Friday at 2:00 I went on a road trip to Tuscaloosa, Alabama
I was going to tuscaloosa to meet my dad, sister, and nephew for the Alabama v. Mississippi State football game. I was the first of my family to arrive at the hotel. I did not have any of the information to check in so I waited in the lobby for my dad to arrive.
while I was waiting in lobby I saw some of the hotel employees putting up a red rope going acoss the side of the room. People started showing up and sitting down with me waiting this made me curious so I asked one of the men sitting down what was going on. The answer I received was the football players are about to come through. This was exciting because I had no idea that they did this. Supposidly every friday night before a home football game the Alabama players stay in this hotel and have there meetings there.
I got to see coach Nick Saban walk down and head into the room where they were going to have meetings and eat dinner. shortly after that the football players followed,they were all dressed up in suites. Most of the players went strait up to their room and put there stuff up. Some followed coach saban. I got to see the two players that I knew on a first name basis. I was able to see Cory Reamer who I had meet before and spent some time with one fourth of July. I also saw my friend Mark Barron who I graduated from high school with. It was nice to see him. He looked different than what I remembered.
After all of the excitement of seeing the players my family arrived. Once we checked in we went up to our rooms and put our stuff down. Then we ate dinner in the hotel restraunt. Once we were done eating dinner and started walking back to the elevator to go to our room, we noticed that their were more people standing behind the red rope. Once again we asked what was going on and they said, The players will be back from their movie in 30 minutes if you want to get autographs. Because my nephew had never been to an Alabama game, we waited for the players to come. when they arrived we were told that they could not give any autographs yet because they were late for a meeting, but they would be back in about 15 minutes to give autographs. So we waited again for what seemed like forever. Coach Saban was the first one to come out and give autographs. I got to meet him, and shake his hand he seemed to be a nice guy.
My nephew was able to get a few autographs from the well known players so this made him happy. I was able to have my picture taken with Cory so I was happy.
Saturday when we woke up, we went to the Bryant museum. This was alot of fun, I had never been to see it before. I enjoyed learing a little bit about Alabama football's history. We walked around the streets of tuscaloosa and went in what seemed like all the souvineer shops. It was quite a cold day and because the game was not going to be until 6:45 PM we were buying all the warm things we could get. I had to get gloves, scarf, and a hat to keep me warm. I did not want to freeze. My dad had the brilliant idea of buying a blanket to either sit on or to keep whoever was the coldest warm.
By the time the game rolled around we were all dressed in so many layers. The game was alot of fun. Alabama won 32-7. We had a little bit of weather that was not expected it rained on us for about 5 minutes on and off. It made us a little cold. I had not put my raincoat on as one of my layers because rain was not in the forcast. Well despite the rain all went well and we had a great time at the game,and in tuscaloosa as well.
Roll Tide Roll!!!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
9. Mystery Date~!
This week was a great week!
Friday I gave a tour to one of my friends from My high school St. Paul's Episcopal School. It was like nothing I had ever done before. It was alot of fun! It was a good experience for me to be able to talk about my home town and catch up with everything. I took him to jazzman's, the health plex and he even sat in on my history class. which it was weard.. he got to experience seeing us take a quiz, have a lecture and even watch a movie(which we never do). I meet his family they were all really nice. I had lunch with them. They were really thoughtful and brought me pedifores from my favirote bakery at home Pollman's bake shop.
Friday night Nenamoosha had there mystery date. So about a month ago we turned in a note card with 5 names of guys that would be our possibilities of who we would have a date with on mystery date. So by the time Saturday had rolled around I had completely forgotton who I put down on my note card. The way it was set up was somehow the girls in charge of the event got the ties of our dates and delivered them to us. Attached to the ties was a note that said: meet your date at the kugle and ten til eight Friday November 7....in order to find your mystery guy Dress up nice and wear this tie!
So...ten til eight rolled around..my Friend Katybeth and I sat at the kugle patiently waiting to see who are mystery guys were going to be. To my surprise I saw Brian Richardson walking up. He said,"You stole my tie". We waited for the other two dates to show up. Once we all accounted for we started walking and followed the crowd.
The party was on the brick streets in downtown clinton. when we arrived there was black and red bags lined up down the streets with candles in them. There was an orchastra playing. Once they packed up and left the Disney move Aristacats played. I admit this was quite halarious I had not seen this movie in forever. They ended the movie about 15 minuted early. After that we had a dance. We danced in the streets until we were exhausted and it was time to leave.
Mystery date 08 was alot of fun and I will never forget it.
Sarurday morning I woke up and went to the "lets go walking mississippi campaign" this was a 1 mile walk around the streets of clinton. I am really glad that I did this.Not only because it was a way of getting my exerice, but I felt like it was a great way to give back to the community of clinton. Saturday was preview day for the school. It was alot of fun. The tailgate kicked off at 11. Tailgates are always alot of fun. It is a great time for you to get together with you friends and socialize and eat. Each tribe and social club sets up a tent and provides food. I helped set up the Nenamoosha tent. I meet back up with my friend that I had given the tour to the previous day. I took him around all the different tents and showed him what a tailgate is like at MC, and a little about the different clubs and social tribes. After the tailgate he and I went to the game. I sat with him in the student section to give him the effect of a MC football game. This was alot of fun. He had to leave at half time to ge to a family wedding.
I stayed and watched the entire game against Sulla Ross sate. It was a fun game to go to we won 41-10! GO CHOCTAWS!
Today at 2:30 I became an active in Nenamoosha Social tribe when I was pinned!
All in all I would sum it up and say this weekend was awesome!
ROLL TIDE ROLL!
Friday I gave a tour to one of my friends from My high school St. Paul's Episcopal School. It was like nothing I had ever done before. It was alot of fun! It was a good experience for me to be able to talk about my home town and catch up with everything. I took him to jazzman's, the health plex and he even sat in on my history class. which it was weard.. he got to experience seeing us take a quiz, have a lecture and even watch a movie(which we never do). I meet his family they were all really nice. I had lunch with them. They were really thoughtful and brought me pedifores from my favirote bakery at home Pollman's bake shop.
Friday night Nenamoosha had there mystery date. So about a month ago we turned in a note card with 5 names of guys that would be our possibilities of who we would have a date with on mystery date. So by the time Saturday had rolled around I had completely forgotton who I put down on my note card. The way it was set up was somehow the girls in charge of the event got the ties of our dates and delivered them to us. Attached to the ties was a note that said: meet your date at the kugle and ten til eight Friday November 7....in order to find your mystery guy Dress up nice and wear this tie!
So...ten til eight rolled around..my Friend Katybeth and I sat at the kugle patiently waiting to see who are mystery guys were going to be. To my surprise I saw Brian Richardson walking up. He said,"You stole my tie". We waited for the other two dates to show up. Once we all accounted for we started walking and followed the crowd.
The party was on the brick streets in downtown clinton. when we arrived there was black and red bags lined up down the streets with candles in them. There was an orchastra playing. Once they packed up and left the Disney move Aristacats played. I admit this was quite halarious I had not seen this movie in forever. They ended the movie about 15 minuted early. After that we had a dance. We danced in the streets until we were exhausted and it was time to leave.
Mystery date 08 was alot of fun and I will never forget it.
Sarurday morning I woke up and went to the "lets go walking mississippi campaign" this was a 1 mile walk around the streets of clinton. I am really glad that I did this.Not only because it was a way of getting my exerice, but I felt like it was a great way to give back to the community of clinton. Saturday was preview day for the school. It was alot of fun. The tailgate kicked off at 11. Tailgates are always alot of fun. It is a great time for you to get together with you friends and socialize and eat. Each tribe and social club sets up a tent and provides food. I helped set up the Nenamoosha tent. I meet back up with my friend that I had given the tour to the previous day. I took him around all the different tents and showed him what a tailgate is like at MC, and a little about the different clubs and social tribes. After the tailgate he and I went to the game. I sat with him in the student section to give him the effect of a MC football game. This was alot of fun. He had to leave at half time to ge to a family wedding.
I stayed and watched the entire game against Sulla Ross sate. It was a fun game to go to we won 41-10! GO CHOCTAWS!
Today at 2:30 I became an active in Nenamoosha Social tribe when I was pinned!
All in all I would sum it up and say this weekend was awesome!
ROLL TIDE ROLL!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
8. Washington D.C
This past week I left MC on monday after my class's so I could go home. Tuesday morning I had a 9 am flight to Washington D.C. D.C is one of my favorite places to go. Most of my siblings live there so it is a fun for me to visit them. This trip was quite different.
The reason why I went to D.C was 0n Wednesday October 29, 2008 my Grandmothers urn was burried in the Arlington National Cemetary. It was like nothing I had ever been through.
When we arrived we where held in a small room where the family was able to get together. We waited for the man who was in charge of the cemetary to come and get us. This man got in a small black car. We were insructed to get in our cars and get in a line following behind him so we could be escorted to the burial site.
When we arrived at the burial site. We where instructed to huddle up and look at the small black car as two men dressed in a military attire where walking around(I am not sure what force). One of the men got the urn out of the car and proceeded walking towards the burial site. Behind him followed the other military escort, the preacher, and the head of the cemetary. The family followed behind them.
When we arrived at the burial site there where four green chairs sitting behind the table which had a green felt table cloth over it with the white urn sitting in the middle. I had never seen an urn before in my life. Her urn was white with brown hands on it.
Ther service was short and sweet. The preacher spoke for about 3 minutes. Then my brother in law gave a speach. I think the service lasted about 7 minutes. During the service I heard a fire of a cannon. As we where leaving the service I heard the 21 gun salute. This was really cool aspect. At the time I was not quite sure what was going on I had to ask. Now I know a little more about what the history is behind the 21 gun salute after looking at the website for the cemetary.
After the service we went back to my sisters house and the family got together and talked and eat.
If you have never been to the Arlington National Cemetary. I suggest that if you can, some point in time in your life go see it. It is a beautiful place. All the graves are parallel. If you go to the highest point of the cemetary the sight you will see is unbelievable.
I was in D.C tuesday through thursday morning. This was one of my shortest trips to D.C. It was good to see my family, and get a chance for closure.
The reason why I went to D.C was 0n Wednesday October 29, 2008 my Grandmothers urn was burried in the Arlington National Cemetary. It was like nothing I had ever been through.
When we arrived we where held in a small room where the family was able to get together. We waited for the man who was in charge of the cemetary to come and get us. This man got in a small black car. We were insructed to get in our cars and get in a line following behind him so we could be escorted to the burial site.
When we arrived at the burial site. We where instructed to huddle up and look at the small black car as two men dressed in a military attire where walking around(I am not sure what force). One of the men got the urn out of the car and proceeded walking towards the burial site. Behind him followed the other military escort, the preacher, and the head of the cemetary. The family followed behind them.
When we arrived at the burial site there where four green chairs sitting behind the table which had a green felt table cloth over it with the white urn sitting in the middle. I had never seen an urn before in my life. Her urn was white with brown hands on it.
Ther service was short and sweet. The preacher spoke for about 3 minutes. Then my brother in law gave a speach. I think the service lasted about 7 minutes. During the service I heard a fire of a cannon. As we where leaving the service I heard the 21 gun salute. This was really cool aspect. At the time I was not quite sure what was going on I had to ask. Now I know a little more about what the history is behind the 21 gun salute after looking at the website for the cemetary.
After the service we went back to my sisters house and the family got together and talked and eat.
If you have never been to the Arlington National Cemetary. I suggest that if you can, some point in time in your life go see it. It is a beautiful place. All the graves are parallel. If you go to the highest point of the cemetary the sight you will see is unbelievable.
I was in D.C tuesday through thursday morning. This was one of my shortest trips to D.C. It was good to see my family, and get a chance for closure.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
7. Homecoming
This weekend was a lot of fun it was homecoming 08!
Friday night was follies....follies is where all the pledges of the tribes and social clubs put on skits for everyone else. Friday night was quite entertaining.It was interesting to see what the other tribes and social clubs had come up with. I was in Nenamoosha's skit our theme was save by the bell. All of the skits were different so it was fun seeing them.
After the skit we had building of the homecoming floats. Which the name of that game was to stay outside in the parking lot by the baseball field and work on your flaot until it was completely done. This was a lot of fun. I helped work on Nenamoosha's flaot we stayed and worked on it until around 2:30 in the morning. The theme of this years homecoming was generation choctaw. so we decided to decorate our float half 1954 dance theme and the other half 2008 sock hop.
Homecoming day was a lot of fun in itself. The tailgate kicked off around 2:00. At 2:15 there was a cheer competition between all the tribes and social clubs. once again this was quite entertaining to see what everyone had come up with. After the tailgate there was the homecoming parade. It was a lot of fun we rode down college street. I got to be on the Nenamoosha float on the 1954 side dressed in a black poodle skirt. It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed getting to dress up. Nenamoosha also had a fire truck in the parade. 10 of the pledges got to ride on the float. some got to ride in the fire truck, the rest walked beside the float throwing candy.
The homecoming game was fun. I am sad that we lost.
After the game there was a bonfire. The bonfire was also fun... we had smores and soft drinks and hung out by the fire.
This weekend was a lot of fun! Although from all the excitement that went on I will admit that I am exhausted.
Friday night was follies....follies is where all the pledges of the tribes and social clubs put on skits for everyone else. Friday night was quite entertaining.It was interesting to see what the other tribes and social clubs had come up with. I was in Nenamoosha's skit our theme was save by the bell. All of the skits were different so it was fun seeing them.
After the skit we had building of the homecoming floats. Which the name of that game was to stay outside in the parking lot by the baseball field and work on your flaot until it was completely done. This was a lot of fun. I helped work on Nenamoosha's flaot we stayed and worked on it until around 2:30 in the morning. The theme of this years homecoming was generation choctaw. so we decided to decorate our float half 1954 dance theme and the other half 2008 sock hop.
Homecoming day was a lot of fun in itself. The tailgate kicked off around 2:00. At 2:15 there was a cheer competition between all the tribes and social clubs. once again this was quite entertaining to see what everyone had come up with. After the tailgate there was the homecoming parade. It was a lot of fun we rode down college street. I got to be on the Nenamoosha float on the 1954 side dressed in a black poodle skirt. It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed getting to dress up. Nenamoosha also had a fire truck in the parade. 10 of the pledges got to ride on the float. some got to ride in the fire truck, the rest walked beside the float throwing candy.
The homecoming game was fun. I am sad that we lost.
After the game there was a bonfire. The bonfire was also fun... we had smores and soft drinks and hung out by the fire.
This weekend was a lot of fun! Although from all the excitement that went on I will admit that I am exhausted.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
6. Age Discrimination
Yesterday I was like the "Energizer Bunny". I was going nonstop all day long. I was so talkative.
I did something I never do. I stayed up half the night writing my english paper. Normally when I am writting a paper I do the minumim requirement for the assignment or just past it. For some strage reason I got on a role and just wrote. By the time I was finished typing out my thought I had a eight page paper. Which anyone who knows me at all would know that this is something that I never do. I always wait until the last minute to get the things I need to do done. I am sure that my roommate thought that I had lost my mind last night.
Anyways let me get to what I really wanted to say in this blog entry.
My roommate loves to skate. Yesterday evening she decided that she really wanted to go skating. So I agreed that I would go with her even though I am not good at skating at all. She called a bunch of her friends and invited them to go with us. many of them were interested but had other obligations for the night. One of the girls that lives in the room next door to ours decided that she would like to come with us.
So here is where the adventure truely begins. We set of in search of a skating ring that my roommate knew that she had seen somewhere on the road between MC and walmart. We searched for about twenty minutes. we could not find what we were looking for. We had driven about a mile to far and somehow missed it. The skating ring was located right next to one of the things that I has just pointed out and said I did not know that we had that in Clinton. I have not gone out and adventured to see what all is in clinton yet so much of the territory that we covered
I had never seen before.
Once we arrived at the skating ring: we saw a big school bus that was covered in advertisement for them. When we walked up to the door it was locked but all the lights were on. The signs that were on the outside of the door said that it should be open. This mom and her son walked out the door and we took the chance and walked in. When we walked in the lights were really dim. The lady at the counter looked at us like were stupid. My roommate asked, "why was the door locked when the sign says that yall are open"? once again she just looked at us like we were stupid. Then the lady said," We are open on the specific times that are posted on the door". Once again we were confussed. Then the lady said to us, " We said we are open these times for ages five through twelve". My roommate asked," When are yall open for the public"? In a rude tone we heard, " We are not open to the public only for kids."
The point of me telling yall about my experience yesterday is that, I feel like this was age discrimination. Why would they have a skating ring so close to MC if they would not let anyone that is not a child to participate? College kids want to have fun just as much as kids do. Why should we be limited to something that might interest us such as: Skating?
The Mc mission statment states, "Furthermore, the University environment promotes the spiritual, social, emotional, and physical development of its students and encourages them to utilize their skills, talents, and abilities as they pursue meaningful careers, life-long learning, and service to God and others". The way I enterpret this statement it means we should be able to go out and do the fun things that we want to do and not be limited because we are not the age that the certain place is requiring. After all what does age truely mean?
I did something I never do. I stayed up half the night writing my english paper. Normally when I am writting a paper I do the minumim requirement for the assignment or just past it. For some strage reason I got on a role and just wrote. By the time I was finished typing out my thought I had a eight page paper. Which anyone who knows me at all would know that this is something that I never do. I always wait until the last minute to get the things I need to do done. I am sure that my roommate thought that I had lost my mind last night.
Anyways let me get to what I really wanted to say in this blog entry.
My roommate loves to skate. Yesterday evening she decided that she really wanted to go skating. So I agreed that I would go with her even though I am not good at skating at all. She called a bunch of her friends and invited them to go with us. many of them were interested but had other obligations for the night. One of the girls that lives in the room next door to ours decided that she would like to come with us.
So here is where the adventure truely begins. We set of in search of a skating ring that my roommate knew that she had seen somewhere on the road between MC and walmart. We searched for about twenty minutes. we could not find what we were looking for. We had driven about a mile to far and somehow missed it. The skating ring was located right next to one of the things that I has just pointed out and said I did not know that we had that in Clinton. I have not gone out and adventured to see what all is in clinton yet so much of the territory that we covered
I had never seen before.
Once we arrived at the skating ring: we saw a big school bus that was covered in advertisement for them. When we walked up to the door it was locked but all the lights were on. The signs that were on the outside of the door said that it should be open. This mom and her son walked out the door and we took the chance and walked in. When we walked in the lights were really dim. The lady at the counter looked at us like were stupid. My roommate asked, "why was the door locked when the sign says that yall are open"? once again she just looked at us like we were stupid. Then the lady said," We are open on the specific times that are posted on the door". Once again we were confussed. Then the lady said to us, " We said we are open these times for ages five through twelve". My roommate asked," When are yall open for the public"? In a rude tone we heard, " We are not open to the public only for kids."
The point of me telling yall about my experience yesterday is that, I feel like this was age discrimination. Why would they have a skating ring so close to MC if they would not let anyone that is not a child to participate? College kids want to have fun just as much as kids do. Why should we be limited to something that might interest us such as: Skating?
The Mc mission statment states, "Furthermore, the University environment promotes the spiritual, social, emotional, and physical development of its students and encourages them to utilize their skills, talents, and abilities as they pursue meaningful careers, life-long learning, and service to God and others". The way I enterpret this statement it means we should be able to go out and do the fun things that we want to do and not be limited because we are not the age that the certain place is requiring. After all what does age truely mean?
Sunday, October 12, 2008
5. Fall Break~!
I must say I am so happy that it Fall Break!
Last week was quite a challenging week. I had one quiz, two test and a huge paper. I was quite stressed out the entire week. The only thing that really kept me motivated was the fact that fall break was so close.
I have loved being able to relax this weeknd. I came home once again this weekend to see my family. I have been having a great time here. It is nice coming home and knowing that i do not hve to come home on sunday afternoon...I can actually stay until tuesday afternoon.
I hope since I get the opportunity to have this break that next week will not be so much of a challenge. If it is...well at least its only a three days worth of school right?
This weekend I am trying to fit in all of the things that I love to do in. so far I have accomplished quite a lot of them.
There was one really fun thing that I got to do last week and that was my tribe has sophmore night on thursday we first went in a room on campus and played a bunch of board games, then we got to spend the night with the sophmore of our choice in their dorm room. This was a lot of fun.
This is about all I have to say so I hope evey one had a great FALL BREAK!
Last week was quite a challenging week. I had one quiz, two test and a huge paper. I was quite stressed out the entire week. The only thing that really kept me motivated was the fact that fall break was so close.
I have loved being able to relax this weeknd. I came home once again this weekend to see my family. I have been having a great time here. It is nice coming home and knowing that i do not hve to come home on sunday afternoon...I can actually stay until tuesday afternoon.
I hope since I get the opportunity to have this break that next week will not be so much of a challenge. If it is...well at least its only a three days worth of school right?
This weekend I am trying to fit in all of the things that I love to do in. so far I have accomplished quite a lot of them.
There was one really fun thing that I got to do last week and that was my tribe has sophmore night on thursday we first went in a room on campus and played a bunch of board games, then we got to spend the night with the sophmore of our choice in their dorm room. This was a lot of fun.
This is about all I have to say so I hope evey one had a great FALL BREAK!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
4. "Oh Shirley"
This entry is dedicated to Shirley Lowry Rummel.
So I woke up Friday morning having the best morning ever. I was in a great mood. The night before I had gotten into Nenamoosha, the tribe that I wanted. I had woken up at 6:30 to get to a breakfast at 7 with my new sisters. Nothing was going to bring me down. I was so excited that I was coming home this weekend to go to my god brothers wedding. And it is also the best weekend ever is going on in Mobile, Alabama Bay fest.
So when I got home I was expecting the best weekend ever. Well as soon as I walked into the door I saw my mom and my godmother sitting in my living room and they said to me sit down we have some bad news to tell you. I found out that my grandmother Shirley Lowry Rummel had died Thursday morning. She had been diagnosed with lung cancer at the beginning of the summer. She had chemotherapy and radiation throughout the entire summer. About a month ago she was told by her doctor that the cancer was gone. Once my grandparents found out this news they decided they were going to go to their house in Pennsylvania and live there for a month.
My Grandmother was the sweetest grandmothers anyone could ever ask for. She was an amazing person. She will always hold a huge piece of my heart. Here are some things that will always remind me of her: I will never forget how every Saturday morning when she used to live next door to me at my bay house how I would go for breakfast. She would always cook me whatever I wanted no matter what time of day it was. My favorite thing she would cook was grits. She also used to home make the best biscuits in the world. She was always so considerate others. One thing she used to always do was whenever she did something that she thought was silly or that she should not have done she would say “ Oh Shirley”. My cousin Bradley and I have picked up this trait from her. I am constantly saying this. Every time I do something silly I will always think of her. She was known as “Nanny”. She was probable one of the best people I have ever known.
I was reminded by my godmother of what my grandmother said to me on the night of my 19th birthday. She toasted me and said “you have made my life worth living for the past ten years, and I love you”. I did not realize at the time how much those words would mean to me at the time. Now looking back on that day those words are more valuable to me than anyone could ever know.
My grandmother was always cleaning the house and cooking. One thing that makes me happy is the fact that I know that she is in a better place. She is somewhere now where she can be happy and not have to deal with all the things that were bad towards the end of her life. She is someplace where she can live in a frame house (just like she always did) which has a water front view, a place where she does not have to do any cleaning. All she has to do is sit there and look beautiful watching over all of us.
I leave my readers with this advice: remember that god works in mysterious ways you cannot predict what he is going to do.
So I woke up Friday morning having the best morning ever. I was in a great mood. The night before I had gotten into Nenamoosha, the tribe that I wanted. I had woken up at 6:30 to get to a breakfast at 7 with my new sisters. Nothing was going to bring me down. I was so excited that I was coming home this weekend to go to my god brothers wedding. And it is also the best weekend ever is going on in Mobile, Alabama Bay fest.
So when I got home I was expecting the best weekend ever. Well as soon as I walked into the door I saw my mom and my godmother sitting in my living room and they said to me sit down we have some bad news to tell you. I found out that my grandmother Shirley Lowry Rummel had died Thursday morning. She had been diagnosed with lung cancer at the beginning of the summer. She had chemotherapy and radiation throughout the entire summer. About a month ago she was told by her doctor that the cancer was gone. Once my grandparents found out this news they decided they were going to go to their house in Pennsylvania and live there for a month.
My Grandmother was the sweetest grandmothers anyone could ever ask for. She was an amazing person. She will always hold a huge piece of my heart. Here are some things that will always remind me of her: I will never forget how every Saturday morning when she used to live next door to me at my bay house how I would go for breakfast. She would always cook me whatever I wanted no matter what time of day it was. My favorite thing she would cook was grits. She also used to home make the best biscuits in the world. She was always so considerate others. One thing she used to always do was whenever she did something that she thought was silly or that she should not have done she would say “ Oh Shirley”. My cousin Bradley and I have picked up this trait from her. I am constantly saying this. Every time I do something silly I will always think of her. She was known as “Nanny”. She was probable one of the best people I have ever known.
I was reminded by my godmother of what my grandmother said to me on the night of my 19th birthday. She toasted me and said “you have made my life worth living for the past ten years, and I love you”. I did not realize at the time how much those words would mean to me at the time. Now looking back on that day those words are more valuable to me than anyone could ever know.
My grandmother was always cleaning the house and cooking. One thing that makes me happy is the fact that I know that she is in a better place. She is somewhere now where she can be happy and not have to deal with all the things that were bad towards the end of her life. She is someplace where she can live in a frame house (just like she always did) which has a water front view, a place where she does not have to do any cleaning. All she has to do is sit there and look beautiful watching over all of us.
I leave my readers with this advice: remember that god works in mysterious ways you cannot predict what he is going to do.
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