I should be packing . . .

But instead I'm updating!

Last weekend was a lot of fun! On friday my friends came over and we ate pizza and played games, and I dominated 4 out of 5 times. Not too shabby! A lot of them stayed over, so I got to start saturday morning off at IHOP with a few of my favorite people. I then went shopping with Kasey, and did my best not to influence her shopping habits. She says she alwas buys more when we go together. haha. We were going to have full on girls night but Katie was tired and Kasey became sick, so instead Car, Ashley, and I just went to dinner. Sunday Kara took my graduation pictures! I had so much fun with her. I can't wait for her to get her new computer so she can edit them and show me. I have been trying to be more social this semester and I have rarely passed up the opportunity to hang out with my friends. I am trying to spend us much time with them as I can because we only have 6 weeks left together.

I am so excited to see Daniel tomorrow!

******I just noticed that I saved this post to my drafts, and never posted it. It was written the week before spring break.

The last six months...

work. work. work. Daniel. work. work. work. Daniel. work. work. work.

You get the idea.

Work consumes too much of my time! when I'm not actually at the office, I am thinking about it. Sales are way too stressful.

Here is a breif overview of the non-work related activities I have done:

May:
Since I wasn't working yet (man do I miss those days), I was able to cook more often. I tried some new recipes from Cook Yourself Thin.

This is the only meal I took a picture of. It's Tomato Soup and mini Turkey BLT's. Daniel really enjoyed the tomato soup, but I wasn't such a big fan. So far our favorite is the Chicken Parmesan.

June:

Daniel and I floated the river and Lindsay was able to join us. That pretty much made the trip worth it for me.

July:

The girls at work and I started going to lunch together everyday. I know it doesn't sound very exciting, but if you knew my job, you would understand why this was very important.

August:

My birthday! The girls got me an ice-cream cake and Daniel got me a purse. It was a good birthday.

September:

Kari moved to St. Louis. :(

I got to see B.Spears again!

October:

We had a girls weekend in Dallas.

Charity Chicks hosted BRAtober to benefit Save the Ta-tas Foundation. This was a really fun event. We got to vote on bra art while enjoying cocktails and cupcakes.

On the pink carpet.

This was my favorite bra.

This was Daniel's favorite bra.

Handing out swag bags.

New Phone!

I loved my little white slider phone, and was very sad to watch it die. It all started when I came to Houston for the B.Spears concert. . . I have dropped my phone many times, but I guess it was finally too much for it on that particular day. When it hit the ground one side came unattached. Dang. It was still together, so I was going to make it work for a few more months. When I moved to Houston I dropped it again and the other side came unattached, but the strip that kept it working was holding the two pieces together. So I figured I'd just be extra careful not to break the strip. That night I went to a book signing by the fabulously funny Jennifer Lancaster where my phone fell out of my purse and completely separated! OMG!

I had to wait a week to get a new phone; the longest week of my life. I am now a proud owner of a red LG Xenon. It has a full keyboard that slides out and a touch screen. It is more complicated than my last phone and I am still having trouble answering my calls, but I have the texting part down. Now all I need to do is get some better ringtones on it because the ones it came with are crap.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

14 days ago I graduated. 8 days ago I moved to Houston. In 13 days I start my new job.

uggghh.

After I left Lubbock I stopped by Winnsborow to see Kasey and Matthew. It was really nice to see the cute town that they call home. I did not stay as long as I intended because I was too eager to see Daniel. 

Now I am in Houston and am living a similar version to what I would call "the dream." My daily activities include some cleaning, laundry, tv, working out, laying at the pool, and some cooking. I hope someday Daniel makes this my everyday job.

5 years in the making

OMG! I finally graduated college! I have learned so much since I graduated high school five years ago. It's weird because I am the same, but very different at the same time. I am going to use this post to remember a few things I learned during my college years.

Freshman Year at Blinn

First I would like to start by clarifying that I was at Blinn instead of A&M because it was a last minuet decision so it was too late to apply to A&M. Sometimes I wish that I would have gone to Tech in the beginning, but then I would probably not be the person I am today.

This year I learned independence. I feel that I have always been a fairly independent person, but moving 8 hours away from home and all of your friends but one really caused me to lean on myself. If I hadn't made this move then I might not have realized that I was dating someone that was not right for me, and I am really glad that I figured that out! 

I also learned not to let someone else make you feel insecure about yourself. I am sure that most of you know by now that I was dating someone that was overly concerned about me gaining weight. As a female, this is already something that most of us are concerned about, so we don't need the added pressure of someone else monitoring our food, making comments about sweets, and telling us that our calves are loosing definition (I must say, my calves are pretty nice).

WTAMU

I was only here a semester because once again, it was a last minute decision so I missed the date to apply to Tech. I had fun this semester living with Lindsey and seeing my friends again.

I learned that it's ok to go home, but ultimately, Canyon was not the place for me anymore.

TECH

I was at tech for 3.5 years, and had many great (and not so great) experiences.

 I learned patience. As many of you know, I had tons of crazy roommate stories. These stories range from getting an f-you note under the door, having someone come out of their room drunk and naked when I had visitors, that same person getting arrested in my living room, having roommates kicked out of the apartment, and the stories go on and on. Through all of these experiences I learned to be patient and nice to people even though I don't like them. 

I had to work on my people skills. I have trouble making friends because they take me too seriously and think I am mean, but I was lucky enough to meet people who liked me right off, and others I had to work on. I have learned to tone it down at first to give people a chance to know me before I unleash the whole personality, because I have been told that I have too much personality. 

It's ok if you don't know what you want. This one was difficult to accept. Since high school I thought I wanted to be an architect, but once I started taking classes I realized that I hated it. It was very difficult to realize that my dream was not what I was supposed to do. My major went through many changes (architecture, accounting, general business) before I finally settled on marketing.

New Beginnings

I learned many things about life and myself, and I have many fond memories from the past five years, but I am ready to move on to the next phase of life.