Update!

Hey girls!

So sorry I haven't posted lately, I have been so busy!

It snowed at least 4 inches here, and I was so excited! It was so beautiful, I think snow and Christmas lights (if done tastefully) can do wonders for a house/yard!

My friends and I went for walks up the street in the snow, normally I build a big snowman and go sledding, but I didn't bring a sled with me to school, so because we were absolutely desperate, we tried to use our McCain signs. They FLEW, but lost the will to slide after a few hills! Walking was so much fun, and we saw some of the cutest kids with their sleds, they were all so excited!

When the girls and I were walking, we saw this beautiful little house for rent just a street up from where we are now. The house is 5 bedrooms. Our living situation for next year is so crazy/confusing right now! I am good to live wherever, as long as I live with all of my friends I could care less! The rent here really is not outrageous but we have had a few issues, and so we are looking for another house. Also, I am so excited because, a good friend of ours might move in with us and so we would need a bigger house anyway.
Who knows, I called the Realtor and she was as sweet as she could be! We are touring it Saturday. Everyone is in a panic about what we're gonna do, but I feel like it will all work out like it is supposed to.
I absolutely hate drama, but it seems like its always there, it is funny hearing everyone argue/compromise on what we are going to do! That's what we all get for going to an all girls school! At the end of the day though, we are just excited to have a house and not be on campus!

Well, I officially broke up with E! I feel like such a bitch, but let me just tell you what happened! I really wanted to break up with him over a week ago, but we had set a good friend of mine up with a good friend of his and we all went on a double date last week. I asked E to make reservations at The Melting Pot. He promised he would, and so the night of the date we were all really excited. Actually, I was just ready for the thing to be over, but so excited for Al and K!

Well, I told the boys to meet me and K at my house by 7:30...

E got here at 6...seriously!

I was nowhere near ready!

I answered the door with my hair lookin a curly mess! From the time E got to my house, to the time we all got home from dinner, he was so rude to everyone he came in contact with! He talked badly about everyone he could think of, including some people I have never met which is so rude! You never do that!
Al, my friends date, finally got to the house around 7:30 and we all had a quick glass of wine before dinner. That was fun, because Al and K really clicked and they are about to have date number 2!!
Anyways,
E said right as we got to The Melting Pot that he hadn't made reservations at either place (Angus barn was another suggestion) because they didn't allow them. Y'all I have reservations made at the Melting Pot so many times, I know you can make them! Well, we get there and it is an hour wait!! It was already 8:30 so we didn't want to wait an hour.
It was absolutely packed, and I was not surprised! That place is so good!
After we decided not to wait, we went to another nice place downtown and it was a 2 hour wait! I was a little upset at this point because there was really no where else to go, all of my favorite places downtown had a wait as well. We ended up going to...
a Chinese restaurant
...needless to say it was not what any of us had planned! I mean, it was okay, Al, and K got to talk a lot, but the atmosphere was not what I wanted! It worked out though, and that's all that matters.
Later that night after Al had left I told him we are not going to work, along with a lot of other stuff hoping to get my point across. I felt so much better! He just stared at me, and said he would call me the next day, he couldn't take it all in. I told him there was no need, I made my point and I was happy.

Anyways, so its a never ending story, but its finally over, hes just out there and I liked him so much better when we were just friends! He got really possessive and needy when we started dating, and that's too bad because he was such a fun friend!

In other news, my landlord decided shes throwing a cookout for my house, and her other rental houses. Haha, I am really excited about it! It will be fun because its another house of 4 guys, and then some girls that I know from MC! It will be fun to get together. I have never had a landlord who is so hands on, or does stuff like this, she is so nice!

I hope y'all have a great Wednesday!

My 5 Favorite Things!

Hey girls!

I never have time to do this, but I am finally going to post my 5 favorite things!

1.) My moms car!
I absolutely LOVE SUV's, they make me feel so big! Haha, my poor Volvo S80 has been having so many issues and it is not even that old! My mother and I took it to the dealership the day before I came back to Raleigh and they were so sweet and accommodating! I started telling the man all of the problems I was having, and he stopped me mid sentence and said they would keep it until next week and fix everything for me and give me a rental! This probably sounds normal, but I was really just going in for a maintenance check, so I thought it was really sweet. The nicest people were getting their cars worked on that day too, there must have been like 5 sets of mothers and daughters! Long story short, they were going to rent me the car that Edward Cullen drove in Twilight, and it was red...dont get me wrong I am in LOVE with Edward Cullen, but not so much in love with that ugly car! Also, I have a problem with speeding tickets already, and a red car just wouldn't help so...I asked if they had something that had more room. They did, and now my mother is driving my rental because who knew that I had to be 21 to drive it. she is now the proud owner of the Volvo Wagon! So, this week I have my moms big SUV, and, oh my Lord, it charges through the crowds on campus, and I always get good parking! I think I want to trade with her! Haha!

2.) The Mamma Mia Soundtrack!
Does anyone else think the whole cd is amazing!? It is so good, Meryl Streep is just talented! I love Peirce Brosnan too, but Lord i'm still getting used to his singing voice. Even if he sounds bad, he is so sharp. I love Amanda Seyfreds voice too! I can't believe she was in mean girls as one of the plastics! She is a really good actress, and did so well in Mamma Mia. I love the soundtrack, I haven't taken it out since I got it! It just makes you feel good when you listen to it!

3.) My sweet friends!
I absolutely love my friends, I am so happy that we have gotten to see so much of each other before classes start, and everything gets crazy! I don't know what I would do without them. A few of us had dinner at this great place called the Noodle something or other, I forget, but if you live in Raleigh and ever go to Cameron Village, eat there! It is great! Also, we just had a welcome home party yesterday for my friend who came home from Kenya and I cant tell you how much we smiled and laughed. We hadn't all been in the same room in over 3 years, it was truly such a wonderful day! Thankfully we all agreed we just cannot go that long without getting together again, so we are planning a housewarming party for my friend K when she moves in Feb! YAY! Those girls are such good girls, they are all 2 years older then me so they have actual jobs now and it freaks me out! One of them is a nurse at Duke and she just started in the pediatric unit! The other one is an 8th grade teacher with hilarious stories about kids hitting on her...so funny! The one who just got home from Kenya is heading to Americorps! I think that would be just amazing! Some of the others live far away and couldn't be there, but we sure did miss them! I am so blessed to have them, and so happy we all got to spend a fun Sunday together!

4.) "The One Hundred" By Nina Garcia
This is one of the books I got for Christmas, and OH MY GOSH, it has 100 pieces of clothing that every woman should have in her closet with all of this information like what brands there are, and where to get it, and the drawings are out of this world! Its like 2 or 3 pages per piece! Lord knows, I may never own every piece but it is so much fun to read! Absolute Heaven! I don't like all of it, but it may depend on where you live. This book is one of my very favorites, right up there with Essentially Lilly!

5.) My new Religion Class!
The professor is by far one of the nicest professors that I have ever met, and today was the first day. She absolutely made it a point to learn all of our names, as well as other facts we wanted to share. She is just very personable and the class is called Biblical Lit. It is a gen-ed requirement, but I think it will be wonderful! I am so excited. I am Presbyterian, and there are a lot of different religions in the class so it should be really interesting. The girls in the class are all Freshman and some Seniors because like me, the Seniors waited really late to take it.

Have a great Monday!!

Oops!

Hey girls!

It has been so long since 've posted, but it has been a great, fun holiday with little free time! I am so sorry, but I hope all of you had wonderful Christmas' and are planning to have a great New Year as well!

Well, it's hard to believe that Christmas has already come and gone. I got so many great things, so many new etiquette books, dresses, movies, gift cards, ect. I was so happy on Christmas morning! Although, I did get the J Crew "Crewcuts" marching coat in pink in an XXL and it is too tight in the shoulders! AHH! So I am going to Southpark tomorrow to exchange it. It is beautiful though, so I hope somebody will buy it and love it!

Project Santa was amazing, I got to help shop for toys, and that was an adventure! We had to take Our State Magazine in everywhere we went to prove we were a "real" organization! Then, I got to give these little 5th graders a tour of the church we work out of, and they were just too funny! They helped me clean out the toy closet and re organize it, after a while they got bored and started throwing toys at each other, oh and then at me...umm thats a no-go!
Then they started throwing toys at their teachers, that's when they went from the toy closet to making up fruit baskets!
DEMOTED!

Well, the next day, I got to help call out names for toys and for 2 days straight I got to the church at 8am and didn't move from my chair until 8pm. It didn't phase me at all, because I was so busy I guess. I told my family that if I could have a job like that all the time, around people I love, and doing what I love my life would be absolutely complete! If only we all could be so lucky to do what we love every day! My name has been on that chair since I was 10...I wrote it in sharpie so nobody would ever forget that I sit at the table, and call names every single year! I absolutely love it!

Also on Christmas Eve, I finally got to control the Project Santa book! Its a long story, but we had a bit of a crisis and my Grandfather asked me to do books because he had to direct routes. This was a huge deal to me, and I was so excited that he would trust me with that...maybe I will even get a business card next year! Also, it happened because after going on a route, which was very sad, I was told by my grandfather to stay at the church and handle the routes and paper work because he only had 2 hands and he had to much to do haha! This was such a big deal to me, because I have never been allowed to look at, much less TOUCH the book! I got to file papers, and call out routes, and my friend C helped me with directions, hes a genius! He works at WXII News and said he wanted to get me an interview with a news director, how great! Also, this guy and his wife that I always do routes with paid me the nicest compliment I have ever recieved! I am only putting it on here so I never forget it. He compared me to Caroline Kennedy...I dont believe that, but they were both so sweet!

After the madness, and chaos... C and I were returning cars to their lots since we borrowed them to run routes, and at first I got to drive this awesome Suburban...and I decided that I really want one someday!
HAHA! C had to drive a mini van, and I was DYING laughing!
No offense to mini-vans but men just look so funny in them.
Well the second go-round, he had a truck and I had this ugly fusha "Windstar" mini van. Those are not bad, but this one had engine trouble!
Again, no offense to you if you love mini-vans but I am more of an SUV girl!
So we are driving, an C is flying in his truck, and makes this turn.
Now y'all, I am supposed to follow him, so I go to turn the curb and AHHH I hydroplaned and skidded in the mini-van! HAHA!
It was real pretty! I, and the rest of the people on the road, laughed...and we laughed hard! Apparently, its a mom car for a reason!
The tire tracks are still there! It wouldn't have been as great if it hadn't been a mini-van taking the turn at 45 mph!
I looked like a soccer mom that forgot a Christmas present!

We got the vans returned and then Gerald, the biggest redneck in Denton came to pick us up! He is one of my favorite people! When C and I got in his truck, I sat on his gun and screamed! HAHA! Gerald said he shoots birds from the truck while driving...thats when I began to hope we would make it back to the church...alive! He looks just like Santa!

I am so happy because I have had a chance to catch up with so many of my good friends over break, a friend of mine and myself have started walking the entire golf course each day, and talking about everything under the sun! She goes to school in Raleigh, and we have made it an absolute priority to get together at least once a week, because there is just no excuse not to!

I am going to a New Years Eve party tomorrow with E, he is coming back to Salisbury to go with me. It is a party that my friend from High School throws every year, and I am so looking forward to it, because it means catching up with so many old friends! I never lose touch with the people that are coming to this party, because if we do...we know that once a year we will always pick right back up where we left off and it is great!

I hope you all have a Happy New Year!

Hopelessly Addicted to Edward Cullen!

Hey girls!

Oh my gosh, I went and saw Twilight tonight and I am in love! I'm serious, more serious then all of the 12 year olds who "think" they love Edward Cullen, I really do!
No more spray tans for this girl, Edward Cullen makes pale look so good! He is so gorgeous! WOW!

I was really impressed with the movie, and I am ordering the books first thing tomorrow! I never, ever get into these things like Harry Potter, Twilight, ect. but Edward Cullen makes me melt, so I just can't help myself!

You all just enjoy this image...for hours on end...he is too beautiful not to stare at!

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E called me right after the movie, and I couldn't help it...I told him I was in love with Edward Cullen! HAHA! No, but he wants to go see it, so that means I GET TO SEE IT AGAIN! My roommate and her sister and I may even go sometime this week too, so I am gonna make E go with me then!

The whole story line is so good! I can see why people love it.

Well, i'm off to pack and get ready for the luncheon tomorrow!

Christmas Survey

1. Favorite Christmas Movie?

I love all of the home videos we made at my grandparents over the years, they are so funny and sweet of all of us! It is so great to look back at the memories! Those are my favorite Christmas movies...oh and of course National Lampoons Christmas Vacation!

2. Favorite Christmas Song?

Barlowgirl's Christmas Album...it is so beautiful! Mistletoe- Colbie Caillat, and The First Noelle- N'Sync

3. Favorite Holiday Memory?

Probably the year I got my Barbie Jeep, oh and of course when my Nana thought it would be necessary to give me a training bra when I was 9!! Y'all i'm 20 and probably still can't fit into the damn thing! haha! all of my cousins (who are boys and may as well be my brothers, we are all very close!) thought it was hilarious! Not only was that a crazy day, but its also on one of the home videos so we all get to revisit the memory every year! GEEZ!

4. What kind of cookie/treat do you like to make?

I LOVE to make caramel cake! My mom actually makes it, it was her Grandmothers recipe, but it is wonderful! It looks and tastes amazing!

5. Have you ever made an igloo?

Lord yes! My friends and I were in High School, they were seniors and I was a sophomore and we spent 2 hours building an igloo at the driving range. It could fit all 7 of us in there! When we took our lunch break at the club, we came back and all of these cute kids were posing for pictures in it because the parents thought the club had built it! It was so much fun! It lasted for 3 whole days!

6. Do you love Starbucks?

I like it, but hardly ever go.

7. What makes the perfect Snowman?

A carrot nose!

8. Best gift you have ever received?

I absolutely loved the year that I got my 1st Lilly Dress.

9. What is the snowman's name on Rudolph?

Wow, I have absolutely no idea.

10.Silver or Gold?

Gold!

11. What is your favorite Christmas decoration?

My mothers beautiful wreaths she puts on our windows, and the tree! Both are just beautiful! OH and of course our Life Size Santa!

12. What's your Christmas decorating style?

Very classic, I live in a yellow wooden house and its very long and tall, so we usually do wreaths on all the windows, candles in the windows, a big tree with white lights and childhood ornaments in the big bay window in our dining room, another tree on our front fenced porch, and greenery along the stairs outside, and inside with holly tucked inside. It is always so pretty when I drive home for the first time from school! It just makes me smile!

13. Do you hang stockings?

YES! We all have matching green and red stockings, mine has a blonde girl on it.

14. How many days do you celebrate Christmas?

Well, Project Santa lets me celebrate from December 1st to the 25th, but the actual holiday on the 25th!

15. What was your favorite ornament on the tree as a child?

Whatever we all made in bible school that year, and looking at them now, my mother was good to let us hang those for all to see haha!

16. Where will you be spending this Christmas?

At home with my family and friends!

17. What was your favorite holiday tradition as a child?

Christmas Eve- delivering the toys to the children, and seeing so many happy faces that I only get the chance to see once a year.

18. What's your favorite Christmas food?

Y'all, I eat any and everything! My plate is stacked as high as Mt. Everest! I just can't choose my favorite thing, but my moms coconut pies are really good!

19. Do you like colored lights or white lights on your Christmas tree?

White