Randy's Blog

Well hello old friends just thought I would blog a little even though I don't have to. I kind of miss having to blog every day. Well today is my 9^th anniversary being married to my wonderful wife, I cannot believe it has been so long, seems like just yesterday we were having our first child together and here she is getting ready to go into the fifth grade next year. We sure have come a long way from first living in a mobile home park to owning our own home today. I am sure lucky to have such a beautiful wife, I know she will be reading this, so young and understanding she is amazing. I LOVE YOU Kendra. Well I have some homework to do and finals to study for so hopefully I will still find some more time to blog in the near future.

Looking back on my blogging, this has been a wonderful experience for me, as I have never been much of a writer. I have always held jobs that have been hands on and never had to really write. I have done construction work most of my life and coming to college has been a real experience for me. I was not sure when we were given this assignment if I was going to be able to blog every day but I set my mind to it and I did it. I did not think that I would have that much to say and that I would be able to blog about something for four weeks but the blogging journals helped me out a lot. When I could not come up with something to blog about I just went to the blog journal on the classroom site and found something that was interesting to me or that I thought I could write about and went with it. I hope that I can keep myself blogging as it has helped me relieve myself of some crazy thoughts going through my head at times. Some days I was able to just blog away and had to stop myself before I ended up with two or three pages. At first it was a little hard, never blogging before, but after the first week it became much easier for me to blog away. I have truly enjoyed this English class and I hope the rest of my classes are just as educational to me as this one was. I have never really liked English and maybe I just did not have the right teachers. Maybe someone out there will read my blog someday who felt the same way I did and this will inspire them to take an English class and get as much out of it as I did. Thank you.

Ah the last blog

Well here it is the fourth week of blogging and I am not sure what to say. It is Sunday and I have school tomorrow, only two more weeks, and it has been quite the experience for me. Like I probably blogged about before, I never in my life saw myself going to college let alone trying to learn something by going back to school. I never really liked school that much but this has been a very learning experience for me as I am on my way to getting an associate's degree in accounting to better my life and those I am close to. I have truly enjoyed this first semester as I have learned a lot of new things about myself and the skills I will need in my career. I have been using Microsoft works on my computer to handle our business that my wife has and this semester I was introduced to Microsoft word 2007 and that is a great program. In my Business class we had to build a business from the ground up, sort of, it could be anything and we had to write a plan to take to a bank for a loan. Our business was called The Gamepad and it was a gaming station where you could go to and we would have rooms setup with Wii's, x-boxes, and play station3's with the most recent games. You would be able to play against each other or online. My business math class has taught me about APR's, loans and how a lot of other mathematical situation that will be useful in my career opportunities. And I cannot forget my English class where I have probably discovered the most about myself. I never would have thought that I would have enough to say where I could blog for four weeks straight but I did it, although some of it was just gibberish, I did it.

Had a garage sale today and it turned out to be a pretty nice day for a garage sale. I wasn't sure if I was going to have one today or not after the rain storm we got yesterday but after I got up this morning and saw that the neighbor was having one I decided to go ahead with it. I had a garage sale Thursday and made around three hundred and fifty dollars thanks to the sale of my generator for three hundred so I figured it wouldn't hurt to set out there today for a few hours. I never really try to sell my stuff for to much money but people always try to talk you down anyways, which I can't blame them I do the same thing. I didn't really make that much money today as there wasn't really a lot of people out today, maybe the chance of rain scared them off but, it still wasn't to bad of a day. A garage sale always gives me time to just sit out and enjoy the peace and quiet in between people stopping by. Today I had the radio playing and it was quite relaxing and the weather wasn't too bad either. It did start to rain for a second which sent the neighbors running to get their stuff inside as they had it all along their driveway. This time I had all my stuff inside the garage to where all I had to do was pop open the door and I was all set for the buyers. Although I did not sale very much I am still set up for another garage sale that I will try to have next weekend. I don't really like to take up all my weekend time with having a garage sale so I'll give it one or two more tries and then it's off to the thrift store with it all.