Thursday, January 30, 2014

January 29, 2014;

I woke up this morning and went to class only to find out my e-mail hadn't refreshed and so I didn't know we didn't have class.  So when I found out I went back to my room, did what I had to for the class period and then just laid in bed until I went to Statistics.  I have about fifty questions to do in the next week.  It won't be all too bad.  We have our first exam a week from Friday.

Then I went and had lunch, and then went and got a caramel machiato - I know it is spelled wrong sorry - because I realized I couldn't nap between psychology and work because it was Wednesday and I had Freshman Survival Skills at three.  Anyway, then I went to Experimental Psychology and then I went back to my room and then again back to class again and finished some notes over a movie and I have to write a paper over it by next Wednesday... So much to do good thing my work has been cut a little, it sucks I am getting less money but I have more time to do homework. 

Then I went to work.  We were somewhat busy while Sean was still there but after he left we actually were rather slow.  Actually we were really slow.

When I was walking back to school after work, Brendan texted me and asked me when exactly we were going to watch Dexter together.  I gave him four different options and let him choose.  So, I guess tomorrow we are hanging out tomorrow.  Now we are talking about music, but I am going to have to go to bed pretty soon because I have an eight-thirty class in the morning.

Nothing else really happened today though.  Anyway, I got this quote off of my friend's Facebook and I really love it.

"Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a darkroom, so if you see darkness in your life, rest assured that a beautiful picture is being prepared." - Anonymous

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

January 28, 2014;

I have been so lost these last few days.  There has been so many things happening that I really don't even really want to talk about it all. 

There has just been a lot of things happening with both me and friends and I just don't even know.  Everything is okay now, but especially the last probably two or three days have just been really stressful which is why I haven't been posting.  I am trying to keep everything in my life in the best order that I can so that means that I avoid a few things like posting in my blog.

Anyway, I got about six hours of sleep and almost didn't wake up this morning to my alarms.  I was really tired because the night before I only slept for about four hours or so.  But I did wake up and got dressed and went to my 8:30 Religion class.  My teacher was making me laugh he was asking, "Is water soft or hard?" and we all just kind of stared at him like a typical 8:30 in the morning class and he just was like "It's soft right, you don't get knocked down when you shower, have to hold onto the shower head," and he made a like motion of falling down and reaching up for the shower head.  Then he goes, "though that would be pretty funny.  I wish I could figure out a way to shoot marbles out of a shower head, just to see what people would do."

I don't know that class is just crazy because he's a little bit crazy but I rather enjoy it.

After that I came back to my room and made myself a bowl of cereal, almost spilled it on my bed, but I didn't! Then I really haven't done anything since then.  Just sitting around, talked to Sara a little bit, texted Chad a little bit.  I have Art History in two hours and sometime between now and then I need to go and eat lunch.  Then I work at five tonight.

I just don't know right now.  I feel like my life is on track but at the same time on the verge of de-railing.  I will be okay though, I know that. Which is why I am going to post the one quote that makes me realize everything is going to be okay.

"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possible endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good." - Anonymous

Saturday, January 25, 2014

January 24, 2014;

Today was rather uneventful.  I got up at nine, went to class at ten.  Then right after my first class realized that I had a take home quiz that was due at one which I hadn't done.  It was only ten questions long so I did it between my Introduction to Literature class and Statistics class because we got our twenty minutes early.

After statistics I went and had lunch.  I got to sit with Alex and Cecilia and Katelyn for the first time in a while.  I don't usually get to see them at lunch.

Then I had Experimental Psychology and after that class I went back to my room and worked on Statistics homework.  Tori left almost right after I got back from class so it was quiet in the room and I focused and got a little bit of it done before I had to go to work.

Work was busy for a little while, but wasn't too bad after Sean left and then after I got back to my dorm room I started watching Dexter and I am about to do a little more homework.  I am going home tomorrow to get my debit card finally.  Anyway, like I said today was really uneventful, and so I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes because the rest of the day wasn't worth it.

"If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 A.M. clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable." - Rosemarie Urquico


Friday, January 24, 2014

January 23, 2014;

First thing I have to say is that yesterday was the absolute best night of my life I am pretty sure.  I don't think that I have ever been to a concert as good as the Panic! At The Disco concert was. I honestly think that I had the best time other than being slightly annoyed with a couple of people, but they weren't worth it for as amazing as the show was.

I had class until four on Wednesday and then CJ and I basically got out of there as quickly as we could. We stopped in Wentzville and grabbed some McDonalds before we got to the city so that we wouldn't be hungry while we were at the concert, which is always a good choice because having a stomach growling at a concert even is hard to not focus on... Learned the hard way.

Anyway, there were two bands that opened for Panic! At The Disco and both were good.  CJ and I both really took a liking to X Ambassadors though.  They are absolutely amazing, and we couldn't help but both be excited about the fact that their lead singer plays saxophone on stage for some of their songs.  I actually have had Love Songs, Drug Songs stuck in my head since I woke up this morning if I want to be absolutely honest.

Then The Colourist was good, but they weren't my ABSOLUTE favorite, but they were good.  Their drummer was adorable she had such a tiny voice.

Then came Panic! I don't even know how to contain the joy that I had seeing them.  I actually really just would love to type this whole post in all caps because it might show my excitement a little bit better.  While I can not tell you the whole order of songs I do know that they started with Vegas Lights, which is a fun song to sing.  I sang every single song when they were playing, and if I counted right there were twenty-two of their songs that they played.

There were four parts of the show that I remember distinctively that weren't really even the show just Brendon's commentary in the songs and him talking.  The first one was when he was singing New Perspective after the line "Can we fast forward til you go down on me?" the first time everyone screamed after that so the second time before they could scream he added "Ahh you nasty!" and I couldn't help but laugh.  The second was when he was just talking about the tour and everything and he was saying that he was sick and had a fever and the tour might just kill him, which caused everyone to yell "NOOOOOO!" and also he changed the name to the Too Sick To Live, It Might Just Kill Me tour.  He said it would at least be a good way to go with us in St. Louis.  Also, while they may say this to every single venue just because it is what happens, he said that St. Louis very possibly was the best show they had done so far.  Like I said, may say it to everyone, but I don't care made me feel good.  Third thing was when they came back after everyone was chanting for them to come back, and when they came back Brendon didn't have his shirt on... WHOO! Anyway, they were singing Girls/Girls/Boys which is my absolute favorite off of Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die.  And after the line, "'Cause I don't wanna save your reputation," he added... "I JUST WANT TO GET YOU NAKED!" More screaming commenced... of course! (:



Also on the note of Brendon Urie with no shirt on... I was determined that at some point in the show he better not have that thing on anymore because every other concert I had seen photos from in like the last month he has not had a shirt on at some point so it better have happened.  We were talking about how it should happen, and I said he could just come on with no shirt at all and I would be okay with that, and CJ goes but it would be sexy if he took it off on stage, and I was yeah that's true especially if he pulls it over his head, and she goes or like tears it off... I answered with "I can see his wife Sarah now... "BRENDON STOP DESTROYING YOUR SHIRTS!" It was just fabulous.

Anyway, after the show we got back in to get some concert merch.  CJ bought the X Ambassadors CD which at least two of them signed, and I am going to have to borrow at some point because I am obsessed now with them.  We also both got Panic! shirts, hers is just a regular shirt and mine is the actual tour shirt.  I wore it today actually.  Then we took a picture with two of the guys from The Colourist.


We finally left around eleven something after grabbing a drink at a gas station.  We got back to Fayette around 1:20 or so, probably back to our rooms by 1:30 and then I couldn't fall asleep for almost another hour, but finally did.

I had class at 8:30 this morning so I really only got around five hours of sleep, but oh well, I was doing pretty good being awake.  Then came my second class which was Art History at one.  The problem was I planned to take a nap between classes and just skip lunch, instead I uploaded photos to my 365 project so I didn't nap.  I ended up dozing off for like five to ten minutes in class.  I don't even know what happened.

I talked with Brendan walking back from class about going to the art exhibit on Sunday for extra credit and also a little bit about the concert.  We both walk really fast so we don't get much conversation in before I go back into Holt, but we talk every Tuesday and Thursday, only time except when he comes into Subway - which he also did tonight, but whatever.

I did nap for like thirty minutes before work and then finished my 365 photos that I was so behind on.  Work wasn't really all to busy today, I had to bake breads later for them for in the morning.  Then I came back to my dorm after I got off of work and showered and started uploading photos from the concert to my Facebook, and then I started this post about an hour ago, but kept getting distracted.  Finally though I am close to done.  A couple more photos and a quote and I'll be done for tonight.




"The hype is pretty good. So it's a good sign.  There's different kinds of hype for different reasons.  Hype is good. The crowd just has more expectations from us when we're on stage.  That's cool, too.  I hope we haven't been too disappointing. We try." - Brendon Urie: This was way back when, but still...

Just so you know Brendon even though you will never read this ever... You were far from disappointing. <3

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

January 21, 2014;

I have been neglecting my responsibilities on this blog.  This weekend was just a really busy weekend so my apologize for not post yesterday or the day before either because really it was just a long weekend.  There was a bunch of stuff happening and yeah, I completely forgot until it was too late to do anything about it.

Anyway, I'll try to recap on things that happened since I am a butt and didn't post.  On Sunday Sara and I went to Columbia again.  This time we decided to go downtown and get Starbucks and walk around for a while just looking at stuff. We decided that we were going to make a list of places that we want to try eating at sometime.  We are going to start another blog together and we are going to basically just rate and write about stuff.  I will take the pictures and everything, it is going to be fun!

We also went to Micheal's after that because Sara needed some things for school and stuff.  We decided that we would buy a scrapbook that already has all the paper and everything and we are just going to have like a best friend album.  We decided that this is the year for Sara and Shelby and we don't need men to make us happy - though if they show up in our lives then by all means that is fine, but we are best friends and we are just going to document our lives for this year.  It is going to be fun!

Sara and I also went to Natural Grocers.  I love that store. We bought things for dinner and it was really good. We ended up with a red pepper pesto to put on chicken.  Spinach, mushrooms, yellow pepper, and tomato for a salad.  Then we got a salad dressing to go with it which we thought we liked in the beginning then changed out mind after we started eating it.  Oh well, it was still a good supper.  I also bought a orange peel and dark chocolate bar.  It was so good! :)

After that we invited people over.  Invited Taylor and Alex and then later Josh and Sam.  Well, the first two came, then Josh didn't but Sam came with Archer.  It was an interesting night to say the least with all of us there.  Ended up falling asleep around 4:30 watching AFV on Netflix because I knew I didn't have to pay attention to it.

Then yesterday we all woke up around 10:30 or so and then Sara and I ran to C&R so we could get whole wheat buns.  We had mushroom burgers that we bought at the organic store as well on Sunday.  They were lovely! :) Then we binge watched One Tree Hill on Netflix and then I had to go to work for two hours and after that I went back to Sara's again to do homework.  I came back at about 10 or so and just sat on my bed and talked to Tori a little.  Then Jenna came in and the two of them spoke to each other and I watched Chad's videos that he posted for the week on Youtube.  Which anyone that actually reads this should check his videos out if you want to watch video game videos.  He always has something to say, and I'm sure he would be thrilled to know some new people were watching... Just a suggestion.  I'll put the link at the bottom of the post.

Anyway, now to today.  I had class at 8:30.  Good thing my roommate woke up because my phone managed to shut itself off while I was sleeping so my alarms didn't go off.  I almost fell asleep in religion because I was extremely exhausted.  Then I went and ate lunch, which wasn't all that good.

I have class at one, and I have a bad feeling I am going to want to fall asleep in there as well.  We will see though.  I have a really bad headache and I have no idea why.  It just does not want to go away at all! :( Then I am going to run to Boonville and get some money because the stupid bank shut off my card already before getting another one. So annoying! I really need to change banks.

Panic! At The Disco is in less than thirty-two hours and I am so excited.  I will no be posting tomorrow because of it because CJ and I are leaving right after we get out of class! I am so stinking excited to see them live.

 Nothing else for me not say! Have a quote and the link to Chad's YouTube page!

Chad's YouTube Page :D

"Stars are tiny holes in the floor of Heaven." - Anonymous

Sunday, January 19, 2014

January 18, 2014;

I was riding the exercise bike when the day changed so that is why I didn't write on the correct day, but I feel like since I am still awake and haven't gone to sleep yet since it is less than an hour after the day has started when I started this that it does not count as a missed day. 

Anyway, I got up at around 10:45 and then I had to be at work by 11:30... Always a joy.  Anyway, we had the opposing basketball team come in.  That wasn't fun to deal with we did forty-sandwiches in one hour because of it.  It was rather insane.  After Corey left we really weren't all that busy when I was alone.  I left at 6:30 and went back to the dorm where I showered and did some laundry before I went over to Sara's house. 

We decided that we were going to go to Columbia and have IHOP! That was yummy, and then we ran to Walmart and I ended up buying four more CDs. I have a bit of a problem but I am actually really excited that I have more music.  It was a lovely night and then we came home singing songs that were on the CDs that she bought tonight. 

I rode Sara's stationary bike for five miles while watching One Tree Hill after we got home because I felt like I needed to.  I will do so again in the morning because she plans on doing so as well.  We are both determined to get into better shape so it needs to happen now or we won't work on it. 

Anyway, I don't know what else to say tonight. I am just going to watch a little more One Tree Hill before sleeping and then see what happens tomorrow.  I don't have to work tomorrow which makes me really excited because I actually get to spend time with my best friend again without having to worry about when I have to leave to go to work!

"Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow." - Anonymous

Saturday, January 18, 2014

January 17, 2014;

So, this would have been done earlier, but things kind of got crazy toward the end of the day.

First off, survived my first week back at school which is a definite plus! I feel like it is a bad thing that I was so grateful for Friday to show up finally this week.  It sounds awful, but I think it was just because I am getting back into a routine again and having a different class routine, just is something that I need to get used to again.  It will all happen in time though I fee like.

Next, mom came up to Fayette to bring me my new debit card which the stupid bank put the wrong name on it.  All the more reason to change banks again... because mine is stupid! And we ran to Boonville to get me some notebooks because I am in desperate need of them, and we got Sonic for dinner so I didn't have to buy anything when I went to work.

Then there comes work.  Oh my dear lord tonight was one of the worst nights that I have seen in a while.  I didn't do a single digit hour all night until the last hour and I was only one sandwich short that hour.  I felt awful leaving because I had bread until the last ten minutes of work and then eight people came in and I went from having twenty-four which is a crappy amount already but somewhat okay to dropping down to fifteen! I literally was making sandwiches up until the minute that I closed.  I hope that I remembered everything that was important... I don't think there was anything major that I forgot, at least I hope that there wasn't.  Also, I majorly burnt my hand at work it looks AWFUL! I probably am going to get a scar from it.

Then I got back and showered and was sitting on my bed doing a few things, texting Chad, and I get this call from Sara.  I already had talked to her and she was heading to bed the last time that I spoke to her about five minutes earlier.  I just figured that she thought of something that she didn't feel like texting to me and just figured she was calling to tell me real quick...

NOPE!

Her lovely furnace has gone out.  It was blowing cold air out of the vents and it was about fifty some odd degrees in her house. Poor thing has to get up at five in the morning already which makes it even worse because she was too cold to sleep in her own house.  So she asked if she could come over and sleep here.  Tori went home for the three day weekend so I told her yeah that was fine and she could come and sleep in Tori's bed.

So, as I type this she is asleep in the bed next to me. I'm still texting Chad, snapchatting Brittani, and drinking some water.

"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready.  I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.  There is only now. And you may as well do it now.  Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any." - Hugh Laurie

Friday, January 17, 2014

January 16, 2014;

Since I started this blog post one minute before the date changed I classify it as still being on time!

Anyway, I had my religion class at eight thirty this morning. I am going to take a while to get used to this being awake again at that time again. I can do it, but I am always so tired! I make it through though. After that I went back to my room and did a few things and then I went to lunch.  After lunch I went to my dorm to get my backpack and then I went to my Art History class and I seriously almost fell asleep in there.

Then I went back to my room and watched one episode of Dexter before I went to help Lyndsey put her beds back into bunk beds.  Then went to work which was steady but not awful.  I really didn't have anything exciting happen today and it wasn't really work talking about.

Oh, one thing that did happen is we had like a freak like fifteen minute blizzard like conditions it was really crazy and I have no idea what was going on! All I know is that it made it really really slick outside and that wasn't very fun walking back to school after I got off work.

“A true friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” — Unknown

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

January 15, 2014;

So... yesterday was the first day that I forgot to make a post.  I was completely off yesterday and I have absolutely no idea what happened, but I forgot and that's that.  I mean it wasn't like I HAVE to post every day, but I really am trying to do so. 

I had my first meeting of two classes yesterday, one being Religion and Human Adventure and like many people say that I did choose the correct professor to take it with because he is definitely funny and even though that is a class that I probably would not have taken otherwise I really do think that I am going to enjoy being in this class. 

Then I had to go to work, but I actually started watching Dexter and ended up falling asleep and I ended up being about five minutes late for work, which was the first time that I ever had been.  I let her know as soon as I realized that I was going to be late so that was a plus.

We really weren't all that busy at work yesterday.

Then came today, no class until ten which is always a plus.  Then I went to Intro to Literature and that just seems to be a crazy class and I think that it is going to continue to be.  Then I had Statistics and we just did a little bit of reviewing, then I went and ate lunch and then had Experimental Psychology at one.  Then I had my first class meeting for CMU102.

I also had to work tonight, and tonight it was really busy! I have no idea why Wednesday is always really really busy.  Hopefully tomorrow isn't all that bad, but we will just have to see. I need to get to bed to be quite honest because I have Religion at 8:30 in the morning tomorrow. On another note, just before I go to bed and leave you with a quote, Panic! At The Disco is in a week!

"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day.  Anything can happen in just one day." - Gayle Forman

Monday, January 13, 2014

January 13, 2014;

Today was the first day of classes.  I didn't have to get up until nine, but I woke up around eight thirty and so I decided to get ready for class and I still got ready before I head to go to class because my first class was at ten.  Finally came time and I headed to class.  First class was Introduction to Literature, then I had Statistics I think that I am actually not going to mind it all that much.  Then I went and ate lunch with MaKayla and Jessica.  Love those girls! (: After that I had Experimental Psychology.  I am so excited to have another Psychology class and be doing this again!

Then I came back to my room and I watched Dexter.  I actually ended up watching one episode and then twenty minutes before the end of that episode I had set an alarm ahead of time just in case I fell asleep but I didn't plan to, well I did and I woke up when the next episode started and was like "MAN!" Then I had to go to work for two hours.  That is always all sorts fun...  I only had to work for two hours which was really not all that bad.

Then I got back and I changed and went and sat in the kitchen with Lynz, Christian, Ginney, Parker, and Katie and they made pizza and it was absolutely lovely.  After most of them left I help Lyndsey carry stuff upstairs.  We ended up just sitting in her room for two hours and talked to each other about a bunch of random things.  Its kinda funny because the first day I met her was Eagle Day back in July and then we didn't really talk much except for in passing last semester but we talked tonight like we were best friends forever.  I just love having those people that you don't really talk to one time and then all of the sudden you are talking to each other like you have been talking forever!

Then I cam back to our room and I made Tori watch Iliza Schlesinger on Netflix and she is probably one of the funniest stand up comedians that I have watched in forever.  I have watched bits of her show multiple times and it just never seems to get old I love it.

Well, I have class at 8:30 in the morning tomorrow morning so I probably should get to sleep now.  Here's your quote for the day:

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you." - Henry Ward Beecher

Sunday, January 12, 2014

January 12, 2014;

I woke up around nine o'clock right before Sara came in and we watched a little bit of the show Stalked: Someone's Watching. Then we decided that we needed to get up and go get Sara's vehicle from the depths of hell... Okay, not the depths of hell but it seems like it yesterday because it just was not going to get back out of where it was.  Anyway, we had no trouble this morning though so that was a good thing. 

After we got back we ran to C&R because Sara needed some things and then back to her house where I ate a couple of pieces of pizza before I had to go to work for an hour to help Corey.  Well, we were not busy for the amount of time that I was there and then I went back to Sara's and packed up all of my stuff and moved it out to my car so I could come back to my dorm.

I have to say that I think I got my exercise for the day because since I am only on the second floor I only took the elevator once and that was because my clothes basket was killing my arm and I really needed to just lean against the wall with it.  So that was for walks up down the stairs, three times up... THEN Corey calls me and says that he has a ton of people in line and he needs some help.  Well, I didn't have time to dig out my clothes so I went back in wearing CMU sweatpants and a Bazinga shirt.  Oh well...

Then I came back to my dorm room after helping him out a little and unpacked a little bit. During this time I watched a video that Chad uploaded on his Facebook. Then I had to go back to work AGAIN at five or so because I actually was scheduled to work that time with Audrey.  I ended up staying until like seven-thirty and didn't do all too much.  We were a little bit busy but it wasn't anything that I haven't had to handle myself before though. 

I was back in my dorm again for the night finally by almost eight and I finished putting some things away after I showered.  Then Sara came and hung out with us for a tiny bit and then after she left I made myself some hot chocolate and we put in Beauty and the Beast.  Classes start tomorrow, I don't know I feel about that at all.  I also keep getting distracted at Text From Last Night.  Anyway, nothing more exciting now.

"Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances." - C.S. Lewis.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

January 11, 2014;

Got up around nine-thirty or so when Sara came into the living room.  I had woken up a couple of times before, but fell asleep right away again after I did so.  We just laid and watched a little bit of Netflix before we decided we were going to order pizza. 

Then we drove around for a little while only to end up have a few issues that ended up costing us two hours of our time... Meaning that we lost our first pizza and we had to order another one, but oh well.  I don't want to go into that because it was really just a big huge mess that wasn't a whole lot of fun to be quite honest so we just won't go there.

Anyway, we did end up with another pizza which we ate too much of.  Oh well, don't even have any shame about it either. We just sat and watched America's Funniest Home Videos until I had to go to work and Sara was asleep on the couch.  Her power nap turned into a like three hour long nap. 

It was a relatively slow night at the Wal-Mart Subway, and no problems other than the fact that there was one woman that got mad because her sandwich didn't look like the one that was in the picture to which I told her that I was sorry.  Seriously though, does anything ever look like what is in the picture anywhere that you go?! I just don't understand where people's priorities are sometimes if their biggest concern is the fact that their Subway sandwich doesn't look like the one that is in the picture which who knows if it is even all completely real or how much artificial stuff has been put on them and what it is being held together by to make it look that way, but you know whatever.

I finished everything early so I got out of there about ten minutes earlier than I would have most night which was a nice thing.  I then went and got Sara Sour Patch Kids and a Diet Coke and I could resist but buy myself some limited edition Ghirardelli chocolates because they looked absolutely delicious.  I have Wal-Mart gift cards so why not, and I also bought myself two new CDs even though one of them I actually already have all of the songs on but I wanted the physical copy of it as well because I am crazy and I like to have the hard copy.  Plus it was only $10 and the other one was $7. 

After buying all of those I still have $11 an something on my $50 gift card and also have a $10 gift card so that's awesome! (:

Now that I am home, we are watching A Haunting in Connecticut.  I have actually seen this whole movie already but I didn't remember what it was about.  It's a good one so I guess we will watch the rest of it!

I work during lunch tomorrow and then maybe for a couple hours at night if I have to because it gets busy. I also move back into my dorm tomorrow.  I am both glad and upset that I am going to have classes starting again on Monday it is much too soon, but I am also tired of being bored as well.

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." - Aristotle

January 8, 2014;

I learned that I had to work today, which was my day off at seven this morning. I wasn't the most thrilled about it, but it really wasn't that bad of a day. I really don't mind working its just more money.  It was just the fact that it was my day off that made me a little bit grumpy, but I was over that by the time I clocked in. I am just really tired from closing and then opening and then doing it again.  After I get this posted I am totally going to bed and I am having to type it all on my phone because the internet at Sara's is being a pain in the butt! I am going home tomorrow so that I can get some books for classes since its the last time that I can come home before they start.

After I got off work at 1:30 I came back to Sara's and took a shower and then just sat down on the couch and watched a couple episodes of Dexter before Sara came home. When she got home she asked if I wanted to go to Columbia with her because she had something that she had to do tonight. She told me that she would buy me dinner at Panera do of course I was going to go. It was lovely, and then we decided we were going to go get ice cream but both of the places were closed and then we realized that Yogoluv was open and so we got that and it was delicious!

Then we went to her rehearsal thing which was about two hours long and my phone decided that it was going to do because apparently when you restart it you will lose thirty percent of your battery which makes absolutely no sense, but whatever.

Anyway like I said before, I am going home one final time tomorrow to get the last of my things before I move back into my dorm room. I can't believe that the beginning of the second semester is already here. I think that the break when by way too fast!

Another thing that even shocks me that I am doing tomorrow is I am dying my hair a color that isn't red. I am doing a dark mahogany brown. I don't even remember the last time that I colored it a color besides red. Probably back in my freshman year of high school so close to if not more than five years which is crazy!

Ahh, mouse! ): The lovely little mouse that is living in Sara's house that we CAN'T catch just went running out of the living room and into the dining room. He startled me, I'm not afraid of him I just didn't expect him to go scurrying across the floor. Anyway, nothing else is happening tonight so since I am really tired I am going to go ahead and go to bed. 

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - Emily Dickinson

EDIT: I have no idea why this has decided to be moved up saying that I published it at midnight on the 11th, because I definitely did not, but oh well.

Friday, January 10, 2014

January 10, 2014;

Today isn't that exciting of a day, and I know that it isn't going to get any more exciting.  I got up around eight and just laid on the couch for a little bit before I decided that I was going to watch an episode of Dexter because the internet was working again.  Then I decided to get up and do all of the dishes that were in the sink and then I made some eggs, which I proceeded to put too many pepper flakes on said eggs and I about burnt my mouth off! I also decided last night that it made sense that no one would want to take me out because I'm an embarrassment when I eat and I at the time was struggling to get chips and salsa into my mouth.  Then this morning I dropped scrambled eggs down my shirt, so yeah I think that is a pretty accurate statement.

Now I am back to watching Dexter again, but fighting with the internet.  I swear, it goes on and off again.  Oh well, I guess I'll just put up with it.  It is a gloomy day outside so I just figure that I will stay inside and cozy up under some blankets for the time before I go to work at five.

That is all that I am going to say today though because like I said I'm not that exciting of a person because I am taking what time I have left to not do anything extremely serious before I have to go back to work. If something else that is exciting does happen I will definitely edit this post and let anyone who is reading know, even though I am pretty sure that I'm the only one who reads my own blog.

Edit: It was one of the longest nights at work in a long time. We were so busy it was insane. 

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” — Carl Sandburg

January 9, 2014;

So... I woke up to an alarm at 4:45 this morning.  Was it mine? No, it was Sara's she had come into the living room because we managed to catch the mouse, but of course it was in her room that we caught it and it was making noises trying to escape so I had to go and get it out of her room so that she could sleep in there.  I ended up using a pair of tongs to pick up the trap and chuck it out the front door. All I have to say is that after so long of fighting to catch that stinking thing, it is finally gone so Sara can rest easy again.

Then I went back to sleep and stayed asleep until I woke up at eight and sent a message and then again until I actually woke up and got up around 9:30.  Then I got ready and left from Sara's stopping to get gas and some breakfast before I headed home.  Roads were a little bit gross still, but nothing that I could deal with driving in.

After mom got home she dyed my hair.  It's definitely a change from the usual, but I really actually like it.  I am glad that Sara wouldn't let me dye it red again because I needed something different after dying my hair red for almost five years.

I stayed home until after we had dinner which we had grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, and green beans for dinner.  Then I packed up all of my things that I needed to take back with me from home which was way too much stuff. I seriously do not understand how I manage to take so many things home with me anytime I go and always I leave with more then I came back with.  I really don't understand it.

Anyway, the reason that I didn't get this posted yesterday was because when I got back home the internet wasn't working at all.  And it is still being a pain in the butt today.  I swear it never seems to want to work any time anymore, and it's not even that icky outside but it still is going back and forth from working to not working. Who knows...

So since the internet wasn't working we decided to watch Napoleon Dynamite before Sara went to bed and then I went to bed around midnight after talking to someone I hadn't spoke to in a long while and reading some more on The Great Gatsby

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” — C.C. Scott

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

January 7, 2014;

The beginning of this day went well and I guess that it has ended pretty well too, but earlier I was grumpy and I'm really not all that sure why I was, but I was and it wasn't very good.  I talked about it with someone, I realize that I need to work on that a little more my temper gets to me sometimes, but I'm working in it. 

Anyway, when we went to bed last night Sara assumed that she was going to have to go to work.  When she woke up and had already gotten all ready and was on the way out the door when she got a call saying that they didn't have any school.  She came into the living room at about eight or eight thirty I don't exactly remember and I woke up when she did.  So we just laid around for a little while and watched Blue Mountain State.  MaryRose made waffles for breakfast and they were really good actually, and I don't usually like waffles all that much. 

Then Sara decided that she needed out of the house because she was going crazy so we made a trip to Columbia and we had a lovely best friend date and we went to Cheddar's and had an awesome lunch and then Wal-Mart and I got some new headphones and hair color.  I am going to dye my hair dark mahogany brown rather than my normal red color! That's not normal of me, I have this feeling after I change it I am going to end up going right back again but I need a change. We will see though I may like it, I don't know.

Work was really busy.  I have to get use to that again because this last month I have been use to really slow days and nights since all of the college kids have been gone but they are coming back and it's going to be crazy again before too long, but I'll get use to it again, hopefully! Classes start in six days, oh goodness it'll get crazy again before to long like I said though, but I feel like this semester is going to be just as good as last even though I do have a math class and I haven't had a math class since my junior year of high school, unless you call physics math which it does have a little in it but still!

Now I am just watching Dexter and probably should be getting to sleep because I MIGHT have to work in the morning because someone is sick even though it is my day off. I will find out at 7:30 in the morning or so, but I really hope that I don't have to. I want a day where I can just lay around seriously. 

Hey, I am going to get this posted before midnight if I hurry. I have like one and a half minutes, and nothing else to say except my quote so here!

"The less you love, the faster your life will pass by." - Anonymous

Monday, January 6, 2014

January 6, 2014;

After staying up until almost three in the morning I woke up at like nine.  I just could not sleep, and I have no idea why.  So I just laid in bed on my phone, and then got a message from my boss saying that she had made it to work, but she needed me to come in for like an hour so that she could run to the bank and that I could help her do a little bit of prep.  She also told me that I may have to work tonight, and I was like uhhhhhh what? I was going to do it, but wasn't looking forward to it if I had too.  Turned out that I didn't have to so that was just fine with me I enjoy having my day off. 

Sara had to take me to work because I couldn't get my car out.  Anyway, when we got back Chris was still at the house watching Greek.  I don't like that show, it's just really boring to me and I don't want to watch it at all.  A little bit later we realized that the toilet wouldn't flush because the tank wasn't filling up.  It turned out that the pipe to just the toilet had froze and so we had to get it thawed out, it cost Sara forty dollars which isn't too bad at all for what it usually would cost. 

After that we cleaned out the fridge and did all of the dishes.  Then we going and sitting at Dos with Daniel for a little bit and then we came back to Sara's.  We just did nothing for a few minutes except for I decided that I wanted to be crazy because I saw someone else on Facebook say that they had done it so I decided since we have almost two dozen eggs in the house that I was going to freeze on on the sidewalk.  The first layer had frozen within like two minutes and it was actually really really cool looking so I took a picture of it for my 365 project today!

Then I made a really awesome dinner that was on the back of the box of stuffing.  Sara and I both really liked it and I am glad that we did.  It was really simple and really good and I am pretty sure that I will make it again! I will post about it on my other blog before too long (mouthwateringdiscoveries.blogspot.com) and you can check it out there if you are interested in trying it.  We are watching The Skeleton Key and she is doing grades while I type this out, and I also have my photo to upload today.  It's been a pretty good day, and I am glad.

"We can complain that rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice that thorn bushes have roses." - Anonymous.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

January 5, 2014;

I had to get up at 7:30 this morning because I had to go to work and open this morning by 8:15.  Of course it had snowed even more, but since it's dry snow I only had to slam my car door and it all came off my car windows and only needed to brush off the back window and use my wind shield wipers which was a plus. 

Anyway, we didn't have a single customer until 11:30 and then like eleven people came in all at once. And then I made four sandwiches and then two.  It was really boring for me to be there, but I guess it works with the fact that it was the first time that I ever opened by myself.  After closing the night before opening again is tiring.  Though since we weren't busy we closed at three which was a plus.  If we hadn't I might have had to work all day which would have been AWFUL! :( I would have survived it though.

I got back to Sara's and showered and then watched the rest of The Breakfast Club with her and Chris and then we now have The Orphan and Chris went and got us chips and salsa which just makes Sara and I happy campers because we love chips and salsa.

We are going to have dinner really late I have a feeling like nine o'clock but no biggie. She doesn't have school tomorrow because of all the snow and the wind chills.  We are planning to stay inside and just stay warm! :)

I don't have a lot else to say about today.  Nothing exciting is happening it is just too stinking cold and I do not want to go outside!

I have decided that I am going to just end each post with a quote that I like so that's what is going to happen from now on.

"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose." - C.S. Lewis

Saturday, January 4, 2014

January 4, 2014;

Welp, my achievement that I wrote about yesterday about not typing the wrong year has failed.  Just as I said when I went to work on my 365 project photos I instantly typed the wrong year on the first one that I had to type 2014 and I also messed up typing this date on the title post.

Anyway, after I posted my blog post last night I was laying in bed and just got an impulse to look at The Blue Note's website. Even though the last few times that I have been on there to look at anything there hasn't been anyone that I even know.  This time was different! So, let me express my excitement here... WE THE KINGS IS COMING TO COLUMBIA AGAIN! I have to go, because even though I have seen them play five times already I still love them beyond belief and I still haven't met anyone from that band and just once, ONCE, I want to hug Travis Clark in my life because he is amazing.

As I laid there thinking about how I needed to go, I started to realize that this is just going to be the year of concerts and movies, and I can't even say that I am mad about that.

Here is my list of dates that just need to, or are in the case of the first one because I bought those tickets forever again and I am going!

January 22: Panic! At The Disco concert - I have been dying to see them since I was in junior high and finally it has happened and I'm so excited to go.
March 19: We The Kings concert - Time number six, here I come.  Travis Clark you better be prepared for this hug if I meet you.
March 21: Divergent movie comes out - One of my favorite book trilogies and I can not WAIT to see this movie and see how well they do.
June 6: The Fault In Our Stars movie comes out - Now this one I think I am more excited about than the Divergent movie.  John Green is one of my favorite authors and I am just so excited to see this book be made into a movie.  I have read it three times and I am sure that I will read it many more and cry every single time, but it is just going to be amazing and I know it.
July 2: Warped Tour - Time number five here I come! It is the 20th anniversary for Warped and I am so excited to go again.  I am determined that I will get to at least.
November 21: Mockingjay: Part One comes out. Pretty excited about this!

Anyway, this is going to be a great year as I said in the beginning of this blog, but this time I am even more excited about this year.  There are so many things that I am now looking forward to and this means to much time to spend with friends and I can't even explain how excited I am about it.

I have no other real plans for today so I figured that I probably could get away with posting the blog now even though it's only one in the afternoon.  I work from 2:45 to 10:30 and then I have to open in the morning at 8:15 again so I didn't want to have to type it all after I got off work tonight. Until I go to work though I am just going to sit back and relax while I enjoy some more episodes of Dexter!

Here's a quote for today:

"Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way." - Anonymous 

January 3, 2014;

I want to pride myself first on the fact that I haven't messed up by typing 2013 instead of 2014 yet! I am sure that it will happen before too long (probably when I go to upload all eleven photos that I have to put up for my 365 project - especially since I have to type the dates of last year and this year, it probably is going to mess me all up).

Second thing for today.  Why do I have such crazy dreams?! I just don't get it! I was woken up two minutes before my alarm went off because I was having a nightmare that for some reason someone - not sure who - was trying to kill me.  I have absolutely no idea who it was but apparently I told someone else some secret about then and they were emotionally unstable and they flipped out on me! I locked myself in the bathroom, and I woke up right when the door busted down.  I swear I have no idea what my brain is doing when I am sleeping, but pretty sure that every single time that I have a dream like that I am just getting crazier and crazier. 

This post is not going to get done before midnight... oops.  I did start it at 11:45 though, happens when you work.

Which I did today after being off for six days straight.  It seems really rather crazy that I had so much time off and then had to come back, I kind of felt like I didn't know what I was doing.  I mean I did, but after being gone for almost a week it was weird. 

Nothing else really happened today.  I ate lunch, then when mom got back home we ran to the grocery store, and then I had to come back to Fayette because like I said I had to work.  It was busier than it has been for quite some time, I don't know if I am ready for all of the other college kids to come back because it is going to take some getting use to again for there to be so many more people.  I am ready for classes to start up again, especially since at the end of semester I changed my major and now I am going to be able to get back and happily start on the path toward my psychology major.  I am really excited!

Now, that it is ten minutes after the new day has started, I don't really have anything else to talk about.  I have photos to upload now, I am watching Dexter and then I will be heading to bed.  I have to work 3:45-close tomorrow, so I probably will have another late post tomorrow! It won't be anything exciting again I am sure.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

January 2, 2014;

It's only 1:30 and I already feel like today is making me more aware of things than most days do.

So far today, I have woken up at ten and then laid in bed for thirty minutes, sounds fine.  Then I read and ate some lunch, nothing major.  Then I have to give a big thank you to Chad for bringing me my mom's camera back because I so dumbly left it in the car when we went out - surprise surprise! I'm so forgetful. I also got two for my books that I need for classes this coming semester which starts in eleven days - where did break go? I also received the first car insurance bill since Cal and I finally had our policy split at the end of the year, only to see it jump almost forty dollars a month. 

Anyway, right now I am realizing that you don't really realize how much you care about something/someone until you realize that there is a good amount of time before you are able to see that thing/person again. You would have thought that I would have gotten this kind of feeling when I left home for the first time wouldn't you? I didn't.  It didn't even happen after I had moved back home after the split and then left again for college.  I mean I guess it was just because I was only going to be an hour away, that's a days trip, no big deal I can go home whenever I want - which I do! I don't know today though it's hit me that there are things that I am not going to see for months and before about a week ago it wasn't bothering me because there had been that distance and I hadn't really noticed it.  Now though, after that distance was closed for a short period of time and I know that it's once again approaching I'm kind of bothered by it again.  It's not like I'm going to have a major freak out over it or anything it's just there and I'm like "MAN!" I guess that just makes me realize that I do care as much as I say I do.  You can speak it to yourself and everyone else about missing those things and people as much as you want, but when you finally feel it inside of you it is really just a realization that you aren't just making it up.

Also, on a completely different note... WHY IS CAR INSURANCE SO EXPENSIVE!? :( I just paid mine and I also remembered that in four days, I also get to pay my monthly payment to the college! Ugh, I just don't understand why everything has to be so expensive.  That's what happens when you grow up and start paying for everything yourself.  I have to say that I am glad that I acquired a skill to be able to save money better than a lot of people that I know.

Really though, on that same note.  It is insane how I hate to mention the amount of money that I have when people are saying that they don't have any money.  I honestly feel most of the time that I don't have money even when I know I have some in an account somewhere, but that is money that I use to pay for school, and insurance, and the internet on the phone bill which my mother kindly only makes me pay that much on.  I also am currently paying back my mom and step-dad for paying to get something on my car fixed and also helping pay them back for my wisdom teeth.  So yeah, physically I may have money but I don't spend in on myself as often as most people that I know because I am working to pay off things that I have.  A lot of people I know when they hear I have money they are like, "Oh, why don't you go do stuff more often?" Can't got stuff to pay off, sorry! I don't know, it's just is crazy the amount of money people sometimes spend when they don't really have it and then complain that they don't have money for things they need because they spent the money they had on stuff they didn't.  I'm not saying that this is everyone, because I know for a fact that it isn't and I know a lot of people who are completely responsible, but there are just some people out there who are impulse buyers and I don't think that they really think before they buy things.  That's just not me though.

Just some of my thoughts today though.  I don't know, I'm done ranting for the day.  If I made anyone mad, sorry.  I'll leave you a nice little quote at the end of this and a lovely picture of the magic tree!


"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

January 1, 2014;

It is the beginning of a new year and like everyone else around me I wonder what it is going to be like.

Am I going to meet new people? Am I going to make friends? Am I going to lose current friends? Am I going to finish my first year of college with flying colors?  Will I be granted the acceptance to live off campus this coming fall? Will I write an entry for every day in this blog - that is my plan, even if it isn't posted daily I plan to write and then post later? Will I finish my 365 project on May 27th with full excitement like I started it? Will I go on a date, or two, or ten? Will those said possible dates be with the same person or different people?  Will I travel alone? Will I travel with friends? Will I visit someone who is out of state? Will I fall in love again?

All of these questions are good ones.  At the beginning of the year I know what I hope for, but that doesn't mean that my mind won't change as the year continues.  Things are going to happen whether that's what I am hoping for or not based on my choices.  I am not a person who makes New Years resolutions, because I don't want the be the person on December 31st who is mad at myself because I didn't lose those five pounds that at the beginning of the year I believed I need to so desperately lose or the person that attempts to finish everything on my list of resolutions the last week of the year and completely wear myself out and forget about the more important things that are in my life.  That is just not the kind of person that I am.

For me, I just want to be happy this year. 

I want this year to be an amazing one.  I want to let my heart decide on what to do, let my thoughts roam free so I can be creative.  I want to find myself excited about basically everything that I do and feel the happiness that I know rages deep inside of me even though sometimes it is hidden by selflessness or fear.  Lastly I want to make a difference this year.

Now some of you may call those things that I listed off to be resolutions.  If you really want to do so, feel free I'm not going to stop you.  For me though, I just see them as guidelines - possibilities on paths that I choose to take in my everyday decisions.

So maybe I do have one New Years Resolution:

I vow to make 2014 a damn good year for myself!