mirchi girls..................

If you've ever seen a bee-keeper tending the hives on the Discovery Channel or PBS, you've maybe thought: 1) Bee-keepers are weird, and 2) don't any bees ever get inside that nutty, netty get-up? But that's the danger: Bees, secrets ... we're gettin' deep on you, honey. Whether you've got a big secret (you like another girl's guy) or a small secret (you wear a padded bra), trustworthiness is like mental bee-keeper gear--except with your Secret-Keeper, the secrets stay inside.

Why she rocks: You can share secrets and gossip with this friend about other people's (obviously misguided) decisions about who to like, what to wear and how to do their hair. You just had to tell someone, so make sure it's this girl, the one who won't sting you by telling someone else. Shhh.

THE WEEKEND WARRIOR

Who she is: If you like nothing more than working and studying and doing chores at home all the time, then you are somewhat of a freak. But if you get that hankering for a hunk of nightlife now and again, the Weekend Warrior is the friend to call. She's her own party, and even just getting ready to go out with her is a good time. But once you're out? Look out! She swerves through parties like a celeb, makes friends with unknown hotties from other schools like she's their third cousin and knows why the slasher-blood movie is a better choice than the sweet romantic comedy. (Hint: It's cuzza the boys in the audience!)

Why she rocks: After Friday night comes Saturday, and she'll be a trooper and set your alarm for noon so you can both get some quality day-trippin' into the weekend agenda. Bikes, hikes, beaches or mall benches, this girl is never bored or boring, and easy as Sunday morning.

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The trick to finding a good balance between family time and friends is planning ahead. It sounds ridiculous right? Who needs to plan their days and nights around everyone else, but in order to maintain some sanity planning is the key. The best way to do this is to look through the calendar to find events that you know happen yearly. For example family reunions, family vacations, weddings, or other types of celebrations. You may have a family that just has to get together every year on the Fourth of July. So plan your schedule around that. Then once you have blocked out all the yearly activities you can plan by the month. See what's on the calendar for the month and schedule parties with friends, family dinners, birthday parties, etc. accordingly. Of course there will sometimes be last minute things that aren't planned or that come up but you can work with them if you know the general plan for the month.

My college experience was a mostly positive one, I learned so much during my time there, and I am not just talking about the course I studied. The best thing to come out of college for me was that I learned a lot about myself, college was really a journey of self discovery for me.

Unable to get the subject choices I wanted, I left school at sixteen to attend the nearest college to my home. This meant that I was traveling for about three hours a day to get to college and back, but that is the nature of island life you spend ages traveling to get anywhere. Even on my very first day I knew that I had made the right decision, I had always been a very mature kid and finally being surrounded by adults and being treated like one was all I needed to convince me.

I really enjoyed my course and did very well in my first year, although when it got to my second year I realized that I was simply not enjoying it anymore and couldn't see a future career in it. So I decided to take a year out and change my course, again I was sure almost immediately that I had made the right decision, I was enjoying my classes again and for the first time I actually felt like I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

College wasn't easy for me financially, during my first year because of my age I received a very small bursary which basically covered my travel and maybe my lunches. Living on a small island there is no work for a sixteen year old out with the tourist season and I actually had to skip college more than once because I just couldn't afford to get there. By the time I went back to college aged 18 I had a full time job in a bar, although I had to cut my hours drastically to attend college. However this did not make things much easier as something happened with my paperwork for my college grant and loan meaning that I never received a single penny of it until the last month of my course. Most weeks I was at college three days a week and working four or five, this often meant that I would work till one in the morning and get up at six thirty for college. I knew that this was the only way I could afford to attend college and I was willing to do that in the short term because it was worth the long term gain, but looking back I have no idea how I managed.

Going to college was definitely a positive experience, not only did I gain valuable qualifications but I met some wonderful people who I remain friends with to this day. I also learned so much about myself and I feel that I have grown so much as a person since going to college. It may have been hard financially and I certainly didn't have the busy social life that most students do but going to college was one of the most positive things I have ever done in my life and I don't regret it one bit, in fact I am hoping to return to my studies by going to university in the near future.

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Yesterday, when I was about to start to study for seminor, I found a surprizing fact. I forgot my textbook at my lab so I couldn't study yesterday.

I woke up early today and went to the lab. Then, I started to study. As I once had studied before, so it was not so difficult.

At 13:00, the seminor was started. First, my partner presented. Our teachers ask him many question, so seminor come along less than we expected. When it came the time to change the presentator, the presentator shift me. I thought, "I haven't studied these contents enough." But fortunately, our teachers didn't ask me hard question, so I made it through. Lucky!

but now i dont think sooo....

friends wish me all the best.......

[for learner of Japanese]
きのう　ゼミの　べんきょうを　しようと　した　ときに　とんでもない　ことに　きづいた。　どうやら　ゼミの　きょうかしょを　けんきゅうしつに　わすれて　きた　らしい。　だから　きのうは　べんきょうできなかった。

けさは　はやおきして　けんきゅうしつへ　いった。　そして　べんきょうを　はじめた。　まえに　いちど　べんきょうして　いたので　それほど　むずかしくは　なかった。

13じに　ゼミが　はじまった。　さいしょは　わたしの　パートナーが　はっぴょうした。　わたしたちの　せんせいが　たくさん　しつもんして　きたので　おもった　よりも　すすまなかった。　そして　はっぴょうしゃこうたいの　じかんに　なり　わたしの　ばんに　なった。　わたしは　おもった。　"そこは　まだ　ちゃんと　べんきょう　してない"　でも　こううんにも　せんせいは　きびしい　しつもんを　してこなかったので　なんとか　やりきった。　らっきー。

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Happy Birthday to my Halsey princess! Today she is 2. I really Can't believe it, she is so big (actually she is tiny) but she acts like a big girl most of the time. We are showing some signs of terrible two-ness. Temper tantrums on the floor and such, but for the most part she is just as sweet as candy. I had an idea for her 2 year pictures even though she would not cooperate and this is the best picture of the 40 pictures I took. She wouldn't smile or say cheese, she just laid there crunching on candy.
She loves to read books, talk on her phone, eat and play. Watch Snow white, walk around in everyones shoes, wear boots, talk about boots, look at boots, use boots as a purse...you get the idea. I am thinking about getting her some cowgirl boots this weekend if I can find some that would fit a tiny girl foot that don't cost me an arm &leg.
She is talking in sentences. Loves her Brothers, and run to daddy the second she hears him open the door. It makes me cry sometimes she loves him so much, it is adorable! We really have to be careful what we say she repeats EVERYTHING. Her favorite sentence right now is, "hmmmm, let me see." or "This is for Halsey"and "i wanna watch da movie", "what happened?".

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It has been below zero for most of the last 2 weeks and we have had more than a foot of snow since Christmas. The boys have been asking to play in the snow but I thought it was way too cold. Negative any degree is too cold for ME! So I thought maybe if I brought some snow IN they would play longer than 5 minutes and I could skip all the bundling and laundry! They played with the soldiers and animals for about an hour and it only took a few minutes to clean up! Way better than sub zero temps and waiting for coats to dry :)

This is how my sister's daughter spends most of her day. Making messes and taking her shirt off the hard way or just wearing it as a skirt. She also likes to take fake naps on the kitchen table covered with a dish towel. OR stand on the kitchen table and lift her shirt to put her warm belly on the cold glass just to shriek with laughter and a loud "BRRR". It makes us laugh and she is laughing and not running just to fall and hit her head on something hard, so I must not complain, right?! She is so much like me! I love to put my belly on the window too. Oh wait, not that, I mean I guess I do weird stuff too but I was watching her lift her shirt to put her belly on the glass just thinking how completely in love with her and (the other 2.5 kids) I truly am, and it hit me like a blast of winter air. I am doing exactly what I have always known and wanted to be as a child. I think this is why I could never settle on one specific occupation I knew I wanted to be when I grew up. You can't really go to school or major in motherhood until you are living it. Covered in boogers, prepared for the next fever armed with Tylenol, cleaning up the over spray from the missed potty breaks. I just hope and pray I am getting an A+ in this "class". I love my sister babie to pieces!