1 Step Forward 3 Steps Behind

I have never slacked this much in my entire life. I can promote being productive all I want but if I'm not being productive my grades are reaping the consequences. This is awful. Finals are coming quicker than ever. I think I need to leave my gadgets alone for the week of finals so I could really concentrate. The college work load is extremely different from high school. I know I haven't done my best this semester, so I know for a fact next semester will be different.

Work

     I am ready for the upcoming Christmas break. Finals are starting next week and I am taking the proper precautions to asses that I do well. My easier classes will not be a problem, but my harder ones like, POLS Intro in to Gov. and Politics and Psychology will be hectic. I have to study my behind off to make a high B. I think I am ready to buckle down. Its funny how we talked about stress in Psychology and this is the most stressful time of the year. This is my very first semester in college and I have to adequately adjust myself for that.

Non-Traditional Thanksgiving

As long as I was on this Earth and beyond my family use to gather at my great grandparents house for Thanksgiving. As the years passed my great grandparents slowly faded. Today both are gone, though we celebrated years after both passed, this year was different. We stayed at our own house and celebrated Thanksgiving with our close friends and other family members. We had a wonderful time not expecting everyone to come. We had moments when we were just sitting at the house wondering who invited all of these people. Any other Thanksgiving my mom would be cooking all day and we wouldn't eat until Friday. The Thanksgiving she finishes early everyone comes over and eats everything, which was fine with us because our refrigerator wasn't over flowing with food. So we are good. A break in tradition went fine so, we had fun.

Paraphrasing

2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.
Organized crimes, bars, and jazz were the highlights of the twenties. The police seamed helpless when herds of protesters were utilizing their rights. Classical music soon evaporated as jazz slithered its toe tapping, slow gyrating, smooth mellow tune in every bodies hearts. The bars were up and running, though liquor was against the law. The flapper was unique during that times also, bob hair cuts and mini skirts were the fashion of that time.

Some People Should Never Cook..

     For years my grandmother cooked Thanksgiving dinner. She would start with the greens and end with her homemade dressing. She is a genius when it comes to preparing a meal she knows exactly how much to put in what. My grandmother, I do admit is not to good with macaroni, but she makes up for it everywhere else.
     One Thanksgiving my entire family met down my late great grandparents house. Everyone was instructed to bring a dish, big mistake. There is always one person who cant cook to save their lives, in my family its like 3. Number One is my mom, most definitely, the only thing she cooks well is fried chicken, fish, and polish sausage, and that's prepared on her George Farman Grill. Number Two is my dear aunt, she is a full-time school principal, and cant cook worth crap. Her food is sometimes over seasoned and sometimes under seasoned, and she uses vinegar to prepare her ribs. YUCK!! Her macaroni is OK, and her baked beans are decent. Number Three is my cousin she is like 24, and I have to give her credit she at least tries. Her scalloped potatoes are delicious, but her ham is dry.
    They all have their positives, but they all tried to do something new for Thanksgiving, wrong choice. We had my cousin baking an upside sown cake, dry, and not enough sugar, my mom preparing the greens, three words, NASTY AS CRAP, and my aunt ham, dry, dry, dry. Some people should just stick to their best recipe and don't use the entire family as test dummies until they become efficient with the recipe.

I am Thankful for the Many Blessing God has Given Me

     God has done nothing, but bless me in my short life. He has given me a wonderful family and wonderful friends. He has provided the advice needed to get through some days. God has done it all. Every praise I send up he response with the blessing being sent down. I don't know where I would be without the grace of God. I'm super grateful for having him in my life. He has took my family through a lot to get where we are today. We have our season to Spring-up past expectations and Fall-short of goals. God is the only person could really save me from this agony this world creates. The violence and the world ignorance alone could really wreck someones mind. This world is cruel and who better to save other than Jesus.Blessings will follow as long as you follow the grace of God because he want take you where the same grace cant rescuse you.

10 things I am thankful for:

1. God for sparing his life
2. Many Blessings God has given me and my family
3. Being able to see another Thanksgiving
4. Family
5. Family unity
6. Friends
7. My trials and tribulations
8. My family's economic status
9. My life in general
10. The news