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!

Day 1...

You know, I'm kind of getting sick of the idea of having a routine. I just want to be able to do what I want when I want and not have anything holding me back but knowing that I can always come home and my family will be there for me. I'm assuming that this feeling sprouted from today in my Sophomore Seminar: Travel Through Life and Literature class. We took our first test today and one of the questions was about a monologue from the movie Easy Rider.
The monologue was given by George in the last campfire scene and he is talking about freedom.
George and Billy are talking and George tells Billy that many Americans don't want him and Wyatt around because they represent freedom. Billy says "...That's what it's all about" and George responds with "Oh yeah, that's right. That's what it's all about. But talking about it and being it...that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Don't tell anybody that they're not free, because they'll get busy killing and maiming to prove to you that they are. They're going to talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom but they see a free individual, it's going to scare them."
I know that if most people didn't live their lives in an orderly way we would have chaos and nothing would get done in our communities but I want to spend some of my time free. I want to travel and come and go as I please. I want to meet people, spend time with them, talk to them, learn their story, their life, learn who they are. I want to see things. Lots of things. Everything.
In that same class we also just finished a book called On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I loved that book and if you haven't read it I would suggest doing so.
Well, approximately twenty more minutes until I'm officially 20 years of age.
Sleep well world.

Enjoy!

Day 2...

Today was great. Church was wonderful. My cousin came with me and after we met his mom and they bought me lunch at Mexican Villa (again I know but it was still great!!) I also got a huge bag of Reece's Pieces from them! I've already opened them!! :D
My mom was kind enough to go wash my car, after I cleaned the inside, without telling me! Now I'm doing homework and cleaning my room. Mom bet me 5 bucks that I wouldn't get it clean before midnight...I'm gonna win!
Rehearsal starts tomorrow. It officially started last week but we only had one rehearsal. So this week starts rehearsal 5 nights a week. I'm gonna be tired and a bit stressed but it will all be good!
Exciting news: I got an e-mail today saying that someone would be in contact with me sometime this week to set up my phone interview for the internship that I applied to in Oregon for this fall!!!!! Only about one month until I find out if I got it or not.
Now for something birthday related:
I thought I would look up some stuff about the year I was born: 1990.
*On the Top 100 Hits of 1990 number twenty was "Don't Know Much" by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville. I thought this was kind of funny because I have the cassette tape with this song on it!
More later (tomorrow probably) because I only have 20 minutes left to finish cleaning my room...I'm gonna get that 5 bucks!

Enjoy!