This Thanksgiving I started out playing football with a huge group of people. There were two separate kind of games going on... one game for people who wanted a more "family friendly" kind of game and another game that was more intense and competitive. I joined the more intense game. The last game that we played was fun because we used line-men. I was one of the guys that was on the line. It was fun to be on a line again and try to break through another stacked line. I had to make my way through some pretty tough guys, They were at least five years older than me and about double my strength. I still managed to make it through the line for a couple of sacks. I also almost got an interception... but I out ran the ball after i knocked it up. Before the intense game, I was mainly used as a Tight-End... I caught many passes and gained a respectable amount of yards on the field. After I was done playing football, I made my way over to my Aunt's house for a long deserved shower and out turkey dinner... or lunch rather. After lunch, Me and my family sat around the house and enjoyed each others company. The "kids" played pool while the women started to make christmas wish lists for the shopping that they were going to be doing that coming friday. Us guys watched some football and played some pool in my Uncle's finished basement. The basement is awesome, it is equipped with a pool table, flat screen tv, and an old fashion gaming system... one that you would play the really old classic games. My uncle rigged up a computer system that would play all the old fashion games such as dig dug. After my family left my Aunt's house, we headed up to see my grandmother. Me and my sister stayed at my grandmother's house for about two hours and then went to go see my cousin and some friends. We hung out at our friend Jon's house and just had some fun around his house. So.. that was pretty much my Thanksgiving in a nutshell. 

Thanksgiving was nice, my family went to East Longmeadow to see our cousins. One of our cousins goes to middle school, ones a freshman in high school, and one graduated from college two years ago and now works in Philadelphia. It was my brothers first family event that he was 21 for so he drank with my cousin. We haven't seen them sense Christmas last year so we just hung out and talked. Then we ate a bunch of turkey, stuffing, and potatoes, we watched Hancock and drove home. When we got home me and my brother went out with some friends. Besides thanksgiving the only thing i did this vacation is sit on the couch and relax, then hangout with friends and watch them drink, and be there designated driver.

This weekend I just hung around campus.. my girlfriend came to see me and we watched some movies. I can't wait till thanksgiving. I start out the morning playing football with a group of people from my church, there normally is a huge group of people and we have like four games going at once. Then i head over to my Aunt's house, shower, and eat some turkey. We have thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family over there. Then we go see my grandmother, My dad's mom, and have some left over turkey up there. Then us kids will probably go hang out someplace. Three years ago was the best thanksgiving ever because right after we were done visiting my grandmother, us kids went to the bowling alley. This was a special time because we just hung out and bowled. They alley was pretty much closed, besides the bar being opened. This was particularly an event that I am going to remember forever because it was the last time that I bowled with one of my friends, He died the saturday after thanksgiving....... so that thanksgiving night was one that i will never remember. 

So i always forget to write on this blog thing. But anyways I cannot until this weekend because I think that I am going skiing for the first time this year and vary excited. I miss going to Vermont with my family and I miss my family very much. We always go up over Thanksgiving weekend but not 100% sure because two of my cousins with still be playing football because of the playoffs. 

11/23

The DC food makes me sick. I wish that they had more to choose from and that it wasn’t the same thing everyday. What I really want for them to have all the time is, chicken. If they had chicken then you could do so much with it you could cut it up and put it in a salad or you could put it in a wrap or make a chicken Caesar wrap. I like the salad bar most of the time it is good but you can only have it so much before you get sick of having lettuce all the time. I like the selection they have for drinks and all of the sodas and juices that they have. I really like Pandini’s because the restaurant is really cool the way it is set up with all the booths and all the televisions but I just the cheese pizza all the time so I cant keep getting it or ill get sick, I’ve had it way too much. But I do really like it in there because I think it makes you feel as if you are off campus at a restaurant and that you can eat there for a change instead of the DC all the time. 

My birthday was in the end of August, a week before school started, and i finally figured out what i want for my present from my parents. Back in August i tried to get them to get me a new car, or a new Ninja 250R. Back during the summer me and my friend were going to get some motorcycles to cruse around on, it would have been pretty bad ass and saved alot of money on gas commuting back and forth from school. But our parents wouldn't let us get them, and we didn't have time for lessons. So I finally decided to get a new cell phone. I got the VX 8350 in red. Its basically the same as my old phone but new and updated. It has an mp3 player, which my old phone didn't.

11/18 Blog

So this was one of the most tiring weekends in a long time. Saturday and Sunday i slept until 11. Out of nowhere... work has been very busy. It was actually a good weekend there. We weren't out of much. Unusual. And i made good money. These cowboys left me $80 which was sweet. I gave them free oatmeal cookie shots which is like Baileys and Kalua and 3 Olives chocolate. I did some with them. haha. My boss just kinda looked at me like i had ten heads. He doesn't really care what i do since i had to open the restaurant at 4 and he dind't show up till 5. Fun night

november 17 -

I’m hoping this week goes by fast because I have 2 tests which sucks but then next week we only have 2 or 3 days of classes. Then we can go home for thanksgiving break and actually have some time off from school and sports and i havent been home since columbus day weekend which is a pretty long time for me. But I know that some teachers will give an assignment over vacation. Also since I do track I know I will have a workout to do over vacation to stay in shape and not be lazy and the 2 days before we go home the workouts will be hard. But I know once we get back from vacation our coach will give us something hard to see who did stuff over vacation and who didn’t.

November 10 - blog

This week I was excited because Tuesday we had no classes and ended up only having 4 days of classes. Then my coach decided to make our Tuesday not a good day off because he told us that we had a 10 am practice and that we had to be there on time which sucked getting up that early on our day off. Being out until 130-2 in the morning didn’t really help out that I had to get up early the next day.

This weekend was so much fun!!! my cousin and two friends came to see me and my sister. We mostly just hung out around campus, but we did go to the mall and out to eat. We were going to go over to UMASS but one of our other friends wasn't home so we couldn't go there. We hung out here and watched movies and got pizza. It was good to see them because i don't get to that much seeing that i'm here. It was also good to see my cousin, cause we used to hang out all the time before school. 

11/16 blog

I just got back to WSC from camp this weekend and it was great. We had our November WACkY program which is for kids 6-16 to come for the weekend and have a little session of camp. The camp is Barton, which is a diabetes camp but on this weekend the kids could bring a friend or sibling who doesn't have diabetes. I was a counselor for the boys group who aged from 7-15. When I got my cabin assignment I thought it was going to be awful because I haven't been with the boys group at all since it is in the summer and on the weekends they put the guy counselors with the boys. But this weekend since there was only one guy counselor, Tom, it was him, Ashley and me in the cabin with all the boys. They turned out to be a pretty fun group but were a lot more difficult than the girls usually are.
We had a talent show, played skeletons in the closet, sardines, diabetes bobsled, and ga-ga (which is the best game in the entire world.)
The food was also amazing because it was done by a different person than the summer food is, and since we had only 46 campers this weekend and about 20 or so staff, they were able to buy better food. My favorite was breakfast this morning because we had sausage bread which is the greatest food at CBC.
The only thing I didn't like about this weekend was that I had to do 12s and 3s in the same night. That means that at midnight, and 3am you have to go downstairs and check the kids blood sugars. The process takes about 45 minutes to an hour because if it is out of range you have to treat it and wait for it to go in range before you can go to bed. On top of that, I was in the only cabin with bunk beds so I was climbing up them trying to prick fingers while also trying to hold onto the bed, it was harder than it sounds.

All week I've been trying to catch up on sleep. On Monday my family had a huge 4 stem tree cut down in our backyard. I had one class that day so I got out at 1, and was home for 2. So after school i started cutting it up for firewood. After i cut it my little brother split it. I spent 3 hours that day cutting and only cut a small part of it. The next day was Veterans Day so I got to sleep till about 10, then i spent the rest of the day cutting more wood. I still had more wood left to cut but i got most of it. In all i would say I cut about 20 cords, which should last about 3 years. But we can't burn it till next winter because it needs time to become seasoned.

Blog: 11/03 couldn’t get it to work before.

I wish that Westfield wasn’t so far away from my house because I get car sick very easily and I want to be able to go home and have it not be such a process and such a big deal to figure out the ride situation and be able to carpool because 4 hours of driving is far too much and to have someone pick me up and drop me off would be 8 hours. I do like this school but I think being far away was too much of a leap and I want to be able to go home when I want to or when I feel like it, or at the last minute rather then having to plan for it. 

Blog: 11/10

 The Blog wouldn’t work for me the last couple of times but now since it does here are the entries that I couldn’t get up before:

It is getting closer to snowboarding season and im really excited about that because I love to snowboard and it’s a really good time to go with your friends or your family and to be able to go out all day in the snow and to just have a good time. I love going really early before anyone gets there so the snow is perfectly groomed and not even touched yet. There is nothing better then a good run with hardly anyone on the mountain and just being able to be free and do what you want without having to worry if you are getting in the way of anyone or if you are bothering any of the skiers. My family usually gets season passes but I don’t know if I will be getting one with them this year because im in college and in the middle of no where in Westfield so it will be harder for me to get out and go. 

Blog: 11/16/08

I can’t wait to go home for thanksgiving because then I will be able to see all my family and friends. We usually have the dinner at my aunts house but this year we are changing it up and having it at my house so that my aunt doesn’t have to cook every time and she cant take the year off of cooking for everyone. I think that we are going to have two thanksgiving after the one at my house we are going to go to my aunts and have another one there so that it can still be at her house too. Everyone in my family gets along really well when we are together and we have a lot of fun because we enjoy each other’s company. My cousin and I are really close because we are only 9 months apart so we are on the same page and she goes to University of Massachusetts Amherst so I see her often since she is so close. 

11/10

So this weekend blew. Firday night at work, my other waitress, and busgirl called out. So thinking it wasnt going to be too busy i thought i could handle it. Six o'clock came around and eventually a table came in. Ok.... then another... so that was fine... then another.. ok yay... and about 7 walked in the door. Nine tables at once... ya i havn't seen work that busy in a long time. I was running like crazy and not to mention we were out of about everything. By the end of the night i counted 15 tables in all by myself making drinks myself and everything but their meal. I wanted to die. Then i went out with my BF and his dad. i couldn't keep my eyes open. But it was worth it i guess.

i havent done any in a while

i havent been able to get on the site in a while. hence why i haven't been writing any blogs the last few weeks. but im back now!
ok so updating my life sicne my last blog in i think september.
1. still havent been home since move in day. kinda bittersweet feeling babout that. i miss my bed and having my own room and not havign to share my bathrom with like 15 other people. above all i miss my puppy (aminature shnowzer). but on the other hand i love having the freedom i have here and all my friends.
2.my parents did come and visit the day before my 19th birthday. we went to red robbins which is in my top 3 favorite restaurants (fridays being my first and fire and ice being my second) we had my immediate family there (my mom and dad, brother and my aunt)
3. i went to boston with my boyfriend and my friend matt on oct 11th. we ended up meeting my best friend from home and her friend in boston (they were on a day trip from their school with is in ny) and we all went out for a celebratory brthday lunch at fire and ice in harvard square. it was an awsome day not counting the 3 hr bus ride there and the 3 hr bus ride back.
4. for halloween me and my boyfriend dressed up as mofia bosses. we were decked out in suites and ties and hats. we got a lot of compliments from many people when we were randomly walking around campus that night.
5. my friends and i started playing monopoly and apples to apples alot lately since we rally dont go to parties or anything. we also watch a whole lot of movies.
6. i am part of the dance team here at wsc. ive taught 2 classes. i taught a lyric class and a jazz class. i was thinking of choreographing for the april show but decided against it since i have soomuch homework and i would have to make up a dance on top of that. i didnt htink i could work that out. and they wanted the whole dance done in a week and i definatly dont work that fast when i chreograph.

this has been my life in a nutshell for the past 3 months
im now counting down the days till i get to see my puppy (which is as of today 16 days!)
peace out till next week

nov. 9

Today my family and me went to Santa's Land. It was kind of weird because the youngest person with us was my brother who is 14. My other brother, who just turned 21, came, my cousin who's 30ish, my parents and my aunt and uncle came. Going to Santa's Land is a family tradition, i think all my cousins and brothers have gone every year sense we were born. We had a great time, even though it was strange. On Friday and Saterday i hung out with my brother and his friends because he just turned 21 and was home from college. Also one of our friends came home from college in Chicago so we got to see him for the weekend.

This weekend was pretty good. went home friday night and slept over my cousin's house. hung out with him and some other friends at one of my friends house. Then saturday my family threw me a birthday party. Today there was a thanksgiving dinner at my church, and they sang happy birthday to me there because today is my birthday. I got about $180 from my birthday party. me and my sister left the dinner at about 6 pm and got back here at about 7:45 pm. This weekend was pretty good over all... had a lot of fun, saw my family, friends and spent a night over at my girlfriends house. 

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Do we have class tomorrow???
thanks

11/9 blog

I hope this week goes by fast. We only have 4 days of classes, and no English on Monday. Then on Friday strings ensemble is canceled so I get out of class at 1:25. After class is over my friend Melissa, goes to Skidmore College is picking me up and we are going to camp for the weekend for a weekend program called November Wacky. I'm really excited for this because I haven't been to camp in almost 3 months. I looked over the schedule and we have a lot of fun things planned.
After the weekend at camp is over, all of the staff that worked it will go to Friendly's together because that is something we do after every single weekend at camp. We always go in with a party of anywhere from 10-20 people and sit at the same table and all have a really good time. Then I have to come back to school and will probably have to do all of my homework from the week due next Monday on the Sunday I return.

11/2

Im thinking about getting a new job. Im sick and tired of having the stress of school, the stress of my family &boyfriend and then the stress of my job. My job is frustrating. I feel like my boss and manager do not even know what they are doing. I honestly could run the place myself. Saturday i went into work and my manager and boss dumb and dumber didn't get out of bed in time. Therefore i had to open up the place like usual. And set everything up. Like wtf. I do not think that a 18 year old girl should have this responsibility. But i am not aloud to quit. I would probably be hunted down or kidnapped and forced to work. I worked over 50 hours a week at this place. Morning to night 6 days a week. Opening up by myself. One time i set the alarm off and the cops came and took my social security number down and all. I mean if i have the keys and know the alarm code and if i am carrying a pot of hot water wouldn't you think that i know what im doing? I think so.

10/26

I am very happy my stress week is over. But once you think that everything is going to calm down something else occurs. I miss having no responsibilities. Yet i like being out of highschool. Im glad i commute because i dont think i could deal with living in a dorm. I do not like change. During orrientation i felt uncomfortable and gross. I disliked the bathrooms. Disgusting i felt like i was camping. And since i commute i feel like i can do what i want without being tied down in one place.

10/19 Blog Entry From my notebook

I couldn't get on the blog therefore i wrote them all down and am putting them on now.
So this week is going to be the worst week ever. I have about 7 essays due. Three are for one class and for the same class i have a midterm all due on the same day. It is history which is my worst subject. I have a presentation for Philosophy due friday as well. I cannot give speeches to save my life. I stutter, get red, etc. you get my point. I called out of work. My mom and boss were not very happy with me. What ever because they cant fire me. I run the place. Ha. I need a vacation.

november 2 - halloween weekend

On Halloween, my friends and I dressed up as risky business, if you don’t know what that is if you have seen never been kissed it’s that guy that has a long white sleeve shirt on, glasses, and socks. This year for Halloween I bought my own candy; I didn’t go trick or treating at all and get free candy which was kind of upsetting. But on Saturday night, people were still dressing up and I mean my friends and I went out and didn’t dress up, but then I felt out of place cause I felt like we were the only ones not dressed up, it was a little awkward.

october 27 - track

Today track started and I was really nervous because I knew it wasn’t going to be anything like high school practices. I mean I never did indoor track in high school I did basketball instead. This is my first year doing indoor track which will be a different experience for me. So far today was the hardest first practice I have ever had doing sports. I mean the first 2 weeks is conditioning to get us all in shape and what not, but I definitely have to get use to working out this hard Monday-Friday for at least 2 weeks. I joined track because I didn’t want to do nothing, I want to be able to meet new people and get out of my room and I don’t want to gain the freshman 15!

october 22 - test

Yesterday which was the 21st I had a math midterm that I thought would be easy since the first half of the semester is based on patterns and trying to figure how to solve them. This class is for students who want to be elementary education teachers, and the class itself is easy. But once the midterm came, everyone didn’t think the class was so easy anymore. There was no way anyone could finish that test in an hour and 15 minutes. It was impossible.

october 13 - columbus weekend

Over Columbus Day weekend I was able to see all of my friends that I have not seen since I was at school and it was really fun hanging out with them. Besides the fact that my mom still gave me a curfew of 1230 and 1, but instead I decided to tell her I was going to midnight breakfast around 130 in the morning so I was able to stay out later than usual. Midnight breakfast is a place in downtown Milford which is open until about 4 in the morning on weekends. Obviously my mom bought it so I didn’t get home until 345 in the morning and the thing is I never went to midnight breakfast I just stayed out with my friends.

November 3 blog

I went home this weekend for the 3rd time. It was a lot of fun. This year was the first year my friends and I didn't spend Halloween together, so my sister Jen and I went trick or treating in my old neighborhood. It was really funny to see all of our old neighbors. Since we moved when I was thirteen, and all the neighbors were close with each other people recognized us. We went to one house, and ended up inside for 45 minutes talking to a neighbor who we both used to babysit, and an hour and a half in another neighbors house talking about politics- that was boring.
Speaking of politics, the election is coming soon. I sent in my absentee ballot a while ago and can't wait to see the result. I think everyones channel will be the same on the night of or the day after to see who the winner is.

November 2 - Pats

What about those Patriots? Ill I have to say is I'm from New England there my favorite team but what are we going to do from this point. The team has always worked as a whole but Tom Brady just seemed to hold the team together. Seeing as he is the quarter back it’s expected of him to be the one to hold the team, so now with him out for the season it seems as though we are going down hill. I bring this up because right now as I am typing the Patriots are losing the game against the Colts. There is no real telling what to do Brady is out with a messed up knee and know we have Cassel. Now it isn’t anything bad he just getting into it. He isn’t Brady so its hard people are comparing the two of them and they are not the same people. The best we can do is sit here and hope especially after last years super bowl. All I can say for now is hold onto your sets it’s going to be a bumpy ride, just hang in there.

October 27 - Courtney

Ok, now I live on campus and like many other freshman was put in my third or fourth dorm, only difference is my fourth choice was Courtney. Now you may thing what is this girl saying, so here it is flat out I don’t want to live in COURTNEY! Crazy right, well it might just be my personality type but imagine just for a moment what it would be like to live in Courtney if you were me. My roommate likes to know what is going on around her so first of all the door is always open, but with this comes the numerous people that just like to pop there heads in. Now I’m a very social person so that’s not it, however when you are trying to write a paper and twenty people stop by to ask for anything from food to laundry detergent or just to even say hi it gets quite entertaining. As for the weekends and the partying I don’t mind if when I have all my work done, but Courtney has to be the messiest dorm on campus, there isn’t one place that seems to be remotely clean. So you can say you want to be there and maybe you do and would like it but it’s not the most amazing place on earth.

October 20 - Rainy day

Ever get that feeling like the day is never going to come to an end, I know I do and it’s the worst when it’s raining. Those rainy days it’s like the world is going in slow motion and will never speed up. I can remember back when I was younger the days seemed to be at a stand still for all you could do was sit and watch television or day dream out the window. I was the day dreamer, just sitting and watching the rain drops hit the window one at a time. Then once one drop hit another they would slide down and make a trail, it was about the most amusing thing I was going to find all day. In some ways it’s relaxing to just sit there and not have anything to do. It was more the lazy feeling that got to me because your body hurt and you just don’t want to get up and do anything in the house. It’s one of those things and here in New England they happen often, but I guess if you look on the bright side maybe if you wait a few minuets the weather will just change.

October 13 - Writting

“Just write what ever you wish to write about.” That’s easy for someone to say, but have you ever tried to do it. Well right now I'm just trying to contemplate the set up of what I need to say but formulating an idea it’s difficult and no one is quite sure how to do it. Here is some advice, go with the flow. When ever you are given the chance to just go for it write the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe its ice cream, I could go on for hours about how min chocolate chip has to be the best ice cream in the world. This is the easy party now if you are given a topic that you are not interested in or have to research, well Huston we have a problem. It’s down hill from that point on, and nothing seems to make since to you. The facts seem to be as far form one another at they could ever be and your biggest worry is that you are not repeating what you already said or that you are not plagiarizing. But no matter how difficult the topic you just need to write what comes to mind first, for once you have the main guts of the paper written up you can manipulate the rest of the paper as much as you wish.

nov 3 blog

I have to start getting ready for the winter. I have to talk to my bosses and customers to see what house I have to plow. Usually I have to plow my house, snow blow or plow my neighbor’s driveway, my dads house he rents, snow blow the sidewalk at his store, and go with my neighbor to do his seven houses. Because my neighbor works at night I may be doing his houses alone sometimes. Usually it takes about two hours and I make about $80 a trip. I have to stop at work someday after school soon to pick up the plow and I have to fix the controller. I also have to go get the snow blower ready, I have to go over the entire thing check all the bolts and make sure its working correctly. Hopefully it’ll snow soon so I can make some money and have some fun. Sometimes after I go out with my neighbor he lets me go on his snowmobile in the woods which is pretty cool.

halloween was a pretty good night... went out with my sister to some of her friends places. the place got busted by the ISO and cops.. so we all had to leave. we ended up hiding out in a random bathroom then we went to a different room and hung out there for awhile. It was such a good night until it ended.. I almost beat the crap out of this kid and then I had to take care of my sister, who is older than me. She was so bad that she had to be carried up the stairs. I had to yell at her to get her to leave the kids house... and I had to shove open several doors to get her. It was a mad cold walk back to our dorm because i was only wearing a toga.. haha.. but all the anger  inside of me kind of kept me warm.