Towards the end of my fifth grade year I was diagnosed with a "disease" if you will called diabetes. For starters, I will inform you of what diabetes is. There are two different types. The type I have, is called type 1, or also known as juvenile. Type 1 means my pancreas no longer produces insulin which regulates your blood sugar. Since it no longer produces insulin, every time I eat I have to give myself an insulin shot. Most people think that diabetes comes from being overweight. That is not always the case. Type 2 diabetes is where being overweight plays a rule, but in type 1, most of the time it is hereditary or runs in the family. Being diagnosed was probably one of the best things that could happen to me. Before I found out I was diabetic, I was on track to becoming a very overweight child but after I found out and started regulating my blood sugar, I became more healthier and that saved my life as a moral point of view, it still gave me hope. Most people think that having diabetes makes me different from them but the truth is, I am the same as everyone else and can do pretty much the same thing as anyone else. I am very shy about talking about my diabetes because I do not want people to judge me, and even though it bothers me a bit when my friends crack jokes about it, I still do not react to them. I guess you can say that diabetes has made me a better person than I ever could have been.
Hello, I first want to start off by saying nobody should ever joke about any diseases. Second I would like to say way to go. It takes a strong person to take something so devastating and life tanging to a higher level. I think that all the bad and good things in life that happens to someone is what makes their character. It’s how you handle and take care of these things that decide your outcome. You have defiantly made your outcome in life a lot better o ff. Because of this you will go far in life you will blast through obstacles in life that stop most people in their tracks. I know this because I also have a disease that has had some life changing side effects. I like you have learned how to handle this disease the best way I know how. It has by no means been easy for me but I have come a long way. However, I have had no one make fun of what I have but, they have been very judge mental about it. I try to overlook these kind of people I just blame it on ignorance. MY family has on the other hand been very supportive of me through all this. This is how I know that you must be a strong person because as they say “it takes one to know one”. Well that about wraps it up for now so, have a great day and talk to you latter.
I must say I am so proud how you have a great outlook on life. I agree diabetes is nothing that should hold you back. I mean why should you let one small thing hold you back from living your future and one day conquering your dreams! I think it’s great how you are open about having diabetes, with this attitude you are probably helping so many people. I must say we will never be able to help those that judge, but one day they will see how great of a person you are, and the disease did nothing to make you any different. I believe these little obstacles in life are meant to help us grow as humans, and the way we react is the way of us showing how we really are. I cannot say I know what you are going through, but I can understand somewhat since my grandparents are diabetic. I can say with your attitude and will power you will get far in life. Who knows maybe this disease made you stronger as a person, and this is why you are the person you are today. I guess we don’t know what makes us behave the way we do, but things that happen in life usually has a great deal to do with it. I hope everything keeps going good for you, and continue on with your great outlook on life. We might as well be positive people; life is too short to do anything else!
Tonight is the night that tournaments start for the central buckeye conference in soccer. Fortunately, my team was able to be seeded high enough to get a first round home game. Our game tonight is against the Urbana Hillclimbers at 7:30. The first time we played Urbana which was about two weeks ago we beat them 3-1. I'm pretty excited about tonight as I know there is a 95% chance that this will be the last home game of my career in an Indian Lake soccer uniform. I can't wait to see the vibe from our crowd as a lot of people are suppose to come out and support us. Recently, I have moved from playing defense to playing offense, so who knows, maybe I will get a goal in my last home game. If we win tonight, we go on to play the winner of Ben Logan/Bellefontaine, both of which are our arch rivals. Bellefontaine has a huge advantage to win so if everything plays out right, we will get a chance at revenge against them on Thursday night. I have been waiting for this game ever since I found out when we played. I have been anxious to get out on the field and shut down Urbana early. I am so not ready for the season to be over and will do whatever I can to extend it for at least one more day, it is like a one game season. Let's just say that I will be extra-pumped and ready to go for one last rodeo in Laker Stadium. Wish me luck!
Over the years of my life, my family has had a bunch of animals going in and out the door. We have had such animals as cats, dogs, fish, horses, cows, and pigs. The main two animals that I have lived with for the majority of my time are dogs and cattle. There have been short periods of my life where I have owned fish that always die and when I was younger we had a horse that was not ride-able. For the first fifteen years of my life we had a house cat named "Momma Cat." Her name came from the fact that she has had ungodly numbers of litters throughout her life. After she died, my mom said she was done with cats and that we were not getting another one. I was okay with this because I hate cats and they give me allergies. Our family has owned a handful amount of pigs, as we only had them for meat or to show at the county fair. A dog is my favorite animal. I see dogs as a man's best friend and I have always had one. Since my birth, we are on our 4th dog. I plan to always have a dog throughout my life because I consider them as a part of the family. The dog we have now is a border collie. He is black and white and is a very good guard dog. He is very protective but always a blast to play with. He looks after the house for us and is very lovable. Last of all are cattle. I was introduced to cattle in my life when I was around the age of ten. My dad bought myself and my sisters each a calf to raise and then they were butchered for meat to put in our freezer. Ever since then, I have shown cattle and the fair and have always had a steer. I never really got emotionally attached to them until recently because of all the time and work I have been putting in with them. I am an animal lover but I would not go to the extreme like become a vegetarian or dress my pet. I would say I have been grateful of my animals so far in my life and hope to continue to have animals just as good as they have been.
The weather in Ohio straight up sucks. One day, it could be seventy degrees outside and sunny and the very next day its forty degrees and windy as can be. It seems like the weather around here changes like the gas prices do, oh my. I can manage to deal with and kind of weather besides wind. I absolutely hate wind. Wind does not do anything helpful and it is just very annoying and pointless. It is always cold and blowing from the wrong direction. Also, it is hard to enjoy being outside when it is windy. You can't really do anything productive without it bothering you in some way. If you mow the yard, the grass blows back on you. If you decide to shoot hoops, the ball always goes with the wind and never makes it. These are just a couple of examples and reasons why I hate rain. My favorite element of weather is probably snow. I absolutely love snow. In the winter, I ride snowmobiles and underneath my snowsuit, I am usually wearing a t-shirt and shorts. The coldness of winter does not bother me like most people say it does to them. As long as there is no wind everything is good to go. I love how bright snow is so when it gets darker outside there is still enough visible light from the reflection of the snow to light up your surroundings. The one thing that I do not like about snow is driving in it. I have to decrease my speed by a substantial amount and be more cautious, but you can never have anything that is absolutely perfect. I am alright with rain at certain times. If it is been raining for like 3 solid days that is when I start to hate it the most. But a nice steady rain from time to time is alright with me because it keeps everything alive and cools down the humidity in the summer time. There is always going to be weather that someone does not like, but you just have to bunker down and wait it out.
I think this is really funny because people are always complaining about how bad Ohio weather is and how bad they want it to change but in reality if it was hot all the time or cold all the time people would complain too. I agree though the way the weather changes here really sucks because it is always something different, you cannot just get used to it because tomorrow could bring on something completely different. One thing I really hate is the wind because it could be not that could out and if the wind is blowing then it makes it even colder out. The wind is kind of nice in the summer when it is really hot and humid but in the winter it completely sucks. Another thing I really hate is rain! I know rain is really essential to the crops and everything because we need them to grow but it really sucks. It just ruins plans and makes the ground muddy so then you track that into houses and cars and just makes everything dirty! So basically the rain just sucks and does need to go away. I like snow when it is falling because it is really pretty but I hate when it melts and everything gets MUDDY! It is so inconvenient and I would really like snow more if it wasn’t cold when it came around or would just come and just poof away the next day. I like warm weather and sunshine, so I should probably just move to Florida.
Killing two birds with one stone. That is the best way to describe how how I am doing two major projects in my classes right now. In this class, English Com 1110, I am doing my comparison essay over the essay "2b or Not 2b" by David Crystal. This essay is over whether or not texting is hurting the English language. It goes on to say that text lingo, which is like shorthand messages such as "idk and lol," were not created by my generation, and that text lingo was actually used long generations before any of us were ever alive. What it says is that passed generations used it but it was not so widely known as a problem because there were no electronics, so it was not a big problem. The problem, actually, is that our generation is using the text lingo to destroy our language; but then it goes on to say that kids who start using it at a young age are actually doing better in school, confusing right? First off, my opinion on this is that it is not true because I do very well in school and I spell out everything instead of abbreviating it. Anyways, back to the two birds and one stone part. I also have this huge argument speech coming up in my public speaking class. We have to pick a topic, research it thoroughly, and give a speech over why we picked this subject, why it is important, and what side we are on. I think that I am also going to use "2b or Not 2b" in the They Say I Say textbook to eliminate much more work that I would have to do if I chose a completely different topic. I think that this essay would be a great topic to do an argument speech over because there are two sides to the essay and each side has valid points as well as proven statistics. I am glad that this was able to work out like this, it saves me a lot of time and work.
I am reading the same story as you right now and I kind of feel the same way about it. I am not really killing two birds with one stone because none of my speeches in public speaking would match up with this. To me I feel like this essay has been the easiest one we have done so far because it is something I know about because everyone texts. I think that it is really weird that Crystal does a really good job at proving that texters are not ruining our language. He found some research that kids that used a lot of abbreviations scored higher on tests of reading and literature and spelling. That kind of confused me as well because it does not really make sense, you would think they would do worse. But then he talks about how to be able to abbreviate you have to know what you are abbreviating so that made sense too. My opinion on texting is that it is not really hurting our language, people should know how to separate their texting language from their school work and literature. I usually do not abbreviate things because I have an IPhone and corrects misspelled words for me so it is easier to just spell them out. I know that when it comes to writing a paper for my English class or any other class for that matter I need to get away from textisms and use the language I was taught in school. I do not think texting is bad for our language at all, I think it is great and people can really express themselves, I just think they need to separate it from their school or job work.
Hello Zack, I’m letting everyone that I have been talking to know that I am almost done with the blog thing. I have busted my ass trying to get this blog stuff done and out of the way. I can only dream about how much time I will be getting when this is done. I think I will be able to work ahead in some other classes now. I have a big paper that is due before too long and it already has me freaking out. I hear that this paper is really hard so, yay. I can’t wait to turn in this paper as well as I can get started on the next and the last one that we have. I not for sure what it is going to be I haven’t even looked at the syllabus to see what it says yet but, I will be looking before too long. If I understand it I will work on it when I get this one done. I think that we have our meeting with her over this one on Thursday so, I will know then if I have to scrap everything I have done and start all over, lol. This essay was not too bad once you figure out what you want to compare about the two. I wish that I would have chosen a text instead of a pic but it’s too late now. I just think that it would be easier to compare a text with a text. Well that is all for me and I hope you get everything that you are going for about of life, it was great to meet you ben. latter
So here in the last month or so I have been working on my college search for when I graduate high school. I had narrowed my search down to three Universities and one that was right on the outside. The three Universities that I was mainly focused on were South Dakota State, Wyoming, and Missouri. People always ask with a befuddled expression on their face, "Why do you want to go so far away?" My answer to that is that I want to get a major in agriculture and the schools around here do not have the best of programs or I do not like the school. Also, my philosophy is that if I stay close to home, I will always be dependent on someone else and I believe that if I go farther away, I will mature more so than I would closer. I am proud to say that I have been excepted to all three of these schools so now I only have to choose! That one outside school (who I will not mention because this is who it is about) basically ran itself into the ground and out of the race. I was filling out the application for the school just like all of the other schools and then it came to the section about your parents. For one, I don't see why any school should have to know about your parents, the student is the one attending, not the parents. Anyways, I was going down through the questions when I came across the question about my parents occupations. Well, my parents are very hard working and neither of them went to college. My dad works in a factory, farms, and also does some work for my Uncles business while my mom also works two jobs; she is an Elementary school librarian and also works at a Krogers fuel center. So I clicked on the tab to look for my parents occupation and one of the answers were "Unskilled." This answer made me outraged. One reason, because this is the category that I would of had to choose and another because it is so downgrading and upsetting. I can only imagine the look on my parents faces if they would have seen this. Could they really not choose a better representative word than "unskilled?!" My parents work their butts off providing for my family and get absolutely no appreciation from anyone who thinks they are better than them. I immediately closed the tab and stopped my application for that school. I would much rather go to another school than go to one that downgrades other people.
Hey, dude, in terms of the future and having that “maturity philosophy,” we are basically in the same boat. Although I am going to college most likely for Marine Biology or Biochemistry, I am going to have to travel very far away in order to actually pursue a well-paying career in Marine Biology. I mean, let’s be honest, subtracting Lake Erie, Ohio is not really too well-known for having any significant body of water. Because of this, I am most likely going to have to move to a state or possibly even a different country that is bordering an ocean or other significant body of water. This excites me because one: I love travelling, and two: I also believe that being further away from my home town will be a great way to mature and be more independent. Honestly, I am under the impression that if I would stay very close to home, I would probably gain the same morals, ethics, and logical reasoning that a lot of people in my home town contain. I am not saying that people where I am from have crappy morals because I actually believe that they have great ones; I am just stating that I want to find my OWN morals and ethics, so to speak. Being farther away from home would be a great exercise to find out who I truly am. Also, it would be a great way to meet new people and gain new experiences with them. Also, what you said about college applications asking about your parents is complete crap. I also got frustrated because my parents didn’t go to college, yet I am quite positive that they are some of the most successful people I know because they love their life. I’m a big believer in the theory that success is in the eyes of the beholder.
I feel you on the Marine Biology stuff. Ohio wouldn't be very good for a major like that. That is almost like me going to a state like California to to go to school for agriculture. It is all in what a person is interested in that is going to lead their life. I believe no one should settle for less. As an example, right after my sister graduated high school she moved in with her boyfriend. She still has never held a job and is currently pregnant. Judging from this information, my guess would be that she is never going to be able and do anything with her life. She had always had big expectations in going into nursing and such and it is merely too late for that. I suppose she could still try to do that, but it would be extremely difficult for her all because she decided not to live her life to the fullest. One the parent aspect, that still aggravates me entirely. I also believe that my parents have done a really great job with their lives for neither of them going to college. They have shown me that anything can be done if you set your mind to it. They have done the best they could have to have their three kids have a great life and I would say they have succeeded. I plan to be very successful with my life so I be able to support them if they ever are in need of help. My parents have been great role models for me.
As of right now, I am sitting in my sisters room trying to figure out her computer. My sister moved out in like June so this is an empty bedroom with my other sisters computer in it. I would normally get on the computer across from my parents bedroom, but since they are asleep I do not want to take the chance of waking them up. Tinkering with this computer and trying to figure it out got me thinking of my development of my English over this passed semester. Just by pondering the thoughts of how my English language has developed, I believe that I have learned more in college about reading and writing than I did all throughout the three previous years of high school. I am an active person at the Facebook game and am not a twitter person. When I get on Facebook though, I find myself reading the things people post and recognizing the mistakes. I often feel the need to correct their mistakes but would feel like a "snotty kid who thinks he is better than everyone else" in doing so; so I choose not to. Also, when I am updating a status or commenting on something, I find myself striving to use correct grammar and put them into sentence form. In regards to my English getting better, my typing skills have also increased dramatically. I am an avid typer as to before being very slow and inconsistent. My typing skills have increased due to all of my classes, since I write reports for all of them and everything is done electronically now. On another note, there are many things that I did not know how to use before this class. Such things are the semicolon, ellipses, colon, and brackets. I never knew the proper way to use semicolons and colons before taking this class. I would always just use them as to where I though they belonged; most of the time that place was wrong. I just learned last year what an ellipses was (...) and also used it in all the wrong spots as I would use them all the time. Now I hardly ever use them because I know the correct use of them. The last, brackets ([]), were something that I would only use in math in solving equations. I knew they had a purpose for writing but never knew what it was. I have just recently learned that it is for quotes and you put them in a quote that you change something about it. At first, I was very aggravated with this class but here recently have learned to appreciate it as it has helped my English greatly.
I completely agree with you about English. I think that this English class has helped me so much with my writing. I also correct people and the things they write on Twitter and Facebook but I do it in my head because I do not want to be that person that goes through and corrects everyone because well, that makes me kind of seem like a know-it-all. Not only this English class helped me but also our English class last year. I was always pretty decent at typing and could do it pretty fast but the fact that we have written so many papers in the past two years I have become an even faster typer which is a really good thing. I am so happy that I have learned so much because it will help me in my other classes and possibly other English classes if I have to take them. I have learned to use evidence and cite it correctly. I learned how to use the correct point of view and use the right intended audience. I even learned how to use better grammar, word choice, commas, semi-colons, colons, ellipses and so much more! It is kind of exciting to learn all this new stuff and know that I am a better writer and understand writing so much better. On the other hand it really sucks having to write all these papers because it takes so much time. I cannot wait to be done with this class and hopefully all English classes because I just don’t really like English although I have learned a lot.
Most people would argue the point that Saturday's in the fall are reserved for college football. Most people in this area are fans of Ohio State while I am a fan of USC (University of Southern California) and always have been. My aunt is a die hard buckeye fan and I cannot stand the buckeyes, so we will always joke with each other about who is better and clash heads when we get together; she lives about an hour and a half away so we do not get together that often. I have never been to a college football game in person, but by judging on television, the atmosphere looks crazy. My dad just got a call from my aunt Wednesday night wondering if him and I would like to go to the Ohio State vs. Illinois game Saturday with her and my uncle. I kind of responding with a "I suppose" because although I am not a fan of either of the teams, it would be interesting to get the full experience; next year I am planning on going to the USC game in Indiana so I guess this game is kind of a pre-nup to that game. If I remember right, I believe she said we were in the C deck, which judging by my knowledge of stadiums, that seems pretty high up. I am not sure what to expect, whether it be rowdy as can be or nothing more than a concert. If nothing else, I can take away from this experience a chance to spend some quality time with family and give me something to do on a Saturday afternoon. Let's just say I will be rooting for the Illinois Fighting Illini just because my aunt likes Ohio State!
The month of November is a month for thankfulness, also it is the month of my birthday! Woohoo! Thanksgiving is always held in November and it is a time that everyone should count their blessings for what they have and be thankful for their lives. Just these passed couple days I have seen people posting on Facebook things they are thankful for, and I guess the point is to post one thing a day for the whole month all the way up to Thanksgiving day. On thanksgiving, my family usually gets together with my mom's side of the family. We will either have lunch or dinner, depending on the time, and most importantly just spend the majority of the day with each other. I enjoy thanksgiving thoroughly because I enjoy eating all of the delicious food that my mom, grandma, and aunts make. Most of the time I will overeat and have a stomach ache the rest of the night. One of the things that I am most thankful for is my family. Although they can be pretty rowdy, and to some people, kind of weird and odd, I would not have it any other way. We are a really close knit family and share the majority of everything with each other. If someone in our family is having trouble with something, we all work together to help them, whether it be with supplying them with an appliance or helping them with personal problems. Another very important thing that I am thankful for is being able to always have food on the table and gas in my tank. There are some people around the world that do not know when there next meal is going to be, and I have just been blessed by not having to worry about that problem. Also, I drive the greater half of 80 miles a day to school and back and I never have to worry about having enough money for the next tank of gas or not. Everyone should count their blessings and be thankful for all of the great things they have not only in November, but everyday of life.
Staying in shape over the next few months will become a challenge for me. I have now finished playing soccer, which is the only sport I play, and have found out that I have a sub-cortical fracture and a dividend in the cartilage of my knee from a previous injury of playing soccer. The doctor said to do no strenuous activity for a couple of months and here in about three weeks he is going to scope the cartilage out. This injury has caused a lot of pain and discomfort. First of all, it hurts just by walking for a long period of time or climbing stairs. It has also affected my mobility and activities. I have a giant brace with hinges on the sides to help support it but it is helping it very little at the most. Since I am done playing sports, the thought has been wondering in my head of what I am going to do to stay in shape. Well, right now, since I cannot do very much strenuous activity, I am lifting with my upper body a bunch. I figure that after my knee is repaired and back into working condition, I will continue to lift with my upper body and also my lower body. I also plan to do some cardio workouts as well. Another thought is that if I get a job where there is a lot of activity, then maybe it will help a little bit with staying in shape. I think that I am going to have to cut back a little bit on my eating habits as well. During the soccer season I was able to eat as much as I wanted because I would always burn all of it off during practices and in games but now if I am doing a lot of sitting and not very hard activity, I will continue to gain weight as that is one of my worst nightmares.
I have not held a "real job" I guess you could say yet in my life. Instead, I see myself as an entrepernuer instead. I do small jobs by myself or for others more so than actually going out and getting a job that I would have to pay taxes on; so I do under the table work (not paying taxes). Some of the things that I have done in the passed is baling hay and straw for farmers. This work is pretty hard grinding work but I have done it my whole life so I enjoy it and it doesn't mind me much. I also work for a neighboring farmer from time to time. He has me help with with building fences and handling cattle when he needs help. I enjoy doing this because it gets me experience for in the future if I ever have to do any that work on my own someday. I have also done small jobs such as snow shoveling and mowing yards. This passed summer my buddy and I started our own landscaping business doing yardwork for customers. Alone by myself, I made a little over $800 so that is always nice to have in my back pocket. As of right now, I am doing a lot of detailing on vehicles on people. Detailing cars is like washing them, waxing them, cleaning them out and all of that work that others do not have time to do or just are too lazy to do. I ennjoy doing this because I enjoy cars and making them clean from my effotrs. Detailing cars also comes with a price tag so I make pretty good money doing that as well. For just waxing and washing a small car I charge $35 and to clean the whole thing inside and out I charge $75 which is pretty reasonable unless the customer would rather do it themselves. Although I do not have a steady maintaining job, I do not have money trouble and I am always busy doing something productive.
As all of us should know, the election was held last night. I am not usually the person to rant or rave about politics, but in this case I have some things I want to get off my chest. For the presidential choice, I was in favor of Mitt Romney. A couple things that I liked about him is how well he is at managing money and I guess you could say that I sing the Republican way. Most people thought that Mitt Romney would not be a good president because of the way he would manage the economy, as the results show. Although, I believe he would be great at it because of how well he handles money. Since our country is in major debt, maybe we could use a president who is very good at handling money to help stop the debt ceiling. I am not a fanatic about how the election turned out according to some people because I kind of value the opinion that the main component to our country's struggles is Congress. All night last night I was watching Election Coverage on CBS and that made me ponder about the electoral college. I believe that we should get rid of the electoral college completely. It was a great concept back when we did not have the technology to count the popular vote. Now that we have the technology, I think that the popular vote is more important than the electoral college. Also, once one candidate has enough electoral votes, there really is no point of the states that have not finished voting yet vote. The electoral college also takes away the suspense and the excitement of watching the results come through because halfway through the states, the election could basically be over. Although the popular vote would not have made a difference in who was elected president in this election, I believe it should be more important than the Electoral College for the future.
Diabetes
ReplyDeleteTowards the end of my fifth grade year I was diagnosed with a "disease" if you will called diabetes. For starters, I will inform you of what diabetes is. There are two different types. The type I have, is called type 1, or also known as juvenile. Type 1 means my pancreas no longer produces insulin which regulates your blood sugar. Since it no longer produces insulin, every time I eat I have to give myself an insulin shot. Most people think that diabetes comes from being overweight. That is not always the case. Type 2 diabetes is where being overweight plays a rule, but in type 1, most of the time it is hereditary or runs in the family. Being diagnosed was probably one of the best things that could happen to me. Before I found out I was diabetic, I was on track to becoming a very overweight child but after I found out and started regulating my blood sugar, I became more healthier and that saved my life as a moral point of view, it still gave me hope. Most people think that having diabetes makes me different from them but the truth is, I am the same as everyone else and can do pretty much the same thing as anyone else. I am very shy about talking about my diabetes because I do not want people to judge me, and even though it bothers me a bit when my friends crack jokes about it, I still do not react to them. I guess you can say that diabetes has made me a better person than I ever could have been.
Hello, I first want to start off by saying nobody should ever joke about any diseases. Second I would like to say way to go. It takes a strong person to take something so devastating and life tanging to a higher level. I think that all the bad and good things in life that happens to someone is what makes their character. It’s how you handle and take care of these things that decide your outcome. You have defiantly made your outcome in life a lot better o ff. Because of this you will go far in life you will blast through obstacles in life that stop most people in their tracks. I know this because I also have a disease that has had some life changing side effects. I like you have learned how to handle this disease the best way I know how. It has by no means been easy for me but I have come a long way. However, I have had no one make fun of what I have but, they have been very judge mental about it. I try to overlook these kind of people I just blame it on ignorance. MY family has on the other hand been very supportive of me through all this. This is how I know that you must be a strong person because as they say “it takes one to know one”. Well that about wraps it up for now so, have a great day and talk to you latter.
DeleteI must say I am so proud how you have a great outlook on life. I agree diabetes is nothing that should hold you back. I mean why should you let one small thing hold you back from living your future and one day conquering your dreams! I think it’s great how you are open about having diabetes, with this attitude you are probably helping so many people. I must say we will never be able to help those that judge, but one day they will see how great of a person you are, and the disease did nothing to make you any different. I believe these little obstacles in life are meant to help us grow as humans, and the way we react is the way of us showing how we really are. I cannot say I know what you are going through, but I can understand somewhat since my grandparents are diabetic. I can say with your attitude and will power you will get far in life. Who knows maybe this disease made you stronger as a person, and this is why you are the person you are today. I guess we don’t know what makes us behave the way we do, but things that happen in life usually has a great deal to do with it. I hope everything keeps going good for you, and continue on with your great outlook on life. We might as well be positive people; life is too short to do anything else!
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ReplyDeleteTonight is the night that tournaments start for the central buckeye conference in soccer. Fortunately, my team was able to be seeded high enough to get a first round home game. Our game tonight is against the Urbana Hillclimbers at 7:30. The first time we played Urbana which was about two weeks ago we beat them 3-1. I'm pretty excited about tonight as I know there is a 95% chance that this will be the last home game of my career in an Indian Lake soccer uniform. I can't wait to see the vibe from our crowd as a lot of people are suppose to come out and support us. Recently, I have moved from playing defense to playing offense, so who knows, maybe I will get a goal in my last home game. If we win tonight, we go on to play the winner of Ben Logan/Bellefontaine, both of which are our arch rivals. Bellefontaine has a huge advantage to win so if everything plays out right, we will get a chance at revenge against them on Thursday night. I have been waiting for this game ever since I found out when we played. I have been anxious to get out on the field and shut down Urbana early. I am so not ready for the season to be over and will do whatever I can to extend it for at least one more day, it is like a one game season. Let's just say that I will be extra-pumped and ready to go for one last rodeo in Laker Stadium. Wish me luck!
Animals
ReplyDeleteOver the years of my life, my family has had a bunch of animals going in and out the door. We have had such animals as cats, dogs, fish, horses, cows, and pigs. The main two animals that I have lived with for the majority of my time are dogs and cattle. There have been short periods of my life where I have owned fish that always die and when I was younger we had a horse that was not ride-able. For the first fifteen years of my life we had a house cat named "Momma Cat." Her name came from the fact that she has had ungodly numbers of litters throughout her life. After she died, my mom said she was done with cats and that we were not getting another one. I was okay with this because I hate cats and they give me allergies. Our family has owned a handful amount of pigs, as we only had them for meat or to show at the county fair. A dog is my favorite animal. I see dogs as a man's best friend and I have always had one. Since my birth, we are on our 4th dog. I plan to always have a dog throughout my life because I consider them as a part of the family. The dog we have now is a border collie. He is black and white and is a very good guard dog. He is very protective but always a blast to play with. He looks after the house for us and is very lovable. Last of all are cattle. I was introduced to cattle in my life when I was around the age of ten. My dad bought myself and my sisters each a calf to raise and then they were butchered for meat to put in our freezer. Ever since then, I have shown cattle and the fair and have always had a steer. I never really got emotionally attached to them until recently because of all the time and work I have been putting in with them. I am an animal lover but I would not go to the extreme like become a vegetarian or dress my pet. I would say I have been grateful of my animals so far in my life and hope to continue to have animals just as good as they have been.
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ReplyDeleteThe weather in Ohio straight up sucks. One day, it could be seventy degrees outside and sunny and the very next day its forty degrees and windy as can be. It seems like the weather around here changes like the gas prices do, oh my. I can manage to deal with and kind of weather besides wind. I absolutely hate wind. Wind does not do anything helpful and it is just very annoying and pointless. It is always cold and blowing from the wrong direction. Also, it is hard to enjoy being outside when it is windy. You can't really do anything productive without it bothering you in some way. If you mow the yard, the grass blows back on you. If you decide to shoot hoops, the ball always goes with the wind and never makes it. These are just a couple of examples and reasons why I hate rain. My favorite element of weather is probably snow. I absolutely love snow. In the winter, I ride snowmobiles and underneath my snowsuit, I am usually wearing a t-shirt and shorts. The coldness of winter does not bother me like most people say it does to them. As long as there is no wind everything is good to go. I love how bright snow is so when it gets darker outside there is still enough visible light from the reflection of the snow to light up your surroundings. The one thing that I do not like about snow is driving in it. I have to decrease my speed by a substantial amount and be more cautious, but you can never have anything that is absolutely perfect. I am alright with rain at certain times. If it is been raining for like 3 solid days that is when I start to hate it the most. But a nice steady rain from time to time is alright with me because it keeps everything alive and cools down the humidity in the summer time. There is always going to be weather that someone does not like, but you just have to bunker down and wait it out.
I think this is really funny because people are always complaining about how bad Ohio weather is and how bad they want it to change but in reality if it was hot all the time or cold all the time people would complain too. I agree though the way the weather changes here really sucks because it is always something different, you cannot just get used to it because tomorrow could bring on something completely different. One thing I really hate is the wind because it could be not that could out and if the wind is blowing then it makes it even colder out. The wind is kind of nice in the summer when it is really hot and humid but in the winter it completely sucks. Another thing I really hate is rain! I know rain is really essential to the crops and everything because we need them to grow but it really sucks. It just ruins plans and makes the ground muddy so then you track that into houses and cars and just makes everything dirty! So basically the rain just sucks and does need to go away. I like snow when it is falling because it is really pretty but I hate when it melts and everything gets MUDDY! It is so inconvenient and I would really like snow more if it wasn’t cold when it came around or would just come and just poof away the next day. I like warm weather and sunshine, so I should probably just move to Florida.
DeleteKilling two birds with one stone. That is the best way to describe how how I am doing two major projects in my classes right now. In this class, English Com 1110, I am doing my comparison essay over the essay "2b or Not 2b" by David Crystal. This essay is over whether or not texting is hurting the English language. It goes on to say that text lingo, which is like shorthand messages such as "idk and lol," were not created by my generation, and that text lingo was actually used long generations before any of us were ever alive. What it says is that passed generations used it but it was not so widely known as a problem because there were no electronics, so it was not a big problem. The problem, actually, is that our generation is using the text lingo to destroy our language; but then it goes on to say that kids who start using it at a young age are actually doing better in school, confusing right? First off, my opinion on this is that it is not true because I do very well in school and I spell out everything instead of abbreviating it. Anyways, back to the two birds and one stone part. I also have this huge argument speech coming up in my public speaking class. We have to pick a topic, research it thoroughly, and give a speech over why we picked this subject, why it is important, and what side we are on. I think that I am also going to use "2b or Not 2b" in the They Say I Say textbook to eliminate much more work that I would have to do if I chose a completely different topic. I think that this essay would be a great topic to do an argument speech over because there are two sides to the essay and each side has valid points as well as proven statistics. I am glad that this was able to work out like this, it saves me a lot of time and work.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the same story as you right now and I kind of feel the same way about it. I am not really killing two birds with one stone because none of my speeches in public speaking would match up with this. To me I feel like this essay has been the easiest one we have done so far because it is something I know about because everyone texts. I think that it is really weird that Crystal does a really good job at proving that texters are not ruining our language. He found some research that kids that used a lot of abbreviations scored higher on tests of reading and literature and spelling. That kind of confused me as well because it does not really make sense, you would think they would do worse. But then he talks about how to be able to abbreviate you have to know what you are abbreviating so that made sense too. My opinion on texting is that it is not really hurting our language, people should know how to separate their texting language from their school work and literature. I usually do not abbreviate things because I have an IPhone and corrects misspelled words for me so it is easier to just spell them out. I know that when it comes to writing a paper for my English class or any other class for that matter I need to get away from textisms and use the language I was taught in school. I do not think texting is bad for our language at all, I think it is great and people can really express themselves, I just think they need to separate it from their school or job work.
DeleteHello Zack, I’m letting everyone that I have been talking to know that I am almost done with the blog thing. I have busted my ass trying to get this blog stuff done and out of the way. I can only dream about how much time I will be getting when this is done. I think I will be able to work ahead in some other classes now. I have a big paper that is due before too long and it already has me freaking out. I hear that this paper is really hard so, yay. I can’t wait to turn in this paper as well as I can get started on the next and the last one that we have. I not for sure what it is going to be I haven’t even looked at the syllabus to see what it says yet but, I will be looking before too long. If I understand it I will work on it when I get this one done. I think that we have our meeting with her over this one on Thursday so, I will know then if I have to scrap everything I have done and start all over, lol. This essay was not too bad once you figure out what you want to compare about the two. I wish that I would have chosen a text instead of a pic but it’s too late now. I just think that it would be easier to compare a text with a text. Well that is all for me and I hope you get everything that you are going for about of life, it was great to meet you ben. latter
ReplyDeleteSo here in the last month or so I have been working on my college search for when I graduate high school. I had narrowed my search down to three Universities and one that was right on the outside. The three Universities that I was mainly focused on were South Dakota State, Wyoming, and Missouri. People always ask with a befuddled expression on their face, "Why do you want to go so far away?" My answer to that is that I want to get a major in agriculture and the schools around here do not have the best of programs or I do not like the school. Also, my philosophy is that if I stay close to home, I will always be dependent on someone else and I believe that if I go farther away, I will mature more so than I would closer. I am proud to say that I have been excepted to all three of these schools so now I only have to choose! That one outside school (who I will not mention because this is who it is about) basically ran itself into the ground and out of the race. I was filling out the application for the school just like all of the other schools and then it came to the section about your parents. For one, I don't see why any school should have to know about your parents, the student is the one attending, not the parents. Anyways, I was going down through the questions when I came across the question about my parents occupations. Well, my parents are very hard working and neither of them went to college. My dad works in a factory, farms, and also does some work for my Uncles business while my mom also works two jobs; she is an Elementary school librarian and also works at a Krogers fuel center. So I clicked on the tab to look for my parents occupation and one of the answers were "Unskilled." This answer made me outraged. One reason, because this is the category that I would of had to choose and another because it is so downgrading and upsetting. I can only imagine the look on my parents faces if they would have seen this. Could they really not choose a better representative word than "unskilled?!" My parents work their butts off providing for my family and get absolutely no appreciation from anyone who thinks they are better than them. I immediately closed the tab and stopped my application for that school. I would much rather go to another school than go to one that downgrades other people.
ReplyDeleteHey, dude, in terms of the future and having that “maturity philosophy,” we are basically in the same boat. Although I am going to college most likely for Marine Biology or Biochemistry, I am going to have to travel very far away in order to actually pursue a well-paying career in Marine Biology. I mean, let’s be honest, subtracting Lake Erie, Ohio is not really too well-known for having any significant body of water. Because of this, I am most likely going to have to move to a state or possibly even a different country that is bordering an ocean or other significant body of water. This excites me because one: I love travelling, and two: I also believe that being further away from my home town will be a great way to mature and be more independent. Honestly, I am under the impression that if I would stay very close to home, I would probably gain the same morals, ethics, and logical reasoning that a lot of people in my home town contain. I am not saying that people where I am from have crappy morals because I actually believe that they have great ones; I am just stating that I want to find my OWN morals and ethics, so to speak. Being farther away from home would be a great exercise to find out who I truly am. Also, it would be a great way to meet new people and gain new experiences with them. Also, what you said about college applications asking about your parents is complete crap. I also got frustrated because my parents didn’t go to college, yet I am quite positive that they are some of the most successful people I know because they love their life. I’m a big believer in the theory that success is in the eyes of the beholder.
DeleteI feel you on the Marine Biology stuff. Ohio wouldn't be very good for a major like that. That is almost like me going to a state like California to to go to school for agriculture. It is all in what a person is interested in that is going to lead their life. I believe no one should settle for less. As an example, right after my sister graduated high school she moved in with her boyfriend. She still has never held a job and is currently pregnant. Judging from this information, my guess would be that she is never going to be able and do anything with her life. She had always had big expectations in going into nursing and such and it is merely too late for that. I suppose she could still try to do that, but it would be extremely difficult for her all because she decided not to live her life to the fullest. One the parent aspect, that still aggravates me entirely. I also believe that my parents have done a really great job with their lives for neither of them going to college. They have shown me that anything can be done if you set your mind to it. They have done the best they could have to have their three kids have a great life and I would say they have succeeded. I plan to be very successful with my life so I be able to support them if they ever are in need of help. My parents have been great role models for me.
DeleteAs of right now, I am sitting in my sisters room trying to figure out her computer. My sister moved out in like June so this is an empty bedroom with my other sisters computer in it. I would normally get on the computer across from my parents bedroom, but since they are asleep I do not want to take the chance of waking them up. Tinkering with this computer and trying to figure it out got me thinking of my development of my English over this passed semester. Just by pondering the thoughts of how my English language has developed, I believe that I have learned more in college about reading and writing than I did all throughout the three previous years of high school. I am an active person at the Facebook game and am not a twitter person. When I get on Facebook though, I find myself reading the things people post and recognizing the mistakes. I often feel the need to correct their mistakes but would feel like a "snotty kid who thinks he is better than everyone else" in doing so; so I choose not to. Also, when I am updating a status or commenting on something, I find myself striving to use correct grammar and put them into sentence form. In regards to my English getting better, my typing skills have also increased dramatically. I am an avid typer as to before being very slow and inconsistent. My typing skills have increased due to all of my classes, since I write reports for all of them and everything is done electronically now. On another note, there are many things that I did not know how to use before this class. Such things are the semicolon, ellipses, colon, and brackets. I never knew the proper way to use semicolons and colons before taking this class. I would always just use them as to where I though they belonged; most of the time that place was wrong. I just learned last year what an ellipses was (...) and also used it in all the wrong spots as I would use them all the time. Now I hardly ever use them because I know the correct use of them. The last, brackets ([]), were something that I would only use in math in solving equations. I knew they had a purpose for writing but never knew what it was. I have just recently learned that it is for quotes and you put them in a quote that you change something about it. At first, I was very aggravated with this class but here recently have learned to appreciate it as it has helped my English greatly.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about English. I think that this English class has helped me so much with my writing. I also correct people and the things they write on Twitter and Facebook but I do it in my head because I do not want to be that person that goes through and corrects everyone because well, that makes me kind of seem like a know-it-all. Not only this English class helped me but also our English class last year. I was always pretty decent at typing and could do it pretty fast but the fact that we have written so many papers in the past two years I have become an even faster typer which is a really good thing. I am so happy that I have learned so much because it will help me in my other classes and possibly other English classes if I have to take them. I have learned to use evidence and cite it correctly. I learned how to use the correct point of view and use the right intended audience. I even learned how to use better grammar, word choice, commas, semi-colons, colons, ellipses and so much more! It is kind of exciting to learn all this new stuff and know that I am a better writer and understand writing so much better. On the other hand it really sucks having to write all these papers because it takes so much time. I cannot wait to be done with this class and hopefully all English classes because I just don’t really like English although I have learned a lot.
DeleteMost people would argue the point that Saturday's in the fall are reserved for college football. Most people in this area are fans of Ohio State while I am a fan of USC (University of Southern California) and always have been. My aunt is a die hard buckeye fan and I cannot stand the buckeyes, so we will always joke with each other about who is better and clash heads when we get together; she lives about an hour and a half away so we do not get together that often. I have never been to a college football game in person, but by judging on television, the atmosphere looks crazy. My dad just got a call from my aunt Wednesday night wondering if him and I would like to go to the Ohio State vs. Illinois game Saturday with her and my uncle. I kind of responding with a "I suppose" because although I am not a fan of either of the teams, it would be interesting to get the full experience; next year I am planning on going to the USC game in Indiana so I guess this game is kind of a pre-nup to that game. If I remember right, I believe she said we were in the C deck, which judging by my knowledge of stadiums, that seems pretty high up. I am not sure what to expect, whether it be rowdy as can be or nothing more than a concert. If nothing else, I can take away from this experience a chance to spend some quality time with family and give me something to do on a Saturday afternoon. Let's just say I will be rooting for the Illinois Fighting Illini just because my aunt likes Ohio State!
ReplyDeleteThe month of November is a month for thankfulness, also it is the month of my birthday! Woohoo! Thanksgiving is always held in November and it is a time that everyone should count their blessings for what they have and be thankful for their lives. Just these passed couple days I have seen people posting on Facebook things they are thankful for, and I guess the point is to post one thing a day for the whole month all the way up to Thanksgiving day. On thanksgiving, my family usually gets together with my mom's side of the family. We will either have lunch or dinner, depending on the time, and most importantly just spend the majority of the day with each other. I enjoy thanksgiving thoroughly because I enjoy eating all of the delicious food that my mom, grandma, and aunts make. Most of the time I will overeat and have a stomach ache the rest of the night. One of the things that I am most thankful for is my family. Although they can be pretty rowdy, and to some people, kind of weird and odd, I would not have it any other way. We are a really close knit family and share the majority of everything with each other. If someone in our family is having trouble with something, we all work together to help them, whether it be with supplying them with an appliance or helping them with personal problems. Another very important thing that I am thankful for is being able to always have food on the table and gas in my tank. There are some people around the world that do not know when there next meal is going to be, and I have just been blessed by not having to worry about that problem. Also, I drive the greater half of 80 miles a day to school and back and I never have to worry about having enough money for the next tank of gas or not. Everyone should count their blessings and be thankful for all of the great things they have not only in November, but everyday of life.
ReplyDeleteStaying in shape over the next few months will become a challenge for me. I have now finished playing soccer, which is the only sport I play, and have found out that I have a sub-cortical fracture and a dividend in the cartilage of my knee from a previous injury of playing soccer. The doctor said to do no strenuous activity for a couple of months and here in about three weeks he is going to scope the cartilage out. This injury has caused a lot of pain and discomfort. First of all, it hurts just by walking for a long period of time or climbing stairs. It has also affected my mobility and activities. I have a giant brace with hinges on the sides to help support it but it is helping it very little at the most. Since I am done playing sports, the thought has been wondering in my head of what I am going to do to stay in shape. Well, right now, since I cannot do very much strenuous activity, I am lifting with my upper body a bunch. I figure that after my knee is repaired and back into working condition, I will continue to lift with my upper body and also my lower body. I also plan to do some cardio workouts as well. Another thought is that if I get a job where there is a lot of activity, then maybe it will help a little bit with staying in shape. I think that I am going to have to cut back a little bit on my eating habits as well. During the soccer season I was able to eat as much as I wanted because I would always burn all of it off during practices and in games but now if I am doing a lot of sitting and not very hard activity, I will continue to gain weight as that is one of my worst nightmares.
ReplyDeleteI have not held a "real job" I guess you could say yet in my life. Instead, I see myself as an entrepernuer instead. I do small jobs by myself or for others more so than actually going out and getting a job that I would have to pay taxes on; so I do under the table work (not paying taxes). Some of the things that I have done in the passed is baling hay and straw for farmers. This work is pretty hard grinding work but I have done it my whole life so I enjoy it and it doesn't mind me much. I also work for a neighboring farmer from time to time. He has me help with with building fences and handling cattle when he needs help. I enjoy doing this because it gets me experience for in the future if I ever have to do any that work on my own someday. I have also done small jobs such as snow shoveling and mowing yards. This passed summer my buddy and I started our own landscaping business doing yardwork for customers. Alone by myself, I made a little over $800 so that is always nice to have in my back pocket. As of right now, I am doing a lot of detailing on vehicles on people. Detailing cars is like washing them, waxing them, cleaning them out and all of that work that others do not have time to do or just are too lazy to do. I ennjoy doing this because I enjoy cars and making them clean from my effotrs. Detailing cars also comes with a price tag so I make pretty good money doing that as well. For just waxing and washing a small car I charge $35 and to clean the whole thing inside and out I charge $75 which is pretty reasonable unless the customer would rather do it themselves. Although I do not have a steady maintaining job, I do not have money trouble and I am always busy doing something productive.
ReplyDeleteAs all of us should know, the election was held last night. I am not usually the person to rant or rave about politics, but in this case I have some things I want to get off my chest. For the presidential choice, I was in favor of Mitt Romney. A couple things that I liked about him is how well he is at managing money and I guess you could say that I sing the Republican way. Most people thought that Mitt Romney would not be a good president because of the way he would manage the economy, as the results show. Although, I believe he would be great at it because of how well he handles money. Since our country is in major debt, maybe we could use a president who is very good at handling money to help stop the debt ceiling. I am not a fanatic about how the election turned out according to some people because I kind of value the opinion that the main component to our country's struggles is Congress. All night last night I was watching Election Coverage on CBS and that made me ponder about the electoral college. I believe that we should get rid of the electoral college completely. It was a great concept back when we did not have the technology to count the popular vote. Now that we have the technology, I think that the popular vote is more important than the electoral college. Also, once one candidate has enough electoral votes, there really is no point of the states that have not finished voting yet vote. The electoral college also takes away the suspense and the excitement of watching the results come through because halfway through the states, the election could basically be over. Although the popular vote would not have made a difference in who was elected president in this election, I believe it should be more important than the Electoral College for the future.
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