Day 5 - Definition of love

I really have no idea what to write for this. I know I'm in love and that there's different types of love, but I don't have a definition of it. Everyone experiences love differently so I've never actually felt the need to come up with a definition.

Let's see, romantic love is of course the best kind there is. I feel happier with Cody than I've ever been, it's the best being around him and I hate when he leaves. It's so hard to describe how it feels to others though. I still get all excited to see him in the mornings and goosebumps and butterflies are the best. I think you have to be patient and accepting with someone to actually experience this kind of love. You can't always want them to change everything or have a shitload of expectations when you start a relationship because if you do you'll probably be let down. You have to understand that your not always right and it's not only your feelings that matter anymore. I like that I have someone to experience life with now. I don't want to go out and experiment or anything, I feel content just staying home with him and watching zombie movies.

And there's friend love. It's not nearly the same as romantic love, but you still need to be able to listen to others and to not think your always right. I don't really know how to describe this one either. There's a whole lot of late night phone calls, sleepovers and movie outings usually. Lot's of talking and ranting takes place. Also, if you were in my group of friends there was usually a good amount of random touching and hugging. We were very affectionate,ha. It's nice to have a friend there when you really need someone to talk to or just to hang around with :)

Plus there's the whole family love and pets, but I've done horrible at describing those two so I don't think I'm going to describe the rest. The only thing I can say is I like being around my pets more than I like being around some people, so there's a good amount of love there!

Day 4 - What I ate today

This is probably not going to be interesting for anyone because I doubt anyone cares about what I ate, but I am determined to do all of this challenge.

I woke up at 5 pm today because I'm a lazy ass and very nocturnal lately so I didn't go to bed until almost 1 pm. Mostly because I really wanted to watch Supernatural and see what happens in Charmed but I had already seen both Supernaturals :(

I got a huge craving for Chinese food a little after I woke up so I decided to get some money and go to China Buffet. Cody didn't eat anything because he had already ate, so I looked like a fatty eating all by myself.

I don't remember everything I ate, but I do remember getting some seafood combo, which was delicious by the way. I enjoy the crab and shrimp in it, everything else not so much. It's still really good though. I also got some shrimp to go along with that so I was in seafood heaven. I also had some pepper steak for the first time and it was really good too.

Before I got another plate Cody and me talked about high school, cute things we did while liking each other and our group of friends. This made me miss hanging out with Tarah and Jesse, so I'm hoping that everyone will be able to make it to the movies on the 13th. I don't miss high school, I just miss talking to some of the people that I saw everyday.

My second plate was my last plate and I filled that up with chicken. I got a chicken nugget (which wasn't an actual nugget it was a strip!), chicken on a stick and sesame chicken. I only ate the first two and they were also delicious. Seriously, I got the biggest chicken on a stick ever and it was amazing. So was the chicken nugget that was actually a strip. I'm a fan of Chinese food obviously, I just wish I could eat more when I go there. It always feels me up so fast.

Then we got our fortune cookies and mine said "Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause" which has nothing to do with anything at the moment, so it wasn't that great of a fortune. Cody's said "You will have a pleasant trip." Neither of these were that great and the best part of the meal is getting the cookies, so I was a little disappointed.

I waited to eat dessert until I got to Cody's and it turned out to be a chocolate chip cookie with chocolate fudge in the middle :D

(I didn't take that picture, you can thank Google for that.)

Day 3- Your Parents

My mom is Sharon Cox and she was born in Burnside on November 22.

I don't know a whole lot about her childhood other than the few things she's told me. I know her dad was a truck driver and her mom worked two jobs so she could have enough money to feed my mom and her siblings (6 in all).

She was popular in high school and almost got married once before meeting my dad who had already been married and divorced once. She's been a great mom and is more outspoken than most parents I've been around. She makes perverted jokes all the time and her friends send her texts pictures of penis's :l it's weird and awkward, but yeah,ha.

She loves Bingo and told me once that she doesn't go to win money, she just goes to have fun. She has a gay best friend that calls her Cher and wants her to go to a Lady Gaga concert with him and I swear they would be soul mates if he wasn't gay. She also really likes Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse and Tinkerbell. Don't ask me why. She's usually fun and friendly and has tons of friends from her work and Bingo. Sometimes we don't get along, but I think that's to be excepted since every teen argues with their parents at least once, well excluding Cody he's never argued with his.

She is in love with Cody and keeps telling me to not mess anything up. Seriously, she has told me so many times how sweet he is and how lucky I am to be with him. Which would be okay if she didn't also add that I better not mess it up.

She has a love/hate relationship with my dad. She let's him do his laundry here, feeds him and sometimes lets him stays the night, but there's only so much of him he can take. They argued a lot when I was little, but that has died down a lot now that their separated.

She hates to clean and hardly ever does and is always losing things. There's been so many times where she was late for work just because she couldn't find her keys. She always tries to pay the bills, but sometimes has to choose one over another. We've went without water, cable and electric before. There's hardly ever any food in the house because my mom hasn't been grocery shopping in quite a while. Obviously she's bad with money and spends way too much on things other than bills. She's also a hard worker though and at times has taken two jobs so she could pay the bills.

Obviously she's not perfect, but she has tried her best to raise us right and always had so much patience with both of us. So, she is the best mom I could ever ask for :)



My dad is Douglas Canada and he was born in Reading, Ohio on May 19th.

He was raised in Ohio and his dad worked on the railroad. He has two siblings and had a much more comfortable childhood than my mom.

He was also popular in high school and was on the basketball team. He has been engaged three times; first time the lady left him for someone else, second he got married, but that ended in divorce but not before adopting two kids and having one and third time was with mom which lead to them separating. So, that means I have one step sister, two step adopted siblings and one brother. Obviously marriage was not the best idea for him.

He's a good dad, but at times can be irritating. He always has to buy me food even when I say no. I can tell him that I just ate and don't feel like eating, but he'll still go get chicken nuggets and a frosty for me. He used to do this all the time after school when I told him I wasn't hungry he would still go to McDonalds and buy me something to eat. This is probably one of the reasons I have a weight problem.

He also likes to blame my mom for most things and started telling me that mom was going to send him to jail over child support and he would die because he couldn't get his medicine when I was 12. Obviously, this never happened since they never got divorced, but he still kept talking about it and kept blaming mom for everything. I don't have dental insurance because he doesn't want to pay the extra to put me on his and moms job doesn't offer any. He lies a lot, he'll tell me negative things my mom and my brother and his girlfriend said about me that they never said. He also used to compare me to much smaller women and ask me if that's what I wanted to look like once I lost weight and things like that. This wouldn't of been as horrible if he hadn't started when I was around 12 years old.


Now that I'm older I can get along with him a lot better since I understand that his medicine and hitting his head while having a seizure a few times has most likely made him a bit different than he used to be. Mom says he has changed a lot since he was younger, so I guess that explanation is true. He is a good dad at times though and usually gives me money if I really need it. He also doesn't mind to drive us anywhere when we can't get a car so I do appreciate that.He's also a hard worker but at the time is on disability because he has kind of disease in his hand which makes it to where he can't open them fully. He had surgery on them before, but it seems the doctor only created more scar tissue and made it worse. He also really likes sports and makes it his job to watch the news every night,ha. Plus he bought me my cake this year!

I do love him though and am getting better at being patient with him, so my relationship with him is a lot better now than it was.

Hey, here's a really bad picture of yours and Justin's bracelet. The one on the bottom is yours, you should tell me if you like it or not, because if you don't I can make another one :)

and we slept all day. Like seriously all day, I got up went to his house, then we laid down and slept til 10 and haven't done much since then.

Day 2 - Your first love

My first love is Cody Bates and I'm hoping he'll be my only. I really couldn't see myself with anyone but him. We were best friends for a year or so before dating and have known each other for almost 5 years now. Our two year anniversary is only five months away and it's a bit strange to me since it doesn't even feel like it's been a year yet. :)

I liked him for two years before we started dating and most likely annoyed everyone near me for a good bit of both of those years. I always analyzed everything and spent a lot of time hoping which eventually payed off on January 2nd

We spent that whole day together at Battle of the Bands, but for some reason he didn't decide to ask me until I got on Myspace later that night. He was so nervous that at first he sent an empty message,ha.

Our first date we saw The Spirit which was horrible but it did give us time to cuddle. I most likely babbled about something random and then while sitting at the tables in the cinema he randomly grabbed my hand and held it. The first few months were full of snuggling, movies and freezing our asses off at Raptor.

I worried a lot at first and he comforted me and had way more patience with me than he probably should of. I eventually got him to open up and talk more about himself. Though that took some time and at times I still have to convince him to talk more. He's helped me with my self esteem and has made me happier than I've ever been and hopefully I've helped him some too.

We have lots of things we do that would probably be extremely corny to anyone else. We snuggle and spend a lot of time sleeping. We play the question game a lot and he gets tickled a lot. We blow each other kisses and catch them before he leaves and I always check to make sure there's not monsters in his car on the days when he doesn't tuck me in. Basically we're the most corny couple ever.

We spend almost every day together and still I never get tired of him, I love having him around and hope he enjoys every day we spend together too. I'm so glad we can be around each other for so long without tiring of each other. I still get butterflies from him and sometimes I even get goosebumps. I love the way he makes me feel.

We feed ducks a lot and go to the park a lot. We have a lot of the same interests and have few differences. I still worry off and on and he still listens to everything and comforts me. My main motivation to get a job is so we can live with each other and don't have to worry about when he needs to leave.

We argue some and hug more. He's the most interesting guy I've met and is completely different from anyone else. He's not interested in looking at other women and says I'm the only one he finds attractive. I'm happy about this, because I hate double standards.

His family is amazing, no matter how irritating they are sometimes. They feed me most of the time since we never have food, they let me go to all of the family events and his grandma thinks I'm pretty :). I'm really glad I won't have horrible in-laws or really have to deal with anything more than him not being able to spend the night. I like all of his family members that I've met, even his crazy aunt.

I love you, Cody. :)


(Also, I wasn't sure if this meant to just talk about him or our relationship together so I chose the latter.)

I had my interview for Walgreen's on Wednesday. I'm really not sure how well that went since I had prepared to answer regular interview questions and had this big spill ready about how I was a hard worker. But he only asked me like three questions, all yes or no questions and then just kept talking about the job. I don't know, I think I did ok since I wasn't prepared for that type of interview, but I doubt I'm getting a call back since I have no previous job experience.

I do have another interview to go to for RGIS so let's pray I get that one.

Day 1 - Introduce Yourself

Well I'm Raeann and I think this part of the challenge is a bit pointless since the only people who read this blog know me better than anyone else.

But hey, I was born on July 17th 1991 and have lived in Somerset all my life. I plan on staying here for most of the rest of it, because I like small towns and dislike traffic.

I'm awkward almost all of the time. I worry that I might of said something wrong after most conversations and have to ask Cody to make sure I didn't say something stupid. I do like socializing, but really only with certain people so that helps cut down on the awkward.

The only thing I miss from high school is talking to a few people. In no way do I miss getting up at 5 in the morning, sitting at a desk forever or writing a portfolio. Except I also miss Raptor, just minus all the bitching that happened there.

I'm fat and am working on that slowly. I've discovered it's much harder to lose weight when your happy and in a relationship. When I was single it was so much easier to lose weight, but this could also be because my house never has food and Codys is full of food. Plus his dad is the best cook in the world. Anyways, at times I don't like how I look, but sometimes I do and other times I just don't care because Cody makes me feel like I'm the loveliest person ever. I still am aware that I need to lose weight, but it doesn't feel like it's the most important thing now.

On that note, I have the nicest and most patient boyfriend ever. Seriously. We may not have money to go out all the time, but we've found tons of other ways to have fun. I would much rather feed ducks and go walking than sit in a chair for an hour and a half anyways. Not that I don't love movies, I do and our friendship basically revolved around movies. I don't think I'm too young to "settle down" and I definitely don't want to go out and experiment, I'm happy with him. I'm just glad I've found someone who can be around me all day and still want to see me the next day. Thanks for being awesome, Cody.

I would love to be a professional photographer or really have any sort of job that involves taking pictures, but I highly doubt that will happen. I'm poor and the really good cameras are $600 or more, plus the photography field is highly competitive. I hope at least something comes out of it since I've been practicing for about 5 years. I am going to look into how you become a newspaper photographer and maybe see if one of the local newspapers intern or something.

I recently decided what kind of tattoo I want and where. It's a couples tattoo, so I hope Cody will still be on board for this when we decide to get it.

Also, I really like Harry Potter and The White Stripes!

Hey! I found one of those things to do so maybe some of my post will be more interesting than "we just snuggled today."

but also, I'm bad at writing, so probably not.

30 Days:
Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love, in great detail
Day 03 – Your parents, in great detail
Day 04 – What you ate today, in great detail
Day 05 – Your definition of love, in great detail
Day 06 – Your day, in great detail
Day 07 – Your best friend, in great detail
Day 08 – A moment, in great detail
Day 09 – Your beliefs, in great detail
Day 10 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 11 – Your siblings, in great detail
Day 12 – What’s in your bag, in great detail
Day 13 – This week, in great detail
Day 14 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 15 – Your dreams, in great detail
Day 16 – Your first kiss, in great detail
Day 17 – Your favorite memory, in great detail
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday, in great detail
Day 19 – Something you regret, in great detail
Day 20 – This month, in great detail
Day 21 – Another moment, in great detail
Day 22 – Something that upsets you, in great detail
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better, in great detail
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry, in great detail
Day 25 – A first, in great detail
Day 26 – Your fears, in great detail
Day 27 – Your favorite place, in great detail
Day 28 – Something that you miss, in great detail
Day 29 – Your aspirations, in great detail
Day 30 – One last moment, in great detail

Abra and Cody all at once :)

Pepper! Nothing again, we are taking advantage of lazy summer days.

Monday, was obviously boring, I can tell by the photo of the day,ha. That's my desktop wallpaper.

Sunday, we got up early to go to church and see his niece get baptized. I don't think much happened the rest of the day and if it did, I obviously don't remember :)

My pictures have definitely decreased in quality. I now appreciate the screen on digital cameras,ha. This was supposed to be a picture of the movie I was watching, Silent Hill, but it looks more like I was trying to show of my bookcase. Cody didn't come over this day, so I most likely just watched movies on tv.

Abra is now pregnant with inbred kitties. I'm hoping they won't be retarded, but even if they are they better be retardely cute. We're going to get her spade once she has them so we don't have anymore inbred kittens.

Also, that vacuum in the background is so old it says shag carpet on it.

 

Thursday, Cody and I went to the fair with Tarah and Josh which was fun since I actually was able to ride the spinny rides as much as I wanted. Thank you for having a strong stomach Tarah! Cody did ride more rides at this one than at the Russell County Fair and I convinced him to get on the Ferris Wheel, so I'm happy about that. The picture isn't that good, but I couldn't see anything so I had no idea what was in the frame.

I also got a nice present from Tarah, full of beads and scarfs. I plan to make tons of beaded bracelets and force Cody to wear some with me.

 

Wednesday, we went to the library, checked out books and enjoyed the little garden they have to the side.

I checked out Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro which I thought was pretty good. I'm not sure if you would like it or not, Tarah, but I just thought I would recommend it.

Also, my mom bought Cody a bear towel :)

 

 

Bunny, my puppy broke my camera screen the night we got home from Glasgow so the pictures starting from the cake were taken without being able to see the screen or any sort of viewer to see what is in the frame. This one actually turned out alright compared to the rest of the photos that day. Hopefully I'll be able to get it fixed or get a new camera soon.

 

I have no idea what we did this day. It seems we just drove around.

 

Excuse the extremely dirty table and just look at the cake. That cake was extremely delicious.

 

My birthday! I'm not going to type out everything we did because that would be one long entry, but it was the best birthday ever or at least so far :)

We went to Glasgow, Diamond Cavern,Kentucky Action Park, Fudge Factory, an arcade, a Mexican restaurant and finally Barren Park. The cave was neat and putt putt is not fun when it's 90 degrees outside. There was two gun shaped holes though, which made it a bit more entertaining. Barren Park was probably the best part though. We walked down to the fake beach and stayed to watch the sunset. For a fake beach it was extremely pretty!

Cody also gave me two wonderful Harry Potter cards to make up for not giving me a card last year and is decorating a journal that he hasn't finished yet, but when he does I'll take a picture to show you.

 

Lies.

So, I lied about updating quicker. I've had a limited amount of free time for the past three weeks so not much time for blog updating. VBS takes way more time than I thought it would. :l

I'll update soon, but not all at once because I'm sure that's annoying.

Last day of VBS finally. That's Cody successfully dunking someone.

 

Brickshop at VBS!

 

And VBS. That happens to be Codys nephew Lance.

 

Extremely boring day at VBS.

 

The kids room at VBS. Obviously this week was exciting.

 

VBS again. This is Codys little brother, Nicky.

 

Parade at VBS.

 

Horrible photo, but I spent the whole day with family and for some reason didn't take any pictures. My grandparents came down from Ohio and we went to Cracker Barrell to sit with them and discuss why I don't have a job yet. Which is seriously the only thing that was said to me. The visit was not the best since only like two members from my family talked to me about something other than a job. I feel like the only people in my family that like me are my grandpa, my uncle and my 5 year old nephew :(

Obviously the most important thing is that I get a job. It doesn't matter that I'm going to college, making good grades, have my license, am happy and stable or that I'm not spending hardly any money at all and the money I do is given to me without asking. No, all that matters is that I have a job and then everything will be the best ever.

Anyways, I just found these shoes after losing them for about 6 months! I was excited until Cody took them from me.

 

And more preparation. Just so you know, this update is going to include a lot of Cody. I'm extremely glad he lets me take so many pictures of him because if he didn't my photo's a day would just be of random things around my room :(

 

First day off from VBS in a week. Nothing really happened :l

 

More preparation.