HELP!

alright all you bloggers and scrappers :-) I have a huge favor to ask of ya'll!!

I know alot of people have been doing the deck of card things and I bought two decks a LONG time ago lol but never got around to starting my own deck! 

Sooooo...

what I'm asking is for you to post your favorite quote(s), sayings, bible verses, whatev lol to get my mojo going!!! or any ideas in general to put on each card.

THANKS SO MUCH!!!! :-) i can't wait to start!!

Tomorrow...

is the big day!!

what I've been waiting for for over a month..

my  INSURANCE LICENSE EXAM!!!!

EEK! lol I've been studying all day and I PRAY that i pass it tomorrow so I can start work! 

My first real job! I'm so excited about it!!!!! I've been so anxious to get all of the dumb paper work and studying and test taking out of the way so I could FINALLY get to work.

Annnndddd then tomorrow after my exam and work???

SCRAPPING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol even though I have limited pics to work with (because i've had no money to print them out *tear*) I still can scrap what I have :-) I can't wait!!! So hopefully I'll be posting some pics tomorrow!!!! 

Today's the day!!

Well...today is the day I'm finally moving to Pcola! OK, so it's not officially to a place of my own yet but hey it's at least in the right geographic location lol one step at a time

So as I was packing up last night I got online to look at some pics and I got a little nostalgic of friends I left in Tally *sigh* So I'd thought I'd share some of my memories that make me smile and laugh :-)

Such a bad blogger!!!

Good grief it has been FOREVER since I've blogged!! So horrible of me :-(

So I'm in need of alot of updates:

First of all I GRADUATED!!!! WOOOOO!!!!!!!! lol even though the day of graduation was rainy and humid (thus my hair looked like CRAP) it didn't dampen my spirits and I was so happy to finally be DONE with school!

So immediately starting job hunting which was an ordeal on its own but I got a job with Bankers Life and Casualty so I've been working on getting my insurance license and training and WOW life has been a whirlwind!
One thing I have learned about the "real world": NOTHING IS FREE!!!! gees everywhere I turn it costs money for EVERYTHING! Fingerprints...license..exam...license application...exam study materials......good grief I think the Department of Insurance in Florida now owns my soul and rights to my firstborn child :-\

lol but other than that I'm super excited about finding a place of my own and actually stepping into this huge next step in my life. Oh and finding a place has been an ordeal too...gees...but it amazes me how God takes care of His children. Things just kept falling through until this past Sunday I was in Ladies Prayer group and I asked that we pray for me finding a place and afterwards my Sunday School teacher's wife came up and said they have a huge house (they have like 6 kids or some large number like that lol) and they have two rooms available and I'm welcome to stay with them for awhile!!! PRAISE THE LORD! I almost wanted to cry because of how God has provided. Lately I've been having to drive an hour one way to work stuff and the gas has been KILLING me! Now to mention my church is an hour away too....

and speaking of church...I joined Victory Baptist and I now have a church family!! May the Lord forever be praised because for the first time I feel like I'm at HOME! The church is just amazing---one of your good ole Bible-believing, soul winning, sound preaching independent Baptist church :-) Already I'm involved in choir and another ensemble and I am just loving all of this. I can't wait to officially be moved over and settled.

So now I'm in the process of packing up some of my stuff so I can move in with that family tomorrow! EEK! lol things are happening so fast I've barely had time to catch my breath! But God has been showing me time and time again how He does provide and meet my needs and I love Him so much for that.

I gotta say, I don't know how people who don't know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior go through huge life changes like this. There have been several times I've been close to a nervous break down because money being tight and everything going on, but Jesus just reminds me how He has promised He would take care of me and how he'll "never leave me nor forsake me." Praise the Lord!!! :-)

Alrighty, that's all for now. I'll try and keep up with this blog more now that things have kinda settled down lol

Brain is in Play Mode

So my brain is definitly in play mode even though I have one more paper and a final to take LOL

AH! I can't believe I'm almost done!!! :-) So exciting!!!! I just can't wait to CHILL for a change!!!

So a few updates....no I didn't get the job at Enterprise *sigh* but it's all good. Everything is in God's hands :-)
Still job hunting......

yeah not much to my life right now LOL this is a boring post I know but in procrastinating in studying for my exam I YouTubed (ha is that a verb now?? it totally should be) and I watched this video that I have seen several times before but it still makes me laugh...

so a video for your viewing pleasure :-)

Let There Be Great Rejoicing

BECAUSE IT'S THE LAST FLIPPIN WEEK OF CLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and then i am DONE! no more classes...

EVER

for the rest of my life!!!

School is almost over for me!!!!!!!

Let there be dancing in the streets! Banners flown high!!! Old men singing loudly throughout the town! Children laughing and smiling!!!!!!

THE END IS NEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ha...not to sound to cliche...but it just fits ya know??)


oh yes....just four more papers and two finals to go! (EEK! i need to get on that :-\ )

A week in review...

Oh gees...I've missed blogging!!! I've been SOOOOOOOO busy this past week!!!! Ok so recap:

Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone! :-) Mine was pretty chilled although not much of a break.

Wednesday:
-Drove all the way home
-eye doctor's appointment - contact lenses yay!!! took me about twenty min to get them in then they tell me to take them out to put them back in WHAT?!?!?! lol
-got see Josh - wow I have MISSED him!!!!! We watched Shrek 3 and laughed our butts off! LOL omg seriously funny movie

Thursday:
-Drove to the gma's for Thanksgiving with the entire ride over there my dad and I talking about politics and how he's just baffled on how Josh and I can be such close friends but no romantic feelings...it's ok dad we can't explain it either so QUIT ASKING!!!!
-Ate...alot...took a blessed three hour nap afterwards!! yay!!
-Drove BACK to Tally! Got home at about 1am...bed by 2am

Friday
-BLACK FRIDAY!!!
-Work from 6am-2:30pm at Michaels - OH...MY...GOSH
-Didn't think I was really tired so I just decided to have a short hour cat nap when I got home....yeah so 3 1/2 hours later I woke up feeling like I had been drugged lol

Saturday
Worked....again...believe it or not I think it was busier on Saturday than Friday :-\ 9am - 3pm shift

Sunday
church....yayness :-)

Monday
School, work, then stayed up until 4am for the big presentation on tuesday!

Tuesday
-woke up at 7am after going to sleep only 3 hours before hand....finished up on my presenation
gave my presentation in which the professor WALKED OUT ON (yeah long story but he doesn't agree with my presentation although it's extremely well documented and true and plenty of other people agree....what happened to a true education???? not INDOCTRINATION!!!!) so yeah he was RUDE beyond all reason...not to mention he interrupted my presentation rudely asking if i was almost done even though HE NEVER SET A TIME LIMIT....duh...oh yeah he got a very nice evaluation from me
-Worked....again....so tired
-Stayed up until 5:30am working on my Culture Jamming project that was due on Wednesday

Wednesday
-woke up LATE at 10 min till nine and my class is at 9:30...terrific...not to mention I had to pick up pictures from Walgreens for my project and I went to the WRONG ONE and had to go back to the other one GRRRRRR
-thirty minutes late for class but got my project on time!
-Skipped my last class and came home and SLEPT for 5 hours....blessed sleep!
-Church again :-)

Thursday
-School...got to evaluate the rude instructor even though he tried to rush us through our evaluations (yeah not cool) but I stil managed to write him a nice essay that he gets to read not to mention his supervisors ha! ha!
-worked again....so tired
-came home and tried to read for my paper due on Monday....yeah hard to read when you're falling asleep

TODAY
-Got the second interview for Enterprise in Pcola today!!!! WOOOOOO!!!
So I'm getting ready right now for it then I'm hitting the road!
-Oh and I get to see Josh for awhile tonight!!! Gonna watch Spiderman 3, grab some Wendys $1 menu items (bless them for that!) and then go around town at 10pm with about 10 other groups to post signs for RON PAUL!!!!!!
-WOOOOOOOOOOOO RON PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone register Republican to vote for Ron Paul in your primaries!!!!!! Google Ron Paul!!!
ok that was my campaigning for now lol

So yeah now I'm all updated...yayness :-) oooo and TWO WEEKS BEFORE GRADUATION!!! praise the Lord! lol SO ready for this to be over!!!!!!
Merry Christmas everyone! And Happy Holidays to those of other religious beliefs and what not :-)

Awesome now that I'm all politically correct now I can sign off :-)

an ecletic post of randomness

So yeah...this post is gonna be full of random stuff lol not much to talk about but I thought I would blog anyway

So 26 days until graduation! EEK!!!!! I totally can't wait! Literally ALL I have left now is to work on my four massive projects and then two final exams the week before I graduate and then

that's it!

I'm done!

Finito!

Finished!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait...you just don't understand LOL

So graduation means job hunting so I can survive in the "real world" *cue dramatic music* So I've been praying about it...

oh...so can I just say...i don't know how people live life without Jesus Christ as their #1!! I mean it is SO comforting to know that I can place my future in the hands of someone who has it ALL figured out and has my best interests in mind and loves me like woah. HELLOOOO!!!!! It's a peace that is just indescribable!! Saves me SO much worrying (not to mention wrinkles!! haha)

With that said I have my 2nd interview with Enterprise (yes the rent-a-car place lol) on the 30th of November!! It's a three interview process (whew!) so I'm PRAYING that it goes well!! This looks like an AMAZING job! It's for management training program eventually leading into management (duh lol) and I can live where I want and keep my own pace in regards to promotion! Not to mention starting off at 30k a year! Not bad for just graduating! Especially since most of my fellow classmates have NO clue what they're going after graduating! I just praise the Lord for opening up doors for me and just pouring out his blessings on my life!

Um...let's see what else...OH! For one of my massive projects I actually get to make a scrapbook album!!! Yes you heard right...I get to SCRAP for a GRADE!!! LOL I love this hobby! It's for a culture jamming project (LOVE culture jamming!!!!! just google it to find out about the awesomeness of it!) so I'm critiquing how the news media does a PATHETIC job on reporting about politics. So I'm making a scrapbook album to show certain events in history concerning this topic....get it??? I'll post pics when I'm done with it :-)

EEK! it's due next wednesday PLUS another MASSIVE presentation due the Tuesday before...then a term paper due the Tuesday of the following week......AHH! what am I doing blogging?!!??!?!!! LOL So off to work on these lovely little projects. The good thing about most of them is at least I get to be creative *big cheesy grin* Oh how I love being creative!!!!!

Future graduate signing off ;-)

Emotions

Today is one of those days I absolutely DESPISE being a woman. Why???

Emotions

Today I've just been a big basket of depressing emotions. It's actually hard to explain, but if you're a woman then you probably know exactly what I'm talking about. In class this morning I was fighting back tears because I'm upset about being upset!! AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's ridiculous...it really is.

Although I have to blame myself in a way. The past few days I've seriously been lacking on reading my bible and I know that my days go WAYYYY better when I spend time with God first....and I haven't been spending time with him at all :-(

I was lazy this morning and didn't wake up to read my Bible for an hour like I try to do so I just got in my one Proverbs for today....and it was really this feeling of missing God I really just miss being in His presence. It's the same feeling of not talking to your best friend for a few days...you just miss them. You long to talk to them. You want to spend time with them.

Well...I do have about an hour before I go to class again so I think I'm gonna go find a quiet corner in the library and spend time reading my bible and talking with God. I have a feeling I'll feel WAY better afterwards.

Eat your wheaties!

Yep..I'm sitting here eating my frosted wheaties! :-) Great source of fiber and hopefully it'll give me energy throughout the day LOL

Anyhoo....today I have pictures since I'm a graduating senior at FSU (WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *does happy dance*) and it's taken me forever to pic just the right outfit LOL I want these to be good because everyone in my family needs updated pics of me since the last ones they have are three years ago and my hair was HALF the length it is now! yucky

Ok...so now the 2peas challenge: If I were a flower I'd be:


A DAISY!!!!!!

I'm gonna take a Meg Ryan approach and say that they're such a happy flower :-) I love daisies. They make me smile and feel better :-) See and it fits because my name means "happy" and daisies are a "happy" flower TADA!!!! It works!!!! :-) lol

So yeah...that's my post on the challenge :-) Now I want to get some daisies...hmm....

How to get Three columns:

So I got a few comments on my blog about how I made it into three columns so I decided to post where I got the directions!!! :-) Just go to this website and follow the easy step directions!

Now just a little FYI, I changed my sizes from what they posted. Here are the changes:

#header-wrapper {
width:900px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:1px solid #cc0000;
}

then scroll down a little:

#outer-wrapper {
width: 900px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:10px;
text-align:left;
font: normal normal 100% Arial, sans-serif;
}

#main-wrapper {
width: 450px;
margin-left: 25px;
float: left;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden;     /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 200px;
float: right;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden;      /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

#newsidebar-wrapper {
width: 200px;
float: left;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

then the footer I also changed:

#footer {
width:900px;
clear:both;
margin:0 auto;
padding-top:15px;
line-height: 1.6em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.1em;
text-align: center;
}


Any questions feel free to email me or just leave a comment on
here and I'll get back to you!!!! :-)

New {totally flippin sweet} blog!!

Ok so thank you sooooooooo much A.J. Clark for showing me how to make three columns on my blog!!! My blog is officially how I've been wanting it for sooooooooooo long!!! New banner...the works!!! and THREE columns! :-) AH i totally love it and am So excited about it! I'll probably be blogging more because I love it so much LOL

Again as always thanks for visiting my blog!! :-)

Some people I miss and/or love (from Germany trip '07)

*FINALLY*

Finally!!!!! My first LO since school started!!!!!!!!!!!! *sigh* it felt SO good just sitting in my room amidst my creative mess :-) lol this lo i thought of today and am SO happy about how it turned out!!!!!!!! :-) woo hoo!! (sorry about the scan but thanks to 3d embellishments it messes up the scan)

**the journaling says: when I say I want 4 boys..people think I'm CRAZY!...but I don't care :-) More than anything I want to be a sahm [stay at home mom] and raise 4 boys and be 100% dedicated to them and my husband!***

So....

35 days til graduation!!!

Translation:

*35 days until I am FREEEEE from always having to study!
*35 days until I can scrap again!!!
*35 day to get a job..EEK!
*35 days until I get out of this town!!!
*35 days until I move closer to home and Josh!
*35 days to when I have to have everything packed :-\
*35 days until I officially step into the adult world
*35 days until I'm a college graduate
*35 days until I can read for pleasure again!
*35 days until I'm closer to the beach WOO HOO!
*35 days to find a place to live
*35 days until I can pea again ;-)
and last but not least:
*35 days until my real education begins (adult world, Bible study, etc)

*My Christmas List*

It's that time of year again!! Time to make the Christmas list for all the fam so I don't end up with weird oversized shirts or random misc things I'll never use in my life lol

Since I'm *GRADUATING* this year (WOOOOO!!!) alot of the things on my list are things I'll need for my apartment! :-) I have ZERO kitchen stuff hence why that's the main things I asked for lol

So I LOVE Pampered Chef! omg it is just AMAZING stuff!!! Check it out here if you don't know about it!! So these are the things I want from Pampered Chef:
1) Classic Scraper
2) Rectangle Stone
3) Tool Turn-About
4) Large Round Stone

and also I've been dying for a sewing machine and I found the perfect one I want!!! So yay for no more handstitching for hours on my scrapbooking layouts!! Also i want to start making my own clothes and do other creative things...oooo like quilts!!!!
Anyhoo it's a Brother XL2610 and it has so many adorable stitches!!! Here it is!

And now the other stuff on my list:
-Toaster *with FOUR slots please!!*
-Pots and Pans
-Silverware -forks, knives, spoons
-Dish towels/wash rags
-Plates *you can never go wrong with a solid color like white or a very pretty pale green*
-Glasses **key word is GLASSES...I can buy plastic cups on my own***
-cooking utinsels - measuring cups and bowls, stirring spoons, spatulas, sharp knives, all those lovely misc things
-If anyone would just like to supply me with paper towels or paper plates I will more than happily accept them :-)
-If Mema can find those amazing 300 count thread sheets on sale again those would be AWESOME.. you can never go wrong with white or cream colored
-MONEY *the green stuff...oh yes..*
-NO CLOTHES WHATSOEVER!!! the only thing is PJ pants and that's IT! NONE...ZIP...ZERO... NADA!!

So yeah we'll see what all kinds of goodies I get! I'm SO excited about getting my very own place all to myself!!! It's gonna be SO much fun to decorate! lol ideas are already popping into my head!!!

Only 47 more days!!!!!!

FRUSTRATED!

OMG I STILL HAVE NO INTERNET AT MY HOUSE!!!!!!!

I haven't had internet in my room for probably a month now but I have dealt with it by just going to the main computer in the house...


now EVERYTHING is down!!!!!!!!!

so frustrating :-(

I miss blogging...I miss editing and posting my pics :-(

I miss pea-ing...

I miss it all :-(

I will be back soon I promise!!!

Very Narrow

Life is full of decisions. Some easy, some hard.
Some happy.
Some painful.
Some sad.
Some bittersweet.

but decisions have to be made everyday.

I know this narrow path I have chosen is where God wants me to be. The only way I can be in God's perfect will and my relationship with God healthy is walking down this path.

But....I'm not gonna lie. Sometimes it hurts and sometimes I am sad. Looking back at pictures I sometimes miss the friends I had.
Tears.
Pain.
Longing.

Sometimes I want to quit. Sometimes I'm weary and tired of this constant fight. Alot of times my prayers are sent up to God with tears streaming down my face and my knees aching from kneeling before God's heavenly throne for so long.

Then that still quiet voice comes. The voice that speaks peace and comfort to my heart. The voice that dries away my tears and tells me everthing is going to be ok.
Jesus - my Savior, my best friend

"Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest," Jesus whispers to me. My bible is tear stained but through his holy words he reminds me that "when I am weak, He is strong."

The path is narrow...but leads to life.

I choose this narrow way - and I'm just not able to turn back.

*Newness*

sooooooo.....

I'M GETTING A NEW PHONE!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

but not just *any* phone...but the NEW Razor!!!!!!!!! wahoooo!!!!!! lol I'm TOTALLY excited considering the phone I have now is good, but it's the kind where you get free with the plan.

Oh...so a $300 phone...i got it for...wait for it......


$35!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so yeah I'm uber excited :-) I should be getting it between today and fridayyy!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!

here's a pic:

Finances *cue death march*

ok...one word that will ALWAYS make me cringe...*FINANCES* ugh...just the sound of it sounds horrible...or worse yet *BUDGET* no wait...worse than anything else in the world...i mean the hell of finances..*DEBT*

i hate debt....does anyone like it????? I don't...it's of the DEVIL!!!!! lol

so basically the past few years I've dug myself an financial GRAVE...no pit would be a good word....the Grand Canyon of all financial holes.

ok....so maybe not THAT bad considering there are people out there in thousands and thousands of dollars worth of debt (i pity you...i REALLY do), but on a ratio scale with me being in college and not working that much and living off of my parents wealth (tis a great thing lol) I've acquired alot of debt (ok.....so the majority of it is because of scrapbooking...so it was at least fun acquiring all that debt ;-) )

my best friend ever, Josh, is helping me dig through and out of this financial mess I have created for myself. This past month has been SUPER tight and through a night or two of wanting to scream obscenities to the ceiling, throw my phone out the window, and/or rip Josh's head off I am FINALLY beginning to climb out of this hole. Budget setting isn't fun but I'm starting to see how less stressful my life is about to become and I am SOOOOOOOO looking forward to it!!!!

So...a mini budget is set into place for now until I can meet with Josh in a couple of weeks to set up the "final" big budget....and yes we will be allotting money for scrapbooking (DUH!) lol

*deep breath* this CAN be done! Hopefully this time next year I will be COMPLETELY out of debt and actually have money in savings (*gasp* novel thought for me). First and foremost I am SO grateful that I have my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ beside me every step of the way because I can just place all of this in His hands and with His help (and Josh's) my finances will soon be in order.

So yeah...bottom line...the beauty of having my finances in order is I can start buying SB supplies again!! WOOOOO!!!! lol

until then....I will be putting on my boots throwing my ropes up to God and having him pull me out of this pit :-)