Late nights...and early mornings

well it is 3:41 a.m. thursday morning right now...sleep tonight? pshh cant sleep...cant seem to do much of anything...except sit and just write. writing...what a beautiful thing...whether you choose to write a song, a poem, a short story, or a blog, it is all so beautiful to me. Everyone has their different ways of writing, different styles. Sometimes a person's true personalities come out and sometimes its the personality that one wants to portray that will come out. You can make writing your very own, you can make it uniquely yours. I love writing...on days when I am speechless I grab my pen and start writing...somedays I really really want to write a story about somethin that had just happened to me...and slowly somehow it turns into a song. It goes the other way as well...sometimes i'm dying to write a song and it comes out a story or poem...again what a beautiful thing...what beautiful gift, what a treasure that I should cherish more than I do. Just sitting here and writing this blog has helped me so much, after this long day....what better way to wind down, then to let it out on paper...but dont worry I will not burden all of you with the things I had to deal with today... I hope everyone out there is sleeping! ya'll should be and so should I ....i'm gonna feel this tomorrow! sweeeeet dreams! I love ya'll!

All grown up...

one of my boys graduated....ahhh!!!!!!

LUCKY!

I'm soooo lucky...I really have such an amazing family...and awesome friends all around me...I try to just pause sometimes and realize it! I used to hate being the only girl with 3 brothers...now I wouldnt trade it for the world! I really love having my boys around me and I feel really special being the only girl. I am surrounded by wonderful friends who I never get tired of...and I have someone very special that not everyone has...and thats a "brandi" Brandi really is the closest thing I will ever have to a sister...We have so much fun together adoring and taking pictures of her beautiful babies...I love you Brandi! You mean the world to me!!

I'm not really that serious ALL the time

The last post was so serious and sad. I didnt want everyone who read this to be sad...sooo I decided to post again...so like I have in my "about me" section I am very into politics. I love listening to Sean Hannity. This next election will be an interesting one. I mean when was the last time we had a woman, a former muslim, a mormon, a black man, all running for president at the same time. This will definitly make history. I dont know who I support yet, most of me likes Mitt Romney. Even though he is a mormon I still like his stands on most things and he is a great speaker. Which is one thing that the country has been wanting since our current president is not the best when it comes to public speaking. I think Mitt might just have what it takes to lead a country. We know Guiliani has what it takes to lead a city, through tragedy. He did what most people would have failed to do. That was to keep a city united to fight through the terrorism that struck his city on September 11, 2001. We know John McCain was a POW for years. McCain showed courage and american pride as he was imprisoned. But would these guys be the right choices to lead this COUNTRY? Would a woman be the right choice to lead this country? Would a former muslim be the right choice to lead this country? So many questions and time is running out...So who will be our next president? Who will be our next leader? Who will be our next commander in chief to our troops overseas? 18 months people...just 18 more months.

Every minute, every hour, every day

I often find that most people take a lot of things for granted. Whether it is the fact that sometimes we dont appreciate that we have a roof over our head and food on the table or if it is that we have family and friends and people that really love and care about us. Sometimes we dont stop and think how much we should appreciate things...even small things like that pair of jeans we bought the other day...we were so blessed to have the money to buy those jeans, but to us its no big deal its just something we wanted. Three nights ago I found out that one of my good friends from back home in Kentucky was coming home from a trip with her friends and decided to walk the catwalk of a bridge. She slipped and fell into about 10 feet of water, her lungs filled with water, and she had brain damage. She was then flown to Vanderbilt Hospital in Tennessee. There she was put on life support and she died 2 days later. The police ruled that she was drunk and they also found some drugs in her system. Life is precious...and I know some people including myself hear that and say "Yeah, yeah we know life is precious," but if you really just stop and think for a minute...Kacey(above in picture) was just 19 years old...She thought she had everything in front of her and yet because of one decision everything she ever worked for, everything she ever dreamed of, is gone. Just like that. It really hurts my heart when things like this happen and it is so big when it is someone you knew, and were close to. I only wish that we would see this as a lesson, I hope her friends that were with her take this seriously and realize how a small decision to simply walk on a catwalk while you're drunk, can cost you your life. The reason I write things like this is to one get it all out. Sometimes you just need to let is all out. Also just to challenge everyone to think through decisions before you make them, they can have such a permanent impact on not only you, but also on everyone around you. We need to learn to take every minute, every hour, and every day and use them wisely, because we never know when it will be out last.