CATCHING UP

I haven't really been on top of blogging lately (hopefully that will change in the weeks to come) so I've been creating these semi-long posts that include things that I want to speak about. Here's what I'm asking you: are these long posts annoying? I don't want to be writing a post that someone opens up and then sees that is super long and just decides not to read it...so if you'll let me know what you think about them, I would appreciate it!! :)

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First off, I'm so excited for tomorrow!! I can't believe that we're finally going to see Mary Poppins at the Fox. I think we might watch MP tonight when I get home from work, just to be prepared for tomorrow. AHHHHH I'M SO EXCITED!!


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Last night, I decided to finally watch The Bridges of Madison County. This movie is critically acclaimed, and to be honest, I don't see why. In my opinion, the story line was ok, but it was a little too corny for my taste. I'm not saying it was a bad movie, because it wasn't by an means, I just went in expected an awesome movie. To be honest, the first 5 to 10 minutes are what made the movie to me; they were very slow and I had no idea what was going on. I think from now on, I'll read a book and watch a movie with no expectations. It seems that I go in with certain ones and then they end up completely wrong (The Lovely Bones). One thing I'll give the movie is at the end, I found myself tearing up for Meryl Streep's character. The end scene in the rain...oh man, that kind of redeemed the movie from the beginning. All in all, the story was ok, the characters were what I liked most, and I think I would watch this movie again!


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Earlier on in the year, I made a list of books that I'm going to read. Right now, I'm working on The Last Song, next I'm going to read The Princess Diaries (they seem like the perfect summer books). I think from then on, I'm going to try and read a book that might be a harder read alternated with a funny, quick read. Here is my list that I'll hopefully get through:

The Last Song
The Princess Diaries (1-3)
Little Women
The Devil Wears Prada
Emma
Little Altars Everywhere
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Son of a Witch
The Condition
The Nanny Diaries
AND I would really like to re-read the Twilight series...I honestly don't know why

When I'm done reading a book, I'll make a post about it, so be prepared for the many to come!

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Now onto A Picture a Day:

Day 35:

{insert graduation picture}

My brother graduated on Saturday!! Congratulations to Cade! I'm hoping that when I go home tomorrow, I'll be able to get the pictures off my mom's camera and upload some.

Day 36:

{pictures}

Instead of uploading more pictures of my mother (since this day was Mother's Day), I'll just post a link to my last post (although you could just scroll down :) )

Day 37:


I met Sara after work at Ramsey and we did a little workin' out. No, we didn't swim, but I thought the picture of the pool was nice!

Day 38:

I finished the fifth season of The Office this morning! I flew through the last couple of seasons, and I think I might go through them one more time before I go back to Friends. Oh how I love my morning marathons!

A MIXTURE

HAPPY FRIDAY, HAPPY HAPPY FRIDAY, HAPPY FRIDAY, HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU!

Sorry I haven't posted anything in past couple of days! It's been so hectic around here with school and trying to finish up the semester. Today is reading day though, so no classes! This means a ton of blogging and studying :)

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First order of business, catching up on 365 days!

Day 24:

I got a much needed pedicure. I went to a place that I have only gotten manicures at and they did an awesome job! I was really tempted to tell her that I would pay extra for a long massage, but I didn't :) Earlier on in the day, I was thinking of colors I wanted, and I decided to go with a nice orange for the summer. I really liked it! And then work happened, I was called in to work at 2 instead of 6, so I ruined a couple of toes with my shoes (hence why I only put a picture of the color up). Oh well, they don't look too bad now!

Day 25:

We're having a sale at work so I had to work 1:30 to close on Wednesday. It was busy in spurts, but it basically took up my whole day, although I did have to come home at 9:30 and write a lab report (over Home Alone).

Day 26:

Yesterday, we went out to celebrate Sara's birthday! We went downtown to Mellow Mushroom and then came back to the apartment and baked some cookies. I guess I should say we baked, not just some, but A TON of cookies. It was fun though and we now have 5 different kinds :)

Day 27:


Last night, Sara decided that since we don't have class today, she would make Kayla and me oatmeal for breakfast (she's on a huge oatmeal kick). When I woke up, I walked over to her side of the apartment and demanded my oatmeal and she obliged and got to work in the kitchen. I don't really know what was in it, but I took a nice picture of it :)

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Now on to some blurbs:

*We ordered Mary Poppins tickets today!! I'M SO EXCITED TO GO! Kayla had the brilliant idea to go for Mother's Day and since I have to work, we have to go in the middle of the week, but it's still going to be a ton of fun to see it with everyone's moms :)

*3 MORE FINALS! I'm so ready for next Thursday, I will be done with this semester! That means, no more core, just Public Relations, Child and Family Development, and Psychology classes for the next two years. I cannot express how excited that makes me!

*We watched Anchorman during the baking marathon last night. I had only seen the movie once, I think, and watching it again last night made me want to watch it again soon! It's so funny and it has all of the best people in it (including one of my favorites, Vince Vaughn). Maybe I'll watch it when I'm studying this weekend...

*In case you haven't heard, The Office is hilarious. I have to say, it's a nice change from Friends in the morning, although I am kind of missing all of the Friends people. I think I now have to acknowledge Michael Scott as my new hero!

I think that's about all! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend :)

UPDATES

Ok, I have some updates.

Shoes:
I saw another employee wearing Toms this Saturday at work, so I am EXTREMELY tempted to purchase a pair! I have the canvas color, but the black ones would be good for work and for just walking around campus. They are so comfortable, but I still don't know how they would do for a 8 hour shift...I might just have to try them out!

Television:
I am a very disappointing fan of Grey's Anatomy. I haven't watched it at all for the past couple of months! I'm hoping to get caught up before the finale though. Hopefully, it will be possibly after finals and all of my tests are done.
As of this morning, I have only 3 episodes left of Friends before I start over. For a couple of years now, I have been watching them in the morning while I get ready and I've probably gone through the entire series 5 or 6 times. On that note, I think it's time to start a new series. I'm thinking That 70's Show or Will & Grace...both would be very entertaining in the morning!

365 Picture Thing (i still don't know what to call it):
Technically, I only have a picture for Friday, not Saturday or Sunday. So this is what I'm thinking...the whole point is just to post a picture for every day...since I missed those days, I'm going to post a picture of something that happened or that I thought about that day :)

Day 13:
On Friday, a student organization was giving away free snow cones and cotton candy on campus! I took a picture, but I'm too lazy to go get my camera right now :)

Day 14:
I worked a 12 hour shift...not much was going on in my mind but Macy's, Macy's, Macy's...

Day 15:
For dinner, we had a delicious homemade pizza! This was one of them...the buffalo chicken pizza. The recipe is on Sara's blog My Fancy Tuna!

Movies:
This weekend, I really wanted to see Avatar. It was at the student center on campus for $1, but I just didn't have the time to go :( But, on Thursday, we did go to see Ferngully, which I have to admit was very strange. I think if I would have seen it when I was younger then I would have liked it a lot more.

Holgas:
I haven't had the time to upload my Holga pictures, but I'm hoping I'll be able to upload them sometime this week!

Sketches:
Cade wanted me to paint him so pictures of guns (no, not redneck at all!), so I decided that I should start by sketching them. I only have the outline of one of them done right now, but I'm going to try and finish it sometime this week. I will post a picture of it when I'm done!

I think that's all for the updates! Hopefully, I'll actually take a picture for today :)

BLURBS 3

*Sunglasses. I love them, but then again, I really don't like wearing them. I see people walking around campus with them on and I've tried that, but I, for some reason, would prefer not to wear them. My main thing is that with sunglasses on, everything is dull. I like to see the bright colors and I really don't want tan lines around my eyes :)

*A few weekends ago, we watched Back to the Future, one of Kayla's favorite movies. It was pretty good! I had never seen it before so Kayla decided it was time for her to share her favorite with the roomies. Overall, it was funny and the only thing that really bothered me was Michael J. Fox's voice. His voice is just made for cartoons; you should be able to hear the voice, but not be able to see where it's coming from (that sounds really mean and i dont want it to, i just meant that his voice doesnt match him... :) ). Anyways, next movie to watch = Back to the Future 2!



*Sara, Kayla, and I also went to see Remember Me a while back and like Back to the Future, I liked it...a lot. I guess I have a thing about voices because, yet again, the main girl's voice kind of bothered me. I was later informed that she is Australian so she was trying to hide her accent, and in my opinion she didn't do that great of a job. When she had to yell something, I felt like she was talking super slow and her voice got super deep. Rob Pattinson, however, did a really good job. Some of his lines were pretty funny and he delivered them well. The other person that I really liked in the movie was Pierce Brosnan. He changed his accent to a thick New York one and you couldn't even tell that he's really Irish (well, in one part when he got angry, he lost his New York accent)! The storyline was interesting to me also even though it wasn't a major, dramatic story. One thing that I LOVED about the movie was the twist in the end. I did NOT see it coming at all and when I realized it, I was shocked! (I can also add this movie to the long list of movies that make me ball like a baby)

*So if you've read earlier posts, then you know that I am now a proud employee of Macy's! I'm first of all super excited that I found this job and second of all, I love it. In my department, I feel like I'm a personal shopper sometimes, which trust me, is not a bad thing at all. I didn't expect people to come in and ask me to help them find an outfit. I'm finally catching on to where all of the designers are and what they carry so this is slowly getting easier.

*Just recently, we found out that our roommate this year (the one that we didn't know coming into the apartment) is moving next year. Since we need another roommate, we asked a girl that Sara and Kayla know if she wanted to move in. In order for this all to work out, we had to set up play dates for her dog, Bella, and Kayla's cat, Max. The first one happened on Sunday and it was hilarious! Bella is HUGE and so playful while Max is small (not compared to other cats, I'm told) and he's playful only if he's not nervous. Well, imagine how nervous you would be if you had never seen a dog of that size try to play with you! She would get on the ground and try to play, but all Max did was sit on the chairs under the table and growl/hiss at Bella. Tonight, we're having the second play date so hopefully Max will remember who she is and they will be the best of friends!

*I know I've mentioned it before, but I get the most random songs in my head. Today while reading The Lovely Bones (which is weird, but in a good way) I started humming this song:



I just wish I knew why some of these songs that I don't even listen to get stuck in my head!

BLURBS 2

*So Starbucks has this new drink out: Dark Cherry Mocha. It is DELICIOUS! I have had it 3 times in the past week or so and every time I have it, it gets tastier. I personally like the frappuccino better than the hot coffee, but they are both worth the money.

*We got out Spring clothing money this weekend so Katie and I decided to go to Atlantic Station today. It was so packed, but well worth the waits in the stores. Every store has really good sales going on which means all of the lines were incredibly long. Besides shopping, we ate outside at the Cheesecake Bistro and people watched for quite a while. Instead of getting cheesecake there though, we went to an ice cream shop and got some awesome ice cream: chocolate peanut butter. It was rich and worth the $4. We also decided to bring mom and Weyman back some fudge which was tasty.

*Tomorrow, I decided that I am going to start the 365 day picture deal. Some people on Facebook do it and it seems like a good idea, so to celebrate Easter, I'm going to start that! For those who don't know, it is where you take a picture every day that somehow represents that day. I already have it planned out that the picture that will be taken tomorrow is of the Easter bunny cake that mom and I make.

*Last night, I had a dream that I was in the Harry Potter movie. I wasn't actually in the movie, but I was behind the camera. It was awesome. The part that I was "directing" was a part with Helena Bonham Carter; she is really good as a crazy lady.

*Katie introduced me to a new song today that I really like! It's from Brantley Gilbert's new cd Halfway to Heaven (which is another good song).


*I heard the song today on the radio that was in the skit on SNL with Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze. They were competing to Chippendales dancers and the video is hilarious. If you haven't seen it, go look it up on YouTube. Everyone should watch this video :)

I LIKE TO RAMBLE...

Of course, like always, I should be studying right now, but I don't think that's in my best interest. Today, I was thinking about how much I would love for it to be summer right now. Yes, I love winter and I really love the cold, but this bipolar weather we're having is getting on my nerves. One weekend, it snows, the next it's warm, and the next, it's snowing again. Plus, I'm ready for the rain to go away. I feel like it rains a good 3 or 4 days out of the week, which would be fine if I didn't have to go anywhere, but walking to class in the rain is not my idea of fun. I'm ready to be able to lay out by the pool, for all of my tests/presentations to be over, and most of all to spend the majority of the summer on my own for the first time (it's not that I don't like home, Mom, it's just that I'm excited to be in Athens for most of the summer). So now that I'm done with complaining about the weather, I'll move on to more uplifting stuff.

I'M DONE WITH HARRY POTTER!

I've been waiting to say that for 4 months and now I can! After the seventh one, I have to say it is in my top 2 favorite from the series (I can't decide if I like that one or the third better). It was action packed from the beginning and it made me feel so nervous toward the end. I CANNOT wait for the movies to come out! I hope they live up to the book. One thing about this book that I wasn't too fond of though was the long, drawn out conversations Harry had with Dumbledore and with Voldemort. I guess they were important for the story, but I basically skimmed them because they were kinda boring. What I did LOVE though is the Molly Weasley moment when Ginny is dueling (Sara told me there's a Facebook page dedicated to her line...I might have to join it). Mostly though, I'm just happy to say that I've read all of the books and now, I have seen all of the movies also.

On another positive note, I made Lemon-Banana bread today! I made some last week, but I used lime instead of lemon (you really couldn't taste it though). This time, I used lemon yogurt in place of buttermilk, so hopefully it will turn out tasty! If it doesn't this is the last you will hear about it, if it does, then I'll make another post about it.

So now off to attempt to study, start a new book (Dear John), and wait for the bread to cool before tasting it. I'll leave you with another random song that pops into my head (other than Mulan) when I'm getting ready in the morning. Enjoy :)

PS. I'm super excited for our 80's party tomorrow night! We went to GoodWill today and I got a turquoise blazer and coral shorts. I'll be sure to take a TON of pictures and post them sometime this weekend :)

BLURBS

Today was extremely unproductive and I strayed from my study schedule. :( So I figured if it 10:20 and I haven't really studied, then what is the chance that I'm going to start soon? Ummmm...i gonna go with no chance at all. I might even read Harry Potter when I'm done with this...gasp!

There was one productive part of my day though: blurbs. That's what I'm going to start incorporating in my blog! For the most part, I don't have anything that is too interesting to focus an entire blog on (unless the post was going to be a single sentence) so I thought I could post blurbs about what was going on in my mind throughout the day. Here goes! (P.S. I wrote a list on my phone of things to include in my blurbs. i love lists.)


*Next week is going to be horrible. I have three tests: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. And the major bummer is that I enjoy studying for only one of them! I know most people don't enjoy studying at all, but I really like my Child and Family Development class so studying for it is pretty interesting! The other two, Housing and Consumer Economics and Food and Nutrition, are tests that I would rather not have to deal with. I don't really have a clue about what is going on in either class, but hey, why not memorize some information now and they forget it next week? I don't understand why college makes you take classes that have nothing to do with your major. It defeats the entire point of college in my mind.

*Speaking of college, I had advisement today. It was pretty discouraging hearing that there is a high chance that I won't get the classes that I need/want, but hey, there's nothing I can do about it! But I did decide on something. UGA doesn't have a psychology minor (seriously?) so I'm going to use all of my elective hours toward psychology. WAHOOOO

*Tuesday, me and the roomies (Sara and Kayla) and another friend (Kerry) went to see An Education. I RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE TO EVERYONE! It was awesome! I went in without any clue as to what the movie was about so I was really surprised. The acting is amazing and so is the story line. There is a twist that I don't think was expected by anyone, but it really made the movie 100x better. While we're on the topic of movies, I'm pretty excited about seeing Dear John tomorrow. I haven't read the book yet just so it won't ruin the movie (which happened with The Time Traveler's Wife and My Sister's Keeper...boo).

*Classical music during studying = very helpful. It keeps you concentrated on what you're studying without being distracting. I recommend the soundtracks to The Notebook, A Beautiful Mind, Titanic, and Atonement. LOVE IT

*Today I went home (reason why the day was NOT productive). I cleaned my house instead of studying and I went to the dentist. I really don't understand why people don't like the dentist, THEY ARE THERE TO HELP YOU! I actually enjoy the dentist! I always leave with super clean teeth :)

*I'm on the second disc of the fifth season of Friends! YAY! That show never gets old. It has become a must in the mornings while I'm getting ready.

*I HATE JOB SEARCHING! I was told by my mother that I need a "big girl" job which, apparently, doesn't include Smoothie King. Hey, a job is a job Mom! I need money (hence why I went home to clean today)! Yesterday, I spent at least an hour calling all over Athens to see if anyone was hiring. Guess what the result was...no one was! It is very depressing to hear the same line ("We're not hiring, but we're always accepting applications!") repeated a hundred times. I also spent a very long time filling out online applications. All of the stores use the same company for the applications so I spent over and hour answering the same questions over and over. IRRITATING

*TIP for all of the females at UGA (yes, again). If you absolutely have to wear leggings, at least wear a shirt that is long enough to cover your butt. I don't know about anyone else, but I do NOT want to see you walking around with your butt barely covered by an extremely thin fabric. It's not appealing.

*I'm very excited to volunteer at Colbert this weekend! I'm ready to help with all of the doggies :)

*Tonight on the way back to Athens, I had my iPod on shuffle. I was listening to a Patty Griffin song and when the next song came on, I was pleasantly surprised. I was Mr. Michael Jackson, himself. I love me some Michael! His songs are the best when you're in a car. Especially when it's dark; no one can see how stupid you look dancing and singing every word :) (The next song was Michael Bubble [yes I know it Buble] which was also awesome because there was a choir in the background, something I thoroughly enjoy)

*I have found yet another music video that makes me cry: "Temporary Home" by Carrie Underwood. It has such a wonderful message and the end of the video has gotten me every time I have watched it! SO SAD



K well that's all of the blurbs I have for now! :) I'm sure I'll think of some more tomorrow. Night!

P.S. Sorry if most of them are negative! I didn't mean for them to come across that way :)