It's catch-up time on these...this time it's from Kelley...
8 Things You Might Not Know (or want to know) About Me
1. I was al about Superman when I was a kid. Superman is what I called my priest when I saw him walking down the aisle in mass. I actually got kicked out once for yelling out "Superman" as he was coming by. LOL! And that's also what caused me to break my arm when I was like 3. I stood up on a tall stool with a "cape" on my neck, cried out "Superman" and landed on my left arm. So much for flying.
2. When I was about to begin my freshman year of high school, I cried and begged my mother to let me move to Mexico and live with my aunt and go to school down there. I wanted to change where I was from. I no longer wanted to be from Texas, but from Chihuahua, where my family is from. I had gotten so used to being down there on vacations and pretty much having more freedom than I did here at home, I felt that I truly was from down there. It took me several months to get over my anger of her not letting me go that year.
3. Basketball is my all-time favorite sport. I was manager for five years. I quit helping my high school team when our varsity coach decided to quit. I didn't want to work under anyone else but Coach Kelley! She'd made us State-champs that year! None of the other coaches had made it further than just the regular season, so I quit. Boy do I love the sound of a basketball bouncing on the court, and going through the net!
4. Don't know how I did it, but I took gymnastics for a few years when I was in elementary school. I always told my mom, "I want to win a gold medal in the Olympics." The gold medal never came soon enough, so I gave up.
5. When I was about six, I saved a kids life by calling 9-1-1 when the house next to my babysitters was on fire. She saw the smoke, knew little English, and had me dial the number and talk to the person on the other end of the line. I remember the call lasting for a long time. As soon as I hung up with them, I remember my mom calling and me saying, "I just got to call 9-1-1!" Needless to say she showed up within minutes freaking out! The news reporters came up to my babysitters house and interviewed me. I think we still have the newspaper article somewhere.
6. Mom's proudest moment: Seeing her daughter on the news. I was president of LIGHT Brigade in high school. We ended up going to MADD camp in 2000 at TCU. Out of nowhere, my friend Cereida and I saw the news reporter for channel 23. We just wanted to say hi to him cause he's well known, and he ended up interviewing us. We called our parents within minutes, and when we got home, there was the recording of us talking on the news. My mom showed that news report to everyone that walked through the front doors for the longest time!
7. I'm going to be the first person in my entire family to graduate from college. No one else in my family has even set foot on a college campus. So for me to be a student at A&M Commerce is already a big accomplishment. Come December 2007 (unless I change my major and make it last until May), I will have fulfilled this duty in the family!
8. Man it's hard coming up with 8 things!!! Let's see...I'm just like my grandmother, I keep EVERYTHING. I keep the envelopes that cards come in, boxes that brownies are sent in :), little papers with my name drawn on them, post-it notes that say "I don't know what to say soooo...." that was placed on m laptop, ticket stubs from the movies, airplane tickets, rocks, grain of sand, whatever it is I keep. But there is one stipulation, it stays only if it was a gift. If it's something that I've bought, it tends to go in the trash within a month. I know, call me crazy!
There you go. Once again, it's late. I'm sure if I'd done this during the day, I may have come up with better things. Oh well...my duty here is done!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Meme
So Erin tagged me almost a month ago on this, and I just now remembered that I haven't done it. Sorry Erin!
Four jobs I've had: customer service rep for Hat-Co (Resistol & Stetson hats), receptionist, pre-school teacher for my beloved Blue Ivey School, and night security for one of the A&M Commerce dorms (no, I didn't get to carry a gun-so sad, I know).
Four places I have lived: Garland, Rowlett, A&M Commerce dorms, Commerce apartments
Four movies I watch over and over: Pride & Prejudice, Stepmom, Double Jeopardy, Elizabethtown.
Four favorite foods: Red velvet cake, sesame chicken, shrimp alfredo, brownies
Four favorite TV shows: Ummm...we don't have a tv, but when there is one: Food Network, TLC, and Grey's Anatomy
Four places I'd rather be right now: the beach, the lake at sunset, in bed asleep, on a plane
Four things I wonder about: must I really answer this one, it's almost 2 am! I don't have the mentality to think right now.
Four people I tag to complete this survey: There's only one person I can think to tag, Simran. Otherwise, sorry Erin but I must stop it here. :)
Four jobs I've had: customer service rep for Hat-Co (Resistol & Stetson hats), receptionist, pre-school teacher for my beloved Blue Ivey School, and night security for one of the A&M Commerce dorms (no, I didn't get to carry a gun-so sad, I know).
Four places I have lived: Garland, Rowlett, A&M Commerce dorms, Commerce apartments
Four movies I watch over and over: Pride & Prejudice, Stepmom, Double Jeopardy, Elizabethtown.
Four favorite foods: Red velvet cake, sesame chicken, shrimp alfredo, brownies
Four favorite TV shows: Ummm...we don't have a tv, but when there is one: Food Network, TLC, and Grey's Anatomy
Four places I'd rather be right now: the beach, the lake at sunset, in bed asleep, on a plane
Four things I wonder about: must I really answer this one, it's almost 2 am! I don't have the mentality to think right now.
Four people I tag to complete this survey: There's only one person I can think to tag, Simran. Otherwise, sorry Erin but I must stop it here. :)
Friday, May 18, 2007
Summer...changes
Yay, we finally have internet in the apartment. You have no idea how bad it has been. I've had some major withdrawals from the stinkin' thing. I've been so bored, I can't even tell you the things I've been doing around here to stay sane.
It's Friday! The week is over!
The Spring semester ended last week, and it ended much better than I expected. I actually passed all my classes. Yes, there was a bit of doubt. But the teachers were kind enough to pass me. I've already started the may-mini, which is three weeks long. The class has been very interesting. We've had speakers come in every day that work with different agencies in the Social Work field around the area. I gotta say, Social Work is something that is sounding pretty good to me right now. Anyway, two more weeks and this class is over, just to be followed by a new semester five days later. Kelley, I may have to make a trip to your place in that short break.
I've moved into the apartment, and am pretty settled in. I still need a few things, but I'm managing fine. I'm praying about finding a job for the summer, although a part of me is saying "Don't worry about a job". I did get a call last night from a friend that is going to quit his job at the Children's Museum here, and asked if I'd like to take his spot. But that's all up to his boss. We'll have to see about that one. I definitely wouldn't mind working there!
Mother's Day was a loooonnnnggg day. Not because I had to go back home to be with my mother, but the process of getting back home. The roommate and I went out the night before and didn't get back 'til 5 am. Then there goes my phone at 8 am, "When are you coming home?" It was my mom. I didn't even know what to answer her 'cause all I wanted to do was sleep. We finally got up around 2 pm and started getting ready to head back to our respective homes. I finally made it home around 5 pm. We ended up going to my cousins and celebrating Mother's Day there. I have to say, it's really nice when I see my mom and her sister and all her nieces getting along. It's such a rare occasion, but beautiful to see...
(Pics: my mom, and pretty much her 3 daughters)
I got to go out to Garland last week to see my goddaughter in her first school program. Amazingly enough the school never had any other programs throughout the year. Anyway, she is finishing up her pre-school year at one of the public schools in GISD. They had a special Cinco de Mayo presentation. The kids wore traditional, and I mean traditional, Mexican outfits for the celebration. Even the teachers joined in and performed. It was all too cute! I'm so glad I didn't miss out getting to see that. I was very proud of my girl!
Besides the moving, starting up school, the excitement of learning that I passed my classes, Mother's Day, and Jasmine's program, nothing else has happened. I miss my friends. Todd's in Chicago, Simran (can't wait for you to come back girl!) is in Malaysia....Come Memorial Day weekend and we're heading out to the lake for a cookout, Christina, Nick, Todd and Me. Sooooo looking forward to it!
For now, I should probably get off of this thing and finish putting some things together that we bought for the apartment. I can't wait to see everything clean and put in place!!!
It's Friday! The week is over!
The Spring semester ended last week, and it ended much better than I expected. I actually passed all my classes. Yes, there was a bit of doubt. But the teachers were kind enough to pass me. I've already started the may-mini, which is three weeks long. The class has been very interesting. We've had speakers come in every day that work with different agencies in the Social Work field around the area. I gotta say, Social Work is something that is sounding pretty good to me right now. Anyway, two more weeks and this class is over, just to be followed by a new semester five days later. Kelley, I may have to make a trip to your place in that short break.
I've moved into the apartment, and am pretty settled in. I still need a few things, but I'm managing fine. I'm praying about finding a job for the summer, although a part of me is saying "Don't worry about a job". I did get a call last night from a friend that is going to quit his job at the Children's Museum here, and asked if I'd like to take his spot. But that's all up to his boss. We'll have to see about that one. I definitely wouldn't mind working there!
Mother's Day was a loooonnnnggg day. Not because I had to go back home to be with my mother, but the process of getting back home. The roommate and I went out the night before and didn't get back 'til 5 am. Then there goes my phone at 8 am, "When are you coming home?" It was my mom. I didn't even know what to answer her 'cause all I wanted to do was sleep. We finally got up around 2 pm and started getting ready to head back to our respective homes. I finally made it home around 5 pm. We ended up going to my cousins and celebrating Mother's Day there. I have to say, it's really nice when I see my mom and her sister and all her nieces getting along. It's such a rare occasion, but beautiful to see...
I got to go out to Garland last week to see my goddaughter in her first school program. Amazingly enough the school never had any other programs throughout the year. Anyway, she is finishing up her pre-school year at one of the public schools in GISD. They had a special Cinco de Mayo presentation. The kids wore traditional, and I mean traditional, Mexican outfits for the celebration. Even the teachers joined in and performed. It was all too cute! I'm so glad I didn't miss out getting to see that. I was very proud of my girl!
Besides the moving, starting up school, the excitement of learning that I passed my classes, Mother's Day, and Jasmine's program, nothing else has happened. I miss my friends. Todd's in Chicago, Simran (can't wait for you to come back girl!) is in Malaysia....Come Memorial Day weekend and we're heading out to the lake for a cookout, Christina, Nick, Todd and Me. Sooooo looking forward to it!
For now, I should probably get off of this thing and finish putting some things together that we bought for the apartment. I can't wait to see everything clean and put in place!!!
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
The storm
We had an amazing storm roll through Dallas today. Don't know if my friends back home in Commerce got to experience the intensity. I was only fortunate enough to see it because I was out in Mesquite.
I looked out of Sandi's house, where I was at, and was just amazed at the strength of the wind, blowing that rain and the trees everywhere. Ever seen those commercials where they are testing cars against air/wind, and this "imaginary" blanket forms over the cars with the wind? That's exactly what I saw today as the wind pushed the rain. It was amazing...
The storm was on my mind all night long. Don't know why, but I couldn't get the vision of the trees being swayed back and forth, and the rain being pushed with the force of the wind. Then as I was driving home, I heard a song, Keith Urban's song Nobody Drinks Alone:
"Don't you know
Nobody drinks alone
Every demon, every ghost
From your past
And every memory you've held back
Follows you home
Nobody drinks alone"
I started thinking about the path that I've been following the past couple of months. I thought of all the times I have tried to forget friendships I've lost and the loneliness that has come with it, and going so easily from my strong faith to practically no faith at all. Then of course, I started thinking of way back in the day, all the things I'd done wrong in my life, the mistakes I'd made, and started thinking of how my life could be different in so many ways. What if I hadn't ended my closest friendship five years ago? What if I had said yes to that guy? What if I had spoken up more when the yelling started? What if I hadn't met my friends? What if he died that night? What if? What if? What if?
There was the storm of my life, the demons and ghosts from my past. All the "what if's" that I have constantly been playing in my head for the past two months, then trying to forget them all. The "what if's" were that wind pushing all the feelings I've been carrying inside (the rain). My storm is a continuous storm. It doesn't just come and go like today's storm. It shows up every day, when I least expect it. And I've hated it! I've been ready for it to just break apart, and never come back. As I watched that storm that came through today, all I wanted to do was battle with it. Alexandra was ready to get in the closet, I was ready to say "Bring it on!"
I'm ready to fight this storm. I'm ready to let the wind just take all the "demons and goshts" from my past, and all the pain, and just let them all fly. Fly far, far away! I'm ready to trust the One that says "I mend your heart and wounds" Psalm 17:3, "I hear your voice" Psalm 55:17. And I'm ready to say "The God who loves me will help me; God will enable me to triumph over my enemies" Psalm 59:10.
I think I'm ready to say "Bring it on!"
I looked out of Sandi's house, where I was at, and was just amazed at the strength of the wind, blowing that rain and the trees everywhere. Ever seen those commercials where they are testing cars against air/wind, and this "imaginary" blanket forms over the cars with the wind? That's exactly what I saw today as the wind pushed the rain. It was amazing...
The storm was on my mind all night long. Don't know why, but I couldn't get the vision of the trees being swayed back and forth, and the rain being pushed with the force of the wind. Then as I was driving home, I heard a song, Keith Urban's song Nobody Drinks Alone:
"Don't you know
Nobody drinks alone
Every demon, every ghost
From your past
And every memory you've held back
Follows you home
Nobody drinks alone"
I started thinking about the path that I've been following the past couple of months. I thought of all the times I have tried to forget friendships I've lost and the loneliness that has come with it, and going so easily from my strong faith to practically no faith at all. Then of course, I started thinking of way back in the day, all the things I'd done wrong in my life, the mistakes I'd made, and started thinking of how my life could be different in so many ways. What if I hadn't ended my closest friendship five years ago? What if I had said yes to that guy? What if I had spoken up more when the yelling started? What if I hadn't met my friends? What if he died that night? What if? What if? What if?
There was the storm of my life, the demons and ghosts from my past. All the "what if's" that I have constantly been playing in my head for the past two months, then trying to forget them all. The "what if's" were that wind pushing all the feelings I've been carrying inside (the rain). My storm is a continuous storm. It doesn't just come and go like today's storm. It shows up every day, when I least expect it. And I've hated it! I've been ready for it to just break apart, and never come back. As I watched that storm that came through today, all I wanted to do was battle with it. Alexandra was ready to get in the closet, I was ready to say "Bring it on!"
I'm ready to fight this storm. I'm ready to let the wind just take all the "demons and goshts" from my past, and all the pain, and just let them all fly. Fly far, far away! I'm ready to trust the One that says "I mend your heart and wounds" Psalm 17:3, "I hear your voice" Psalm 55:17. And I'm ready to say "The God who loves me will help me; God will enable me to triumph over my enemies" Psalm 59:10.
I think I'm ready to say "Bring it on!"
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