College is the time of a young person’s life that allows for them to become the real person that they are. My grandfather who passed away in the summer always told me to stay away from the crazy college life that will ruin one’s life. I kind of just put that thought behind me because I thought well this is the only time I will be able to do this kind of stuff. Last year was probably my worse time handling the whole college weekend life, I would wake up the next morning having the worse headaches and I just couldn’t figure out how I got them. Soon I realized I had no clue what happened the night before and the days would be ruined for me trying to recover and I wouldn’t be productive at all the next day. I soon started to take school a little more serious when I finally had the party life catch up to me when one Friday night coming back from a party I tripped on concrete and too intoxicated to catch myself I face planted.
Since that day I really tried to cut back on my intakes and even for my 21st birthday I didn’t get the “total crazy” as one is usually expected. I am just saying all this because now a days since I don’t go out like that anymore I realize all I was doing was like my grandfather said and I was just screwing up my life. It really does take a reality check for people to come to terms that they need to revaluate what they are doing. My parents have been facing anger, worries, and heartbreak with some of the things that the college weekend life has caused me to do. Life is really about choices and the paths you take, I hate having the addicted personality that causes me to do some stupid stuff that I really need to take into account when I do them. Recently I have had the lazy bone since I’m just tired of going to school, so I have been trying to use that as an excuse to not go out and party as much but stay in and buckle down and get back on track.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Story
Audience: Young Adults
Detail: An record album with no record player
Setting: A Sunday School classroom
Character: A kid vandalizing his mom’s house.
On Sunday Tucker was in Sunday school, where he had to tell about a time in his life that he had done something that was inevitably the worse thing he had ever done. Tucker decided to tell about the time he was at his mom’s house for the weekend. He started out by telling how he was outside her house breaking tree branches. While Tucker was gathering the sticks up to construct a fort, when out of the blue he notices a very peculiar object in the basement window. He decides to go down the stairs and look into what he saw. He was so amazed that he was lifting up parts of it and expecting it when all of the sudden the arm of the object broke. Tucker was scared of getting in trouble so he took the thing outside and started to beat the thing to smithereens. He then went into the house and started to see what else was in there that he had never noticed before. On a top shelf he found some fireworks and being his dumb self decided to light up a thing of firecrackers and he got afraid of the things combusting next to something flammable so he took them and threw them into the toilet. He heard a loud crack and then a gushing sound as he had just blew up the toilet. He didn’t know what to do so he closed the bathroom door and put towels under the door to keep the water from going everywhere. He then told about how when his mom got home she was in the most irritable mood ever after a strenuous meeting from work. She just wanted to go in and lie down and listen to some of her old records that she had since her college years. She then went into the basement to get her record player and was throwing shit around trying to find it and had an original beach boys album that she flung and broke. Finally she yelled for Tucker to come down and help and she started to explain to him what she was looking for, finally he fessed up and told her that he had broken it when he was examining it. She was so pissed that she made him go upstairs and while he was on his way up she noticed water leaking from the bathroom. When she rushed over she saw that the bathroom was flooded and water had ruined many of her original paintings that she created when in art class in college. After all he had done the Sunday school teacher told him that he should go and ask his mother for forgiveness.
Detail: An record album with no record player
Setting: A Sunday School classroom
Character: A kid vandalizing his mom’s house.
On Sunday Tucker was in Sunday school, where he had to tell about a time in his life that he had done something that was inevitably the worse thing he had ever done. Tucker decided to tell about the time he was at his mom’s house for the weekend. He started out by telling how he was outside her house breaking tree branches. While Tucker was gathering the sticks up to construct a fort, when out of the blue he notices a very peculiar object in the basement window. He decides to go down the stairs and look into what he saw. He was so amazed that he was lifting up parts of it and expecting it when all of the sudden the arm of the object broke. Tucker was scared of getting in trouble so he took the thing outside and started to beat the thing to smithereens. He then went into the house and started to see what else was in there that he had never noticed before. On a top shelf he found some fireworks and being his dumb self decided to light up a thing of firecrackers and he got afraid of the things combusting next to something flammable so he took them and threw them into the toilet. He heard a loud crack and then a gushing sound as he had just blew up the toilet. He didn’t know what to do so he closed the bathroom door and put towels under the door to keep the water from going everywhere. He then told about how when his mom got home she was in the most irritable mood ever after a strenuous meeting from work. She just wanted to go in and lie down and listen to some of her old records that she had since her college years. She then went into the basement to get her record player and was throwing shit around trying to find it and had an original beach boys album that she flung and broke. Finally she yelled for Tucker to come down and help and she started to explain to him what she was looking for, finally he fessed up and told her that he had broken it when he was examining it. She was so pissed that she made him go upstairs and while he was on his way up she noticed water leaking from the bathroom. When she rushed over she saw that the bathroom was flooded and water had ruined many of her original paintings that she created when in art class in college. After all he had done the Sunday school teacher told him that he should go and ask his mother for forgiveness.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
The Lady!
A year ago on New Year’s Eve I was at my friend’s apartment at JMU and we were all just hanging out and ready to stay there for the night. Then one of our other friends was telling us that there was a party out at a farm house a few minutes down the road. I wasn’t very content with leaving to go to this party, but for some reason I went anyways. When we got there the place was packed and hard to move around but once we made it downstairs the stuff was going on. After awhile I walked into this room where people were sitting around socializing and what not and I noticed on the couch there was this very attractive girl in a pink shirt hanging out. I didn’t say anything to her cause I knew she wouldn’t talk to me so I went about my business then I was walking by and the punk stuck out her foot and tried to trip me. That right there started it out; later I was talking to my friends and she came up to me and asked what I was drinking and I just gave a really short answer so kind of made her feel like I wasn’t wanting to talk. My friend Adam was talking to me and I asked him about her, and he told me to talk to her and I said I couldn't. He went up to her and told her and she told him that I need to man up and do it. Then later I finally manned up and went up and talked to her, we talked for awhile and I was kind of pushed away at the thought she goes to ODU knowing that it would never work. A year later I am totally wrong, we didn’t talk for a few weeks then one random night we started to talk again and haven’t stopped since.
We were Valentine’s last year for about an hour which is kind of sad. This year I made it up to her I made her dinner, baked her a cake and also got a little heart necklace for her. I have found out that she is really a special lady who I believe is miss right!
We were Valentine’s last year for about an hour which is kind of sad. This year I made it up to her I made her dinner, baked her a cake and also got a little heart necklace for her. I have found out that she is really a special lady who I believe is miss right!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Landscaping
While growing up in the rural area of Virginia, all there was to do was hang out side and cause ruckus. When I was younger I loved to go out and play in the dirt and destroy things, like any little devious kid does. When I got older and more capable of doing laborious work, I would go out and help my dad with the garden during the spring and summer. Once, I found a passion for growing plants and taking care of them I then started to get into landscaping around the house. My dad being an agriculture teacher at a local middle school really got me involved with the agriculture aspects.
When I got into high school I wasn’t in ag until my sophomore year when we would get to experience all the different parts to the class: wood working, welding, and landscaping. When I was in the landscaping part of it we learned to transplant the plants and a whole variety of things that would take way too long to explain. Then the next year I took landscape design class where we designed a landscape for the athletic fields and then once we were Okayed by the booster club we got to install them. Once I got to experience this I knew right away that I wanted to get into this career once I got out of high school.
I have had experience the last two summers of working in the outdoors landscaping and mowing. Two summers ago I worked for a guy who graduated from tech and now 10 years later owns a medium sized company that has branched out in 5 years and has four different divisions. He has landscape, hardscape, maintenance, and masonry divisions. When I worked with him he taught me a lot of valuable skills in hardscaping. After one summer I learned what I needed to allow for me to go out and build a pavered patio, walkways, paragola’s, and ponds. After I experienced all of this I knew eventually I would love to be able to get into a career of installing those sorts of things.
When I got into high school I wasn’t in ag until my sophomore year when we would get to experience all the different parts to the class: wood working, welding, and landscaping. When I was in the landscaping part of it we learned to transplant the plants and a whole variety of things that would take way too long to explain. Then the next year I took landscape design class where we designed a landscape for the athletic fields and then once we were Okayed by the booster club we got to install them. Once I got to experience this I knew right away that I wanted to get into this career once I got out of high school.
I have had experience the last two summers of working in the outdoors landscaping and mowing. Two summers ago I worked for a guy who graduated from tech and now 10 years later owns a medium sized company that has branched out in 5 years and has four different divisions. He has landscape, hardscape, maintenance, and masonry divisions. When I worked with him he taught me a lot of valuable skills in hardscaping. After one summer I learned what I needed to allow for me to go out and build a pavered patio, walkways, paragola’s, and ponds. After I experienced all of this I knew eventually I would love to be able to get into a career of installing those sorts of things.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Goals!
In life people make many choices most of those face consequences, such as giving up on one thing to reach another. For myself one thing that I have found a great passion for are setting goals. Stated in the dictionary a goal is: a projected state of affairs that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve—a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines. I find this exactly how I experienced my goals while growing up.
Early in life I always knew I wanted to be a Hokie. I would come to the football games and see the atmosphere and knew that since Hokie blood has ran through my family it only made sense for me to continue it. When I reached high school I wasn’t make good enough grades and knew that I couldn’t get into tech with a 3.7 gpa, so I had to think of other schools. Then I found out my friend came to Tech in a 2 year agriculture program. Once I looked into it I found out I could get a landscaping degree from it and then I knew that was the route I wanted to go.
Goals for me didn’t stop there, throughout high school I ran track and cross country. Those sports required a lot of dedication and goal setting. I would always make a statement during practice to run with the top guys and that would help me reach my goal times I wanted to get for my races. I didn’t believe people that running was 90% mental and 10% physical and once I learned that if you keep positive you can achieve anything. That is the same way with setting goals in general, you have to be positive the whole time and things will take shape for you.
Some goals I have set for myself for the future aren’t hard but yet will challenge me a little bit. I want to graduate in the fall of 2011 and get into the workforce in some kind of landscaping job. Currently I have a wonderful girlfriend who is 5 hours away but is always with me mentally and hope to be with her after school. Other than those I hope to one day own a landscape company and raise a healthy family!
Once I learned that goals aren’t hard to reach as long as you keep your head forward and don’t look back at what you could have done. Instead move on and keep what you want in your life in front of you and over time those things will be reachable.
Early in life I always knew I wanted to be a Hokie. I would come to the football games and see the atmosphere and knew that since Hokie blood has ran through my family it only made sense for me to continue it. When I reached high school I wasn’t make good enough grades and knew that I couldn’t get into tech with a 3.7 gpa, so I had to think of other schools. Then I found out my friend came to Tech in a 2 year agriculture program. Once I looked into it I found out I could get a landscaping degree from it and then I knew that was the route I wanted to go.
Goals for me didn’t stop there, throughout high school I ran track and cross country. Those sports required a lot of dedication and goal setting. I would always make a statement during practice to run with the top guys and that would help me reach my goal times I wanted to get for my races. I didn’t believe people that running was 90% mental and 10% physical and once I learned that if you keep positive you can achieve anything. That is the same way with setting goals in general, you have to be positive the whole time and things will take shape for you.
Some goals I have set for myself for the future aren’t hard but yet will challenge me a little bit. I want to graduate in the fall of 2011 and get into the workforce in some kind of landscaping job. Currently I have a wonderful girlfriend who is 5 hours away but is always with me mentally and hope to be with her after school. Other than those I hope to one day own a landscape company and raise a healthy family!
Once I learned that goals aren’t hard to reach as long as you keep your head forward and don’t look back at what you could have done. Instead move on and keep what you want in your life in front of you and over time those things will be reachable.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Spring Semester
First time blogger here, didn’t really understand what it meant to blog so I guess this is a unique experience for me to be able to do. This spring I am taking 16 credits of which two are in Econ, Biology, English and Oral Communications. This semester will be a doozey for me since I had a “slacker” break, it will probably take a few days to get me back into school mode. I need to learn to manage my studying time as of now I feel that has gotten away from me.
The classes that I am most worried about is my Econ 1006, I didn’t get the passing C in the first section so now I am going to have to buckle down and try and master it. The thing that gets me going about econ is that it takes time to think through the problems and test the problems took so long to understand that I had to fly through without thinking. I am not sure why I have econ as my minor, other than the fact I want to have a business degree.
When I was in high school my ag teacher had an effect on my life in which made me want to beautify the outdoors. I took three landscape/horticulture based classes that got y interest in wanting to become a landscaper. People ask why I want to have a career in it, and my answer is that I love the outdoors and I have a creative mind in which I can put both of these things together and make people’s homes more special.
I have already received my Landscape/Turf Management Associates Degree from VA Tech in the Agricultural Technology program. Once I received that degree I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to go back to school and receive my bachelor’s. I had the feeling that I had what I needed to get through my work career as a landscape company owner. After talking with others about it I felt that if I had a more general bachelor’s degree I could have more job opportunities.
Once I finished my first year in the program I did my summer internship. For my internship I worked for a landscape/hardscape company near my hometown. Hardscaping involves installing patio’s, walkway’s , outdoor kitchens, etc… Once I learned how to install hardscape’s I felt that it was very beneficial to my work knowledge and that one day I could hopefully add that to my company.
The classes that I am most worried about is my Econ 1006, I didn’t get the passing C in the first section so now I am going to have to buckle down and try and master it. The thing that gets me going about econ is that it takes time to think through the problems and test the problems took so long to understand that I had to fly through without thinking. I am not sure why I have econ as my minor, other than the fact I want to have a business degree.
When I was in high school my ag teacher had an effect on my life in which made me want to beautify the outdoors. I took three landscape/horticulture based classes that got y interest in wanting to become a landscaper. People ask why I want to have a career in it, and my answer is that I love the outdoors and I have a creative mind in which I can put both of these things together and make people’s homes more special.
I have already received my Landscape/Turf Management Associates Degree from VA Tech in the Agricultural Technology program. Once I received that degree I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to go back to school and receive my bachelor’s. I had the feeling that I had what I needed to get through my work career as a landscape company owner. After talking with others about it I felt that if I had a more general bachelor’s degree I could have more job opportunities.
Once I finished my first year in the program I did my summer internship. For my internship I worked for a landscape/hardscape company near my hometown. Hardscaping involves installing patio’s, walkway’s , outdoor kitchens, etc… Once I learned how to install hardscape’s I felt that it was very beneficial to my work knowledge and that one day I could hopefully add that to my company.
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