so here's the thing

Sorry for the absence again! My computer is practically fried and I am just too scared to turn it on sometimes! I always think of these great things to write down, but they never actually make it on here... sorry about that. 

so here are a few things I am loving this week!

{morning lattes from this coffee shop that used to be a news paper}

{work clothes-business casual of course.}

 {exploring downtown}

{feeling like an adult with a real job}

{spending me time at the gym}

{exposed brick}

{breathing fresh air}

{pushing myself to new heights}

{remembering all our laughs}

{getting up early and starting my day off right}

{cute new clothes for a cute new job}

 {high heels-sassy ones at that}

{open fields}

 {fresh cut tulips}

 {living vicariously through my friends' travels}

I hope everyone has a fabulous rest of the week and weekend! hopefully my computer will miraculously fix itself!

Oh, and I started my internship this week.  I LOVE it! I couldn't be happier! I feel like it is only going to get more challenging and rewarding as the weeks come at me!

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what a life

wow the Lord has blessed today! the sun is shining and it is going to be 75 today! even warmer than it was in flordia! i hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

here are some pictures from my friend s and i's trip to sanibel!

it's safe to say, we had a blast! and lots of sun! these are all from s's camera because of course mine are still not uploaded--procrastination. 

"She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing 'yes' in the sky.
"

{Monique Duval}

enjoy it!

it's hard to say sorry for being away so long

when i'm in florida for the week!

But this i am,

and i am so sorry for no forwarning or anything!

right now i am sitting by the pool in Sanibel, Florida again!

my friend s and i have been enjoying the beautiful weather

(minus this crazy wind they have been having here). 

 i will say that the sun is shining, i'm tanning, and enjoying the company...

so really i can't complain. 

 i hope you are having a fantastic week and the weather allows you to get out and do something!

p.s. i'll be back for real on friday!

QBA. (explanation below)

so this weekend i got the awesome opportunity to take a few wonderful ladies to ocean isle beach for what we at younglife call campaigners weekend.  we worshiped, praised and learned all weekend long.  it was beautiful.  the weekend contained lots of QBA aka quality boss action.  those ladies are the craziest and came up with that phrase, and i loved it! QBA happened frequently.

{sunrise on saturday}

 

{L.O.V.E.}

 

{jump}

  

{stroll}

{through the legs}

 

{pose}

{laugh}

it was a great weekend overall.  i love these girls.  i love this thing called younglife.  most of all i love Jesus, and how much he loves me!

All smiles!

Hey everyone! Thanks so muh for all the love yesterday! I am pretty sure I did well on the exam! It was tough but it for sure didn't swallow me whole! Y'all are the greatest blog friends out there! For real! I am so thankful to have y'all... This small little family has such a big heart and I am so blessed to have y'all around! Anyways I hope everyone is having a great Thursday!

What did everyone give up for lent? I chose fast food(aka drive through joints which exempts bruggers and starbucks)


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week

 Tuesday night i ended up hanging out with three of my lovely high school friends k, a & s.  we went to Chili's.  one thing these ladies did was leave a note for our waiter. My first thoughts consisted of: creepy, weird, he's way too old for y'all, etc. etc. but then they told me that they do it for every waiter they have.  They think it is a nice way for a waiter to know how much they were appreciated since being a waiter/waitress is an exhausting job.  I though it was so sweet!

for those of you who follow me on twitter, you may have seen that i was wrongly accused of cheating on a homework, yes a homework assignment by one of my professors! Not to mention that he posted about it on his PUBLIC twitter account, I mean jeez! so that was not a fun thing to deal with this week, but i will say that all is well!

Last night preston and i went on a date to pei wei (top 5 restaurants).  we picked up some awesome work clothes for him for his "business casual" days at school, then proceeded to the gym.  Now let me preface this by saying that i am not a good runner...but terribly wish i had endurance to do things like run/bike/swim.  cheerleading did me in and short sprints of working out are more my style.  but last night i rode the bike for 33 minutes! and i went 11.68 miles! i have never in my life gone that far in a work out! i was so proud of myself! I may have looked extremely slightly ridiculous though, because i had a rockin playlist and was dancing & singing to keep me entertained.

anyways, sorry for the long post.  I do that a lot, and i am working on shortening them... but if you got all the way here good for you. If not, i forgive you! but if you do get all the way down here let me know what you think of this: I was considering doing a confessions thread of posts.  maybe every other week or something posting things i have done to confess them, and if people wanted to e-mail me theirs as well, we could all get a good laugh out of what each other has done... thoughts? let me know!

friendship

 

so here is something i have been pondering...

college and friendships.

i have been realizing how i really don't talk to a lot of my friends from high school anymore.

see,

there was this group of us.

we didn't have a special name or anything

but we were together all the time

like a stitched seam

but since college that seam has been pulled and we have gradually fallen away from each other

the worst part is, is that we are on the same college campus!

but it seems like recently it has been a one way show

me calling them to see if they want to hang out

but they are both in sororities and are too busy with that and partying

and on top of that i am busy too with younglife

so i don't blame it all on them.

our schedules just seem to clash. all the time.

so finally after some unreturned phone calls i called it quits

i stopped calling, text, writing on their fb walls

and decided that college changes people.

we aren't the same girls we used to be

we have different goals

different beliefs

different loves

and i was ok with that

then randomly last night one of them texted me

not a "hey, how's it going lets hang out"

but something that normal people who talk all the time would say

but i followed it up with a "p.s. how are you?"

returned with "good, i'm at work right now but we need to get coffee sometime"

and i agree.

just because she let me go i shouldn't just give up on our friendship right?

i just get confused.

i love her

but i don't love the way she has treated me in the past few years

i know forgiveness is in order

and i will forgive her.

but in all honesty

would you want to be friends with someone who doesn't share the same

beliefs

morals

&

loves

as you?

someone who cut you out of their life just because?

someone with whom there isn't much in common with anymore?

is it OK to not be friends with them?

you were best friends for years, swept away by the busy life of college....

a friendship ripped at the seam

mend it or not?

btw

(this post may be long, it will be like three days packed into one!)

over the past few months of doing this, i have grown to love it! blogging that is. you ladies mean so much to me, and i love checking up on what you all are doing! it may be silly, but i feel like i have accomplished something with my 28 followers who are so sweet and genuine! it is like a little family for my little growing blog...and i love it, every second of it.  although i do get a little overwhelmed when my reader shows i have 50 unread posts from all the your fabulous blogs i read! but i just wanted to make sure all you ladies realized how much i truly care about you and how much you all mean to me!

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now back to the obsession general liking of other blogs. i have a problem. especially this semester.

i only have one class out of all five of them where i don't have my computer open...so that means that in all four of the others, i have blogs open constantly. my friends think that all i do is blog/read blogs but i promise i pay attention sometimes! like this instance today in our shakespeare class...(still not sure why i am still enrolled in this little gem)

professor: rambling about how the word "expense" in sonnet 129 is equal to orgasm and how shakespeare was probably gay, had an affair with not only some high status young male, but a black lady as well.  oh and he didn't live with his wife... we learned all of this about him by reading the sonnets.
me: This may be a stupid question, but how long did it take him to write these sonnets? They seem pretty complicated.
professor: basically speaking french with the occasional condescending: "a 7th grader with a decent vocabulary can figure these out, they are so simple and straight forward" blah blah blah (not answering my question) continues to blab.
c: (speaking to my friend j) i have no clue what's going on, how did alex know what was going on, i thought all she was planning on doing in here was blog?
j: (speaking to c) me too, since when does she pay attention in class?
me: (in my mind) why are you still talking about how anyone can understand what shakespeare is writing when i asked how long it took him to write them?
professor: did i answer your question? good.
me: .... (maybe blogging is the better alternative to attempting to learn shakespeare)

so essentially what i learned today in class is that shakespeare is really hard to understand unless you break it down bit by bit with a college professor who is obsessed with it. but really, who has hours upon hours to do this? we only got through 10 of the 154 sonnets in two class periods which = 3 hours total... really shakespeare? fact: obviously you didn't write that to the point if it takes that long to break them down and get the meaning down....

back to reality. i have had a really hard time keeping up with everyone's blogs recently because i have been trying to learn shakespeare, pr, more pr, writing and food science...but i pinky promise i will finish reading them all by the end of next week! 

tomorrow (or i guess, technically, today) i am leaving to go skiing with younglife.  we will be back late saturday night which will be followed by a short and sweet hang out with preston and an overnight babysitting job from sunday to monday. so i will be back probably monday.

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but i thought this would be fun-

how about leaving some questions for me to answer? 

anything is game, i'll answer it. pinky promise. ask one or as many as you'd like!