Growing Up

I ha a conversation with my fiance this weekend about growing up. He's struggling with the fact that he's grown up a lot recently and his friends aren't keeping up. It's strange how differently two people can develop in just a few short months. Every choice we make, and the reasons behind our choices have a big effect on the future. Ben has made decisions lately that have made him proud of himself, and that's something I haven't seen him feel in a while. It's made me really happy to watch him choose to grow up and move forward the past few months. Being engaged at such a young age we get a lot of criticism. Most thing we're too young, too immature. We're growing up together. 

Negative Nancy

So I've decided that blogging brings out the worst in me, I'm a Negative Nancy. When good thing happen to me I make phone calls, the first one is always my Mom, then my Mawmaw, and then Ben y fiance. When I sit down to write though all that comes out is complaints. I promise in actually I'm not this negative and whiney but apparently things that bother me are the only things I write a hundred words on. I wonder why it's so much easier to point out the negatives than the positives, I was actually talking to my coworker about this the other day. All I ever hear her say about her boyfriend is negative and finally I was like, tell me what's good about him. At first she was thrown off and it started off surface level "he has a good job," "when he has money he spends it on me," but then as she got more into it she had lots to say. I'm going to try to focus on more of the positive in my own life and shake this negative Nancy thing.

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I'm obsessed with Marvel

So I've always been a fan of the Marvel franchise, I don't do comicon or anything like that I just enjoy their movies. My love for Marvel probably originated with the X-men movies and has grown exponentially with Iron Man, The Avengers, and my personal favorite Captain America. I appreciate all the thought that goes into linking the plot lines together to form this complex world of relationships. I'm currently watching Marvel's Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. at this point I've watched everything on Netflix and am now suffering through crappy websites with various popups to get caught up with the second season. Daredevil is also on my list and will probably be my next binge. If you have Netflix I'd suggest you check these out, they really well written and developed plot lines with some cool special effects and some major eye candy, just saying.   

Life has been crazy

Life has been crazy since my last post. So here's a short update on my life. I got a new job as a waitress at Cracker Barrel, my first serving job ever so I'm both terrified and really excited. My fiance is joining the navy reserves and will be going away to basic training this summer. We are getting legally married this summer before he goes away and have set a date for a ceremony next May, this is two years earlier than originally planned. I have bought my wedding dress and I'm in love with it. I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to see friends before they graduate, study for my GRE May 11th, finish classwork, and start to plan a wedding. The end of the semester could not come soon enough.

Working Girl

I'm a working girl, always have been. I've always enjoyed the independence that comes with having a job and your own money. I got my first "official"job within a week and worked all throughout the rest of High School and worked two jobs during the summers. When I first came to college I had no car and a 17 semester hour schedule so I decided not to work. My mom likes to job around that I'm unbearable when I'm not working. Too much free time leads to too much energy which can lead to manic cleaning spells, grumpy moods, and other things my mother has labeled as "unbearable." To summarize I like work, I need work to keep balance. That being said work is driving me crazy right now. I work in retail, I won't say where to spare the establishment my complaints. I had never worked in retail until this last summer, before it was always childcare and food services. I've since learned that retail is not for me... too much down time. My shifts seem to last for days on end when business is slow. During this lag times I've taken to organizing things around my department, we all know from the title of my blog I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I drive myself crazy trying to make everything nice same styles together, sized, colorized... just like my manager likes it but it never stays that way fro more than a day. This alone would drive me up the wall, paired with my constantly fluctuating hours 23 one week, 8 two weeks later (this was legitimately my schedule this month). Finally I decided I needed to look elsewhere I wanted to go back to food services, I was a much happier employee then. I actually have an interview on Tuesday after this class. Hopefully all will turn out well and in two weeks I'll be at a new work home, fingers crossed.

Family

I tend to complain a lot on my blog so tonight I thought I would change my tune and talk about something positive in my life, my family. I have the warmest most accepting and supportive family a girl could ask for. I have three grandparents who love me and support me and one looking down on me from heaven. I have a mom and dad who aren't afraid to tell me I can do better and call me out when I'm not doing my best but are also my biggest fans and supporters. I have a not so little brother who drives me insane but will always be my best friend. I also have 9 younger cousins, who are more like siblings that know how to keep life interesting.

 

You could say we don't like to make normal faces in pictures...

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TBI Benefit Concert

Today is the TBI Awareness Concert, in case any of you aren't familiar with the acronym TBI stand for Traumatic Brain Injury. Dr. Keegan runs a TBI Club on campus that give some local individuals with TBI socializing opportunities. These opportunities are very important because TBI patients can have impaired social skills after their disease or accident which makes it hard for them to reconnect with loved ones or meet new people. The concert today is in the Blueridge Ballroom in the student union, that's the one upstairs across from Greenbrier theater. Doors open around 7  and admission is only $2 but they will also take up donations if you feel inclined to help out.  Several A Capella Groups will be performing including my own, One AcChord, and Hannah Adam's group, Ear Candy. This whole event was put together by a fellow CSD Undergraduate Hannah Adams so it would be really great if you guys could come out and support the cause. Hopefully we'll see you there!