Food stamps

So yesterday I needed to go grocery shopping and I decided to go at 8pm because I thought maybe it would be pretty dead there...WRONG! Not only was it unbelievably busy, I always seem to pick the checkout line that moves the slowest. Well last night I'm waiting in this line for seriously 15 minutes and I was getting really pissed off. The lady in front of me had 3 different orders because she was using her food stamps. Well I was a cashier for Festival back home for about 2 years and I had to deal with a number of these. Not only do they have a million separate orders, but you have to look at each item and make sure it's the right brand and to make sure it's the right amount. So basically it takes forever and it's kind of annoying. Now I have nothing against food stamps for people who actually need them, but when the person who is using them has a designer purse, gold jewelry, and is in an expensive pair of heels I get a little annoyed.

Our Memoir

After being asked in class today to come up with our own memoir I did and this is what I wrote:


If I had to write a memoir it would probably be about my college experience. In college you enter a whole different part of your life and you truly do find out who you really are. It is a growing up stage. i am five hours away from home so I couldn't depend on my family for a lot, but I could depend on my new friends. After a stressful year at school you go back home to your "normal" life, but your "normal" life isn't so normal anymore. You once again have rules from the parents. All your high school friends have new friends and you all of a sudden are not as close to them as you once were. Many of your friends changed in college and the new them is a stranger to you. Or maybe you've changed and you personalities clash more than they did in high school.
I know when I came home for summer it was weird seeing my best friend again everyday. I had gotten so used to just talking to her on the phone a few times a week. It is crazy though that you really live two lives when you are in college. You have your home life with you family and childhood friends and then you have your college life with your new found friends. It kind of seems like where ever you are at the time you forget about the other life a little. Like during summer I didn't talk to my college friends a lot and when I'm here in Minnesota I don't talk to people from my hometown much.
College is also a time where you do things for yourself. That's one thing I've learned. you get to be selfish here and it is alright. School is about what you want to do with you life. No one else can chose it for you. Your parents are left at home for a reason...so they can't decide the rest of your life for you. Their job was to guide you to get to this point and now it's our turn to grab a hold of life. Even if this means switching majors 1o times or transferring to a new school. It's all in our hands now.

Your purpose

So you know how most of your friends play a big role in your life along with family? They all teach you something and they are in your life for a reason. Well I was thinking the other day, what purpose do I have in other peoples lives? Well it took me a while to come up with a few things. Because I am definitely not the smart one of the group that everyone comes to with homework help. But I have decided that I do make a lot of people laugh. That's probably my goal each day is to make someone smile or laugh and it makes me feel a lot better. As I got to thinking more about this I also realized that a lot of my friends come to me for advice and I don't necessarily give great advice,but I do listen. And throughout my life I learned that that is people need from time to time. You do not always need to offer them an answer for them to figure stuff out. Sometimes just by talking stuff out they figure it out on their own. I'm also not one to judge. I've had so many things that have happened to me that I've talked to people about and the people that did not judge me helped me the most. I mean we all make mistakes in our life and we know it if we have, that we don't need others telling us how dumb of an idea it was.

So I'm basically asking where do you stand in your group of friends and family? Are the smart one who can always help others with homework? Are you the funny one who everyone laughs at? Or are you the crazy one who is always making stupid mistakes so others can learn from them? Just something to think about!

What do I want to do with my life?

So everyone comes into college seeking out the same thing...a major. Now there are so many majors in Minnesota you think one of them would fit, right? Not so much. I came with the idea that I wanted to become an athletic trainer, but with my awesome luck the U does not carry such as major. And no Kinesiology does not count. To become a certified athletic trainer you must attend a school that has an accredited program which the U does not happen to have. So whats my next step? Ok so I have basically wanted to do this my whole life, am I just supposed to change my mind on a major or transfer to a school that has the program? This has been my dilemma for some time now. I've spent a year and half getting to know the U and making awesome friends who I really do not want to leave behind to transfer to another school. But college is all about what we want to do for the rest of our lifes. My other option is to major in Kinesiology and go on to graduate school and get a masters in athletic training. The only trouble with that is, I do not need a masters for the career I want to go in. My ideal job would be to work with a high school and their sports teams and to work at a clinic during the day. So either way its going to be the same amount of schooling if I go for my masters or transfer and get an athletic training degree. Why do some things have to be so complicated? You think by attending one of the biggest Universities, there would be an athletic training major here? NOPE! Oh well! I guess we'll see what happens.

Oh I guess I should mention that I am also an intern here for the gopher sports teams. I basically help the athletic trainers out and I get to see first hand how everything works. Doing this internship has really made me want to become an athletic trainer even more. So now I just have to decide what I want to do.

Seven small town girls in the big city

There are so many reality TV shows out there today and most of us think we could probably have our own series with all the stuff that is going on in our lives. And yes I am one of them. My seven friends and I are all from small towns who all met here in Minneapolis at school. All of us have a story and let me tell you there is never a dull moment with all of us. Lets start with recent events.

We all live together in one big house so we share the drama of our everyday lives. Before I get into the craziness of our house let me introduce you to these girls. Elana has been my best friend for basically forever and we are probably the closest out of most of the girls, Bridget and Eva are also my childhood friends and they are each others best friends. Rachel, Lauren, and Abby are friends that we met last year in the dorms and became instantly close to them.

OK so week one you think would have been easy, right? Wrong! Rachel who first of all is in the hardest classes ever so she is stressed with this mess. Then the other day she gets a phone call from one of her good friends back home and she has news that Rachel's best friend had a near death experience and is in the hospital in an induced coma! So not only is her homework stressing her out, plus her off campus job, she has to deal with not being able to be there for her best friend. Rachel did however hear good news about the situation last night. Her best friend had received a pace maker so her heart would keep working till they figured out what had happened to this girl. She recognizes people and is beginning to talk. So after a few long days of crying and worrying Rachel finally had a good nights sleep last night.

Moving right along Elana who also has taken the hardest classes possible plus working 15 hours a week has been on the stressful boat too. There is this boy who has liked her since last semester and they kept in touch for a few months during summer and what not, but towards the end they stopped talking and it just all kind of faded. Well that's what she thought anyways...we get here and Elana finds out that he is still into her and this guy is the biggest sweetheart ever so she doesn't want to hurt his feelings. So she keeps hanging out with him, but is keeping the flirting to a minimum/ not at all. Now this does not seem so bad and stressful, but she dealt with this on her day from hell also. The poor girl wakes up late on her second day of classes and is sprinting around. She gets to her class and realizes she forgot a necessity for class and ends up running back to the house to grab her stuff for the class she is missing. After this she goes to work and has to work with the coworker from hell that was not supposed to be returning. Lets just say that last year they got in a fight and have not spoken since. So for 3 hours of her life that day she did a lot of avoiding. She then comes home to enjoy a nice lunch and ends up dropping her salsa jar that shatters all over the floor. While she was picking it up she sees a piece on her leg and tries wiping it of and the shard of glass cuts her so now she is bleeding everywhere on her leg. Anyways the list went on that day and she came home and I seriously thought she was going to kill someone. But when this girl is mad you can not help but laugh because when she is angry and yelling her face turns red, and then she ends up tripping over the fan cord. I really couldn't help but laugh really hard at this in turn making her laugh. Lets say that week 2 went a little better for her.

Now Bridget is the sweetest girl on earth and would do anything for anyone. Well she wanted to drop most of her classes because she decided to change her major during the end of summer. She goes into the advisers office on the first day of school and gets kicked out by a guy who did not speak very good English so she missed most of her classes that day because she was not able to reschedule. The next day she did end up seeing the advisor though and she got stuck in a music class which all of us found hilarious because this girl could not carry a tune if her life depended on it. The best part of this was that she had to sing in front of class every week. Needless to say she did not end up keeping that class.

As for me...well it has also been a dramatic week/ few days. Not only can I not understand one of my professors to save my life I stink at the subject as is. So that class should be real fun this year. I am also in an internship that requires me to work 20 hours a week plus weekends...with no pay. Sweet! Not! Other than the fact that I am the busiest person on earth I needed to end things with my boyfriend of almost a year. Things just started fading over the last few months and he became more of a friend figure in my life more so than a lover. So I had to break the news to him. Now this is not the first time we have broken up, but this time it is for a completely different reason. The reason being I just do not have the same feelings for him as I once did. Now we all know that breaking up with a person just straight up sucks. So I brought him over the other night and broke the news to him. The funny thing was it seemed as if he did not care. He cracked jokes the whole time while I balled my eyes out. I just did not understand. He then decided to leave and he seemed a little mad, but I think I took it harder than he did. And the last few days have probably been the hardest. I mean I can't call him because then I'll never get over him. And then to add to this amazing situation my ex's good friend decided he wanted to voice his opinion with me on facebook. Things such as "you stupid girls are all the same" came up several times and then he decided to get into his breakup with his girlfriend a while back. It was real fun to waste 15 minutes of my life reading that email. Other than that my friends have been there reminding me why I broke up with the boyfriend because it's been pretty hard not to be able to talk to him for a few days when I was used to calling him all the time.

As for the other girls they have kept a pretty low key profile, but we'll see what happens in the next few weeks!

Strangers

Did you ever stop in the middle of a crowed place and think to yourself I wonder what their story is? I wonder what they have been though? I often think about that. All the billions of people on Earth have their own story, have their own experiences, and have their own life. I wish I had a superpower to be able to read people and just know their stories. I just think its unreal that we go through life and we have a few friends, and of course family; but honestly how much do we all really know about each other? I've lived with my best friend for the last two years, but I've known her my whole life and I'm still finding things out about her. I then start to wonder about that "one special person we are all supposed to meet." A lot of people these days are getting married at a younger age and all so that means less time to get to know someone. I've heard stories about people getting married after knowing someone for a few months and I just think that is crazy because really how much can you find out about a person in that short of time? Not judging of course...good for them if they can be that compatible with someone in that short of time. I just think that this is why our divorce rates are so high because people get married when they are still in the "honeymoon stage" of their relationship and then realize that there is a lot more to that person that makes you love them more or less. I for one don't even know myself all that great, I'm still learning new things about myself everyday.

All of us are strangers to each other, even the people we think we know the most. It's just a crazy thing to think about, that every person on this earth has their own deep dark secrets which are probably far worse than our own. We think our bad days are terrible, but the person next to you could only have a month left to live, making your bad day not so bad. This is how I go on with my life. I've had so many bad experiences in a hospital and such, but you know what I came out of it living...you cant say that for everyone. So if you are having a bad day...just think that the stranger next to you could be having a far worse day.