An Early Happy Thanksgiving!

This is going to be a short and sweet post, But I wanted to wish everyone a Happty Thanksgiving! I'm going to be spending at my parents house, Then BFF are going to a outlet mall and do the middle of the night shopping  How fun!!

I know, I know, it's been awhile.....

it's been awhile since I posted and i just feel awful! I started a 30 day blog challenge, got to day 23 and  I have to admit  I dropped the ball. I feel awful for that I have been keeping myself busy with cleaning and preparing for the holidays. then this past week I scrummed to the nasty flu bug that is going around so for the past 4 days nothing really has no got done at all

Another thing that  also have been doing is participating  in is  swaps over at swap-bot. I have received s a couple cool packages from my partners and hopefully posting pictures tomorrow

Favorite Vacation _day 23

I can'
t believe that it is already day 23 of the challenge over at Katie's Journey already doesn't seem like its been that long.

Well today we are suppose to right about our favorite vacation. Mine was when I was a Senior in college. I had a opportunity to go on a 14 day cruise or graduate? Well as you Can imaging i6t didn't take much time for me to make a decision  The cruise was a trip through the Greek isles and Turkey. We flew to London then on to Athens Greece after we spent a night there we border a Cruise ship and were on there for 10 days where we hit all the islands than spent two days in Turkey before heading back to Athens for two days then back to the United States.

I am so glad that I went on this trip because it was so culturally diverse and made me realize what I have here at home.

Day 22-Favorite City

Well, I can say that I haven't traveled very much but I have been out of the country so I would have to say that  Mynoknos Greece would be my favorite spot out of the country. The problem is that Mynoknos is a island not a city.

So I would have to say that my favorite city  would have to be Gettysburg Penn. Because of all the rich history that it holds for are country, I was luckily enough to be able to go there for 4 days but I would love to go back.

Day 21 Picture of me

I know you are going to think this is a cop out but there are not a lot of pictures of me and the only one that i have on the computer is the one that I've shown you so no picture of me today.

Blog Challenge Days 19 and 20

For some reason I am having trouble all the sudden keeping up with the posting, so again here is two days in one post.
Day 20- Nicknames
 I guess my first nickname would have to be  Mindy since my full name is Melinda. When iI was born my grandma said Melinda was to long of a name for such a small baby it stuck. Well I tried to change it in colege but that was a no go cause i would never answer to it so I swent back to Mindy.

Well I have a bunch of nicknames  first off going up my grandpa called me Winnie and then when my sister was born I was upgraded to Big Winnie and she was Little Winnie.

My Boyfriend calls me Sweet pea and sometimes he calls me Vern depending on what we are talking about.
then there  Min, Minie, Aunt Nindy and my sister used to call me Ninna and my niece used to call me Ninnie and a few friends call me Minders.

Day 19 - something I miss

The thing that i miss the most is teaching. I have my BS in elementary education, but here in the state of Ohio you need to have to have your masters to have your own classroom and when I graduated in 2000 I was brunt out and I knew that if I went for my masters i would not do as well as I wanted to so after a hand full of other jobs working w preschoolers I started subbing for the city schools here. Well one thong that you all don't know is that I have Cerebral Palsy (Cp) and in 2004 I started receiving SSD and was told that I could only make $125 a month and keep all of my health benefits. Well I was making $75 a day and I couldn't afford to pay my own insurance so I had to quit. I miss the classroom AWFUL wish i could go back maybe some day.

Playing catch up.

Sorry I didn't blog yesterday about something I'm looking forward to, So today I am going to do both day 17 and 18. I did though pick up the leaves outside it took me a total of 3 1/2 hours  but I think that will  be the last time that I will have to do that before the white stuff flies for the winter.


Now on to the blog challenge over at Katie's Journey. First off Day 17  which is something that I am looking forward to.

I'm looking forward to spending the holidays with family and friends.

I'm looking forward to watching my niece's grow older.

I'm looking forward to making memories with friends.

I'm looking forward to loving life to the fullest.

I'm looking forward to living my life for me.

Now for Day 18- something I regret. This is a hard one for me as the way I am trying to look at things is that everything happens for a reason, so when you are trying to look at things from that perspective it is hard to say that you regret anything.

But if I had to say that I regretted anything it would have to be the 1 1/2 that me and my boyfriend broke up, I feel that maybe I didn't do everything in my power to keep us together, But then again I also feel that we had to break up so that we could find ourselves and we had to do that by ourselves now that we have things are better then they ever were. So as you can see it's hard for me to say that I regret anything.