Can I vent for a minute?

Ok, its obvious, our country is in trouble. We are moving towards what can be compared to the Great Depression back in the 30s.... And frankly, I don't believe that people today can survive like they did back then. We are not a self-sufficient country. We have wasted WAY too much money on very stupid stuff.... or stuff that may not have been stupid when we started on it, but now it is. We need to stop.

I've said it before, but sometimes when I hear about our National Deficit I feel like our country is like the white trash person on medicaid who takes advantage of every credit card offer that comes their way and then maxes everything out and pays only the minimum amount required and just keeps spending!! Eventually planning on leaving all the debt to one of their many kids.... well, with our country, WE are the kid... the US is racking up WAY to much debt....

Our biggest waste of money (at least in my mind) is the damn effing space program... who gives a flying rat's hiney if there is water and or life on Mars? Do you? I didn't think so.... why do we spend BILLIONS of dollars to send people into space to fix stupid stuff like the bathroom on a spacestation... maybe some of the astronauts who are on the spacestation should have thought about taking a basic plumbing course before going up.... I think that it is completely ridiculous that we spend so much money for something so ridiculous, tell me one benefit we are still getting from exploring space.... NOTHING!!!! We need to use that money to bail ourselves out and help the crisis at home. Unless the USA plans on seceding from itself to rebuild on the mother-effin moon, we need to stop going there, it is a GIANT WASTE OF MONEY!!!!

When we're having to wait for 45min to an hour to get $20 worth of gas (which by the way really does nothing) we should ask ourselves, why the crap have we gotten so bad, the United States is supposed to be the most successful country in the world, a beacon of light and hope... but frankly right now, I wouldn't want to move here.... I still say Australia would be better, you never hear anything bad happening in Australia... I think they must be hurricane free, tornado free, obviously blizzard free, why doesn't everyone move there? hmmmm.... food for thought.

So, in sumation... space program= stupid waste of money.

(I would however like to end on a good note so I'm going to include an adorable, precious story about Belle, she is asleep by me on the bed right now and she must be having a little puppy dream because she is kicking her little legs and scrunching her tiny nose... a second ago she was almost like sucking on her tongue... it was adorable... so smile.)

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just a quick update

So I have been informed that I am a little behind in the whole blogging my life thing. Whatever, I'm busy.

But the biggest and best news that has happened lately is that Josh and I got a new puppy, she's an American Bulldog (yes, we are planning on breeding her with Brody) and her name is Belle. She's really the most gorgeous little puppy that you've ever seen and while at the moment she is a little frustrating because she is still learning everything I just absolutely cannot be mad at her (even when she chewed my laptop charger chord into many little pieces)....

You can see by her little picture that she is just a bundle of preciousness and if you could get mad at that then you have some serious issues.... Anyway....I'm trying to be a good student this semester and really focus and pay attention and do my homework, etc (as I type this during class) but its really hard sometimes, I feel like I have so much on my plate.

Somedays I feel like I'm going crazy trying to keep the house clean, cook, keep up with school, and still have fun. I'm so ready to be done, but I know that I just need to hang in there and everything will be so much better. In other news, Josh is getting ready to take his State Licensing Exam for real estate so I'm so excited for him, he can't wait to get started. I feel like things are going to turn around soon. I've started trying to be more organized and budget better so we can start saving some money, hopefully soon I can add wedding planning to my big hectic list of things to do.... =)

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snotty noses.

I think I'm getting sick. I'm all stuffy and congeseted... it really sucks. I'm sure Josh loves going in for a kiss only to be met with a sniffle and a snotty nose. How sexy.... whatever.

Isn't it funny how in class or in the car I think of such clever things that I want to blog about but when I sit down to do it, I can't think of what I thought about earlier.... that's probably not a good sign. Maybe its just because my life isn't that interesting... I just go to school and go to work and come home and love my man and my dog.... its that its uninteresting... its just.... well... not overly interesting.....
I did some budgeting in biology today and if I can somehow come up with $420 a week, I can be out of debt in a year..... wait, my two week paychecks are barely over $200... hmmmm... I think my calculations might be a little off.... oh well, life is a big money pit. But one day we'll be rich and have our house on the beach, and we'll go running and play frisbee and brody will play in the water and our kids will build sand castles... life will be great. Not that life isn't already great. I love my life.... I have everything I could ever imagine needing. I think I'm just a little greedy and I think that comes from being an only child. I dont' think anyone should ever be an only child... everyone deserves someone to play with.

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Credit in the Mail...

So its much earlier than I intended to get up this morning... the plan in my head was to get up at 0530, start coffee for Josh then go back to sleep until about 0645ish. And that was all well and good until my brain switched on at about 0518 and started reminding me of all of the things that I was supposed to do last night but didn't so that forced me to get up at 6 when Josh left for his Charity Golf Tournament (he's the next Tiger Woods, btw). Now I'm sitting here writing a blog still thinking about everything I have to do... how it would be nice to just be waking up right now :(

Whatever. So yesterday I'm checking the mail and I have something in an unmarked envelope... intriguing mostly because I don't know anyone who would want to send me anthrax so its not scary to receive random unmarkd mail. Anyway, I open it and its from Discover but no. No its not just a pre-approved-we love your credit-get one of our credit cards-kind of mail, lo and behold it is actually a credit card, with my name on it and everything. The only step left to do is call the 1-800 number and activate my new card. The problem? I didn't ask for a new card! No, they just decided to send me one.... which scares me because what if I hadn't opened it and I had just thrown it away and then some crazy bum-identity-stealer person went threw my garbage and stole it! So... lesson learned is always check your mail.... you may have a new credit card...

And on that note, I have been informed by my super smart bf that I need to call one of the major credit companies and freeze my credit so that no one could open a card without my permission and other nice benefits so I pass that information on to you. Do it. Do it now.... stop reading and go freeze your credit. 

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I have a feeling that blogging could be another name for procrastination...

So today my all time favorite "Baby Mamma" (my cousin Shannon) inspired me to start blogging. I, however, feel like this could just lead to extended and prolonged procrastination... you see I happen to be a full time college student who in her 4th year decided to change her major and now I'm looking at 4 more years in school. Which is fine, I'm not complaining because I am so excited about the possibilities my new major (athletic training) offers. But, so far its looking to be a lot of work... a lot. Like now for instance, I have a biology test next week that spans 6 chapters, a presentation in health and phys ed and my computer science teacher gives me a headache because his accent is so thick.... but its cool. I'm dealing with it. I think the only class that doesn't stress me out is weight training and that is mostly because I have Josh.... ahhh Josh... I'll tell you more about him in a second. But he helps me in weight training to make sure I know the techniques and my form is good, I love working out with him!!

Ugh... enough about school, I'm going to have to start studying for that soon enough...On to life...its amazing. That is pretty much all I have to describe my life. God has blessed me in so many ways, I can't even begin to count them all. I have the most amazing and supportive (yet sometimes neurotic) family, I have the most amazing boyfriend in the entire world, and the best dog ever! I don't think that I could imagine ever needing more.... 

We're a new family, me and Josh, and Brody (our American Bulldog). I love our time together, with him, I feel like I've found my purpose in life. Everything just falls right into place, we cook together, we do laundry together, basically we do everything together and I wouldn't want it any other way. 

I recently left my "lucrative" job at Starbucks to work for the pediatrics office my mom works at. Basically, its boring. But it pays the  bills and I get to see my Cooper when he comes in for his shots so that makes me happy because I really believe that he may be the cutest most huggable baby on the planet... Shannon should take him to Gerber....I can't wait until Josh and I get married so that we can have a baby, I think he'll be a really amazing daddy. We just went on vacation to Pigeon Forge, TN with my family and it just melted my heart to watch him with Cooper, it was so amazing. 

I don't really know what all the future has in store, and I don't really know what I'm going do when the day comes that I finally get out of school. I don't know if I'll ever be rich or have the house on the beach that I dream about sometimes, but I do know that I am excited about whatever God has in store for me, I am excited to travel down all of life's roads hand in hand with my soul-mate. So.... enjoy reading.... or don't.... sometimes I can be boring and sometimes I'm funny. Somedays things get pretty exciting, and some days nothing at all happens but I guarantee that everyday is filled with Love. 

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