I am secretly missing it so much more than you are.
patience patience patience
Tuesday, April 29
Saturday, April 26
Winding down
It is so sad but so exciting to see my first year at college come and go so fast. This semester especially went by so very fast! When I look back on this time one year ago, I am blown away by how much I have changed. They say that you do so much maturing your first year at college and it is so true! Through so many things tha thave happened this year, I have found who my real friends are, and really who I am. It's such a great feeling!
But I am so afraid that it is going to go by too fast. Oh how I would stay in college forever if I could. So many great times already! And I am already 1/4 of the way done! Wow, so scary to think that in 3 short years I will be out on my own - hopefuly planning weddings - supporting myself without the weekly allowence from mom and dad (I know I am definitely going to miss that part). I dont even want to think about where I am going to be in 3 years. Oh my gosh what if i'm engaged! AHH crazy! Well I'm pretty sure that wont happen.. last I checked you have to have two people to be engaged and I only have me. :) But that's all I want right now.. so I guess that works out.
Okay, I honestly have only been running on about 3 or 4 hours of sleep, so I think I am going to be lame and go to bed at 10:30 on a Saturday night! lol
I will leave you with a song that I love so so much. Enjoy!
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But I am so afraid that it is going to go by too fast. Oh how I would stay in college forever if I could. So many great times already! And I am already 1/4 of the way done! Wow, so scary to think that in 3 short years I will be out on my own - hopefuly planning weddings - supporting myself without the weekly allowence from mom and dad (I know I am definitely going to miss that part). I dont even want to think about where I am going to be in 3 years. Oh my gosh what if i'm engaged! AHH crazy! Well I'm pretty sure that wont happen.. last I checked you have to have two people to be engaged and I only have me. :) But that's all I want right now.. so I guess that works out.
Okay, I honestly have only been running on about 3 or 4 hours of sleep, so I think I am going to be lame and go to bed at 10:30 on a Saturday night! lol
I will leave you with a song that I love so so much. Enjoy!
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Sunday, April 20
RSC Formal
Saturday was our formal and It was so fun!
I was originally going with a certain person - who will remain unnamed despite the obviousness of who he is to anyone that knows me -but to make an unnecessary long story short, he quickly turned out to be... well... a big fat jerk for lack of better terms. So this all went down about 2 and a half or three weeks before formal, so I still had plenty of time to ask a not-so-jerk. Of course I put it off, like I do so many things sometimes, until the week of. I asked John, a guy in BYX who I'd recently met. Okay fast forward to Saturday fun!
I had two dresses, a short one and a long one. I decided to wear the long one even though it was an awkward champagne color. I went to my friends apartment to get ready, and oh my gosh I was pushed for time! I didn't even get to put on my makeup!! :( At least I still had a little left on from that day so that helped. But between hair, fashion tape and shoes, it was so stressful and nothing was working my way! Oh man, that fashion tape! I wanted to kill it! haha .. but I guess it kind of saved me that night :) Gotta love being a woman!
The guys came and picked all of us beautiful girls up! We had such a sweet little group and we all looked so good!! We were running a little late but thankfully everyone else was too. The actual formal was at a place called the Ice House. It was a gutted out warehouse that was an art museum. There was artwork all over the walls. It was actually a great place for a dance! Carinos catered and it was so yummy! The DJ was a little ehhh.. but we are the ones that make the fun, not the music or anything else. And let me tell you.. it was FUN! Such a great time! After formal a big group of us went to Daybreak and had some night time coffee and some interesting conversations for sure! I absolutely loved getting to know every date over coffee. They were all so amazing and so fun! I'm just so sad that it took so long for me to meet these wonderful men!
Okay so now I am gong to take a second to brag about these guys!! I know.. bragging.. bad.. but these guys so deserve to be appreciated for everything they did that night! I still cant get over how amazing or dates were. Just as I was starting to get so fed up with all the guys I would meet and their shadiness and inconsistencies and lack of respect, I met these ones and my thoughts definitely changed! They were so respectful to us, showered us with compliments, and were perfect gentlemen. And not because they were expecting anything, but because they genuinely wanted to. They really treated us like princesses and I am so grateful for them. Even the little things, like opening our doors, pulling out our chairs, buying us coffee, carrying things for us, walking us to our room. It was so sweet and so appreciated. If that wasn't a slap in the face from God, I don't know what is. So silly of me to think that all guys are jerks and that I will never find the one that treats me like a princess. Saturday night God showed me what I deserve and what He is capable of giving me. I loved it and I am so grateful to have met these sweet men. So thank you for putting the cherry on top of might night.
Now for the fun part.. Pictures!! :
Love them!
Big and little :)
Haha! We both blinked the first time we tried this, so we tried to keep our eyes wide open this time! So silly! That's actually really unattractive.. lol
Our lovely group!
I was originally going with a certain person - who will remain unnamed despite the obviousness of who he is to anyone that knows me -but to make an unnecessary long story short, he quickly turned out to be... well... a big fat jerk for lack of better terms. So this all went down about 2 and a half or three weeks before formal, so I still had plenty of time to ask a not-so-jerk. Of course I put it off, like I do so many things sometimes, until the week of. I asked John, a guy in BYX who I'd recently met. Okay fast forward to Saturday fun!
I had two dresses, a short one and a long one. I decided to wear the long one even though it was an awkward champagne color. I went to my friends apartment to get ready, and oh my gosh I was pushed for time! I didn't even get to put on my makeup!! :( At least I still had a little left on from that day so that helped. But between hair, fashion tape and shoes, it was so stressful and nothing was working my way! Oh man, that fashion tape! I wanted to kill it! haha .. but I guess it kind of saved me that night :) Gotta love being a woman!
The guys came and picked all of us beautiful girls up! We had such a sweet little group and we all looked so good!! We were running a little late but thankfully everyone else was too. The actual formal was at a place called the Ice House. It was a gutted out warehouse that was an art museum. There was artwork all over the walls. It was actually a great place for a dance! Carinos catered and it was so yummy! The DJ was a little ehhh.. but we are the ones that make the fun, not the music or anything else. And let me tell you.. it was FUN! Such a great time! After formal a big group of us went to Daybreak and had some night time coffee and some interesting conversations for sure! I absolutely loved getting to know every date over coffee. They were all so amazing and so fun! I'm just so sad that it took so long for me to meet these wonderful men!
Okay so now I am gong to take a second to brag about these guys!! I know.. bragging.. bad.. but these guys so deserve to be appreciated for everything they did that night! I still cant get over how amazing or dates were. Just as I was starting to get so fed up with all the guys I would meet and their shadiness and inconsistencies and lack of respect, I met these ones and my thoughts definitely changed! They were so respectful to us, showered us with compliments, and were perfect gentlemen. And not because they were expecting anything, but because they genuinely wanted to. They really treated us like princesses and I am so grateful for them. Even the little things, like opening our doors, pulling out our chairs, buying us coffee, carrying things for us, walking us to our room. It was so sweet and so appreciated. If that wasn't a slap in the face from God, I don't know what is. So silly of me to think that all guys are jerks and that I will never find the one that treats me like a princess. Saturday night God showed me what I deserve and what He is capable of giving me. I loved it and I am so grateful to have met these sweet men. So thank you for putting the cherry on top of might night.
Now for the fun part.. Pictures!! :
So adorable!
Love them!
Big and little :)
Haha! We both blinked the first time we tried this, so we tried to keep our eyes wide open this time! So silly! That's actually really unattractive.. lol
Our lovely group!
The perfect start to a perfect weekend...
What an exciting past few days it has been! So many things were going on and for the first time in a while I felt that I had not one minute to sit down and do nothing.
Thursday:
Some of my girlfriends and guy friends decided that it would be an amazing idea to paint shirts for a rave party that the BYX pledges were throwing Friday night. So we all went to Walmart to buy neon paint and black and white shirts. We went to Chris' apartment, laid down newspaper and got to work. It was so much fun! We put some paint on spoons and splatter painted our shirts. We had hot pink, neon orange, green, blue, yellow and glow in the dark paint. We got pretty creative with mixing colors and all, but it got pretty messy too. Anyways, the point is that the shirts looked awesome and it was so fun making them!
Friday:
My classes got cancelled because my professors felt like being so nice to us :) - It definitely makes my week when classes get canceled! So to make the day even more exciting I of course went shopping with my girls! First I went to Savers - it's this great thrift store that has anything and everything you could imagine.. clothing wise at least. It's so great for tacky things! So I went to savers and got some bright blue shorts and my soon to be roommate got some hot hot pink shorts. They were brighter than highlighter pink - It was amazing! Then a few other girls and I went to the mall and shopped for formal dresses. I already had one - two actually if you count my back up - but I was having some girly issues with it unfortunately and I was nervous it wouldn't work out. So I tried on a few dresses and none of them were working. I still had the same issues. Not long after I left the mall I went right back! There was a dress one of my friends wanted so we ran back out to get it. When I was there I found a really cute kelley green strapless pencil dress. So cute! It would be perfect with my leopard heals! And best of all it was only $16!!! Yeah, so I broke down and bought it. it is so worth it! But, of course- a "but", when I got home I tried on my original dress and the issues ended up being fixable. YAY!
After so much shopping we had built up an appetite so we went and got some yummy food :) Mmm I had nachos! Oh my gosh so many calories, but fortunately I was about to burn all of them off and then some!! After dinner, a few girls and I went to Sugarbrowns coffee to listen to some friends perform. It was so nice, but so crowded! we didn't stay for too long because we had even more on the agenda! At about 930ish we scurried back to my room to get ready for the BYX rave!! We were already late - which didn't really phase me because if there is one thing that I absolutely love it is being fashionably late - and we didn't want to miss too much fun so we threw on our neon shorts and our splatter-painted shirts and we were off! The rave was AMAZING!! It is so hard for me to think of any time where I have had more fun than I had that night! Two BYX pledges were the DJs and they did a phenomenal job! The music was great, the dancing was great.. even the sweating (and I HATE sweating more than anything) was great :) It was SO much fun!! Here are a few pictures from the rave:
The two DJs and my sweet little RSC formal date in the middle (More to come on the formal soon). Their shirts were SO cool! The little bars one the shirt actually moved to the beat of the music being played!
Cheryl, Karinne, Me and Natalie in our painted shirts! :)
Nathan and Nick (I painted Nicks shirt for him - doesn't it look great!)
Natalie and Me - Roomies-to-be!!
Laura, me and Michela under the black lights!
It was so much fun! And this is just the beginning of my weekend.. there is more to come! :)
Sunday, April 13
Busy Busy Busy
Oh my gosh I'm really bad a the whole keeping up with this blog thing.
Well things have been very busy... getting ready for finals, getting ready for Foundation camp, doing last minute things for SANTA CRUZ this summer - which still hasn't really sunk in that I'm actually going.. but I don't think it will hit me until I'm there unpacking), and making my schedule for next year ..blah blah blah.
I strongly dislike registering for classes. It is the most frustrating thing. I can honestly say that I have changed my schedule 7 times, and I'm still not sure that its what I want. So far I am taking public policy (boring), economics (also boring), intimate relationships (I definitely have things to learn in that class haa), Food systems management and Travel &Tourism.. and I think thats all.
Anyways, that's my boring schedule for next semester.
This week I have been doing so much to get ready for summer project in Santa Cruz this summer. I finally sent out all of my support letters, and I got the last of my forms in on Thursday. It have definitely been a crazy month, but it is going to be so worth it! Since about a week before spring break when I found out I was accepted, I have been non stop preparing for this trip. Last week I sat down with one of my sisters who went to Santa Cruz with CRU last summer. She went over my schedule with me and prepared me for thing I should expect while I'm there. It sounds SO amazing! I have a few nerves but other than that I am SO ready to finish school and get out there ASAP! I really cant wait to see what God will do through us this summer!
Thats really all that has been going on. Nothing too exciting!
LOVE
Well things have been very busy... getting ready for finals, getting ready for Foundation camp, doing last minute things for SANTA CRUZ this summer - which still hasn't really sunk in that I'm actually going.. but I don't think it will hit me until I'm there unpacking), and making my schedule for next year ..blah blah blah.
I strongly dislike registering for classes. It is the most frustrating thing. I can honestly say that I have changed my schedule 7 times, and I'm still not sure that its what I want. So far I am taking public policy (boring), economics (also boring), intimate relationships (I definitely have things to learn in that class haa), Food systems management and Travel &Tourism.. and I think thats all.
Anyways, that's my boring schedule for next semester.
This week I have been doing so much to get ready for summer project in Santa Cruz this summer. I finally sent out all of my support letters, and I got the last of my forms in on Thursday. It have definitely been a crazy month, but it is going to be so worth it! Since about a week before spring break when I found out I was accepted, I have been non stop preparing for this trip. Last week I sat down with one of my sisters who went to Santa Cruz with CRU last summer. She went over my schedule with me and prepared me for thing I should expect while I'm there. It sounds SO amazing! I have a few nerves but other than that I am SO ready to finish school and get out there ASAP! I really cant wait to see what God will do through us this summer!
Thats really all that has been going on. Nothing too exciting!
LOVE
Thursday, April 3
Love is a peculiar thing
(FYI this is my ALL TIME favorite movie :) )
mmm well said. "enough now"
I have come to realize the hard way that you can't make love happen to you. It's not something that can be forced upon someone. I'm pretty sure that God says it best:
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails.
Even though no one reads this, I wanted to take a minute to tell everyone thank you and I am sorry that I didn't listen when y'all told me to be careful. So sad that I have to learn so many things the hard way, but I guess when I learn it the hard way it's easier to not turn back.
I am probably making no sense!! hah
My point is, I'm working on accepting what the real kind of love is, and in the process I'm finding that when I totally seek God, this kind of love will find me. AMEN :)
On a lighter, less sappy note.. I have decided that I WILL be going to RSC formal and I WILL be looking HOTT :) Here is my AMAZING dress :
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