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Thankful

Last time I wrote in my blog was Christmas Eve! So much for trying to blog everyday… OOPS! Well I’ve realized that it is SO easy for me to look at something little in my life and complain like it is the end of the world. So today I decided that I am going to blog all of the things in my day that I am so incredibly thankful for. I remember reading something like “what if you woke up with everything you said you were thankful the day before?” well personally I would be shit out of luck. I have so many things that I should be happy for that I take for granted (is it sad I had to look that up?)

  • COUNTRY MUSIC! I listened to country music all day today while doing homework and loved every minute of it!
  • Shasta only being 2 sleeps away! How lucky am I that I get to go to a beautiful lake and spend 3 days with my entire Greek system, best friends and meeting new people?! Literally looking forward to every single thing about Shasta. The boat, the lake, the alcohol (hehe), the friends, the music, the drive there, the food, the heat! The fact that I can go on vacation in the middle of school with midterms before and after yet I don’t have a care in the world.
  • MY MAJOR! (It’s merchandising management.) Today I had a studio class (DHE 121: Computer Design for Apparel) which I loved. It is a 3 hour class yet it goes by SO fast. I am so happy to have found something I love in life and want to continue for as long as I live and something that I will look forward to going to work every day! I’m a little sad that I only have one class specifically meant for my major this term but HEY it is a hell of a lot better then being forced by my parents, society, friends or anyone else to do something I don’t want to do!
  • Being able to go to school out of state! I am so so so thankful that my parents are so supportive of me and allow me to change my mind a million times about little things yet they always are there for me. This includes going to school out of state. They could have made me choose a school in California but they were so proud of me to want to go to school in another state. Actually, I change this to being able to go to college in general. There are some people who would kill to go to college yet they can’t afford it, don’t have the option or must work right away.
  • MY PARENTS!!!!!! (See above ^.) Also, my amazing mom transferred money into my account again today because I suck at saving my money or being responsible with it (oops…) No questions asked, just gave me money & said she loved me and to have fun. How many parents would do that? As long as I am successful enough in my life to support them and to treat them like Kings & Queens I would be completely happy. They deserve everything because they have given me everything!

I am sure there are 10 million more things I could be thankful for but it is 2:20 in the morning… and I am thankful to have a warm, comfy bed waiting for me upstairs! Goodnight!

After all, there’s only one more sleep til Christmas.

—Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

                                                                  ~John Henry Newman

Its officially Christmas Eve! Almost Christmas and next up is New Years. Oh how times have changed so much in a year. I look back at the past year and I barely remember everything that has happened in this amazing time (Thursdays through Saturdays mainly thanks to Burnetts…)

Last December I was in one of the most loving relationships I have ever been in. I spent a wonderful Christmas break with his family and mine baking cookies, watching movies. Looking back those were such happy memories. Winter term I was upset I didn’t make grades but I didn’t let that stop me from having the time of my life up in Oregon. I became so much closer with current best friends and sisters. This might have been my hardest term to date emotionally but I had amazing people to get me through it. By the end of the term I had worked my butt off to get the grades I knew I could get and it was such a rewarding feeling. Spring term was CRAZY! Shasta for starters might have been the best vacation to date. So much day drinking in the warm sun all term long. Summer 2011 work work work, play play play. Summer in California never gets old unlike short breaks. The beach, the sun, the water, Disneyland, Venice, Balboa, San Diego…. the list goes on and on. Grew closer to my best friends and had the most amazing time. Fall term 2011 & living in… WOW. At times it feels weird to live with 50 other girls but I love living in and being around so many unique, accepting people. I raged my face off yet balanced my grades perfectly and I am so grateful for everything that has happened to me.

To think about all that has happened to me this paragraph seems so minscule. I will never begin to explain how I felt or how something effected me in words but I will always have those memories. Cheers to the upcoming best year of my life.

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John Mayer

—Neon

This song might be my favorite of all time (although my mind constantly changes number one so I would say a solid top five). If you look at my iTunes you will find that out of the top 20 songs played, John Mayer takes 19 of those spots. This song is my number one played (with 84 plays). I remember the situation SO clearly where it just fit my life 100% to a tee. This song got me through a really hard time. That is what I love about music, it can completely envelope you and take over your life. To me this song is a really incredible love song. Mainly about a girl who might be a little insecure, always on the go who has a man in love with her but he realizes that she is still young, with so much more to do and he needs to let her go to live and learn from her experiences/mistakes. A beautiful disaster.

“You know its not my place to hold her down.”

Good girls go to Heaven, bad girls go everywhere else.

If this isn’t the most beautiful sequence in any movie, I don’t know what is. I’m not able to watch it without shedding a tear. It just gets to me over and over and over again. The song, the camera work, the editing and effects, completely perfect. I get chills every single time I watch it.

Beards

In a weird fetish kinda way this website was made for me.

(500) Days Of Summer. Best Movie EVER

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a boss so you don’t get played like a bitch

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

—Mark Twain

(: #HappyGirl

Ah this break has made me so incredibly happy! Being home for this long has made me realize how wonderful my life is. I have some of the most amazing, supportive, fun sisters I could possibly ask for in Oregon yet at the same time I can come home after not seeing my best friends for months and we are still as close as ever. The best of both worlds. I miss Oregon like crazy though. It feels so weird to say but for a majority of the year I view Corvallis as my home. I always grew up knowing how lucky I was to find the perfect group of girlfriends who would always be there for me. But to find a whole ‘nother group of genuine, sincere people in another state?! I am such a lucky girl and couldn’t be happier!

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.

Oops!

I always forget to write on this thing! (Not that anyone reads it… but someone might someday!) Anyways tonight just proved to me how wrong I have been this whole time. Saying I want one thing when I so clearly want another. My mind keeps getting tangled up between two simple choices that I never know which is genuine. Why does life have to be so damn confusing!! I wish I could jump ahead to find out how everything turns out.

Old Fashion Movies

They just don’t make Christmas movies (or any movie for that matter) like they used to. If I could I would watch black & white musicals all day everyday. The old fashion romances and innocence is so refreshing. They always remind me of rainy/sick days in high school. Nothing could cure my cold better then watching a musical while lounging on the couch while my mom would be making me soup then joining me to watch my favorites. What happened to the good old fashion men from musicals? Now-a-days we have “The Situation” and cheesy scumbag men (with the exception of Ryan Gosling). I want to bring back the real gentlemen: Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly & Humphrey Bogart. Nothing beats a man singing, dancing and looking mighty fine!

Favorite Christmas movies in no particular order.