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ll never be but i wanted to snorkel at least once on this trip i know you don t have to be able to swim to snorkel but i figured i d better go ahead and get back in the water so i signed myself up for another round of swim lessons and actually made great progress according to my teacher apparently i can swim i just need to believe that i can swim anyhoo we decided to snorkel in belize my parents told me that you just wade out from the shore put your mask on stick your face in the water and ooh and aah at all of the sights except when you don t we booked an excursion and found ourselves motoring out into the caribbean i thought we were going to an island wrong so wrong when we got out in the middle of nowhere the captain threw down the anchor and said everybody off uh what why are we in the middle of this huge expanse of water where are we gonna snorkel apparently right there right then y all i was petrified but i m also cheap and i figured since i d paid 74 99 for me and 54 99 for lg to partake in this into the sea i would jump so i did and i was more scared than a little bit but once i calmed down stopped panting uh your head is above water girl and you re wearing a mask that makes it possible to breathe out of your mouth and whispered up a quick prayer i had a ball i went for it stuck my head in the water marveled at the sea life and could not get over the fact that i was bobbing around in the middle of the sea with 8 of my family members one cousin chickened out having a darn good time i held a conch a sea cucumber saw lots of beautiful fish marveled at the beauty and vastness of the sea and got stuck over a huge portion of the coral reef but instead of panicking i just rode the wave literally and eventually was able to paddle back to my group it was an awesome experience and i am ever so glad that i didn t listen to fear and chose instead to experience something new i hope that if fear is holding you back from doing something you really want to do you will choose to take a deep breath and jump in feet first instead of standing on the shore paralyzed with self doubt happy monday have a blessed week and just because this is the only picture i have from the entire experience here s my kid bobbing around in the sea having the time of her ten year old life posted in life in general year end ramblings posted on december 29 2014 by nerd girl 6 comments hey y all it s been quite a 2014 some good some bad i guess in some ways that means it is exactly like every year that has passed and every year that is yet to come my first semester of my doctoral program is under my belt praise god i ended the semester with 3 as that a in biostatistics nothing but grace i had an 88 i guess the instructor felt bad for my struggling self and gifted me those two extra points i will be auditing a biostats class probably every semester until i take my comps i am self aware enough to know that without notes and a book in front of me there s no way i could pass comps with my current knowledge of the subject anyhoo semester 2 is next on deck i did pretty well not procrastinating this semester but there s always room for improvement taking 2 classes and a lab again next semester next year i will start taking a minimum of 9 hours a semester i refuse to be in this program until i m 50 still in shock over the death of my father in law in november i keep waiting for his smiling face to peer around the corner and offer me a piece of candy and a hello in his central mississippi drawl sigh i was blessed with a great mil and fil and i miss each of them on a regular basis smoochy is doing well lg continues to be weepy but really when your paw paw is gone that s to be expected it s weird for me not having a parent right around the corner who would do anything for me that he could have mercy we hosted christmas day festivities something that is sooo far outside of my comfort level that it s not even funny but i think that everyone my sil her family an aunt and her family an uncle and his and two sets of family friends had a good time smoochy had someone cook dinner for us and had the house professionally cleaned so i really had to do was bake a few cakes make some punch and stay awake i ll let you guess which of those tasks was hardest for me speaking of having the house professionally cleaned yeah adding that to the budget for sure y all i have fallen in love with our house all over again since it s all sparkly clean and smelling good we don t need someone on a weekly or even biweekly basis but someone coming in once a month or so dusting the place really well hitting those baseboards and cleaning all the windows sign me up glorious i tell ya went to see annie with lg and her friend yesterday and don t y all tell anyone as it would ruin my rep as a musical hater but i actually enjoyed it who knew anyhoo i know that everyone has stopped blogging for the most part but i ve missed it i ve missed y all and i m pretty sure that 2015 will have me back in this spot on a regular basis be well posted in life in general hola que paso posted on october 10 2014 by nerd girl 10 comments i miss blogging so i decided to blog randoms of course i turned 42 yesterday i m not really sure how that happened since i was just 26 but apparently time she marches on i don t think i ll ever be one of those people who refuses to share their age i m 42 and glad about it every day every year is a blessing i thought my day was going to be full of work and school but i left work early and took myself to the movies saw this is where i leave you pretty good reminded me a lot of my family dynamic then i ran home to see smoochy and lg before i went to class they sang gave me a delicious assortment of mini bundt cakes who even knew this was a thing i opened my presents and then i jetted off to class only to learn class had been cancelled which means i got to go see the spinners at the state fair y all i love the spinners i m not entirely sure who those 5 dudes in bright yellow suits were but they sounded good and lg and i had a ball and the spinners have a new fan who happens to be 10 i m pretty sure lg and i were the youngest people in attendance but whatev i m slowly getting back into the groove of being in school seems more difficult this time around for whatever reason but i ll get there so i know this girl okay grown woman we go to church together and have people in common she s mentioned hanging out a few times so another friend and i went to lunch with her she stayed tapping on her phone the whole time alrightie then we invited her to a concert she stayed tapping on her phone the whole time and then went home and told her husband that my friends and i were a bunch of wild women um yeah no then she invites us really our children to her son s birthday party but tells us that she s only paying for the 4 little boys who are coming from his class we d have to pay for our girls lady this right here just may be the reason you don t have any friends my friend wants to fight this girl i just want to tell her that she s got some odd behaviors that are likely standing in the way of her developing the type of friendships that she says she desires did i mention that when she sees my other friend at work they re both in education she doesn t even speak because she keeps her professional and personal lives separate good luck sister oh i typed all that because i d like to know what you think tell her about her idiosyncrasies and the fact that they re holding her back or just let her be and hope she finds a friend or two who will put up with her i think she s decent but confused i just realized i ve been listening to tevin campbell s round and round for a good half hour apparently i hit repeat song when i mean to hit shuffle songs i wonder why that dude s career didn t take off since i last wrote my little kiddo celebrated her 10th birthday i cannot believe i ve been her mom for a whole decade now she is still the funniest kid i know yep i m biased and every day brings a new adventure and or issue right now we re up to our necks in training bras and discussions on why i won t let her shave her legs go sit down somewhere little girl i have three brothers one doesn t talk to the family as a whole one is mad at me and our conversations as of late have consisted of monosyllabic grunts on his part the other one and i are still cool i ve been praying a lot for restored relationships i guess that s it for now how s everything with you life good posted in life in general katrina posted on august 29 2014 by nerd girl 1 comment i wrote this post on august 29 2006 so last year on august 28 it was a sunday evening i believe i was watching the news and heard about this storm that was supposed to hit the gulf coast on the 29th katrina well i didn t pay much attention until the newscaster said that perhaps we in the jackson metro area would lose power for a couple of hours we re about 3 5 hours north of the coast i d just put lovegirl in the bed and i decided to run to the store w_l mart to get lovegirl some formula she was 11 months old and i d just weaned her and was new to keeping the right amount of formula in the house anyhoo all we had was the liquid stuff has to be refrigerated and i decided i d get some powder so that if the power went out my child would have something to drink so i went downstairs and mentioned to smoochy that i was going to run to the store did he need anything he didn t so off i went well to my surprise there was no freaking formula on the shelves i stupidly thought it was just because it was a weekend night and the stockers hadn t re stocked the shelves so i bought a few more bottles of the liquid stuff figuring at least she d have something for the few hours we might be powerless i also decided to pick up some more water a few snacks and a couple of flashlights i noticed but somehow still kind of ignored that there were a lot of folks in the store picking up the same type items i finally got checked out and decided to buy gas i was on a 1 2 tank and i generally fill up when i get to that point gas station 1 no gas gas station 2 no gas gas station 3 we have a winner i filled up and headed home i had no idea what we were in for as a family as a state as a nation monday morning i got up and went to work of course no one was working everyone had a television or radio on and was monitoring the storm i called my mom in california and my brother in houston and told them some kind of big storm was coming and that i would be in touch that i d decided to go home at 11 30 regardless of whether or not we were officially released from work at around 11 15 they told us all to go home and to check the internet in the morning to determine whether or not we needed to report to work school was canceled sunday night so smoochy and lovegirl were already home chilling i stopped by a restaurant and picked up something to eat because i d finally kind of figured out that something was going on and it might be our last hot meal for a while as soon as i got home the skies opened up it rained and rained and rained and the wind blew and the tree limbs swayed and i who grew up in california and have always been fascinated by storms stayed up very late watching the amazing storm that katrina was it was hypnotically beautiful i don t think i ve ever seen that much water come out of the sky in such a period of time i prayed that the trees would stand the storm and that we wouldn t end up with a hole in our roof i think the lights had gone out at around 5 that evening we decided to camp downstairs it was august in mississippi after all and we had no power no air when we got up on tuesday morning we surveyed the damage and were happy to discover that we really didn t have any there were a few trees down in the neighborhood but on our little circle everyone had fared relatively well we could hear the chainsaws and smell the gasoline but that was it smoochy remarked that he was surprised that we still didn t have any power around noon i finally decided to sit in the car and listen to the radio most stations were off the air but our npr affiliate somehow had power and was broadcasting we wouldn t have power for days emergency workers were tapped the storm had been devastating on the gulf coast and in new orleans people were being urged to take care of their neighbors to pool resources keep in mind we had no power while the rest of the country was watching the devastation occurring in new orleans we just knew that we were without electricity we had no idea the scope of things i d been trying to call my family in california and texas all day but no phone lines were working and i couldn t get a line out i finally got through late that night using smoochy s phone and my mom s voice was cracking and she said she was just glad to hear from me i told her that we were fine she said she thought she d call some family friends in lake village ar to see if we could stay with them if we needed to i was like whatever we ll be fine smoochy decided later on that evening that lovegirl and i would indeed drive to ar and stay there in comfort until the power came back on he didn t want us there among rumors of looting lawlessness and extended power outages we left our home very much against my will on wednesday morning and got to lake village 3 hours later when i turned on the television i was sick mothers babies grown men begging crying pleading bodies floating i really couldn t watch it i just held lovegirl and cried cried to god thanking him that it wasn t us that we d just been a little inconvenienced cried to god for those who it was i could not imagine being stranded in a house on a rooftop on a freeway overpass with my child my baby i thought my heart would break in two after the first few hours in ar i didn t turn the tv on again until saturday when smoochy called and told us we could come back home we had electricity again we were and are blessed all we lost were a few days together a couple hundred dollars worth of groceries a few hours out of our lives because of the gasoline shortage as the day of katrina s anniversary neared and every news program began to air their specials i started thinking about katrina s profound effect on people s lives i cried again it still hurts and we didn t lose anything really some people s lives will never resemble what they were 366 days ago never and in a country this wealth this resourceful this great politics aside that is a damn shame i remember i remember the panic i felt when i couldn t get a phone line out to talk to my loved ones i remember lovegirl s innocence and the innocence so many children lost that day i remember worshiping in the white church around the corner for the first time and being nervous about it because i was scared to drive across town to the church i usually attend because i didn t know when we d have gasoline again i remember this metro area coming together to hel...