Day 158

Today, June 7th 2010, was a long day. I woke up at 7:30 and was off to work at 8:30. So I worked for eight hours today. Whew and it was a long day. I continued making charts and reading bulletins. It's tough but the work is good experience and it could be going a lot worse. So I got home about 5:30 and talked more details of my party with my parents. I'm getting really excited, it's going to be a fun weekend with my college buddies & of course I'm excited about my birthday. :) We ate a yummy supper...pasta, green beans, muffins, & pork chop. Looking out the window during supper, I saw that the sun was shining through our plum tree in the front yard making the leaves a brilliant red. So I wandered out there with my camera & got some pictures that I really like. :)

Day 157

Today was a pretty typical Sunday. I woke up, showered, went to Sunday school and then, as we used to call it, to "big church". We went out to eat at this little restaurant a little ways off from town with a very sweet man from our church. So I ate some good southern food and we headed home all wanting a nap. I read 1/4 of my 2nd chapter for homework and crashed for an hour and a half...woops. Haha oh well, it was a lovely nap. I woke up and read another 1/4 and we left for the movies! My parents & I saw Killers...it was an alright movie. Not exactly what I expected but I haven't pegged my feelings on it quite yet. So I am still reading my special ed text book, currently about emotional or behavioral disorders aka EBD, and I had to take a picture. I didn't know what to do so I looked around my messy room and spotted my teddy bear. I love this teddy bear and I have had it since Valentine's Day 5th grade. That's a long time you might think. Well yes it is but that is the very first present I was given by a boy. Matt I think was his name and he put it in a box, probably with chocolate, and set it on my desk. I wasn't at school that valentine's day but I got it the next day and was a little surprised/embarrassed/tickled to get it. Matt wanted to be my boyfriend and had asked me out in a little note (or so I think he did...). I talked it over with my mom, and since we were moving that summer, I wrote him a reply saying I don't want to be your girlfriend or something along those lines with a school picture of me. I wish I could see it now haha. So I've kept the bear and still sleep with it every night. I just love remembering sweet memories. :)

Day 156

Today is Saturday June the 5th. It is so hard to believe that June is already half way through the first week! I still feel like it should be May. But I'm not complaining because my birthday is June the 10th so it's almost my birthday! :) I wanted to sleep in today but I did not allow myself because I knew I had a long to-do list ahead of me. I needed to get a good head start on my assignment for my online class this week because Tuesday my boyfriend is coming over to spend a few days with me. While he's here, why would I want to focus on homework? I also had to start cleaning my room because he is coming and then next Friday I am having a birthday party with my friends from school. Since they're going to be at my house I have to make things look presentable. So I got one chapter of my text book read and a good head start on my room. It is still full of junk piles but it's definitely better than before. My first focus on my room was my bed-side table so I figured I'd let that by my photo-of-the-day. :)

Day 155

Yesterday was Friday and I had to go back to work. Not that I don't enjoy work or anything but I just had to wake up earlier than I would have liked. So I went in and continued on my project of making graphs to later be presented to church's about their giving to certain organizations, such as the one I work for. But beyond that, I know you probably don't want to hear, it was the weekend and I came home ready to relax. We had a lightning storm last week and it apparently fried our Direct TV cable. So the TV man was at our house to try to fix things. He was suppose to come between 8 and 12 but as it always works, he didn't get there until 3. So when I got home after 4 (in my drive home I had to battle a storm & lots of water on the road...not fun) the TV man was still there working on the satellite and cables and the such. Poor man - he had to work out in the rain and crawl under our house but at least he knew what he was doing, I could never do anything like that. Once he left, our family headed to Ingles to pick up some movies to watch this weekend. You could tell my brother wasn't home because all of the movies we rented were chick flicks: Leap Year, Dear John, & Valentine's Day. We watched Leap Year because it was the only one of the three I hadn't seen and I did really enjoy it. :) I'm not really sure my reasoning behind the picture for yesterday, I just remember liking the light on the kitchen table and the lovely colors.

Day 154

Thursday was the long trip home. I got bored & cramped in the car but I suppose every vehicle would have done that, too. I finished reading Eclipse the third book in the Twilight series again...I have read those book so many times. Once we got home, I was very happy to be out of the car. Unfortunately, I couldn't immediately relax because I had to finish up my online class assignment. I have decided that if I can ever help it again, I will NEVER take another class online during the summer. I'm just not in the mood! Anyways back to the picture. Somebody at the my dad's home church had made these little crosses for everybody. There were extras, so my parents & I all were given one. It reminds me of once on my choir tour years when a sweet woman made every person a little ceramic dove which she hung from white ribbon. I can see it now hanging on my dresser and I just love how sweet people can be, asking nothing in return. :)

Day 153

Wednesday was a very exciting day for our church's youth choir. Every year, they go on a choir tour and travel somewhere in the continental US. I have been on 6 of these choir tours, seventh grade through twelfth grade. Our final destinations were Washington, D.C, California, Pennsylvania, Key West, New York, and San Antonio. I loved each and every one of the trips and am sad that I would not be attending this one to Virginia. My brother is still in the choir, having just finished the 9th grade. So my whole family & I got up before I ever wanted to and headed to the church to bid adieu to the choir. Instead of just saying goodbye, my parents & I piled in my brother's car and followed the bus. Why might you ask? Well, the first destination was in North Carolina at my father's home church in his home town where his family still lives. We were going to try to surprise my grandparents, but though that didn't end up working out, we were still looking forward to the visit. So the ride was long, 6.5 to 7 hours. We got into the town that evening and ate supper at my grandparent's house and went to listen to the concert. The choir did a very good job, better than they had done at the pre-tour concert the previous Sunday. That next morning we told the choir goodbye, along with my brother, and said long goodbyes to my dad's friends and family and we headed back to Georgia. :)

Day 152

Tuesday did not feel like tuesday. Monday was memorial day so I had off from work. Tuesday was also just one of the two days that I was going to work because I was making a trip with my family to & from North Carolina Wednesday & Thursday but more about that later. I went to work and worked about 6 hours. Came home and it had rained during the day while I was at work. So since I didn't have some huge inspiration for a picture-of-the-day, I used the wet deck as a prop. I grabbed my rainboots and played around with them on the deck...with their reflection in the water and stuff like that. I really like this picture because of the layout and the pop of red in an otherwise dull picture. :)