Exploring Chattanooga

Happy belated birthday Rebekah!

In celebration of another year in my dear friends life, we (My sister, Rebekah, Jennifer and David ) road tripped it to Chattanooga TN to explore their downtown. Despite spending most of our time waiting for a seat in a restaurant, we had a great time!

The following is a mixture of iPhone and my "real" camera pics.

I'm still not in love with it. But it was practice, and made me realize some things.

Like I need to practice more? :) 

Spring Break: Pigeon Forge

In celebration of the breaking of spring, some friends of ours came up to spend the weekend with us! I was very excited to get a chance to hang out with the girls, outside of the events we normally we see each other at. 

 The Agenda: 

Spend the day at Pigeon Fordge. Spend Money, Have a Blast 

12:00 P.M  Lunch @ Mellow Mushroom

Kristin, Kristen, Kara and Rebekah

Pepperoni Calzone = Death by Cheese

Kristin looooves Mellow Mushroom ;) 

 1:00 P.M. MagiQuest - Adventure Quest Pass [Mirror Maze, the Vault & Pirate Mini Golf] 

Magi Quest

Emily, Kristin, Rebekah, Kim, Kara, Kristen

My sister and I

Emily & I

Kristin and I

World's Largest Mirror Maze. Seriously? Fun. 

3:00 P.M.  Tanger Outlet! 

This trip worked out great for me since I'd just gotten my tax return in the day before, so I had some money to play with! And I'm super proud of myself for only spending a little over $100.

Fueling Up @ Starbucks

Starbucks and Apple Fritters

Room-mate comes home for a visit! :)

Fun with frames @ Claires

Two Skirts, A Sweater, A Pair of Shoes, One Bag, and Three books, we{I} were exhausted and ready to leave.

We didn't get home until around 9:00PM and while the other girls played  Wii and laughed at the videos we took, I excused myself to go to bed. 7:00AM comes ridiculously early when you're having fun. :( 

Are you on Spring Break? Are you taking a break this Spring just because? (as am I) 

Stay Safe Ok?

Moving Day

First off Happy First Day of Spring!
65-70 degree weather all day!
I really tried to do my homework.
Twice, but it didn't happen people.
It felt too much like summer to even attempt to do anything serious like school.

Its official.
Life as I knew it has officially ended.
I'm entering a new stage in the game.
One..I though I might avoid going to a community college and all.
I have a room mate. (Also known as "Roomie, RoomieC, C or Christy")
She's been moving in during the weekends, over the course of the past month, but its officially done now.
Granted our situation is different than a lot of other college students, since she's about 4 years older than I am, graduated college last year, and will probably be getting married in the next...1-4 years. (haha)

Her situation at home prompted this move, its not BAD as in ....BAD bad, but she needed to move, and guess whose home was made available!  (Thanks ..........YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!)
So that happened.
I'll admit to having second thoughts this week.
I mean...I've grown really comfortable having an house to myself for the past year...
But we're a lot a like, in many respects so I think we'll be fine. (READ: Like our own space,think a like, don't like the same foods...well I don't like her foods but she likes mine. hahaha)

Anyway her sister(R2)  and our other friend (H) moved into their house today as well.
So we all went out to dinner to celebrate.
Caffeine+ Funny Voicemails + 4 girls = lots and lots  of laughter

The dogs have actually adjusted to having a new person in the house rather well, TExas has stopped barking every-time she says something from her room, and they've also stopped whining at the baby gate we have propped to keep them out of her room.
Granted they are partially worn out from their extensive day of play as well. :)

Anyway now I'm just tired.
But I have SO.MUCH.HOMEWORK.
#I'mbeginningtohateschool

Spring Break 1 & 2

Spring Break Day 2

I wanted to write yesterday, but couldn't really summon the energy to post anything, other than Pompeii's 4 Month post. I spent most of the day cleaning, watching C move her stuff in, and helping them move some of my furniture around. I actually sat down and started reading a book, before I fell asleep for about an hour. (I rarely take naps) 

I did eventually run out and get some food,(yes I do pride myself on my *healthy* food choices) but am so looking forward to having a fridge again. According to my father, I am slated to get a today....but I'm not holding my breath. Eating out twice a day is E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E, and boring. Hence the Pizza.  Update: A fridge did arrive. It works. Thats all I need it to do. :)

But I digress

Spring Break - I'm actually going to do something useful this week, and really try to start some good habits. When it comes to starting new things, I normally start off really well (101N1001 for instance) but as life starts coming on, I start letting things drop off, unless is absolutely necessary. So I might be a little unrealistic to start working on new habits, when life is in an un-normal state...but the truth is, if I never start...I'll never get anywhere.

A few of my goals this week are:

• Go to bed/wake up earlier (....see already I'm snickering at this, and sabotaging the likelihood of this happening.)
• Start decorating the bathroom, or paint kitchen cabinets
• SEt up dentist appt for filling -(yikes)
• Spend less time on computer 
• Work 101N1001 #3, #13, #36, #41 (And I should probably stop there)
• Organize my closet!!! (by garment type)
• Restock Refrigerator (Had to pretty much throw out everything)
• Read a Book
• Do Homework X( >:( :(((( (you get the idea..)

And that's to new a small portion, of my page long list.

Just a little something to keep me busy. Can't wait to get started on it!!

Tomorrow.

March 5 - RAAK'd

First off Welcome New Followers!! :)) Here's the "real" March 5th Post.

I had a RAAK (Random Act of Attempted Kindness)#fail today. Since people around here, think dogs are great lawn ornaments, (Do Not.GEt ME STARTED) We have quite a few canine visitors from time to time.

Today's visitor was a well kept chocolate lab named Rex. I'd seen Rex earlier this week, when some people decided to park in our parking lot for the day. (We really needs some "Towed away Zone signs round here...) He was bouncing around the area, so I assumed he was theirs, and tried to calm the dachshunds, who were of course, Freakin out about the encroacher on their territory. They left, he left. Solidifying my thoughts.

Today as I was preparing to leave for my SHOE meetup there he was again. This time, without his "owners" we noticed a tag on him with an address and number...

I couldn't NOT call.

I would want someone to do the same if they found my dog, so after some debate I called to let them know, I would put him on my porch with some water, as I had to leave.

"Yeah..ook....we're in ------- so we'd have to come get him...."

Well GEE don't sound so excited/thankful!

So Pompei and I load up to head to Panera Bread, when Rex decides that he is NOT about to stay here by himself, with those screaming animals on the other side of the door, and promptly jumps the gate.


At this point, we'd already been waiting for the owners about 30 minutes, and I really needed to leave, so I did.

My daarrrlling, brother calls me up a few minutes later to, tell me that I SHOULD have called the owner to tell him, we didn't have his dog anymore...etc..etc..

But at this point, I really didn't feel like telling them, since they were oh-so-concerned, but didn't want them checking out my house while I was gone, so made a curtosy call.

Still they seemed very unfazed about the whole thing, so that was that. I'm just hoping I don't see this poor dogs body on the side of the road somewhere. HE was such a sweet guy.
Makes me miss Victoria.


Pompei and I went on to Panera, for my study session, with my sister and our friend. (We try to get together on a weekly basis, sometimes to study, sometimes just to hang out.) I'm already in full fledged spring break mode, so there weren't no. studying got done today.. But there was lots, and lots of laughter. Mainly cause we forgot my sisters ritalin. JUST.KIDDING.

But there is nothing like the relief of the weekends arrival, mixed with caffeine, to really bring on the giggles.

I love my friends.

{The rare quiet moment during the "Study Session" }

{Pompei under the table at Panera}

And Just Like That....

Just when you think life is about to settle down, that you'd be able to get a routine in place...you hit another curve in the track.

So I moved into a bigger place right? Well a dear friend of mine, texts me this afternoon, asking me to call her. My friends and I don't talk to each other on the phone. None of us like talking on the phone, so we either text/email/im etc...

Her sister and I had gone to seen a play for my theater class, and were on our way back from that, when i received this ominous message. So I called her and we played phone tag for a little bit, before finally connecting.
 
She rambled on for bit (i think the sun she was lying in was getting to her) before launching into a long story, about how she would be needing to move out. By this time I guessed what she was asking, and got her to the point of her call. (We are nice to each other. For Real!)


 For now, its a tempory 6-month thing, and since I'm in a three bedroom house...I have room. My computer won't have its own room anymore, but I think it will survive.

So for the next six months we'll find out just how good of friends we are.  Truthfully I don't really care about having another person here. C and I are very much alike in a lot of ways, so this will be interesting...or very interesting. ;)

What's funny is her sister and our other friend (R & H) are moving into the house next door, so we'll probably be seeing a lot more of each other.

 So my quiet blog followers, anyone have stories of what its like to go from "rooming" with your family, to having a roommate?

Did it make you better friends?

Lemme know!

Christmas Weekend 2009

*Christmas Eve*

{My brother and Victoria waiting for dinner}

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning dawned bright and early....Fortunately I was still dreaming of sugar plums, or something and completely missed it. I had been looking forward to this day because it meant I could sleep past 8:00AM; something I hadn't been able to do for at least a month....and when Erin does not get her beauty sleep...well lets just say its not pretty. lol

{Victoria is not a morning dog either}

I made it point not to rush this morning,as I knew my family wouldn't be up and ready for our exchanging of gifts for a while, so I leisurely made myself breakfast and a smoothie, read a book with Texas cuddled in my lap,than dressed and took the dogs on a..mor.. no ok make that a early afternoon stroll. 


By this time, it was time to head to our friends house for dinner, so I put the dogs up and headed out with a car full of squabbling siblings. (Don't know where they came from!)


Several other families had pitched in and joined us, so we had a nice spread. While the "grown ups" sat in the kitchen we "kids" (ranging from 7-25) sat in the living room, and play games and listened to a dramatized version of the Christmas Carol...

We stayed for a couple of hours before headed home to open presents. This year my parents got "everyone" (minus me) a BIG gift (think popular gaming device) so, the it didn't take  as long as usual. (8 people, 8 gifts each.....we are so not going to do gift exchanges when we are all married. Good Lord.) As we were preparing to play my mom's new game (can you tell we like games?)Another friend called and invited us over their house for snacks, and games etc.. so off we went again. 

This morning came way too soon, and I pried myself out of bed, and forced myself and Victoria into the car. We drove out to the kennels, and helped cleaning up there, before heading back home, to meet my friends for my sister's birthday trip. She is officially an adult now. (WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?!) So we took her too Gatlinburg (DollyWood..Dolly Parton..) for some fun. It was JAMMED with people. The city is specifically a tourist town, and has a lot of attractions and shops, so we wandered around there for a while, rode the tram and ate dinner. Making it home just before 12AM. 

Today my friends and I got together after church for our personal gift exchange, this year we decided to pick names and get gifts for one person, instead of everyone. There is nothing like a group of tired girls late at night, hyped on caffeine...need I say anything more?


I am SOooooo happy I don't have to work Monday.

Congradulation Graduates!!!!

My friends Trinity and Rebekah graduated from College yesterday, Trinity from Pellissippi Community College (where I will be going this fall) with an AA in..Nursing and Rebekah from Tusculum College with a Bacherlors in Arts.
Trinity is planning to continue her education in Midwifery in OK, with her Fiancee and Rebekah is applying for teachers positions in the fall.

CONGRATS GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wasn't able to make Trinity's graduation, due to a Fundraiser I was at with my job, but I was able to get to Rebekah's which was later on the same day!

::Sisters: Christina, Rebekah and Trinity