepared, organized, and responsible and I have but I'm really getting worn out and I'm tired of homework, test, and filling a scholarship applications! I know that these things have got to be done so of course i keep on doing it all but my gosh it seems as if its a never ending process. Its like its always something and it never ends. I'm ready for summer and for high school to be over with it's just getting stressful i guess you could say. FAFSA itself is very stressful i found that it can be much more complicated than it sounds like and most likely I need someone to sit with me and guide me through it because every time i try to I always find where i made a mistake. Maybe I just have a small case of senoritas but I'm pushing my way past it and staying on track and making sure I still try my best even though things can be tough I'd hate to no make good grades now, my senior year. So, i just try to remind me as times get stressful heading towards the end of high school that its almost over and I'm going to miss these last four years at Apollo.

History of Family and Friends!!!

It's very important to know your family's past history. I believe almost every family has some sort of problems in their house hold, whether its health, divorce, abuse and ect. We've all faced hard times but I always thought that my granny and all her sisters and brothers were just so perfect and had a wonderful life until my mom told me what they went through growing up and some of the things that they have faced as they got older. My family is fortunate to all be healthy but my parents are divorced for not so good reasons, my brother had a serious head injury his 3rd or 4th grade yr, my biological father I have never met and maybe that gets half of it. Although these struggles seem harsh I've made it through each and every one of them my step dad has been my dad since i was three and absolutely the greatest, my brother was okay, and my parents are learning to be friends after two years of divorce. The point is that I have learned from all the things I have been through that I hope not to face when I get older. My granny's history...with eight brothers and sisters, It went on and on It was interesting to hear though they are all great people and I love them all but man they have really been through some tough stuff and a few of them have made some major mistakes that I would have never dreamed of but I learn from it all!!!! My mom also told me a little about her life when she and my uncle were growing up and It was really a story that Id never herd before and I never thought would be true. You just have to realize as a young adult that when times get hard to learn from all you go through for your future. My Aunt faces some of the same struggles my mom went through. My Aunts only 21 and has a baby and she struggles with how is she going to go to college, afford bills, work, and stuff. I tell her over and over that if she doesn't fix things now that thing will be harder and that she should have learned from my mom but It's hard when your in the position as she says! Now as for friend history I have seen so many kids being sent to a different school or suspended for things that are so dumb and for things that they really shouldn't be doing, its all about who you hang around with and how easy you are influenced.  So hopefully with the help of knowing all the family and friends history and what all they have been through I can steer myself clear from those kinds of situations and make things a little more easier on myself! 

Life Just Is'nt Fair but I was Lucky!

This morning I woke up and hour early to go work out at Atlantis as I was on my way home to get a shower at about 7a.m it was raining. I had just gotten my car fixed, the back door on my passenger side had been backed into about six months ago which cost me about $250 and it had now been fixed for about three months so I always try to be as careful as I can on the road. I was going through the intersection with the green light on Carter and the car coming from the other direction decided they could zip right through and turn on to Tamarack so I immediately slammed on my breaks and held down the horn! Then speed limit on Carter is 45 so i was going about 42 a little slower than 45 because it was slightly raining. As i was hit it sounded like a mirror was breaking and I stopped to thank god that I was okay and the other driver nor the other driver was hurt. Then I looked back at the car and noticed it was not turning around or stopping at all, because of traffic I had to pull around to the Shell Station and the car was gone. I was unable to get a license number or remember anything at all except that the car was small and a hunter green color. I had to call and report a hit and run! There was nothing they could do except be on the look out and now i had no headlight wires hanging out of the front of my car and somehow those wires connect to my tail lights which were now out on the right side. So I was very fortunate to be okay and so was the other driver and I was most very lucky because someone could have been truly hurt! But on the other hand it's just not fair that there is nothing they could do no camera could see the road.....no luck finding a car after they searched all day....so this only meant that I was out more money and that for now on I'm not only careful on the road I learned to pay more attention to the other driver as well! Life isn't fair but I was lucky!!!  

Color!!

Color is a very important in today's society many things are based on color if we didn't have color what would the world be like? Many things are naturally learned as a child based on colors. As a child we automatically know that the sky is blue, apples are red, birds are black, trees are green, and I could go on and on forever. Ok so the sky's not always blue and birds are not always black but that would be the way we naturally color them as a child. Color also can tell alot about a person some one who always wears very bright colors might be very out going and some one who wears alot of black, gray and white might not be as out going. I'm not very big on art and I'm not very creative but I like to try to be and my whole point of writing this is what would the world be like if we didn't have any color to our world and everything was black and white? When we went outside or inside our houses everything was black and white? I couldn't imagine...I think it would be very depressing and boring. Statistics also show that color has a lot to do with a persons mood change the color orange for some reason is supposed to make a person happy! When we get dressed in the morning we might pick out a color of shirt that we like, when you buy a vehicle most of the time there is a preference of what color fits you, and so on. I just thinks its interesting to think about how much color is involved in our everyday life!!!!

Superstitions???

My personal opinion on superstitions is that they are not really real. I don't believe in Friday the 13Th, bad luck for 7 yrs. if i break a mirror, good luck, health and wealth if I eat black eyed pea's and cabbage on New Years, or any other superstition. I have herd of many things about ghost and spirits and things that happened that does question my mind and it does make me wonder but ever time the front door squeaked when it was left cracked and the screen door isn't closed all the way most would first things oh my! its a ghost or something and I just don't really believe in that I usually just say its the wind and close it but who really knows? If I were to break a mirror or if I don't eat those foods on New Years and etc. I really don't think that I'm going to have any bad luck at all, for some reason I just cant believe that these things are true. I think that its all in peoples minds and that they believe in superstitions so strongly that these thing happen to them. Superstitions is a very difficult topic and I haven't never herd of any real evidence that they are true and just the fact that it does creep me out I just choose not to believe in them and get my self all worked up over such things like if I break a mirror everything happens for a reason and I really doubt it's going to bring me bad luck but then again who really knows?

Snow!!!!

I really hope that we get snow on Thursday. I want enough snow so that we don't have to come to school at all on Thursday or on Friday but return on Monday. I only hope that we get the snow because we really haven't had much snow all year....well not enough to cover the ground anyways and I think that it would be tons of fun to play in and get out of school for a day or two but I sure would hate it if we were to graduate late. Last year we had to go to school for like over a week later than we originally planned and I absolutely hated it! Winter is just no fun without snow, honestly i could live without winter just keep Christmas but not winter because i hate the cold if there isn't going to be any snow at all whats the point! I love to have snow to an extent just not tons and tons of it! So hopefully my wish will come true and we will get some snow this week!!!!