This time of the year

I love this time of the year not the weather really just the time of the year. From Halloween on I feel like it is a time you are with your family the most. Halloween is trick-or-treating with your family and also happens to be my niece's birthday. Then in November we have my step-dad's birthday and my brother's birthday and step-sister's birthday (she lives in Alabama so we can't celebrate her birthday with her but we can say happy birthday to her) and of course we have Thanksgiving. This year we had Thanksgiving dinner on the 20th and had a big family get together with my aunts, uncle, cousins grandma and of course my parents and siblings and their family. On Thanksgiving my parents and I went up to Logan and had Thanksgiving dinner with my brother, his fiance and her family. My sister had Thanksgiving dinner with her family and in-laws. And next in line for this time of year is Christmas. For Christmas we get together on Christmas Eve and have Christmas then. We have everyone over and have Christmas dinner, eggnog and open presents. Then we will eat pie and sometimes play games. When we were little we would open one present on Christmas Eve which was our pajamas so we could sleep in them then we would go to bed and try to go to sleep but would have a hard time because we were trying to listen to see if we could hear the sound of hooves on the roof or sounds of Santa Clause and if we heard noises outside our bedroom door we would pretend to be asleep so Santa wouldn't know we were awake. We would eventually fall asleep because we would wake up the next day on Christmas and wake our parents and go open presents. Then after we opened our presents and ate breakfast we would fall asleep next to our pile of presents until relatives started coming over to see what we got for Christmas. Next is New Years Eve and New Years. When we were younger we would beg our parents to stay up until midnight on New Years Eve to make noise and celebrate the New Year. Now we go to the dollar theater and try to get in as many movies as possible and get pizza for lunch. My nephew's birthday is also in January so we celebrate his birthday then. Then my mom's birthday is in February so we celebrate that. This coming year my brother is getting married in March so we have that to look forward to. Which makes me happy but at the same time sad because we would hang out a lot and now that he has found someone to we don't spend as much time together. I am happy for him because he has found someone he really loves and who really loves him. I hope they are very happy together. Anyways I have gone on more than I meant to. So I will say good night and hope your holidays are happy and spent with the ones you love.

Hi. My name's Martha, What's yours?

I have a cute little lady where I work. Everyday and every single time she sees you she will make the same comment of "Hi. My name is Martha, what's yours?" even if just five minutes ago she asked you this she will ask you it again. Most people would find this annoying but everyone who works with her love it and love her for saying it because it is a part of who she is. If she did not make this comment to you every time she saw you, you would think something is wrong. She is one of the cutest ladies I get to see everyday and I love my job for being able work with people like her. Every time she sees me she has to tell me hi and wave. Every time I tell her my name she tells me what a beautiful name it is and I thank her and tell her that I was named after my grandmother and she says that's wonderful. One time when we went through this spill she told me she didn't like her name and I asked her why she thought that and she said it was because she thought it was plain and boring. I told her that I liked it because it was part of her personality. I am glad I get to be a part her daily life because she is a great person.

My Work

I work as a C.N.A at an assisted living facility. I love my job. Not many people can say that and have it be true but I can. I really enjoy what I do. I get to help people and hear events of their lives. I love every single one of them because they make working fun and interesting. I get to come home with a new story to tell everyday. Just tonight I was helping one of my little greek ladies and she was telling me how she has been told all her life to eat. Eat, eat, eat they tell me she said. I would eat but my mother would tell me to eat. She thought I didn't eat because I have always been so skinny. She took me to the doctor to have him tell me to eat and he told her to leave me alone that I ate plenty and am healthy. She did not believe him. She wanted me to marry a doctor so that he could make me eat. I told her that no one can force anyone to do things. She is a very cute little lady. Her and another one of my residents who is also greek get together and they just start gabbing away in greek. In fact the other greek lady I am pretty sure thinks I am greek. Every time I help her she will all of a sudden start talking to me in greek like I know exactly what she is saying. It is moments like that that make me love my job. Another resident who has passed away would come up with the funniest things to say. When I first started my job I was the morning shower aide and my first encounter with this lady was to assist her with her shower. I remember helping her wash up in the shower and all a sudden having her tell me "Don't forget to get underneath my flappers." I was perplexed and she went on to say "There no longer called boobs when you're an old lady like me. There called flappers." From that day on she became one of my favorite people. I could go on and on about all of my experiences but I think I will end it for now.

Age

Sometimes I forget that people don't realize how old I really am. Don't get me wrong I am reminded by someone almost every single day. I get the whole spill about "You are really 25? You don't look it. I thought you were (and then they say some age usually in the teens). Well you will appreciate it when you are older and look like you are in your twenties" It is flattering but hearing so often can get a little annoying. Don't get me wrong I do appreciate it but when you are in your twenties and dating it doesn't help much that guys think you are a teenager. So anyways, I was at Walmart today and bought Twilight: New Moon on DVD and the cashier asked if I had seen it. I said "Oh yeah I went with my sister, brother and a friend of ours to the midnight premiere. Won't do that again. We all decided that we are too old to go to midnight premieres." which at that point she gave me a look and a huh in response. It wasn't until I was walking to my car that I realized that she probably thought "why did that teenage girl think she was too old to go to a midnight premiere of a movie?" and had to kind of laugh to myself about it.Also realized I will probably never wait in line for a midnight release for a movie or a book ever again. Another experience I had at a Walmart on Friday after work. Went there to buy a duffel bag and something to spice up the chicken I was going to make for dinner the next night while staying at my sisters house. What a nightmare that was. Huge line that went from the jewelry counter and all the way back wrapping around to over by the baby supplies. Got it today no problem and no huge line to wait in just to get it.

DVD's

Don't you hate when you are trying to watch a movie and it keeps freezing on you at a certain point? That is what just happened to me. I was trying to watch the last episode on the first disc of my Bones Season 1 collection and it keeps freezing on me. Maybe my computer just doesn't like it or maybe the disc is screwed up? I don't know. I am going to try and watch it in the DVD player tomorrow. If it still doesn't work then I will be very upset because I let someone borrow it and I haven't been able to watch myself. So I know I didn't screw it up. I hope that isn't the case. I hope it is just my computer not liking it. Anyway, had to vent somehow without freaking the dogs out. So I decided to write about it.

My first post

This is my first posting. I have only done the blog thing one other time and it was for an English class assignment and all I did was post some writing assignments I did for the class and also some of my former papers, so I really don't have much experience in the way of blogging. So here I go, I am a 25 year old woman going to school to become a Child-life specialist. I have an associates of science degree and am now taking classes in the field of child-life specialty. My family consists of my mom (Colleen or Coco), my step-dad (Ted or Papa), my oldest sister (Crystal), her husband (Brandon), my niece and nephew (Brandon and Crystal's kids)(Zac and Chelsea), my baby brother (even though most people think he is older than me) (Rodger or James or Jaja, I will most likely call him Jaja), my oldest step-sister (Randi), her husband (Joe), and my niece and nephew (Joe and Randi's kids)(Lydia and Aedyn), and my youngest step-sister (Melody or as I like to call her DeeDee) and my nephew (DeeDee's son)(Gabriel) and not to forget my cat (Patches) and Brandon and Crystal's dogs Bridget and Zelda(also known as Deedaw). The last two nights I have been staying at my sister's house babysitting her two dogs while she is in Vegas for her 5 year anniversary. Congrats to you by the way. I don't know if I say it enough but I am glad you are my sister and appreciate everything you have done for me in the past. I love you. I am very grateful for my entire family if I didn't have you guys I don't know what I would do. I was reading my mom's blog and reading an old post that I hadn't read and it had me crying so hard Bridget and Zelda (the girls) were frantic. She had written that it has been ten years since the passing of my dad and her memory of that night. Just typing that has me near tears again. I really do miss him and I know he is here with me in spirit. I know it sounds strange but every once in a while I can smell his aftershave when no one else is around. Anyways, it is probably time for me to get some sleep so I will end this post.