AWE- SUMMMMM Award

Thanks Amber and Michelle for the Awe-summmmm award!!! :)

With this award you're supposed to list 7 things that make you Awe-Summm and then pass the award on to 7 bloggers you love. Make sure to tag your recipients and let them know they have won! Also link back to the Queen that tagged you.

The 7 things that make me Awe-Summm are:

1-I graduated College

2- I'm a great wife

3- I have awesome friends

4- I love to cook

5- I am looking for a job to teach the little kidos of the world

6- I love to watch CSI

7- I am a great friend !

The 7 people I give this award to are:

1- Rita

2- Michelle

3- Amber

4- Ashley

5- Jill

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Thank you so much it means a lot to me!

Harvest and planting season = free crazy time for me!

Russ has been away on the farm these past few weeks, yeah I know I married a southern boys. Right now it is time for harvesting wheat and planting soybeans!


The big tractor is a John Deere 9500 it is very roomy to ride in and has air and a radio. This is very beneficial so that the farmers do not go crazy. It is also very fun to operate!



This is a John Deere 4440 which is also comes with ac and a radio. This contraption is not very roomy and it hurts your butt if you have to sit in it for a long time. The things on the right are soybeans. They have many different uses and are quite dry when you have to see when they are ready to be harvested. (Russ took me to a field once and showed me the way the "farmers" check to see when they are ready... what a lovely husband) Oh the things we do for "fun."

Any who I have been able to do tons of things around the house now that I am alone and at night. I get to eat supper alone which can sometimes be a big bummer and I also get to watch CSI re-runs. I am in love with CSI I watch Miami, New York, CSI that are new, everything. I love watching a murder being broken down, it seems so real and neat to see how they figure these crimes out. I don't really like to read alot or really like all the crazy drama filled series shows but I do love me some CSI. I record them while I am at work and I get to watch them when I get home.... I love it so much!!!

Also I have found that I am a avid puzzle putter togetherer. I love puzzles and how you have all the pieces but you have to wedge them all together to make something spectacular. The sad thing is, is that I can not walk away from the puzzle until it is together. I just want to see the picture all put together so that I can glue it. I have 4 puzzles now that are done and glued and I have no idea what I am going to do with them. I have found a way to fill my free time but it leaves me with puzzles that hold no purpose.

Working at the Big Kohl's

CLEARANCE... For the past 3 days I have been marking clearance at Kohl's we have tons of clothes that went clearance shorts, spaghetti straps, carpi's, pants, and so much more!!!! If you have time you should really go buy some stuff.

So I love the fact that I have a job, so don't let this rant fool you!

I loath some of the people who come and shop at my store (well not my store but you know.) Kohl's gives people whatever they want and I mean whatever. We have this *wonderful* policy of "YES WE CAN" now I know that this is a little misleading for some of our customers and they think that they can do anything. We had a lady today that only wanted to buy one of the bogo luggage that we have on sale this week. ( I consider bogo crazy for Kohl's because most of the time our sales are better than bogo, anyways) So I give her the stupid luggage for half off "yes we can" policy. Then the lady has these pants that had something on them so I gave her 10% off again "yes we can" policy. Then she says that another pair of pants has a mark since she seen that I gave her 10% off. I could not find a mark and she couldn't find it again so no 10% off. Then she realized that she is spending too much money and has me take some of the clothes that are not clearance off, okay I can do that! She then proceeds to let me know that there is some sort of mysterious mark on the luggage piece that she had... I, however, could not find the mark and she couldn't find it either. She then persisted that we have different lights at customer service to make it harder to find the spot she was looking for, crazy! So I give her another10% off her already lowered priced luggage. Guess what she even has a coupon, how lovely, and aggravating. I wanted to say something to her about all the hassle that she had caused but I did not.

We do have a "YES WE CAN" policy and most of the time people use it when it is important. Some people, like the above lady, seem to know about this and take it for advantage.

The question is how do I relax?

So I think that I am going insane. I have all this free time that I am not use to having since I am finished with school. I know that this is the summer so most people are not in school anymore but I am driving myself crazy. I clean my house like everyday! It isn't that dirty but I find something to clean. I work when most people are at home and am at home when most people are at work so I can't really hangout with people. It is mainly me and the dog from day to day. I cook almost everyday even if there are things already cooked for the day I am cooking for tomorrow! I don't think that I know how to relax!
I don't really like not having plans or really being alone all the time, and it sucks! I'm hoping that I begin to stop thinking about everything in the future. Since I have all of this free time I think about painting the house, working outside in the yard, I make lists of things that I want to do today and the next day. I think about things at night before I try to go to sleep. I JUST CAN"T STOP!!!!! It is driving me and Russ crazy!
I do go to work and I love it there. Well I really don't like work but it gives me something to do and I like that aspect. I don't like retail the customers are HORRIBLE and the people that I work with they are the same way some days. I have a supervisor who really should not be there because she doesn't like to do things and I end up having to do them, yeah me! Work gives me time away from thinking about all the things that I could be doing.

I think that I need to get away and take a vacation!!!

College up to GRADUATION

So I did it!!! I graduated! I think that after you spend your whole life going to school then graduating High School you have so many things to look forward to doing with your life. Some people decide to go straight to work where every they have been working while in school. Some people decide to look for jobs, some get married, have babies and become stay at home moms :) Others go to college just to find out they either don't like it, aren't cut out for it, or just get homesick. While others go to college and graduate. I think that all of the above are all choices that we make for one reason or another. I think that whichever path you have taken makes you who you are and not everyone goes to college and gets a job they were hoping for anyways.
As excited as I was to go to college I was also nervous. I started off at UNC Greensboro, which I loved, for Deaf Education, which I also love. I loved the school and all the great people that I met while I was there, I met some really great friends. From a mishap that my mom ex-husband had two and a half years later I moved back home to take care of my brother. I decided to go to UNC Charlotte. The great thing about UNC Charlotte was that my three bestest friends went there and I was able to room with one of them. I loved being there because I knew people and was close to home. I also loved getting to spend time with my besties that I had not seen since High School. Our last year together we got an on campus apartment and had some of the best times. I miss those times. I think that since then we have moved and lived with our sweeties :) I kept going to school even living in Waxhaw (45 minutes away) and having to travel. I kept telling myself I had to do it because I had gone this far. I had some awesome encouragement from many of the great people in my life.
So finally my student teaching... I forgot that I was even in school some days even though I was teaching. I loved doing it and knew that this is the reason that I was going to be graduating. I think that this last semester was the greatest because it really made me push to the extra limit. And then I did it... I graduated. I felt like I had gone to school for my whole life and I have only been out for 2 days but i feel like I should have a job and be doing the job. I knew that this was not going to happen, but in all due time I guess.

My 8 things... why not!

Everyone else is doing it, so why not!

8 Things I Look Forward To:
1. Graduation
2. Finding a job
3. Having a baby
4. Paying off my student loans
5. Russ and I paying off our cars
6. Having enough money to blow
7. Getting my masters in something
8. Our 10 year anniversary

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1. Cleaned the house
2. Went to work
3. Put gas in my car
4. Watched a rerun of the hills
5. Made mini pizzas out of English muffins
6. Paid the car insurance
7. Slept forever in the morning
8. Glued the puzzles together

8 Things I Love:
1. Russ
2. Old couples who are nice to each other
3. Seeing babies
4. Getting a pedicure
5. Chicken
6. being able to ride with the windows down
7. having a clean house
8. cupcakes

8 Things I Wish I Could Do:
1. Spend more time with my mom
2. Win the lottery
3. Go on vacation whenever I wanted
4. Lost weight
5. Not have to shave
6. Have a permanent tan
7. Live in the middle of nowhere
8. Not worry

8 Shows I Watch:
1. Jon and Kate plus eight
2. Baby story
3. Bridezilla
4. My big redneck wedding
5. Suite life of Zack and Cody
6. Wizards of Waverly Place
7. Golden Girls
8. Anything Disney

Graduations on the way!

Student teaching is over (tear.) I loved my cooperating teacher, the kids in my class, and all the people at the school. I felt excepted into the teacher world while I was there, it was great! I loved teaching, playing with the children, and overall learning from them as well as the teachers. I know know so much more than you could ever learn from a book. I am lucky to have been able to have this experience. The best part is that I made an A.
I was so sad on Friday because it was my last day at the school. I kept telling myself I was not going to get upset, but really that is not me. All the kids went to the carpet and were strangely really quiet and then my teacher posed the question "what should we do?" Some of the children said have a birthday party. They don't really know about different kinds of parties and that is what they are use to having parties for so that was cute. So I was given a present and as I oped it all the children were staring at me to see my expression. They had made me a book of all the things that we had done together, I cried, of course. The children were asking if I was alright because I was crying, My teacher had to explain that adults cry because they are happy sometimes. Then all the children all gave me a big hug, which did not help the crying situation. We had a cake made from cupcakes, my favorite. She read the Dr. Seuss book Hooray for Diffendoofer Day, it was great!

This Saturday I will be GRADUATING!!! I am excited as well as scared! I am so excited because I will have more time to spend with my honey, my family and friends. I am scared because I don't know about finding a job or what I am going to do with all of this free time I am going to have now! I guess I have been in school so long that it is going to feel really weird not to go to the University, have homework or have to listen to some teacher talk and have to take note! I am trilled that that is over! I have plans to go to school to do different things and hopefully that will come true, with this economy who knows! I am just so exciting to be accomplishing all the "big humps" in life (getting married and graduating) you hope that you will accomplish these goals but you never really know if they are going to happen. I am so glad that I was able to get to this place in my life....
Next Hump :
Finding a job
Keeping the job
Having a little one