This class

This English class has been my most productive English class ever. All my English classes in high school have helped, but not in the level that this one has helped. With all the papers I have had to write for this class, I felt like I really knew what I was doing. With previous papers I just "winged" it. I also put more effort into this class and I believe that is why I got more out of it. I learned how to "Read Like A Writer" and how to correctly do a works cited page. I think the main reason for my success in this class is because of my teacher. She showed slot of effort into helping us succeed in the class. With all the papers she offered extra time to help us understand what we missed. She also let us turn in a rough draft before our final one. This allowed us to look at our mistakes and correct them before turning in our final paper. I know It seems I am trying to get some brownie points, but she really did help me a lot in this class. Unfortunately I don't have her for Comp 2, but hopefully I will have her again sometime while I am at AUM. I do wish I had stated on these blogs earlier than today. But my amazing teacher said if our last 15 or so are good, then she might accept only 60 posts instead of 70. I'm praying she accepts 60.

New Job

I recently had an interview with a doctors office here in Montgomery. A lady at my church works at the doctors office and knew that i was studying to be a nurse. She called me one day and said that they may have an opening for  lab technician when the new year comes around. She said I should come by for an interview. A little nervous, I went in for the interview. She said that if I got the job, I would get to see the patients in their room and take their vital signs. She said that they would teach me most of what I needed to know. I was very excited on what I would be able to do if I got the job. The lady from my church called me the day after and told me I did good. She also said I should be expecting a call from her within the next week or two. I still haven't gotten a call but my fingers are crossed. This job would help me in so many ways. I would get experience in the medial field and it would help me get to know what I liked and did not like about nursing. This will also look good on my application to nursing school at AUM. Wish me luck!

regrets

There are not too many things I regret in my life so far, except the things I did not do in high school. In high school my main sport was golf. I was pretty good at it so i dedicated my time towards it. Before I started playing golf, I grew up playing baseball. I was pretty good at baseball but I got burned out on it so I decided to play golf in high school. Looking back on it, I regret not playing at least one year of high school baseball. Another thing I regret not doing while in high school is playing football. I played when I was younger but never really liked it a lot. I was going to play in high school but decided not to because I did not want to risk getting hurt and ruining my season for golf. Looking back, I wish I would have played. Going to all those Friday night football games and having the fans cheer for you sure made me wish I had played. My high school days are over and I regret not playing those two sports that, deep down, I really wanted to play. The only positive thing about not playing those sports is that I became really good at golf. I would not be as good as I am now if I played baseball or football. I guess it was the right decision to not play those sports, but I wonder how things would be now if I had.

Highschool

My junior year in high school I had a history teacher; let us just say she was different. This woman was loud and rude. She would yell for no reason at all. I guess she just liked the sound of her voice. Although she was loud and rude someday she would be so sweet. It was a little confusing. I guess you could call her bipolar. She would say how strict and mean she was, but she would give us the exact tests the day before. When we had subs we could put anything, literally anything, down for the answer and get credit. Her class was very easy, but it was not effective. Unless you took it upon yourself to learnt he subject matter, all you were doing was memorizing it the day before. In a week all of that information was gone. I am so glad I never had her as a teacher again.

Test taking

I just finsihed my department final for psychology. This was one of those things where you have known about it all year, but you procrastinate and do it last minute. It happens, a lot, especially to me. I admit that I am a procrastinator. It must be in my genes because I really just cannot help  it. Anyways, I took the final and made an 85. That is an okay grade but I really wanted at least a 95. The part that really frustrates me is that I thought I had them all right.Even though I did wait till last minute I still put a lot of effort into it and tried really hard. So and 85 just is not okay. The department final does not tel you what you missed either; so now I am thoroughly confused on what I got wrong. Finals in general just stress me out and frustrate me. I cannot wait till Christmas break!

Dad

The person I look up to the most in my life is my dad. He has done so much for me. Far as I could remember I always did things with my dad. He took me hunting, fishing, to my first Alabama football game, and gave me my first beer. He always taught me to be my own man. Not to let anyone make my decisions. Today we do not get to hangout as much as we used to, but I will never forget all the things he has done for me. If it wasn't for hm, I would not be so into golf as I am now. I remember all the long days of him teaching me how to play. How he would be patient even after the long hours of me complaining. He made me into the man I am today, and I hope I can be as good as a father to my son as he was to me. He told me he is the man he is because of his father. My grandpa died when I was young so I dont remeber much of him, but because of my father, I know he must of been an amazing dad.

Taxes

One thing I am strongly looking forward to is getting my W2s back. As soon as I get them back I plan on filing my taxes as soon as possible, and by filing as soon as possible, I will get my money back sooner. Last year I did not get that much money back because I did not work as much. This year, however, I have made more money. I have been attempting to save up money for new accessories for my truck: lift kit, tires, and rims. I will be honest, I am not a very good saver. I spend way too much money on food and unnecessary items. Money just burns a hole in my pocket, but your taxes are like a secret bank account. You go all year with out the money and then poof you get it back! It is great! I will be so thrilled when I can finally buy all these things for my truck with my tax money!

Hardest class of the semester

This semester, my hardest class was easily Into to Psychology. Psyc is so hard to me because it is very broad. I had to learn so many things in that class it was almost overbearing. Each quiz was so hard. I studied for that class more than any other class this semester. The only thing that was a relief was the mid-term It was rather easy. What made it so hard is because our professor only lectured on certain things, but the things he did not lecture about, we were still responsible for knowing. Everything in the chapter would be on the quizzes. This class made me stretch my thinking more than any other class I have ever taken. Even though I am almost done with this class. I still have to take Developmental Psychology, which I have herd is just as hard as Into. But because It was such a hard class, I did learn a lot. I feel I learned more because of that class than any other. Even though it was a hard class, I am thankful because I am more intelligent because of it.

Black Friday

 The black Friday was my first black Friday I have ever went shopping on. Usually on black Friday I am 15 feet up a tree hunting. But this year was different. Me and my girlfriend decided to get up early that Friday and go shopping. Originally, my girlfriend was going to go shopping with her older sister and I was going to keep my happy butt in the bed. But of course it would not end up like that. My girlfriend's older sister cancelled on her the night before. So I get a call late Thanksgiving night saying I was going shopping with her the next morning. At first I said no! But a few minutes of her being really sweet got me to say yes. On black Friday I woke up at 4 a.m. Tired and cranky, I drove to pick up Hannah. Now Hannah is not a morning person at all. So once I cam to her house and woke her up, she was mad. The whole ride to the mall was her being cranky and mad at me. I almost turned the car around and headed home. But she eventually calmed down and the day turned out to actually be fun. Now for next year I hope I can go hunting but we will see.

First semester of college

My first semester of college is almost over. I can not believe that only a few finals stand between me and Christmas break. It seems only yesterday I was going to the high school for my first day as a freshman. That seems like it was only a few days ago. Now here I am almost done with my first semester of college. I remember being in high school and thinking " I can not wait to go to college". If I could, I would go back to those days in a heart beat. In high school the biggest thing I worried about is if that girl liked me or if what I was doing this Friday night. Now everything is changed. I have bigger responsibilities and more things on my mind. Yes I like the extra freedom, but I would be lying if I said I didn't miss high school. I always hear high school students saying how they can not wait t graduate and go to college. If only they knew how much they would miss the very thing they can not wait to get away from.

What I want for Christmas

As Christmas gets closer and closer, I am starting to think about what I would want. When I started college, My dad gave me his truck as kind of a graduation present. It is a 2007 Toyota Tacoma and I love it. The best part is it gets way better gas mileage than my last truck. I saw this because I have to pay for my own gas. The reason I am telling you about my truck is because everything on it is stock. Eventually I want to get a lift kit, bigger tires, new grill and rims. So this year for Christmas, I either want money, or one of the things I want on my truck. Either would be perfect! But if even if I don't get that for Christmas, I will begin to save up for them this summer. I have been dropping hints though about things that would make my truck look so much better, so maybe they will get the hint!

Procrastinating

Procrastinating is something I have always done. Ever since the beginning of high school, I would wait till the last possible second to do a project or write a paper. A good example of me procrastinating on something is right now. We had 70 blog posts due by today and I am still not done. Our teacher said we can get away with around 60 if the last 15 were long enough. But even that didn't push me enough. This is my 48 blog of the year. I still have at least 12 more to go and they are due today. I don't know what time exactly they are due. I am hoping sometime later because I am still not even close to being done. Procrastinating is a very bad habit,  and I hope by being in college, that I can loose it. But so far I have not. When we were first told about the blogs, I told myself I would not wait till the last second to do them. You see, I knew already that I would probably wait till the end of the semester to do them. And now here I am with a dozen blog posts left, at least  I hope my wonderful English teacher will accept 60. If not, well I guess that is what I get for procrastinating.

SEC Champs

On one of my lasts blogs, I talked about the SEC Championship game between Alabama and Georgia. I talked about how how it would be an intense game and whoever one, would have earned their spot in the National Championship. If you watched the game, you know that it was a well fought game on both sides of the ball. One team would score, then the other team would score. It was back and forth all night. Finally, in the 4th quarter, things changed. Alabama got a crucial stop on defence and in return, had the ball. Alabama's quarterback threw an amazing pass to his stand out receiver for the lead. All Alabama had to do was stop Georgia on defense and they would be the champions. But Georgia would not go without a fight. They marched the length of the field as seconds were winding down. They had one play before the clocked expired. The quarterback dropped back and through the ball, but Alabama's defensive end jumped up and knocked it down. Alabama wins! I was screaming so loud when this was happening. For a second I thought we were going to loose. Now we face Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship game on January 7th. ROLL TIDE!