The $50 Lesson

3:45 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied... "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed with pride! "Wow...what a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that!" I told her. "What do you mean?" she replied. So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out and give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house." She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?" I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party." Her parents aren't speaking to me anymore.

 (I love this story although these days it seems the Republican and Democratic Parties are about one and the same, what matters is the lesson behind it! 
- Ron Paul 2012!)

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A change is going to come...

11:55 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

Change is inevitable. This is one thing I have learned from my life thus far. It seems just when you get adjusted to life a certain way or everything in life seems to be going just right or as planned, a change comes and throws it all off course. Sometimes we are resposible for these changes and in most instances, it is out of our control. I am going on my fifth week of pharmacy school and this has been a huge adjustment for me! I am sort of in the "could've should've would've" phase right now. I was so used to studying all night and working all day and then nights I didn't study, I was out with friends and just always busy when I lived in Birmingham. Moving to Auburn, I did not have one friend here, quit my job, lived by myself, and took only my classes. I thought this would be great to give me some down time since I had been non stop busy but I now feel that it has only created a crutch for me that I am having a hard time getting rid of. No doubt my classes were super hard and I took all science classes but that was all I did, go to class and study. If I had any down time, I watched tv or sat on the computer. When I lived in my 280 apt, I may have turned on the television not even a handful of times the entire year I lived there. So needless to say, I got a little lazy relaxed. I started having too much down time and not knowing anyone, I laid around all the time and got in a slump. So now pharmacy school is non stop; classes, meetings, conferences, projects, patient visit,s and then studying at night. I'm having to make a HUGE change not only in my lifestyle but in my attitude because I just want to come home and have down time since that is what I have been used to here. I know pharmacy is going to go great and I know it is going to be hard and I am totally prepared for that. I am just wanting to get this whole sun up to sun down, life consuming, busy bee thing down. And the crazy part about it is that a year ago I would have had no problem jumping right in. So, what I am trying to say is; all of life, things are not always going to go as planned and won't always happen when you're most ready for them. A change will always come. Every where we go we see things changing in our towns, city, country, the world, and in each individual life. All we can do is embrace change and anticipate our ability to evolve and keep going. I know it's been a while since I have blogged, due to many changes that have been going on in my life but I haven't given up on it yet! :) Hope you all have a blessed rest of the week!


Quote of the Night:  Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here's the truth: The more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change, is, everything. ~ Greys Anatomy

Listening to: Run to You - Whitney Houston

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Dream a little...

2:04 PM Es Elle 0 Comments



At some point maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life 
the true dream is being able to dream at all. 
~Grey's Anatomy


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