Got home a little while ago from a poetry reading at the college... it was pretty good actually, I figured it'd be really boring. haha! the guy that was reading is actually from Kentucky, he wrote all the stuff he read, it dealt more with the Appalachian history and his family. I get extra credit for going to things like this, you'd be surprised how many people don't take advantage of it, you can usually get up to fifteen points on the end of your grade at the end of the semester which doesn't put so much pressure on you to make the greatest grades on tests.

I'm working on school work right not but figured I'd take a quick break to update.. I'm typing my notes from medical microbiology, have a test coming up.. hope I pass theirs just so much stuff to remember ugh.. our lab class is going good.. were not taking bacteria putting in on Agar plates and then placing disinfects and antibiotics on them to see which one kills the bacteria the fastest which is pretty neat to see.

I ordered my cap, gown, invitations, and my college ring yesterday =] only about 9 weeks and I graduate... then I'm turning around and going right back into college..

well roni, I believe I'm going to get off here for the night and get ready for bed.. I'm going to the gym again tomorrow =] I'm having fun going to the gym... don't feel like such a weakling haha.. my special someone better watch out =] haha just joking..

My busy life =]

quick update.. Roni sorry I didn't update, last night was busy and tired =[ I took a nursing test last night, she ended up grading it before we left.. made 96 on it.. only missed two =] we had to learn how to make beds last night.. its harder then what it seems.. haha.

this morning, I started going to the gym... walked on the tread mill then lifted a few weights then walked on the tread mill again... I'm starting to feel it haha.. going again tomorrow..

Roni, I trust you had a wonderful day today wished I could talk to ya on msn.. hopefully tomorrow.. next week is my last week before spring break!! I can not wait.. I have to read a book and then write a book report, and work on some research for my psychology class.
Roni try this link for my pictures. http://www.slide.com/r/LpkhQshd5D8dGi8nVdII7VSMN9oi4UZJ?previous_view=lt_embedded_url

well gonna get back to studying.. ugh.. I'm going to bed early tonight, my special someone is working late tonight =[ he started his EMT clinicals so he won't be getting off till after 12 sometime, but I'm sure after he's off he'll be calling =] I miss him so much! counting down the days until May..

I listened to another service that brother Ron preached over the weekend.... I enjoyed it a lot also! here's a song from the end of church that the organ player sung.. I'm going to figure out the chords and sing it at church.

1) Father I see that you were drawing a line in the sand
I wanna be standing on your side, holding your hand
let your kingdom come let it live in me this is my prayer, this is my plea

Ch) let the worshipers arise, let the sons and the daughters sing
I'm surrendering my all, I surrender to my king, let the worshipers arise,
let his sons and his daughters sing, lord I'm surrendering my all, I surrender to the king

2) I hear it growing louder, its the song of the redeem, as the saints from every nation
are awakening to sing from our hearts their comes an anthem, oh hear our praises ring this is our song, our song to the king.

Click on the link, it's before and after pics of my bathroom.

http://www.slide.com/r/ePmDi3K-4j95WyL47uh4lZVOX1SPAASz?previous_view=mscd_em...



welp... I've had a pretty good weekend =] had church Saturday night, but not Sunday morning. I've been listening to Bro. Ron Spencer today.. I love to hear him preach! the message I've been listening to for most of the day was called "Dark Places" he was preaching about how people come into dark valleys and feel like God is no where around them but yet he restores us, how he knows exactly what I need, exactly when I need it and where I'll be. He was also preaching about how Satan has to ask before he can touch a hair on our heads and before God allows it, he has confidence we'll make it, and how when we get up in the mornings we shake the kingdom of Satan.. he was also preaching how when you do the best you can do and everything still seems to go down hill its in 100 % control with God, and how when you do something great/incredible you go through a great/incredible trial how God knew we'd go through it, we are better because of it... The more you pray the more you believe your own words.. and how we should ask God for big things. =]

I could go on.. =] it was really good.. I've listened to it twice today.. and I'm sure I will listen to it again tomorrow.... just wanted to update real quick before I go to bed..

<- my dog watching the traffic in our front yard.. =]

<- driving my brothers 2007 Mustang Gt. i love his care dearly!

Roni, sorry I didn't update last night.. I cooked supper and made it to the couch and passed out.. haha stayed their too for quite a while... then went to bed which is what I'm fixing to do in a few. for the past few hours I've been working on my abnormal study guide.. ugh.. I still got a few to answer... then its study study study for the rest of the weekend. not looking forward to it at all. oh well.. I'll get over it... pray for me I have two big tests Monday.. I hope to get a lot of studying done tomorrow so when I get home I can clean my room and bathroom and finish decorating in my bathroom so I can post pictures.

I hope tonight I don't drop calls with my cell phone like I have been.. its hard to be talking to someone carrying on a conversation and then you lose service and their gone.. gets on my nerves! esp if I'm talking to someone special.. =] he usually just laughs at me when I call back.. haha!

Roni, I hope you have a wonderful weekend.. I'll try to be on msn tomorrow.. I'm going to take my lap top to work with me...

"I love you my lord with all of my heart,

your my everything, your the reason I sing

I love you, I love you my lord"

today was a busy one! went to work this morning like normal.. they opened a new intersection last Thursday, and its very confusing.. makes me feel like I'm driving on the interstate.. If your not careful while driving on it someones going to end up wrecking.. but it does make going from Monticello to Somerset a lot faster since you no longer have to sit at a red light and wait for it to change. went to class today also, took a lab test so well see how I did.. I believe I passed it tho.. it seemed pretty easy to me.. he also gave us back our bacterial unknowns that we did last week.... those were pretty difficult actually, all he gave us was two tubes of bacteria no clue what type and we had to make slides and then find the bacteria and tell him what it looked like and what color it was... I found my first one with no problem but the second one took me a while I was scared that I messed it up when I made the slide so I made a new one.. haha.. I found it tho.. and I made a ten out of a ten on it =] which surprised me.. then today we took four swabs and rubbed them over different things and then put them in a petri dish to grow the bacteria, the first swab was from our mouth, the second one we put our fingers in the dish for 10 seconds then we went and washed our hands and put them back in the dish, the third one had to be a dry swab so I took a sample from the bottom of my shoe, and the last one had to be wet and we could go any where we wanted to get the sample so I went to the water fountain and went between the holes. haha.. this class is pretty rough roni pray I'll pass..

tomorrow I have classes again, and I'm going to try and get a lot of the book The Industrial Revolution read and get the book report started so I can start my research for my presentation in abnormal psychology, and then I'm going to study a chapter for my nursing test that I have Monday night.. it will cover sixteen chapters.. I guess I'm going to get off here and get busy studying.. gotta get up early wished I could sleep in but that won't happen until Saturday if then, I'm going to get Brianna and spend the day with her and take her to church =] she's my cute little girl.. her third birthday is this summer =[ she's getting so big.. lord I'm sounding like her mother... haha...

so roni, first off, I'm sorry that I've not been able to be on here and on msn, I have been super busy not to mention I've been sick also.. my pastor is also sick, he has a real bad infection around his eye which is causing it to swell shut, and the doctors are worried it will go to his brain.. he's been in bed for a while and with a head ache. and mom has been sick along with us.. it's going around.



I just watching this great movie called Fireproof, it reminds me so much of me and my special someone.. fighting all the time, the guy thinking of himself all the time... His dad challenged him to do this 40 day dare, and each day add something else to it, like for example, day one- don't say anything negative to her, then on day two do something nice for her out of the ordinary and so on. the guys wife wasn't going along with it and she was still set on getting a divorce because of the way he had been treating her, and then when God got a hold of his life in the movie everything turned around not all at once but one day at a time... I wished that would happen to my special someone.. it's been over a week since I've heard from him... I guess a big reason is because of it being valentines day Saturday... or as I like to call it singles awareness.. I'd love to see my special someone... I'd love it if he'd show up on my door step.. =] *wishful thinking tho* (Roni I know you don't watch movies much but its worth seeing.. I'm actually going to buy it tomorrow hopefully.)

here's a song off fireproof,

I'm waiting I'm waiting on You, Lord And I am hopeful I'm waiting on You, Lord Though it is painful But patiently, I will wait I will move ahead, bold and confident Taking every step in obedience While I'm waiting I will serve You While I'm waiting I will worship While I'm waiting I will not faint I'll be running the race Even while I wait I'm waiting I'm waiting on You, Lord And I am peaceful I'm waiting on You, Lord Though it's not easy But faithfully, I will wait Yes, I will wait

we had a really bad storm come through yesterday, trees were down in peoples yards, and in peoples homes, people were with out electric all night. I'm thankful we still had it.. we lost it yesterday at work and couldn't see our hand in front of our face.. and it was storming, really windy, pouring the rain... so after it let up we left and went home... enjoyed getting off early.



I'll be glad when this school semester is over! I've got so much to do, a book report, study for tests, homework.. ugh.. it's stacking up.. haha I have a date with the books this weekend! I also have a date with my bedroom, it severely needs to be cleaned along with my bathroom. well I'm going to take my runny nose to bed now. will post longer next time..... =]

Roni! I'm so glad your home... now you can post and keep up with whats going on... I just got home from my nursing class... passed all my skills tonight... at least my nursing class is going good.. but my econ class is crazy.. he moves so fast.. and I feel so lost... Guess we'll see what happens... coming up this semester I have to go get measured for my cap and gown for my graduation.. I will have my associates in Arts in May and I lack three classes having my associates in science... Roni, I'm sorry this is so short.. but I got a ton of things I need to do before I go to bed.. and I'm trying to get a headache... ugh...

night and God Bless.

Well I had a really good weekend... Its been so nice and warm I hope it stays around for a while. Friday @ work I studied for the act for a while, and then I worked on cleaning up the office and organizing everything again... for lunch I grilled out hamburgers and hot dogs.... it was a good change from fast food all the time. Saturday morning I got up around 6:30 in the morning and went and took the act... if I go by my feelings I did worse then what I'd did before.. if I go by my faith I made a 20 on it but will be happy with an 18. =] then after the test I spent the day shopping with mom.. went out to eat too at the steak house.. it was so good I ate myself miserable.. haha church over the weekend was really good also.. this morning at church my pastor told a story about a young boy who was in school to be a pastor and he got a telegram to come home quickly because his mom was passing away, well the guy was hurrying home and he got another telegram saying not to come.. well the guy went on home to see what was going on.. and his mom said that she went to a church and got prayed for and was doing fine... well the story goes on and the boy tells his mom that the word in john 16 isn't inspired, well the boy's mom goes "if the word in john 16 isn't inspired, what could he do if the word in john 16 was inspired" well he was also preaching about your hearts cry.. how someone could be walking around and crying in their heart for God to do something they were desiring and no one would ever know unless the person said something because they acted so strong on the outside. well My lap top is going dead.. =[ so I'm going to get off..

one)
I've had many tears and sorrows I've had questions for tomorrow There've been times I didn't know right from wrong But in every situation God gave blessed consolation That my trials only come to make me strong
Chorus)
Through it all, through it all Through it all, through it all I've learned to trust in Jesus I've learned to trust in God Through it all, through it all Through it all, through it all I've learned to depend upon His Word
two)
I've been a lot of places And I've seen so many faces But there have been times I've felt so all alone But in that lonely hour, in that precious, lonely hour Jesus let me know I was His own
Chorus)
Through it all, through it all Through it all, through it all I've learned to trust in Jesus I've learned to trust in God Through it all, through it all Through it all, through it all I've learned to depend upon His Word
three)
So I thank God for the mountains And I thank Him for the valleys thank Him for the storms He's brought me through' cause if I never had a problem wouldn't know that He could solve them wouldn't know what faith in His Word could do

talked to dad today, He said my cousin that is in ICU is still about the same, isn't any better, isn't any worse.. which is a good thing at least he's holding steady. he has a little granddaughter, I don't know what will happen to her if something happens to him.

I'm listening to the weather as I type.. we have another winter weather Storm coming... 1-4 inches of snow... yay I hope we get it.. I woke up to snow this morning.. it was so pretty...

my nursing class tonight went well.. we had to check off on skills... which is kinda embarrassing once you first start to do them in front of the class.. we had to move a person in bed to a 45-60 degree angle, roll the person over, and then roll them back onto their back.. we had to remember to support the head, arms, and legs with pillows.. where to put the pillows, remember when we had to raise bed rails and when to lower them.. when to raise the bed and when to lower it... when to cover the person.. when not to cover the person... goodness when my teacher called me to do them I walked over the where the bed's where and where the dummy was laying and my mind when blank... haha.. but I just took a deep breath, thought about it for a second and started.. we also had to do the Heimlich maneuver and go threw the steps with someone.. then I had to pretend I was a patient and my friend had to move me out of bed and into a wheel chair.. we ran outta time so I don't have to this skill until next Monday.. but it looks real simple and not very hard... most skills we have to check off on have more then ten steps in them that we have to remember... hopefully I'll be able to remember them all before our state test at the end of the semester.

well I'm home from a long weekend in Florida.. and I'm wore out too! the funeral went well.. the funeral it self was more of a celebration of his life then anything. I was really sad for my cousins grand babies.. one of them really was old enough to understand what was going on.. I have never seen so much food in my life.. their was 70 people who brought in food not just once a day but two or three times a day, and two or three different kinds of food, and to beat it all it was all home cooked! I don't believe I have ever ate so much in my life.. their was a ton of people who chipped in and helped prepare the food and clean up after wards.. I took Friday's lunch shift.. I had a chance to go to the swamps again while I was their but I stayed behind because I didn't want Amber ( my cousin john's wife) to be alone, and I helped her clean and wash some clothes too.
I had a really fun time hanging out with family that I've hardly ever seen.. I can't wait until our fourth of July get together when a bunch them are suppose to be coming up.. it will be a blast... :-] I'm also getting a family book that tells all of the history on my dad's side... I can't wait to read it, I never got to meet my grandma.. and I've never really asked dad anything about her cause he was real young when she passed away...
I have another prayer request... my cousin on my dad's side is in the ICU at the hospital.. he had double pneumonia in both lungs.. the antibiotics are not working and he's on a ventilator.. they really don't know if he'll make it or not, he's still pretty rough and isn't really outta the woods yet the last I heard.. and they believe his granddaughter is trying to get the same thing he has.
here's a short little testimony...Me, dad and my cousin Tom was about in a wreck Wednesday on the way down to Florida, there was a car, and then a truck in front of us.. well the truck lost a ladder out of the back of his truck and it landed in our lane on the interstate, well the car in front of us swerved to try and miss it and when she did she lost control of her car and hit the guard rail head on and spun around two or three times before coming to a stop facing the on coming traffic... Dad of course slammed on his brakes, and we barely missed the ladder ourselves.. and traffic was all over the place... it's a wonder that no one back ended us when we slammed on our brakes.
<- Dalton

<- my cousin Debora and her hubby kevin

<- Jerry and Jason

<-haley

<-fred

<- me and my daddy

<-me and debora

<-L-R my cousin Mike, Tom dad and me

<- me and my cousin Jamie

<-L-R Jamie, Noah, Debora Mike and Amber

I have some more pictures I would like to upload but I don't know if I'll be able to get them off of the slide show from the funeral or not.. I'll have to work on it this week and see if I can.. we are suppose to be getting some more bad weather this week... guess we'll see..