Spending the day with my mama. :) She's getting highlights and then we're going shopping.

I have to go to stinkin class instead of getting to see her 4 yr olds graduate preschool. :..(

My Birthday weekend in pictures

Getting my Tattoo-Daddy's present to me

The Chesterfield Berry Farm

Cary Town-World of Mirth

Dinner at Carrabas

I had a blast this weekend. :)

sitting in True tattoo waiting to get my tattoo. Excited and nervous. :)

Countdown to my Birthday

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Age is weird

I find it so mind boggling that I'm turning 21 in a few days...I honestly keep forgetting...my best friend and parents had to keep reminding me that it's been coming up...I just don't feel 21.

Part of me feels 6 years old, just living life and having a fun time doing it with as little care as possible. Part of me feels 17, trying to figure out who I am and what I want out of life. But most of me feels about 30, mature with many lessons learned years earlier than normal...I feel like I have found my niche and I am happy and content, while still very much looking toward the future.
But I don't feel 21, I don't think that I will ever be that "age". By that I mean I don't think I'll ever go through that stage in life where I'm just having fun, exploring different things, going out to parties, dating around, carefree but independent. I skipped that stage, and I don't think you can go back to it. I don't think I want to ever go through it. It doesn't interest me.
I was talking to my mom about this recently, about how I seem to have learned too many life lessons for my age, and for whatever reason I have people in my life that are obviously put into my life so that I can help teach and guide them through those really hard lessons...these people are older than me by about 3 years. Sometimes this bothers me, sometimes it makes me happy that I learned those things when I did. But mostly, its just weird.

I have lived on this earth for 21 years, but my soul bounces between 30, 6, and 17. I don't know that I will ever feel my own age, I might have in the past, but I don't remember ever truly feeling my own age.

I'm rambling. This I guess has just been on my mind a lot lately.

Kids say the darndest things...

Sometimes I wish I had a tape recorder on me when I'm in class with the kids.

Best quote of today...
"Miss Megan, I'll ask my mom if we can have a sleep over. So you need to tell me where you live. What road do you live on?" :)

These kids make me happy.

Back to Blogger

So, it's been over a year since I've last posted on here. My McAfee wouldn't let me log on to any google sponsored sites, which includes Blogger, so I had to log on on another computer, which really inhibited me from posting. Well, about 2 weeks ago, my computer crashed and I got a new virus protection, so tada, I can log on here.

Well a WHOLE heck of a lot has happened in the last year. When I last posted I was talking about my doubts about graphic design. Well, I sort of had an epiphany. I was presented with the question "what would your dream job be?" I didn't even think to answer I just spit out what my gut said I said "either a stay at home mom or a nanny or something with kids." I stopped and thought about it and went "well crap" because I was only 2 months from graduating and I had about 2 weeks to get my application in to VCU for transfer into the art department. So I did what my mother suggested and did my "due diligence". I researched and researched and soul searched and prayed. I decided to go into early childhood development. (I am not giving up graphic design completely, I still do freelance and I enjoy it, but I don't think I will ever do it full-time) So in the fall, I hadn't decided whether I was going to do Early Elementary Education or Early Childhood Development, but I thought that Longwood was a good place to go since its a great Education school. So in order to get into longwood I needed a couple math classes, so I stayed at John Tyler for the fall taking 3 classes that would transfer into the program I was going for at Longwood. Well, about half way through September I decided that I wanted to do Preschool age and under (Early Childhood Development, not Early Elementary Education)and after deciding that I went to look up the program at Longwood and discovered that they did not have a degree for it, only a minor. After doing more research, I realized that John Tyler actually has a great associates degree program and career certificate. So I decided to stay at John Tyler for two more years and get my Child Care Certificate and Early Childhood Development Associates Degree. Well I was still in the middle of a semester, taking 3 classes that I no longer needed AT ALL. And the only reason I couldn't drop them to save my grades was to stay on my insurance. So my grades last semester were...for lack of better word...horrible. (I do horrible with school work if I have no interest or motivation, and I really didn't like, or need any of my classes=no interest and no motivation...plus I got REALLY sick right after midterms for about 2 weeks and missed a lot of class)

So I switched my program and started in the child care department this spring. I've been loving it. And I've had good grades so hopefully my GPA will recover from last semester. I had to do 72hrs of volunteer work for my practicum and the place where I was volunteering offered me a job, so I've been working there for about 3 weeks now. I love it. :) I'm very happy I made the decisions that I did, they were the right choices.
So yeah, that's been my school/career life for the past year. Hopefully I'll be on here more now that I can. :)