Life has been pretty busy....work takes up a lot of my time..then the last month my Gmother was in the hospital and then after she was released...we have all been trying to find sometime to stay with her...so that she doesn't start doing things that she shouldn't been. That woman is sneaky....and we gotta watch to make sure she gets the rest that she needs....other than that...i am trying to live my life....sometimes it's hard....but it wasn't said to be easy..just worth it....soo come on the good and the bad....i know i have a support group there for me when i need to fight my demons......i was able to go to church and feel the peact and comfort that i miss not going every sunday because of work. I almsot regret choosing this profession sometimes or wish i could find a small place closed on sundays so i could go to church every sunday....but maybe this is a trial for me....knowing that i need to rely more on our Lord in my life....and that relying more on him....everything will fit into it's place.....we were asked to read the new missionary book by the end of the year....i'll keep an update on that..and i'm going to try my family history also..with what i got in the last month..and we shall see how long it takes me to finish the scarf i started crocheting...

I know it has been awhile since i have written anything...life gets in the way....work has been a little busier and my Gma was in the hospital. Poor OLD lady...haha...she would hate being called that...I tried to tell her at 76 it was time for her to let other people take care of her....she said she would let us know when she reached the age where she needs help for other people...she is doing good....and is back to herself....she is very funny....amusing us all....anyway..things are good...just a quick hello and update....while i remembered....

UPDATE on ME

So I'm going to have to find time to get a pic up...I am the year of the snake. My Mommy was looking up about the chinese zodiak and read mine. She so nicely wanted to tell me that part of being the Year of the Snake included being narssistic...(if i spelled that right)....which is funny to me because i have always had the lowest of self esteems....and still do at times....BuT then when i htink about it...growing up i was always in the mirror....(ask my mom)...even now...i can sometimes look in the mirror and just make faces at myself....and i have to get my hair done every two weeks....haha....yes...i can be vain....what can one do about it..BUT along that line...i wanted to let people know that black people do not need botox shots.......every couple of weeks..if you get really tight corn rows......works wonders...cept sometimes...it lifts an eyebrow uu and it takes a coupe days for the skin to relax.....i'll have to take a pic of my corn rows mohawk...(my new fav hairstyle...) and try to get them on here..BuT other than that..Life is great.......just wanted to get an update in here...so Dav didn't hate me for waiting forever to write something new..haha..

OUT

Hello....no new pics today...i need to take more....i am having fun with my camera phone..and apparently so is my sister.....she did the same thing to my phone that a 10 year old did to out friend Juans phone.....can you put the two together....if you can't......i'm basically saying Monica is like a 10 year old...haha....yeah i like to think i'm funny.....So i was workinf Sunday. ..and realized how much i miss going to church every sunday. This is the Washington DC Temple of The Church of Jesus Chrsti of Latter-Day Saints. Yes the name is long BuT i have come across a Jewish man who told me that Mormons did not believe in Christ. i became speechless. Fellow employee died because that one comment shut me up. I was quite shocked i guess.....so i found a picture of that and i will put that in here...it's a really nice picture.
A lot of people see it on the DC beltway and remark upon it when they learn that I amd LDS. This is where i will marry one day......not soon enough for my parents apparently....at 29 we stil get the.."I was married with 3 kids ...." haha....ah well....this is the 2 0 0 6......till another day

Money

So i got my first paycheck on Thursday..talk about nice..i think i may have gone a little crazy...ok..not really..i bought some clothes and shoes..buT i shop cheap so it only cost about 40 dollars all together....i now have a cell phone with a camera too...so i can catch those funny moments...i just have to find out how to get them to my computer....i do have a picture i want to put up here tho.....my frind sent me this website for this HOT german singer...names Tarkan.. *sigh*
yum..haha..

Other than that...things are good...i am enjoying work..there is a little bit of drama...BuT what can you do....i go to work and do my job..jokes around some....eat some ( i gotta stop that) and then go home...all in a days work....sometimes i use my favorite Top Chef quotw...it is what it is...haha...
I was very happy to make it to church today.....i miss it..and seeing everyone there...it's the old saying..you don't know what you are missing till it's gone....sooo this is it for now.. I'm kinda tired...and i wanna take a nap.....soo enjoy my hot german cutie....and i'm out

It has been forever since I have taken the time to write something...BUT it's exciting news....
I GOT A JOB and they have been working my butt off. Okay...so it's mainly because i have't really worked in a year...and i need to get back into the groove of things. So far things have been good....it' looking like Fridays are not gonna be my days.....my first friday i spilled a 11 lb miture of flour and cocoa powder on the floor and myself. I had to walk around the rest of the day with cocoa covers pants nad shows...not to metion what got into my socks....wish i had a camera phone.....sometime soon.....this friday i worked a total of 13 hours....we had a function of 450 ppl coming in and a lot of things just kept going the wrong way...which lead to a awesomely bad Sat. I made it thru and i still love my job..and who doesn't mind time and a half for overtime right?!?! haha....let's see....here are some graduation pics...

April in Paris

Okay....so while i was in Ireland, we did get over to Paris for under 24 hours. We hopped on a tour bus and rode it around because that's all we really had time for. But here are a couple of the Eiffel Tower. It was really beautiful at night. They actually had the blinking lights for a bit BuT you can't really get the prettiness of that with just a picture. We got there just as dusk was coming. It was raining, it was cold, Paris was not where i wanted to be, BUT it was beautiful and i will always be thankful I did have the chance to go.....


This is the smart car....i just had to put that on so that people could see that there are cars smaller than my CHEVY Metro....there are a lot of these flying around...can you imagine what i could so with one of those cars here??? Fun times fun times..... can you imagine me fitting into one of those...i should have stopped and asked someone randomly if i could just sit it in They already hate us Americans in France anyway....might as well bother them some more right???
I have always loved the architecture of Europe. I hate history, but the buildings and things facsinate me...I loved going on all my field trips for school while in Germany and this was a high point for me in Paris...it kinda got me out of my "funk"..here are some good ones. One is of the opening of the Louve ....this one of the Notre Dame Cathedral

Okay....quickly...here are some photos of a Castle we visited outside of Dublin. I shall try agani to get more photos on here and keep a better update on my life...

I know....ia m such a slacker...i haven't updated this in awhile. I have been busy trying to get my resume together so i can go out into this "big bad world" and get a good paying job. I am trying for Oprah in the next couple of years...so i gotta make a name for myself...i think i still owe some graduation photos...BuT that will have to come later....i'm not really busy..BuT my computer at home sucks...and I'm trying to get all my photos on my USB port so i can invade peoples home and use their computers to download my pics...(*coughcoughDavcoughcough*)..haha...I love my work..and here's to making some great crossroads

I graduated on Sunday. It was pretty nice. Except for one or two of the speakers, BuT what can you expect at graduations. I am excited. It feels so good to be a Graduate. After so many long years of just aimlessly letting life pass me by, I have found something that i love. Oprah, I will be writing you soon. She will be making room for me on her cooking staff....I have NO doubt...haha. Could i say that with a straight face. Altho I have always thought of writing her. We shall see. Right now I am working for the school in the Bay Atlantic Club and am fielding out aps and working on my resume. Not the funniest thing in the world, BuT I have been offered help by my schools student counsler and I will gladly go to her for help. She is a great person and has helped me with a lot of things. All one has to do is ask. Scriptures coming to life in your every day life..."ask and it shall be opened unto you" I feel as if should thank my Heavenly Father for the opportunities that I have had over the last 2 years. I know that I am a child of God and that He is there for me when I need Him and when I ask for His help. I am sooooo much happier with who I AM...these days and all that is from getting to know myself by getting to know my Father and my brother Jesus Christ. I see good things ahead for me as long as i endure in climbing my way up the Spiritual Mountain. I expect the growth to make me a stronger person and hope that i don't blind people with the light that i will show....(pics to come later)

I went to Ireland for 5 weeks Feb 13th to Mar 17th. I did a internship at The Park Hotel in Virginia Co. Cavan. This is the driveway to the hotel. Imagine it at night without any lights trying to lead a slighty tipsy person back to the dorms. I had to brace myself since I'm the one who is afraid of the dark.....




These are the dorms that we stayed in. My room was the one over that door on the right side. I was next to Michal who i called my boyfriend. Haha. We thought it was all in good fun. Then someone told him that's what we called him. He was okay with it. I know he wanted me anyway...haha

We did a lot of things. Or so it seemed. There is only so much you can see in 5 weeks when you are working 4 of the 7 days. We went into Dublin a lot. We went to Trinity College and saw the Book of Kells. We took some pictures before we were told we weren't supposed to. I'll have to load those later. This is Trinity....

Isn't it just beautiful. Look at that blue sky..that's when it isn't raining. It is still lovely when it is raining as you see here. This is the view from the front of the hotel. There is a golf course and then there is the Lough (i think that's gaelic for lake...i'll have to make sure)...There is a nine whole golf course. Part of it crosses over the driveway. Signs say watch out for flying balls. The lake is beautiful. I have a better picture that i will put up later.

We cooked in the kitchen at the Hotel. While i was in the pastry kitchen, I came up with this design for the plates we decorated for desserts. I started trying to to a P and H for Park Hotel then a shamrock. Tony, the pastry checf, suggested that we do a crest. This is what we came up with. We use melted chocolate and colored mango sauce to decorate. These are the Irish colors. We would pipe out this big dollop of whipped cream on the pther side and place the dessert in the middle....

I will have to come back and do more another day. BuT this is a good start

Silence

Last night i house sat for a friend. My parents place has been very crowded and I needed a little time to myself. It's amazing what you can hear in the silence. So many thoughts and issues arise when there is so much noise around and satan leaps at the chance to get his lil bit in. Silence brought back why I appreciate the things I have in my life. It's nice to know that some things are still out there for me to learn.
Thanks for letting me stay Doctor Stak....haha

This is My Life...along with that of my family. I am at a new beginning and am eager to get on the road. I have just graduated from Baltimore International College with an AAS in Professional Cooking and Baking. The list is long so please don't ask me to cook anything yet...I hope to get my family involved in this blog as we are all over the world and all over the world is where this new beginning may take me.....so...*raises sparkling cider* here is to what lays ahead
May I recieve guidance from my Heavenly Father as I make my pathway in this mortal exsistance........