Thanksgiving Rants

I know everyone has done their Thanksgiving meal. Now here it is the day after Thanksgiving and now we have less than thirty days until Christmas. I think this is probably the craziest time of year. You put all of the holiday Black Friday Specials out there and all of the madness that goes with it. I wish someitmes we could go back to the easier and older times of life where the holiday actually meant you soent time with your family. I don't think people should be out seeing how much money they can spend in each ither, I wonder uf sometimes especially kids nowadays actually know what the true meaning if the holidays actually is. As I stated un my earlier posts. I love my family.At this time of year when many families are out of work and struggling to make bills I feel like we all need to remember what the true meaning fo the holidays is. Now that I have finished my holdayt rant I hope everyone has had a wonderful thankgiving and look forward to a hopeful better year

Thanksgiving Thanks

I know everyone is getting ready for the holidays and giving thanks. A few weeks ago I almost lost everything I held dear to me. My home, my fiance, and my family. I had taken a real deep turn in deporession. Losing my job so many months ago made it hard for me., I think that and the fact that this had been the longest I have ever been without work just really got to me. I pushed everyone away from me including my children. No matter what anyone said or did I just couldnt get happy. I never had felt like that. I had aches and pains that I never had before. I gained almost 40 lbs. I was a complete and total mess. I made a trip to the doctor and another call to a therapist. I now feel better than I ever have, This is also the reason why I chose what I chose for my project. I just want to remind everyone to give thanks everyday for what you have, I feel that even in the hardest times you will always have your family. ALways remember they love you. I thank my stars everyday for what I have. I hope everyone has a good holiday..

Greetings Everyone!!!

As I ws looking ahead I noticed we will be posting more and more on the blogas. From what I have seen so far everyone is pretty excited and this is a new thing for most of us. I guess I will jump in with a little about myself. My name is Lisa. I live in a town called Glen Burnie, MD . I have lived here all of my life. I have three children. My oldest son is NIcholas he is from my first marriage. I have two other children Rachel who is 6 amd Tristan who is 5. I am engaged (might as well say married) to Steve. We had once dated in high school but I left him about a week before his senior prom. He likes to tease me about this. Anyway I went on to marry my first husband. He was a very verbally abusive person. I left him after 9 years, I ran into Steve several months after my ex and I had split up . I don;t think had it been for Steve I would have made it through all the crap my ex still tries to put me through. This of coursehas taken it's toll on me. I am still after 8 years trying to put myself back together. I am only relaying this information becuase it is very important to me. Anyway up until 11 months ago I worked as an Administrative Assistant. I was laid off due to a reduction in the work force. So it was after this I decided to go back to school. So here I am in English COmp II just like the restof my classmates.I will post more later but here is a brief bio on me.

first attempt

okay as I amsure the rest of you know we are all here trying to learn this blog thing. I think it is kind of neat. My teenage son explained it top me as like an online journal where you put all of your thoughts down. I thin k most of us in class are parents etc so that we all have alot in common. By being able to put our thoughts out in the open maybe we can all brainstorm and really enjoy this blog thing. I am one who likes writing journals I am not sure if I am ready to have the world read them or in this case the class. I have kids like everyone else and trying to manage schoolwork, a home and maintain my kids schoolwork can sometime be a challenge so we will see how all of this plays out. Good luck to all of m y classmates and I look forward to reading your posts as well.

First Timer

I am not sure quite how to or what to write on a blog, but I guess we will learn as class goes. I hope all the classmates can give input and how to do it right...Good Luck to my classmates