Hello again!

So I have officially decided that I am horrible at blogging. It has been over a month since my last post and I'm not sure why. Partly because I don't feel like anything in my life is worth writing about let alone sharing with other people so they can read it.

But today I felt like typing. Sharing. Posting. So that is exactly what I am going to do!

If you know me you know that I enjoy dairy products. A huge glass of milk is always nice in the evening to help fill me up before bed. (Dinner is usually small and earlier and I go to bed late so a big glass of milk is perfect) And with as picky as I am when it comes to my diet and having such a limited diet, cheese is very commonly found with most of what I eat. But as of lately dairy and I just haven't been getting along. So I have decided I'm going to try to cut out as much dairy from my diet as I can. This is going to be hard though because as I am sitting here I'm trying to think of the foods that I like and eat that do not consist of dairy and I'm having a hard time coming up with much. This is very sad. I know. And I want to improve my diet so I think this is a great way to help me.

Now, I'm not going to say "and I'll post later on how I'm doing" or anything like that because I can't guarantee that I will :)

Onto other things.

I have been reading a lot of sewing blogs lately and have found some pretty interesting ideas that I'm excited to try.

As the weather has been getting cooler I have been thinking about how I wish I had a few more pairs of leggings to wear. I love wearing them with dresses or skirts and boots but I also wear them under my jeans sometimes if it is really cold outside. I love to sleep in them too! But I don't have enough money to go out and spend $20.00 on a pair...or a few pairs since that is what I am wanting.

So I was so excited today when I found a tutorial on how to make your own leggings. I thought they were super cute and as soon as I finished reawding it I wanted to rush home today and make some!! I especially love how she added the buttons on the bottom. I'm the biggest fan of buttons and have a good size collection of them so I have a feeling I'm gonna add some cute ones to my leggigns that I make!!! :)

Again, if/when I get around to making these, I will do my best to post about it and share pictures of my new creations but no promises.

In other news...

I'm moving out! I'm greatly looking forward to this moment that has been in the making for far too long. A lady that I work with owns a cute little one bedroom house in the central part of Springfield close to downtown and she knew that I was looking for a place to live and asked me if I would like to move in there. I will tell you right now...it is not perfect. But what first place out on your own is? I'm very excited and the excitment is building because there have been a few delays. But things are getting worked out and all is well! I hope to be out on my own by the end of next weekend. I know things are not going to always be easy or fun. I know that it will be challenging but I am looking forward to it because I will learn and grow from this experience.

Enjoy!

A little update for you!

Things have changed quite a bit again since the last time I posted:

*Josh moved to Kansas the weekend before school started to live with his mom and step dad so he can work hard and save some money.

*He got a job and started last week!

*I drove for the longest amount of time I have ever driven and did it alone a few weeks ago when I went to visit Josh. It is about a four and a half to five hour drive and I've done it twice now.

*School has started and things are going fairly well. I'm taking Art and Experience (it's kind of like an art history class but we do other stuff too), 2D Design which is a lot of fun so far...challenging but thats good for me, Intro to Literature - a lot of reading and a challenge but again..it's good for me and I'm learning a lot already. And finally I'm taking History 130 again but this time I'm doing it online..its seems to be going much smoother so far! :)

*I'm living at home again and that is going so-so. My mom and I get along but we also have our moments where we don't get a long whatsoever. I'm trying to learn to handle these situations better and treat her with more respect because I love her and I know that she loves me.

So that's most of what is new.

Other than that I had an amazing talk with my sister last night that I will share but I feel it deserves it's own post entirely so I will share all of that later this evening.

Enjoy!

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!