i didn't leave you

well hello......sorry i haven't been keeping you guys up to date with my life. but whatcha going to do about it......nothing....that's what i thought. well let's see,three weekends ago i got a new car! a little over a week ago i came home for christmas break, that was good. i've had 6 different christmas's this year...it was fun...it also kinda sucked...i don't think i can keep a fake smile on my face much more. i really didn't have any "stand out" christmas presents this year...but i did get a big kick out of my mom. this year all three of us kids decided to go together and get mom this bird feeder that spins if a squirl goes on it that i had found a while ago. she loved it! o and we got my dad a new hooters calender....he also loved it. the last on tuesday morning i went shopping with the bauer brothers in mankato....that was a good time. hey aaron...."let's get some shoes." other than that i've been working and getting a chance to hang out with some of my friends from back home. I'm really looking ready for the TEC new years party...jill won't stop talking about it. she's pumped...i'm not going to lie.....i too am a little pumped for it too. so for most of you...i just might see you there.

newest thing to talk about......i got a hair cut yesterday...so when you see me...tell me it looks great.

Christmas cookies!

i love christmas cookies. my mom brought me up a bunch of them this past weekend when they came up. yes there were all gone in 2 days. and yes i shared with katy....but i still ended up eating almost all of them. They are just so good!

there is something about christmas time, the music, the lights, everything....it just puts me in a good mood. you'd think with all the work i've had with finals being just a week away i'd be really stressed. nope....and i really think it's because of all of the christmas stuff i've got up in my room. it just puts me at ease. i know...i'm just like a little kid.

o...and guess who's name was on thr first present under the tree this year.....me! now we just have to see how has the most...it's probably going to be mom again...but i can keep my fingers crossed.


favorite christmas song right now: I want a hippo for chirstmas

what a weekend

my parents came up this weekend. they brought along jill and they picked up katy's little sister molly. turns out jill and molly became good friends. well my parents came up on saturday we ended up going to EC to do some christmas shopping. i got most of mine done. then we came back and went to a show at the mable tainer...we watched redefined and the uw-madhatters. both were great to watch. if you ever get the chance to see either of them...go! then that night my roommate katy wasn't feeling well. we ended up taking her to the emergency room at 12....we didn't get back til 2. it kinda sucked...and she's still not feeling good.

to say the least i was good....and bad. i had fun....and i'm glad i've got most of my shopping done.

christmas pictures of the year

so every year i put togethere a christmas picture for my family...this year i've done two. one for me and my roomie, katy...


and another for my family...



i tend to have a little fun when i do these things.

happy holidays!

Now we're talkin

Last weekend was nuts! they say i got a break from school...but more or less i got to be a shadow for 3 days. i got to follow Emily around for 3 days and take pictures for her. i had a blast! in order for some of you to understand the relationship ship me and Emily have i'm going to have to go back a ways.
Beatty's moved to new ulm 12 years ago. we road the same bus to school every day and me and martha( my best friend) became close. though out the years our family found out that we have a lot in common. their oldest son matt would give my brother rides home from wrestling practice. our dad's would talk wrestling all the time. adam (my older brother) and emily (martha's sister) were in the same grade. we all were in 4h and showed cows together. we now take a family christmas picture every year well all 6 of us kids...and any girlfriends/boyfriends, and this coming year we'll have a husban to add to the picture. I've known the Beatty family to be my "other" family.
ok...now you know a little bit about how we know each other. so when it came to the wedding we all were involved. adam was an usher, my parents were host at the reception, jill helped out with all the little odds and ends, and i was emily's shadow taking pictures for her for 3 days. it was so much fun...i took way to many pictures for her. and it was a lot of fun!




since the weekend i've been trying to take it easy...monday that didn't happen...i had a paper due...a speech to give....and a drawing that was due....although the rest of the week has been fine. fact be told...i'm going to take a final look at the apartment that i'm going to be living in next year today...yah me!

this weekend on saturday i'm going to the art museum with some friends...i've got to go for a class...but it should still be fun.



till the next time i'm bored in class and feel like typing....later

Happy Turkey Day to All!

i just thought i'd put this up to wish all a happy thanksgiving. let's not forget all the things that we are thankful for...friends...family...life...all of which God has given to us. I'm putting up a chanllange for all of you...everytime you say happy thanksgiving or hear someone say it, say a little prayer thanking God for everything he has given us.


I'm thankful for all of you!

Break...what break? I don't get a break

so i'm leaving for home around 1 today for thanksgiving break. but i like to call it thanksgiving chaos. yes that's right. i really don't get much of a break. i go home today just help get last min. things ready for em's wedding on saturday. then tomorrow i hopefuly get a little bit of a break but knowing em, i'll be helping her with stuff again. and i know a lot of my friends from high school want to get together tomorrow night. thursday is turkey day...which for all your reader...HAPPY TURKEY DAY to you. friday i'm taking pictures of the set up and being em's shadow for the day...takeing pictures the whole time. the saturday the day starts early. i'll be taking pictures the whole day and night. to be followed up the present opening in which i'll be taking pictures yet again. ya...let's just say i think i might need a break when i get back.

side note: uncle tim what are you and karen doing next weekend...let me know

I have found my calling

yes that's right...dodgeball! tonight for the APP after CRU we played dodgeball. man did it bring me back to the good old days of gym class back in high school. and yes i've still got it. nothing could stop me. in one of the games i was the last one out there for my team...it was me against 4 guys and 1 girl. i ended up winning it for my team. i had fun! after being sick all week...it's just what the doctor called for. nothing can bring a girls spirits up like hitting people with big balls. more so when they don't see it coming and start to get scared when they see me with one.


ain't nobody going to bring me down tonight

Be my guest....

So for anyone who doesn't know...my little sister jill was in our high school muscial this past weekend. so i did the big sister thing and went and watched like a good big sister would do. she did a great job. one thing that i got a big kick out of was the fact that i can still remember all of the kids in the musical running around when they were all in kindergarten. i'm not even that old...but watching all of them growing up and being on stage and all of that...wow.

i remember when i would watch the movie beauty and the beast over and over and over again. now i'm 20 and i'm watching my sister and all of her friends performing it. it kinda brings a confusing smile to my face. i'm what you call a proud big sister.

i guess it's just how i am

so i noticed this weekend when it was nice out....when i'm up at school i'm lazy. at home i get out and do stuff....like going for a 5 mile bike ride just so i can clear my mind. up at school....i just get pissed. i don't have a bike up here...and i always just find it easier to sit in my little dorm room rather than going out for a walk or something like that. lazy lazy lazy lazy. i've got to think of something to get me out and about.

other than that...let's talk about how i'm getting back and forth to and from school this weekend...i'm just praying something works out...i'm getting home...getting back up might be a different story.

for any aftist out there....you any good with carcole? cause i'm not and well i'm kinda trying to finish a project and it's really kinda sucking....dang contrast....grrrr

HOME!

i'm going home tomorrow! I've got 3 weeks of dirty clothes...mom's going to hate me...i love it. you see i'm one that doesn't drink up at school. and for thoes who know stout...there isn't a whole lot going on up here on the weekends unless you want to go uout to a party and drink. i'm not one to do that. and it's not so bad if my roomie katy stays up here with me...but she goes home a lot too, to see her sister. so i usually go home a fair amount on the weekends. but since i totalled my car that isn't always an option. so now i'm going home...one of my friends is dropping me off in st. peter and someones picking me up and getting me the rest of the way.

i'm getting out of here! everyone be happy for me!

tis Halloween!

I LOVE HALLOWEEN! i mean i love it so much i start planning my getup already the year before. so i'm really into it you could say.
last night i get a phone call from jill...."abby, what should i be tomorrow?" i felt like she took my pumpkin shaped heart and smashed it. my little sister didn't have a costume yet....just 3 hours away from halloween...and she had nothing. so i told her to go to our mud room and grab one of our retro get-up's...she didn't want to do that. everyone had already seen all of that. then she was mad at me for taking my costume with me...cause she wanted to wear it. i wasn't even going to listen to that one. so i shut her up qwick! so i kept throwing ideas out at her...she didn't like any of mine so i started asking others. she didn'l like any of those...finally i told her to go as a lumberjack. and wel i'm thinking that's what she finally went as cause she made me tell her what to wear for it like 4 times.
as far as what i'm going as..."AAHHHHHHH" i'm the Fonz

come on i'm a kid at heart...you've all seen how i act

you don't know what you've got till it's gone

i hate the fact i don't have a car. and the sad part is, i don't even need it right now...but the fact that i don't have one up here when i'm 3 hours from home...well it just kinda sucks. you see i'm not one to depend on others to much when it comes to things like this. when i first got my car i was the only one out of my friends that could drive, and it was like this for a good 8 months. i was the one who they turned to when we needed to get somewhere. i was the driver...the one with wheels. now all i have is a totaled car. and no way to get home. and to make things worse...my parents just bought my little sister a car 2 days ago. she's turning 16 in 3 weeks. so let's review... a car being unused for 3 weeks....one girl 3 hours away from home with out a car. ok so i'll drop it for now...i know i could go on and on.
now since i'm not going home this weekend...anyone got any ideas of what i can do?

It started out with a bang

so for all my blog readers out there....mostly aaron...they know i had one heck of a weekend...what they might not know is how my weekend started.
Thursday night i got my self into a nice car accident and totaled my car...yes that's right. don't worry i wasn't hurt, just a little emotionally hurt that's all. you see i needed that car to get me to the tec weekend in which my little sister was going through. (might i add i first found out that my little sister jill was going through on wed. that's right she kept it from me! not cool.) nothing was going to stop me from getting there. so thursday night i had to go home with my roommate to her house and use one of there cars for the weekend. in which this ment i had to skip my two classes on friday so i could get home for the weekend.
i made it home...i was happy!
then came saturday when i headed off to meet everyone for agape...in which i knew i'd cry my eyes out when i saw my little sister being walked through.(which i did) this of course being followed up by a nice mody beiter gathering outside of the church...and perkins. then off to my matt's house to crash...or should i say be woken up by his dog and cats every 5 mins. o well i had somewhere to stay for the night...i should be mad.
sunday started out early...as me and matt showed up for the very end of levi's talk...o well. me and matt and kyree hung out for most of the day and was joined my mr. cody bauer himself. we mostly bummed around the church all day until closing. yes that's right my little sister had me crying again. she hugs my dad....she hugs my mom....then she hugs me...bring on the water works. i can finally talk tec with my sis and not have to hide anything from her! i'm so happy.

now i'm back up at school...which is the last place i want to be since i have 2 paper due in the morning and i haven't started either of them and instead i'm telling you how my weekend went...don't you feel special!

kick in the butt of the weekend goes to---me for totaling my car....grrr

driving

ok...saturday. all day saturday i was in a car driving. i started the day driving from arlington to fairfax and everywhere in between putting up posters for my dad. then i get home pack up my stuff, quick take a shower just to hit the road and head up to stout. in which i quick change my clothes...put on my gopher get up.....and get back in the car with katy...my roommate...to go to the gopher's game with my bro and 2 of my friends. ath this point it was the only time i hadn't really been in a car. then after the game i got back in the car and drove back to school. all but 5 hours where spent driving my car. nuts is what i was.

now i'm at school...no driving is needed...thank god....i don't think i could take another day like that for awhile.

why i do what i do

for anyone who knows me they know i live for softball. since i've been to old t play it, i've been coaching it since last fall. this past weekend was state fall ball. my girls made it in to b devision...1st ranked. not only did my girls get ranked 1st but we made it to the championship. the girls worked there butts off all day sunday to get that far. the final game came, to start it off one of our pitchers megan had a line drive right back at her and broke her finger. that's when the teams adittude when right down the poop shoot. i wasn't to happy...we had to throw our other pitcher who's arm was almost gone to begin with. in the long run we ended up taking 2nd. which was really great. the girls had a lot of fun...the coaches had a lot of fun. and yet on my ride back to school i found myself in tears. these tears weren't because i thought the girls didn't do good. i couldn't have been happier for them. it had finally hit me that i never did the whole coaching thing for me....i did it for someone else. i took what i knew and loved and helped others better their game. i've never felt this way before. I HELPED SOMEONE! you have no idea what kind of self pride one can feel after somthing like that.
life gives you options. you can take what life gives you and waist it or you can give it back to others.

going home for the weekend

i can't wait for friday! i'm going home...sleeping in my own bed...which i haven't done in over a month. yes that's right. i need some one on one time with my bed. amber is coming home this weekend and i get to see her. i havent' seen her in over 2 months. i can't wait to talk with her. i get to take some more of katie's sr. pictures and have some fun with her and my sister. i really miss katie. our friendship has grown so much over the past year and i spent so much time with her over the summer...mostly within the last month of summer. i think i saw her like every other day if not everyday at both fair and state fair. when me and katie get together we hot tub...i haven't been in my hot tub for a month. o wow. i really need it to be tomorrow so i can drive 3 hours to get back to the place that i love. and see the people i miss....well some of them.i can't wait. i can't wait. i can't wait!!!!!! fun for me.

one class today...two classes tomorrow and i'm in speedy faster than you can say....lkjaioeoilkdinvieona. i mean it too

kick in the butt of the day goes to---who ever made today today and not tomorrow

can you say....ahhhh

one side of me is mad...other side of my feels bad. i'm talking about how i felt tonight about my best friend. you see martha is one of those girls that you really shouldn't put your money on and yet i still do cause i love her like my sis. she was suppost to come and help me coach today and she blew me off cause she needed to study for a test which she could have studied for yesterday when she went shopping. yes i know well she went shopping o well. but she just went to the same mall last weekend with me. and it's not that she is just blowing me off she's blowing all the girls on the team off.
and then i get back here to find tha she left me message on facebook...saying how she's not so happy with her roommate and how she misses me and all our time we've spent together. and our music...singing!

now i feel like an ass...that's right an ass.


kick in the butt of the day goes too---the ump...man did he suck!

BIG TIME

ok so last night me and my roomie went up to north campus to watch a movie... not just any movie but an outdoor movie. i know, sweet! they had this moster screen that they put up and we watched failure to launch...which i have been wanting to see for a while now. i was pretty happy. not only did i get to go and watch a great movie with one of my best friends. i got a free cup that says sober is sexy. i know you all want it. i do have to say it did get a little cold towards the end of the movie. but it was worth it.

on a different note...i have cru tonight. and yes i can't wait. i feel bad though... over the summer i feel like i've slipped away from god a little bit. or i should say that i wasn't as close as i wish i would have been. i've found myself talking to god a lot more just within this past week. it feels good to be able to talk and know that he's listening. i think it was peter...the pastor at substince church in the cities....he was talking last week at cru...and he really got me thinking. he started talking about talking to god, and if we ever listen to what he says back. well i took his word and kinda set them on the shelf in the back of my mind. on monday it's like they feel off the shelf and hit me. sometimes you just have to listen and stop talking. that's just how it is. don't get me wrong god still wants to hear what you have to say...but sometimes you need to shut up so you can hear what he needs to tell you.

My mind needs to shut up!

over the past couple of days i've had a lot on my mind. and for some reason i just can't get it to shut up.
it's telling me about 3 different things at once when i only wan t to hear one thing at a time. most people can say hey...everyone has that happen to them. and yes i've had it happen to me before...i just don't like it. o well.

so ya i'm in badminton this year...lol...i know funny. let me tell ya...i should be a good time.

kick in the butt of the day goes to- my mind for not shutting up

a different state of mind

i don't know if it's cause i'm older or if it's because of something else...but for some reason i feel like something different with me. i feel better about me... and not just me the way i feel about myself. sweet i know.

last night i had my first night of cru since school started back up...which i love. it's so much fun being able to get together with a bunch of people my own age. not only do we get to together and worship god but we do it at a place where most people go out and drink...and instead we have fun in the name of god. which is super sweet.

it's kinda nice i have all my TEC friends back home...and all my CRU friends up here at school...i know that if i need to talk i'll always have someone that ill listen.


kick in the butt of the day goes to: the people that price art supplies...i hate paying that much money!

back yet again...

i'm back at stout. last night was hard...believe it or not i was kinda homesick last night...now i'm doing a lot better...i got to hang out with a bunch of my friends today. I'mm not a fan of not knowing what's going to happen. and every time i come here i get that uneasy feeling. but it's slowly starting to fade.

all in all i should be fine.

fyi---this year at the state fair i had hotdish on a stick...and yes...it was really good!

sweetness!

so i just got doen with my last fair for 4-h. tear. i'm ubber happy i showed up at state fair this year. i had a lot of fun. made some new friends. got a new shirt. ate a lot of fair food.
you know some people think it's funny that i show cows. but for me it's something you can learn from. no matter how many times you show. every fair you end up learning something new. if it's something for showing or just something about others or about yourself, you learn something that you won't forget. this year it's that just because somthing doesn't work out the first time, doesn't meant that you should ever try it again. i also learned that i can be a leader and a follwer at the same time...it's all about working together.

i love it all!

same thing over and over

so for the past couple of days i keep thinking about one thing over and over again. where has my time gone? i can still remember this time last year. i was thinking a little about school and how it is just a few weeks away. i had been wishing i had gotten more time to spend with my friends before they all took off. i kept wishing that i'd find a guy up at school. i could never stop thinking about what the year ahead of my had in store.
now i'm in that same boat...the only thing that changed is i'm a year older. i look back to when people would tell me to have fun and enjoy life while i was young...i would just laugh at them and tell them they were all nuts. now i wish would have actually listened to them and slowed down. it seems like the older i get the faster time goes. i'll be back here in a year saying the same thing all over again very soon.

Sad times ahead

so i have a feeling for these next couple weeks i'm going to be on a big downer. all my buds are off at college...i however still have 2 weeks to go before i go back. i'm stuck here...home...not cool. it's starting to hit me that college is going to fly by so fast i won't be able to see it when it's here. and then i'm going to stuck out into the real world. my brother starts his first "real" job. well first job post college in the real world. it's all going way to fast. i think i'm going to freak...not really, but maybe a little. grrr

fyi---if i don't post much this week...it's because come wed. i'm up at the state fair till sunday...so if you're up there stop by the cow barn and look for nicollet county...i should be there...or at least my animal will be.

NEW:

new stuff is fun.
1. new hair cut
2. new hat
3. new jeans
4. new shoes

now does it really get any better than that?

And yet another day

so here's an update on how i've been since you've last heard from me. had fair...did good. got a state fair trip, and i'm taking it. with my cow of course. got to hang out with some really cool people today...matt and kryee for the most part of it...and dean and cindy and dani for a while too. fun! then i got to sit in a van by myself and think about everything. let me tell ya. i'm sick of thinking about everything so much. i really wish there would be an off button for your mind. o well...another day another dollor o wait that's not ture i didn't have to work today yet again.

now i'm super happy for the week to be over with...friday is my last day at work for the summer. saturday i'm haveing a party at the reiter's house...all are welcome. yes..me and andrew hermanson are having the party at reiter's. we need to mix it up a little bit. try and get a bunch of people together before everyone takes off again for school.

see you all on the flip side of it.

Great times

ok so this past weekend one of my brother's best friends got married. what a great day. our family got all dressed up. my brother was in a suit...and looked good...single women out there (wink wink)....i got to take a lot of pictures. all in all it was great. now comes the part were i talk about how i felt out of place. one...i hung out with all of my brothers friends cause there was no one there my age...not a huge problem. but there was still a age difference. 2...there were some many couples there...it reminded me yet again that i have no one. sad. 3...everyone was drunk...and that just goes to show that when guys get drunk they will hit on anything. o well...life goes on and i've got more weddings to come. inface i still have 4 or 5 more this year...nuts i know.

kick in the butt of the day goes to- bill the singer from the wedding who kept on hitting on me

my feet are wet

ok...so since it's rained so much this week i haven't been working a whole lot. which for some might be great...but i need the money for school. so i was happy to see it was not raining today when i got up. so i went to work and wash porta potties like i do all the time but today the water just didn't want to go where it should have. instead it wanted to go all over me....not cool. then after i wash everything i go to my boss and see what else there is for me to do...i mean i haven't worked since monday(because of the rain). "nothing...go home." i put in 2 and a half hours today that's it. not cool. and as far as next week goes i know i'll only be working 2 days cause i have to be at fair the other 3. o man why do things got to be that way. owell...now i vented about it...maybe i can drop it for a while now. life will move on...

my feet are still wet though.

Cow time!

yet another summer is starting to come to an end. you know how i know. fair is next week. that for me is always the first sign that summer is starting to wrap up. and yes fair time means cows. that's right i show dairy. and you know what i have a lot of fun with it. today i'm going to start washing and training them. yes that's right i have to train them. what, you think they just walk willingly? now when i told some of my friends from school that i show cows...they think it's the funniest thing they have ever heard. maybe it's cause they are all city kids? i'm a country girl. there is nothing like getting up at 3 in the morning and washing a cow just to have to sit there and watch them all day. and then show day getting to put on all white clothes just to show. i know i must sound nuts. but this is my last year and i really want to have a good time this year. infact if anyone want to come watch me show. i've got 3 show both next week. thursday is the ffa show and friday is the 4-h show and open class. i can't wait!

hot

ok...so i'm really sick of all of this hot weather...i have to work outside...is someone trying to kill me?
ok enough about the weather...i could go on and on. but instead i heard this quote the other day and i wrote it down. "accept the things you can not change and change the things you can." i totally love it. when i heard this for the first time it hit home for me. i'm one that trys to hard somtimes at things i know i can't change but i still think there is a slight chance that something will change even if it won't.
i'm done for the day...the sun took it out of me, just thought i'd share what i found.

boys= blue, girls= pink

ok...so ever since i've had our cat in the house, it's been up stairs in the bathroom that in our house is the "girls" bathroom. (fyi-the cat has something wrong with it so it's in the bathtub) so for the past couple of showers i've had to use the boys bathroom downstairs. and i've noticed something. the boys bathroom walls look like it's a girls bathroom and the girls bathroom walls look like it's a boys bathroom. now i guess in our house this doesn't suprize me much...both me and my mom are a bit of a tomboy type. and well as for the guys in my house, they wouldn't be the ones on top of the manly men list. but it got me thinking. why is it that we get labled with colors. i mean it starts out this way from day one. boys get sent home in blue and girls get sent home in pink from the hospital...why? then it seems to go on in different ways all through our life. look at sports. boys have to play baseball and girls have to play softball. i guess i kinda broke out of the "norm" when i was young. i went and wrestled for 4 years. which by the way didn't sit will with grandma.

why is it that people have to have standerds for boys and different ones for girls, or the other way around?

the boss man

ok so i know we've all had problems with our bosses somewhere on down the line. well let me tell ya, my boss is really starting to get to me. my boss is one of those guys where if you don't have to work that day he doesn't call you and tell you to stay home...no that would be way to easy. instead he waits till you get to work and waisted your gas money and then tells you to go home. it's like hello...college student here. i don't have the time or the money to be pushed around like this. and it's not that he's done it once, o no, it's been like 5 times now this summer. grrrr.

cat update---still not dead

Kick in The Butt of The Day goes to---my boss

BRING ON THE WEEKEND!

it's all on me

ok...so family is gone...i'm the only one home. for most college students that means one thing...party! but dang me and my good heart. i just don't. or wait maybe it's because i don't have time to. work...work...work. then i get to come home and find my sister's cat looking like it's going to die. which for all of my reader's (which from the looks of it is no one) i've got it up stairs right now and it's not dead yet. now i'm the one that has to watch this cat all night long. i didn't get much sleep last night and i know if that cat is in the house tonight i'm not going to get much tonight either. grrrr. don't get me wrong i love the cat...but why me? o ya that's right that thing called responsability. i'm really sick of that word right now. and yet at the same time i love it.
my life as of this summer is made up of little things. work. softball. eat. sleep. and on that one night i have off, friends. am i crazy for being this busy at such a young age. or am i crazy for thinking i'm busy at such a young age. i mean just think when i have kids (which is a long way down the road) i'm going to have to make sure they can do there things before i can do mine. CRAZY!
o well bring on tomorrow...see what crazy things i come up with next.

Kick in the Butt of the day--- my cat!

Alone in the house of ABBY

first off a little vent session... this year my family decided to plan a family vacations for 3 out of the 5 memebers of my family, and they left on my birthday. in the words of steph tanner..."how rude" i just happen to be one of the 2 that get's to stay home and work. what fun! end of vent session...thank you for listening.
So sunday was my 20th birthday. and of course it wouldn't be a birthday unless i'd spent it with my TEC friends and family just like i did for my 18th and 19th. Some people always want the attention to be on them on their birthday, i however don't. it's not the fact that i'm getting older and want to hide it, no not at all. it's the fact that if i can go and help in the littlest way for kids to open there eyes to God, i will. At TEC we try and get canadites to start a relationship with God. So the focuse is on them. i don't know of any other way i would want to spend my birthday then haveing someone get closer to God. That is by far the closest birthday present anyone could give me.

i'm back!

ok so i thought i'd start blogging again...i took the year off, but i'm back! i just read my last blog...wow have things changed in my life. High School seems like it was years ago and i'm only a year out. i'm starting to get a real look at the "working" world...and i'm not really all that happy about it. well all but the money part...that will help pay for a few classes. this was my first real year away from home. it was a pain at first but i fixed things and it ran a lot more smoother. this was my first summer not playing fastpitch...instead i got to coach it. let me tell ya...you can learn a lot of stuff from a bunch of 15 and 16 year old girls.
i can tell i'm in a different state of mind than i was in high school. somethings don't seem to matter as much as other any more. i just turned 20, i can't use "i'm a kid...leave me along." i know i still have a lot more to come and a lot more to learn...i say bring it on.