Food

Food is my definitely my one true love. Everybody needs it to survive, but it is really ALL that I need to survive. Whenever my stomach is running on E, head for the hills. I am one grumpy girl. Since elementary school, I would go through phases of cravings that would last anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. My first phase was popcorn. I would eat popcorn every single day; at school, at home, at a friends. Next came my cookie dough phase followed by the brownie mix phase. This one lasted the longest. Somedays I would choose to just stay home and pick out a box of brownie mix from the many shoved in the pantry, whip it up real fast, and sit and relax with a rubber scaper and the bowl while watching movies instead of taking my friends up on their invites.

My new, and almost record braking phase is...potatoes with the occassional hamburger helper (now that I learned how to make it : ) ). Last night I was home on my day off from work and friends, and throughout watching the Lion King, I managed to inhale an entire box of scalloped potatoes...all to myself. It has become an obession. Ever since I started learning to cook my own big dishes on my own, my appetite has gone through the roof. I managed to make my own chili by myself for the first time and I was so excited, I had to take a picture and send it to all my friends.

I wish I could master cooking. That would probably be the perfect job for me. But then again, I have a really lazy personality, so I'd probably never have the energy to make something that I really really wanted. So lets hope I marry a chef. : ) Because let me tell ya...

...this doesn't look like the most appetizing thing in the world. This was what I woke up to in the morning after a crazy night out with friends. God help me.

Driving

The second my 16th hit birthday I was out on the roads. I threw a fit until my mom finally agreed to take me out of the first half of the school day to go to the DMV. I flew through my test and from there on out it was me and my 'Lexi' Lexus. Driving is the world to me, I'd like to consider it my hobby. : ) Having and feeling the speed and control is one of the most euphoric feelings.

I was the first out of my group of friends to start driving, so we went crazy. Taking trips to Westport, the park, skipping seminar, leaving for lunch, going out to parties and anything imaginable.

 Four months after I started driving I received a DUI. Some friends and I were drinking in one of my girl friends garage and we came up with the idea to go get some goodies from Quick Trip. Quick words to the wise; 1.) NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE. And 2.) NEVER race while driving under the influence. We were walking out to the cars and my friend look over at me, knowing my obsession for driving, said "You want to drive don't you." All  it took was a big ass grin and we hurried to my car and followed the others out onto 87th street. I was following the guy we were with in his white mustang, and as we were turning on to 87th, he peeled out and took off. If someone eggs me on, I have to do it. Our mid night trip to Quick Trip turned into a revved up race. Going 60 down 87th, we beat the others to our destination. All giggles me and my friend got out of the car and started walking into the gas station when I cop came rolling up behind us with her lights on. She congratulated me on winning and then soon after arrested my butt. The other car got away with a fine for the only fact that his father was a police man.

It's been one year and two and a half months since i've been behind the wheel of my little Lexi. I would have been out and back on the roads in September if it weren't for my incident of driving with a suspended licence a month after my licence had been suspended. Let's just say I learned my lesson. From this day, I have 20 more until i'll finally have my license back in my wallet and i'll be back on those roads...sober of course. : ) Kids, take it from me, DO NOT DRINK. AND. DRIVE. There could be bigger consequences than just losing your license. Taking a life is not something that anyone plans to do, and I was lucky my incident didn't hurt anyone.

I am proud to say though that i've accepted my legal consequence, and have had a lesson well learned. See you drivers out on the roads in TWENTY DAYS! : )

Introduction

My name is Morgan Dorris, and this is my assignment for Writers Workshop. We starting watching a movie Julia and Juliet and it inspired my Writers Workshop teacher to have us write our own blog. We were asked to combine our love for writing with our love for something else. I decided to keep it broad and just write about my life and what's currently going on, since that's what I'm really good at given my low capacity for memory. This entire thing will probably come off as a hard task for me also because I'm so short worded, but I"ll do my best.

My life in general really surrounds four aspects. Friends, family, driving, and eating. The four loves of my life. Each blog posted will more than likely only cover one of these four things.