Well well Readers,

Welcome back!  I should really be saying this to myself but that just might sound weird.  Welcome back to your own blog where you post tings about your life, Amanda!  Yeah, as I said, weird.

Some great things have come to pass!  Thursday I got my hrrr (hair) did for free!  And I’m talking allover color!  I went to the Paul Mitchell school in the Highlands at Arlington and it was a buy one get one something or other mother-daughter thing.  So we only had to pay for what the mother got done.  And my mom only got a deep conditioning.  So we paid twelve bucks!  Plus tip cause I had an awesome lady!  Finally, my hrrr is all around one color and will fade to my pretty natural brown with little notice.

Then Friday I worked three jobs!  Talk about a life I got here.  Mickey D’s to nanny to babysit.  I worked from 6 am to 10:30 pm.  Yeah, lets not do that everyday.  Course, I love kiddos so my day was actually pretty easy.

Gershwin is a really cool guy.  Check out some of his music.  Anyway, he’s just really inspiring.  Find out why!       ê

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George

Gershwin

He gained the approval for jazz music as “serious music.”  He did this by writing jazz music in a form of alternative.  He would write a classical piece but add jazz themes and characteristics to it.  He wrote many pieces that became popular and went worldwide!  He is as famous in the classical genre as he is in the popular genre.

Amanda

Webb

Years flew by and suddenly I found myself stepping outside my comfort zone.  My family had recently moved to Texas and I was refusing to make friends.  But I had decided to quit band – it no longer offered the same delight after I learned everything the books could teach me to teach myself.  This was a big step.  Being in band, I could sit quietly in the back and not be bothered.  When the music was taught wrong, I would go home and play it correctly but say nothing.   I joined the color guard and waited to fail.  But I didn’t.  In fact, I more than succeeded!  I was offered a spot on a professional guard at age 15 and debated taking it.  During all of this, the guard’s standards in dress and dance changed.  My teacher explained to me that I had influenced him to change the outfits so that I would wear them.  He also started to incorporate movements that were appropriate so that I would do them rather than refuse and sit out.  Without even knowing it, I was changing the guard.

Hey there Readers,

I had such a great day!  Not only did I get to sleep in four hours, I swam, watched movies, and I have almost officially quit McDonalds.  Now shh!  It’s not official!  But hopefully soon it will be.  Or at least I’ll be on-call or something.  I’m going to start nannying full-time now.  Talk about a whoop! whoop!

So today it’s about how I am different from someone in history.  You see, as great a person as Franklin was, I couldn’t seem to catch up.  Actually, I wouldn’t let myself catch up.  Being scared is such a foolish thing.  It slows you down from being yourself, it takes you away from being the best you can be, and it hurts you, mentally and physically.  Now that I know that, I hate being scared.  Being scared scares me!  The only thing(s) that I’ll allow myself to be "scared" of are bugs; mainly spiders and butterflies.

B e n j a m i n   F r a n k l i n

He edited the Declaration

of Independence to best

represent the people of the

time.  He wanted them to

understand what they were

fighting for, while

threatening the British with

strong words.  All who knew

him looked him up to his great

example.  Not only was he

intelligent and invented many

different devices, he was clever

and wise.  This allowed so much

creativity to flow through his mind.

A m a n d a   W e b b

I never noticed this then,

but I allowed myself to step

behind my friends and

leaders.  I allowed them

to approve of everything I

did.  It wasn’t that I needed

their approval, but I feared

moving ahead of them in case

I might trip and no one was 


there to catch me.  I stopped

myself from growing spiritually

and mentally.  I stayed just

behind the smartest people so I

wouldn’t be noticed.  When I

messed up, I wasn’t the first. 

The whole situation gave me the

peace of mind I thought I was

looking for.

FFN (Future Family Note)

Do your best to teach your kids not to be scared to do something new.  Stand out and be different because being different might just be the better thing to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALDUYnpFuzQ