Bon Voyage

I haven't posted anything in forever. That is partly due to the fact that it was Thanksgiving and that tomorrow our family is leaving for our cruise!!

Here's just a taste of what I did since the last post:

My aunt had back surgery last monday night so on Thanksgiving we went to visit her. She was kind of loopy from all of the medicine, but it was really funny. I got a sub from Subway in the cafeteria, which also made me very happy. A lot of funny stuff happened while we were at the hospital, but I can't really write about it. Darn. Just know, it was funny.

Black Friday shopping! YEUH! My mom and I started out at Walmart at 10 pm on Thursday night. We got movies there but not much else. From there we ventured on to Old Navy and waited in line for it to open at midnight. My mom and I played guess who in line. It's basically like 20 questions, but with people, and you can ask as many questions as you want. I laughed so much playing that. That might just be because it was late at night and I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. After Old Navy was Target, then the mall, then Kmart, back to the mall, then we wrapped it up at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Actually, I slept in the car while my mom was in Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I was wiped. 

When I got home I slept for 5 hours. It felt glorious.

Titanic was on tv Sunday night. Probably not the wisest choice to watch it 4 days before you go on a cruise. But nowadays the ships have enough life boats so I feel safe. Oh, but the movie did serious emotional damage to me. I saw the movie once when I was in 3rd grade, but hadn't seen it since. It is heart wrenching. That is the only way I know how to describe it! I cried so hard. Harder than I have when I've gotten broken up with. And then the next day, I cried some more. I just don't understand why someone would write a story like that. The true part is already devastating enough. Oh, and btw, there was room for both of them on the door! Anyways, at the same time, I love the movie. It's the cutest love story of all if you ask me. If you can get past the thought of what happens at the end, while you're watching the romantic parts.

Not much has happened this week though. Just a ton of packing (most of which I've already had done for a week). 

I made 3 different ringtones of the song What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction. Amazing song right therr. You should check it out. Right now. Go On.

Why are you still reading this? Didn't I tell you to go check out that song^?

I got my eyebrows waxed today! Is it weird that I like doing that? Well, I like it. :P My eyebrows grow so fast and it's hard to keep up with them. So it makes me happy when I don't have to spend forever in front of a mirror with tweezers for them to look nice.

I'm pretty much too tired to remember anything else that I would have otherwise posted. But I did want to write something before I leave for vacation for 11 days.

See ya when I get back! :) Toodloo.

Friends, Fire Place, & Fashion.

I actually went tanning today. 20 points to me for not procrastinating as usual. :)

I watched some of Serendipity today. Sitting in front of my fire place. :) But then all of the sudden the sound stopped working on our tv so I turned it off. Sad face. 

I just realized that my posts usually mention my fire place at least once. We just got it about two weeks ago and I just love it so much. We've never had one before but we've always wanted one. We found one on sale one day and jumped on that bandwagon. 

The Christmas station on Sirius XM hasn't been playing good songs. That makes me a tad angry. They are pretty much all slow songs that almost put me to sleep.

My Aunt Audrey is getting neck surgery tomorrow morning. It's a really long surgery and she'll be in the hospital for a few days. She won't even be home for Thanksgiving. :( If you're reading this, could you please pray for her? I would really appreciate it! 

I started packing for the cruise today. Random fact about me: I love to pack. Probably because I LOVE to travel. Because of that, I like to start packing more than a week before trips that I go on. It makes me feel like I'm gong sooner I guess. And it gets me really excited for the trip. 

Only 10 days btw. :D

I had some pumpkin pie while watching Friends today. 

I had forgotten just how funny that show is. Well, not forgotten. You can't really forget how funny that show is. But I did realize that I don't watch it nearly as much as I would like to. I'm convinced that it's the funniest show ever created. Aside from Modern Family, of course.

For the past month or so, I've been working on trying to be more stylish. And if you ask me, it's going pretty well. I think I always had it in me to be stylish. I just never really cared that much. That was until I started reading Kendi Everyday. That girl is my hero. A lot of my inspiration comes from her blog. Any who, I kinda had a mini fashion show with myself tonight along with my little packing party.

My mom fell asleep at 8 o'clock tonight. 8! That was crazy. I know that really doesn't have anything to do with me, but I just had to let someone know how crazy I thought that was.

I discovered earlier this evening as I was recording a new voice mail message, that my voice mail icon has failed to show on my screen when I have messages. I found out that I had 4 unread voice messages! I felt so bad, cause the people who left me messages probably think I'm just some teenager who hates to talk on the phone. Totally not true though. So if you left me a message and I didn't get back to you, my apologies. It's my stupid phone's fault.

Pentatonix made it through to the finals on The Sing Off. *insert girly excited squeal here*

Oh, what I said about the radio station earlier, I guess it doesn't totally suck. They just played All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber.

That's all for tonight folks, hope your day was kick-you-in-the-crotch-spit-on-your-neck-fantastic! (^Friends reference :P)

No, seriously. I really do hope you had a good day.

Busy Weekend!

Well, I am sorry, (mostly to myself), that I haven't posted anything since my first post. Sad face. I've had a string of busy days. Good busy though. Let us recap, shall we?

(In no particular order)

While sitting in the Chick-fil-A drive through, I realized that that was the first time I had personally ever driven through that drive through.

I went shopping. *Merriment!* I spent tons of my birthday and photo shoot money. The result: 3 skirts, 1 boat neck tee, 1 adorably amazing polka dot scarf, a birthday present for my favorite dad, 1 pair of boots (I feel like Anna Heritage when I wear them :P), a cardigan, a belt (which needs some more holes), sunglasses for my family cruise, and one very gleeful Allison.

There are only 11 more days until our cruise. I am indescribably excited.

I went to my Aunt Christine's house for a movie night with some youth group girls. Aside from me, all the girls who came were new to our youth group, so it was really fun to get to know them all better. We made cookies and watch Unaccompanied Minors. LOVE that movie. It's one of those Christmas movies that you can watch year round. Like Elf.

I took my aunt's (mentioned above) family pictures. They turned out beautifully, as if that's a surprise to anyone. My aunt is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Inside and out. I know. That sounds incredibly cheesy, and I hate that. But it is true. I can only hope to be like her when I grow up. Now that I've ranted on about how I admire my aunt, let's get off of this rabbit trail and back on the main road... So, at one point during the shoot, my cousin Gabby was holding on to a tree. It looked really cute so I walked onto the piece of ground that was below her to snap a shot, when my feet sunk into the wet ground. I felt like I was in sinking sand. It was hilarious though, and it was even better because my laughing buddy (Uncle Mark) was with me.

I went to my church's progressive dinner. If you don't know what that is, google it, and then do one. So we were on our way to the house where the main course was and our car broke down. So we had to wait for my uncle to leave the house where everyone else already was, and come get us. I was so angry. The progressive dinner is the most anticipated church event in my book. So imagine my heart break when I thought we couldn't go to the main course. But we got there. And I scheduled my 4th photography job of the month while I was eating. :) At the end of the night, Joyce taught me how to play spades. We couldn't actually play due to the fact that we didn't have enough people. But it looks really fun. Oh, and back to the whole car breaking down thing. My dad waited with the car for an hour for the tow truck (in Salisbury), got a ride back to Seaford, got a ride back to our house, got our truck and drove to Delmar to pick the rest of the family up. Then he stayed for a while and played pool with some of the guys from church. For those of you who don't know my dad, he goes to bed usually before 10 every night and is cranky when he's hungry. So he hadn't had any of the main course of the meal and it was around 10:30. That made me really happy and I gave my dad a really long hug.

I fell asleep in front of our fireplace, on a memory foam mattress pad, while watching The Wedding Planner. Favorite moment of my life? Definitely makes it in the top 15 list. (*It would be the top 10 list, but I've met too many famous people. That wasn't meant to sound that conceited either.) I woke up with my doggy Max, a.k.a. Maxxy Poo, laying right beside me.

We sang "Your Grace Is Enough" in church. Long story short, it got me thinking, and I was really convicted, and I basically would have liked to slap myself in the face right in the middle of praise and worship. But now I am out of my little funk I was in.

After the photo shoot with my family, we went to a local coffee shop near the shoot location. Gabby wanted to check out the back deck, so while my aunt and I were looking over the pictures, Gabby and my uncle went to the deck. Uncle Mark said when they walked back there she said to him "Daddy, let's sit down and we can talk about your favorite color." How adorable. That's kind of her new thing. She asks everyone what their favorite color is.

We celebrated Thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family. My Aunt Audrey is having neck surgery on Tuesday and she'll still be in the hospital for Thanksgiving, so we celebrated early. We had it at my cousin's house. She was getting rid of old clothes so we got to take anything we wanted. Boom. I got tons of button down shirts that I was so badly in need of. God answers prayer. So almost the whole night, all of the girls in the family tried on a bunch of clothes in my cousin's room.

I ran a red light by accident. The light was green for 3 seconds tops. Promise. It was redonkulous. I felt so bad I almost cried. I can't even imagine the basket case I would be if I actually got pulled over.

So that's what my weekend looked like. In other news, here are some random thoughts that just crossed my mind:

I need to start tanning soon for the cruise. I looked over pictures from the one we took in January and I was inexcusably pale.

I sound really weird when I sneeze.

I am out of my doodle jump addiction phase. It was fun while it lasted.

I had a mocha frappe tonight. YUMMMMM.

I didn't wash my hair today and it actually looked pretty good. (That is a rarity for me.)

I'm really liking this whole blogging thing a lot more than I thought I would.

First post :D

This is my first "official" post. Whoo! Here goes nothin'...

I watched Jimmy Neutron today. I was very excited to see that it was on tv. What was not so exciting however was that the episode that was on did not spark my interest. It wasn't all that funny. But Sheen and Carl were still there so that's always a plus. :) Love those two. Here's something I bet you didn't know. Carl and Sheen always were my favorite part of the show. And Carl loves llamas. That's partly where my love of llamas comes from. (Now you know who to blame :P)

I sat in front of my (new-ish) fire place while I watched Jimmy. And Covert Affairs. Which reminds me. WHEN Annie and Auggie going to get together? We all know it's going to happen. There's no possible way it can't happen. If it doesn't, I will bawl. Jusss sayin'

But back to the fire place. When my dad got home, he got mad that I had the "fire" (it's not a real one) on, and he told me if I was cold to use a blanket. Call me crazy, but isn't the point of the fire place so you don't have to use a blanket? Sometimes I don't understand the way he thinks. Oh well. I still have my electric blanket in my room. :)

Our new hot tub cover was delivered today! You see, our old one started to fall apart and my dad didn't want to keep up on the hot tub if he couldn't cover it. So he drained the hot tub. Yes, it was heart wrenching. But now we have another cover and joy will be restored to all. 

Now, perhaps some thoughts on the X Factor. I love Simon Cowell. I will probably tell you too many times. But it's the truth. I just think the man is hysterical. Also, the host is pretty cool too. This is a conversation my mom and I had about him:

Mom: He must be Scottish.

Me: He's from Wales. I saw it on Ellen.

Mom: I think that's the same place.

Me: No it's not... Really?

Mom: I don't know. Hahaha.

I thought it was pretty funny. You should know, my mom is terrible when it comes to geography. Even in the U.S. She seriously doesn't know where Oklahoma is. 

I tried fried okra tonight! Why am I so excited about that you ask? Well, the first day of TeenPact, (the leadership school that I am involved with.) everyone is given a piece of paper with different squares on it. In each square, it has a different statement, such as "I have my drivers license" or "I have green eyes". Stuff like that. You go up to different people and have them sign their name under one of the statements that apply to them. Well one of the squares says "I have had fried okra". And it's rare if you find someone who has done that. So, this coming year, I will be signing the "I have had fried okra" box. *Fist pump into the air* But this is all thanks to my youth pastor. I was telling her the whole story and she texted me today and said that she would bring some to life group for me so I could try it. So big thanks to Terri, who made this dream possible.

I've heard the song 'Forever Reign" on the radio 4 times over the past two days. After I heard it the third time, I was like "Wow, that's cool. I should post about that." And then I heard it the fourth time and I knew I had to say something about it. I've loved the song ever since we sang it at Back To D.C. The lyrics are so awesome too. So I feel like it's a sign that God was trying to get them really instilled in me. (I think that many things are "signs". But I really do think that they are, not just for fun.) Here are some of my favorite lyrics:

"You are good, you are good, when there's nothing good in me."

"Oh, I'm running to your arms, I'm running to your arms. The riches of your love will always be enough. Nothing compares to your embrace."

That's pretty amazing huh? The riches of God's love will always be enough. And there is nothing like it. Nothing compares to God's embrace. But we have to run to Him to truly see how great the riches are.  And, God is good. Even when there isn't any good in us. I know some days I just feel crappy and like I've miserably failed to please God. But He is still good to us. That's just some of the riches of His love. Pretty mind-boggling, if you ask me.

Well, Hello There.

I've decided to start a blog. 

Yep! That's right. 

And I have no idea what I'm doing. 

I honestly thought blogs were dumb for the most part. That was until I came to the realization that I had way to many "I should post that on facebook" moments. 

So this is the place where I decided to post my thoughts of each day.

(Well, not each day. I'm sure there will be days that I just don't feel the umph to do it.)

This will be a sort of "journal" or "diary" for me. So in a year or so from now I can look back and remember things from a certain day. And hopefully, giggle. A lot.

So without further adieu, I give you these "glimpses of my mind".

I hope you enjoy them. Or at least find them somewhat amusing.