One weekend a year, just like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and every other holiday in the world, people spend dozens of dollars on different chocolates, jelly beans, and other candies to buy for their kids to see the expressions on their faces...and to wire them up on chocolate (haha). This year, at our house, it was all about Family! For the first time, my entire family came to Easter lunch at our house for a day full of family & fun!
Now one thing that every woman stressed over Easter morning....WHAT TO WEAR THAT LOOKS "SPRING LIKE." To be honest and as most of you may know, Im not like most girly-girls and It usually takes me about...30 seconds to find out what I want to wear for that day...but today was definitely not like any other day, because I had no idea what to wear! I got up at 6:15am...ya thats right, there is 2-6:15's in a day hahah whooo knewwww?! Anyway, I had no idea what to wear and after 30 minutes of trying outfit after outfit on and finally called it good on my long purple sweater, black leggings, and my grey 3 inch heels :) We all finally were ready and went to church. For those of you who dont know, I have gone to church my ENTIRE life. Basically grew up in one church and to this day consider it my second home. I love my church and everyone in it. Sometimes It bothers me that it bothers others that I do go to church and i have been going my entire life. Its who i am...and its all i really know...Pastor Jeff preached an amazing service and the worship music was incredible...especially the song my bis sis got up there and sang ;) Love her <3
After church, we all went back to the house to prepare for lunch! Mom was making Ham (which was amazinggg), Mashed Potatoes, Squash, Sweet Potato, Corn, and Memere made Cole Slaw (yummmm), and everything was INCREDIBLE!!! The whole family was under one roof and it meant so much to all of us. Usually, the only time we have to be all together is Christmas and Thanksgiving...and by then, there is usually a few stragglers along the way (in other words, boyfriends, or new children...but hopefully no more for a longggg time). After lunch, we all went outside where Kacie & Dave hid Easter Eggs filled with Candy & such for Noah & Judah and it was a blast to watch them run and find them :) They are my favorite men in the whole world & I love them! After bubbles filled the air, balls were flung all over the backyard, and the sun was shining...it was time for me and Libby to head back to school :( This was the hardest good bye in a long time....and I dont know why. 1 month from this past Thursday I will be graduating College and going into the real world...scary, i think yes! What does the future hold for me? Where will I be in 10 years? Who will I be with? Someday, in one way or another, i will hopefully find the answer to these questions; but until then...Enjoy the ride but dont forget to hold on tight :)
This Easter was by far the best yet, because I had my whole family together again!!!
<3 xox <3
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Some thoughts on paper...
As my time in Providence is starting to quickly come to an end, I cant help but think about what the rest of my life is going to look like.
For the last few weeks, Ive been slowly starting to become buried in term projects for my classes this trimester and I feel as if the only thing ive been doing for weeks is homework, homework, and even more homework. I mean, Im not trying to complain but seriously....WHAT THE HELL DOES WRITING A PAPER ABOUT HARP SEALS HAVE TO DO WITH GETTING A DEGREE IN BAKING & PASTRY?! And coming up with a problem in the Johnson & Wales University system...we dont have enough time left in the semester to talk about the problems this school has. Thankfully I have 2 of my 4 projects already done so there goes a "little" bit of stress.
This weekend my dad and sister, Libby were both on vacation this week and the decided to come spend the night in Providence with me. We had so much fun going to the Providence Place Mall and the Roger Williams Zoo & most importantly...THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY!! It was am amazing weekend and it meant the world to me to have "part of" my family here with me :)
After they dropped me off and went home, I once again locked myself in my room and was convinced it was going to be a productive night....well, needless to say, facebook chat is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too distracting! Plus, texting should be illegal when your doing homework :) Anyway, I didnt get much work done but I got to talk to some pretty cool people in the mean time :)
Thursday will make it 1 month until I graduate college and I cant believe its been 2 longgg years already when it feels like just yesterday I made that long walk across the stage at my HIGH SCHOOL graduation, trying not to trip and fall :) Never did I imagine that day would come so fast or I would have prepared myself a little better. How you ask? No idea...i just would have focused more and made more friends I guess...Lets just say its been one hell of a year! So far Ive met some pretty awesome people both at home and here in Providence. Thought to myself the other day about why I am the way I am with meeting new people and making new friends...and came up with one reason....I have this thought that, if im only going to be here for 6 months...1 month now, then why bother making new friends if Im never going to see them again? I met a great person in my labs and we clicked from day 1...then she left for France, and she currently lives in Minnesota and its not like I can just gt in my car and drive to see her when I want. So why bother? I would absolutely LOVE to have tons of friends who I hang out with all the time and have tons of fun with...but sometimes it just doesnt come easy for some people...
All in all, a goal for me this week is to kick my butt into gear, get all my homework done, and spend some quality time with friends and family :)
xox <3
For the last few weeks, Ive been slowly starting to become buried in term projects for my classes this trimester and I feel as if the only thing ive been doing for weeks is homework, homework, and even more homework. I mean, Im not trying to complain but seriously....WHAT THE HELL DOES WRITING A PAPER ABOUT HARP SEALS HAVE TO DO WITH GETTING A DEGREE IN BAKING & PASTRY?! And coming up with a problem in the Johnson & Wales University system...we dont have enough time left in the semester to talk about the problems this school has. Thankfully I have 2 of my 4 projects already done so there goes a "little" bit of stress.
This weekend my dad and sister, Libby were both on vacation this week and the decided to come spend the night in Providence with me. We had so much fun going to the Providence Place Mall and the Roger Williams Zoo & most importantly...THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY!! It was am amazing weekend and it meant the world to me to have "part of" my family here with me :)
After they dropped me off and went home, I once again locked myself in my room and was convinced it was going to be a productive night....well, needless to say, facebook chat is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too distracting! Plus, texting should be illegal when your doing homework :) Anyway, I didnt get much work done but I got to talk to some pretty cool people in the mean time :)
Thursday will make it 1 month until I graduate college and I cant believe its been 2 longgg years already when it feels like just yesterday I made that long walk across the stage at my HIGH SCHOOL graduation, trying not to trip and fall :) Never did I imagine that day would come so fast or I would have prepared myself a little better. How you ask? No idea...i just would have focused more and made more friends I guess...Lets just say its been one hell of a year! So far Ive met some pretty awesome people both at home and here in Providence. Thought to myself the other day about why I am the way I am with meeting new people and making new friends...and came up with one reason....I have this thought that, if im only going to be here for 6 months...1 month now, then why bother making new friends if Im never going to see them again? I met a great person in my labs and we clicked from day 1...then she left for France, and she currently lives in Minnesota and its not like I can just gt in my car and drive to see her when I want. So why bother? I would absolutely LOVE to have tons of friends who I hang out with all the time and have tons of fun with...but sometimes it just doesnt come easy for some people...
All in all, a goal for me this week is to kick my butt into gear, get all my homework done, and spend some quality time with friends and family :)
xox <3
Monday, April 11, 2011
"On Cloud Nine" kind-of-night :)
Well, it's been one hell of a 2 weeks lately. Between the stress of school and stupid ex boyfriends, to the fantastic time I had with great friends at a great hockey game, Id say this week has had it's fair share of good and bad days.
After 2 weeks of being in Providence I finally went home this weekend and had a great time. The long drive home always gets me thinking what Im going to do and who im going to do it with over the weekend and it also gives me a chance to have some "me-time" where no one can bug me or talk to me. Where I can turn the music up as loud as I possibly want and scream with all my might to to the music...and I love it!
As soon as I walked in the door at home thursday night the smelled of Chinese Food filled my house. Its actually quite funny how almost every time I come home my parents get Chinese Food on Thursday nights :) I stayed in thursday night and spent time on the couch watching episode after episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent with my mom and had a nice relaxing night (It was well needed). Libby & Kat came home that night and we continued to relax together (I hadn't seen them both in a while so it was nice).
Friday I got to spend most of the day with my best friend Caitlin!! Im going to be a little dramatic and say she "dragged me" to therapy with her. I told her I would go under one condition...the focus of the session would have to stay on her! Haha see, the last time she dragged me, I was under the influence that we were there t talk about her relationship problems and school problems...but apparently that wasnt the case! We talked for about an hour about MY RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS. At the time, i was seeing a guy that Caitlin had set me up to to help get over my other ex boyfriend..which at the time it helped. I was in love with this new guy...until he decided to choose drinking alcohol everynight with his buddies instead of hang with me..needless to say, I was crushed when things didnt go my way...YET AGAIN. Anyway back to the session. It turned out to be all about me and why I am the way I am, which totally didnt sit right with me. Well, this time we went to therapy, it was all about Caitlin...which is totally ok with me :) After therapy, we went to SMCC to get some information and had a great day! (There Caitlin, I put you in my blog...LOVE YA)!
Later that day i went to lunch with an old friend and had a great time!
The day quickly went from great to crappy in litttle under 2 minutes. I got a call from a friend, telling me my ex boyfriend (whom I thought i was still in love with...definitely not anymore..) has been involved in some "extra curricular activities" with a friends current girlfriend...which in turn crushed me. See, ive never had any type of good luck with guys, and when I met...lets just call him....John...when I met John, I thought my luck had finally turned around. I was so unbelievably happy and everyone noticed right away. I was falling for him and vise versa (this I believe). We had a great relationship the first 2 months...then things went downhill. He started drinking, HEAVILY, after he had just told me he wanted to quit completely and "grow up". But once again, this was not happening. I was unhappy again and it made me sad to know he was filling all time spare time with booze and hanging with his loser friends. To end a long story, the relationship ended and its been over a month that Ive been single...which has not happened to me in over 2 maybe 3 years....I was ok with how it ended and we both talked about taking time off and getting back together some time soon...but now that I found out hes...well, "hanging" with other people, Im completely done with the idea of getting back together. It was a long night but when push comes to shove, it goes to show that the Mr Right I was looking for, just turned out to be Mr. Right NOW.
Saturday I got to spend sometime with Kathy & Amanda (a friend who came down from Canada) and went shopping for the ingredients to make 40 cream horns I made alllll afternoon, and we went to the movies that night.
To finish the great weekend, Libby, Kat & I met up with Kathy & Amanda at the game (& Kari & Kalle of course;) ) where it was "Shirts off their backs" night. Unfortunately, none of us (except Kari) won a jersey but we had lots of fun at the game. After that game......................is when the night got good. We met up with people at Rivalries after for dinner and ate some pretty great food! The hockey players were having dinner upstairs and I had made a few extra cream horns for a very special (and very sexy may I add) hockey player, and by what he said about it...it was amazing :) I was on top of the world...not to mention he came over to talk to us for a few minutes, so i got to look at him for a little bit longer! After he left, with a container filled, I was on cloud nine for the remainder of the night...and everyone knew it! We socialized for a while, and got ready to go. As we sat by the door, socializing some more, another special Hockey Player came down the stairs...this is the part where Libby and Kat went absolutely crazy when they saw him. Igor Gongalsky is a sexy player from the Ukraine and Libby was in love! He stopped to talk to Kathy and we all got introduced to him. Libby & Kats night was made when they got a picture with him! We were alllll on cloud nine after that! As were were leaving, Kalle walked us to the car and we were on our way (to get lost in Portland) home!
As we drove home, the only thing on each of our minds was the fact that we all got to meet someone that made our nights just a little bit better. (I on the other hand, have a few more than one that make my night better, but im not naming names ;) ). It was a dream come true night, not to mention everyone that tried my cream horns said they were absolutely amazing, which is a huge honor in itself!
Well, guess its time to put my brain back together and start a new week full if classes. As I was driving back, I couldnt help but think that I only have 6 weeks left until my career at Johnson & Wales University is over for good. Crazy how fast 2 years actually goes isnt it? ;)
**Living life one day at a time**
After 2 weeks of being in Providence I finally went home this weekend and had a great time. The long drive home always gets me thinking what Im going to do and who im going to do it with over the weekend and it also gives me a chance to have some "me-time" where no one can bug me or talk to me. Where I can turn the music up as loud as I possibly want and scream with all my might to to the music...and I love it!
As soon as I walked in the door at home thursday night the smelled of Chinese Food filled my house. Its actually quite funny how almost every time I come home my parents get Chinese Food on Thursday nights :) I stayed in thursday night and spent time on the couch watching episode after episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent with my mom and had a nice relaxing night (It was well needed). Libby & Kat came home that night and we continued to relax together (I hadn't seen them both in a while so it was nice).
Friday I got to spend most of the day with my best friend Caitlin!! Im going to be a little dramatic and say she "dragged me" to therapy with her. I told her I would go under one condition...the focus of the session would have to stay on her! Haha see, the last time she dragged me, I was under the influence that we were there t talk about her relationship problems and school problems...but apparently that wasnt the case! We talked for about an hour about MY RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS. At the time, i was seeing a guy that Caitlin had set me up to to help get over my other ex boyfriend..which at the time it helped. I was in love with this new guy...until he decided to choose drinking alcohol everynight with his buddies instead of hang with me..needless to say, I was crushed when things didnt go my way...YET AGAIN. Anyway back to the session. It turned out to be all about me and why I am the way I am, which totally didnt sit right with me. Well, this time we went to therapy, it was all about Caitlin...which is totally ok with me :) After therapy, we went to SMCC to get some information and had a great day! (There Caitlin, I put you in my blog...LOVE YA)!
Later that day i went to lunch with an old friend and had a great time!
The day quickly went from great to crappy in litttle under 2 minutes. I got a call from a friend, telling me my ex boyfriend (whom I thought i was still in love with...definitely not anymore..) has been involved in some "extra curricular activities" with a friends current girlfriend...which in turn crushed me. See, ive never had any type of good luck with guys, and when I met...lets just call him....John...when I met John, I thought my luck had finally turned around. I was so unbelievably happy and everyone noticed right away. I was falling for him and vise versa (this I believe). We had a great relationship the first 2 months...then things went downhill. He started drinking, HEAVILY, after he had just told me he wanted to quit completely and "grow up". But once again, this was not happening. I was unhappy again and it made me sad to know he was filling all time spare time with booze and hanging with his loser friends. To end a long story, the relationship ended and its been over a month that Ive been single...which has not happened to me in over 2 maybe 3 years....I was ok with how it ended and we both talked about taking time off and getting back together some time soon...but now that I found out hes...well, "hanging" with other people, Im completely done with the idea of getting back together. It was a long night but when push comes to shove, it goes to show that the Mr Right I was looking for, just turned out to be Mr. Right NOW.
Saturday I got to spend sometime with Kathy & Amanda (a friend who came down from Canada) and went shopping for the ingredients to make 40 cream horns I made alllll afternoon, and we went to the movies that night.
To finish the great weekend, Libby, Kat & I met up with Kathy & Amanda at the game (& Kari & Kalle of course;) ) where it was "Shirts off their backs" night. Unfortunately, none of us (except Kari) won a jersey but we had lots of fun at the game. After that game......................is when the night got good. We met up with people at Rivalries after for dinner and ate some pretty great food! The hockey players were having dinner upstairs and I had made a few extra cream horns for a very special (and very sexy may I add) hockey player, and by what he said about it...it was amazing :) I was on top of the world...not to mention he came over to talk to us for a few minutes, so i got to look at him for a little bit longer! After he left, with a container filled, I was on cloud nine for the remainder of the night...and everyone knew it! We socialized for a while, and got ready to go. As we sat by the door, socializing some more, another special Hockey Player came down the stairs...this is the part where Libby and Kat went absolutely crazy when they saw him. Igor Gongalsky is a sexy player from the Ukraine and Libby was in love! He stopped to talk to Kathy and we all got introduced to him. Libby & Kats night was made when they got a picture with him! We were alllll on cloud nine after that! As were were leaving, Kalle walked us to the car and we were on our way (to get lost in Portland) home!
As we drove home, the only thing on each of our minds was the fact that we all got to meet someone that made our nights just a little bit better. (I on the other hand, have a few more than one that make my night better, but im not naming names ;) ). It was a dream come true night, not to mention everyone that tried my cream horns said they were absolutely amazing, which is a huge honor in itself!
Well, guess its time to put my brain back together and start a new week full if classes. As I was driving back, I couldnt help but think that I only have 6 weeks left until my career at Johnson & Wales University is over for good. Crazy how fast 2 years actually goes isnt it? ;)
**Living life one day at a time**
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