"When did we grow up, and how do we make it stop?"

I'm not much of a TV watcher, especially not Grey's Anatomy, my loyalty will always belong with early E.R. but I managed to (hear more than) watch the episode where the narrater and I guess main character Meredith makes this statement.

As graduation and the "real world" loom nearer it is unfathomable that I am about to graduate from college.

• I have married friends
• When someone is pregnant, it seems weird to follow it up with "...but they're married so it's ok." but it also seems weird not to.
• I have friends with real jobs, benefits, and insurance
• My birthday/Christmas presents revolve (mostly) around practicality
• The idea of moving away from a town I've lived in for basically my whole life is both welcomed and terrifying - Unlike the majority of college students I have never had to start over, orient myself to a foreign environment, find a new hair stylist, dentist, acclimate to new restaurants and shopping
• I'm planning out serious post-graduation events in my life that will last forever :)

It's a strange feeling to realize that you are growing up. When do we "stop"? When are we fully adults?

Thanksgiving

To-Do List

• Clean room/house (it's gross)
• Start studying for finals (we'll see...)
• Spend time with out-of-town friends!!! (HA CHA!)
• Get a passport (you never know...more on that later)
• Christmas present shopping/making
• Catch up on sleep (maybe my memory will come back...)
• Job hunt for summer-fall
• RUN (I'm embarrassed to say that my DP training has taken a back seat to sleep, cold weather, and early night fall but I am determined to re-pump myself up!)

Loosing

Your Mind?

Me too.
Seriously.
More specifically my memory...
Here's some tips from Web MD, you can read the full article here

• Physical Excercise
• Eating healthy
• Mental Excercise
• Sleep
• Red Wine
• No More Multitasking
• Learning Memory Tricks

That's a big check on the wine...but I need to bulk up on the exercising and sleep...

Already working on a To-Do List for Thanksgiving break and
Already tired of people treating me like an idiot for not wanting to spend thousands of dollars to go to grad school for a career I am no interested in.

Cup.Cake.

Crate & Barell




These are all so cute, they make me want to bake!
Images from Target

Mole Much?

I have enjoyed a Moleskin planner since coming to college - My personal favorite is the Extra-Large soft cover half calendar/half lined notebook

According to the Mole Skin website they have

• monthly planners
• year planners
• 18 month planners
• lined notebooks
• blank notebooks
• address books
• city books

And a TON more!
I just got a 2010 planner - opened it today - and love it as much as loved my last ones
Also, I recieved 2 volant green lined books for making lists (Thanks John!) see in the last picture

Road

Trippin.

This weekend was quite the trip.

• Meeting at Wally world parking lot
• Grilled cheese and tots from Sonic
• Lots of listening on the way there(2 "verbose" HILARIOUS chatterboxes in the backseat)
  
• 2 delicious hot dogs + raw onions + banana peppers + ketchup
• Laughing
• Story swapping
• BED
• Wake-up
• Shower
• Breakfast
  
• 3 stops and an additional 3 cars later...campus
• Parking deck + garbage bag
• Tailgating
• Another hot dog
• Walk with boyfriend
• Catch up with good friend who attends uga - known her since I was about 4
• Briefly see second cousins to pass on some tickets
• Game time
• Stairs
• Stairs
• Stairs
• Stairs
• Seats!! whew!
• Game watching
• Another hot dog(no more pizza...)
• Hang out time with the brother
• Game over
• Get lost
• Stay lost
• Throw up(migraine+4 hot dogs in 24 hours+car sickness+anxiety)
  
• "Good thing they gave us a trashbag"
• Finally make it back
• Shower
• Sleep
• Wake up
• Pack
• Goodbye Talmo!
• Wendy's(yessssss)
• Laughing
• Napping (back seat peanut gallery was tired)
• HOME

War Eagle

Early Thanksgiving

Today I am celebrating Thanksgiving early

by sharing some of the things I am thankful for

(A comprehensive list, would be ludicrously long)

• Waking up this morning
• A sweet boyfriend who always almost always makes everything better
• Having a supportive, loving, funny family
• My health
• An incredible network of friends
• HA CHA (a group of 9 girls, including myself, who have been friends for a very long time. We love crafts, coffee, making yearly predictions, laughing, and "big girl drinks")
• Usually boring, but totally worth it on campus student worker position
• (Mostly) fun coworkers at said job
• My awesome house that is not a dorm
• A incredible Heavenly father who has given my more than I could imagine, more than I deserve, and is so patient with me as I constantly question His plans for the future
• Technology...on most days
• The fact that we have 4 incredibly different and all beautiful seasons
• Jhumpha Lahiri - a very talented author whose book I am reading and it is SO good

• Time I have to actually enjoy reading a book
• Solid education
• Wine
• Home-made food
• Umbrellas (I hate being wet)