My Writing Journey Courtesy of Doggos

Starbucks

I'm sure many of you have heard about what happened at the Starbucks in Philadelphia with the arrest of two black men who were simply hanging out and waiting to meet their friend. The manager did not approve of this since neither of them did not buy anything. I find this to be a very troubling situation for many reasons. One, Starbucks is known to be a meet up place. What if these two men were waiting for their other friend until they ordered a drink? When I go to any Starbucks, I see many people that are just chilling at the couches, chairs, and tables without even having a Starbucks product with them. I go to one Starbucks specifically near my house which is in close proximity to a few schools nearby. On many days when I am there around the time those schools get out for the day, kids FLOOD in and more than half don't even by anything but they all hang out there until they move on to the next place to disrupt. I don't see any police coming to kick these kids out? Even if there is a loitering policy, it does not seem to be upheld. Many people stick around for 2 o3 3 hours only purchasing one drink and taking up seating for the time they are there. Two, if there was seriously something wrong with these men then video evidence should be released to the public because there is no way Starbucks didn't get this scene on video. The only video I saw was one on Twitter that looks to be from either a Snapchat video or phone video where these two men are being handcuffed and a few white people are asking these cops why they are doing this because they saw nothing wrong with what the two men were doing. I am not in any way trying to talk badly about the police because I 100% back the Blue and think Blue Lives matter, however, I am just wondering what really happened at this Starbucks? Three, why does there have to a day where all Starbucks close so they can receive racial bias training? There is an estimate 238,000 Starbucks employees in the US and there are over 13,000 Starbucks stores in the US. Why do all stores have to close down because of one employee who made a bad decision? This one bad employee who might just be a bad person is causing 238,000 employees to get training and over 13,000 stores to close down. That is a bit extreme to have to do since every Starbucks I have been to, including stores in several different states around the nation, have never once gave up a racist vibe.

Kruz!

MY BEST FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY IS MAY 1!!!! This is my dog who is named Kruzer. I got Kruzer in fourth grade a few months after I had to put my Beagle down. Kruzer is the most playful, loving, and crazy dog I have ever met. His stomach is bulletproof. He once ate 2 lbs of chocolate fudge and was perfectly fine even leading up to getting his stomach pumped. I think this dog has eaten more things he shouldn't eat than his own dog food. My mom believes that Kruz is my Grandpa (her dad) incarnated and that is hard to describe since none of you met my Grandpa when he was alive but boy, do they have some crazy similarities. Kruz loves to be babied as well. He hates being alone more than anything. Sometimes, I think he actually suffers from anxiety or bi-polar. Though dogs cannot be bi-polar, they can definitely have anxiety! He just gets so hyped up when the doorbell rings or especially when the vacuum goes on. My mom literally has to send him to daycare so she can vacuum or she cannot get anything done with him around. Kruz brings such happiness and even though we all get mad at him sometimes, he never gets mad at us. If humans acted with the love that dogs act with, the world would be a much better place. 

My mom was gone for a week!

By the way that title sounds, it sounds like my mom was kidnapped! No worries though. She was just in Texas helping her brother, sister-in-law, and 9 month niece move into their new home from Orlando. While my mom was gone, I missed her like crazy. This was very weird to me because I went to school in Florida last year and I did not have that same feeling then! My mom and I are best friends. We do basically everything together and she actually knows literally everything about me. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful and amazing best friend in my life. Having her gone for a week actually tore me up. I cried once because I missed her so much! It could have been also because I was so stressed with school which made it even worse that she wasn't there because she is the only one who can console me. My dad, brothers, and my boyfriend all try to match up to her in terms of comforting me and consoling me, but no one and I mean NO ONE will ever match up to her. My relationship with my mom has always been a good one, however, it really starting getting stronger the past year or year and a half. I relate to my mom more than ever now, and I truly get scared thinking that one day I will have to be without her. I feel like tearing up right now thinking about it! My mom has taught me everything I know and has made me the strong and confident woman I am today. I owe her the world and more.

4 weeks

I have never been so excited for school to end in my entire life. This semester, I have taken more classes than normal and although I am good at time management and handling lots of things at one time, it gets very very tiresome. As a nursing student, I am studying 7 days a week and that is not an option. Things that I used to do almost everyday like working out, seeing my boyfriend/spending time with family, or working at my job, I hardly ever get to do because when the school day ends for at about 1/2 everyday, I grab a coffee and get to studying. I don't get to workout, I don't get to spend time with people I love, and I had to take a student leave from my job because it has just gotten vey difficult to cut time out for studying. I know everyone has their struggles with school and that is something that almost all college kids can bond with. Everyone always tells me that I need to slow down and take a breather/a break but the way I look at it, I have two more years in the school world and then I will be done (hopefully forever). So I am constantly pushing myself to get to that finish line and then I will take a breather. Although I am taking two summer classes, they are online and it really helps with my schedule for the fall. 4 weeks left. We all can do this.