Things Are Sweeter in Tennessee

Well as the brilliant Billy Madison once sang:

"Back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight. Ohhhh, back to school. Back to school. Back to school. Well, here goes nothing."

Yep, it's that time of year again. I just got out of my auditing class. I dont think it's gonna be bad as I was expecting. Business Policy tomorrow may be a different story though. I have a really good schedule as far as having to attend class. There's only 3 I have to go to, and then I am taking 2 online.

Last weekend I got to visit Jason in Nashville! You see, I love Megan so much that I took her to catch her flight to Michigan from Nashville. So, I stayed in Nashville til Sunday when she got back. How convenient. :) Jason and I had alot of fun. Friday I met him downtown for lunch, and then I went shopping while he went back to work. I helped my mom out by buying me alot of stuff for Christmas. How nice of me. ;) Friday night, we ate at Demo's downtown. I've tried to eat their several times before, but the wait has always been too long. This time it was fine. It was sooo good! Who knew spaghetti and steak were such a good combination? We walked around downtown for a bit then we went to the Opryland Hotel. We walked around all the gardens until our feet hurt so bad I could barely make it back to the car. Saturday we went shopping at the mall in Green Hills. This mall is super nice, it has a Louis Vuitton and Betsey Johnson and all kinds of cool stores I can't afford. Needless to say, we did alot more looking than we did shopping. Saturday night we cooked dinner at Jason's then we went to Centennial Park. Every Saturday night in the summer, they have a band and people can come ballroom dance in the park. We had so much fun! We missed the lesson beforehand, but luckily we took ballroom dancing lessons last spring, so we still kinda knew what we were doing. We weren't half bad!! We got to do swing, rhumba, waltz, and salsa...because we already knew those. We even attempted the polka!! That was quite funny!! After that we walked around the Parthenon and headed back downtown. We went to a karaoke place for awhile, it was alright. Then we went to Coyote Ugly. We all loved that movie in high school, so you know I had to check it out! It was fun, but not as exciting as the movie. Sunday I picked Megan up at the airport and headed back to Flo.

This week we've tried to hit up some Welcome Week activities. It's just not that exciting anymore. I guess cause I'm leaving in December, I dont want to make the effort and get attached to new people. Is that sad? Probably so. Oh well, I'm off to spend a small fortune on books and make the hike back to my car that is parked a mile away. Gotta love the first day of school!!

Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture

Sisterly love. I've got some hot racoon eyes going on, thanks to my sunglasses.As my dad put it: "All the honey's on the boat". haha

Megan, Lauren, Kala, Harmony and Naomi Me and Megan
Joanna and Dorothy catchin' some rays.
Me and Megan again.

Yay. It finally worked. I'm just sitting here patiently waiting for "So You Think You Can Dance" to come on. Jessica is coming over to watch it. Travis better freakin win. She's pulling for Benji, but Travis is obviously the better choice! He's so cute, and he is much better technical dancer. Benji is just all show, cause he's a good performer. I like him too though, Travis just deserves to win. There is no genre he can't do! My girl, Allison, got kicked off a few weeks ago, so i dont really care about the girls anymore.

I have to go to work early at the daycare tomorrow. Boo! But they needed extra help, so Lauren is gonna take my usual shift. So we will get to work together, that should be funny!!

I need to get my hair cut. It is getting disgustingly long. ohhh. I think I am going to see "Talledega Nights" tonight. Yay!! I hope it's as funny as it looks like it is. I'm afraid it may be one of those movies that just has all the funny parts in the preview. But I've heard good things about it. Well that's it for now. We helped Amy move stuff in all day, so I think I'm gonna go relax before Jessica gets here.

Snap Yo Fingers

I feel like it is pointless to update this thing since Megan is home now and will pretty much know my every move. I'm sure my mom will still read it though. The last few weeks have been fun. I've gotten alot of girl time in since Jason is in the process of moving. I was worried about not having anyone to hang out with since he's gone, and Lauren works every night, and no one is really in town, but I've had plenty of stuff to do. It's been great! Well not great that he is gone, but ya know. ;)

This weekend was fun. The girlies from high school (plus Megan) came to the river. Man I love them. I'm sure we bored Megan to death with all our high school gossip and reminising. Sorry!! It happens everytime we are all together. Then we went back to Huntsville. Call me crazy, but I miss Huntsville! Live in Florence for awhile, you will learn to appreciate it. Sunday we watched "High School Musical" with Kala. It was so cute!! I really want the soundtrack. Then me, Lauren, Joanna, and Harmony went and watched "The Devil Wears Prada". It was cute too.

A verse we studied in Sunday School this week really stuck out to me.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. - Colossians 3:23

Thats a good one, huh? Yep. I think I would do things a whole lot differently everyday, if I constantly kept that verse in my head. Well, I just tried to load pictures on here and once again it wouldn't work. Maybe tomorrow. Amy J moved into our apt. complex today. So now I'm off to help Amy J organize her apartment and maybe paint some too!

Spittin That Booty Chedda

Well Megan is definately outdoing me on the updates. I dont have much to update on...right now I'm sitting here waiting for "So You Think You Can Dance" to come on. My Wednesday and Thursday nights definately revolve around this show. This week is Handy Fest - the only time Florence comes alive. I think that should be their motto. We went and saw Leigh dance with her hip-hop class. It was pretty hot (the dance, not the temperature, although it was extremely hot that night too)! There was a group from Huntsville's Boys and Girls Club that danced too. They were awesome! I could've watched them ALL night. H-town representin' at it's finest. haha Last night we went and saw 17th Floor at Texas Roadhouse. They had a street party. 17th Floor is always a good time! Later tonight Naomi and I might try to catch Gary Nichols at Sidepockets. Then tomorrow night is Ugli Stick at Big Ed's. Megan, if you were here, we could go hear "Off The Chain", haha, remember when we all went to the westside last year to find them and then left cause we were definately, ummm...out of place.

Justin Timberlake's new song is out now. I must say I had set my expectations too high. It's okay, it'll still be fun to dance to. The more I hear it, the more I like it. His voice is all digital sounding and stuff. His voice is too good to be messing it up like that.

The sermon at church on Sunday was really good. It made me realize how selfish I am. I'm always so concerned about my own problems and whether or not I'm in God's will, and all the usual - good stuff to be focused on of course....but I forget about everyone else. So God really opened my eyes and pointed out people in my life, even that I associate with everyday, that I should be ministering to, and showing His love to. I'm gonna work on that.

ohhh. I finally saw "Dead Man's Chest". Probably not as good as the first, but I'm no movie guru (let's face it, I'm doing real good to stay awake through any movie, so if I manage to stay awake, it's good). It was entertaining enough. It's not as good as "Superman Returns" though. I loved that movie! I also saw "Madea's Family Reunion". It was so funny. Anything by Tyler Perry is hilarious! He has a book out now that I think I'm gonna buy. Well, Rick's and "So You Think You Can Dance" are callin my name. Holla atcha girl!

Inside Peanut Butta, Outside Jelly

This weekend I went to the mountains with Jason and his family. You know you are from Alabama when you say the "the mountains" and everyone automatically knows you mean Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge. Anyways, it was lots of fun. I've been like 10 times, but probably atleast 8 of those times was with a church group so I got to see alot of things this weekend that we were never able to see. We left as soon as I got off work Friday and got there about midnight Friday night.

Then Saturday morning, me, Jason and his mom went to the outlets and shopped. I didn't buy anything because I am a poor kid now. Then Saturday night we all went to the Dixie Stampede, which is something I have always wanted to do. It was cool. They give you all kinds of food and you can only eat it with your hands. Everyone sits in a big arena and a show is going on throughout the meal. There is a north side and and a south side, and the whole time there is a rivalry between the two. Unfortunately we had to sit on the north side. There were ostrich races, pig races, barrel races, and all kinds of dancing and magic tricks and all that sorta thing. It made me wanna go to a rodeo. Then we road the trolley up to Gatlinburg and walked down the main strip. Me and Jason did a pretty cool mirror maze. Then it was back to the cabin.

On Sunday, we had a picnic at a creek on the way up the mountain. Then we drove to the top of the mountain to look at the view. It's also where the Appalacian Trail comes through. Then we went to Ober Gatlinburg. We road the chair lifts all the way to the top. The view was so pretty. Then we road the alpine slides a few times and went to dinner. After that we were exhausted, it was so hot up there! I've only been one other time in the summer, we usually go in the winter. I wasn't expecting it to be so hot. So we woke up early Monday morning and drove back to Flotown so I could get to work by 2:30. That was my weekend, it was fun! I just tried to post pictures and it's not working. So tomorrow I will probably post a few pictures.

This coming up weekend, Lauren and I have to do a little presentation about missions to a bunch of GAs from a church here in Florence. They are having a retreat out in Cloverdale, so me and Lauren are going out there and doing a little missions time with them. I'm kind of nervous, cause we haven't prepared anything yet. So pray for us, hopefully it will go well.

Oh, and also...in case no one's figured it out...all the links on the right side work now. So there is a link to all my photo albums on facebook for the non-facebookers.