Well....

Ahhhh there are so many things to catch up on. First off, I deserve the worst blogger award. I haven't been on here for close to two months! I really wish I could get motivated to post more than once in a while (at least once a week), but I always end up forgetting! Maybe during the summer, I'll post more since I won't be in school anymore...

Let's begin the catch up process though:

Television

So I finally caught up on Grey's Anatomy (although I'm back to being behind again...oops...). There are some people that aren't really into it this season, but I still think it's such a good show!

There are so many other shows that I wish I was up to date on...How I Met Your Mother (in the process now), Mad Men (I have all seasons, but I haven't watched any), True Blood (I have the first couple seasons that I haven't watched), Dexter (still on season 3), Glee (yeah yeah I liked the first season!), and I feel that there are many more that I'm not remembering right now.

In other news, The River and The Walking Dead finales came on recently! They were both soooo good. I highly recommend them!

Books

 I finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, seriously an amazing book. It didn't make me sad like I thought it would, but it was so interesting to here a story through a child's perspective, especially when you consider the fact that he has Asperger's.  

Now, I'm into the Hunger Games series (who isn't??). I was hesitant about the books because I didn't want them to be another series like Twilight, but I'm a big fan. They are such quick reads and they keep you hanging on until the very last page! I can't wait to get out and see the movie.

There are still so many books that I want to read...One Day, 11/23/63, Never Let Me Go, Valley of the Dolls (again), plus about 20 more books that just sit on my shelf. Seriously, summer is going to be a couple of months of me holed up in my apartment reading and watching TV. Who wants to be tan anyways?

Next Year

Decisions, decisions. Currently the ones that I'm been trying to make deal with where the heck I'm going to live next year as well as what I want to do with my life. I'm still planning on taking a year off between undergrad and grad school, but that doesn't mean I get to postpone applying to grad schools. Along with thinking about where I want to go (maybe South Carolina, or North Carolina??), I have to decide what I'm going to do with my time during that year off. Do I want to just get a job at a daycare, or do I want to get more specialized and try to get in with an organization that participates in parent and community education? Still pondering that one. One thing I hope to say that I have decided by the end of next week is where I'm going to be living. Kenny and I are looking at two places this week and two next week. Hopefully we'll each know which one we will call home next week. I'm pretty pumped!

In other news...

I haven't done anymore paintings lately! I have a canvas just waiting for me to be inspired, but I can't think of anything that I really want to paint. 

Since this is such a long post already, I'll just put up some pictures now...here are some things I've been doing for the past couple of weeks!

Ok, so there hasn't been anything too exciting going on in my life within the past couple of months, but between work, school, and an internships, I don't have that much free time!

Well, hopefully I won't take that long to post again, but if I do, I apologize in advance :)

PAINTING UP A STORM!

I finished what is possibly my favorite painting last week. For some reason, trees are my favorite subject in most art, but I never thought I would be able to paint one to my liking. One day, driving to work, I had this idea for a painting. The sky was so beautiful, it faded from purple to blue to white to orange. I thought that it would make a perfect background for a painting and on that painting, I would put a naked tree. I wanted that tree to be small in contrast to the canvas, I wanted there to be round leaves in some places, I wanted the leaves to look like they had fallen off the tree and they were floating in the wind. Well, here's what came out of those thoughts:

I absolutely LOVE this painting. It is exactly how I wanted it. I may have to do another one that I can hang up in my own home :)

DECISIONS, DECISIONS.

Remember this painting?

I thought I really liked it, but the longer I had it up, the more I realized that I wasn't a big fan. The paint brush I used was too small, I didn't care for the purple on the black/white background, her hair went straight up in one place, etc. Well, tonight, I changed it.

This one will have to grow on me, but so far I like it. The color is kind of bright, but I love how the face turned out. Plus, that background? Love it.

DECEMBER

This month has been both fun and busy! Kenneth and I celebrated 6 months :) in a very elaborate way...The Grinch at the Fox followed by the SEC Championship game at the GA dome. It was packed and nerve wracking (I despise crowds), but so much fun. We also experimented with a little face paint one night (kinda creepy), I painted another painting -- to be seen after Christmas since it's a Christmas present, and I wrapped my Christmas presents! Not to mention, the most important event this month, finals were taken and passed! I only have one semester left now...CRAZY to think about. But now this hell of a semester is behind me and I have 2 classes and an internship that stand between me and becoming a graduate of the University of Georgia. I'm kinda pumped :)

NOVEMBER

November was, by far, the busiest month of the semester. I had stuff due almost every class for the first couple of weeks. The last few were spent working on a 52 page portfolio and a 40 page paper (we had to develop a Family Life Education program...very long and tedious). Thanksgiving break came around and those were the only things I could think of! I did however, take the time of paint something new...for the first time in a few months!

I was tempted to leave the painting with just the background because it looked really cool, but the face adds a little something-something to it.

OCTOBER

One week in October, Kenneth and I decided to visit Blue Ridge and Dahlonega. We went to Mercier Orchards, visited my grandparents, and hiked to Desoto Falls. I really wish we would have had more time to explore North Georgia, but our two days of adventure were a ton of fun :)

SEPTEMBER

Mostly, this month was filled with FOOTBALL. We tailgated, went to the games, and celebrated the Dawgs' wins! Plus, I got some flowers :) It was a good month.

AUGUST

Well, not too much happened in August. School started back, I quickly was overwhelmed by all of my classes, and I combated those thoughts by going downtown. Pretty perfect plan, huh? Other than going downtown though we took part in some hardcore card playing, played some foosball, and had a ton of fun :)