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There wasn’t much on TV tonight, so somehow the TV ended up on Extreme Cheapskates on TLC. On this episode, a cheap mom is helping to plan her daughter’s wedding. She is definitely extreme. She is forcing her daughter to be married in a high school gym. The wedding dress came from the back room of...
Thanksgiving Plans
I'm really interested to see how thanksgiving turns out this year, Its going to look a lot different than in years past. I most likely will be working in Boone until Wednesday night, and then driving back to Asheville late that night. Typically we either have thanksgiving up here in Boone at my Aunt and Uncles cabin in Deep Gap, (where its been for the past 4 years) or we go down to the beach to Ocean Isle to my grandparents and spend it with them. well, this year we decided to lay low and its only going to be my mom dad and myself! So family of 3 and the dilemma is should we even make a turkey?? To be honest I don't even really like thanksgiving turkey that much, I'd rather have tons of side dishes and pecan pie if it were up to me....I'm starting to look up some good recipes for new things if anyone has any good dishes they plan on making!
Week of surprises, with Hillsong United concert!
I had almost forgotten about a surprise that had been in the making for a few months now, when my best friends boyfriend texted me reminding me of the Hillsong concert in Greensboro, he had bought me tickets to months ago. The plan was for me to show up in greensboro to go to the concert and transport me around so that my best friend shannon would have no idea I was there. Her boyfriend Tyler really went all out...he told her they were going to a family reunion so that she would have no idea about the concert, and funny enough she complained all week about having to go to another family reunion, saying all she really wanted to do was get to go to the Hillsong concert. Little did she know, we were all waiting there as she found out she wasn't actually going to a family reunion. The surprise almost was ruined a few different times but We had such a blast singing for 3 hours straight ..I surprisingly wasn't as tired as I expected to be so I decided to just drive back to Boone late that night to make it to the always lovely 8:00 am.
Spontaneous Road Trip!
Saturday night I was supposed to go to a bon fire with some friends, but as we all saw the fog/smoke that was still hanging around from the forest fire was still making so hard to want to be outside. So without any plans on a saturday night, my roommates and I decided to spontaneously drive to charlotte for the night to see my roommates brother play in his band at a local restaurant venue. It was so fun to just get away from boone for a few hours and feel like we went on a mini road trip; we wanted to get there early to go to the 24 hour french bakery that would have made the trip worth the 2 hr drive in itself. When we got to the venue though, it was more of a surprise than we expected, my roommates whole family, dad aunts grandparents and step sibilings were all there to watch the show and were more than surprised to see all of us! So it really turned out to be even better than we thought. And to top it off her aunt was so excited to see us she kept ordering us pitchers of margaritas and food and having it brought to our table...we finally had to tell the waitress to not bring anything else even if she ordered it!
Ruff Ridge
On Saturday I decided to take my friends visiting up to Ruff Ridge...where I think half the school was as well. it was so packed out there most likely because of how warm it was and the knowledge that it might be the last warm day we have until spring (crossing my fingers its not). I would love to know how many times I've been up to ruff ridge while here at Appalachian, but even the countless times I've been i'm still excited to see the beautiful view at the top. We tried to time it right to get up there for sunset and be able to sit and watch it, but of course as the sun goes down so does the temperature and we ended up chickening out and having to run back down to the parking lot to stay warm! I hope I never take that short little hike for granted because these mountains are too pretty !!
Small group
As the semester is winding down (we're still all busy so I don't know if winding down is a great word) I start to realize that i'm not going to get to see my small group of 9th grade girls for very much longer once Christmas break comes and then after that spring semester will fly by, we'll graduate and i'll be gone! Dramatically thinking to the future but this past sunday night with them got me thinking back on all the good times I've been blessed to have with them for the past 3 years. It was neat to see how much they've changed...I wish that I could see them graduate high school but I know they are starting off well and will be fine without me! I'm trying to plan a good Christmas or thanksgiving party so if anyone has any ideas of fun little holiday things to do with 9th grade girls let me know! :) That ABC family 25 days of Christmas can never go wrong
Friends from UNCG
So this past weekend, I had some of my best friends from home coming up to visit from UNCG; I told my friend Shannon that since she was coming with all her roommates and renting a cabin, that it didn't technically count as coming to see me so she would have to come again. It was so nice though to get to go to their cabin in Deep Gap for just a night- I felt like I got away from Boone and school for just a little bit. We roasted smores the first night and definitely made use of the hot tub--(they're AMAZING in the winter!) . We woke up Saturday morning and realized that we hadn't bought any groceries over so we went in search of somewhere to eat...well there aren't many places in Deep Gap if you didn't know...we found this awful looking restaurant that advertised being a specialist in seafood and good ole country cooking. hmm very dissimilar. We got there at 10:45 and had missed breakfast by 10 minutes and were forced to pick off of the lunch menu that we were trying to avoid. I'm pretty sure I ate Kraft easy Mac N cheese with a little pepper added on there...Yuck.
So I’m in Dr. Flippin’s structural class and our final project is to transcribe a language sample. I got my language sample from my mom’s friend’s daughter, who is six and my goodness can that little girl talk. I filmed for twenty-five minutes just to be sure I got 100 utterances. I just started...
Oh my gosh, this happened to me as well, I was so scared I wasn't going to have enough utterances, or be able to get the little girl I filmed to talk but man once they're in their element they can talk for hours! She made this little pretend restaurant out of a cardboard box...i'm glad kids still know how to play like that.
I felt so disappointed this morning when I left my second neuroanatomy test. I studied, studied some more, and then studied some more for that test… I don’t know where I went wrong in my studying, but the information I saw on that test was not what I studied. A lot of the information did look...
I thought this test was so hard too! I felt like I studied everything on the study guide and even started studying maybe last thursday, so I was disappointed too when I felt like I didn't know some of the big questions. Hopefully we did better than we think!
Interesting video
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/kids-react-gay-marriage_n_4212543.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices
I thought this video was really interesting...I saw it shared on someone else's profile but started watching it and thought it was hilarious and sad at the same time. I was really surprised to see kids reactions were mostly positive, I thought by the sound of the video title it was going to be kids reactions in a blunt sort of very honest viewpoint on the topic. Some of the kids didn't really know what was happening at first and then when they realized these proposals were of same sex couples, their faces showed it all. Some of them thought it was just the same as normal proposals and said it was so thoughtful and cute and other kids simply spit out their practiced answers that their parents undoubtedly have trained them to say. I just thought it was interesting to see the effect parents and our society has on kids who are far too young to have formed concrete opinions on topics like this without being influenced directly by others. Especially noticed when one kid said "no gay is bad for you" and the interviewer said "well what do you think being gay means?" and the child said he didn't really know.
Grad school
Once again I am freaking out about Grad school and all the information we have to compile to even apply. I wish that the websites for schools would just all have the same format and same links available at all of them. They know the questions students have when they are coming to a grad school website, we want to know where we apply, where we send our materials when we're done, how many recommendations we need, and how those need to be uploaded too. Its driving me crazy going around to all these different websites and trying to navigate to the right major and the application location. I can't imagine what our professors think about having to upload all of our recommendation letters at these different schools. I also just found out that we'll be spending even more money...our transcripts and gre scores both cost money to send off to schools, how ridiculous is that? I think we deserve some free transcripts after paying for undergrad for four years.
Elk Knob
So Saturday I decided I was tired of studying for our neuro test and wanted to go do something outside even if it was game day. My roommate and I have wanted to go up to Elk knob for awhile and thought it would be a fairly pretty day to do it...well when we got to the park it started drizzling, but nothing too bad so we decided it would definitely clear up by the time we got to the top. Well about half way up, we start hearing something falling on the leaves and we look down and see tiny while balls of hail! It was so bizarre it started dumping on us which unlike rain wouldn't have hurt but our faces were getting hit sideways with hail. We should have definitely turned around, but of course we wanted to see the view that was at the top after all our driving. We continued on,passing a few families with miserable looking children walking behind them. We got to the top and got to see a couple of pretty views; the elevation definitely made sense for how cold it was!
So, I went to see Much Ado About Nothing this weekend on campus and I loved it. I am a big Shakespeare fan and I loved what Joss Whedon did with the play. It brought to life the hilarity that Shakespeares’ comedies would have evoked in their audiences hundreds of years ago, which is a job well...
That's so awesome that you love Shakespeare, I have such a hard time understanding the dialogue and humor of things like that but I really wanted to see this when it was in the dollar theater! I'll definitely have to rent it now that I missed my chance.
Adventure with grandma!
So my grandma is the cutest thing ever, she's 95 years old and such a trooper; if she still had her car, she would definitely still be driving and running around everywhere if she could. I was excited to get to see her at my cousins wedding (her granddaughter) and even got her out on the dance floor once, but I was more excited to get to spend some time with her on my way back to school. She lives in Hickory at an assisted living home that she just moved to last year, and since I was headed back to Boone sunday night, it made more sense for me to take her back than for my parents to the next day. It's definitely rare at least for me and my busy school schedule to get down to hickory to see her, or even really get to spend and extended amount of time with her so I was happy to get to drive with her for a couple hours. I try not to take times with grandparents for granted but it can be so easy to forget to call back, or write little notes back to all the things she mails me but I was thankful for this time!
Outside finally
I can't tell you how long its been since I've been able to go outside and do anything but sunday was the day I finally was able to go out and hike! It was a great weekend for weather and sunday was probably the best out of all three days, so I went up to a place called Craggy Gardens to hike on a ridge line trail that ended up being a dead end after a few miles but it was still so pretty because its really rare to just get to hike on a ridge line the whole time without having to climb up up up first. The leaves were pretty much all off at that elevation which wasn't as pretty but allowed us to see really far down into the valleys. Needless to say a fun afternoon with friends and felt great to be back out in the woods! I'm having to resist the temptation to go right back but during a week full of school it makes it so hard!
Weddings, Barns and twinkle lights
My cousin had the perfect wedding this weekend at Lake Eden in Black Mountain, which is only 20 minutes away from where I live in Asheville. They were having a destination wedding since they both live in New York so lots of friends and family traveled a long way to come to the mountains. Everything was so beautiful, despite the cold day it was perfectly sunny outside and the lake was the prettiest back drop for their ceremony. They both wrote their own vows which is one of my favorite things to see, and listen to how both of them expressed everything in such different ways. The reception was the cutest thing in an old barn that had been renovated with lights and all of the pretty decorations my cousin spent hours making! We had a blast dancing and eating good food and drinks. The assortment of homemade pies topped off the perfect wedding!
Fall= Too much baking
I always wonder why fall and cold weather lead to horrible amounts of baked goods. Every year around thanksgiving, I feel like desserts just fall into my lap, I mean I HAVE to eat them...I can't just let them sit there and go to waste right? I'm already dreading the amount of thanksgiving dinner's i'll be going to and the inevitable amount of pecan pies and pumpkin cookies that will be there. The other night I caved and bought an adorable Owl Cupcake Kit just for Halloween decoration... I couldn't resist how festive they were, candy corn noses and it came with edible googly-eyes. Can't get much better than that.
