Home Grown Country Girl

Mood: Tired, now! Thanks for listening to me ramble on and on!
Listening to: TV - Law and Order: SVU

The two years of college have been somewhat kind. *suddenly flashback moments start to happen, but they seem a bit jumpy and not particularly in order...* Let's see, what do I remember...

Ah, my first Human Services Technology class. I refer to it ever so kindly as my judo class. That was called crisis intervention and that is where I met the most hilarious, outgoing, amazingly intelligent, loyal, respectful, and best friend in the entire world - Angie. Yes, we did judo together. It was...interesting. We were required to do nonviolent physical harm to one another. My professor refered to it as self-protection. "Deflect and move!" It was a fun class. From there on out, two strong bonds were formed, for I did love the Judo and Angie. In that order.

*flashes of bright white lights are happening really fastly* AH, here we are! We're in a psychology class and it's called "The Study of Personalities" and Dr. J is our professor. He seems to be pretty laid back. Very nice guy. He made the class really fun, too! Once again, Angie is in there with me. I told you we had a bond from day one! Melanie is sitting infront of us and she's beside Nancy. Throughout the quarter the four of us chitchat and we decide we wanna make another bond. Yay! So now we have Judo, Angie, and Melanie!

*flashes of bright green lights are happening rather slowly. you're quite interested in the shapes that's happening...* We're sitting in a classroom where we're being told we're gonna read about 3 million books and have to do papers on them and blah blah blah. It's awful. We also have a really bad toothache, which has to be cut out later. The professor says that we have to drop the class. UGH! What a horrible flashback. Let's move on...

*flashes of pink lights are happening and you feel extremely happy and energized* Now we're walking into a classroom. We've been in school for a year - we're pro's now! It's the fall quarter and tons of new faces. We're also in a 100 level course and Mary is our teacher. She's also the director of our program we're majoring in! She's fantastic! There's all kindsa bonds that are gonna form in here! The first one is Jimella. She's sitting up front, but she seems to love the field she's in. We'll talk to her after class. Ooh! There comes Melanie! She's coming to tell us there's a TRIBE meeting after class. Yep, we'll join that club! After class we meet all kindsa people. Angie's there! Yay! Another familiar face! Let's see, there's Julie, Amy, Missy, Jimella, Brandon..wow! So we decide to take a chair position in TRIBE. What in the world are we thinking?! An event coordinator?! Here we go. I guess we just dive in head first and see what happens. Apparently we're going to have to learn some organizational skills. We'll work on that. It's really fun to sit and talk to everyone, especially Mary. We want to get to know her better for sure!

*flashes of orange light are blinking in a rythm that seems too familiar...* Ah, it's Halloween time. Hrm, we've been talking all quarter about having a halloween part. Who's we? OH! Angie, Melanie and myself. We're not sure how it's gonna turn out, but we do know one thing. Angie is going to make out with a bat! Mahahah! So we start planning. It's a great opportunity to really get to know one anther other than in class and the TRIBE meetings.

*flashes of black lights are appearing and disappearing and you dont even know it cause its too dark to see them...* It's the halloween party! We're at Angie's house. Steve dropped us off and Melanie is on her way. We're going to go with Angie to Wal*mart and get the neccessary items as well as a few other three-leaf-clover stores. We meet up with Melanie and she follows us back to Angie's. Angie makes homemade pizza and some killer dip. We eat dip and chips all night. We love it. We also have some drinks and play some few games. It gets out of control at some points [yes more than one point], but we're having a blast! We will never forget this night.

*flashes of purple light gently blink off and on because your head is hurting from the halloween party...* We're sitting in a classroom. Angie is here, Melanie, Nancy, Jimella - Hey! we know all kindsa people. We're also wondering how we're going to learn about the community in a class. Interesting. So we sit down beside Angie cause Melanie is sitting beside Nancy. Our professor is Dave and he's hilarious! We laugh the entire time, practically. We also meet another hilarious woman and form another bond! Her name is Dusty. She has one interesting family, that's for sure! She's not afraid to talk about em in class either! It's hilarious! We also find out that she had her baby! Her 3rd baby and he's a beautiful, healthy baby boy. We're all so happy for her!

*flashes of red lights are going in circles and you think you're getting pulled over by the cops...* Now we're sitting in a classroom. We know over 90% of the people in here. The professor obviously loves horses. We're sitting between Angie and Cary - two of our bestest friends. We make some more bonds! We make a bond with Julie and Amanda! About the only good thing we know that's comin out of this class, other than building towers with noodles and gumdrops!  We're being talked down to by this horse loving professor. She's obviously got no idea what *she's* in for this quarter. We're not one to sit and take crap from someone *we're* paying to teach us, yanno? We just don't roll like that! We're pretty gangsta.

*flashes of yellow lights are making you feel really happy and make you think of daisies* You're sitting in Abnormal Psychology and it's near Christmas time. You're between Melanie and Angie and you couldn't be more happy. The class itself is somewhat boring and somewhat interesting. We pass notes with Melanie and Angie and Cary because we're planning a Christmas party! We're gonna play the white elephant game and it's going to be super sweet! We make all kindsa plans and everything. We even invite other people whom we barely know!

*flashes of ugly, puke green lights are going off and you're not feeling so well now...* It's the week of Christmas and you're sick.as.a.dog. You can barely talk. The Christmas party is coming up and we're so very excited! We get all of the gifts together and head over to Angie's. Melanie is the only one that shows up. Oh, Angie's mom is there too. We meet her for the first time. She's just as hilarious as Angie! Even though it's the four of us, we have a fantastic time. We even trade gifts and everything.

*flashes of gray lights are just..flashing..* All of a sudden we have a certification and we're a counselor at one of the local DUI school's. We can't believe this! Just a year ago we were starting college and now we're counseling people. Never in a million years would we have guessed this is where we would be sitting. We're in complete Awe of ourselves.

*flashes of yellow and green lights are going off rapidly making you excited* Now we're planning a walk a thon for child abuse awareness. This is our first big event we're planning so we gotta learn day by day. It's a good turn out for our first TRIBE event and things went rather smoothly. Couldn't be more proud of the TRIBE members, which now include Cary, Amanda, Dusty, and Angie! We've formed our own little family. We take care of each other. The walk a thon was a success in our book - and our book is the only one that matters.

*flashes of multi-colored lights are going off all around you and you notice it's flashes from cameras...* We're at graduation. Yep, we're sitting at graduation. Unbelievable. How time has flown by! All of our friends are here...Jimella, Melanie, Angie, Cary, Dusty, and Missy. We just sit and look at each of them and feel nothing but proud of all of our friends. These girls are more than our friends, they're like our sisters. We take pictures together, some serious, some goofy. We even grab Mary and make her take a picture with us. We're having fun. We've achieved one of our goals. We're lining up for graduation now, so now more socializing until afterwards. When our sisters are called up to the stage, we scream, clap and holler for them. We're so proud and we don't care who knows! We're kinda sad because now we've got another chapter of our lives to start and we hope that these ladies, our sisters, are still going to be a major part of it. Part of us even thinks that without these ladies, we wouldn't have survived the first two years. Unconditional. Positive. Regard. Unconditional. Love. Unconditional. Support. Unconditional.

Ok - as cheesey as that may have been, that's as creative as I can get at a quarter til 3 in the morning. I can't sleep. My mind just wont slow down. Maybe it's because I slept til 11am toda. Tee-hee! Im even doing laundry. Yes, that's how bored I am. Steve is sound asleep. Mahahah! Anyway - Gonna go put the clothes in the dryer. I hope you liked my lil...creativity? Soon as I get some pictures, I'll post them. Cary will be emailing me a few shortly. She's a busy woman! To all  of my bestest friends that read this - I love you guys. I hope each of you know that.

xoxoxo