50. Faith

Faith is probably a very touchy subject for a lot of people. For the most part when people think of faith they think of religion and a God or gods. But this is not always the case. There are many different types of faiths and many things to have faith in. For instance,I have faith in my family, because I know that I can trust them. I actually think that faith and trust are very similar. The definition of faith according to dictionary is "confidence or trust in a person or thing" and the defintion of trust is "reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence". It seems to me that these two words are very similar. They pretty much go hand in hand. Without trust you cannot have faith. Not very easily at least. I would say I have a lot of faith in my friends and family. This is because I can trust them with pretty much anything and everything. I know that if someone breaks my trust, it takes a while to regain it, but I have faith that they can do so. Faith for a lot of people can mean religion. But that is just one aspect of faith. I admire people with a lot of faith, but then again, what if what you hold your faith in turns out not to be true? I can be pretty skeptical about a lot of things, so I have definately given a lot of thought into what I put my faith in. I definately wouldn't say I give out my faith very often, it takes quite a while to earn my trust/faith. I know a lot of people who are different though, and will believe anything that anyone says. I think that is a dangerous policy which is why I don't do that. So overall faith can be a tricky subject that can make better or sometimes ruin peoples lives, it's a hit or miss kind of thing.

49. Family

Okay myyyyy family. I have a sister, and a mom and a dad. Well, I have a very large family on my mom's side. I'll start out with my dad's side cause it's much smaller. So my dad has a brother (Michael) and a sister (Donna). (He also has a half sister(but she lives in Germany and I don't remember her name)) Donna married David and they had three kids (Heidi, April, and Michael). Michael married Chris, and they have two kids (Sierra and Allen). My dad's mom (Edith) married my dad's dad (Alfred), but Alfred died when my dad was 17. So she got married to Roger Hendricker and he is my step grandfather or something like that. So that's it on my dad's side. My mom's side is...harder to follow, so bear with me. *Taylor Gorda will make a guest appearence in this side of the family, just a heads up* Alright so, my mom has one sister (Kim) and two brothers (Mike and Tim). Their parent's names are Ken and Donna. Kim and Mike are single, but Tim married Joanie and they had two kids (Sean and Ryan). Here gets to the confusing part. Ken's brother's name is Bob. Bob married Ellen and they live in Ohio in Hilliard. They had four kids (Bobby, Connie, Doug, and Bill). Connie married some guy (I don't know his name they are divorced now) and had three kids (Linsdey, Kelly, and Kyle). A few summers ago Kelly married this guy who I think his name is Patrick but I'm not sure. Ok back to Bob and Ellen's kids, Bobby married Leslie and they have two kids (Meagan and they have a son but I can't remember his name either). Their son is engaged and is going to marry someone this summer named Leslie (isn't it weird, he's marrying someone with the same name as his mother!). Ok to Bob and Ellen's kids again, Doug married someone named Carol and they have two kids (Griffin and Adam). Then Bill, he married someone also, but I don't know her name. They have I don't know how many kids, but I know that they have a daughter named Katie. Remember Ellen and Bob? Well Ellen's sister's name is Marianne and her son is Taylor's dad! I'm sorta kinda related to Taylor. :) It's pretty distant and past a couple marriages, but we still count it. So yea that's about it for my family.

48. Spring Break

Well spring break just got over with, and I am not sure whether or not I'm sad about that. I mean I enjoyed the break and sleeping in and being able to do whatever I wanted, but I kind of got pretty bored. Since I live in Plains, 15 minutes away from Springfield and the majority of my friends, I was not able to go into town everyday. So on the days that I stayed at home or in Plains, I was very very bored. I did not go anywhere for spring break, so I got to sleep in every day (well almost every day) and I really appreciated that after so long of getting up at 7 a.m. every morning. Let's see....we got out of school on a Thursday, then the following Friday I do not think I did anything important, but I can't really remember. The next day, Saturday, I shopped for my prom dress. I ended up getting on from Bella Boutique in Springfield. That was pretty much the only productive thing I did over break. Well, I also painted my room. That was fun. It used to be like a robin's egg blue on two walls and a brownish color on the other two walls. I picked up this medium grey color and a little container of black. I painted all of the walls the grey color and I am going to paint something on the walls in the black sometime too. I really like it grey, at first I was afraid it would be too dark but I actually really like it. Other than that I did not do much at all over break. It was very relaxing though. A lot of the time I woke up at like noonish, did not even get ready until one or two in the afternoon, and sometimes I didn’t do anything that day. I had to work a few times but it was basically the only thing I did.