snapshots of our life.

the scrapbook page I made and framed for them

me and Erica

the three of us girls…best friends do everything together love ya’ll!

Ok I know I am a dork, but I learning how to do new things and I’m expierimenting with them here. So deal!

My best friend is kick ass! She stopped by this afternoon with a bundle full of red gerber daisies…I love gerber daisies. Thank you Anna Ruth, I had fun today!

The black out was lifted today and I got to talk to him! He was able to call tonight. It’s amazing what just hearing his voice does for me. I know I am lucky in how much I get to talk to him but going a couple days without talking to him is hard. You can’t help but worry. And he had gotten in touch the other night and I knew he was safe, but it still makes me uneasy just the same. Someone died in a vehicle accident though, so until the family is notified no one is allowed to call out. My prayers go to the family of the soldier who died.

Well, I was told about this website and it is the most appauling thing I have ever seen. I’ve sent it to a lot of people but I thought I would post it here so that people could see what it is all about, and also go to the next site I post and sign the petition to have the first one removed. It shows pictures of wounded and deceased soldiers and calls them scumbags saying these people deserve to die. No one deserves to die!! I have never felt this strongly about something and have spend a good part of the night e-mailing local news stations around here. I understand not agreeing with the war but this is over the top. So if you would please read this and the things this idiot is sayin, and please sign the petition. It is abusive to our servicemen and women. The jackass’ website is: http://www.forsakethetroops.info/index.shtml

Here’s the petition to the ISP to get it removed:
http://www.petitiononline.com/killftt/petition.html

Please, please please take the time to do this. I’m still trying to figure out of it is real or a hoax. I know the site is obviously there an real, but I don’t know if there really is an organization formed from this. Anways, figured I would post it here anyway and you can decide for yourself. Regardless it is offensive, which I know freedom of speech, I’m just saying to be prepared cause the dude is an idiot.

In happier news, I ordered my cell phone from Cingular.com today renewed my contract for two years. But a free camera phone!? How do you beat that? Especially since mine has become so gimp.

One thing I will NOT miss about the sorority is the bullshit drama that is constantly stirred up. People can’t just “let it be” and everyone has got to be up in everyone elses business. Some people just thrive off of gossip and drama.

Does anyone understand the idea behind blocking someone on AIM when they aren’t trying to get in touch with you in the first place!? Whatever floats your boat I suppose.

Jamie- “Say what you mean, and mean what you say. Cause those that matter don’t mind. And those that mind don’t matter.” Some people will get it and some won’t, that’s just the way life is. Keep your head up in the fact that you don’t have to campaign and recruit people to be on your side. You are big enough to let it be. (Maybe ERica was right, I do say that a lot don’t I?) Hehe. And I will let Craig know you need the tank. I love you dude. And while you are a strong personality I wouldn’t want you any other way! Mwah!

I’ll be posting later cause I have a bunch to say but I just wanted to put this quote on here while I’m thinking about it…

Your true character is revealed by the clairty of your convictions, the choices you make, and the promises you keep. Hold strongly to your principles and refuse to follow the currents of convenience. What you say and do defines who you are, and who you are…you are forever.

Friday we had Lamplighting at Indian Creek Lodge. It was fun, but it also kinda hit me that it is ending and that it was my last Lamplighting. The candle pass we do every semester, that always makes me cry, definitely made me cry, and gave Sarah a chance to make fun of me for it. I think I held it together pretty good til Caitlin and Jamie and then I lost it. But I love them for it!

Saturday was interesting. I left my house around 11:15 to get to initation on time, which I would have been had all lanes of 85 going south not been blocked. I sat there for a while and finally managed to get off at Beaver Ruin which was hell. And after calling Erica who was at work and Sarah who didn’t know the names of back roads and my mom, I turned around and went back home. Ended up taking a nap for a few hours.

I absolutely hate driving. Every year at the end of the semester I get like this, but things have happened lately on the roads that just freak the crap out of me. A month ago that guy did a 180 on the way to school right infront of m eand came about a foot from the dividing wall and seconds away from other cars, mine included. At the beginning of last week, when I was on my way home, a 17 y/o girl on 85 going north was hit and her car caught on fire and she couldn’t get out. Police got to the wreck and she was still alive but no one could get her out. And I witnessed a horrible case of road rage on my way home at the end of lsat week that had my hands physically shaking. Not just cause they were idiots but because they were idiots endangering everyone on the freakin road including me. They were swerving into each others lanes and into the dividing wall. And cutting each other off. That kinda of shit is stupid. And if you want to be an idiot with how you drive did it out in a freakin field with no one around. Not on 85 when you could put everyone else at risk. People just don’t think. Ok, enough of that. Point is, I’m ready for the semester to be over, if only to decrease how much I have to be in my car.

Later Saturday night Anna came over. And we went to the mall to eat in the food court and see A Lot Like Love. Which was cute, but not all I expected it to be I suppose. Anna decided she wanted the soundtrack so headed to the Buford Wal-Mart a.k.a. ghetto late at night, you can imagine the crazys we ran into. I had a lot of fun hanging out with her though.

Okay in the midst of my best friends getting engaged and planning their weddings it is a tad bit hard to not want to look into a few details of my own. So who else would I include in this of course but Jamie. We have both spent the last few hours looking at bridal dresses, centerpieces, bridesmaids dresses and searching for gerber daisy flower bouqets . Hehe… I swear she scares the crap out of me sometimes. Our thought process is too much alike. For awhile now I have been trying to find a certain type of dress and I sent Jamie the website and she copy and pastes a dress that I LOVE! So that was a fun way to spend the night. Love you Jamika. And thanks for always having my back yo!

So last semester Jamie, Erica, and I had this professor, Dr. Holleran. He is probably the biggest statistics nerd you will ever meet but there is something in his nerdiness that makes him hot at the same time (he doesn’t even compare to you though Craig Nathen, hehe). Jamie and I are still trying to figure it out. Anyways, he gave us a bunch of shit last semester, but he was especially hard on Erica. He would crack jokes and Jamie and I would be the only ones in the classroom laughing so he naturally would pick us out and called us out a lot infront of the whole class. But not necessarily in a good way. You didn’t know what kind of mood he would be in. I did really well in his class and had gone to talk to him about grad school and maybe become a CJ Statistician…but that would take me longer than law school, which is ridiculous. Jamie and I had to go up to the CJ department today and passed by his office so we stoped and talked to him (and he told some cheesy jokes) but I asked him if he would write a letter of recommendation for me for law school and he agreed. But he also went into great detail about making sure law school is what you want before you go into. That you should forget 40 hour weeks the first year out of law school because you are trying to make your way up to the top. Which I understand. Anyways, he gave me a lot to think about and I was more excited about the fact that he will give me a letter of recommendation. I have so much to do to get all of that stuff together. And I keep telling myself I have time, but it will slip up on me before I know it if I don’t get everything together.

Well, I guess I need to get to bed. I’ve waited for Craig to call tonight and for some reason I don’t think he is going to. I was talking to him earlier tonight around 7 or so and he just signed off. He never got back on, which is strange. But maybe the internet just went down. But then he got off work an hour and a half a go and I normally hear from him by 1am. So of course it takes everything I have not to let my mind wonder and worry. If something happened they aren’t allowed to get on the internet or call out until they lift the black out. (Sorry I am thinking outloud) I’m ready for this to be over already. If things go the way we are hoping he should be getting leave about this time next month (maybe a week later). And I can’t wait. I swear I am not letting him go the whole time he is here. And it will be hard to say goodbye again, but at least I know the next time I see him he will be back for good.

picture he sent me today…

“I never realized the first lady has to keep her bra on all the time.”
~my mom @ 2:30 am while watching West Wing together