Happy Thanksgiving

What am I thankful for? While I know some of these are quite silly, here is a small list of a few things I've been thankful lately

-reading outside on the patio on days like today
-having my beautiful German shepherd run up to me when I come home to madison
-my family that loves me unconditionally
-just the ability to walk, run, jump, dance, leap around with joy
-the freedom to read my bible and worship openly
-that I get to go to college and continue learning
-starbucks cups and the quotes that come on them
-the temptations and their pandora station
-cowboy boots
-bright finger nail polish
-the christmas tree that we put up upstairs and the one we're getting from jack's tomorrow
-decorating the christmas tree- but mostly watching mom decorate the christmas tree
-gluten free pie crust
-my mom that loves me so much that she works extra hard to make me gluten free food
-yoforia with high school friends
-peace in my heart and assurance from the Lord
-the younglife christmas party and planning our costumes
-harry potter wyldlife club
-giving my younglife talk dressed as hermonie granger
-a big comfy bed that I've had countless hours to sleep in this week
time to relax
-looking at old photo albums
-all the bright yellow leaves
-watching the leaves fall and birds migrating south in a magnificent pattern
-the georgia bulldawgs
-harry potter movie 7 part 1...and now eagerly awaiting part two
-internship with isa next semester. just getting to encourage something I loved.
-sharing. sharing what I've learned, what I have, and my joy with others. somethings are too great to keep to myself.
-dueling banjos
-hulu
-the keurig downstairs. and having hot chocolate 4 times a day
-my beautiful, lovely, amazing, encouraging, talented, and inspirational girlfriends
-just how my friends love me regardless of anything I could ever do
-classic city church
-highlighting everything important and wonderful in my bible and watching it grow more and more colorful over the years
-coffee dates with JCon and being thankful for my yl community
-teaching perfectly polished and all the wonderful people I'm blessed with interact with -thanksgiving leftovers (already on my 2nd plate of the day)
-looking at maggie's france pictures and thinking how classy and beautiful she is and how blessed we are that she came back and didn't stay there!
-HANNAH COX. need I say more?
-national geographic magazines.
-reading fortune magazine and realizing how much more there is to learn
-being happy that i've figured out what I want to give my friends for christmas! whew!

Get back up, nick vujicic

bookshelf

I rearranged my bookshelf a few months ago. I came home from class and felt the need to take everything off and rearrange it all. I was so please to be finished that I took a picture.

I've been looking nonstop for my harry potter book 7 since seeing the movie. I'm home at my parent's house in Madison and fortunately I was scrolling through old pictures and realized it's in Athens!
Whew. It's nice to know exactly what's there and what's here!
See it? Left hand bottom corner.

quick rant

I cannot study well  under bright lights.
that includes overhead lights and sunlight
heaven forbid I attempt to study outside.

well this afternoon was perfect. I arrived at the slc and headed over to a booth in jittery joes and all the overhead lights were off. no fluorescent light sallowing out my skintone or reminding me of the 3rd grade caferteria which I walked into in a line behind the coveted position of a lineleader, where I slurped down vitapups, which are nothing but sugar and ice and icky syrup to coat your insides and clog up your arteries.

Darkness and lamp light is ideal. It creates the allusion that it's very early morning or very late night. that notion associates with the personal belief that everyone else is sleeping. or doing nothing.

I got 2 hours in of  sleepy, dismal, studying. I was a drudge. I could tolerate it.

until.
here's the thing that kills me. this girl. flips the lights on. It's 3pm. it's not like she's syncing us with the daylight hours. and she wasn't even one of those cheerful peppy types.

now people are starting to move around. make loud noises. chat. one is even laughing and giggling.

I'm the most easily distracted people on the face of this campus. this is torture. I need a study carol at the science library. you literally have your livelihood sucked out of you the moment you walk in the door.

yes. im waaassting time blogging about this.

I did find this funny though. I do imagine if I was wearing this child's costume...no one would flip the lights on. 

hp7

I'm not going to lie....I can't wait. Harry Potter has been absent from my life for so long now....and I can't force myself to reread another book...because it would be at least the 5th time....or for some of the earlier ones...the 12th....

We're having a harry potter themed club next. you can guess who I want to be.

yikes, she grew up fast. I'll have much better luck pulling off the girl the on the left.

be your self

rules of advice
be your self

be your self

be your self

 and oh, ummm.. yeah? Just be your self.

It's the go to answer. and you know what? my biggest problem with it....it's SINGULAR.

be your self....implying that there's just one particular side of me. Ridiculous. Preposterous. absurb. outrageous. ludicrous. farcical. humorous. probably perfectly practical. nonsensical. and something that would make my life much easier.

Seriously. I'm going to start responding to every single one of these over used words of advice with "which one"?

Gosh, I'm a different girl at 8 in the morning than at 8 at night, before and after coffee, in winter boots vs. sandals, goodness gracious, I promise you the moment I slip into a sundress I'm going to feel drastically different than I do in flannel.