Pets

There is a saying that you are either a dog person or a cat person....but I cannot figure out which one I am.  I like cats when they are a few weeks old and they are little and cute, but I cannot stand a hyper cat that scratches everything.  I have the same problem with dogs.  I love them when they are puppies, but as soon as they get into that hyper annoying phase I don't want anything to do with them.  But I do like dogs when they get old and lazy and you can just sit there all day and pet them while they nap.  I can say that I have never really wanted a bird as a pet, you can't really do anything with them but look at them and they are really loud.  Fish on the other hand are pretty cool pets.  Like birds, you can't really do anything with fish but they do come in really cool colors and are nice to take care of and to look at.

College Life

Starting my very first college semester this semester at North Greenville University, I have found that college is a lot easier than I expected.  When me and my friends talked about college in high school we thought that we would have so much more work to do than the homework that we had in high school and that the teachers were all going to be mean and not teach us anything only lecture.  But that is not the case, at least for me.  I will admit that I do have more homework than I did in high school, but that is due to the fact that I study almost everyday where in high school I did not usually have to study until right before a test.  All of my teachers are nice and really care about us doing our best.  They do not give us work that they don't think we can do, I think they just want us to give some effort and try our best.  College's biggest problem is that most kids do not know what to do with their new freedom.  Stay in the dorm and study or go out with friends?...which would you choose?  If you just manage your time and do your work you will be fine.

Soooo ready for Spring Break!

Spring Break cannot get here fast enough.  Unfortunately we still have two weeks until  I get to lay around on the couch and watch too much travel channel and food network.  On the Saturday of Spring Break I am going to Charleston to see my friend Nicole.  She goes to the College of Charleston so I am going to be spending the night in her dorm.  She asked me to come down because she is doing a spinning relay for a foundation.  She has to be on a spinning bicycle for five hours!  I told her I am coming so that when she falls off from exhaustion someone will be there to make sure she is still alive and breathing.  After the relay we are coming back home to Landrum because that is where we both live, hopefully she survives the relay.  Then our plan is to paint the kitchen in my house.  My mom has painted the kitchen numerous times and cannot find her "perfect kitchen color".  So she is making Nicole and I paint it again, after a week she will probably say that she doesn't like it and we will end up painting it again. 

OCD much?

Like most siblings, my sister and I are constantly getting on each other's nerves.  She is very ADHD and unorganized where I am a little OCD.  When you mix two people like this together you get a train wreck.  For example, her room is always looks very messy and unorganized where my room is organized and clean.  I cannot understand why her room is like this and she cannot understand why I would want a room that is organized.  She likes her room messy, she says she can not find anything when she cleans her room.  It is like my sister and I are on the opposite ends of personality, we are completely different.  I hate being late for anything, but my sister is constantly late for everything.  She doesn't think it is a big deal to be late or forget something, where if I am late or if I forget something I get upset.  Sometimes I wish I was like my sister and not worry about things just to see how it is to be carefree.

Valentine Baby

Whenever I tell someone my birth date their reaction is the same.  "Awww your a Valentines baby!" , is what most say.  Don't get me wrong I like Valentine's Day as much as the next person, but after 19 years of getting either birthday cards that say Happy Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day cards that say Happy Birthday, it gets a little old.  I hate it when they try and mash the two days together!  They are two separate holidays.  So I made it a rule a couple of years ago that any birthday presents that I get cannot be pink, have hearts on them, or say Valentine's Day anywhere on them.  So now my parents get my brother, sister, and I a Valentine's Day present and then they give me my birthday present.  I feel sorry for my husband, he is gonna have to save up his money every year for me a birthday and a Valentine's Day gift.

Home :)

Every Friday after my last class I go home for the weekend.  My house is about 40 minutes away from North Greenville so the drive is not bad.  I really like going home for the weekend because it gives me a chance to hang out with my family and relax at home.  If I am feeling homesick during the week I sometimes go home and eat dinner with my family and then drive back to school.  Some college kids, when they come home, ask their moms to cook them their favorite dish or meal.  But we always have to go to our favorite Mexican Restruant.  Our family goes there so much that they know what we want to order before we tell them.  If we do not get to go to eat mexican we then go to our favorite Chinese Restruant.

Band Geek :)

Ok, I admit that I am a band geek.  I have played the flute since I was in the sixth grade and played the piccolo since the eleventh grade.  I also was in my high school's marching band, the Cardinal Pride (sometimes known as the Carolina Pride by competition judges who either cannot read or had forgotten their glasses that day), for five years.  And yep I was voted 1st Lt. my senior year.  But now since I am in college I really miss it.  I never thought that I would miss standing on the hot pavement at attention while getting yelled at, or running laps around the parking lot when we didn't get into our spots on time, or even playing the songs over and over and marching in a circle.  What it comes down to is, you don't know what you've got till its gone....wow that was really cheesy.

Superbowl!!

Since this Sunday is Superbowl Sunday our family decided to have a little get together watch the game and pig out on food.  We have all the traditional foods the chips, dip, shrimp, and we even have hot wings.  But my mom also asked me to make my famous pigs in a blanket.  Since I am such a nice and loving daughter I agreed, little did I know how many she wanted me to make!  So my pre-game fun was spent cutting Pillsbury cresent rolls into thirds and wrapping them around millions of cocktail winnies.  After finally getting the last pan out of the oven and onto a plate I took them into the dining room where I was swarmed by my family.  Needless to say they did not even make it to the singing of the National Anthem.