a Story about me
...dog fan, cats are my love, but my dogs hold a special place in my heart. Jake is a pound puppy that we got when we first moved south. In his younger days, Jake could run fast and defend our house. One time, he woke my parents up when an intruder broke into our house! The second, younger dog, Winston was a gift to my mom because he looks like a miniature, fatter version of an Irish wolfhound, my mom’s favorite dog. He is a happy black mop that loves laps. My other five lap lovers are my cats, four of which are family. We got the mother years ago when my dad was working as a landscaper to repair the devastating damage of Hurricane Andrew, he found her and her brother, two stray kittens. We kept the female; she grew up to a hormone driven teenager and after three litters and 26 kittens, we were three kittens richer. A few months ago, we acquired our fifth (and my dad says final) cat. She was a stray who crawled in my ex boyfriend’s backseat one day while we were sitting in there with the doors open. She was gorgeous through the messy, dirty fur. I made her mine and even though my family was hesitant at first, she charmed them, too. Aside from the normal cats and dogs, we went through a series of hermit crabs and bunny rabbits. We even had a bird that was some breed of parrot and had a limited, but slightly entertaining vocabulary. Along with loving animals, I also love music. The Beatles are my all time favorite and I like a lot of music from that time period. However, all different kinds of music appeals to me and I think it would be neat if I had the time to learn how to produce melodies from every instrument imaginable! I have started on that fantasy with the piano, which I began in elementary school. I took five years of piano lessons and after my first teacher moved away I tried others and got burnt out on it. Although, just recently I began teaching a friend of mine the basics, and that has been a learning experience for me also. I continued my musical fantasy by learning the flue in the middle school band. I really enjoyed band and even though I didn’t always think so at the time, I had a pretty good teacher. We did marching band and I was faithfully there every week. Many of my friends at the time were also in band, one of which I am still very close to today, and so it’s not unbelievable that we had a great time. I continued marching band through my two years at Martin County High School. However, in high school the band was more disciplined and less fun. It lost it’s sparkle and when I left that school, I had no desire to pursue any future in marching band, but I’ll still toot on my flute every now and then. Also in high school, my best friend to this day, my marching band friend and I were on the weightlifting team together. The three of us had a riot while getting in shape. We went to competitions a...