Halloween

I dressed up like a little kid for Halloween at work... I actually had one of my coworkers come over and give me a hug because she thought I looked so cute. She is now officially my favorite ^_^

book reviews

So I have a bunch of books to review, but I have been getting caught up with working 40 hours per week and waking up way too early (I start at 8 and I called a company at 8:45 and was jealous that they didn't open until 9, but it also meant I had to call them back which was annoying... )

current read: Wednesday Night Witches - lots of smiling big moments and reading in the stairwell on my lunch break at work... oh, and some moments where I'm laughing like crazy, but I still haven't figured out the true purpose of the book (there's something going on but I won't read the back of the book to find out what). I've heard that the ending is bad or a let down, but I guess I'll find out soon. And before I review that, I will be reviewing a few Meg Cabot books and Elsewhere (I bawled like a baby)...

wordle

So on wordle you can type in a blog url and it'll make one out of the feed. Here's one of my blog...



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someday my prince will come

Last week I went to my cousin Tracie's wedding at Oheka Castle. I have to say that it was really cool. Unfortunately, it was raining (cue: Alanis Morrisette's "Ironic"), but that made it interesting. When we got out of the car near the front doors, there were guys with umbrellas that came over to the car to walk us to the door keeping us dry. My mother looked so cute holding onto one guy's arm as he walked her on the cobblestone path. Inside was beautiful and elegant, but I was more focused on seeing my family than paying attention to the decorations. There were rose petals on the seats to throw after the wedding, but first they needed to get through the ceremony. Tracie had eight (I think) bridesmaids and she allowed the parents to bring their kids up with them so there were a few babies and toddlers.

Between the ceremony and dinner, I received voicemail from my sister urging me not to leave a glass slipper behind. No matter how cute a Prince might be, times have changed. These days, cell phone numbers or email addresses can be exchanged. There is no reason to leave my shoe behind if I met a cute Prince. (I love my sister...) Speaking of my sister, after the Best Man, Maid of Honor, and friend of the couple spoke, I wrote down some ideas of things that I want to talk about next year during my MoH speech. I have a lot of ideas, but the thought of formulating them and making the speech seems so final. Like she'll really be married and no longer share my last name. She already does not share my house, my city, or even my county, but, at least, now we still have the same last name.

Anyways, Saturday we looked into wedding flowers and Sunday we went to another country music concert. Ashlee Page, Cowboy Crush and Andy Griggs were the opening acts for the two headliners - Kellie Pickler and Trace Adkins. Kellie was amazing and hysterical. She has stories for all of her songs and talks about her ex-boyfriends by calling them pigs or other things because they cheated. She has this song "Best Days of Your Life" in which she basically tells the guy that the best days of his life are over and gone since they're no longer together. Another song basically says that the couple whose wedding she crashed won't make it a year so they might as well throw "Rocks Instead of Rice." Trace was also good (though not as good since he didn't have Kellie's personality), but he had this tendency for pelvic thrusts. Apparently, after he made the video for "One Hot Mama," his mother was not happy so he showed her "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" before she could see it on tv and get mad. I had tears streaming down my face when he sang "Arlington" and that was the only song that my dad clapped for.

Other news? hmmm. I got my copies of Eclipse and Breaking Dawn from Amazon so I will be reading them and reviewing them soon.

wedding in a castle?

That's right. My cousin is getting married in a castle. Seriously. It's called Oheka Castle (http://www.oheka.com/default.asp). I technically wasn't actually invited for some reason, but since I went to the bridal shower, my Aunt and Uncle were able to squeeze me in. (Since every single person that hears that a wedding is in a castle wants to go, you know.) Well, that is where I will be on Friday... at a castle, seeing my cousin get married.

Do you know how much I feel like I'm stepping back in time and into a book just talking about the idea? "Oh, yes. I'll be heading to the Island on Friday... Visiting a castle of some sort for the happy union." And the attire is formal so my next thought is Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella - "The Prince is Giving a Ball..."

20 questions - was 40 - I shortened it

When was the last time you had your hair cut? last month, I think... or was it the month before that? whenever it was it was when I finally realized that I should not have layers in my hair now that it has become straight (it was wavy growing up and changed but I don't like to acknowledge that)
What are you doing in two days? ummm... hanging out with Rebecca or CVB maybe? Hopefully getting a call from Dr. Robelee about getting into the school psych program late
What do you do when you're stressed out? nothing productive...
Have you ever kissed someone whose name starts with the letter J? John.... before Erika married him, I dated him for a very short time and yes, we did kiss
Ever been in love? unrequited, so it probably counts as no
Are you currently wanting any piercings or tattoos? I do want a tattoo at some point... possibly the one from Foxfire... maybe another...
Where's the last place you went shopping? checking online... apparently walmart... in Virginia... I guess when I bought The American Mall (cute MTV musical with Nina from Degrassi, Autumn from the OC, and Neil from SYTYCD)
Who was the last person to hug you? my brother thanking me for making breakfast
Who was the last person to call you cute? probably mom...
How long does it take you to get ready to go out? if I'm just going out, I just throw on clothes... if I want to look cute, longer... if I need to shower, an extra half hour (includes 5-7 minutes to blow dry my hair)... if it's dressing up, probably the same amount of time since I can do makeup in 5 minutes or less unless I lose it like last time
What were you doing at midnight last night? reading, or on the computer - checking my open im from last night? I was reading "The Lucky Place" - Zu Vincent
If you could move somewhere else, would you? yes... into my own place... of course, that would sort of take money and income, and self sufficiency
Do you think relationships are ever really worth it? yes...
If you got married to your best guy friend, would you be happy? I actually have told people that we'd probably get married if he didn't date other people since, aside from my family, he is the person I feel the most comfortable around.
Do you remember what you were like a year ago? scared sh*tless at becoming a counselor
Which girl's house was the last you spent the night at? back when she lived here? my sister's! ::wink::
Where is your best friend at this exact moment? CVB is taking a test
Were you happy when you woke up today? yes... I finally woke (nearly) with my alarm instead of sleeping past it for over an hour. I was able to read for a little bit and then make breakfast! If I can get to bed tonight a little earlier, I might ACTUALLY wake WITH the alarm tomorrow!
What's on your bedroom floor right now? too much... the floor it clean, sort of. It's just that the clean floor means that there are banker's boxes all over and stuff on the boxes and my shoes spilling out of the closet a little, and my purses spilling out of the closet since I don't know where to put them...
Does anyone hate you? In the past, I probably would have said yes, but now I don't think that anyone would bother enough to hate me. It's like me, or feel indifferent about me.

I like it and I don't

So, I have this job, an internship. I'm sort of sick of doing it so often even though for the past 2 weeks I've only worked one day each week due to snow days and holidays. I just really want a break. I'm looking forward to Spring break, so much. When Marist goes on break, I'm gonna take off from my internship because I just need time to breathe. Of course, that's not going to happen because we're taking a big deal trip to Canada and I'm going to meet a lot of relatives. I don't know. I hope that there will be some time before it and some time after it when I can just be like "ahhhhh" and let it all out, and maybe read a book or two. I'm so sick of school. I can not wait to get out. Just 3 months and I'll be done with school, 4 and I'll be done with my internship. But then I'll have to look into getting a job. I really should start the search before that but I really don't want to do that. I have spoken to my supervisor about it. I need to convince him that I really want to be a counselor, not a teacher, before we can move onto the part about what I am qualified to do and such. Now he's still talking about working over the summer at a school in order to test to see if I like teaching or counseling better. I need to just do the counseling because I need a job in order to get insurance and then to be able to have the money to eventually move out. I don't know if I'm ready to move out. The only living on my own I've done was a semester of college before transferring home and for a few weeks here and there when I've gone on trips without my parents (Barbados, Australia). It's really scary to think about moving out. I don't know. It's really scary to think about getting a REAL job. I had a job for 2 years, but it was part time and retail. I don't know.