I’m sure a lot of you have seen the movie ‘The Horse Whisperer’. Well the book is even better and I absolutely loved the movie. The book covers more which is always the case when they turn something into a movie.
Well the man that wrote the book is named Nicholas Evans. It seems he was hospitalized because of eating poisonous mushrooms while on holiday in Scottland. His wife, her sister and his wives sisters husband all got sick after they picked some mushrooms in the woods and ate them. They were all hospitalized but are all expected to make a full recovery.
The mushrooms were tested and the tests established that the mushrooms included the highly toxic variety Cortinarius speciosissimus, which attacks the kidneys. I’m really glad they are all doing better but one thing is for sure, I won’t be picking any mushrooms and eating them. That was a good lesson for anyone that read about it and didn’t already know about how poisonous mushrooms can be.
I may not be going away to college after all. With Mom not doing too good, she really needs me around here to help her out with housework and watching out for my brother and sister. Not to mention, she doesn’t need the added expense of me being away since she had to quit her part-time job. Mom has sacrificed so much for us that I need to let her know just how much I appreciate what she has done for me. She’s been there for us when our lousy Father wasn’t and still isn’t. So I don’t go to Duke University, I’ll start out at the local community college taking college transfer courses and then transfer to a local university. Mom’s worth it and so is my brother and sister. I had to grow up a little fast anyway and that’s okay too.
Can you believe it? I am graduating 3rd in my class and the graduation ceremony is tonight. I have to give a small speech. See, since we lost Cameron so close to graduation, we’re giving his family his high school diploma. Our classmates took up a collection and what we did was have the picture of the whole graduating class, Cameron’s Senior picture, an engraved placket that says “You’ll never be forgotten” that goes on the frame under the pictures . The picture of Cameron is on top of one side of the frame with his diploma under that and then the picture of the class is on the other side with every one’s signature on a piece of paper under the class picture. The custom frame was perfect and it really looks great!! I know I’m going to cry trying to read my speech and then presenting his family with the picture. They don’t know we have done this for them. I can’t talk about it anymore!!!!! If I do, I’ll ruin my make-up and I’m all ready to get to MY GRADUATION!!!!!
I survived!!!! I made it by the skin of my teeth but I survived. Oh that sounded like I didn’t do very well on my finals but that’s not what I meant. I just meant that I made it by the skin of my teeth on little or no sleep and still made good grades on my finals. Now I know why they call it ‘cramming’. It’s because you try and cram all the information you should have learned through the entire year into your head in a week. I didn’t really have to cram. I needed more like a spring cleaning……..you know, getting all the cob webs off of stuff you haven’t used lately. It’s all there, just a bit unused for awhile. I honestly was amazed at how much I did remember. There was very little that I had to do somewhat of a ‘refresher’ on. Now it’s on to summer!!!!!!!!!! Well GRADUATION FIRST!!!
OMG!!! We had our English Lit final today. I know my brain is sprained after that one. I had to dig so deep that I thought I would see a china man looking back at me. I need to ace that exam so I can maintain my GPA of 3.99. I have tried so darn hard to get a 4.0 but it just wasn’t in the cards. I’m still graduating 3rd in my class though. Well that is unless I totally bomb on one of the finals. I sure hope I don’t do that. I usually test pretty well and don’t really have that much of a problem with freezing like some people do. Cross your fingers for me, okay???
