Category: Dear Mom

Now moved to Cruz Yard!! “There’s nothing to do here but read and sleep and it’s kinda’ starting to get me depressed, which is hard to do really. I’m sure once the summer heat ebbs a bit it won’t be as bad, but it’s so miserable to even leave my room that I don’t go to eat meals. It like 110 degrees in the chow hall and they have to get so many people fed it’s like boot camp- get in, eat fast, and get out. It’s just too stressful, I’d rather not go at all.”

“Questions again…Which celebrity would I want to meet? Well, it’s actually a family- I would want to have dinner with the Duck Dynasty Family. They are so cool and Uncle Si is so stinking hilarious! Somebody dead- I think maybe Benjamin Franklin or Mark Twain. Shakespeare would be cool. I wonder if he talks in iambic pentameter? Ha!”

“Food visit was so great! I can’t wait til Father’s Day visit- I’m not going to eat for a week before! Haha. I just finished teaching a piano lesson. Megan is doing pretty well, all she wants to do is play Fur Elise though, lol. I miss a real piano though, keyboards suck.”

“Okay you sent these questions and here’s my answers: My favorite pastime as a child that I can remember would be either playing the piano or being out in the woods and picking berries and such. I also really loved our camping trips to the Redwoods!”

“Mom, as usual Tiffany, Kelly and I just love your cute cards and of course I love my poems. I remembered another one- the one that I always thought was about me, the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead who was either very good or she was ‘horrid’ I believe was the word they used- haha!”

“I’m happy to have a job but it’s landscaping. My body is tired at the end of the day but my mind is still racing. My body is stuck here but that doesn’t mean I can’t make forward progress in other ways. I really can’t stand the thought of spending 2 years of my life here and it being nothing but a complete waste of time.”

“Just wanna’ say thanks for sending money and books. I’m very fortunate. I see what a struggle it is for the other girls who have nothing other than the $.50 an hour (if that) they make. They have to go around asking for things like shampoo or hair ties, or toothpaste or a cup or bowl- or even food from girls they hardly know. Like a street beggar. And then they have no friends because people are afraid they’ll have to share with them!”

Dad, do you remember how we used to go target shooting? Oh, and fishing? I love fishing! That’s another thing on my list for when I get out, lots of camping and fishing trips. I wanna’ go hunting too, but something that’s really good to eat like Javelina. It’s a huge perk that you don’t have to wear orange unless you’re hunting deer. I don’t think I will want to wear orange ever again!”

“I’m kinda’ settling into the swing of things here. It’s been less than a month, but it feels longer. I can’t really get on a schedule because they change my work times constantly. The first week it was 5am to 10am, then it was 2am to 6am for a few days, then it went to midnight to 6am, and now they have switched me to 10pm to 4am. To quote dad-‘bureaucracy 1, me 0’. Again.”