Ipod shuffle quiz!

ok, so you all seem to like this when I post something everyday.....I am not going to go back to committing to once a day, but I will try to post things throughout the week, even if it is just little things like this Ipod quiz thing.....although I am using my Spotify, not my Ipod....shhhh don't tell anyone! How am I feeling today? Awful Beautiful Life-Darryl Worley

Will I get far in life? Stand in the Rain- Superchic[k]

How do my friends see me? Suitcases-Dara Maclean (I have been gone a lot recently)

Where will I get Married? Belleau Wood-Richard Palmer

What is my best friend's theme song? My Happy Ending- Avril Lavigne

What is the story of my life? Pushing on a Pull Door- For King & Country

What is/was highschool like? Stupid Boy- Keith Urban

How can I get ahead in life? Love Done Gone- Billy Currington

What is the best thing about me? Crazy In Love- Beyonce

How is today going to be? Just Might Change Your Life- Sidewalk Prophets

What is in store for this weekend? Barefoot, Blue Jean Night-Jake Owen

What song describes my parents? Gettin' You Home- Chris Young (ummmm.......gross!)

To describe my grandparents? Streets of Heaven-Sherrie Austin (well....that is surprisingly accurate)

How is my life going? I Walk the Line- Johnny Cash

What song will they play at my funeral? Drop It Like it's Hot- Snoop Dog (this one makes me giggle cause I was just joking with a friend of mine about how his job was to make it known that I demanded this be played as they lower me into the ground....for comic relief.....not disrespect!)

How does the world see me? Crazy Girl- Eli Young Band

Will I have a happy life? Keep Your Head Up- Andy Grammar

What do my friends really think of me? You are More- Tenth Avenue North

Do people secretly lust after me? Dirty Little Secret- All American Rejects

How can I make myself happy? Dancing in Circles- Love and Theft

What should I do with my life? I Don't Want This Night To End- Luke Bryan

Will I ever have children? I Wonder- Kelli Pickler

What is some good advice for me? Lying is the Most Fun a Girl can have Without Taking Her Clothes Off- Panic! At the Disco

How will I be remembered? You and Tequila- Kenny Chesney (with Grace Potter)

What is my signature dancing song? Who Says- Selena Gomez and The Scene

What do I think my current theme song is? Ready, Set, Don't Go-Billy Ray Cyrus

What does everyone else think my current theme song is? You Don't know Her Like I Do-Brantley Gilbert

What type of men/women do you like? I'll With For You-Joe Nichols

Goodness Gracious.....I feel like this music knows my life......it even knows how much milk I want in my cereal! hmmmm.....here's your Words of Wisdom for the day!

Longing for the simplicity of childhood

So, I don't know if any of you all feel this way, but I really wish I were back to a point in life where my hardest decision was whether I wanted to sleep with just one baby doll in my bed, or all of them. Back in the day where mommy kisses fixed boo-boos, and homework was something that was forever away. Back when I played pretend school, instead of learning how to teach real school. You know, I really wish I was back around this age:

In this picture, I am three......almost four. These were the days! I could do somethings for myself, but I didn't have to worry about surgeries, college tuition, whether or not I could finish college, relationships, future plans, or getting moved before fall break. Right now, these are all things that are weighing on my mind. *Spoiler Alert* for those of you who don't know, I have surgery on my knee October 16.....I know what you are all thinking! "Hold up, didn't she just have surgery on her ankle?" if that is your thought....then my answer would have to be "why yes.....yes I did!" And if your next thought is "child, what did you do to yourself now?" my answer to you would be "you know, I'm really not sure"......my MRI concerns the surgeon greatly, and so they are going in to find out how severely I am hurt and to fix it! While all of this is going on, I am trying to figure out if to stay or not (already decided I am going to finish, and gosh dangit! I am going to walk across that stage in May and get my diploma!). Currently, I live on the bottom floor, but I am hoping I can talk to my RD and get my room moved to the second floor, which is technically the entry level floor! And I would like to take a bit to brag on my friends because they have all told me that if I had to move, they would move my stuff and my friend Amber told me she would redecorate my room after surgery! I love my friends! One day, I will realize why I am so blessed.....until then.....I shall love this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful beautiful life! I feel like that is my theme song to life! :) until next post folks! I have also decided I am going to leave each post with a quote to live by! This was jsut decided, so this is ending Words of Wisdom installment #1!

By the way.....in case you were wondering.....what you can't see in that picture is a bed full of my baby dolls :) I always chose to sleep with all of them, so that they didn't get lonely.....I have since outgrown that.....now I only sleep with one teddy bear. At school it is the bear that my family made me and sent to me for my 20th birthday. At home, it is the one my aunt took me, to make at build-a-bear when I was really young.....I was 5, I believe! She took my two brothers, my sister, and I and let us make them as a Christmas gift....I still cherish it every single day.....but especially on those nights at home, tucked in and wrapped up tight, snuggling with my Beary Winterson (I wasn't too creative with the names.....his birth certificate just says Beary, I have since gave him a proper name.....meaning a first and last name). And as I snuggle tonigth with Homeslice (I did not have any hand in naming that one) I remember that my family thinks about me as much as I think about them! Again, one day.....I will learn why I have been as blessed as I have, but until then I will just take it for what it is worth, and appreciate it! :)

so I have decided!

Ok all....I have decided, now that school has started, that this blog is going to go to a once a week blog! Not much happens when I am in school and so unless you want to hear about me doing homework every week night and hanging out with friends every weekend....then I will go to once a week! possibly twice a week! So this has been my week this week: I was back at school this week and I was slightly stressed trying to get back into the swing of things. I also am back home this weekend to go to the doctor tomorrow morning...this time for my knee! guess we will see what happens! I just want to feel better! I did get to have a little fun this weekend though...because we went to the zoo yesterday for KCP&L family day it was totally fun! I got to ride a camel for the first time....and Isaac rode with me....it was so cute! and then we took my three year old cousin Grace as well! They both had a lot of fun, as did all of us adults....but they were so tuckered out at the end! My daddy was tuckered out as well, because he pushed me around all day in my wheel chair! I don't usually have one, but due to the excessive amount of walking, we figured a wheelchair was a definite need yesterday.....decided it would have been worth the $15 more to get a motorized one!

so glad they had fun! this is Grace and Isaac at the end....Isaac took a nap during the afternoon, which is the only reason he is still awake for this picture lol!

Grace feeding the birds at the beginning of the day!!

Isaac feeding the deer!

Isaac and I riding a camel!

Update on life: day 83/365

Life has been crazy around here.....and not in the way that I crave when I go back to school either. I don't really want to explain it all right now, but jsut know that I give my sincerest, heart felt apology for not blogging the last week or so. After this weekend....I think it will all calm down enough for me to go back to blogging on a normal basis. Some of you know what is going on and completely understand the lack of blogging. For those of you who don't know......one day I may be able to talk about it and when that day comes....I will!

On a much happier note, today was miss Grace Lou's birthday. She turned three. It was so funny because yesterday, we were asking her what she wanted for her birthday and the conversation went a little bit like this...my mom "Grace, what do you want for your birthday?" Grace "presents" mom "what kind of presents?" Grace "birthday presents!" mom "ok.....when you open these presents, what do you want them to be?" Grace "oh! choo choo trains" mom "ok, anything else" Grace "lots of choo choo trains......and water...so I can stay hydrated!" that kid is a goof......that being said.....she got an 8 pack of water from aunt Vikki today. they were even the little bottles so they are perfect Grace sized bottles. I have been so blessed by having Grace in my life! That little girl brings so many smiles to my face! I just love her to death.....in my future classroom, I woudl liek 20 or 25 kids that are jsut like her....that are jsut so funny and cute and compassionate and just overall good kids! I will put a picture up of the birthday girl and I later.

On a totally different note, I was able to get into the doctor earlier this week and he is sending me to a knee surgeon, who requested tha tI get an MRI before going into their office. I went and got that done and it shows a severe sprain to my knee, but there is not much they can do about it because the doctor has now put me in a full length boot. This means that my boot goes up and ends right below my knee. The denim that you see is my jeans rolled up sitting right on my knee. it is awful. Tonight, I am adding an ace bandage to the knee. Hopefully this all gets better soon....I am so ready to get better!

Organizing my life at college: day 82/365

Finally got all of my due dates written on my calendar....which is awesome! I also started to get all of them transferred into my planner. Then today I also made post-its for what is due in the next few weeks. I guess you could say I am a little bit of an organizing freak when it comes to school and school work! I also got all my binder set up and organized and all my tab dividers put in them and such....I feel so ready for school! I feel so eager for this semester to get going. And I really feel like I will be able to stay on top of homework. As of right now, the next thing that I have to do isn't due until Monday! YEY for organization!!

yey for an organized desk area! and yeah....It pretty well looks like this all the time....well, with a binder open in order to do homework!

CRU/ Overflow!: day 81/365

I am really excited about CRU/Overflow. Our school calls it Overflow. Anywho....I just continue to be reminded of the blessing that it is to be on a Christian campus throughout my experiences with CRU. Lee and Emily, our leaders, joined in on our leaders meeting via telephone. I love that they feel that we are capable of running the group, but also realize the importance of knowing that they are the leaders and having their spiritual expertise! Anywho....Dr. Brown spoke and then our small group really opened up! It is just awesome to be able to be a part of that! I am really excited about bible studies starting back up this next week as well! There are so many changes going on on campus this year, from clubs, to buildings, to policy and much much more.....and I can't say that I don't approve!

Random thoughts for the day: day 80/365

My foot is not getting any better yet :( If it is not feeling better on Wednesday....I am going to call the doctor's office. I am really hoping that if I have to go back, that I will get good news. On the other hand. The cafeteria has been super good since school started and today I had ice cream from there for the first time in a while It was super yummy and I think I will end up eating a lot of ice cream this year. Also in other news.....we can use our meal plan at the snack shack to get food now which works really well for those of us who don't like walking to the cafeteria for whatever reason! I love it! Anywho.....here's to hoping for better days in the future :)

Smuck days: day 79/365

I really feel like a smuck because I didn't go to church this morning...I was in a bunch of pain and I didn't sleep.....so don't judge! This is super short, because due to pain....I didn't do much today....I just got up, realized I was in too much pain to go to church, went back to bed, woke up and worked on homework.....went and hung out with Sarah and Kelley for a bit....then went to bed. Not looking forward to classes in the morning!

Slender: day 78/365

OK....this game is legitimately the most terrifying game I have ever played in my entire life! And before you Google the game and download it then play it and laugh at me.....you should know that I was playing in the dark....and that there ARE videos of it and they will be uploaded to YouTube for viewing pleasure at a later date.....they are getting edited first :) anywho...so we (Sarah, Kelley, Amber and myself) played this game (well...Kelley and I did, Amber just watched and Sarah recorded) and then we were all like "let's go get Luke and make him play." We go to get him and we totally underestimated the scariness that is the dark outside after playing a game like this! So we walk to his dorm and sit there for like a half hour, asking every guy if they know where his room is....which they didn't! Every time a guy would come in the door though, or open a dorm down the hall....we would all jump....it was so entertainingly terrifying! Finally a guy told us that he was in the student center and so we went and got him and made him come play and it was far less entertaining than I thought it would be.....anywho....the game is so addictive and terrifying all at the same time.....I see a very fitful night of sleep in my near future!