School

So I changed my major yesterday! I am now an Elementary Education major. I have been thinking about doing this since January, but I was pretty set on on Social Work with the thoughts of eventually doing social law. Being the complete hard head that I am thought it would be best to take the Intro to social work class and see if I really loved it as much as I thought! This is a class you normally aren't allowed to take until your Jr year so that is why I hadn't taken it already. Well as it turns out the whole class I was like convicted about whether or not I would be able to do what social workers are required to do. First of all the Social Work profession is extremely liberal in it's views as far as social policy goes, but not only that it's pretty strict on being non biased and you can't bring personal views or beliefs into the job. Well that's pretty hard for me! How am I going to work everyday with hurting people and not be like YOU NEED JESUS!!! lol so needless to say I was praying about it and the pros of teaching far beat the pros of social work and yes even eventually becoming a lawyer! I really felt like I would sacrifice too much as far as ministry is concerned and I'm not willing to do that! The bible does say seek ye first the kingdom, not seek ye first a law degree! haha :-) The only gigantic negative is almost none of the classes I have already taken will go toward my new major. I am starting over 100% I could have cried my eyes out when my advisor was telling me all this! I have to take 18 credit hours for the next 3 semesters and 3 summer school classes just to be able to transfer to Mississippi State from Meridian Community College beacause our MSU campus is only a JR/SR college. That really bites excuse my french! But I can do it...hopefully! I am excited to get back to school though! I love school!

Indiana Schedule!

Friday June 27th- Leave Meridian, MS @ 5am (Sheena and Elvis sleep at this point while Cliff drives)
Arrive in Indianapolis, IN around 3pm; staying in Indy

Saturday June 28th- Go to Columbus, staying in Columbus

Sunday June 29th- Attend Church at WOP, staying in Columbus

Monday June 30th- Staying in Columbus

Tuesday July 1st- Staying in Indy

Wednesday July 2nd- Six Flags Kentucky Kingdon all day, staying in Indy

Thursday July 3rd- Party and Fireworks at Shelly and Dale Loyd's; staying in Indy

Friday July 4th- HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! Cookout with the fam, staying in Columbus

Saturday July 5th- Leave for Meridian, MS ealry that morning

**Activities listed on this schedule are set in stone while all other times may vary! The days we are in Columbus are the days for us to see people who live in Columbus and the same goes with days in Indy! Please keep this in mind because as much as we love everyone we will be needing you to arrange your schedules around us and not us arranging our schedules around you! We just don't have the time or energy to do that like we did last time! as much as we wish we could and as much as I wish we could spend a full day with everyone we have to be realistic and I don't have anymore Time off to recover from what is supposed to be my vacation!! Love you all :)**

Women are stupid...

Ok not really, but I hate working in an office full of, and ran by women! Women are moody, gossipy, whiney, and sometimes just plain rude! I have an extrememly flexible schedule at work becasue when I applied for the job I told them up front that my first responsibility was with the church and I would need time off frequently and that I would always give them plenty of notice and I would be flexible to fill in hours for people where I could or switch days if needed. You know, If you are flexible with me I will always be flexible with you type of situation! Well they agreed to all this and it has worked out great! I have given them a time off schedule up to december just so they would have a way heads up and in return I have worked extra hours came in on my days off and yada yada, you get it! Well last Thursday I had an appointment to take Elvis to Petco for his bath and all that on my lunch break at 2. Well the lady at petco who was working alone took a walk-in Collie like 10 min before I got there. I had told her I was leaving town at 4pm and I would be picking Elvis up at 3:45pm becasue Elvis is little it only takes an hour and 15 min to do everything and she said over the phone the day before that all this was ok and they could get it done. Well since she was an idiot and started washing the Collie who didn't have an appointment ahead of my appointment she told me Elvis wouldn't be able to get his bath until 5 and be done at 6:15 because a collie takes 3 hours! Well I all but cussed the poor woman out because I had my dog with me, I was on my 1 hour lunch break that only had 15 min left and I had to leave town at 4. Needless to say I had to call around find somewhere that could get him in, pay more than usual and I was 30 min late to work! Well I had called before I was late to tell them I was gonna be late and explained the situation! My manager was out of town so i told the lady who was working. Well this lady told my manager yesterday that I was at lunch for an hour and a half and no one knew where I was or what I was doing and I almost got in trouble until I told her I called! That's when my manager bothers to tell me that some of the other girls are complaining about how my schedule is so loose and how I get to do whatever I want and why does Sheena get to do this and that. I was so mad! First of all I work like 20 hours a week for 7 dollars an hour! It's not like they are over paying me for what I do! And all the other girls are full-time! I don't have a fourth of the responsibilities they do! Stupid women! lol ok...I am done ranting....

So I have been thinking about switching my major...again...haha I know, I know, I am gonna be in school until I am 50 but I am thinking about Elementary Education because, A) I love kids and B) It has the perfect schedule for a youth pastors wife! I am off the whole summer so that takes care of all the camps and youth congresses and youth events! Then I am off every holiday including 2 weeks at christmas and a week for spring break! And we will have incredible insurance and retirement! I am just thinking though! And after this next semester I will have enough credits to get a job as a teaching assisstant which is a much better paying job than what I have now, we could start getting benefits now, and I would start having the same schedule as a teacher! I am praying about it of course but it just seems like such a better idea than social work and social law....I know I could do all that if I worked really hard, but what would I have to sacrifice for a law degree? It just doesn't seem like the important thing (as cool as it would be to have a doctorate of law haha) well anyway just pray for me and pray that I get the teaching assisstant job! I am gonna put my application in soon because I think I maybe could get it now since I am only a few credits away...our assisstant pastor works for Meridian Public Schools and he is helping me get a foot in! I'll let you all know how it goes and feel free to comment your opinions! I need advice! lol!

Ps...We leave for Indiana this Friday!!! WOO HOO! I'll post our schedule in a seperate blog!

Crazy!

I had the craziest weekend this past weekend! I went up to Jackson on Thursday to see Cliff and hang out at camp which was really fun up until the after hours was over and we were getting ready to go to bed. I brought Elvis with me and Nate Rios wanted to come over and see him because he loves pugs and thinks Elvis is the cutest dog ever (Which he is). Well Elvis gets really hyper around new people so of course he was being crazy hyper and running around trying to play with Nate when he started kind of making this choking sound which he does when he is so hyper he loses his breath. Since he does it sometimes we didn't think anything of it but then he fell over and passed out! I thought he died because when he fell over he peed and when something dies that is what it does, so of course I was hysterical! In a few seconds though he woke up and slowly came back to normal. We took him to the animal hospital the next morning and they said he had a mild seizure and that it most likely would never happen again. The vet said when small dogs get super hyper and lose oxygen it can sometimes cause a disruption in their brain and they will seizure. Elvis has been completely normal ever since so we are just keeping a close eye on him! It was terrible though...I really hope it never happens again!



On a better note Nona Freeman was at our church this weekend and of course she was awesome! She did a ladies service on Saturday morning then she did both services yesterday (sunday). She is turning 92 next month so she was really feeble compared to last time I saw her like 2 years ago. I have a book of hers that I haven't read yet called Give Us This Day and she signed it and I got my picture taken with her. She is incredible and we don't have her around much longer so I thought it was pretty cool to get to spend time with her! Perk of being a preachers wife...you get to hang out with the really big time people! haha

I hate Insurance

So I have been trying to find car insurance all week since State Farm is cancelling our insurance effective June 24th. I am so annoyed that the cheapest thing I could find is almost 200 a month and almost 400 for the down payment! It's because we are young but I have 3 speeding tickets and Cliff has 1...state farm only allows 3 per household and they were sooooo cheap! only 100 a month! I have a ticket that goes off my record at the beginning of August so we are gonna go back to state farm then. This is when being an adult is really bad! haha oh well my own fault I guess! I am going up to camp today at 4 and I can't wait! I am going to be dead tired though because I woke up at 6 to get everything ready to go and I had to be at work today at 8am! That is way too early when you are used to going in at 11! Elvis is going to camp with me and he is getting a bath on my lunch break so he will be pretty and smell good to meet everyone! I really wish he wasn't so hyper! He has calmed down a ton with me and Cliff but when he meets new people he turns into this annoying psycho dog!! I can't wait for the day when he is the fat lazy pug he is supposed to be! haha I just want him to lay around and be calm when people meet him and not want to play constantly! He's still a puppy so I shouldn't complain...he'll grow out of it!

8 days until Indiana!!!

I'm Back!!

I really wanted to write yesterday but I was so unbelieveably swamped at work it was crazy! I had no free time to even get on the internet better yet sit and write a blog update! I came in at 11 today and it is 3:15 now and I just got caught up! So now I am rewarding myself with free time to write in my blog! haha This weekend was so hectic...we got home on friday and pretty much slept all day since we didn't go to bed until after 2am every night! Then I got up Saturday around 1pm to start on the rediculous amount of laundry we had! I did 8 loads...please don't ask how 2 people managed to dirty that much laundry in 4 days because I am still wondering! Camp was a blast though! I loved it way more than I thought I would...it was a lot like Indiana camp minus all my Indiana friends! I met this girl named Amber McEntyre who is 21 and From Woodlawn Church in Columbia and we are just the best of friends now! haha she is nuts and we had so much fun! Cliff and I also met and hung out with the Jr High pastor from Woodlawn Britt Ham and His wife Julee...they are awesome! Then there was Nate Rios who is Cliff's very new best friend...they really bonded this week...they thought each other were so cool so of course they loved each other! It was an ego boost every time they hung out!! hahahaha but seriously he is a super cool guy and his oldest son Traycin who is 5 was there all week and he hung out with me and Amber all week! He is the cutest little boy ever! We didn't really get to hang out with Nate's wife considering she is 9 months pregnant with their 4th child! Cliff said all the Rios kids are out there this week and his wife! She is brave to be out at camp ready to pop at any moment!! Camp probably would have been pretty bad if I hadn't found some people I liked so much to hang out with lol! Cliff is back there now and I wish I could have gone! I don't know if the 16-19 age group would have been nearly as fun as last weeks 12-15 though...all they did was sit in the dorm and talk about boys and who was going out with who...it was hysterical! They all took it sooooo seriously, but the best part was that they never actually talked to who they were going out with lol just their friends running messages back and forth! The services were INCREDIBLE...Herald Linder preached and he is so funny. 18 kids got the Holy Ghost this week including one of our guys named Quinton! We thought he had it but he said he wasn't sure if he did or not so we told him he better get to the altar and make sure! haha
Elvis loved staying at the kennel and I think he has been sad ever since he came home! He had so much space to run around at the kennel now he is stuck in his little carrier again! The lady said Elvis was her favorite because he didn't sull when we left him like most pets do and he never made a mess in his cage...he only went potty outside! I was pretty proud lol Then she said that he wouldn't play with her very much he just ran figure eights around her backyard until he was about ready to pass out haha! Since Cliff left me alone this week I was scared to stay in the apartment by myself but I did it last night! And Elvis slept in the bed with me!! Most of the night anyway...he woke me up around 4 this morning walking around the bed and jumping at the lumps in the covers so I had to put him in his own bed! Well that is pretty much the big catch up over the last week but I'll let you know how staying by myself this week goes! I went to bed at like 10 last night because I thought if I stayed up too late I would freak myself out! haha I am going out to camp Thursday to stay since I don't work Friday and I am sooo excited!! A)because I miss Cliff and B) I get to see Amber, Sis. Julee, and Traycin!!!! woo hoo!
10 days until Indiana!!!!!!!!

I have this burning feeling...

on my face! I went tanning last night for 10 min because I am pretty pale and I didn't want to fry next week at MS camp in the 5 billion degree weather! Well my whole body got a great start of a tan since I had gone tanning a few times before I went to Indiana last time! But my poor face is absolutely fried! It hurts so bad to smile, talk, and in the shower I was in tears when the water hit my face! When I went tanning before I wore a face lotion that has a spf 15 sunscreen in it so that had to be what protected my face last time. Well this time I hadn't put face lotion on my face in 2 days because I have this disgusting patch of skin that I thought might be ring worm (it's not) and I was hoping it would go away if I just let my skin be for a few days. Well that is what I get for breaking my own rules that you never go out with out sunscreen on your face because A) you will get wrinkles and B) you will be in severe pain if you are as fair as I am! lol oh well I guess...the things we go through to be beautiful!!
Moving on....
This will be my last blog for the next week because Cliff and I are leaving for Teen camp early monday morning and I never get online during the weekend. We are taking Elvis to the "Perfect Paws Puppy Resort" for the whole week! I am really sad because I hate that he will think we just left him with strangers who don't even love him! And he is really needy! We normally leave him with Lynette but she will be out at camp too and he is way too much of a handfull to stay in the camper with her and her poodle Cookie. I guess he'll have fun because they keep them in really spacious kennels where they can run around and play and I know he will be in heaven since we keep him in a cage where he can't do anything but stand and turn around. And they only charge 15 dollars a day which is great! They were reccomended to us by a friend (Tracy) so if they do anything to hurt Elvis I'll just blame her! HAHA just kidding Trace! I have to get to work now but I am sure I'll have plenty to write about after my first Mississippi camp...I know there is no possible way it could be any better than Indiana Camp but I am trying to keep and open mind! haha bye!

Ps. 21 days until our Indiana trip!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wedding Album has arrived....

So we FINALLY got our wedding album last night (June 3)! I ordered it at the beginning of January so I was getting pretty mad that I had to wait 5 months! Then I got it and now I could never be mad at those incredible photographers! lol even if they did charge my parents an arm and a leg...it's the most perfect album in the world! They did such a fantastic job putting it together like a story. Another thing I love is that our pictures are the actual pages! This is fantastic becasue they can't fall out and accidentally get crumpled and they won't yellow over time....how wonderful!!! I took it to work with me today and showed everyone and of course it is going with me to church tonight! I want everyone to see our wedding since not that many people form Meridian were able to come! And I can't wait to bring it home with me to Indiana in 23 days in case any of you are counting! lol I know you all will love it as much as I do!

So I think I am lazy...

I have new summer hours at work, Mon-Thurs 11 to 5! Those are GREAT hours! I was so excited because I was thinking I could sleep in until 8:00 or 8:30 since I don't have to be at work then anymore and work out, take my time getting ready, do a little house work, take care of elvis, then eat! This is a great plan right? In theory yes! BUT I CANNOT GET UP! My annoying alarm goes off and I turn it off and sleep until almost 10 and I have to leave at 10:40, so I end up rushing around to get ready and take care of elvis. Forget any house work or eating or working out! I have only managed to get up early like 3 days and I still didn't even get up when my alarm went off...what is wrong with me? I know that I hate to work any job lol and my job really isn't that bad, the motivation to wake up and get going in the morning just isn't there! I hope I am not getting too lazy....

Sheena the baby

So Cliff and I were both out of town this weekend. I was in Hattisberg at High Praise which is like a much smaller Music Fest and he was preaching a youth service 3 hours away in New Albany! Our little weekend adventures required me coming home a day earlier than him meaning I had to stay by myself at our apartment! Needless to stay I was terrified! I tried calling my friend Tracy to see if her and her girls wanted to come over and watch a movie but they were out eating and didn't get my call...so I went out to get the movie "Enchanted"...I thought if I got a happy movie I would be ok haha but by the time I got back home from the movie store I had scared myself so bad thinking of being out in the woods by myself that I was scared just being awake in the apartment by myself! How rediculous am I!?!?! HAHA so Tracy being the most wonderful best friend that she is let me come over to her house and stay on their couch so I wouldn't be afraid! I had fun though...Tracy tried to stay up but ended up falling asleep and me and Savannah, her awesome 6yr old stayed up half the night watching "enchanted"! In two weeks Cliff will be out at Senior youth camp for the whole week...I am praying I won't have to embarrass myself again by going over to someone else's house to stay!

Blogging

So I have done it! I have created a blog...I know my husband will laugh at me and tell me I am rediculous, but oh well, it's worth the scorn! I have decided that a blog is like a journal you don't mind everyone reading and I love to journal! Being so far away from home it might be fun to let everyone know what's going on with my day to day things...My sister-in-law Andrea has a blog that I get on and read a lot, at first I thought it was kinda weird to let everyone know your business so publicly (No offence to you my sweet sister, I love you!) but then after a while the idea seemed great! Some of the craziest things happen to me and I can't call everyone everytime something fun, or sad, or happy, exciting happens in my life but they can come here when they have time to see what's going on in my life! Hope you all enjoy!