CWP #134

I wish someone would have told me that college is not as fun as people make it out to be. I guess the big colleges are a lot more fun than small colleges like AUM. To me, AUM is all about school work and lots of it. The bigger Universities have things such as a legit football team and baseball teams that are actually big and more people tend to go to them. It would have helped me out a whole lot if someone would have told me what I needed to prepare for, that would come in handy in college. Things such as writing papers, managing time, how to do your schedule that you can handle your first year and all that nonsense. As a college Freshman, I'm balancing 4 classes 4 days a week, a job, seeing both parents and each house, and of course my sweet and loving boyfriend. But I can't say much, my best friend Jana has 2 jobs, bills to pay, a boyfriend, homework and all that. So at least I don't have such a big load like her. Although I think I am starting to get used to everything all the time. College is very very very VERY stressful but everybody tells me that your freshman year is the hardest and it will get easier.

Oh the memories.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be around my big brother. I'm not sure why but I did. Whether it was going to the batting cages, riding our bikes, playing in the yard or anything else I was always right there up under his feet. I do remember this one time he had his BB gun out on the back steps playing with it. Well he had the bright idea that he wanted to practice shooting it. So I stayed outside and played with the dogs while he went inside. A few minutes later he returned and sat back on the steps. I asked where he went and he said he emptied the gun of ALL the BB's. Very confused, I asked what he was going to do. He said he cut the ends off of Q-tips and put them in the gun. Then he told me that he was going to practice shooting on me. Then he told me to run around the yard and he was going to shoot me with the cotton end of the Q-tips and it wouldn't hurt. After about five minutes of being shot with those, I felt a sharp pain in the left thigh. I looked down and it was already starting to bruise up. Obviously he had not seen all of the BB's because he forgot one, which by that point was in my leg. My parents were inside taking a nap, but that didn't keep me for screaming and crying at the top of my lungs. He was trying to get me to be quiet but it was to late. My parents came outside and asked what had happened and after I finally got it all out, they took me inside and tried to calm me down. On the other hand, he got in tons and tons and tons of trouble. I thought it was kind of funny and still do. Needless to say, there was never a dull moment with me & my brother.

Creative Writing Prompt

Growing up I loved to play outside. Whether it was playing home run derby with older brother or in the back yard playing with my dogs, I loved to be outside. I also liked to play city league softball and cheer for our schools termite and peewee football teams. I remember one time I was in the back yard playing with our big yellow lab that was probably twice as big. I put a leash on her and wrapped the other side of it on my wrist, then I got the bright idea to throw a tennis ball and make her go and get it. Well I forgot that the leash was wrapped around my wrist and as soon as I threw it, she took off and I did to. I did a complete face plant then she drug me all the way until she got her ball. I was then covered it mud and dirt and might I add it was NOT fun. But now I think it's funny and I couldn't get mad at her because it was my bright idea in the first place. Looking back at it now, I miss being younger and not having to stress about things but everybody has to get older sometime. Me and my brother would play outside together all the time. We would go to the batting cages up the street and I would watch him play because I was to young to go in the cages. My favorite thing to do was to play home run derby with him and all of his friends. Except he would always change the rules to where he would win and he would also hit the ball way across the street so I had to go forever away to get it. Now the he's married and I'm in college i wish we would have done more things together just because we are both so busy now with work and school and everything else going on that its hard to make time for us to go and do something together.

CWP #38

Right now, my idea of a perfect vacation would be anywhere far away from AUM and work. I'm so incredibly exhausted from school and I need a vacation! The beach would be nice, but even just a week or 2 away from school would be good. I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving break and the Christmas holidays that are right around the corner. But I'm not looking forward to the final exams and tests that come before each break. More than likely I will be going a little bit out of town with my boyfriend to see his family in Clay County for the holidays. When my family has their gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the farthest place I go is to Millbrook because that is where all my family on my dads side lives. All of my mom's family is out of state and with her job and my school and work there is just not enough time and money to go see them along with seeing our other family too. I don't really like to travel only because long car rides get me car sick. The farthest place I've been here in the last few years was Georgia, for a football game.. and of course I was car sick the whole way there and back. Although the only place I like to travel to, is of course the beach. I love love love the beach and everything about it. But hopefully the holidays will come a lot faster and I can finally get a little vacation away from school and work.

Sentence Exercise

It was working at TanZone that has helped shape the way I handle different work situations, take care of inventory orders, make sure the customers are taken care of.


She runs into Tanzone carrying her tanning lotions, revealing that she is late, is ready to tan, is concerned about being on time for her next errand.


Ahhh help!!!!

Long weeks and short weekends.

It seems like every week is getting longer and the weekends are getting shorter. Every week it gets harder and harder for me to roll out of bed and get ready to come to class. Since I live off campus, it takes me about 30-45 minutes to get home or to school, depending on traffic. So that means I have to wake up earlier to make it to school by the time class starts. Mondays and Wednesdays are my favorite class days because I only have to go to one class then I can go home and start on my homework or whatever else I have to do. Although I'm not thrilled about having to come to school 4 days out of the week, I like only have to go to school for one class then go home. Tuesdays and Thursdays are by far my least favorite days out of them all, only because I have to wake up at 6 to make it to my first class at 8 then I have to wait all the way until 3:35 until my next class, but on Thursday I have a lab at 12:30. I get a lot of my homework done but staying at school all day long is exhausting and when I don't have anything to do, it gets boring. I could go shopping during the times I don't have class, but I would be broke. I would also lose my parking spot. People might thing that's a dumb idea, but when it's 5 o'clock and your ready to get out of here and its raining, having a close parking spot is a lot better than having to walk way out to the middle of no where just to get to your car. Needless to say I'm ready for this week to be over with so I can catch up on some sleep and enjoy my weekend!!!

Physical Therapy

I have changed my mind so many times of deciding what I wanted to be when I grew up. I remember when I was real young, I wanted to be a teacher. Going into junior high, I wanted to be a doctor. Then my sophomore year of high school rolled around and I decided I wanted to be a Nurse Practitioner, until I looked up all of what they had to do then I changed my mind. My junior and senior year, I thought I wanted to be a Physical Therapist. When I applied for AUM, I set my major for pre-physical therapy. Now, I'm having second thoughts about it. My dad always told me to go into a career that I know I will enjoy going to every single day and I'm just not all that sure that Physical Therapy is the right career for me. In all honesty, I have no idea what I want to major in and I certainly don't want to major in something that I will end up not liking. I found out about Physical Therapy a few years ago when my older brother broke his elbow and had to go to go a few times a week to his therapist. I researched a little bit about it and I was getting more and more interested. A friend of mine got into a four-wheeler wreck a few months ago and was in the hospital for a few weeks and the doctors weren't 100% positive that he would be able to be back to normal. After getting released from the hospital, he was put in physical therapy and has been there for a month or so, going a few times a week. Although he said it is extremely painful and usually is not looking forward to his next visit, he said it has helped him out tremendously and he is beginning to be able to do the things he could before the wreck. I think it would definitely be an interesting job to have, along with helping people feel better after an accident or surgery. But I'm still not 100% sure that it is the right career for me. Hopefully I will figure out something soon, because I certainly don't want to have to go to college any longer than I have to just because I want to change my major.

Creative Writing Prompt 113

Another idea given from the Creative Writing Prompts-

Today I will try to accomplish more homework than I planned on doing. I have math homework I need to do. I also need to start studying for my Biology Lab midterm that is coming up soon. I also need to start on my chapter 5 work in Biology when it gets posted on Blackboard. I'm doing my best keeping up with my blogging entries for English class, but I've been slacking off on the Study Plan exercises on MyCompLab only because of all the papers, tests, quizzes and everything else I've had going on. But after I try to get a lot of that accomplished I'm going to go eat lunch and catch up with my best friend Shelby when she gets off of work. We're going to a new restaurant in Wetumpka called RJ's Chicken. Since I've been busy, I haven't had a chance to go but Shelby has been and said that it was pretty good. After we eat, I probably will end up going to Montgomery with her to start doing a little Christmas shopping. When we get home, hopefully the boys will be home and we can all go do something tonight so I can get away from the school work for just a little bit.

TGIF

Thank the good Lord it's Friday. It's been such a long week and I'm so glad I have the weekend to get away from school for a little bit, besides all the homework of course. But yesterday was quite a day, after class and the studying, it was time to give blood like I had signed up for the day before. I'm not a big fan of being stuck with a needle, but the fact that somebody might need my blood, makes it a lot easier to go through with it. I was completely fine the whole 12 and a half minutes it took to fill up the little bag. After the nurse took the needle out is when it all went downhill. She took the needle out and told me to lift up my arm so all the blood will return back the opposite direction it came from. After she told me I could put my arm down, she was wrapping my arm so I wouldn't bruise and she said I was getting clammy. I didn't think anything of it until I started getting really hot and dizzy. She leaned me back and got me something to drink and then it sounded like she was in a tunnel an I started to black out and I could barely hear her. I told her what was going on and she said I was about to pass out so she told me to lay all the way down and she out an ice pack on my neck. A few minutes later I was fine and returned to my class. It was the weirdest thing in the world but it seems like something different happens every time I go to give blood. Then later that day I was dreading going to my math class because we were getting back our test we took the previous week. We got them back at the end of class and I made a B so I was very excited, probably because I thought I failed it. So when I made it to the car I was so excited and I wanted to call somebody and tell them. I called my mom and dad numerous times but no answer. My boyfriend called when he got home from work so I was able to tell him the good news and right as I was getting off the phone with him my best friend Shelby beeped in so of course I had to tell her to. The my parents of course called right at the same time. But I eventually told everybody the good news and my story of giving blood. Needless to say, I'm so glad it's Friday.

Giving Blood

Well, today is going to be one of the busiest days I've had in a while. After my English class, I have to go study for a Math and Biology lab quiz I have today until Jana gets out of class. Then it's off to a quick lunch and then at 11:15 I'm going to give blood. After all that is over an done with I have my Biology lab, Math tutoring, Math class then I finally get to go home for awhile until I have to go to Bennetts to shoot with  Shelby and the boys. I'm not to worried about anything today except for the whole giving blood part. First of all I'm terrified of needles, but I learned to just get over it. I started giving blood my junior year when my school had a blood drive. I also gave blood my senior year, well I tried at least. After sitting there for a good 30 or 45 minutes my blood quit going through the tube connected to my arm. I tried and tried to make it go but it wouldn't, so the nurse had to take it out of my arm and throw away the bag because it wasn't all the way full. About a month before this happened I had my wisdom teeth taken out and then everything that could have possible gone wrong, went wrong. I had an allergic reaction to the medicine I was on all these bad things started happening. I was at the doctor 3 days in a row and by the last day I was sent to the emergency room, where I was stuck 7 times to get blood to test. Then of course trying to give blood at the blood drive and not being able to give a whole bag just made everything worse. So I'm a little nervous about giving blood today but hopefully I will be able to give all I can without any problems.

Muckalee Creek Water- Luke Bryan

Luke Bryan recently released his new album Tailgates & Tanlines, which I got a copy of. My boyfriend and best friend Shelby also have this CD, so I listen to it all the time. One of my favorite songs on that CD is "Muckalee Creek Water." It has so much meaning behind it and it reminds me a lot about myself and my friends, when we go down to the creek and tear stuff up on the four wheelers. It also talks when you just have to leave the truck and your cell phone and everything else at the road and your four wheeler is all you need. It also talks about a his little Jon boat on the water fishin' and when his dad took him fishin' on that same creek when he was younger, teaching him how to fish and huntin' down rabbits and squirrels. It reminds me a lot about when my older brother and dad taught me how to fish and watching them shoot squirrels in the back year. The main focus behind the whole song is just to get away from the world for a little bit and forget what the economy is doing and just go down to the creek and ride the four wheeler and go fishin'. I love this song and it will always bring back memories of learning how to fish, and watching my brother shoot squirrels, and riding the four wheelers up and down the creeks.

McDonalds vs. Burger King

McDonalds and Burger King are very similar in their choices of food. But, it seems to me like there are more McDonalds restaurants than there are Burger King restaurants. I guess Burger Kings are usually in the bigger cities such as Prattville and Montgomery, but McDonalds is every where, even in the small city of Wetumpka. I don't normally eat at fast food restaurants that much because most of the time, all the greasy food makes me sick afterwards. Neither one of them are my favorites, but I do like Burger King a lot better than I do Mcdonalds. But since there is only a Mcdonalds close to where I live, I usually have to settle for that because I'm not going to drive 20 or 30 minutes out of my way just to get Burger King. The only time I get Burger King is if I'm in Montgomery or Prattville. To me, Burger King has better french fries, burgers, chicken, everything. McDonalds has good food, but it's way to greasy for me. That's about all I have to say about that - Burger King has better food but McDonalds is more convenient and closer to where I live, so it will have to do.

Chocodelphia

I have always been a daddy's girl. When I was younger, I would always want to be right up under my dads feet. I thought he was the best dad in whole world. He would come watch my softball games, or come watch me cheer at the football games. Although he hasn't always been there for me like my mom has, but that's another story. When I was growing up, my dad would go to buy tools or something and would always take me with him. We would go get whatever he needed to get, and of course I would always pick out something I wanted, then we would go get something to eat, and then we finally got to go to what became my favorite place to go. He would take me to "Chocodelphia", which was located in Prattville. It has every kind of chocolate and candies you can think of. My dad would let me pick out whatever I wanted and then he would get it for me. The relocated to another part of Prattville when I got a little bit older, but me and my dad still made a point to go over there. For Valentine's day last year, I went over there and bought my parent's all of there favorite kinds of chocolates. A few months or even weeks later, they were closed. I was so disappointed when I saw they were not open anymore. I asked dad what had happened to it, and he said they were just not getting enough business to stay open. Because of this, Dad and I can't make trips every now and then to get our favorite chocolates. Hopefully they will open up again one day.

The cabin & the water.

I love to be in the water, or even around it.  Whether I'm at the beach, the lake, the river, or a pond- I love the water. I love to swim, inter tube, fish, and anything else that has to do with the water. Even though in some areas of water I have to worry about snakes and alligators, it doesn't bother me enough to stay out of the water. If I could be at the lake or something every day, I would be a happy camper. But if I did I probably wouldn't get a whole lot done. I would be to busy outside to worry about anything else.

I also love to be in the woods, especially at the cabin. A few years ago, my boyfriend and his dad built a cabin on their huntin' land a long ways behind their house. It's a small cabin, but it has an upstairs bed, and ol' timey stove, and all sorts of things in there. Outside you can find a a grill, a fire pit, the generator, and some chairs. The cabin is one of my favorite places to be. Hunter and I usually will go out to the cabin and grill out with some friends. We normally take the four wheelers because most trucks can't get back there without tearing something up or getting stuck in the mud holes. Besides the water, the cabin is another one of my favorite places to be!

Homework!

I usually look forward to Friday's because for one, I don't have to wake up early and two, I go to school Monday- Thursday so I'm usually ready for Friday to come around. Although, this Friday is filled with nothing but school. It seems like I can't get away from it. I have my first Biology test on Monday so today I have 3 chapters of study guides to do, 2 things of homework, and an online quiz to take .On top of that I have an English paper to start writing and some online things to do for that class as well. Anyways, I always look forward to Friday's because I can sleep late. Nope, not this Friday.. I woke up at like 8 and couldn't go back to sleep so I thought I might as well get started on my homework. I'm so ready for a long break so I don't have to worry about papers, homework, quizzes, tests, and anything else college wants to throw at me. Hopefully I will get most of it done today, so I will have the rest of the weekend to do whatever and not worry about having to do homework. Hopefully I won;t get to distracted by something like Facebook that will keep from doing all of this homework. But as soon as I get it all done and over with I will feel so much better!

Math Test

I had my first math test yesterday, and I was so nervous. Every since I completely bombed my first math quiz, I have been going to tutoring for about 2 hours every Tuesday and Thursday. The homework seemed to be clicking faster and the next quiz I had, I made a 93 on it. I have studying my butt off to make sure I know how to do everything and making sure all my homework is done. Well, yesterday I studied during my break and then again after lab. I even went to tutoring to make sure I knew all the material. The time for test had finally come and I was feeling very confident. The teacher said it shouldn't take all the class time but we have the whole time to do it. He handed out the test and I scanned through it, there was 19 questions on it. I began working then I just went blank, forgetting most of everything I had been studying for. I got as far as I could in the problems I could figure out, but then I would just forget what I was supposed to do next to finish the problem. The easiest question on there had 3 parts to it and I had to tell if it was a type of a function or not my doing the vertical line test, well of course I got it mixed up and thought I was supposed to do the horizontal line test. He does give partial credit, so I'm hoping I did better than I think I do but then again I probably didn't!

Human beings do 3 kinds of things: things that are also done by animals, things that will one day be done by robots, and art.

Human beings do 3 kinds of things: things that are also done by animals, things that will one day be done by robots, and art.

I'm going to start with subject on art. Some human beings are very artistic and use art to express what they're feeling or even to show the environment around them. There are so many types of art that people can do. Things such as paintings, sculptures, self portraits and so on. Some even use their artistic ability to design the inside of some one's house. People use these things to show their talents or even because they enjoy doing it. Some forms of art can't be figured out unless it is studies hard enough. Even though I'm not all that artistic, I still have respect for the people who are because it takes a lot of skill to be able to do some of the art that you see in every day places.

Our world has become so full of technology and so concerned about making something better. All of the machines, cell phones, computers, ipods and all of that nonsense have become so technological and everybody wants the newest thing. Before we know it, everything that we do as humans such as in a workplace, will be done by robots. Who knows, all the cleaning, cooking and driving a car could even be done by robots. I wish the world would not have turned out to be so advanced in technologies, because it makes people lazy, and if everything was done by robots there would be nothing for us to do.

There is not much I can say about the things that human beings do that animals also do. But a few things that both of them do would be things such as taking care of their young, reproducing, grooming and so on. Humans and animals are also smart, one might be smarter than the other but they are both smart. That is really all I have to say about that.

CWP #62!

Another idea I saw from Creative Writing Prompts was to write about "A funny thing happened to me on my way to.." So here I go, yet again.

There is probably so many things that have been funny that have happened to me, but because my memory.. sucks, I will just tell about one that happened recently. Last week I only had to go to two days of classes instead of four because of holidays. Last Thursday was probably one of the better days I've had at AUM. I one of my papers finished, I did exercises for my English class, went to tutoring and got some homework done, and I was also given my last quiz in math, which I made a 93 on. I was so excited about my grade in math and everything else that I had accomplished that day, so I decided to treat myself to Starbucks before i headed home. I got my Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino and pulled up to throw away the paper off the straw. Little did I know, the things that stick up out of the trashcans, were lower than I thought.. yep you guessed it.. I hit it with my side mirror. Instead of reversing to keep it from scratching any more of my window I just kept on cruising along. Thinking nobody saw me, I looked up and two guys were outside looking and snickering. I couldn't help but to laugh and think to myself that it would only happen to me. I called my mom tell her what happened to she wouldn't freak when she saw a scratch on my car, and she couldn't do anything but laugh. At least she wasn't mad, but now I have got to figure out a way to get that scratch out of the side mirror. Some people wouldn't be to happy if they scratched their vehicle, but I on the other hand, thought it was funny and that I WOULD be the one do something like that. Now I know to just keep the paper from the straw inside my car until I get home.

Facebook, Is. So. ADDICTING!

One of the things I have learned since Facebook was created is that it's very very VERY addicting to some people. I am guilty of this. Usually I will go on the Internet to check my email from school, or print something out for homework, or do some blogs, or anything else that has to with school. If it doesn't have to do with school, then I am more than likely just shopping on the Internet. While I'm shopping or doing homework, I find myself wandering on Facebook, seeing what everybody is doing. I actually saw a status on there last night from a friend and she said "Facebook affects your ability to study." I kind of laughed a bit and then went about doing whatever it was I was on the computer for the first place and then I started thinking, it really does affect people in the way they study.. or supposed to be studying. Such as last night, I was supposed to be studying for a math quiz I have today and ended up on Facebook. There have many occasions that I have been on the computer typing a paper or researching something for a project and got distracted by the temptation to be on Facebook. If I'm not on the computer, Facebook is not a big deal to me but it seems like every time I need to use the computer for homework or school or anything else... I end up getting on Facebook and wasting time. Like now for instance, I need to be doing things in "My Study Plan" for my English class or studying for math but before I started blogging, I got on Facebook. I hope this addiction doesn't continue to worsen otherwise I will be in trouble.

More help from CWP!

I just love the link my English teacher gave my class to help us to get ideas for our blogs, it's so much help. One of the ideas was to write about a place I go when I want to get away from work, family, life, etc - so here I go.

When I have so much stress or just want to get away from everything, I usually go to the lake or jump on the four wheeler and  just ride with my boyfriend. Unlike a lot of boys, my boyfriend is definitely one in a million. He's one of my best friends and one of the only people I can count on for anything. He also is one that never makes me stress over anything and is the first person that is there to help when I am having problems with something. But anyways, I usually go with him somewhere for a little until I get to feeling better. If we're not on the four wheelers, we usually go to the lake and go fishing for a little bit, that always makes me feel better. If I'm not with him, there is one thing that ALWAYS makes me feel better when I just want to get away, and that's shopping. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better to just go shopping by myself for a little while. I guess I just need to time to get away from the situation and get my thoughts together to figure out the best way to handle it. If there was any other place I could go when I want to get away, would definitely be the beach. I love being at the beach! But since I work and go to school and have all that to deal with, I can't just get up and go to the beach whenever I want although it would be nice. I'm not stressing to much about anything but school so it's nothing big so I won't be needing to get away any time soon.

Creative Writing Prompt ideas!

I took my teachers' advice and decided to go to the creative writing link to help get ideas for blogs. I found one that says start off with "Today I will.." and that is just what I'm going to do.

Today I will be going to tutoring for my Pre-Calculus class at 1:00 p.m. after that I'm going to do a little homework and then at 3:35 p.m. I have my math class until 5. Bright and early this morning I had my English Comp class where I blogged, reviewed over a few classmates' papers and listened to what my teacher had to say today. After that class was over, I headed to the library to get some homework done. I finished an English paper that is due Thursday and I also studied for a math quiz I have today. I also have my first test in math on Thursday so we are having a review day in class today after the quiz. Sometime this week, I also have a quiz in Biology and a Biology Lab quiz to take. Some much has to be done this week and so many tests I have to take, but I'm just going to take it one day at a time. But after math class is my favorite part of every Tuesday and Thursday because I finally get to go home. Although I get stuck in 5 o'clock traffic, I would rather be heading home than in class. When I get home I start my homework and wait for my mom to finish cooking. Tuesday's and Thursday's seem to be the longest out of them all, but hopefully this week will go by fast and I will make it through everything going on this week.

Repost Exercise

Every year it seems like Alabama goes through its stages of bipolar weather, and last week was one of them. Just as I was starting to enjoy the cool weather, it starts getting hot outside again. Last week, it started to feel like fall, where I could wear blue jeans and a t-shirt and not get hot. Then all of a sudden the weather took a 180 and started getting hot again. I love to seeing Summer arrive, but by the end of August I'm ready for the Fall weather to come in. I remember a few years ago around Christmas time, I was cheering in the Christmas parade and instead of wearing warm clothes.. I was wearing a cheer t-shirt and my cheer pants. I also remember a year or two ago on March 1, it was snowing. We have the weirdest weather down here in the south, but there isn't anything anybody can do about it so we all have to just live with it. It seems like every summer is getting hotter and every winter is getting a litter colder. I love Alabama and everything in it, but sometimes I wish the weather would be the right temperature at the right time, instead of being cold one week and hot the next. Although I would like to wear shorts to my all days classes, I end up wearing jeans because it's so cold in the classrooms. So I go from a classroom that is most likely set on 61 degrees such as my math class, to going outside where it is burning up. I don't think going from cold to hot is very good, considering within the first week of school I was already catching a cold, my guess was because of going from getting really cold to really hot.  I guess I will be in shorts and a t-shirt again for awhile.

First College Test

In high school, tests were never a big deal for me because usually I knew what I was doing and I knew the teachers long enough where I knew how they tested. But college is way different. I have no idea what the teachers expect or how they do their test. I have had 2 quizzes in my math class, biology class, and biology lab class. I did well on all of them except for the first math quiz. After I bombed that quiz, I began meeting with the teacher two days a week for two hours for tutoring. The last quiz I had in there I made a 93, so I think the tutoring is helping. Next Monday I have a my first Biology test and I am so nervous already. I also have my first test in math on Thursday , which I'm really not looking forward to. I have a quiz tomorrow in math which I am not looking forward to either. On Thursday I have a paper due in English, a quiz in Biology and in Biology lab, and a test on Thursday. Needless to say I'm ready for the weekend already. I'm very nervous for my first tests and hopefully I will do good on them. I'm going to have to really buckle down this week and study hard to make sure I make a good grade on all of the things I have going on in the next few days.

Alabama Weather

Every year it seems like Alabama's weather gets weirder and weirder. Just as I was starting to enjoy the cool weather, it starts getting hot outside again. Last week, it started to feel like fall, where I could wear blue jeans and a t-shirt and not get hot. Then all of a sudden the weather took a 180 and started getting hot again. I love to see Summer come, but by the end of August I'm ready for the Fall weather to come in. I remember a few years ago around Christmas time, I was cheering in the Christmas parade and instead of wearing warm clothes.. I was wearing a cheer t-shirt and my cheer pants. I also remember a year or two ago on March 1, it was snowing. We have the weirdest weather down here in the south, but there isn't anything anybody can do about it so we will just have to deal with it. It seems like every summer is getting hotter and every winter is getting a litter colder. I love Alabama and everything in it, but sometimes I wish the weather would be the right temperature at the right time, instead of being cold one week and hot the next. I guess I will be in shorts and a t-shirt again for awhile.

Cold Mud.

Instead going bowfishing, me, Hunter, Shelby, and Zac changed it up a little bit. Friday night we loaded up the four wheelers, filled them up with gas and hit the dirt roads in Eclectic. For hours, we crawled up steep hills, dodged the branched, and tore up everything possible in the way. It was probably around 11 o'clock when we made it back to Zac's. Then we decided to go back behind his house and ride on the huntin' land, where we found a mud hole. Without sinkin' the four wheelers, we tore up every rut and any other spots in that mud hole.There was one time, me and Hunter went through it and the headlight were under the muddy water, but we managed not get stuck but we did manage to get covered in mud that was freezing cold. We had to call it quits early because Zac had to go to work the next day, while the rest of us were off. By the time we got through, we were all covered from head to toe in freezing cold mud. I had to change clothes and put everything in the back of Hunter's truck. By the time I had gotten home it was probably 2 or 2:30 in the morning. I planned on sleeping late since I didn't have to work the following morning. It was 8o'clock Saturday morning and my phone keeps going off...it was Shelby. I ignored it and went to go back to sleep, but then I got to thinking that something might be wrong if she was calling me this early and she didn't have to work. So I called her back to make sure everything was okay, and of course nothing was wrong.. she wanted to go shopping for Zac's mom because it was her birthday. I got my butt out of bed and did my math homework then got ready to go. We shopped all day long and finally found her something. When I got home Hunter called and wanted me to go up there and help him with the four wheeler. Needless to say, I was exhausted and ended up falling asleep after we cleaned up the four wheeler. But like always, we had a fun weekend and I'm already ready for next Friday to roll around.

9/11

Every year on this day since 2001, people typically remember where they were when the nation was under attack. In Sunday School and in church this morning, we talked a lot about this subject, which made me want to write a about it. Not only on TV, but even on the radio, people are telling where they were during the attack. But ten years ago on this day, I was in the third grade and I had Mrs. Byrd. I missed school that day because my grandfather had passed away 3 days early on September 8. People typically think more about our country, what had happened, and the loved ones that were lost on this day each year. I also think about those things, but I always think about my grandfather more than anything. Since it was my mom's dad that passed away, she's always very emotional on this day. I can't even begin to imagine the people who lost loved ones in this tragic event. When I was in high school, I still remember watching the news from that day which a teacher had recorded, watching movies such as Flight 93, and also watching documents on the 9/11 attack. This day every year is a very sad and emotional day, but it will never be forgotten and the ones that were lost will always be remembered.

Senior English Class

All throughout my English classes in high school, I goofed off more than I did anything. I didn't like to write and I certainly didn't like to read. We didn't learn much of anything good in those classes anyways, so I just decided to spend my time goofing off, which most of the time led me in to getting in trouble almost every other day. Even though I spent most of my time getting in trouble and goofing off, I still made sure I wasn't missing anything important, which most of the time I wasn't.  It wasn't until my senior year that I started to learn something in an English class. In the previous years, I didn't like the teachers I had but one, and she moved to a different state. But my senior year I had Mrs.Mcvay, who was my old cheer coach from a few years back. I also cheered with her oldest daughter and coached her youngest on the Termite cheer squad. So I knew a lot about Mrs. Mcvay going into her class. I learned more in one year of her class than I have in any other English class I've had before. Mrs. Mcvay showed us all types of movies such as Becoming Jane, Star Wars, Beowulf, Frankenstein and so a whole lot more. We took notes on the movies, and at the end of each of them, we did a paper or some kind of project. She taught us how to identify the themes, symbols, and meanings behind things in the movies that I would have never payed attention to. Not only was she a good teacher, but she was also somebody that you could tell anything to. Sometimes we would even spend a class period having conversations about anything and everything that most of the time, taught me some kind of lesson. Without her, my writing wouldn't be where it is today. I've also learned so many more things in English and life lessons that I never would have learned without her.

Southern Hospitality

If I had the chance to move any where besides the small towns I stay around now, I wouldn't. Most people are so ready to get away from this town by the time they graduate, but not me. I don't usually go far from where I live, besides the beach. Besides Wetumpka, where I live, I'm usually in Eclectic, Wallsboro, or Prattville. If I go to Prattville it's either to see my family, or to go shopping. Usually, I only go to Montgomery for school or if I want to go shopping. Eclectic, Wallsboro and Wetumpka is where all my friends and my boyfriend live, so that's where you can find me most of the time.
I could never move away from these small towns, because of many different reasons. One reason would be the southern hospitality that you can't find other than the south. No offense to the North, but everybody around the south are a lot nicer. Whether your just driving down the road and people wave just to say "hey", even if they don't know you. Most people around these towns, have grown up with somebody in your family and always ask about them when they see you. Besides the people, I could never give up the southern food, sweet tea, or even seeing cows 4 or 5 times before I ever make it to my boyfriend's house. I've learned that it's the little things that mean the most, and I wouldn't ever give that up and move away from these small towns of sweet home Alabama.

Long Labor Day Weekend.

Last week I was waiting for Thursday at 5:05 because that's when my five day weekend started. After my last class on Thursday, I went home and took my Biology 1010 quiz and then I was off to Bennett's Archery to meet up with Hunter, Zac, Shelby and two of our other friends that went. After watching the boys finish up shooting their bows, we finally left and I headed to a Hunter's for a little bit. The next day, I tried to get caught up on a little bit of my homework and I cleaned the house for mom. When Hunter got off of work, we went to Walmart to get his hunting license, which is another story, and grabbed something to eat. Saturday, he went to Prattville for a dove shoot while I was at work, missing the Alabama game. After we both got home, we met at his house and grilled out with his family. On Sunday, I got up and went to church, came home and took a nap, then went to Hunter's. I wasn't feeling so good, so while he was outside washing his four-wheeler, I took some medicine and layed on the couch and watched movies the rest of the night. Monday, Hunter was supposed to go to work but since it was raining to bad they couldn't do anything with the machines. So he met me at the house and we went to my brother's house in Prattville, to cook out with him and his wife, her parents and grandad, her sister and brother-in-law, and my parents. After we left there, I went to my dad's with Hunter for a little bit then we headed back to my mom's house. Today, I think I'm going to try to get more of my homework done and when Hunter gets off, I have to go to Bennett's Archery again tonight. I've enjoyed this long labor day weekend and I hate to see it end.

Trip to Walmart.

As you may or may not know, today is opening day for dove hunting. Last night my boyfriend, Hunter, and I went to Walmart to renew his hunting license because his ran out last week. Of course, I couldn't make this trip because I have a job that makes me miss things such as this. But anyways, we went to get shells and his license. As he's looking for the one's he wants, I'm looking around at the line of people waiting to get their license renewed as well, because everybody's expires on the same day. I asked one of the men how long he had been waiting and he said about ten minutes. With signs all through out the department telling the days when the doves shoots were, they had to know people were going to be there the day before renewing their license, but yet nobody was there to help.I decided to take things into my own hands and I went on a search to find somebody. I went to another department where I saw another man waiting in line and he said "He's been on the phone for about 15 minutes and has yet to help me." So I said "Sir, your going to have to get off that phone." He rolled his eyes and I said "Look, all I need is for you to page somebody to go the hunting section." He sent me to another department and before I knew it I heard them calling somebody to go to the hunting section. About ten minutes went by and still nobody to help us. Two other men went to go find somebody and one of them ended up going to find the manager. Before he showed up, a girl that worked there came over there and said she didn't know how to do the license so she couldn't help. I asked her where the girl that was supposed to be working the hunting department was and she said "Oh, she's still on break." I was thinking, "Holy crap how long of a break do they get." The manager finally showed up and I didn't hesitate to tell him what I thought about the situation. He got the computer up and started getting the information from the man in front of us for his license. About twenty minutes went by and I asked what was taking so long to print out a piece of paper and he said the computer was slow and that was the only one that could do the license. After spending almost an hour and a half in Walmart, we finally make it out of there with about 9 other unhappy customers still waiting in line. I was wanting Subway, so Hunter went by there and of course, because we spent the whole night in Walmart, Subway was closed. I settled for Mcdonalds and then we finally made it home. Never again will I ever go the day before the season starts to renew mine or Hunter's hunting license.

Alabama's Opening Day

I love Alabama football, end of story. My boyfriend, brother, dad, and most of my best friends are all right there with me. My brother loves Alabama football so much that he arranged the day he got married around Alabama's schedule. Although they were playing on the Saturday he got married, we set up TVs in almost every room that everyone was going to be in getting ready. The whole wedding lasted 14 minutes. After that was over, we went straight to the reception in  the Family Life Center at my church and finished watching the game. His grooms cake was an Alabama cake. A big fat red Alabama "A" on top and was decorated in black and white houndstooth on the rest of the cake.

But besides that, today is Alabama's first game of the season. Alabama opened their season this morning against Kent State at the beautiful Bryant-Denny Stadium. Tons of fans are gathered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as we speak watching some good ol' Alabama football. I would love to be watching the game, or even listening to it on the radio. But what am I doing instead of watching the game? I'm at work. Just the place I wanted to be on Alabama's opening day. Even though I can't watch the game, I'm still wearing one of my Alabama shirts and houndstooth accessories to show my support. Hopefully I will not be having to miss anymore games but at least I do have a job. But until I get off of work, I will keep looking up updates on the game from facebook and any other place I can find.