My Good News Update
The summer has been good to me, it always is.
I have enough money to buy a moped, a laptop, tuition, and books. It's all paid for. Without help from my parents. One of my teachers told me I couldn't do it, so I did. I get motivation from the strangest sources. I hate it when people doubt me.
Note: All this money saved is from my own business, not some crap mall minimum wage job.
My iPod is working again. I went to the Apple store to have them look at it, and I was so worried about it, I made myself physically ill. I guess I'm just really into my music.
I helped these people clean out their house so they could move, and they just gave me a brand new Palm. If you ever have the means to acquire one of these babies, I strongly advise you to do so. I'm not into the calander aspect of it so much, but it has this fantastic software on it called "PalmReader." It lets you read entire books just off the screen, sweet! It came with two free full-length books, and that in itselft is awesome. It gets better. I found a website that has over 2,500 books to download, and they add another 1,000 books each year. $19.95 for a lifetime membership, which gives unlimited books, at no cost, for the rest of your life. SCORE. I downloaded about 20 books onto my Palm, worried about memory capacity. No problem. Now I've got just under 50 books on there. I love being literate.
I had the best vacation I've ever gone on. We fly down to La Paz, on the Baja peninsula. From there, we sailed the Sea of Cortez. First time in over a decade the entire Davis family has been together. 43 foot catamaran. Sleeps 12, but we had 14. I slept in the sails. When the sails are down, it rests in a hammock-like canvas bag. So I brought up a pillow and sleeping bag and had the best nights of sleep ever. A couple of nights we had near gale-force winds, and the people sleeping up on deck actually had a pillow fly away. You'd be sleeping and your pillow would lift up your body underneath you. I was up in the sails, which amplified the rocking by I don't know how much. It bugged everybody else, but I had the brunt of the rocking and I really enjoyed it. It was almost like the boat was rocking me to sleep. After we got back on land, however, the ground rocked underneath me for 3 full days and nights. I enjoyed that too, except when I tried to read. Sleeping in the sails...my goodness you should have seen the stars.
Another good thing:
I've been casually collecting pennies and putting them in a jar since about the sixth grade. I tried going to a CoinStar machine, but it ate about five bucks worth of my pennies and didn't give me anything. So we got penny rollers from the bank and counted them by hand. The grand total? $35.00! Not including what the CoinStar machine ate. Yes, that would be 3,500 pennies. That's a lot of money from just saving change, isn't it?
I got a $1000 scholarship that I thought I had no chance in the world of winning. From the California Trucking Association. To enter, you have to have some connection to the trucking industry. Luckily, my dad is a computer programmer for FedEx Freight. I really thought I had no chance of winning, especially since it had been four months since I sent in my application.
Not only did I get the $500 scholarship from the Tall Club of Silicon Valley, I also got sent to nationals becasue I won the Silicon Valley chapter. I thought I had no chance at all of winning any sort of national scholarship because I don't have a 4.0 GPA, so I just forgot about it. At the scholarship dinner, they presented me with my $500 check, and then announced that I had won one of six NATIONAL scholarships also! Another thousand dollars! They said I won mainly becasue I had a killer essay. So all those years waiting for a figure finally paid off in the form of $1500.
Anyway, I'm really happy right now. I'm a bit nervous for Hawaii, but I'm just worried about getting the classes I need.
Still looking for a gentleman.
I have enough money to buy a moped, a laptop, tuition, and books. It's all paid for. Without help from my parents. One of my teachers told me I couldn't do it, so I did. I get motivation from the strangest sources. I hate it when people doubt me.
Note: All this money saved is from my own business, not some crap mall minimum wage job.
My iPod is working again. I went to the Apple store to have them look at it, and I was so worried about it, I made myself physically ill. I guess I'm just really into my music.
I helped these people clean out their house so they could move, and they just gave me a brand new Palm. If you ever have the means to acquire one of these babies, I strongly advise you to do so. I'm not into the calander aspect of it so much, but it has this fantastic software on it called "PalmReader." It lets you read entire books just off the screen, sweet! It came with two free full-length books, and that in itselft is awesome. It gets better. I found a website that has over 2,500 books to download, and they add another 1,000 books each year. $19.95 for a lifetime membership, which gives unlimited books, at no cost, for the rest of your life. SCORE. I downloaded about 20 books onto my Palm, worried about memory capacity. No problem. Now I've got just under 50 books on there. I love being literate.
I had the best vacation I've ever gone on. We fly down to La Paz, on the Baja peninsula. From there, we sailed the Sea of Cortez. First time in over a decade the entire Davis family has been together. 43 foot catamaran. Sleeps 12, but we had 14. I slept in the sails. When the sails are down, it rests in a hammock-like canvas bag. So I brought up a pillow and sleeping bag and had the best nights of sleep ever. A couple of nights we had near gale-force winds, and the people sleeping up on deck actually had a pillow fly away. You'd be sleeping and your pillow would lift up your body underneath you. I was up in the sails, which amplified the rocking by I don't know how much. It bugged everybody else, but I had the brunt of the rocking and I really enjoyed it. It was almost like the boat was rocking me to sleep. After we got back on land, however, the ground rocked underneath me for 3 full days and nights. I enjoyed that too, except when I tried to read. Sleeping in the sails...my goodness you should have seen the stars.
Another good thing:
I've been casually collecting pennies and putting them in a jar since about the sixth grade. I tried going to a CoinStar machine, but it ate about five bucks worth of my pennies and didn't give me anything. So we got penny rollers from the bank and counted them by hand. The grand total? $35.00! Not including what the CoinStar machine ate. Yes, that would be 3,500 pennies. That's a lot of money from just saving change, isn't it?
I got a $1000 scholarship that I thought I had no chance in the world of winning. From the California Trucking Association. To enter, you have to have some connection to the trucking industry. Luckily, my dad is a computer programmer for FedEx Freight. I really thought I had no chance of winning, especially since it had been four months since I sent in my application.
Not only did I get the $500 scholarship from the Tall Club of Silicon Valley, I also got sent to nationals becasue I won the Silicon Valley chapter. I thought I had no chance at all of winning any sort of national scholarship because I don't have a 4.0 GPA, so I just forgot about it. At the scholarship dinner, they presented me with my $500 check, and then announced that I had won one of six NATIONAL scholarships also! Another thousand dollars! They said I won mainly becasue I had a killer essay. So all those years waiting for a figure finally paid off in the form of $1500.
Anyway, I'm really happy right now. I'm a bit nervous for Hawaii, but I'm just worried about getting the classes I need.
Still looking for a gentleman.