in a nut shell

Sooo

this lame-O pic of pics will help sum up my life as of late.

First of all ANIMALS !!! I have 23 Chickens, 1 black Indian runner duck, and 2 mice.

I bought the mice from work (Petsmart). Their names are Poe and Pancake! My best friend Carmen found some baby geese and took one of them... I felt left out and hers needed a friend, so I bought one. She's the yellow looking one in the pics. Her name was MayFly and I grew very attached to her, and spent as much time as I could with her. Unfortunately, she was attacked by a dog as well as Carmen's goose, Gambit. I was very upset, but I suppose ... its fine now. AS for dogs, Diesel got fixed. Pepper is set to have her last litter of puppies soon, and puppy may have been accidentally bred. A few of the dogs got shaved down for the summer. Carmen's chicken count is around two hundred now, and steadily growing. A week or two ago Carmen and I were moving some chicken huts around and while we were moving some of the pallets we ran into two nests of baby rats! Uh ... well actually Carmen walked through them I could hear them squeaking. The next thing I knew we were running around FREAKED OUT. All the chickens in that pen were grabbing the rats and fighting over them... ripping them apart. Carmen and I while screaming and hopping onto a chicken hut, narrowly missed getting dead rats bits on us. We were able to save two baby rats to look at for fun :) . So basically My life at work and at home revolves around animals but I love it!!!

As for getting out and being social... I don't have too much time that. When you live with you best friend it's difficult to want to get out to make the effort. I do go and visit with my mom and make calls to the rest of the family to make sure they are well and happy! I recently got to see Julie and her baby James, who is SO cute! Julie's got another one on the way, how exciting!!! Other than that... I run into people or people come over here for a little bit. I've been making time to see every one during the small holes in my schedule when I'm not doing something else.

Let's see... what else??!? I've realized I can't draw... and my camera seems to have a weird smuge on it that shows up in random images. I do have a few little things going still. I learned to double crotchet!!!

As for school... well there's no school!!! UNfortunately that will have to end eventually and I may be starting classes in Jan 2010 or... in the summer of next year. I want to be an art teacher ...and so I wanted to major in art education... but I'd really like to major in fine arts because it would cover more of what I like. I'm not sure how successful I'd be as a teacher, annnd I think I could just major in fine arts and teach it... maybe I'm wrong. As for minoring it'd be more practical to go for ceramics (which I Love) but I would be very interested in animal science. Who knows ?!?? I don't! All I know is that being how should, and working towards what I want is difficult, and I am just seeing where everything goes.

Oh annd I just remembered I teach a Sunday school class with Carmen. It's CTR 7. I felt impressed before I even came back home that I would get a calling in primary.. and well it was right. If you know me at all you know I feel uncomfortable with little kids for the most part, minus a few amazing exceptions. The idea of children of my own freaks me out and I'd never wish a child to endure what a crazy mommy I'd be. The kids I teach are from the little town of Blue Ridge. They are so sweet and helpful, well ya know just so great! Their attention spans can be a little small sometimes, but I think they try a little bit harder because they like us. There are two students of mine that stand out a lot, Jaden and Susie. They always love to tell me how their week was, and have funny little stories and jokes to tell me. It's great to have my class, and it helps remind me that not all kids are crazies!

Well there ya have it.