The Land of the Free...And Home of the Brave

So I've been watching the show Army Wives since it started and tonight was a hard one for me...I've always thought it would be one extremely promising option in life to be in the military, or be married to someone in the military. The military is a group of the most promising, brave, honorable, courageous, talented young men and women who help make this country the best in the world. They allow us to be able to sleep warm in our beds at night and not have to worry about being attacked in the middle of the night or not be able to go to the church, school, store, etc that we want to in this crazy thing called life. I know now that I am nowhere near brave enough to ever be able to be in the military, and I am also nowhere near strong enough to be married to someone in the military either. I am so proud to be a citizen of the USA, and am honored to know women who are army wives, children who are army children, parents who are army parents, and most importantly...the soldiers who risk their lives for mine every day. God Bless, and be careful out there so you can come home to the ones you love the most. We love you all and are praying for you daily. <3

Do What You Love and Love What You Do...

~Life's to short, Let's get to livin it!~

Brooks and Dunn summed it up nicely, and at this point in life I want to let my hair down, turn the music up, and not be at a sucky job that I feel is leading me nowhere. I have decided that it's not worth my sanity, my health, my social life, my family...basically my life in general at this point. I don't want to be working at a job just because I need a job at this point. The thought of spending one more day doing something I hate, having to physically drag myself out of bed in the morning not because I'm tired but because I just can't make my brain wrap around the thought of spending one more hour at that place, is making me more stressed than anything else in my life at this point, which is sad.

I can't stand listening to one more person lie to me and I have no choice but to let them do it and continue to do my job. I can't wait to find a job that allows me to actually help people, allows me to make a difference in someone's life instead of making people mad at me for doing what my job makes me do instead of what is sometimes the right thing to do. I wasn't put here for this, I didn't spend 4 years at college learning all the knowledge I could cram into my brain just to do something that has nothing to do with the things I'm passionate about. I want more than anything to be a teacher, to make a difference in a child's life. I look up to the teachers I had in high school, who showed me how you can make such an impression on someone just by relating to them in a way that brings out the desires and passions for learning something, whether it be math, ag, music, or a multitude of subjects. I gained such a passion for agriculture, for how much our lives are impacted by agriculture and how there would be no life if it weren't for agriculture. I gained such a passion for public speaking, for team-building and working with others, and for helping others learn...it made me see that it's what I want to do in life and I intend on doing so as soon as is possible.

Moral: Don't do something that doesn't make you happy just to have money. Money can't buy you happiness, and for the people who say it can...they are too materialistic to know true happiness.

Love Lessons

Love! What a beautiful way to let someone know how much they mean to you than to tell them how much you love them! To all of my friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, and anyone who has had an impact in my life...I Love You!! 1 Corinthians 13:13...now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is LOVE! :) Today just seemed like the most perfect, beautiful day to tell the people who are important to me how much I love them. Enjoy the beautiful weather and tell people you love them!

What A Beautiful Day... :)

What a beautiful day can do for your memories...today was SO gorgeous outside, which is sad because it was about 70 and still kind of gloomy, but it's days like this that make me miss home so badly. It's so nice to know that you can go home and go outside and run on the 4-wheeler path, or go riding, or just sit outside in the yard or on the patio in a lawn chair and not hear the constant noise of traffic or smell the stinking city. I miss living in the country, and I really do believe that being away from a small town makes you miss it. When you're there you think, man I can't wait to get out of this place...then when you "grow up" you can't wait to go back. To all of my friends and family, members of the town and even the people I don't know in CC, you made living in Kahoka such a wonderful way to live out my childhood and make me the person I am today. You learn values, character traits, respect, how to be a friend to anyone and everyone, the importance of family, how to love your neighbor (even if they're 2 miles away, lol) and in general...just how to be a great person! Not that you can't learn those things in the city, but you really don't understand how big of an impact living in a small town is unless you've done it. I don't want to have it any other way...and I hope to soon make my way back there!