Entry #2: The Best Things in Life

I'm newly 23 and learning what I love! I love Postickers, and animals. I love going to the zoo. I love going to school and working at the same time too. I love sushi and hot wings, and spending time with friends. I like listening to country music in my Mercedes Benz. I'm just kidding on the car part. I noticed I had that rhyming thing going on, so I let it be.

It's my birthday today and I've been able to enjoy almost all of these things in the past 24 hours. I'm going to the zoo tomorrow and I'm probably going to my favorite restaurant in Scottsdale too. I'm very excited. I've been working on homework for the last few hours, and although the homework part might not be my favorite, I'm looking forward to it paying off in the end.

I'm going to school to become a math teacher! I absolutely love math with a passion. I love tutoring people and watching them succeed. I love making people realize that they don't hate math, they just hate how it has been presented to them. I always believe that thinking about math in logical terms will help break down the problem and make it so much easier to solve. I can't wait to have a class full of students that I can help to excel in math!

I'm a huge math nerd, but I also love Spanish. I would love to be fluent in it and to be able to communicate with more people than I am able to communicate with now. I've taken many Spanish courses, but it's really the speaking part that gets me nervous and flustered. Even though it is difficult, I love it and do my best to pronounce the words correctly.

I'm headed out to the rest of my day with a big smile on my face and intentions to continue doing things that I love. Happy Un-Birthday to you! Or Happy Birthday if it happens to be yours as well! Here's a nerdy joke for you!

Entry #1: Blogs Shmogs?

I've never been the type who would blog by choice; I guess you could say that I'm still not that type. My cousin tried getting me into Tumblr, but I lost interest in it after the first day. I do use Facebook, but maybe not the same way that most bloggers would. Going into this I rolled my eyes a bit and groaned with frustration, thinking I'd hate every moment of it, but here I am, not so upset and I'm learning that I might like blogs!

One blog I read and that I really liked was 101 Cookbooks. I love cooking and finding new and delicious recipes, so I really enjoyed that she made this the main point of her blog. I also liked that she made sure to respond to the questions of her readers. It makes it feel like the author and readers are more connected. I enjoyed the recipe she shared for Immunity Soup because I've been getting sick a lot recently. I liked the wording she chose in her posts as well.

One blog that was surprisingly more interesting than I expected was Business Insider. I saw Business and I immediately thought it would be a bunch of things that I wasn't interested in. I was surprised to see that they covered quite a bit of topics and brought in readers of all different interests, so even though I might not be interested in all of the topics, there were also ones that I wanted to learn more about.

One blog that I thought I'd like but I ended up not enjoying was 20-Nothings. I loved her most recent post about adult things that she recently learned how to do, but the next few posts either bored or annoyed me. I don't like the celebrity gossip stuff and I honestly don't care about who said what, but the author was definitely into that kind of stuff.

I'm learning that there are things that I am interested in, and I might even follow a blog or two to keep up to date!

Introduction: "Getting My Feet Wet"

Hi there! My name is Shayla. I'm 23 years old, and this is my third semester at GCC. I love math, science, Spanish and animals. I am attending GCC to take any and all classes possible before I transfer to an unknown university in California or Arizona to further my education toward becoming a math teacher. In my free time I rescue cats and dogs, and raise feral kittens to be tame. Over the past year, I rescued 2 cats, 2 dogs, and raised 12 kittens.

Here are some kittens that my friend's father was able to round up from his yard. I raised and rehomed all four.

Here are some kittens that my friend and I found in a parking lot. I raised and rehomed all 5 of them as well.

My cousin and I found this bugger trapped INSIDE of a dryer. He had fallen through a hole of the roof in the laundry room and went straight down the chute into its vent. We spent 3 hours dismantling and reassembling the dryer after freeing him, but it was so worth it!

These last two little girls were given to me by homeless people because they were sick and the homeless people could not afford to take care of them. My grandma fell in love with the kittens and adopted them from me. The two babes are still best friends to this day!

This is my forever dog, Alice. I found her as a stray and even though I am a large dog person, she stole my heart and I was unable to let her go. She is the sweetest dog ever!

 All of my babies are hard to let go, but I'm always happy to see them go to good homes.

Sorry for the overload of photos; I love to show them off! This is just a bit about me, or maybe a lot, but this is my first blog entry ever, so I hope you enjoyed it!