I may be the only person that feels this way

I may be the only person that feels this way but... I was disappointed to have classes canceled for the third time in a row. Don't get me wrong I love the extra sleep as much as the rest of you but I get nothing done! Midterms are coming up and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface in some of my classes. I've had an Audiology test on the inner ear postponed 3 class periods, the first was a relief to have the extra time to study and review but now it's just getting ridiculous. I more than ready for Spring weather and to get back on schedule.

Wedding Plans

Let's talk Cake
For fall flavors I'm thinking maybe pumpkin spice

I love the simplicity of this cake design and if I end up putting sunflowers in my bouquets I think this could be cute

 I LOVE this cake holder and the antique details and the way the icing is textures resembles a wedding dress

 I think this strawberry shortcake wedding cake could be really cute with the theme and venue I have picked out and I'm thinking about doing BBQ and keeping the reception casual so this would be a good fit

 This cake has two of my color white and grey already incorporated and the vintage lace is another thing I'm putting in the decorations 

Burlap and tree bark are two things that are all over my decorations so this cake would really fit in

I La ah av to Sing

I don't think I've shared that I'm in an A Capella Group here on campus, some of you may have seen us perform last semester. Singing is something I've done my whole life so getting involved again on campus was a big comfort for me and has brought some amazing people into my life. This is my third semester in the group and it's been an amazing experience. A lot has changed in those three semesters our leadership, rules, song repertoire, and even our name. We are now known as One AcChord and we are very excited to be presenting an entirely different group then we've been in the past. We've increased our rehearsals, thrown out our old songs and started from scratch, and we're working our butts off to be better, to be respected in the A Capella community. I'm very proud of the changes and progress we've made, our first perfromance is going to be Friday the 27th at an event in Cross roads put on by the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha at 5:30 if any of you want to come out and support. 

Snow

Snow,
I've never been a big fan of the cold.
I suppose snow is better than rain, until it melts.
Nope I'd perfer a rain shower in the summer over snowfall any day.
Spring semester is always made more complicated by the appearance of snow, don't get me wrong I love the occasional class canceling as much as the rest of you but I have a hard time with the not knowing. Waking up at 6 am to check your email and getting a notice on a door once you've already trekked across campus. 
I'd much prefer to get up at eight am every day if I could be comfortable in shorts and feel the sun on my skin.
So while everyone is celebrating the snow tonight I'll be dreaming of sunny skies.

  

More Wedding Planning

To we've talked about what season our wedding will be in, Fall. So now let's talk about setting. I'm a country girl at heart I love my small town hometown and went to the small high school in the country horse pasture on one side and cow pasture on the other. My fiance is from the same hometown so I want to have a rustic country style to our wedding therefore the only setting that makes sense... a barn.

I'm absolutely in love with this idea, I want to have the ceremony outside the barn and the reception indoors. I have absolutely no idea where I'm actually going to find this perfect picturesque barn but I'm determined. If you guys have any ideas of where I could look let me know.

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New Obsession

New Netflix obsession... LOST.
I've watch the show before, back when it was airing live.
Talk about a complicated plot line,
I can only remember bits and pieces of the story right now I have
Polar Bears
Crazy French Woman
Sawyer=Not Sawyer
Lock can walk now
Jack sees his dead father whose casket is now empty
Sun speaks English and was about to leave her husband
Charlie was a good kid before rock and roll and drugs
Kate's a felon with a heart of gold, still not sure what she did
Walt's mom died and Micheal just got him
Sijed used to torture people and fell in love with one of his "victums"
Seriously what other show has that many complicated backstories within the first 10 episodes and that's only what happened before the crash, not to mention all the island craziness.
Should be a wild ride

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Wrestling

I watched my brothers team win the State Championship this weekend. I stood in the bleachers of the gym I walked through countless times during my high schools years and screamed my head off as a kid I'd known since he was 13 win the final match naming us State Champions. It's an amazing feeling to see boys you've seen grow up work hard and earn something they've always wanted. Some of the boys on the team I've known since they were eight years old, my brother of course I've known even longer. I watched all these boys I'd seen grow up into men tear up as their coach accepted the trophy and all their hard work paid off. These little pain in my butts are now seniors and state champions, it's crazy how fast time goes by. I remember when all these guys were the freshman JV team and my fiance was the one winning a state championship it's crazy to think that so much time has passed.Three of the little boogers will be up here at App next year, and in a little over a year it will be their school and no longer mine. Crazy stuff.

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 The seniors boys I've watched grow up

My knothead younger brother, my dad and coach on the left, and head coach Carey on the Right

Pregnancy

So I was just watching the episode of Friends when Rachel gets her sonogram and it got me thinking about how there's an extremely bizarre thing about me that I have not shared on this blog yet. Pregnancy freaks me out.

I know now you;re thinking you're only 20 years old it's not weird to be freaked about pregnancy but you don't understand, the actual phenomenon of growing a human being inside you completely and utterly grosses me out. Yes I know I sound life I'm 5 years old when I say pregnancy is gross but I have several reason why I think this and I stand by them.
1. They have gills, literal gills like fish people or something
2. They twist your body into a completely different shape from which your body can never recover
3. They feed off your nutrients, similar to a parasite
4. During birth it is not uncommon to break bones, my grandmother broke her coccyx twice giving birth to my dad and his sister
5. Breast feeding, I can't even explain why this is so disgusting to me. For one the fact that your body is producing a liquid that is being fed to another person...   bodily fluids are not for consumption. For another thing women just whip it out in public like it's totally normal and socially acceptable.
I'm sure I could go on but you get the point I'm making. The whole pregnancy is a natural beautiful thing is a load of bull shit to me. Breast feeding makes me gag and the idea of a human being inside me sounds like something out of a horror movie.

All this is not to say that I don't like kids, that couldn't be farther from the truth. I love kids, I come from a big family of which I'm the oldest so I have plenty of experience taking care of the little boogers. Ever since my fiance proposed my dad has been on me about having kids. Not now of course, I'm 20 he's not that old fashioned but eventually. See my dad knows my views on pregnancy and he thinks I'm ridiculous, but then again he never has to go through that. Anyways my point is you don't have to be pregnant to be a mother. Not that I'm sure I even want that I might just be the cool aunt to my brother's kids. Just some food for thought

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Friends

WARNING: If you haven't seen Friend you probably shouldn't read this post there might be spoilers.             ----------------------------------------------------------------- So I have a new obsession since Friends came to Netflix. My future roomie is obsessed and owns all the seasons so I thought I would give it a shot.. big mistake. I can't stop, Friends was released to Netflix on the 1st on January and I'm currently watching Season 7 Episode 6. In my defense the episode are only about 22 minutes long but still 7 season in one month, even I think I'm a little pathetic. Also it's on right now as I'm typing about my problem I'm indulging in it. I now know all the lyrics to the theme song, Phoebe's go-to allias, and all the inside jokes. What I don't know is if Rachel and Ross will finally get back together and if that happens what happens to Joey and Phoebe... If you know don't tell me.

I also recently took a BuzzFeed quiz and discovered that apparently I'm Monica Geller. Which I have to say is pretty accurate Monica is: Too loud, check  OCD,  check A good cook, well...So maybe I'm not exactly like her... Anyways it's a great show I'm obsessed and slightly ashamed at the level of my obsession. 

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Wedding Details

So I mentioned before that I'm engaged, needless to say that my pinterest activity has spiked since the ring was on my finger. It's a work in progress and is constantly changing as I change my mind. My wedding pinterest board is my baby, it's a private board because I got tired of all my friend repinning my entire wedding... obsessive, maybe. Anyways I'm not sure how I will come up with three different posts every week so I'm thinking maybe every week I'll make a post about a new detail of my wedding planning.



So this week I'll talk about the season. We have chosen to have a fall wedding after a lot of debating. I wanted a Spring wedding because it's my favorite season and Ben said we would have to have an indoor wedding if it was in the Spring. I wanted an outdoor venue so I settled for fall. Here are some of my ideas for tying in the fall season into my decorating.

I'm not sure I'm on board with some of these ideas so let me know what you guys like

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Time

I've been thinking about time this weekend. I'm home for the weekend visiting with my family and my fiance.

Yesterday I went my brother's wrestling tournament, he has been wrestling since he was eight years old and this is his last year. Next week his team will go to State's and in less than three weeks wrestling will no longer be a  part of his life. It's strange to think that something that I've grown up around, people that I've cheered for, and families that I've grown to know will all be distant next year. It's been creeping up on me, I used to know the whole team when I was in high school, dated a few of them was friends with all of them and my Dad was the coach. Now the only team members I know were freshman when I was a senior in high school and soon they'll be in college.

That's really what I'm getting at, I'm closing in on my last year of college. Granted I still have Grad School I'm not being pushed into the big bad world just yet, that is if I make it. That's the fear of every CSD student. Not making it. Being stuck with an undergraduate degree that doesn't allow you to practice, being a college graduate with a great GPA and knowledge of a field in which you can't work. Scary.

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