Hello all,
 I have decided, through the suggestion from a friend, to start blogging my life. I should have started blogging back when I lived with the crazies at Bethel, but I'll recap to that time a different day.
  So, yesterday I was in my car with my two co-pilots, Rocky the 90lb.  Boxer, and Charlotte the 8.5lb purse dog. She's a mix really between a yorkie-papillion-long hair dashound....something like that. Anyone who knows anything about boxers, you'd know that they drool. Well, that is an understatement if you look at my car. The window, the ceiling, the seats are COVERED with nasty foamy drool stains. See, when you drive down the mountain in your '98 piece of crap at a 5% grade your dog starts panicking  because of his ears popping.

Lets back up a bit. On Saturday, June 21, 08 I drove to my Grandma Robinson's to go to my cousins Open House. She is going to Ball State this fall, super exciting~ so those of you who are around the FUNcie area will most likely meet her.

I left on Sunday morning, 20 til 4 am and made my way to I65. The awesome construction that is taking over most of Indiana on just about every single major highway that gets me to grandmas. So, I took the back roads to Merrillville. By the time that I got to Wolcott area I had to go to a rest stop to take a nap. I was soo exhausted!!! So, I woke up 30 mins later and drove as far as 71st street in Indy to get some coffee. I should had made that my first priority when I got on the road. I was soooo much better after I started getting the cappachino with the extra pumps of caffeine that was not caffeine but herbal energy boost something or another...but it worked wonders! I then made it all the way to Bowling Green KY before I had to fill up with gas. It was not

I wish there was an eight  day to every week so that I could get stuff done....and ---SLEEP!

In Remberance of 9/11 I want to ask a question that I was asked by my Theatre 100 teacher, Dr. O'hara:

"Did we learn anything?"

Five years ago today I as well as the rest of the world had found out about the terroist attacks in the midst of my "normal" hectic day of being 16, a sophmore in High School. . . sitting in classes wishing that I wasnt there. Then- my teachers, they were my favorite teachers Mrs. Hurt and Mrs. Peters, were crying. I thought, "Oh, no! I hope nothing bad had happened!" and they told us the news... that there had been a fatal accident --and that the Twin Towers had been attacked. I was confused. What the crap are the Twin Towers? I thought.
After being told of what had gone on, we were left at that. Dr. Yoman, the Superintendent of my school district in Lowell, Indiana, had the cable shut off.

We were left alone in the dark--no information, no news, Histroy blocked from every student.

He made a horrible mistake. I wish-like every other school in the country--was able to LIVE and LEARN from that moments in our histroy. -alas, men are stupid.

Anyways--back to the question.
  WHAT DID WE LEARN?
-what has been resolved?
       HAVE WE CHANGED?

Before, right after 9-11-2001 I felt changed. I felt moved, conected to EVERY other AMERICAN. I felt pride, remorse, pain, honor...

   Now, 5 years later--there is no more Flags flying about on every doorstop, you seldom see yellow ribbions. . . you hear people talking through the National Anthem, instead of seeing tears as it once had affected us...

NOT to say that I think we should dwell on the past--not at all!! I think that we should REMEMBER and LEARN from our past.   Have we?