A Time I had to choose.

I have had to make plenty of difficult decisions in my life. The most recent one was deciding to live my life free of drugs. I am in recovery, and I have over three years clean. In 2002, I lost everything I have ever worked hard for. Including my daughter, my house, and my job all do to my drug use. I had to make a decision to either quit or go to jail. At that time it was the hardest choice I ever had to make. The day I decided that I wanted to get my daughter back, was the beginning of a long rough road to recovery. In 2004 I had a son who made things a lot more worth fighting for. My goal was to get my daughter back and have my son as well. In order to do that, I had to make all the right choices from from that point on; in fact, I made the decision to go to rehab and have my son. when I got back, I worked on getting my daughter.
Making the choice to live my life clean was much harder then I thought, but I have, and I love it. Since then, I have been clean and accomplished so much. I got full custody of my daughter and I had my son drug free. I made the choice to go to college, and most of all, I completed every program that was thrown at me. I know there will be a lot more challenges ahead in my life; nevertheless, there won't be any choice harder then the one I just had to face, which was getting my life back.

I FELL IN LOVE.

Finding romance today is quite different then before. Today you don't really have to do all the foot work, like go on dates or even meet somone when your out.
Today there is dating on line, you actually go on line and put all your all your intrest down and someone on the other side of the computer will match you up. I myself don't agree with dating on line, because you never know who is on the other side of that computer. You don't even know what kind of person he is really, he might say one thing and act another. I do know friends that have used on line dating services and there relationship is still going. But as for myself I don't agee with it. I guess I am old fashion and belive in meeting someone and geting to know them for a while before I date them.

Where would you go on your dream vacation.

My dream vacation would last 3 weeks. I would go on a bunch of trips. I would take my whole family along with my brother's and my mom and dad. We would first go to Marine world, we would stay there for at least a week. I think my kids would love that they have'nt been there yet. My son would love all the animals and my daughter would love all the rides. Second we would go to Disney Land I have never been there before and niether has my family. I think my kids would love all the rides along with all the disney characters. We would stay there for about a week. After that we would go on a 7 day cruz I'm not sure just where we would go, maybe to Hawaii or just cruz along the coast. It wouldn't matter because the ship would be wounderful anyway. There would be a casino and awhole bunch of other things we could do on the ship. Me and my kids have never been on a huge ship it would be a great experience for all of us including my parents and brothers. I can't wait untill we take our dream vacation.

The perfect weather

The perfect weather for me is wakeing up and the sun is shining outside, it feels about 70 degrees out and there isn't much wind blowing. I am getting ready to put some shorts and a tee-shirt on my son, and my daughter is wearing some skorts and a tank top. I will put on some capries and tee-shirt. Its not to hot and it's not to cold it's just the right weather to stay outside all day. So I think we will go to the park and have a picnic and play on the swings, then if it's hot enough we will go the swimming hole and take a dip in the water. After the park and swimming we will go to play miniture golf at the skating ring. We will play a couple of rounds of golf and then rap it up and catch a good movie.

What will life be like twenty years from now?

Twenty years from now, I will be 51. My daughter will be my age, and my son will be 23. I can see myself in a nice house somewhere in the city; I can see my daughter driving a really expensive sports car, working at a high paying job and hopefully singing because that was her dream. I can see my son going to college to become some kind of animal doctor; indeed, he loves animal so much. As for the world, it has become more crazy with all the crime. There are more homeless people because they couldn't find any good paying jobs. I think twenty years from now people will be more lazy because there will be some kind of robot that does all the house work . I think prices will be higher because of all the people that have good jobs can afford to pay higher. That will make it harder for the poor people. Twenty years from now, I can see myself waiting at home for my grandchildren to come over, so we can go to the park. I see my daughter has a wonderful husband and beautiful family. As for my son he would be working on a great career to becoming a doctor. I would have traveled all around the world and back by now. I'm pretty sure I will be retired from the medical field; furthermore, twenty years from now I see myself being very, very happy because I got to see my children grow up and live the dreams that they have always wanted.

How has the world changed since you were a child.

I believe the world has changed dramaticaly since I was growing up. First of all I don't remember school being so hard. My daughter is in 6th grade and her homework is as hard as mine in college. The kids these days learn so much more then I did when I went to school. I also don't recall haveing anything like a" MP3" player or a "Ipod" those things didn't exist. I was lucky to have a radio. Instead of a "playstation" I had a "Mario brothers" to play with.
Growing up in the 80's had there good times and there bad times. I remember being able to go to the park and play without my mom, and being able to go to the store without my brother or mom. Now today I really don't like my daughter going to far without me. I don't let her go to the mall alone or to the park alone because of all the crazy people out there these days. I remember being 16 and being able to go anywere without my mom careing what I did. I am very different with my daughter I need to know were she is at all times. when I was younger I didn't have the privlage of haveing a cell phone at such a young age. Today these kid have cell phones in elementary school, I thought it was a good idea to get my daughter a cell phone, so in case I need to get awhole of her I can just call. Although she has to earn the minnutes for the phone with doing chores around the house, I can see it is teaching her how to be responsible. When I was growing up I don't remember the pure pressure of drugs as much as I see today. I didn't have to worry about someone asking me to get high or even feeling presurred in to anything. Now its pretty bad the kids have to watch out for drugs all around the schools and any other places that they may go. Today is a lot more stressful for teens I think. I guess growing up back in the day was ok at some point, but I am glad I am here today.

Favorite Childhood Memory

My favorite memory from my childhood is catching fire flies in Oaklahoma. I lived in Oklahoma for 7 years. I lived there for most of my childhood. At the age of seven I remember on nice warm nights my brother and I would love to catch fire flies. We would see how many each of us could catch. Catching fire flies was really fun. Sometimes we would accidentally squish them and there blood was florecent yellow so it glowed, we would put it on our faces and act like indians. It was a blast.

I remember the parades they used to throw out candy, and I remember playing out in the yard with my bouton, and skating on my roller skates at the high school across the street. I can say honestly that living in Oklahoma holds the best childhood memories for me.