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I always look forward to seeing friends. Working in retail means that my schedule is not consistent and I am always working odd hours. When I have the opportunity to see people that I enjoy being around is a great feeling. Many of my friends also work retail, so rarely do our schedules match up for us to see each other. When I know that I’m going to see one of them I get very excited. Even though I am in an industry where I am around people all of the time, it’s not the same feeling as when I am with people who truly care about me and enjoy being with me.

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Working in a retail environment means that my weekends are not traditional Saturday/Sunday weekends. My weekend can be any day of the week, and I may not even have two days off together. Last week I was fortunate enough to have the same days off as a friend of mine. She lives about 2 hours from me, so I don’t get to see her as often as I would like. We had a great time this past weekend. It was her son’s birthday so we all went out to dinner and had some drinks and some laughs. It’s always nice being able to see her and hang out with her.

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If I could change one thing about the world it would be the corruption that occurs within the people who are tasked to protect and serve. I’m not only discussing police forces, but the people who run governments, the armed forces, and anyone in a position of power. It is amazing to me how much power corrupts people and once they get a taste of the corruption, they continue down that path. Many people will discuss their point of view to the public, but tend to ignore their position in private. An example of this would be Elliot Spitzer. He made such dramatic changes to the liquor industry in New York then got caught with his pants down. If you want to have sex with prostitutes then I say go for it, but when it makes you a hypocrite then shame on you.

I am such a huge fan of music, especially when it tells a story. While I like many different genres of music, my favorite kind of music is country. Ten years ago I was dating a guy who really liked country. At that time, I had no interest in country music and would roll my eyes every time he sang along with the radio. He wanted to go to a Tim McGraw concert with Kenny Chesney opening. He asked me to go with him and I agreed, since I knew how much he wanted to go. We were a little late and had just parked at the end of Kenny Chesney’s set. I remember asking him why he was singing about tractors? Then Tim McGraw came on and sang “Don’t take the girl.” I remember being so moved by the story that I got teary. I was hooked from that moment on. As it turns out, jazz does not really keep me quite as entertained as country. While I can understand the talent that it takes to play those instruments, jazz music doesn’t tell me a story that I can relate to. I don’t enjoy sitting around listening to the wail of jazz.

I have worked a number of interesting jobs in my life some of the most entertaining include, photofinishing technician, stable hand, nanny and museum attendant.  Through all of my high school years I worked in a photofinishing lab where film was developed, printed, enlarged etc.  This job was so much fun it was like taking a peek into people’s lives!  I worked there for 5 years and saw photos of children being born all the way through there first few birthdays!  It was like knowing their lives without ever actually knowing them.  The photos that came through the lab were not always appropriate for a 14 year old to see, but that never stopped my supervisor from having me print them anyhow!

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If I could go anywhere in the world on vacation where would it be?  This is just a difficult question to answer because the destination and reasoning changes from day to day it seems!  Today I think my dream vacation would be to visit Bali.  The art and culture of Bali has always been very interesting to me, specifically the detailed carvings and ink work that artisans of the area are known for.  The beautiful climate and beautiful vistas also draw my interest as an ecotourist! I think it would be amazing to take a cooking class with a local chef, shopping in one of the large markets for fresh ingredients and creating a dish with those new and exotic or otherwise unknown to me spices!  What a dream!

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I would say that my husband knows me like the back of his hand, but one thing about me is that I don’t consider myself smart. I like to pretend that I am smart, but I don’t have a lot of “book brains,” I do however consider myself to have a lot of common sense. My husband is working on his doctoral program, and I don’t even have any degrees under my belt. I became a teenage parent, twice, and it kind of not necessarily messed up my life, just changed plans. I do plan on going back to school one day, but I don’t consider myself book smart. If I don’t see it on the news, I have no clue.

My main thing that I look forward to these days is my husband being done with his doctoral program. I know he is ready to complete it as well. We are planning a family vacation to California, and I really hope that it works out for us. On a regular basis, I usually look forward to the weekends, so they can be spent with my family. I am defiantly a family oriented person, and love spending quality time with our children, whether it is baking cookies with them are watching movies. I look forward to Fridays, like most people do.

I’m pretty much a homebody, well for now anyways. My husband is working on his doctorate degree, and so he stays in the man cave writing his dissertation, while I am stuck tending to our kids. On Friday night, my husband did get out to take a break, and we took our three children to the Christmas parade that was held up town. The high school band was playing, old cars, fire trucks, police cars, and to top it off, Santa Claus. The rest of the weekend was spent doing a little bit of Christmas shopping.

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There are so many things that are wrong with the World, if I sat here and listed everything, we would be here forever. I think if I had to change one thing about the world, is violence. There is so much violence in the world, children being found raped and murdered in dumpsters, children missing, people being killed. I know this sort of thing has always been around, but it seems like as the time continues to go on, that the world just continues to get crueler. People are so angry, why? You can be driving and get flipped off, it just seems that people are just so angry with themselves and have became way to violent for my taste.