LAST BLOG EVER

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CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS IS OUR LAST BLOG EVER? Ok maybe NOT EVER BECAUSE HECK SOME PEOPLE LOVE THIS THING, I THINK I AM GOING TO JUST WRITE ONE EVERY DAY OUT OF HABIT. Ya I KNOW I WAS JUST KIDDING. AND I AM GOING TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE THIS IS SO EXCITING! I AM WATCHING O.C. RIGHT NOW AND ITS MY FAVORITE SHOW, WELL ALMOST MY FAVORITE BECAUSE MY REAL FAVORITE IS ACTUALLY ONE TREE HILL BUT O.C. IS ON RIGHT NOW SO I AM WATCHING THAT. OH AND I STARTED PACKING UP MY DORM ROOM TODAY BECAUSE I LIVE ON THE 9TH FLOOR OF RICHARDSON TOWERS SO MOVING OUT DAY IS GOING TO BE INSANE SO I THOUGHT THAT IF I START EARLY THEN IT WILL NOT BE AS BAD AS TRYING TO GET EVERYTHING OUT ALL IN ONE CRAZY DAY! I KNOW I AM JUST SO ENTELLIGENT NOW THAT I AM A SOPHMORE IN COLLEGE, WELL ALMOST! HAHAHA I CAN NOT WAIT UNTIL SUMMER. OTHER THAN SUMMER SCHOOL AND MY BOYFRIEND BEING OUT OF TOWN THE WHOLE ENTIRE SUMMER, IT IS GOING TO BE GREAT!!!! OH KAY GUYS, BYE BYE. SO LONG AND TOODALOO!

Running!

Okay so I went running this morning and it was the best thing ever! I love working out but for some reason the hardest thing about working out is getting started. So once I get started then it is all uphill from there because not only does it feel good when your working out but also, your burning calories so you know your getting in better shape and losing weight but the best thing is, you release endorphins. And once the endorphins are released then you feel better and then your whole day is better because you worked out and now you know your body feels and looks better! YAY I just love working out! I kind of wish I could be a personal trainer because then I could work out everyday and that would be my job so I would be paying to work out, my most favorite thing ever! And also I would be helping out others get in shape and then they would feel better and then they would be happy with their family so then all their family would be more happy and that would just spread around the whole world!

Running!

Okay so I went running this morning and it was the best thing ever! I love working out but for some reason the hardest thing about working out is getting started. So once I get started then it is all uphill from there because not only does it feel good when your working out but also, your burning calories so you know your getting in better shape and losing weight but the best thing is, you release endorphins. And once the endorphins are released then you feel better and then your whole day is better because you worked out and now you know your body feels and looks better! YAY I just love working out! I kind of wish I could be a personal trainer because then I could work out everyday and that would be my job so I would be paying to work out, my most favorite thing ever! And also I would be helping out others get in shape and then they would feel better and then they would be happy with their family so then all their family would be more happy and that would just spread around the whole world!

God

Does anybody ever really know what is going to happen to them? It is scary to think about death. I mean I do not really think about it a lot but when I do it always seems to give me the chills. I believe in eternal life but it’s just that we have to have so much faith to believe in it! And I do! It is just hard at times since we have never TALKED to anyone that has been up to heaven. I wonder what it is like. And the thing that really scares me is whether or not I am going to know who my husband is and my family and kids. I always thought so but then in the bible it says everyone is equal in heaven. So if that is the case there would be no difference between any other man and my husband? I do want to know remember who my loved ones were. But it is heaven so obviously everything is perfect. The only thing we should really be worried about is making it to heaven! It is so insane to see how many people do not have faith in God even after he sent his son to Earth. I really look up to all the people who believed in him before Jesus even came to Earth. What strong faith they had!

summer school

OH I really do not know if I can handle these last few weeks of school left. I thought it was going to be easy. Everything was just supposed to be winding down but it is definitely not! Everything is just piling up and adding more and more stuff to be done before school is out. I am actually dreading getting done with school this time! ONLY because all of my projects and papers are due before I can be done with this place! And to make matters worse. I registered for summer school! L whyyyyy I know! Hahhaha and on top of that I thought the class I signed up for was 7-9 at NIGHT! And I was thinking hey that’s not that bad I can still go out afterwards.. Nope turns out.. It’s 7 in the morning! So I will have to go there straight to work! Haha EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK! I have never had to take summer school before so I do not know what to take. I just hate having to pay for it and having to wake up and ATTEND SCHOOL IN THE SUMMER! Sometimes I just wish I was back in high school!

no more rain!

GUESS WHAT!?? This is our last week to do blogs! AHH haha what are we going to do everyday with all that extra time. I am going to feel as if I need to write on everyone’s face book now! Thanks Wendy! Now I am going to become one of those annoying people who spend all their time on face book! Haha Man I really can not believe this semester flew by that fast let alone this whole school year! Everyone always says that college flies by but I could never imagine it could go by as fast as it did this past year. We only have one week left of school! I just wish I did not have to go to summer school. Luckily I am only taking one class but that means that it is two days a week for FOUR hours each day! I can not even handle sitting in a seat for an hour and twenty five minutes. There is NO WAY ON EARTH I can handle a four hour class, especially since it is history. The most boring subject to me. I am definitely not looking forward to that part of summer but everything else about summer, YES!

ANOTHER rainy day!

Another rainy day! Gah I always heard the phrase , April Showers bring May flowers but man! It has been rain constantly! Except yesterday was so pretty and then today we have this. But I am not going to get down about the day because I just woke up and I do not want to already get myself in a bad mood! Some days I love rainy days. Maybe today will be one of those days J !! I can not believe we only have 2 weeks left of school! Freshman year flew by! Everyone always said it, but I sure never actually believed it could go by that fast. I thought high school went by fast but I think college is beating it. I am ready for school to be out but at the same time I know that it is the deadline for a lot of assignments that I have yet to complete. As soon as I finally finish those then I will be ready to go home! But then that means moving out of this dorm…. Ew! Hahaha just the fact of thinking about moving all of this stuff in this room down nine flights does not make me happy! All I can say is, it better not be raining that day! haha

Friday Speaker continued

The most interesting fact that he made was that FREE insurance is available for children ages 0-21 if family’s income is less than $21,000, which is not that low. The insurance is called Coverkids and is trying to make its way across Memphis. Coverkids covers up to 200% of poverty level ($53,000.) It is said to be a safety net those who are not covered by TennCare. The capacity of Coverkids is 75,000 children! That is an unbelievable amount! So why are all the children in Memphis not benefiting from this? The answer is, they just do not know about it! I really believe this would help out immensely in Memphis because then parents would not be afraid to take their children to the doctor because of extremely high hospital bills. Now knowing they will be covered, they will not wait until their child is deathly ill. Hopefully more and more families will spread the word and join. Right now only 16,000 children are enrolled under this insurance. I could not understand why there are not a ton more! Then he stated the fact that Coverkids was just established in may 2007. If they can keep the enrollment increasing as it has been then the future of Memphis may be off to a great start!

Friday Speaker 1

Urban Child Institue!
As I listened to the speaker last Friday I was intrigued by MANY awakening facts that I had no idea occurred and still are to this day! Well Friday I could not decide whether I was going to attend the speaker because it was FLOODING rain and freezing and I was on the total opposite side of campus but finally I decided I would go and I am glad I did because there was just two of us in there! I could not remember his name and I felt bad to ask him after he started but he works for the Urban Child Institute. They focus on children ages 0-3 because they feel that if brain growth is slowed during those ages, the “tool box” of life will be messed up so he says. A child’s brain is 80% hardwired by age 3! In Memphis alone, we could fill up the Liberty Bowl 3 times with children of ages 3 and under! He and his company want to help children get started on the right foot that way they are not hurt for life. He stated that the 4 main influences on children are: age of mom of first birth, mom’s education (not father, oddly enough), income of family, and family structure. He also stated the fact that breast feeding is very important! It helps increase babies immunity. Oddly enough though, the largest supplier of formula is food stamps….? You think they would just convince families to breast feed and that would be less money spent by government.

depression of the ggame

So last night I was so excited so I watch the game, I had waited all day. The moment of truth arrived it was tip off time. Memphis was behind almost the whole game , but we are Memphis and we could come back so I was not really nervous. Finally we were up by 7 with 2 minutes left in the second half, everyone on campus was running around , on the streets , through the halls and on the side walks chanting we won. But in actuality we didn’t win we had lost. We had worked so hard all year and we lost. No one knew what to say or how to act at this point. But after the press conference on T.V and watching how our players reacted to the loss, which surprisingly was not bad at all. We knew and they knew that they had a awesome year and were proud to have gotten as far as they did. Today at school was depressing even though the weather was awesome. Students walked around with there heads low, you would have thought they played in the game and lost it for us. But this basketball season brought our school together and we all had new found pride in our school and it was over. I just hope that next year we are this good and our school will once again come together and support our school and make people remember who we are and we mean business!!!!!!!

Boysssss......

I hate boys I really do! Uhhhh they make me so mad! Okay not all of them. Actually it is just one and I hate it because I really do love him but he just makes me so mad sometimes. I do not understand how you can love someone so much that they can actually hurt you and not even realize it! I am just tired of putting up with it! It is not like it is a big deal it is just annoying things that do not matter to him that shows me that he does not care! And I know he does care deep down inside it is just whenever he is around everyone else and caught up the in the moment he just makes me disappear and I know he may not be trying to do that but that is what he is doing! And I HATE IT! I really doooo. And everyone always says that you can not hate something unless you care enough about them to hate them and that is true I care so much that I just hate this stupid controversy! I just do not understand how boys can be so mean! And I know I will be over it tomorrow I just had to vent tonight! Haha

Race

Today in class was the best class so far. I know I have said that before but now today just beat all the others! Haha it was fun because it was interesting. Really interesting. It was something that we all enjoyed talking about. Maybe not enjoyed as such, but rather something that we all had an input in. And whether or not we actually stated our input is a different story. I think the reason we all did not blatantly come out and say our feelings is all because we are scared of what is going to happen. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. He came out and talked about civil Rights and look what happened to him. I know today is different and I really doubt someone shooting their fellow student for just stating how they feel. Lets just hope not. The way I see it, I do not feel any differently or think differently of white and blacks or Asians or Hispanics, but rather the way people act. I can not stand thugs. Maybe because the way I raised but that is not being racist. I am not stating whether whoever the thug is is black or white but I just can not stand the way thugs act or dress or talk. I don’t think today people are so called “racist” but rather just associate certain things to the majority. We do that to so many different things in life. If most of the baseball players are cocky, your going to associate them to being cocky. That is just how people associate certain people to certain groups.

from good to bad

So I finally got TCBY last night and it was awesome! I love it. The bad thing is, is that I actually had to pay for it, and full price for it too! Normally I always go with my boyfriend and so he will buy it for me and we also normally have a buy one get one free so it’s a lot cheaper. Well last night I went with my friend so I had to buy my own and we did not have a buy one get one free haha so it stunk! But the ice cream was still amazing!!!
I am really upset now though because me and my friends were supposed to go to Ole Miss today to watch the Memphis baseball team play ole miss and we have had this planned for over a month and all of a sudden about ten minutes before we are about to leave to head on down to Oxford, Elizabeth, going to be our driver, gets a call from her aunt saying that she has to come into work today because the person who took her shift quit today. Her aunt said if she does not come in to work they will fire her. I am so mad!

Class Argument

Argument
Tupac is a hero. He is a legendary rapper. Anyone and everyone knows that the man behind rap music is Tupac. Everyone adores him. Isn’t that one of the main qualities of being a hero anyways; just the fact that everyone loves you? That is how it is now a days. Brittney Spears used to be every girls idol, now no one likes her so she just went down the drain. Tupac is known for being the best rapper to ever live and will live. Supposedly he still lives. I say he is a rapper’s Elvis. He may not even have great qualities but do all hero’s deep down inside?
Today in class was probably my favorite English classes yet! Whether it was Morgan hiding under the desk to scare Wendy for happy April fools or the fact that we were arguing over Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith! Haha I hope we have another great day Thursday! I hope everyone had a hilarious April fools day because I know I did. I played a joke on my boyfriend and he has still yet to find out it and it’s actually now 12:21 on April 2nd. So I wonder if it still counts!? haha

birthday

Okay so it is my birthday week and I am so excited because I love birthdays I just LOVE them! It is not that I like getting presents, well I do not mind receiving presents but that is not what makes me birthday special. I just love getting together with my family and having cake and ice cream and being able to have excuses for everything! I can not wait until Friday when I can just ask my mom to take me to TCBY and if she says noo Courtney I really do not want to go I can say buttt mommm its my birthday! Hahah I love TCBY almost as much as my birthday, and that is a lot! AHH I just can not wait until Friday! The bad thing is I kind of hate looking forward to things, well I like looking forward to something because I know it is something good but then once it is over, it is totally gone and then I am sad! I feel as if I like wished for it to be here so quickly and then all of a sudden it is gone, and I missed out on all the days that came before that big day!