Home Grown Country Girl

Mood: Happy!!
Listening to: Train whistling as it is going by.

Hey guys! I hope your weeks are going well. Ive been doing fantastic about keeping up with each of you that update and leaving comments, just not doin so well as to keeping my own blog up! Sorry bout that! This past week has been kinda crazy at times, but it's Thursday and that's a great thing. I'll tell you why in a bit. First, I wanna get into my week and fill ya'll in. Ready? Here we go!

So, Monday was a busy day for me! I got up around 10am and had to run a bagillion different places. I had to give my informative speech at 2pm. So, I went to Wal*Mart and got my posterboard and my dvd-R. That's right, she's videotaping our last two speeches on a dvd and we have to watch them then critique ourselves.  So, I go in walmart and can't find this and can't find that. My nerves are already workin on me and the last thing I need is some retarded million old walmart worker to look at me like I have 14 heads when I ask where the DVDR thingies are. So, after frantically running around everywhere in the electronics section, I find them over by the phones. Yes, the telephones. WHY were they there? No idea. But they were. So, half an hour later, Im checking out. I go out to my car and race to the school.

When I get to school, I go straight up to my step-dad's office so I can print off these bagillion pages for free [ in the computer lab they cost 5 cents a page]. I seriously need to get my printer here at home workin. Well, he wasn't there. Baz was there [his intern and steve's friend of a bagillion years] so he helped me. I spent an hour typing everything out, finding the pictures for my visual aid and alla that crap. I printed it all out and put my poster board together. It was simple and thats the way I wanted it. When I finished doing all of that it was 1pm. My class starts at 2pm. I still had to practice my speech and write out my notecards.  So, I go down to the table where I had people set up selling the T-Shirts from the walk - a - thon we had left over. Im writing frantically and then the electronic media guy wants to take my picture for the school website/calendar thingy.  ugh! So, I take my hair down and make it look like I'm selling a T-Shirt.

I go in to class at 2pm and the person that was supposed to go first didn't show up for class. So, I volunteered to go first. I did fine on my speech. It was supposed to be 5 - 7 minutes and I think mine was a lil over 8 minutes. Im gonna get deducted hardcore for that. Other than that, I think I did a great job. So, that class was over at 3:50pm and I have another class at 4pm. Because I had forgotten to type my paper for my 4pm class, I ran up to the computer lab and did my paper real quick. When I got there I found Angie, Jimella and a few others from class doing their papers! Mahahaha! So, they waited on me and we all went down to class together. We got there at like 4:15 or so. In that class, we got our midterms back. I made a perfect on it. *cheer* That's about it for my Monday.

Tuesday was a kinda busy-ish day for me. I don't have classes on Tuesday at all, but I was at the school all day. I was selling T-Shirts from 10am - 3pm. Well, we had sold them all by 2pm. One bad thing did happen to me. My *favorite* AC/DC Back in Black flip flops BROKE!  Ugh. So instead of walking around with a broken flip flop, I just took em off. Then, I borrowed Amanda's shoes and I went and tried to get my club set up on the internet and stuff. Thankfully she was there to let me borrow her shoes. That was awful. Oh well, crap happens. I just hate that my favorite flip flops broke. Those are the ones I wore at the beach at night when the waves would come up over my feet.  Me and those flip flops had some great times together. R.I.P. Flip Flops - 03/08/06 - 05/10/06.

I came home on Tuesday and slept for a bit. I had every intention of cleaning this house, though. Then, around 7:30pm I got up and went to my grandparents. Momma had bought some T-Shirts and I was takin em to her. I stayed there and watched American Idol with them. We're gonna discuss American Idol in a bit. I'm so mad at them right now. I left there around 9pm and went to Taco Bell, then I came home. I watched Ghost Hunters [ T.A.P.S.] and it scared the crap outta me. Then I watched some Conan and went to bed. I love Conan.

Wednesday I got up and went to the school to print out ANOTHER paper for public speaking. I had to watch that DVD of myself and then write a one page paper critiquing myself. It was due yesterday. So, I did that as well as the paper that is due for Monday's class.  Im ahead of the game right now! I also helped a few students who were giving their speech on Wednesday. One woman was so nervous and her visual aid wasn't finished so I helped her finish it and I checked her outline. She had some mistakes so I went in the computer lab and fixed them for her so she'd get a good grade on her outline. I also helped another girl and let her practice her speech on me.  Then, I went down to class. Public Speaking was mainly just listening to speeches.

After class, I found out that my 4pm class was cancelled. On Wednesdays I have class 2pm - 4pm [public speaking]; 4pm - 7pm [behavior management 2]; and 7pm - 10:30pm [political science 102]. Well, my 4pm - 7pm class was cancelled but I had class again at 7pm. So, I just came home. That's 3 hours! I came home and ate some supper. Steve was here. The school told him that because he can't get his running for the physical assessment down 2 minutes, that there's no need for him to complete the course. They told him that he wouldn't get a diploma or anything and its basically just wasting his time and gas money to drive all the way there and back. They did, however, tell him to come back next year and work on his running. So, when I got home around 4:30, he practically walked in behind me. He had tears in his eyes and I could tell he had been cryin.  He told me what happened. His birthday is May 12th [friday]. He just was really upset. So I talked to him about it for a bit and ate a little something. He told me that he wanted to cook dinner so just not eat too much. I went back to class and I called him on break to make sure he was ok. He was cooking. Cooking relaxes him.

I got my midterm back in political science class. I made a C. Now, I know that sounds awful, but if ya'll knew the struggle I had in high school with government, civics, history, etc. you'd be dancing on air right now like I am! I didnt expect a C, to be honest! There were 15 True or False. I seriously hate True / False questions. Why? because you have a 50 - 50 shot and frankly im constantly second guessing myself on those. So, I missed like 5 of those. The multiple choice questions were fine, but they were tricksy. I guess that's what you get for having a prosecuting attorney for your professor. Like on one question, ONE WORD made the difference between two answers. The word was "State". That was so annoying. See? Thats why I hate government classes and crap! So picky! The good news about this class is, if I make a C or higher on my Final exam, then he will average the two grades. If I can come out with a C in the class, he will raise it one complete letter grade, to a B, if I do not miss any classes. So, my butt will be parked in that chair at 7pm on Wednesday nights for the next 3 - 4 weeks. I assure you of that.

Around 9:30pm I got a phone call from my grandparents and then a phone call from steve. They were like back to back. of course my phone was on silent because I was still in class. So after class I called Steve. Het old me some not so great news. Chris Daughtry, my FAVORITE on American Idol, was voted off. That really sucks. Let me get into why Im really upset with american idol right now. They've made a ginormous mistake. Although, Chris will  get a record deal and sell MORE THAN whomever wins this stupid game.

Here's what Im seeing now on American Idol. They've got Elliot whatshisface on there that vibrates his entire head to make it sound like he's on key when he's holding out those long notes.  Because he's on an insulin drip and has 'never had singing lessons ever' he's getting the sympathy vote. Then there's good ol Katheryn, or however she spells her jacked up name, who crawls around on the floor and flashes her cleavage to everyone to get the votes from the guys. She also wears dresses that are so tight that when she steps the crotch button flies off. So she's getting the sex vote.  Then there's Taylor. Now, I will admit I do like Taylor. He has that Otis Redding voice and I sure do love me some Otis Redding. What I will say about Taylor is that he needs to stop playing the 'im gonna dance around and entertain and make you love it thats why youre going to vote for me' thing and really sing. When he stops and really sings and gets into it, he's great. He doesnt need to have seizures on stage.  So he's getting the vote from the people that laugh at him.

Then there *was* Chris. Chris was the real entertainer. He was confident not only in his singing abilities but in his stage performance. He was able to just stand there and sing as well as move around. He sang the most amazing songs and his voice is so unique. I could listen to him sing the phone book. He's got the 'it' factor that the others don't have. He's the unique one. He's the one that REFUSED to change because that's what the show wanted. He kept his rock roots, but was able to give American Idol what they wanted. I think that is a true professional. He deserved to win.  That's that. Hands down. I only voted for him 10 times Tuesday night so I have a right to complain, according to Ryan Seacrest. Mahahaha! Seriously though - this guy is great. He's an amazing preformer, he's got an amazing vocal range, he sings on KEY and on PITCH [which I can't say for elliot or katheryn], and he's so very hot!  Mahaha! Ok, Im done complaining about that!

So that was my lil rant on American Idol.  I don't care if you like it or not. After alla that last night, I watched the new episode of Ghost Hunters [T.A.P.S.] it comes on Sci-Fi here. It came on at 12:30am. I watched that for an hour then I watched the last half of Conan and went to sleep. See a pattern with me?  You should! Tonight is the new episode and part 1 of the finale of CSI.  That sucks that its the finale. I would love to own, on DVD, every season of CSI, T.A.P.S., and House. I could watch them a hundred times over. Im still into SVU and Criminal Intent, but they're on constantly here so I watch em over and over. I just thought of something. You know what I hate?! When I'm typing really fast and instead of typing the word, 'and' i type 'nad'. Cause that's one typo you gotta go back and fix, if not, it makes you look like a perv.

Hmm, what else. Oh, today is Thursday. Im gonna spend the day with my grandparents. Im gonna cut my mawmaw's hair, too. She has a present coming but has no idea what it is.  Mother's day is this weekend and I got her a lil sumpin' sumpin'. She deserves it. Momma's gift is being delivered to her work tomorrow. I hope she likes em! Well, that's about all of the updating-ness I can handle for one day. I'll probably update tomorrow because I know the CSI episode tonight is gonna be SO worth writing about. Ok, I sounded a bit valley-girl-ish I know. Leamme alone!