Later This Week

For 20 years that house that I grew up in did not have showers, or so we thought. The showerhead has always been there but we always had to take baths. My dad found out that he had to just do this one little thing to finish it up and we would have had showers. This week my dad has been installing showers for their Christmas present. The reason he has had to install showers even thought we already had them is several things have happened. Needless to say we have showers in the downstairs bathroom, and the upstairs has showers installed, but the upstairs is leaking. If we want to bath we have to do it downstairs.
Thursday I went around the area and looked at Christmas lights. I wasn’t very impressed. Many people didn’t have any up. I went to Linden, Alabama where I went to High school for two years and looked at the light up there. There were only a couple houses I really liked. I drove by one of my teacher’s old houses and the people that live there now had lights that were pretty cool. I brought back memories of a Christmas party we had there. It was a lot of fun. One of my classmates had been in a car wreck not to long before and she had to be rushed to Tuscaloosa because she broke her neck. I remember hearing that she was very close to breaking her spinal cord. Anyway, she came to the party. It was good to see her and see she was ok. Afterwards I went to Thomaston that is about 15 minutes north of Magnolia and looked at their lights. Three houses that were close by each other were covered with lights. It was great. I didn’t get to look at them very close because I was on the main road and had to go. I was neat. I came back home and picked mom up and we went to Arlington which is up the road a little bit and they had a couple. Then, we went to Shiloh to look at this man’s house that is famous for Christmas lights. Every year he puts something new up. He had several things in his yard that anyone can drive up in there and look. It is really neat. It looks like he really enjoys doing it for people because it looks like he really puts a lot of work into it.
Yesterday was pretty uneventful and today we are just hanging around the house.

Earlier This Week

This Monday and Tuesday I was up in Birmingham visiting with my sister. Monday night I went along with her little girl and her husband to the Birmingham Zoo, where Christmas lights were everywhere. I was very pretty. Kennedy, my little niece, was practically running through the zoo because she was so excited. We went and bought hot chocolate to drink and walked to the carousel. The hot chocolate was not that good. Kennedy got to ride on the carousel and afterwards we went into the Children’s Zoo. Kennedy petted some of the animals there and then we left. It was really fun. The lights were beautiful and it was fun to watch Kennedy. On Tuesday I babysat for my sister and then Wednesday I came home.

End of The Semester

Christmas break finally came. I didn't think it was ever going to get here. My exams went ok. My sociology exam was very nerve racking. It was online and on a server that wasn't able to handle a lot of people at one time. My sociology teacher taught two classes of at least 150 students in it. There were at least 300 people trying to take the test at one time. It took me an hour to get the exam open. We were supposed to have two and a half hours to take it, but I know some people including me didn't have that much time. I emailed my professor and told him about it along with many other people I am sure and he wrote back and said he would take that into account while grading the test. I came out with a B- in the class. I had and A+, 2 B- and a B. I didn't think they were going to be that good because I slacked off a lot during the last part of the semester.
During exam week I had a cold and didn't study very much because I was laid on the couch while drugged up because of an earache that I had in both ears, but not at the same time thankfully. Our cousin has been staying with us while his wife sells their house in Nebraska and he was handling buying a house down here. He told me that whenever he has a cold he takes a vitamin c and e, two Tylenol, and an Alka-Seltzer cold and sinus and it is gone in two days. I didn't try it but I wanted to. If I had the money to but the medicine I would have. Wednesday night of that week I went to take my Spanish exam while still being sick, and on the way home I was involved in a car accident of some sorts. I was turning right onto a major street and the car that was turning the same way decided that she could go too. We were headed for the same lane when she came up behind me and I hit her. There isn't much damage to my car, just a crack in the driver side bumper. I wish she knew how to drive because that could have easily been avoided. It was very aggravating. Dad told me we could put superglue on it and it would be fine. Thanks to her I am going to have a super glued car, not telling what it is going to look like. Not a very good exam week. I was glad when it was over.