I missed my calling in life, apparently.

Happy Veteran's Day to all those members of each branch of the military who have served and fought for this great country. I'm grateful for each and every one of you, and don't know where this country would be without your service. Trev and I are expecting a drunken phone call tonight from his army veteran brother, Cameron, who served in Afghanistan a couple of years ago. His memories still haunt him to this day, but he's proud to have served his country. There's no one else that I know with some much patriotism for his country than Cameron.

Anyway. As much as I'm grateful for those who have protected my rights and freedoms as an American, today (November 11) I'm grateful for my ability to write. I have always been able to formulate words and ideas, and I've never struggled with writing assignments. It's my talent and my gift. My math skills on the other hand... gag. Trevor thinks that I missed my calling in life and tells me all the time that I should have been an English teacher or a creative writing instructor. I laugh in his face because there's no money in that line of work anyway. Plus I get to write as a PR/Comm. Studies major, so I know that I'm in the right line of work. (: I watch Trev struggle with writing papers for his classes, and most times I end up assisting him in one way or another - either correcting and adding to his paper, or *cough* sometimes I do them for him, because I can usually whip out a two or three page paper in an hour. I wish that everyone had the ability to write as efficiently and quickly as I do while still getting good grades on the assignments. I might not think I'm the best writer in the world, but it never fails to make me smile when a professor compliments me on my work. Ellen Treanor, my PR professor, always tells me that she loves my style of writing. That's enough to make a girl feel good. Here's to more last minute writing assignments as the semester starts to draw to a close.

As a side note, it is definitely not my husband's calling in life to be an artist. He has to write and illustrate a children's story about something dealing with multicultural education. Here was the scene last night as he worked on his story:

His stick figure drawings are just... uh... beautiful! ;)