My View on Peer Reviews

Hello Everyone.  Well, I don't know about you but I absolutely love getting peer reviews!  What I like the most about them is that everyone has their own opinions and something that I think I may have done a really good job on, someone else might get confused by or think that I need to put a little more work into making it sound better.  My first encounter with peer reviews was not that great and that was because I was too sensitive about the negative feedback I was receiving.  Once I realized that my peers were trying to be helpful and not criticize me I really learned to appreciate feedback.  Now, the more feedback I receive the better.  I really enjoy trying to incorporate other people's ideas into what I've written.  To me, it makes your paper better because it now includes someone else's views/ideas and not just your own.  After all, everyone needs help once in awhile. 

Stress

Well... if you guys couldn't tell by the title I have been feeling really stressed out lately.  With school, bills, work, and my kids driving me crazy it seems that I have had no time for myself.  I think school has been the toughest thing for me to deal with recently.  It seems like this term I am lacking motivation and I'm not as focused as I have been.  I've been procrastinating a lot which doesn't fit my personality at all and I don't know how to fix it.  Any suggestions?

Small Town, Big Problems

Hello Everyone.  I come from a small town in Wisconsin where everybody knows everybody else's business.  Since graduating high school, which was 6 years ago, I only keep in contact with one person and to be honest with you she's the only person that I would want to keep in contact with.  It seems like everyone I used to know has slowly been sucked into this drug induced existence that I want nothing to do with.  I guess the reason why the whole drug problem has me thinking lately is because just recently there was a young girl who overdosed on heroin in the area where I live.  From just looking at her you would think that she totally had it together.  She just graduated from college with a bachelors degree and then decided that she wanted to go back to further her education.  To put it simply she just didn't seem to fit the profile of a drug addict.  What really gets me is that people that were close to her, who share the same addiction, saw how this drug took her life and they still won't quit.  It's disgusting how a substance can control your life like that.  This drug is everywhere and within the last 6 months there have been several overdoses in all of the surrounding towns of where I live.  It really makes me want to move because I don't see this problem getting any better by the time my kids get older.

New Years Resolution

Hello Everyone.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who has made a new years resolution and hopefully this year I will actually stick with it.  Both my fiance and I have decided that we are done eating all of the processed food and feeling like crap all the time.  We are working on making a lifestyle change of only eating healthy, natural things.  At first I thought that this diet was going to leave me limited and deprived of the foods that I love such as cheese; I'm from Wisconsin, what can I say!  After eating fruits, vegetables, and a few organic products like salsa for a whole week I feel great.  I have so much more energy and I never feel bloated like I used to after eating.  Hopefully this summer we will have a garden so that we can save some money on groceries.  I'm really excited about finally put effort into becoming healthy!