Sunday [Monday] Seven!

1. I meant to post yesterday, but I completely forgot! I wasn't even that busy, though I never really had a spare moment. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but I just kept myself busy. Church and lunch with my friend Laura and her boyfriend Shaun (this is a usual thing on Sundays.) And then I did my homework and then clean my dorm room (it gets really dusty in here.) Then I helped my friend Valerie study for a test. We did that for a few hours and that also consisted of us going to get dinner at Waffle House. LOVE. THAT. PLACE. Then I did laundry! LOL. And also started reading a little bit. FOR FUN! I haven't read in forever! And this subject will take me to number 2!


2. I started reading Bel Canto last night. It's by Ann Patchett and it's really good right now! Here's the synopsis:

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots.

Without the demands of the world to shape their days, life on the inside becomes more beautiful than anything they had ever known before. At once riveting and impassioned, the narrative becomes a moving exploration of how people communicate when music is the only common language. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped.

3. So a while ago I discovered etsy.com. It. Is. Satan. I swear. I got these necklaces from there:

If you're every having trouble getting me a present just go there and get me a funky necklace. I LOVE necklaces or earrings. I don't wear much more jewelry than that.



4. I have 15 quizzes, 3 modules (they're like quizzes, but they take about an hour to do), 4 exams, a speech, and a paper due before spring break. Welcome to college. Sigh. I'm not stressed about the quizzes or the modules or even the paper and 2 of the exams, but the speech and the other 2 exams are going to be too much. Especially the exam that's online THE DAY BEFORE I LEAVE TO GO HOME! After my last class I have to come back to my room and take a darn test online! the second my last class is done I'm going to be SO READY for Spring Break that it's not even funny. And then I have to come back to reality and take a stupid test. SIGH!!!!!!!



5. Speaking of Spring Break, which I leave for home on the 12th and come back on the 20th of March, I am planning to order SO MANY BOOKS. I wanted to wait to order a ton of books with the gift cards I got from Barnes and Noble until Spring Break so I wouldn't have to carry ALL those books back home at the end of the semester. Can I just tell you how excited I am to spend a ridiculously large amount of money on books and not feel guilty about it?



6. Staying on the subject of Spring Break (can you tell that I REALLY want my Spring Break?), I am so excited to see my friends from back home! I miss my bestie. And I miss my family. And I miss MY BED!

See how comfy that looks. The picture was taken in the summer so I didn't need a comforter, but still! It's a queen size bed and SO COMFY. I miss it. And I miss cooking. And baking. oh jeez. Spring Break can NOT come fast enough.

7. I have class soonish. It's 11:55 and I have class at 12:35. Can I just say that I HATE English. This is my least favorite subject that I'm taking right now. Even my communications class is better. And I have to GIVE SPEECHES in that class!!

Ch-ch-changes.

I have not posted in FOREVER. And since then SO MUCH has changed. I'm now in my 5th week of school at Liberty. I'm not sure how I feel about school again yet. I still feel like it's a waste of money, especially with what I want to do. I'm not sure if I said what I wanted to do in the last post, but if I did then I probably put that I wanted to work with troubled teens. Which is definitely something that I still want to do, in some way, but not where my heart is anymore. I've ALWAYS wanted to own my own coffee shop. With a nice little used bookstore. a stage so I could host open mic night. somewhere close to a university so i can actually make it, successfully. I feel like this is something that could happen if I just put time and effort into it. I'm sure that some business classes would help, but spending THOUSANDS of dollars just for a piece of paper that says I'm a competent business person? I think that owning your own successful business comes from experience. Trials and failures. Hardships and fortunes. I'm not ignorant enough to think that having a successful business will be easy. I KNOW it isn't.

I think I just feel like I'm spending ALL my money on the experience of BEING away at a university than the actual learning itself. Which really isn't a good thing, at least not in my perspective. There's just this repetitive question in the back of my head ALL THE TIME: "Is spending this much money worth the few new things that you wouldn't have otherwise been able to get?"

Anywho, one HUGE perk of being up here at Liberty is that I get to see Kym! True, we haven't seen each other a whole lot (YET) but it's nice to know that she's close by.

I decided a while ago that I would do a "Sunday Seven." I think it's something that will help me post more often... or at least on a weekly basis. I decided to do this but obviously I never did. But this will start this Sunday! It's just going to be different things that have either happened in my week, will happen during my week, or just random thoughts or feelings. Probably a combination of all of them.

What the Future Holds..

So, this past Tuesday I went to the local Community college down here to get registered for classes... And I ended up walking out in the middle of it. Bad decision? Probably. Do I regret it? Maybe a little.

There hasn't been one moment in all the time I've lived in this town that I actually wanted to go to CCCC (Coastal Carolina Community College.) There's this saying that pretty much every teenager around here knows. Basically if you go to CCCC, then you'll never get out of this town. Which is true, pretty much. I don't know one person that's gone there, even with plans of transferring to a 4 year university, that has ever left. 2 year degrees turn into 2 year degrees that take 3 or 4 or 5 years to get. 65 easy credits, that turn into 65 credits spread out over the course of YEARS because of failings, not showing up, and droppings of a class or two.

I don't know what it is about this town that holds us here like a vise. But I've never wanted that. I've had too many friends that want so badly to leave here, but never do. It seems as though they just gave up or they got themselves pregnant/knocked someone up (Which happens A LOT around here.) Either way, it's something that I refuse to let happen to me. When I went out with my friend on the 3rd I told her that I was scared that I'd end up like most everyone esle: taking classes for the next someoddyears and working at various places of minimum wage employment. Never moving forward or backwards. In a stalemate of some sorts. She told me not to worry, that I was too ambitious, hell, even too scared to let that happen to myself. She's right, I know this, but doubt still plagues me.

My dad told me it was my decision. What I wanted to do, but he's the one that caused me to not apply to any universities. I don't regret that though. I could have gone to a university this fall, and then I would've been paying off a student loan. The curse of graduating a year early. When I hit 18 years old I get around 20 grand for 4 year from my mother's death. The money is to be spent however and whenever I want, preferably for college though. But since I did, in fact, graduate from High School a year early I haven't gotten that money yet. So the first semester of college I would have been broke. And indebt.

My dream is to run a teen home, or just work with troubled teens in some way. Throughout high school and even middle school I was the one my friends would always go to when they needed to talk to someone, when they were looking for advice, or just needed someone who wouldn't judge them. I'm not the nicest person in the world, some people may tell you otherwise, but trust me, I'm no saint. But for some odd reason my friends trusted me. I think 2 years ago it hit me that I wanted to help other teens. not just my friends, but other people who don't have someone to talk to about their problems. All my friends said they could easily see me in this role. I don't know if I'll have the strength to handle it, but I definitely have the heart. I've never doubted that. I might come off mean sometimes, but usually I'm just pointing out how obviously stupid someone is. That what they did, they know they shouldn't have done. Tough love, i guess is what people would call it. Call it some 6th sense or whatever, but I know when someone can handle tough love, and I know when someone is on a breaking point. And for that one simple reason my friends have supported me with my dream.

Anyway, I've applied to Liberty University for the Sping semester, by that time I'll have my roughly 20 grand to help pay my way. I just... I need prayers and good vibes or whatever you want to send my way. I have doubts, mostly in myself. I never think I'll make it to where I want to be, which is stupid, I know. But it's my nature. I'm not sure what I'll do if I don't get in. Wallow in self pity for a while then succumb to my fate of years and years at a 2 year college. Or be resilient and try again. God, I hope I'll try again.

Nervously Excited!

It's 1am in the morning and I'm watching Rome (the HBO series, really do love this show.) In about 11 hours I will be at Ellis airport picking up Mary and Sam. I'm extremely excited, but I'm still so nervous. It's different when you're so used to texting someone, and then the next thing you know they're right there! right in front of you. Everyone keeps saying that we'll have so much fun, and it's not that I don't think we will, I'm just worried that it'll be too weird for me actually having them here.

I'm very much an introvert. I don't think I'd call myself "antisocial" because I go out with friends all the time, it's just that when I'm with said friends I'm usually the quiet *coughSANEcough* one of the group. I'm just not a talker!! I listen. And I'm jsut nervous that that will affect our visit.

Eclipse! (I'm so sorry Ash! I hope you see it soon)

We got to the movies today at like 11:50am (our showing was for 1pm.) We just decided to leave shortly after we got up this morning. It was pretty empty when we got there, just a few people, so my friend, Krystyn, and I got really good seats (right at the top and in the middle of the row exactly.) For the hour and ten minutes before the movie started we were just talking and I had my Ipod playing the Eclipse Soundtrack for the few rows in front of us to listen to. Also there was a group of guys like 2 rows in front of us that were talking about my Harry Potter t-shirt (yes, I wore an HP t-shirt to watch Eclipse) loudly, so I started playing the Harry Potter soundtrack for them. LOL.

Anyway, the movie was FANTASTIC!!!! I agree with everyone that says it was the best one so far, because it truely was. Rob and Kstew (the two I'm always the most worried about) were SOOO much better together in this one. It was way less awkward between them than in Twilight and New Moon. I was so happy about that.

The New Borns. Awesome! If you've read Bree's book, then you know that they did really well with the New Borns. I hated that they switched out Rachelle for Bryce in playing Victoria, mainly because I am SO against character changes. It bugs the crap out of me. Though I will admit that Bryce did okay... Xavier was excellent as Riley! And I loved seeing Bree. One part with the New Borns that bothered me was at the very end where Bree was standing behind all the Cullens. Uh.... no. they wouldn't have had her standing behind them with Bella right there.

Jacob... I loved him when he was shirtless. it was easy to forget how annoying he was. but.. Grrrr! I came soooo close to screaming "It's all Renesmee's fault!" everytime Jacob kept up his "you love me. I love you. So forget about the vamp and be with me" thing that he always tries and pulls.

I enjoy all the other Werewolves. Despite that they're suppose to be like TEN times bigger than they are in human form, I get that it's hard to find BIG men who can pass off as being teens still. So I live with the people that they choose to play the Weres.

When Bella was in Florida and the Cullens and Weres were tracking Victoria THAT WAS EPIC!!!! I really enjoyed that part. and when Jasper was training everyone for the battle, loved that too! Especially when him and Alice were going at it! That was plain adorable! New Born battle was epic too. I was slightly disappointed with Edward/Victoria and Seth/Riley fights. I mean they were really good, but I just always imagined... more, I guess.

The flashbacks were spot on for me! I loved Jasper's and Rosalie's so much. I wish that Jasper's was longer though. I know that they had to cut it down, but I feel like if you didn't read the books then you wouldn't have been able to really understand and love Jasper like we all do.

Charlie and the sex talk. SO FUNNY! I was laughing sooo hard during that part.

I also loved the proposal scene. They did a really good job of putting that in the movie, i think.

I'm trying to think of what else happened, but I'm drawing a blank. I want to see it again though! Soon!

Anywho, I love you all! and I hope you enjoyed this Kym!

Ash made me..

I was supposed to make this last night, but I got caught up doing other things. I've been incredibly lazy since graduation and that includes being too lazy to set up this blog thing, but Ash texted me last night and demanded I start one. So this is me starting one! I know, not that exciting.

I actually have a pretty boring life, especially now that I think about it, so this blog will probably be equally as boring. But I guess it's easier to tell everyone at once what's been happening in my life instead of having to text/fb is over and over again.

Anywho, I love you all!