Christmas Cookies!!

Thanksgiving always seems to be one of the biggest holidays concerning food in America. When it comes to our family though our favorite food tradition comes just before Christmas. Every years about two weeks before Christmas my grandmother and I start baking dozens of gingerbread boys, caramel brownies and fudge. We generally bake around two to three hundred a year and give them out to family and friends. I've been helping my grandma ever since I can remember as she did with her mom, we even use her mothers original cookie cutters and recipe. It is always one of my favorite holiday memories when my mom, grandma and I can get together and talk and have fun, while the smell of the baking cookies overtakes the house. After they were all baked my brother and I used to just sit around for hours and frost them with fancy little outfits and designs, occasionally starting frosting fights and eating the cookies when no one was looking. This tradition will always be a part of me and I hope to start it with my own children as well as my brothers daughter and I hope they share the same experience I've always had and loved.

Furthering Your Education is a Community

As I look around my classrooms everyday, as i do love to people watch, I see many people like myself. Though they may be of all different age, look, or personality everyone there all strives for the many of the same things as I. We are held together by the want to better our education in order to obtain better jobs, lead a better lifestyle, to follow a dream, or simply wanting more knowledge. We talk over homework assignments hoping to be right in our thinking, we sit, crunched over a desk, slightly at odds, cursing ourselves for not studying more for that big math test, and provide encouragement for each other before a big speech, knowing how much anxiety they can cause. We all share the needs of understanding the material and doing well overall in the class, while still maintaining our own lives separate from school whether it be family and fiends, favorite hobbies, or at our workplace. We value the organization of time, there never is enough! There are many things working to get under our skin while continuing our education. For example the trials of supporting and caring for a family, having a work load too big for you to handle, or simply not having much interest in a "required" class. This can cause us to become sick much more often, something I have been more than exposed to, and having larger amounts of anxiety, and stress.
I am very much a part of this community. I am a full time student and worker, hoping that after all this effort I can accomplish my goal of graduating form Western with a degree in Business Administrating and Accounting. I too feel the exhaustion after a long week and the pride I have in myself after I do well on a particularly hard assignment or test. I love being part of a community that has the same goals I do. It helps me to stay on a straight path to graduation.

My Wallet

If someone were to examine the contents of my wallet I think that they would only gain little knowledge of my identity. Opening up my crème colored “leather” wallet you would mostly see just a wide arrangement of cards. The most important to finding my identity would be my driver’s license. The picture would show a young, caucasian, girl with long brown hair and brown eyes. Hmm… she’s 5’8”, just turned 18 a few months ago, and an organ donor. The next two cards are from BECU. One my credit card, which I try not to use very often, and two my very much overly used debit card, which would explain the all too noticeable lack of cash in my wallet. A couple of gift cards to Nordstrom’s and Urban Outfitters would show my love for shopping. After looking over the six or seven movie ticket stubs and Regal Cinema club card would lead you to the fact that I love watching all different kinds of movies. A Subway card would imply that I try to eat healthy and could live on those sandwiches. She must like to read, you might think, not every teenage girl carries around her library card. My wallet is pretty big but bare. I don’t carry many personal things like pictures, for fear that I might loose them. Some things just can’t be replaced.
All in all I think you could only get a general idea of who I am by looking through my wallet. You would not see how much I love and value my family and family or that I’m a very friendly, easy to get along with person, but often pretty quiet. The fact that I’m working at ACE Hardware full-time and going to school full time, or that I love to draw would be left out as well. It’s safe to say that I would ever find a wallet big enough to express my full identity, and what life without a little mystery anyway?

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