This is the personal diary of deartra d. Boone, where she posts her current thoughts, feelings, interests, and other things as needed. Everything that is written here, is In HER Own Voice!
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3.30.2007
All By Myself
Can I just be honest?

Well, I am about ready to cry. Seriously. I am.
Most of it is because I am being female, but hey, we ladies do that from time to time. Some of it is because I have been abandoned alone in the wilderness with 14 three and four year old children who must have been fed pure came sugar for breakfast.

Here's the whole story.

I am a Pre-K teacher (ages 3 & 4). There are four teachers in my class. In my class, we provide day care for the employees of our school district at my school, so we have the students all day. (Oh Lord. Yea, we have TEACHER'S KIDS.)

Side note: I can't talk because my mother is a teacher and my father was a college professor. Get this... my father was also a pastor. Yep.

The schedule is kind of crazy.
During the morning, all four teachers are in the room. For one hour, there are two teachers in the room. (The main two teachers go to lunch. I and another teacher stay with the students. We read to them and they have recess.) The other teacher and I go to lunch, while the main two teachers take the students to lunch. After lunch, the students nap. I and one of the main teachers get them to sleep, while the other two teachers work with the PPCD students. After all of the students are sleep, the main teacher goes back to the other room. I am in the napping room by myself (with sleeping students) for hour or so. After they wake up, they go to our room, have a snack, and then go play. The other three teachers leave and I am left with them until their parents come to get them. They play outside or in the gym. It's an hour or so or until 5:00 PM (that's usually the case).

Here's what's upsetting me so. For the past three days, the teacher that works with me has been absent and working with Pre-registration for the school, so I have been by myself for that hour. It has been horrendous. I have been stuck with 14 3 & 4 year olds with Spring Fever.

Let's put it like: the boys have been boxing and wrestling each other, the girls insist on screaming at the top of their lungs (high pitched screams), the girls are trying to kiss the boys, the girls are singing the cutest boy in class name, the boy chase the girls and try to hit them, the girls run, fall down, come to me crying, as they say the boys are bothering them, and the whole process happens over and over again.

Today, several of the girls were performing CPR on one of the boys. (Oh my goodness.) The little boy was pretending to pass out. The girls were being the doctor. It was kind of cute to watch because the girls were doing the whole CPR procedure, checking to see if he could hear, checking for a pulse, and then performing CPR. (Yes, lips touched lips.)

I don't want to say anything, but I am very upset because I was supposed to have some help during these two days, according to the vice-principal, but I haven't. In my mind, I am thinking, "This is so unfair. They have left me in here with these rowdy behind kids and no one seems to care." Again, more than likely, I am being over emotional, but that's how I feel.

I am very tired. I am frustrated. I am stressed. My head is hurting. My ears are ringing. It's allergy season. My eyes are itching. My ears are itching. My throat is itching. I wanna cry. I am being female. I want my mommy. I wanna go home. I need a "Mommy Hug".

I need some friends badly right about now. Can a sista get a hug, please?

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Weekly Goals 4/1-4/7
Here are my goals for next week
1. Add Another Convert to the Gossip Blog.
2. Give notice
3. Check out In Her Shadow
4. Wash
5. Change all image folders

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3.29.2007
All Day Long
This entry is just one continuous entry.

BMW
I saw a young lady with a t-shirt on. It had "I want a BMW". Underneath that phrase it said, "Black Man Worshipping". I thought that was so cute.

I thank God that I have a BMW. My husband is in church. He is excited about God. He reads his Bible. He prays. He does all of that more than I do and I am a minister. (I need to get on the ball.) I am very thankful for my BMW.

Hood Boy
I saw the video for Fantasia's song "Hood Boy". That is a crazy song and a crazy video. (She is gonna shake a hip loose.)

I have a hood boy, although he doesn't act like it. My hubby is a hood boy. He walks around in his wife beaters (although he hates it when you call A-shirts by that name) and his jeans.

My hubby takes good care of me, too. He's my baby.

By Myself
I am by myself with the students today. Ugh!

Bracelet
I broke my teacher bracelet. I called myself trying to fix it and I glue the magnet in backwards. Now it wont' closed. AWE!

400+ Friends
I have over 400 friends on ShoutLife. I am so excited. It's crazy, because there are people who have over 1,000 friends.

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3.28.2007
33 More Words
I need thirty-three more words to make 1,000 for today.

How about a few quotes?

"I like buttered grass." – Ethel Mertz (I Love Lucy)

"Every now and then an average mind has a great thought." – deartra d. Boone

"It's hard to be big, when little got you." – Men of Standard

Well, met my goal. Yea!

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Allergies: Oh the Eyes
Today was crazy. My eyes itched a lot. I tried not to rub them. I kept using my eye drops and water. That didn't help much. Ugh!

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ShoutLife
I was on ShoutLife too much again today. Ok, I am going t have to monitor my usage. (BIG SMILE!)

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Pink-tastic Report
There were seven girls wearing pink. I think that the allergy medicine is affecting me. I am not drawn by the pinkness that the girls are wearing these days. It doesn't faze me anymore. Yea!

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3.27.2007
Daily Goal
I have reached my monthly goal, so I am not really trying to reach the daily goal I have set for myself each day. If I do reach my daily goal, it will mean an extra sticker.

I am glad that I met my goal early this month. With my allergies, I haven't felt like writing much. I have been going home and lying on the couch.

I despise allergy season! Ugh!

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Allergies, Good Day Today
Today was a good allergy day. I used some Triaminic throat strips for my cough. Those things work wonders.

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Marques Houston
I was watching VH1 Soul and I saw the latest Marques Houston video. Does he ever sing a ballad? Is it me or does he show his chest showing in every one of his videos? Why does he always wear a hooded jacket or sweatshirt?

I was just wondering. No, I don't remember the name of the song.

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Pink-tastic Report
I don't know.

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ShoutLife
I may have to ban myself from using ShoutLife. I have been on there for most of the time. I am addicted.

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Laws of Three-Year Olds
1. The world revolves around me.

2. I am not a baby. Please don't call me that. Please don't treat me like one.

3. Whatever you have, I want it, even if you bought it.

4. If you don't give me what I want as mention in Law 3, I will throw a fit.

5. If I see it and I want it, it is mine.

6. I am not that tall, so if I want to get your attention, I may have to touch you somewhere that you might not like me touching don't get mad at me.

7. If I say I don't like you, don't take it personally. In about five minutes, I will be your best friend again.

8. You don't have to repeat yourself. I heard you the first time. I am just ignoring you.

9. I am independent.

10. I may need some help sometimes, but remember Law 9.

11. I am prone to but into your conversation.

12. I have some manners, but I rarely use them.

13. I love hugs. Give me a lot of them.

14. I love to give hugs. Let me give a lot of them.

15. It is okay for you to ask for a hug. I reserve the right to refuse to give you one if I don't want to give you one.

16. I love to learn.

17. Remember Law 16. Whatever I see you do, I will copy it.

18. Remember Law 16. I learn the bad things quicker than I learn the good things.

19. If I see you eating something, I am going to ask for it. If you don't give me any, I may resort to crying. Please remember Law 2.

20. I will not usually cover my mouth when I cough or sneeze. I know I am supposed to, but I choose not to do it.

21. I made a mess, but I expect you to clean it up.

22. I still cry. Please remember Law 2.

23. I like to be carried. Please remember Law 2.

24. I know all of the stuff that I have is mine, but I expect you to carry my backpack, my stuffed animal, and me.

25. Yes, I want you to put all 58 of my pictures on the wall.

26. Please don't put so many barrettes in my hair. I am subject to lose them.

27. Please don't put so many layers of clothes on me. I am subject to lose a layer or two.

28. I like going round in circles. It is fun to me.

29. I will do everything you say, literally.

30. It's Friday. I am allowed to act crazier than normal.

31. I will fall down from time to time.

I will add more later.

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3.26.2007
I'm Through
I am not going to make my goal for today. I am going to go lay down. Oh well. Allergy season is in full bloom.

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Pink-tastic Report
Today, there were four girls wearing pink.

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Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
I am considering writing a version of Goldilocks and the 3 bears. In class, we read that story for 5 days straight. We read 3 different versions of it, but we read the story over and over.

One day, in my overactive mind, I started writing my own version of the story.

I am going to try to get my sister-in-law, Jolene, to draw the pictures for it.

I don't know when I am going to get around to doing it though.

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Allergies
Today was a horrible day for me. Everything on me that could itch or hurt, did just that. My eyes were itching. My throat was itching. My ears were itching. I felt so bad. I coughed most of the day because my sinuses were draining. I was so miserable.

That's about all I have to say on the matter.

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All The Independent Children
My students are becoming very independent, at least during nap time. It's been about two months since I started asking them to put on their own shoes and socks.

At first, I met with resistance. They cried and moaned about it. Now, finally, they are doing it without complaint, for the most part. Every now and then, someone complains.

I must say that the complaints are getting better. They no longer cry. Here's a recent conversation:
Student: Mrs. Boone, I can't put my socks on.
Me: Have you tried putting them on?
Student: No, they are too hard.
Me: Well, try to put them on. Okay?
Student: Mrs. Boone, if you put my socks on, I will put my shoes on.

Of course, I went and put his socks on for him.

After that, one of the other students who was nearby said, "Mrs. Boone, if you put my socks on, I will put my shoes on." Gotta love the chilins'.

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3.25.2007
Dull, Boring, and Blah!
Today was pretty much a bore. Didn't do a thing. Nope, didn't go to church. I am on vacation. Leave me alone. (SMILE)

I didn't turn the computer on until late. I mostly wanted to check my email. I did join an email group on ShoutLife. Yes, I had time to check out ShoutLife. That's my new spot.

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3.24.2007
Home Again
We are going home today. It seems like we just got here. Actually, we did just get here. Oh well. I am not ready to go home yet. I wish we could have came down here when we were supposed to and the vacation would have seemed longer. Oh well.

Why does the return trip home always seem to go quicker than the trip there? We got home in no time flat. We stopped for food and for gas.

I think my husband was in a rush to get home. He was driving fast. I mean very fast. (He usually drives the speed limit.)

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3.23.2007
The Museum
We went to the museum today in Austin. It was the Texas State History Museum. We watched a movie in the IMAX Theatre called TEXAS: The Big Picture. We also toured the museum. That was fun.

Why were we at the museum on a day when half of the Austin schools were at the museum? At least it seemed that way. We saw the movie with the whole seventh grade from a private school. I think it was an all girl school, too. Only the girls were there. They were pretty well behaved for the most part.

We got some ice cream after the museum and walked around for awhile. We went bowling after that. That was fun, too. I won. My score was 69 and my husband's score was 61. We had a horrible bowling game, but we had fun.

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3.22.2007
Disappointed
We were supposed to go out of town on yesterday, but the plans were canceled at the last minute. After all the hard work I did to make the plans, I had to cancel them at the last minute.

I called to cancel the hotel yesterday. The guy I talked to on the phone was nice. He said, "Maybe next time." I felt a little better after he said that.

I hate it when stuff gets changed at the last minute. URGH!!

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3.21.2007
Fifty Words
Well, I am trying to write fifty words each day during Spring Break. I haven't felt like writing much the past few days, so I am attempting to try to write at least fifty words. It's only ten percent of my monthly goal, but hey, I am trying. I just made it today. BIG SMILE, NOW!

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3.20.2007
Too Lazy
Didn't to anything today. I am on Spring Break and enjoying every minute of it.

I am hoping to get out of the house soon.

I don't think I will be writing much during the break. I just don't feel it in my heart. I am only writing because one of my goals for the month is to try to write something everyday.

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3.19.2007
Finished Another Convert
I finished Another Convert from Gossip tonight. I am so happy. I will post it later.

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Gossip
I am going to work on Gossip tonight. Yippee!

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It's Official
It's official. I am addicted to ShoutLife. I have been on there all day. I have got to do something about that.

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3.18.2007
Went to Wal-Mart
I went to Wal-Mart today. I get crazy when I go to the store. As crazy as it may sound, I love going to the grocery store. I can end up spending over an hour in there.

When I was single, my brother and I used to go to Wal-Mart at 2 AM. There would be a lot of people in the store at that hour. Some of the people would have baskets full of things. That would be the funny part.

I miss going to Wal-Mart like that. Oh well.

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3.17.2007
Seventy-Seven Words
So, I need 77 words to make 500 words for today. It's been a slow day today.

My husband and I have done a NCAA bracket. He is winning so far. We both picked the same champion, Florida.

I want Texas to win

I have Florida playing Texas A&M in the championship game. I didn't have the heart to have Texas play Florida and then have to choose between the two.

I need to go get my hair done. I want to get braids.

I made my quota. Yea!

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Nothing Much to Report
After having danced my way all the way home on yesterday, IT'S SPRING BREAK WEEK, I didn't do a thing on today.

I mostly just lay around the house and chilled.

I was tired. I watched my videotapes. I record the shows that I like to watch each week. I can't watch them live because I hate having to watch the commercials. I have been doing that since college.

I started taping my shows so that I could watch then when I got home from school in college. Now, I am so spoiled that I can't watch my shows live.

I guess I lied in the title. I am writing a lot, huh.

My TV Viewing
Here is a list of my shows.

Sunday
Cold Case
Without A Trace

Monday
The New Adventures of Old Christine
CSI: Miami

Tuesday
Law & Order: CI
Law & Order: SVU

Wednesday
Bones (When American Idol isn't on.)
Criminal Minds
CSI: New York

Thursday
CSI
Shark
(With my husband)
Smallville
Supernatural

Friday
Law & Order
Monk
Psych

I try to watch them on Saturdays, but I don't always get to watch them.

I have my tapes set-up so that I have one day on each tape.

Family
It's crazy how you can't pick your family. Sometimes, you like your family members. Sometimes, you don't. It's a crazy thing.

I pretty much like my family. My siblings are all cool. My parents are pretty cool, too. My parents are crazy, but they are cool. They are always willing to dispense advice as well as prayer. My parents' are the kind of parents that other kids like being around. Growing up, there were always other teenagers around my house. One time, my brother and I had six teenagers over at our house babysitting us. I know my brother and I were a handful, but, I refuse to believe that we needed six people to watch us. I only needed one babysitter. My brother probably needed two babysitters. (SMILE.)

Once, when I was in college, my father had a Super Bowl party. He had invited a bunch of the college students over to the house to watch the game. When the game was over, my dad went to his room and left me in the kitchen with 15 college kids. They refused to leave the house after he left. I was trying to wash dishes and they were bothering me. It was truly irritating that night.

My family is cool. I love them a lot.

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3.16.2007
Another Convert, Forever
So, Another Convert has been listed on my Goals list forever. I am going to have to finish that up before too long. I need to add it to the Gossip Blog.

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Weekly Goals 3/18-3/24

Here are my goals for next week

1. Finish Another Convert
2. Add Another Convert to the Gossip Blog.
3. Apartment hunting
4. Give notice
5. Check out In Her Shadow
6. Wash
7. Change all image folders

Bolded goals in Arial Font have been completed.

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What I Did Today
I finished writing on my short story from the 14th. It's a cute story, but it is a bit sentimental. Oh well.

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Pink-tastic Report
I didn't pay attention, so I don't have a report. Oh well.

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3.15.2007
Nothing Much
Didn't feel like writing much today. I mostly just played around on ShoutLife. I am hooked.

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Short Story Continued Or Not
Today, I meant to write on the short story that I started yesterday, but I didn’t feel like it.

I mean it is two days until Spring Break! Yippee

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Pink-tastic Report
I don't even know how many there were today.

One of the teachers that I work with had her baby shower at the school today. I was in charge of the paper ware. I ended up having to buy pink plates, napkins, and a tablecloth. Pinkness all around.

She is having a girl, so the color for the shower was pink of course.

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3.14.2007
Pink-tastic Report
I didn't count today because things were too crazy today. I didn't even notice the color pink.

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3.13.2007
Three-Year Old Behavior
I think I have said this before, but I work with 3-year olds. I have watched them carefully and observed their behavior. Here are some of the things I have noticed.

Three-Year Olds & Friendship
Three-Year Olds & Their Imaginations
Three-Year Olds & Bossiness
Three-Year Olds & "Do It Again"

P.S. My husband is always telling me that I act like a 3-three year old (even before I begin working with them). I have noticed from the above that I do. It's so crazy.

See what other wonderful things 3-year olds do, click here.

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Three-Year Olds & Friendship
I have noticed that the students in my class have a crazy friendship dynamic. One of them can say, "I am not your friend anymore." Within 5 minutes, the students involved are back playing as if nothing ever happened. This happens nine or ten times a day. It is so funny to see this happen.

They can get into a scuffle and hurt each other, but give it about ten minutes, and they are back to being friends.

I am like that. I don't hold grudges long.

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Three-Year Olds & Their Imaginations
The students in my class have some over active imaginations. They have made whirling action figures out of plastic gingerbread men and string. They have turned fake food and cardboard into a restaurant endeavor. They are forever making up something.

I am like that. I have an over active imagination.

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Three-Year Olds & Bossiness
Most of the girls in the class are very bossy. Some are bossier than others. It is too funny to see them bossing each other around. It is even funnier to see the girls bossing the boys around. Most of the time; the boys end up doing what the girls say to do.

They have even been bossy to me and I am the teacher. It's easier to play with the boys. They aren't that bossy. :)

I am nothing like that. Just kidding, I am bossy, too.

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Three-Year Olds & "Do It Again"
I am forever being told that I am so funny or so silly. I am always making faces or using crazy voices. Usually when I make a face or two, I hear, "Do it again, Mrs. Boone." It is so crazy.

I do my husband like that all the time when he does something funny. After awhile, he is like; I am not doing it again.

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Pink-tastic Report
There were four girls wearing pink today. Felt good not to be surrounded by a lot of pink today.

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Feeling Blah!
I had some other stuff to write about today, but I am feeling kind of blah right now. I think I have caught Spring Fever. I have Spring Break next week. I am trying to figure out something to do next weekend. I really want to get out of town.

It isn't like I can go to a beach or something for the week. I just wanna get out of the house.

Allergies
My allergies have been irritating me all day. My eyes, ears, and throat have been itchy all day. I have been scratching all day. I am trapped in a building. I want to go outside, but I am scared to be out there for more than 20 minutes because I might end up regretting it.

I am beginning to think that I need a chocolate fix. The nurse at my school is selling chocolate bars for her son. I bought a couple of them. I am seriously considering eating on of them. I am not into to whole chocolate thing. I am not even into sweets. I very rarely eat chocolate. I eat sweets even less, which is odd because my brothers and sister eat sweets like it is going out of style.

Siblings
Speaking of siblings, all of them have MySpace pages, Jerry, Kevin, Jeremy, and Alisha (in order of birth after me). I was the last one to get one and I am the oldest. (Please note that I am not responsible for anything that appears on any of their pages. Jerry's page is not bad. He is a preacher.) I can only control what appears on my page.) Anyway, I got a MySpace page so that I could talk to my little sister. She never answers her phone and I don't know her email address. (I am so off topic. Anyway.) My sister has posted some silly comments on my page. She is my baby.

Free Writing
I am really free writing right now. I am just typing what pops in my head. I haven't done that in awhile. I have been writing more structured stuff.

(She knows she can get up, so what is she waiting for.)

Gossip (Short Stories) & Gossiping
I have been working on My Short Story Series: Gossip. It is turning out rather nicely. It is crazy how much church folk gossip, especially preachers. Church folk sure can talk about each other, under the guise of "sharing" information, telling people what to pray for, or a combination of both. If I hear one more person say, "I am just sharing so that we will know what to pray for," I am gonna scream. It is just flat out gossiping, plain and simple. I had to be delivered from gossiping. I still have yet to figure out how I got so caught up in gossiping, too.

I did not grow up in an atmosphere of gossiping. My mother does not gossip. She does not find out the latest gossip until it is two years old. No joke, I am serious. My taught my brother and I not to gossip. (For clarification purposes, my father has three different sets of children, Jerry and I, Kevin, Jeremy and Alisha, in case anyone was wondering.)

I got caught up in gossiping so quickly at my last church that I was a full fledge gossip before I even realized I was a gossip, by then, I was in too deep. I was gossiping with the leadership of the church, high ranking leadership. It was referred to as VERIFYING INFORMATION that was already known. Basically, I would go verify some information for another person. Oddly enough, I had access to resources where I could verify the information.

Once I was able to get out of the web of gossip, I laid before God, cried, and repented like crazy. I felt so bad for getting tangled up in that sin. Sin will suck you in and make a fool out of you.

I guess I am pretty much through free writing for now.

It felt good to get that out of my system.

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3.12.2007
Seventy Words
I need seventy words to meet my goal today. I am having issues meeting my goals.

I guess I can talk about my favorite food.

I am trying to pick one out of the three that I can eat at any given time; BBQed ribs, fried catfish, and tamales.

I think the one I would like to have all the time is fried catfish. I love me some fried catfish; especially if it is coated with Louisiana Fish Fry. Uhm, that's some Good Eats. What's up Alston Brown?

Got my 70 words and then some. Yippee! I am going to try to do better.

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Allergies
Today was a bad allergy day. My eyes were itching all day. My throat started itching mid way through the day. Later on, my ears started itching; all three itching right now.

I drove by some guys who were cutting some grass. I hate driving by fresh cut grass, which usually causes my allergies to act up, no matter how much medicine I have taken.

I really hate Spring.

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Hot Desk
I have my laptop on a table. Sometimes my laptop gets so hot. I am going to have to find a way to cool my laptop down when I am using it.

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Speaking of Handwritten Novels
I looked at the spiral that contains the handwritten portion of my Allegations Novel. I had handwritten quite a bit of the novel. I was going to tear the pages out of the spiral, but when I saw how many pages there were, I didn't tear them out.

Wow!

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Wire Bound
I took my two novels to FedEx Kinko's and got them bound. They look so good. My husband laughed at me because I got the bound.

Having them bound has further inspired me to finish them.

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Editing Past NaNo Novels
I have decided to edit my past NaNo Novels. I read part of one of the novels. I saw that there were some errors. Both of the stories are good stories, and they could be even better with some editing. I am planning to do it over Spring break.

For the most part, Flirting with Danger can be considered finished. I just need to do some filling in and revising.

Captive by History needs to be completed. I need to do some filling in and revising as well as finish the story. I think that this story could be multiple books. I really like this story because it involves quite a few characters that I have created in the past.

I am going to have to type up the hand written portions of Allegations as well as finish it up. I am no where near being finished. I am going to work on it in the summer.

I have my work cut out for me.

P.S. I am thinking about having Jolene design the covers for me. My girl is off the chain. She drew some stuff for me before, but I lent them to my father and I never got them back. I am so sad about it, too.

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Pink-tastic Report
Today there were four girls wearing pink. Whew, it was a low day.

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3.11.2007
Fifty-Six Words
I need 56 words to make 500 words for today. My husband and I went into BlockBuster the other night. We noticed that they didn't have any VHS tapes on display. We both pondered why there were no video tapes at the store. We figured that people no longer needed to rent video tapes anymore. Before long, they won't be making VCRs anymore. We will be able to record our favorite shows on DVD. Perhaps, everyone will have TIVO.

The world is getting very high tech.

I got the word total that I needed. Yea!

I am shamelessly padding my word total again.

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Too Much Stuff
I was looking at some people's MySpace pages. Some of them have too much stuff on their page. It causes my computer to lock up and I have to close down Internet Explorer.

It can be very irritating when you want to look at someone's page and it takes forever to load. I also get upset when someone has music playing on their page and I have to try to scroll down forever to try to get to it to turn it off.

Oh well, I can't control what people put on their page. I just wish they wouldn't put so much stuff on their page.

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The Power of Music & Songs
Another pastor that came on the