Finals Week

So this week is finals week and it has been very, very stressful. Here are a few things that I have done to  keep my head on straight and not freak out! 

Monday: I went for a run before sitting down to do homework. After moving the majority of my stuff back to my mom's house. (Have to love the 11 day gap between leases!) 

Tuesday: I spent nearly 12 hours in the library. But every 20-30 min I would get up and walk around. for some odd reason that seemed to do the trick of keeping my going.  Then I went to be at about 11:30 and attempted to get a good nights sleep (didn't work too well) 

Wednesday: I woke up slowly, I let myself snooze a few times and listened to some tunes when I finally got up. Took a long shower and then made a pot of coffee... then proceeded to drink the majority of it, BLACK! I never do that! After my final I'm heading back to the apartment to pack the rest of my "small" stuff and head back to my mom's with it. 

Thursday: I plan on staying in my pj's all day and studying as much as possible... 

The last thing that is on my mind right now is studying, which is terrible, but I just really want to get home and paint my furniture that is going into my new place!  

Only 2 more days of this craziness! I can do it, I can do it, I HAVE TO DO IT! 

Sharing the craftiness 

So, I have been very crafty lately. If found that its a major stress reliever and I realized how many crazy cool things I can make... Here are just a few of the things that I have made so far. 

I made this scarf this winter for my brothers girl friend's Christmas present. We all went to the Packer game on Christmas day and had an amazing time. 

 So, I found the fabric flower idea on Pintrest and I fell in love! So I went to Walmart and bought the scraps of the material and these are what I came up with. I gave them to the little girl that I work for for her birthday and it cost me about 6 dollars after all was said and done. 

Then I found this scarf idea on Pinterest... Out of 2 big, old T-shirts I made...  

 this! 

These are just a few of the crafts that I have done in the past... I have SO many other ones that I have not take photos of yet or that the photos just don't show how awesome it is... 

WoW Its been a very long time since I have posted anything!  Its almost finals week but I have a ton of new ideas I will share when finals are done!

See you soon!

Yet another semester beginning

So today is the last day of my month off for winter break. Its a rather bitter sweet feeling because I want to get another semester under my belt and get closer to graduation but at the same time I'm dreading the homework and everything that comes 16 credits. 

The hardest part about today was not the packing or even unpacking once I got back to my apartment, it was saying goodbye to my mom. I used to make fun of her for crying every time Tommy left to go back to school but this was the first time she cried in front of me as I was leaving.  It was just like that typical country song of the child leaving home for the first time.  (Even though this was hardly the first time). She came outside to move her car into the garage as I was backing out of the drive way and the tears were just rolling down her face. It took everything I had to not stop, go back up the drive way and hug her.  I got to the end of the block and of course I started to cry.  I guess I'm not allowed to make fun of her any more because I cried too. We're just a bunch of sappy, emotional women and it seems to only get worse the older I get. 

This just shows how much my mom and I have grown. There isn't a day when I don't at least talk to her a few times and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I was younger, I couldn't stand my mom, I knew everything and I was always right. (Yes mom, I'm admitting it). She was always very patient with me, yes we yelled and I'm sure I made her life miserable at times but after Tommy graduated it was just me at home for four years. (Well it should have only been four years but I ended up back home a few times).  In that time we had nothing else to do but get closer cause it was just us.  We would get along for a while and then have a huge fight but I think that college has made me grow up in more than a million ways. My mom and I are SO much closer than we ever were before and I couldn't imagine it any other way. I'm so thankful to have her in my life and to always have her support in EVERYTHING I do! She truly is my rock! 

The Top 12 Things I want to do in 2012

So here is a list of things that I want to do/learn in 2012, not in any particular order. 

1. Learn how to do a cartwheel!

2. Go to a musical in the Cities or Chicago.  

3. Go sky diving or in a hot air balloon. 

4. Get my 6th and last tattoo. 

5. Fly out to Vegas to see my best friend. 

7. Get working on an internship for next year. 

8. Learn how to make homemade ravioli. 

9. Spend more time with my niece and nephews! ;) 

10. Paint my camper for country fest.

11. Train Ava how to role over. 

12. Learn how to follow a pattern to sew a dress, not just off guesstimating. 

That sounds like a fairly doable list... well sort of. We shall see if I do at least half of them! 

A few thoughts about friends

Through out high school, my friends and I never thought we would grow apart but life has moved us all in different directions. Some are still close by and others are hundreds of miles away. Even though space separates us, when we are back together its as if very few things have changed. 

These girls have been there for as long as I can remember! 

College has brought tons of new friends my way. Even though most of us were in high school together, we didn't become close until after graduation and I can't imagine my life now with out them.

Random 80s night out in Eau Claire... Had a complete blast! Especially karaoke at the Sea Horse Inn! 

 These are some of my most favorite people in the world... at my favorite place in the world... COUNTRY FEST! 

So needless to say, I'm very blessed to have some amazing friends in my life! I'm so thankful to have them even though we don't get to see each other very often, they are so important to me. I don't tell them nearly enough how much I appreciate them. 

Random Thoughts

Today has been a very blah day but I am completely okay with that.  Winter break has been fabulous to me... not so much for my bank account but oh well. Spent a lot of time with my amazing friends with many plans still to come. I spent Christmas with my family at Lambeau field for my very first Packer game!! I was just like a kid in a candy store. On top of fulfilling a huge dream of mine of going to a Packer game, we got to spend it with my brothers girl friends family. I could not have asked for better company on Christmas, they were so welcoming and genuinely fun to be around!

This is a picture of my mom (left) me (middle), and brother Tommy (right)! These are the two most important people in my life. They have been there for me through thick and thin, and I can not thank them enough for how amazing they are. Tommy and I are both the luckiest kids in the world to have such an amazing mom! 

Any-who, Christmas day was an experience that I can hardly put into words! Christmas with my extended family is coming up this weekend, I can't hardly wait to see my cousins and to kick some butt in Monopoly!  ;) I've been practicing kids... (even though all my cousins still like to make fun of me for getting so angry during a game when we were kids that I pushed the board and ruined the rest of the game for them... oops)  

The holidays always seem to bring out the best and worst in people.  Why is it that people are so willing to fight with someone in a store for some item that they are going to give someone they love? Do they tell the recipient of the gift that they shoved someone out of the way so they could get that item for them? I sure hope people don't tell them what they did to get that gift!  This was the first year that we decided that we weren't going to get gifts, of course mom didn't follow that rule but it made us realize how much more important it is to spend time with each other than give silly materialistic gifts.  

2011 has taught me to appreciate all the little things.  To love the people that mean the most full heartedly and to let go of the things that I can not change.  I have loved and lost but I am still very great full for the time that I had with the people that I lost. 

One of my many goals for 2012 is to let go of the past and focus on the future and do what ever it takes to make ME unequivocally happy!