the opposite of the "great life" is the "good life"

thoughts?

thank you, word, for reminding me that i'm not a freshman anymore.

but here's when i was:





oh, i LOVE it.

happy end-of-the-first-week-of-class

breakfast club.

toniiiiiiiiiight!

carpe diem

so i'm out and about today -- freshman move-in day -- the usual: riding on the golf cart with mrs. debbie, taking pictures, greeting people, having fun visiting all my favorite RAs/RDs.

and now i sit at my computer after move-in, freshman cookout & ice breakers and i realize i'll never get to do that again.

after 3 years here... of being involved in the same things year after year and enjoying them more and more each time... i finally appreciate the value of tradition as well as the importance of the newness that comes from older people moving on and younger people coming in.

i intend to publish a full list in the next few weeks, but a few things that i need to do this year so that i don't wish i had:

- give lots of hugs
- leave "conversation time" in my schedule...long conversation time. one-on-one is the best way to communicate.
- participate in as many Mexican Mondays as possible
- meet grown-ups at church (and by that i mean "non-college students")
- go see shannon in d.c.
- take LOTS of pictures (mostly hilarious ones that make me laugh until my stomach hurts)

those are just a few of the things i need to decide now so that i don't regret later.

i can't believe i'm already thinking about all this stuff, but i feel like as soon as i go to my first class on wednesday, school will fly by. man.

p.s. -
to any of you "older kids" out there that might read this, don't laugh at my seniorness. let me have my catharsis. ;)

party ova here

last night, the bff came over so i could dye her hair. the following pictures came from this adventure.

BEFORE



HAIR DYING PROCESS



POST-SCENE KID MAKEOVER



also joining us were melinda, katie, jana, betty, makayla, and lindsay, our wonderful photographer!

OH MY GOSH

i have been so busy at work this week

thank goodness for one more year of college...the real world is crazy. ;)

one week until my senior year starts

that's crazy

it's that friendly! (insert smiley-face sunshine here)

it's monday and i'm in kentucky...

(and it's katie's birthday...yippeeeeee!)

kt, clayton, and i are having a great time thus far and we will continue until we leave on wednesday.

miss everyone in the lbc! (and can't wait until everyone moves back for school)

it's off to the races tomorrow

and happy birthday to katietibbitts on monday.....
yippeeeeeeeeeeee!

this city's made us crazy and we must get out

katie and i got back today from our weekend in charlotte, which was quite wonderful if you ask me.



we had a late-night dinner at hickory tavern with our good 'ol CU alumni crystal, katie p, and adrienne which was SUCH a good time. crystal is engaged, so they were all spending the weekend finding her a dress. FUN TIMES...i miss the "older" people around here b/c, well, that's me now.

saturday was spent at south park mall after we finally decided to get out of bed. then we came home and had a wonderful dinner with the fam, then headed back out to surprise out long-lost costa rican melinda at the airport! i was seriously SO happy to see her....and i think she was happy to see us too. ;)

then i went the wrong way on the interstate (surprising) and we ended up getting back to the house really late and holding up

LISA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

where we went downtown and had a grand 'ol time. it was so much fun and i got to see so many friends that i don't normally get to see very often. it definitely made me want to go back to charlotte more often. it was nice to be downtown...pretty city with good friends.

yesterday we slept until about 2:00pm (since we were out until 4am thanks to tommy's fuel pizza craving) and then headed out to buy apartment things. then we had dinner at macaroni grill/starbucks with claire, bracken, and matty oak. i love, love, love them.

i was especially glad to see claire -- she just came home from africa on wednesday so i was SO thankful to be able to see her while i was home. i got a chance to hear some about her time there and what's going on in her life. i am really lucky to have a really close friend like her at home.

then we packed up katie's car with my stuff, slept for a few hours, and headed to the elbow doctor for my check-up this morning. we stopped by the mall again for a last-minute kt purchase, ate lunch, then headed back here.

the car ride was absolutely hilarious. we were tired in the beginning, but then i requested a little maroon 5. we listened to the whole cd, followed by daniel beddingfield, john mayer, and then the bff's "random hotness" cd. i honestly think tears were coming out of my eyes.

katie is quite the motor mouth. together we were unstoppable.

and this afternoon i moved into reardon with makayla. now we're just waiting on lindsay, who i miss SO much. i cannot wait to have her here again. :)
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three cheers for our weekend excursion! and four cheers for the fact that we're going to kentucky on saturday for 4 days for kt's 22nd. hip-hip-hip-hip HOORAY!
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here's your chance, do your dance, at the space jam, alright...