Yikes!

I am terrible at this! I thought this was going to be easy...but a few days go by and then you realize that you have forgotten to blog.

So, here's what you missed on Meghan's "Victory Lap":

Thursday: 

I drug this lady to my psychology class. This is Hui Ju. She is from Taiwan. She was living with Leslie, Jordan, and I at our apartment the last month. She's Leslie's friend from high school. Anyways, I made her come to my social psychology class. Throughout the class, she would notify me on any boy she thought in the class room was cute. In fact, she decided to tell me that the one who was sitting beside me was cute and that I should date him. This became awkward because I am pretty sure the boy overheard. 


Friday: 
I didn't take any pictures. But here's a video for your enjoyment.

If you didn't laugh at that. You are no longer allowed back at my blog. I kid I kid. But seriously, what's wrong with you?!

Saturday:

I went to a new food place here called the Cookout. If you haven't tried it I suggest you get off your computer right now, grab your keys, and drive yourself. What's that? You're not hungry? I don't care. Go. Now. You won't regret it.

My friend, Andrew's birthday was Saturday so we all got together to play volleyball. I miss it. I would play everyday for hours if I could. 

Once again, I managed to not take a single picture. Happy pup says you should forgive me.

Sunday: 
After Church, I printed all this out:

And then I read it. That's 100+ pages of crap intellectually stimulating articles and notes. And if you look closely, you'll see dear ol' Pride and Prejudice. I didn't print that, she snuck in the picture. And guess what? She's what I got to read all day Monday. woop. woop. (total sarcasm if you didn't catch it)

Monday:
I read Pride and Prejudice...and the rest of those papers. I also got a new pair of black high heels! Yay!
Since I didn't do much that day...I didn't take a picture. Or maybe I just forgot to. You decide. I'm not going to post another random picture though. Deal with it.


Tuesday: 
I had class from 9:40 am to 8:30 pm. Talk about pure enjoyment. I did have little breaks in between, but I spent them doing homework. Oh, it's an exciting life for me. But...since I take so many classes on Tuesday and Thursday...that means I don't have any classes on Monday or Friday and only a lab on Wednesday. So I'll stop complaining.


I had bought some chalkboard paint on Monday. When I got home from class, I was dying to paint something with it. So, what did I paint you ask?


Rocks.


Don't make fun. I couldn't find anything else that I could paint. The rocks were just laying there outside my apartment begging to be painted. What will I do with them? I have no idea. 

If you want me to paint you a rock. I will. You can buy one from me for the low low price of $75. If you act quickly I'll take $2.99 off. You won't find one's like these anywhere else.

But seriously, if you want a chalkboard painted rock. I'll give you one. Because, if I can't find anything else to paint with this chalkboard paint, I'm going to end up with 50 painted rocks, and that is no bueno. Oh, and if you do decide to make your own, don't sit them on the floor. They are great toe-stubbers. 

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

So apparently, I'm not that good at blogging everyday. Who'da thunk.

Here's a picture of what I did most of the day Monday:

I have the pleasure of reading to read this book for my English class. My English professor taught us new words to call women who sleep around (or what we call today, sluts). For example, there is strumpet, slattern, and my personal favorite....trollop. If I start calling you a trollop, do not worry, I do not think you are a women of ill repute, I just like the word. :)

Tuesday:

I get to pass this gorgeous building on my way to my Social Psychology class. This is to me, the most beautiful building on campus. It is where they have math classes. I took my math classes there when I was a freshman, but it was before they did the renovations, which means no air conditioning.

Wednesday:
I actually did not take a picture. I wanted to take a picture of my zumba class, but I thought everyone would look at me weird if I just stopped dancing and took a picture of them. That's creepy with a capital C. So, I refrained, and before I knew it the day was over and I had not taken a picture. So, instead I will leave you with a picture of this:

It's called eleplanking. It's all the rage.

Sunday and Me - 8/21/11

Sunday, I was able to go back to my church here in Knoxville. I missed it so much! 

Afterwards, Amy, Hui Ju, Leslie, and I went to the outlet mall. for a long long time. We were there for so long I had time to take a picture with my baby:

Isn't he just adorable?! He's a little vol fan! He wants to grow up and be the quarterback for the Vols.

Now that I think about it, it's probably creepy that I'm posing with a headless baby mannequin..but at the time it seemed like a good idea. 

Saturday in the Park - 8/20/11

This here's a picture of a house you can see from a park. Karly and I went walking and came across this.

Here is my thought process:

• How in the world does that person mow their lawn!? 
• What if they just stepped a little too far? They would surely plummet to their death!
• There ain't no way I'd walk anywhere around that! 
• What if they had children? 
• "Hey ma, we're gonna go play tag in the backyard."
• Next thing you know one of them runs in to tell ma that little jimmy was running too fast and couldn't stop soon enough....

Oh, and I also thought, if you are going to live where people can see your house from miles away...at least make it a pretty house. geez.


Now to tell you about Mallory and I's adventure that took place not this weekend but last.
The plan was to drive to Nashville, spend the afternoon walking around downtown, and then drive about 45 minutes out to go to our friend Lindsey Jo's baby shower. Afterwards, we were going to stay the night at Mallory's brothers apartment.

Here's how it actually went:
Mallory and I left around 11:30 that Saturday. We stop at Chic-fil-a and realized that we had left the baby shower invitation at home. Mallory said she was pretty sure that the baby shower was at 6 or 6:30. Once we get into Nashville, we decided to go on and text Lindsey Jo and make sure we knew what time the baby shower started. Lindsey Jo said it started at 2:00. 

It was 1:50. Oops. I frantically jump into the back of Mallory's SUV and wrap the presents with wedding gift bags because we didn't buy any baby shower ones. Then we realize that we don't have the address to the baby shower. I text Lindsey Jo again and thanks to the wonderful iphone technology I am able to get directions to the shower. Mallory gets us there in 20 minutes. (It takes 45 minutes when you are driving like a sane person)

Mallory was still dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, no makeup, and hair not done. When we got there she got ready in the back of her car. I don't know how that girl did it but she got out of the car looking like she had just spent the last hour getting ready. Bravo Mallory, I would not have looked like that if I only had five minutes!

Mallory, Lindsey Jo, and I

After the baby shower was over, Lindsey Jo and Bryant invited us to come see their house and Isaac Henry's room-to-be. We put the baby shower cake in our car because they didn't have room in theirs. Isaac Henry's room was so cute! So was the rest of the house, of course, that Lindsey Jo is one creative girl!

Mallory's brother said that he had tickets to a Titans game and wanted to know if we wanted them. I have never been to a NFL game so we were all for it. We left Lindsey Jo's house and headed to Kinko's to print off the tickets. About 20 minutes out we get a call from Lindsey Jo.

We still had the cake in our car.

Bryant came and got the cake from us and we were back on the road. Then we hit the traffic. We barely moved. Fortunately, we finally got to the Kinkos. We get to the computer and it won't accept any form of debit or credit card. (you have to pay to use the internet...seriously?) An employee gets it to work after 5 minutes of us trying and we log on to accept the tickets.

We had to accept them at 6:50.

It was 7:20.

You have got to be kidding me. This day just wasn't going quite like we had planned for it to. We leave and pull up to the gas station.

Out of order.

We get to Mallory's brothers apartment. He tells us his roommate is out for the night and that she said we were welcome to sleep in her bed. I felt kind of weird sleeping in some rando's bed...but Mallory knew her and I was exhausted so I didn't mind. Around 2 am we go to sleep.

4:30 am. The door opens and the light turns on. I jump up. I have my retainer in and my pj's on. I look like a goof. The girl wasn't out after all, in fact she sat on the bed and began having a conversation with Mallory about her married life. Are you serious? It's 4 freaking 30. She turns to me and I say with a lovely lisp that we will go sleep on the couch in the living room. She says no that we can all just squeeze into the bed...AWKWARD.

We decide to pass. We go in the living room and one of her friend's is sleeping on the couch. So where did we end up sleeping for the next 4 hours? I slept in a recliner. Mallory slept on the floor. We each used a jacket as our blanket...

8/19/2011

So, I realized that I am not going to be able to post a picture from the day on the day that I took the picture because...the day wouldn't be over yet, and I might have something more to say about that day but I already posted! Does that make sense?

So, here's my post about yesterday:

I don't have classes on Friday (or Monday, but that's beside the point, I just wanted to make the rest of you jealous) :)

So, I really didn't do much of anything. I slept. I ate. and I made a bunch of these things:

These little flowers are a pain in the butt.  Each one is made out of six circles and then you sew them together to make the flower. Trace the circles, cut out the circles, sew them together. Trace the circles, cut out the circles, sew them together. Over and Over again. We have to make many of these flowers in order to make the garland we are wanting to decorate our apartment with. I'll upload a picture when we get done with it, but that may be months from now, because after making about fifteen of these your hand feels like it may fall off. All I have to say is it better be dang cute! 

Then, I got to hang out with these crazy people last night:

Leslie (my roommate) and I

Tony, Me, and Kevin

Kevin's house had a chalkboard wall. I want it. I wonder how mad the apartment management would get if I just painted one of our walls with chalkboard paint...

Stay tuned because tomorrow I plan on telling you about Mallory and I's weekend in Nashville and our crazy Saturday!

Ready. Set. GO.

It’s here. My final year at the University of Tennessee. The victory lap begins. Since this will be a year I will want to remember, and my memory as you all know is terrible, I have decided to start a blog. I probably won't be the best blogger, but don't give up on me!

I have challenged myself to post a random picture everyday until graduation. Well, they won’t be completely random. It's not like I’m going to post some picture of a donkey or a picture of a turtle eating a flower. 

It will be a picture of something that has happened that day. Maybe a picture of some friends and I at lunch or an exciting picture of the notes I’m studying for class. I have a feeling that the last one will be a recurring one, but I will try not to bore you and make it interesting!

I’ll blog about my random thoughts and events too. Get excited! You’ll finally get to see what it would be like to be inside my head!

Picture of the day:

Look who I found in my English 253 class!!! This is Karly. She is muy hilarioso. I just looked that word up. It’s not real. I’ve been using that in every Spanish class I’ve ever been in. Whoops.

Story Time! 

Today, I was walking out of my Social Psychology class ready to walk all the way across campus to my car. It’s pouring down raining.

Guess who didn’t have an umbrella? This girl.

I keep walking, thankful that I don’t have another class, because I’m starting to look like I just got out of the shower with my clothes on. I notice that everyone around me has an umbrella. Seriously people? Everyone on campus just happened to have an umbrella except me? There go some girls with rain jackets.

I’m contemplating asking some rando if I could walk under their umbrella with them.

All of a sudden a freaking chipmunk dropped his acorn. On my head! Thanks a lot Alvin! I wanted to pick it up and chunk it back at him. But I decided to be the bigger person. 

Oh and guess when the rain stops?...

As soon as I get to the parking garage.

God really does have a sense of humor. I think he likes to make my life a little more interesting even when it’s just walking back from a class.

On another note, I really should invest in an umbrella.