One Scary Night!

January 08, 2007Last night someone tried to break into our house.  I was so scared.  I was at home with my brother while my Mom was at work.  It was about 10:30.  I had a lot of lights on in the house, which strikes me as weird.  I wouldn't try and break into somebody's house if I saw lights on.  It was dead quiet because Matt was asleep and I was in the process of putting in a movie.  All of a sudden, I heard the glass door open, and someone try to open the front door which was locked.  The dogs immediately went to the door and started to bark.  It scared the crap out of me.  I immediately called my Mom at work and then called the sheriff.  When the sheriff arrived, He talked to me, looked around the outside of the house, and then drove around the neighborhood.  He told me he would have the neighborhood patrolled for the next couple of nights.  The dogs are probably what scared the attempting intruder away.  Hopefully it will never happen again.

Cheers to the New Year!

December 31, 2006

2006 is coming to an end.  It's hard to believe that time has gone by so fast.  My life has changed pretty dramatically this past year. 

My grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Because my grandmother and I are so close, it was something I struggled a lot with.  Luckily I has such wonderful support from my friends and and family.  She had a mastectomy to remove the cancer.  We then found out that the cancer had reached her limp nodes, so she had a second surgery to remove that cancer.  She is cancer free now, but there is still the chance that the cancer could return.  I also graduated from high school this past May and moved to Tennessee about seven days later.  I left my closest friends and the majority of my family.  It was a big change.  I moved a lot when I was younger, and this transition was the hardest I've had to make by far.  I think the biggest thing for me this year was starting college.  I started my first semester at Tennessee Tech this fall.  It was a new beginning.  I have made some wonderful friends and am now in a relationship with a great guy.

2006 was full of smiles, tears, struggles, and joys. There was a lot of change, but mostly for the best.  I can only hope that 2007 will be just as great, and I am welcoming all that it has in store for me with open arms.

Say it with me now, IN-TRO-VERT

December 26, 2006Is introversion really that hard to understand?  Obviously it is for my parents.  Today the whole family went out for the After-Christmas Sales.  Even though I was dreading the crowds and having to deal with all those people, I still went.  The day wasn't all that bad and I did get some great deals.  After all was said and done, I headed to my room for some "me time".  I needed to take a break from people.  Well, I was called out to potty the dogs, so I left my room and did it.  I'm not in the mood to talk to anyone right now, so I wasn't the nicest when I answered there question of whether I had seen something that was saved on Tivo.  Immediately I was dubbed as being "bitchy" for not wanting to talk to people.  I don't know how many times I've tried to explain to them it is in my nature to not want talk to people sometimes, especially when I've already been doing it all day.  Grr!

Christmas Day

December 25, 2006

Today was wonderful.  For once I didn't have to deal with my other family.  No nosey Grandparents and no cousins seeing just how hard they can hug me. Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but living too close to them for the past four years has made me want some space.  In Florida, my Grandparents lived next door, so there was no privacy.  And my cousins lived about 10 minutes down the road, so I saw them a lot too, and was nearly hugged to death at least three times a week.  Change is good sometimes. 

It was a nice Christmas.  Just hanging around the house with Mom, Dad, and yes, even Matt.  We opened gifts, had our annual breakfast casserole, watched movies and television, played board games, and ate Christmas dinner.  There was only one person missing....

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

December 21, 2006

For the good:

I got to see Jonathan today!  I had to follow my Dad to Memphis today so that he could drop off his tool truck that he just sold.  So while we were in Memphis, we met Jonathan for lunch at Brad's BBQ.  Then Jonathan went with us to the drop-off site so that he could spend a little more time with me.  Even though we only got to spend a little time together today, it was wonderful.

For the bad:

I just learned from my grandmother tonight that a friend of mine from my church in Florida tried to commit suicide.  My friend has had a really tough life and it has been particularly hard for her lately.  I feel really bad that I'm not there to help her right now.  We were really starting to get close before I came to Tennessee, so I feel like I've abandoned her.  I am going to try and get in touch with her and try to help her, I just hope I can.