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a better picture of me and my best friend but this time its not her butt 

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a better picture of me and my best friend but this time its not her butt 

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proof I did not ten but ELEVEN hours look at me go

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proof I did not ten but ELEVEN hours look at me go

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pretty sweet

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probably just lazy

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I look like an egg

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For community service, I did two different things. I volunteered at the mustard seed, as well as the Animal Protection Association. At the mustard seed, I was put in the back front of the workers' area. There, I stamped the mustard seed logo on the front of their shopping bags in three different sizes and a short sentence on the back. I completed two boxes of bags and started a third in my two hours there. There I met workers and volunteers alike, all doing different jobs such as hanging clothes, checking customers out, and placing clothing on hangers. For the Animal Protection Association, I made small, fleece cat blankets. Each 20-inch by 30-inch blanket was worth three community service hours. First, I went to Joanne's, a local craft and fabric store. There I purchased four yards of their fleece fabric. From there I went home and got down to business. I cut the fabric into 30-inch by 40-inch rectangles. After I cut six rectangles, I place one on top of a second one and cut five-inch slits into all four sides. Then I went around each side and tied the two fleece rectangles to each other with double knots. When I was done tying the knots, the fleece turned into a 20" by 30" blanket with cute knot pattern on the outside. They were very soft and I must say, not half bad for my first time making cat blankets. After completing all three grey blankets, I threw them (gently, because I put too much effort into making them to throw them around) into a plastic bag and into my car. From there I drove to the APA shelter and gave them my three blankets. In exchange for my three blankets, I got nine hours of community service and I got to meet several very kind cats. It was well worth my time.

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In my venture into the world of community service, I learned many new things, including, but not limited to the following: Making tiny blankets for cats is harder than one would think, stamping labels onto paper bags is fun for about an hour, and man does the mustard seed has some sweet deals. How do I feel about said community service? well, for one I wish I weighed enough to donate blood, that's for sure. I wish the animal protection association required volunteers to be sixteen instead of eighteen so my seventeen-year-old self could have volunteered in person and played with cats as well as made blankets for them, as opposed to just the latter. Lastly, I wish Joanne's fabrics priced their fleece fabric a lot cheaper. I think I may be making this sound like it was miserable, but it was not. Since most of my work was repetitive small tasks, it gave my mind a minute to wander around and think about anything it wanted to for a while. This meant that as I stamped the mustard seed logo onto brown paper bags I could think about a girl my age finding a skirt that fit her perfectly for five dollars, or the women who benefit from the mustard seed's donations. As I tied the edges of the cat blankets, I could think about how many innocent animals no-kill shelters like this one save every day. It made me happy to think about cats, even if them snuggling up in a tiny blanket is a small piece of the larger goal there at the APA. When I went to drop the blankets off, I met a very friendly and snuggly cat who loved to nudge my leg until I pet it. This, of course, made all the cost of fabric and time spent making said blankets worth it. With my community service experience, I got to help women get out of abusive households, and helped save the lives of cats, and that makes me happy.