Miss Independent

So I'm sitting here posting my blog pretty late and I just keep thinking about how behind I am in school. I work 2 jobs totaling in to about 45 hours a week, plus I attend school full time. My primary job is working for T-Mobile and the other is being a nanny for a family who I've been with for over a year. Imagine all that AND having a boyfriend AND trying to have a good social life. Crazy, I know but all that hard work pays off when I see those great paychecks. Basically I am a self proclaimed workaholic. I absolutely love the feeling of being able to buy what I want when I want. I purchased my first 2 cars on my own and now I am in the process of purchasing my third. The trade off is that I have been slacking in my school work but nothing beats how proud I am of myself. I really need to find a balance between all of this..

My Favorite Author This Semester

My favorite author this semester would have to be Frank Sulloway. I found his work on birth order and sibling competition to be very interesting. I myself have a mixture of adopted, half, and whole siblings so I am still not quite sure what my exact birth order is. It's really interesting to learn what his perspective is on the subject and how his theories actually match up with a person's birth order and personality. In reading his work, the reader learns that according to Sulloway, parents treat each child differently depending on their birth order. I technically think that I am the middle child in my family. I grew up with my two sisters; one older and one younger. My brothers never lived with me so I don't think I should count them in this situation. “The middleborn is never alone in the family,” Sulloway has said. “When you’re the middle child, you’re getting only a third of everything. The only way for parents to invest equally in their offspring is for them to systematically favor the middle child. That almost never happens.”