A World Away From Here blog 7

Have you every played the game called World of Warcraft or WoW? It is a massive multi-player online role-playing game, also known as a MMORPG, and it is based on a bunch of games that the company Blizzard released called, Warcraft. It is really hard to describe this game to you if you have never played, but it is a world of many different things. It is like every role-playing game (RPG) where you have quests you have to do, things you have to get, and enemies you have to fight. There is something that makes this game unlike any other; you play with billions of other people and you can interact with them. It is like a world that exists only on the internet. When I first started playing I didn’t really interact with others because I was trying too hard to focus on playing the game, but once I figured it out…I was hooked. It is like an addiction. It is hard not to play the game every hour of everyday. So how do you combat such an addiction? For me I have to focus on my kids. I play the game when I can; IF it doesn’t interfere with my other responsibilities. The main reason I am bringing this up is because I have heard of the addiction to this game RUINING marriages, causing neglect of kids, and even not going to work/school. Why does this happen? I understand the addiction to the game; you get to be someone else and not have to worry about the problems out here in the world. The only thing bad that can happen to you in WoW is your name getting hacked and you are banned from the game for a little bit. But why are people wasting their lives with a game instead of spending time with their kids and wives/husbands? I don’t think anyone really knows. I mean I have to fight wanting to play but I FIGHT it. The game is not horrible; it is actually really fun and enjoyable, if you don’t get ganked (killed by a much higher level person/persons) all the time. I just think that the people that are so addicted need to wake up. You have lives outside of WoW. It is time to drop the mouse, remove your fingers from the WASD buttons, and shut down your monitor (it needs the rest); it is time for you to go shower, shave, and remember the beauty of this world.

a look at emotions

I am getting ready to leave for my summer internship in Texas, and I have so many emotions. I am very excited, yet nervous. I have never really been outside of my comfort zone, my home, let alone by myself. I am excited to explore new things, and to be on my own. I am trying to make lists of things that I need to pack, because I am scared that I will forget something important. As I am finishing things, like my research paper, I am feeling very overwhelmed and exhausted. Not only am I going to school, but I am also working full time. This is causing me to go to bed late and get up early in the morning. I am glad school is almost over, because I don't know how much more I can take of this schedule. It has been a long time since I did a research paper, and I have forgotten how much time it takes! I am also trying to spend as much time with my family and friends as I can before I go. I will be gone for over three months, and that is the longest that I have ever been away from them. I will be sad that I wont be able to see them, but I know we will still have communication. Thank heavens for cell phones and the internet. I know that this experience will benefit me in so many ways. It will help me broaden my horizons, and give me courage to be out on my own. It will also help me to strengthen my people skills and salesmanship skills. sometimes I have a hard time getting what I want to say across to other people. I always second guess myself. I could really use some sales skills so I can sell myself to others. This was also my first semester back to school, I cant believe how great it was. I never felt threatened or left behind. Now that the semester is ending I feel like I am closing the door to this experience, and opening another one for this summer.

My research project Blog 3

I have decided to do my research project over the sad subject of puppy mills. I am a huge animal lover and I can not stand the idea of the way these animals are being treated in these mills. I know first hand the cruelty of these mills. I begged and begged for a puppy for my eighteenth birthday. So I went online and checked out breeders. I knew exactly what I wanted; a Yorkshirer Terrier, that was until I came across the picture of this little puppy. It said Shi-Pom puppies for sale $400.00, it gave an address located near Indy. I slowly got the 400.00 and immediatly called the lady who had been running the place. I should have known something was up when the lady would not let us go to her house. As she was giving me directions I could hear what sounded like fifty dogs barking and whining. It got to me pretty hard. I sat at a little grocery store out in the middle of nowhere with my friend Curtis. The lady pulled up in an old beaten car and demanded the money before I even got to see the puppy that I had paid for. As she opened up the car door and stench of dog feces and pee hit me like a wave. But in this tiny little cage was a tiny little puppy. I was extremely shocked at the condition of this little dog. She had feces all over her and fleas were jumping off her. But still the instand I saw her eyes I could not turn away. The lady never gave me papers for my dog and as soon as I picked up Daisy Mae she jumped in her car and left. It broke my heart to see the condition she was in and I could only imagine the state the other dogs were in. I spent the next few days cleaning her and spending lot's of money at the vets. The poor dog had worms, fleas, ear mites, and was mal nutritioned. Ever since I brought her home she has been the most loyal and amazing dog. She is so sweet and I truly believe I have saved her life and I know she is thankful for that. Speaking of my dog Daisy Mae, she is looking at me with those big brown eyes because she is ready to go outside and play. I would be so lost if I did not have this beautiful dog by my side!

My dad's new house Blog 4

What a beautiful day it is outside today. I am sitting right on the back porch to my dad’s brand new house. Right where I am sitting I am noticing the newly built in ground swimming pool. I feel it calling to me and all I want to do is jump right off that diving board with a huge cannon ball. And then of course float for hours on a raft, soaking up the sun. My little dog Daisy is running around like mad she’s so excited to be outside and enjoying the sun too. However she is a little worn out from the long walk she took with me and Megan and her little dog Maddie. As I sit here I notice everything that I plan to do over the summer. My dad’s new boat is sitting within eye’s distance and I think about the fun times that are heading my way with that. The grass is such a bright green that it is breathtaking. My dad has taken his sweet time with working with the landscape around the house and it finally paid off. I just want to run through the grass playing with Daisy, but I must sit here and get as much homework done as possible. This is definitely not going to be fun hah! In only a few hours work will take over my evening and then school will be here tomorrow. So I am going to sit and relax before my life picks up again. What do you know my phone is ringing and of course playing a great Dave Matthews Band song; Two Step. It is my good friend AJ or as I call him (Pookie) and he calls me Kay May. We have been really good friends for about six years now. He is coming home from college this weekend and wants to see my parents and check out the new house. I feel like I haven’t seen him forever considering it has only been a few weeks. But anyways back to the observation of the new house. I just now noticed after sitting here that there is a place to play basketball. I do not really play much anymore. I used to be point guard, but gave that up due to a knee injury. I am thinking that it would be fun to practice some more especially since I know my nephew will be bugging me, Aunt Kar Kar, to play with him

End of school stressors! Blog 5

I am extremely thankful to have only two and a half weeks of school left, but with that, it brings loads and loads of hard work. I feel like every time I turn around a huge new project is due. I am most worried about this week. I have a ten page paper due Sunday evening for my Management course online and then a huge project due Tuesday in my Life skills class. I feel like I am studying and doing things in a circle because nothing seems to be getting done! I know that I will have no problem getting through this, but I just need to strive to do my best. I know if I set aside time to get my work done , that I am able to do this with a little bit o f ease. I understand that this will not be an easy feat to get through this last semester. I feel this semester I have let myself slip because last semester I had a GPA of 3.5 and now my grades have been slipping. I feel maybe it is because it is getting so nice outside and instead of sitting and doing my homework, I do something else like golfing, hanging with friends, or walking. This just adds to my procrastination and my grades have been affected by this. Another thing that is adding to my drop in grades and procrastination is my new promotion at work. I am now an assistant-manager and with that come a lot of responsibility. I seem to get phone calls every minute of the day and my hours have shot up tremendously. I work about 35 hrs a week and then go to school full time. I think next semester I will try and take a lot less hours so my school work will not be affected. This is because school and getting my associate's degree is more important to me. I am just ready to make it through these last weeks of school. I have begun to make time slots about what to do when so I CAN and WILL get all of my homework done. I am just ready for summer so I can actually relax for a change and lay by the pool with Megan every day. That will definitely be the life of my summer, but wait I am definitely not going to get a break because soon softball will start back up again…..ahh.

Dog Walking

Yesterday, Karmon and I met up and took our dogs on a walk. I should say our kids, because that is what they are treated like. Karmon has a little, fluff ball named Daisy. My dog is named Maddie. She is a miniature rat terrier, and believe me she definitely gets called a rat all the time. I happen to think that she’s the cutest thing in the world. She is white with black spots all over her, and she has huge, satellite like ears.
Now that I have told you a little bit about our dogs I can get on to the story about our walk. It was really hot out on Tuesday and Karmon and I decided to go for a walk with our babies instead of going to the gym. Our dogs have never met before that day and when I put Maddie in Karmon’s car the two dogs didn’t seem like they were going to get along very well. Maddie started to growl at Daisy as soon as we got into the car. To my surprise they didn’t bite each other.
We drove to Donnelly’s so that we could park the car and walk around Crawfordsville. The whole way there Maddie and Daisy had to hang there heads out the window. I have no idea why dogs do that, but they seem to love it. Karmon and I decided to walk through Wabash to see one of her friends. I have never been in Wabash before, but it was actually a really nice place. We walked around Wabash for a while with her friend, which I don’t remember his name. I am really bad with names. Then we left to go get the puppies some ice cream from Dairy Liscious.
I got a Bahama-mama, Karmon got a coke, and the dogs got vanilla ice cream. Neither one of the dogs ate their ice cream. It really amazes me that when I am eating Maddie begs for food, but when I actually get her something she doesn’t eat it. Then maddie got out of her collar and was running around Turtle Park like a maniac. She definitely made me look like a fool chasing her around in circles. I finally caught her and she jumped out of my arms again. I was thinking oh god here we go again, but this time she just rolled over and stayed. Thank god she did that because I really didn’t want to chase her all over the park again. I already had enough people looking at me as it was.

The end of the semester stresses me out!!

I am so excited that we only have two and a half weeks left of school until summer break. This semester has been a long one and it can't get over soon enough. I always seem to get burn out on school towards the middle of spring semester. I hate that I do, but I really have no control over it.
I think that maybe I get this was because I get sick of having no life besides school, work and studying. The warm, summer air is a taunt to me when I am stuck in classes or at work. I love summer and the hot weather it brings with it. It's so hard to actually get things accomplished when the weather is extremely nice. I would rather be outside enjoying the sun than be cooped up in my house studying for a test, doing homework, or writing a paper.
I do get all my work done for school, but it's definitely a struggle to do so. Classes are about to end and more and more things are being due each day. Kind of like the bloggs. I really can’t wait to be done doing writing bloggs. I believe this is my eight blogg so only four more to do. That means since we only have two weeks of school left I better get my butt in gear. I will have to write 2 bloggs this week and two next. That doesn't seem so bad, but it is when I have so many other things to do. It's totally my fault for having this many bloggs left to do, because as usual I procrastinated until now. Now its crunch time and I must get everything done.
I know that I will get everything done, because I have to try and get A’s in every class in order to be accepted into the RN nursing program. I will be upset if I don’t get in. I feel like I have put so much work into school and getting the best grades that I can, and If I don't get in I will have to go another semester re-taking classes to improve my graded. I never realized how hard it is to get into the nursing program here at Ivy Tech. I have to work really hard to get what I want and what I want most in life right is to be a nurse.