The Chronicles of John Trammell

     I am sitting here at my computer realizing that things are going to be very tough this next month of December.  For those who don't know, since October, I have only gotten 8 hours of work a month, so as of today I have only worked 16 hours in the past two months.  Its very hard for I use way more money than I am making for gas and food alone.  Now I just paid for my spring semester of college, which maxed out my credit card, and I have no money in the bank.  Lucky my parents are going to help me pay for school, but it makes me feel real bad that I now have to start asking for money again.  It has been 4 years since I have really needed to ask for money to help with things like school.      I am currently looking for a second job, but all I can see that is available is seasonal holiday work, so once the holidays are over, I would get fired.  My parents suggest that I wait till after the holidays and try to find a job.  It sucks because I so want to be able to afford to get gi

My 4-H Story Written 2010 about 2005-2006 4-H year Age: 18 (At time these events took place)  Year in 4-H: 12      You probably have noticed that I stated this was written in 2010.  Yes, this had been written for this blog series.  The 4-H Motto is learn by doing.  With the 12 years of being a member, I have learned many of my skills by doing many different things.  This last year in 4-H as a member will have taught me something very important that I shall remember for the rest of my life.  I had learned that is it more important to be involved in a few things, and do them well rather than try to do everything and not being able to do a great job on your work.  If you take a look at my last blog post, you will notice that I was running around crazy, and I know that there are things not even mentioned in that story because I had no room to try to place it in there.  By the time summer of 2006 came around, I started to break down and almost fully quite out of the 4-H program, but I deci