She's Back!

She's Back! Sorry for the long vacation. :(

The Updates on Me (The Holiday Break)

School- Rosemont College

School is going great. I’m off to a good start with a total of 20 credits and a 3.4 GPA. I’m shooting for a 3.7 next semester. We’ll see how it will go. I admit it wasn’t hard, though it was a lot of work. I had to pull long hours in the library- I’m talking 11:30am-11:30pm. I’m determined and hungry, so really it doesn’t matter. I know the rule . . . no one is going to give you anything and just for that I’m taking everything. A lot of people say school is not for them, but I believe school is for me. When I say that, my friends at school call me a nerd or a geek and then 5 minutes later they are knocking at my dorm door asking me to edit their papers. It’s funny because then I get a chance to yell “dumb ass, the geek is sleep!”

The step coach asked me to come back. I am still unsure, but most likely the answer will be no because I need to stay focus. I am going back to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) to complete another internship in the summer. Also, I have plans to take two classes at Community College of Philadelphia (CCP). I just received two more scholarships so that will pay my tuition. I’m excited and cannot wait until I’m finished.

Work- Burger King

I am home working hard as usual at the same ol’ lousy job. I can’t wait until my B-day because working for minimum wage cannot pay any bills. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to get a job paying real money until I’m legal. It’s sad that a girl in college cannot get a job that pays more than minimum wage, but I guess that is just one of the many consequences of graduating a year early from high school. So, there are thirty-seven days left in counting.

Family- The Garners

Recently, I had told my mother and my father how much I love and appreciate them. I have noticed that those are some things that I don’t tell them often. Although we have been through a whole lot, they‘ve always stuck together and tried their best. I have realized that many people cannot say that about their parents. Since I can, I thank God for that and I try to tell them I love and appreciate them more often; not just on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. When things go wrong, my mother feel as though she has failed as a mother, but I think all mothers feel that way at least once. It’s not always the parent who fails, though sometimes it’s the child. I can recall many occasions when I have failed as a child and when I think back, I tell myself if I was my child, I would have beat her a**! And as for my father, the same thing applies. My father and I have been through a lot, just me and him together, but as we grow older, we are growing closer. Due to his personal issues, he had treated me with much disrespect and due to my immaturity I had treated him similarly. Fortunately, all that is in the past and we are on good terms.

Social Life- My Friends

I’m only seventeen and a half and already I feel old. I never want to go out and party anymore. Even after I’ve gotten dressed, I flops right back on the couch and say never mind. That’s how you know when you’re getting old-when your wild-side gives in on you. I just try to keep my close friends close and the rest will eventually put me to “the left” when they find out that Erica is a dead beat at seventeen and a half. Well, it’s not that bad.

Love Life- What’s my marital status?

Another year goes pass and another year I’m single, yet still mingling. After telling myself it was me or it was them, I have came to the realization that it is neither. I’ve have figured it out! It is not meant to be yet. Yet, did you read that? My husband will come and marry me when I am good and ready. Obviously, I am far from that. I have a lot of time and I like to call that time “me time”. It is time for me to love me. So, I have been doing just that. I have been going to the gym regularly as well as the orthodontist. Since my braces are going to be on for two years that gives me plenty of “me time”. While I stay in school for another 4-6 years that gives me more than enough “me time”. The more time I have to myself, the more time I have to grow as a person. It feels damn good to see the many changes I have been through thus far. Now the journey must continue.

iAdios!
Senorita Garner