I've been craving a blog pick up for a while now. I haven't blogged in a long time, I mean what do I talk about? What I ate that day, what I wore, how many times Eloise and I played fetch that day? I'm not sure what people (how ever many read this blog) want to read... I'm not sure what I want to say but I feel like I've been wanting to pick this thing up again.
Maybe I will, maybe I won't and this will be the first/last post for a whole 'nother year. Well anyways, I just wanted to see if this thing still worked, see ya around maybe.
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grateful
i'm not one to really put pen to paper (or fingers to keys) when it comes to how i'm feeling. i talk, A LOT, and often times it's about my feelings. you can tell my emotions so easily the way i communicate or interact with someone. i don't hold back my emotions and i could probably work on that, but it's how i've always been. (insert parent comment on the picture of me throwing a temper tantrum that's still hanging in our kitchen)
i feel like i never really got to sit and think about the changes that were happening in my life these past few months. everything kind of happened so quickly and i am so so grateful for that but sometimes i feel like i am just visiting atlanta playing grownup and i'll be driving back to tuscaloosa any day now. but i'm not.
i finished "classes" in april and immediately started my internship the very next week. throughout my internship i was looking at jobs but not very seriously. until i went home for a week break and mrs. adams threaten to not feed me until i applied to 10 jobs, so i applied to 11. the very next day i get a call from a school asking me when i could interview and when i would be done with my internship. i panicked. WHAT?! i set up a phone interview which lead to two more in person interviews and finally i was offered the job. at a great school just 10 minutes from my soon-to-be new apartment. and they wanted me to start the next week. my parents are awesome and immediately set up the movers and arrived in tuscaloosa to pack up my apartment so that i could spend the last few days with my precious babies at my internship. those kids taught me more than i could have ever taught them and i miss them each and every day.
starting at this new job i wasn't nervous, i didn't have rumbles in my belly. i slept the whole night before the first day and i was calm and cool. it was weird. i'm never like that about anything new, EVER. i still sweat when i have to drive somewhere new and wonder where i'm going to park. i started my job before i graduated so going into it the school knew that i still had to go back to walk. thankfully my school is awesome and let me have a three day weekend and understood that sometimes graduation is more important than open house ;). i drove to tuscaloosa and was fine, i got ready for graduation and was fine, i walked across that stage and was fine, but as i was opening my presents and cards and reading all the sweet notes from every one i realized this was it. i was leaving this apartment and my best friend/roommate. i lost it. i was not fine. i couldn't pull myself together. it finally hit me that i have to leave my home for the past four years and start all over.
i still feel like i am just visiting atlanta and driving back to be with park and the dogs any day now but i'm adjusting to life in the city great. i pretty much have a routine, i have an awesome new roommate who puts up with me, and i am making new friends at work. it didn't really hit me until today when there was terrible weather on the way home from work and two of my co-workers texted me to make sure i was driving safe and to text them when i made it home. i laugh way too hard at school, we get each other, we have weekly vent sessions (or as pastor calls them, planning meetings), and they have the best food i've ever eaten. i am thankful every morning when i wake up that i have a job to go to that i enjoy AND that is related to my major. i am so excited for this new journey and can't wait to explore this city but i also can't wait to get back to tuscaloosa hopefully sooner rather than later because roll tide till i die.
101 in 1001
a couple of months ago. my friend kristin told me to look up this thing floating around the blog world called 101 in 1001. the goal of this project is to make a list of 101 things you want to do in 1001 days. (which is about 2.75 years) each time you complete a task you put 10$ into a savings account so by the end of the list you'll have $1,000 saved up! i thought about if i wanted to do this for a while, it really gave me anxiety to know that by the time i finished i will be 24/25ish and in a whole different life time than i am in right now but i decided to just have fun with it and see what happens!
so here is my list...
4. find a church community
6. go to food trucks in the park
7. go to a concert in the park
8. go a weekend without technology
9. stop what i'm doing and watch the sunset for a week
10. do 10 acts of kindness for strangers
14.
15. watch a sunset and a sunrise in the same day
16. write down something positive when i wake up every day for a month
17. go to pure barre every day for one month
21. go to a drive in movie
23.
23. start a new tradition
24. go fruit picking
26. try paddle boarding
27. travel to 5 new places
29. go to a psychic
30. color my hair
32. cook an entire cook book
33. find a signature meal
37. write a letter to myself to open on my 25th birthday
41. meet my goal weight
42. learn how to sew
44. no junk food for one month
45. get a pen pal
46. go hiking
49. whiten my teeth
50. improve my posture
53. learn to make sushi
54. bake a new pie every week for a month
58. buy fresh flowers every week for a month
59.
60. take a pottery class
61. refresh my french
62. travel to europe
64. learn sign language
65. go to a wine tasting at a vineyard
66. go to a karaoke night and sing
67. make friendship bracelets
68. tie dye something
72. donate $100 (0/100)
76. go on a father/daughter trip
79. learn calligraphy/improve handwriting
85. go camping
90. watch jaws and
91. throw an award show party
92.
93.
94. complete a 100+ piece puzzle
95. fly a kite
96.
97. leave a note in a book at the bookstore/library
98. read a classic novel
99. take a picture completing every task
100. put $10 in an account for every task completed
101. complete a list of 101 things
life lately: photo dump
i visited jimmy a few weeks ago and he took me on a ghost tour, literally the best ghost tour i have been on in my life and i've been on a few in my life time. if you are even in the roswell area and want to go on a ghost tour go on this one!
back at it
i got back to tuscaloosa today for my last semester of classes before my internship. i may have procrastinated a little bit when it came to my departure but mother and father finally pushed me out the door. i got back and unloaded my car just to hop right back in it to go pick eloise up... that little stinker came running to greet me when i got to her house and then yakked in my car 10 minutes into the ride. she obviously missed me and didn't know another way to show it besides throw up. thanks eloise, missed ya too. tuscaloosa has some of the prettiest sunsets i've seen in my life, i miss them so much when i go out of town. i wish this picture didn't have the power lines, but can we just take a minute to look at the cute little squirrel running across it, you go buddy!
i haven't unpacked, besides getting my backpack ready for my day of classes tomorrow and reading all my mail, which eloise helped me with. i've determined that the mail lady steals my cosmo magazines because every now and then one never arrives... very questionable.
wish me luck on my last first day of classes, probably ever.
p.s. tomorrow (january 8th) is my 1 year anniversary of being a "vegetarian" yay
i haven't unpacked, besides getting my backpack ready for my day of classes tomorrow and reading all my mail, which eloise helped me with. i've determined that the mail lady steals my cosmo magazines because every now and then one never arrives... very questionable.
wish me luck on my last first day of classes, probably ever.
p.s. tomorrow (january 8th) is my 1 year anniversary of being a "vegetarian" yay
summertime blogging
well i officially stink at blogging in the summer... i'm really not any better at it during the school year but i am officially bad at it in the summer. to give you a quick brief of what i have been up to is that...
i am still taking my online class, however i am taking my final this friday!! i finished the class about two weeks early so that's nice.
i went to atlanta a couple of weeks ago to visit my brother and we went to the aquarium! it was really fun and i wouldn't mind going back one day.
after atlanta i made a pit stop for a night in tuscaloosa to check on our apartment and cat, needless to say i think she missed me :)
most of my family made it to florida for the 4th, we have celebrated the 4th in florida for many summers. we go to a park and eat at yummy food trucks until the fireworks go off and we are back home about 10 minutes after they stop, perks of a small town with not a lot of traffic.
since the 4th i have been at home just working on my class and soaking up my last few weeks of summer. we have had a few stressful days here though, my cat got very sick very quickly. he had to stay in the hospital for two nights and then was discharged the third day. the catch is that he now has a feeding tube for who knows how long, but he has shown A LOT of improvement so us and his doctor are crossing our fingers for a quick removal of it (as long as he is 100% healthy and won't need it at all anymore).
in a couple weeks im driving up to charlotte to see MILEY!! i was supposed to see her in april but we were the first concert she cancelled of her many cancelled tour dates. luckily i have awesome parents who waited for them to come back on sale and got me them again! YAY! so excited!! right after the concert i drive back to atlanta for a relay conference and i am almost as excited for that as i am the concert.
so after that recap, i hope to stick with a better blogging schedule, i've missed it!
i am still taking my online class, however i am taking my final this friday!! i finished the class about two weeks early so that's nice.
i went to atlanta a couple of weeks ago to visit my brother and we went to the aquarium! it was really fun and i wouldn't mind going back one day.
after atlanta i made a pit stop for a night in tuscaloosa to check on our apartment and cat, needless to say i think she missed me :)
most of my family made it to florida for the 4th, we have celebrated the 4th in florida for many summers. we go to a park and eat at yummy food trucks until the fireworks go off and we are back home about 10 minutes after they stop, perks of a small town with not a lot of traffic.
since the 4th i have been at home just working on my class and soaking up my last few weeks of summer. we have had a few stressful days here though, my cat got very sick very quickly. he had to stay in the hospital for two nights and then was discharged the third day. the catch is that he now has a feeding tube for who knows how long, but he has shown A LOT of improvement so us and his doctor are crossing our fingers for a quick removal of it (as long as he is 100% healthy and won't need it at all anymore).
in a couple weeks im driving up to charlotte to see MILEY!! i was supposed to see her in april but we were the first concert she cancelled of her many cancelled tour dates. luckily i have awesome parents who waited for them to come back on sale and got me them again! YAY! so excited!! right after the concert i drive back to atlanta for a relay conference and i am almost as excited for that as i am the concert.
so after that recap, i hope to stick with a better blogging schedule, i've missed it!
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