Bye

So this is it. Summer class is over. I had never blogged before this class. I wasn't for sure how I was going to like it. I really did enjoy. I wrote about lots of different random stuff, but it was fun. I am excited about summer classes being over. I really have not had much of a summer. I mean its not my classes fault. I just chose to take two classes and work all summer. So it is my fault, but I only have two more days of work and its over. Can't wait! Than I will have a few weeks till it is time for school to start.

I am really excited about this next week because I am going to WYOMING. I hope that I have a blast the whole time. I get to get out my house for a while and see my boyfriend and just relax for a week. That is what I have been looking for all summer. I actually have save up ever bit of money I have made this summer to go to Wyoming for a week. That is the one and only exciting thing I get to do this summer, but I think it will be worth it.

Back to class. I learn a lot this summer in this class. Mrs. Chism is a great teacher I really like the way she had us write our papers. I really enjoy all the help I got on my papers. Thanks! I hope that everyone else is having a great summer and had some really fun times. Good luck on future classes or work or anything else that you might be doing.

Have fun in life and always laugh!

Money!

Money! Money has way to much power. Money controls us if we let it. We work so hard to earn money and most the time we already know what we are going to spent it on before we get paid. Crazy. I know at least I do. Sometime making money last from paycheck to paycheck is all most impossible. There are ways to make it happen. First it all start with you. I found that when I get paid I put some in the bank in my checking account, some in savings, and a little cash. This helps me to limit on the amount I spend. Sometimes I make a list of everything that I think I need to buy with my paycheck. I go through the list and mark off the things that I don't really need. Sometimes I have to do this twice depending on how much I think I need something. I first I use my cash for my spend money and gas. If I need to use the money in my checking account I usually use my debit card. When using a debit card I have to be careful. Since debit cards are used all the time there is a lot more people trying to scam them. It is not good to put in your pin went someone else can see what you are typing. Using an ATM outside of the bank it belongs to isn't a very good idea either. Sometimes people will put little small cameras on them. After you have put in your card and pin the person comes back and gets the camera. Than who ever has your numbers can make a copy of your card. That is really not cool. I that is one reason why I like to use cash. Managing money is always hard for me, but I have to work. Sometimes I find myself worrying about money so much it is all I think about. Then I realize that I am letting money control me instead of me controlling my money. Money is everything. I might seem like we can't do anything without it, but we can. There are many things that are great and don't cost a thing. I hope you chose to control your money and not let it control you.

Giraffes

Animals. My favorite animal is a giraffe. I love them. I have not seen very many in my life time, but I hope to see more many many more. I always thought is would be fun to work at a zoo. I know that is sounds weird, but I think it would be awesome. I would just want to play with the animals all day I wouldn't want to actually clean up after them. Now who would want that job. I am always had this weird dream of getting a giraffe. I want to buy a giraffe when it is really really little and train it. I want to be able to ride my giraffe. That would be so great. I really not for sure if the is actually possible or not. See I said I didn't know that much about giraffes, but I want to learn more. I do know that they have really long necks, but have the same number of bones in their necks as humans. They have four legs and a tail. They have two ears and two horns. They are very pretty. One great thing about them is they have great hearing. The only down side is they don't make any kind of sound. My family always tells me I talk way to much. One thing I tell them that is why I love giraffes so much is because they will always listen to me and never tell me to be quiet. For last Christmas my boyfriend bought me these beautiful giraffes. I love them! They are made out of gold and have these really cool stones in them. I really hope someday that I can get to see giraffes lots more than I do now. I would really like to study about them lots too. They are wonderful animals!

Work

When you are remodeling a house should you hirer someone to do it or do the work yourself? Well I guess it depends on the person and the type of job it is. I think when it comes down to little job that the owner should try to fix them their selves. We have so many great home stores like Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more places to shop for home help. Say like you would like to put in a new celling fan with a light. You go to one of the home stores that you like and pick out a fan that you like the best. Bring it home and open the box. First pull out the instructions and go find all the tools you will need to put the fan together. Start reading the instructions and just go step by step. If you follow all the steps right than before long your fan will be installed. By putting in a fan it will make you appreciate the fan much more than paying someone else to put it in. Another job could be putting in a new faucet. If you go to another one of these great home stores and pick out the pretty faucet with the wonderful hands you just love. Bring the box home and start out by reading the instructions for the tools and steps. After that wonderful faucet is on the sink you will be so proud of yourself. The other great thing about remodeling small job yourself is that is saves lots of money. We know that everyone wants to save money when we can. One other way to keep from paying for someone to remodel your house is to keep up on the maintenance work. I know that is know usually the job everyone in the family goes running to do, but I really does help in the long run of things. Checking pipes yearly and changing vents on time. All these small jobs around the house can keep other big problems from happening. Just picture this. If I don't really care about vents they will last another year. I want more than a year and my air conditioner stops working. It is the heat of the summer and I am really mad. So I call up the first person in the phone book and I pay lots of money for last minute calling. I also have to replace my air conditioner because I didn't take the time to check it when it need to be checked. When I know that little home remodeling and maintenance work is not fun, but is sure is better in the end.

Picking a Hotel/Motel

Well I am so excited about going a trip in the near future. I have decided to start looking for prices for somewhere to stay. I didn't know where to start so I just typed in the place I am going on google. It brings up a map with many different places located on it. I started clicking on different ones to see which one was the closest to the person I am going to see. After clicking one a few I got tried of going through all there sites pages to find the rates. On down there was a website called Hotel Discounts. It clicked there and started looking around. I put in my information and hit search. This website brings up lots of different hotels and motels with their rates for the days I wanted. You can go on to book the hotel or motel you chose from that site. When I started to compare the different places to stay I found out that many places have very different rates for how early you book your hotel or motel. The Best Western has many different ways to safe money. They had a discount for booking early. Staying for two or more nights they also have discounts. I found many places have weekly rates also. I found some good rates, but I wanted to continue looking for better rates.

One of my family members told me to look on hotwire. I typed in my information again and found some cheap prices. This website had only two different choices when the other had around twenty. I decided to keep looking. This website was not very helpful for the place I am going. I think it all depends on the place you are going though because my family has used this website before and found a great place to stay.

I still haven't decided on a place to stay, I have found many things out by looking around. It is usually best to plan a head. When planning a head you can find better prices and nicer places to stay. Sometimes just driving into town and trying to find a cheap place to stay doesn't work. I am going to make sure I plan a head and look at a bunch of different places before I decide to pick one.

Stuff

I don't know if it is hard for anyone else to let go of some stuff, but for me it is. When I graduated high school it was time to look at everything I had and decide what I could live without. I got rid of lots of old toys and papers that I didn't need. I still had more than enough stuff when I was done going through all my stuff. I packed up what I needed for college and headed to school. I left everything else in my room to come back to. Now that I am moved back home for the summer I really realize how much stuff I do have. It is time now to down size again. So here and there I let go of some more stuff I decided I could live without. My older sister and I just started sharing a room this last week her bed has been in my room since I went to college, but she just came home to stay for a while. I think she carries more stuff in her car than I have in my room. I know she really doesn't, but it seems like it. She decides to put all of her stuff in bags and baskets and they set in the middle of our room. So today I made up my mind I couldn't take it anymore and start letting go of more stuff. I went through most of my room. I clean off a few shelves for her clothes and shoes. I redid the whole closet so she could put her hang up clothes in there instead of them hanging all over the room. I was proud of myself letting go of lots of stuff and making space for her stuff. I was not completely finish and my mom need me to go to town for her. So I did. When my sister got home I told her everything I did and showed her the space I clean for her. She said thank you very much. She went on to say that sometime this week she will get around to cleaning her stuff up. I was like ok. I can't really say anything about how long she takes because I could of done what I did today before she came home. I was pretty excited about all the hard work that I put into my room today. I hope it holds her stuff.

Bad Days to Good Days

You know those days when everything is going wrong. You wake up grumpy and still tired. Than stub your toe on the way to pick out what you are going to wear for the day. Look in the kitchen for something to eat for breakfast and there is nothing at all. Go to school or work and everything is going wrong or there are just some people that are driving you crazy for no reason. When you get home you are completely tired. Or you are just so up set all day you feel like no one cares about you at all. I know that I have days like these and ones in between them. I think everyone has some bad days every once and a while. When I have bad days I am always looking for ways to turn my day around. Wouldn't is just be ideal if there was a certain cure for all bad days. Wouldn't that be great. I don't think that will ever be true. I have been told by a very smart person that the only person that can make me happy is me. Which is true. I have to decide to make my self happy everyday. So I have found somethings that help me to cheer up when I am having those bad days. One thing that I have found that makes me feel better is to listen to something positive. I listen to a radio station called Air 1. I really enjoy the music that this radio station plays. Also on this station there are some really cool stories that make me thing about my life and how many great things I have in my life. One thing I heard on that station today is called Anonymous Encouragers. Anonymous Encouragers is a Christian ministry made to encourage people. Anyone can be a part of this ministry. All you have to do is choose a name and address in your phonebook and write a handwritten letter to that person. Make sure it is handwritten so the person receiving the letter doesn't think it is a scam. Just write some positive words down and sign your letter A. E. Make sure you don't put your name or address on anything because it needs to stay anonymous. One teenager started this because she want to make a difference in someone else's bad day. She says when she writes letters to other people it often helps her have a better day too. One other thing I must remind myself to laugh things off. When I am at work or school and someone is driving me crazy over something small I just have to laugh it off. Not in a rude way though. Not like a big out loud laugh. I just have to make myself think of something funny in my head and forget all the craziness that is going on. I am not a big tv person, but somedays if I just come home and watch a little bit of tv like a show it will make me feel better. One show I like to watch that makes me laugh is Reba. I have decided that I am the only person that can make me happy and found ways to change my bad days. I hope that everyone can find ways to change their bad days too.