The New Look

I became bored of the last blogger template I had so here is the new look. It's a farmhouse scene, isn't it cool! As least I think so. I wanted something that went along with something Magnolia and there are a lot of farms there so I found this fitting.

A little bit about me....

I've been tagged by Caroline...

10 years ago...

...I was 13. I was in the 7th grade at Catherine Academy in Catherine, Alabama. I was playing basketball for Coach Holiday. This year I made my first two points out of six in my whole basketball career. Coach Holiday was the coach that everyone respected and loved. He always had something hilarious to say. Coach Holiday, like many coaches, taught a couple of classes.One of his classes he taught was Environmental Science, of which I was in. The most environmental thing we did in that class was the first day we talked about trees and later that year we planted trees on school grounds. The trees later were accidentally, I think, sprayed with pesticides and were killed. That's too funny. Anyway, the rest of the time in the class he had us out at the football field cleaning or some days having a free period as we called it. During this free time I started taking apart the old baseballs that weren't of use anymore to see what was inside. He knew that I liked doing this so he would gather up all of the old balls and bring them to me to take apart. The inside of it has a lot of yarn underneath the hard outer leather part then lots of rolled up yarn, and on a lucky day there would be a rubber ball in the center to play with. Also this year, there was discussions on whether Catherine would open up for another year. It did and stayed open two more years when it closed it doors. This was very influential in my life.

Didn't think you would get that much info did ya.

5 things on my to-do-list today.

1. finish blogging
2. eat supper later
3. go to sleep later tonight
4. enjoy my Sunday afternoon/evening
5. not worry about what I want to do with my life

If I were suddenly a billionaire.

I would buy land in Magnolia and build a large house with nice things. There would be no need for a job so I would quit looking for one. Give Mom and Dad some and tell them they can't spend it all on goats. Maybe some, but not all. Save the rest for future happenings.

3 of my bad habits.

1. biting my nails (nervous habit)
2. yelling at traffic while driving, especially the poor slow souls on the road.
3. Procrastination with a capital P.

Places I've lived.

1. Magnolia, Alabama
2. Tuscaloosa, Alabama
3. Birmingham, Alabama

5 jobs I've had.

1. Land surveyor assistant/carrier of things and holding the pole plum (my dad was the land surveyor)
2. Dishwasher for the Martin residence
3. clothes washer for the Martin residence
4. Biology Lab. Technician (bug picker)
5. yeah totally counted 2 and 3 for fill ins. Looking for one to add to the Biology Lab. tech. one. So ya hear of something let me know.

5 Things people don't know about me.

1. I love sitting outside on my parents porch in one of their rocking chairs and just staring at the beautiful countryside that lay in front of me. I do my best thinking when I am staring at nature.
2. Related to the last one, I love the clouds. Always have.
3. I wanted to be a meteorologist when I first was thinking about what to study in college.
4. I wanted to be a storm chaser my senior year in high school
5. Once fell out of a tree on the Quad at the University

I'm tagging anyone who would like to participate and hasn't already.

Where to now Miss Daisy?

Alright so I didn't post very much when I'm in school, but maybe I will post more since I'm not in school anymore. Man that feels great to say. I'm sure everyone that reads this blog knows, but in case I graduated last month. It isn't official since I don't have the diploma yet but hopefully the diploma is in the mail and coming to it's rightful owner. So the question I have been asked and one I am asking myself comes up. What are you going to do now?
The answer I give and the answer I tell myself is get a job. Then the next question that come after I tell people get a job is Are you going to teach? The answer is: If I have to I will, but I am just looking for a job to pay the bills. So that is what is going on in my life right now. I'm looking for a job.
After my last exam it hadn't sunk in that I was walking out of my last exam ever, but now it has sunk in and now I'm thinking about the possible changes that could happen in my life. I had a coach/teacher in high school that once said, "Every three or four years your life changes." I have tested that theory have come to believe it myself. Now, questions come to my mind is: Where will I be? What will I be doing? Who are going to be the people that I associate with everyday at a job that hopefully will be able to support my needs. I want to stay in Tuscaloosa, but then again the adventurous part of me wants to find out what my life would be like somewhere else. I don't know. I quess we'll see where I get a job, that's going to be the deciding factor.
I'm very grateful for the education I received while going to the University of Alabama. My mind has surely been enriched with knowlege I wouldn't have had if I hadn't attended there. I'm grateful to the teachers I had. Some were not my favorite people in the world, but I knew they knew things I didn't know and I wanted to learn them. Some of my teachers were ones I will never forget: one that knew the potential of his students and pushed hard to help them become better writers, one that would talk about things he didn't know anything about and critiqued it with misconceptions, but he was funny and he gave me good grades (which always helps), one that made me laugh a lot (sometimes at things I wasn't sure I should laugh about) and helped me tremendously my last semester, a creative writing grad student who is a very good writer and taught very helpfull techniques that help improve my writing (very sweet person), and a teacher that had a great love for Shakespeare and showed it in his classes (very sweet too and never called me by my right name, but I didn't have the heart to correct him).

Onward ho! or as Robert Frost said, “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.”