Apearl's Blog

This has been a very BIG year for me. I have so many major things happen and have lost some people close to me. I've decided to do a recap of 2007 in my own words. The blessings, sacrifices, happiness, pain and sorrow. As you read my review please think of all 2007 brought your way. Thursday Jan. 4 - This was a huge day in my life... I'm tearing up thinking about it. I buried my father on this day. A little background: I was re-introduced, I don't like to say re-united, with my father in the fall of 2006. My mother divorced him in 1985 and we slowly lost contact. He had a personal struggle with drug and alcohol abuse. He even was homeless for a while. I remember talking to him on the phone and hearing him cry because he missed so much in our lives (my sister and I). He showed me that parents are people too. Two weeks before Christmas he was rushed to the hospital by his girlfriend and was placed in the ICU with a lung infection. We were warned the infection was not resp

I finally did it! LOL I started writing a book. I will also start typing my hand written work so I can put it into a book too. I so proud of myself. It'll probably take me a while considering I haven't written anything other than poems and stuff off the top of my head in many years. I know what I want the book to portray and the characters personalities to be. So I have a starting place. Look forward to seeing my book on book shelves near you. I have no idea how to go about publishing a book, but will cross that bridge when I get to that point. Right now I'm working on both books and plan to have both at publishing phase in 2008. A recap for any readers who don't know. I've been writing since elementary school. My mother has some of my very first work. I use to fill spiral notebooks with stories and poems. In high school I didn't write as much. Though I did keep a very detailed journal. In college I picked up writing again. I have been plannin

I have done a ton of thinking the last few weeks. I haven't posted in while because of this. There was a lot going on and then I was traveling for a week. Since I've been back I haven't been in the greatest of moods and didn't have anything positive to post about. I have been thinking about so much stuff. I don't know where to begin. People never stop amazing me. From the wonderful things they do, to the horrible things they do. The world is an amazing thing. Humans are amazing creatures. All the technology we have compared to 100 years ago. Evolution is amazing. A singles persons growth / evolution is amazing. I don't think I really thought about it until I had my daughter. Watching her go from a little helpless being to walking and talking was amazing. Now to see her reading and writing blows my mind. These facts has me thinking of what makes a person who they are. I've always thought that people become who they are from their experiences and

Today is World AIDS Day. It is observed on December 1st. The concept of a World AIDS Day originated at the 1988 World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention as a means to draw attention to the relatively new epidemic. The idea has since been taken up by governments, international organizations and charities around the world, who create events that together serve as an annual international reminder that we must all work together to bring an end to the AIDS epidemic. Since 1995 the President of the United States has made an official proclamation on World AIDS Day. Governments of other nations have followed suit and issued similar announcements. From 1988 until 2004, UNIAIDS spearheaded the World AIDS Day campaign, choosing annual themes in consultation with other global health organizations. In 2005 this responsibility was turned over to World AIDS Campaign , who chose Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise as the main theme for World AIDS Day observances through 201