The Romance Bookie

So you guys, I have something pretty exciting to share with you! Something I accomplished this week...something that I've been waiting for A LONG time to achieve, but just hadn't had the chance to do! I GOT MY DRIVER'S LICENSE!!!!!!! That's right!  I am officially a licensed driver!! This is a HUGE milestone in anyone's life, and I am just so darn excited to finally have accomplished it!  My goal was to get before my birthday, which I accomplished with exactly TWO MONTHS to spare!! I took my driving test on Wednesday, the 2nd of May, and my 22nd birthday will be on July 2nd! YAY!! So excited!! So is this book related, you may be asking?? No, however there is something that happened to me afterwards that IS book related!! So I was nervous the week before my driving test.  I talked to my mom about and she asked me, jokingly, "Besides drugs and alcohol, what is something that calms you down?" First off, I DO NOT DO DRUGS!! I SWEAR!!!  My mom w...

As some of you may or may not know, I am going to college to become an elementary school teacher. I love children.  Always have! I hope to not only teach them, but also have a couple of my own ONE DAY, not right now but in the future! I helped out today at one of my town's local elementary schools, for their annual holiday classroom party.  I was there all day from 8 this morning until their early dismissal at 2.  Over this past year and a half of volunteering for the same teacher, we've gotten fairly close. So when she asked me to print out an email for her, from the school districts Super-Intendent I didn't think much of it, because I figured it was school related. Well, it was...but it 100% wasn't what I was expecting.  I thought it would be some news about an event in town, or something. No. It wasn't. Instead, it was the news that 12-15 children were killed in a K-4th grade school in Connecticut. Do you want to know what was going through my h...