In relation to the blog before this one, a couple years ago I decided to get closer with my family out west. I lived in arizona for a couple months but it wasn't working out for me there personally but I am so glad I became close with my family there plus some new friends! Though the ones in arizona aren't my first cousins...or even second cousins for that matter hah...I still love them. And I talk a lot more with my actually first cousins and I'm way too excited to see them this summer for the first time since I was a baby, except for the one who came to my house to visit in 7th grade. And another one of my cousins is serving in Iraq and I'm proud to call him my cousin. So plain and simple I love my family. I can't wait to see what happens in the coming years. And i'm still working on the ones back bast :) (this is for you Kristie!)
So to Kassandra, Michaela, Alexus, Dar, Chris, Andrea (you're part of the family when you are married to Chris!), Heather, Jennifer, Nico, Jessica, Sheri, Jonathan, Ginger, Travis, Vickie i love you all.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Reconnected
So here's a slight summary, if you wanna hear more ask me.
Growing up, especially when I hit middle school, I was...embarrassed by my hearing problem. I hated it, I didn't like myself for it. It was stupid. I've always felt awkward since I'm in between deaf and hearing (technical term is hard of hearing i think) and I couldn't totally relate to either side. but after going to a mainstream school (since people didn't see the point of me going to a deaf school) since 4th grade naturally I tried relating to the hearing people more. And eventually I basically severed all ties with deaf people. It wasn't so much as avoiding them as it was simply just not keeping in contact with them anymore (though I was only close with 2 of them since i left the deaf school). Then a couple years ago on myspace and facebook I reconnected with those two friends but left it at that. A couple other deaf kids added me too but I didn't know them from school but they knew the two guys I knew and i never really talked much with them.
Then this past year I finally accepted who I am, I didn't hate myself so much anymore (big props to God for that one), and I've been so much happier now for it. Then early in the summer I decided to look for my old friends on facebook (myspace sucks haha). I remembered everyone's first name but not their last...so it was pretty hard haha. Over the summer I saw sean for the first time since 3rd grade when he was with my lifelong friend keith. So he added me of course. But i couldn't find anyone else which sucked. I looked for about 3 or 4 other friends I had at that school. No luck.
But in 2 days i have found 4 of them! Yeah I'm pretty stoked :) two of them I knew pretty well and one of those two was one of my closest friends when I was little. And I'm very excited to be friends again and hopefully get to know each other again.
And I'm even more excited to get back to learning sign language, I lost a lot of it but I'm confident it'll come back. Especially since apparently a lot of my friends are learning it too! haha
Growing up, especially when I hit middle school, I was...embarrassed by my hearing problem. I hated it, I didn't like myself for it. It was stupid. I've always felt awkward since I'm in between deaf and hearing (technical term is hard of hearing i think) and I couldn't totally relate to either side. but after going to a mainstream school (since people didn't see the point of me going to a deaf school) since 4th grade naturally I tried relating to the hearing people more. And eventually I basically severed all ties with deaf people. It wasn't so much as avoiding them as it was simply just not keeping in contact with them anymore (though I was only close with 2 of them since i left the deaf school). Then a couple years ago on myspace and facebook I reconnected with those two friends but left it at that. A couple other deaf kids added me too but I didn't know them from school but they knew the two guys I knew and i never really talked much with them.
Then this past year I finally accepted who I am, I didn't hate myself so much anymore (big props to God for that one), and I've been so much happier now for it. Then early in the summer I decided to look for my old friends on facebook (myspace sucks haha). I remembered everyone's first name but not their last...so it was pretty hard haha. Over the summer I saw sean for the first time since 3rd grade when he was with my lifelong friend keith. So he added me of course. But i couldn't find anyone else which sucked. I looked for about 3 or 4 other friends I had at that school. No luck.
But in 2 days i have found 4 of them! Yeah I'm pretty stoked :) two of them I knew pretty well and one of those two was one of my closest friends when I was little. And I'm very excited to be friends again and hopefully get to know each other again.
And I'm even more excited to get back to learning sign language, I lost a lot of it but I'm confident it'll come back. Especially since apparently a lot of my friends are learning it too! haha
People are crazy
Ok let's get the record straight, i do not "love" my job at walmart, and I simply look at it as a stepping stone in my life, not a career area for me. However, since they pay me I will work hard to earn what they pay me. And since I'm stuck there from 20-40 hours a week it obviously affects my life.
First off, I wish people would think...when you get food from frozen sections and decide you don't want it anymore, put it back...because when you drop it off anywhere else, we have to throw it away, and that's a waste of money. And since we have to throw it away over time we have to raise prices to make up for loss. Consider we find maybe 5 frozen stuff a night in random places, plus 7 days a week, and then eventually 365 days a year, that's a ton of stuff thrown away. That adds up, I want cheap food like anyone else but wasting food isn't helping any.
Also it really really really really peeves me when people think they can just put stuff wherever they want to. we have to fix it, it's a waste of our time, and waste of our time is waste of money for Walmart (again look at above about waste of money). It's really honestly not that hard to put stuff back where it goes, and if you REALLLLLY don't wanna go ALLLLL the way back to where it goes...just bring it up to the cashier and say you don't want it...since you're gonna be at the register anyways.
My biggest peeve is the tons of stolen stuff (you'd be surprised how much air fresheners get stolen) I find taken out of the boxes/packages. This goes back to the frozen food...we have to make up for loss of profit by raising prices which we have to over time...if there were absolutely no theft the prices would be so much more cheaper, trust me it makes a difference. I want cheap stuff just like anyone else...stealing isn't helping. It's just going to make stuff more expensive, and then the more expensive it is then the more people will steal so it's a horrible cycle. I mean come'on just shell out the 2 dollars it is for the dumb make up or 4 dollars for the medicine and air fresheners.
Again...walmart is a stepping stone in my life...but doesn't mean it doesn't annoy the crap out of me when people do stuff like this. Especially stealing...it makes no sense. This is my walmart rant...good thing I waited a few days to type this up or it would have been much more angrier haha.
First off, I wish people would think...when you get food from frozen sections and decide you don't want it anymore, put it back...because when you drop it off anywhere else, we have to throw it away, and that's a waste of money. And since we have to throw it away over time we have to raise prices to make up for loss. Consider we find maybe 5 frozen stuff a night in random places, plus 7 days a week, and then eventually 365 days a year, that's a ton of stuff thrown away. That adds up, I want cheap food like anyone else but wasting food isn't helping any.
Also it really really really really peeves me when people think they can just put stuff wherever they want to. we have to fix it, it's a waste of our time, and waste of our time is waste of money for Walmart (again look at above about waste of money). It's really honestly not that hard to put stuff back where it goes, and if you REALLLLLY don't wanna go ALLLLL the way back to where it goes...just bring it up to the cashier and say you don't want it...since you're gonna be at the register anyways.
My biggest peeve is the tons of stolen stuff (you'd be surprised how much air fresheners get stolen) I find taken out of the boxes/packages. This goes back to the frozen food...we have to make up for loss of profit by raising prices which we have to over time...if there were absolutely no theft the prices would be so much more cheaper, trust me it makes a difference. I want cheap stuff just like anyone else...stealing isn't helping. It's just going to make stuff more expensive, and then the more expensive it is then the more people will steal so it's a horrible cycle. I mean come'on just shell out the 2 dollars it is for the dumb make up or 4 dollars for the medicine and air fresheners.
Again...walmart is a stepping stone in my life...but doesn't mean it doesn't annoy the crap out of me when people do stuff like this. Especially stealing...it makes no sense. This is my walmart rant...good thing I waited a few days to type this up or it would have been much more angrier haha.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
songs
you will not read :) I've written a few in the past few weeks but at least one of them will NEVER see the light of day and just thought I'd let ya know :)
Abenezer!
So I've written before about how i decided to take up a challenge and sponsor a kid who lives in Ethiopia despite the fear of financial burden or if I could make a difference in his family's life. After getting the brochure and official "he is yours to help" papers, i wrote my first letter to Abenezer, it was a while ago. So I can't quite remember what I wrote about, but I remember it was basically about how excited I was to get to know him and hopefully help his family and him grow in Christ.
After the entire month of October passed, I heard nothing about him. No "he got your letter" or "he's doing great" or even a letter back from him himself. I got pretty sad, not gonna lie, I thought man, am I not gonna get to know this kid? I even checked my bank account to see if they've even taken the money I agreed to pay per month and they had. But...keep in mind I'm pretty impatient a lot of times and it's not my best virtue.
I got a letter from Abenezer a few days ago after a long night at work which had been stressful and seeing that I had finally gotten a letter had brighten my morning so much more. The letter is pretty simple, favorite color-red (just like me!) favorite sport-football (or soccer as we call it hah) etc etc. And he asked me what is the local church i worship in and to pray for his success at school and for his family (and you're welcome to help me pray for him :)) and the amazing thing here is he wrote he wants to be a medical doctor. That's pretty awesome in my opinion. I just hope I can do whatever I can to help him reach that goal!
All in all I'm pretty stoked i finally heard from him and writing him back. I hope and pray that God uses me to keep supporting him and help him in his relationship with Christ as well as he helping me in my relationship with Christ. And hopefully one day I'll get to meet him.
After the entire month of October passed, I heard nothing about him. No "he got your letter" or "he's doing great" or even a letter back from him himself. I got pretty sad, not gonna lie, I thought man, am I not gonna get to know this kid? I even checked my bank account to see if they've even taken the money I agreed to pay per month and they had. But...keep in mind I'm pretty impatient a lot of times and it's not my best virtue.
I got a letter from Abenezer a few days ago after a long night at work which had been stressful and seeing that I had finally gotten a letter had brighten my morning so much more. The letter is pretty simple, favorite color-red (just like me!) favorite sport-football (or soccer as we call it hah) etc etc. And he asked me what is the local church i worship in and to pray for his success at school and for his family (and you're welcome to help me pray for him :)) and the amazing thing here is he wrote he wants to be a medical doctor. That's pretty awesome in my opinion. I just hope I can do whatever I can to help him reach that goal!
All in all I'm pretty stoked i finally heard from him and writing him back. I hope and pray that God uses me to keep supporting him and help him in his relationship with Christ as well as he helping me in my relationship with Christ. And hopefully one day I'll get to meet him.
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