YAY!!

My first blog! How exciting! I have always wanted to keep up a blog, but have always gotten too busy with other things. When I was a little girl I recieved a diary for my eighth birthday, and I wrote in it until I lost it in a family trip to South Padre. :( I had it for about eight years, though.

So a few things about me:

*I go to Texas Woman's University- Going to this school has really opened up my eyes to female inequality. I actually consider myself a feminist now. There is such a negative image one pictures when that word comes into mind...FEMINIST...such a powerful word. But what women doesn't want to be seen as an equal?!?

*I'm engaged, yes, I'am young..but not stupid. I'm almost twenty but Dustin and I do not plan on getting married until we have finished college.

*I'm a Nursing major and desperately want to shed light on the horrible birthing techniques used in American hospitals. I think I was called to this position because i'm a caring individual. It breaks my heart to see another person in pain, but i'm tough enough to deal with death, and the like.

*I can not wait until the day that I get to raise a family. I want to be the kind of mother who looks out for her family's best interests. I'm going to be a breastfeeding, clothdiapering, baby food making, baby sign language teaching mother! And Dustin is going to be a INCREDIBLE father, I just know it.

* I'm a Christian, but would like to be looked at as a more "liberal Christian." I support gay marriage! Because America is the land where you have jurisdiction over your own life, right?!?......but not for gays!! Hypocritical much?

*I'm a vegetarian....a healthy vegetarian :) I also enjoy running. I run about 12 miles a week, and I plan to run a marathon next January!!

That's it for now! I have lots of homework to do!!

-Vanessa