I am the oldest of three children and because of that I get into more arguments with m siblings than anyone I know. My sister is the kind that was always pretty and popular and had whatever she wanted and needed handed to her. My brother is head strong, and opinionated, and above all gay. There are issues between all of us. I became pregnant with my daughter when my sister was eighteen and in high school. By the time my daughter was born my sister was pregnant with my niece. The reason was because the attention was no longer on her. What a reason to get pregnant right? We all had the feeling that this was the reason why. Then she became a step mom to her boyfriend, now husband’s previous child. I’m not saying she is a bad mom but she does pawn her child off on other people in order to continue the teenage newly married lifestyle. I keep my niece once a month because that is the only way I can see her unless I want to travel to the town she lives in. My husband thinks she takes advantage of me but I really love my niece. My brother to me doesn’t have many flaws except he doesn’t help much around the house. It’s to be expected however with a young man living his dream. He will soon be headed back to New York where he feels at his best, because that is what he calls home.

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I had heard on three different occasions that everything was ok, they understood were I was coming from but they hadn’t received anything back that showed they were fake. I had taken a sigh of relief and wasn’t worrying about it until I received the phone call a week later from my bank that they had indeed received a confirmation that the money orders were fake and I was being called into the vice president’s office for confrontation. When I showed up prepared to take control of the situation and handle my responsibilities there sat the local police department. As a person that had never been in trouble I worried about what was going to happen to me. The police officer asked me why I had done something like this when I had never even committed so much as a traffic violation. Trying to explain myself became worse and I continued to cry uncontrollably. They released me because they had no grounds to keep me and three days later the district attorney called me in to talk to me as well. It was at that moment he told me that if convicted and I would be because it was my signature and me at the drive through window that I was looking at a good twenty four years in the state penitentiary. It was at that point I began to pray to god that everything would be ok, that he would just give me a sign that I was not going to jail for good. When I walked out of the DA’s office I ran into the attorney that not only was a DA herself but also helped my husband in a DWI case not long before. She was the answer to my prayers and every day I think god she was walking down the hall. The rest of the proceedings are confidential but not far from a psychiatric evaluation. If I can save anyone’s life with something like this and from someone trying to get money back overseas for the benefit of buying artillery to take out American troops then this is why I send this out. Please be safe this holiday and any other time with predators.

During this time of year or any time of year for that matter more and more people are trying to scam people. There are many people out there that are going through this right now. The one thing that I want to stress to everyone is not to get caught up in something like this. From firsthand experience and not one I talk about often I have been there. I was low on cash and found a job on the internet it sounded great and I was naive at the time. I kept thinking to myself this is awesome I have actually found a stay at home job where I could stay at home and take care of my husband and the house and just be a classic house wife. I gave the company my name and address along with my telephone number. I had corresponded with the gentleman a couple of times after I had heard on the news that people were being targeted with fake checks. I asked the man several times is this a scam and he had continued to tell me no. Pretty soon FedEx arrived and had delivered four United States Postal Service’s money orders. I cashed two money orders at the local bank where I had banked. I took the money orders in they ran them through black light and had passed them handing me the cash and depositing the rest into my bank account. I continued on with everything not worrying about it and I had then seen the devastating news on the TV. Multiple chains of people were targeting people just like me to cash money orders and send them part of the money keeping the rest for them. I began to panic and started calling my bank.

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Michaele and Tareq Salahi were unknown to the general public until three days ago, and now are not only common names among us but names that the president and secret service are very, very interested in. Last week, they both some how go past all the security President Obama could have and got into a special dinner, where they met tons of random “celebrities”, including Ann Curry, Vice President Joe Biden, the White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and even the CEO of PepsiCo. Now, I wish I had come up with this. They just dressed up and acted like they were supposed to be there, and the security was none the wiser. Now, they are on the news everywhere, and some are even saying that they may be “charged”, but I don’t know what for. They did nothing wrong but try to get into a party and no one stopped them. I wish I had done that just once and it worked, and now I know there’s no way it will ever happen again. These people were just trying to get famous the old fashioned way, by being on a Real Housewives series, and look at them now. All over the news for getting past the tight security we have for the President Of America. I bet it’s gonna be a lot harder to snap and random pics with the president from here on.

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This summer, my boyfriend went on vacation with his family. While he was there, he vaguely remembered getting into his moms car and shutting the door, and something hurting his finger. Two weeks passed and we were sitting in Lubbock and he was complaining that it still hurt. Every day he said that he would pop small blister like skin covering where it hurt, and then squeeze what ever was in it out and then put alcohol on it. This went on for a few weeks. Any time he had to use it he would say it just felt funny, and the blister wouldn’t go away. We went bowling one night and he said it was really bothering him that time, but every time I looked at it and felt it I couldn’t feel anything. He just kept popping it, cleaning it, and waiting for it to go away. One day we were in the car, driving to meet up at my brother’s apartment in Amarillo. He said it was bothering him, so I got out my tweezers and just started picking at it. I just kept trying to open up the hole and see if I could find anything inside that would make it stay like that. I stopped, but when we got to my brother’s apartment I went ahead and started again. He was watching TV, and I was just picking at it trying to get the hole opened up. As I was picking, I felt something and started to pull it out. It was skin colored and a lot bigger than I expected, so I told him to keep looking at the TV. I thought I had accidently grabbed some kind of vein and did something wrong, but just pulled and finally got to the end. And what was it? It ended in a point, and I realized it was almost half a toothpick. That had been stuck in his finger. For WEEKS. It was so gross, but I can only imagine how good it felt to have something like that out of your body after it had been in there for so long!

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This weekend, Texas Tech and Baylor played at the Cowboys stadium. I had seen the stadium before because my sister lives only a few miles from it, but only from the outside. I really didn’t think I was going to get the opportunity to go inside, especially the first year it was opened, but when I heard about the game I just had to find a way in. From the outside, I had always thought that the stadium looked like a big boat. Once you get up closer to it, it looks a lot bigger than what you would expect. We just had to buy party passes to get into the stadium, and we were free to wander around and look at it. It was HUGE. The jumbotron on the ceiling was so big I couldn’t even understand it. They had four hanging up in the middle, and the ones that were facing the end zone were bigger than any I had ever seen, but the ones that were facing out the other way were just unimaginable. Everything just smelled and felt so new, and everything was just SO BIG. We wandered around and took tons of pictures, there were areas that were weren’t aloud to go into but we got the main idea of how the stadium was. Since they didn’t serve alcohol at our game, we found a bar inside and went in. Everything just seemed really high class and was pretty, and every where you went there were TVs so you could see what was going on when you were away from the field. I really hope I get the chance to go to a Cowboy’s game soon and get to explore more!

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I have always loved to work out, and just recently started hitting the gym again with my new membership. I love to just go into the gym, have my head phones on, and get to work. I have to feel a good sweat while I’m there, and when I leave I want to feel more energized than when I got there. This is a tactical feat when you go with friends, in my opinion. I’ve always loved working out alone, but some times friends want to go with or want me to go with them. I’ve done it, several times, and most of the time I leave with out even sweating. When ever I get anywhere with my friends, we love to talk. And so, we get on that rampage, and we can’t do anything that will take our breaths away because we need them to talk to each other. We’ll just end up sitting on the mats and stretching and catching up on the latest gossip we have, and then before we know it, we’ve been there for an hour and have done nothing but stretch. Some of my friends I can work out with, as long as they have on their head phones too we can work together and get things done, but most of the time we get side tracked. I’d never be able to work out with a guy because they do things so different, so I think I better stick to going to the gym alone if I want to get anything done!

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When I lived in the dorms, I was close with all the girls on my floor. We would always get together and do fun things, and one of our traditions was to go to Rosa’s Café on Tuesday and enjoy Taco Tuesday as a group. That, in 2005, meant you could get three tacos of your choice, either chicken or beef, soft or crispy, tortillas, and beans and rice as a meal for only $3.33. Get a glass of water instead of a coke and you got a meal for under four bucks that is more than enough for one person. This is one of those luxuries that I haven’t done in so long, mostly because I don’t have the big group of girls to go with that make it so fun and remind me that it’s Tuesday, also because I have a kitchen now and cook a lot, and a little portion because I found out how many calories one of those meals has in it and it’s hard for me to not think about it while I’m trying to enjoy my meal. Very delicious, but eating that plate of food is more calories that I would eat the rest of the day put together. I’m not going to tell you, because I don’t want to ruin you love for the tacos if you go to Taco Tuesday, but feel free to google it and find out for yourself if you feel tortured. Enjoy!

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In my twenty five years of life I don’t think that I have ever had to stress as much as I have the last 7 years. When you’re a child your parents are there for you giving you what you need through life and trying to raise you right. I was never in trouble as a kid and most of the time I was always on my toes with my chores and other things. I did find out soon enough after I met my husband that he was the man I wanted to spend my life with. I was young but not stupid. My life had lead in a direction that required me to skip my child hood and take on adult responsibilities. I don’t regret that my mom needed me after my dad died. My husband soon proposed and we were married, it was at that point that I realized I had grown up and my own adult responsibilities had started. Through the years I have been through marital issues with my husband ranging from not talking to getting a divorce and it is all over money. When you grow up the more responsibilities you take on the more money it requires. Four years after our marriage my daughter was conceived and my mind was spinning not only was I trying to feed and clothe myself and husband but now I had a beautiful baby on the way that needed just as much if not more and I was scared out of my mind. In the end however I had a great job and was able to take care of everything we needed. Things have been great since then.

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This week for the Last Man Standing, there are 8 of us left. Of those 8, I know 6 of them are my family, so our odds are looking pretty good. This week my best pick was the Cincinnati Bengals, along with 7 other people that are still in. The other person picked Dallas, and since they played on Thursday we all knew that he was definitely safe. Then, it showed that we had all chosen to go with Cincinnati so it was either going to be we were all still in the game, or the guy who picked Dallas would be the only one left if they lost. The game wasn’t too shocking, they were given a huge spread over Cleveland and won the game with out stressing me out too much. Dallas played Oakland, which wouldn’t have been an awful choice for me but I had already used Dallas last week. So, this week, we’re back at square one. All eight of us are still in it and we have to make another go at it. I hope that a few get out this week, hopefully not me. Then, I hope we get to go for one more week and it’s over. It has gone on for so long, and I’m glad I’m still in it, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to choose because I’m running out of good teams, and eventually we’re going to have to all pick a team that we don’t feel comfortable with. I hope next week it gets closer to the end and we don’t all pick the same team again!

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