Boogie Babblings

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I want to wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I am very excited about what this year holds for me.  Wedding, honeymoon, and graduation are just some of the things to be excited about.  I also hope to pass the boards and get a job before we ring in 2010 (and have a few extra letters behind my new name haha).  I am just so excited about 2009 and it looks to be shaping up to be one of the biggest years of my life.  2008 was more like a sandwich year because 2007 was such a big year and with my projections of excitement in 2009.  It was overall a good year.  I am so happy with my life right now!  I wish everyone as happy a new year as I plan on having!

Where did you begin 2008?
With Matt

Were you in school (anytime this year)?
Almost everyday even during the summer

Did you have to go to the hospital?
Yes, a few times to observe and for class

Did you have any encounters with the police?
Everyday if I was lucky…but it wasn’t everyday but probably about half of the days in the year

Where did you go on vacation?
asheville

What did you purchase that was over $500?
a college education…grad school is expensive

Did you know anybody who passed away?
Yes

What sporting events did you attend?

ECU Football!  GO PIRATES! Arrgh!

What concerts/shows did you go to?
none

Where do you live now?
NC

What’s the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2008?
I don’t know

What has been your favorite moment(s)?
My all time favorite moment was when Matt proposed!

Any new additions to your family?
Nope I have to wait until next year when I gain a husband and a bunch of inlaws

What was your best month?
March

Made new friends?
I guess

Any regrets?
Nope

Have any life changes in 2008?
Yes….I got engaged to the best man in the entire world!

Change your hairstyle?
Well my hair has gotten really long

Get a new job?
nope

How old did you turn this year?
23

Get married or divorced?

gotta wait until 2009 for that

Get arrested?
No!

Be honest - did you watch American Idol?
Maybe like once or twice because of the stupid writers strike

Are you happy to see 2008 go?

Well it was a sandwich year for big events in my life.  It was a good year but one of the toughest years for school and being away from my fiance so in a way yes but it was still a good year and I was fairly healthy so no.

Drank Starbucks in 2008?
MAYBE one hot chocolate.  I HATE coffee.

What are you wishing for in 2009?
There are many things I am excited about in 2009.  I am wishing that I will really enjoy my wedding and honeymoon.  Graduation is also something I can’t  wait for!  Hopefully I will finish 2009 up by passing the boards and *crosses fingers* getting a job. 

I hope everyone had a great Christmas day!  I know that I did!  It was great to have Matt off on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!  I am sure that will almost never happen in the future.  It has been a busy week.  Matt and I got food poisoning which I NEVER want EVER again.  It was so bad.  My granddaddy’s sister died so the day before Christmas Eve we gathered with family at the house then had both the funeral and visitation.  She was 92 and I hope that I inherited some of those long living gene’s from my granddaddy’s family!  haha  I told my granddaddy that I hope he doesn’t continue his family tradition of death before Christmas.  His daddy died on Christmas Eve.  That doesn’t make for very happy Christmases on those years.  Then our whole family attended the annual Christmas Eve service at church.  I always like the Christmas Eve service.  It was the first time in a while that I have felt like it was the church I grew up in as far as the same people being there when I go there.  The people that come to church on a regular basis has changed so much in the time I have gone to college.  I only recognize about half of the congregation on any given Sunday which is weird because the church is so small and I used to know just about everyone!  It was nice for it to feel like the same church again.  There was an unusually high turn out for the service.  I guess it’s like Matt said because it is warm outside.  Then for Christmas we ate at Grandma’s and exchanged presents.  I had a great time!  I hope everyone else had a great Christmas too!

I just thought I would do a quick update while winding down to go to bed.  I am so ready for this semester to be over…no wait i meant im ready for may.  I am so sick of the go to class study, read, take test….and then comes the last month of class chaos….then finals.  After Dec. 10 I will only have 1 more semester of classes ever!  This semester has been a little more irritating at the end than I thought it was going to be.  I guess I’m gonna be doing homework over Thanksgiving break.  Yuck.  I will also be working on my portfolio over Christmas break.  I gotta get that thing done cause I will not be working on it one week before its due.  Im not taking it on my honeymoon.  haha I gotta get to Christmas break first though and there is quite a list of things to do before then.   I can’t believe it snowed yesterday.  I had to pinch myself because it rarely snows here and ESP. in novemeber.  I hate snow for the mere fact that it means it is way too cold outside for my taste.  I dislike cold weather.  I wanna move somewhere it stays warm yearround but Matt said no. haha Its okay cause i was only half serious to begin with.  Okay well yall just pray I finish this semester with good grades because I am not the one in my class going for the as we like to call it “super student award”.  I did get an invitation to join an honor society because i was in the top 15 percent of my grad. class (which is only 3 people).  I also just got a scholarship.  YAY!  I was excited!  I meant to end this earlier but I thought I would make this post a little more positive at the end haha.

We are now below the 300 day count for the wedding!  I can’t wait!  I am still moving along on plans.  Doing a little here and there.  I am just so excited about that day!  I gotta stop with that now and go study so I don’t fail out of school. haha  I got a midterm on Wednesday.  I can’t believe its already midterms.  Crazy.  I actually think it may be a little past midterm because my brother had an awful week about 2 weeks ago with a test in nearly every class.  I still have some extra projects to do before classes end.  I have a feeling my life is about to get crazy busy.  I am trying to be better about updating my blog.  So far its been a bit of a failure but hopefully that will change pretty soon.

It just has not been my month with my health.  I have another doctors appointment tomorrow in reference to a routine exam that has come back with a problem.  Please pray that it is nothing serious!  I am worried about it of course and probably won’t have any answers tomorrow.  I still have to go back and get the other health problem taken care of but all the prayers will help.

Okay so that word is so overrated these days.  This post has nothing to do with politics but it has something to do with change. Sometimes change is good whereas other times it isn’t.  We aren’t always ready for change when it slaps us in the face.  Sometimes we refuse to acknowledge it because it is something we don’t want to see.  That works for a little while but at some point you are forced to accept whatever it is you have been ignoring.  I like to think that I am getting a little better about accepting things that I can’t change.  It is always a process for me because I like to be in control of things in my life, but nobody can control everything.  I am starting not to worry as much before I come up with solutions.  As we all go through life we change as people.  We grow up and expand our knowledge along with many other things.  I knew when I started graduate school that it would change certain aspects of me to help prepare me to become a professional.  I carry myself a little differently than I did a year ago.  I knew it would happen and at some point I would realize it.  The realization hit me this week.  I have handled myself much better that I would have when I entered college and last year even.  It was a rough week for me to say the least.  I had the scariest/worst medical problems I have encountered thus far in my life.  The whole ordeal isn’t over it as I still need to go back to the doctor to get my issue fixed.  I want to thank everyone for their prayers and support.  I have found out in the past week so much about the people in my life.  I have been surprised about the turn of events.  It wasn’t really what I expected at all.  I had to miss a test in one of my classes and I received so many phone calls and emails to check on me even though they knew nothing other than I wasn’t in class and that isn’t like me at all.  It meant a lot to me because not only did they notice but they also cared enough to check on me.  I have only known most of them for a year but they have become better friends to me than I realized.  I plan on keeping up with some of the girls in my class after we graduate.  I wish we would be closer in proximity after graduation but I will be in a pretty central location that I can make trips to visit them some.  I know this post is a little unusual but my week has been the same way.  I went to eat with my brother tonight and it was a lot of fun!  We should do it more often.  We have plans to do it more often.  I really should go to bed so I don’t fall asleep in lab tomorrow morning.

Sorry this will probably be my only entry this month.  This month has been very busy and has just flown by!  I have been doing lots of wedding planning.  So far we have officially booked the church, preacher, somewhat the cake, MY DRESS!!!, and the DJ.  I may have done more.  I just can’t remember.  I know there is a loooooong list of what is left to do!  School has been sooo much better this year.  I not only have time to breathe but also enjoy a little bit of my life sometimes!  My research is starting ….pretests are in full swing next week.  I am very excited about it.  I think it will be a good experience.  I am not looking forward to the 1o page lit review I have to write though.  I am sure I will have accomplished something when my masters project is complete ( I didn’t choose to do a thesis).  I am also excited that it is fall.  I love the weather and the leaves…its my favorite season.  I wanted to go to visit Matt’s family over fall break to see all the beautiful mountain leaves but I am pretty sure that isn’t going to happen.  I just have wedding stuff to do and plan then.   I have also been enjoying the ECU football this year.  We started off our season great!  We lost our last two games and our ranking but I still enjoy our football games.  I didn’t go to the game this week and I’m not tore up about it especially since we lost.  The WVU game was awesome though.  Pretty neat when you pull up espn’s website and see your school’s football team as the featured team of the week!  I am going to have a little trouble choosing between football and shopping on black friday.  I have a feeling football is gonna win though since I won’t have to look very hard to find someone to go to the game with me but I will struggle to find someone who truly wants to go shopping.  Too bad I don’t have a mom or a sister or something like that.   I am also happy that my favorite shows are now coming back on tv with their season premires!  I have rambled and jumped from subject to subject now it’s time to sto.

Okay so I was thinking about shutting this down because I felt like I didn’t have much to write about but I have changed my mind.  I have had plenty to write about in the past 2 weeks.  I think it is because I have temporarily reclaimed my life until Wednesday anyways.  I don’t even know where to start.

I now have a new roommate.  It is awesome.  She is a great friend and I have lived with her before.  She is the best roommate I have had and I am happy to be living with her again.  Things are going great so far…as expected.

I finished up summer school with A’s yay!   Summer school wasn’t bad at all.  I really hope when we go back Wednesday that it is not going to be as bad as this past spring semester!  I am not ready to go back.  I am excited about starting my research though.

Our trip to the mountains was awesome!  Our first stop was to see Bonnie graduate.  I am so excited for her that she is done with grad school!  Congrats again Bonnie!  It was had to say goodbye since they have already moved to Indiana.  I couldn’t say anything to them right before we left them because I didn’t want to cry.  I know that we won’t be able to make the trip to see them for at least a couple of years.  I have to finish school and we are getting married so we won’t be able to travel that far for a while.  I wish you guys the best but I am going to miss seeing yall as often as we are usually able to see you.  Then we went to visit Matt’s family which was a whole lot of fun.  They took me all these places and we had some wedding talk and stuff.  I am really excited about becoming part of the family.  I enjoyed playing with Shelby.  It is such a different experience having someone call me aunt.  She is such a sweetie.  I could not have had a better time.

Then I became miss destruction and tore up nearly everything valuable that I own on accident at different point of times over the week.  So thus my car is now fixed!  Thanks for all the prayers!  I also am the proud owner of a new laptop.  I am both happy and sad about having a new laptop.  It worked out and its nice but I had hoped to use the same laptop until I finished school.

In other news…..I did some wedding dress shopping last week!  It was sooooo much fun.  I am going again tomorrow.  I can’t wait!

Okay sorry this is so long.  There may be more to come soon.