What a strange day!!

Today was filled with a lot of problems that then were solved right away! it was super weird because it stunk that so much went wrong but then i was super happy because it all seemed to fix itself
Okay so today I woke up and went to practice, then I came back to my dorm and ate breakfast.  Then I went up into my bed to work on my paper and fell asleep for 2 solid hours! Then I had to go take a shower so i left my dorm room and grabbed my key and when I got into the shower i realized I grabbed my house key not my room key! So i knew i had to walk across campus to get a key since my roommate was in class.  So i get ready to walk across campus in the cold with not many clothes on because i was just going to the shower and i walk by my room and realize I accidentally left the door open! AHH YESS! then I went to my lab and after my lab I was able to completely finish writing my paper.  Then I went to practice and it was a super hard workout.  4 1200's then 2 400's.  I actually did a super good job today and ran good 400's after being tired which is a super good sign for my upcoming meet saturday I just hope I can perform like I did today! Thennnn after practice I showered and went to dinner.  Then I went to bible study and my bible study leaders husband came and told us how he proposed to his wife! It was literally the best story I have ever heard in my entire life then he said "I learned how to love like that only because I learned love from God first" This gave me hope to find a guy like him and never settle for less because they are out there.  I just need to not be discouraged and need to be patient to wait for God's timing! but still gosh that was the cutest story ever

Then after Bible Study I went back to my room to finish my paper and realized I left it in the bible study room! then Meredith to the rescue she was in there and brought it to me! Then I spilled pen on my laptop and after 20 minutes of scrubbing it I tried nail polish remover and it came right off!

So that was my crazy day! Following a crazy monday which included a test, full day of classes, practice, then picked my room for Chi O (we got a really good room), then went to first real chapter, then went to the library! BUSY DAY! now its time to sleep :)

This just in!

I will be living in the Chi O house next year with Meredith!

This is the form where we wrote down who we were living with!  Quick decision change but I am super excited to see what comes from it!!

My weekend plans

I dont think I fully understood how crazy this weekend will be.  I am trying to balance fun with work with track.  Its hard to do this weekend.
Today after class I have to do a 30 minute run and abs and stretch.  Then I have to study for my macro test on monday.
All weekend I need to be studying for my macro test on monday and English paper draft due wednesday.  I will be happy when I dont have those hanging over my head any longer.
Tonight I am going to dinner with Meredith and maybe my brother will come because there will be a flash mob at mockingbird station tonight.  After that I have Chi O Initiation myth night? whatever that might entail.  After that I have to study some more and go to bed early to get sleep for my meet the next day.
Saturday I have initiation at 7:45 in the morning.  Then I have a track meet that whole day.  I run the 1500m and the 5k.  That will be a long day.  After that I will hopefully go to dinner with the family that is in town from Illinois. Sunday I have a brunch with Chi O for a birthday at breadwinners.  Have to do a 90 minute run sometime on sunday and have to do homework allll day!  Exciting weekend with tons of fun stuff to do, but busy.  One weekend I wish i just had absolutely NOTHING TO DO!

SPRING BREAK!!

I know I have been MIA for a while but I am back!  I went MIA so that I could study for my Biology exam which ended up paying off in the end!  So spring break went well it was way too short though.  I hung out with old friends from high school, my teammates who were still stuck on campus because we had practice everyday over spring break, trained everyday, went to a track meet, and spend some time with family.
At my track meet I competed against my old teammate Jessica shadley.  She runs for Baylor.  It was super cool to be at the same meet again because we are used to always cheering for one another at meets all throughout middle and high school!

The track meet did not go very well for me.  I had been recovering from terrible shin splints the last few weeks, but that was not the biggest problem.  I guess I underestimated the heat outside that day because after I got off the finish line all the sudden my whole body began to feel like there were pins and needles all over my body.  I couldnt walk because my feet felt like they were on fire!  I couldnt swallow water or breathe well because I felt like there was needles on my tongue, it was the wierdest feeling.  I immediately jumped in the ice bath and drank this nasty drink that tasted like sweat.  After that i just felt light headed but felt much better.  I learned my lesson to not get overheated ever again!  

Saturday was a great day because I got to go shopping with my mom, a lovely dinner at Pappadeaux with mom and dad, and then Josh Turner concert with dad that night! It was a tiring but good end to spring break.  Now i sit back in my dorm room watching greys anatomy awaiting the crazy week/ weeks I know I have ahead of me! 

5 more days of work...then PLAY!

5 more days until Spring Break.  Yesterday I wrote out my week plan so here it is.

Sunday: Practice (80 minute run) check

              Library to study for Biology

              LEC to go to an English tutor for my paper

              Finish and Print my English paper (due monday)

              Clean my room and paint my toe nails!

Monday: BUSY day full of 5 classes, practice at 2, team meeting at 5:15, dinner at the house then chapter!

Tuesday: Study all day for my Biology Lab Practical! Then have a lab to go to.  Practice at 7am then practice again at 2 (probably going to be a very hard practice! :/ already somewhat dreading it!)

Wednesday: FULL day of 5 classes then a Biology Lab Practical Exam! Then after that I have a meeting on the Education program to get more information about possibly minoring in education and what requirements I would need to have to do that.  Sometime this week I need to figure out my schedule though.  Here is what I am thinking...

I am taking Accounting I forsure on Wednesday and Friday from 9:30 to 11.  Then I think I will take ITOM which is a computer credit I need for business. I will take a CF but need to find out which one I should take I am either thinking Sustainable Living or human sexuality (I know they sound wierd but i heard they are the easiest!) Then I need to decide if I am doing a math minor or an education minor (which ever will help me be a teacher I am leaning towards education minor) so in that case I will be taking educational psychology which I am super excited about! I was going to take that this semester but it did not fit into my schedule.

Thursday:  Study all day for my biology test!  Practice at 7am then hard practice again at 2 

Friday: Take my biology test and have a full day of classes.  Practice at 2 then home! until my next practice at least.  

Boring week with studying but once it is over it will be super nice!

Weekend!

My weekend started Thursday night at the Roller Blading mixer!  It was probably one of the best nights of my college thus far! It was so much fun, but the next morning I was extremely sore from falling and roller blading for a good 2 hours straight!  

Friday was another full day of classes then practice to end the day.  Then at night me, Lovisa, Klara, Mary, and Jennie were off to Northpark! I did not buy anything but definitely found a shirt I really want to get next time.  I am thinking I will go shopping for spring clothes over spring break so I did not want to buy the shirt until then, plus it was a little pricy but I LOVED it on and its different than most shirts I have. 

This is the shirt I liked, I of course would be wearing an undershirt beneath it unlike this girl! but it is super cute and unique! Cannot wait to buy it!

Friday night was a terrible restless night.  At 3:30 the pipes began to make a LOUD beating noise right above my room!  This happened the night before too! I dont know why this keeps happening but it is super annoying.  Then at 4:30 my shoulder hurt extremely bad and I do not know why so I had to get up and get an ice pack for it.  Then I continued to wake up every hour until I had to be up for practice at 8:15.  Practice was super hard this morning.  First it was cold! I had to do 8 600's with 2 minutes rest in between. It was hard because im used to just running 400 meter intervals or 1200 meter intervals, 600 meter intervals was new to me.  Plus it was also hard because the rest of the team had a different work out that was a lot shorter so when they were done we were still running :/  But now it is over and I am off to starbucks to study.  I do not know yet what else I am going to do tonight!

This is just a random cute picture for my viewers pleasure so enjoy.  We could all use a helping hand :) So give a helping hand today because someone out there feels super small in this world and could just use a little help! 

I guess I am in a blogging mood today...and taking pictures on my computer!

Countdown to SPRING BREAK! I am 8 days, 1 paper, and 2 tests away from spring break (all due next week)

I am going to put my Ipod on shuffle and put the next 5 songs then say something about them...

I guess I am bored Its hard to study for a text when it is not until next wednesday!

1 - King of Anything by Sara Barellis - good new song by her I am a fan its upbeat and fun!

2 - He Loves Us - I dont know who sings this, it was on a CD someone burned me but its a good Christian song all about how He loves us!  Ashley Reed sang it in church a lot and it was good!

3 - Havn't met you yet by Michael Buble - I love Michael Buble he is such an amazing singer would love to see him in concert!

4 - You and I both by Jason Mraz - Ahh he is even better than Michael Buble in my opinion I would REALLY want to see him in concert! I have his whole CD and can listen to it all the time!

5 - On the Radio by Regina Spektor  - I just bought this song a couple days ago after Lovisa introduced me to it! It is so amazing I constantly listen to it on repeat!

Favorite lyrics from this song...

"You love until you dont

You try until you cant

You laugh until you cry

You cry until you laugh"

I suggest you listen to it if you like that type of music! Because this song is amazing!

New Shoes!

Its that time again to get a new pair of running shoes.  These are my third out of 4 pairs I receive from the school. These are a bit different style than my other two pairs, not sure why.  I will see today if I like this style or not.  I like the color a bit better, I am pretty sick of red!  Red striped on my old running shoes, red uniform and shirts, and now CHI O is all REDDDD! I am ready for a new change.  Plus looking at my picture my face has a naturally red pigment so wearing red just brings out the red pigment to the extreme!  Today has already been a good day and now throw in new shoes ahh I dont know what to do with myself! Oh and tonight I am going to a frat/ Chi O mixer and we are going roller skating! Exciting! And Tomorrow is FRIDAY woohoo!

I love Thursdays!

Today has been a great morning!  A good weight practice and 30 minute run then went to go get  some milk and had a big bowl of banana nut cheerios with milk and real banana sliced in it! YUM!  Then did some studying and am now going to a writing conference real quick then a lunch before going to watch brown bag (a dance show during lunch) a lot of my friends are in it so its cool to watch them!  And then off to practice number two for the day.

This is why I love thursdays I get to sit in my room, listen to music and drink diet snapple peach tea! My new love! It really puts a pep in my step :)

Adjective to describe the day: Interesting

Today I had early morning practice where coach had me doing some new weights to build muscle in my legs (guess that means I dont have any but hopefully that will make me a lot faster!)  Then I had a lab to go to but after that I was extremely productive and did two loads of laundry and wrote my whole paper!  Then we had our second practice which was fartlek.  I learned today that fartlek is a swedish word that means speed play.  It includes intervals of speed, longer speed, and jogging/walking.  Today we did 12' warm up, 5'-4'-3'-5'-4'-3' with one minute rest in between.  This morning I ran in tights and a long sleeve T shirt but this afternoon I ran in a sports bra and spandex.  What a dramatic change in the weather today.  Then after practice we had to go to a mandatory meeting for NCAA compliance about alcohol and drugs and such.  The first half of the meeting was extremely boring with a speaker just bringing up stories of student athletes who got in trouble for drinking and other things and went to jail. Blah, Blah, Blah.  But then tables turned when the speaker showed a clip of HIMSELF on the news.  His name was Adam Ritz and he was a famous radio talk show host and used to be a student athlete who went to jail for raping his kids babysitter (who was his age though)!  He had to go to jain, is a conficted felon, and is a registered sex offender.  He spent the rest of the time talking about how it ruined his life.  Not sure the pertinance it had towards student athletes but still had an interesting story to tell.  Jennie and I kept looking at each other with our jaws dropped for the last 45 minutes of the lecture.  He went into detail about a class he has to go to with other registered sex offenders and he sat next to a guy who raped his 9 year old daughter and another guy who raped his nephew...wierd stuff.  Definantly thought this lecture was going to be a boring old lecture but I guess I was mistaken.  The first half of the speech everyone was talking and not listening then after he told his story you could hear a pin drop.  Crazy stuff!

Next we had Bible study that discussed the need for rest and busyness in our lives.  I believe the number one tactic the devil has for tempting us is busyness.  Its easy for him to temp us with and it easily distracts us from God.  I think I struggle a lot with this because I always have to have stuff going on, have things planned out and controlled instead of just enjoying every moment and sometimes taking the time to just do nothing and enjoy others company.  Something I need to work on.

Now its time to do a short study for a quiz in English tomorrow then off to bed.
Tomorrow is a full schedule of 5 classes plus a 2 hour lab.  But for my lunch I am going to see Brown bag which is a dance show so I am excited about that!  Then off with the sweds for some grocery shopping.  Will probably get in the pool tomorrow also to rest my legs If i find time before it gets too late.

Hmm I dont have a cool picture for this blog so I will tell you 5 interesting facts about my week...
1 - I have a new appreciation for cereal.  I am obsessed with Banana nut cheerios and Golden Grahams.  They are my weakness.
2 - I cannot wait until spring break when I can go to blockbuster and rent season 3 of greys anatomy...I am going through withdrawl and am kinda pondering getting netflix so I can have them all the time.  If I get desperate that just might have to happen.
3 - I really want to take a trip somewhere.  With all this spring break talk I want to take a trip somewhere that I have never been before I am getting sick of staying in Dallas! I really want to go to Europe (Sweden now especially and all the other places over there) or New York.  Those are top 2 on my list.
4 - My favorite part of the week are the days where I get to lay in my bed and watch a movie or a TV show on Hulu in my bed without worrying about waking up early the next morning.  These days do not come often but when they do I thoroughly enjoy them.  I wish there were more of them though!
5 - I kinda miss reading.  My english class this semester does not involve much reading at all.  I kinda wish I was required to read a really good novel.  I secretly enjoy it but only if im forced to do it.  If it is not required I will just see it as a waste of my time.