Moms, Dads, & Grads! The three really do go together, this Grad would be nothing without her Mom and Dad! May 20, 2008

 

I am now officially a College Graduate! It is a feeling that I can’t describe to know that I am done and I am so excited to see what God is going to bring my way next! It is going to be incredible, I have no doubt. Both my parents have written very honoring blogs to me about my accomplishments, but I am not alone in it. I would have never made it this far without their love and support. This post is to honor them for all the sacrifices, support and time they put in to make this day possible for me.

Dad- where to begin? You have never had anything, but high expectations for me and you supported, encouraged me and loved me every step of the way to meet those expectations. Never once have I thought because I am a girl that I couldn’t do anything. If anything you taught me I could do more. : ) You and mom got married young and had me before maybe you planned, but I can’t ever remember a day when you didn’t work your butt of to take care of our family. I learned discipline and hardwork from you. Not becasue you lectured me day after day about the importance of working hard, but because you lived it!

Your life, the choices you made to serve God has always been such an inspiration to me. Every Sunday when you teach I learn so much. You’d think that by now I’d be tired of listening to you, but I look foward to what you have to say. It amazes me how you allow God to use and direct you.  You wrote in your letter to me, Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. You do this everyday.  You let the holy spirit shine through you with every word you preach and step you take. That is really the best gift you have ever given me! I am so blessed to have you as my dad!

Thanks so much for always listening to me no matter how long I decided to talk your ear off. : ) Thanks for always being interested in my life and asking tough questions no matter how awkward it made me feel. Thanks for loving me and giving me an example of the way my Heavenly Father loves me. It is because of you and mom I made it this far! That diploma partly belongs to you too! I love you so, so much!

Robbin

Mom- There is no one that understands me more, supports me more, or takes care of me more than you do. I am amazed as I look back over the years of everything you have done for me.  The choice you made to stay at home with me and the girls when we were little means so much. I am so thankful that no matter what happened you were who I got turn to when I needed something. We have def. had our tough times over the years. Remeber 5th-8th grade? Yeah those where some tough years. If someone told me then that by the time I graduated college you’d be not only my mom, but one of my best friends I never would’ve believed them. But that is exactly what happened. You became a friend and a mother. There isn’t anyone I laugh more with or cry more with than you. Thank you so much for always being there no matter what!

Mom, your compassionate heart, care for others, and desire to tell anyone and everyone about Christs love is incredible! I have never once in my life thought I was incapable of anything because you are so capapble of everything and I thought if I can just be half the woman my mother is I can do anything. I don’t think you have any idea how many people you come in contact with are blessed because of a smile you gave them or a kind word you said. You have always been my number one encourager! No matter how overwhelmed I became, you always shed light on the situation. It is because of your hardwork and dedication to finish your degree that I got the strength to get mine. I know that it wasn’t easy, but you did it and so did I! You are an amazing, godly, woman and I am so blessed to have you as my mother!

Thank you for laughing, teaching, loving, encouraging, crying, and just hanging with me! I am the person I am because of the person you are. Any accomplishment or thing I do is possible because of the foundation you and dad gave me. I thank God everyday for you! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Robbin

 

Finally a Day Off– They Never Go as You Plan January 21, 2008

So today is MLK Jr. Day which is very exciting to me because not only is it a day to remember an amazing figure of our history, but it also means I do not have school or work. I have been looking forward to this day because  it meant that I could finally sleep in. Last night as I went to bed I was thrilled I did not have to set an alarm of any kind and could just sleep.  I visioned myself pretty much wasting most the morning catching some z’s. What a wonderful day!

Well, it is about 8:30am right now and I am wide awake. I know you’re thinking 8:30 isn’t too early and I would agree with that, but I have been awake since about 7:00am. No matter how much I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to fall back to sleep I couldn’t do it. I know that I am tired, I went to bed well after midnight last night, but it doesn’t matter, I cannot fall back to sleep. I hate it. There was a time when I could sleep to noon with no problem. Now I can barely make myself sleep past 7:00am, it just really isn’t fair. I suppose 7am is sorta like sleeping in because when I work early I get up around 3:30am, but still it just doesn’t cut it for me. I mean come on the sun as only been about for about an hour at 7:00am,  it seems like I should get to sleep at least 2 hours past the time the sun gets up.

So I guess it is official… I really am a morning person. Some of you may think this is a good thing, but I not so much. I have always been somewhat impressed with  my lazy, sleeping in habits. But they cease to exist now. If I am not in bed by 9pm at the latest I am incredibly tired and I can’t sleep past 7 the next morning. Can you say grandma? But the sad thing is even my grandma can party late into the night with the best of them and sleep in the next day. What is the deal? I guess, just call me grandma Robbin, I’ll go out and buy some more sweaters to make it official.

Parking delima and Cracker Barrel is Selfish August 31, 2007

Okay, so if I haven’t established already I am a student down at Metro State College. I should be done in May with a communication degree! Woo Hoo! I think the thing that frustrates me most about being a student at metro is paying for parking. I mean come on, I pay enough to go to school there, don’t you think you could cut students a break and give us free parking. In fact this year they raised all the parking prices. There is one lot that is $1.75, but only has about 25 spaces in it so it fills up pretty fast and the cheapest after that is $3. I think that is a little ridiculous. I have class 4 times a week so I am going to at least spend about $12 a week on parking. That is about $50 a month. To me it feels like a wast of money.

 My solution to not wanting to pay is riding the bus. I really actually enjoy the bus ride and it so nice to sit back and let the bus drive deal with the traffic as I read my text book or listen to my i-pod. However, lately riding the bus hasn’t been as easy as it once was. I catch the 120x at the park-n-ride on 120th & Huron. This semester my classes are later in the day so by the time I get to the parking lot all the parking spaces are full. There was a time when you could park along the curb, but they have put up fire lane signs so you are no longer aloud to park there. The solution to this was to park in the Cracker Barrel parking lot that is next to the RTD parking lot. Well apparently Cracker Barrel does not like that because they too have put up no RTD parking signs.

I do understand the reasoning for the signs and it really was never that big of deal until last Wed. I needed to catch the 10:43 bus to make it down to campus for my 11:30 class. I arrived to the park-n-ride parking lot at 10:20 knowing that I would have to drive around to find a spot. I drove around the whole parking lot and there was not one single spot open. Frustrated and a little flustered because my bus had arrived and it was almost 10:43 I zoomed over to the Cracker Barrel parking lot to see if there might be somewhere to park. I decided to risk it and park along the curb next to the Craker Barrel parking lot (I know that isn’t bright thinking now, I wanted free parking so bad I risked getting a $50 ticket instead of paying $3 to park down town) Well as I was leaving my car, Cracker Barrel Manager comes out and says, “Excuse me”

“Yes”, I said.

“Are you going to take the bus”?

“Yes”.

“Well then I’m sorry, but you can’t park there”.

“okay I said sorry about that, I will move my car”.

Of course by this time I had missed the bus and only had a little over a half hour to get to my class and I had to drive down to campus. On my way I realized that I didn’t have any cash therefore no money for parking. I pulled over to the side of the road and emptied out all of my change from my car, trunk, purse, and back pack. Miraculously I did find $3 worth of change, but $.75 of it was in pennies. The parking attended wasn’t too thrilled with all the change she had to count.

I write all of this to tell you that I am a little frustrated with the seflishness of Cracker Barrel. See they have a very big parking lot and lets face it, are they really going to have that many people come to eat? No. They can spare a few spaces for the overflow of the RTD parking lot. I mean come on work with us students here. We are trying to better ourselves, so we can better the world and you won’t even let us use a parking space?

I know that I may sound a little ridiculous in this rant, but the fact of the matter is paying for parking is annoying, but sometimes you just have to deal with it. I have decided to deal with it by sharing this with all of you, but in the end sometimes I still have to suck it up and pay. Life is just tough sometimes. But hey at least when I need to I can usually afford to pay to park my car and I have a car to park. See it is when I realize things like that, that this rant really seems silly. But it does feel good to get it all out there sometimes. : )

School Days are Here Again. January 25, 2007

I have had many complaints from people that I need to Blog again. I  know that it has been almost a month since my last post, but here’s the deal, I am back in school again and taking 18 credit hours, so suddenly most of my time as been sucked up by that. I wish, though, that I could spend every night intensely blogging for all of you to read, but there is just no way…. unless you guys help me. Here is a list I compiled of a few things you all can do to help me so that I have more time to blog.

 1. I have many papers that I need to write over the course of the semester, two of them are research papers, so anytime you are bored you can right a paper for me. The research papers need to be 14-15 pages in length and the other papers can be 600-800 words. If intersted comment below and I will send you a topic.

 2. I am taking 6 classes, each with 1-3 textbooks, so I have a lot of reading to do, so if any of you are intersted in doing my reading for me and then writing a summary that I can read so I can get the main points without taking the time to read, comment below and I will tell you the book titles. Keep in mind I am tested on most of my reading so it is important that you give a detailed summary and don’t miss any big points.

3. Sometimes I get assignments that really I see as busy work, but unfortunately I am graded on them, so if some of you could be on call so that when I get these assignment I can e-mail them to you so you can take care of them for me that would be great.  

4. I am working part time so I can pay for books and tuition and stuff like that, so if some of you wanted to fund my life then I will definitely have the time I need to blog more often.

 So there ya go, 4 simple things that you can do to help. Once those are taken care of really I can do nothing, but blog. It will be awesome. Again if you are interested in helping please comment below so that I can give you more details.

 Okay, so that really probably will never work, but how great would it be if I could just delegate all my school assignments. Too bad. Thats why I’m going to school so I can get a job where people will do the work for me. Yeah that will be a good time. : )