Serene Saturday

I enjoyed a very relaxing day at home and basically just lounged around all day. I know that sounds bad but sorry! I am off from work for a while but I feel ready to go back but my manager hasn't scheduled me to come in. I find it funny how when I am working, my co workers need me to fill in for them but when I'm not working (like now) no one needs me to fill in for them! Hopefully I'll be getting back to work soon, it just doesn't feel right having nothing to do!

Me and my cat, Stitch. It's so hard to take a picture with him since he won't stay still but I got one!

PDQ- Pretty Darn Quick

Today in AVID we gathered into our house groups and played the game PDQ, which is short for Pretty Darn Quick. We get three random letters in which we have to make words from in three minutes, but in chronological order. For example, if we got the letters C, A, and T the word we make from it has to go from C to A to T or the reverse, T to A to C. We came up with words like category, catastrophic, tactile, cautious, and intact to name a few. In the end, we earned second place but we still had fun. (:

More School Work

Today I spent my time working on homework assignments and writing my essay on Hamlet for Mr. Taylor's class. Since there are only three weeks left in the quarter I want to finish strong and get honor roll again like I did during first quarter. I can't believe we're half way through the year already. And only four more months of school left. Wow, time really does fly by...

A Toast For Change In 2012

Today in AVID, we did our annual toast for change, an idea inspired by the film 'Freedom Writers' about what we plan to change about ourselves by breaking destructive cycles, experiencing paradigm shifts, and improving ourselves to the best of our abilities. We all went around the room sharing what our changes would be and a lot of people we very brave to share extremely personal things that I would never have guessed they had a problem with. My toast for change was to be more assertive and go after what I want instead of being the quiet girl in the background. As we say in AVID, I have to act now for now is all I have. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. And I am the person.

Slow Day @ Work

Today I went to work and in order to avoid traffic, we left the house an hour early. I used this extra time to go to Macy's and spend the money on my gift card that my uncle gave me. I couldn't find much so I just bought a simple t-shirt and I thought I would spend the rest of the money later. It was a very slow day today and hardly any customers came in. The plus side about this is that I got to leave an hour early, which some of my co-workers were jealous about because they had been there longer than me but oh well. :)

New Year's Resolutions

I know people usually don't stick to there new year's resolutions but I am going to try not to be one of them so I made a few small, simple new year's resolutions for the year of 2012. :) My first resolution is to smile more. Since I am shy and quiet, the fact that I don't smile all the time may make it seem like I am an unfriendly person, when I am not so I want to smile more often. A lot of my friends have told me that before they got to know me they thought I seemed like I would be mean which really makes me laugh because I'm always nice to everyone. Another resolution of mine is to keep my grades up through out the year. And my third, and possibly hardest resolution is to get out of my shell and be more outgoing. A bubbly personality doesn't come naturally but I am a very positive person so I think that will help.

New Year's Day

Happy New Year! It's 2012 now, it sounds kind of scary but this year will be really special for me. I'll be graduating this year, I'll be going to senior prom, and it'll be my first year being on my own after high school. I'm very excited! I woke up very late this morning because I stayed up until 2am last night. Today, my cousin Renee will be coming over again to celebrate with us. Around five o'clock we ate the big New Year's dinner my mom took all of yesterday to make and it was very worth it. She made black eyed peas with rice (which are supposed to be good luck), collard greens, honey ham, potato salad, curry chicken, and Renee bought brownies and cookies for dessert. It was so good. (: Afterwards, we played Just Dance 3 until Renee had to leave. It was a very fun way to spend the first day of the new year. :)