Summer! Summer! Summer!
Well I haven’t blogged in over 3 months because I’ve been having fun doing other things/busy with school. But I’m bringing the blog back because I finally have something exciting to write about!! (You have to wait till the end to find out!) But first here is a crash course to catch everyone up on what has been going on in my life.
1. First big thing…I graduated!! Whoo! I can now say I have a college degree! (B.S. in Nutritional Sciences-Dietetics to be exact). It still kind of blows my mind to think that I actually have a college degree!
2. After graduation six of my favorites people on this planet and I went traveled to Gulf Shores, AL (pre-oil reaching beach stage) and had one of the best weeks of my life! I love these girls so much! I laughed with them, sang karaoke with them, built sand castles on the beach with them, and yes even cried with them my last night there (but probably not for the same reasons your thinking). I can’t wait till Madison graduates next year and we get to do it all over again!!
3. I have fallen in love with Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zero’s this summer thanks to my boyfriend. Check out their song HOME it is my fav! I have been blasting it on the iPod all summer.
4. When I was home a few weeks ago I found this book in our guest bedroom called What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self. It is a compilation of letters famous women wrote to their younger selves. It is very inspirational, for real. My favorite letter was from Maya Angelou. To give you a little background information she had got pregnant out of wedlock her senior year in high school. As soon as she graduated and had her baby she decided to leave her town and home and try to make it on her own. This is the letter she wrote to her younger self. I think you probably have to be a girl to relate to this but I love it:
Dear Marguerite,
You’re itching to be on your own. You don’t want anybody telling you what time you have to be in at night or how to raise your baby. You’re going to leave your mother’s big comfortable house and she won’t stop you, because she knows you too well.
But listen to what she says:
When you walk out of my door, don’t let anybody raise you — you’ve been raised.
You know right from wrong.In every relationship you make, you’ll have to show readiness to adjust and make adaptations.
Remember, you can always come home.
You will go home again when the world knocks you down — or when you fall down in full view of the world. But only for two or three weeks at a time. Your mother will pamper you and feed you your favorite meal of red beans and rice. You’ll make a practice of going home so she can liberate you again — one of the greatest gifts, along with nurturing your courage, that she will give you.
Be courageous, but not foolhardy.
Walk proud as you are,
Maya
5. I started my new school 2 weeks ago. I felt like such a freshman again not knowing where anything was on campus and not even knowing how to print my notes offline (UCO does not use D2L unfortunately.) But I’m finally getting the hang of things. Luckily my friend Jamie from OSU made the move to UCO with them so I had at least one friend to start off with, and I am already starting to become good friends with the other girls in the program. I find out this week what hospital I will be working at in the fall and I’m really excited!!
6. Aaaaand last! The big news! My family has went crazy. Literally crazy, I have no idea what they are thinking. My parents decided that after 17 years of living in the same house it was time to do some remolding. Now that’s not the crazy part, I agree our house could use a little updating. We can’t live in the house while it is being remolded because of all the equipment and everything. So instead of moving into a rent house or hotel room or something like that they have decided to park the Cougar (pictured below) in our back yard and live in it for the estimated 4-5 months it will take to remodel the house. That’s the crazy part. 4 people. 1 camper. There is no way this won’t be interesting, so I am going to start blogging about the trials and triumphs of one family living in a camper that is smaller than my apt. Can’t wait!
