Dresses...

That I love and hope to attempt to make one day!

This blogging thing is hard to do...

Don't get me wrong...I enjoy it. It's nice to have somewhere to go to when I want to write and share my thoughts and people have the opportunity to read them if they want...but I wish I was more consistent about how often I blog. Only problem is that I don't know what to blog about.

I enjoy my life. Nothing too exciting happens too often though. Occasionally my friends and I will take a day trip to somewhere...we will go to Branson, or go to the lake or the river...but nothing that I can seem to write about.

Random side note:

I want to start journaling. I feel like it will be really neat to look back when I'm fifty years old and read about the things I did. To see it in my own handwriting and to be able to show it to my children.

Back to the point:

So I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm going to try to find stuff to blog about. I hope this works.

But for now I want to share some pictures of things that I want to attempt to make and stuff that I just think is super cute!

Enjoy!

It's been a while...

since I have written on my blog...again!

Much has changed.

Much hasn't.

It's summertime and usually that means having fun and relaxing and not going to school but still working. But for me, this time at least, I'm working 15.5 hours a week and taking 7 credit hours of class...History and Chemistry {BLAH}

The good news is that I have taken both of these classes already and so they should be fairly easy...just a review. Yes, you are correct, I failed two classes last semester and have to retake them in order to get my AA.

Of the things that has changed:

I now live on my own!

Well, kinda. I live with a roommate and learning a lot from that in itself but I am enjoying it a lot. I moved really close to downtown which is where I work and go to school, so everything is really close.

I was given a bike by the parents of a good friend of mine. I plan to start riding it to class and work very soon. I just need to buy a bike lock first!

My sister came to visit Missouri!!!! I was so thrilled when my mom suprised me with this news. I wasn't able to see her for very long but it's okay because I know she had a lot of other people to see here other than me. Plus, I've been to Utah to see her 2 times in the past year so I can't complain too much!

I have a boyfriend now {it's weird to say that} His name is Josh. He is one of the roommates of my best guy friend, Chris. He is a sweetheart and such an amazing guy :)

Here is a picture of us when we took a little day trip to Branson:

What else? What else?

Oh! I cut off all my hair! I'll put up before and after pictures of that soon. And I pierced my nose. I like it a lot. You can kinda see it in the picture of Josh and me.

I've also decided to work on the person I am now in order to become a better person that I am more happy with! I've made a list of goals and am going to do my best to improve little things about myself each day. I just have to remember that if I don't succeed in something one day I can't give up. I have to just try it again the next day. I'm looking forward to challenging myself!

That's all for now. Pictures of my hair {before and after} later. And who knows! Maybe even other good stuff to come too!

Enjoy!

People...

seem to be very interesting creatures.

I've noticed more and more how fake people are.

I don't like this.

I have always had faith in people. It doesn't matter to me if it is someone I have known for a long time or someone I have just met...I trust people until they give me a reason not to.

Doing this has never come back to bite me in the butt until a few months ago...and it seems to be happening again.

Now, I'm not for sure if it is currently happening but if feels like it.

It really saddens me that even when you feel like you can trust someone..you never really know if you can or not.

Someone last semester told me to not trust anyone until they have given me a reason TO trust them...until they have proven that they are worthy of my trust. But I'm not sure how to go about doing this. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt more often than not. So to go about changing my thinking 180 degrees seems a bit hard.

But nonetheless, I am working on it. Unfortunately.

People...

Enjoy!

One Day Without Shoes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlz3QKHJBac&feature=player_embedded

If you go that video ^ up there you can see what today is all about!

Today is One Day Without Shoes (put on by TOMS shoes)

Basically this is to help promote the fact that millions of people go without shoes every day and because of that they can get serious disease and infections.

This is something I am passionate about so if you read this today and would like to join the over 80,000 people who are pledged to go barefoot then please do!

Even if it's only for an hour of your day.

Enjoy!

I'm a slacker and I know it..and for this, I am truly sorry...

Hello world!

Long time no hear...from me that is. :)

I'll be honest. The reason I haven't posted anything lately is because:

ONE - I'm still getting the hang of having a blog and so I'm not always sure what to write

TWO - I've be so busy that I haven't really had the chance to be on the computer much and in the past when I did blog it was because I was already online.

What have I been busy with? You may ask...Well let me tell you!

*I am currently taking 16 hours of class (technically only 13 because I am no longer going to my History class...I'll explain why if you ask but I won't go into it on here..or maybe I will. Not sure yet.)

*I am working on the Spring play at OTC. We are doing Arthur's Stone, Merlin's Fire: The Making of a King. We currently have 15 hours of rehearsal a week. That is soon to become more!

*I also have my job that I work at five days a week. I am there about 19.5 hours a week.

So if we add this all together we get:

47.5 hours a week of doing stuff!

Now, don't get me wrong. I understand that many people work that much a week and some people work even more than that. But I'm not used to it so cut me some slack please :)

As for the rest of my time. I've been doing a lot of thinking and wondering.

About life.

About myself.

About my future.

About my friends.

About my family.

About what truth is.

About how to find truth.

About how to love.

About why people are the way they are.

About differences.

I see myself growing, learning and changing a lot every day.

I just have to say "Thank you" to my dear friend Chris for helping me process all these thoughts and ideas. For letting me bounce things off of him. And for letting me just talk. Even when what I say doesn't make sense.

Enjoy!

Day -1...

So yesterday was very busy and I didn't get a chance to post. I do apologize.
I had a wonderful birthday! Thank you to everyone who I was able to spend time with and to everyone who sent me birthday wishes.
I had history class at 10am (blah) and then went thrifting/flea marketing with 2 good friends and found some really cute dishes and a pitcher/glass set. I'll put pictures up sometime soon but I'm very happy with my purchases! :D
I had to work from 3:30 to 8:30 and that was a bit boring but my friend Mallory came to visit me the last few minutes I was there so that was nice. Then off to play rehearsal I went. Got done about 40 minutes early there and enjoyed a nice talk for about an hour with my good friend Chris. Went home, Facebooked it up for a while and then my head quickly found the pillow!
While I was at work I got to chat with my sister for a while over Gmail. We kind of decided what we were going to do while I'm there visiting her over Spring Break....lots of sewing! I'm so excited about this.!!!! I'll try to remember to take pictures of the things we make and my time there so I can post them! :)
Today is BEAUTIFUL outside and I'm so excited to get out of class to enjoy the suns warmth!

Enjoy!