My final posting.

I can not believe this semester is over with! It went by so fast. My parents use to tell me that high school went by fast, but I think college is flying by! Personally, I think it has to do with all of the work we have to do, it helps makes time go by faster.

I am always thinking about my future, and I have a "bucket list". There are so many things I want to do before I die, it's crazy. But for the next ten years I have it all figured out.
I am going to keep going to college until I become a Registered Nurse. I am currently working two jobs, one being a CNA in Faribault, MN, and the other being a CNA/TMA at Samaritan Bethany. A lot of people say I will make a good nurse, and I love the idea of helping people, so I thought it would be a good career to get into.

After spring semeter, I will be moving in with Matt! :) <3 I am super excited. We get a long great and have the rest of our lives with eachother. I never thought I would have found the one so soon, but for once in my life, I can honestly say, I am crazy about that man. I am not sure what it is, but I am so hooked on him. Pretty soon there will be little children running around, and I am not sure I am ready to be a grown up, I already feel old and I am only eighteen!

There is one thing I know that will not happen in the next ten years though. I will not become an English teacher. Sorry to say that, but I am not good at writing papers, even though this course has helped me to improve a lot on how I write papers.

It is crazy how much fun this class was, the people in it were great, and we had an amazing teacher to help us also! Thanks a bunch! I will miss you guys, all of you, hope to see you around school!!

The Modest Proposal

When I first read the essay, The Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, I didn't understand what my assignment exactly was to do. I was told I needed to come up with a list of social problems in the United States that might be the subject of a modest proposal. How was I going to come up with that? After some time thinking, I think I have some started.

1. Being rasist. People are being treated "the way they should be treated" based on color of skin.
2. Parties. Demorcratic or Republican. Which is better? Do we need to be mean to the other side just because we don't agree with what they have to say?
3. Single mothers. Mothers can get day care assistant, WIC, child support...anything they need, but do they really use it for the kids?
4. Most people don't think they have to work in America because there is so many benefits that the government will pay for with food stamps, housing assistants, basically about anything.
5. Medical treatment. Is it our moral right to refuse help, or is it the doctors right to make the decision on our health for us?

This is all I can come up with for now. I hope this is right. When I think of more I will rewrite this blog!!

What I am thankful for...

I am thankful for my amazing family who supports me in everything I do, even if they know it is wrong.
I am thankful for my amazing boyfriend, we have been through so much and even through thick and thin he is always there for me.
I am thankful for my friends. Without them I would not laugh as much as I do, or know all the things I do. I can run to them anytime for advice or just to vent.
I am thankful for my car, without that beast I would not be able to have as much fun as I do.
I am thankful for my job, without it I would of not have fallen in love with nursing as much as I do, now I have a goal to work for.
I am thankful for so much its not even funny. What are you thankful for?
Happy Thanksgiving.

Should I continue going to college?

After reading the essay The Case Against College, I still feel like college is important. In these days of age you will not get very far without some sort of college degree. The economy is not the best and you need all the education you can get in order to have money and be able to survive.
A lot of people do not go to four year universities anymore because they simply can't afford it. I didn't want to go to a four year university because I have it in my head, "get in and get out". Why spend so much money going to a four year university when a two year community college can give you the same education, minus the type of degree you have. Personally, I think an associates degree is just as good as a bachelors degree. There might be a few differences in pay, and where you will get a job, but it's all the same, I think.
Not going to college would be a mistake in my opinion because without it your not going to get very far in lief and may end up making minimum wage the rest of your life and living with your parents forever. I don't think anyone wants that, because I know that I don't.
I am going to stick to Rochester Community and Technical College, and I think everyone should stick to at least some kind of college whether it's a university or a two year college, every little bit of education you get will help you somehow in the long run!

How to have an effective paper!

There are three basics to having a good research paper. In order to make a good and effective paper you must have logos, ethos, and pathos. With these three basics in your paper, you always need a good, reliable and credited source to make the paper your writing become effective to the reader. Without these your paper will not be as strong and it won't be very effective to your readers.

Logos are used when you have facts and statistics that can help make what your saying in your paper more believable. Having an expert's opinion on that matter can also be a great way to have a credited source in your paper.

Ethos are when you want your reader to believe what you are saying. You will want to use good grammar, word choice, and vocabulary. Also being arrogant will not help this situation, it will make your reader upset, and not believe what you are trying to say.

Pathos are used to add emotion to your paper. The tone, and examples can show emotions throughout your paper. Alot of advertisements use pathos to get you into the product so you will buy it.

All three of these are a good way to make your paper more effective and get the reader to believe what you are saying. Without these three your paper will be less effective, and your readers might not believe what you are saying. Remember always use a creditable source!

The Glass Castle comments.

When I first opened the book, I wanted to fall asleep after every page, I thought it was boring and didnt understand why we had to read a boring book. Once the book started getting into detail and stating all the bad things that happened, the book started to become addicting. I never read books and when my parents saw that I couldnt put this book down they were shocked. If only they understood how addicting the book becomes after it starts getting into all the action...
I would recommend this book to anyone. It's an amazing book and lets you see how other people live..

Tattoos and Piercings!

There is nothing wrong with getting a tattoo of something of rememberance. I don't have a problem with tattoos, til all of someones skin is tattooed..its gross, and its harder to get a job when all the employers see is tattoos.

I would get a tattoo but I am afraid of the pain. I dont handle pain very well..I have always wanted stars down my side, if I ever got skinny enough. I wanted a chinese symbol right on my ribs, but that would hurt real bad. There are so many things I would tattoo on myself, it would be crazy. Because I am going to be a nurse, if I ever got a tattoo I would have to be able to cover it up at work.

I have my belly button and ears pierced. I dont see anything wrong with piercings unless they affect your life. Dont get them all over just so you look "cool". A couple piercings here and there are good, but people should go get them professionally because I had a friend who gave her self a piercing and it didnt turn out good at all!

Next time you want a tattoo or piercing, let the professionals do it, and make sure you think it over before you get it done! You don't want to get something, and then regret having it..because it costs a lot of money to remove the tattoo..

Are families really perfect?

I don't believe there is such thing as a "perfect" family. Even if we don't want to believe it, there is a lot of problems with families. Functional families don't exsist, I dont think they ever did.
There is always sometime of problems with families that make them dysfunctional. Lets think about it. No matter what you do, do you always please your family? Have you ever got into an arguement with a family member, or even got mad at a family member? Im pretty sure that at some point in your life, your family hasn't agreed with all of your decisions. It's just a fact of life. Just because you think something is a good decision, doesn't mean that in your families eyes it's a good decision. I'm also pretty sure that if you are a "normal" family, you have argued or got mad at them at least once. No one can help it, but everyone has their own opinions, which makes most, if not all families, dysfunctional.

Plans for the holidays.

So as I spent the weekend with Matt, he mentioned he wanted me to go with him up north for the week of Thanksgiving with his family. They would be celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas at once. I would miss school also. At first, I was pretty excited, getting to officially meet the rest of the family could be a benefit. If they like me, that will be better for us, because no one wants to date someone if their family doesn't like them; it makes it difficult. We have been dating now for almost a year, but it has felt like forever(in a good way), and I want to continue working on forever. I think this means we are getting pretty serious if he is willing to let me go with him for the week to visit his family.
I'm not sure how my parents are going to take this because I am always at our family holiday gatherings..so, I just wanted to know what you thought.
Should I go with him?
If I go, am I suppose to bring Christmas presents? I have never done this before and I am a little clueless.
Is it worth skipping school, and having a chance of falling behind since I know I wont have a computer or anything up there to do homework...
Ahhhh! I dont know what to do. I want to go up there, but my main focus is school.
I hope my parents dont mind, since they do like him, because it will bug me if they dont want me to go, but I go anyways...

My life: Facebook.

So, its sad to say, but I am addicted to Facebook. Everytime I get a second, I go on facebook to see whats new in the world. Facebook is constantly on, on my phone. I will even texts about updates on my wall or whatever via text. Its something that has changed my life.
My life is on facebook, for the good though. Without facebook I wouldnt know everything I do, nor would I be so close to the relatives that are in other states and countries.
I love Facebook for the reason that I know everything before my family does. So when someone posts their pregnant or engaged, I can call up the family and tell them before they do it.
I feel bad for snitching on them, but I at least have something to talk about with my family. I love facebook, because you can go check out peoples pictures, and profile without them knowing. I like to see what people are up too, even though it makes me a really noisy person.
I love reading other peoples conversations.
The dislikes about facebook: I have TONS of friends, but most of them I only talk to on Facebook, and not at school or in person. Its weird. That is one thing that bugs me. What do you think?

The weekend previous!

My roommate and I take turns having the apartment on the weekend, and this weekend was my weekend back in Faribault. I had planned to work all weekend, so I went home on Friday morning, because I wanted to see my boyfriend, Matt, and I had to work. I got home Friday afternoon and I went to visit my "grandma" at the nursing home. She isn't really my grandma, but she is an elderly woman that I had a connection with when I worked at Faribault Commons. As I was visiting her, I received a call from Matt, he just won some money playing pull tabs and wanted to know if I wanted to go to a movie. I said sure, and I headed off towards his house. We ended up going to The Town, it was a pretty good movie, very action packed. After the movie we hung out at his house for awhile until he had to go hunting, because Saturday was the opener of bow hunting! (: I worked from 7-3pm on Saturday and then went to the Olive Garden wtih an old friend, Katie. After we ate our endless buffet of pasta, we went for a drive and had fun. We went bowling, and we didnt do very good, but it was just the thought of it that made it fun.
Sunday, I worked 7-3pm again, and we watched the Vikings game with all my residents as we ate lunch in the living room. IT WAS A BLAST! They all really enjoyed it, when three o' clock came, I headed towards home to pack up and head back to Rochester. I really enjoyed my weekend, and I can't wait til this next weekend, because its my weekend in Rochester!

A trip down memory lane.

"Dad this one! No wait, this one!"
I grew up an only child in the country with nothing to do. My dad thought I should start learning how to drive early, which now, Im glad I did. Working between both our farm, and my grandparents farm was fun. We got to take a nice muddy path to get from farm to farm, and the smell of fresh air always made me happy. Dad thought it would be easiest to get a golfcart to drive between farms. Before you knew it, we were picking out a golfcart.
I wanted the fancy golfcart, radio, turn signal, lights, the whole works. As for dad, he was looking for the cheap basic one to get you from A to B. Thats what we got.
The moment that golfcart was home, it was being driven around. Dad found an old tractor radio and we put that in there, it also was getting lights put on it for night. I thought I was the coolest thing around, driving that golfcart. All the neighbors would wave and smile as I drove by, and always laugh about it when I saw them in person.
In the middle of winter I would be driving it, mostly getting stuck, but eh that was the fun part right?

I want to make a tribute to my dad. Without you teaching me how to drive, and buying me that golfcart, Im not sure where I would be today. It taught me how to drive, and gave me responsibility. I hope you can always look back on that stupid old golfcart and think of all the fun rides we had, all the times you had to get me out of the ditch in the winter. I know that I have some great memories on there, like the trips we use to take to town, the times my friends drove it and crashed, or when we rolled it and got up and started driving again. Those are the memories that will last a lifetime!
Thank you daddy!

My Inspirational Quote

The quote I found to be most inspirational is: "If you love something let it go, if it comes back it was yours to keep and if it doesnt, it was never meant to be."

This quote is very inspirational to me, because love sucks. When you have a terrible heart break, all you do is pray for them to come back. Not always do they come back, but when they do, it usually works out, because you know eachothers different flaws and how to get through them. Deep down, they must really love you because they are afraid to let you go.

Its also the same for death. When someone dies, you know deep down they love you, and you will see them in heaven someday right? So they are coming back; it was meant to be.

Sometimes the people you love the most, hurt you the most, and you learn to get passed that. When you let the people you love the most go, and they do come back, you know deep down it is true love.

These words also give you hope when you are down. When there is something so wonderful that you let go of, your afraid that nothing else is out there for that could be "better" then what you had.

Just remember, love isn't about finding the perfect person, it's about seeing the imperfect person perfectly!

Week Two:Education

When my teacher gave us the choice between college, writing or education to write about, I wasn't sure which one I should do. All three topics are topics that aren't exactly in my interest, or I'm just starting out with them. After some thought, I have decided I'm going to write about education.


Education is a big deal in my family. Everyone graduates high school, and goes off to college. My dad always told me without an education you wouldn't get anywhere in life. He is right. A lot of jobs today, won't look at you unless you have got your high school diploma and farther education. It may suck, but it does pay off in the end.

My boyfriend went to high school, graduated, went to college, and dropped out. That was the biggest mistake of his life. He now works in a factory, making okay money, but not that much. To be honest, I dont know how he lives off of it.

I dont want to be like that. I want to have money, and also be able to save, because you never know when the economy is going to go completely down, and prices on things will go up. That is a huge reason why I am in college today.

Its also been my life dream to become a nurse, and I want to show everyone that I can do it. I want to make my parents proud. I want to have a good life, and if I ever have kids, I want to be able to support them and give them the best life possible, all because I went on and got further education.

Education is hard work, but in the end its worth it! :)