It has been a while!

Hello!

It has been a good amount of time since I updated this blog, I seem to be more active on LiveJournal now.

It has been busy this month. I have started classes, which are very nice. I do love having homework again, in a weird way!

Also, I have celebrated 3 birthdays. My mom's was on January 1st, my step-dad's was on January 20th, and Brad's was on January 23rd! So much cake this month! Thankfully I wont have to eat anymore until my birthday (February 20th).

Brad and I also celebrated our one year anniversary on January 8th! It was a nice, simple, laid back day, which I couldn't ask for anything better.

So today I am just laying in bed with my cat, taking it easy and avoiding house cleaning, homework, and washing my hair.

How has everyone's new year been so far?

30 Day challenge! [Day Twelve ]

I feel so behind in my 30 Day Challenge, so I decided that I would just start doing one a day again, rather than doing four today to try and catch up. Now that finals and the holidays are over for me, I will be able to keep myself on track!

Day Twelve: Bullet your whole day.

Today was Christmas! So this should be fun!

• Wrapped most of the gifts at 2-4 am.
• Woke up around 7:30 am to my nieces pounding on my door
• Opened gifts with the family
• I got:
• Four sweaters
• Two pairs of jeans
• A coffee mug (random fact: I drink out of coffee cups 80% of the time)
• A Dove body wash/shower set
• Two pairs of pajama bottoms
• Two books
• A super soft blanket
• A new bag/purse (that I had picked out for myself)
• And money from just about anyone and everyone in my family
• My parents were both sick so they went back to bed (we have a nasty 24 hour flu like virus going around in our house, I had it yesterday (Christmas Eve))
• I made a salad to take to my uncle's house
• My sister, my nieces, and I went over to my Uncle's house to visit with his family and my grandpa.
• Ate dinner over there and played Wii
• I was dropped off at home so my sister could take the girls to visit their father
• Bradford then came over and we opened gifts
• I got from him:
• Three's Company season two on DVD
• A really cute shirt
• Bird picture clips 
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ultimate edition. (Now I have three copies of that movie, LOVE it!)
• a replica of Hermione's wand! (how dorky!)
• We watched Three's Company, ate some eggs and toast, and fell asleep
• He went home and here I am!

Now I am lounging in bed in my new, super soft pj bottoms, with my fluffy blankets. I'm so comfortable!

How was everyone's holidays?

30 Day challenge! [Day Ten and Eleven]

Sorry I missed Day Ten yesterday, I was trying to get my final paper done for the last day of class, and afterward I just wanted to sleep the rest of the day.  So today is a double post!


Day Ten: First Love and First Kiss

My first love: When I was 16, I was pretty sure that I was 'in love' with a boy named Michael. We had dated for a month before making it official and he was a real sweet heart to me. We ended up dating for 3-4 months and he actually broke up with me right before Valentine's Day and my 17th birthday. Of course I was heart broken but after I got over it, I realized I missed his mom more than I had missed him. His mom and I were really close and she is seriously the sweetest lady.

Brad would throw a fit if I said this, but it is completely true. I consider Brad to be my first REAL love. I have never had so many feelings for one person in my life. When I dated Michael, I was pretty young and didn't grasp what love really meant. But almost 4 years later, I feel like I have finally found real love and I couldn't be happier in a relationship. Brad is seriously the greatest boyfriend ever and finding him was worth all of the jerks I had to sort through.



My first kiss: Oh goodness, I think most people's first kiss is less than fairytale perfect. Mine happened when I had just turned 13 and I was 'dating' this kid named Max. We had gone to the mall and we ended up kissing in Hot Topic. How unbelievably romantic is that? ( Please note my sarcasm. )

Day Eleven: Put your iPod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.

I don't have my iPod with me, so I am just going to use iTunes.

- "Hear You Me" - Jimmy Eat World
- "Tables and Chairs" - Backseat Goodbye
- "Beauty" - Tegan and Sara
- "Sea and the Rhythm" - Iron and Wine
- "I Put a Spell on You" - Hocus Pocus soundtrack
- "Vivance" - Telemann
- "Hold My Heart" - Sara Bareilles
- "I Feel Fine" - The Beatles
- "Christmas Tree" - Lady Gaga
- "Unsaid" - The Fray

30 Day challenge! [Day Two]

Day Two: Where you'd like to be in 10 years?

I would love live with Brad, and his dogs/my cats in a cozy house, much like this one:

I also see myself with a secure job. Maybe as a Pharmacist, or an elementary school teacher, as I would be 30 going on 31 by this time. I am not sure about children, I don't think I would really want to have children of my own, to be honest. But I do know that in 10 years, all I really want to be is truly happy.
 I also would have liked to traveled to Scotland by this time!

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In other news, today is FREEZING! It has been snowing all day and all of the schools around here were already closing for tomorrow at 6 pm tonight! I REALLY hope that my class gets canceled for tomorrow.

I do not want to go out there, it is suppose to 'feel' like -15 degrees out and I am kind of hoping to have a snow day so I can catch up on my paper/portfolio for class, and catch up on more pen pal letters. 

What is the weather like where you live?

30 Day challenge! [Day One]

Hello! Since the last couple weeks have been slow, and the next two weeks will be slow (since I will be finishing up class) I decided to start a 30 day challenge!

Day One: My current relationship.

As most of you probably already know, I am in a relationship with a guy named Brad. We have been dating for 11 months (celebrated on December 8th!) and I am super excited about our one year coming up right after New Year's!

 

I will have to save the story of how we met for a post I make around our one year anniversary.
He is such an amazing person and I can't tell him enough how much he means to me.  And how thankful I am for the fact that he puts up with all my mood swings, my instant obsession with any video game he makes me play, and how much coffee ice cream I ask for.

He truly is one of the better things to come into my life and I am so, so very thankful for him.

Things Always Get Better.

Hello everyone!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I honestly didn't have much motivation with everything that was going on. 

For anyone who may have missed my last post, my grandmother passed away the day after Thanksgiving. My great aunt Betty, who was my grandma's sister, passed away on Thanksgiving day. Yesterday (December 3rd) was my grandmother's service. And I will be honest, I was probably the loudest crier. I am such an emotional person.

I miss my grandmother greatly.

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I feel that after her service, I can move on a little bit now. I feel better and have more motivation now, but sometimes I just lay in bed and want to cry again. But I know she is in a better place, and she is happy, and I know she wants me to be happy too.


These are the last couple weeks of my class, and I have to tell you, this new teacher (we had to switch professors in the middle of the semester) is crazy! Not only is she giving us way more homework than was originally scheduled, but she is giving us two weeks LESS to get it all done in, plus making our 7-8 page report now 9-10 pages. Normally I wouldn't care, but honestly I don't really have the time to write this paper right now. Oh life.

But I can't wait until Christmas!

Bradford and I actually have quite the holiday packed next two months:
December 25 - Christmas
January 1- New Years
January 8 - Our One Year!
January 23 - Brad's 20th Birthday
February 14 - Valentine's Day
February 20 - My 21st Birthday


Crazy! But I'll admit that I am excited!

10 Months...

April 2010

Yesterday was Brad and I's 10 month anniversary. 

I honestly can't believe that it has already been 10 months, yet at the same time, I can't believe it hasn't been longer. He is honestly the best person I have met in my whole life, as cliché as it sounds.

January 2010

How we met is a long, and maybe a confusing story for some. So I wont type it all out here.
We met in December, the day after Christmas, and after that day, the rest just kind of took off.  We dated for a couple weeks before becoming "official" on January 8th.

February 2010

We are so different, yet so alike at the same time. He is a total guy (cars, video games, paint ball) and I'm much more of a girly girl these days (dresses, make up, bubble baths). Yet we have both rubbed off on each other. I now play Call of Duty among other video games with him. And he has taken me to go see CATS, seriously, not many guys would sit through that. And a couple more ~girly~ shows that I used to watch he now watches all the time. (I will keep those shows unnamed because I know he will get mad at me!). I listen to his music, and he deals with me playing Joseph Gordon-Levitt singing "Bad Romance" on repeat. He dress shops with me and I offer to go to his car shows, but I think he is too embarrassed to take me because I know nothing! Haha =]

And he is probably the only person that will lay in bed ALL day and watch stupid SyFy movies with me...or the Friday the 13th movie marathon.

September 2010

He is literally my best friend. I couldn't ask for a better boyfriend/best friend. He does way too much for me and he doesn't have to. I can be 100% myself around him and that rarely happens.  He is always the first person I go to about anything, ANYTHING. And he gets my dumb jokes, or just laughs to make me feel better about how lame they are.

October 2010

I love this guy so much more than I could ever explain. He has completely changed my life, the way I think of myself, and the way I view things.

I couldn't see myself with anyone else, and I haven't been happier.

She says she's leaving on a Sunday...

Hello everyone!

So it is the week before Halloween and I couldn't be more excited! Yet I am still upset that October went by so fast and I was sick for half of it. But I have been watching horror movies all week on AMC! I can't get enough of them!

So this week is going to be fun (hopefully).

Wednesday- is my professor's last day in class. She told us news to day that her husband (who is in the military) is getting transferred back to Texas and they want him there next week. So it was a sudden thing and she feels really bad for having to leave us and having to find a replacement teacher for the rest of the semester. This actually really upset me because I LOVED her! She was so nice and was very understanding about everything, and would talk about movies all the time in class. I just hope that the replacement is nice as well, because nice teachers/staff at my small community college are hard to come by!

I also have to go and drop my other class this week, I hate going to main campus, which is probably why it has taken me so long. Buh.

Friday! Brad and I are (planning on) going to a haunted house. Erebus is a 4 story (I know it looks like three stories, but I believe one is a basement) walk through haunted house and I am so excited to go, I haven't been to a haunted house in 5 years. Seriously? It's been that long? I always want to go to them (who doesn't) and there have really been only two that have scared me, but I think this one will!

Saturday! Brad and I are planning on going to the movies to see Saw 3D. I thought I heard on the tv that they have a 2D movie as well, and I would rather see that, as I don't really like 3D too much. It hurts my eyes and makes me sick. Which upsets me that EVERY MOVIE is in 3D now. Buh!

I really want to see Due Date as well. And I think I'm going to have to see it twice (once with Brad, once with my mother) And I really REALLY hope this one is good because it is so hard for me to find a comedy movie that I actually think is funny.

SUNDAY! HALLOWEEN! My nieces are dressing up as butterflies and going trick-or-treating for the first time. I am on candy duty with Bradford if he is coming over for Halloween. I won't lie, part of me wants to take them trick-or-treating, only because I miss doing it myself.

What are your plans for Halloween? 
Are there any good movies that you want to see?
AND 
Have you gone to any haunted houses this year?!

Picture dump from the zoo!

Bradford and I went to the zoo yesterday to celebrate our 9 month anniversary. We didn't snap as many pictures this time, mainly because we had been to the zoo a couple months earlier and I accidentally left those pictures on there as well, so I didn't know how much space I had for photos.

Plus there were A LOT of children there this time, it was crazy! But here are some of the ones we did take! The photos are out of order, but I am far too lazy to put them in order, and I don't remember which animals came before others!