Dum Dum Da Dum

This weekend I am going to the Sugarland Concert. I am excited. I am not the biggest fan of Sugarland, but I like their music. I'm hoping I can just go and enjoy sitting there listening and watching them. I am going with friends; it couldn't get any better.

I have also just started planning a party at my house for New Years. Hopefully it'll be fun. We're gonna be having a bonfire and playing games. We'll grill a little and make some S'mores. I really can't wait. We are also gonna camp outside and freeze to death.

Saturday night and guess what I get to do. I get to babysit. Whoo hoo. After this I am going to Bek's house to help her clean for a little while. Then I get to wake up early to teach Sunday School for church. What next I wonder? I know. I get to hang cabinets in my laundry room. Exciting!

My sister got a new puppy last week also. It's another little one. Her name is Sadie Ann Ward. She is jsut as cute as Stella. She's not as much of a puff ball. Of course, I'll attach pictures. My sister felt that Stella was lonely and needed a friend. It was my mom's christmas present to her and Bobby. They love them both.

There are only four weeks of school left. I am so ready for this semester to end. This has definitly been the worst semester out of the three that i've had. I'm looking forward to moving on to new classes. I liked my English and Psychology class, but the other two classes were awful. I usually like math and do good in it. This semseter i've done good, but I just haven't enjoyed it. I dread going to class and have met my quota of missing class for the semester. She allows us 6 days to miss before lowering the grade. My Education class has been really complicated too. The work isn't hard, but the teacher is just different. He grades different and teaches different. He doesn't return graded papers and is very unorganized. I think he's a good teacher and a good professor. He's really nice too, but he just needs more structure in his class. He also needs to think about grading papers more often. Also, some of the assignments that were going to be a for a big part of our grade turned out to be bonus. I am not complaining or anything, but I really didn't have to do those assignments. I don't necessarily need the bonus, but I wasted time that I could have been doing other assignments. I don't know; he just really bothers me in that respect, but like I said, he's a good guy. I am just ready for this semester to be over. Hopefully next semester will be better.

Unbelieveable....

As we all know, the presidential election was Tuesday, November 4, 2008. I hope y'all all went to vote. It's important whether you think it is or not. Your vote counts. I definitely went out to vote. This is my first time, and I was excited. I'm not quite sure why because I wasn't completely sure who I was going to vote for, but I figured it out quick. My mom and I went at about 5:50 AM to Northwood High School because of the precinct we are in, 106. We didn't get to actually vote until 7:15 AM. It didn't ruin it for me though. It was a new experience and a fun one at that.

I'm glad that this day has finally come because I am tired of hearing people bash both candidates. I am not one to bash anybody. I think both candidates were highly qualified although I don't agree with one of their choices for Vice President: Palin. No one asked me though. I think McCain could have chosen someone better suited. I am tired of telling people what I think, or not saying my opinion at all, because I feel that they will jump all over my case. It is my freakin' opinion. No one has to agree with it. You asked me, and I'm letting you know. It just makes me burning mad to think about it. I was with a friend in a group of people at school Tuesday and got so mad. The friend I was with is for Obama, and the group of people we were with weren't. The girl asked us if we had gone to vote. She knew that my friend was for Obama, and said something along the lines of, "you voted for Obama didn't you." We just stood there. My friend said, "I may have, or I may have voted for McCain." She replied with , "You bitch." I couldn't believe it. That comment was not needed. Why is she a bitch because she doesn't want to tell you who she voted for. It is no bodies business who you vote for unless you choose to make it there business. This comes from a girl who spent 200 dollars on a pair of sunglasses. I couldn't believe that crap by itself. I don't care for this girl as you can probably tell.

I am glad that I have had this experience, and I'm glad it is over. I can move on for the next four years, and hopefully miss out on jury duty until I have to vote again for the next President of the USA. We'll see how that goes. Yay!

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I have been wanting to see the movie Nights in Rodanthe lately, but I have avoided going. I heard it was extremely sad, and I am one of those people who is hysterical when I see a movie someone says is sad. I know I will cry my eyes out. So, now I am trying to prepare myself. I purchased the book today, and I am attempting to read it. I want to read it by the time it comes out on DVD so I can rent it. I won't go see it in theatres because I don't want to disturb the people in the theatre. Ha ha. With all my homework, I don't know when I'll be able to finish it. I will stay determined though.

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Stella B. Ward

We have recently had an addition to our family. Yay! My sister and soon to be brother-in-law just got a puppy. She is so adorable! I absolutley love her. I have already dogsat for them twice. I have my own key now so maybe after classes I can go over there to let her out. I grew up with animals as you can read in my first blog. They are a part of our family. My sister moved out about 5 or 6 years ago and has been on her own since then. She loves animals just as much as we do. I know she has missed having them in her life. They went to a flea market about two weekends ago and were looking around. They had already seen plenty of animals, but Stella just stood out to them. She was precious, and they couldn't help but buy her. We have already introduced her to our animals. They all get along pretty well. Oreo could care less, but our little yorkie is terrified of her. She runs away like a chicken. It's funny to watch them. Stella loves to chase her around the kitchen. Stella is a Poochon. She is a mix between a poodle and a bichon. She loves to play and jump around. She doesn't like getting her feet wet in the morning though. She is like any other puppy. She definitly has puppy breath. It is so nasty but cute at the same time.

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So this past weekend I went to the fair. I had fun. We rode a bunch of rides, got sick, and left. We didn't really eat much, but that was fine. By the time we would have eaten, we were both sick. We played a couple of games. I won three stuffed animals(for my dogs of course). I had fun. We left and were walking out to my car. I reach down to get my keys, and they seemed a lot lighter. Oh they were. I lost part of my keys. My house key and a couple of other ones. I was so upset with myself. I called the fair and asked them to call if they were returned. I couldn't believe it. So I had to go make new house keys the next day.

Now for the past three days my mom and I have been baking for Halloween. Thank goodness it has passed cause I am so tired of cake, icing, and cookies. I could throw up. The cake was awesome though. It was a marble cake for the yard with choclate cake as the house ontop. Yes, there was a house on the cake. I couldn't believe how good it looked. We made a fence, put windwos on the house, made a door, added some rats, and a pumpkin patch. My favorite part was the walkway. It was cut up Hershey bar to look like cobble stone. It was amazing, and the best part of the whole thing was that I did it all by myself. My mom guided me of course, but I basically did everything. I was so happy that it turned out good and made it to work without the house falling over.

Oh and here are some pictures of Stella. Enjoy!

Dear No one,

Hi, we need to talk. I have been feeling this way for about 4 years now. I don't know how to tell you, but I know I need to. It isn't fair for the both of us if I don't. I don't want to see you, speak to you, or ever be around you again. I wouldn't really care if we never came in contact in my life again. You did something that I can't forget. I have forgiven you, and that is why I am able to talk to you. I will never forget though. How could you? Why did you? What were you thinking? How do you sleep at night? Do you know how wrong what you did is. I honestly think you believe you did the right thing. No other logic can explain the why.

You came into my life and turned everything around. You made it all about you. It all started about 2003. This is about the time he introduced us. You tried to be a friend to me, but I didn't really want to be your friend. You were stealing him away from me, and I didn't like that. I didn't think it was fair. I had a mom, the best one I could have had. I didn't need another one. Time past and y'all ended up getting married in December 2004. About 9 months after that my birthday rolled around. This was a special birthday to me. It was my sixteenth birthday. Thank you for letting me know a week before my birthday that we'd be moving into a house y'all chose. To make it even better, we were moving in 2 weeks. I want to thank you for including me in that decision. I understand that No one didn't have to include me but would it have hurt? I don't think so. So we move and I am still coming every other week. It is fine for a while. I stay in my room. He had a heart attack. Great! Just freaking dandy. Y'all got the phone bill that week. It was a little higher than usual, and you found out about my boyfriend. You didn't like him. I didn't think y'all would. After you tell me "if your mom wants to let y'all date that's fine. It won't happen in this house though," I leave. This is the reason that I started to come every other weekend. I told him it was because I thought I needed to give y'all time because y'all were newly weds. Whatever. It really hurt my feelings when I'd come over ever other weekend, and my room would be different. Neither one of you asked me. I guess I was under the assumption that it was my room. I guess I was wrong. At this point, I wanted nothing to do with you. Then as you know the surgery happened, and he passed away. You were alone, and I felt bad. I tried to spend time with you. I came over and saw you. We went to lunch. It actually started to go good. I told you that I love you. Then you went to Florida for a job.

I don't understand what happened. How could you have done this. This is when you just topped off the cake. I could never be a friend to a person like you. You are selfish, ignorant, and bitchy. You had NO right to do what you did. I get mad just telling you about it. How do you think you had the right to claim me? He was only alive for four months of the year. What in you ignorant mind made you believe you were doing the right thing. You may have had legal power to do it, but a good person, which you are not, wouldn't have done it. They would have let the woman who took care of me the whole year claim me. She paid you every month for all of my health insurance premium. You got all the life insurance money. I got what dad left me. Mom should have gotten what you got on the tax return. You didn't deserve it. I wouldn't care if you fell off the face of the Earth. I would never hurt you, and I am not the person to wish bad things on people, but you make me so mad. This is all I had to say. I wanted you to know how I felt. I wanted you to know why I don't like you or don't want a relationship with you. I hope you understand and will leave me alone.


Sincerely,
No One Special

Fall break.. what a break...

I was so excited about my fall break but not for the reasons of other people. I wanted to work full days and earn extra money. Well I find out the weekend before the break that I have to go down to Harlingen, TX, a ten hour drive, to visit my great aunt who is slowly letting herself die. She won't do anything to help herself. She doesn't want to go into a Texas state-run nursing home, but she wants someone there with her all day. Even when she is sleeping, she wants someone there. She is being ridiculous, but I have never remembered her to be anything but ridiculous. She keeps her house at 80 degrees year round. I am used to my house being about 70 degrees. 10 degrees is a big difference. She won't budge either. It drives me nuts. It's kind of funny though because she has a white line drawn on her thermostat that marks the 80 degree line. Mom and I just kind of laugh it off.



We are staying in a hotel that is like 5 minutes from where she lives. It's nice. I am enjoying getting to spend the time with my mom. We don't ever get to spend time together anymore because of our schedules. We are going to get to do some fun things while we're here. I am also enjoying the time off of work. I needed that little break, but I wouldn't have minded making the money. We rented a car to go on this trip because we didn't want to have to put the miles on either one of our cars. We were supposed to get a premium sized car because the SUVs are too expensive. Well we ended up getting to the car place and she gave us not only a nice SUV but a discount. It's a Pontiac Torrent. It has XM stereo, heated seats, moon roof, and so much room. It's huge. I can't drive it though because I'm not 25. I've driven it anyways because my mom gets vertigo. It makes her lightheaded and dizzy. She can't drive under those conditions so I have to drive.

I miss my friends and my animals though. I am ready to come back home. It doesn't take much for me to get homesick.

Also, what made this trip even better was the night before we left. I went to work that day like I always do and to school that night. Since i had a test, I was sitting in my car studying at school. I try to start my car and the battery is dead. I love my life (I really do though). I go and take my test. I call my mom, and she comes to get me. She is in the rental car so she has no jumper cables. So I call my sister and her fiance but get no answer. I call Bekki because I know she has jumper cables from all her car trouble. I didn't feel to bad calling her either because, when her alternator was out, I pushed her Ford Expedition off of Bert Kouns. That was loads of fun. We finally got in touch with my sister and her fiance. They came to jump me and got it working. Then Bekki showed up. Everything was fine. I drove my car home, and I'm going to replace the battery after I get home. That was definitely a fun way to start my break. My life would be boring without all of this though. I would rather have these wonderful moments of jumping cars in the rain than nothing.

Sunday School and more

I teach Sunday School at Noel United Methodist Church. I love it. I love the kids, the teaching, and watching them grow up. I started out working in the nursery of this church. After my parents split up, my dad started to go to this church. He liked the services and the preachers. He decided to join after that. So, I joined with him. After he passed, I stopped going to Noel. I have been going to Broadmoor with my sister, mom and my sister's fiance. It's OK.



I started out working with the babies. We would have one to three little babies and then probably four to five toddlers. The toddlers would leave us to go to Mrs. Betsy, the Sunday school teacher at the time, for Sunday school. They always had fun and came back happy. Well Mrs. Betsy decided that she didn't want to teach it anymore and was looking for a replacement. Me and my friend Bekki decided that we would do it. We started in August and have loved it ever since. The kids are so adorable and funny. We have started off studying creation, and the children have made a painting. Each Sunday, we studied a different day until we reached the seventh day. Their hands made up the sky and the earth. Then they painted trees, stars, a moon, a sun, and different animals. They really enjoyed it. For the last day, we took their pictures. Instead of drawing humans, we decided to put their pictures on the painting. That way the parents could see what their child created. Also, it would imply that we are the humans that God made.


It turned out really cute. I miss working the nursery though. I loved working with John Kirkland. He was the most adorable baby in the world. Actually, you can judge for yourself. I have a picture of him. He would always be so good for me. I love working with children. It is part of the reason I am majoring in Elementary Education. Go figure.









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This week has been so hectic. I was sick at the beginning of the week, but I finally started to get over it. I may have to go to the doctor though next week because it is coming back. We are having to replace the floors and walls in our laundry room. Our washer and dryer are sitting in our dining room at this moment, and we are having to go to my grandmother's to do laundry. It is really aggravating. We had a leak from the washer, and that is what caused all of this. Hopefully it will be done by the beginning of November. That's what we are aiming for. We are putting beautiful tile in the laundry room and doing it ourselves. We have also now decided that we are going to tile the kitchen and dinning room too. It just looks nice and easy to clean. I hope it works out. Friday night I went to the revel with Sherry, my sister, and her fiance. We had a lot of fun. I bought some Hummingbird feeders for my mom. They are really neat. I have never seen any like this. My mom loves Hummingbirds too. This morning I had to work, and now i am writing this blog. Tonight I have to host an Arbonne party. It is sort of like Avon. I got roped into it and just want it over with. I am not looking forward to it. Hopefully it will go well. We'll see. Tomorrow I have to teach Sunday School, but I have no clue what I am teaching. They have yet to send me the rest of the curriculum. So I am just going to come up with my own lesson. Wish me good luck on that. I also have to go Monday to wash my car, volunteer, and do homework. So much fun stuff is planned out for my weekend. I did have fun at the Revel though.

My Heros...

My heroes are my parents. I look up to them as my role models. They help me become who I am. I would not be here today if it hadn't been for them. They are two very special people. My dad likes to have fun. He is very laid back and likes joking around. My mom is very independent and stable. She loves to cook and is probably the best cook I know. She bakes anything and loves to try out new recipes. My dad is a mortgage broker; he owns Crestar Mortgage. My parents have shown me who I want to be, and who I don't want to be. Nobodies parents are perfect. Mine aren't either. They have faults, and they do things that i don't necessarily want to do in my life. They go to church and are very family oriented. That is something I would like to continue into my adulthood. They also have a lot of debt. Most people in the world today are in debt. I understand that. I just don't want to be one of those people. I have the opportunity to go through college without student loans and get a good degree. I plan on finishing school with no debt and continuing that plan. I don't want to have credit cards, but if I need money, then I will go to the bank to get a loan. I can find several different ways of getting money that have a light at the end of the tunnel. I definitely want to be able to see that light.

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This week has been very stressful. I have been trying to get caught up or even ahead on assignments, but it is just not working. I finally get caught up on one thing, but then the teacher throws something else at me. I usually don't worry about it much because I know it will get done. This weekend I have caught some kind of cold, hopefully not the flu. I am miserable. So I am getting nothing done this weekend except what is absolutely necessary. This blog, my first draft, and my ed 201 project are my main focuses. I missed a half a day of work which is also not like me. I work about 30 hours a week and go to school full time. I also teach Sunday School at my church every Sunday. I absolutely love it. It is really hard for me to find time to do homework and have fun. Sometimes I don't make the right decision and choose to have fun, but I am only 19. I think I am aloud to do that once in a while. I also have to dog sit for my friend this weekend. Oh well. I'll get over this cold and get my homework done. I just have to keep going along. At least the semester is already halfway over with.