don't knock it 'til you watch it

Yes, I watch Disney channel, and no, I'm not afraid to admit it.  Since it's almost Halloween my FAVORITE DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIE SERIES OF ALL TIME IS ON!!!!  And if you can't tell from the picture I posted, it's Halloweentown.  You can't judge me until you watch it.

I sometimes get made fun of for my love of disney and for a spilt second feel like I might need to grow up a little bit, but then I quickly snap out of it.  Halloweentown was one of the best movies ever made and, to me, its been a "must record" ever since it came out.  Since the first Halloweentown movie there have been 4 more which means that all this week disney is playing one each night....When i found out I went straight to my DVR and made sure that every single one of them was going to be recorded.  Monday night was Halloweentown, Tuesday night was Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, and tonight is Halloweentown High!!  I sound like a huge nerd but its something that I get excited about every year.

I am taking no phone calls tonight from 7-8:30, I'm going to be a little busy.

There no place like home

If it would actually take me home, I would tap my shoes together right now.  I love Dallas, don't get me wrong, but I miss my home so much.  Sometimes I just get tired of all the hustle bustle of college life and going home is the perfect vacation for me.  

My favorite time of year is finally here and there is nothing I love more than being in my house all cozy with my family.  Everything about the season says home to me...the decorations, the smells, the feeling in the air, even peoples attitudes change around this time.  One of the things I love doing most in the fall is spending time with my mom;  she is a get up and go kind of person so she always has something planned.  Be it shopping, going to the movies, or COOKING I love every moment I get to spend with her.  This time of year is simply just special for me.

Fall break is this weekend and I get to go back for a full 5 days!!!  I can't wait! Mom and Dad are so excited to have "their girls" home and I am sure they have a lot planned for use to do.  No matter what though, I am sure we will have a great time.

What do I want to be when I grow up?

This question was fun to answer when I was in 3rd and still thought that being a princess was an option.  Now that I'm a Junior in college its just a huge pain in the ass.  I can't tell you how stressed I am about the future.


I entered college with a plan.  I was going to get into the business school and become an accounting major with a minor in psychology...no questions asked.  All throughout high school I was told that I was good at math and that this would be the perfect career path for me, so of course I listened.  Well I went through my first 3 semesters of school and was finally allowed to take my first accounting class.  And to make things short, it was not my thing AT ALL; I made my first C ever in this class and was definately not feeling accounting anymore!!! WORST CLASS OF MY LIFE!!!  I was so disappointed but I thought o well, I will find another major in the business school....WRONG.  See in order to do that I would have had to actually gotten into the business school, and, since I got a C in accounting, I was .23 points away from the minimum acceptance GPA.


Plan B-  I will be a psychology major with no minor.  This all sounded fine and dandy because I loved psychology, but my family informed me that it wasn't going to do me any good just earn a degree in psychology.  I needed to either add a second major or a minor.  Only problem was that I wasn't interested in anything else...so now what??  Well my dad suggested that I try advertising, so, again, I thought sure why not.


I took my first advertising course in the spring of my sophomore year and I loved it!  I thought my problems were over...I was going to be a psychology major with an advertising minor.


Next I was thinking about graduate school for psychology, because I can't do much with just an undergraduate degree .  So I started doing research with my professor to get ahead.  Well she then informs me that graduate school is a minimum of 5 to 6 more years of schooling.....WHAT!?!?!  I can't go to school for that much longer, its just not going to happen for me!  


So as of right now I am thinking about graduate school for advertising.  But who knows how long I will stick with this plan.  Right now it seems like a good idea :/

The Walking Orange

Did I really just see that?  I don't know what the deal with faking tanning is these days.  I don't mind the one or two shades darker than you naturally are look, but WHY ON EARTH would you go darker than that?  Honestly people, do you think you look good orange?  Its probably the most unflattering color on anyone, yet I have seen more people dye their skin this color.  Here is a hint--> YOU DON'T LOOK GOOD

Its not normal and I would really like to stop seeing people try to pull this look off.  It's like wearing brown shoes with a black belt....it's just never going to look right.  Please make me (and the rest of us who haven't completely lost our minds) happy and stop with the madness.

Libraries

....I haven't been to one since my freshman year :/.  I hated how many people were around and all the distractions; pens dropping, loud typing, doors opening and closing, its just not my thing.  But somehow I found my way to one this week.  I usually study at home, on my bed, with the TV off and no music, but lately I have been falling asleep within a couple minutes of opening my books.  I figured that I should switch things up a bit and give the library another chance.  I must say....I have been pretty productive!  I'm actually shocked; I've only been on facebook once and checked my mail twice in the last hour and a half....sadly thats huge for me.  I'm sitting here looking out the window and it's quite peaceful, and I don't mind the little bit of noise because its actually keeping me awake.  I think I might give this whole library thing another try because (I can't believe I'm saying this BUT) I am actually enjoying studying right now!!! SHOCKING!!!!

Who, What, When, Where, and Why?

These are the questions I ask myself now when I think about religion.  I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school's from kindergarten through 12th grade.  Church was every Sunday, no if and's or but's.  When I was younger I never questioned my beliefs. Ever since I came to college, however, its been a different story.  I stopped going to church and started listening to other peoples opinions on the matter.  Suddenly I started feeling like all the years spent learning about the Bible and the church were a complete waste of time.  I am not saying that i don't believe in God anymore, but I don't believe in more than half of what the church tells me.  I mean isn't it silly to think that we base our whole lives off of some book that someone wrote thousands of years ago?  To me, its crazy and it's content is even crazier.  Also, I feel that it is unnecessary to go to Church every Sunday.  Why do I have to pray to God with a bunch of strangers every week for an hour?  Why can't I form my own relationship with God and pray to him by myself if I please?  Who is the church to tell me that I have to repent my sins or I won't get into Heaven?  And so on and so on...

Those are questions I ask myself a lot these days.  I know that my family wouldn't be proud to learn about my sudden disbelief in Catholicism, but I am a grown person and therefore need ask myself these questions in order to be my own independent person.  

I Will Survive

So it's Monday, and I must say that this is not my favorite day of the week.  Am I the only one who feels like the weekends fly by when your in college??? and then Monday morning your sitting on your bedding looking at all the things you have to do during the week and somehow it always seems daunting and impossible??  For example, just this week alone I have a paper due today, homework and lab work due on tuesday for my computer programming class, a psychology online quiz, 2 advertising midterms, and a semester project due.....(this sounds even worse after typing it all out) EEK!!!

No matter how much work I have I know from experience that time won't stop just for poor little me (how rude, right??).  When Friday rolls around though I will have somehow accomplished all that I needed to and will feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off my shoulders....that is until the next Monday when I'm starring at another ridiculously busy week.  Oh well,  I guess thats what college is all about right?  Working like a dog all week and living for the weekends?  Like one wise woman once said "I will survive."

Hide Your Kids!!!

I don't know about any of you, but I am obsessed with the "hide your kids, hide your wife" song that has taken over youtube!!  On a news show in Alabama (I think) Antoine Dodson expressed how angry he was at a man who climbed into his sisters bedroom window and tried to rape her.  Now I know that this isn't a funny subject, but the way Antoine talks to the camera and how he tries to warn the rest of his neighborhood about the situation is absolutely HILARIOUS!  You have to see for yourself...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520

Was I right??? Antoine became an internet sensation after 3 guys took this video and remade it into a song...http://youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw&feature=related.  It reached number one on itunes within a couple of weeks and I have to admit, I bought the song myself.  Antoine has made enough money off of this to move him and his sisters out of the projects...I guess good things come out of bad situations.  :) 

I have never been much of a youtube person and certainly don't go around looking for crazy videos, but I am so glad that I stumbled upon this one!!!  

Wedding of the year award goes to....

MY SISTER AND HER NEW HUSBAND!!!

I know from experience that my family puts on good parties, but nothing tops what we experienced this weekend!  From the beautiful ceremony to the reception, everything was first class.  The wedding was simply amazing and I could not be happier for my sister and new brother-in-law.  We all danced the night away and had the time of our lives.  

Since our family is Italian, my sister wanted to incorporate a traditional Italian wedding song and dance into the reception.  I want to show everyone what this looked like and just imagine how much fun this was with all of your crazy Italian aunts and uncles (lol)...

(skip the first minute and 40 seconds)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2dBcmMjng

From all the dancing I woke up this morning with sore feet but it was well worth all the fun I had!!!  Nothing a good pedicure won't fix, right!?!?

CATCH THAT PLANE!!!

So yesterday was one of the most hectic days of my life thus far!!  Here is why…

My sister is getting married this weekend so my mom scheduled my other sister, Samantha, and I to fly into San Antonio on Thursday.  I get out of classes at 3:20 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Samantha gets out at 12:20.  Instead of waiting for me and catching the 5:15 flight, Samantha decided to leave me in the dust and take off at 1:50.

My original plan was to go to my 2:00 class, get out at 3:20, and have my friend drive me to the airport at 4:00, but this all changed when my teacher decided to let us out at 2:45!!!  Most people would be excited about this, however, I was felt quite the opposite.  Now I had to sit around for an hour and a half twiddling my thumbs until it was time to leave.  So brilliant me decided to make life a little harder and rush to the airport to get on an earlier flight.

I dart out of the classroom (which happens to be literally the farthest classroom on campus from my house) and call my friend to tell him to DART over to my house to pick me up so that I could try to make the 4:20 flight.  I am running back to my house in the 80-degree weather in black jeans and a 3-quarter sleeve shirt so I am just going to let you visualize what a mess I looked like when I finally arrived home.  I ran upstairs, changed clothes (try putting on jeans when your legs are drenched in sweat…not fun!), and rushed out the door into my friend’s car. 

I am thinking to myself, “Hey, I can actually do this; I can make this flight!!!”  I am running on pure adrenaline at this point when all of the sudden my heart froze when my brilliant friend decides to go down Mockingbird Lane at 3:00 in the afternoon where there are at least 5 school zones between me and the airport!!! After 10 minutes goes by and we haven’t moved but two spotlights up, I look at my friend and really contemplated strangling him…joking, but seriously DIDN’T HE KNOW I HAD A PLANE TO CATCH!!  FINALLY we get to the airport at 3:25 and I think I am golden, that is until I walked up to the ticket counter and he told me I would have to be put on standby for the 3:50 and 4:20 flights, where there happened to be 4 people in front of me.   Had I just spent the last 45 minutes stressing for nothing? And worst off, am I going to be sitting at this airport for 2 hours until my original flight takes off???

Apparently God was on my side that day because as I walked through security and up to the 3:50 flight gate at 3:46, they were making there last announcement for all standby passengers!  I walked straight up and straight onto the plane!!!  I couldn’t believe that I had actually done it!!! And now that I have, I will never attempt to get on an earlier flight again lol I nearly had 3 heart attacks in the process but now I am safely at home and ready for the hectic weekend ahead J