It's half way through the week

Yesterday was a pretty exciting day. Want to know why? Well i gave my speech...and it was fabulous. I felt bad because i was 5th speaker out of 7 and during all the speeches i kept thinking that mine was really good. The one difficulty was mine was kinda long. The first time i practiced it was 17 minutes long, and it was supposed to be 6-7 minutes. But anyway i was really exciting when i got up to do mine, and i did it pretty well i thought. Well after class i was about to leave and my professor asked me if i could stay a second. i was like.. "uhh yeah" So he waited till everyone left and he said, "I just wanted to say that you're speech was very good. I was impressed, it had everything i was looking for in a speech. Probably the only critique i would give you is to slow down. (not like i don't know that. i do tend to talk fast normally :) ). I was wondering if it would be alright when i give my evaluations in class if i use your speech as an example of positive things i look for." Naturally i said yes. Then he also asked if i had time that he wanted to record it so he could keep it on record as a good speech to show later. Oh my goodness. Can i tell you how extremely happy i was????? So very. I was like flying. Oh yeah and he said i got an A which is a big deal for his class because earlier when he was going over his syllabus he was saying he doesn't give out very many A's, only to speakers he thinks do superior jobs. So i felt very successful.
That was really the most exciting thing. But it did make the rest of my day go pretty well, just becuase i was in such a good mood i think.
Oh man, i kinda feel bad. I checked my schedule for work, and i work Friday. But michael doesn't work at all this weekend. Kinda sad. I guess it's probably just because i'm still in training.
And, i'm pretty excited for this weekend because CJ and Katelyn are coming down i think. or up...whichever it is. And Katelyn is going to stay with me for the weekend. It should be pretty fun. I'm looking forward to it, and i hope it works out.
Well i have quite a bit of homework to do and i have Daisies tonight and flag football too!! So excited. 
Talk to you all later!

Alrighty Tighty!

So it's been a while since i've blogged. I have been pretty busy. I got a job!! And not only that i got 20 hours this weekend. It's pretty different than what i'm used to. It's hard to get used to the mentality that like i get paid for standing there sometimes. There main phrase is "hurry up and wait" It's catering so we are paid to have stuff ready at a certain time so we hurry up to get everything set up and then we get done before the event starts then we just have to wait for everyone to get there and be ready to eat. Then we serve and after we serve the main meal we wait...and then we clear it then....they usually have some sort of main thing and we just wait for them to all clear out before we can clean up. But the best part, best part! We get to eat all the good food. mmmmm. My first nice we had prime rib, salmon *which was amazing* and CHEESECAKE! I was SO amazingly happy. Oh my gosh. Except they had to throw away like 20 pieces i wanted to take them all home. But it was so good. And all the chiefs are awesome and like giving us food. One thing that is really confusing is there is another Ashley there sooo... we never know who people are talking to. So today we decided that they need to call me AJ, but it still is hard when they call her ashley...cause i still respond.
But anyway basically i'm saying it's a pretty sweet job. The people i work with are really awesome, i like them.
Oh yeah and thursday....it sucked so bad. At softball practice i was playing catcher and i was trying to catch a throw down from second base and the girl that threw it didn't have a very good arm so it was pretty short. So i stepped up and bent down but i didn't get up close enough and it bounced right in front of me and came up and hit me in the knee. It even left seem marks. It hurt so bad. the bruise is like as big as...as big as a regular baseball, or bigger. and it has the little dots where the seem was. Well THEN i was standing being first base coach and i was thinking about how bad my knee hurt when the third basemen on the other team threw it to his first basemen and the first baseman missed it and it hit me in the shin. It hurt so so so so bad. Worse than my knee. It got a huge goose egg on it. I didn't know you're legs could get goose eggs, i thought it was just your head. but it did. It was as big as a full sized egg i'm sure. haha. Well that bruise is not that big yet, but it still hurts a ton. And it hurts to even just put pressure on my leg. it's crazy. Oh yeah and they are different legs so both of them hurt. And my MCL has been causing me some major problems lately, which is quite frustrating.
So Tuesday i give my speech and i'm giving it on Homsechooling. I'm really exciting. I just finished writing it and i think it should be pretty good. I really don't mind giving speeches.
Well i kinda feel like i'm going to fall asleep so. I'm going to go :)

One Month

So it's been a month since the family dropped me off here. It feels like it has gone by really fast and really slow all at the same time. I guess i don't really feel like this is home. Well...i guess cause it's not. but i'm getting used to it. getting used to my routine and stuff.
Yesterday we went and played flag football, and i owned :) It was awesome. I scored a touch down and when a girl scores a touch down it's 9 points instead of 6 (we still lost) but i also got an interception and caught a couple passes. It was really fun, but for some reason my foot hurts really bad today. LAME. I am really enjoying football though, like right now i just want to go play. hehe
One of the student activities today was, "build a bengal" So michael brad and i waited in line for like an hour and half and got our bengal bears. it's SO cute and soft. i love it :) hehe. Don't tell but we are giving one of them to katelyn.
We have our softball midterm today...ha i think it's ridiculous we even have to have a midterm or any tests in softball but whatever, she said she gave it to a 10 year old and he got a B so i'm not TOO worried about it.
Well the computer lab has class at 2 so i better go! 
Love ya all! :) 

Week 4: Complete

So was crossing off days that i have already done on my class schedules and i realized today completes week 4. Crazy...it really does not feel like it has been that long. It's alright though, i mean classes are going good for the most part. I have my first test on Monday. Hmm... i don't know how i feel about that. It's kinda funny because like i was talking to my room mate and she took the class i'm taking and she said it was the only C she got becuase it was so easy becuase it's all online. And basically all we have is tests and it's only 4 so she didn't read the text till like the day before when she realized she had a test and then she did bad on them. I realized i was doing that very thing so i decided i should start studying. So i feel alittle better about it.

Yesterday was Wednesday and we went to River of Life for their Wednesday night activities and it was so much fun. I got to "help" in the daisy room. That was all i was supposed to be doing but they don't exactly have a teacher and the lady that was in there that was supposed to be teaching was....boring. and she was kinda just strange in general and she was reading the bible story and personally, I was getting bored, and i couldn't imagine how boring it would be for the little 5 year olds so i felt kinda bad but i sorta took over. We ended up acting out the story and they really enjoyed that. it was pretty funny becuase like the story was "Jesus Feeds the 5000" and so the craft was they were to decorate the paper bags and and put paper fish and bread in them.. Well since i LOVE coloring i wanted to color a bag so i drew a flower on it and this one girl wanted me to draw a flower on her bag too....needless to say i drew flowers on ALL of their bags. Well all 4. but still. haha. Oh yeah and when we started we were coloring pictures and this one girl wanted to draw on the back of hers so i asked if i could draw on it too. So i drew a palm tree then the other girl wanted a palm tree then one girl wanted an octopus to go with her palm tree....i told her she better try that one since i have never drawn an octopus in my life. I could try but i have no clue what it would look like. Ha one very interesting thing was this one girl to start with was not happy because she wanted to be in rainbows so i was trying to make her happy. I asked if she wanted to be my friend and she said no...? ha that's a first. so then later in class i kept asking if she wanted to be my friend and she kept saying no. So then i was asking the other girls if they  wanted to be my friend since Sam didn't want to. One girl said, "No i don't think so....*pause*... I'm just kidding! I do!" wow i didn't know 5 year old's had a since of humor like that.
So basically i had such a good evening with those little girls and decided i would much rather be in there than in chi alpha so i was going to ask if they had a teacher for the class but before i could the children's director asked if i would want to help in there more because there isn't anyone who can regularly be in there. So i'm very happy and looking forward to it. It would be a better class if i actually got the lesson in advance and came up with cool projects for them instead of the lame ones they have but since i have no resources for printing and i don't wanna spend all my money i'll just let Mary prepare them all. I'll just have to make the boring crafts and lessons exciting :D haha. Cause i'm quite sure i can.

So after church Michael MADE me play inter-mural flag football. Much to my dismay i consented and went along...i didn't' know it was going to be so fun. I actually want to play and go to their games. I caught an interception and that was fun. But you know they don't really throw to girls unless the play requires it...so that's too bad, even though i found out i can actually catch pretty well.

And now i'm waiting because i have a job interview for chartwells in 15 minutes. I'm excited to have a job...but would much prefer if it wasn't with food. but i need work i need to save for school next year or i'll be in a world of hurt i'm sure of it. But God will provide and everything will work out as he plans it too....at least that is what i'm hoping and praying for. so i'll let ya'll know how the interview goes.

You know what?

So last night i stayed up WAY to late. I'm so tired today and i want a nap so badly. but no nap is in store as of the moment. I say maybe after softball but that is at like 4 oclock and i still have homework to do. so maybe no nap? i don't know.. Anyways, other than being tired it has been a good day. I feel quite excited about most of my classes. Organic Chemistry is so much fun and i understand everything we have gone over so far. Almost to the point class is boring because we go so slow. But it is exciting to me. I actually almost feel like i shouldn't do the study problems though because i enjoy it so much. and anything i enjoy must be wasting my time ;) Communication...well class is long and boring but i'm actually very excited to write my speech and deliver it. I plan on doing it on homeschooling! It should be interesting. and fun.
After that michael and i went to mcdonalds. i had already eaten lunch cause i'm pro and bring one...but naturally michael doesn't. but anyway i went with him and he did share with me a little so that was nice. not that i needed it.
Now i'm in the library and you know what? I LOVE libraries. I have not the slightest idea why. but walking through and seeing aaaaallllllll the books just gives me this feeling. I could just walk through and look at book titles for hours. No joke. I actually really want to just pick and isle and find a book and read it. though i fear i wouldn't exactly have time for extra-curricular reading like that. Though, i did get two books today. one is called "the last lecture" it's this guy who is terminally ill with cancer and wants to make his last lecture and i think it is mostly to leave for his kids since he knew he wouldn't be able to make it through to deliver it to them later in life. Sad...but last semester one of my professors read some of it and i wanted to read it. So that should be interesting. I also got the ASL dictionary! well i guess A not THE because i'm sure it's quite exclusive since there is SO many signs. But that should be fun to go through.
I think someone is snoring. but i can't see where. haha
well michael just texted me and said his class is boring and we're going to go up to the softball field and take a nap. :) i'm happy. i love naps. i love michael and well that about sums it up.

Update and such

Yesterday i went to River of Life church. it was actually really good. I enjoyed it. It's so good to be in agreement with so many other people praising God. I had an interesting realization while worshiping though. It was a nice one. I was thinking how nice it is that even though River of Life is not MY church that they still all worship the same God i do. Looking around and seeing all these people i didn't know worshiping MY God who i do know. So that was nice. It was kinda funny though seeing that every church i guess has their own way of worshiping. Even further every person does. I like to sign when i worship and alot of people at River of Life like to clap...to every song...even if they are clapping on the off beat when everyone else is clapping on the on beat. Or when they are clapping WAY to fast of a tempo and mess up the whole worship team becuase they are clapping the wrong rhythm. Basically i'm saying i could do without the clapping : ) haha but the rest was good . I think i'm going to ask if i can help out in Girls Ministries wednesday too so that should be fun.
I had an interesting though during worship though. We were singing "Your grace is enough" and i was thinking
1) is God's grace really enough for us and
2) what does grace even really mean??
well after talking with Bryce and google search we decided that God's grace is kinda a pleura of things but mainly his mercy. It also includes his love and kindness and favor to us, kinda just like a cover all. So then that leads me back to my first question: is it enough for me? I think it is. I mean i guess if i think his love and kindness is enough for me then i should be happy just at the thought i'm alive and that he DOES love me and that i have a chance to live in eternity with him. That may or may not exclude his power and miraculous workings but for me just knowing i can be saved by his grace is quite enough for me. Is it enough for you?

Changing gears now, i took out the trash today...again. It was so lame becuase i took it out last time and then i don't know who it was but when it was full they took the trash out of the can and set it right next to it. and i don't know if you're aware but when garbage just sits there it smells...pretty awfully. So it was making our whole house smell and when michael walked in and said it smelled i realized it was quite time to take it out. So i gave in and quite being stubborn and took it all out. I also was getting annoyed at how dirty the floor was so i mopped it. I now realize how as a mom things like that just grade on you when no one else will do it. it's like, "really? am i the only one that is bothered by it?" I love you mom, ha and i'm sorry for not taking more of an initiative.

Oh yeah and i took a patho quiz today...haha i got 8/20...ouch...i couldn't even believe it. I didn't think i had done THAT bad. guess i was wrong. I was kinda upset about it. but oh well. nothing i can do about it now just work harder on the next ones.

Well i think it is nap time for sure right now. So long : )

Gloomy Day Out

So it's really rainy and dark out today and it's awesome. I love really grey days, except when i have to walk in it. Which i was really worried this morning because i was going to have to ride my bike in it and i was NOT excited but i hitched a ride with Brad :) and then michael picked me up. What good brothers i have. Anyways, for lunch today i went to...do i dare say? I went to Taco Bell because i really wanted to try their new chicken flat bread sandwhiches for 99 cents.. Must say it was very good. Chalupas are better...but whatever can't beat 99 cents. We have softball class in like a half hour...but i'm not sure what we're going to do though because it's raining. Maybe we'll go in and play the wii. ha that would be fun. Or we'll just play in the rain. Who knows...
Last night. Super fun. I was going to blog about it last night but i was too tired when i got home. We had chi alpha, which i really like then like the whole chi alpha group it seems went to the Pie Hole (which doesn't even serve pie!! it's Pizza!) and it was fun getting to know people and then they played the one song you dance too... it's like "slide to the left, slide to the right, now cha cha ya'll.." I don't know what it is anymore but it was super fun and we looked like idiots i'm quite sure but oh well. Clearly i haven't ever really cared about that. hehe
I turned in my application into the nursing program yesterday. and i had mostly sinking feelings. Because my GPA for the classes they use to get into the program totaled 3.23... which = crappy. And my TEAS score was a 62. and the other thing they calculate is your health volunteer work or experience which i have none...so doesn't look very bright for me. I overheard some girls talking this morning in my Organic class and they were saying the last few years that everyone who applied made it in...so i don't know what's going to happen. I mean i'm okay if  don't get in cause i'll go to BSU but i didn't feel okay about it yesterday. I felt really discouraged and i wanted to cry. This is my dream.  But i guess whatever happens happens and i'll make it through it. right? I try to tell my self it will all work out for the best but it's hard to reassure myself.
Well time for softball!! Miss you all

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is Thursday. Tomorrow i have class. Tomorrow after class..i get to go home!! I'm so excited. I t feels like it has seriously been like at least a month already. Well I'm certainly very happy if you cannot tell. I had my first official lab today for organic chem. and it was super easy. I got done in like 45 minutes and got a 100 percent on it! yay! (Ha i just splashed a bunch of water all over my face from the water i'm drinking! geeze! where is my sippy cup!?) Oh yeah and then after class i was like i really need to do some school work but then i decided i kinda wanted to get my clothes out for the weekend first then i layed on my bed and guess what happened? i fell asleep. for 2 hours! oh my goodness! i couldn't even believe it. but it felt magnificent i feel alive now so...The guys keep giving me a hard time when it's 9 oclock and i say i'm tired and ready to go to sleep..they just don't understand how demanding my body tends to be. haha. well it's super stormy and windy out right now and i have no desire to go out in it but i'm going to chi alpha tonight (for the first time) so i guess i have to. Thankfully michael is going to so we get to drive. Okay so i better actually really get some school work done now.